The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 8, 1924, Page 2

Page Two TOILERS ATTACK FASCISTI RULE: REVOLT SPREADS ItalianCommunists Take Lead in Struggle (Special to The Daily Worker) ROME, Dec. 7.—A tense re- volutionary atmosphere prevails thruout Italy. Clashes are breaking out in many points be- tween the workers, led by Com- munists, and the Fascisti. The workers of Turin hav revolted ‘against the Fascisti. Many were killed in the fight- ing and many others wounded. A strict censorship has been set up by the Fascisti, making it impossible to determine the ex- tent of the revolutionary spirit. In Chiasso, at the Italo-Swiss front- ier, fighting is taking place. General De Bono, formerly head of the Fascisti milita, has been accused of beng the major instigator of the assassination of Matteotti. Finji, for- merly secretary of the interior, has also been implicated in the murder. In his speech before the senate, Mussolini was enabled to keep his power only by telling the senators that if he was not kept in. power, the Communists would set up a dictator- ship. The Communists are the strongest and the best organized revolutionary party in Italy, Mussolini declared. Crooked Labor Faker Will Be Freed by Al Smith After Xmas NEW YORK, Dec. 7.— News that Robert P. Brindell, former president of the Building Trades Council of New York, would be paroled from Great Meadows prison the day after Christmas is not arousing any opposi- tion from Samuel Untermeyer, who conducted the Lockwood Committee investigations that led to the charge of extortion against Brindell. Untermeyer says he does not under- stand why there should be such a hullabaloo against Brindell “if,” says Untermeyer, “the criminal rich and respectable thieves and grafters in high places who are with immunity stealing the public’s money every day of the week; of the stock swindlers, stock washers and man- ipulators who, under cover of the machinery of the stock exchange, are robbing the people day in day out; if Big Business, through the trusts and illegal trade combinations is at liberty to continue without interrup- tion rendering the cost of living al- most prohibitive to the poor, and if the war fraud conspirators of crimes of cunning who habitually go un- whipped of justice,” if these, says Untermeyer, were exposed and pun- ished there would be less outcry against the Brindells, Brindell has served nearly three years and nine months of his five to ten years sentence. -TULSA, Okla., Dec. 5.—Ratification by Oklahoma of the national child labor. amendment is demanded in resolutions passed by the Oklahoma state bricklayers conference at Tulsa, Bighteen local unions were repre- sented. AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHERTY. (Continued from page 1) for him on Second avenue? Calles promises to give capital, labor and the “public” a square deal. He prom- ises to be nice to tlie oil companies. In view of these promises why should not Wall Stret agree to loan enough money to Mexico to pay all its obliga tions and leave a little over to enter- tain Gompers and the other labor lackeys of-Wall Street? PITTSBURGH, PA. DR. RASNICK DENTIST Rendering Expert Dental Servi For 20 Ye .- sr i, SMITHFIELD 81 ar 7th Ave. 27 CENTER AVE. Archur St. Dr S.. ZIMMERMAN. DENTIST | 32. N, CALIFORNIA AVE Phone ARMITAGE 7466 MY NEW LOCATION bon X-Ray rices ae to Gas Workers Given ESTABLISHED 12 YBARS. My Examination Is Fre My Prices Are Reasonable My Work Guaranteed Extracting Specialist DELAY MEANS DECAY | ment of France to go to the devil. |right in the streets of Paris as the | fleur de lys of the royalists. Mayor Raises Hobb and the Red Flag. The red town of Douarnenez, a fishing village, is giving a test case. The crux of the trouble is that the |mayor, F. La Flanchee, is the leader lof the whole town, and he is a Com- munist. For many months La Flanchec has }been making things miserable for the | bourgeoisie in the village, which is a fishing and sardine packing center. A |few months ago some of the fisher folk were ejected from their houses by landlords who seemed quite incensed at the failure of their tenants ever to pay rent, As mayor of the city La Flanchec halted the ejections, opened the doors of the houses himself and ordered the police to replace the disturbed furni- ture. Some of those police were amusing spectacles as they aided the housewives to tack down the carpets and put up the dislocated stoves. Then He Leads a Strike. But this was only a beginning. Now La Flanchec is really doing something. Under the mayor's leadership a strike was begun in all the sardine packing (Continued from page 1) financial burdens of France, as well as the disintegration of the British em- pire, in order to enforce their pacifist propaganda in Europe—propaganda which, after the world war, they con sider the best ideological method to assure a new imperialist partition of the world. Vil. ‘The extension of certain industries whicn assure exceptional profits, as well as the investment of American capital in Europe, bring the United States face to face with the very acute question of markets and colonies. The colonization of Europe and the mono- polization of the markets are directly connected with one another. That is the reason why the following events may be considered inevitable: a. A new fight for the colonies. b. Considerable importance of the role of, Americgn imperialism in the fight against the U. S. S. R., in alli- ance with the finance groups of Eu- rope. c. Constant pressure on China and the exploitation of the internal fights of that country. d. The economic weakening of Jap- an caused by the recent catastrophe allows America to develop her produc tive powers. The economic crisis has made more acute for Japan the emi- gration problem, accentuating the an- tagonism of the two imperialist pow- ers (another important factor in the weakening of Japanese imperialism is the break with England). e. The fight of England for her col- onies, a fight in which America will play a two-faced part. f. An economic and political fight against the proletarian masses by the combined forces of capital—a fight which will be organized and led in more co-ordinated fashion than it has formerly been. g. The proletarianization of the peasant masses and of the petty-bour- geoisie and the semi-proletarianization of the middle bourgeoisie will assume broader proportions and a more mark- ed character. . vii. The international conflicts and the conflicts between the classes will as- sume, as a result of the modification of forces, new and very different forms, The league of nations, the ante cham- ber of imperialist diplomacy, is tryng to hide, under the cloak of liberalism, the antagonisms which are going om— and in this they are aided by the so- cialists of the Second International. Together they are preparing for the establishment of fascism against the revolutionary proletariat. As a result, it is necessary: a, To show the imperialist nature of “pacifism,” of monopoly, finance and banking capital. b. To shed light on the nature of the present conflicts caused by a drift in the direction of a new partition of the world, as well as the attempt of America to put off as far as possible the conflicts in Europe. c. To call attention to the inevi- table revolutionization of Japan and the development of the struggle be- tween finance capital and all the col- onies. d. To call attention to the role of the league of nations, organ of the im- perlalism of the United States. ®. To call attention to the necessity of making the fight of the colonized German workers and of the Chinese proletariat the fight of the workers of all countries, Ix, a, The changes in the tactics and the maneuvers of the dominating bour- geoisie inevitably brings fluctuations in the ranks of the petty-bourgeoisie outside of the Communist Party, but FRENCH COMMUNIST MA HAS TOWN IN UPROAR AS HE | LEADS STRIKERS AND TENANTS (Special to The Dally Worker) PARIS, France, Dec. 7.—The troubles of Premier Herriot increase hourly. |Besides the dilemma of the government over the case of Jaques Sadoul, Herriot has a new problem in the shape of a town on the Brittany cost | which has raised the red flag over the city hall and told the central govern- YOR One of the complications is the fact that in the debate in the French |chamber of deputies over the Communist demonstration at the removal of | the ashes of Jaures to their new resting place, Herriot argued that the red |flag of the Communists had as much #————————$— $$ —___—_. houses. La Flanchec himself led the parade of strikers through the village with a red flag tied around his waist instead of the French tricolor, He saw to it that city funds were used to finance the needy strikers families. Firstly, only the sardine packers were involved, then the strike spread to the workers who make the sardine boxes. The whole town is in an uproar. The police prefect of the province drafted special officers and sent them to Douarnenez, but nobody pays any attention to them. La Flanchec has invited Communist speakers of Paris to come to the village and in public speeches declared, “We didn’t care a hoot for the police of the Bloc National and we care even less for the police of the present government.” Puts Herriot in a Hole. La Fianchec has such a strong popularity that his arrest would pro- voke trouble all over France as the Communists would surely take up the fight to show that by Herriot’s sup- pression of a mayor who takes the side of strikers he disproves before the masses the claim that he is a “radical. socialist”—which is the name of his party. FRENCH COMMUNISTS IN DECLARATION, the necessity of a hard fight against reformism, pacifism and the social- jemocratic deviations, in whatever ‘orm they appear, in the Communist Party, as well as .against “radical” phraseology and pseudo-revolutionar- ism, which result from lack of faith in the revolution and in the proletari- at. b. Re-enforcement of the ranks of the conscious proletariat and the Bol- shevization of the party as a result of the necessity of alliance with the masses of peasants, of petty-bour- geois recently proletarianized, and of oppressed colonies. c. Internationalization of propa- ganda, of the organization of the eco- nomic and political struggle of the Communist Party. d. To the solution of finance capi- tal of international questions by means of colonization, of war, ard of organized economic crises, we must »ppose the proletarian solution of in- ternational economic questions (ex- amples, the solution of these ques- tions in the U, S..8..R., program of the proletarian experts of the Commu- nist Party of Germany, reiteration of colonial independence.) e. It is necessary to develop the fight for the eignt-hour day, against the reduction of wages, for aid to the unemployed, on the broadest possible international basis. x. Thanks to the improvements in its sconomic status, to the strengthen- ng of its international position (Ang- lo-Russian treaty, drawn up under the pressure exerted by the singlish pro- ietariat, the Russo-German treaty, and the treaty between China and Russia) the U. S. S. R. is becoming the only country independent of America and applying the principle of the right of self-determination, the only strong- hold of all the oppressed people and classes, The attempts of finance capital to impose on the U. S. 8. R. conditions comparable to those of the Dawes and the Mellon-Hurley plan are inevitable. The following things are also inevi- table: a. Attempts to isolate the U. 8S. S R. by means of the imperialist league of nations, representing the imperial- ists and the financiers of the United States. b. Attempts at making war against certain parts of the U. 8S. S. R. in or- der to sap the vitality of its economic life under the disguise of slogans of liberation, as well as open warfare on the Asiatic frontiers of the U. S. 8. R. (attempts at counter-revolutionary menshevik insurrections in Georgia and Afghanistan), ec. Economic boycott. The struggle for allience with Soviet Russia against the colonization of Burope, for the independence of peoples and for the liberation of col- onies, are becoming even more im- vortant than they have been. This ituation brings with it a number of political and practical results, par- Ueularly: (a) The creation of an interna- tional union of delegates from the big factories and mines, to defend the Russian revolution and elemen- tary economic interests of the work- ers against the offensive of finance capital. (b) The struggle for unity in the trade union movement is assuming, under prevailing conditions, excep- tional importance, Never has the re- formist ideology of the trade union bureaucrats and of the socialist parties been in opposition to the ex- tent that it is now placing itself in opposition, to the inevitable fight of the broad masses for the raising of their standard of living, The strikes ‘in Austria, in Belgium, as well as the on Its very outskirts. From this arises mass movements in Hngland for recog- ‘ THE DAILY WORKER nition of the Soviets and Dawes plan, characteri; anything else this opposition, In this international organization of the eco- nomic fight, the resistance of the chief reformist defenders of the bour- geoisie to the policy and to the class struggle of the proletariat will be quickly broken. The transformation of socialist parties, the left wing of bourgeois Fascism, into parties of the dominant bourgeoisie, supporting the offensive against the proletariat, will create anti-socialist sentiment among the broad masses. The Communist Party must approach carefully and atten- tively these masses who, in a practi- cal situation, wake up and engage in the class struggle. Xi t The realignment for forces and the role of American finance capital have resulted in gaining time for the Huro- pean bourgeoisie; but the truce which they have succeeded in getting will be of very short. duration. Preparation for decisive battles should be made on as broad a scale as possible, for the capitalist offen- sive will be carried out on a vast scale indeed. The last act of the last stage of capitalist government is about to begin. The task of the Com- munist parties in the preparation of the fight. for power becomes very much greater. The Communist parties should use the greatest possible de- termination and show their ability to direct large masses, The Bolshevization of the Commun- ist parties, their direct connection with the masses—these are conditions necessary to enable them tp take part in decisive battles. » COLORED COPPER GETS NANNIES OF SOUTHERN LADIES Females Riot But Get Nutty When Cop Comes WASHINGTON, Dee. 7.—A row in the annual meeting of the district chapters of the united daughters of the confederacy which resulted in some hysterical daughters putting in a call for the police—and having it answered in the person of a colored policeman— threatened today to have still further ramifications. On the desk of Major Daniel Sul- livan, chief of the police in the cap- itol, reposed today a letter from an in- dignant congressman Representative Gasque of Louisiana, who termed the whole affair an “outrage” and de- nounced the police department for daring “to send a policeman to preserve order & group of southern ladies. I want/'to know who is responsible for this and why it was done.” The fight in the organization was staged over the election of officers. Stinging epithets and near physical encounters between the rival factions featured the session which finally ended after midnight with the elec- tion of Mrs. Albion Tuck. But only seventy votes out of more than 100 were cast, Build Junior Highs; Elementary Schools Remain Very Crowded The board of education is going ahead with plans for installing junior high schools for which Superintendent McAndrew was imported to Chicago by big business which is waging its campaign so persistently to reduce the cost of education of the masses. Nine new schools are to be built at once to house the junior highs which will turn working class children into experienced craftsmen ready to pile up profits without waste. The buildings will be built on land owned by the board of education lo- cated at the following places: West 114th street and Stewart avenue, west 52nd and south Rockwell streets, Lemoyne and LeClaire avenues, Hend- erson and Keeler avenues, east 84th street and Philips avenue, west 62nd street and Linden avenue, Byron and New England avenues, east 80th street and Chappel avenues and Granville and Fairfield avenues. ‘ No move is being made by the board of education to build elementary schools to relieve the congestion that is crowding 60 children into one class- room and even at that rate only ac- commodate pupils on part-time basis. Indict Newmark as Counterfeiter. Ben Newmark, assistant state fire marshal under Governor Small, has been indicted by the grand jury for counterfeiting and selling $5,000,000 worth of war savings stamps. Eleven other men were indicted together with Small’s marshal, Now They Put It Up to Voters, Chairman Schwartz of the trans- portation committee announced in a public statement that they have it all fixed to pass the buck to the voters. The voters, he said, will be asked to decide on a city ordinance providing for the building of the subways when the aldermanic elections take place in February. WASHINGTON, Dec. 7, — The christmas recess of congress will run from Saturday, December 20, to Mon- day, December 29, under a resolution passed unanimously by the house to-| courtma: day. The senate will concur, Czarism Must Be Rooted Up, Both Plant and Seed, By Workers of America By J, LOUIS ENGDAHL. ToPAy while it is being announced that Communists will be driven out of the capitalist nations of Western Europe by the hundreds of thousands, the American plutocracy re- ceives to its bosom, the “grand duchess” Victoria Feodorov- na, wife of the “grand duke” Cyril Viadimirovitch, who re- cently proclaimed himself Cyril I, “czar” of all the Russians. Thus the American colony of ozarist emigres with the glad consent of the American imperialist government, finds its ranks increased by the sister of Queen Marie, of Rou- mania, where the lives of workers and peasants have been blotted out by the thousands under one of the most fiendish white terrors Europe has yet seen. * % * * It is well known that the “grand duke” is an extreme eccentric. Under ordinary circumstances he would be con- fined as a lunatic. Even his own family frowns on its pre- tensions. It has some other candidate for the job. But harboring this ambition is just as insane as the grandiose announcements of the “duke” himself. All these titles so grandiloquently proclaimed are “the bunk”; since Russia under Soviet Rule, recognizes no dukes or duchesses. If there are any left in Russia, they have lost their titles and been put to work. But the American subsidized press recognizes them, the social circles of the parasites bow before them, and the oe capitalist dictatorship gives them what. standing they can. ” When the would-be “czarina” arrived in New York, she was met by a special force of police and detectives, just like any other capitalist “somebody,” and the royal suite at the Waldorf-Astoria was turned over to her free of charge. She was even honored with “threatening letters,” that the effi- cient reportorial staffs of the yellow press always furnish the illustrious manikins that they parade thru their columns. * * * The visit of the fake “duchess” should do much to un- mask the fraudulent character of American democracy in this capitalist republic. With the “admirals,” the “generals” and the what-nots, from among the Russian czarist emigres that waited on the “duchess,” there appeared Mrs. Henry P. Loomis, president of the Colonial Dames of America, an aggregation of snobs claiming ancestry among those who made victory possible against Great Britain in the revolutionary war of 1776, It is into this atmosphere that LaFollette would have the American workers and poor farmers plunge with his “Back to '76" slogan. * * * * But the workers and poor farmers, if they wish to find the counterparts of the Russian czarists in this country, need only look over the list of hosts to the wandering “duchess,” whose family in’ Russia oppressed the great masses of workers'and poor peasants for centuries. Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, the widow of the American railroad czar, heads the list, with Mrs. Joseph Pulitzer, of the newly rich family that owns the New York World, court organ to the democratic wing of Wall Street’s bi-partisan olitics. She will enter the official political family in Wash- ington as the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Lansing. This is the Lansing who was secretary of state under Wilson. He did his part in plunging this country into the European blood bath in 1917. The “duchess” will also be received by Mrs. John. Hays Hammond, wife of one of the unofficial family of the republican party. Hammond, the multi-mil- lionaire mine owner, has been active as an open-shopper, at the same time lending himself to the class-collaboration schemes of the National Civic Federation, that claims the whole Gompers’ regime in the American Federation of Labor as one of its greatest mainstays. The “duchess” will thus have good democratic and re- publican connections in Washington. In Philadelphia she will enter the circles of the most exclusive American aristo- cracy, that stood by Coolidge with its millions in the recent campaign, under the direction of Mrs. Alexander Van Rens- selaer and Mrs. Gardner Cassett. The strike-breaking, union-crushing vice-president of the Pennsylvania Railroad, William Wallace Atterbury, has decided to give the “duchess” a free ride on his railroad, thru turning over to her one of the road's best private cars. The “duchess” will get some comfort in the fact that she will find her memories of czarist rule in Russia, mirrored in the brutal conditions inflicted upon workers and poor farmers in this pirent b Perhaps Mr. Atterbury will let her take a run thru the anthracite coal fields, owned by Pennsylvania's railroads, where the labor hating coal and mine barons join with the labor bureaucracy to keep the workers in submission. Perhaps the “duchess” will shake hands with John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers’ Union, as a reward for revoking the charters of miners’ locals in the hard coal fields, and breaking up their resistance to the mine owners. Perhaps she will give a smile to Lewis’ agent in the anthracite fields, President Rinaldo Cappellini, of District One. Czarist rule has fallen in Russia. But it has deep roots in the United States in American capitalism's fertile soil. Workers and poor farmers here must unite under the same » Communist leadership that made Soviet Rule in Russia vic- torious, to root out and destroy it, plant and seed. WHITE GUARD VICTIMS IN ESTHONIA ‘A group of labor members of the Esthonian parliament arrested and rtialed by the white guard government. The one marked No. 2, is ish parliament by | Kangur, reported in a cable a few days ago as killed in the uprising. | Steincke. Comrade Monday, December 8, 1924 IRISH FAMINE RAVAGES CITY AND COUNTRY Government Refuses to Take Action (Special to The Daily Worker) DUBLIN, Dec. 7.—The spectre of a terrible famine looms over Ireland. In the western part of the country, the failure of the crops presents a situa tion as threatening as any since the black days of '47, And while deaths from hunger are reported the Free State government does nothing but twiddle its thumbs. Trade Unions Split. ‘The crisis is caused by a crop fall ure and also a heavy slump in trade The extent of the crisis can be gath- ered from the fact that there are 100,000 industrial workers listed at the unemployment exchanges, while the entire membership of the trade unions at best never exceeded 250,00¢ and the population of the county is only about 4,000,000. But the dis tress is not confined to the industrial population, and the figures for the ag- ricultural regions are not easily avail able as they do not register with the unemployment exchanges. Food Prices High. Food prices are already higher than in England and are 80 per cent higher than before the war. Instead of doing something to help the famine stricken people, the government has created a commission to inquire into the cause of the crop failure. ‘When the great famine broke in Russia, the Irish priests attributed the disaster to a visitation of the christian God because the Russian people per mitted Bolshevism to find root among them. Ireland is the most catholic and loyal to Rome of any country in the world, yet the western part of the country is a fertile ground for famine and the prayers of the clergy seem t have no influence in increasing the food supply. AL SMITH AND HILLQUIST UNITE AGAINST STRIKES (Special to The Dally Worker) NEW YORK, Dec. 7.—Governor Al Smith pledged his aid in preventing strikes in New York state at the an- nual industrial conference of the state department of labor. Morris Hillquit spoke at the same session. Hiliquit declared the “most effective method of minimizing industrial friction thus far has been the system of collective bargaining.” “I cannot think of a more senseless waste than a strike” said Governor Smith. Smith deplored the “waste of time” in a strike and said the “public” is the heaviest sufferer. Other speakers in addition to Mor ris Hillquit and Al Smith, were Charles M. Ripley of the general elec- tric company, Lester M. Jones of the publishers’ association of New York, Don Seitz of the New York World, and Hugh Frayne, general organizer of the American Federation in New York. : . Chicago Federation of Labor Gets Pleas for . . Organization Work At the meeting of the Chicago Fed- eration of Labor yesterday, the or- ganization committee reported that three local unions, the Retail Clerks, the Bank Clerks and the Leather Workers, have appealed to the federa- tion for assistance in organizing. It was voted that the banks be cir- curalized with requests that they per- mit their clerks to join the Bank Clerks’ union, On behalf of the retail clerks the organization committee is to intervene with the employers who do not recognize the union and pur sue negotiations, while recommending. the patronage of members of affiliated bodies be given to retail stores which recognize the union. The executive committee of the fed: eration was instructed to take up the building program of the board of edu: cation with the school committee of the board, concerning the platoon sys tem of schools, f Lower Wages, More Profits. -PROVIDENCE, R. 1, ing into the per cent wage England textile mills, the Lon Co., controlled by Goddard Bros., put its No. 4 and Ann and Hope on full time operation tho without the full force of workers. The com- pany’s mills at Hope and Phenix in Pawtucket valley have also been given wage cuts. Lonsdale Co. fol- lows the suit of the two other cotton mill groups of Rhode Island, Manville-Jenckes Co. and B. B, and R, Knight, Inc, . Would Have Some Patients Killed. COPENHAGEN, Dec. 7. A bill which would authorize doctors certain conditions to take the @ patient without incurring ment, has been introduced in the r? : \