The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 26, 1924, Page 6

i} \| | E DAILY WORKER. blished by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill. (Phone: Monroe 4712) | nt aN <inteeteneemeniani | SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail: $3.50....6 months $2.00....8 months | By mail (in Chicago only): , $4.50....6 mozths $2.50....3 months 6.00 per year 8.00 per year Adress all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER 1113 W. Washington Bivd. Chicago, IitInols wevsrienerssmmoonnanneene +s OC ICORS. ..Business Manager J. LOUIS ENGDAHL { WILLIAM F. DUNNE (™ MORITZ J. LOEB. —— Entered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1923, at the Post- Office at Chicago, Ill, under the act of March 3, 1879, ip 290 Advertising rates on application a The Textile Crisis A serious crisis is brewing in the textile industry. It appears that the cotton mill barons have-de-| cided that the time is appropriate for a general wage cut ranging from ten to twenty per cent. The Amoskeag has already reduced wages by ten per cent. Thruout the South gone into effect. There are loud rumblings of sharp and bitter discontent among the workers whose strike talk is becoming more widespread. Present indications tend to lead one to believe that the textile overlords will attempt to repeat their move of 1921. Then, the manufacturers tried to set the pace in wage reductions. They were the ones to take the first step, to strike the first blow in the grand offensive launched against the work- ers on the eve of the great depression. Of course, today as then, the capitalists will talk of the necessary readjustments and will hide their real purposes behind. vagaries. similar cuts have preparing for a fight to the finish. The workers inéthe other industries must be prepared to take every step to assure the textile workers unstinted support in their struggle against wage reductions. Once the wages of the textile operatives are cut; a wholesale reduction of wages thruout the coun- | try will be next in order and only a matter of | weeks. There is no possible, tangible excuse for the} proposed big cut in the already too low wages of the cotton milll workers. Thru the use of increased | machinery per worker, to the extent of nearly twenty-five per cent, the manufacturers have in- creased their profits in recent years. Then, there has been a reduction in the cost of cotton prices totaling more than thirty per cent in the last few months. Besides, the robber tariff, the Fordney- McCumber Act, has been putting into the pockets of every textile baron at least forty-two cents on every dollar’s worth of cotton goods sold. Finally, thru stock dividends and other shady financial manipulations, the New England capitalists have been hiding the real volume of their profits. In the last strike the textile workers put up a magnificent battle. Their resistance took the bosses by surprise. We feel sure that with the aid of the workingmen of other industries, the New England mill hands will decisively trounce the vicious align- ment of dollar and bayonet. British Unemployment Rising The latest official British employment figures indicate a further decline in the number engaged in industry for the month of August as ae with July. It is true, the increase in unemployment was small, but the significance is far more portentous than the figures would show. The MacDonald gov- ernment has taken no positive effective steps to alleviate the condition of the disemployed workers. * It may appear paradoxical, but it is true, never- theless, that the only “step” taken by the Labor government for the Ketiet of the jobless was the order for six new dreadnoughts. The MacDonald government did not dare even irritate the surface of the tough hide of British capital. The MacDonald government would not even consider disturbing the profits and property of the British employers. Perhaps it was not \for union recognition. Government Fairness The Railroad has long been avowed enemy of organized labor. Without. doubt this road is the most “hard boiled” of all the sys- tems which resisted the continuation of a union Pennsylvania an among the railway workers after the end of the war, - Time and again this railroad has defied every government order which masks under the pretense of fairness in labor disputes. The Pennsylvania even went so far as to turn a,cold shoulder to, the late President Harding who, in turn, was forced to manifest publicly his disapproval of its too blunt and patently rough-shod labor tactics. It seems as if we are about to be treated to an- other dose of government fairness in a contro- versy between the workers and the Pennsylvania System. The Order of Railway Telegraphers has been in a struggle with the powerful Pennsylvania In this contest the Rail- road Labor Board has tacitly lent aid and comfort to the manipulations of the magnates, but the rail- way workers held their lines fast. It was evident to all that the employers could not put over their fake union schemes. Consequently, the Railroad Labor Board was compelled to pretend disinterest- edness in the bitter struggle. It is on this basis that the picked strikebreakers, under the thumb of chairman Ben Hooper, have or- dered a secret ballot to determine whether the bona-fide union or the fake union has_the majority support on the Pennsylvania System. .No one will be deceived by the sudden fit of impartiality the Railroad Labor Board is now showing. No one knows better than Mr. Hooper that the company union is an outright fraud. No one knows better than Mr. Hooper that the Order of Railway Tel- egrahpers is an established railway organization that has won its spurs in the trade union field. The attempt of the Railroad Board to secure a) of time under inhuman conditions and so-called fair vote is only a skillfully camouflaged | with superhuman intensity to enrich The textile workers should lose little time im/maneuver to prevent the workers from. hitting | their oppressors. back at the Pennsylvania System. The telegraphers are talking strike. road Labor Board is for the right to organize. This is the only fairness | that the United States government knows in fights) between workers and exploiters. The New York Campaign New York is now the scene of a lively campaign. The Tammany forces, having been deserted by many of their labor followers, are pinning their hopes on the re-nomination of Al Smith. The reactionary republicans are bending every effort to have that second-rater, Theodore Roosevelt, enter the lists against the democratie white hope on the basis of the prestige his family name carries. The socialists have been swallowed by the LaFollette outfit to such a damaging political extent that it seems almost inconceivable for the independents ever to disgorge enough of this following for the Hillquit crowd to re-establish itself as an independent or- ganization. The Communists are also waging an energetic campaign. The first Communist task is to get on the ballot. In the Empire State the workers are hindered in the exercise of their political rights by technical barriers of a most complex and com- plicated sort limiting the suffrage rights thru a high requirement of endorsing signatures. Despite these obstacles in their path, the Comniunists are showing extraordinary energy in their surmounting the difficulties. There is every likelihood of the Workers Party winning its legal right to be on the New York ballot. But this victory can come only if the Commun- ists, the class conscious workers, and all the sup- porters of and sympathizers with the political and economic aspirations of the working class will get together to secure the necessary number of sig- natures. Once the Workers Party succeeds in win- ning its place on the ballot, the Communists will be in a position to engage in a real political cam- paign against that motley army of enemies of the workers, against the exploiters, the LaFollette- Tammany alliance, and the latter’s socialist fig- leaf. The mass meeting to be addressed by the Com- within the power of the MacDonald government toymunist candidate for governor, James P. Cannon, deflect the economic trend in Great Brirtain. doubt the tendency towards industrial derange- ment is, in a large measure, international and beyond the effective control of any national govern- ment machine. Yet no one can blink the fact that local and national governmental steps can be taken to alleviate and to modify sharp tendencies. The mounting unemployment figures in Great Britain are also barometric in another sense. Un-|already achieved.” employment is rising in Poland, Sweden, and Italy. The situation in France, despite countless artificial factors, is far from satisfactory. Even in the United States, whose industrial machinery, alone of all the leading capitalist nations was strength- ened rather than weakened by the war, we have an increasingly serious unemployment crisis, Di all the original, active belligrent countries, Great Britain has shown the most marked indus- trial improvement since the armistice. The critical unemployment situation in this‘country is a pain- ful index to the blighting effect of the imperialist war on the working and living conditions of the European masses, It is a source of indisputable svidence that the derangements in international capitalism are organic rather than temporary. There must be something terribly wrong in the editorial or news department of the Chicago Tribune. Its Sunday edition carried no news of the big rebellion against the Soviets in Georgia. Don’t the liars work on Saturday? , No]Oct, 2, should be turned into a victory meeting to celebrate the success of placing the Communists on the ballot in the Empire State of the Union. The national office of the socialist party is worry- ing lest,the organization may not be able to take advantage of the fact that after the election the LaFollette clubs will dissolve “Since victory is We venture to predict that after the election there won’t even be enotgh of the socialist party for the national office to send its press service piffle-to. The Central Labor Union of Indianapolis gave a vote of commendation to the Prince of Wales for accepting a life membership card in the Web Pressmen’s Union of New York. While this senti- ment dominates the American labor movement, Calvin Coolidge is justified in believing that the capitalist system is safe. It is reported that Calvin Coolidge may go to the country as soon as his campaign managers sueceed in perfecting a mechanical device that will make up for his lack of personality, his mental bankruptey and his deficiency in oratorial gifts. An invisible mask is also suggested. Perhaps the K. K. K. might help him out with a hood. Every day get a “sub” for the DAILY WORKER and a member for the Workers Partv They are preparing to lock | the otk ae Corba. horns with the Pennsylvania magnates. The Rail-|national liberation took the acute imply stepping in to secure |form of armed uprisings, revolts and an excuse for denouncing the workers if they strike | Partisan struggles under these condi- THE DAILY WORKER Friday, September. 26, 1924 Japs War on the Corean Revolutionists | |revolutionary movement and created shaking just as in the recent éarth- (The following appealtousforas- | quake. But the fear of this spectre sistance, material and moral, com- ing trom Corean Comrades should receive our utmost consideration. It reveals the almost incredible cruelty inflicted upon the revolu- tionists of Corea bythe Japanese government. This appeal was sent to the DAILY WORKER from Mos- cow, Russia, thru the Fifth Con- gress of Communist International.) To the Workers of North and South America and Australia: ; OMRADE WORKERS: You very probably have. very little con- ception of the terrible conditions in which your brother workers of Corea are living at the present time under the heel of the brutal Japanese im- perialists. Thirteen years have ‘elapsed since Japan annexed Corea, and: during this period everything has been done to convert the millions of this country into slaves, and erase all traces of their own independence and squeeze the last drop of blood from the Corean workers. Corea became the colony of the most rapacious capitalists who began to enslave the country, and subject the people to intense trials and poverty. By means of the banks and capitalist companies all the means of existence were captured and hundreds of thousands of peasants were driven from the land which the conquerors monopolized, Millions of other peasants,became completely de- pendent upon them; being forced to leave their own land, that had been seized by the predatory Japanese. Thousands of Corean poor . were driven into the mines and pits, where these slaves of labor toil regardless of any pogsible earthquake, and hence the Japanese are trying every meas- ure of the vilest oppression and re- pression to ward off the coming revo- lution, In September of last year when the earth was still heaving from the earthquake, they organized whole- sale exterminations, progroms, whip- ping and shooting of the Corean work- ers and. the Japanese Communists. The prisons are being packed to over- flowing with the workers and Commu- This state of affairs was bound to The war for | tions of the colonial hegemony of the bourgeoisie. A network of revolu- tionary and terrorist groups was spread thruout the country. Japanese oppression called forth a revolutionaries, for by extracting the natural riches of the country and cre- ating the elements of industry, the Japanese created their grave-diggers: the proletariat, and at the same time its vanguard: Communist organiza- tions. At the present time, the Japanese imperialists with a handful of Japanophile Corean bourgeoisie. are confronted with the flefce hatred of fifteen million slaves who are anx- fously awaiting the signal for thc struggle for liberation, - Revolution stands like a spectre be fore the eyes of the Japanese imper. ialists. The Japanese bourgeoisic feels the ground under its feet ix SAVE PIETRO NIGRA FROM MUSSOLINI! For a United Front Against Fascist Assassins Statement by the Red International Affiliation Committee wes Jacob Tori, an Italian boy who was gathered up with other mem- bers of the I. W. W. during the war and imprisoned at Leavenworth, was released, he was straight-away deported to the land of Mussolini and his Fascist murder gangs. Tori has never since been heard from. The capi- talist government of Coolidge and his “Labor” Secretary for Deportation, Mr. Davis, stands as an accomplice to the murderous regime of Mussolini and Rossoni. Today, Pietro Nigra, another Italian revolutionary member of the 1. W. W., also a Leavenworth victim, is scheduled on Nov. 18 to be taken in custody by the decree of capitalist courts in violent disregard of the “sacred” constitution and of rights of Italian citizens) una:r the existing Italian- American treaties—to follow Tori into the bloody jaws of Fascism. This monster never fails,to do murder when its victim is as helpless as Tori was and as Pietro Nigra will bé, handcuffed and shipped at the mercy of Fascist crews on Italian ships. The prisoner is reported, sometimes, to have “jumped overboard.” Or, he “disappears,” while maneeleyy between the gangplank and his Italian village birthplace. It is the duty of every worker and workers’ organization, individually and collectively, to ra! a voice of indignant protest at the complicity of the capitalist government of Coolidge and Davis in the murder of deported Italian workers. The bones of nine thousand workers, murdered by Musso- lini’s Fascists, strew the class war battlefields of Italy. These workers, revolutionists, for the most part adherents of the Communist International and Red International of Labor Unions, are dead because they upheld the interests of the workers. Mussolini is generous tol the grave-diggers. He will gladly add Pietro Nigra to the lot with which he hopes to outdo Thiers of the Paris Commune. Especially if he can hide the deed from public eRposure. But—in the shops and factories, in the camps and mills—and in their union halls—workers of America must raise their Voices in protest, and by letter and formal resolution addressed to the “Secretary of Labor” Davis, Washington, D. C., demand that Pietro Nigra be not sent to his death in Fascist Italy. £ The Red International Affiliation Committee points out that this illus- trates how necessary to the |. W. W. is close relationship with the other revolutionary unions of the world in the Red International of Labor Unions. The Red International Affiliation Committee not only urges American workers |road to do all in their power to stop this threatening deportation, but it pledges its best efforts thru its International connections to cause the Italian prole- tarlat to warn the Mussolini government that it will be held accountable for the safety of Pietro Nigra should the capitalist government of America deport him to Italy. THE RED INTERNATIONAL AFFILIATION COMMITTEE, ‘ " By: Harrison George, Chairman, "Mike ‘Novak, H. R. Richards, of revolution is greater. than the fear | nists. “In these black holes the fight- jers for the cause of the proletariat are tortured and murdered under the most incredible conditions. Immediate moral and material help is necessary to help’the fight of the Corean workers and peasants, They must know that they are working in the cause of the world proletariat when they are fighting against their own capitalists in Corea. They must be assured that they are not alone in their struggle, that innumerable mil- lions of workers, fighters and brothers are behind them and do not forget DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS HIT BY NEGRO LEADER Charges Plan to Keep Negro Voteless NEW YORK, Sept. 25.—A scathing /attack on the republican and demo- \cratic parties as enemies of the Ne- |gro race is made in the October Crisis |by James Weldon Johnson, secretary National Association for the Advance- ment of Colored People. He charges that the two old parties have formed a gentlemen’s agreement to keep the 12,000,000 Negroes in American as a political nonenity. Johnson accuses the republican machines in the southern states of assenting to the disfranchisement of 4,500,000 Negroes to maintain their monopoly of federal patronage. The Republican party in the south, he says, is nothing but an office holding oligarchy. A Gentlemen’s Agreement. The white democrats in the south control the state offices; the white re- publicans the federal offices. It is a gentlemen's agreement against the Negro masses. Smash this gentlemen's agreement, urges Johnson to the Negroes who can vote. Party Activities Of Local Chicago BRANCH MEETINGS, Friday, Sept. 26, Scand. South Chicago, 641 E. 61st St. YOUNG WORKEI ACTIVIT: Every Friday. en” (Russiany, 1902 W. Division Rosa Luxemburg, 1910 W. Roosevelt pene Reed, 1224 8. Albany, Ave. West Side, 3322 Douglas Blvd. Educa- tional meeting. Hersch Lekert, 2613 Hirsch Blvd. ‘The ee, of American Labor Movement, Karl Liebknecht Bran 1500 | Sedg- wick St. The Branch and Its Tasks. Clusay Saturday, Sept. 27. pg hdl Cabaret, Workei Hiirach ive, Dancing, ree Feshments .W. Le orchestra. Admis- echitdren’s Group Leaders’ C! N. Avers Avenue. i Lenders of rig munist Junior ips and those inter- autor ettana LEAGUE them even tho they are no longer in their ranks. Workers: Organize aid for the Cor ean reyolutionaries! " Send your contributions:for the Cer. ean political prisoners thru the I. R. A. the organization of. International Red Aid and solidarity. Show the capitalist ‘world the strength and unity of. the. interna- tional proletarian ranks, With revolutionary greetings, The Delegation of the Corean Com. munist Party to the Fifth Congress of the Communist International. THE TRINITY OF MORGAN Drawn for the N. Y. Volkzeitung HE KEEPS LAFOLLETTE IN RESERVE ; Wall Street’s Trinity Church has both republican and democratic leaders in its fold. Either Davis or Coolidge for President will satisfy them. Our Candidates FOSTER’S DATES PORTLAND, Ore.—!. 0. 0. F. Audi. torium, 10th and Salmon St., Sunday, September 28th, 8:00 p. m. BERKELEY, Cal.—High School Au- ditorium, Tuesday, September 30th, 8:00 'p. m. SAN FRANCISCO, Cal.—California Hall, Turk and Larkin Sts, Wednes- day, October, 1st, 8:00 p. m. LOS ANGELES, Cal.—Friday, Octo ber 3rd, 8:00 p. m. SALT LAKE CITY, Utah.— Unity Hall, 138 So. 2 East, Sunday, October 5th, 8:00 p. m. DENVER, Colo.—Auditorium, Curtis and 14th St., Tuesday, October 7th, 8:00 p. m. : GITLOW'S DATES, Toledo, Ohio, Labor Temple Audi- torium, Michigan St. and Jefferson, Friday, September 26, 8 p, m. Youngstown, Ohio, Moose Temple, 225 W. Boadman St., Saturday, Sep- tember 27, 8 p. m. Detroit, Mich, Arena Gardens, Woodward and Hendrie, Sunday, Sep- tember 28, 2 p. m. Grand Rapids, Mich., St. Cecelia Auditorium, Ransom Ave. near Ful- ton St. East, Monday, September 29, 7:30 p. m. Muskegon, Mich., Tuesday, Septem- ber 30, 8 p. m. South Bend, Ind., Carpenters’ Hall, 315 S$. Michigan St., Wednesday, Oc- tober 1, 8 p, m. i Gary, Ind., Turner Hall, 14th and Washington St., Thursday, October. 2,8 p.m. Milwaukee, Wis., Sunday, October 5. Duluth, Minn. Shrine Auditorium, 2nd Ave., W. 1st St., Monday, October 6, 8 p.m, Superior, Wis., Tuesday, October 7. St. Paul, Minn., Wednesday, Octo- ber 8. Minneapolis, Minn., Thursday, ber 9. i boy 2 Chicago, I, Sunday} October 12. Omaha, Neb., Monday, October 14. Kaasas City, Mo.,, Tuesday, October 14, * St. Louis, Mo., Wednesday, October Zeigler, Ill, Thursday, October 16. Springfield, I, Friday, October 17, New York, N, ¥., Sunday, October 19, : 1