The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 10, 1925, Page 4

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LOEB...ccscrccsseomerene Business Manager Chicago, Ilinels Entered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1923, at the Post- Office at Chicago, Ill, under the act of March 8, 1879. <a 290 Advertising rates op application Honor the Spartacists The Communists of America are honoring on this Sunday the memory of Karl Liebknecht and of his comrade in life and death, Rosa Luxemburg, both lion-hearted leaders of the Spartacus Bund, which carried on the spearheads of its few but valiant lances the star of proletarian revolution thru the midnight of confusion and betrayal, into which the German working class was plunged by traitorous social-democrats at the end of the world war. These traitors, who have fathomed the nether- qost depths of political and ethical decadence and counter-revolution, on Jaunary 15, 1919, jointly with monarchist officers who acted under their orders, murdered in the most cowardly and ghastly brutal fashion Liebknecht and Luxemburg, while they were formally under arrest, helpless, unarmed and cut off from their comrades. Karl Liebknecht! How your name rang the whole world around in those days after August 4, 1914! Son of a fighting sire, old Wilhelm Lieb- knecht, comrade and friend of Marx, even your training of years, to abide by the unit rule in the parliamentary bloc, and the fact that you stood alone against the whole fraction of 110 deputies of the social-democratic party in the reichstag of the kaiser, could not keep you, after the surprise of the first vote on war credits, from crying out above the tempest: “The workers have no Father- land, and no enemy but capitalism!” In the reichstag Karl Liebknecht launched a daring crusade against the imperialist war. His speeches, protected by parliamentary immunity, rang out around the world, and in the armies of France—Germany’s lengendary foe—the conscripts murmured his name in veneration of that power which they instinctively knew was the only power to save their class from world slaughter—the power of the social revolution. And under many a “spiked German helmet Liebknecht was a name loved but forbidden. When expelled for violating the decision of the traitorous social-democratic party to support the war, he answered: “Mightier ties of discipline bind me—those of international solidarity.” When the kaiser conscripted him and sent him to serve on the eastern front, he addressed a tremen- dous crowd in Berlin on May Day, 1916, and open- ly called for armed revolt. A sentence of four years followed his immediate arrest. (How light the kaiser was beside the savage sentence given Ruthen- berg by American “democracy”.) But the wave of revolution which he had un- chained, released Liebknecht in October, 1918, and he at once took the fighting position of the Com- munist guided minority who, recalling the memory of the great gladiator that led the mutiny against Rome, termed themselves Spartacists and began an armed struggle against the class collaboration- ists of the social-democracy who turned the infant Soviets into the paralyzing substitute Betriebs- raete. Liebknecht—and Luxemburg—was again ar- rested and lodged in a military prison in the west end of Berlin. On January 15, 1919, they were or- dered transferred by motor car, under guard, to the Moabit prison, but on the road they were brutally murdered by their guards in a lonely spot in the Tiergarten. The socialists have seen that the assassins escaped with a light term in jail. Liebknecht is dead, but in the coming German revo- lution the workers will fight for power with his name upon their lips. The Gang Was All There In what was admitted to be the first test of strength for Coolidge since the election, the strike- breaker administration won its fight to prevent the postal workers from getting a decent wage. Silent Cal is letting it be known in deeds, not words, that he regards his election as a mandate to crush labor into serfdom if the power of government can do it. Of course, the postal workers are still too timid and bound to a tradition of servility to take a strike vote and let the autocrat in the White House see what would happen to the sacred cow of “busi- ness interests.” The darned critter would, we imagine, wrinkle up and die. But they ought, at least, to have an eve open as to who are the enemies of the workers. If the postal workers—or the workers generally —for exmaple, will survey the whole capitalist system with an analytical gaze, they would see that they are foolish to depend upon anything but their own organized power to get decent treatment out of a government which is but the executive committee of the whole ruling class. Losing their case by one vote has a suspicious air about it. It is like a man sentenced to be hanged and who upon appeal, is told that out of the nine judges of the but five upheld the sentence. It sounds like the poor devil got a “fair and impartial” trial, but the net result is that he gets a broken neck. The “dis- senting opinion” of the four judges fail to save his life. But when the postal wage bill was up in the senate, how brilliant was the example of Coolidge’s savage aim to keep the working class from getting one penny more of wages out of the enormous fortunes piled up by the capitalist class of this country. He had rallied all the bloated, overfed and semi-moribund old senators, half of whom are al- ways absent from their benches in ordinary times, to attendance and support against the postal work- ers. Only two senators were absent on the final roll call. And what a lovely steering committee Calvin had. Senator Curtis, the senate “whip,” was every- where, working every minute right up to the roll call, urging the doddering old imbeciles to stand fast for reaction against any appeal from voters in their constituencies. They stood. In the republican cloakroom sat Secretary Weeks of the war department, to whom the hesitant and weak were brought for divine guidance. And if this were not enough, the reports tell us that “Mr. Butler of Massachusetts was always within call.” Mr. Butler, you must remember, is the president of the Textile Manufacturers Association, which is trying to force a ten per cent cut of wages upon all workers of that industry. Mr. Butler is the same multimillionaire who hired a swarm of Sher- man detectives to spy upon his mill workers in New Bedford and even to worm themselves into the unions. ‘The Mr. Butler who did both of these things and who was “always within €all” to help crush the postal workers’ wage demand, is the same Mr. Butler who was the campaign manager for Coolidge. The gang was all there. And such a precious gang it was. If only the postal and other workers would elect a real Communist into that assembly of senile corporation lawyers we would guarantee, not a successful wage raise, but a thoro exposure of the most reactionary gang of capitalist hench- men who ever gathered in any parliament in the world. The Chicago Elections The Workers (Communist) Party has entered the local aldermanic elections in Chicago. The law says the candidates must be non-partisan. Like the primary law this provision is another one of those typically American political pretensions calculated to fool the masses into the notion they have dem- ocratic control over “their” governmental institu- tions. So that the nine candidates endorsed by the Workers (Communist) Party are, before the law, partyless. But when you read the program upon which the candidates are running you will discover that each and every one is a Communist. The democratic and republican aldermanic can- didates are raising issues. They are the usual municipal issues concerning schools, traction, building, ete. They are issues that are almost in- variably forgotten outside election time. They are raised primarily to give the two old fake par- ties something to fight with each other about. The platform of the Communist candidates has something to say about these issues also. It has very important things to say about every phase of municipal life. It says things that the other parties would not and cannot say. The Communist candi- dates don’t look upon these issues as merely con- venient grounds upon which to disagree with po- litical opponents. Nor do they merely take a jnegative stand because these issues have ‘been |raised by capitalist parties. They say that the problems of schools, traction, unemployment and building vitally concern. the working class of Chicago. And they have taken a stand on every point raised in the campaign. They say that the city shall take over all trans- portation lines with workers’ control. They say that the administration of school affairs shall be conducted by joint councils of teachers, parents and students. They say that the “Chicago Beanti-; ful Plan” shall be turned into a plan to make homes for workers. They not only say what to do on all local questions, but they point out as well” how it can be done. The Communist aldermanic candidates in Chi- cago have a practical program. It is a practical program because it is based on the coming to power of the working class. It is,.thruout, a working class platform’ for which every worker can vote without fear of being either reformistic or pre- posterous. It is a Communist program. Warren 8. Stone, president of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, manager of, the Coal Rivers Collieries and editor of the Locomotive En- gineers’ Journal, has served notice on the former employes of hia scab coal properties that they must immediately vacate the houses they occupy in Boone county, West Va. “Progressive” reporters in Cleveland, attached to Stone’s payroll, but “in- fluenced” by filthy lucre, might find something to report in this. The Russian workers would not object to Ford sending a fleet of flivvers over there provided they did not carry a human cargo, Fertilizer is by no means the scarcest commodity in Russia, White guards may be valuable where lots of dung is needed. The American dollar is now worth only 58 cents, taking the 1913 dollar as a standard, according to the results of a survey made by the chief statis- ‘ician of the International Typographical Union. eme court, four were willing to let him live,} Why call it a dollar any longer? PEASANTS EAGER TO LEARN NEW FARM METHODS Priests Regard Tractors as “Black Magic” (Special to The Dally Worker) WILMINGTON, Dela,, Jan. 9,—Har- old Ware, recently returned from Rus- sia, where he carried on agriculture work for three years under the aus- pices of the international welfare as- sociation, spoke here at a meeting of the Society of Friends. Ware said that with the exception of the priests, who regarded the tractors as black magic, and bitterly opposed the bring- ing in of this advanced method of farming, they were “met with the heartiest of co-operation’at every place.” .The priests preached to the peasants to keep away from the trac- tors, but the peasants were quick to see. the advantages to be gained and eagerly learned as much as they-could about the new method in framing. Ware said: “An example of their co- operation was manifested when they first begun in the:spring of 1922. At that time the Soviet government gave us a concession of three farms in southeastern Russia, and we ‘began work with two shifts a day of seven hours each. Being afraid to leave the machines in thefr- hands, we were forced to work the entire fourteen hours ourselves. When the peasants saw that we were working the full time they immediately held a meet- ing—which is one of the best things they can do—and unanimously decid- ed that since we were there to help them and were working fourteen hours a day, they would also work the same length of time. “Their eagerness for learning is as- tonishing for people who. have been kept in ignorance for so many cen- turies.. Not from the professional men did we receive so much aid as we did from the peasants, These seem to realize the situation that fac- es them and want to prepare them- selves to meet it. “As our work kept us largely in the small farming villages of southeast- ern Russia, we had little chance to see what impression our work was having jon the rest of the country, but when we visited Moscow in the fall, we found the warmest welcome awaiting us. The people there seemed to re- gard us as living gods who were prov- ing a salvation to them from the fam- ine that strikes them every seven years.” Ku ie Klan Is in Indi State Legislature INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. Jan. 9—The ku klux klan, candidate for speaker of the Indiana lower house, George W. Free- man of Kokomo, was defeated by Harry G. Leslie of Otterbein here to day. The klan candidate ran strong and had more votes than James Knapp, of Hagerstown. The ku klux klan will have much ito say in the making of Indiana’s laws during the term of governor-elect Jackson, the strength showed by the klan in the election of speaker’ re- veals. Bosses Defy Night Work Ban PASSAIC, N. J., Jam. 9.—Reports made to the New Jersey commissioner of labor show that four woolen man- ufacturers are defying the law against night laor for women between 10 p. m. and 6 p. m., which went into effect Jan. 1, The deflant manufacturers are the Botany Worsted Mills, Forst- mass & Huffmann Co., Gera Mills, members of the Industrial Council of Passaic Wool Manufacturers. The mill owners are acting on ad- vice of counsel, it is said. They de- clare the law against night work for omen ‘unconstitutional. Chauffeurs Sign Agreement. ST. LOUIS, Mo., Jan. 9—The St. Louis taxicab drivers gained two ex- tra days a month off in their new \greement. The regular seale of wag- 2s of $28.50 remain altho they de- | nanded a raise to $32.50 and the own- -rs threatened to cut their wages to 525. These chauffeurs are 100 per cent unionized with more than 110 mem- bers. This is one of the few cities in the country where the Yellow cabs were forced to recognize the union. Who Will Win? ST. LOUIS, Jan. 9=-Negroes we denied membership here in the Order of the Moose. A group of St. Louis Negroes organized a colored branch and named it the Paramount Progres- sive Order of the Moose. This brought a temporary restraining order against the ‘Negroes by the whites’ Order of the Moose. St. Louis is heavily popu- lated by Negroes, many of whom are on the police force, in the fire depart- ment and mail service. The outcome of this is being watched here, Millions in Profits for Packers. Swift and company, meat packers, took in $14,125,987,74 in net profits after paying off interest and deprecia- tion, the financial statement submit- ted to the 40th annual meeting of shareholders show. The surplus pro- fits were listed at $2,126,987.74, as compared to $6%,973,827.36, the previ- ous year, 4 a “In Memoriam—Lenin” to be shown dan, 16 at Gartner's Theater. CHICAGO PARTY ACTIVITIES | ‘HB aldermanic election, Feb. 24, was the main feature of the last city central committee meeting of the Workers Party Local Chicago, A com- plete report on candidates entered. wards organized for activity, petitions out was presented. The conduct, or- ganization and policy of the campaign were outlined. The election campaign will connect itself readily with large national ac- tivities initiated by the central execu- tive committee of the Workers (Com. munist) Party, such as child labor, re- lease of class war prisoners, especial- ly in connection with the recent Ruth- enberg conviction, unemployment, abo- lition of the injunction, education, etc. Resolutions to be introduced in trade unions and other working class organ. izations in connection with the cam. paign are being prepared. Members shall be on the job in their organiza- tions to put them over. This is a so-called non-partisan campaign, that is the party label does not appear. However, all candidates of the party will state the full posi. propriation was $46,172,708. tion of the Workers (Communist) Party. The organization committee in elections will take these matters up extensively. Program for Election Adopted. A program for the election submit- ted by Comrades Swabeck, Gomez and Abern was adopted by the city central committee. This is being printed in full in the DAILY WORKER. A digest of the program will be made for wide leaflet distribution thruout the city in the shops and houses. Full details in connection with the campaign are re- ported in other columns of the DAILY WORKER. Comrades must get on the job to put our candidates on the ballot by se- curing the necessary number of signa- tures. Industrial Activity Noted, Comrade Bell reported on the indus. trial activity pointing out that the left wing had made excellent gains in the recent elections in the Amalgamated Clothing Workers and were crystalliz ing left wing forces. A left wing slate of International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, was thrown out by reactionaries. A campaign is being initiated by our comrades in this con- nection. Building Laborers are issu- ing a leaflet in conjunction with their industry. (Building Trades- group meets every first Sunday of month at 722 Blue Island Ave.) _Metal Trades have put up a com- plete left wing slate (See DAILY WORKER). They have gotten en. Pittsburgh Jewish Branch Unanimous For Majority Theses PITTSBURGH, Pa., Jan. 9.—The Jewish branch of the Workers Party of Pittsburgh, Pa. at its last meeting voted unanimously for the majority thesis of the C. E. C. This branch is one of the most active branches of the party, and last year was very ac. tive in the farmer-labor movement. The branch was well represented at the general membership meeting on Jan. 4 and helped swell the votes of the majority, The membership of the branch is about 100. The members of the branch were pleased with the discus- sion held last Sunday by Comrades Bittleman and Bedacht. ‘ Verona South-Slavic Branch Is Unanimous For Minority Theses VERONA, Pa., Jan. 9.—The South Slavic branch of Verona at its last meeting thoroly discussed the theses of the majority and minority in the party discussion by first listening to a speaker from each side and then fol- lowing by discussion by the member: ship. It was then taken to a vote which resulted in unanimous support of the minority theses, Chicago Comrades Attention. All comrades and friends are invited to the concert given at the Freiheit Singing Society Hall, 3887 Roosevelt Road, on Saturday evening, Jan. 17 A good musical program has been pre- pared, Dancing will follow the musical program from 11 to 1 o'clock. The Young Workers’ League orchestra will play. The concert and dance will be held under the auspices of the local Jewish propaganda committee of the Young Workers’ League. Argue Dictatorship in Labor Temple. TORONTO.—J. W. Buckley, repre-|') sentative of the American Federation of Labor, is not in favor of the dicta- torship of the proletariat. He so ex- pressed himself at a meeting in the Toronto labor temple and this brot interruptions of emphatic dissent from many present. The meeting was under the auspices of the Canadian labor party. Approve Big Chicago Budget. The city council finance committee approved a budget of $45,600,000 for this year’s corporate s, at a session early today, Last year’s ap- dorsements in Locals 390 and 337 The next Metal Trades Bulletin will deal with the election and its issues Comrades are conducting a good fight in Local 181, Carpenters, to re- instate expelled members, Barbers’ election returns not in yet. National T. U. E. L. has issued rules for the T. U. B. L. and how to conduct the work. Material sent to all local groups and branches. Study these carefully so that you will know how to conduct your work in the trade unions. Young Workers’ League is calling meetings of various trades in an ef- fort to get all its members working in those trades and who have not as yet joined a union, to become mem- bers of trade unions and active in T.U.B.L. é Branches are to make sure of taking up at every meeting the attendance of members at union and T. U. BH. L. meetings. New Members Must Attend Class. City central committee adopted a motion that all new members of the party must attend two lectures on the \program of the Workers Party in charge of Comrade A. Henderson, be- ginning Jan. 13 and further that no applicant shall receive his membership card unless these have been attended. 37 New Members Accepted. Thirty.seven new members were ac- cepted into the party at the city cen- ‘tral committee from the following branches and nuclei: Lake View Scandinavian 5, Czecho- Slovak Town of Lake 1, Ukrainian No. 1, 1; Lithuanian No. 2, 2; South Slavic No. 1, 2; Northwest Jewish 4, Engle- wood English 1, Douglas Park English 7. Mid-City English 3, Bulgarian 1, Czecho.Slovak No, 1, 1; South Side English 1, Finnish 4, Nucleus No. 3, 2; Lithuanian No. 5, 1; Polish North Side 1. Shop Nucleus No, 6 made up of rail- road workers organized. Red revel committee on the job for Feb. 28 Comrades will have to be very much on the job now in Labor Defense Council activities in view of the con- viction of Comrade Ruthenberg. , Lenin’ memorial meeting, Wednes- day, Jan. 21, 8 p. m. in Ashland Au- ditorium. Tickets have been sent tc all active comrades. Date of next city. central committee will be an. nounced later, inasmuch as the Lenin memorial meeting falls on the night of the city central committee meeting which has for that reason been called a ‘ There is good p: ss being made in every field in the party. United ef- forts of the comrades will bring even better results. On with the job of Bolshevizing the party and building a mass Communist Party. Martin Abern, Secretary. Next Sunday Night and Every Sun- day Night, the Open Forum. : VON-PARTISAN LEAGUE MEMBERS BELONG IN W. P. Majority of Them Are Working Farmers By A. C. MILLER. Communist Member of the North Dakota State Legislature. BISMARCK, N. D., Jan. 9.—Judging by the general make-up of the non- partisan league members in both houses of the legislature, what their economic conditions are, they should all belong to the Workers (Communist) Party. All of them voted for LaFollette in the last elec- tion, thinking that he. represented their interests, while as a matter of fact he did nothing of the kind. The business and banking interests of the state, that. safely could have supported LaFolletté, on the other hand voted for Coolidge. In listening to the conversation of league members one gets the idea that they are ready to do a whole lot of injuty to the exploiters of the farmers, but whether this will mater- ialize or not remains to be seen. The compromise and political trading in the senate does not show much fight." ing ability atid the agreement on com- mittee assignments. is not going to be to the interest of the financial opera- tion of ‘the ‘state industries, The nonpartisan league has a safe workable majority in the house. The large majority of them are working farmers,and they are sincere and hon- est in their efforts to better the eco- nomic conditions of themselves and their class. However, mere honesty and sincerity will not save'us from our exploiters if we employ the wrong principles and tactics. It is the private business’ system that is faulty and We must educate and or. ganize to do'away with it and estab- lish the farmers’ and workers’ system. Bills and resolutions of a working class character that really mean some- thing, like the recognition of Soviet Russia, ratification of child labor amendment and taxing of high in- comes to pay for the education of children of workers and poor farm- ers, the levying of a hail tax of all till. able land in the state, should receive the enthusiastic and whole-hearted support of all farmer members of the legislature. Flying Lieutenant in Court, NEW YORK, Jan. 9.— Lieutenant James Hutchinson, of the army air service, went on trial today by gen- eral court martial, charged with flying a plane so low over Broadway that passing -pedestrians were terrified, The trial is being conducted at Gov- ernor’s Island. N. Y. JUNIORS HOLD MEMBERSHIP MEEIING DISCUSSING PAST WORK AND MAKING PLANS FOR THE FUiURE (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK CITY, Jan. 9.—The Junior Section of the Young Workers League here held a general membership meeting at the headquarters of the John Reed (Downtown) group, 105 Eldridge street. In spite of the bad weather and the insufliciency of the preparation, more than 160 juniors were Present at this meéting which represents about 25 membership. to 30 per cent of our The meeting was opened by Comrade Morris Spector, the city organizer of the Junior Section, and the greetings of the D. H. C. and of the leaders’ committee were presented by Com-¢——_—____ rade Anna Thompson, the districi Junior director. Comrade Martin Gross of the Red Guard (Williams- burg) group was elected chairman and Esther Gross (of the same group) the city secretary, remained secretary for the meeting. . The general report for the junior scetion of New York was given by the city organizer, Morris Spector of the Foster (Brownsville) group. He gave a general review of the work of the past few months, emphasized the necessity for more school work and for a greater participation in the school struggle, complained of our low literature sales and our laxity in dues payment, and finally presented a sketch’ of the work in the future, go- ing into some detail on the matter of new groups to be organized. The dis- cussion on the organizers’ report was ively, resolving itself finally into a spirited debate on the question of further organization. The report was finally refefred to the ©. C. C, of the junior section and to the leaders’ committee for action, * Reports were then presented on school work and school units, on the installation of the proposed prefec- ture system, and finally on the pro- gram and arrangements for Lieb- knecht day. The latter part of the | meeting was taken up with the final preparations, under the supervision of Comrade Miriam Silverfarb, leader of the Trotsky (lower Bronx) group, for the participation of the junior section i ‘n the Liebknecht memorial meeting. The meeting Anally adjourned at 6:15 p>. m.,-with the general feeling that a strongly-knit city organization of the juniors was already in existence. and functioning, ‘The following resolution was passed unanimously, Jah. 3, 1925: Whereas, the report of our city or- ganizor has shown that the further de- velopment of our existing groups and the organization of new groups in the city depends, in the first place, upom realizing > the co-operation we are going to ob- - tain from the Y. W. L. and the W. P. in the matter of providing us with leaders and other comrades to helj us in our work, therefore, ‘ Be It Resolved, that we make this special appeal’to the members of the Y, W. L.—especially tothe members of the English-speaking branches—to pay attention to junior work; to or- ganize their junior committees; to ald in every way ‘the junior leaders in their section; and finally and most im- portant, to see to it that at least two or three comrades of each branch take up junior ‘work as their major activ ity, and. become. junior leaders. A copy of this resolution to be sent to the Frethelt, the Young Worker, the Young Comrade, the DAILY WORK- ER, and. té the D. EB. C. of the Y. W. la, district two, for transmission to the branches, ‘ }