The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 10, 1924, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER RAISES THE STANDARD FOR A WORKERS AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT Published I SUBSCRIPTION RATES: PUBLISHIN RAIL STRIKE EMBROILS |Communists Prepare for German Elections ET US ANSWER COOL- IDGE’S ANTI-RED WEEK BY ADDING 2,000 NEW MEMBERS TO THE WORK- ERS PARTY. THE DAILY WORKER. Mntered as Second-class matter September 21, 1923, at the Post Office at Chicago, [limois under the Act of March 3, 1979. In Chicago, by mail, $3.00 per year. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1924 pt Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER O., 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Il. Vol. I. No. 199. Price 3 Cents Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per year. Cee ee | | AS WE SEE IT [COMMUNISTS IN By T. J. O'FLAHERTY. HE labor fakers have not much to blow about this year. Here and there some capitalist politician who happened to be éndorsed by the labor Skates got into office. The skates take credit, of course... In Illinois, “Silent Cal” elected Small, but the Chicago Federation of Labor officials boast of his election as a victory for the “people.” The Detroit Labor News, edited by Dennis Batt, formerly member of the proletarian party, boasts of the election of John ‘W. Smith, capitalist politician, as mayor of the city, + 2 # OST of the labor leaders, those who supported “Bob” as well as those who placed their eggs in John W. Davis’ basket, are tearing their hair. Some are blaming Gompers for departing from the time-worn non- partisian policy of the A. F. of L. They are uttering threats against his cfficial head. Will they allow him to die before they murder him politically or will they glut their hunger for his tosition right now? A few weeks should tell the tale. ~ : ‘#8 . B. AULT, editor of the Seattle Union Record, commenting on the defeat of Ramsay MacDonald, declares that contributing factors were his acceptance of the endowed car, and the opposition of the Communists. This is ungrateful on the part of the Communists, continues Ault, seeing that Ramsay did more than “any other premier” in making the Soviet Bovernment _ secure, What other for ‘slapping himself on the back for Ramsay MacDonald ‘that he should recognize Soviet Russia, occupying as he did the position of head of a labor government? se * RANTING that, Ramisay did more than any other premier to help Soviet Russia, he did it thru the pres- sure of the British working class. But while he was ostensibly aiding Rus- sia, he was carrying on counter-revo- lutionary propaganda against the Soviet Republic in Georgia, and thru this perfidious action, was partly responsible for the death of many workers and peasants in that country. ‘The Communists, it is true, attacked MacDonald, because he ‘is an agent of capitalism in reality, and not. a fighter for the workers. The Com- raunists of the United States do not support Senators Borah or Hiram Johnson, merely because they favor secognition of Soviet Russia for bus- iness roesons. Even Mussolini recog- iazed the Russian government! + 8 a ‘HERE was a pretty little celebra- tion at the Soviet embassy in Lon- don on the seventh anniversary of the Russian revolution. The magnificent building, formerly the center for so- (Continued on Page 6.) {awakening class conscious workers GERMANY FIGHT Only Left t Wing Can Save Trade Unions OLD COALITION What Must Labor Do? Statement by the Trade Union Educational League. NewReichstag Elections Are Explained By ISIDORE STOLER. (Special to the Daily Worker) BERLIN, Germany. — (By Mail.)—The Reichstag is dis- solved. ~New elections are to take place in December. This is the first parliamentary crisis since the acceptance of the Dawes plan by the monarchists, junkers and social-democrats. For many weary months the present Marx cabinet has been trying to bring about the big coalition, from the German na- tionalists all the way down to the social-democrats, from Tir- pitz to Crispien. Socialists Aid Dawes Plan. In reality this coalition has been in existence all the time. For have not the social-democrats grabbed at the Dawes plan with both hands and helped put it thru? Have they not helped the beur- geoisie deprive the proletariat of the last semblance of Ebertinian democ- racy? Have not the colleagues of Hiliquit added insult to injury to the 8,000 proletarian victims now lan- everywhere must finally realize this truth: The German social democracy is today an out and out ‘counter-revo- lutionary party,, which plays the role of “left wing” to the bourgeoisie, but only ‘when the bourgeoisie needs it (Continued on page 6) BRITISH TO FORTIFY | "SINGAPORE FEARING | SOVIET RULE’S SPREAD | TOKYO, Nov. 9.—News that the conservative party came back to po’ in the recent British elections has created the belief here that the British will again try to fortify Sing- apore as a naval base-for the British Empire. England looks with a jealous eye on the trade agreements which are now being consummated by the Rus- sian Soviet government in Asia. The Baldwin government is expected to try to fortify S| ore in an at- tempt to curb the advance of Com- munism. Some papers’ here state that a new “dis-armament confer- ence” may be called for the purpose of making it easier for England to establish her military rule in Japan. MORE CHILDREN OF WORKING CLASS PAY WITH LIVES FOR THEIR POVERTY Two more children of the working class have paid with their lives for ‘their poverty. ‘Emanuel Kaleto, 12 years old, and Teddy Sygnatore were crushed to death by a Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul freight train in the Goose Island freight ya while picking up coal for their freezing families, not far ffom where the-same railroad caused the death of ten persons in a _ trolley-train wreck a few days ago. . Every Saturday Kaleto had to leave his playmates and neglect his les- sons to spend the afternoon gathering stray lumps of coal along the rail- road track, Emanuel’s three sisters, :. brother and parents were hit by the blight of unemployment, The women and children did what little work they could. The dingy rooms at 1345 Bradley St., were almost bare of fur- niture. The cold days of winter were approaching and there was no fuel. | Neddy, who lived in the same house, ‘his parents a few! months ago. ey gave up the bitter struggle st the capitalist system, and the Siyenatore boy was left alone with his’ yrether Joe, The two boys saw a lum of coal under a freight train and crawled under to get it: Just then the cig ome into the car. The switchigg operations were hurried be- cause (ime means money to the rail- youd company stockholders. Teddy had his arm erushed and both legs cut off, Emanuel’s head was cut off, LAGE WORKERS DONATE $100 10 PATERSON SILK STRIKERS? FUND (Special to the Daily Worker) PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 9— Branch No. 1 of the Lace Work- ers’ Union at its last regular month- ly meeting, donated $100 to the Paterson silk workers on strike. To the motion which was carried unani- mously was attached an appeal to join the Federated Textile Workers of America. He Prefers Death, MT. PULASKI, Il, Nov. 9.—Fear- ing a “licking,” for playing with Joe, who witnessed the tragedy, matches, Carroll Beaver, 5, ran back wasted no time, but took the coal that |into a barn whic ich he had set on fire his brother had collected home to his | and perished in the blaze, His dog eunt. or a lump of coal means life Soka the fire with him to the snarled, iim oe oa: ‘ HEN the convention of the American Federation of Labor meets in El Paso, November 17, the labor movement will be facing a most dangerous situation. ing victory in the elections. Extreme capitalist reaction has just won a sweep- Employers are feeling cocky, and the as- sociations of “open shoppers” are taking on new life. The labor move- ment. has suffered by loss of members and, more seriously, in loss of morale. What course must the labor movement follow in order to pro- tect itself? What shall the workers demand from the American Fed- eration of Labor convention? * Repudiate Portland Convention Policies! Last year the A. F. of L. convention adopted a definite line of action. It was, to turn to the employers for friendly arrangements while fight- ing bitterly, with expulsion and discrimination, against the militant left wingers in the unions. It was the so-called industrial democracy, applications of which are to be seen in the “B. & O. plan” in the rail- road industry, the Berry type of dictatorship and strikebreaking In the printing trades, the Lewis-Farrington collaboration and long-time agree- ment in the mining industry, and “labor banks” everywhere. One year experience with this policy, with its accompanying expulsions of mili- tants, beginning with that of Dunne at» Portland, and running thru all industries-and unions, has so weakened and demoralized the labor move- ment that, in face of the impending “open shop” drive under the new FASCIST RULE IN DESPERATE M assolini Tries to Stem Rising Tide of Revolt (Special to the Daily Worker) CHIASSO, Italo-Swiss fron- tier, Nov. 9—Dead and wounded are lying on the streets of every city of Italy today. They are the price of new clashes be- tween armed blackshirts and the Workers who have risen against them. Fascist leaders are cowering before the fury of the workers and peasants, who have been called to action by the Com- munist Party of Italy. Fascisti Quit Posts. Hundreds of them are resigning from their posts. The Fascist direc- torate has found it necessary to be- gin court-martial proceedings against those who resign in order that the few who are left will keep their places. It has ‘been learned that the procla- mation of martial law by the governor of Parma resulted from the formation a few days ago of a committee to ar- range a united front of all revolution- ary groups in the province. The Fas- cist labor unions have received their death-blow, and to prevent workers from uniting against their common op- pressors the? have induced the gov- ernment to place the district in a state of siege. Mass arrests of Communist leaders are taking place as a last desperate measure of the Mussolini government to stem the rising flood of protest. At Palermo, in Sicily, 138 delegates to a convention of revolutionary labor bodies were seized by order of the prefect and charged with plotting against the state. Labor leaders in Catania, in Messina, in Naples, have been taken by police, The arrests, however, are a mere gesture. The leaders cannot be kept in the, face of the anger of the mass- es. Huge strikes have added to the im- potence of the Italian government, Prato, the textile center of Italy, is witnessing a mass strike of 25,000 workers. The metal workers of Milan, Turin, and Piombino, are out. Garibaldi Challenges Mussolini, Peppino, Baribaldi has challenged Mussolini to personal combat as pro- test against the attack by Fascist militia against former soldiers demon- strating against the Fascist rule. The refusal of the socialist and de- mocratie groups to form a united front with the Communists has at last torn from these parties the mask of friend- ship for the workers with which they have been disguising their real coun- ter-revolutionary intent. Workers are leaving these parties by the thousands and joining the Communists, whose | Coolidge-Dawes regime, the trade unlons are in imminent danger of destruction. The treacherous and disastrous policies of the Portland conven- tion, which systematized and legalized false practices long menacing the labor movement, must be repudiated. In their place must be established the policies of labor solidarity, of struggle against capitalist exploitation. These policies are those of .the Trade Union Educational League, en- dorsement of which has been given which the official leaders struggle ferociously. 2 *. « by millions of workers, but against A Militant Program. ORGANIZE THE UNORGANIZED. The American working class is still largely unorganized, The labor unions are still losing members. This is a fatal weakness. trade unions. All unorganized workers must be brot into the AMALGAMATE THE WEAK CRAFT. UNIONS INTO POWERFUL INDUSTRIAL UNIONS. A principal reason why the workers are unor- ganized, and why strikes are lost, is that the workers are still divided into dozens of small, weak unions, which prevent common action against the united employers. Amalgamation is absolutely essential. ABOLISH ALL RACIAL DISCRIMINATION. The millions of Negro and other colored workers must be united with the white workers, with- out discrimination, and upon the basis of complete equality. This is a prerequisite to the realization of the full power of the labor movement. Discrimination is a weapon in the hands of the employers to divide the working class. FIGHT FOR RELIEF OF UNEMPLOYMENT. The. greatest im- mediate menace to the labor movement, to wage standards and working (Continued on page 4) His Holiness sent the See! trust boss James A. Farrell, of the stee! trust. would also receive that honor. recognizing Papal titles. return for the decoration, and more LONE WOBBLY REVOLUTIONIST WINS DELEGATES Vern Smith | Expresses Clear Class Ideas It was unconscious and ac- cidental—but probably Jim Rowan will try to make some- thing out of the coincident, of the 1. W. W. convention dis- cussing the fundamentals of revolutionary tactics on the seventh anniversary of the Russian revolution. But it was a disgrace to the {. W. W. that some of its mem- bers were on trial before the convention for advocating the same principles and _ tactics which made the Russian revolu- tion a success by giving the workers undivided power. It is a tremendous credit to the I. W. W. that they were vindicated by a vote of 23 to 3. These members were represented on the convention floor by Vern Smith, editor of both the Industrial Solidar- ity and the Industrial Pioneer, who not only defended himself and his co-de- fendants from the charges brought by Claude Erwin, from. the Oil Workers of Taft, California, but launched a vig- orous offensive against the pacifist, re- formist ideology which he declared had weakened the revolutionary spirit of the I, W. W. membership until they were prone to believe that being martyrs was much better than being victors. . “Crucify Him.” The trial of Smith, Morris, Fisher, Doyle. and Gallagher was resumed where it ended the day previous, The charges were evidently padded with names other than Smith’s for fac: tional purposes. But Smith was the only one who appeared, From his able defense of revolutionary princi ples it appears inevitable that before the month is gone he will be. perse: | cuted as a Communist. A wobbly with fae are eeene ‘stronger every |his views can hardly avoid it. Indeed . Laer POPE DECORATES JUDGE GARY OF THE UNITED STATES STEEL TRUST NEW YORK, Nov. 9.—Bishop John M. Gannon, of Erie, Pa., who re- turned on the Berengaria after visiting the Pope, brought back with him a decoration for Elbert H. Gary, head of the United States Stee! Corporation. a gold medailion, for “his benefactions tne 39 perigee of Gt. Grégery of President if Gary happened to be Catholic he Mussolini has recently issued a decree The steel workers are wondering how much Gary gave the Pope, in important still the atrocious lie that Gary did anything for the steel workers, except rob them. WHOLESALE ARRESTS 1S ORDER OF DAY UNDER SPANISH DICTATORSHIP MADRID, Nov. 9.— The Spanish police are carrying on wholesale ar- rests in a desperate effort to quell the rising tide of revolt against the government. More than forty per- sons, said to have carried with them leaflets and papers advocating a re- volution in Spain, were captured near the border and thrown into jail. Similar occurrences are report- ed from other parts of the country. The Spanish workers, disregard- ing the threats of the militarist gov- ernment, and disregarding also the propaganda. of the arch-faker, Ibanez, who is calling for a bour- geois revolution, are preparing themselves to overthrow the dicta- torship of capitalism ag well as king, and to establish a worke government in Spain. Jobless Make Radical Demands. WORMS, Germany.—Full mainten- ance of unemployed and cancellation of their debts are among the demands formulated by the Worms conference of unemployed workers. Other resolu- tions adopted insist on reopening of closed industries, united struggle with those stlil employed for the 8-hour day. Quake Wrecks Many Homes, PARIS, Nov. 9.—Three thousand are homeless asa result of the earth- quake in the vicinity of Algiers, ac- cording to dispatches received this af- ternoon here. Zinovievy before a Workers’ (Special to The DAILY WORKER.) LENINGRAD, November 9 — Winthin the short space of seven years, we have accomplished won- derful thin, The famine is bro- ken, the heating and transportation crises are over. Thru the N. E. P. we are marching forward to social- ism. In the villages, we are still groping towards “nes of nice are growing — \ CELEBRATE THE SEVENTH YEAR OF SOVIET RULE Pivmsonils- des Join Singing “The International” Long before the time set for the opening of the celebration, the topmost seat in the topmost gallery of Ashland Auditorium was taken. Then came the or- cheftra of the Young Workers’ League to take its place on the platform. A few preliminary notes, a signal—then a sudden wave of movement thru the hall—the crowd rising as one person— and the “International,” the battle-cry of the revolutionary workers of the world, bursting from thousands and thousands of throats. The Workers’ Battle Song. It was march music, it was a song of triumph, as it was played at the Ashland Auditorium this November 7. The.orchestra'of the Young Workers’ League, in arranging the score, had caught all the exultant rhythm of a victorious battle song. The end of the seventh year after the greatest event in history! They were celebrating the anniversary of the greatest single day in the history of the race—the successful proletarian revolution in Russia on November 7, 1917. Seven long years of suffering had been passed thru—and the first proletarian state was still standing firm. And when Comrade Lovestone, in a ringing address, called on his audi- ence to go back with him over the landmarks of the road travelled by Russia since November 7, of seven years ago, the crowd responded eager- ly. Forced War’s Ending. “Remember the seventh day of No- vember of 1918. It was only one year (Continued on Page 4.) Zinoviev Speaks on 7th Anniversary of Soviet Rule in Workers’ Republic The following are important extracts from a speech delivered by Comrade Grego Conference in Leningrad on the occasion of the Seventh Anni- versary of the Russian revolution. more and more efficient. This situ tion in the villages our enemies are trying to use as a weapon against us, by telling the peasants that the workers are more favored than th It is the task of the village teacher, the village correspondent, the stu- dents, the workers, the Young Com- munists, the Red Army, to explain to the peasants the real situation. We must fight, seriously and stead- Temes LL —— parennania Walon maaan |AUSTRIAN LABOR SEEKS WAGES 10 FACE FOOD COST German Workers Plans to Join Big Walkout “3 ‘st (Special to the Dally Worker) VIENNA, Austria, Nov. 9.— A new wave of working class resistance to the exploitation of allied imperialism is rising in central Europe. Angered at the continued in- crease in living costs combined with reduced salaries and wholesale lay-off of employes ordered by the dictatorship of the League of Nations, the Austrian railway workers called a general strike at midnight Friday after having given the zovernment a last chance to zrant their demands for a wage nerease. As a consequence Italy and Czecho- Slovakia, neighboring capitalist na- tions, are threatening to invade Austria while the German railway workers talk of joining the strike, which has forced the resignation of the Seipel cabinet in Austria. Imperialist Plans “Gang Aft Aglee.” The situation is full of explosive international complications and illus- trates clearly how unstable is capital- ist-economy with its internal contr dictions continually arising to over- turn the best laid programs such as those now threatened, the League of Nations’ receivership over Austria and tne Dawes plan over Germany. The Austrian strike and the threat of a general rail strike in Germany follows only one day after the boast- ful announcement of the German gov- ernment having succeeded in balanc- ing the budget. In both Austria and Germany the net result of allied im- perialist control is the same for the workers. League of Nations’ Dictatorship. In Austria the post-war collapse had brought the national economy to ruin from which the only possible per- manent regovery was the proletarian revolution and socialization. As the Communist movement was too wedk, however, to attempt this permanent betterment, and as the so- cial-democrats’ influence over the League of Nations promised the “re< construction” of Austria, the nation was placed in a practical “receiver- ship" under the League of Nations, with its government’s every act, sub- ject to a dictator sent in by the league, League Plans Against Workers. The present league dictator is a Dutchman named Zimmerman. When the dictatorship was first established, . acres of puff publicity filled the capi- talist papers all over the world. “Re-~ construction” was the program of cap- italism against revolution. Capitalist’ reconstruction, of course. This is the same remedy as Harding's “normalcy.” Strikes were forbidden while foreign loans gave an appearance of return- ing prosperity. But wholesale discharges of rail- way employes and other government workers, with wages held down while the cost of living mounted has increas- ed the misery of the workers until the iNusion of “reconstruction,” thru the League of Nations’ dictatorship, has been driven from the mind of the (Continued on Page 2.) ily’ against the “kulak” (village nep- man), against the priest. Our In- ternational prestige has grown, The German bourgeoisie are kept busy ~~ defending themselves against the — rising ma: of the German work- ers. France has recognized us. In England it is no longer a question of recognition—it is a question of a loan. Leninism is becoming guiding light of the world.