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Page Four LONE WOBBLY REVOLUTIONST WINS DELEGATES (Continued from page 1) the anarcho-syndicalist chairman be- | gan the attack at once. | Smith is charged with writing edi. torials calling on workers to “assault, Overturn and destroy the capitalist System” and urging “thousands of Workers to go to California and vio- Tate the Busick injunction.” ‘The trial was somewhat clouded by } the attempt of Chairman Welinder to @isouss abstractly the theory of vio. lence. The first attempt brot on a Quarrel among the delegates as to whether the chairman was or was not talking too much. There seemed @mali reason for debating the ques- tion. ; “What's In the Papers?” | REPEAL THE ANTI-LABOR LAWS. The so-called criminal syndical- Erwin arose and in contemptuous} ism laws In the various states are nothing but instruments directed tone inquired—‘“What’ right have against the labor movement on behalf of the employers. An organized these editors to sit safely in Chicagc| demand must be made thruout the country for their repeal and for the and write anything they want to,| release of their victims. while the membership in California is | STOP THE DEPORTATION OF WORKERS. A new weapon used facing jail for selling the I. W. W. by the capitalists, designed particularly to terrorize the foreign-born Papers on the streets? I want a point workers and prevent them from joining the labor movement, is the threat of information from fellow worker of deportation. The labor movement must throw its strength into the Smith as to which he thinks is the struggle to stop the deportation of workers. More reyolutionary attitude?” FIGHT AGAINST THE KU KLUX KLAN. The K. K. K,, the Ameri- Smith’s answer implied that he can Legion, and similar bodies, are used by the capitalist class in its fight thot it made a great deal of differ to destroy the labor movement. The trade unions must break the influ- ence what the editors in Chicago put ence of all such organizations over the minds of the workers, and com- into the I. W.. W. papers, as to| bat their influence everywhere. whether selling them on the streets THE PAN-AMERIGAN FEDERATION OF LABOR MUST BE Was a revolutionary act or not. MADE AN ORGAN OF ANTI-IMPERIALIST STRUGGLE, AND NOT, “The A. F. of L. union men have AS NOW, AN INSTRUMENT OF THE AMERICAN CAPITALISTS FOR been capable of the greatest heroism,” SUBJUGATION OF LATIN-AMERICA. Capitalism obtains much of its Smith declared, “but they are not rev-| power to exploit the workers thru its still more extreme exploitation of olutionary. The United Mine Work-| the semi-colonial coutries. Gompers is a brazen tool of American im- ers’ rank and file have proven them- perialism. The Pan-American Federation must be changed into an or- selves capable of the finest sacrifice} gan of struggle against imperialism. —but they are not revolutionary HANDS OFF CHINA. The struggle now going on in China, which Even the A. E. F. in France was he- is fundamentally a struggle of the Chinese m: to throw off the yoke roic, but they would be the first to tell you that they were not only non: |i-cueq describing the I. W..W. as an| added that just as pacifists were brot revolutionary but against revolution | .:act duplicate of the early Christian in, the fighting and class conscious by the workers. |church and boasting that no organiza | workers were repelled by the change | This Is Real Leadership. |tion in the world ever endured scjin the I. W. W. When pacifism began Smith then launched into a history | much illegal violence in a better and/the I. W. W. had 58,000 members, now of the growth of pacifism in the I. W.| more forgiving spirit. it had only 30,000. W. trom the time when Walter C.| Salvation Army Man Leads Wobs. These pacifist elements had taken Smith’s attack on militarism wasrele-| He stated that by adopting a non:|the lead and so dispirited the mem- gated to the scrap heap at the request | resistant attitude the I. W. W. had|bership that it would not fight back :* of lawyers under pressure of prosecu-|attracted to it all the types who|When he heard, Smith said, that the tion, and how it kept on, the I. W. W. | glorified martyrdom above proletarian |I. W. W. loggers in Maine were de-| retreating step by step from the ad-|accomplishment. The leader of paci-| termined to resist the violence of the vanoed position which once made it|fism in the I. W. W., so a wobbly/Ku Klux Klan, he cheered up and the leading revolutionary body in Am jin the audience told the DAILY |was for publishing the story in Soli- erica, | WORKER, was a Salvation Army cap-|darity, but Vangsness of the Lumber The Californa defense, said Smith, |tain named Alfred Cohen. Smith did| Workers had vetoed it on the grounds ” became so bad that pamphlets were not mention Cohen, however, but/that it might encourage the members é in Maine to fight, and that was . against the interest of the organiza. tion. No Cheek Turning for Speed. nN emory OT our ‘Leacner So far had the non-resistant ideas gone, said Smith, that in San Pedro the members did not retaliate even when their children were taken on the occasion of a raid and dipped in tubs of boiling coffee. “If I had been there, I believe I would have done something,” said Smith. Erwin jumped up and tried to make a point pee leak nic A by saying, “Two nights after the 4 raid a crowd gathered to hear George ; or ASAI ET. Speed speak on the street.” “Per- haps to,” said Smith, “but I'll bet that Speed didn’t tell them to turn the other cheek.” “Speed, a delegate, é hopped to his feet — You're darned right I didn’t.” These men were not cowards, ex- Plained Smith. Not at all. They : were only paralyzed with inaction in- ‘This bronze, art medallion button of Nicolai Lenin—one duced by pacifist teachings. They inch in size—and of beautiful design—you will want for showed great heroism and splendid yourself and as a gift for your friends. sacrifice, but won nothing but a job hie If you don’t already own one of these life-lasting medal- sel ruah Aremgannley goes : lion buttons—by all means Smith if he was willing to go to Cali- f BUY IT FROM THE DAILY WORKER AGENT fornia to “violate” the Busick injune: THE DAILY WORKER Only Left Wing Can Save Trade Unions (Continued from page one) conditions, Is the army of millions of unemployed. Industry must main- tain its workers. Complete unemployment insurance must be estab- lished. Unity must be set up between employed and unemployed. The unemployed must be organized for this purpose in councils, in which unions and other working class bédies participate. Shop committees and control committees to regulate production must be established. ORGANIZE THE YOUNG WORKERS. The millions of young workers now outside of the labor movement must be brot inside. To this end the labor movement must demand for them equal pay for equal work, a six-hour day and five-day week, abolition of overtime and night- work, non-employment in dangerous industries, a minimum wage, and control of apprentice schools by the unions: The young workers are the greatest potential power of the labor movement. NATIONALIZE THE MINES AND RAILROADS. So long as these two basic industries are in the hands of private employers, who are free to use their manipulating power against the workers, and to engage in “open shop” drives, financed from the profits of them, so long the work- ers will continue to suffer increasing exploitation. The basic industries must be nationalized, with workers’ control of operation. FREE LABOR’S PRISONERS OF WAR. The capitalist dictatorship relies upon terror to keep the labor movement quiet and submissive. One of its means to this end is the imprisonment of labor militants. The labor movement must demand the release, of all those who now fill the prisons of the country, and must prepare to back up this demand with action. IN YOUR CITY! 50 Cents Each Add 5 cents for postage if you wish to have it by mail From tion. Smith said he was when pac- ifism was laid aside and the only ef- fective action, mass violation, started. “When you get a thousand men to go, V'll be with them. But your pacifism has destroyed so much that your calls don’t get them any more. The gen- 1113 W. Washington Blvd. Enclosed find §............ Name: City: ETT ANS aS THE NAME STREET. CITY. "igen Span cit ‘wrote bac THE DAILY WORKER POO a year § 2.50-6 montis 6200 9 montts -§ZF.00 ayear F450 6 montis § 250 THE NEW SUBSCRIPTION TO BUILD DAILY WORKER (gfe ei SR a a ae eral who would fight.like the I. W. W. pacifists have in California, and send little detachments separately onto the firing line to be killed off, would not be complimented, but shot for treason,” Smith observed. Non-Resistance Officially Licked. * When the vote was taken to accept the majority report vindicating Smith and calling on Erwin to retract his charges, the vote stood 23 to 3 in Smith's favor, Leonard, Murray and Schwandt opposing. But the non-re- sistant Erwin resisted the call for re- E97 SEND Pn Se Chicago, Mlinois Lenin Buttons. OATES S months STATE deen of Japanese, British, and American imperialism, must find the labor movement strongly and positively in support of the Chinese masses, and their national and revolutionary organizations. The workers of Amer- ica must demand “Hands off China!” RECOGNIZE SOVIET RUSSIA. As a measure vital to the economic Interests of the working clase, but above all as a sign of international solidarity of the workers of the world, the demand must be made for the complete and unconditional recognition pf Soviet Russia, INTERNATIONAL UNITY. The present movement for complete in- ternational unity on the trade union field, initiated by the Russian trade unions and the Red International of Labor Uions, is the hope of the work- ing class. It must be supported by all mean’ A GENERAL UNITED FRONT OF LABOR. All the old artificial divisions among the working class must be broken down, and the fight- ing forces of labor must be mobilized to prevent the destruction of the unions, to defeat the “open shoppers,” to relieve unemployment, to pro- tect wages and working conditions, to organize the unorganized, and to carry thru all of labor's militant program. To this end united front com- mittees, conferences, congresses, must be brought together on a local, district, state, and national scale. A general labor congress should be called as soon as possible to unify the whole working class struggle on the political and economic fields. The Reactionary Officials Sabotage. Gompers and his reactionary lieutenants will sabotage all items of this militant program. These corrupt “leaders” of labor will never lead the labor movement to anything but defeat. Only the rank and file workers, by making demand for the militant program, by organizing their demand in an effective manner, by taking control of their own unions, can pro- tect the trade unions, can build them up and strengthen them, can put the militant program in effect in the life of the working cla In order to do that, the militant rank and file workers must have organs of com- munication and common action. Build the Left Wing. Nothing but an organized left wing oo can save the American trade unions from destruction. The center for such a great left wing movement is in the Trade Union Educational League. The basis for such a great left wing organization is in the militant program here set forth. © Let every worker join in the demand for this program. Let him unite with his fellow militants thruout the labor movement. Let the rising spirit of solidarity and class struggle in the labor movement make itself heard and make itself powerful! Spread the militant program! Break down the sabotage of the Build up the left wing! ers’ government! tation and as there is nothing more |savage in attacking other workers than one who believes in not attack: ing capitalism, the delegates passed up the refusal without notice. Report Stirs Anarchist Ire. The convention had before it Smith’s report as editor. This had been handled very gingerly previously. Rumor said that it was loaded. But | upon Smith’s vindication a motion was made to. accept his report. Pande- monium broke loose. The anarcho- syndicalist chairman claimed the right to attack the report.. The con vention having apparently decided that one of its necessary functions is to keep Welinder silent, he resigned the chair, but finally took it back after being promised ten minutes to state the position of oe Berlin Interna. tional. The report was read. It calls on the I. W. W. to declare clearly whether it has any revolutionary pur- pose, whether or not it is organized to overthrow capitalism, or merely tc carry on production after capitalism shall have been overthrown by some other forces. It takes up non-resis- tance and it criticizes the California boycott, not in principle and not in all its forms, but decrys the evil effects of relying on the boycott to overthrow capitalism and aserts organization at the point of production rather than at the point of consumption should be accented and unenforcable boycotts not attempted. Wesley Everrest Was a Communist. Welinder’s attack was solely on thé suspected implication that if force was necessary then a red army was necessary, too, and any one who thot so was a Communist. He set up the novel argument that when the I. W. W. is attacked in its hall by mobs it should not resist there, for there was a better way, no resistance was needed anywhere except on the eco- nomic field. He even inferred Wes: ley Everrest was wrong in defending his life at Centralia, He should have depended on economic power. The same with the men on the Verona. “When the Germans invented poi- son gas,” said Welinder, “the English did not use the same method in re taliation. They invented a more sci entific defense against the gas namely, the tank. Those who believe in other than economic methods for waging the class war, should go where such methods are approved, to the Communists.” ‘Are Tanks Economic Power? The innocent remark that England did not use poison gas raised a laugh. But that tanks were represented as “economic power” no one seemed to notice, nor was inquiry made why the English had not gone on strike when Faindenburg attacked, agd met the poigon. gas with folded arms. Smith replied, however, and pointed out the experience of Italy and Spain, ‘MEET YOUR FRIENDS at Russian Co-operative RESTAURANT No. 2 We Serve to our Patrons the Best Meals, Prepared from the Fresh Pro- ducts, in European Style, at Moderate i Prices, 760 MILWAUKEE ascot Phone Monroe 1239. Raise the banner of solidarity and class struggle! reactionaries! For international and national trade union unity! For the struggle against capitalism, and for the workers’ and farm- THE TRADE UNION EDUCATIONAL LEAGUE, National Committee. where strong labor movements were destroyed by physical force in spite of their economic power. “These facts show that altho you may have the strongest and best organized un- ions, capitalist reaction burns your halls, murders your leaders and im- prisons and intimidates all active members—and does it successfully unless you organize resistance, pro- tect your halls, defend your lives and save your union and its economic power.” The report was accepted and turned over to the committee on pol- oy, Still Severer Censorship! - Complaints against the Spanish and Hungarian papers for printing Com- munist and anarchist matter were read. Nobody knew which articles were referred to, nor did anyone sug: gest that the papers should be free to members and such articles ans- wered. Everybody in the I. W. W. is supposed to be able to write articles, but nobody is supposed to answer ar- ticles expressing different opinions than the orthodox. It is much easier to suppress them. So the G. E. B. was ordered to exercise a still fur- ther censorship in the future! Rowan’s Friends Knife Griffith. J. A. Griffith was handed a nice package as a reward for signing the injunction and thenrecanting. Row- an’s gang in the convention, who suc- cessfully used the demagogue cry of “let the membership decide” and saved Rowan’s expulsion for a refer- endum, played a slick trick. They made a motion for the expulsion of Griffith and got it thru without any referendum. Let traitors to Rowan beware! Only traitors to the I. W. W. get a referendum. New Klan Building at Forth Worth, Tex., Has Gone Up in Smoke (Special to the Daily Worker) FORT WORTH, Texas, Nov. 9.— Fire declared by Ku Klux Klan offi- cials to have been of incendiary ori- gin, completely demolished the new ing @ loss of several hundred thou- sands of dollars. Investigation revealed that the blaze had started at both ends of the building simultaneously. The fire followed on the heels of a close fight in Forth Worth during the gu- bernatorial elections. Dr. George C. Butte, republican and Klan supporter, was leading Mrs. Ferguson here and in Tarrant county by 82 votes today. Say Fall Didn’t Do It. LOS ANGELES, Calif., Nov. 9.—A flat statement that former Secretary of the Interior Fall did not conceive the Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, fuel base project, involving the trading of gov- ernment royalty crude oil for fuel ofl in storage, but that the plan origin- ated in the navy department, marked , printing office from 12,000 to 3,000 . the trial of the government's suit to cancel EB. L, Doheney’s leases in federal court. her etoday. Brake on Paper Moncey Killg Jobs. BERLIN.—The stabilization of the German currency which results in the printing of rentenmarks instuad of the dally printing of a thousand vart- etivs of the paper money circulate, luring the inflation period, has reduc- ed the workers in the government huge Klan building here today, caus- || CLAIM GENERALS IN MEXICO RESTLESS AS GALLES TAKES POWER (Special to The DAILY WORKER.) EL PASO, Texas, Nov. 9.—Presi- dent-elect Plutarco E. Calles is threatened with a revolt involving many of the generals in the Mexi- can army who declare their loyalty to General Obregon, the retiring president, it was learned here to- day. Plans for an uprising in the army have been completed by the Obre- gon generals and it is thot the move may culminate in the curtailment of Calles’ power as president and the appointment of Obregon as secre- tary of war. Striking Machinists Standing Solid at Flow-Meter Plant In spite of the fact that Federal Conciliator Marshman is trying to get the strikers at the Flow-Meter ma- chine shop to return to work, the picket line is holding firm after a month’s effective striking. The ma- |chinists _ struck as non-unionists against a wage cut, and immediately joined the International Association of Machinists. ( Marshman is the strike-breaker who aided the Pullman company to break the strike of the steel workers last May, and who tried to get the gar- ment strikers to accept the employers’ terms and go back to work. He is supposed to be impartial, but always tries to make a settlement on the em- ployers’ terms. The Flow-Meters machinists had been.earning $1.00 an hour, but the boss slashed their wages 25 per cent and the men struck. Candidates in Cleveland. CLEVELAND, Ohio.—c. E. Ruthen- berg, Workers Party candidate for congress in one of the Cleveland dis- tricts was credited with 517 votes. C. Brahtin, the party’s nominee in an- other district received 259 votes while A. V. Severino received ‘219. Their names had to be written in on the ballot. Italian Protests in Paris. PARIS, Nov. 9—An Italian stood be- fore the office of the Italian consulate here last night and fired six shots from a pisctol. He said that he wished to protest against the Fascist outrages which have been terrorizing Italy. HEROIC ATTEMPT IS MADE TO SUGAR-COAT THE COOLIDGE GRIN (Special to the Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 9.— Candies on a stick called “Charms” have been displayed in the shops here carrying the profile of Cool- idge engraved on them, both be- fore and since the election. On the News Sing Subscription:, $2.00 a Vier 1113 W. Washington Blvd. CITY wes Monday, November 10, 1924 CELEBRATE THE SEVENTH YEAR OF SOVIET RULE (Continued from Page 1.) after the Russian masses had risen to overthrow their oppressors. And still the forces of Communism thruout the world were strong enough to bring the end of the world massacre. “Remember the seventh day of No- vember, of 1919. That day saw the backbone of the counter-revolutionary forces broken forever. Remember when the Russian workers smashed the ring of fire and steel which the capitalist nations had drawn around them. Remember November 7, 1921, which saw the hosts of the white ter- ror and their generals—the Yudenitch- es, the Kolchaks, the Denikins, swept into the Black Sea, and the dastardly attacks of the Polish lackeys of im- perialism hurled back. “Then a few years of more peace- ful building and planning, the com- plete liquidation of the great famine, the restoration of industry and agri- culture. Capitalist Governments Surrender. “And now, on November 7, 1924, we see twenty capitalist governments openly confessing that their attacks on Russia have failed, and that they have been powerless against the di termined masses of Russian workers. Wild cheers greeted Comrade Will- jam Z. Foster when he mounted the platform. Most of the audience had heard Comrade Foster speak after his first trip thru Russia in 1921. Most of them had heard him speak when he returned from Russia this summer, and was able to tell of the wonderful || WORKER, which was to benefit by The November First issue of the great, new Labor journal The Workers Monthly Combining the Liberator, Labor Herald and Soviet Russia Pictorial Edited by Earl R. Bowder, This new leader in the field of American Labor magazines begins _in this issue the first instaliment of a classic of Communist literature “The History of the Russian Communist Party” By Gregory Zinoviev Other noted contributors including William Z. Foster, C. E. Ruthen- berg, Moissaye Olgin, William F. Dunne, James P, Cannon, Alexander Bittelman and others. International Events--Photographs--Cartoons Copy 25 Cents Official Organ of the Workers Party and the Trade Union Educational League i USE THIS BLANK THE WORKERS MONTHLY For the ANC1OGEd Foner Send me THE WORKERS | MONTHLY Of... Months, j ADDRESS: eesscessssssssoocersccsssernsssssandoasvnnvvensrsconen progress of the workers’ and peasants’ governments. And they were eager to hear more of the international signi- ficance of the revolution. “The Russian revolution is the burn- ing, living symbol of the new society,” said Foster. “It is our assurance that not only in Russia, but in every coun- try of Europe and finally in America we shall be able to raise the red flag.” There were other songs and other speakers. There was the Freiheit Singing Society and the mandolin or- chestra of the South Slav Federation. , There was Comrade Oliver Carlson, who spoke for a short time on the spirit of the Russian youth, and Com- rade Martin Abern, who as chairman, guided the meeting smoothly. Then the collection and the sale of literature. But how different from the ordinary “collection.” .No coaxing, no long explanations, Respond to DAILY WORKER'S Cali. The meré name of the DAILY the celebration brot hundreds of dol- lars from workers eager to give what they could. Pamphlets, papers, bu tons—all went quickly. Over $700 was taken for the DAILY WORKER. And it was only one of the celebra- tions taking place on that day in al- most every city of America, where workers were greeting the end of the seventh victorious year of revolution. Open Forum, Sunday Night, Lodge Room, Ashland Auditorium. Stands Now! ‘ $1.25 Six Months Chicago, Illinois. eesnnennseuusvnnesennnonesssnnnnnssessnsecneennessncsenneasie