The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 22, 1924, Page 2

} 1 } Page Two 1LL.G. W. EDICT ON EXPELLED I$ CALLED STUPID Johnstone Reviews New Sigman Declaration Hitting the recent action of the General Executive Board of the International Ladies’ Gar- ment Workers’ Union regarding expelled members as stupid, J. W. Johnstone, assistant secre- tary of the Trade Union Educa- tional League, declares that the fight to sccure a revolutionary leadership for the union will continue until it is victorious. Johnstone’s statement follows: Edict on Expelled. GAIN the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ official family have shown their contempt for the rank and file, in the action of the general executive board in handing down the stupid decision that the ex- pelled members who were adherents of the T. U. B. I, can rejoin the or ganization as new members, only on probation. ’ That during this period of probation they will not be allowed to hold of- fice and will, for two years, be care- fully watched. And if they should commit any act not in line with the corrupt and treacherous Sigman-Feinberg-Perlstein policy, they will be forthwith ex- pelled. Officials Are Destructionists. This decision, immediately follow- ing the mass revolt of the member- QUESTIONS FOR CLASS TONIGHT IN ELEMENTARY Elementarian Marxian Eoconmics Study Class, 2613 Hirsch Bivd., Wed. Oot. 22. Questions: 1. What is a commodity? 2. What does a wage worker sell to his employer? 3, What determines the value of a commodity? 4. What is meant by “soolally necessary” labor-power? 6. Can the value of commodities change after they have been pro- duced? - 6. Does improved machine pro- duction increase or decrease the value of commodities? Why? 7 What is the difference be- tween value and exchange-value? 8 Why does skilled labor-power bring a higher wage than unskilled? 9 What Is surplus value? 10. What is the relation between wages and surplus value? WORKERS PARTY ROUSES PHILLY FROM SLUMBER Quaker City Is Covered with Daily Workers (Special to the Dally Worker) PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Oct. 21. —Philadelphia Communists re- sponded to the first general call ship in New York City, a meeting|to action on Red Sunday, Oct. called by and under the leadership of | 19, with an unprecedented spirit the T. U. E. L, against the open be-/of enthusiasm and energy. trayal of these very officials, only Within two hours, frgm ten emphasizes the fact that this small} different ‘points in the city, fifty band of unscrupulous officials are de-|/thoysand copies of the Phila- termined to destroy the organization delphia edition of the DAILY rather than yield to the demands of/ WORKER were distributed with the membership. The settled policy of the G. E. B. is to carry on an unrelenting war against the militants in the union, and a precision that promises great results to the DAILY WORKER, the Gitlow meeting and to the to completely surrender to the em-| Party. ployers. The meeting held in Cooper Union, Cover LaFollette Meeting. Besides the house to house distrib- called by the T. U. EB. L., where thou-}ution, our comrades introduced the sands of members were turned away, |DAILY WORKER and the Communist showed how extensive the revolt}campaign issues to three LaFollette against these bureaucrats has gone. | mass meetings. Local unions, formerly under the con- ‘The comrades participating in the trol of the machine, joined in this | distribution report such interest and great protest under the leadership of}sympathetic response to the DAILY the T. U. E. L., in spite of the fact} WORKER and the Gitlow meeting ad- that the T. U. EB. L. has been outlawed | vertised in the paper for Friday eve- by the royal decree of the G. E. B. and| ning, Oct. 24, at the Labor Lyceum, @ packed convention. revolt, which is deepening every day, is against the cowardly betrayal by @ corrupt leadership, who deliberately crushed a winning strike and placed the fate of 50,000 cloakmakers at the tender mercies of a committee of bankers and politicians. Decision Is an Insult. The decision of the G. E. B., follow- ing this tremendous protest, is an in- sult and a challenge to the intelligence of the membership. Sigman and com- pany are having the time of their lives trying to find ways and means of stop- ping the revolutionary activities of the T. U. E. L. Slugging, discrimina- tions, removal from office, expulsions from the union, then the complete out- lawing of the T. U. B. L., has been their program of action up to date, and the answer to all these attacks fs the Cooper Union protest meeting. Retain Expulsion Club. Now Sigman and his “comrades” of This mass|at 6th and Brown streets, that our committee is making efforts to secure an adjoining hall and permit for an open air meeting near the ‘hall to ac- commodate the almost certain over- flow meeting. Members of the Young Workers League have played an important role in this distribution and have added much to its success while at the same time distributing’ several thousand leaflets advertising the great youth Mass Meeting and Concert for Wed- nesday, October 29, at the Eagles Temple. A word must be mentioned of the splendid success of the party concert and ball held Saturday evening pre- ceeding the distribution of the DAILY ‘WORKER. Tribute to John Reed. A record crowd was present, and the good humor that prevailed during the entire evening can only be atribut- ed to the first class concert program which included several selections from the Second International are being?ine orchestra and a tribute from the forced to pretend to take back’ fo membership the expelled members, but they propose to again hold the paign with a great campaign audience to the memory of John Reed. Philadelphia will wind up the cam- rally club of expulsion over heads in order mass meetingin the Bannater Maenner- to stop their activities. chor Hall at 2nd and Norris Sts., on They are going to watch them very) Monday evening, November 8, with carefully for two years. Why two|wm, Weinstone of New York as the years? This is probably Sigman’s| niet speaker. More details of this idea of strategy aimed to keep these | moeting later. militants out of the next convention. In the meantime all preparations are The rank and file has also been} peing made for our seventh annivers- carefully watching, and what they|ary celebration of the Russian Revolu- saw was the official family betray the | tion tor November 7. interests of the workers that they are ipposed to protect. And the Cooper inion protest meeting was their answer to what they saw. Union Is Weakened. Outlawing the T, U. B. L. weakens the union, but does not eliminate the T. U. EB. L. trom the struggle. All the coercion of capitalism carnot stop the league from leading the workers in the strugglé. The struggle of the Needle Trades Section of the T. U. B. L, against the reactionary conduct of .Bigman-Feinberg and Co., makes militants faster than they can be ex- pelled. . The militants in the I. L. G. W. U., ‘following the lead of the T. U. B. L., determined to clean house. They determined to replace the present incompetent official family and their Policy of “the identity of interest between labor and capital” with a | evolutionary leadership and a policy based upon the class struggle and to make the I. L. G. W. an instrument of (the revolutionary struggle. Signed: J. W. JOHNSTONE, Assistant Secretary of the Trade Union Bducational League. | THE DAILY WORKER PLAN 10-DAY warxian Economics || DRIVE OF OPEN AIR MEETINGS Big Wind-up Is Planned for Chicago Campaign Campaign headquarters of the Workers Party is planning to increase the number of open air campaign rallies in spite of the chilly weather. The meetings have steadily increased in size, with workers waiting on the corners for our speakers to start, and a number of new members have been brought into the Workers Party. Oct. 25 to Nov. 3. Plans are being made now for a great ten-day wind-up of open air and indoor rallies and noon-hour meetings at factory gates—from Oct. 25 to Nov. 3. Fifty to sixty street corner meetings will be held during these days preceding election day. The following comrades have been lined up so far for these “red” demon: strations: Browder, Bittelman, Kruse, Engdahl, Wagenknecht, Johnstone, Owens, Harley, Reeve, Hammersmark, Shachtman, Maurer ,Gomiez, Swabeck, Herd, George, Edwards, Dozenberg, Carmon, Henderson, Kaplan, Cline, Carlson, Mass, Shaap, Overgaard, Kjar, Herzon, Stewart, Harvey, Gar- ver, Buckley, Gannes, Williamson, Bloch, Zokaitis, and many others will be added. Further details regarding the final drive in the Chicago Communist cam- paign will ‘appear in later issues of the DAILY WORKER. of @ @& COMMUNIST OPEN AIR RALLIES IN CHICAGO. Wednesday, Oct. 22. 32nd and Halsted Sts.—Auspices of Lithuanian branches. Speakers: J. Louis Enghald and Victor Zokaitis. . Thursday, Oct. 23. 47th and Ashland — Auspices of Polish branches. Speakers: Hisa Block and Polish comrade. 14th and 51st Ave—Auspices of Cicero Italian branches. Speakers: D. E. Earley and Italian comrade. Friday, Oct. 24. - Wilton and Belmont—Auspices of North Side English branch. Speakers: D. B. Earley and others. North Ave. and Fairfield—Auspices of North West English branch. Speak- ers Sam Hammersmark and others, Carlson Spends Three Days in Detroit; Then On to Grand Rapids DETROIT, Mich., Oct. 21—The De- troit Young Workers’ League have made elaborate preparations for the meetings to be addressed by Oliver Carlson, who is completing his nation- al tour in which he reported to mem- bership meetings in all the large eities on behalf of the national executive committee. Carlson was'a delegate to the re- cent congress of the Young Commu- nist International and is reporting the decisions of that congress to the league membership together with an amplification of the program of work adopted by the League National Bxe- cutive Committee. League members in Detroit should turn out to this meeting and hear the report. In addition to the membership meet- ing, a public meeting has been ar- ranged jointly by the Young Work- ers’ League and the Workers Party. for Friday, Oct. 26. The Detroit dates of Carlson are Thursday, Friday and Saturday, Oct. 23, 24 and 25. After leaving Detroit he will speak in Grand Rapids, Oct. 26, and Muskegon, Oct. 27. Honor Russian Geographer, MOSCOW, Oct. 21. — Professor Shokalsky, a well-known Russian scientist, president of the Rus: Society of Geography, has been é! a honorary member of the Munich (Bavaria) Society of Geography. CAHAN'S FORWARD JOINS DAILY NEWS’ ATTACK ON “REDS” Abe Cahan’s Jewish Daily Forward had to get its fingers into the red bait- ing pie of the Chicago Daily News. It accomplished its ambition by repub- lishing, word for word, the report of Vic Lawson's “News” that Peter Lucas and John Hendrickson, “just over from Soviet Russia,” had been arrested for putting up the posters of the DAILY WORKER, advertising its exposure of the Daily News lies. Cahan’s sheet didn’t take the trouble to investigate or it would have found that Lucas and Hendrickson are both employed by the DAILY WORK- ER, that they are members of the Young Workers League, and have never been to Russia. The “incriminating Communist liter- ature from foviet Russia,” that Cahan’s socialist Forward, reported the two young comrades had in their possession consisted of posters ad- vertising the DAILY WORKER series, “The Truth About the Communists.” But that is Cahan and his organ of yellow socialism. Griffith Tells of Effort to Split Ranks of I. W. W. (Continued from page 1) read the communication sent him by the convention. The label of the I. W. W. which was supposed to be in his keeping, he de- clared had been used by A. F. of L, shops to do the Rowan and Bowerman printing altho without his consent, and the seal of the I. W. W. has also been used by the Rowan-Bowerman officers, Griffith admitted that section six of the I, W. W. constitution relating to the use of the I, W. W. label had been violated by his faction, He declared that he has no cash on hand. It was brot out by Delegate Joe Jor- dan that Griffith had accepted the of- fice of general organizer and chair- man of the exetutive board when tend- ered him by Rowan when he had been defeated by Fisher for that office in the last I. W. W. election. “I have heard my associates say they are in favor of a split in the I. W. W.,” Griffith admitted when question- ed by Chairman Welinder. “I myself have never advocated a split.” Grif- fith said that Rowan and the others had favored calling their faction to a convention in Spokane, but he had finally prevailed on them to call a convention in Chicago for the same date as the ‘le-Fisher convention call, Oct. 13. He did this, he said, to try to avoid a split. He declared a move is on foot to split Industrial Un- ion 120 away from the I. W. W. Take Up Gibson Case. Charles Gibson also submitted his report to the convention, as a G. H. B. member, and his case will be taken up later under grievances. Gibson is in neither the Doyle-Fisher nor the Row- an-Bowerman faction. He seems to be a lost soul, wandering in confusion between the two groups. Gibson an- swered, “I don’t know” or “I don’t re- member” to most of the questions the delegates asked him, A telegram was received from the Vancouver branch of the I. W. W. in- dorsing their stand in recognizing neither faction. Fisher fe Grilled. The report of Joe Fisher, organizer and former chairman of the G. E. B., who is now under suspension, was laid over until the grievance commit- tee makes its report. Fisher was subjected to a severe grilling by the delegates. Referring to the controversy over the balloting in the disputed M. T. W. U. case, which was investigated by Fisher, a delegate said: “Didn't I tell you that your report on the balloting was that of a trusting child. You simply ask- ed the M. T. W. U. officials if they had done anything wrong, and they said ‘No!’” Send for Spolansky. LISBON, Oct. 21.—A threatened rev- olutionary uprising was safely quelled Police believe today, in the raid on an attorney’s home here and the arrest of members of a radical revolutionary committee assembled to make final plans for the outbreak. Party's Union and Shop Collections Grow AKERS’ LOCALS 1, 8 and 164 of the Amalgamated Foodworkers, with a total membership of 5000, have Just endorsed the Workers Par. ty and its candidates, William Z, Foster, and Ben Gitlow. To back up thelr endorsement each local has contributed $100 to the Work- ers Party eleotion campaign. Waterproof Garment Workers’ Un- jon No. 20 contributes $5.00. Shoe- workers’ Prot. Union No. 64, which is in bad financial condition at the present time, also sends $3.00 to show ite goodwill. In unions that are not as pro- gressive as these militant locals the workers are refusing support for LaFollette. Instead, they are con- ducting a strenuous campaign in the shops to collect funds for the only workingolass candidates in the fleld, Foster and Gitiow. Shope where tho latest collections have been made are the Blum and Metenthal Leathergoods Shop, $12 by 8. Laderman; Chesterfield Furnl- ture Mfg. Co., $17.55 by S. Bolog! on List No. 21775, Fraternal otganizations are also continuing to send in funds. Work- men’s Circle Br. 421 sends in $5: No, 564 sends In $15; and Arbelter Sick and Death Benefit Fund No. 217, $3. Many individuals, to show their goodwill, are also doing good work. A. A. H. after giving a personal donation of $50, and raising $150 among friends, sends In another $25 of his own, with $25 contributed by a Doctor X. These collections If they continue to come in at the present rate till the Tag Day to be held Oct, 26 and 26, will enable the committee to conduct a stirring campaign for bringing forth responses from the masses thruout the various sections of the district . We have ry hope of making enormous gains for Com- munism. ‘The amount of our work depends on the funds that we can raise. More money means more leaf- lets for free distribution, more meetings arranged, more signs put up on buildings, and more posters and other campaign material prin- ted. , Dollars delivered to the Campaign Headquarters now are worth far more than a week later. The mater- lals those dollars will buy can be ordered and distributed so much earlier, Settle up for all funds col-. lected now. Make those shop collections which have not yet been ma Bring in the money without di Dawes Plan Forces Ne Election in Germany as| INDRIVETO GET. Ebert-Marx Rule Fails By'J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. B layeanhe the Dawes plan and the Morgan loan begin to sink in the quicksands. The overnment of Chancellor Marx, in Germany, that made the deal with Wall Street, has fallen. New elections have been ordered that may also sweep away the socialist president of Germany, Fritz Ebert, who has held that position since the creation of the German republic. The Communists alone are in an advantageous position as Germany goes to new elections on the issue of the Dawes plan. The Communists alone have fought the Morgan scheme to vassalize the whole German nation. It was only thru the temporary support of all the bour- geois parties, from the socialists to the Fascisti, that Chan- cellor Marx was able to line up the German reichstag for the world's bankers. Now, as the Dawes plan goes into ef- fect, with the cost of living rising and unemployment on the increase, Chancellor Marx finds his support slipping from under him. ° ° As a last resort an attempt was made to organize a five- party’ government, to include not only the people’s party, centrists (catholics) and democrats, participating in the present government, but also the nationalists (Fascisti) and the socialists. Every possible inducement was extended by the Marx- Ebert government to the Fascisti to come into the coalition. The socialist seemed ready to swallow anything. But the democrats balked at the proposed Fascist associations, and Dr. Marx had to announce his failure to kee the badly wrecked governmental machine going. The dissolution: of the reichstag was then ordered. The German Communists can be depended on to take every possible advantage of the strategic position they now hold. The are now in a better position than ever to unmask the carefully laid scheme to bring Germany in on the Wall Street side of a new war against Soviet Russia. How graciously the diplomats of London, Paris and Washington were inviting the Germans to-come into the League of Nations! The invitation of the British labor pre- mier, supreme capitalist pacifist, to come into the Black Capitalist International certainl. entrance of Germany to “The sounded alluring. But the eague” was conditioned on her agreement to participate in wars or blockades under the orders of the League of Germany was unarmed. state against Soviet Rule. ° * ations. She was to be used as a buffer It made no difference that The election struggle in Germany cannot help but develop into another clash between the Communists and the Fascisti of the Nationalist Party. ainst the Dawes plan from purely jingo- ended on to turn The Fascisti can be de- istic and nationalistic motives. The Communists will carry on the cs 8 for the overthrow of all German capitalism, for an alli Oppression. or ee jance with the Russian workers against all world The election will probably be set for Dec. 7. New hosts’ of German workers will be called on to decide whether they are read to march forward to liberation under the Com- munist slogan of “All Power to the Workers!” or content to remain forever enslaved to German capitalism under Fascist rule. HEARSE CALLED FOR CALIFORNIA SOCIALIST PARTY By J. G. REED OAKLAND, Cal., Oct. 21. — Class collaboration has eaten so deeply in- to the vitals of the socialist party of this state that its bones are beginning to fall apart for want of flesh and muscles to hold them together. For twenty years now this party has maintained a headquarters and published a paper in this city. Today sees the passing of its headquarters in Oakland and the removal of what is left of “The World” to a two-by four office in San Francisco, As long as the socialist party main- tained a semblance of workingclass ot ha it was able to hold together, but when that party consented to be- come the tail-end of the LaFollette kite, the party split wide open. The Johnson-Beals-Katz-Serb crowd bolted the party leaving it to the Cameron King-Hoar element. ‘Today in all this state the socialist party does not maintain one perman- ent headquarters, nor does it hold reg- ular propaganda meetings. And what a comedown this is when in 1919 this state boasted of party locals in all principal cities. San Francisco, Oak- land, and Los Angeles had member- ships around 600 each. Such places as Eureka, Fort Bragg, San Jose, Sacramento, and Fresno miintained headquarters and thriving locals. To- day not one of these can speak of anything but a paper membership. At that time the socialist weekly, “The World,” was publishing around 10,000 copies weekly. Now if it pub- lisheg 2,000 it is doing a land office business, All workingclass organizations that attempt to compromise and collabor- ate with capitalism are doomed to the same failure as pictured above, As the DAILY WORKER bis tre- quently pointed out, the only function for workingclass political parties and labor unions is to carry on a class struggle leading toward the final over- throw of capitalism. Any other motive the Workers Party. Make checks able to CHARLES |is doomed to. failure. The campaign is swinging into ite | KRUMBEIN, East 12th Street, The socialist p in California is high level. Our work ie already | New York Glty. — kicking its last, Call the hearse! ee eae igi memereity§ soma milena erin sneha psem t-te tomlin ay ate : 4 4 AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHERTY. (Continued trom Page 1.) ed with the poisonous rubbish that is spread upon the screen. How often has a class conscious worker on see- ing pictures extolling stoolpigeons, fat bankers, manufacturers, North West Mounted Policemen, generals, priests, and capitalist lackeys in gen- eral, hungered for a real working class screen drama? Only on very rare occasions can one see a fairly decent picture produced by a capital- ist concern. . Le Ae UT thanks togthe International Workers’ Aid, the workers are not entirely dependent on the capitalist movies. I have seen pictures shown by this organization that compare fa- vorably from the artistic and mechan- ical poift of view with anything pro- duced by the rich capitalist con- cerns. But the real delight in see- ing the pictures shown by the L W. A. is in their splendid education and in- spirational value. Besides the films of Russian scenes there are fiction films like “The Beauty and the Bolshetik” which is a nice story woven around the love affair of a red soldier. An opportunity is offered working class organizations to have showings of those pictures in their localities at a very low cost. Comrade William Kruse is in charge of this very essen- tial arm of the working class” move- ment, and those who desire to have thoge pictures shown in their neigh- borhood can get all the necessary in- formation from him at 19 South Lin- coln street, Chicago, Ill. ‘odo diltnd F all the sentences imposed on vio- lators of the prohibition act in the last three years, were handed to one individual, he would have to spend 7,000 years in jail—unless he was a millfonaire, In which case he would be released after serving the first thousand. The report of prohibition Commissioner Haynes, shows that 177,000 arrests have been made, 39,- 000,000 gallons of liquor were seized, 11,000 cases and 444 ships were con- fiscated, $18,000,000 fines were impos- ed, Quite a law-abiding country, ain't it? Vote Communist This Time: svenporongoeneroongngansanmrrensngonengeot Bigey ‘FREIHEIT HOME JewishCommunist Daily Seeks Own Plant 1 Our Jewish Communist daily, “The Freiheit,” is carrying ona nation-wide drive to purchase the building they are at present located in at 153 East Broad. way, New York-City. “This drive must lift the ter- rific burden of continuous defi- cits off our shoulders and place the paper on a solid basis financially,” Moissaye J. Olgin said in discussing the campaign. Get Big Response. Olgin is speaking at a series of meetings thruout the country on Soviet Russia in 1924, the proceeds of which go to the Fretheit, Olgin says the meetings he addressed so far in Cleveland, 'Pittsburgh and Detroit were very successful. The enthusiasm is remarkable. The audiences which are composed chiefly of Communists and sympathizers also contain a large number of interested spectators who want to learn something about Russia first hand. Every meeting brings en- thusiastic response and splendid col- lections. Six Months in Russia. Comrade Olgin has only very recent- ly returned from Russia, where he spent six months as a representative of the Workers Party of America, Most of his time there was devoted to work in factories and among jthe peasants to gather information of New Russia. He also was a delegate to the fifth congress of the Communist Interna- tional and was very active in the third congress of the Red International of Labor Unions. Soviet Structure Firm. Great cheers and applause greeted Comrade Olgin in Detroit when he said that “after seven years of struggle and suffering and, starvation, of bleeding to death on the various fronts and of stern, stubborn reconstruction work both in the fields of industry and agri- culture, the Soviet structure of the present is as firm as a rock, which no attacks and no machinations of the _ imperialists of the world, aided and abetted by the socialist aries and the mensheviks of the Sec- ond International, can shake. ‘3 “Russia isn’t what is was four or five years ago. Russia has recon- structed her industries. Russia has improved her transport, Russia has generally increased her resources. And what is most important, Russia has created a Red army consisting of the sons of workers and peasants, officered by sons of workers and peas- ants and imbued with the Communist ideal. Red Army Most Powerful Weapon. “The Red army understands the tasks of the Soviet republic. The Red army is ready to defend the con- quests of the revolution. The Red army is the most powerful weapon in the hands of the working class in its struggle with all enemies. from within apd without. And should the socialists of the Second International conspire with the capitalist govern- ments of the world to create new dis- turbances the way they attempted to do in the recent bandit uprising, of Georgia, which turned out to be a ridiculous failure, admitted by its per- petrators themselves, the Russian army, backed by the peasants of Rus- sia, will hit and hit hard and merci- lessly so as to wipe out the incentive for further attempts.” He delighted his audience with anec- - dotes about the peasants and their re- action to the new improvements put into the villages, as for instance the lighting’ up of the little huts by electricity. Calls S t . In Pittsburgh, the Jewish Forward socialists distributed leaflets slander- ing the Soviet government and making silly, petty attacks on Comrade Olgin. But when Olgin replied to these at- tacks in the leaflets and called for questions from the deluded soctalists in the audience, not a word was utter- ed by any of them, First Red Radlo Car. MOSCOW, Oct. 21.—Successtul ex- periments have been made with the first radio car constructed in the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics, “A Visit with Sun Yat Sen” By ALFRED WAGENKNECHT, “ ey revoluti Me yer a olution: nationalist leader of the Chinese e8, In the November issue THE WORKERS. MONTHLY Subscribe to be sure you get it! ‘A sub blank in this tas ny DAILY WORKER, © in