The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 11, 1924, Page 6

age Six THE DAILY WORKER J teredey, Decerct December pith, Biniand 1924 THE DAILY WORKER. | Class Collabarationict Strabismus Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO, 1118 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill. (Phone: Monroe 4712) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mall: $3.60....6 months $2.00...8 months By mail (in Chicago only): $4.50....8 months $2.50....8 months $6.00 per year $8,00 per year Address all mati and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER 1113 W. Washington Bivd. 3. LOUIS ENGDAHL ff WILLIAM F. Dt MORITZ J. LOEB. Chicago, IMinols weer ECitore Business Manager Entered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1923, at the Post- Office at Chicago, Ill, under the act of March 3, 1879 <> 290 Advertising rates on application Speaking of Stability Where is the evidence of the recovery of Europe- an capitalism from its rapid downward trend since the world war? The yellow socialist press of Europe and America constantly play up the recovery of capitalism, but fails to bring forward any proof of stabilization except the Dawes plan upon which the reformist betrayers of the European revolution now stake their hopes. All of the evidence contained in the news of the last three months has been a refutation of the grow- ing stability of captalism and the last two weeks have shown a remarkable collection of facts prov- ing that only the most ruthless suppression of the masses of workers and peasants prevents the com- plete collapse of capitalist production and ex- change. In Belgium the coal miners fought for two months with arms in their hands and finally forced an increase in wageSy which ended the conflict temporarily while the miners prepare for a more bitter struggle. A general railway strike in Austria disrupts the national economy while the league of nations and Zimmerman, its. bailiff-in-chief, fume help- leasly. In France there has been strike after strike with the Confederation Unitaire (the section of the Red International of Labor Unions) in the lead. Immense Communist demonstrations have put the Herriot government in hot water. In Italy the antifascist, moyement gains head- way every day with the industrial workers and landless peasants rallying to the Communist Party. In Bulgaria the bloody Zankov government hangs on only by murderous repression with the masses against it and its ‘overthrow looming in the near future. The Horthy dictatorship in Hungary confronts &@ growing mass movement that is accelerated by the expulsion of opposition deputies from parlia- ment. In Germany the industrial workers in the strategic centers—coal and iron—are against the Dawes plan and even the outlawing of the Com- munist Party, thé arrest’ of its leaders and mass terror thruout Germany has resulted in an actual increase in the Communist vote, altho they lost deputies in the reichstag. In Poland the governmental terror has im- prisoned 6,000 trade union officials and Com- munists. Only bayonets and machine guns main- tain the hold of the lackeys of French capitalism on the state power. The nation is ruined insofar ‘as industry and agriculture is concerned. In Esthonia, Latvia and Lithuania, Jugo-Slavia and Roumania, the governments hold power by terror alone. There is no such a thing as mass support of these terroristic states. They live on subsidies from the allied ri®tions: Even in staid old England, the foundation of reaction and the bulwark of European counter- revolution, a great left wing movement shows itself in the trade unions. India and Egypt must be kept down with an iron hand. They are no longer held by the leading strings of the empire. Overshadowing all else is the program of unity of the world trade union movement brought for- ward by the Red International of Labor Unions. It has received a grateful reception from the or- ganized masses that frightens the reactionary leaders whose program is that of complete sub- mission to the Dawes plan. The economic recoveries of capitalism that are cited from time to' time are only within the gen-|* eral cycle of capitalist decay. They represent temporary gains made by capitalist offensives, but the mass movements of the European workers and particularly their response to the unity slogan of the R. I. L. U., is conclusive proof that the last line of capitalism’s defense—the reformist and re- actionary trade union officials—are being swept away by the rising tide of revolution. The only stable government in Europe is Soviet Russia. The only stable and growing labor movement is the Red International of Labor Unions and the Communist International. According to newspaper reports, the Kaiser’s supporters in the German elections came within a hairbreadth of winning. There is little danger of the ezar’s suporters winning out in Russia, cer- tainly not with the ballot and not very likely with the bullet. LaFollette denounced the Communists for their policy of boring from within, He has not yet com- meuted for publication on how he feels over the action of the republican party in throwing him out of the G. O. P. caucus. It is a case of the biter get- ting bitten. r It is necessary for those who fall for class col- laboration to make some other argument for their position, other than that they believe in working hard for the bosses’ interests. So they appear in the guise of “constructive” revolutionists, with “practical” programs,and they. sneer at these “wild and visionary Communists.” We aré reminded of this by the facility for searching out “practical” things done by the arch- reactionaries in the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, and the right wing of the A. C. W., as exhibited by the’ New York correspondent of the Federated Press, Art Shields. Mr. Shields, we regret to say, has a nose for news that is sensitive largely to the innocuous. He has found great worth in the unemployment in- jsurance agreement signed by the Amalgamated Clothing Workers. But accepting the official boasts of Mr. Billikopf without making inquiry as to how the rank and file workers feel about this agreement, exhibits a barren reckoning of the forces engaged in the garment trades. The workers in the Amalgamated Clothing Workers’ union who have a left wing viewpoint, who adhere to the program of the Trade Union Educational League, and they are a considerable number if not the majority, are 100 per cent in favor of unemployment insurance. Let. that be un- derstood. But they are in flat opposition to the agreement upon that question, which provides that the workers themselves shall contribute half the relief funds, yet provides that the employers com- pletely contro] the fund and the payment of un- employment. relief. If Mr. Shields would have. not been possessed by an astigmatism which allows lim only to see offi- cials in the needle trades, he would have noted that the left wing has decided differences with the ar- rangement, and has made these differences heard thruout the union, The left wing says that “The industry must sup- port the workers”—and upon that principle it op- poses to the present agreement the proposal that the employers alone must furnish the unemploy- ment funds, and and that to avoid discrimination against active unionists, it shall be administered solely hy the union. This information is just as important as the statements of- Mr. Billikopf, termed “the impartial chairman of the New ‘York market.” Another slight item of interest in the A. C. W., is the wave of reseritment that has swept the whole union at the speech of Hillman in Chicago, in which he openly gave up the class struggle and an- nounced that the days of strikes were over except upon purely defensive grounds to save the union from utter collapse. But in the I. L. G. W., the insensate and tyran- nical crushing of the left wing, the disfranchise- ment of tens of thousands, the expulsions, the gang rule, the disgraceful Boston convention and the strong rank and file movement in opposition—this is invisible to Mr. Shields. All he ean see is a den- tal ¢linie in New York City, which under opera- tion of the union’ doubtless does good work, but which monopolizes a whole sheet of Federated Press news which we are compelled to throw in the wastebasket. Perhaps the Sigmian-Abe Cahan gang expects that they may use the dental clinic to pull the teeth of the left wing, but we fail to discern any reason why they should pull crossways the eyes of a labor press correspondent as well unless his training in the I. W. W. has made him unusually susceptible to ‘ee treatment. Get a member Te the Workers Party and a new subscription for the DAILY WORKER. Carpenters Rally for Struggle The speedy manner in which the fi in Carpenters’ Union 181 rallied to the members ex- pelled for their exposure of President Hutcheson’s treachery in signing a Landis award agreement is not only encouraging as more. evidence of a re- viving fighting spirit in the unions, but as a sign that there is a deepseated disposition on the part of the rank and file to put an end to the autocracy of officialdom, The recent meeting in Wicker Park Hall was a real rank and file protest, The meeting was practically unanimous against the local Hutcheson satellites and these gentry, by calling in ‘the police in an attempt to terrorize the membership, iien- ated what little support they had. This is the way to carry out the program of the Trade Union Educational League—to intensify the struggle | against the crooked officialdom ‘so that it confronts, not a little handful of convinced revo- lntionists, but a solid bloc of the’ rank and file for whose interests the left wing speaks and’ for whom it fights, © ‘The announced determination of the member- ship to to attend every meeting en masse until the militants are reinstated, will bring no joy to the hearts of the fakirs whose rule is based oe a small minority. The next step of local 181 is to bring all the Bima Chicago locals into the fight. One of the high lights of the king’s speech at the opening of parliament was that the prince of Wales has found a country in which he has not yet fallen from his horse. He is going to “Argentine to: remedy this oversight. ‘ hl The railway labor board seems to bexubout as popular among the railway workers as the: piven is among the German Communists. READ THE DAILY WORKER. HERRIOT’S RED RAIDS TURN THE LAUGH ON HIM Communists Ridicule Terror Campaign (Special to The Daily Worker) PARIS, Dec. 10.—The raids on theCommunists inaugurated by the Herriot government have now become the laughing stock of France, Herriot has been ordered to bed by his physicians, while tht Communists came off with fly- ing colors. Herirot Ridiculed. A Communist deputy made an at- tack on Herriot for his “red raid” and ridiculed the government for using such drastic measures against the Marxian socialist schools which haye existed in France for the past thirty years without interference. Several Communist’ deputies had the house in convulsions of laughter over the ludi- crous pictures cut by Herriot and his armies in quelling the “revolution” the existence of which he was made aware by Austen Chamberlain, tory secretary for foreign affairs. ‘ Herriot denied that his actions were repressive or directed against free speech. “The Communist simply did not say or do the’ things Herriot believes in, therefore: they must” be suppressed. Feared Communism. That the repressive measures em- ployed by Herriot against the Com- munists were not due to any sudden decision on his part, but rather to a deep seated fear of the growth of Communism was proven ‘by the fact that more French capital was exported, invested in foreign securities, during the “past week than in any two previous months, The capitalist newspapers that have been calling for repressive measures against the Communist menace for the past few weeks have calmed down considerably owing to the depression on the bourse and to the failure of the government to rally the masses behind it in its attack on the Com- munists, DETROIT JUNIORS TO SHOW WHAT THEY CAN DO (Special to The Daily Worker) DETROIT, Mich., Dec. 10—The mem- bers of the junior section of the L. W. L., Detroit, Mich., will present a spectacular program at the House of the Masses, 2646 St. Aubin Sts., Dec. 12, at 8 p. m. The feature numbers of the program will be three plays: “The Children’s Auction,” scene from Andreyev's “King Hunger” and a two- act play, “Schooldays.” Solo selec- tions by the children will complete the program, which promises to be one of the most interesting presenta- tions ever given to a working class audience in Detroit. The junior section of the ¥. W. L. in Detroit has been organized for two months and now has one hundred members, every one of whom will par- ticipate in this program. From the very start the juniors have been mark- el for their activity. They contribut- ed to the success of the seventh anni- versary celebration in Detroit. They have made meetings of both the par- ty and the league’ more enthusiastic by their, singing. The only fight in Detroit against American educational week was waged by the juniors. This program, their latest effort, is x glori- ous demonstration of what the freed energies of childhood can ochieve. Do You Live in Cleveland? CLEVELAND, Ohio, Dec. 10,—Two new junior groups have been organ- ized, one in Collinwood named “Kaplan Group,” and one in Finnish Hall, 1303 West 58th St. The original group is functioning and doing good work at 5311 Woodland avenue. Comrades are invited to come to any of these groups and bring their children. A new group is to be organized on Sunday at South | Slavic Hall, 5607 St. Clair avenue. All comrades of the Workers Party and Young Workers’ League desiring to teach a group should communicate with the local junior director, Nell Amter, 5927 Buclid avenue. AMERICAN CLASS WAR ORPHANS BENEFIT IN SAN PEDRO SATURDAY SAN PEDRO, Ci benefit will be given here for the American class war o ins in Har- bor City, San Pedro, Saturday eve- ning, Dec. 13, at Firemen’s Hail. The three, Sunstedt children are the victims of the brutal raid on the 1, W. W. headquarters | June which caused the death to their mother. As a result of the raid a ted funeral of over 500 mareners was held in San Pedro, last August. Ficenna are 50 conte. Dec, 10.—A WORKERS IN ATTACK ON GOMPERS ‘0 THE DELEGATES: ment. He sabotaged the protest of the tion of Santo Domingo. He sanctioned the occupation of ist for March, 1924.) He proposed to the United States ploited in the United States. Federation. “revolutionary.” He sabotages strikes for the same reason. follows in Mexico the policy of the De La Huerta; because Obregon.had Gompers must not be re-elected eration. The workers of Latin-Amer' mand it. (Continued from Page 1.) has done nothing but talk and has not shown by any positive act the slightest sympathy towards the enslaved peo- ple of Guatemala or any other Central American country.” Morones’ Bird Squawks, A henchman of Morones from the C. R. O. M. (the Mexican federation) at- tacked the Guatemalan saying that the Guatemalan government demands withdrawal of American troops, then why should the labor delegate to the congress ask it to interfere? This was rather stretching logic, so. the Mexican openly stated that the Pan- American Federation of Labor was opened to interference in the “inter- nal affairs” of governments, He tried He opposes any fight whatsoever against. Ya that must be the object of continental solidarity and oe He opposes socialism, and he says so pe. | Bee He opposes the yearly protest on the First: of M. itis ae ecaute1is He breaks strikes declared in solidarity, and ine! them because they endanger capitaliam. in the: great Industries (tee railways, ete.) He opposes the entrance of the workers of | as a class, not because he is an anarchist, Ls “beoauise he. ad them to remain within the capitalist parties. , In the congress, the Mexican. delegates,” now. Proved by the convention at the city of Jucrenaae friend of the working class of Mexico, by Obregon against De La Huerta.” Do not be deceived... Always Gompers to make a point by claiming that the Guatemalan asserted that capitalism was international, then he advocated nationalism. The Mexican stated that the Pan-American federation was “not an instrument of offense, but only a moral factor, each union group work- ing within its own boundary.” : A Fair Offer. The Guatemalan retorted that the class struggle was international, but he would be satisfied if the American Federation of Labor would work ‘“‘in- side its own country for withdrawal of American troops from Guatemala, against the Platt amendment, and for the non-recognition by the United States of any government who did not recognize the right to organize.” Frey, the Molder’s delegate in the A. F, of L. convention at El Paso, and delegate here from the A. F. of L., objected to the statement that the congress had given only words and taken no action. Guatemala “Misunderstands.” “The Guatemalan brother misunder- stands the principles of the federa- tion,” said Frey. “We don’t want to compel any government to do any- thing that they do not want to do,” Every union must do its own work, he said, strangely leaving little reason for an international in the wake of his talk. Mysterious Document to Gompers. Frey accused the delegate from Guatemala of not appearing before the committee. Then, after Frey's sub- stitute motion to refer the Guate- \mala resolutions to the executive com- | mittee for investigation had been car- ried, Frey said that Guatemala had given a written statement to the com- mittee, upon the conditions of labor in Guatemala, which statement, if |read or made a part of the minutes, would endanger the liberty of the delegates, considered as a confidential document carried. All resolutions protesting against the conditions of labor under the im- Derialist satrapies of the United States, were referred to the executive FOR CHICAGO ONLY! On all matters pertaining to the DAILY WORKER, and all party literature address all communica- tions or see THURBER LEWIS, Daily Worker City Room 307, 166 W. Washington Bivd. Frey advised that it be. given to Gompers alone, This was| - AS THE INSTRUMENT OF YANKEE IMPERIALISM IN LABOR MOVEMENT The DAILY WORKER prints below a translation of the. stirring document which was issued in Mexico City and addressed to the delegates of the Pan-American Federation of Labor: Gompers is the instrument of Yankee imperialism In the labor move- Third Congiess against the occupa- Haiti (See the American Federation- government that ‘it pay less wages by 25 or 35 per cent, to the Latin-Americans in the Panama Canal zone, than to the workers from the United States. a In spite of the repeated resolutions of the Pan-Ameri, Gompers has done nothing for the Mexican pee ae 0: Federation, inhumanly ex- riali fight vAmmétican: breaks th’ Ameriea.into, politics his esith as EGompers is the Calles and United States.government. He did not help De La Heurta because the National City. Bank, Morgan, Rocke- feller and Hughes (his masters) helped Obregon. ‘a Yankee imperialist helped Obregon because British capital helped conceded the nullification of Article 27 of the constitution by “recognizing” that It°was not retroactive, hav- ing signed the Lamont-De La Huerta treaty’ atid: made. other concessions. In Mexico, as in all Latin-America, Gompersi does. as Margan dictates. president of the Pan-American Fed- The Pan-American Federation must convert: test Inte, an’ Instrument of struggle against Yankee imperialism. and those of the mt States des THE MEXICAN COMMITTEE OF THE RED ‘INTERNATIONAL. THE TRADE UNION EDUCATIONAL LEAGUE OF THE U. = A. THE PAN-AMERICAN ANT IMPERIALIEY, ueouune zi MILITANT DELEGATES IN REVOLT of the Pan-American federation “for investigation.” ‘All — those which praised “any capitalist government were passed and recorded in the min- utes. All unanimously. The two left wingers from Guatemibla had no vote! The receipts show that the American federation, the. Mexican federation and Santo Domingo’are the only actual affiliations. The old executive committee was, of course, all re-elected.. The only change is that Mattie Woll takes Lord's place in the Pan-American or- ganization. Capitalism’ used to send mlssiouaries. to betray and help rob the weaker nations, imperialism sends labor leaders. Such is the lesson of the Pan-American congress. New York Workers’ School. Register Now—208° E. 42th St. SEND IN AT ONGE ALL MONEY COLLECTED FOR THE SILK STRIKERS Seven dollars and seventy-five cents more have been collected by the needle workers in Chicago for the silk strikers: in Paterson. Word has been received sepra Pat- terson that the workers there have been supplied with sufficient aid and that no’ further’ colléétions will’ be necessary,. All smoney ‘that m4 thus far been collected*for their relief should now be immédiately sent in. “TWORKERS’ SCHOOL VETCHERINKA ON SAT, DEC, 13 Harold. ‘Ware, . Lately from Russia, Will Speak NEW -YORK, Dec. 10—The Work ers” School of New York will have an other vetcherinka on Saturday night, Dees 18, at its headquarters, 208 east 12th street. Which means—another evening of fun and pleasure, as all can testify. who came to the last one, This time, a program has been ar- ranged for the-serious-minded as well as the merry ones. Harold Ware.will speak on “The Tractor as a School Book in Soviet Russia”.at 8p. m. Comrade Ware, who-has had extensive experiences among the Russian peasantry will tell how American methods of agriculture are being introduced in Russia. He is a very interesting lecturer and his talk will be a treat which New York comrades should not miss. Dancing will follow, with music pro- vided by the famous orchestra of the Williamsburg English Branch of the Workers Party; Come and bring your friends. You will enjoy yourselves, and boost the school besides. ART TREASURES FEATURE OF LOS ANGELES BAZAAR LOS ANGELES, Calif, Dec. 10.— The International Workers’ Aid Com- mittee of Los Angeles is holding a two-day bazaar, on Wednesday and Thursday, Dec. 17 and 18 at the Knights of Columbus Hall, 612 So, Flower street, the entire proceeds to go to the destitute families of politi- eal prisoners in Germany. The comrades in charge of the bazaar are all excited over the lucky strike they have made. And you will be too when you see the exquisite col- lection of Russian art ‘treasures that have been contributed to the bazaar, The articles in this collection are hand crotcheted laces of the most ar- tistic design. Words cannot describe them, They must be seen to be ap- preciated. But when we tell you that they have been exhibited in all the principal countries of Europe, that they have been on exhibition in the largest cities in this country and that they have been awarded the gold medal at the last Panama exhibition you ¢an get some idea of the value of these pieces of art handicraft that have been valued by connoisseurs at thousands of dollars. You can get these beautiful art cok lections and at the same time be per forming the most important duty of a@ good Communist: help care for the families of political prisoners in Ger- many. Spread the news about the bazaar! Come and bring your friends. Waterbury, Conn., Comrades, Noti WATERBURY, Conn., Dec. “The Beauty and the Bolshevik,” a comedy feature film brot over from Kussia andthe most talked-of and jappreciated picture that has come over, will be shown on Sunday, Dec. 14, at 2p. m. at the Rialto Theater, on Bast Main street. With it will be given a three-reel film on Russian industrial life, “Russia in Overalls.” These pictures have had long runs in. New York City and other large cities in the United States and com- rades living in Waterbury should not miss the gapertoalty to see them on Sunday. Subscribe for the DAILY WORKER.