The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 29, 1924, Page 2

: } THE DAILY WORKER bans Two : Monday. December 29, 1924 [ PASHAS LOOKS AFTER CUSTOMERS CONSCIENTIOUSLY They Become His Friend and Comrade The record of sub-selling was broken today by George Pashas, owner of the Cozy Lunch Room, 2426 Lincoln Ave The ease with which subscriptions to the DAILY WORKER sell was dem. onstrated by Pashas in several morn- ing hours of business. No more than a dozen short, persuasive conversa- tions with as m breakfast pa- trons of his restaurant netted nine subscriptions to the DAILY WORKER. The international character of Pashas’ patronage is indicated in the nationality of the names on the nine subscriptions blanks. Three were American, one Jewish, one Hungarian, one Scandinavian, one Russian, one Slavish and one French, What They’ve Been Looking For. Pashas said to the DAILY WORK- ER: “It is in no sense an expression of petty bourgeois pride when I say that the business of my restaurant has, far from suffering, shown a very noticeable improvement since I have been active for the DAILY WORKER. All of my customers are working men. It is no trouble at all to interest most of them in the paper. One of the most common remarks in my place is, ‘That's what I have been looking for.’ I have sold more than twenty-five subscriptions with a minimum of ef- fort in the past few weeks. I have been convinced from what I have seen here that the DAILY WORKER has @ prompt and forceful appeal to the majority of real workers that are in- troduced to it.” This should give encouragement to those who are taking part in the big Chicago subscription drive for five thousand new subscribers, It Can Be Done! Thurber Lewis, manager of the drive, told the DAILY WORKER at his office in Room 307, 166 W. Wash- ington street: “The experience of Comrade Pashas in selling subscrip- tions to the DAILY WORKER Is a real proof of the groundlessness of the belief many of our comrades have that it is a hard job selling a subscription to the DAILY WORKER. Of course, it's hard to sell one to a white-collared bank clerk or a one hundred per cent rotarian, but it is not hard to arouse the interest of a real worker.” Dutch Industry to Lose Out in New Iron And Steel Compact (Speciat to The Daily Worker) AMSTERDAM, Holland, Dec. 28.— Creation of a European concern em- bracing 45 per cent of the world’s pro- duction of iron and steel, would se- riously mnace Dutch industry. The Dutch shipbuilding industry has flourished partly because of the cheap foreign iron and steel prices brought about bp pre-war competition in Hol- land. If the new international con- cern fixes a standard price for iron and steel sold in Holland, it would mean the end of Dutch shipbuilding, steel and iron men here say. Holland possesses modern blast furnaces, the first two of which were built by the firm of Freyn Brassert and company, located in Chicago. Bronx Readers, Attention! “A. B. C. of Communism,” every Tuesday night, at 1347 Boston Road. Dr. I. Stamler, instructor. All mem- bers of Bronx Section, Workers Party, who have joined the party within a year, must attend this class. Others invited. English, Elementary, Monday night, at 511 East 173rd St. S. Felshin, in- structor. JEXICO CITY LABOR FAKERS EXPEL BERTRAM D. WOLFE FROM CENTRAL B ODY “A LA YANKEE” By ELLA G. WOLFE, (Special to The Daily Worker) MEXICO CITY, Dec. 28—The growing influence of the Communists, specially among the peasants of Mexico, the recent affiliation of the League ot Agrarian Communes of the State of of 20,000, to the Peasants’ International on Russia amongst the proletariat, has ithe Mexican Federation of Labor nat Morones in one of his speeches t the Pan-American Congress stated hat his organization would stop at othing in its fight against the Com- 1unist elements, They began to put this threat into ‘ffect at the Central Labor Council of Mexico City. Bert Wolfe, active mem- ber of the union of newspapermen, was re-elected delegate to the Cen- ral Labor Council, a few days ago. The «redentials committee reported that his credentials could not be ac- cepted. The reason given was the publication of a series of articles in Bl Democrata” one of the metropoli- tan dailies, in which Wolfe had at- tacked the Mexican Federation of La- bor. Excuse Number Two, Wolfe jumped up and asked for the floor. He told those delegates who had not already read the articles, that they limited themselves to the de- scription of conditions in Russia in 1924; that there was not a single at- tack against the federation, as most of the workers who had read them knew, that the report of the creden- tials committee was a frame up be- cause they had no proofs of the charg- es they were making. The vommittee was stumped! Excuse Number Two. Then Alvarez, one of the “inner group” of the federation asked for the floor. He told the delegates that Wolfe was being rejected not pre- cisely for his articles in “El Demo- crata,” that those articles were excel- lent and very intelligently written, but that Wolfe had published four ar- ticles in the state of Vera Cruz, in which he had attacked the federation. Wolfe again demanded the floor, and told the delegates that he knew not a single editor in Vera Cruz that in all bis life he had never published a line in that state, and he asked Al- varez to present proofs. Alvarez could not. Then Wolfe pointed out that he had been a lone fighter for the affiliation of his union with the federation. That it took him six months to convince, the newspaper men that only a united front of all workers would make pos- sible a workers’ victory. He was also one of the most energetic fighters for his union’s affiliation with the allied printing trades; that he had served faithfully on all commissions to which he had been elected; that he had served faithfully as delegate to the Central Labor Council before he went to Russia, and that promptly on his return, his union re-elected him to serve again; that he could see no rea- son for the rejection of his creden- tials. The charges against him were trumped up and false, that it appear- ed the only reason for his rejection the credentials committee was un- willing to state—which was that he is a Communist. At Last A Reason! At this point Rodriguez, another of the “inner group,” asked for the floor and he told the assembly that that was precisely the reason, that just because Wolfe was a Communist they lid not want him in their organiza- tion. Then followed a wholesale at- ack upon Communists in general. That they were being instructed by the Third International to enter all organizations of workers and to break them up; that Communists were po- lice spies, like Lynn Gale; that they accepted money from Soviet Russia to run their propaganda; that they were responsible for Fascism in Italy; that they were also responsible for the failure of the MacDonald govern- ment in England; that they were spouting a foreign theory; that Mexi- co was tired of importations and wanted to develop a nationalist move- ment of its own; that Communism New one of the rhs b Where Are You Going Year’s Eve? To that T.U.E.L. BALL at WEST END WOMEN’S CLUB, 37 So. Ashland Blvd. where all the live ones will celebrate in regular New Year's Eve style. 50c A PERSON ADMITS YOU to the last dance of the season and the first Auspices, TRADE UNION EDUCATIONAL LEAGUE. LOCAL CHICAGO new year. Vera Cruz, consisting of a membership 1 at Moscow, the intelligent propaganda so gotten under the skin of the leaders f RUSSIAN INVENTORS FLOURISHING UNDER THE SOVIET REGIME (Special to The Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Dec, 28—A Russian workingman has invented a railroad brake which appears, on tests, to meet Russia needs better than the Westinghouse brake, The Leningrad experimental work shop is making a new medical apparatus for determining the con- tent of the blood. The first Russianemade typewriter is on the market invented by en- gineer Blok. Instead of the usual 700 parts it has 445, making 50 per cent economy of time in manufac- ture. was all right in Russia, but in Mexi- co there was uo room for it, ete., ete. To defend himself against all these vituperations, Wolfe again asked for the’ floor. He pointed out that he was being rejected on charges that had nothing to do with him; that if Lynn Gale was a fool and a coward and turned state’s evidence that it iad nothing to do with him; that as far as receiving money from Soviet russia, that Felipe Carrillo a beloved leader of the Mexican federation had received much Russian gold in try- ing to build a labor movement in Mexico; that Leija Paz, another lead- er,,had also received money for or- sanizing the workers. That as far as importation was concerned that the red and black flag which the federa- tion flaunts so proudly is an importa- tion from Spain; that anarchism is also an importation; that if there is anything which is native to Mexican soil, it is the primitive Communism of the Indian, to which he is clinging so forcefully. Then another delegate from the newspapermen’s union asked for the floor. He pointed out that for an organization that used so many revo- lutionary phrases, it was a little bit disconcerting to find it trying to ex- pel a member for different politica’ opinions. He proposed a motion to suspend expulsion until such time as the credentials committee could fur- nish proofs of the charges they wera making. Expulsion “a la Yankee.” The motion was put to a vote. Many voted in the affirmative. The opposi- tion was not counted and the motion was declared lost. Then came the vote on the report of the committee. Out of an assembly of over 200 dele- gates only 27 voted for the report to expel Wolfe. The chair announced 47 votes. There were many sympa- thizers with Wolfe but they were vfraid to vote. The chair declared he expulsion unanimous. This is not the first Communist oxpelled by the “revolutionary” Mexi- van Federation of Labor. Soria, Com- nunist delegate from the state of Michoacan to the congress of the fed- eration was not seated because he was a Communist. And this expul- sion policy will continue and wil) grow as the Communist movement in Mexico grows in influence among tie workers and peasants. The fight is not over yet. Wolfe will carry the fight back to his union Lasune Poe ail Iberker pr ps CANADA MOUNTED! COP DOPE SELLER AND UNION FINK Enticed Girls Into the Opium Habit VICTORIA, B. C., Dec, 28.—After being employed as a disrupter in the Lumber Workers’ Union of this prov- ince and later convicted as a dope peddler and enticer of young girls to the opium habit, Frank Eccles, former Canadian mounted policeman, has come back into the business world as an exporter of cedar coffins to China Now in Coffin Business, Last week he shipped some 2,400 cedar coffins to the orient, and an- nounces that he has opened up this business for the selling of B. C. cedar Products abroad. The fact that this vile stoolpigeon is enabled to enter the exports business on such a scale is positive proof that between his dope peddling and labor spying activities he has been well rewarded financially. Also Stoolpigeon, Eccles was convicted, along with two other members of the mounted police, of having sold dope to young sirls and when they refused to pur- chase from him, planted it on them and then made their arrest. In the trial it was brought out that he was the receiver of “hush money” for pro- tected higherups in the traffic. He also confessed that during 1921-22 he was neaged in disrupting the Lumber Workers’ Union by fostering the idea of a dual organization among the dis- contended members, Kentucky Miners Complain in Vain to Union Officials — (Continued from page 1) work in the eastern Kentucky coal fields.” ‘William Green, who has stepred in- to Czar Gompers’ shoes, sent $5.000 to some scabs in Alabama when an ex- niosion occurred two years ago, for which he received cheap notoriety in the capitalist newspapers. But Green hes not lifted his little finger to or. sanize the coal miners of eastern Kentucky. L. E. Whitehead, secretary of the Blackey, Ky., wrote to William Green on Feb. 22, 1924, stating: “When Samuel Pascoe took charger of district No. 30, in 1919, organizine work was ssing rapidly. The first thing Mr. Pascoe did was to dis runt Local Union No. 4099, of McRob erts, Ky., one of the best locals in Letcher county. He kent up this kine of work on the Kentucky and Big Sandy rivers until confidence was de- stroyed not only in hihm, but he de- stroyed the prestige of good, reliable union men who were trying to co-op- erate with him. “Mr. Pascoe may have followed the instructions of the . internatfona’ board, but I do not believe that the policy he put in effect down here would meet with their approval if they were in possession of the facts “It should convince the board, if they take into consideration the amount 0! per capita tax that was pafd in be fore Pascoe began his administration that something has been going wrong in district No. 30 . . “There have been letters received in this district which had a tendency to destroy confidence in Mr. Pascoe, as one letter came from the presiden‘ of the Farmington (I1J.) local, saying he sold ont in a congressional cam paign, or at least, sold the miners’ votes. “The union men tn this district be Meve {it will be of material interes to the organization if the provision> president of this district, Mr. Pasco: is removed. “(signed) L. B, Whitehad.” MANY JOBLESS BUY OUR POLICY— IT’S UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE! “If | was working, | would make it a ten dollar policy instead of five,” They Are Building Traps to Defend Property Rights and Are Caught in Them By J, LOUIS ENGDAHL, TRAY: they are burying the dead—mere hunks of burnt flesh and charred bones—the 33 who died in the fire that swept a little white school house, in the Babb’s Switch Settlement in Oklahoma. : The living were caught in a trap of their own making. there was but one small door. Wire netting and iron bars at the windows stopped up these exits, It was a Christmas feast for hungry flames. The clumsy Santa Claus brushed a lighted candle against some tinsel on the gaily decorated Christmas tree and the fire got its start. The dried evergreen was crackling in another second. Then the whole of the sun-dried shack of a school house, similar to thousands of others to be found in rural communities, was ablaze; a roaring furnace: Men, women and children fought to reach the lone exit already choked by others. Thirty- three died, helpless as the rooted trees before the oncoming fire in the forest. e e ° e The trustees had had the bars and netting put over the windows to bar out intruders. It is declared that it was an effort to keep off “vandals.” No doubt that refers to the wandering, homeless tenant farmer, who plods the cotton belt of the southwest; but who must oftimes seek shelter for the night. The property-owning, better-off farmer, who is not driven from pillar to post with each new season, must needs protect his school house against his plundered brother. It is just another slant at the struggle between property rights and human rights.’ The protectors of property r ights prepared the trap in which they were caught, and in which many of them perished. . e ° a So the great capitalist nations, with their organized vernments to defend their property rights, build the traps Agente they are caught. Armies are recruited, navies are built, flocks of planes come into being, to protect property rights by land, by water, by air. Private property begets profits that must be invested elsewhere. Foreign fields for exploitation are sought out everywhere, and the whole world is turned into a tinder box, where the least spark sets off the whole powder. magazine; and then comes—WAR; from which there is less escape than was to be found by the men, women and children at Babb’s Switch, in Oklahoma, thru the lone, little door in their white school house. Another Serajevo can as easily plunge nations at each other's throgts and light the flames of a new and greater world conflict. ; * * * * Capitalism is building the trap that will destroy it; be- cause the time will come when the workers and farmers of other nations, like the workers and farmers of Soviet Russia, will refuse to go to war and die for their capitalist masters. They will grow to realize that they can even destroy the trap, in which millions are due'to perish in the next great imperial- ist slaughter, if they will dnly awaken to the danger that even now presents itself and destroy the capitalist social order that Ironia worid rivalries between nations and spawns world wars, ” * * * Under any sane social order there is no reason why anyone should desire to vandalize a school house ge J the rural highway. It should be, under any sane system of life, a public shrine, at all time open to all. So the boundaries that divide nations should be only lines appearing upon a map; not the stalking places for marching armies, maneuver- ing spots for great fleets; of places to be studied by observers in bombing planes that darken the sky. It is time that the toiling masses realize that in order to obliterate the insanities of capitalism, they must obliterate capitalism itself. PHILADELPHIA COMRADES ACTIVE _IN UNIONS; HEALTHY INCREASE IN MEMBERSHIP, PARTY WORK The city central committee of Philadelphia has arranged a concert and ball for New Year's eve at the Slovak Timberman Hall, 8th and Fairmount Ave. “Clouds” will be the special feature of the concert, which will start at 7:30 p. m. Dancing begins at 8:80 and continues until next year. All Philadelphia comrades and friends will be there to greet the new year. The committee has secured an especially good orchestra to entice even the most ardent leaders of the discussion to do nothing else but dance and enjoy hemselves, The admission has been reduced to the unemployment rate of {5c, which will surely induce all our comrades to be present. The party in Philadelphia tekes the slogan of “Bolshevization” seriously nd has taken a number of definite steps to put it into effect. The firs: step towards Bolshevization is educa- tion and in this fleld we have some concrete results already. Three study classes are now functioning regularly. A class in English language is held sm into this phase of our educational ork. A motion was passed to reput- ate the factional interpretation and section of the district . . . on this ‘uestion, the membership was called upon to give full and complete support writes Willlam Boyd from Forest Grove, Oregon, as he sends in his greenback to insure the DAILY WORKER for 1925. “As the logging camps are closing down for the winter, | am temporarily without a master,” he goes on to say. “Some of us are out of work. most of us have been jobless th's fail, and many of us expect to get laid off after New Years; consequently, we can't buy as many policies as we would like to,” writes Edwin Peter- son from Jamestown, N. Y. He encloses the first collection, adding, “we expect to do better before the campaign is over.” Another comrade writes that, tho he has been lald up for four months with a broken leg and other injuries received from an aceldent, nonetheless, he has persuaded his branch comrades to take care of the 50 book of policies sent him. He encloses $25 cash. He is Gus Kirland of Dorchester, Ma: “Owing to financial circumstances caused by sickness and death In my family, | cannot contribute what | would like, but | enclose $5.00 which was raised in our branch,” writes Walter Luhn from Cincinnati, 0, of the Herweg Maennerechor. F “Times are not good here so | am leaving for Mexico,” A. Heide of Santa Ana, Calif. informs the DAILY WORKER, as he sends in his $5 for a policy regularly every Sunday morning. A class in economics every Saturday efternoon end a class in trude union iistory and tactics composed of active comrades in the trade unions moeis every Sunday morning. Al) the class- 8 meet in the party headquarters, 521 York Ave, Education Taken Seriously. * The party open forum conducted every Sunday evening at 1628 Arch ‘treet is developing into a first class educational institution, By far the most important educational feature is the series of lectures conducted by Comrade Carlson on Wednesday even- ngs at the party headquarters, The seriousness with which, the narty takes these lectures can be de- nonstrated by the decisive action of he City Central Committee when an ffort was made by the District Bx ‘cutive Committee to inject factional ‘o the lectures and a motion exyress- ‘ng full confidence in the city exec- iuive committee was passed with only one dissenting vote. The trade union work is improving with satisfactory speed, our comrade recognize the unions as a training ground for eflicient leadership, and as the most satisfactory fleld for car- rying on communist porpaganda, The Philadelphia Trade Union Rducationst League has to its credit the organe sation of these new unions and is creating a growing prestige in a score of others, Gain in Membership, Last eight months show a steady wain in party membership and it is interesting to note that dur nr’ the our months of local farmer-labor par ty campaign from April 1st to July the varty has gained 27 new members, while during the four months of the THE PAGE OF MILITANT BRANCHES IN THE Nititant Special Birthday Ed'tion of the Dai'y Worker to Appear Jan, Only Names of Militant Branches Will Appear Upon the Militant Page of this Big Branches are Militant that Remit for Insurance Policy § i ales Before January 8 die >OLIGEMAN KILLS 1 HUNERY NEGRO. BRAGS, "FINE SHO Shot in Back of Head While Ten Feet Away Policeman Thomas J. Larney shot a hungry Negro who is said to have snatched a purse from a woman on the stairs of the elevated station at Congress St, and Wabash Ave, Wed- nesday night. The Negro was later identified as James Thomas, 6326 Rhodes Ave. Larney pursued him, and when but a few feet away, fired a bullet into the back of Thomas’ head. Thomas was left for 25 minutes, dying in the snow without attention, while Larney was waiting for the patrol. Larney stood over the body and laughed and chatted with bystanders about his ex- ploit while Thomas’ lifeblood stained the snow crimson. Thomas died in the hospital. Mario Giordano, assistant editor of the Italian working class daily news- paper “Il Lavoratore,” who witnessed the killing, offered to aid the Negro, but spectators refused to allow him to do so. While Larney was poking the Negro with his foot, and smiling at the “wonderful shot” he made, by- standers told Giordano, “If you try to help him, you'll get the same medicine.” Giordano suggested that Thomas be taken to a drug store, and that first aid be immediately rendered, but the crowd let the Negro le twen- ty-five minutes in the snow without attention of any kind. , Later the report of the affair as given to the papers was that Larney had “fired thru a space between the running spectators, when Thomas was near escape, from 150 feet in the rear.” The truth of the affair, declares Giordano, is that the Negro ran only 100 feet in all and that Larney fired when less than ten feet away, The killing was entirely unneces- sary, according to Giordano, as the policeman could have captured Thomas or could have fired at his legs. AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHERTY. (Continued from page 1) vealth, but we believe that those who veate it should enjoy it. This, of course, looks bad to prostituted pen- aacks. eee HEN Austen Chamberlain started on his recent European tour, the DAILY WORKER guessed that his main object in visting Herriot, Mus- solini and other lesser agents of the European brigands, was to form an anti-Bolshevik bloc under the leader- ship of Britain. The prediction is amply borne out by the facts. Im- mediately after Chamberlain reached Paris, Herriot started his red raids. Mussolini was afraid to start any trouble, he has all he can handle and more. But the kept Balkan nations, like Bulgaria, Roumania and even Al- bania, hangout for budding capitalists still in bandit stage of civilization, ex- pelled the Soviet legation on the or- ders of Chamberlain. This proves that the one power the capitalist pirate gov- ernments fear more than any other is the mighty workers’ and peasants’ republic of Russia, With that power they cannot and will not compromise. Rein, must Be oe Workers Party campaign from August 1st to November 30 the party has sec- ured 127 new members including four new branches and several others are in the stage of formation. The election of Comrade es Levine as the Philadelphia DAIL’ WORKER Agent is the first step to- wards a drive to raise 600 new scriptions for the DAILY in this city. i Lenin memorial meeting at Luly Temple on Saturday, January 24 be our next great step towards. ing the workers of Philadel principles and tactics of The special feature of this g1 orial will be the showing pictures of the funeral of 13,