The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 15, 1924, Page 4

Page Four THE DAILY WORKER. ——— Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, ML (Phone: Monroe 4712) SUBSCRIPTION RATES . By email: $6.00 per year $3.50....6 months $2.00....8 months Chicago only): "545 6 months $2.50....3 months By $3.00 per year Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER 1113 W. Washington Bivd. Chicago, Iiinele i a a) J, LOUIS ENGDAHL rt WILLIAM F. DUNNE wr cwieaiad MORITZ J. LOEB. ..sesessemene-Business Manager @ntered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1923, at the Post Office at Chicago, Ill, under the act of March 8, 1879, <p 290 Advertising rates on application Fa Does the A. F. of L. Recognize Facts? Just as the delegates are gathering at El Paso for the 44th annual convention of the American Federation of Labor, dispatches state that the con- servative Baldwin government of Great Britain does not at all consider revoking the recognition al- ready granted to the Soviet government by the previous regime of MacDonald. At the same moment Senator Borah, now to take Lodge’s place as chairman of the foreign relations committee, announces himself as favoring recog- nition of Soviet Russia and goes to the White House to talk confidentially to President Coolidge. France, the most obdurate enemy of the Soviets has just granted full recognition. These are facts, dis- comforting perhaps to Secretary Hughes and Mr. Gompers, but, none the less, facts. With these and other countries Soviet Russia, : no longer the starved and ragged object of scorn and attack, but the strong, healthy and rebuilding A nation of workers and peasants, is willing for : mutual advantage to trade. The Soviet’ Republic needs vast quantities of machinery, medicines and any number of things. English Iabor, which com- pelled the recognition of Soviet Russia by Britain not only hoped to strenthen the feeling of solidar- ity between English and Russian workers by this means, but helped to relieve unemployment in Eng- land by heavy production for the Russian market. Unemployment is becoming a swiftly increasing j menace in America. It is possible that with all the European governments which are foes of Soviet Russia being compelled to recognize facts and ad- just their hatreds to the necessity of trade, the United States government will also fall in line. If a Senator Borah’s actions mean anything Mr. Hughes will suffer a change of heart or yield the lepartment of state to someone not so venomous. With the army of the jobless in America threat- ening to grow to unprecedented numbers even with ‘ the temporary bopm in some industries it behooves the A. F. of L. convention to consider seriously if : it is going any longer to make itself the tool of i rabid - anti-Bolshevism to the extent of denying facts and taking a hostile stand toward the first Workers’ Republic. If the 44th convention of the A. F. of L. has the slightest consideration for the interests of its members it will adopt the following resolution endorsed by the T. U. E. L. favoring the recognition of Soviet Russia and instructing its officers to exert all efforts to that end. If the A. F. of L. can see no ethics involved, it ought at least to see its material interest. THE RESOLUTION WHEREAS, The Russian Soviet Government has withstood, for a period of seven years, all attacks launched against it from enemies within its own boundaries as well as from a world of outside gov- ernments, hostile to it and for some time carrying on armed onslaughts, demonstrating by its successful resistance that it has the support of the Russian workers and farmers; and WHEREAS, Many European and other govern- ' ments have established diplomatic and commercial relations with the Russian government that have proved beneficial to the workers of all such countries, and are also enabling the Russian workers to secure the foodstuffs, medicines, machinery, and other com- modities from the world market so vitally needed in their great work of reconstruction; and WHEREAS, The government of Great Britain, responding to the demands of the British labor move- ment, have just concluded a treaty with Soviet Rus- sia, which treaty the British labor movement is pre- paring to fight to protect and put into effect, because it knows that only in this way can the interests of the working class be protected; and WHERBAS, The present administration at Wash- ington, by thus far failing to give recognition to Soviet Russia, has greatly injured that country as well as our own; therefore, be it RESOLVED, That the American Federation of Labor, assembled in its Forty-fourth Annual Con- vention, in the, name of solidarity with the first Workers’ Republic, declares itself in favor of recogni- tion of Soviet Russia, for the establishment of full f diplematic and commercial relations, and directs its i officials to exert all possible efforts in order that this fhe "recognition shall be given by the government of the United States, ie New Wave of Struggle in Europe, ee {Phat a new wave of working class militancy is rising in Europe seems probable. The news of struggles engaged in by the workers of European nations is always garbled and made almost impos- band sible to understand by the capitalist press but enough can be gathered from recent dispatches to x indicate a tremendous wave of strikes and revolu- tionary uprisings that disturb the plans of cap- italist reaction. ae Tn Italy Fascism is cracking. It is torn by in- ternal dissension, the liberal democrats are attack- ing it in parliament and best of all large section’ THE DAILY WORKER of the workers are no longer deterred from open resistance by its threats of terror. In Spain an attempt has been made by a heroic band of revolutionists to overthrow the Rivera dictatorship. With characteristic complacency, that petted darling of the intelligentsia, Vincente Blasco Ibanez, the novelist, has denounced the movement of the workers who acted while he talked. In Austria a general strike of the railway workers, long enslaved by the league of nations and their own capitalists, came near to forcing the downfall of the government. In Germany the Berlin transport workers have tied up the subways of the second largest city in continental Europe. In England the vacillation” and cowardice of that typical middle class representative MacDon- ald has aroused the organized workers and his leadership of the labor party is threatened. In every one of these stirring events which are but surface indications of a deep-seated and grow- ing resentment, of the European working class against the tyrannies of capitalism, the Commun- ists are active and in most instances are. the rey- olutionary leaven that enlivens the mass. Capitalist reaction and working class revolt go hand in hand. The defeat of the MacDonald govern- ment, the sweeping victory of Coolidge and Amer- ican imperialism which he represented, in the re- cent election, are all connected inseperably with the necessity for the enforcement of the Dawes plan for world capitalism. All of the events cited show that European labor is not going to surren- der without a fight and is added evidence of the fact that capitalist stability depends largely upon the submission of the working class. The Grand Dukes Use Looney Gas The lotus eaters, the betel-nut chewers, the coc- aine sniffers and all the other dope-friends from those who live on hash-heesh to those who dream dreams after lighting a pill of opium have fallen behind Grand Duke Cyril of Russia. Note that we say “of” not “in” Russia. Cyril is a wise plug and hasn’t been in Russia for some time. But Cyril has ambitions and like little Alice he wandered around in wonderland a while, during the period when the great imperialist powers were paying white hopes high wages for bumping up against the red bear and trying to get his hide. Last September his vanity could no longer brook frustration. His superiority complex was bursting for expression. So—in Berlin—he proclaimed him- self “Emperor of all Russia.” True, he had competition. The dignified old dowager empress, Maria Feodoroyna, ruffled up, surveyed the situation thru a lorgenette, and—in Berlin—declared Cyril was an imposter and an impudent upstart, and remarked“that the crown of Nicholas the defunct, was hers, even if she couldn’t get it. : In fact the fun waxed fast and furious. Cyril called upon all the other grand dukes of Russia— in Berlin—to recognize his claim. Russia—in Ber- lin—was at the point of civil war. Now Cyril, terming himself “His Majesty, Cyril I,” has broken out in a new spasm and convoked a “erown council” of all grand dukes who have re- cognized him, and has appointed one of them “his majesty’s representative” and generously alloted two advisors, one for military and another for civil affairs. The trouble with all this emperor of Russia business is that the “his majesty” doesn’t dare get any closer to Russia than the Berlin beer halls. It will be interesting to see what becomes of Cyril and his empire, now that it seems pretty well known that the palace he would like to occupy is the meeting place of the Communist International, and if he wants to press his pants he should learn to use a flat-iron as he can hardly hope to press them on the throne of Nicholas. No Surrender in Paterson ‘When the history of labor struggles in the United States is written, there will be at least one chapter devoted to the Paterson silk workers. The courage and endurance shown by these workers in the fight that is still in progress, and in which the workers have met with some signal successes in spite of the combined efforts of the mill owners and police, is one of the marvels of the present period, marked as it is by the almost complete surrender of the majority of the unions under the leadership of an officialdom that has long ago lost what militancy it ever possessed. The Paterson workers are now confronted with anew problem that probably presages a renewal of the fight in mills that have made peace with the strikers. Recent dispatches tell of a meeting of mill owners at which plans were made to break down the working conditions agreed to by them and by reason of which strikers returned to work. The strike committee of the Associated Silk Worlgers has acted promptly in the new situation and, in a statement calling a special meeting of shop committeemen, has announced that the work- ers will be called out of every mill that violates the recent agreement. ‘The statement refers to the sup- port received from other sections of the working class and this again is a remarkable feature of the strike that has encouraged the Paterson workers to continue the struggle. The Workers Party strike relief committee alone has turned oyer something like $5,000 to the Paterson. workers and has been a big factor in keeping up the morale of the strik- ers. e The resistance of the Paterson silk workers has undoubtedly done much to halt the wage cuts in other sections of the textile industry, and if the necessity for a new struggle develops the support of the strike would receive a new impetus. AS W (Continued from Page 1.) not like Soviet Russia because the workers who were in control did not have any use for parasites like Gold- man, She did not feel as comfort- able as she did in the luxurious hotels in the United States, so she got out and the workers did not shed any tears at her departure, 7. © ‘HIS counter revolutionary stool- pigeon is now in England speak- ing under capitali#t auspices against the government of the Russian work- ers and peasants, She admitted that the United States government, sug- gested that she return to America under certain conditions. No doubt the political prostitute is making a hard bargain and when she gets her terms, she will be glad to got inside the Statue of Liberty and compete with all the other finks of capitalism in making war on Soviet Russia, oe ee eyt T is no accident that her public ap- pearance in London and the lengthy excerpts from her speech cabl- ed te the American press coincided with the revival of the movement for recognition of Soviet Russia inititiated by Senator Borah, now occupying the important position of chairman of the committee on foreign relations. Every capitalist sewer pipe here and abroad will from now on be pouring filth thru it will not work, The United States will follow inthe footsteps of France and recognize a government it can- not overthrow. eee PROPOS the “Zinoviey . letter” which the tories put over on MacDonald in the recent elec tions, a former correspondent of the Londan Times, in a letter to the Lon- don Daily Herald, tells how White Guard Russians in Berlin, Riga and other propaganda centers make a spe- cialty of providing newspaper corre- spondents with cleverly forged docu- ments alledged to be by Zinoviev, Trotsky and other Russian leaders. Most of the newspapermen accept these forged documents without any effort to verify their authenticity. The White Guardists do not ask any money for them, being employed by capitalist groups and wealthy czarists who have still some hope left of re turning to their former state of lux- ury and idleness in Russia. But a seat of honor on the point of a sharp bayonet, is liable to be their portion if they ever get so “hopped” they de- cide to break thru the border. see ILLERAND, former president of France who was given the bum’s rush when Herriot won the elections is trying to sneak back into the limelight again. Millerand is a form- er socialist, but is now the champion the columns of the capitalist press on the Russian Soviet government. But of the Roman catholic church and extreme reaction. In replying to FE. SEE IT - - Millerand’s defense of the church Herriot declared that “the doors of all churches and schools should be shut to priests and ministers of re- ligion, The church was never any- thing else than a political instrument in the hands of a political party.” so. @ APITALIST papers do not fear that Branting, the socialist prem- ier of Sweden will give the capitalist system a severe jolt. One of our Chi- cago dailies commenting on his re- turn to power, declared that the so- cialists of Europe, showed a sweet reasonableness toward the owning class. Only ‘in Russia, it moaned, were things turned upside down. That's about ‘the size of it. Social- ists very “reasonable” with the ‘HE work of the Irish Boundaf¥ Commission..is at a standstill. It may be necessary to pass another law in the house of commons to remedy the situation, Under pressure from the armed action of the Irish republicans from. 1916, when James Connolly or- ganized the revolt, until 1921,. the British government was forced to make a concession in the shape of the Irish Free State. But Ireland was cut in two and a bitter fight has con- tinued ever since over boundary delim- itations, The tories have a majority now in the house of commons and they will stand. by their Ulster friends. Saturday, November 15, 1924 ————$_—$ By T. J. O'Flaherty HIE Republic of San Marino, has hung out its shingle, making it known to all and sundry that it is in | the business dispensing honors to worthy people who have the cash. This relieves the fear of American men of wealth but doubtful lineage, who looked with alarm on the fading for- tunes of Hurope’s oldest monarchies. San Marino is small but willing. The British empire gives honors in return for automobiles and gifts to the poll- tical parties, but San Marino does it for a meal ticket.” Soon our Chicago bootleggers, sluggers and gunmen will be sporting the Order of Saint Agatha if they feel so inclined. .. 8 N alleged United States counsul was killed in’ Teheran, Persia. The dignity of Morgan’s Empire was hurt, so Charles Evans Hughes tn- sisted on: Persia executing several Persians in retaliation, and on the payment to the United States of a considerable sum of money for the expense of sending a warship te Per- sia for the purpose of bringing back the consul’s body. Now, that the necessary number of victims is offer- ed as a sacrifice to. Morgan’s injured dignity, his secretary of state be- comes magnanimous and offers to settle the question by donating the expense money to a fund for the ed- ucation of Persian children. Whieh prompts us to ask the question: Is the Standard Oil company after Per- sian oil fields? \ Red Aid International Helped 18,000 (1. W. A. Press Service) HILE the Red Aid International has been busy raising funds with which to give legal and material aid to the $83,200 imprisoned workers and peasants of capitalist Burope, the socialists of Germany and other ad- herent of the 2nd International have been busy attacking Soviet Russia for incarcerating 1,000 counter revolution- its, who worked for the overthrow of the first Workers’ and Peasants’ Republic. From January 1 to April! 1, 1924, the Red Aid International | conducted in Germany alone 8,448) lawsuits. By the end of Aug. 1924/ it had assisted 18,000 people. Upon demands from representatives of the Red Aid International, inves- tigations of prison life in capitalist | countries were made. These condi-| tions were contrasted with conditions | of counter-revolutionary prisoners in Silesia and the fac{s are as follows: In German prisons where the so- cialists are loudest in their denun- ciation of Soviet Russia, beating and tortures invented by beastly minds are the order of the day. In Zelle prison for example it was found upon investigation that prison- ers are kept in punishment cells with- out lavatories. In another kind of punishment cell same prison, the vic- tim has a 10-pound iron pole tied to him from the waist line to hands and is kept in this fashion for THREE WEEKS. In Rensburg prison the in- Editor’s Note.—Every day until publication has been completed, the DAILY WORKER will publish a new chapter from the book, “Len- in: The Great Strategist of the Class War,” by A. Losoysky, secre- tary of the Red International of Labor Unions. The fourth chapter is entitled “Building the Russian Party.” p>. *: ‘HE working class will win, but only in the event that it succeeds in creating a strongly united organizs- tion which is ideologically homogene- ous. The working class cannot be tic. torious without uniting the best, the most class conscious and revolution- ary elements. Hence the role of the party as the guiding force of the revo lution, The party is not identical with the working class, buf is its natural leader. The party leads the masses only inasmuch as it is organically united with the working class re- acting to its everyday life. Without a party the working class cannot make a single step. Without a party the re- volution is an empty phrase. Theoretically this truth was recog- nized even by Lenin's predecessors, but it was he alone who understood how to translate into practice theve theoretical propositions, * history of the Russian social-democracy an’ of the Russian Communist Party is or. ganically bound up with the activities of Lenin. He was the organizer of the party, the educator of a whole ge- neration of party workers and lead- ers, beginning with the time of under- ground groups up till the moment when the working class assumed pow- er in the largest country in the world, It was because he understood that the working class cannot live withovt a party that he devoted his greatest at- tention to he building up of such a It would be diffleult to find another man in the history of parties whose life and activity was so intimately in- terwoven with the party ay was Lon- in’s with the Russian. Communist Party. Ho was tts ¢ man of action, agitator, peeaniaes, and mon | BUILDING THE RUSSIAN PARTY - carcerated are permitted to see their relatives only once in three months. In the Gleivits prison (Silesia) there are 40 workers imprisoned because they belonged to the local union. They are under charge of “high treason.” They were savagely beaten because they went on a hunger strike. In the fortress of Lukach prisoners are beat- en with the butt ends of rifles and wounded by bayonets for protesting against the putrid food. Many of those arrested against whom there were no definite charges were abused before trial. The Dussel- dorf court confirmed this story. Mrs. Petrovskaya was arrested the night of November 19, 1923 with a 13-months baby in her care. She was taken to the police station and because they had nothing against her she was beaten with rubber whips then hit on the head and stomach with the butt end of rifles. They got nothing out of her or on her and she was finally re- leased. Comrade Fischer and Bach were ar- rested on no charge: In an effort to get them to “conféss” something which they had’ not done, they were pulled by the hair, kicked and beaten till blood flowed. As late as June 1924 Comrade Gard was arrested in Neubrandenburg. The guard who had him in charge claimed he tried to escape. When he refused to div- ulge his name and make “confes- sions” he was wounded, beaten, until he died. But he did not divulge any never did he get the idea that: “The party, this is I,” as his opponents used to reproach him. He realized that the power and greatness of the party de- pends upon its organic connections with the masses, its collaboration with the creative and progressive elements of the working class. One can state without exaggeration that the Russian Communist Party was the creation of his spirit, the work of his hands, Such a party could be created by one who is perfectly clear as to what are the mutual relations between the party and tho class. Len- profit. DAILY WORKER. In. order to make to reflect the life of the wide laboring masses, TO WRITE TO Us. will appear as often as there will be make the letters interestin, workers in other sections of point. ‘Today we print the first letter about the life of the harbor workers. THE LIFE OF HARBOR WORKERS To the DAILY WORKER:—As you have asked the workers to give some- thing of their lives so that DAILY WORKER readers may understand that other workers are subject to the same class miseries, I will write about the harbor worker's life. My husband is a barge captain in the employ of the New York Central R. R. We are compelled to live on the barges with the whole family if my husband wants the job. The living quarters on barges are two small cabins. Some barges have medium size cabins, others are so small they are like cells in a prison. Some have cabins on deck, others are underneath the deck and are so ter- ribly damp that all smells musty. I lived in one of these dark dun- geons for ten months my health was so bad that T. B, was not far How We Live and Work Editors note:—This paper is printed for the workers, poor farmers and those who work and sweat under the present system of society. It is a paper of the workers, by the workers and for the workers. We want to reach every corner of this country where labor is We want the workers and farm This new department “HOW WE. sufficient letters from our readers about the life and working conditions under which our masses struggle. Try to bringing out facts which may not be the country. Try information. The socialists in the Reichstag have nothing to say against such treatment of workers by a Cap- italist government in which they have a part. But the 2nd International to which they belong finds it necessary to spend time and energy attacking Soviet Russia because it has 1,500 counter-revolutionists in prison, who organized for the overthrow of the workers’ government. And how are these 1,500 treated? Let us compare the facts These prisoners consists of monar- chists, four white guard generals, so- cial democrats, social revolutionaries and scores of anarchists, such as took part in the Moscow explosion of 1919 when seven leading Communists lost their lives and many were woun- ded. This explosion was organized by anarchists during Denekin’s ad- vance on Moscow. But the 2nd Inter- national considers them heroes and attacks Soviet Russia for not letting them lose to help organize another such attempt. They would rather see Denikin succeed. These prisoners are kept in the Suzdalsk and Solovetsk concentration camps. From letters addressed to their fam- ilies we find what the conditions of these camps are. These letters are writen by Danilin, social-democrat, Dorozhkov, social-democrat Chaikin, social-revolutionary Block, _ social- democrat, Svetitsky, Krasnianska and others. The climate in the camps is dry and healthy. The rooms are in’s slogan was: “The party above all” Why? Because the party is the vanguard of the working class, and as such must know not only how to march forward but, if need be, to go against the spontaneous move- ments among the workers and at de- cisive moments powerfuily to assume the offensive. The party is the or- ganized consciousness of the class, a fact which distinguishes it from the unorganized elemental movements of the workers. see Monday—“The Enemy of Reform- ism.” > . Open Forum, Sunday Night, Lodge Room, Ashland Auditorium. eing exploited for private gains, for the to rs all over country the it more int ok be me Aa EW. OUR. ERS AND WORK" known to = to make them short and to the I can name a boat where a mily of eight children was living un- der these conditions until the father died and they had to leave. , In another family living on the barges were six children. One child was drowned and the father died of consumption. Sonietimes they work the boats at night, and that means no sleep for us, with ships and derricks, and men shouting and cursing. I will leave to your imagination how we feel about it. hours for the men are halt wine best You are always |and supposed to be on the job when want- ed, which be any hour of the day or night. You work @ 24-hour shift. ing life it is for a woman and the esa Men sym aad a Tea, sugar and cigarettes are served. ‘the polling place I stopped and ‘having his registration looked up. and carried himself officiously, spacious and light and do not look like prison cells. Catering is satis- factory. Meat is given twice a day. Hach prisoner gets in addition pin- money of 43 kopecks daily. Letters may be sent every week. : The well-known menshevik Rostoy and B, Vassiliev,..member of the central committee of the party pro- posed to the rest of the prisoners once to organize a political demonstration, the majority of them refused to par- ticipate, and the Georgian group) of mensheviks replies: “If in answer to our hunger strike the Soviet gov- ernment were to consent to have an investigation and inspection made, even the ultra anti-Soviet commission of European socialists would de- clare that although the Soviet system and Soviet justice are bad, the reg- ime in the Suzdalsk prisons is satis- factory.” | In spite of these facts, however, the socialists everywhere are con- centrating now upon attacks on the fact that Soviet Russia has: prisoners, and at the same time they are helping both actively and silently the existing capitalist governments to abuse and kill workers and peasants who fight for the interests of the working clase. The Red Aid International is raising funds to help the prisoners of Bur- opean capitalist countries, and their families. Its agency in America is the International Workers’ Aid of Chicago. : His Majesty, the American Voter T was November the 4th, the day on which the American citizens went thru the pantomime of political demo- cracy and ratified the Wall Street choice of a president. I, was walking down a street in one of Chicago’s semi-residential, semi-manufacturing districts. It was close to ohe o’clock. As I passed a restaurant, the door swung open and a man hurrying out, bumped into me. ! He was a middle aged man dressed in rough working clothes. Scarcely taking the time to mutter “beg par- don” he strode down the walk ahead of me. Half way down the block he turned in at a polling place, stopping however to accept all the campaign literature which the poll watchers were handing out. As I came up to glanced inside. The man was stand- ing by the election judges evidently This done he was handed a ballot, and motioned to a seat. Votin seemed to be a matter of great with him for he held his head took his seat next to three othe# men who also were waiting to vote” were three voting booths in place and all were occupied. Several minutes passed. The polling booths were emptied and re-occupied and only the object of my gaze \was left, With pride and importance written on his fac waited. Suddenly a siren wi ‘ a nearby factory rent the s self importance vanished to placed by one of agitation, solution, For a few’ he hesitated, then cast his ballot back on the table whence it come and dashed for the door. ing out on the sidewalk h set me as he negotiated a turn in the direction of and broke into an undigniqed