The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 24, 1924, Page 4

Page Four THE DAILY WORKER RED RELIEF OF GERMANY SENDS ITS GREETINGS AND CALLS FOR UNITED FIGHT ON DAWES PLAN (Special to The Dally Worker) BERLIN, Nov. 28.—The conference of the Red Relief of Ger- many, which has recently taken place in Berlin, sends its revo- lutionary greetings to the American working class and calls on all American workers to unite with the German workers.in a fight on the Dawes plan. The letter, which denounces the enslavement of the German — workers by J. P. Morgan, and calls on the workers of both Germany and America to fight the Wall Street bankers and the Dawes plan, follows: To the Red Aid in America. Dear Comrades:—The conference of the Red Relief of Germany which took place in Berlin on October 26, conveys to you, the revolutionary workers of America, its fraternal greetings. The conference takes place at a time when German reaction pre- pares itself for new attacks against the revolutionary vanguari of the German working class. Tens of thou- sands of trials ugainst revolutionary workers, 7000 political prisoners with thousands of years of hard labor and jail are the result of the struggle of German class justice against the revo- lutionary working class. The German bourgeoisie, in co-op- eration with the German social-democ- Tracy, does all in its power to break the growing resistance of the German proletariat against the slave agree- ment of Dawes. It attempts at pres- ent, by brutal persecutions during the election campaign, to suppress the voice of the revolutionary working class {n the Morgan reichstag. With regard to these facts the American workers must bear in mind that a defeat of the German working class in its struggle against the Dawes’ plan will lead to the oppression and the pauperization of the American, the international working class. The misery in which the best fighters of the German working class find them- selves thru the attacks of the Ger man bourgeoisie, is indescribable. However, the German bourgeoisie has not succeeded in destroying the mili- tant spirit which inspires ever larger masses of the German working class. They have realized the significance of the struggle for the liberation of the victims of bourgeois class justice and have joined in great masses the or- ganization of the Red Relief of Ger- many, which is growing continuous- ly. The German workers have made great material sacrifices for the Red Relief. However, the support of the victims of class justice and their fam- ilies was only possible by the active assistance of the Interfational Red Relief. Appeal to American Workers. The conference appeals to the Amer- ican workers whose bourgeoisie has become the master of the enslaved German working class, to prove their international solidarity with the Ger- man workers. The American revolu- tionary workers have experienced on their own bodies the brutal and sys- tematic blows of American class jus- tice and Fascism and of the American Legion and the Ku Klux Kian. At present the German and the American workers are confronted with the ter- ribie danger that the brutality of the German white terror is united with the determination and strength of the American bourgeoisie. The German and the American proletariat are now confronted with a common enemy. We must resist in common to the blows of our common enemy. Support our great struggle and we will support yours! Follow the example of the comrades im the Soviet Union and form a large and firm mass organization of the Red Relief. Our experiences have taught us that only by such an organiza- tion can a continuous and systematic support of the class war prisoners and their families be guaranteed. In the struggle against your own class jus- fice and against international white terror, such a membership organiza- tion of the broadest masses of the workers and farmers is imperatively necessary. You must begin imme- diately the establishment of the Amer- jean Red Relief and win for it the masses of the American workers and farmers and their organizations (par- ty and youth organizations, co-opera- tive societies, farmer organizations, sport clubs, etc.) Long live the solidarity of the Ger- man and the American working clas’. Long live the Red Relief of Ameri- cal Pee ee TTT TTT TTT I Dr. S. ZIMMERMAN gf DENw Tris MY NEW LOCATION batho X-Ray to Gas Workers Given ESTABLISH) 12 YEARS, My Examination Is Free My Prices Are Reasonable My Work Is Guaranteed Extracting Specialist ul DELAY MEANS DECAY J se oa ener | Party Activities Of Local Chicago Monday, Nov. 24. N. W. Jewish, 2642 LeMoyne Ave. 19th Ward Italian, 1103 S. Loomis St. Cicero Italian, 1402 S. 50th Ct. Czecho-Slovak membership meeting, 25th and Homan Sts., Novak's Place. Tuesday, Nov. 25. Roumanian Branch, 2250 Clybourn Ave. Ukrainian No. 1, 1532 W. Chicago Ave. N. W. English, 2783 Hirsch Blvd. Irving Park English, 4021 Drake Ave. Thursday, Nov. 27. Labor Defense Bazaar, Workers Ly- ceum. Finnish Branch, Imperial Hall, 2409 N. Halsted street. South Side English, 3201 8. Wabash avenue. Karl Marx Scandinavian, 2733 Hirsch Boulevard. Russian No. 1, 1902 W. Division St. llth Ward Italian, 2439 S. Oakley Blvd. 3ist Ward Italian, 511 N. Sangamon St. 8 ities English, Emmet Memorial Scandinavian West Side, Zeich’s Hall, corner Cicero and Superior St. Friday, Nov. 28. Scandinavian So. Chicago, 641 E. Gist street. RASA LLC Tea YOUNG WORKERS LEAGUE, LOCAL CHICAGO. Monday, Nov. 24. City Executive Committee meeting, 8 DP. m., 166 W. Washington St. Literature agents’ meeting, 8 p. m., 166 W. Washington St. Tuesday, Nov. 25. City Central Committee meeting, 2613 Hirsch Blvd. ° Wednesday, Nov. 26. Browder’s Class“in Elementary Eco- nomics, 2613 Hirsch Blvd. Thursday, Nov. 27. Bazaar, Workers Lyceum. Friday, Nov. 28. Subject for discussion: “Seasonal Em- ployment and Low Wages in the Mail Order Houses.” Area Branch No. 1—166 W. Washing- ton St. Peter Herd, speaker. Area Branch No. 2—722 Blue Island avenue. Area Branch No. 3—3142 S. ‘al: ‘St. John Edwards, speaker. meet Area. Branch No. 4—3322 ugia: . Oliver Carlson, speaker. tytn Area Branch No. 5—820 N. Clark St. Area Branch No. 6—2613 Hirsch’ Blvd. John Williamson, speaker, Birthday Gifts: to Politicals Prisoners Should Be Sent Now Birthdays in December of political prisoners confined in various state in- stitutions in America are announced by the Workers’ National Prison Com- fort Club, 2923 Chestnut street, Mil- waukee, Wis., as follows: At San Quentin Prison, San Quen- tin, Cal.: December 2, Roy Carter, Reg. No. 38533; December 7, Jim Roe, No. 35785; December 9, Tom Mooney; De- cember 9, Chas. Andrews, No. 38107; December 16, C. F, McGrath, No. 87702; December 20, Henry Matlin, No. 35717. At Box No. 32, Huntsville, Texas: December 5, J. M. Rangel. At Box No. 58, Boise, Idaho: December 15, A. S. Embree, At Represa, Cal., Folsom Prison: December 15, John Hisa, No. 12556: How to Send Gifts. Cora Meyer, national secretary, in- vites friends and sympathizers to send birthday cards and letters (money is advisable for gifts) to these Political prisoners. Books and publications to be sent directly from the publishers. G. J. Terrell writes from San Quen- tin, “I would not change places with a good many people I know on the out- side. If the price isn’t too high, it’s worth the price of admission. One hasn't lived unless he has spent some part of his time in prison.’ Ben Whittling writes, “December 11 I shall be out. No longer in the scope of your splendid work; as one of the beneficiaries permit me to thank you for the time and interest you have given in all these long years in behalf of the working class pris- oners. Without the knowledge of the good will of the large groups and the comfort derived from their remem- brances, ‘life’ here would have been drab indeed.” Next Sunday Night and Every Sun- day Night, the Open Forum, NEW LIGHTS ON CHINA! A most interesting interview with a great figure in the affairs of this country in “A Visit with Sun Yat Sen” By Alfred Wagenknecht. You can enjoy it in ber issue of the MONTHLY. the Decem- WORKERS South Slavic No, 1, 1806 S. Racine Ave. | ANNA LERNER AT LAST GETS PERMISSION 10 RETURN 10 THE U. S. WASHINGTON.—Director Dough- ton of the visa office in the state department has been compelled to eable instructions to the American consul at Riga to issue a visa to Mrs. Anna Lerner, who has been held up in Russia for the past 15 months at the whim of this arro- gant official and with the complai- sant approval of Secy. Hughes. Mrs. Lerner came to America from Russia as a little child, and returned there when 19 years old as an office worker for the Kuzbas colony. She married an American- born-war veteran who was in Rus- sia on a trip, and she attempted to return home. She was informed by the consul at Riga that she could not get an American visa, tho she could speak no language, but English and had no home ex- cept in the United States. Her crime was that of being considered radical. GERMAN PRISONS HORROR CELLS FOR POLITICALS Families Suffer Poverty and Persecution The brutalities committed by the police of Germany in the name of law and order read like a list of barbar- ities. perpetrated in the medieval chamber of torture. The Modern Inquisition. In the city of Muenster the police beat into insanity a worker, Heimburg by name, He had to be transferred to an insane asylum. In Ulm, Christian Reich, laborer, was brutally treated to the point of death. A request to have him trans- ferred to the hospital was answered by the prison doctor with the occusa- tion that the prisoner was cnly simu- lating. Two days after, Re‘ch died in terrible agony. Fritz Neubacher, a machinist in Schwerin, was held in prison without any specific indictment. He was mis- treated until deathly sick. Transfer to a hospital was denied. Neubacher was driven to suicide. In the same city of Schwerin, the laborer Kummer- feld was imprisoned, accused of at- tempt to murder. Cruelties brought Kummerfeld to the point of death. Transfer to a hospital was not permit- ted and suicide ended his sufferings. After his death the district attorney declared that no evidence existed against Kummerfeld, but that he was kept in prison for his unwelcome pol- itical beliefs. Thousands Imprisoned Daily. These are only a few of the thou- sands of cases which occur under the guise of law and order in Germany. Thousands of workers are imprisoned and each day more are added. Law and order in Germany could be regarded as a joke were it not such a grim reality for those unfortu- nates who fall into its clutches. First the ruling classes pushed the workers into the slaughter of the world war. Objection to the war was a major crime. Now oppositions to misery which resulted from the war becomes a major crime. Women and Children Starve. Mothers,, wives and children of the imprisoned are starving, hounded by the police and refused work. Concern for their beloved ones outside of pris- on increases the sufferings of those workers inside of prison. These workers buried in the hell-holes of Ebertist prisons, their starving and suffering wives, children and mothers, appeal for help to the workers of the world. International Red Aid organ- izes this help. SEND YOUR CON. TRIBUTIONS to the American section —International Workers Aid, 19 §. Lincoln street, Chicago, Ill. Report of Fifth Congress of C. I. Joint meeting, North Side English and Finnish branches, Monday, De- cember 1, 8 p. m., to hear report on the Fifth Congress of the Commu- nist International by Wiiam F. Dunne. The meeting will be open to everyone and all workers are in- vited. It will be held at Imperial Hall, 2409 North Halsted street. Swabeck Speaks Tuesday. District Organizer Arne Swabeck, will speak on the tactics of the Communist International at the edu- cational meeting of North West English branch, on Tuesday, Nov. 25, at 8 p.m. All branch members the Workers’ Lyceum, 2733 Hirsch Bivd. SP. LEADER IS NOW MEMBER OF WORKERS PARTY Was Member of N.E.C. of Socialist Party Comrade Albert Weisbord, former member of the nation- al executive committee of the socialist party, secretary-organ- izer of the New England dis- trict, national secretary of the young people’s socialist league, and national director of the young people’s department of the socialist party, has been ex- tended the right hand of Com- munist fellowship by the New England Workers Party mem- bers. “Iam convinced that Comrade Weisbord is in thoro agreement with the principle, policies and statutes of the Communist International and its American section, the Workers’ Party,” says John J. Ballam, organ- izer of district 1, Boston, of the Workers’ Party. “I have a high re- gard for his personal integrity and revolutionary purpose and I am con- yinced ‘that Comrade Weisbord can be of the greatest service to our party and the American working class, “In the name of the Workers’ Party I extended to Comrade Weis- bord the right hand of Communist fellowship and have assured him of a comradely welcome to our ranks.” Weisbord States His Position. Boston, Mass., Nov. 20, 1924. To Whom It May Concern: This is to inform you that I have resigned from the socialist party. The members of a revolutionary party must be clear in their own minds, regardless of what may be told the workers, as to the means by which the socialist revolution will be brot about. The theoretical position of the socialist party, es- sentially legalistic and pacifist, pre- vents those who join from following the foremost principle of the revo- lution, namely the principle which recognizes the probability, nay the inevitability of the use of force or the threat of force as the sole pol- litical method of the masses in bringing about the revolution. The members cannot see, consequently, the great meaning of democratic centralization and discipline within the party and the great strength of the slogan: All Power to the So- viets. Further, even were the theoreti cal position of the socialist party essentially sound, the rank oppor tunism of the leaders and the milch- cow inactivity of the members dem- onstrate that the socialist party does not put its theories into prac- tice. It is impossible for the so- cialist party actually to live up to revolutionary theories for its gen- eral membership and leadership, when analyzed, belong ideologically and economically to the’ petite bour- geoisie. In this connection it gives me pleasure to note how few young or active members, generally, the so- cialist party has acquired. Sooner or later the few militant ones who do remain must see the futility of their work within the socialist party. I am convinced that at pres- ent there is but one revolutionary party here and that is the Workers’ (Communist) Party of America. To those who have been so kind to me in the movement a further word is due. It is very difficult to break old ties. My full activity in the socialist party began in 1920. after the Communist split had oc- curred. Consequently it was not my privilege to hear the arguments or to take part in the fight. It is not my fault that I was not en- lightened as to the true principles of the Communist International and of Lenin, its leader. It is not my fault that I had to dig out for myself, in a painfully slow and la- borious way, the conclusions that I have now reached, The socialist party failed here in education, as eleswhere in politics. I can but say that, disillusioned and determined, I hasten now to rectify my mistake. Long live the Workers’ (Com- munist) Party of America! Albert Weisbord. Former secretary-organizer, so- cialist party, New England district; former national secretary young peoples’ socialist 1 and nation- al director young peoples’ dept. so- clalist party. DELHI, India—The Indian nationa) congress, around which the fight of British Indians for dominion status in the British empire has been focus- ing, meets late in December. _ SS [ POLISH PEASANTS IN RUSSIA MOSCOW, Oct. 25.—(By Mail.)—In spite of the fact that the Russian- Polish border was so drawn as to give Poland large sections of Russian pulation, there are also a few Polish vill own national conferences in thelr own language. At a recent meeting of jes In Russia, These have their delegates from several villages they adopted resolutions condemning the execution in Lodz of the Communist boy Engel, and the murder in Warsaw of the worker Vialy. ee SOCIALIST PARTY PINS LAURELS ON WEISBORD; MAY ROAST HIM NOW The Milwaukee Leader of Nov, 21, over the press service of the national office of the socialist party: signed. |were the amazingly industrious trio |that was responsible for a splendidly |efficient and effective campaign is the five states under their jurisdiction— |National Office Press Service.” RUSSIAN CHURCH CLASH CARRIED TO N.Y, COURT Hibben and ! McCullagh Opposing Witnesses NEW YORK, Nov. 23.—Captain Pax- ton Hibben of the U. S. army reserve gave a set back to the anti-Russian propaganda of Captain Francis McCul- lagh in the court room of Justice Ford where both appeared at witnesses in litigation brot by Bishop Kedrovsky, claiming to represent the “Living Church” of Russia and suing for the possession of the entire Russian Greek catholic church property of Am- erica. “Consience was never so free in Russia as today,” said Hibben ans- wering. McCullagh. Replying to McCullagh’s testimony which talked luridly of executions of priests and bishops in Russia Hibben declared that the only priest put to death there was Mgr. Butkevitz, for high treason and the use of money for counter-revolutionary purposes when Russian and Poland were at war. Captain Hibben studied Russian conditions while representing the Am- erican committee for the relief of Rus: sia, of which Cardinal O'Connell, Rab- bi Wise and leading protestants were members. An attempt was recently made by reactionary army elements to oust him for his liberal opinions but no ac- tion has yet been taken as the result |of an official inquiry. Captain McCul- lagh, formerly a British secret service jagent in Russia, later served out anti- Russian stories to the readers of the New York Herald from his offices in Warsaw. He is visiting America on a lecture trip. Bishop Kedrovsky charges the metropolitan and other representa- tives of the Russian church here il- legally used church resources for Den- iken and other nmiilitary invaders of the homeland and declares that the present American church officials are no longer authorized by the home church. Amalgamation for Employers. HARTFORD, Conn., Nov. 23. usi- ‘ness must be brought together. in con- solidations and trusts,” is Edward A. Filene’s message to the convention of New England district associated ad- vertising clubs. “People must re-or- ganize their ideas of big business,” Filene believes. “Mass production and mass distribution are coming in every country.” Filene wants adver- tising to “educate the public to the vital principle” of mass production. Open Forum, Sunday Night, Lodge Room, Ashland Auditorium. RUBBER STAMPS AND SEALS IN ENGLISH AND IN ALL| FOREIGN LANGUAGES INK. PADS, DATERS, RUBBER TYPE,Erc, NOBLER STAMP & SEAL CO. 524 So. Dearborn Street Phone Wabash 6680 wai iCAGO ORDERS PROMPTLY PITTSBURGH, PA. DR. RASNICK DENTIST rh Rendering eons, Dental Service Wir CaMTm AVE, coat AgE How to Be Healthy DR. TAFT 1655 West Roosevelt Road published the following item sent out! “Albert Weisbord has been elected) district secretary of the New England | jstates to succeed Helena Turitz, re- | Weisbord, Turitz and Lewis | RENT RAISE SEES TENANT STRIKE | IN GAPITOL SITY |Landlord Calls Strikers “Piain Bolsheviks” (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 23— The tenants of Clifton Terrace, an apartment house of several hundred rooms, who have been holding meet- ings in the lobby of the. apartment house, still refuse to pay the exhorbi- tant increase in rent demanded by Joseph Low, owner of the building. Low has issued a statement, calling the protest meetings in the lobby “bolshevik mobs with conduct tending ty rights and Communism.” Low ad- vised the tenants to buy the building, altho he refused to divulge the own- er’s name. Demand New Rent Law. The Tenants’ League is demanding a new rent law. They have posted notices in the lobby of the apartment which declare: “I, We propose to draft a rent law based upon the necessity of protect- ing government employes and other tenants who are victims of financial exploitation. “2. We propose to call upon con- gress to pass this law at its session in December. “3. We propose to continue to fight this insidious rent inflation which has begun since the war and which will continue in an ever rising tide thruout the entire land unless it is unrooted in the hotbed of its birth, the District of Columbia. “Stick and We'll Win.” “4. It was reported that tenants would be ‘bought off with a small re- duction of the adyanced rental’ and that many tenants were signing leases at the advanced rate. “Let us hope that all tenants will stand back of their committee and Move out rather than sign the lease move out rather than sign the lease your letter demanding the increase to any member of your committee. Stand by your guns. The battle is on. Let none desert. We are bound to win.” More Than 7,000 in Textile Industry to Be Hit by Wage Cut BOSTON, Noy. 23.— Maine cotton mill manufacturers are rubbing it into the workers since the election of Cool: idge and Dawes. Ten per cent wage cuts are posted in the Pepperell, York, Bates, Edwards, Androscoggin, Cabot, Hill, Continental, Lewiston Bleachery and Dana warp mills, says news reach- ing here. More than 7,000 operatives are affected. The mills posting the reduction represent a capitalization of nearly $25,000,000 and operate nearly @ million spindles, New England textile unionists are following the news of the American Federation of Labor in El Paso, where the United Textile Workers are ex- pected to be promised aid in combat: ing the lower wage scales now going into effect in New England states. vere WORKER. ical well-bei You. can use Get an ad for THE ‘Times printed. to mob violence, disregard of proper- | Employment agencies, fake Labor . susalessions, "ponent medicines, books and periodicals opposing the workers’ interests—anything that is not good for the mental or phys- of the person who works for a living—can find no place in our pages. ... _ BUT We will accept—and to our mutual benefit—advertisements that every worker can secure from’ those whom he patronizes— The doctor, dentist, book-shop and F others. And we'll gladi ads for any meetings or socials of a Labor organization. your wer to aid in building for work- a class power if . “Paste This in Your Bonnet” Less than 3 days a week—for 3 months.. Every day—3 months or MOTO. sssrssssree Monday, November 24, 1924 ~ See Sreearrrmcormonemeera ‘DEFECTIVE EQUIPMENT ON SCAB RAILROAD WAS CAUSE OF FATAL WRECK ST. LOUIS.—Engineer William Ji Ogan, Misosuri. Pacific, denies re . sponsibility for the headon collis- = ion of two passenger trains at Syra-~ | cuse, Mo., when 44 passengers were injured and an engineer killed. ‘ Ogan maintains the wreck was due to faulty air-brakes. After the col- lision Ogan inspected his train and found the angle-cock on the first car partly closed by vibration of the air pipes. With this cock closed the brakes could not be applied. This adds another fatility to the Missouri © Pacific, whose repair shops are still manned by strikebreakers. The shopmen’s strike of 1922 has never been settled. The railroad faces. a multitude of damage suits for in- juries to passengers in wrecks. In most cases experienced rallroaders give as their opinion that the disas- ters were the fruits of defective equipment. CANADIAN BANKS MERGED SINCE THE WORLD WAR Bankers Spent $100,000 to Protect ‘‘Rights” (By The Federated Press) VANCOUVER, B. C., Nov. 23.—“The concentration of Canadian wealth since the war has been astounding and today nearly three-quarters of the money on deposit in Canadian banks is held by four banking houses. Ten years ago there were 34 chartered banks in Canada; one year ago 17 were in existence and today this num- ber has been reduced to 13.” These facts concerning the control of Can- ada’s money power were made public by J. 8S. Woodworth, leader of the labor party in the Canadian house of commons while on a speaking tour of the Pacific coast. Woodsworth declared that $100,000 was spent by the Canadian Bankers’ Assn. to prevent the introduction of federal legislation interfering with their pilfering perogatives. Attempt was made by the labor group in the federal house to secure government inspection of banking books, but the government was completely sub- servient to the big business interests fot Canada and refused to countenance any change. One result of the government's at- titude on the question of banking regu- lations was the alignment of a larger labor group in the dominion house of commons, Woodsworth stated. Several members of the house, who had been elected as progressives and had be- come disgusted with the way the pro- gressive party truckled to the govern- ment, went over to the labor group and increased its number to 10. Next Sunday Night and Every Sun- day Night, the Open Forum. 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