The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 9, 1924, Page 5

- | THE DAILY WORKER LOS ANGELES TO SEE PICTURESQUE DAY OF DEFENSE Communists Planning Huge Demonstration (Special to The Dally Worker) LOS ANGELES, Cal., Sept. 8.—Ac- cording to the local press the decks are clear for the “National Defense Day” demonstration that will be staged by the paytriots Sept. 12. In an editorial Sept. 3, the Los Angeles Times is reprimanding the “misguided citizens” for opposing “De- fense Day,” it says in behalf of it among other things that: Must Make It Picturesque. “There is another source of good in Defense Day. Never has there been a time in the history of America when patriotic zeal and devotion were more sorely needed. American institutions and ideals are being heavily ham- mered from within and without. It is necessary for the average person that the emotion of patriotism be, in some way, crystalized and made pic- turesque; that it be focused and con- centrated. This defense test will ac- complish the purpose.” In order to show the workers of Los Angeles what this preparedness means to them. In order to explain to them the purpose of the capitalists in staging this military display, and why it is necessary at the present time to “crystalize,” “focus” and “concentrate” the emotions of patri- otism, the Workers Party of Los Angeles and the Young Workers League will hold a mass meeting on “National. Defense Day,’ Sept. 12, at Symphony Hall, 232 So, Hill Street, at 8 p. m. Comrades Rose Rubin, William Shneiderman, Emanuel Levin and a representative of the Juniors of the Young Workers League will be the speakers. Also mass singing by the entire group of the Junior Young Workers League. 50,000 Bucks Gone to Hell. To date Cook County has spent $50,000 in its efforts to send Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb to the gallow’s for the slaying of Robert Franks. MY COMPLIMENTS TO THE DAILY WORKER DR. M. WISHNER DENTIST 800 W. North Ave., Cor. Halsted St. Lincoln 9010 PITTSBURGH, PA. DR. RASNICK DENTIST Fifth Congress of Communist International Considers the Subject of Trade Union Unity (The most ‘tiealng question be- fore the revolutionary labor move- ment today, is the question of unity, locally, nationally, and international- ly. The Fifth Congress of the Com- munist International, held in Mos- cow in July, this year, dealt ex- haustively with the object, The clearest and most authoritative statement of the question, and of the policy of the International, is contained in a speech by G. Zinov- iev, chairman of the Communist International, delivered at the 29th Session of the Congress. It will become one of the classic docum- ents of the International, and should be studied carefully and preserved by aM members of the Workers Party and by militant trade unionists gen- erally.) a By GREGORY ZINOVIEV. OMRADES, the Trade union ques- tion is of enormous importance. If-there were to remain any lack of clearness in this question, it would have an enormously injurious influ- ence upon the whole movement. A good deal has been heard at this Congress of the necessity of bolshe- vising the parties, of remaining true to Leninism. We would prefer to hear less abgut bolshevising the party, but to have the essence of Leninism it- self studied more deeply, especially in regard to the trade union question. Bolshevism is Against Splitting the Trade Unions. The standpoint of Leninism in the trade union question is to be seen most clearly in its tactics. You are aware that the first split between the Bolsheviki and Mensheviki occured in 1903, that is more than 20 years ago. The Bolsheviki have acted quite dif- ferently in the trade union question. In spite of the various splits in the Political organizations we have nei- ther before, during, nor after the rev- olution caused a split in any trade union. (Interjection of Radek: “Quite true!”) This must give us cause to think. Our trade uniofs even after the revolution were still, to a considerable extent, in the hands of the mensheviki and in spite of this we have done everything in order to avoid a split. Later on when the mensheviki re- presented a very important fraction in the trade unions, the Party did everything possible to capture the trade unions from within without splitting them. If therefore you wish to understand the Bolshevik tactics you must not forget this fundamental fact: During the course of 25 years whilst there were a number of splits in the politi- cal organizations (the mensheviki cal- led us professional splitters) .there was not a single split in the trade unions, neither when we were in the minority nor when we had the major- ity. Therein lies one of the fundamen- tal facts of the history of the Russian Revolution and of the #istory of Rus- sian Bolshevism. Whoever calls himself a Leninist, whoever desires to bolshevise the Party (it seems to me that Schuhma- cher claims to desire this—God pre- serve us from such a Bolshevization) —will not split the trade unions. This would on the contrary mean support- ing the mensheviks, although Schuh- macher may regard himself a “left- ist”. We have already seen many such “leftists”. If I am not mistaken Schuhmacher was here three years ago as a representative of the Indepen- dent Socialist Party. _Now however he acts as if the International was not left enough for him. (Interjection of Radek: “That is often the éase!") If you wish to speak seriously of bolshevising the parties you must take note once and for all: the strug- gle for the unity of the trade union movement is one of the characteristic features of Bolshevism; that is shown by the practice of Russian Bolshevism over a period of 25 years. We have not split a single trade union. Why? Perchance because we were so fond of the mensheviki or perhaps because teed regarded the trade unions as a sacred and untouchable form of the RADIO TELEGRAPHERS FEAR THAT COOLIDGE’S ELECTION WILL KILL CHANCES TO ORGANIZE A UNION By ART SHIELDS (Federated Press Staff Correspondent) NEW YORK, Sept. 8.—While T. V. O’Connor, chairman of the U. S. Shipping board, and former president of the Interna- tional Longshoremen’s Association, is rooting for Coolidge among his late union. colleagues, he is attempting to prevent the revival Rendering eve Eee Service 645 SMITHFIELD ST. Hae Tth o> 1627 CENTER AVE. . Arthur OUR DAILY A GOOD MODEL FOR MATURE FIGURES. 4867. Printed cotton, crepe, silk al- paca, satin or kasha could be used for this design. It has straight lines, but added fulness is supplied by plait sec- tions at each side on the fronts. The Pattern is cut in 7 Sizes: 3 88, 40, 42, 44, 46 and 48 inches bust measure. A 38 inch size requires 5% yards of 40 inch material. 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A 6 year size re- If made as illustrated Pattern mailed to any address on Send 12c in silver or stamps for our UP-TO-DATE FALL AND WIN- TER 1924-1925 BOOK OF FASHIONS. wa Washington, ky MORK i he ia ‘ng 18 time, is the Only marine union which was entirely destroyed in the great 1921 strike. Other marine unions, such as the In- ternational Seamen’s Union and the organizations for engineers, mds- ters, mates, etc., were badly shaken up but the radio operators’ movement was put out of business. Recently some of the boys havé been trying to get a union going again to recover the wage ground lost in the last three years. They have found their efforts combatted by the stoolpigeons of the shipping board, other steamship con- cerns and the big radio corporations. Difficulties In Way. Difficulties in organizing the wire- less operators are far greater than those facing other workers on a ship, say wireless men who have put their case before The Federated Pre: Where seamen and firemen have only one boss to fight, the radio operator is under two sets of masters, the steamship line and the radio corpora- tion that has the contract with the company. Leading all the other radio corpora- tions in wealth and in strikebreaking efficiency is the Radio Corporation of America, owned by General Electric Co. This big aggregation of capital has a shrewd employment arrange- ment calculated to keep its wireless posts openshop. It turns out its own operators thru its own schools, with 4-month terms, and taboos the regu- lar line radio operators who have been knocking about the seas under many auspices and are possibly affect- ed by union ideas, Interlocking Anti-Unionists. Many of the shipping board v: Is have contracts with the Radio Cor- poration of America tho the policy still prevails of dividing the contracts up among all the leading companies; These include the Independent Wire- less Telegraph Co. and the Ship Own- ers’ Radio service, which are equally opposed to unionism tho lacking the super-strikebroaking resources of the octopus, The United Fruit Co. has its own radio outfit. Radio operators behind the union movement say that tf Coolidge is re- elected, with his anti-labor shipping board policies, their prospects for a union ere a 9 Pt movement? No, but solely for the reason, because we regarded the trade unions as.a centre around which the mass of the proletariat, the whole working class gathered. Not long ago in the German party it was: Enough of the trade un- ions, we want a “new form” for the labor movement, and these comrades really thought that their good will was enough to find a new form with ease. That is all they wanted—only no bol- shvism! The trade unions were not discovered by Grassmann, D’Arragona or Legien, they are the historic form of the mass organization of the pro- letariat under capitalism. You can’t suck a new form of the labor move- ment out of your fingers. We have a new form of mass organization of the workers (beside the trade unions) and that is the Soviets. But that is such a form as cannot be called into life at any moment. At the second world congress we had a special resolution on the conditions for the creation of Soviets. Read them through again. There you will find information as to when it is possible to proceed to the formation of Soviets. This is on the eve of the révolution that is, when they constitute the germ of a workers’ government in the form of a_ pro- letarian dictatorship. In the Soviets we have therefore really a new form of the labor movement. But they can- not be formed at any time, only on the eve of revolution. There is no other form of the proletarian mass move- ment, The factory councils are gradually becoming a new form of the labor movement within the trade union movement. But the trade union re- mains, remember, also after the vic- tory of the proletariat, after the wrest- ing of power by the proletariat, an ex- tremely important organization. That, at any rate, has been proved by the, until now, sole victorious revolution, the Russian revolution. It would therefore be extreme frivol- ity to talk as if we could, at will, just because we wanted, create a new form of the labor movement, and neg- lect the old form, up to now the sole MOVIE OPERATORS WIN HANDS DOWN BEFORE A STRIKE Ninety-five Per Cent of Men Already Back (By The Federated Press) NEW YORK, Sept. 8.—Ninety-five of Greater New York are signed up with the Moving Picture Operators union on the new terms, the execu- tive board of the union announces. The day after the threatened strike in all New York’s movie theaters not more than 2 houses in the whole city were tied up for failure to give the per cent of the moving picture houses moving picture operators the two-shift day and five per cent wage increase which had been demanded. e o'gnore Boss Gang. The so-called chamber of commerce of the Theater Owners’ Assn. is no longer recognized by the moving pic- ture operators union because of its failure to sign the new agreement with the workers. Theater Owners’ Assn. have been eag- erly besieging the union office, how- ever, to sign up for their hquses indi- . pvidually. Assn. Members of the The Vaudeville Managers’ igned a two-year agreement with the union at the first threat of a strike. 20,000 Out of Work. MILWAUKEE, Sept. 8. — Twenty thousand unemployed men in Milwau- kee is the estimate of Frank J. Weber, secretary of the Federated Trades council. Fear Comunists In Portugal.. LONDON, Sept. 8.—A Lisbon dis- patch to the Morning Post today, said serious Communist demonstrations are threatened in Portugal. one. Comrade Lenin taught us that the trade union movement, in spite of all the betrayals of social democracy, represents the historic form of the combination of the whole proletariat in one organization. That is the reason for the efforts of the social demo- cratic leaders to destroy the unity of this movement and drive the Com- munists out of it. That is why we said, at the 3rd and 4th world con- gresses, that the. social democratic leaders have an interest in destroy- ing the unity of the trade unio: but that it is to our interest to preserve that unity. This form of the labor movement will render us good service, not only during the struggle for power but also after the capture of power. Lenin often said that had we not had the unions behind us in 1917, the dic- tatorship would not have lasted months let alone years. It was the trade unions that facilitated the or- ganization of production, of the Red Army and of much besides. Leninism in the trade union ques- tion means: Fight against a split in the trade unions. We do not say that as a bit of diplomacy against the so- cial democrats, but because it comes from the deepest springs of Leninism. Victory is Impossible Without Mass Organization Leninism consists above all things in the recognition that irreconcible Marxism is unthinkable, without the mass organization of the proletariat, for a Marxism without mass organi- zation is no Marxism, and can never lead to victory. “Yesterday we celebrated the mem- ory of the Paris Commune. But we |want a victorious commune, we want |the victory of the proletariat. And for this the combination of the whole of the working class is above all neces- |sary. At the 4th world congress we de- clared and it still remains true—the more the social democrats recognize, that the working class, in the depth of its soul is with us, that we shall in- evitably win the victory, the more they recognize that we are nearing revolution, the more they try to split thé trade unions. They think: If the} organfzations of the working classes are already falling into the hands of the/Communists, we must see to it that they only get fragments and splinters of the trade unions, not the unions as such, whieh would welcome irreplacable weapons in their hands. When we look at the English and movement: al German trade union which are still in the hands of so democracy, it is difficult to belie that the unions can ever again be of service to the proletarian revolution. Nevertheless, they will be of servic The Russian unions were not one jot better when they were still in the hands of the Mensheviki. The discip- good, which for decades had been pil- became in the hands of the Commun- ists, an irreplacable weapon Russian revolution. iously of the proletarian revolution, of the winning of the majority of the working class, can lightly handle the question of the unity of the trade unions. The bolshevising of the party is the policy of an honest fight for the unity of the trade union move- ment, and the incessant struggle for Communism within the unions. The more the social democrats provoke, the strenger we must manoeuvre, the more we must close up our ranks in the unions, the stronger must we work within the unions. Why? Because our class comrades are to be found in the unions. A frivolous comparison has been} made here: As the bourgeois state} can only be won by violence, so the trade unions can only be won by viol- ence. There is no sense in this anal- ogy. The bourgeois state is distin- guished from the trade unions in this, that the unions consists of our class comrades, that is of workers, who in spite of their aberration, in spite of their- sometimes objective anti-rev olutionary effect, can and will, at the decisive moment, take the right turn- ing. (To be continued) A. BRITISH WORKERS TOLD STORY OF FRAME-UP AGAINST MEMBERS (By Defense which attacked the Centralia I, W. W. hall in 1919. Several open air meetings are to be arranged for Miss Gilman by the Class War Prisoners’ Re- lease Committee, the secretar of which is William T. Colyer, who was deported from Boston in 1921 for his political beliefs. It is expected that at least one of these meetings will be held in Hyde Park, where thousands of working people congre- gate of an evening to hear the human struggle discussed. Lately the London Daily Herald published an interview with Miss Gilman on the Centralia case. To that newspaper she said: “At this time when London is welcoming Am- ericans, the American Bar Associa- tion, the advertisers and innumerable tourists, there are others from across the sea who are anxious that their English cousins should help work for the release of eight industrial union- ists who are buried alive in Walla Walla prison in the state of Wash- ington. “They were lumberjacks, and when on Armistice Day, 1919, their hall was attacked by marching veterans of the world war, they fired guns, and four of the attacking party were killed. Others broke into the hall and in the most brutal fashion lynched one o: the I. W. W.'s, himself an ex-soldier, | Wesley Everest. “Everest’s murderers were never brot to trial, but eleven I. W. W. mem- bers were tried, No justice was pos- UNCLE WIGGILY’S TRICKS OF I. W. W. IN CENTRALIA CASE News Service) LONDON, England, Sept. 8.—Working class groups here are being informed of the facts in connection with the Armistice Day tragedy at Centralia, Washington, by Elisabeth Gilman, of the Christian Social Justice Fund of Baltimoré. From the beginning, Miss Gilman has actively participated in the fight to liberate the eight industrialists who are serving long terms for defending their | livesand property against a mob+ sible, however,-in that highly stimu- lated war environment, and eight men were convicted and sentenced to serve 25 to 40 years in prison. confessed in affidavits that they were terrorized into convicting the accused men, and that they believe that the eight defendants were innocent of murder, having acted.in self-defense against a premeditated raid upon their property.” Much indignation has been ex pressed here by working people who learned from Miss Gilman that Gov- ernor Louis Hart of Washington had ignored affidavits from three newly discovered eye-witnesses of the Cen- tralia tragedy, who have taken oath that the parading ex-service men at- tacked the I. W. W. shots were fired from inside. Miss Gilman has numerous friends in London. She is the daughter of the late president of John Hopkins University in Baltimore. of publicity has been given in England to the Centralia case and to the frame- ups which for several years have kept Sacco and Vanzetti in prison in Massa- chusetts and Mooney and Billings |walled up in California, Secretary Colyer is the author of a book entitled ‘Americanism, a World Menace,” which details comprehensively the many onslaughts against outspoken workingmen in the United States and \lays bare the workings of reactionary interests behind those presecutions, line, the love of organization, all the} ing up in the trades unions, all this | of the) Therefore no one who thinks ser-| “Since then six of the jurors have} hall before any) Thru the efforts of the Class Pris-| oners’ Release Committee, a great deal | WATER DISPUTE IN LOS ANGELES GROWS BITTER Artificial Famine of the Grafters Is Exposed (Special to The Dally Worker) LOS ANGELES, Cal., Sept. 8.—Near- ly fifteen years ago there was a water famine in this city. The Times (Otis and Chandler), the Examiner (Hearst) and the Express (E. T. Earl) joined lin the cry that water must be brought |from a distance. It was done. Water rights were acquired in the Owens River Valley, and water was brought 0 miles over mountains and desert, The argument was that as more and {more water is used by the citizens of Los Angeles, less and less remains for the farmers of the Owens River Val- ley. Without water for irrigation \their farms will again become desert. Some time ago a’ section of the aqueduct was dynamited. The city jengineer of Los Angeles, Bill Mulhol- land, who has been in charge of the aqueduct from the beginning has been threatened with death. City’s Man Kidnapped. Recently, L. C. Hall, of Los Angeles, who has been aiding agents of the city to buy water rights, was kidnap- ped and beaten. Further violence is prophesied by the Owens Valley Her- ald. A commission of Los Angeles city officials has just reached the valley | where it will try to settle the dispute | by paying indemnity. Graft had full sway when the aque |duct was built. It has been charged |that desert lands needed for the right of way were bought by a real estate syndicate and resold to the city at enormous profits. Politiclans Want Aqueduct. Among the members of this syndi- cate were the politicians and news- paper publishers who most loudly de- manded the aqueduct. This syndicate bought the San Fer- nando Valley, a triangle of desert nearly fifteen miles long on each side. It lies just north of Hollywood, separ- ated by a range of hills. This land was laid out in farms and townsites and resold at an enormous profit. Later the Valley"was annexed to the city, and aqueduct water irrigates these farms. Some water was at hand, but only the aqueduct could sup- ply enough to serve the entire valley. Investigate Aqueduct, Twelve years ago the Los Angeles Record (Scripps syndicate) was radi- cal. It supported the socialist ticket in city elections. And it foreed an in- vestigation of the aqueduct. Like most investigations, it brought no re- sult. The three newspapers involved in the syndicate, and two others con- trolled by these, hushed up things, attacked the investigators, Med, as brass check editors can lie. ~ Whether the water famine had been real or artificial could not be proven. But some facts came out. In places {the cement conduits carrying the wat- er had already burst under the pres- }sure. In others the concrete was so |soft that a stick could be poked thru it. And still worse. The water came across the desert in an open ditch with steep sloping sides of smooth |cement. Coyotes and other animals | seeking water fe in and were swept away. It became necessary to skim the dead animals off the reservoirs every once in a while, as the reser- |voirs became clogged. Protests by physicians finally compelled the city officials to fence in these open ditches. The water is unusually alkaline. It lis not fit to drink, nor for cooking, nor even to wash with. All it is really fit for is to irrigate the syndicate’s lands in the San Fernando Valley. Go to eat where all the rest 100% union men and women go Deutche-Hungarian Restaurant 29 South Halsted St. Pure Food, Good Service and reasonable prices our motto * What kind of a shot do you call that ? * . A LAUGH FOR THE CHILDREN “That was holing out