The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 25, 1924, Page 3

Wednesday, June 25, 1924 GUNMEN BURNED | HALL WHERE MINE ~~ FAMILIES SLEPT Real Story of Brady War Told by Girl By MARY WATKIWICH. LOWSVILLE, W. Va., June 24.— At 12:30 Wednesday night heavy skots were heard around Brady, which awakened the people for miles around. Dynamite shots, also ma- chine guns and high power rifles were heard until 2:30 o'clock in the morn- ing. The scabs fired shots on to the un- ion hall and set it on fire so that it burned down. There were children, women and men asleep in the union hall, that were thrown out of the company’s houses by Sam Brady's guards. These people that were in the union hall we! taken to the’state road. Union Men Wounded. wo union men were hurt. One of tuvm was shot in the back and the bullet came out thru his chest. The ether one was shot thru his hip. Sev- eral scabs were badly hurt and were sent to the hospital Thursday morn- ing. Thursday, one o'clock, there was a ,ass meeting in Lowsville. There are two speakers. When the meeting was near to end everal men had left the hall and were going home, when they were stopped by two Baltimore and Ohio Railroad detectives. The detectives asked the men not tq bother the rail- road property and not to gather around the station as it annoyed the passengers. The men agreed not to harm the railroad. Dicks and Cops In Woods. Thursday evening two union men ‘were walking on the county road and stopped to get a drink of water by the road and four state cops came out of the woods and searched them to see if they had in their possession any kind of weapon. When they found no weapons then they took these two men to Brady and questioned them, but as_ these men would not give them the an- -*ers they-wanted to their questions, ay kept them till one o'clock, Fri- -¥ Morning and told them to go. “Whiskers” Hughes May Represent U. S. At Allied Confab (Special to the Daily Worker.) WASHINGTON, June 24. — The American government has not re- Sereetitc-alited- invitation to partici- in an allied conference in, Lon- July 16, to discuss putting the wes reparations’ plan into execu- it was said at the state depart- ment today. Officials would give n> indication, pending receipt of the invitation, of the probable action of this govern- ment. If the United States partici- pates, it would probably do so in the wame unofficial capacity as American vyesentation in the experts’ com- 1e, Secretary of State Hughes is sailing ‘or London on July 12 to attend the convention of the American Bar asso- It is believed likely in some quarters that Hughes himself may with Premier MacDonald and Premier Herriot while in adon. ‘iticlans Save Money. RANCISCO, Cal, June 24— ial city of the west is sav- y for its taxpayers. The , boomed as an economy ‘failed to provide the city as- ers with a 60-cent raise been asking for for a long wuts Opponent Called. IN, June 24,.—General Jan as resigned as premier of frica and the Earl of Athlone, aor general, has summoned the sition leader, Hertzog, according apetown advices. (Continued from page 1.) Parties of Germany and France. Comrade Rykov spoke some words to the memory of our late comrades Nogin and Lutovinov. Comrade Kolaroft welcomed the Con- gress in the name of the HCCI.; in addition, greetings were delivered to the Congress by representatives of the Communist Parties of Germany, France England and Japan while Comrade Clara Zetkin greeted the Congress in the name of the International Com- munist Women’s Secretariat. Second Day of Congress Speech of Comrade Zinoviev on the Political report of the CC.: In the political report of the CC., comrade Zinoviev pointed out that the Party had reason for judging the in- ternational and inner situation of the Soviet Union in an optimistic sense. The period covered by the report, which had begun with Lord Curzon’s ultimatum had ended with the de jure recognition of the Soviet Union by England. As regards the London ne- gotiations, their result will depend upon MacDonald. On the side of the Soviet Union there prevails the most determined desire to arrive at an agreement. The foreign policy of a number of Huropean states, particularly of England, is closely interwoven with the policy of the 2nd International. The profound fundamental disagree- ments between the 2nd and the 3rd Internationals can have nothing to do with the business negotiations between the Soviet Union and England. As regards the conflict with Germany it must be said that the raid upon the Russian Trade Mission in Berlin was an attempt on the part of German Social Democracy to get-into the good graces of France at the price of a worsentag of the relations with the Soviet Union. In the sphere of the policy of concessions, the caution and restraint exercised up to now remain necessary, The inner situation of the Soviet Union is characterised by the success- ful solution of the national question, by the considerable economic successes, by the strengthening of the alliance between the proletariat and the pea- santry and by the enrolment of more than two hundred thousand workers in the Communist Party. At present agriculture has reached 78 per cent, industry 48 per cent, foreign trade 20 per cent and wages 62 per cent of their respective pre-war levels. The market crisis has been overcome. Our chief tasks consist at present in the raising of heavy industry and in the solution of the questions of trade. 36 per cent of the home trade is in the hands of the state and 64 per cent is in the hands of private enterprise. The New Economic Policy does not by any means mean the restoration of capital- ism. Nobody wants to abolish the NEP. The freedom of interior trade will be maintained. A new co-oper- ative policy and a new commercial policy will, however, be introduced. Still more attention will be devoted to the villages. The Central Committee, with the support of the Party, will realise the heritage bequeathed by comrade Lenin and lead the Russia of the New Hco- nomic Policy to the Socialist Russia. Speech of Comrade Stalin on the Organizatory report of the Central Committee: Comrade Stalin described in detail the growing influence of the Russian CP. on the trade unions, on the state apparatus, on the economic organs and on the co-operatives. At the time of the 12th Party Con- gress the Party had 485,000 members, which up to the present had increased to 600,000 members. The proportion of members of the Russian CP. who are employed as workers in the workshops has increased during this period from 17 to 35 per cent. The inner life of the Party has definitely improved, The transference of the center of gravity from the sit- tings of the Political and of the Or- ganizatory Bureaus to the Plenary sit- tings of the CC. constitutes an import- ant innovation. The sittings of the Plenum of the CC. and the Plenary sittings of the government committees are developing into powerful schools _GROES WELCOME r the activities of the ountry, this government, and hese people ‘who under God, ‘ave Negroes a chance. From reading the current issue of he ago Defender, one can plainly that Negroes are having one COMMUNISM AS “DEMOCRACY” AND FALSE LEADERS BET RAY THEIR HUMANITY AND RACE By GORDON OWENS. Roscoe Conklin Simmons, reprobate, and ranking “Ancient Order of Negro Uncle Toms,” is still hav- Negro “Reds.” In his Defender 21, he imitates the professional white red baiters, ¢ himself in the American flag. He prates about this —— with a white woman friend. In Washington, D. C., a federal court hands down a decision that American citizens with dark skins may be seg- regated in residential districts and other places; In Kansas City, Mo., Negro homes THE DAILY WORKER Official Report of Russian-Communist Party Congress for Party work. The inner Party life has become essentially more active and the mass recruitment after the death of Lenin proves that the Party, ac- cording to its spirit, has become an organ elected by the working class. The Russian CP. is at present a real organ possessing the confidence of the working class, ‘ The most important task of the Party at the present time consists in attracting the non-party workers into collaboration in the Soviet organs, in the political education of the broad masses, in the publication of special popular journals for the new masses gained over by the Lenin recruitment, in raising the party work in the Villages, in adequately supplying the industrial districts with functionaries, in the careful and increased selection of functionaries and in the increased attraction to Party work of the masses won for the Party by the Lenin re- cruitment. Third Day of Congress Discussion on the Speech of Comrade Zinoviev, on the Political report of the CC.: Comrade Krassin said the Peoples Commissioner for Foreign Trade de- clared that the raid upon the Berlin Trade Mission exceeds in importance the notorious note from Lord Curzon. The exterritorial right of the Berlin Trade Mission is secured by the treaty of May 6th 1921 and is even recognized in German law. The raid was directed against the foreign trade monopoly. The Soviet Union cannot carry on trade without exterritorial rights since foreign trade is the business of the state. Negotiations over a trade agree- ment with Germany are impossible so long as our rights are not restored and our demands fulfilled. The Soviet Union cannot make any concessions and must insist upon its minimum de- mands, If Withelmstrasse reckons upon rapproachment between Germany and France, we declare: the Soviet Union, if it desires, can find its way to Paris easier than Germany can! Comrade Trotsky said: “The cen- tral committee itself considered it necessary to modify the inner course of the party in the sense of democracy within the party. Even the central in its December theses emphasized the danger threatening the party appara- tus from bureaucratization whereby the party could be estranged from the proletarian masses. For this reason the December theses laid down the introduction of workers’ democracy and the increasing of the proletarian core. I was never at any time in fa- vor of the freedom to form fractions and groups. I am of the opinion, how- ever, that the bureaucratizing of the party apparatus could promote and bring about the formation of frac- tions.” The speaker further declared he would himself fulfill his duty as a disciplined party member even in re- gard to decisions which he felt to be wrong. The devotion to, the disci- pline, the unity and the solidarity of the party will be preserved! ’ Comrade Preobrashensky defended the economic theses of the opposition and emphasized that the central com- mittee was behindhand with the modi- fication of the course of the party. This had given rise to the discussion. The demand for the extension of planned economy and the fight against capitalist accumulation are no petty bourgeois deviations. Comrade Kameney said: “The pol- icy of the party will be oriented to- | PROBE SHOULD HIT ELECTRIC TRUST (Continued from page 1.) and Australia. The Western Electric company has supply houses in the principal cities, with a force of thou- sands of men who install switch- boards for the Bell Telephone in all parts of the country. Altho supposedly divorced by the interstate commerce comtission un- der President Taft's administration, the Western Electric and the Western Union are interlocked as much as ever. The Western Union uses the Bell telephone wires made at West- ern Electric, to transmit messages. The automatic machines used by Western WBlectric are made and in- stalled by the Western Blectric, and “leased” to the Western Union Tele- graph company. The telephone service of the Bell Telephone company, which owns 98 per cent of the total. stock of the Western Electric company is going from bad to worse. The change to the automatic dial system involves hundreds of millions of dollars and employment for thousands of men and women. Why is not the project carried thru to completion, in view of the fact that the Bell system and the Western Elec- tric had the best year in their history in 1923, reaping enormous profits which have not been re-invested in expansion? Ask Western Electric. Any investigation conducted by the city council with regard to telegraph and telephone rates is a farce as long as the council does not call in the Western Electric company and the Beil system and demand to know why this change to the dial system, which supposedly would improve service and check unemployment, is not car- ried thru. Huge public utilities projects have been broached within the last year. In their “hot air” literature, distributed to the employes, the Western Blec- tric boasts that employment is never slack because the demand for pub- lic utilities is constant. Yet the West- ern Electric has laid off nine thou- sand mien and the change to the auto- matic dial system has been suspended. If the dial system project were al- lowed to proceed full blast, service would be greatly increased, and the Western Electric would be forced to employ more men instead of laying off their force. The Western Blectric would hire thousands of men to make the automatic dials and install them. Organized Workers Should Lead. Muscle Shoals is another electric project which in the near future will open up large new fields in the elec- trical industry. But, as an old-time electrical worker pointed out to the DAILY WORKER, instead of allowing engineers, and profit greedy capital- ists to open up these new electrical projects, the Electrical Workers’ un- ion should guide the expansion. “If Muscle Shoals opens up under Ford or any other private capitalist, it will be a scab project, hiring only non-union men, and the organized electrical workers will receive a set- back instead of a boost,” this man told the DAILY WORKER. “Organized labor must see to it that these projects go ahead. But the change to the dial system in Chicago should be directly undet the guidance of the city council, and the Chicago Federation of Labor should see to it the project is carried on under strict- ly union conditions. “In the same way the Muscle Shoals project should be-devéloped by the government, but with the electrical workers’ union dictating the condi- tions under which their members ing on the immediate unionization of |them to subscribe today. ¥ all such new projects.” | Watch for Progressive Program. The city council should immediate- ly widen its investigation to find out why the change to the dial system has been stopped. The city council should demand to know why Western Elec- tric is laying off men and why the Ww rn Electric and Western Union ‘e continually lowering the wages and living standards of their em- ployes. The electrical workers’ union have a bigger opportunity than ever before to drive open shop conditions forever out of the electrical field. In our next articles we will tell what Mike Boyle and the electrical workers’ union are doing to meet the crisis brought on by the Western Electric speed-up wage lowering cam- paign. We will give the program. pet, for- ward by progressive members of the electrical workers’ union for the com- plete organization of the electrical in- dustry. ALL TO THE AID OF THESE STRIKING MINERS! TO WORKERS OF WORLD! The strike of the miners, which broke out In Germany shows how great and inexhaustable are the energies of the German proletariat. The German miners are forced to. struggle under the most difficult conditions and the double yoke of German capital and French bayo- nets. Nevertheless, the miners came out bravely In the defense of their rights, won after bitter struggle, against their enslavement by Fran- co-German capital. Should the Ger- man bourgeoisie, which is preparing the ground for the enforcement of the decisions of the Committee of Experts, at the expense of the work- Ing class, be successful, it would mean the automatic worsening of the conditions of the miners of all countries and the other categories of labor would soon have to follow sult. No working man, no toiler can and should stand aside in this gigan- tic struggle. The cause of the Ger- man miners is the cause of the in- ternational proletariat. The Com- munist International and the Red International of Labor Unions ur- gently appeal to the workers of all countri Come to the aid of the German miners! Do not allow the importation of coal from other countries to break the strike! Make collections for the strikers and their families! Do your utmost to resist unitedly the heavy German Industries, sup- ported by the French bayonets. There must be no passive or neu- tral observers amongst labor in this struggle; every one must actively help the German miners if there is an ounce of proletarian solidarity and the least understanding of their own Interest among them. All to the aid of the German min- ers! Long live the miners of Germany! Long live the united labor front in the struggle against the bour- geolsie! Executive Committee of the Com- munist International. Executive Bureau of the Red In- ternational of Labor Unione. Moscow, May 14, 1924. How many of your shop-mates read THE DAILY WORKER. Get one of ward the working masses and not to- ward the youth. The central charged the opposition with petty bourgeois deviations for its anarchist criticism against the party apparatus, for its op- position of the young guard against the old guard and for the empty chat- ter over planned economics.” Comrade Lenin-Krupskaya said: “The party has grown and become strong. It is true that the congress must set forth the events of the past; the chief task, however, consisted in tracing out the tasks for the future. Therefore the repetition and stirring up of the party discussion is not de- sirable, as this would only lead to ag- gravation which in turn would only be injurious to the party. The opposi- tion must proceed with the party in a disciplined manner.” Conclusion of the discussion over the political report of the C. C. © exe: FOURTH DAY OF CONGRESS. Concluding Words of Comrade Stalin on the Organizatory Report of the C. C. Whoever considers the old guard as a section possessing exclusive privi- leges is seeking to create a breach be- jtween the two generations. The es- sence of party democracy is repre- sented by the linking up of the party with the class. It would constitute the greatest danger were the party to detach itself from the class. The as- sertion of Comrade Trotsky that the party is never in the wrong is incor- rect. The party learns from its own mistakes. The core of the party is formed by admitting and rectifying its Page Three the C. C. could not imagine carrying on its work without the collaboration of Comrade Trotsky. He did not doubt that the resolution of the thir- teenth party conference on petty bour- geois deviations would be confirmed by the thirteenth party congress. Concluding Words of Comrade Zino- viev on the Political Report of the C. C, ‘We will strengthen the party work | among the members of the red army and among the women, by which means the collaboration with the vil- lage will become more intimate. The question of wages and unemployment | must be solved by the raising of the economy. The rights granted to the national minorities must everywhere be realized. The fact that the present congress consists up to 63 per cent of workers and 83 per cent of party members of the old generation proves that the party must not be oriented toward the youth, but toward the working class. The speaker declared the absolute preparedness for friendly and common work in the central and in the political bureau, but only on the basis of Leninism. There are things in which concessions are impossible. The Bolshevist-Leninian fundamental line of the party must be retained. The central is prepared to admit its own faults a hundred times and to make concessions in personal ques- tions, but the way of the party must remain Bolshevist. The central de- mands guarantees that the party dur- ing difficult days remains 100 per cent a united Bolshevist party. [Tomorrow the DAILY WORKER will publish the resolution of the thir- NATIONAL UNION OF WORKINGCLASS WOMEN PLANNED St.Paul F.-L. Convention Showed Great Need By KATE GITLOW, Secretary, United Council of Working Class Women. At the great farmer and labor con- jvention in St. Paul, June 17 to 20, I met women delegates representing |various working class women’s organ- izations. We came together and jtalked matters over. One thing is sure, and that is that the working class women must be organized, and |the different working class women’s organizations must come together in @ national conference to establish a national working class women’s or- |ganization, with one program, for the protection of the workers’ interests. All seem to agree that organized la- bor must recognize the great value of having the women folk engage in the every-day struggle of the workers, together with organized workers ev- erywhere, and that it is the duty of all working class organizations to en- courage and help to further this work. The United Council of Working Class Women is determined to go on with this work of organizing the un- organized women into councils thru- out the country and to consolidate the already existing working class wom- en's organizations. The federations own faults. The speaker pointed out the necessity of a united continuance of the work in the party and said that tral committee.] No Wage Cuts! No Increase of Hours! gle Trade Union Educational League must everywhere take up the challenge of the employers. Everywhere the slogan must be sounded: “No wage cuts! No increase in hours!” With industry slowing down, with unemployment clutch- ing the workers in ever larger numbers, the employers of the United States are preparing to make another great drive against the labor unions, hoping to break them completely and throw the working class helpless into their machinery of exploitation. Into each industry unemployment is creeping. The bosses are using it to pit the workers one against the other, to shift production from center to center, to discharge and re-hire at lower wages, to lengthen hours, to reducé wage- scales generally, and to throw labor conditions into a chaos. “Squeeze greater profits out of Labor” is the capitalist slogan. Not content with their partial successes against the railroad workers, the miners, the clothing workers, the textile workers, and in many other fields, the capitalist class is preparing to deliver a smashing blow, organized and directed centrally by the agents of big capital, to peg the labor movement in another great “open shop” rive. “Resistance,” is the slogan for the workers every- where; “Resistance” to the last ounce of our energies.” No w: cuts! Let every great union, every central body and district council, every local, and every individual worker, resolve that wages shall be maintained at all costs, in preparation for a great attempt to raise all wages to a standard approaching decent living costs. No wage cuts! No increase in hours! The 8-hour day must be estab- lished and maintained as the maximum, with the 6 and 7-hour day for unhealthful industries. Hours of labor must be shortened instead of being lengthened. No increase of hours! Whatever may be the handicaps to successful struggle, whatever conditions may seem favorable to the employers, the workers must sound a militant challenge to the capitalist offensive. Better to go down fighting than to surrender with- out a struggle. Any worsening of conditions that is accepted without a fight will be but the prelude to further intensifica- tion of the crushing policy of the capitalists. The bosses will force the fight; we can resist them better now than later on. There is no excuse of any kind for the workers not to have increased wages and shorter hours. The capitalists are rolling in wealth, created by the workers. Their greed is insatiable, however, and the workers must face the bitter fact that nothing but struggle, er Ds ag determination, and more struggle, will protect their interests against the blood-sucking crew. Rally the unions! Rally the workers, organized and un- organized, into one mighty body of working-class will and determination! No wage cuts! No increase in working hours! NATIONAL COMMITTEE, Trade Union Educational League, MAGAZINE SECTION Next Issue SATURDAY, JUNE 29, 1924 1. June 17th and After,.......000-By Alexander Bittelman 2. Agricultural Tenancy in the South......By Louis Zoobock 3. The Women’s Movement in the Near East.............0.... By V. Kasparovs 4. Will the Labor Giyernment Stand for This?............ By Evelyn Ray 5. Our Language Problem......... smn By A. Rostrom And Many Other Interesting Articles. VERSE ICTURES ILLUSTRATIONS ———__ORDER_ Now! THE DAILY WORKER, | 1113 W. Washington Bivd. Chicago, Illinois teenth congress of the Russian Com- munist party on the report of the cen- of working class women’s organiza- tions in Detroit, Mich., whose secre- tary, Mrs. Crokathes, I met, and the Housewives’ union of St. Paul, and the women from Minneapolis before whom I spoke, are enthusiastic for a national working class women’s or- ganization and have promised help and co-operation in this line. Rose Pastor Stokes and Sonia Dia- mond will make connections with other big centers. They will address the Federation of Working Class Women in Detroit. Rebel Orator Will Speak on “Prison Shadow on Labor” James P. Thompson, ex-political pri- soner, will tell the story of the Cen- tralia horror at Zahora Grove, Lyons, Il, on July 4th. A grand picnic and dance will be held in conjunction with Thompson’s lecture. Thompson will retell the story of the Centralia tragedy and the jailing of union men for 40 years in Walla Walla. He will also recount for the believable subversion of law and or- der to the class rule of the lumber interests and shipping in California. As an orator, Thompson is in a class by himself. When he was re- leased from Leavenworth prison after serving six years of a twenty-year sentence, last Christmas, he returned to his home only to find his wife on her death-bed. It is this sorrow and imprisonment that has made Thomp- son an orator who speaks with con- viction. All rebel workers are invited to at- tend the picnic and listen to a real rebel speech on “The Prison Shadow on Labor.” Tickets are 35 cents; ob- tainable at 1001 W. Madison St., Chi- cago. 59 Grand in Tickets Lead Astray as Dems Yelp Graft at G. O. P. NEW YORK, June 24.—With tick- ets to the convention here selling at $100 a throw a nice little scandal has broken out in the hosts of democracy gathered here. The McAdoo forces are accused of having gypped 3,000 tickets and special police permits. The delegates from the hinterland are all wrot up about that, a matter of thirty grand is enough to get ex- cited about, they say. A western na- tional committeeman is accused of having taken unto himself 2,900 other tickets, or twenty-nine grand. The McAdoo forces in private make no bones about having gypped the tickets. “What the Hell,” one of them said. “What do you think, think we are boobs? Smith has every boot- legger and warm mama in this lousy town working for him; we gotta get something outa this show.” The democrats will undoubtedly put a plank in their platform denouncing republican graft. It is to laugh, “All the Dope” on St. Paul Convention Comes Out Thursday Hei a chance to hear the “inside dope,” the “low down” on the June 17 St. Paul convention of the Farmer. Labor party. Everybody wants to know what went on up in the Twin Cities and what the real story of the convention and the new party is. Al Schaap 1s going to give out the straight stuff at a meeting to be held at 2788 Hirsch Blvd. on Thursday at 8:15, under the auspices of the Ma- plewood branch, Young Workers’ league. Admission is free. Schaap was at the convention and benefit of his auditors the almost un.