The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 2, 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...3 months $6.00. per year $8.00 per year Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY. WORKER 1118 W. Washington Bivd. J. LOUIS ENGDAHL t WILLIAM F. DUNNE MORITZ J. LOEB Chicago, Illinois esis Business Manager > @ntered as second-class ‘mail ‘Sept. 21, 1923, at the Post- OfMice at Chicago, Ill., under the act of March 3, 1879. > Advertising rates on application That Railway.Wage Increase The eight per cent wage increase received by the engineers’ and firemen’s brotherhoods on the western railway lines, which the railway labor board: ap* pears to have granted merely to show its authority in such matters, will not settle the real contro- versy which revolves around both the power claimed by the railway labor board and certain changes in the working rules upon which the 8 pér cent raise is made contingent. These changes, in methods of computing run- ning time and the're-classification of different kinds of work into grades paying a lower rate, have been accepted by the officialdom ‘of the railway unions on eastern roads, but only iti the face of much dis- content on the part of the more militant member- ship. The major question; that of the right ‘¢laimed by the unions to deal directly with the failway companies and not thru the railway board, is still open. By this maneuver, however, the railway board obviously hopes to disorganize the opposition to it as the official expression of the railway in- fluence in government and pave the way to a com- plete surrender to its authority. Wage increases secured thru concessions weak- ening the control of the unions over the ‘job’ condi- tions of their membership are not victories but de- feats. If the membership of the engineers’ and fire- Coal Diggers versus Gold Diggers Hardly a day has gone by since the ratification of the agreement in the anthracite district which followed the election of the Lewis tool Cappellini as district president, that a strike, growing out of unadjusted grievances, has not been going on with the officials trying to drive the rank and file miners back to work. At present 11,000 anthracite miners are on strike. President Lewis, enjoying the hospitality of the Mexican government in Mexico City, has wired the miners to get back to work or lose their charter. This is the kind of support that warms the heart of the coal mine owners and makes them thank their god for such safe and sane labor lead- ers as the Lewis variety. There is another angle to this situation. An elec- tion is coming in the United Mine Workers of America and the anthracite miners, after more than a_ year’s experience with the agreements forced on them by the Lewis machine, after receiv- ing numerous communications from their presi- dent, all containing the same phrase—“Go back to work”—are not so enamored of the Lewis-Cap- pellini machine as they once were. Lewis probably wants to revoke a few charters of doubtful locals, following the ancient custom in the United Mine Workers, which makes the interest of the membership secondary at all times to that of the officials. In the anthracite district as elsewhere the miners, with the progressive miners’ committee taking the lead are learning that: Lewis’ agree- ments are made for and by the operators; that their chief, purpose is to keep the miners digging coal while the officialdom tours the various districts and revises agreements for the benefit of the oper- ators: Organization of the left wing, control of the or- ganization for the and by the membership. instead of the operators and a nation-wide campaign of unionization bringing the unorganized miners, into the U, M. W. of A., is all than can save this once powerful union from defeat in the next few years. The coal digging rank and file against gold dig- ging officials. Congress Re-opens The second session of the sixty-eighth congress men’s unions have not already learned this, they | just opened will be important not so much for what will in the near future. it will do or attempt to do as what it will disclose “The major question of the revolution ‘is the} to he the plans of the various groups in the com- question of power,” said Lenin and this applies to ing political struggles. At best congress is more every struggle of the workers whether it be for the | of an indicator of the struggles fought outside be- overthrow of capitalism or merely for more.gaso-| fore the masses than an arena of battle itself. line for the Lizzie on Sunday. 364 Pure Democracy ;, The first session of the sixty-eightl tongress was held at a time when the processes of political ‘dis- integration were going on at a swift pace. The second session is being convened on the morrow Official figures are now pouring in to show that ap-| .fter what appears to the superficial a downward proximately half of the eligible voters partieipated | (rend in these disruptive processes of polities. In in the November elections. This is especially 'mean-| view of the more favorable conditions for the big- ingful because of the strenuous efforts made by the} vest business interests in the sixty-ninth congress, employers’ associations thruout the country to get/ there is every likelihood that the reactionary re- a large voting “turnout.” publican forces will avoid sharp clashes ‘in’ these The Communists have always maintained that|-jdsing days of the old congress. Such Clashes can the parliamentary structure itself is not'conducive only hurt their case before the masses, ‘much of to an unrestrained, an unlimited expression of the/ whose support they won thru a campaign of ter- will of the masses. The artificial, the arbitrary rorism, villifieation, intimidation and ‘outright bicameral divisions do not make for’ the facility of expressing mass opinion. In fact, the present purchase of votes. But let noné make the mistake of thinking that parliamentary method of voting only tends to con-| the reactionaries, flushed with victory, will tarry fuse the masses. It throws together huge numbers | jong before consolidating their November victory. on a common basis which doesn’t exist. While or-/-pheir decision on removing LaFollette, Brookhart, ganically suited to maintain “and perpettiate the}{add and Frazier from their. committee posts rule of the employing: class, the present’ parlia-| shows which way the wind of their temper blows. mentary structure pretends to be based on the non-existence of economic classes. In the coming sessions of congress there is every reason to believe that the so-called progressive A glance at this phase of our “pure démocracy” | forces will show an even weaker front than they shows that nineteen of the forty-eight stateshave | giq last year. The reactionaries will show a much cast a smaller vote this year than in 1920. In South | stronger front. However, let no one conclude that Carolina, for instance, only 8% of the eligible] thig is proof that capitalist reaction is in the as- voters went to the polls. For the while country cendency for a long time to come in the United the present figures tend ‘to “indicate “that. about States. We recall what happened to the Harding 52% of those eligible to vote participated. landslide within two years. The actual class strug- There are numerous reasons. for such display] gles are in reality fought outside, fought outside of lack of interest on the part of so large a mass the halls of congress by the working masses against of voters, First and foremost’ among these are:| the exploiters and their allies ranging from the the unfitness of the system of voting itself, the| trade union reactionary officialdom to the weak- various restrictive circumstances like residential kneed_petty bourgeoisie. While the immediate out- and other qualifications, interference by the bosses|jook for clashes in congress is slim, the outlook with the exercise of even the limited franchise, and | for gigantic mass struggles is becoming more cer- general disgust with parliamiétitary votitig institution. . SA The Communists propose to establish a Workers’ as aN) tain. Every day get a “sub” for the DAILY WORKER and Farmers’ Republic based on the mass organ-] and a member for the Workers Party. izations of the working and poor farming’ masses. | Tn this republic, men and women will ‘express themselves ‘politically thru their workshops, in the places where the issues aie nedrest and clearest to them, In this-Soviet More Efficient Slavery Judge Partridge of the California federal court ublic, the exploiters, in-j has ruled in the case of William Burns, a member stead of the workers, will be disfranchised. This|of the I. W. W., tried in his court because he was will be a government of, by and for the workers| arrested in Yosemite Park, United States property, instead of the pure capitalist democracy of today.| that slowing down of work is to be considered “Vigorous Action” sabotage insofar as the state criminal syndicalism law is concerned. The inference is that for slowing down on the The direct conziection between the murder of|job in California a worker can be sentenced to colonial workers,and the profits of imperialism is seen in the fact that stocks of the companies which control the Sudan irrigation. project rose on the British market when the announcement was made that the Gezira-area-was to be extended. The same stocks fell when the Sudanese rose in revolt but as soon as they had been safely slaugh- tered the stocks rose again. “City circles,” says a London dispatch, “un- animously endorsed the vigorous action of the gov- ernment.” Speed the day when “vigorous action” will leave on the battlefields not the corpses of workers, but those of the silk-hatted fraternity of plunder, eerie READ THE DAILY WORKER from one to fourteen years in the penitentiary un- der the provisions of the law. There are a lot of people who think that slavery was abolished by the civil war. Our opinion is that it was made a little more efficient, for the simple reason that many workers actually believe they are free. William H. Anderson, former head of the anti- saloon league, is out of Sing Sing where he was sent after being convicted of graft. He was paroled in the care of the salyation army. Birds of a feather have a habit of flocking together, , Geta member for tae Workers Party * pom pees v p THE DAILY WORKE (Special to The ef the Second International, which seems to be used only to protect counter - revolutionary traitors imprisoned in Soviet Russia. a: The open letter follows: We address ourselves with this let- ter to the Second International and its affiliated socialist parties in the firm conviction that the workers will not allow them to leave this letter unans- wered. The working class must re- ceive clear and unequivocal informa- tion on the attitude of the Second In- ternational to our concrete proposal the purpose of which is the relief for tens of thousands of workers who are suffering in the prisons of the cap- italists because they fought against capitalist oppression. What Has Induced Us to Take This Step? The press and the leading bodies of the Second International and its par- ties have been carrying on recently with special persistency a propaganda of so-called “democractic pacifism” which they say, will put an end to the civil war and will make impossi- ble further imperialist wars, Our organization which stands on a revolutionary platform, never deceived itself on the true significance of this campaign the purpose of which is to mask the policy of robbery and vio- lence of imperialism against the work. ing class, against the colonial peoples and those peoples who. have been de- feated in the world war. The happen- ings of the last months have suffici- ently exposed this socalled “pacifism.” It is sufficient to mention ‘the: en- slavement of Germany by the Dawes plan, the offensive of imperialism in China, Asia Minor and Africa, the preparation of armed intervention on the part of the league of nations against the Soviet: Union and finally the continuous mass persecutions and acts of violence against Communist workers and revolutionists in the colo- nies and the refusal of the capitalists and “of the Second International to bring about an amnesty. - - How “Pacifism” Works. “Pacifism” and its defenders, the Second International, are silent when it is a question of plundering peoples or oppressing workérs, but the Sec ond International immediately stands for the counter-revolution when it is a question of an attack against the Soviet Union, as was the case with the lamentable bandit action in Georgia. The demand for the, libera- tion of the revolutionary workers. in the prisons is raised louder and louder in all countries, but is not at all supported by the Second Interna- tional and its affiliated parties. -Nat- urally, also the’: capitalists «refuse definitely to give-an amnesty, All parties of the Second International show their “pacifism”. only in connec tion with the menshevists, social revo- lutionists and anarchists- who have been arrested in Soviet Russia be- cause of preparation of counter-revo lutionary attacks. Despite all reports stating that these prisoners in the prisons of the Soviet Union live un der the best possible circumstances the Second International does not stop in its campaign against the Soviet Un- ion and opposes this campaign to the demands of the working class for the liberation of the prisoners in the capitalist countries. Is this onesidedness accidental or does the Second International hold the view of supporting the counter-revolu- tionists in the Soviet Union? Exchange Prisoners. The parties of the Second Interna- tional are in the governments of sev- eral states of capitalist Europe and support a number of other govern: ments. Thus they could do much for the liberation of the political prison- ers in the capitalist prisons. This cir- cumstance induced us to make our proposals. We propose the following: 1. The Internationar Red Relief and the Second International will, after previous agreement, see to it that the fate of the victims of the civil war is relieved. (a) The International Red Relief will do everything in its power to in- duce the Soviet Union to exchange those persons in its prisons who, without shrinking from any means, attempted to rob the workers and peasants of this country of their revolutionary acquisitions, for the prisoners of capital who suffer in the prisons of the capitalist states be- cause they are accused of having fought against the capitalist rule in| these states, (b) The Second Int and its affiliated socialist parties will uti- lize their influence on the govern: ments of the capitalist states in order to induce them to open the the political prisons and to + R DEMAND RELEASE OF COMMUNISTS SAYS RED RELIEF OPEN LETTER _—SENTTO SECOND INTERNATIONAL Daily Worker) BERLIN, Germany, Dec. 1.—The International Red Relief has sent an open letter to the Second International, demanding that the Second International agitate for the release of Commun- ists imprisoned in capitalist countries, The executive committee of the Red International Relief exposes the hypocrisy of the “democratic pacifist” propaganda Remember These Dates. HE entire New York organiza- tion is expected to co-operate in the following affairs. All affiliat- ed and sympathetic organizations are requested not to arrange con- flicting dates. Jan. 11, Sunday afternoon and evening, DAILY WORKER Jubilee, New Star Casino. Feb. 1, Sunday afternoon, Lenin Memorial, Madison Square Garden. Feb. 11-14, Defense Bazaar, The Lyceum, 65th street. March 15, Sunday afternoon and evening, Press Pageant and Paris Commune Celebration, Madison Square Garden. Second International many occasions. Workers Await Answer. 2. If the Second International de- clares its agreement with this main proposal, the International Red Relief suggests that both organizations, for the purpose of the exchange of the prisoners, support each other by mu- tual information on the situation of the victims of the civil war. On the basis of the collected material this sit- uation can be stated without preju- dice. A refusal of this proposal or the non-arrival of a public, official and un- equivocal answer would justify our defended on worst expectations and would expose! the true value of all phrases and demagogic attacks of the Secénd In- ternational. ‘ The workers of the world wait for the answer of the Second Internation- al. The Executive Committee of The In- ternational Red Relief. Lepeschinski, Lukaijanoff, Temkin (U. 8.8. R.) Treint (France), Dombal, Bogutski (Poland), Geschke, Markgrat (Germany), Marabini (Italy), Lulanoff (Bulgaria), Badulesco (Roumania), Rjastas (Baltic States), Gyptner (Y. C. I.), Redetzki (Red International of Labor Unions.) Pittsburgh Mining District Gains One More Y.W.L. Branch By CLARENCE MILLER. (Special to The Daily Worker) PITTSBURGH, Pa., Dec. 1—The newly organized branch of the Young Workers’ League in Rural Ridge, Pa. is the third branch in the mining towns in the Pittsburgh district. The branch when organized consisted of eight members but it is expected that the membership will increase consid- erably at the next meeting when the new recruits will bring the message of the Young Workers’ League to the other young miners and workers in the town. There are not many young miners in the town at present as most of the mines in the neighborhood are shut down. The miners are compelled to either leave or work in the steel mills. An interesting incident at the or- ganization meeting was the attend- ance of the father of one of the young miners, also a miner. He came ‘to the meeting he said to find out what it was all about. On learning that a Communist organization was being formed and that they expected to fight for all the problems of the young workers in that town, he not only ap proved his son's joining the league but actively participated in discuss- ing plans for the growth of the branch, After the meeting he talked to the party members present and it is expected he will join the party. Open Shop Editors And Employers Shown . To Be Flagrant Liars (By The Federated Press) WASHINGTON, Dec. 1.—A study of the productivity and costs of some of the building trades, made by the bu- reau of labor statistics, shows that while a bricklayer in Birmingham, Ala., laid 1,928 bricks in eight hours in straight-away wall construction, the average for 15 cities studied was only 1,365 bricks. In Indianapolis the day's work was 765 and in Boston 781. A bulletin by the social action de partment, national catholic welfare conference, analyzing these returns, calls attention to the claim made by anti-union employers that bricklayers before the war laid 1,200. to 1,600 bricks per day, but that since the war they have dropped to 600 or possibly in | as.a reguit of its study that the list Tuesday, December 2, 1924 y 05 PER CENT OF HOMES VISITED IN NEW YORK REVEAL CHILD LABOR Child Workers in Tenement Houses, Child Jabor was found to be prev- alent in nearly a quarter of the 15,000 houses licensed to engage in home work in New York state, ac- cording to the 1924 report of the New York state commisison to ex- amine laws relating to child welfare. The commission made an extens- ive study during 1924 of tenement manufacturing. Its report states, “Children of tender years—many of them under ten years of age—are commonly permitted or required to engage in this work.” The commis- sion recommended to the legisiature ef trades in which homework is pro- hibited should be extended and that eventually homework should be pro- hibited. SEND RELIEF FOR THE COAL MINERS TO DAILY WORKER PROTEST WHITE TERROR UNDE The Big Mass Meeting in New York City (Special to the Daily Worker) NEW YORK CITY, Dec, 1— The Workers Party and the In- ternational Workers’ Aid has ar- ranged a mass protest meeting against the Dawes plan and the arrests and persecutions of Communists in Germany. This meeting takes place Dee. 5 at the Labor Temple, 243 HB. 84th street. Every worker should attend this meeting. Be there to raise your voice in protest. Organized capital is going mad in its brutality in forcing the Dawes plan upon the German workers. It has brot about a white terror in Germany which daily takes on more and more Big Consignment Goes to Sesser, Illinois Relief for the needy coal miners of southern Illinois is being sent to the DAILY WORKER In the form of money, clothing and canned food- stuffs, ‘ Last week five packages of clothing donated by readers of the DAILY WORKER were dispatched by our business office to the needy miners of Sesser, Illinois. Several letters have been received from New York City and other places asking where money should be sent direct, and the DAILY. WORKER has supplied the in- formation. The letter dispatched with the lat est shipment of clothing reads as fol lows: Ross White, Sesser, Ill. Dear Comrade: We are sending you by express to- day five packages of clothing donated by. readers. of the DAILY WORKER for the relief,of the needy miners anc their children in your district. We are glad to be able to help in this small way, and only wish we could do more. Please see that thes« articles of clothing are distributed to the best advantage where they are most needed. The DAILY WORKER is glad to stand with the miners in all their im mediate; struggles, never forgetting our revolutionary. goal. s Fraternally yours, The DAILY WORKER. Any other persons wishing to help the unemployed coal miners of south- ern Illinois thru the winter are ad- vised “to send money or clothing to the DAILY WORKER. An account of the disposition of the relief will be printed in these columns. Open Forum, Sunday Night, Lodge Room, Ashland Auditorium. BOSSES SILENCE GUNS DURING THE MONTHS PRECEDING ELECTION WASHINGTON.—Use of the na- tional guard in breaking strikes seems to have been less popular during the past year—leading up to the presidential campaign—than us- ual. The annual report of General Rickards, chief of the militia bureau in the war department, says there has “been a marked decrease dur- ing the preceding fiscal year in the number of states in which national guard troops have been called upon to aid In the preservation of law and order or to render emergency assistance in great disasters.” The strength of the national guard June 30, 1924 was 17 gain of 15 per cent since June 30, 1923. DAILY WORKER will publish a new chapter from the book, “Len- : The Great Strategist of the Class War,” by A. Losovsky,.secre- tary of the Red International of Labor Unions. The fourteenth chap-.. ter is entitled, “The Gift of Orienta-. aay 2 _ Lenin possessed the exceptional ability of orientation and Marxian far- sightedness. As a realist in class poli- tics he quickly perceived the nature of di . Editor's. Note—Kvery day until publication has been completed, the “But it was in | THEGIFT OF ORIENTATION | brutal forms. With the adoption of ‘the Dawes plan every*day brings new attacks against the Communists with sén tences of long terms in prison and hard labor for the revolutionary work- ers. Shipping Board Busy Turning U. S. Ships to. Private Ownership WASHINGTON, D. ©, Dee. 1— The United States shipping board has been busy consolidating American shipping lines and turning govern. ment ships over to American own- ers, according to the annual report made public today. It is not revealed in the report how much the private shipping corporations paid the gov- ernment for these ships. ( Among those buying ships from the government at an unknown figure was the Los Angeles shipping com- pany which bought the “City of Los Angeles” and an ex-German vessel seized at the beginning of the war. Seven vessels of the so-called 502 foot class, described as “large, medfum speed freight vessels with a limited but extremely comfortable passenger accommodation,” were sold to the Dollar Steamship Line for operation in a round the world service. j The W. F. Grace company pur- chased two vessels for operation from Pacific coast ports to the West coast of South America. It is not stated how much the government lost on these sales or what the purchase price was, CONCERT SUNDAY Ry pS PLAN | y IETS ROSE SAREE STIS | BY THE FREIHET SINGING SOCIETY Sunday evening, Dec. 7, the well known and justly popular Communist entertainers, the Freiheit Singing So- ciety and the Freiheit Mandolin Or- chestra will give their tenth annivers- ary celebration. The rich program arranged for the occasion promises a real treat for lovers of music. Wal- purge’s Night by Goethe with music by Mendelssohn is one of the selec- tions to be rendered by the entire cast of the Freiheit Singing Society and the 30 musicians of the Sym: phony Orchestra, Another attraction will be the rendering of selections by the three artists, Bertha Long, con- tralto, L. Lipner, tenor and I. Mish- kin, baritone, who are well known to working class audiences.: , fog The entertainments given by thie revolutionary workers’ musical ciety are always looked forward to as a treat, Buy your tickets now at the Freiheit headquarters, 3837 W. Roose- velt Road and come early as the con: cert starts promptly at eight. ae cratic obstacles. He did not ¢ even from dissolving the cons' assembly, which had been a thing in the minds of many tions of Russian intellectuals, - democracy was never al iis eyes to the social economic problems of the revolutiga sis Cota bourgeois democracy he placed the democracy of the proletariat... ° International reformism saw in act of Lenin's his heaviest sin, in reality it was one of his greate; contributions of the proletarian struggle. The civil war in Russia ha exposed the fractions and es, which had been fighting under the banner of democracy and the tuent assembly, as real ack 4 lutionists, gle In the West.have proved vincingly that the demneralic soa tion between the soclal-democracy the bourgeoisie is nothing more betrayal of the working class. } oe Yet i wi The last years of strug. | ee | |