The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 1, 1924, Page 6

‘Page Six THE DAILY WORKER. Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 1118 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill. (Phone: Monroe 4712) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail: $3.50....6 months $2.00....8 months By mail (in Chicago only): $4.50....6 months $2.50....38 months $6.00 per year $8.00 per year A@dress all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER $918 W. Washington Bivd. J. LOUIS ENGDAHL Wntered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1923, at the Post- WILLIAM F. DUNNE MORITZ J. LOEB.. Office at Chicago, Il., under the act of March 3, 1879. ep 290 Chicago, Illinois .Editors emneee Business Manager Advertising rates on application Fascism’s Only Enemy Nothing shows clearer the breakdown of Italian fascism. than the resignation of General Balbo, commander-in-chief of the fascist militia, follow- ing the publication of a letter written by him to the head of the fascist organization in “Bologna. The letter itself confirms everything. its bitterest One Traitor to ‘Aasther It would be hard to find a more studied example of hypocrisy than the speech of Samuel Gompers on the occasion of the presentation of a watch to his pal in the lucrative profession of be- traying the working class—“Brother” Grassman, fraternal delegate from the Dawes plan devotees of the German unions to the American Federation of Labor convention, Our space is valuable but we willingly spare sufficient to give to our readers the world’s finest specimen of congratulation from one traitor to another for betrayal successfully carrired out. Here it is. We have emphasized some of the finer nuances of Gompersian oratory that. their exquisite hypocrisy may not escape the reader: 1 wish, Brother Grassman, that | could express myself in your language fully and freely the words that well up in my soul to convey to you and thru you to the great rank and file of the toiling masses of the democratically inclined people of Germany our feelings. Believe me when | say that | am thoroly con- vinced that | interpret the sentiments of 100. per cent of the great rank and file of the men and women of the labor movement of America when | say that you are heartily welcome among us. The people of our respective countries were not at war with each other of their own volition. TO US THERE WAS SEE ba WORKER TWO THOUSAND SILK WEAVERS ARE STILL OUT Hard-Boiled Employer Surrenders to Union PATERSON, N. J., Nov. 30.— More than five thousand broad silk weavers are back in settled shops and enjoying the two- loom system and increases in wages as the result of:the long struggle that began last sum- mer. Two thousand are still on strike, supported in part by their fellow unionists, while their employers are debating whether they shall yield to the union demands. One of the bosses who recently con- our publications, are not confined to one particular plage. his comrades, writes us: Dear Editor: 1 have seen in the DAILY WORKER that you send your publications to our Imprisoned comrad evening | went to a Slovak workers’ home at 52 Newark. | found a group of young girls and men. Fraternally, J. Diacik, 100; J. Kovac, 10c; F. Porkert, 10c; dus, 25c; M. Hyben, 25c; S. Whrik, 25c; 0. Stavac, M. Hubka, 25c, Total, $3.35 * * * ° From Wood River, Hl., a little town that would. never be heard of, if it were not because a class conscious worker lives there. J. Rubin From Newark, N. i. to Wood River, Iil.- LASS conscious workers who want to send good cheer to class war prisoners in jall by sending money to pay for subscriptions From Newark, N. J., Michael Bakosh, a rebel who does not forget to take up a collection, something that | never tried before, but it took only a little courage and time. | found a young man by name of John Burko, who Helped me to collect. He took the slip into the hall where they had the meeting and inside of fifteen minutes he returned with $2.10 he collected. | collected $1.25. 1 wish that others would help in the same way. MICHAEL BAKOSH. P. S—The following comrades contributed: M. Bakos, |. Hrusovsky, 10c; J. Benko, 10c; J. Mikulas, 10¢;-L. Huser, 10¢; J. 10c; 0. Wiha, 10¢; A. Pravec, 28¢; A. Pivko, 25¢; ‘M. Lichar- Bender, 15¢; T. Terliciak, Lack 8. Klimant, 100; F. Saepicge 25c; Monday, December 1, 1924 eee seeerceereroreeersucteneceneceeevrmca CUTS MILLION OFF FRENCH LOAN Jusserand » ad Mellon Thimblerig U. S. (Special to The Dally Worker) WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 30.— The French ambassador, Jules Jusser- and, has begun informal and prelimin- ary discussion with Andrew Mellon, want to secretary of the United States trea- sury, looking to the funding of the French debt, originally a borrowed sum of $3,840,606,376, to which unpaid and accumulated interest has added $750,000,000. France has long been hedging on paying anything to the United States, while at the same time furnishing Po- and, Czecho-Slovakia, Roumania, and numerous white guard Russian “gov- ernments” with unlimited funds wherewith to war against Soviet Rus- sia. Attacks Russia—Lets France Go. 100; Mravec, 25c; M. TO HELP MORGAN: ceded the two loom system and a wage increase is Otto A. Haenichen, a hard boiled -anti-unionist, who got out an The United States government, which has raised no end of a hulla- balloo because the Soviet government sends us a sub for the Workers Monthly for six moriths. But with this pleasure for. himself, he remembers class war victims and adde. all he can spare—$1.75. additional. to pay for a: subscription to. some NO OTHER COURSE OPEN THAN THE ONE WE ASSUMED IN THAT TITANIC STRUGGLE. -CON- DITIONS IN YOUR COUNTRY WERE CONSIDER- enemies, the Communists, have said of fascist me- thods and reveals in an official communication the coldblooded bestiality of the Mussolini regime. The letter written by the deposed general was inspired by the acquittal by a jury of three Com- munists charged with killing some fascisti. The acquittal itself is ample evidence of the weakness of fascism’s grip on the masses. The letter says in part: As for those Commernists, you’ had better explain to them that a change of air would do their health good and that they had better remove themselves to another province. If they insist on remaining, you had better beat them up—without exaggeration, but systematically—till they make up their minds. Show this part of my letter to the prefect of Bologna and say to him in my name that ! have plenty of evidence to justify my demand not to allow such desperados to reside in my city or province. The police would do well to persecute them by detaining them at headquarters at least once a week, and it would be well if the prefect were to let the king’s prosecutor understand that we do not wish any law- suits as a result of our beatings up (which must be performed in the grand style). When Gary and Dawes endorse the Mussolini methods we can understand now exactly what they have in mind. Note that it is the Communists who rome in for these pleasant attentions—they and the workers they organize and inspire are the only force that fascism fears. That this communication had the -sanétion of Mussolini is shown by the sentence with which the murderous Balbo concluded his letter: “If I write you from Rome it is because I know what lam saying.” Let us get this clear: The American fascist Dawes, the fascist American Legion which sup- ported him for vice-president, the Gompers ma- thine which has a united front with the legion and which is preparing to absorb the Amsterdam Inter- aational to smooth the road for the Dawes plan in Europe, are all of one piece. They all fight the Communist Party just as do the Italian fascisti. The only reason that their methods differ in degree is because the class struggle in America is not yet as intense as it is in Italy. . The Battleship Blues In an editorial entitled “The Naive Yellow Press,” the Milwaukee Leader, organ of the social- ist party, boldly accuses Wall Street of betraying the American nation. The proof it adduces to support its statement is interesting for more than one reason. This proof tonsists in the statement that the betrayal was ac- complished by the scrapping of the battleship |° Washington. The Leader says. The enemy who sold the nation lives in Wall Street and upholds the banner of 100 per cént Americanism. The interests of the American na- tion were betrayed for the simple reason that the House of Morgan and its steel trust directors ruled the Washington conference with a single eye to their private profit. . * * It pays the steel trust and Morgan's finance sharps to have the American taxpayers’ money thrown into the sea or into the bottomless European pit. All the wanton waste of ship scrap- ping, munition wasting, blasting and bombing means more fat contracts for the interlocking looters, That's the simple secret of the Washington conference. There is no need to look for any other. The thing that irks the Leader apparently is the faet that battleships, munitions and the taxpayers’ money are wasted instead of being used in a good old-fashioned war like we used to have in 1914-18. The Leader is against this kind of inefficient mili- tarism. It wants the workers murdered by the imperial- ists with the smallest possible expenditure of the taxpayers’ money in the best Hearstian style and it feels even an old battleship might be useful. Down with this sinful extravagance, says the Leader, or the taxpayers will become so disgusted that they will not fight for the nation any more. The prospect appalls the Leader. This is the way to socialism—via the socialist party. 4 Austin Chamberlain, tory successor to Ramsay MacDonald in the British foreign office, has used the labor leader’s name frequently in his cor- tespondence with the Soviet envoy Rakovsky over the forged “Zinoviey” note. Chamberlain cannot find more severe terms to use against the Workers’ Republic than those used by the hypocritical yellow MacDonald. : , Ae ABLY DIFFERENT FROM THOSE PREVAILING IN OURS. FORCE AND POWER WERE EXER- CISED OVER YOUR PEOPLE. WITH US IT WAS OUR OWN VOLUNTARY ACT. We feel sure now that had the voice of German labor been given the opportunity of being fully heard the war would never have occurred. But be that as it may, with us, | repeat, the war is over and we want the democratic peoples of all the nations of the earth to strive in a common cause of justice, freedom, democracy and humanity. As a token of the affection which the delegates to this convention and those they have the honor to represent feel, we ask that you accept at their hands and my hands this testimonial of our binding affec- tion and fraternity, to wish for you, the German toilers and the German people, and the German re- public, your place in the world with every other democratic, peace-loving and liberty-loving people. Accept, sir, not only this splendid watch and chain as that testimonial, but my right hand which goes with it and the hope for your return home in hap- piness and WITH GREATER JOY AND FUTURE FOR THE GREAT MASS OF THE PEOPLE OF GERMANY. “The greater joy and future for the great mass of the people of Germany” is to come via the Dawes plan aimed at their enslavement and of which both Gompers and Grassman approve. At this point we began to vomit violently. Blacklisting in Northwestern Shops Shopcraft workers in the Northwestern shops in Chicago are feeling the effects of a drive made by the company that is planned to weaken the unions by driying out the most militant workers fron: the shops. The trouble started with the protest of members of the Painters’ Union against the employment. o/ a seab as foreman, and now the company retaliates by serving notice upon the most active workers that their seniority rights are no longer recognized and that they are on the discharge list. That this is part of the preparation for a new open shop drive as soon as unemployment becomes more critical, there can be little doubt. The work- ers in the Northwestern shops must prepare to meet this offensive without delay. Their most effective weapon is the shop com- mittee, taking in all workers in the shop, organized and unorganized, without regard to eraft distine- tion, electing its spokesmen and fighting the rail- way bosses every day right on the job—where at- tacks are first felt, and where the daily struggles of the workers can be fought on lines easily. under- stood by all. It strengthens the unions by enlist- ing the unorganized workers. If the workers in the Northwestern shops will organize their shops on this basis at once they can forge a weapon of offense and defense that will make the bosses think twice before they undertake a wholesale breakdown of wages and working con- ditions. Communist workers in the Northwestern shops must take the lead in the organization of shop committees, There are rumors of another counter-revolution in Mexico, tho all those mentioned as its instigators strenuously deny the honor of participating in it. One thing is certain, if it does break out, Gompers will be either in Washington or New York, the American labor fakers will be in their favorite crap and pool parlors, but the Mexican Commun- ists who helped to defeat the fascisti in the last counter-revolution, will be active in the next, on the side of the workers and peasants. The December issue of the The Workers Month- ly ix off the press. The November issue was good. This one is still better. A leaditig article by Wil- liam Z. Foster on the significance of the elections should be read carefully by every class conscious worker. Benito Mussolini admits the failure of the fas- cist dictatorship, but the American capitalist press has not given much publicity to the historic speech. Had Zinoviev made the confession that the prole- tarian distatorship was up against a stone wall, would they be so silent? Have you purchased your DAILY WORKER insurance policy yet? This should be your first order of business, And after you do your first duty do your next by talking somebody else intu helping to insure The DAILY WORKER for 1925. injunction against the Associated Silk Workers and gave the Federated Press an interview praising the child labor system which gives some competitive silk states an advantage over Pater- son. Haenichen at that time announc- ed himself the spokesman for the mys- terious Broadsilk Manufacturers’ Asso- ciation, an under cover employers’ or- ganization which concealed the list of its officers and was solely concerned with the war on union labor. Court cases include those of 107 strike pickets who are appealing fines. Aggressive picketing is still going on against the die hard bosses. The day this is being written a woman picket was roughed up by two silk em- ployers, of the Imperial Silk and S$: J. Aaronson companies. When she re- fused to take an injunction paper they held’ out to her, the men seized her and tried to force it down her cloth- ing. Court action will be taken against the employers. Under Union Conditions, One hundred and twenty-five shops are now working under full union con- litions, with the two loom system and wage increases ranging from ten to torty percent. Another fifteen shops are back on an unofficial settlement basis, the bosses conceding certain de- mands. but not officially recognizing he union. Such employers are warn- d by the union that when organiza- ion is completed in those shops they: aust sign the regular agreements. Renewal of the fight against twenty- ‘ive of the smaller employers who ave quietly reduced piece ‘k rates fter settlement is likely. ut 600 vorkers are affected. A threat of a ew general strike prevented more osses from following their lead and he union is serving notice om the re- ralcitrants that the agreement 7: ve kept or their shops would-be ddan paralyzed. political prisoner. Every page of the December issue of The Workers’ Monthly brings some- thing of fresh interest, and the whole makes one of the most valuable docu- ments circulated. Variety, interest, depth, are the characteristics of the articles. Photographs from all over the world, of scenes and prominent figures in the labor movement, are of, the kind that only The Workers’ Monthly has given to us. Cartoons final touch that makes it seem a com- plete achievement. Just a glance at the contents of the December issue will assure the read- er that here is wealth for the eye as well as for the mind. j ; “Germany Under the Dawes’ Plan’,’ drawing, Kate Kollwitz. “Significance of the Elections,” ar- ticle, Wm. Z. Foster. “Sic Transit Gloria Mundi,” cartoon, Wm. S. Fanning. “Anatole France,” photograph, and note by Victor Serge. “A Visit With Sun Yat Sen,” Alfred Wagenknecht. ‘3 “Dr, Sun Yat Sen with Filipino Delegation,” photograph. “Latin-America Prepares for Gom- pers,” article, Bertram D. Wolfe. “Vargas Rea—Mexican Communist,” drawing. “Union of Proletariat and the Op- pressed Peoples,” photograph of Trot- sky, Lunion (French Negro) and Nguen Ai-Quack (China), MUSIC By Alfred V. Frankenstein “The Divine Poem,” the third sym- phony of Alexander Scriabin, was played on the seventh program of the Chicago Symphony orchestra at Or- chestra Hall last Friday and Saturday. Scriabin in his symphonies attempts to express philosophic ideas in tone, and almost succeeds. The titles of the movements of “The Divine Poem” are “Strife,” “Sensuous Pleasures,” and “Divine Activity.” The ‘kick in hearing the symphony is not in ap- preciating the philosophy of the music, but in the hearing of the music itself. It is all melodic, and the melody is of vast power and scope. The interpretative directions thruout the score are delightful. Scriabin used large, mouth-filling French words such as “mysterieux, romantique, leg- endaire,” and “doux, limpide,” and again “haletant aile,” (breathlessly winged.) Corps de Ballet. Polacco. Monday night brings a second per- formance of Puccini’s Madame But- terfly, with Edith Mason, Perini, Hackett, Rimini; Polacco conducting Tuesday evening, Traviata will be sung for the first time this season with Muzio, Schipa, and Schwarz in the leading roles, with Cimini con- ducting. Carmen will be sung for the first time Wednesday evening with Garden McCormic, D’Hermanoy, and Swarth- out, On Friday night Faust will be sung with Fedor Chaliapin appearing for the first time this season with the Civic Opera. Divertissments by Corps de Ballet. Frank St. Leger conducting for the first time this season. For the Saturday matinee, a repeti- tion of Massenet’s Werther will be Conductor Giorgia A most unusual man, this Alexander Scriabin. Toward the end of his life ‘ie conceived of an art combining sound, light and smell in one whole. His color Organ has recently been achieved, but an instrument’ for pro jecting odors arranged in a seale and olayed from notation is yet a long way off. Another Russian work, the piano concerto of Nicholas Medtner, played here for the first time by its com- poser, came before the symphony. It is probably the dullest, most stupid, long-winded piano concerto every played in Orchestra Hall. It is worse than the Dohanyi concert and that is saying the utmost in condemnation. The well known overture to the op- eretta “The Secret of Suzanne,” by | Wolf-Ferrari, and the botter known &. flat or “Clarinet” symphony of Mozart, opened the program, oe Piva The Chicago Civic Opera company began its fifth week of the season Sunday afternoon, Nov. 30, with the ‘hird performance of La Giconda with Ratsa, Perini, Miesle, Cortis, Form- chi, Kipmis, Oukrainsky, Miles, Elis- ‘us, Milar, Nemeroff, Rermeee and Room Wanted. Young man wants a room in. private family, preferably on the Side, Answer M. 8S. N, ‘THE given with Garden, Freund, Ansseau Kipnis, Cotreuil, Detrere, Olivero and Conductor Polacco, For the popular Saturday evening production, 11 Trovatore will be given with Muzio, Lenska, Lamont, Form: ichi and Cimini conducting. ‘Bosses Plant Their O’Banions in Porto Rican Polling Places (By The Federated Press) WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 30.— Wholesale intimidation, driving of voters from the polling places, and even the locking up of working class voters so that they might not exercise The labor movement isthe richer for the fact that. such loyal comrades as these contributors of Newark and° Wood River are in it. | THE WORKERS MONTHLY 1S OUT | scattered thru the magazine give the | “Struggle. for Unity in the World Labor. Movement,” article, A. Losov- aky, “Russian. and British Trade Union Leaders. Fraternize at Hull,” photo- graph taken at British Trades Con- gress. ~ “Trade Union Students at Mpeogy: University,” mass. photograph. “Progress of the International unity Movement,” correspondence. “S. Saklatvala, Communist member of British Parliament,” photograph. : “The Labor Party Conference,” ar- ticle, Harry Pollitt. ° “Roots of the British Minority Move- ment,” article, Tom Mann. ‘ “Demonstration of 8,000 Workers in London,” photograph. “Phe Wobblies Meet Again,” article, Harrison George. “Impossibilism,” Hay Bales. “The Burden-Bearer of Imperialism in Revolt,” double page cartoon, by Ellis. “The Rocky Mountain Miners,” ar- ticle. with pictures, Jack Lee. aes Apostle,” drawing, J. de Mis- Ye set of cartoons, ‘ Sele yp Movement Towards Class ‘litical Action Dead?” article, C. E. Ruthenberg. “The Big Stick Gets Bigger,” ticle, Jay Lovestone. “White Terror in Burope,” article, Rose Karsner. “Trades Congress of Canade,” ar ticle, Tim Buck. ° “Campaigning for Communism in England,”’ photograph. “In Retrospect. A Critical Review of Our Past Labor Party Policy,” ar- ticle, Alexander Bittelman. “The Moving Finger Writes,” car- toon, Hay Bales. “One of Russia’s New Rulers,” pho- tograph. Editorials. International notes. important contributions as: “The Significance of the ection By WM. Z. FOSTER. ? sthatin-America P By BE ore. | | | | | refused to pay the international bank- ers the loans made by the czar te crush the Russian revolution of 1905, has been as meek and mild as a school girl with her lover, when France, the leading anti-Bolshevik country of Eu- rope, was squandering billions of francs on white guard satraps while telling the United States that it ex- pected too much. Two years ago, M. Parmentier, an agent of the French treasury, visth ed America to discuss terms of set- tlement, but left after hinting that Uncle Sam was “too harsh” when it wanted both the interest and the prin- cipal to he “recognized” even if net paid. Morgan’s Terrible Men, Now that J. P. Morgan has made his second loan to France and is possess: ed of a mortgage on the income of the French government, Coolidge and Mellon are apparently given orders to see that Morgan’s private loans are strengthened by weakening the loan made. by the government. This is seen in the defensive camou- flage put out by Washington officials © who talk very sassy about France be- ing “compelled” to pay every cent. But the fact is that at least the nearly $1,000,000,000 of interest is already agreed to be cancelled, and the prin- cipal of three billion as above noted, is “funded,” which means put off in- definitely so far as any payment ee concerned. SUGAR TRUST WANTS TO CLOSE STREETS IN | BLOW AT THE WORKERS BROOKLYN, N. Y., Nov. 30— Brooklyn citizens are protesting against the proposed closing of three. streets to permit the American Sugar Refining company to build a mew factory. Alderman J. W. Sullivan headed a delegation of citi- zens at the court hearing who de- clared the bottling up of the three streets would cut off many tene- ments and shut off air from the: East river. Open Forum, Sunday Night, Lodge Room, Ashland Auditorium, The December Issue of The Workers Monthly | Edited by Earl R. Bowder. The second number of the. -greater magazine combining “a Liberator, Labor Herald and Soviet Russia Pictorial includes such | Bie. for Unity in the Labor Movement”. By A. LOSOVSKY. ; repares for for {Gompers” 8 Other articles by C. E. Ruthenberg, Jack Lee, Alfred Wagen- knecht, Harry Pollitt, Tom Mann, Harrison George and others, and i SPLENDID LABOR CARTOONS | r Get the December Issue on the News Stands / ‘ or Subscribe! fees i Single Copy 25 Conte fivents | | | a by ELLIS, BALES, FANNING, | Subscription: $2.00 a Y. \their franchise, are reported by San-| ff - tiago Iglesias, socialist senator and |neaa of the labor movement of Porto j Rico, as characterizing the election in the island on Nov. 4, He presents a long series of tele- grams of protest sent from towns thru- out Porto Rico to Gov. Towner, show- ing that the unionfst-republican alli- ance rode rough-shod over the social- ists, violating most of the election laws and stealing the election by main force. Watchers for the so were thrown out of poling places, . lots cast by plantation laborers were socialists | bal- 1143 W. 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