The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 5, 1925, Page 1

— | The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ and Farm- Outside Chicago. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: MINERS URGE SUPPORT FOR LABOR DEFENSE Protest Michigan Rule As Suppression That the white terror of the capitalist dictatorship is rousing the workers to a realization of the threat against every worker existing in the “criminal syndi- calist” laws, is seen by the first resolutions beginning to come in protesting against the action of the Michigan state supreme court in sustaining the convic- tion of C. E. Ruthenberg and : JOHN in the Out- “ook, _.sthat socialism is obsolete. .spargo thade his living for many, years telling quite the reverse, but the outbreak of the Buropean war aroused his John Bull spirit and he became one of the champions of demo¢racy, represented by the British Empire. John had his price of course. He was on the payroll of the British government before the United States entered the war and no doubt he drew more than one salary from then on. = 6.8 PARGO'S article shows light on the insincerity of socialist par- ties. He tells of his visit to Sweden fn 1920. While in that country he asked Premier Branting, socialist, what ‘he intended to do to realize the social- ist ideal. “Nothing at all” replied In Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year. MONDAY, JANUA by mail, $6.00 per year. Branting. That gentleman favored @ program of maintaining the Swed- fh rate of exchange and in general & program that any white guard would support willingly. In fact the king was-oné of Branting’s strongest sup- porters, a fact which was taken by prominent leaders of the American socialist party as an indication that there was a split in the ranks of Eur- pean monarchy, a goodly number of them: being ready to join the social democracy. eo ef qT is undoubtedly true that Branting Oem every other socialist premier who succeded in gaining power in Eur- ope since the war did nothing to ad- vance the socialist ideal. On the con- trary they were the most willing agents of capitalism. Witness Ramsay MacDonald in England and the Polish, Austrain and Czecho-Slovak social. ists. But Spargo does not mention Russia where the workers have ruled fer over seven years and where the ground work for a Communist society is being built. And should some one say that Communism has been a fail- ure in Russia, we reply that Commun- ism never existed in Russia, but that the workers have all power in their hands and are advancing toward the Communist goal ideologically aswell ox : role of executioners of socialism, while the Communist parties who are successfully playing the role of the executioners of socialist parties are the _deliverers of socialism. The capital- :4st system in Europe is bankrupt and ‘eould not maintain itself in power but “for the assistance rendered to it by the socialist parties of Europe and the American capitalists. Spargo may con- ole himself with the thot that social- ism will not be realized in America before his carcass is turned into dust. ‘In the meantime he intends to live the life of a prostitute. oe. 8 A. LOCHRAY, editor of the Mid * West News, and a former booster for a farmer-labor party, later a La- Follette booster and still later a Cal- yin. Coolidge booster, (he can’t sink any lower) is now trying to terrorize the capitalists into believing that they re confronted with an immediate danger which must be met by an ap- propriate expenditure of cash given to worthy perverts like the aforesaid Lochray. This faker has turned his fag into a red baiting sheet almost ex- clusiyely. So far he has not pros- pered by the change. Formerly the Mid-West News came out weekly; now it hurts the eye only once a month, Let us hope he makes ita yearly. B- BO ‘CINCINNATI INQUIRER re- cently published a dispatch from the Chicago Tribune's correspondent, hich states that the Communist In- ternational has ordered a revolution to take place in the Balkans in the month of March. The story does not give the exact hour or minute on which the onslaught is to be made but it got very close to it. It will take place in the second or third week in March. It is also interesting to note that the main object of the revolt is to “heal the breach between Trotzky and former chiefs.” The assumption ig that Trotzky is addicted to sulky (Continued on page 2) \ opening the way for impriso ment of William Z. Foster, Wil- liam F. Dunne and the other Michigan defendants, Illustrative of the rising protest is the resolution, printed below, from the United Mine Workers of America, Lo- cal No. 2376, at Christopher, Illinois. It is to be noticed that these coal min ers call upon labor to support the La- bor Defense Council, 166 West Wash- ington street, Chicago, Illinois, in the fight against the capitalist persecu- tion. The resolution is as follows: Resolution Against “Criminal Syndi. calism Laws.” WHEREAS, the many state “crim- inal syndicalism” laws and “sedition acts” are unconstitutional and instru- ments of employing class tyranny over the workers and their organiza- tions, and WHEREAS, the state supreme court of Michigan has upheld the convic. tion of C. E. Ruthenberg for “assembl- ing with” the Communists in an opin- ion which calls for the punishment of ideas and the denial of free speech and assemblage, and which evades the issue by ignoring the fact that, as the defense showed, there was not even a violation of the state law since nothing was done in Michigan by the defendant in the way of any overt act or advocacy, and WHEREAS, Assistant Prosecu' Attorney, ‘his: class insist on a : tence of ten years’ imprisonment ané $10,000 fine, for this “crime” of hold. ing an opinion counter to their own. rather than on the law and the consti tution, and WHEREAS, the sustaining of Ruth. enberg’s conviction by the United States supreme court will mean alse the railroading to long terms in prison of William Z. Foster, Wm. F. Dunne and 29 other well-known fighters in the ranks of the labor movement, and would also encourage high-handed suppression by the capitalist control led government of all and any work ing class organizations which dares opose their open shop rule, and WHEREAS, the solidarity of the en. tire working class is essential to its welfare and requires that those in the forefront of the struggle must es- pecially have the support of all work- ers, therefore be it RESOLVED, That we protest against and condemn the action o the Michigan supreme court, record ourselves as in support of the Labor Defense Council in this case and call upon all labor bodies and working class bodies to take the same stand. That we petition the governor of the state of Michigan to pardon the de- fendant inthe event that the United States supreme court sustains the conviction, it being our view that such action on the part of the federal supreme court would be a nullifica. tion of the constitution in the interest of instruments of capitalist suppres- sion of the workers, and be it further RESOLVED, That copies of this resolution be sent to the governor of tho state of Michigan and the labor press. Leon Gremling, President, Ed Johnson, Recording Secretary. 400 Jobless Per Week SEATTLE.—Unemployed workers are flooding into Seattle at the rate of 400 a week. Relief work on the largest scale on record is in operation, Are You Going to the Open Forum Sunday Night? Results of Membership Meetings | SOUTH BEND, IND—By mistake the Workers Party of South B called a meeting of the City Central Committee Instead of a ge! bership meeting. But after listening to Comrade Minor speak for the minor- ity and Comrade Swabeck for the majority, the City Central Committee voted unanimously, eight to nothing, to support the majority. January 2. The committee met MINERS DIE IN BLOW UP OF UNSAFE POCKET Coal Mine Was Old a Gaseous (Special to the Daily Worker) W. FRANKFORT, Iil., Jan. 4. —One coal miner is dead, another is dying, and several were severely injured here when a fall. of coal i d t caused an explosion. The workings of the mine were filled with gas. The safety laws were’ directly violated when the men were allowed to work in a mine in which there was danger of the coal falling at any time. Falling Coal Releases Gas. The falling coal released a pocket of gas, which rushed into the entry }where the men were on their way toe work, being ignited when it came intc contact with the lamps of the miners Beveridge McKeever, a lad of 21 years of age, was badly burned and died yesterday in the hospital here |Ben Polinski is not expected to live. Two other victims, N. W. Malone anc W. T. Wade, were so badly burned about the face and head that the; will be difigured for life. The Illinois laws require that the mine be thoroly inspected before the men are allowed to enter, and if gas is found in the mine, the men mus, be kept out of the workings. This law was evidently violated, according to the news dispatches. The United States department of la- bor, in a recently issued report, de- clares that many of these accidents are avoidable, if the coal operator: would use the most scientific meth- ods of laying excessive coal dust and of reinforcing the sides of the entries so that the coal will not fall. Thir the operators have not done, the de- partment of labor admits, and hence avoidable mine accidents greatly in- creased in 1924. NEW GERMAN CABINET TO BE DICTATORSHIP Von Seeckt Is Hope of Reactionaries BERS SAN FRANCISCO, able to secure any e¥ nect them with shooting of W.- shop iron works ow have released Earl bert Hansen of the Parente was the street by uni supposed to be the open shop whom the mo! clared a strike, against has de- y BOLSHEVISM, TOO! Capitalist Arguments on 20th Amendment NEW YORK.—Child marriages and child labor held the floor at the public hearing of the New York state com- mission to examine laws relating to child welfare. Sen. Benjamin Antin, who has been quoted in favor of the federal amendment on child labor, pre- sided. The old arguments for and against the amendment were dragged out with the familiar cry of Bolshevism. James P. Holland, president New York State Federation of Labor, and John P. Coughlin, secretary New York City Central Trades and Labor Assembiy, spoke for the amendment. Charges that even worse results than the 18th amendment brought would result from the 20th, were made by William McCarroll, a director of the New York board of trade an¢ transportation. Mrs. E. 8S. Shumway of the New York committee for pro. tection of our homes and children agreed with McCarroll that the amend ment would mean “nationalization” of children. Limitation of immigration will in- crease the number of child workers according to George W. Alger, chair- man New York child labor commit. tee, who argued against McCarroll. Already, he claimed, reports from 39 cities show an increase of 20 per cent in child labor and nine cities report an increase of 50 per He said it was ridiculous to claim that a meas- ure endorsed by Pres, Coolidge, Hard- ing and Lodge could be in any way Bolshevistic. Mrs. F. Louis Slade, president New York state league of women voters, said opponents of the child labor amendment were moved by business considerations. A hasty merriage bill which would make five days’ delay after obtaining license, compulsory is proposed tc BERLIN, Jan., 4—The social demo-| compat the child marriages permis- eratic party which ruled Germany| sinie in New York. Those favoring after the revolution that sent the Kaiser the bill say that children are married scurrying to Holland no longer cut#! under 16 in the state to enable them any figure in the Reich government. It is truéBbert stilk remains, but he is indeed the Last of the Mohicans, Tho the yellows polled over 7,000,000 votes in the last elections, when Wbert called on Mark to form a cabinet he picked the most conservative collection that appeared on any government slate since the flight of the Kaiser, to quit school and goto work. Unemployment Worse in Than for Three Years OTTAWA, Can.—Employment in Ca- Ti GARY, IND—On Saturday. January 3, Gary's general membership meet- . Ing, after listening to Comrade Kruse for the minority and Comrade Swabeck 16 to 6 to support the majority. vwith dictatorial powers. The new cabinet formed by Marx is nada Jn Deceaber was on a lower level a non party affair and because of its] than 1923 nearly all the time, and for inability to secure a parliamentary | some months lower than either 1923 or majority it is proposed to equip it] 1922, the Dominion bureau of statistics shows, d ; FRENCH BID ON DEBT NOT $0 Years to Pay (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, Jan. ading of. fhe _ $4,000, ceptable to the United States. be: 1. A moratorium of ten years. one per cent. 3. period of 90 years. opposition in congress, which must, in the American debt funding commis- sion. ‘ The state department announced to. day that at the meeting of the allied day, the United States would be rep resented’ by Ambassador Frank B. Kellogg, at London; Ambassador Myron T. Herrick at Paris, in addi. tomary “unofficial observer” ropean gatherings. Lest the presence of three such dis. tinguished American diplomats at this conference be misinterpreted, officials at the department reiterated that under no circumstances would they engage in a discussion of American war debts, PETTY BOURGEOIS FIGHT FOR PLAGE WITH PLUTES ON NEW GERMAN CABINET | (Special to The Daily Worker) — BERLIN, 4-—Germany on Monday will have a new legislative body in session without a cabinet to direct the government's policies, This situation was made evident when Chancellor Marx again re- ported to President Ebert that he could not form a new cabinet. The reason, he said, was that the cen- trist party is insisting on a coalition which would include the social dem. ocrats. The German peoples’ party, Marx said, refused to listen to any coalition plan. Marx has announc- ed the plan to make the new cabi- net even more conservative than the old. —_ a —_ Published daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1413 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill. Help Insure THE DAILY WORKER for 1925! Price 3 Cents GERMAN ‘DEMOCRACY’ IN LAST PHASE; 22 PARTIES CONTESTED RECENT ELECTION; END IN SIGHT (Special to The Daily Worker) BERLIN, Dec. 16 (By Mail.)—The elections are over. The old cabinet has gone. Today or tomorrow the social-democratic president of the bourgeois republic will ask Marx (clerical cen- ter) or Stresemann (people's party), or some other agent of the heavy industry, to form a new cabinet. The triumphant tones of the social-democratic party have vanished. Sobriety has re- turned. The Communist Party is still in existence—to the poig- nant disappointment of the whole bourgeoisie, but particularly of the social-democracy. 2,750,000 workers and peasants voted for the Communist Party and its open revolutionary program. The Communist Party will live and grow; it cannot be crushed—not even by a white terror as it is at present raging in Germany. The 30 million voters who went to the polls have received another valuable lesson in bourgeois democracy. The ACCEPTABLE Infinitesmal Interest and 4 Administration officials today envisioned a long and tedious pried of negotiation over the 900,000 If the Clementel note, now reported enroute to Washing- ton, bears out the summaries of it that have been cabled in press dispatches from Paris, it is con- sidered a foregone conclusion here that the terms proposed by France will prove wholly unac- These terms are understood to 2. An interest Fate of one-half of Payments to be made over a Such terms would mark a radical departure from the basic agreements provided in other debt settlements, and undoubtedly would lead to much the end, approve any bargain made by finance ministers at Paris next Tues- tion to Col. James A. Logan, the cus- at Eu} problem has been solved by this election, no contradiction eliminated. Twenty-two Parties. Twenty-two (22) “parties” partic- ipated in the parliamentary burlesque. One of these “parties” has received 190 votes, another 160. Surely this must be the last, the “highest” phase of bourgeois parliamentarism! What specialization, what differentiation! Are you a vegetarian? Then form a party! Are you a commercial phrenol- ogist? Then form a party and enter into the parliamentary struggle, Are you @ general who sent millions of workers to the grave?—quick, get a party and come into the “House of the Peoplé.” There is room for every- body; come all of you—while there is still a chance! But what are the concrete results of these elections! The Communist Party has lost one million votes, The social-democrats have temporarily suc- ceeded in fooling a section of the pro- letariat with the Dawes promises, the prospects of American gold, “stabiliza- tion,” paradise itself. With these Promises they gained thirty seats in the reichstag. The clerical center and the democrats have made but slight gains. The two parties of heavy in- (Continued on page 3) DELEGATES FIGHT UNSEATING REDS IN FEDERATION Military Training Camps Are Denounced The mere talk of expelling Com- munists from the Chicago Federation of Labor met quick and severe opposi- tion in the federation meeting yester- day. Only one delegate, who started the discussion, had the temerity to mention it, and he was talked down by every one elwe who spoke. Likewise the support of the citizens military train- ing camps given by the federation’s delegate to the A. F. of L. convention was hotly denounced by a great many delegates, among them ex-service men in the delegate body. Upon the report of the executve council, Delegate Swabeck of the Painters’ union spoke in vigorous pro- test of the action of the federation’s delegate to the El Paso convention of |the A. F. of L., particularly in his support of the resolution making the labor unoin officials recruiting agents for the citizens’ military training jcamps, Denounces Union Recruiting for Army Swabeck denounced the leaders of the A. F. of L. as the willing hand maidens of capitalist imperialism helping the capitalists prepare for an. other world war. We face, he de- clared, another great war or profound business depression, and the leaders of the American Federation were busy collaborating with the capitalists to lead the workers again into the trenches, instead of building up the membership of the unions which were wasting away. He cited the fizzle of the so-called “steel campaign” where tens of thousands of dollars had been spent with no organization to show for it. Delegate Arnold, also from the Painters’ Union, expressed surprise that Thomas 8. Kennedy, the dele gate from the Chicago federation to the El Paso convention, had dared to support a scheme of making the un fons recruiting grounds and the union officers recruiting agents of the war department in view of the pronounce (Continued on Page 38) “stabilized” German republic is still writhing in’ agony, No RUTH FISCHER IS ARRESTED IN AUSTRIA At the Instigation of the British Government (Special to The Daily Worker) BERLIN, Jan. 4.—Ruth Fisch- er, leading figure in the German Communist Party, was arrested in Vienna on Saturday morning on a charge of crossing into Austria on a false passport and of registering under a fictitious name. Comrade Fischer is a native of Austria and has made fre- quent trips to her native coun- try previously without molesta- tion, It is freely stated here that the arrest was made at the instigation of-the-British gov ernment which has an eco- nomic stranglehold'on Austria and is now busy perfecting a cordon of Balkan states for hostile action against » Soviet Russia. The proposed Balkan Federation of Soviet Republics as against the pres- ent governmental satrapies of the big capitalist powers has taken a strong hold in the Balkans and England has taken the lead in organizing the bour- geoisie to resist the Sovietization of the witches’ cauldron of Europe. Using the Pope. It is now admitted for the first time that the Vatican has been dragged into the anti-Soviet plot. The pope is in- structed by the protestant British gov. ernment to use its influence among the catholic populations and keep their minds inflammed against Com- munism. In view of the pope’s alli- ance with the tumbling fascist regime in Italy he must take England’s or. ders regardless of the consequences. He is between the devil and the deep sea. France has promised Britain support against Russia but the former is con- ducting negotiations with Krassin and the French have more to fear in the immediate future from Britain than from Soviet Russia. Capitalist na- tions cannot afford to take a long and altruistic view of things, owing to the keen competition between them, Progress in China. Soviet diplomacy has made tremen. dous progress in China and it is con- jfidently expected that Sun Yat Sen, |the revolutionary Chinese leader, wil! be the next president of that country |Japan and Russia have not yet signed treaties. but Japan needs the oil on |Saghalien Island for the use of her navy, and for her relations with the western powers excluding France are none too friendly. One of the princi- pal specific reasons for the revival o} hostility to the Soviet government is tho defeat of the capitalist powers’ in. trigues in China by Soviet diplomacy. Minnesota Printers Want State Owned Printing Establishment ST. PAUL.—Minnesota typographical unions are combining to have the legislature provide for a state-owned printing plant. Several legislators are pledged to back the measure, which is modeled on the Kansas law, PORTUGUESE CABINET DECIDES - TO RECOGNIZE SOVIET RUSSIA (Special to the DAILY WORKER) LISBON, Portugal, Jan. 4—The cabinet has decided formally to recognize Russia a Soviet republic,