The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 12, 1924, Page 5

Friday, September 12, 1924 MINERS’ UNION ISSUES APPEAL FOR CHILDREN No Education for Min- ers’ Children this Fall By ROSS WHITE (Special to The Daily Worker) .. SESSER, Ill, Sept. 11.— Winter is now close at hand and with the mines having been shut down here for almost a year the miners’ families are not only hungry but they can- not send their children to school due to lack of clothing. To meet this situation a cam- mittee has been appointed from each local union to get together and work out a plan for supply- ing clothing to the miners’ children of Illinois. The child- ren must not be deprived of an opportunity to attend school this term. We make our appeal to the readers of the DAILY WORKER who have been following Karl Reeve’s articles, depicting the destitution that exists in the mining towns because of the months and months of unemployment. No Wages for Many Months. You know that the miners of Sesser have been out of work for many months and that some of them have had their salaries withheld for many months even while they were working. You know that the stores have been forced to shut down because they ‘have given credit to the miners until they no longer could continue. You ‘know that the| miners have left for ‘other parts of the country seeking em- ployment but have returned after months of searching in vain. You know that the families of the miners are hungry. Now they are going to be clotheless and cold. We appeal to ‘you for the children) Send Packages to Ross White. We need all kinds of clothing for ‘children from the age of 6 and over. Send any clothing that can stand a little more wear and is of no. use-to you to Ross White, Sesser, Ill. Anything you will send will be ap- preciated by the miners’ families of Sesser, Ill, for whom this appeal is being made. Walk Off With Jewels. NEW YORK, Sept. 11.—Jewels val- ued at $150,000 were stolen by burg: lars from the mansion of J. S. Cos den, millionaire oil man, at Sands Point, Long Island, it was learned today. Cosden is sorry. Not so the burglars. Communists (In this, the concluding install- ment of Comrade Zinoviev'’s speech on the trade union question at the Fifth Congress of the Communist International, he deals with the lat- est developments in the Amsterdam International, forecasting the move which was later made of proposing a world congress which should unite the trade union movement. Zinoviev makes it clear that this stand for unity at all costs is far removed from any capitulation be- fore the agents of capitalism; that unity of the trade unions is one of the most powerful weapons for the revolution, and he closes with the words: “We do not challenge you to an ‘extreme right’ course, as Com- rade Bordiga said. But we chal- lenge you to go forward against the bands of thé bourgeois lackeys, to the winning of the majority of the trade unions, not only nationally but internationally.”) RR ee be Something New in the English Trade Union Movement. We are asked what there is new in England. The left wing is new, which is of course no left wing: that is only a delusion. Think of it, comrades, England is the land with the most developed la- bor movement. Wynkoop was per- fectly right when he said that the English labor movement was in this sense the decisive one. In England a new chapter is beginning in the la- bor movement. We do not know ex- actly where the mass Communist party in England is to come from— whether it is to come from the door of Stewart, MacManus, or thru an other door. And it is very possible, comrades, that the mass party will ‘come thru another door perhaps, we must not forget that. What is now happening in England is of no less historic importance than the events in other lands. I have already said to the German comrades: “It is quite natural, that we all cling to our own party, our own organization. I also cling to Lenin- grad. Other comrades bring examples from Ludwigshafen, and Hamburg. Comrades, we have all a great respect for Ludwigshafen, Hamburg and Len- ingrad, but I must say openly that London also has its significance and a not less one than the above men- tioned towns. What is now happening in England is of world-wide historic importance If we are not blind we must see that. Otherwise we would have to found a German-Russian, or only a continental international. We founded something quite different, however, we founded a world international, a world party. OUR DAILY PATTERNS A SMART AND PLEASING FROCK 4871. Figured silk and crepe are here combined, Cotton print could be used with voile. Also linen and ratine, The sleeve may be short as in the large view, or finished with the long bell portion, The Pattern is cut in 3 Sizes: 16, 18 and 20 years, An 18 year size sequires 4% yards of 32 inch material, if made with short sleeves. For waist portions of contrasting material 1% yard 32 or 40 inches wide will be ‘required. If made with long sleeves 4% yards will be required 32 inches wide. The width of the skirt at the foot is 1% yard. Pattern mailed to address on receipt of 12c in silver or stamps. Send 12¢ in silver or stamps for our UP-TO-DATE FALL & WINTER 1924-1925 BOOK OF FASHIONS. A “SMART” JUMPER DRESS FOR THE GROWING GIRL 4878. One could use crepe, repp or gingham for the dress, and lawn or batiste for the guimpe which is sepa- rate from the dress. The sleeve may be in wrist or elbow length. This Pattern is cut in 4 Sizes 10 and 12 years. A 10 year requires 1% yard of material 32 inch wide for the guimpe, and 2% yards for the dress. If made of one mate- rial dress and guimpe will require 3% yards, Pattern mailed to any address on receipt of 12c in silver or stamps. Send 12c in silver or stamps for our UP-TO-DATE FALL & WINTER 1924-1925 BOOK OF FASHIONS, wi Watthington, Blog e WORK E 1118 pees. te Therefore the German comrades may not say: “What business of ours are They are our business because they the Russian or the English unions?” form an importayt part of the present labor movement. What is there new? This, thatthe Amsterdam international is beginning to fall to pieces, that in the English labor movement an extremely impor- tant process is beginning. I have no illustions. I am convinced that the English lefts are not, of course, revolutionaries, that they are not better than the “left” German so0- cial democrats. But that they are there, is a very important thing. We must understand that, otherwise we shall create no proletarian mass movement in England, and also not accomplish the proletarian revolution. There is now a proposal being made to the Russian trade union movement. Now I ask, has this question any sig- nificance, if only for Russia and Eng- land? Yes, and that a very great one. The answer which the trade unions give here in Moscow, will have great consequences in London. How ought we, then, to answer? We must answer as the standpoint of the whole international demands. There are people who think that we are guided here by some or othe diplomatic considerations. That is nonsense. MacDonald and his guards are afraid as of the devil, of the English movement approaching us. If it says in the German memorandum that this approach will hinder us in the mobilzing of the masses against the experts’ report, that is such holy innocence that I cannot even find any objections against it. Quite the con- trary, Comrade Heckert. You who have collected so great a parilamen- tary experience ‘in Saxony (amuse- ¥| Better Babies.” Yjabout—and every few days a man ment) should not expose such holy naivity. Do you really think that Mac- Donald or Grassman or the “Vor- warts” sincerely believe in ‘an alliance between us? That will be such an al- liance as will lose these gentlemen a good half of their electors. On the contrary! The first question which we should put these gentlemen would be the following: “Now, gen- tlemen, what about the Experts Re- MAINE TEXTILE MILLS IDLE FOR ALL LAST YEAR Coupon Clippers Having Usual Good Time By F. W. LEIGHTON. (Federated Press Staff Correspondent.) BIDDLEFORD-SACO, Me., Sept. 11. —Textile mills in the twin cities of Biddleford and Saco on the Saco river, which normally employ up to 5,000 workers, have been practically idle the past year. The Saco-Lowell Tex- tile Machinery shops are working 200 men in place of the normal 2,000. The Pepperell Mfg. Co., keeps its cotton goods plant running only three days a week. Across the river the huge York Gingham mills run three days every two weeks. Summer Resorts Dull. The depression in New England is showing its effect on the Maine sum- mer resorts. The luxurious places are doing pretty well because dividends and interest payments are keeping up in spite of the drop in wages and in employment. But the famous Old Or- chard Beach, frequented in past years by thousands of workers and their families in vacation time, is finding business very dull this summer. Old Orchard depends on mill workers, of- fice workers and the families with modest budgets. Kennebunkport and Ogunquet beach, on the other ‘hand, are enter- taining the usual rich stream of idle coupon clippers. Millworkers and their families are beginning to this section of Maine in considerable numbers. Better Babies Move Weakens in Face of Numerous Suicides NEW YORK, Sept. 11- ness bad!” The woman limped rhe matically into the office and thrust a Better Babies pamphlet into my hands. “It effects me, all right,” she added taking a dime, “Everywhere it's dead and I can’t make very much, ‘i “Do you have to live on what you get this way?” “Yes, and sometimes I can’t stay at it more than an hour a day. But I've got a cheap room and don’t eat much, I don’t know who publishes Better Babies—the solicitor limping jumps off Brooklyn bridge and the divers go after his body—something ‘to think about, THE DAILY WORKER port? We will put them against the/randum on the “marriage.” I believe|a wall, we will force them to answer, we will tell them what the policy of the Amsterdam International in the question of the experts’ report looks like, 1914. It is only a continuation of the social betrayal with other means. It is the same betrayal of the masses as on August 4th, 1914. These gentlemen want to settle the question in secret. At the moment when we can put the question in intérnational dimensions, they and not we, will be in a tight corner. The Arguments of the German Com- rades Are False. All the arguments, then, of the Ger- man memorandum are artificial argu- ments. One hindrance only remains in the way of our German comrades, that in the depths of their own party, they have not yet given up Schuhmacherism. We must be grateful to the Amster- dam International, if only for this, that it give us the opportunity to put this question once more before .jthe German party at a world confer- ence. We have nothing more to say to those who believe that it is really @ question of “marriage” with the Amsterdamers. If I wished for a “marriage” with them I would de- serve to be put out of the door, at least that is what I would do to the man who was striving for such an alliance, We wish to use our weapons as the class war demands. This demand at present is, that we try in direct ways, to preserve the unity of the trade union movement, and to win the ma- jority in them. Formerly we hoped to win by a direct attack, but that was not successful. Now we must ask ourselves the same question, but ap- proach our end along a slower path. We must win at any price! He who is for the work in the trade unions of his own land, will be just as sin- cerely for the unified policy in inter- national measures. That is quite clear, that he who has stomach-ache in national affairs, will also have it in international ones. (Amusement: quite right!) . Only then does one write a memo- Their policy is the policy of! that this episode must be absolutely wound up. I am not afraid that that will injure the German party. That is an illusion. The moment we really spread the watchword of unity in the trade unions among the masses, it will be much more difficult for the social democrats to carry on such a shame- less fight against you, as they now do, If only the question can be put really internationally. Only on one point do I agree with our German comrades, and that is that the question is not sufficiently prepared, and that one cannot get it thru the masses in a few weeks. There they are right. The * matter Teally must be prepared. We may not create a unified front only from above. That we have already seen, we must carry on a campaign of preparation for months among the masses. If the German comrades are with us in that, every difference dis- appears at once. It must certainly be decided that: we prepare the ground among the masses, that we should or- ganize propaganda on an international scale for unity in the unions, that we should now call meetings thruout the world, prepare the ground, and only then begin negotiations. There is no hurry. But we must not forget there is something new here. For that rea- son we are here, for that reason we are leaders, for that reason we wish to be leaders, to see things already in the germ. After two years every duffer will understand it. But’ the tendency is already clear, we must already undertake something new. We will prepare the ground, we will go to the masses, with the watchword of unity. We have nothing to fear. Should our enemies shut us out, we will answer with a mass campaign for unity in the unions, in England, in Germany, in France, in the whole world. In the memorandum it says the workers have a certain-distrust for a maneuver-policy which gives no im- mediate results. That is not true. The workers are not. children. They know that the class war is a war which needs strategy. The workers understand that very well. I give only WHEELER LOOKS LONGINGLY BACK TO THE BOSTON TEA PARTY WHILE HILLQUIT APPEALS TO THE PEOPLE By JACK STACHEL (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Sept. 11.—Senator Burton K. Wheeler, candi- only claim to progressivism consisted in his promise to up- hold the constitution, a docu- ment that was drawn up to re- present the interests of the rul- ing class of 1776 and designed to safeguard for all time the interests of the property owners of the country. His further claim to progressivism lay in the fact that while he was in New England, bankers, merchants, business men in general came to him and pro- mised their support. Hillquit Is There. The other speakers were Morris Hillquit, Sidney Hillman and Harriet Stanton Blatch. Hillquit, the “Marxian socialist” urged the “people” to support La Fol- lette and Wheeler as they represent a movement to “restore the government to the people,” while Sidney Hillman, president of the Amalgamated Cloth- ing Workers of America asked the tailors to vote for La Follette because 2 represented the people of the United’ States. Hillman did not mention that in the state of Wisconsin, child labor flourished and the most frequent weapon against organized labor in that state is the injunction. Not a Word on F, L. P. Thruout the entire meeting not a word was mentioned about the build- ing of a farmer-labor party altho there were plenty of phrases designed to catch the farmer and labor vote. There’ was nothing in the whole date for vice-president of the United States on the LaFollette ticket, spoke here at the historic Cooper Union Hall and urged the workers and farmers to help him and La¥ollette bring back to this country the spirit of the Boston Tea Party, if they want to do away with the ills of the present day. The senator made a typical old party speech and as to “pro- gressivism” he was a poor rival to the erstwhile democrat, now deceased, Woodrow Wilson. His+ of meeting that would make it difficult to believe that it was not a republican or democratic campaign meeting. The speakers. the majority of whom were rich lawyers, the phrases, the entire atmosphere, was bourgeois. Bankers, business men, lawyers and old women of the Peace Party occupied the plat- form seats and contributed to the col- lection, while in the audience a few bankrupt business men, insurance agents, who are also members of the Socialist Party, together with profes- sional cheerers, tried to make as much noise as possible. On the platform sat a former pres- ident of a socialist daily and his wife. While his wife seemed to enjoy it all one could easily see from the grimaces he made that the entire show was too much even for him. But he should not be discouraged. Time heals all wounds. Fire Destroys Factory. Fire destroyed the plant of the Whitaker Manufacturing company, Maple avenue and Sixty-fifth street, Damage could not be estimated by the owners. The factory had been closed for three weeks. The cause of the blaze could not be ascertained. EARN YOUR COMMUNIST MER. IT STAMP BY GETTING A NEW MEMBER FOR THE PARTY AND ANOTHER READER AND SUB SCRIBER TO THE DAILY WORKER. NCLE WIGGILY'S TRICKS Page Five Mure LOW Must Win the Majority in: the Trade Unions small example. Everyone who} knows the psychology of the present-| day Russian worker knows that our policy enjoys a popularity in n region so great as in the region of our! foreign policy, that is just there| where we are maneuvering against} the enemy. The masses like that.| They say to themselv Our party can maneuver, it can trick the enemy| and so defend our interests. I think! it is also the same in Germany. It} often happens that the leaders try to| put their mistakes on to the masses.| The masses very well understand our | policy against the anti-revolutionary | leaders of German social democracy. | We must reckon internationally| with Schuhmacherism. Our policy must now consist in an energetic! winding up of Schuhmacherism, not} only in the German party but also in| the whole international. There are great impediments. The bourgeoisie! is still strong. It will surely break to Pieces but its present collapse must not be exaggerated in order not to| create illustions. The matter is not so simple. The bourgeoisie is| stronger than we, it will collapse, we shall defeat it if we make no stupid mistakes. But the greatest danger for the German party today is in un- dervaluing the strength of the bour. geoisie and of the social democrats. We understand the revolutionary feelings, the psychology of the Ger- man workers. Without them there would be no Communist International. But that is not enuf. We must be real disciples of Lenin, we must see the strength and the cunning of the Ger- man bourgeoisie and not undervalue them. Well, enuf of Schuhmacherism, na- tionally and internationally. We are considering certain steps with regard to the Amsterdamers, but we will not say that must lead to “marriage” with them. We do not challenge you to an “extreme right” course, as. comrade Bordiga said, But we challenge you to go forward against the bands of the bourgeois lackeys, to the winning {of the majority in the trade unions, not only nationally, but also interna- tionally. (Long and tempestuous ap- plause.) Your Union Meeting Second Friday, Sept. 12, 1924. Name of Local and Place of Meeting. Bakers and Confectioners, 3420 W. Roosevelt Road. Blacksmiths, 64th and S. Ashland Ave. Boiler Makers, 105th and Ave. M. Boller Makers, 55th and Halsted. Boiler Makers, 624 and Halsted. Building Trades Council, 180 W. Washington_St. Carpenters’ District Council, 505 S. State St. Carpenters, 4339 S. Halsted St. Commercial Portrait Artists, W. Adams St. Electricians, 2901 W. Monroe St. Electricians, 19 W. Adams St. Engineers (Loc.), Madison and Sacramento. Engineers, 180 W. Washington St. Firemen and Enginemen, 5428 ‘entworth Ave. 2200 14286 19 9 182 683 | 845 674 Fur Workers, Gardeners and Florists, Village Hall, Morton Grove. Garment Workers, 175 W. Wash- ii St. 6 p. m. Glass Workers, Emily and Marsh- field. Hod Carriers, 1850 Sherman St., Evanston. Janitors, 166 W. Washington St. Ladies’ Garment Workers, Joint Board, 328 W. Van Buren 8t. 4 Lithographers, 639 S. Ashland Blvd. Machinists, 113 8, Ashland Blvd. 113 8. Ashland Bivd. 55th and Halsted Sts. 8. E. cor. Lexington ern. 58d Pl. and Halsted. Metal Polishers, 119 8. Throop St. Painters, School and Sheffield Ave. Pattern Makers, 119 8. Throop St. by gs Engravers, 814 W. Harrison it. 30 Dp. m. ers, 180 W, Washington St. Plumbers, 5212 8. Halsted St. Plumbers, 9261 S. Chicago Ave. Railway Carmen, 59th and Halsted Railway Carmen, Blue Island, Ill. Railway Carmen, 52d and Robey. Railway Clerks, 9 8. Clinton St. Rope Splicers, 5508 Milwaukee Ave. on, (Men), 315 Plymouth Ct., :30 p. m. Telegraphers, O. R. T. Cort Club, Atlantic Hotel. Upholsterers, 159 N. State St. ‘atchmen (Stock Yards), 3749 8. Halsted St. 9 a. m. (Note—Uniess —otherwi: stated all meetings are at & p. m.) 45 Wit 21 84 118 5 111 301 Weyler to Command Spaniards. MADRID, Sept 11.—General Wey- ler who commanded the Spanish troops in Cuba before the United States walked off with it, will com- mand the Spanish army hereafter. He is going to Morocco to wallop the tribesmen, AUSTRALIAN BANK SYSTEM ON VERGE OF FALLING DOWN Appeal Frantically to Govt. for Relief By W. FRANCIS AHERN (Staff Correspondent of The Fed. Press) SYDNEY, New South Wales, Sept. 11,— Financially, Australia is nearer a serious crisis today than it has been since the big bank smash in 1893. An inflation boom started during the war, has resulted in the extension of paper credit to such an exgent that private finance is no longer in a stable con- dition. Instead of a reserve of 33 per cent of real money against loans made by private banks, there is not even 20 per cent. To re-establish its stability private |finance would have to call in millions of credits. But this would cause eco- nomic chaos on a wholesale scale. To allow the present condition to con- tinue means that the private banking system must gradually totter. Ask Federal Aid. To prevent a crash the private banks demand that the federal gov- ernment in Australia shall see them thru their difficulties. A bill was rushed thru the federal parliament to allow the Commonwealth Bank owned by the nation, and founded by a previous Labor government to prop up the shaky edifice of the private banking system. Today the total real currency in coin and bullion in Australia is $250,- 000,000 or about $50,000,000 more than before the war. Yet upon that addi- tional $50,000,000 legal currency, the private financiers have issued a loan to the extent of $730,000,000. Against the total loans issued by the banks at the present time—$1,340,000,000— there is a legal reserve of only $250,- 000,000. Finances Tottering. Private finance in Australia is tot- tering because it is carrying a paper credit that is bankrupt to the extent of $600,000,000. It is to stabilize this huge amount, which is without real findncial backing that the Australian federal government is throwing the government-owned bank behind the private banking system. School Backwardness In Texas Is Charged To Absent Landlords (By Federated Press.) WICHITA FALLS, Tex., Sept. 11.— Absentee landlordism was blamed for the’ backwardness of the schools in many Texas counties by Prof. W. L. Hughes of the A. & M. college in ad- dressing the Northwest Texas Teach- ers’ institute here. He declared that there was plenty of money to be had for rural schools if the people would only increase their tax rate. “There is a certain black land county,” he said, ‘which is one of the richest agricultural sections in the world, yet which has an aver- age attendance at its rural schools of only ninety-five days per year.” aR Complain of Cold Flats. Complaints of inadequately heated flats are pouring into the health de- partment from various parts of the city, according to Herman N. Bunde- sen, city commissioner. PITTSBURGH, PA. DR. RASNICK DENTIST Rendering Expert ital Service for 20 Ye re 645 SMITHFIELD ST. 1627 CED Bort AVE., % Near 7th Ave. ‘or. Arthur St. Night and Morning to keep teen Cheap. Clear and Healthy “ bol dacd nlp ‘Eye Care” Marine Co., Dept. H. 5.,9 B. Ohio St., Chicago