The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 12, 1925, Page 4

‘ | GO TO YOUR GLASS MOVIES | The latest Russian feature film, ‘\“The Beauty and the Bolshevik,” a PPy gtory of love and labor and the Red Army of Soviet Russia, will be shown at the following cities under auspices of the International Workers’ Aid. Proceeds benefit the “Captives of Capitalism” all over the world. With the feature also goes the fine educational film “Rus. sia in Overalls.” Go to your class movies! Cleveland, ©., Engineers’ Aud., Jan. 17, 18. Boston, Mass., Symphony Hall, Jan. 16. Niagara Falls, N. Y., Jan. 19, Cincinnati, O., Labor Temple, Jan. 22. Galloway, W. Va., Union Theater, dan. 23, Grand Rapids, Mich., Feb. 1. Chicago, Ill., Ashland Aud., Feb. 5, Pittsburgh, Pa. N. S, Carnegie Music Hall, Feb. 7. St. Paul, Minn. 444 Rice St. Feb. 20. Milwaukee, Wisc., Pabst Theater, Feb. 28. San Francisco, Cal., Mar. 21. Lature Toe Sau Worker stn 125 T STATEMENT BY FINNISH COMRADES. NOTE.—This statement of the membership of Superior, Wis., Work- ers Party Finnish Local was ordered published by the Central Executive Committee about two weeks ago. I appear as part of the discussion of the close of the discussion last Friday. It is as follows: Published in this issue. .* © Statement by the Membership of the Superior, Wis., Workers Party Finnish Local on the C. E. C. Majority and Minority Theses. E have considered thoroly and in W a serious spirit the affairs and the situation of our party, on the basis of earlier observations, the C. BE. C. majority and minority theses and the articles that have followed in ‘the press, and wish to express our opinion concerning the situation to the mem- bership of the party. Our sad general observation is a grouping, which has found a nesting- place, still during the current year, in the C. E. C. of our party, A grouping which has stamped its impression on every move of a more determined nature made by the party; and of the bad features of this grouping it is not necessary to seek evidence any fur- ther than the theses already men- tioned and the consideration of the issues as a result of them. We figure as one of the results of this sad group- ing the enormous waste of energy and funds, which is combined with the maneuvers thru the theses carried on PROCEEDS FROM CHICAGO’S MOVIE SHOW GOES TO DAILY WORKER AND TO INTERNATIONAL WORKERS’ AID Delegates to the Chicago C. C. C. greeted the notice of the coming big movie show at Ashland Auditorium, Feb. 5, with real interest and enthusiasm. Hundreds of posters and thousands delegates are to report back to their of tickets were distributed, and the branches to establish at least twenty public ticket stations in various parts of the city. Comes to Chicago At Last. This picture, “The Beauty and the Bolshevik,” Chicago for a long time. has been awaited in All over the country big audiences showed their appreciation of this new Russian fea- #————______________. ture, and still Chicago seemed left out, because it was impossible to get a suitable hall ora date that would rot conflict with other affairs. It is well- known that nothing can draw a crowd against a proletarian movie, so all or- ganizations will refrain from running any rival affairs on or near Feb. 5. This rollicking romantic comedy of red army love not only tickles our own members, but interests the gen- eral working class public. Old and new clash sharply whem the young “Kombrig” comes at the head of the Soviet troops to give the land to the poor farmers, and in the process falls in love with the (temporarily) con- servative daughter of the rich village priest. Besides the feature there is an inspiring picture of Russian indus- trial reconstruction called “Russia in Overalls.” Besides purely Russian in- dustry like the Baku oll fields, Volga fisheries, Ural smelters, etc., there are those in which American labor has Participated and in which it is spe- cially interested—Kuzbas, the R. A. I. C. clothing factories backed by the Amalgamated Clothing Workers, the F. S. R. farms and factory, etc. Both pictures for one price of admission, Uniting the Farmers of the World for Victor By ISRAEL AMTER N September, 1923 an agricultural exhibition was held in Moscéw, an exhibition embracing all agricultural products from every section of the vast Union of Socialist Soviet Repub- lies. The exhibition, a masterpiece of craftsmanship, was practically built with hammers, saws, and hatchets. The Russian worker is a skilled craftsman an artist in the use of the hatchet. With this tool, edged with the keen- ness of a razor, he pares down the trunk of a tree and impart to it the most beautiful forms. Every specta- tor was forced to admire the pictur- esque, bizarre futuristic forms of ki- osks and booths. No one could but admire the splendid Turkestan build- ing—a marved of beauty and form. As the first exhibition of this nature held in Soviet Russia, the board of directors of the exhibition conceived of the idea of inviting peasants’ and farmers organizations to send some of their members to the exhibition in or- der that they might learn what the Peasants of present-day Soviet Russia are doing and producing. Large num- bers of peasants not only from all over Soviet Russia but also from for- eign countries went to see the exhibi- tion. ,Then the idea arose that as so many nationalities were yepresented, ‘@ meeting should be c \d of re- resentatives of the vario.’ national groups, in order to discuss the ag- rarian questions of their countries, Peasants’ International Is Born. ‘This is now the First Congress of the Peasants’ International was brought together. There were repres- entatives of about twenty countries present, not including the various states composing the Union of Social- ist Soviet Republics. Almost all the countries of Europe, and in additiop Java, China, Japan, Mexico and the United States were represented. "The reports at the congress clearly Ld Aina oy ot gsi 4 50 cents. Program is continuous, 7 to 11 p. m., comrades can come any time, but should come early for good seats. Proceeds to DAILY WORKER and International Workers’ Aid. Financial proceeds will be divided between The DAILY’ WORKER and the International Workers’ Aid. To make a real success of the show 7000 should attend, this means that every member and reader must bring five fellow workers to the show. A souvenir program will be printed, prices running from $20 to $3, for space. Every member is expected to get his party or Y. W. L. branch, his sick benefit society, and his local un- ion to take space. Local business men should also be approached. Informa- tion can be had from or sent to I. W. A. office, 19 S. Lincoln St. Tickets can be had, among twenty other stations, at I. W. A., 19 S. Lin- coln St.; Labor Defense Council, 166 W. Washington St.; Workers Party local office, 166 W. Washington St.; Workers Party national office, 1113 W. Washington St.; DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington St. revealed that the agrarian crisis in the United States is no isolated phen- omenon. The narratives of the condi- tion of the poor peasants in Germany, Poland, Roumania, Hungary, of the downtrodden peasantry in China, Jap- an and Java, of the robbed peasants of Mexico and of the poor farmers of the United States and Canada, demon- started that the big landowners, the banks and the railways—and in the United States and Canada, also the elevator companies—form an alliance to pillage the peasants and poor farm- ers. The capitalist state by imposing high taxes helps further in the rob- bery. The crisis in world capitalist econ- omy that found one of its culminating points in the world war left the ag- rarian population in a deplorable state. The burden of the war—the loss of manpower the war loans and the subsequent taxes imposed—are crushing the peasants and poor farm- ers, The capitalist government—the instrument of the financial and indus- t was mislaid, however, and did not our party’s immediate tasks before It has therefore been ordered + among the membership of the party. We consider that the first move of the present maneuvers was the extremely long-winded theses from both groups, the membership being unable to find any more serious differences of opin- ion in them unless special messengers of the majority and minority visit the membership and explain the differ- ences to them.’ What we note as the most serious difference of opinion is in relation to the work to be carried on under the slogan, “farmer-labor party.” The minority desires to attach the main attention of our organization and its functioning on work to be carried on under that slogan, and to set the greatest hopes of the progress of the Communist movement on our lebors under said slogan for the building of the farmer-labor party. The majority, we understand from its thesis, is en- deavoring to attain intensive work for the “bolshevization” of our party. If the intention of the majority, in its statement on the farmer-labor party question, is not to deny nor hinder ; Work under the farmer-labor party slogan where there is a natural basis for it, or where that slogan proves paign for a united front, then we sup- port the thesis of the C. E. C. major- ity in their general points, because they have nearer to the methods and viewpoints thru which we believe the “bolshevization” of our party can be accomplished. We hope that the as- Piration of the C. E. C. majority is a true intention to strengthen and or- ganize our party (the aspiration to build from the bottom upwards), and that it endeavors to carry out this in- tention energetically, not allowing it- self to be continually disturbed by the internal politics of minority groups, artificially developed in part, seeking adventure and desiring positions of power; and in a manner so that the wholeness of our party can be pre- served to carry out these viewpoints. But we note at the same time, that regardless of numerous words neither one of the theses calls the attention of the membership to the many defects existing in the activities of our party, which attention would be of great im- portance in the organization work of our party. In our opinion it is high time for the membership to take a hand in the internal construction of our party and its arrangement, not as spectators viewing a cock-fight from the outside, but as the members of a communistic party who endeavor to form of their party a model and well functioning class struggle party. We can not be satisfied with the arrangement of affairs that has been in power in our party ever since its organization. During the existence of this arrangement nearly all of the economical ability has been attached to the exttutive machinery of our party, which has,organized and direc- The Russian peasants, in particular Comrade Bedrenetz, an old Ukrainian peasant, told of the struggles that the Ukrainian peasants had conduc- ted against the big landowners. Point- ing to the ceiling of the palace of the czars, the Kremlin, in which the con- gress was held, he said: “The gold on blood of millions of Russian peasants and workers.” Comrade Teodorovitch outlined the situation.of the Russian peasants un- der the czars, and the tremendous Progress that they have made under the Soviets. This was a picture of struggle, of misery and suffering into the light of liberty and power. Com- rade Zinoviev greeted the congress in the name of the Communist Inter- national and emphasized the necessity of the workers and poor peasants forming an intimate alliance for, the fight against the capitalist class and capitalist state. This was not a congress of Com- munists; op the contrary, the major- trial barons—is used to keeping the peasants and the workers in subjec- tion, Revolts of peasants in Ruma- nia, Poland, Italy, in India, China and Java, against which the government used force, demonstrated beyond doubt that not the workers alone must face the force of the government when they enter into struggles, but the exploited peasantry as well. Farmers Exploited by Capitalists Comrade Varga gave a splendid analysis of the world situation in its particular relation to the peasantry. He pointed out that the peasants and poor farmers face identically the same issue: even though they are two dif- ferent classes—the one, the workers, being proletarians, the others, the poor peasants, being ostensible land- “owners,” nonetheless they both are ex. ploited by the capitalist class. They must, therefore, unite in their strug: gle against the capitalist class and the capitalist government, ~ ) ity of the participants in the congress were non-party peasants. The words of militancy and determination that came from the leaders of peasants’ or- Ganization of Germany showed that poor peasants are being filled with revolutionary zeal, The main ques- tion was: how sMall the struggle be conducted, what is the goal? Methods of struggle had to. be evolved—and were evolved in the commissions. Weighted Down By Militarism Militarism is one of the heaviest curses resting upon peasant life. The Peasant boys are obliged to spend two or three years in military service, to be the most profitable in the cam-' working forces of the Party and its} jvights it has enjoyed H'E DAILY WORKER ted the party work from above, while the party has been relatively small in membership and weak in its work- ing ability. In this unnatural situation the leadership of our party has the time, and in this arrangement of its work it is compelled to overload the ability of the membership with pos- sible and impossible daily dec. larations, orders and demands. This is done in a manner where even the best of the member- ship does not have the time to acquaint itself with all the declara- tions, not to say anything of carrying them out in practice or getting larger masses acquainted with them. On the other hand it seems that the leader- ship of our party has always been afflicted with a form of leadership mania, which it attempts to apply to every possible and impossible act, and which governs all the declarations of our party and its instructions in man- envering. While we should endeavor and be able, with the superiority of our activites and our work among the lower strata, to earn the confidence of the proletariat and a leading position in its struggles, it has instead been characteristic with the leadership of our party to seek, thru newspaper de- clarations, organizations which it may lead, which as such is childish and in most cases sets up great obstacles to the work of those members who endeavor to build and strengthen the party up from the bottom. Thinking over the past tactics of our party, the supernatural centraliza- tion of forces in its governing organs, the waste of our economical abilities, and on the other hand our “leader- ship” maneuvers, we recall a certain | Seagoing vessel and its command. For its pride and for attracting outward attention a special fog-horn or whistle was placed on the boat. This whistle, when blown, took all the steam from the boilers. When the whistle was blown the propeller stopped turning. When it was necessary to proceed in a storm and fog, the propeller always ceased to turn because all the power was consumed by the whistle. Just as impossibe as it was for the command of the vessel to get the propeller of the ship to rotate by shouting to the firemen sweating in the coal bunkers, just so impossible it is to get the con- struction work of our party to make progress by declarations and decrees to the sweating membership of the party. Everything must be arranged propor- tionately. We are fully behind the viewpoints presented by the majority to build the party from the bottom upwards. We might use the words of Lenin, “to build grain by grain.” But we are of the opinion that the first duty is to cleanse the party’s working machinery of all factional fights, entailing untold work and financial expenses, and of “pork-barrel” politics, which sad fea- tures stamp their impression into every move by our party machinery and make full success difficult in every attempt. We are of the opinion that it is necessary for the member- ship to pay more attention to the rég- ulation of the work of the C. EB. C.} its working program and its econ- omical policies, until we have reached the stage where the groupings which have been in effect with all their dis- astrous results shall disappear, and we shall have an effective well cen- tralized ‘and capable C. E. C., which shall dare and shall be able to use the in the past among the membership in a manner that will gain their confidence, ialism must be combatted; the»peas- antry must -be educated as to the nature of the church. The cooperatives, were endorsed: but they must be made organizations to support the struggles of the peas- ants. The revolutionary peasants must seek to secure control of the cooper- that ceiling represents the tears and Jativés and work in close cooperation with the workers’ coperatives in the cities. The women must be drawn into the struggle, for the wives of the workers and of the peasants are invaluable elements in the fight. The congress decided. to elect a council embracing the most important countries, An American and a Mexi- can comrade were elected to the coun- cil, which then elected a presidium. The Peasants’ International thus be- came a regularly constituted body, to conduct the work of mobilizing the revolutionary peasants of the entire world for the struggle against cap- italism, for the liberation of the work- ing masses and the establishment of workers’ and peasants’ power the world over. Movement Grows The Peasants’ International has made great progress since the date of its inauguration. Propaganda for the aims for which it stands was. im- mediately conducted in all the coun- tries that had representatives at the congress, The French peasants, who were greeted with enthusiasm all over Moscow at the many meetings that were held in honor of the congress, began an energetic campaign thruout France, The French peasant, who is supposed to be one of the most. pros- perous in the world, is saddled with thus depriving the peasantry of their | debt from which he will never get free most energetic producers. Capitalist war destroys millions of the best under the capitalist system. ‘The Frenth peasants lost many of their young men of the peasantry and im-/men and sons in the war and none are poses upon the workers and poor peas- ants the whole burden of the-war. The church is a powerful instrument for keeping the peasants subservient to the capitalists. Militarism and imper- more embittered at the results of the war than these self-same peasants. Furthermore, the French peasant, as the peasants of all countries, are held in the claws of the church. Hence, In order to attain these purposes we present to the locals and the dis trict conventions for consideration.and decision the following demands: b) That the coming national vention shall express its strong con- denmation of all groupings during periods between national conventions; that in selecting the C. EB. C. it shall see that the C. E. C. is not elected on a@ group basis, and that the members of the C. E. C. shall be elected on the basis of the confidence which the members elected on the C. E. C, have earned from the membership by their work in the Communist movement, and not upon the basis of the heated passion that certain persons posses in seeking memberships on the C, E. C. and hold themselves privileged to belong to it on the basis of their birth- rights, i b) That the coming the national convention shall decrease the member- ship of the C. E. C. to nine members, and in this manner shall aid us in securing a better céntralized, a more capable and more elastic C. E. C., which shall be composed of more mature Communistic elements and which shall function with less ex- pense. This C. E. C. shall be sufficient- ly large for the working committees and the machinery of the party and will have time to plan and prepare sufficient programs for the masses which our party has at its disposal. We deem, at the time, that in a small- er actual working machine of this kind there will not be time nor ‘so many reasons for the continued group- ings, c) That membership on the C. E. C. shall not be dependent upon the pay roll of the party, so that members of the C. E. C. automatically feel that the membership on the committee is a@ guranteed position to earn their bread and butter, regardless of the needs of the party or the abilities of the party or the member. Let the principal condition for eligibility for membership.on the C. E. C. be know- ledge of the Communist movement, the zeal to work for the Communist movement and the ability of the mem- ber, not taking into strict considera- tion the possibilities to work in the Party offices, d) That in the arrangement of the practical party work the C. E. C. shall perform a thorough investigation, and that the aim in this investigation shall be to draw up a good clear working program, which shall be as simple as possible, and which shall be in ac- cordance and will go hand in hand with forces and the abilities of the party in its outward work. We ex- pect a very noticeable improvement in the national office in changing the working force for outside organization work, in so far as the funds of the party warrant and its ability make the latter possible. e) The offices of the district organ- izers“ shall not be dependent upon “pork-barrel politics,” which we be- lieve has been the cause of the pecul- iar work entailing and wasteful methods of continually shifting the district organizers, in the midst of which shifting it is impossible to take into consideration organization work based upon experience and acquaint- ance with the territory. The work of the district organizer must be trans- formed into actual organization work, so that it shall not be merely an office for duplicating the correspondence of the national office and collecting as- sessments from the membership. The work of the district organizer should be measured very accurately by the the disappointment, the bitterness and the crushing debts are the soil upon which the Peasants’ International will grow in France. In Poland, the Peasants’ Internation- al has made astonishing progress. Poland, a satellite of France is labor- ing under fearful debts, and a crush- ing military budget. In the latter item, she is subsidized by France— both against Soviet Russia and against the coming revolution in Germany. The recent arrest of Polish agents in Soviet Russia shows to what lengths Poland will go at the behest of her French masters. The Polish bourge- oisie have put the burden of the war debts and the military equipment on the shoulders of the workers and poor peasants. Hence the poor peasants are turning to the Peasants’ Internation- al as one of the most effective means of organizing their struggle for eman- cipation. In Germany, particularly in Wurt- temburg, where there are masses of poor peasants, the Peasants’ Interna- tional succeeded in solidifying the or- ganization of the poor peasants, and in creating a left wing in the old or- ganizations. The situation in Ger- many borders so close on the revolu- tionary, that the peasants as well as the workers are feeling the full brunt of the struggle. Hence the work of the Peasants’ International is making tremendous progress in Germany. One of the most important achieve- ments of the Peasants International was the linking’ up with it of the Croatian Peasants’ Party under the leadership of Raditch. The Peasants’ International knows the limitations of this peasant movement—but it al- 80 recognizes the power that this. movement represents, Raditch is not a revolutionist, but he realizes the trend of events, Raditch was ready to form @ coalition government with the bourgeoisie, but when it was known that he had affillated his organization to the Peasants’ International, not ~- 5 -esults attained in each district in all the forms of our activities, such as the {nerease in the membership of our par- ty, the strengthening of the function- ing of the branches, the circulation of our papers and the distribution of literature, the progress of the work of the Y. W. L., the progress of our work in the unions, etc. Such offices should not be supported, nor men kept on the pay roll, who do not show regular increases in these various forms of our activities. f) A better system must be attained in sending out speakers, so that the work carried on by the spoken work shall be transformed into actual organi- zation work, and not mergly trips to collect funds from the best centers of the party. The sending out of speak- ers, while it may be enlivened, should be arranged to take place by districts for systematic organization work, wherein the results shall not be meas- ured wholly by individual collections and the sacrifices of the party mem- bership, but by what has been accom- plished in building up new party units and in circulating literature and papers, &) The national office shall arrange its outward correspondence and its circularization work, as “well as its general subscription campaigns, as centralized as possible, so that the duplication and the triplication of every new move of the party may be avoided, and the party membership shall not be exhausted by innumerable letters on the same subjects. Im- provements in this respect will save the party funds for more rational or- ganization work\and will bring about better restlts in the general campaign carried on by circular letters, h) The general campaigns by ap- peals to the membership and suppor- ters must be decreased, be better considered, so that each campaign will bring better results, i) In the outward propaganda work of our party all the attention of the party must be centered from time to time on the circulation of The DAILY WORKER, The Workers Monthly and party literature. The party should recognize that propaganda work thru this channel is superior to all othe: methods, but when editing these in- struments of propaganda the purpose of these instruments should be borne in mind. The DAILY WORKER should be edited in a manner, so that the membership of the party and its sup- porters shall receive thru the paper an actual and a comprehensive illus- tration of the ‘ty work, the relation of its strength and the general situa- tion both nationally and internation- ally. Sensational exaggeration should be avoided, for it leads the workers astray and when they get accustomed to see it they cease to have confidence in their own paper. We would con- sider it a good thing if those determin- ing ‘the editorial policy WORKER would free themsleves from the methods of the bourgeoisie press, especially in the ‘instances where it before long carries its own revenge. The definitions of the C. L,,as to what a workers’ paper should be, we con- sider especially fitting and can certi- fy thereto upon the basis of our own experience. j) In so far as serious situations causing crises among the party mem- bership cannot be avoided, on account of differences of opinion, or in other serfous situations, we would favor that occasional party bulletins be taken ad- vantage of, which.wovld be circulated only among membership thru the locals, instead that the party leaves only was the prospect of the coalition vroken, but Raditch was persecuted snd not allowed to enter Jugoslavia. In the East, the Peasants’ Interna- ional.is making progress among the peasants of China and Japan. The peas- ants of these two countries are hor- ribly oppressed. In Japan, there is a militant peasants’ organization. The Peasants’ International is carrying its slogans into these masses of peasants, and results are materializing. Splendid Field in America The. situation of the poor and ten- ant farmers of the United States and Canada, and of the peasants of Mexico and Central America, opens up a splendid field for the activities of the Peasants’ International. The white and black tenant farmers of the south- ern states are among the most op- pressed in this country. They are not organized to any extent. It is the mission of the Peasants’ International to organize these masses, to fill them with the spirit of fight for their Class interests, to point out the nature of American imperialism and militarism, to expose to th the manner in which they are bled by the landowners and storekeepers (who generally are the landowners), and the outrageous taxés ‘they must pay. The agrarian crisis has been relieved by the past months of higher grain prices. On the contrary: the $600,000,000 that the farmers of this country are sup. posed to have earned above last year, has gone primarily into the ‘pockets of the grain speculators, The crisis is so severe that Coolidge announced a study of the situation and declared that the first order of busi- ness for the short term of congress would be to “relieve the plight of the farmers.” Now that he has been safely reelected and American capitalism feels stroing, he has sabotaged the proposition. But even had he “stud- Jed” the question, it is obvious that * Monday, January 12, 1925 the fate.of The DAILY WORKER, its most important propaganda and cam- paign instrument, and its working possibilities among outsiders, depen- dent upon internal scuffies, very often ‘ke family quarrels, and their sad in- fluences, “k) The party must attain a well considered program of book publish- ing, wherein the determining factor in the selection of books shall be, not some contingency, but the importance of the book in our party work; in publishing same our ‘publishing abil- ities, circulation efficiency arid as good a system as possible shall be consider- ed, so that the books can be prepared with the best economical possibilities and under the closer control and ar- rangement of The DAILY WORKER. |For the arrangement of a more effi- cient circulation of literature atten- tion must be given to the building of * its own circulation machinery, agency system and army of workers for The DAILY WORKER, and the circulation of all papers and literature must be- come a part of the’ party work, the executive part of which shall be this special agency system. The member- ship must be taught to understand, in a consistent manner, that the distribu- tion of papers and literature, is the most important party work and that the appointment of agents is compul- sory for each local. Other distribution methods shall be used in so far as they do not disturb the building up of this efficient army of agents. We submit the foregoing opinions for the consideration of the party membership and the district conven- tions, hoping that our viewpoints of The DAILY | shall receive pertinent consideration, so that as many as possible of the sections enumerated above, which we consider important for the class strug- gle movement and the best interests of our party, shall be carried out to aid the futre work of the party. Let us build a well organized, powerful and capable party of: the class struggle. Finnish Branch Workers Party, Superior, Wisc. Matti Tenhunen, Chairman Res. Com Kalle Rissanen, Chairman Br. Meeting Work ’Em Night and Day—But for Their . Own “Best Interest” NEWARK, N. J., Jan. 11.—Carter & English, leading Newark attorneys, have been engaged by a group of New Jersey manufacturers‘ to fight the law forbidding night work for women be- tween 10 p. m. and 6 a.m. The law has been in effect since January 1, it was learned. Test cases will be supplied by New- ark and Jersey City laundries and Passaic woolen companies in the fight on the constitutionality of the law. A statement by J. Frank Andres, sec- retary-treasurer for the Industrial Council of Passaic Wool Manufactur- ers says that employers have been ad- vised by counsel to operate in defi- ance of the law and on the theory that the law was unconstitutional. Andres naively says that “in follow- ing this advice the members of the Industrial Council of Passaic Wool Manufacturers and other New Jersey employers with whom they are asso- ciated are actuated not only by their own needs, but the best interest of their employes.” Outstanding violators of the law are Botany Worsted Mills, Forstmann & Huffmann Co.; Gera Mills and Gar- field Worsted Mills, all members of the Passaic Indu8trial Council. y Against Capitalism nothing for the exploited and tenant farmers. Slogans of Peasants’ International The slogans of the Peasants’ Inter. national are the only ones that will enable the poor and exploited peas- ants and farmers of the whole yprid to conduct the struggle against the capitalist system of exploitation:. \ Against \the landowners, because they are holding the land while the poor peasants are land hungry; Against the bnkers, railways and elevator companies, because they rob the poor peasants; Against the capitalist governmenty because it robs the peasants by exor- binant taxes, “liberty” ‘loans, etc. Against militarism, because it robs the peasants of years of work that must be devoted to military service; because war kills the most able, en- ergetic fathers and sons of the peas- ant class and brings untold suffering to the whole agricultural population; Against imperjalism, because it op- Presses the peasants as well as the workers; because it conducté wars in the interests of the capitalists and places the burden, financially and physically, on the shoulders of the producing classes; For the united front of the workere and peasants, in the struggle against their exploitation by the capitalists government; : For an alliance between the peas- ants’ cooperatives and the workers’ cooperatives in the cities; For the drawing of the women into the struggle, as invaluable allies in fight, since they are the worst suf- ferers from the exploitation of the peasant masses and from imperialist wars; For the establishment of a Workers’ and a Peasants’ Government and for the revolutionary struggle for its at- tainment as the only means of putting an end to exploitation and of safe- guarding the interests of the produe American capitalism can and will do| ing masses,