The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 9, 1924, Page 3

L Tuesday, December 9, 1924 RUSSIAN LABOR GIVES FINMEN GREAT OVATION Secretary of Transport Workers in Moscow (By Rosta News Agency) MOSCOW (By Mail.) —Edo Fimmen, the veteran leader and general secretary of the Inter- national Federation of Trans- port Workers, was the object of a long ovation when he ap- eared at the session of the ureau of the Central Commit- tee of the Railwaymen’s Union in Moscow. .Fimmen remarked that. he was going to speak in a private capacity, and not as an official representative of the Inter- national Federation of Trans- port Workers, empowered to negotiate with the Russian trades union organizations the question of unity of the inter- national movement. Answers Capitalist Lie. “Altho I have yet been but a short “time in your country,” observes the eo rertanee speaker, “I feel bound to say that all I have seen so far has made a very strong impression on me. The first thing that has struck me is that all the nonsensical talk in western Eu- rope about there being in the Union of Soviet Republics not a dictator- ship of the proletariat, but a dictator- ship over the proletariat, is a sheer He. I must say that the European workers would be most happy if they had the same degree of liberty as the workers possess in the Soviet Union.” Further, referring to the criticism, often a very bitter one, directed by the Russian workers against the,lead- ers of the western European. trades- union movement Fimmen,, admitted that such criticism was often jus- tified. “I saw it clearly, my! ‘in 1922, when I followed closely flie de- velopments in Germanyy' In fact, I was convinced of it when I saw how the bourgeoisie responded to the last Hague conference by the Ruhr occu- pation and how, after this, the Europ- ean proletariat not only did not rush to fight for the emancipation of the German proletratiat, but did not even make any attempt to do it.” Russian Tactics Correct, This part of his speech the western labof leader concluded by re-asserting that the Russian tactics were correct: “Only then can any aim be attained when all the constituent parts of the trades-union movement will go hand: in-hand and co-operate in their ef- forts.” Then the speaker told the audience about the actual situation within the International Federation of Transport Workers, stating that the question of admitting the Russian trade unions to the international congress of trans- port workers was discussed at the session of thé executive commiittee.- “The minority,” declared Fim- men, “strove to obtain this adifiission, and altho the majority, which was against, carried the day, the minority is getting stronger and stronger and will soon become the majority; the International Federation of Transport ‘Workers will then be glad to receive the Russian trade unions in its fold. Indeed, the left wing knows perfect- ly well that without unity with the Russian unions we shall never reach our goal. ‘ Workers Favor Unity. “There is at the present moment a very strong movement within the In- ternational Federation of Transport Workers in favor of this unity and in favor of revolutionizing the feder- ation, and I am convinced that this struggle will end in victory. “Indeed, I feel confident,” concludes the veteran European labor leader, “that, together with the Russian or- ganizations, we shall be able to make the necessary move to achieve the world revolution.” ECS AER: 2 Snohomish County, 30 Votes ARLINGTON, Wagh.; Dec. 8.—The vote in Snohomish county, Washing- ton showed that Wm. Z. Foster re- ceived 30 votes.—Signed, J. H. Ander. ‘son, Branch secretary. a million for a drama school. THE DAILY WORKER CONGRESS OF RUSSIAN UNIONS REPRESENTING 6,400,000 WORKERS GREETS BRITISH DELEGATION By HARRY POLLITT. (Special to The Daily Worker) MOSCOW.—(By Mail.)—The sixth annual Congress of the Trades Unions of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics was opened amid scenes of great Reichsbank to Get Mor- enthusiasm. The congress is being held in the magnificent hall of trade unions, once known as the Palace of the Nobility. The great hall with its imposing array of marble pillars is decorated on a lavish scale, Everywhere the banners of the various unions represented] mW YORK, Dec. 8—A shipment at the congress meet the eye. Comrade Lenin, and it seems but yes- terday since I last stood in this hall taking my place as a bodyguard around the funeral bier. Across the great hall huge slogans are blazoned on red streamers. They are of great importance, as they typi- fy the task which the trade unions are now straining every nerve to ac- complish. One reads: “The trade un- ions are the schools for Communism.” Another, “Carry out the watchwords of Lenin. Increase production and so strengthen socialist economy.” The next one, “Rally to the Communist Party, the bulwark of the proletarian dictatorship.” Another, “Under the banner of the Communist Internation- al to’ a lasting proletarian victory.” And the last one, running right across the hall, gives the watghword of the Russian trade unions, unity of the International Trade U. vn Move- ment.” i 6,400,000 In Russian Unions. The hall is a sea of faces. Com- rade Tomsky, the chairman of the All- Russian Union Congress, leads the platform party. The British delega- tion are immediately observed, and a roar of welcome goes up as they take their place on the platform. A warm and enthusiastic atmosphere is in evi- dence. A band strikes up the Inter- national. Everyone stands, and as this battle song of the proletariat re- sounds thru the great hall it sets the keynote for the whole proceedings, Comrade Tomsky declares the con- gress open. He reports that there are 1,500 delegates present, representing 6,400,000 workers. He makes a preli- minary reference to the presence of the fraternal delegates. Then come the speeches of the fra- ternal delegates. First comes the delegation from the Red Army to assure the congress of the solidarity of the Red Army and the desire to preserve the present close association with the trade unions. Then comes Comrade Schmidt (Minister of Labor) who brings greetings. Now the dele- gate from the Profintern is followed by a speech of welcome by Comrade Kalinin, the president of the U. 8S. S. R. Zinoviey Speake. . ‘Now comes Comrade Zinoviev bring- ing greetings from the Communist In- ternational, he receives a magnificent ovation from the delegates and makes a speech analyzing the international situation and the special tasks facing the Russian Republic, with emphasis upon the important role to be played Dy the Russian trade unions. In a wonderful analysis of the British situation, which was especially inte- esting because of the presence of the British delegation, Zinoviev says it is the first sign of the end oz the era of democratic pacifism, The return of a reactionary govern- ment in England has been followed by a consolidation of reaction in America. Everywhere the workers are once more witnessing the gather- ing of the forces of reaction, who still hope by one means or another to crush the Russian revolution and also to commence a new offensive upon the whole working class. It is because of the new situation that it is now so essential that the unity of the, international trade union movement should be achieved. The Big Event. Now comes the big event of the evening. It is the turn of the British delegation. They had been met at Riga by a delegation from the Russian trade unions, and at every station from the Russian frontier to Moscow they had been met by large numbers of workers anxious to give them a first welcome to Russia and to demon- strate their solidarity. All thru the night this had gone on, and such en- thusiasm and warmth must have sure- ly impressed the British delegation with the magnificent spirit of solidar- ity which on all occasions has char- acterized the Russian workers and peasants. Tomsky introduces each member of the delegation and they all receive a reception which I believe A MILLION FOR DRAMA! \, Edward S. Harkness, a Standard Oiler, has given Yale We guess that Harkness is not so much interested in the drama as he is in keeping Yale a hundred per cent on his side of the fence. ! The Harknesses have given other millions. Most uni- giv versities are subsidized b: those who belon struggle. finances. These must come moment than will ever occur at t lace when ou can Drama, will take take their own. ed this movement your policy to BUY A POLICY in the campaign Lasure Pee ast; Morten Mees ers of millions so that they will “arn out brains useable in the donor's scheme of things. We also have a scheme of things. We must also educate on our side and Lage 4 them into the The DAILY WORKER does t is, It also needs ou. A more dramatic new Yale School of in to move to ot aaa it from the masses beg On the center of the platform stands a tre- mendous model of our late leader, +——————_________. they will remember as long as they live. Purcell’s Special Ovation, Comrades Purcell, Bramley and Til- lett are the appointed speakers, and Comrade Purcell is the first to take the floor. Purcell explains that he was in Russia in 1920, and has been over- whelmed by the complete change that has taken place. A new atmosphere entirely seems to dominate the whole of the people, and it is an inspiration to be amongst the Russian workers. He associated himself with, Zinoy- fev’s remarks about the league for International Trade Union Unity. The international must be based upon an anti-capitalist basis and the British Trade Union Congress would do all in its power to get the Russian unions into the international trade union. MORGAN SHIPS $7,000,000 GOLD TO GERMANY . gan’s Gold (Special to The Daily Worker) of five million dollars in gold coin was made by J. P. Morgan and company to the German Reichsbank, on tLe same day that the International Ac- ceptance bank sent seven million dol- lars to a London correspondent. Bank- ers here claim that the largest ship- ment of gold in a single day is “a signal of a world wide re-adjustment.” | The German shipment, the largest to Germany since pre-war days, is said to reflect the German government’s | policy of. removing the $110,000,000 | American eredit raised from Ameri- | can bankers thru the floating of loans. The séven million dollars in gold j}sent to London was marked for trans- ; Shipment, its final destination re- | maining secret. The gold shipments are a continuation of the policy of the American bankers in attempting to stabilize Europe by a flood of gold loans, made in connection with the Dawes’ plan. gg Et. pia, et HTGALIOATATE aa and artisans are now without means because of the inevitable econ- omic development of Russia. The acitvities of the state in the field of commerce and the rapid de- velopment of co-operation deprive the small tradesmen and the artisans of their economic positions, and it must be remembered that these artisans and tradesmen formerly made up the great majority of the Jewish popula- tion of RusSia. There is great dis- tress in many of the citiés and towns with a prevailing Jewish population, and tens of thousands of Jewish fam- ilies watch with horror the disappear- ance of all sources on which they formerly depended for their livelihood. As a result of this situation a great striving to settle on the land has taken hold of the great masses of the Jewish population in Russia. The Soviet government decided to- come to the assistance of this new movement. Two hundred thousand dessiatins of state land in Ukraine, BRITISH TRADE UNIONISTS IN MOSCOW | CONFERENCE TO PROMOTE WORK OF COLONIZATION OF JEWS IN RUSSIA CALLED FOR DEC. 21st (Special to The Dally Worker) NEW YORK, Dec. 8.—A conference to deal with the possibilities of colonization of the Jews in Soviet Russia has been called for Dec, 21, 10 a. n., in Manhattan Lyceum, 66 Hast 4th street. The great majority of the Jews is facing a critical situation. dreds of thousands of Jews who formerly found their living as tradesmen any +. The hun- Crimea and White Russia were as- signed by the government for settle- ment by Jewish groups which are an- xious to settle on land. How seriously | the government considers this ques-| tion can be seen from the fact that it| appointed for that purpose a special} state commission among the members | of which are such prominent members| of the government as Smidowitch,| Krassin, Litvinoff and Larin, In addition to granting free land to the Jewish colonists the Soviet government also allows free trans- Portation on the railroads to the Places of settlement and relieves the colonists of all taxes, Various other concessions have also been granted to them. But in order to settle many thousands of Jewish families on land enormous funds are necessary. Nei- ther the prospective colonists nor the Russian government are in a posi- tion to supply these funds. There is urgent need of assistance from the Jewish population abroad, and espe- cially from the Jews of America, To help these Jews to settle on land, a committee was organized and has issued a call for a conference, to take place on Sunday, December 21st, at 10 p. m., in Manhattan Lyceum, 66 E. 4th Street, New York City. Further information can be obtained from the Committee for Jewish Col- onization of Soviet Russia, 46 Canal Street, New York City, Waterbury, Conn., to See “The Beauty and Bolshevik” Sunday (Special to The. Daily Worker) WATERBURY, Conn. has been successful in arranging a showing of the popular Soviet film, “The Beauty and the Bolshevik” for Sunday, Dec. 14, at 2 p. m., at the Rialto Theater on East Main street. All Waterburyians and those in the vicinity of Waterbury are urged to take advantage of this date and spend an enjoyable Sunday afternoon with Kombrig, the Red Army commandant, courting the “beauty” who is the daughter of the priest and rich land- owner of the village in which the Red Army temporarily settles after a fierce siege of warfare against the whites. The healthy humor and realism run- ning thru the pcture makes it a vivid- ly interesting story. It is as thoroly enjoyed by the American public as by the Russian workers, In addition to the “Beauty and the Bolshevik” will be shown a three-reel film of industrial life called “Russia in Overalls.” Special emphasis is be- ing laid on those enterprises financed by American labor. lees France Can't Pay Now. NEW YORK, Dec. 8.—Five-sixths 0/ the money borrowed by France from British trade union delegation arriving in Moscow to attend All-Russian Trade Union Congress. | ‘He United States was spent in Amer- movement. By one means or another the parties must be got together, and it is the task of the British Trade Un- jon Congress to do this, and he ap- peals to the Russian unions to assist the British movement in this task. Finally, Purcell winds up with a signi- ficent declaration that if the Amster- dam International will not work to achieve this objective, then the Brit- ish trade union movement must take the initiative. Tillett’s Great Speech. Now comes Ben Tillet, who receives a splendid ovation; and Tillett at once pays a magnificent tribute to our late leader Lenin, whom Tillet described as being the greatest leader the work- ing-class movement had ever produc- ed. He was proud to be here, and when he thought of the achievements of the Russian revolution and what he had already seen, he felt humiliated that the Soviet Union had had to. go for a loan to a capitalist government, Tillet then referred in scathing terms to the Zinoviev letter. He described it as the “forged letter,” and, turn- ing to Zinoviev, assured him that his name was now a household word in Great Britain. Tillet stated that when the delegation returned home they would nail the capitalist lie and forg- ery to the counter. Amidst a remark- able scene, Tillet sat down, having made a speech of great political im- portance, A Great Conference. This brought the session to a close, but the delegates would not leave un- til they had once more sung “The,In- ternational.” It was clear that these delegates were direct from the fac- tories and workshops and farms. The stamp of the proletariat was upon them all, in marked contrast to our congresses where officilaldom is ram- pant and the voice of the workers never finds any real expression, Spread Russian Language. MOSCOW, Dec. 8—It is reported that the Soviet government is engaged in negotiations with the British govern- ment regarding the question of pro- of the Russian change of teachers and students be- tween the two countries. WHAT CAUSES OUR POORNESS? Part Two Our father works for a capitalist. A capitalist owns a factory and ma- chinery. He is called a boss. The workers of which our father is one have no machinery or property or money, So he is a worker and is bossed by the capitalist who gives him a job. Our father must go to work for some capitalist because there is no other way that he can earn money to buy the things needed to keep life up. Now our father goes to a boss and asks him for a job. The boss says I will pay you so much every week for which you must work for me so many hours each day for six days a week, Our father tries to get a little more. If the goods this. boss makes are wanted by people so much that the boss must look around everywhere to find workers to work for him then our father is in luck and he can get a little more money. But if the goods this boss makes are not in very great demand and workers come to the boss begging for a job by the hundreds and even by the thousands when the boss puts an ad in the newspapers then our father, if he wants to get the Job, must accept the bosses’ terms. Now why is the boss rich and our father poar?: . 4 Our father -gets up early every motdtif? WH gbee to the shop. All day long he works hard under the watchftil eye of the boss, or the fore- man who watches for the boss, to see that he does not waste one minute of the bosses’ time. All day long he piles up goods which he has made, the boss sells the goods for a But our for only a part As an example we will use this one. Every day our father gets, let us say $7 (many workers get much less than that) while he makes goods worth let us say $35 (many bosses make much more profit than this). The amount of money left over when $7 is paid to our father remains in the bosses’ pocket and is the profits from our father’s labor, Of course since our father earns $7 a day he can only buy back that much worth on rent, food, clothes, doctor bills, etc. He must continuously work to earn that |$7 to pay for his family’s living. So we see that in a capitalist sys- |tem of society the workers slave for the capitalists that they may live and \live that they may slave for the cap- italists. And the bosses by owning the machinery and factories get rich on the labor of workers. The capital. ists and their familiés have good food to eat, beautiful clothes to wear, lots of good times and large, comfortable homes t live in because they rob our fathers. Now do you see what causes ou poorness? (To Be Continued Tomorrow) Stockholders Get Rich. NEW BEDFORD, Mass., Dec, 8.— w Bedford textile worke: have not been getting full pay envelopes for a long time but stockholders of the mills fared well during the last quarter with average dividends of $1.83 per sha The total dividend for 1924 avera, $5.50. Last year it was $7. Almost a third of the $67,- 678,900 capital of the mills failed to return dividends for the fourth quar- the year, _WHEN YOU BUY GET AN ter Pierce mills gave $8 and $48 for’ ica, Jules Jusserand, French ambas- sador, said in a speech here, Jusserand said that France will-pay all her debts to this country, but did not know when France would be in a position to do this. Page Three ft SOVIET KEEPS TRADEBARGAINS, KRASSIN CABLES Scores Violent Acts Against Russia (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Dec. 8.—Leonid Kras- sin, the foreign trade commissar of the Soviet government, has sent a cablegram to the Amtorg trading cor- poration here, denying press dispatch- es claiming that the Soviet monopoly of foreign trade is hampering busi- ness relations with Soviet Russia. “In those cases where the Soviet government has been compelled by ag- gressive acts against it to undertake changes in the direction of its goods or the placing of its orders, it has never deviated from the principle of fulfilling the obligations assumed in agreement or in contract,” Krassin cabled, according to the trading com- pany. “When our trade delegation in Ger- many was subjected last May to an un- paralleled raid by the Prussian po- lice,” Krassin stated, “which perpet- rated this lawless act in secret from its own foreign office, the Foreign Trade Commissariat, while limiting and reducing the trade relations with Germany, has not stopped for one day the execution of current contracts or the payment on contrats and transac- tions which had been concluded. “When a year ago, the Soviet gov- ernment was compelled by a hostile act disturbing our trade, to stop the placing of orders in France, the Eng lish company Arcos, Ltd., which has been executing the orders of the Sov- iet government, appointed a special plenipotentiary for the liquidation ot transactions entered into, and we do not know of any complaints on the part of the French firms which had concluded transactions with Arcos. “The foreign trade monopoly, which insures the strictest government con- trol of all trade transactions is the best guarantee that all obligations will be strictly carried out.” Business Men Are Deeply Entrenched In Farm Boy Clubs Flag waving Americanism and glori- fication of industrial control of edu- cation by industry were emphasized by speakers at the sessions of the In- ternational Kiwanis clubs in the Sher- man Hotel. William C. Green speak- ing on the activities of the Kiwanis Clubs in the United States, told of the increasing work being done -by these business clubs in the field of “Americanization, citizenship and edu- cation.” He advised the Kiwanis clubs to increase their activities in this field. It was explained that many of the officers of the agricultural college of the university of Illinois are members of the Kiwanis club, and thru this or- ganization are enabled to work with more freedom among farm children than when hampered by “official posi- tion.” The work, according to Green, con- sists of getting the farm children inte contact with education, taught accord- ing to Kiwanis, or business men’s ideals. Green indirectly attacked the “red menace” in his plea for greater concentration on teaching American citizenship. RUSSIAN ART LOS ANGELES, CALIF., ATTENTION! EXHIBTION BAZAAR Knights of Columbus Hall, 612 S. 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