The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 1, 1924, Page 2

Page Two THE DAILY WORKER UNITED FRONT CALL ISSUED BY WORKERS PARTY Big War on Exploitation of Children Starts (Continued from page 1) of your school children; (f) Don’t rely upon the lobbying of the legislative committees of the Gompers’ machine; (g) Don’t rely upon the C. P. P, A. and La¥Follette; (h) Organize your own strength in a united front of workers and poor farmers and fight for your demands; (1) Join and sup- port the Workers Party; (j) The child labor amendment is meaningless with- out government maintenance of the school children of workers and poor farmers. Organizing the United Front. 1. Local united front conferences te combat exploitation of child labor, these conferences to consist of organ- izations of labor and poor farmers. 2. Special effort should be made to draw into these conferences organiza- tions of working class women, youth organizations, and especially organiza- tions of poor farmers. 8 The call for these conferences should be issued by the local organiza- tion of the Workers Party in conjune- tion with sympathetic labor organiza- tions. 4. The date of issuing call for the conferences will depend upon whether sufficient agitation has been raised in favor of such a campaign. We must guard against premature calling of such conferences. 5. The central executive commit- tee must be kept informed regularly, by weekly reports, on the develop- ment of the campaign in each locality. Planning the Propaganda. I. The Duty of Press. 1. Start displaying every news item bearing on child labor. 2. Popularize our demands as out- lined in “Policy” and criticize child la- bor amendment in the light of our demands. 3. Urge the necessity of united front action by workers and poor farm- ers. 4, Emphasize futility of relying up- on A. F. of L. legislative committees aid C. P. P. A. petty bourgeois polli- cies. 5. Urge the joining of and support to the Workers Party. Pamphlets to Be Issued. The following pamphlets should be published: 1. A pamphlet describing the brutal- ity of child labor exploitation. 2. A pamphlet describing and prov- ing the effect of child labor upon the physical wellbeing of the working class. Preferably written by a doctor. 3. A pamphlet describing the effect of child labor upon wages, hours, unions and general standard of liv- ing of the adults. 4. A pamphlet showing the criminal negligence of the Gompers and C. P. P. A. crowds to fight child labor ex- Ploitation. 6. A special pamphlet to the poor farmers showing how they must be fterested in combatting child labor and in securing government mainten- ance of their school children. 6. A pamphlet showing how child labor is breaking up the working class family. This especially for working class women to be written preferably by a woman. 7. The Research Department should immediately prepare the necessary material for these pamphlets. The educational committee will assign the writing of these pamphlets. Put Labor on Record. A resolution should be drafted giv- ing expression to our policy in this campaign and calling upon the work- ers and their organizations to go on record as favoring a united front cam- paign along the lines of policy as outlined above. This resolution is to be introduced in all labor and poor farmers’ organizations later on when the ground will have been prepared for such action by our agitation. Greek-Bulgarian Relations Strained. ATHENS, Nov. 30.— Relations be tween Greece and Bulgaria were strained today following the assassina- tion of a number of Greeks at Stani- maka, Bulgaria. The Greek govern- ment dispatched a stern note to Bul- garia and received a promise the as- sussins would be punished. New York Workers’ School. Register Now—208 E. 12th St. — “SOCIALIST” LA GUARDIA FINALLY DECIDES HE IS JUST PLAIN PROGRESSIVE (Speclal to The Dally Worker) WASHINGTON, Nov. 30.—Floratlo LaGuardia, representative from the 20th district of New York, is de- manding of the house that he listed as a progressive, iand not as a soclalist, altho he was elected to office by running on the socialist ticket. LaGuardia has changed party “affillations” more than once during the course of the election campaign. In the primaries, he was a candi- date on the republican ticket. De- feated there, he had himself certified as a member of the socialist party. The secretary of state of New York did the certifying, and in this wa LaGuardia became a member of thi socialist party thru endorsement of democratic officials. His expense accounts for the campaign were listed under socialist accounts. At least one expense account had the word “progressive” crossed out and the word “socialist” written in. CALLES 1S NOW MEXICAN SATRAP OF IMPERIALISM Gompers Is Present As He Takes Over Power (Special to The Daily Worker) MEXICO CITY, Nov. 30,—Today at noon the office of president of the) Mexican republic was turned over to General Plutarco Elias Calles, by Gen- eral Obregon, the retiring president. By this ceremony, which took place in great pomp at the national stadium, the nominally independent satrapy of American imperialism which lies south of the Rio Grande, was deliver- ed from one satrap to another. Gompers Shies at Soviet Diplomat. The occasion was marked by the presence of many Americans, led by the American Federation of Labor and the American chamber of commerce. Sammy Gompers was quite at home in the midst of American bankers and capitalists and only appeared nervous when it was necessary to pass by the diplomatic body where sat Ambassa- dor Petkowski representing the Soviet republic of workers and peasants of revolutionary Russia. The Pan-American Federation of Labor will open here on December 5, and the officials of the A. F. of L. wre awaiting its opening. A Real Guy to Do This. Obregon, the retiring president, is hailed as having at one and the same ‘ime “secured the triumph of the principles of the revolution” and also as having “created a national senti- ment against revolution.” 1. C. C. Quits Rate Hearing. WASHINGTON, Nov. 30.—The in- terstate commerce commission today discontinued proceedings under which the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad company proposed to in- crease rates on grain and related ar- ticles from Des Moines, Iowa, to Cairo, IIL, via the East St. Louis and the St. Louis-Southwestern Railway. Entire Finnish Cabinet Resigns. HELSINGFORS, Finland, Nov. 30— The entire Finnish cabinet has resign- ed, following the diet’s acceptance of bills allowing pensions to state offi- cials. The agrarian members of the cabinet resigned in the afterncon, and a few hours later the rest of the cabi- net followed suit. Seek Return of Bessarabia. MOSCOW, Nov. 30, — Numerous meetings and demonstrations of the Bessarabian emigrants and refugees from Bessarabia have passed resolu- tions urging the government of the U. 8. S. R. to protest against prosecu- tions of Bessarabians in Rumania and demanding to unite Bessarabia with the U. S. S. R. Labor Condemns Poison Gasoline MINNEAPOLIS.—Tetraethyl gas- oline, the manufacture of which has killed five Standard O{l workers in New Jersey, should not be sold in Minneapolis, says the Trades & Labor assembly. The labor body requested the city to follow the example of New York and other towns in stopping the sale of the poison gasoline. WHEN YOU BUY GET AN “AD” T.U. E. L. GENERAL MEETING; TUES., DEC. 2; NORTH WEST HALL; DUNNE SPEAKS OF EL PASO MEET ‘The next public meeting of the Chicago section of the Trade Union Edu- cational League will take place on Tuesday evening, Deo. 2, 8 p. m., In North West Hall, corner North and Western avenues, These meetings are one of the activities of the left wing movement in the local trade unions and are held for the purpose of unifying the struggle against the labor fakers, The forthcoming eeting of the Trade Union Educational League promises to be of unusual interest as it will be addressed by William F. Dunne, editor of the DAILY WORKER, who was expelied from the Portland convention of the A. F, of L. because of his militant stand against the be- trayal of the workers by Gompers. He will speak on the result of the A. F. of L. convention at El Paso. Workers Party members and left wing trade unionists are urged to attend and bring as many as possible to the meeting. TROTSKY'S NEW BOOK DECREASES HIS PRESTIGE Communist Workers Re- sent Implied Criticism (Special to The Dally Worker) MOSCOW, Nov. 80.—The elimina- tion of Leon Trotsky from political life is predicted here by high officials of the Russian Communist Party un- less he abandons his expressed oppo- sition to the policies of the party and his attempt, made in his most re- cent book, “Lessons of the 1917 revolution,” to pose as the sole inter- preter of Leninism, It is considered here that Trotsky has again sinned once more against the discipline of the Communist Party, particularly in the preface to his book in which he once more raises questions settled in the course of the party discussion last year, a discussion which ended in his over: whelming defeat. Is Political Question. Trotsky is a member of the political bureau of the Russian Communist Party and as such his book is of ma jor political significance, a fact which Stalin and Kameneff emphasize in articles by them criticizing Trotsky’s statements. That Trotsky’s descrip- tion of himself as the chief aid of Lenin in 1917 was designed to re-open controversial questions there is little doubt and altho there is no intention on the part of the Russian Communis‘ Party to take any disciplinary meas- ures against his supporters and sym- pathizers, Stalin urges the party tc conduct an energetic campaign against the Menshevik ides disclosed by Trotsky and prevent these from becoming a theoretical rallying point for the remnants of the bourgeois in Russia. Trotsky last year, in the discussion that took place, found most of his support in the ranks of the young student elements and military cadets but this time there is but little evi- dence of support from any quarter The Russian party is a unit behind the central executive committee and the factory workers particularly are hostile to Trotsky because of the sym- pathy and publicity his statements and criticism of the party receive from the capitalist press of the world. One thing is very clear in the pres ent situation. It is that the Commun. ist Party is supreme in Russia ane that even men of genius and practica! ability like Trotsky, if they oppose the party, can pass from publi¢ life without leaving a ripple to indicate their withdrawal. F New Open Shop Drive Beginning on Rail Shopmen (Continued from page 1) discharged or made to join the union Management Starts Open Shop Drive The management discharged the scab, but began to victimize the union men who had brot the complaint, and gave about forty of the oldest union men employed at the shops a five day notice of discharge. To cover up thi: discrimination against the union men the company pretends that it is merely enforcing an agreement o’ 1921, which provides that all em ployes of 50 years or more who en- tered service since agreement war made, may be discharged at the dis- cretion of the company. The Company's Thin Excuse. The company also sets up the ex- cuse that because the union had no “humane feelings” for the scab Turn- er, who was an old man, the compan} is justified in firing all old union men, regardless of either their welfare or the union rules. The particular injustice of their ac tion lies in the fact that conditions ir the shops are so rotten and the wage standard gives such poor sustenance that many of these employes whc have worked at the shop for many years, techanically have entered em- ployment since 1921, because il) health caused by bad shop conditions have compelled“ them to lay off and lose seniority rights, coming back ar ‘new employes.” Shop Solidarity Must Rule. As bad as conditions are, the work- ers know that things will become worse if the management is success- ful in this discriminatiou against the union men, which is looked upon as an opening attack on the shop crafts. If this attack is not checked by the vigilance and solidarity of the entire body of workers in the shops, it is certain that further attacks will be made upon the shopmen all over the country and an attempt made to wipe out the unions completely. The various union committees in the shops have met and expressed the in- dignation of the men at this brutal at- tack on the unions, and the chairman of the shop craft federation is expect- od to confer today with the manage- ment and see that the ucfon rule, re- sognized by the company under agree- ont that no worker shall, after he \as passed the thirty day probation, »@ discharged as these forty union non have been, without cause. Next Sunday Night and Every Sun vay Night, the Open Forum, y ROUMANIAN SECTION IS ORGANIZED FOR INTERNATIONAL AID The International Workers’ Ald announces that a Roumanian section has been organized with Comrade L. Litwin secretary, with head- quarters a‘ E. 12th St, for carry- ing on propaganda and raising funds in behalf of the workers imprisoned for opposing the Fascist terror in Bykowina, Transylvania and other parts of Roumania. All workers In- terested in this activity are re- quested to get in touch with the committee at the above address and help the work along. Information is particularly requested regarding or ganizations which are interested in promoting this work. RETURNS SHOW COMMUNIST VOTE BEAT SOCIALISTS Explains How S. P. Cut Own Throat By Charles Schwartz. (Special to The Daily Worker) REVERE, Mass., Nov. 30.—In this little town of Massachusetts, the state of rock-ribbed corservatism, a most significant indication of what the own legs against the “progressive” sweep, an indication which, in view of the lingering memories of Paul Revere, makes rather amusing the slo- gan of the socialist party inthe elec- tion—“Back to 1776!” In this instance, where apparently at least a part of the Communist votes were counted, is the proof that the socialist party got it in the neck as it richly deserved. Comparative Agitational Strength. It is Instructive as well as interest- ing to know that in this city the “For- wards” of Abe Cahan, has 500 read- ers, while the “Fretheit” has only 60 and the DAILY WORKER only 20. In the light of this comparative strength. the following returns of this one town should be reckoned: For president, Coolidge, 3,882; Davis, 1,874; LaFollette, 1,758; Fos- ter, 87. For governor, Curley, democrat, 4,- 326; Fuller, republican, 3,552; John Ballam, Workers Party, 92; Hutchins, socialist, 51. For lieutenant-governor, the repub- lican got 3,563; democrat, 3,326; EB. R. Stevens of the Workers Party, 128; the socialist, 90. For secretary of- state, republican, 3,760; democrat, 2,867; W. A. Dwyer, of the Workers Party, 320;. socialist, 150. For senator, the democrat, . 4,964; the republican, 2,531, while Antoinette F. Konikow of the Workers Party, got 132 votes. Unemployed Council Formed by Workers Party in the East (Continued from page 1) them to the state unemployment ag- ency. The men then paraded to the com- mon, carrying banners, where they held a demonstration at the Parkman bandstand and from these with added numbers they marched to the head- quarters of the Workers’ ‘Party at Broadway and Shawmut avenue where they organized a Boston unemploy- ment council. i Demands Work or Wages. Comrade Dwyer tonight stated that there were over 80,000 unemployed here from the state’s own figures This is in Boston alone. “At the em- ployment agency” he said, “oat ot 1,380 applicants only 40 received work. The situation is rapidly ap proaching that of 1921 when over s1> million were unemployed, The proti* system is again breaking down ant those who produced the swollen svr plus are being thrown on the J.}01 market to starve. There is only onc answer to this as far as wo are con: cerned; that is: Work or Wages!’ “Industry must take over the bur den of paying unemployment henefits We'll see that the surplus we created is used to keep us from starvation The bosses say: where thero is nc profit for them—there is no work for us. But we demand that the protire we created be used to support ur until the capitalists are able to stabal- ize their own broken down system Finally, there is the alternative: if the profit system cannot maints'p itself, we, the workers, will take over the industries and administer thom in our own interests—ultimately, the |profit system must go.” United Front with Unions and Parties. “Our immediate demands” he stated, “are that the government levy special taxes to create an unem- ployment fund, This fund shall be administered by the unions, and from it union wages shall be paid to the unemployed. Unemployment councils will be created thruout the country with delegates from trade unions from working class political organiza tions and from unemployed groups We in the unions are going to work shoulder to shoulder with our unem- ployed fellow workers and we'll resist wage cuts and see that the working|of schools, day is shortened as woll.” Monday, December 1, 1924 ecoememerenemeeneneemrmemenen es By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. B Bisledacidl 300 more workers in Chicago go out hunting jobs. Another battalion is added to the growing army of un- employed. The struggle for a place to work becomes more bitter, They come from the “white collar” workers in the city hall. Most of them are women, Many are mothers, heads of fatherless families. The loud boast of the kept press that there are plenty of jobs cutting ice and shoveling snow does not touch these, * * * * The 300 were not fired because there is less work to do. There is more work than ever. But their places have been taken by machines. Instead of 370 workers, folio writers and comparers, in the county recorder's office, there will now be 70 workers and 10 photographing machines, The 10 machines take the places of the 300 workers. The saving, it is claimed, will turn a department deficit into a surplus. But there will be hungry on the streets, ° * When Mussolini took charge in Italy, his, Fascisti rule set out to save money in the conduct of its government. The ranks of the government workers were decimated. In the absence of obedient machines, additional labor was piled upon the remaining workers, Mussolini saved a little money; but he did not take ac- count of the hundreds of thousands thrown out of work. They constitute today one of the great menaces to his bloody dictatorship. cos * * + When the League of Nations took over control of Austria, it demanded that the army of government employes be cut down. This was done in the name of “efficiency.” It was gine to help put the Austrian capitalist government on its feet again to promote the stability of West European capitalism. The Austrian puppets of the League of Nations’ jackals obediently followed orders. A little was saved, but the cry of the hungry for bread in Austria grew louder and the problems o capitalism are as great as ever, Under capitalism labor gets little benefit from machine production. Increasing numbers of workers find themselves cast upon the industrial scrap heap while the profits of the owners of industry mount higher and higher. Instead’ of reducing the number of working hours, with the introduction of machinery, the employing interests fight to maintain the workday as long as possible. 2 * * The 300 workers thrown upon the streets in Chicago today have no powerful economic orqantestion to protect them. The unions of office workers in the United States are weak and scattered. Where these unions have come into existence, and shown any activity, it is because of their Communist mem- bership. But the Gompers'’ regime in the American Fed- eration of Labor has quickly broken this spirit. It reorgan- ized the New York union of office workers immediately it was shown that the Communists had a dominating influence. In the reorganization the Communists were left on the out- side. This condition has been duplicated in other cities. * * * * Faced with the introduction of new machinery, of every conceivable kind, on the one hand, and the rank betrayal of the organized labor officialdom on the other, the white collar office workers, who like to consider themselves a little above the wage worker in overalls, have a difficult time of it. But the white collar workers will be forced to build their unions, in spite of reaction; militant unions for active struggles. In their battles with their employers they will learn that there is no solution for the unemployment, ma- chine and wage problems under capitalism. They will learn that all the evils that afflict them are inherent in the present social system. All this the machine will help teach them. Conditions will force the white collar workers into the eels proletarian army, that marches forward to the lestruction of capitalism and the seizure of the machine as labor's greatest ally in building the new social order. Only under «aici will the machine become the servant of mankind. M’ANDREW RULE THREATENED BY SOVIET RULE ACTS INSTEAD OF TALKS ON Only Under Communism Will Machinery Become||CHANGED OFFSET , Servant of All Mankind NEW RESIGNATION William K. Fellows, member of the board of education, whose term ex- pires on April 1, 1925, has asked Mayor Dever not to reappoint him. With the resignation of President Moderwell and the expired terms of Hart Hanson and Julius Smitenka, Fellows’ resignation will reduce Super- intendent McAndrew’s support to a minority on the school board. Mayor Dever, a few months ago, when approached by the members of the Teachers’ Federation with the re- ‘quest that he appoint two new mem- bers in place of Hanson and Smitenka thus giving their side a majority on the ‘board, said that he would not make any appointments during his term of office. However, with the new turn in events which will reduce Me- Andrew's power in the board, the mayor has dropped his non-partisan policy and has announced that he is looking about for someone to take the president’s place who will favor McAndrew’s policies, Legislature Robs School Children. ‘The Chicago school board faces an- other deficit in its treasury. A change in the distribution of the state funds provided by the legislature at its last session will reduce the Chicago school revenue by $245,000. E, J. Tobin, county superintendent in preparing his new TRADE IN NARCOTICS (Special to The Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Nov. 30.—While the capitalist nations of the world were bickering in Geneva for contro! of the world’s opium trade, Soviet Russia embarked upon a vigorous anti-narcotic campaign to extermi- nate the use and sale of drugs. In future, s of cocaine or other drugs will be punished by imprison- ment, deportation and confiscation of property. district allotment. According to the report Chicago under the new provi- sion is allowed 1% cents for each child and 70 cents for each teacher. The total amount Chicago will rece 2 this year is $2,908,883 as against $3,- 154,246 received last year from the $8,000,000 state fund. Probe California Cotton Fields. SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 30.—The California state commission of hous- ing and immigration is investigating the California cotton fields, which are becoming an important feature in the agricultural life of the southern part of the state. The pickers are mostly Mexicans, Nogroes, and poor whites from Texas and Oklahoma. Whole families work together, children and all, many of them living in unsanitary shacks and huts, Edward A. Brown, the commission’s sanitary director has returned from an inspection trip and proposes to clean up the camps, establish permanent houses and or children. budget, has just finished the Chicago! ganize school for the WORKING RULES WAGE INCREASE 75,000 Engineers and Firemen Affected Seventy-five thousand en- gineers, firemen and hostlers employed on 45 western rail- roads have received wage in- creases of approximately five er cent, in a decision of the nited States railroad labor board. The wage increase is some- what nullified, it is declared, however, because of changes in the working rules in favor of the railroad carriers, Won't Affect Strike Ballot, The strike ballot now being taken on the Southern Pacific railroad by the brotherhoods of locomotive engi- neers and firemen and locomotive fire- men and enginemen will not be af- fected by the labor board’s decision. The decision will probably be ignored by the two brotherhoods, as the offi- clals have denied the right of the rail- road labor board to assume jurisdic- tion of the dispute between the car- riers and the brotherhoods. The brotherhoods refused to atcept the authority of the railroad labor board last June, walking out of the conference room, and stating their in- tention of dealing direct with the in- dividual carriers. Charges were made at that time by the brotherhood offi- cials that the railroad labor board was prejudiced in favor of the railroad owners. The board then ordered nine- ty officials of the brotherhoods to testi- fy before it, but they refused. Demand Union Officials Testify, In the test case of D. B. Robertson, president of the firemen, and J. N. McGuire, of the engineers’ organiza tion, who refused to obey the board’s summons, the federal courts decided that the railroad union officials must testify. The brotherhood officials an- nounced that the case will be taken to the United States supreme court. It is not known whether the officials of the brotherhoods will accept the decision of the railroad labor board. The Southern Pacific employes lose by the decision, as the former rule of 100 miles to a day’s work as the basis of pay has been abolished, thus doing away with most of the overtime pay. Three rules which are still before the board will be decided by the test case before the supreme court. Mean- while individual negotiations between the brotherhoods and the carriers are still going on. Students of Moscow Send Red Message to Chinese Comrades MOSCOW, Nov. 30.—The students of the Leningrad Labor University have sent a letter to the Chinese students, in which, referring to the present events in China, they remind their Chinese comrades that it is only by following in the path shown by Marx and Lenin that they will free themselves from oppression and en- slavement by capitalist society. “Long live the fraternal solidarity of the students of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and of China! Long live the world Communist revo- lution!” This letter has been addressed to the Chinese Students’ Union at Peking. Spanish Dictators Nervous. PARIS — Agents of the Spanish Secret service today warned military authorities of Spain to ge on guard against attempts to introduce radicals in Spanish barracks as soldiers. The plan originated in revolutionary head- quarters here, they stated, Open Forum, Sunday Night, Lodge Room, Ashland Auditorium, AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHERTY. (Continued from page 1) fight the battles of the workers and that is the Communist Party. viev points out in an arti speech, published in last Sa’ supplement to the DAILY | that the British ruling to carry out its policy either liberal or tory. The British workers could be more easily induced country that stands out as a light giving inspiration to the ed of lands. That country is So: viet Russia. As Sun Yat Sen declared a few days ago, Russia is the white nation (red nation would better) that believes in the self determination for the Asiatic and all other subject races, ¥ ‘