The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 5, 1924, Page 6

Page Six THE DAILY WORKER. Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill, (Phone: Monroe 4712) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mall: $3.50....6 months $2.00....8 months By mail (in Chicago only): : $4.50....8 months $2.50...3 months $6.00 per year $8.00 per year A@dress all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER 1113 W. Washington Bivd. J. LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F. DUNNE MORITZ J. LOE! Chicago, tlinols a eemeveons WALCO swerve Business Manager fntered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1928, at the Post- Office at Chicago, Ill., under the act of March 8, 1879, <p> 290 Anthracite Miners Rebel Confirming our prediction made a few days ago, John L. Lewis has revoked charters of eleven locals in the anthracite district, We stated that charters would be revoked wherever there exists dissatisfaction with the boss- favoring agreements negotiated by Lewis in order that the rebellious coal diggers be prevented from voting against the Lewis machine. The facts speak for themselves. Eleven thousand miners are on strike in the anthracite fields against the constant violation of the agreement, violation which is tacitly approved by Lewis and his henchman-Cappellini. The miners get no support from the administration in these protests but are told to get back on the job and wait for a settlement that never comes. It is reported that 22,000 more miners are pre- paring to leave the pits in a few days and this represents, with those already on strike, more than one-fifth of the entire membership in these districts. Last year organizers of the Labor Defense Coun- cil and of the Progressive Miners’ Committee were mobbed at the conyention of District 2 after Lewis had organized a demostration against them. Cap- pellini had just been elected and had promised great things for the miners. The extent of his treachery was not known at the time. Today, every word of criticism of officialdom of the district and international officialdom uttered by the Progressive Miners’ Committee has been justified a thousand times over and the revoking of eleven charters is the’ best evidence that the sentiment of-the miners has changed. We venture to say that organizers for the left wing will be weleomed with open arms by the Advertising rates on application Coolidge and the Negroes I firmly believe that it is better for all con- cerned that they (the Negroes) should be pro- tected from all those impositions to which, from their position they naturally fall a prey, especially from the crime of lynching, and that they should receive every encouragement to become full partakers in all the blessings of our common Amer- jean citizenship. —From the Coolidge message. If the above strikes you as a rather meager and conservative statement with which to dismiss 12,- 000,000 people and their problems, please remem- ber that about 90 per cent of Negroes are workers and that Coolidge represents‘ the blackest section of the American capitalism. Many Negroes voted for Coolidge and this is their reward—he thinks that they should not be lynched and calls it an “imposition.” He is doubtless in favor Negroes who make trouble for white landowners and capi- talists, being hung after a “fair” trial. This method is in accord with the best standards of New England civilization and is not subject to so much criticism from liberals. As to how lynching is to be stopped he has nothing to-say and the sadistic slayers of Negro workers and farmers can return to their degener- ate pastime without any qualms, confident that President Coolidge will not move to interfere with what he doubtless believes is an inevitable accom- paniment of the progress of the Negro race toward “becoming full partakers in all the blessings of our common American citizenship.” Coolidge will probably demonstrate his belief in this “common citizenship” by appointing a Negro postmaster in some stronghold of the southern aristocracy, and the southern aristocracy will demonstrate their belief in the president by lynching the new incumbent—as has happened more than once in the sunny south. Then there will be hypocritical expressions of regret from the cool Calvin, but nothing will be done until, under the leadership of the Workers (Communist) Party, the Negroes recognize the class basis of their struggle, organize and, with the rest of the working class, abolish all class, na- tional and racial distinctions. American Fashions in Cuba The National City Bank government of Cuba is deporting 28 “agitators” who are charged with activity in the strike movement which has tied up the sugar industry—the pet profit-making enter- prise of American capitalists in the island. The United States is the Paris of the western hemisphere in that it sets the fashion for the prin- THE DAILY WORKER _ es THREE DAYS OF HOLIDAYS MARK BRITAIN AND UNITED STATES FIGHT OVER LOOT Wall Street Wants. Its Share of War Spoils (Special to The Dally Worker) WASHINGTON, Dec, 4.—Just when settlement of the acrimonious repara- tions problem was beginning to look rosiest thru the successful operation of the Dawes’ plan, the postponement of the inter-allied financial conference, scheduled to be held on December 15, was viewed here today as a new and unexpected obstacle and a source of extreme diplomatic worry. That the postponement of the con- ference, implying as it does that the British government is opposed to American participation in the repara- tions payments on an equal basis with the other allies, brings the United States face to face with what is one of the most important questions aris- ing from the aftermath of the world war is not denied by state department officials, altho Secretary of State Hughes declines to express his views on the question, Danger to Dawes’ Plan. Aside from the fact that between $500,000,000 and $600,000,000 due the United States is involved the set- tlement of the question on an amicable basis is highly important because of the manner in which it is entangled with the ultimate success of the Dawes’ plan, the economic réhabilita- tion of Europe, and war debts owed the United States. The British take the attitude that the United States, by its failure to be one of the signatories to the treaty of Versailles, forfeited any right to par- ticipate with the other allies in equal shares in the spoils of war. Wants Share of Loot. The American viewpoint, in direct contravention, is that the United States is entitled, by every Tegal and equitable right, to share in thé repara- tions receipts paid under the Dawes’ plan—an American contribution to the solving of Europe’s jumbled finances —on an equal basis with great Britain, France and the other victors as the American treaty with Germany is no mere scrap of paper, but just as legal, binding and in force as the treaty of cipalities over which its financiers and battleships Versailles. SEVENTH ANNIVERSARY OF SOVIET VICTORY IN WORKERS’ REPUBLIC By ANIGE. (Special to The Dally Worker) MOSCOW, Nov. 10 (By Mail.)—Three days of holidays in the beautiful first snow in Moscow, with the blues and greens and reds of the walls and the golden domes of churches showing softly thru the white powder. It is an exquisite time. One feels in a sense completely out of tae world. For the street cars stop, and the newspapers stop, and the restaurants stop, and everyday life of every variety¢—————__________ stops, when Russians hold holiday. Hungarians Are Lively. On the first day was the big parade. From nine in the morning till seven at night they were thronging ten or twenty abreast thru the Red Square past the Lenin mausoleum. Soldiers, children, factory workers young Communists and Pioneers, some 400,000 in all, or possibly more. I went first to the square on a corre- spondent’s ticket and stood on the high walk by the red wall watching the procession. After four hours of this I drifted out of the square. There in Tverskaia were the immi- grant groups, waiting their turn to enter the long procession. The Hun- garians are a lively bunch; they were tossing favored members up in the air while waiting. And all along the street came the rising and falling of revolutionary chants. Then I caught sight of the American and English sec- tion. I recognized it by a big white banner and some words about “the Fictitious Zinoviey Letter.” I joined the group and marched thru the Red Square with them. Trotsky, Kalenin, Ryckoff and many others were in the receiving stand. Home here in my room overlooking the Metropole Square, I heard the bands and tramp of feet all afternoon, till at six in the evening the contagion of music drove me out again to the Red Square, to see the last of the paraders entering with torch-lights. The flaring, primitive torches against the dull red wall, the moon ‘rising be- hind the church of St. Basil, the chants, the sweeping paraders. Saw 20,000 Banners. And we were not out of the world at all, as we had seemed when that first complete hush of affairs struck the city. No procession in any land is so completely alive to world events. I watched the banners and placards as they passed; there must have been twenty thousand of them. I tried to imagine any American parade display- nouncing how the east and the west have celebrated Russia's revolution- ary holiday, In, Berlin there are 2 score of meetings, where they com- pare the condition of the Russian and the German workers, Inthe. eastern lands, Peking, Angora, Teheran, the celebration took as a motto the alli ance of oppressed Asia with Soviet Russia. In Tokio’ student groups took resolutions in honor of October, say- ing; “We swear to revolt. for free- dom.’ Alliance of Town and Country. Such was October day, in Russia and in the world. And on the second day came in Moscow and thruou! Russia the indoor celebrations. Chil- drens’ homes putting on programs of speeches and dramatics; musical technicums and artist groups bringing out programs of new revolutionary songs; factories and workmens’ clubs giving spectacles. And again on the third day thestreets were alive with auto trucks, taking groups of factory workers out to vil- lages where the meetings in honor of the alliance of town and country were going on. I went that evening to the EFFORT TO MAKE SMALL DISGORGE DOUGH PROCEEDS. Len Blocks Every Move to Get His Cash (Special to The Dally Worker) SPRINGFIELD, IIL, Dec. 4. — The second reverse in two days was met by Governor Len Small’s legal forces today when Circuit Judge Frank W, Burton denied their motion to set aside a previous decision in the gtate interest money suit against the gow ernor, The motion, denied without arga- ment, asked that an order entered in the case nearly two years ago hy Judge Norman L. Jones be vacated, The Jones order suppressed a part of the governor’s answer to the origingl bill in the suit, which alleged the acquittal of the governor on criminal charges at Waukegan acted as 5 bar to civil proceedings against him, Arguments were begun at once on the exceptions of the Small attorneys to the report of Master in Chancery, ©. Cc. Briggle, which recommends that Small be required to account for in- terest on state funds in his hands while state treasurer. Werner Schroeder, chief of the governors counsel, started the opening statement for the defense, which was expected to take up three days. The governor met his first setback yesterday when Judge Burton overrul- ed a motion asking the Briggle report Grand Opera House, where in a spe- cial concert hall which used to be the czar’s own private entrance to his guarded box in the opera, a concert was being given by a musical chil- dren’s home. Boys and girls selected from the scores of children’s homes around Moscow, because of musical and dramatic ability, and given spe- cial training by the artists of the Grand Opera. They themselves now were singing opera, with exquisite voices—children from the famine and the streets. be vacated because of alleged politi. cal prejudice. Admiral Magaz Denles Charges. MADRID, Dec. 4.—Admiral Magaz, acting president of the directory, strongly denied today that he had in- timated that the French government contained Spanish employes directing a campaign against Spanish monarchy. Fasclscti Denounced in Parliament. ROME, Dec. 4.—Senator Lussignoli came in for vigorous criticism from anti-fascist speakers in parliament to- day. Followers of Giollitti refused to pledge their confidence in the govern- ment. Subscribe for “Your Daily,” the DAILY WORKER. - We've Got It! Let’s Keep It! and BUILD! - feel like mobbing is one Cappellini—with John L. Lewis running him hard ferfirst place. The rebellious spirit of. the anthracite miners must not be allowed to dissipate itself in fruitless grumbling against the bureaucracy. It must be organized, the miners must not leave their union but must forte’ thé Lewis clique to find some other means of making a living than selling out the workers who pay their exorbitant wages. The Keene of Strikebreaking Strikebreakér President Coolidge has made a special plea for economy in running the biggest and most powerful strikebreaking agency in the world—the United States government. Since the outbreak of the world war the prob- lem of the rapidly mounting costs of government has been disturbing the ruling class of every capi- talist country. On the one hand, the capitalists are compelled to maintain a -huge strikebreaking apparatus in order to crush the workers at home and in order to maintain their areas of exploita- tion abroad. On the other hand, the cost of upkeep in this labor-crushing affair is assuming staggering proportions. Politically, the ruling capitalist class must strengthen its governmental machinery in order to maintain its power. Economically, the deeply disturbed capitalist economy is less and less able to bear such huge burdens. The Coolidge message proposes to make a reduc tion in ie cost of the operation of the government. Under the guise of economy the lickspittles of the exploiters have time and again struck dangerous blows at the working masses. We recall how Cool- idge, now yelling for economy, vetoed an increase in the pay of the miserably exploited postal em- ployes. ‘The government never stops to talk of economy when the question of strikebreaking is involved. Even in this very message on economy. that Cool- idge has just proposed we find certain yery in- teresting evidence about the real character of the much-heralded savings that are to be made We notice, for instance, that the 1926 budget proposes en increase of ten per cent in the appropriations for the department of justice. Every workingman ' knows what the department of justice busies itself with. Every railway worker, miner, and_ textile worker well recalls the thousands of. federal marshals sent against them during their 1922 strikes. The Daugherty and the hundreds of lesser injunctions are still vivid in the minds of millions of workers in the United States. What Coolidge is after is to have as efficient and as deadly a strikebreaking machine as possible and to run it at the lowest cost to the exploiters, to the bosses whom it serves. 1 fe, ces es ee anthracite coal miners and that the person establshed control—not fashions of clothes, i Caine Rem. ot enibi re but fashions in methods of dealing with workers who by demanding better wages, better working conditions and more power in government, inter- fere with the golden stream of dividends that flows into the treasure vaults of the American ruling class. The recent increase in wages to the engineers’ and firemen’s brotherhoods are an example of the use to which a portion of the colonial plunder is put —it is used to bribe the upper strata of the work- ing class which occupies strategic points in in- dustry-—te keep them more or less satisfied and quiescent, separated from the larger lower paid section of the workers. 4 Imperialism, the acquisition of fields of exploita- tion where immense quantities of commodities are produced by low paid workers, is thus today a great bulwark of capitalism. It necessitates on the part of the working masses in imperialist nations like the United States a constant struggle against its every manifestation. No better method of com- batting it has been devised that-the alliance be- tween the oppressed colonial masses and the Amer- ican working class for which the Workers (Com- munist) Party of America stands. To the deported victims of American imperialist reaction and to the striking sugar workers the DAILY WORKER extends revolutionary greetings and a pledge of solidarity in all their struggles. Cheap Votes The Coolidge economy concert, broadcast by ‘very capitalist sheet, is a shining example of the bunk which is the basis of all such campaigns. We say very frankly that we are not interested in capi- talist government economy. It matters not -one tinkers’ dam to us how the taxes are disbursed ex- cept that we like to see as much waste as possible as proof of the all-around inefficiency of the ¢api- talist system. We are seldom disappointed. We are sure always that the great bulk of the appropriations will be spent for past and future wars and for special means of curbing the workers’ march towards freedom. But when a president makes an economy cam- paign one of the central planks of ‘his platform, and the gullible middle class yelps approvingly, we like to look at the cold figures. We did. This is what we found: The 1925 estimates of the Coolidgé administra- tion call for approximately $59,000,000 less than last year. This is just about 50 cents per year for every person in ‘the United States, Truly «a wonderful accomplishment. e 4 ’ This is a pretty cheap price for voted of “free born American citizens,” but then “Coolidge stand» for economy” \ Ae di Sak +f Extracts From An Appeal that Caused MacDonald’s Collapse Here are the vital paragraphs of an appeal to the British soldiers, sailors and aviators that caused the fall of the MacDonald labor government. The appeal was circulated among the fight- ing men. The government at first prosecuted editor Campbell of the Brit- ish Commuist Party, then dropped the case and refused to permit an inquiry by parliament. The fatal vote of sen- sure followed and then Oct. 29 elec- tions which returned the conserva- tives to power. “Form committees in every barracks, aerdome and ship. Let this be the nucleus of an organization that will prepare the whole of the soldiers, sail- ors and airmen, not merely to refuse to go to war or to refuse to shoot strikers during industrial conflicts, but will make it possible for the work- ers, peasants, soldiers, sailors and air- men to go forward in a common at- tack upon the capitalists, smash capi- talism forever and institute the rule of the whole working class. E “Refuse to shoot down your fellow workers. “Refuse to fight for profits, “Turn your weapons on your appres- sorts”—From the Open Letter to the Fighting Forces, cirewlated in Great Britain. $ m New York Workers" cI ol, Register Now—208 E, ‘St. UBERILS GAG OVER ELECTION OF LLOYD GEORGE AS LEADER (Special to The Daily Worker} LONDON, Dec. 4.—The metropolis was interested today in ” i ments in the liberal p: a eg elestion of Lloyd George as house of commons floor leader, over former Premier Asquith. Several liberal members their opposition to Lioyd Gee this election as sessional of the party which leaves wizard only 26 followers o he can depend, And many, many placards with the tober. ing such international couldn't imagine it. Here was a “Hands Off China” pla- eard. A worried looking Chinaman being torn to pieces by grasping hands of imperialists was shown on a mount ed standard. It was cleverly drawn and painted; and a big red worker's hand was reaching over and clutching at the white hands of the imperialists to drag them away. This theme, wit! individual variations, was repeated perhaps twenty times in a single hal: hour. Feature “Zinoviev Letter.” Here were large letters waving above the crowd. The alleged “Zin viev letter” to the British Commun- ists was featured in a dozen ways all with a comic intent. Follows a placard showing black prison bars against the open sky, with a pair of red hands stretched beseechingly thru them. It needs no words to tell that this is an allusion to the tens 0; thousands of political prisoners now in the jails of Poland, Hungary, Ger- many and the rest of Europe. The Dawes plan came in for fre quent comment. Here also the “hand’ motive came into play. This time ii was the hands of American capital: ists choking a European workingman You could tell the capitalist hand by the gold links in the cuffs and by the grossness of it. I wonder if Ameri. cans dream how Europe regards them. “Putting Europe on a ration” is what Trotsky calls Dawes’ scheme. And e@ large part of Europe also sees it that way. The banks and railways and in- lustries of Germany are to be put in pawn; and American bankers are to hold the strings. ’ Mixed with these international pla cards were also thousands of more local significance. Here comes a crowd of children bearing 4 quotation trom Lenin, which he applied to the whole Communist movement, but which they have found especially sig: nificant for themselv “Our job is first, to learn; ; third, Here are some: “Down With Illiteracy” placards, and some others about “Get Together of City and Country.” Show Productivity of Labor. Productivity of labor comes in for 4 few thousand placards. Textile workers announcing that their revolu- Uonary tasks is to produce more and cheaper cotton goods; wor! from the Red Presnia district with a pla- card; “Bight hours work, but not a single lazy hour.” And here is a pla- eard with a golden sun and the words: “Lenin, Sun of the Dawing Years,’ motto: “Long live the Worldwide Oc- One remembers this last sign three later, when at last the newspa. gian of extraordinary foresightedness, he was also one of the greatest or- ganizers and leaders of the masses. He | {legal political groups up to the point struggle. Hew: lions, The international reformisis speak of Lenin as the destroyer of socialism, a sectarian, an intolerant wet. | BUILDERS’ ASSOCIATION TO | “FIGHT LABOR LEGISLATION The Associated Building Contractors of Mlinois, made up of the prin- legislature this winter. troduced in the coming session of the state legislature. , “It is now known that organized la- bor has a comprehensive program they aré going to try to put over and it behooves every contractor to be on the alert and see that his interests are aot jeopardized by the enactment of ‘aws which are oftimes passed thru organized pressure on members of the souse and senate. “The contractors of Illinois are at all times unalterably opposed to any legislation which would be based in ‘avor of any one class. The. associa- ion is now well represented in all parts of the state and is in a splendid oosition to serve the building indus- OYE? BS wey bnew 64 J. C, Wuellner, of Alton, chairman at the legislative committee of the ontractors’ organization, declares, “A study of the proposed legislation makes it apparent how constantly this Editor's “Note.—Every day until ompleted, the publication Lat mene KER will publish a new chapter from the book, “Len- in: The Great Strategist of the Class War,” by A: Losovsky, secre- tary of ‘the Réd International of Labor Unins, The seventeenth chap- ter is entitled, “An Organizer, of Masses,” ; : dia ee ENIN was not only a foremost Marxian, a statesman and strate- knew how to unite around himself large masses of human beings, to draw them into a mass movement, and to lead Fier ate struggles. He always stood at central point of the class charged with en- ergy, with faith, with absolute convic- tion, transmitting all this not only to those who stood close to him but aiso to hundreds’ of thousands and to 1il- Yes, we will ad- Y of AN ORGANIZER OF MASSES cipal organizations of the building contractors of the state, is organizing a drive to fight labor legislation proposed to come before the Illinois state “One if not the most important functions of the Associated Building Contractors of Illinois this coming winter,” says the official bulletin of the organization recently issued, “will be to watch out for measures inimical to employers generally that will be in-4————————_————— association will have to be on the job at Springfield to aid in obstruct- ing certain classes of legisiation.” The labor bilis which Wuellner de- clares the contractors’ ussociation of Illinois will fight, include: An anti- injunction bill in labor disputes; in- creased workmen’s compensation bill; minimum wage legislation; old age pension acts; limiting freight trains to fifty cars; one day rest in seven bill, insure the daily worker for 1925 your secretary has policies bourgeois and petty-bourgeois parties, He couldn't tolerate reformism. He was a sectarian because he refused to deal with the betrayers of the labor movement. “i The work of Lenin's life speaks for itself. This “spirit of destru A i stood at the head of a mighty ¢ try. This “sectarian” has been founder and leader of the greate; litical party in the world. This, piri of intolerance” left after him mot love and loyalty than anyone else - the course of thousands of years. . in’s organizing abilities have found thelr expression in thirty years of work, beginning with the creation of: when he assumed the leadership of Soviet Russia. For him there was no struggle possible, no victory possible, without organization, Organ r work was part and parcel of his activities. He had built his org tion from the bottom up, he @ & school of organization that {9 followed bY a generation which, fro his theory and particularly from’ action, will draw inspiration for. and years to come, Rei | We) Oe Tomorrow— “The Embx the Proletariat Will to rf j he