The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 9, 1924, Page 2

squid Page Two LEWIS AGENTS — WORK HARD TO BREAK STRIKE Cappellini Reported to Be Still Hiding By THOMAS MYERSCOUGH. (Special to The Daily Worker) PITTSTON, Pa., Dec. 8.—Al- tho 121 men were laid off and have long been kept out of work, for the “crime” of resist- ing wage cuts, the same being the basic reason for the strike at the ten mines of the Penn- sylvania Coal Co., the officials of the United Mine Workers of America are still concerned on- ly with the operator’s viewpoint which is that the miners have no right to strike. Vice-President Isaacs of Dis- trict No. 1, is a notable excep- tion to the rule in this belief, altho he seems to be afraid to definitely take a position with the men. The order revoking the charters of the striking locals did not bear his signature altho it is said that there was a place provided for it. D. W. Davis of Illinois, chief repre- sentative of Lewis and who was placed in charge here when Isaacs failed to carry out the Lewis orders, and Enoch Williams, secretary of district one, signed the revocation order. Cappellini’s name did not ap- pear on the order and many reasons are advanced for this fact. Rumor has it that Cappellini has returned from El Paso and is in the region here in hiding, being afraid to come out in the open to take a position either for Lewis or against the men. The men who are now on strike are responsible for “his fame, if such it can be called, so another story has | Started the rounds, that he has been delegated to represent the U. M. W. A. at a Mexican labor meet. This how- ever, is not believed generally but in- stead is regarded as “baloney.” Commission Arrives. The commission of international board members, the same one that appeared here a few months ago to serve notice on the general grievance | committees in this region, that they not call anymore. ia Pa again arrived. gre. This ¢ommission, consisting of Noal J. Ferry of district 7 (anthracite), John O'Leary of dis- THE BAILY WORKER AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHERTY. (Continued from page 1) lecturing British agent as the jugular vein of the empire. bs ** * HILE the situation in Ireland is so critical that, merely point- ing to the goal of the great revolution- ist James Connolly, is not sufficient, at the same time, it must be empha- sized that only a revolution that will overthrow the capitalist system in Great Britain will also free Ireland. Therefore, the duty of the Irish work« ers who took inspiration from -Con- nolly, is to make common cause »with the Communist Party of Great Brit- ain and join in the battle to dethrone the most astute if not the most brut- al robber class in all human history, ** 4 N the meantime it 1s distressing to | note that no man of Connolly's vi- sion and revolutionary understanding has yet appeared in the Irish labor movement, one who could take an objective view of the situation and take advantage of the chaos, depres- sion and discontent of the masses to rally the workers and peasants behind a program that would lead to the goal of a workers’ and peasants’ govern- ment. * HE first thing a man of the Con- nolly type would do in this crisis would be to raise the slogan of unity in the trade union movement in ac- cordance with the policy of the Red In- ternational of Labor Unions. This kind of a policy would close up the ranks of labor, discredit the fakers who prefer chaos and inaction to a militant constructive program and would also give undisputed leadership to those who are determined to make of the trade unions fighting instruments to wage the class struggle and not as agencies of class collaboration. Let us hope the present crisis will not find the Irish working class without at least making a step in the direc- tion of such a policy. ae thing in anything but a serious mood, and laugh off the suggestion that their general grievance committees will be outlawed. They confess ignorance of the many Lewis crimes against the miners, and steadfastly refuse , to even concede the possibility of. such a thing happening. Many stiil retain |their faith in Cappellini because he jformerly belonged to the socialist party, because he formerly acted like a rebel and chiefly because he is the one who is responsible for the exist- ance of the gengral bodies. They at- tach no si éance to the fact that yhe ise at a time whem he ought to be in the midst of this fight to pro- tect their interests. Other Strikers Return. ALL EXECUTIVE CONMITTEEMEN ARE COMMUNIST Hard Blow forReaction of Gompers-Morones (Continued from page 1) even led regiments against De La Huerta, which were organized by them under the hammer and sickle emblem on red flags, and many of the most Jactive Communists of Mexico, fell in action while fighting against De La Huerta and his Fascist counter-revo- lution, Morones was compelled to . deny this lie in a public statement when Gompers first made the accusation at El Paso. He then even allowed the Communists to answer. Gompers in a paper Morones himself controlled. Vargas, his understudy, in the Mexi- can Federation of Labor also denied the accusation. But Vargas worked with Chester BE. Wright in writing the Pan-American federation report in which this Yidiculous charge is repeat- ed. It is common knowledge that Gompers insisted that the canard must go in the report, and Morones, lackey that he is, had to swallow the humiliation. The Revolutionary Peasant Congress. Flushed with their victory at Juarez, where the C. R. O. M. (the Mexican Federation of Labor) expelled Alfonso Soria, the Communist, and tied the C. R, O0..Ms, officially at least, to the Gompers’ chariot of class collabora- tion, the Morones gang promised their chief, that they would also conquer and deliver the revolutionary peasant organization of the state of Vera Cruz. “Comrade Gompers”—Holy Sm@ke! But while “Comrade Gopipers”— (In Mexico Gompers is Puraced as a socialist!) was wining and dining with President Calles, alon’, came the news that the attempt te carry the peasant congress at Jalupa for reaction was defeated. Thee® st act of the convention was “suow its contempt for the Morones, srevino, Rico type of leadership, by | seating Soria, who had come as a visit- or on his way back to his home state jot Michoaican, as a delegate, because he had been expelled from the C. R. O. M. convention. Affiliates to Peasant’ International. They followed this up by affiliating the Agrarian League of Communes of the state of Vera Cruz to the Peasants’ International, condemning) the “fake Calles “Labor Party.” The Parti da Laborista Mexicano, and endorsing the Commun'st Party of Mexico, (tetaty timate goal, with that of the class col- laboration scheme of the C. R. O. M. and the P, L. M. He pointed out that Morones, Trevino, Rico, et al, attack- ed the Communists to hide their alli- ance with American imperialism. A Mexican working class audience is somewhat similar to a Russian audi- ence. They are not carried away with intellectual speeches and fine oratory, you must speak in terms of what they. need, and in language they under- stand, They have a ‘well-founded sus- picion of all governments. They will accept promises, shout hurrah ° for Obregon and Calles, but they won't |* disarm. The “Simple” Logicians. In their simple way they are too damned logical, “Disarm, what for, if Obregon is for the workers and pea- sants, why disarm?” A very difficult question for the yellow socialists to answer. They understood the Com- munist language, the Communist logic, the Communist program and they showed their approval by an ovation that almost took the roof off the build- ing. Probably what was more interest- ing than the convention itself, was the atmosphere preceeding, and in which the convention met. Part of it was told by Galvan, in giving his account of his stewardship for the past year, and in making his report on his visit to Russia. Galvan without doubt, is the most powerful and popular agrarian leader in Mexic He told the delegates in simple peasant language of what he saw in Russia, of how the land was exploited for the benefit of the work- ers instead of the land owners, and how with the increasing of co-opera- tive farming the ¢ became bigger and better, and man it the standard of the peasants’ living raised. He told how enibarrassed he felt when Russian peasants asked him if it was true, that land, cattle and | chinery had been given tg the pea- sant to work for hefit of all theworkers, in Meike cree he had pledged the Peasants’ International to come back to Mexico with a greater determination to fight for the realiza- tion of the ideals of the Peasants’ In- ternational. A Peasant Communist Uprising. He told them that when he reached Havana, his way back, he had re- ceived a wireless from a comrade, not to land in Vera Cruz, because it was in control of the De La Huerta rebel forces. He disregarded the message and came secretly to Vera Cruz, gath- ered a group of 27 peasants with horses but with only seven revolvers and one rifle. That they armed them- selves by capturing small outposts. Then they harrassed the enemy forc- es from the rear, gathering strength as they proceeded, and how the revo- uprising in state'of Vera He pointed out that after this ser- vice, President Obregon demanded trict 5, Ed. Dobbins of district 12, John J. Mates of district 9 and John Chiz-| The 1,800 strikers at the mines of zoni of district 2, are instructed by| the Lehigh-Wilkes Barre Coal Co., Lewis to investigate every phase of | Were ordered back to work by a meet- the situation here and report back to]'™& of their general body, with. the him with recommendations. Already |“hope” that their differences . would the local press has predicted the be speedily settled. That action al- curtailment of the powers of the gen-|!0ws for the “capitalist trinity” to eral grievance committees or the ab-|&et in its work, for it exemplifies that solute disbandonment of them, the|they have “faith” in something, while tone indicating that they know where-| “Charity” is always needed by workers of they speak. who give away their birthright. Yes, Reason for Cappellini’s Absence. | faith, hope and charity always keep This prediction was made in apre-|the worker in want, while the axiom vious article by me about six weeks|f the employer 1s, “Power to take ago, wherein I stated that Cappellini |#2d have plenty.” was the originator of the general] However, this general body is re- grievance” committee idea and the |Ported to have gone on record as con- organizer of the first committee, the‘ demning the action of the officials in one that is now the storm center of ‘evoking the charters of the Penn- the present controversy. Now I say sylvania Co. strikers, and also in favor that I am of the opinion that he has{f the calling of a special convention returned to this region and believe the |f0r the purpose of considering all the story that he is hiding to escape per-/ Stievances existing in the district of sonal responsibility for what is go-|Which there are more than plenty. ing to happen here. At that time, in the columns of the DAILY WORK- ER, we advised the miners not only BERLIN, Dec. 8— International to resist the effort to destroy the}, reoments limiting the weight of power they had won thru the {| aijieq sacks to 150 tbs. are i by strumentality of such committees, but|the International Union of Workers to also begin the formation of an all|in the Food and Drink trades. The inclusive general body reresenting the | ynion reports many cases of hernia whole district. This I have been do-|and curvature of spine among work- ing, again during the past two daysjers, due in part to reduced vigor visiting in the sections affected) since living standards were forced the strike. down after the war. In most coun- Many of the strikers with whom Ijtries the usual weight of filled sacks ive talked seem to take the whole|is almost 200 Ibs. ‘| CALL TO PAN-AMERICAN LABOR (Continued from page 1) the bloody tyranny of American imperialism under the leadership of the Communist parties. Raise the slogan of “For a Workers and Farmers Government” as against the rule of American and native capitalism. Fight always and everywhe! ainst all who betray the working class to the capitalists always remembering that the struggle against American Imperialism for national independence is not the final struggle but nevertheless an in- dispensable part of the battle for the social revolution, the dictatorship of the proletariat, and the victory of the world’s working class over its capitalist enemies. Comrad Under the red flag of the Communist International let us close our ranks and organiz®q to break the power of American imperial- ism without which capitalism cannot live on the western hemisphere. Let us build our own proletarian power and be swerved from the strug: gle by no capitalist propaganda or imperialist terror. Against the power of the capitalists the power of the proletarians! Against the solidarity of the imperialists of all countries, the united front of the workers and peasants! Against the rule of the capitalists, the rule of the working class under the leadership of the Communist Party! Lang live the united front of the workers of North, Central and South Americal Long live the Communist International—the leader of the world revolution! Central Executive Committee, Workers (Communist) Party of Am- erica. Natlonal Committee, Trade Union Educational League. Communist Party of Mexico. Secretariat, Pan-American Anti-Imporialist League. Would Prohibit Heavy Sacks. They decided to resist the attempt |the disarming and disbanding of this of the government .to disarm the revo- peasant army, which was now counted lutionary peasants’ regiments, and to]in the hundreds, How they had posi- solidify all Agrarian League of Com-| tively refused to do so, and Obregon munes in Mexico into one national or-} seeing no way out, had made them ganization. To accomplish this, it was }an “unofficial official” part of the na- decided to send Ursulo Galvan, the | tional army. present president of the Agrarian] an Uncomfortable Labor Party Official Eedgue of Communes of the state of| yt was a very interesting report. In Veru Cruz, and member of the execu-| making it, he told how he had invited tive committee of the Peasants’ Inter- | the governor to be present and hear national, on an organizing tour in all) it, (and he was) because he thought states where agrarian leagues of com- | that state officials who say they are munes are already in existence. A revolutionaries, should be reminded provisional national committee was | occasionally that we do not put much formed, each state being allowed rep-|trust in them. The most uncomfort- resentation with Galvan as chairman. |able man in the convention was the What a Contrast! What a contrast between this con- venticn of ragged and ill-fed peasants, governor, who was elécted on the la- bor party ticket. J * Just prior to the edmvening of the \ Tuesday, December 9, 1924 A Fist of United Labor Grows Stronger Under Lash of White Terror By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL, ‘ODAY, six Italian Communists have been ordered to leave France. It is the decree of the democratic pacifism of the “radical socialist” regime of Premier Herriot. That isn't very many. There are 8,000 members of the Italian Communist Federation in France. Our Italian com- rades in France have a weekly of their own with 23,000 sub- scribers. This indicates that Herriot has. a big job on his hands. i * * * * Herriot raised the cry of “foreigners.” That sounds familiar to us here in America. Herriot claimed that he ex- pected no trouble from native Frenchmen. Only foreigners were inclined to stir up trouble. To be sure the foreigners had to be labelled “Russians,” But in the broad sweep of raids conducted by 700 police, not a single Russian was taken. Out of 500 arrests and examinations only six were held; six Italians, * * * These six Italians are but small part of the great flood of Communists driven out of Italy under the bloody terror of Mussolini's fascist regime. Mussolini made war on native Italians because they were Communists. He couldn't raise the cry of foreigners. But he raised the cry of “Bolsheviks!” in his struggle to win power, just as he does now in his frantic efforts to hold it. Mussolini outlawed the organizations of the Com- munists; sent thousands to death and other thousands to prison. But tens of thousands left Italy and scattered thru Europe. Some even crossed the seas and came to the United States, - * * * Oe, >7 Now Herriot, like Mussolini, raises the cry that, ‘The republic is being attacked!” and under the cloak of liberal- ism tries to develop his own pogroms against the Com- munists. The net was spread far and wide; but it didn’t bring in a single Russian. The Russians are busy at home building and strengthening their Soviet Rule. That's a big job. They are busy. But there is no reason for a Russian to leave the con- fines of the First Workers’ Republic. Conditions have changed since the czardom drove exiles to the four corners of the earth. Italy with its fascist club takes the place of the czarist regime and its bloody knout. And now the former socialist, Mussolini, head of Italy’s anti-labor dictatorship, finds an apostle in Herriot, the “radical socialist” premier of France. * * * * They plot their own destruction. Herriot, the French “radical socialist”; Mussolini, the Italian fascist; Horthy, the Hungarian dictator; Ebert, the German socialist pres- ident with his “penitentiary elections,” and all the lesser white terrorists in Western Europe, are destroying the last . ives sith atherland” appeal. It was under the lure of ; lea to “ 16 fatherland,” that millions of workers allowed themselves to be hurled into the last war. But the tens and hundreds of thousands of Italians, Hun- garians, Poles, Spaniards, Germans, Bulgarians, and workers of many other nationalities, driven from their homes and scattered over Europe, know no capitalist fatherland. The last vestige of nationalism has been purged out of them. Their only struggle is to wipe out the capitalist regime of their oppressors. Their only hope {is in Communism. Thus the army of the revolution grows. Hundreds of thousands, millions of implacable foes of capitalist rule. Prisons carry no terror for them. They reply to the threats of the Eberts and the Herriots, with redoubled energy for the revolution. Morgan lifts his fist in Europe! But there is a greater fist; the fist of the united proletariat of all Europe. This is the fist that will crush all Morgan's pet schemes in Europe, and lift All-European Soviet Rule to power. The workers are on the march in Western Europe. What of labor in the United States of America? | Blue Islahd avn /| Communist its them. st mt program, application ‘ can workers and peasants, and the ul-| was @ victory for and the well-dressed, well-fed govern- | convention, there was another threat- ment-entertained delegates of the Pan-|ened uprising of the De La Huerta American congress. The Pan-Amer!-|forces. So Galvan made arrangements can congress controlled by Gompers|to have the revolutionary peasant and his $10,000 to $20,000 per year exe- | army in the city to protect the dele- cutive council, and the government |gates. So the four hundred delegates elected delegates from some of the |were reinforced by more than their small republics that have only a labor | number of ed red soldiers, with movement on paper. picturesque straw hats, decorated with Given free railroad transportation |red ribbons to distinguish them from from and to their homes, entertained |the ordinary mercenary soldier. royally by the American imperialistic} It was a very tense and distinctly controlled Mexican government. While | revolutionary atmosphere. The pea- these despised but feared peasants |sants of Vera Cruz are well organiz- had to walk hundreds of miles, were | ed, they are instinctive rebels. They housed in the hall given to them by | understand the necessity of national the unions of Jalapa, fed with food |and international and the donated by the farmers and city|need’of united action between city workers, waited upon by the daughters|and farm workers. Their program and wives of union men. lacks Communist c! but is taking An Inspiring Meeting. very definite shape. have con- One of the outstanding acts of this | fidence in the Comm and accept convention of peasants, which showed | their political guidance, their understanding of the necessity| Under the aggressive revolutionary of the workers on the farm and the | leadership of Ursulo ivan, a pow- city joining forces in the struggle | erful national agrarian league of com- against capitalism, was the invitation |munes will be organized in the very given to the city workers to come and |near future. This organization, pre- hear the reports on Russia, which was | meated with Communist ideology, wil! to be delivered by Bertram D. Wolfe, | strengthen the Communist forces in member of the executive committee |the struggle against American impe- of the Communist Party of Mexico. j|rialist domination of North, Central, This was indeed an inspiring meet-|and South America, and will be a tac- ing. The largest hall in town was|tor in the establishment of a real packed to over-flowing with workers, | workers’ and peasants’ government in their wives and children, peabant dele- | Mexico, gates, revolutionary peasant soldiers / with red bands around their enormous straw hats, to let all who wanted to German as talists Fail in —_— know that they were not a pacifist or- ganization. The old and the new gov- (Continued from page 1). trouble than 62 and be ar- ernors of the state occupying one of the boxet nt but not comfortable spectators. A tense, eager audience, rested while the Rei fo tab oy workers and peasants ion, A section othe Hear of Russia. is now blaming the the speaker compare Mexican life, es- |munists, while others pecially peasant life, with that of the /rest and He compared the | leading who came to listen to the accomplish- For over an hour they listened to |20t completely to the everyday struggle of the Mexi- FA RETNA EE Party Activities Of Local Chicago Tuesday, Dec. 9. Barbers T. U. E. L. Group, 722 Blue Island Ave., 9 p. m. Irving Park English, 4021 Drake avenue, William F. Dunne on Report of Executive Committee Communist International, Northwest English, Blvd, Arne Swabeck on and Tactics of Comintern.” 2733 «Hirsch “Strategy Rumanian Branch, 2250 Clybourn}, Ave. Ukrainian No, 1, 1532 W. Chicago Ave. Czecho-Slovak, Hanson Park, Mans: field Ave. near Grand. the Dawes plan, which proves that the majority of the German working class are suffering from the illusion that there is yet hope for them in the capitalist s; The returns, according to the pre- sent incomplete count, is as follows: Communists, 44; social-democrats, 137; German nationalists, 104; cler- icals, 67; German people's party, 50; German democrats, 31; Bavaria peo- ple's party, 19; extreme nationalists, 14; economic party, 10; farmers’ par- ty, 4; Hanoverians, 4; other parties, 8, One of the features of the election was the practical wiping out of Luden- dorff’s group, Ruth Fischer, Com- munist leader, was re-elected, TOOL AND DIEMAKERS OF CHICAGO FIND NEW INTEREST IN UNION The Tool and Diemakers’ Lodge, No. 113, of the International Asso- ciation of Machinists, held their an- nual election on Friday, Dec. ind cast a vote which beat the best record In the last three years, in spite of the rain and cold, The members are beginning to realize that it is up to them to bulld and maintain the organzation, that it cannot be left to somebody e| The record-breaking vote may also be attributed to the interest arising in the clash of ideas which took e verbally just previous to tl ction between the per- verters of socialism and the Com- munists, Tho the progressives didn’t win important offices, they polled a very good vote, and by the process of education continued in this manner, it Is hoped that in the future the two forces in the local will unite for work for their common good. Organization, education, and solidar- ity with the whole working class, should be their future slogan. YOUNG WORKERS’ LEAGUE, Tuesday, Dec. 9 Functionaries’ meeting at 2613 Hirsch Blvd. All secretaries, organiz- ers, educational directors and litera- ture agents be present. Also, all comrades who are in charge of shor nuclet. Program for this meeting will be: R RAILMEN DEFY LABOR BOARD IN. VOTE FOR STRIKE Ballot Is Being Taken on C, hicago & Alton A strike vote now being taken on the Chicago & Alton railroad by the Brotherhoods of Loco- motive Engineers and Firemen and Enginemen is another step in the growing defiance of the railroad labor board by the rail» way employes. A strike vote has just been completed by these brother- hoods on the Colorado & South- ern system. Brotherhoods Reject Ruling. The railroad brotherhoods refuse to accept the ruling of the labor board which would force them to take a five per cent increase in wages at the expense of their present working tules. This increase has been granted the eastern roads without change in the working rules. The Order of Railroad Conductors and the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen are also involved in the dis- pute with 45 western railroads. The labor board is expected to announce a decision on the latter dispute early this week. Try to Divide Workers. The function of the labor board hat been to attempt to break the solidar- ity of the brotherhoods by playing the eastern roads against the western, and by abolishing working rules which have raised the standard of living of the railway workers. The brotherhoods have several] times defied the authority of the rail- road’ Tabor board, and discontent among the railway employes thruout ‘the entire west is growing. Mid-City Branch ’ Changes Meeting Place on Thursday The first meeting of the Mid-City branch since the opening of the party discussion on immediate tasks of the Workers Party will be held in a new meeting place. The Mid-City branch, which formerly met at Emmet Memor- ial Hall, will meet next Thursday, ) Ny y q : | December 11, at the Greek Hall, 722... We Sa Due to the meeting night last month on Thanksgiving night, no meeting has been held for a month. Much im- portant business will be decided upon at this meeting, and announcement of the speaker for the educational meeting to be held Dec. 25 will be made, Hat Lifting Patroitism. “PATERSON, N, J.—“Absolute pa- triotism” is to be exacted from every man in Paterson, declares the women’s independent republican league of the city. Particular atten- tion is to be paid to men who fail to salute the flag by removing their hats to military parades. HELP! HELP! Give Us a Hand— We are swamped again. There is just a load of work piling up in our office and our small force is struggling hard to” get it done. If any comrades have a day, an hour or a minute to spare, COME ON OVER— GIVE US A HAND! Look! A Big Social A Box Social and a Raffle f By the ‘ YOUNG WORKERS LEAGUE KENOSHA, WIS. Dec. 13, 1924 AT 8 P.M, GERMAN AMERICAN HOME Look! { i ¥