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Page Four ry THE DAILY WORKER. Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 1118 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, IIL (Phone; Monroe. 4712) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mall; $3.50,...6 months $2.00...8 months By mall (in Chicago only): $4.50....6 months $2.50...8 months $6.00 per year $8.00 per year A@dress all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER 1113 W. Washington Bivd. J. LOUIS ENGDAHL t Chicago, IilInols WILLIAM F. DUNNE ..Hditors MORIDZ J. LOEB.......0rremene- Business Manager — Entered as second-class mat! Sept. 21, 1928, at the Post- Office at Chicago, Ill, under the act of March 8, 1879, ——— ee <= 20 Workers Party Upholds Old Bolshevist Guard in Russia The Central Executive Committee of the Work- ers Party has sent the following cable to the Cen- tral Executive Committee of the Russian’ Com- munist Party: To the Central Committee, Russian Communist Party, Dear Comrades: The Central Ewecutive Com- mittee of the Workers (Communist) Party notes with regret that in spite of the decision of . the Thirteenth Congress of the Russian Party and Fifth Congress of the Comintern which definitely repudiated the position of the minority in the Rus- sian Party, Comrade Trotsky again resumes the discussion on those matters. The Central Da- eoutive Committee of the Workers Party considers this attempt by Comrade Trotsky eatremely harm- ful to the Russian Party and to the Comintern. We again express our solidarity with the Central Oommittee of the Russian Communist Party and enpect the entire Comintern to stand behind the old Bolshevist guard im its valiant leadership to- ward the final vietory of the working class. WILLIAM Z. FOSTER, Chairman. OC. E. RUTHENBERG, Executive Secretary. The Capitalists Mourn Sam That Gompers was a key figure in the super- structure of American imperialism is easily gleaned from the manner in which the capitalist press has handled the news of his illness and death. He has occupied space and position in the metro- politan dailies given usually only to presidents and plutocrats. Seven column headlines have been handed out freely to the man upon whom the Mor- gan-Rockefeller clique depended to play the same role in Mexico that Dawes played in Germany. The comments of the capitalist press are invari- ably friendly. He receives the title of the “grand Advertising rates on application “old man of labor” and eulogies of his sanity, con- servatism and patriotism are the order of the day. In other words, the capitalist press of the United States knows that its owners have lost a valuable ally. The workers who think, know that the death of Lenin brought forth no such unrestained praise for him and his career. On the contrary, there was a note of gladness and relief in the most dispas- sionate utterances of the capitalist press on the death of Lenin while the most rabid sheets went into ecstacies over the blow the world’s working class had received. Says the Chicago Daily News: The importance. attached to the outcome of Mr. Gompers’ illness is due to the fact that his combination with Secretary Morones and with other Mexican labor leaders was ex- pected to greatly assist President Calles in solving the government’s labor problems. What the solution of the (Mexican) government’s labor problems was has been told.in the columns of the DAILY WORKER by our special corres- pondent. That solution was the delivery of the Mexican labor movement to the Wall Street bond- holders. A labor leader who can accomplish such a be- trayal in the name of labor solidarity is certainly a loss to American capitalism and the capitalist press shows that it realizes it. More Millions for Battleships The first fruit of the Dawes plan is now being given to the working masses of the United States. It is in the shape of a huge naval appropriation totalling $140,000,000. This is the first of a series of naval appropria- tions that will be voted by the Coolidge’ govern- ment which prates so much about economy when the question of raising the salaries of the postal employes, helping the bankrupt farmers, or grant- ing even the most insufficient compensation to’ ex- soldiers is brought up. The Yankee imperialists must bring their hell-belching armadas beyond the prowess of the British fleet. Their world interests now demand a world fleet. With the United States becoming the official re- ceiver of Germany; with the insistence of a large and influential section of the American capitalist class that some sort of a Dawes plan be worked out for the settlement of the French and other debts; with the sharpening of the imperialist eon- flict of interests in the Pacific; with a growing un- rest in the American colonial empire, the imperial- ist government is preparing to build a battle fleet that will be able to terrorize and crush into sub- mission all opponents and all discordant elements, whether at home or abroad. A portion of this gigantic sum will be con- sumed in paying for tlie cost. of additional gun- boats to serve Yankee imperialists in Chinese waters. Six more deadly American firespitters are , : sau ett st oP SINE — THE DAILY WORKER to be sent to these waters. The Standard Oil prop- erties in China must be protected and extended. The influence of Soviet Russia in the Orient must be stifled. The huge war budget just accepted by the senate is a’ menace to the safety and welfare of the work- ing and poor farming masses of the United States and the other countries of the world. The bill was adopted without the slightest opposition on ‘the part of the so-called progressives in the senate. At best these “progressives” are only fig leaves for the imperialist ruling class. The struggle against American imperialism, Yankee militarism and nayalism is not a matter of talk any more. It is a yital struggle that all workers must prepare to participate in most effectively and at all. costs. Debts and Danger The parlous days when the horried hun was driving toward Great Britain are over, the once formidable foe is vanquished, the loot is divided and the need for aid has passed. The enemy of British imperialism is not Germany but the United States and the negotiations for the payment of the British debt to wealthy America take on an ever sharper tone. The British financiers. insist that if payments are made to America by France that similar amounts be paid to Britain by this common debtor of the two great powers. The British imperialist press is frantic with the thought that the House of Morgan, because of its ability to bring pressure on France that Britain dare not use, may get pay- ments that should go into British pockets. The Morning Post, echoing the sentiment of the other capitalist sheets, says: It Is obvious that we cannot bear all ‘the sacri-| fice, despite the somewhat barren glory which we reap for our generosity. At the same time, as Mr. Churchill asserted, this country does not wish to pursue any niggardly policy toward France. It seems then that the next step Iles. with the United States. President Coolidge and congress are faced with a grave decision. They have to choose between a policy which from the party point of view may be easy and for the time being profitable, and one which, tho causing temporary embarrassment, will in the end redound to the credit of the United States and make for settlement and peace in the world. It is primarily a moral, but it is also a business issue. For a too rigid creditor suffers in the end almost as much as his unfortunate debtor.” Discernible behind this smoothly worded threat is the snarl of the British lion whose markets, spheres of influence and world prestige are threat- ened by the growing financial power of the Amer- ican plunderbund. Wars are made in counting houses and fought by the working class doped with patriotic phrases. The scene shifters of Mars are arranging the stage for another world struggle which honeyed phrases concerning “Anglo-Saxon unity” do not avert but which serve to lull the working class of the two contending nations into fancied security. The Communist International and its affiliated parties alone point out the danger and the only safeguard—working class solidarity and world revolution. Anglo-French Unity More and more it is becoming clear that the im- perialist British Baldwin government and the so- called liberal French Herriot government have come to a complete ‘understanding. In, this sense it is interesting to note how little fundamental dif- ference there is between the foreign policies of the MatDonald and Baldwin ministries. Great Britain is prepared to blink the anti- German operations of France. The latter is to be allowed more gun toting and bayonet brandishing. Besides, Germany must be forced to keep in mind continually that there was a certain kind of peace signed at Versailles. But the basic significance of the rapprochment between the imperialist cliques of both countries lies. elsewhere just now. It is a union of ‘the hang- men of the colonial and oppressed peoples to per- petuate the imperialist edifice at the expense of the lives and energy of hundreds of millions of poor people. * France is to be permitted to step in and crush the heroic Riffs who have made the Spanish mur- derers bite the dust. England is to be given a free hand ‘in butchering the defenseless Egyptians, An entente cordiale is to be established of all the erst- while allied imperialist powers to fight Commun- ism. A new offensive will be launched again what the capitalist pogrom agents call Pan-Asiatie move: ments. China must be strangled especially as a move to stab Soviet Russia in the back and thus save the greatest labor market in the world for the exploiting class. It is particularly important to notice that the imperialists are planning to combat “the black chauvinist propaganda by Negro organ- izations in the United States.” , This is an unholy alliance of the imperialist powers against every movement which struggles for freedom of the oppressed from the oppressors and for freedom of the exploited from the ex- ploiters. Such Anglo-French unity is not only a source of friendship between the two countries, but is at once a source of new conflicts, new wars be- tween France and England as well as in the world at large. The workers of every country must union of imperialist piracy. t “our Cling hth Ba, te ely smash this COMMUNIST QUIZ UNWELCOME TO “LAFOLLETTE, JR Workers Party Heckler Stumps Speaker By G. 8 SHKLAR. (Special to The Daily Worker) MILWAUKEE, Wis. Dec. 12.— “There is no place in this country for & party of class action; the LaFollette movement is based upon a much broader basis of democracy,” declared Phil LaFollette, son of Robert M. La- Follette at the open forum lecture, on “Rich, Poor and my Father” delivered by Bob’s son on Dec, 9, In a sentimental appeal to a group of intellegentsia to gather courage and militant spirit in a crusade fo the principals of democracy, district attorney of Dane county denounced the dictatorship of the rich and the workers’ dictatorship and pleaded for the group “in between” standing for the spirit of 1776 and the true spirit of democracy. Wisconsin Humbug Cited Ideal State Mayor Hoan, acting chairman of the meeting, sat silently while Bob’s son cited Wisconsin as an ideal state. Mayor Hoan is the author of a book written in 1914 on the failure of regu- lation in which he proves that the LaFollette management had the ef- fect of strengthening the grip of monopoly and corporations on Wis- consin industry and Wisconsin rail- roads. LaFollette’s boy was very much embarrased when we confronted him with questions whether the C. P. P. A. intends to form a third party and whether it will be a farmer-labor party, a liberal party or no party at all. As the local paper describes it: “Mr. LaFollette blushed, grinned and did not answer for more than a min ute. Then he replied: ‘I’d rather not answer that question’ and then he blushingly added: ‘ There are toc many reporters in this room.’ You understand I am my father’s son.” When confronted with the same ques- tion from the other corner of the hal! Philip again declined to answer. Sham of Courage and Democracy. The representative of the Worker: Party rebuked LaFollette, Jr. for lack of courage to answer the question or organization of the third party, after delivering a fifteen minutes oration on the necessity of courage and fight ing spirit. His eulogizing of demtoc- racy was also exposed when it wat pointed out that while he was opposed to the workers’ rule and class action his father did not hestitate to set him self up as.a dictator over the pro- gressive movement. é Workers Party Only Leader of Workers. The fact that Mayor Hoan presided at the LaFollette meeting assumes considezeble significance since he was the bitter opponent of the LaFollette alliance. It appears that the so-called left wing of .the socialist party is willing to go the right wing one better. While the right wing is holding conference with the left wing of the republican party the other group is willing to gc all the way towards the alliance with real reactionaries of the republicar camp headed by Governor Blaine, who was officially endorsed by LaFollette With the destruction of farmer-la bor party movement and the demoral- ization of the soctalist party following the LaFollette swoop—the Worker: (Communist) Party holds. the most strategic position -in» Wisconsin © a: the only party of revolutionary clas: struggle. In opposition to Coolidge and LaFollette dictatorship the Work. ers Party raises the slogan of prole tarian dictatorship. Post Office Clerks Get Less Pay Today Than Ten Years Ago WASHINGTON, Dec. 12.— Ninety per cent of all postoffice employes re- ceive less than $2,000 a year, and the real wage of the postoffice clerk is less today than 10 years ago, says Thos. F. Flaherty, secretary Nationa) Federation of Postoffice Clerks, in a final appeal to congress to pass the salary increase bill over the Coolidge | veto. Flaherty thinks patience has ceased to be the only virtue to which thc 300,000 workers in the postal servict need aspire. The virtue of survival in the race with poverty is one he would match up with patience. Fiah- erty shows that in less than four years the over-worked. employes in the service have produced an increase in revenues that has wiped out a de ficit of $83,000,000, and that the clerks are giving more service at less real wages than at any time si Ben Franklin stated the postoffice system. He asks congress to pay a livi wage. : : Fatal Fire in Pullman, Pullman, Ill, Dec, 12—One man was suffocated and a score of. persons were routed by fire which today de stroyed the Westgate Hotel here. The victim was Simon Weel, 65, found un- conscious in his room on the second floor, He was pronounced dead at a hospital. — NEW ENGLAND TEXTILE WORKERS LEARN WHAT PROSPERITY MEANS TO THEM UNDER CAPITALISM (Special to The Daily Worker) LAWRENCE, Mass., Dec. 12.—The Everett Cotton Mills, among the largest of Lawrence, have announced a 10 per cent cut and the beginning of a 5-day week operation. This is the first Lawrence textile mill to follow the general New England movement operation. of wage reductions and more regular Fall River mills in southern Massachusetts are already on the new schedule and Rhode Island mills are also. Everett Mills normally employ about 1,800. workers. at least a third or possibly one-half It Is thought that of the workers will not be employed under the new schedule as the whole plant will not be reopened. The millc have been operating on a three-day week for a month and a half previously operated only intermittently, frequently closing completely for two weeks’ periods. FIRST COMMUNIST “FACTORY DANCE” ON TONIGHT AT NORTHWEST HALL The first Communist “factory dance” ever held in America: will take place tonight under the auspices of the Young Workers League at North- west Hall, North and Western Aves, The dance is being held especially for the mail order house workers in the Montgomery and Ward factory, who have become acquainted with the Young Workers’ League thru the Young Worker mail order house cam- paign. “Many affairs have been arranged by your bosses for you,” says the cir- cular distributed by the Y. W. L. to the “Monkey” Ward employes. “But this dance is arranged by young work- ers like yourself and for the benefit of yourself—not for the bosses.” The admission price is 35 cents, but a special price of 25 cents is being charged the “Monkey” Ward employes. A large number of tickets have al- ready been sold to league and party members who are expected to be pres- ent to enjoy the snappy jazz music and get acquainted with the Mont- gomery and Ward workers, Inciden- tally, the Young Workers League members are planning to make the “Monkey” Ward employes better ac- quainted with the Communist move- ment. Tickets have been sold at the doors of the factory by the Young Workers League members, The dance is known as a “moonlite and snowball.” Half the proceeds will go to the DAILY WORKER and half to the Young Worker. A Russian Lecture Tomorrow. A lecture on Russia and the elec tions in England and the United States will be given tomorrow, Sun- day, Dec. 14, at 2:30 p. m. at the So- viet School 1902 W. Division St. ar- ranged by the Russian branch of the W. P. Speaker Alexander Bittleman, member of the Executive Committee, Workers Party. Admission free. Russian Mass Meeting. A mass meeting with a musical pro- gram is called by the Russian branch of the W. P. for next Saturday, Dec. 20, at 8 p. m., at the Soviet School, 1902 W. Division St. Speakers will talk on the situation in the United States and. the program of the Work- ers Party. Admission free. Send your friends who speak Russian to this meeting. Consider Glassberg Case. ALBANY, N. Y., Dec. 12—Commis- sioner of Education Graves has taken under consideration the petition of the committee on academic freedom of the American Civil Liberties Union for the reinstatement of Benjamin Glassberg New York teacher suspended during the war for alleged disloyalty. Next Sunday Night and Every Sun- day Night, the Open Forum, Subscribe for the DAILY WORKER, he By ALFRED V. FRANKENSTEIN. —— ‘When I read that the Bush conserva- tory orchestra, which gave its first concert of the season at Orchestra Hall recently, had announced the finale of “Das Rheingold” as the windup of the program, I blinked and read again. For the finale of “Das Rheingold” is, to say the least, excep- tionally difficult music to play. It has a.very definite program, as unfolded by the Wagnerian system of leading motives. Donner, the god of thunder, calls up a storm, The storm clears away leaving a@ rainbow leading to Valhalla. In a slow procession the gods cross the rainbow to their newly built castle, while from below comes the cry of the Rhinemaidens, bereft of their magic gold. (These Rhine- maidens are Wagner's worst dramatic blunder, but the music allotted to them is quite effective on the concert stage.) + Conductor Deserves Praise. The difficulty lies in the string parts, especially toward the begin: ning, in the description of the rain bow. I didn’t think they could do it but they did, and much is Richard ©zerwonky, the conductor, to be prais: ed for the accomplishment. The program opened with Dvorak’s fifth symphony, “From the New World.” Dvorak wrote most of this work while living in a Bohemian col ony in Iowa, and when he had finish- ed ho thot he had produced a symph- ony which, while not actually using the melodies of Negro folk lore songs, into the spirit of the Negro music. lewed from this angle the symphony Get Better Grip on Philippines. MANILA, Dec. 12.—Direct commerc- ial radio communication between the Philippine Islands and- the United States promises to become a reality in the near future following announce- ment today by Admiral Bullard, rep- resenting the radio corporation of America, here, that his organization plans to erect:a station in Manila. A franchise for the project has been granted by the legislature. ; Earthquakes In Turkey. CONSTANTINOPLE —Earthquakes were reported today in the Erzerum district. Saturday, December 13, 1924 ere en LECTURE SUNDAY UPON CANADIAN LABOR MOVEMENT}: Tom Bell Has a Live Subject for Workers We are strangely unacquainted with the labor movement of Canada. Tho it lies next door and has many import ; ant and interesting organizations, po litical parties and union movements, the overly self-centered labor move- ment_of the United States pays little heed to the millions of workers be- yond the Canadian border. Yet there are’ many vital matters upon which|we may well inform our- selves, many situations in the organ- izations of labor, political and indus- trialy.which serve as a warning and a guide in our own movement. These matters will be taken up fully at the open forum of the Workers. Party, }which will be held at the Ashland Auditorium, next Sunday evening, at 8-o'clock, in a lecture by Tom Bell. The speaker is one who is thoroly acquainted with the Canadian labor movement and whose analysis of it will be given in his characteristic in- cisive and ‘spirited delivery which few speakers possess. The title of.the lecture is, “The Canadian Labor Movement; Its Ten- dencies in Politics and the Trade Un- ions.” The movement for Canadian autonomy from the American Federa- tion of Labor, the rise and decay of ‘the O. B. U., the Canadian labor party ‘and many other features make this lecture one of especial importance for those who wish to profit from the ex- perience of labor'in other countries. Subscribe for the DAILY WORKER. -COLUAIN The Russian Workers’ Revolution. When the Russian. workers and farmers made their revolution in November 1917, they took over’ the lands and the factories, the palaces and the houses, and made all the rich people go to work or else leave the country. Whoever would not work, got nothing. Only workers and farm- ers who were willing to work for each other, got all the land and the homes, This revolution made the capital- ists in other countries afraid. That is, they thought that the workers in their own countries would do the same thing, and they would have to go to work fora living. So they got together and tried to overthrow the work- ers’ government; they wanted to bring back the old days when landlords and capitalists owned everything in Rus- sia, and the workers nothing—the same as in all countries where there has been no workers’ revolution. But the Russian workers and peasants built up a Red Army and a Red Navy, and the workers in many of the capitalist countries refused to fight the government of the Russian workers and farmers. When the capitalists saw that they. could not change back to the old or- der by fighting with armies and guns, they tried something else. They made up their minds to fight Soviet Russia with the BLOCKADE. That is, they J kept all ships away from Russia, the is a very diluted creation indeed. Seen without the connotations of any kind of folk music, it is one of the great masterpieces in symphonic form. I have heard it and played it a thousand times; more or less, and never get tired of it. Didn't Play Best Part. Robert» Quick, a good violinist with a rather wooly tone, played the first movement of Saint-Saens’ third violin concerto. The first movement is un- fortunately far worse than the second which is really fine, but Quick didn't y the second, elyn Daniels played the first movement of Beethoven’s third pianc ships that carried food, clothing and machinery which Russia had to have. On top of this, Russia had famine, a terrible drouth when nothing would grow out of the ground. Now even where there is no drouth, a country can’t live unless she trades with other countries. That is, she gives other countries things that those people need, and she gets in return other things that she needs. The Russian workers’ government said to the capitalists of other coun- tries, “We will pay you well for t] things we need. We will pay you gold or in goods.” But the capitalists said, “We will not sell to a workers’ government. We will starve you out until you give back the land and homes to the land- lords, and the factories to the capi- talists.” The world capitalists are fighting Russia, because Russia is fighting to free all the workers. But the workers of all countries have made up their minds: to save Russia even tho they are poor workers themselves because they work for capitalists in rich capi- talist countries, and get only a small part of the wealth they produce. The capitalists see that their guns and blockades did no good so they now pretend friendship for Russia. No matter what the capitalists say or do, the workers and the workers’ children must support Russia to the limit. concerto. If only composers could be induced to study these piano concerti of Beethoyen! It would result in far fewer concerti, and those of a lot bet- ter quality. For the five works Bee- thoven wrote in this form for piano and’ orchestra are unsurpassed, and stand out as perfect examples. Miss Daniels’ performance had much vigor and life and character. Beulah Van Epps, asoprano, also a student at “Bush, sang the famous aria “Depuis le Jour,” (“Ever Since the Day”) from Charpentier’s opera “Louise.” It is an aria full of romance and charm, but it was not particularly inspiringly: sung. ONE THOUSAND DOGS A thousand dogs took part in the » trained to help break~strikes. Little toy , Big police do spaniels bred to play with. dog "show in Chicago. We read on: “The little fellow. He was an effectionate,. inquisitive, watchful little ‘po eat anything and full of tricks and am Maybe that will be said about kids was dog day in Chicago and the referen och,’ alwa chipper, read H devices.” hs e day, but this astoan English , spaniel. 4 Maybe you too are willing, very willing for “some day” _ to come, when the class that carries the world will say to the class that rides it, “Children before dogs, and we before you." When masses begin to say this and start to crowd in a bit, elbowing the yellows out, well, it-will only be a short jump then to a workers’ and farmers’ government. If you — are strong for that day, you'll buy an INSURANCE POLICY _ and so help ie ; Latunre Re Sait, Worker tn Mees

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