The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 21, 1924, Page 6

rena "age Six THE Dp THE DAILY WORKER. Publishea by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Ml. (Phone: Monroe 4712) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail: 50....6 months $2.00....8 months Chicago only): morths $2.50...3 months Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER #113 W. Washington Bivd. 3. LOUIS ENGDAHL t WILLIAM F, DUNNE MORITZ J. LOEB... Chicago, Iinele esomeeemnsenens HGItOR® mmene-Business Manager —<—<—<$—<—$<—$<—$—— nD Entered as second-class mail Sept, 21, 1923, at the Post Office at Chicago, Ill, under the act of March 8, 1879, e200 Advertising rates on application For Class War Prisoners We have before expressed our hope that Gom- pers, while sojourning at the scab Hotel El Paso del Norte, will spare a few moments to solicit “Ma” Ferguson, new governor of Texas, for the pardon of Jose Rangel and Charles Cline. If Sam’s reputa- tion for being a “friend of Mexican labor” is to be sustained, he simply must do. this much. But there are hundreds of other prisoners for the cause of labor rotting their lives away behind prison walls in this country, and no labor leader who is fit to remain above ground can ignore them without making the omission an accusation of treachery on his part to the working class. Mooney and Billings, militant, yes, revolutionary trade unionists, remain in prison after the frame- up against them-is clearly proven. And it is up to Gompers and company at the head of the A. -F. of L. to either quit boasting about how powerful that organization is or throw that power into aetion in forcing the release of these two victims. But these are not the only ones, either. The executive council of the American Federation of Labor is either interested in the working class of this country or it is not. If it is, it should take a stand unequivocal and aggressive for the release of every victim of capitalist repression lying be- hind bars. There are many of them. Ford and Suhr, rotting their life away in Folsom year after year, the West Virginia coal miners who dared to defend their homes and lives against violence of the bosses, and the eight lumber workers who remain in the cells of Walla Walla prison are a standing rebuke to the traitorous action of Gompers and company in their collaboration with the American Legion. Then there are the hundred and more courageous workers, members of the I. W. W., who have up- held the right of labor unionism in California at the expense of one to 14 years imprisonment. In no other country in the world would the labor 4. and signally honored. This was the conven- tion that expelled William F. Dunne, the Com- munist, for being an uncompromising enemy of capitalism, The crimes committed against unionism by John L. Lewis would fill this issue of The DAILY WORKER. The very fact that he served on the republican. party advisory campaign committee in order to secure the re-election of Strikebreaker Coolidge, is evidence sufficient of his character, dis- regarding his alliance with the Kansas coal oper- ators against Alexander Howat, with the British Empire Steel corporation against the Nova Scotia miners, with the Kentucky coal operators in keep- ing the fields of that section unorganized, and with the coke magnates of Fayette county against the heroic workers he deserted in 1922. Berry is to lead the fight on the floor at El Paso against Stone. Our good friend, the former salva- tion army drum wacker, William H. Johnston, will stand in the gap for Stone. A fine crew, indeed, to talk of unionism! Johnston is the father of the B. & O. plan, the standard form of class col- laboration. You may ask, what is it all about? Why are those strikebreaking labor fakers making such a fuss about Stone’s direliction? There is a reason. Lewis is the main lieutenant of the G. O, P. machine in the trade union move- ment. Berry is, the democratic “tuchun,” while Stone is the principal backer of the so-called pro- gressive party, with Johnston as his mouthpiece. They are not concerned with trade unionism, but the boys are looking for a place in the political sun and the resolution against Stone is a carefully worked plot on the part of the republican’ and dem- oeratic lackeys to knock him out or seriously {wound him. This strategy is no different to that of the various hi-jacking and bootlegging gangs of Chicago. What. a deplorable state the American. labor movement is in when these moguls of crookdom can gather in convention to represent the workers and get away with it. It makes many sincere workers despair of the future. But there was never less cause for downheartedness than today, with the example of triumphant Soviet Russia. before the eyes of the workers of the world. The American workers will triumph as their Russian brothers did despite the Stones, Lewises, Johnstons, Berrys and all the other lackeys of capitalism. The Mexican Was Right “Surely these are not labor union delegates, they look like bankers to me,” declared a Mexican dele- gate as he watched the portly, bejeweled and well- groomed labor fakers who attended the El Paso convention of the American Federation of Labor. The Mexican was right. The labor leaders, who dominaté what there is left of a trade union movement in America, do not represent the interests of the workers, organized or unorganized. They are wealthy and contented movement remain dumb and paralyzed if such out-|with the present robber system, which exploits rages were perpetrated on workers. The hand of| those whom they are supposed to serve. the union bureaucracy alone is responsible. Then there are the two Italian workers, Sacco and Vanzetti, doomed to die unless labor really throws off its indifference to the murder of work-|italism takes good care of them, ers and acts, sharply, decisively and en masse. If These labor leaders are allies of the capitalists. Mark Hanna baptized them properly when he characterized them as “labor lieutenants.” Cap- and one of the canniest of the American plutocrats, Andrew it does not act, the blood of these workers will be Carnegie, placed Samuel Gompers on his pension on the hands of Gompers and company. They are | list. responsible, let there be no quibbling. Honors are heaped on the labor fakers by the In all these cases the resolution sponsored by |capitalist government while radical leaders face the Trade Union Educational League could be applied with telling effect. This resolution in- structs the state and central bodies to work upon a program which (1) demands of the executive power of the states in which workers are im-| welcome at El Paso, have a stake in the capitalist prisoned, their immediate and unconditional re- lease; (2) includes raising the issue of the release of such workers as a major issue in elections in the jails. Gompers is an honored guest at bank- ers’ banquets while indictments dangle over the head of William Z. Foster. The Mexican was right. Our American labor leaders, the kind that are system. They wear diamonds. They will fight for the system that keeps them in diamonds at the expense of the millions of slaves, organized or un- ,German workers are to be further enslaved. catholic church in Ireland. Y WORKER ‘Workers! Join the Struggle Against the Dawes Plan Statement of the Central Executive Committee of the Workers Party on the German Election and the Situation in Germany Workers of America! Seven thousand Communists and revolutionary workers are being tortured in German prisons. Daily more revolutionary workers are be- Ing seized and put behind prison doors. Warrants have been issued for the arrest of all Communist members of the Reichstag, which has been dissolved. A bitter attack is being made upon the whole German work- ing class. Efforts that the revolutionary workers are making to aid their fellow-workers in prison through the International Red Aid have been prohibited. The reactionary capitalist-social-democratic govern- ment of Germany is carrying on a campaign of annihilation against the revolutionary workers of Germany. ‘ The German Nationalists, cowardly Fascisti, openly demand the re- turn of Wilhelm to a German throne. These degenerate hooldums com- prising monarchist ex-officers, sons of big landowners, industrial and financial bosses, and numbers of deluded workers, are armed to the teeth, and daily make bloody .attacks on the working class. The capitalist- social-democratic government allows them to do this dirty work, thus sparing the government any responsibility for the workers’ blood that is shed. Why is the capitalist class conducting an offensive against the work- ers at this time? ‘There are two reasons: First, elections are to take place in Germany on December 9. The ind the social-democrats know very well that if the German ire given an opportunity to cast their votes without interference or limitation, they will overwhelmingly support the revolutionary Com- munist Party. The workers of Germany through the struggles of the past six years have recognized that there is but one leader of the working class in its battle against exploitation and suppression, and that is the Communist Party, which is united with the revolutionary workers of the entire world through the Communist International. The Communist Party has conducted a militant fight in the Reichstag, the provincial diets and municipal councils in the interests of the workers, and for that they are hated by the capitalist parties and feared by that other capitalist party, the social-democrats. The election of a large number of Communist de- puties to the Reichstag on December 9 will be the mandate that the rev- olutionary working class of Germany has given to the Communist Party, to start the proletarian revolution, to sweep the reactionary capitalists out of power and install a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government, a Soviet government of Germany. Hence the capitalist-social-democratic government is doing everything in its power to terrorize the workers, and therefore is attacking its most revolutionary section, the Communist Party. Every day brings reports of the arrest of Communist editors, leaders, and functionaries. Every day the world learns of the brutal attacks of the police and gendarmes on workers’ meetings. Blood is flowing in Germany, while the Communists are locked up, unknown to their friends, subjected to the /third degree,” beaten up and even killed in prison. There is a second reason for this brutal offensive against the German working cla: With the aid of the reactionary capitalist government of the United States, through the infamous Dawes Reparation Plan, the Hours are being leng- thened, wages are being reduced, hundreds of thousands of workers are being thrown into the streets to starve In the cold of winter. Using the excuse of the necessary of raising the reparations, the German capital- ists are demanding cheaper and bigger production. They have saddled the working class and poor peasants of Germany with the burden of pay- ing the reparégtions, jwhile they themselves accumulate millions and bil- lions of profits. The wages that the German workers receive cannot keep them alive. Tens of thousands of women are driven into prostitu- tion, the workers’ children are pale and undernourished. For six years, the German workers have struggled against the capitalist-social-demo- cratic coalition and today are approaching the point of rebellion. The Communist Party is mobilizing the working class and the poor peasants of Germany against the capitalists. During the coming winter, the German workers will face tremendous, bloody struggles against the capitalist regime. They will have to face not only the brutal government forces and the German Fascisti, but the force of the capitalist governments of the world united under the banner of the Dawes Reparation Plan. Not intimidated by this savage array of power, the Communists are raising AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHERTY. (Continued from Page 1.) the latter had fallen for a tory plot While it}which was so crude that a ten-year- Friday, November 21, 1924 SN Vt) RARER AAAI, the Red Flag’ of Revolution. They have proclaimed that only the prole- tarian revolution will save the German workers from complete degreda- tion. Their aim is the establishment of a Soviet Government and unity with Soviet Russia against the reactionary capitalist world. 2 The capitalist-social-democratic government of Germany, aided by the capitalist governments of the world, thinks it can stop this mass revolt of the German workers by terrorizing their leader, the Communist Party. In their fears as to the outcome fo the elections in December and of the coming struggles, they are trying to disorganize the working class. So- olal-democratic ministers and chiefs of police issue orders for the arrest of Communists and revolutionary workers. In this offensive, the social- democratic leaders of the trade unions are giving them full assistance. These treacherous Jeaders refuse to conduct a struggle against the lower Ing of wages; they have consented to the lengthening of hours. But the Communists and revolutionary workers continue the fight and will not cease till they have attained victory. Workers of America! Show your solidarity with the struggling German workers! Raise your voice of protest against these brutal attacks on the German working class. Let your German comrades and fellow-work- ers know that in this fight against the barbarous capitalist regime you will stand by them! Demand the release of the 7,000 revolutionary work- ers who.are languishing in. German prisons, tortured by the capitalist regime!» Call meetings of protest.and demonstration! Send resolutions of sympathy and solidarity to the German workers, for that will hearten them in their fight! Workers of America! Remember that the capitalist offensive against the German workers is only part of a grand offensive of the capitalist class against the workers all over the world. The British workers sent delegations to the British Labor Government to protest against the Dawes Reparation. Plan—-but Ramsay MacDonald turned them down. The Belgian and the French workers have protested against the Dawes Plan, for they recognize-in it a method of reducing the pay and lengthening the hours of the French and Belgian workers. Workers of America! Do not think that you will be spared. The capitalists of America have already declared that the workers of America must work longer and cheaper if they wish to keep their jobs. They have declared that the ‘trade unions must be destroyed. They make the excuse that the German workers are accepting terms that make the competition of Amefican ‘industry impossible. The international capital- ist class, with Coolidge and Dawes at its head, has declared war on the workers, The German workers, weakened by six years of struggle, are to be the first victims. In your own interest, therefore you must organize. Strengthen the» trade unions! Every worker who does not belong to a trade union must join. Amalgamte your unions into powerful, rev- olutionary industrial unions! Link up your unions with the only fighting revolutionary trade unlon movement of the world, the Red International of Labor Unions. Prepare for the fight by joining the only body of workers and poor farmers of America that openly, militantly conducts the fight against the capitalist class-and the capitalist government—the Workers (Conmtmunist) Party. € Now it is time to act. Now is the time to show your sol'darity. Now is the time to strengthen the international revolutionary movement, to prepare for the struggle against the international capitalists and cap- rnments and for the establishment of a Soviet Government— a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government—in the United States. Demand the release of the 7,000 German class war prisoners! Demand the release of revolutionary workers and peasants confined ‘In the prisons of all capitalist countries and of the colonies. Protest against the Dawes Reparation Plan, which is to enslave the workers of the whole world! Organize to resist wage-cuts and “open-shop” drives! Fight for the relief of the unemployed! : Break with the small capitalists of the LaFollete movement and port of the Workers (Communist) Party! a Soviet Government of the workers and poor farmers against the international capitalist class. a Central Executive Committee WORKERS PARTY OF AMERICA, William Z. Foster, National Chairman. 4 “6, &, Ruthenberg, Executive Secretary. PROLETARIAN STATESMANSHIP Editor's Note.—Every day until. publication ‘has been completed, the DAILY WORKER will publish a new chapter from “the book, “Len- - f wa stateman, because he always busied himself with the problem of revolu- tion, and themselves they consider realists because they advocate the idea of gradually transforming bour- } old youth could see thru it. The MeVittie biscuits and endowed motor car did not help any, they pointed out. A man with $150,000 worth of shares in his jeans was not such a pauper, and many workers were darned if is true that members of the lower clergy have at times been ecuted and imprisoned, there is: record of high church dignitaries meeting with indignity at the hands of that gov- these states; (8) insists that this issue shall be on the agenda at every important union conven- tion, particularly the state federations; (4) ad- vocates mass meetings and demonstrations for in: The Great Strategist of the Class War,” by A. Losovsky, secre- tary of the Red International of Labor Unions, “‘Theéighth chapter is entitled, “Proletarian organized, in the United States. geois society along the lines of evelu- ” es tion, But these “great realists” be- came tools in the hands of the bourge- fois politicians after the war, while Lenin the “irrational statesman” be- Business Unionism public demand for release; (5) support to be given financially to defend workers in courts and to give wide publicity. The American trade union movement, as typi- fied by the American Federation of Labor, is of- ficially committed to the policy of class collabora- ernment for hundred of years. they could see where MacDonald was any more of a proletarian than Stan- ley Baldwin. Workers who have heard ees 'N his invaluable little book “Labor, Nationality and Religion,” James The 44th annual convention is now meeting at El Paso. From reports it seems to be one unre lieved picture of reaction. If so, so much the worse for the workers rotting in prison or on the road from the factory to the prison. But by its stand the workers shall know the character of the “leader- ship” of the American labor movement. the burglar. tion, which is based on the theory that the interests of the workers can best be served by co-operation on their part with the capitalists in the running of industry. This is just like saying that the best interests of a burglar’s victim can be conserved by assisting in the process of transferring his cash to MacDonald compete with Baldwin in respectability chose the~ older . and more reliable brand. e+ * Bled editor of the New Leader of Britain, cannot refrain from dig- ging his fountain pen into the ribs of his leader over the bungling of the Connolly places a valuable fund of in- formation on the relations of.the cath- otic church with the British govern- ment on the Irish question, at our dis- posal. Not many people are aware that the noted Irish seminary, May- nooth College, was founded on a Brit- ish grant and sustained by British goverment subsidies, Richard Lalor ee ENIN was a foremost statesman. ‘What does this mean? Accord- ing to his own definition a statesman is one wh understands how to man- oeuver with with millions of people, who is capable of estimating correct- ly the mutual relations of social class ship.” came the most dangerous opponent of the bourgeoisie and the leader of mil- lions of toilers who have risen against their masters. , Immediately after October revolu- tion Lenin was charged by all petty bourgeois socialists with being an ad- venturer, But this “adventurer” proved by his deeds which side the es, who can detect the weak spots injreal power was on. The “realists” his enemy's armor and who knows|among the Social-Revolutionists and how to make. effective the strongest|Mensheviks have simply missed the Zinoviev forgery. The British social- ists do not seem to have sunk to the depth of depravity the American var- importance of the great change that has taken place in human life, They Strong international unions—strong financially if not numerically—have gone into business on a Sheil, the noted orator congratulating Pitt on the new British policy toward Strikebreakers Quarrel have even failed to notice that the Warren 8. Stone made the mistake of not taking| large scale. They were going to solve the economic "sand, declared in the house of com-|iety have descended to. While, even masses have turned their backs on } out a card in the Strikebreakers’ Union, a synonym| problem by turning the workers into capitalists, mony c st 2500 British educated Irish the capitalist press, after the first tojthem. Lenin was the greatest states. priests could maintain order in Ire- land more effectively and cheaper than several thousand British troops. He was right. Cardinal Logue was ‘8 outburst, admitted that the thing looked like a plot, we find the New Leader of New York, organ of Morris Hillquit, saying that “it is in line with frequent manifestoes of the head of Communist International . . .” ee create a conérete and practical pro- gram of action calculated to bring to gether the. ‘king class with its ' the . man of our age. He has proven this standing at the helm of the greatest state in the world, by the exceptional mh flexibility of the Russian Communist Party whose leader and creator h, was, for the official bureaucracy of the American Fed- eration of Labor. Had be done so, the spectacle of John L, Lewis and George L. Berry, defending trade unionism against Stone would not amuse the capitalist reporters at the El Pago conven- and thus remove all class distinctions. But a cap- italist is a capitalist whether he carries a “anion” card or not. The main result of the banking and other busi- ness ventures of the labor unions is that the leaders The grand dukes of the A. F. of L. are strikebreakers. have become bankers and the workers brokers, | which means in the vernacular that they are about EADERS of the British labor par- IR JAMES O'GRADY thinks King ty are looking around for scape George is a nice fellow. He is, The DAILY WORKER has already dealt fully with Stone’s perfidious conduct toward the miners who worked his so-called union collieries. Suffice it to say that he refised to recognize the United Mine Workers of America and has armed guards his scabs in his Kentucky mines. This ‘@ most disgraceful situation. “broke.” = ele Se HE EE: capitalist out of business. The workers can never emancipate themselves one by one. It must be a collective job and cannot be done by going into business, but by: putting the When a police officer announces that. he cannot goats to blame their fall from office on, As was to be expected they hop on the Communists. “If the Commun- ists were not so radical, the tories would not be able to pass off the ‘Zi- The fact that MacDonald was licked did not make a particle of difference to the king or to Sir James, latter is a prominent member of labor party. On November 4, BE? EE ret noviev forgery,’” they bleat. Their so-| y, Buck- lution of the problem is that the Com- een aad ma- munist Party should disband. Quite not generous. The mensheviks of Russia A resolution was introduced at the El Paso|solve a crime puzzle, he is in poor health. Chief convention denouncing Stone for his anti-union action. It should be passed. But it is a sight for the gods to see John L. Lewis and George L. Berry f up as the champions of trade unionism. Berry, head of the pressmen, has broken two New York strikes with the aid of stri de- teetives and the. newspaper publishers. Yet after| breaking the latest New York strike he was given a ovation at the Portland convention of the A. F. Collins was as silent as a clam since O’Bannion did outsideXof stating that the dead gentleman, who was on Such good terms with Robert E, Crowe and Chief of Detectives Michael Hughes, had twen- ty-five notches on his gat. The newfound loqua- ciousness of the chief is comforting. Every day get a “sub” for the DAILY WORKER and a member for the Workers Party. need a, the right direction while sheviks went the other way. are atill going. fiat? att i : z Ee gf i eee J Tomorrow — “Critical and Rea istic.” PLAN TAG DAYS 1 NEW YORK CITY FOR SILK STRIKE RELIEF _ (Special to the Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Nov. 20—Tag days will here Saturday and Sun- day for the benefit of the Paterson silk strikers, the New York Pater- & ni if ~