The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 13, 1925, Page 12

emcee Page Twelve ‘ THE DATOEY WORKER “The Daily” and BY THE NATIONAL COMMITTEE) OF THE TRADE UNION EDU- CATIONAL LEAGUE. * 'HE past year has been a very ac- tive, yes, hectic, year for Trade Union Educational League. | ad That we have made progress is self | evident, just as that a great deal of| {E. L. in building up the DAILY WORKER will be intensified. The DAILY WORKER has some- times been criticized by some groups jot the. 7. U. E. L., but tho in some |cases this criticism was justified, the) | DAILY WORKER was never criticized | the |for not supporting the struggles of | | the left wing, but in over-valuing some | phase and under-valuing others. And | this is an inevitable result, it must be the delegates. wing steadily grew in strength, and finally smashed the convention con- trol of Lewis and forced him to ad- |journ the convention before the busi- ness for which it was called was com- pleted. This victory of the left wing, }altho it did:not smash Lewis’ contro) of the union, nor was it able to put a@ program over in the convention, strengthened and crystallized the left the credit for the progress made is|remembered of the lact of WORK- |wing and weakened the Lewis ma- due to the fact that we have had a| ERS’ CORRESPONDENCE as a lead-| chine. daily paper for the past year which has fearlessly fought in the interest of the working class. It has support- @4 and given publicity to the policies | and tactics of the R. I. L. U., of which the T. U. BE. L. is the American sec- tion. The daily has suported every strike, every fight of the workers against | wage cuts, lengthening of working hours. It has consistently, and insist- ently urged the workers to fight for @ higher standard of living, for a shorter workday, against child labor, against injunctions, in fact the DAILY WORKER, the official organ of the Workers (Communist) Party is the only English language daily in Amer- fea that has at all times in all strug- gles of the workers, thrown its col- ‘amns open to them and their inter- eats. It would be an unforgivable mistake if the T. U. E. L. allowed the DAILY WORKER'S birthday to pass without congratulating it upon the splendid achievements of the past year. The Trade Union Educational League, how- ever, considers that the success of the DAILY WORKER is the joint achieve- ment of the Workers (Communist) Party and the T. U. E. L. We also consider that the building up of the DAILY WORKER is a joint task, and we pledge ourselves that in the com- ing year the activities of the T. U. The Communist Press and the Elections By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL first year of the DAILY WORKER also marked the first year in which the Workers (Commun- ist) Party entered the national. politi- cal arena. It is readily admitted that the success of the Communist cam- paign was in great part due to the fact that our party had its “DAILY” ready and at hand to help fight its battles. The Communist press is the biggest calibre gun in the Communist armory during electoral struggles. ree a’) Win Non-Revolutionary Elements It is in the theses of the Second World Congress of the Communist International that we find this declara- tion: “The participation in the elective campaign and the revolutionary pro- paganda from. the parliamentary tribune has a special tmportance for the winning over of those elements of the workers, who—perhaps the agrarian working masses—have stood far away from the revolution ary movement and political life.” a Year of Difficult Struggles The year 1924 was filled with dif- jing feature of the DAILY WORKER, | which is not the daily’s fault but the \fault of those among the workers who are in the struggle and yet do not write accounts of it for the DILY WORKER. On another page the T. |U. E. L. is calling for this work. Make the T. U. E. L. page a living thing that will stand out brightly in the |DAILY WORKER. |wing fights conducted by the T. U. |E. L. since the birth of the DAILY | WORKER s0 as we can get its proper the workers. Born on Jan. 13, 1924 the DAILY WORKER was of invalu- able service to the Progressive Min ers’ committee in the struggle against the Lewis reactionary machine in the U. M. W| of A. convention held Jan. 22, 1924 Here was a convention of delegates, a numerically weak left wing fighting against the strongest and most reactionary machine in the A. F. of L. Some 500 copies of the daily were sold every day and passed half of the delegates read the DAILY dous effect that had! It strengthened the left wing a thousand fold. tion Lewis had his own way, he gav- for our party. It would have been sorely crippled without the aid of its Communist press. It was not merely a matter of win- ning the exploited workers and poor farmers away from the old parties ad- mitedly the instruments of Wall Street rule. But it was during this year that the developing middle class movement under the leadership of La- Follette for the first time reached na- tional proportions, and entered the national campaign as a definite factor. Our Communist movement was called upon to’ expose before the city and land workers the petit bourgeois char- acter of the LaFollette movement; and to reveal its real nature as an ally of the big capitalists. This task would have been impos- sible of accomplishment without the DAILY WORKER. Thru our “Daily” new masses were not only made ac quainted with our movement, but were educated in its principles and brought into its ranks. at phases of the electoral struggle eee Many Special Editions The realization by the party mem- bers and their central organizations, of the magnificant services that our A Memorial Pageant Commemorating the Death of the Great Working Class Leader LENIN MEMORIAL DAY Wednesday, —— 21, 1925, 8 P. M. Ashland Pee a ASHLAND AVE. AND VAN BUREN ST. Speakers: WM. F. DUNNE J. LOUIS ENGDAHL EARL R. BROWDER ARNE SWABECK ‘GORDON OWENS Music by Young Workers League Orchestra, Auspices: Workers Party and Young Workers League, Local Chicago ADMISSION 25 CENTS, \ Courteous Service Reasonable Prices “THE PLACE TO €AT"” WEST INN. CAFETERIA 734 W. Madison St., Chicago. 2nd Floor~3 Doors Hast of Halsted St., Chicago, Il. Phone Monroe 0120 “Right Over the Big Clock” Dinner 10.30 to 2.15 Supper 4,15 to 7.16 Strictly Home Cooking and Baking The Most Home-Like Eating Place in This Neighborhood Keck Just let us cite a few of the left | value in the everyday struggles of | 2,200 | around, and it is safe to say that one- | WORKER every day. What a tremen- | The first, three days of the conven-| Again in the fight in the Furriers’ |Union against the reactionary Kauf- man machine where many of ou, members were slugged, the daily was on the job. In the struggle against the yellow socialists in the I. L. G. W. |U. where a number of Communists jand T. U. E. L, members were ex- |pelled and removed from office the | DAILY WORKER was there; also, in the Ladies’ Garment Workers’ strike of New York and Chicago, in the I. L. G. W. U. and A. C. W. conven- tions, in the Ilinois Miners’ and other district. miners’ conventions. The |daily. was a tower of strength to the jleft wing in fighting the reactionary |machine and its class collaboration |and expulsion policies in all unions. The DAILY WORKER fought with the T. U. E. L. in the fight for the re- |instatement of Alex Howat, Jim Mc- |Lachlan, Tom Myerscough, the. expel- led Toledo machinists, and the splen- did fight fut up by the T. U. B. L. in the Machinists’ convention. The dis- | tribution of DAILY WORKERS to the delegates at the Carpenters’ conven- tion, carrying the program of the | Progressive Building Trades Workers into this extremely conservative con- vention for the first time, the subse. |quent publicity given to Morris Rosen the left wing candidate against Hutcheson, which firmly established eled everything down the throats of the T. U. E. L. as a separate and dis- “Daily” is able to render during the elections campaign, was best seen in the large number of “Special Editions” ordered by the comrades in the big industrial centers, In this way hundreds of thousands of workers and poor farmers were not only awakened to the existence of the Workers (Communist) Party, and its program and candidates, but also came in contact with their first copy of the DAILY WORKER, Thus new contacts were established that will result in the future in the estab- lishment of strong centers for the cir- culation of our Communist “Daily.” ef The Opposition Is Powerful It needs the constant, daily hammer- ing of our Communist press to make headway for our movement. In every electoral struggle the capitalist spokesmen have all the advantages. The movie houses, attracting great multitudes, are open to them. They have their entrances to the schools, the churches, in fact, few meeting places of organizations, whether of workers or non-working class ele- ments, are closed to them. The capi- talist press js with them 100 per cent. And in addition to all these mediums for reaching the masses, they now have the radio. It is against this stone wall of opposition that the Com- munist press must advance to win progress for our cayse. But it does /make headway. major candidates, during last. fall's campaign, the DAILY WORKER was bought and eagerly read. Many who | cathe to hear Coolidge or Dawes, Davis |or Bryan, LaFollette or Wheeler, came ‘way with a copy of the DAILY WORKER stuck in their pockets, and Greetings and Best Wishes to The Daily Worker for 1925 GEM TIRE CO., Inc. Vulcanizers to the Trade Balloon Tire Repairing All section work done by us on Tires is guaranteed for life of Tire or a new job free. CAPACITY—100 TIRES DAILY 4 D1 W. Washin at Curtis Monroe 4080 on Blvd, JULIN'S SHOE STORE AND REPAIR SHOP “3224 W. North Avenue Phone Belmont 2713 Chicago the Left Wing After that, the left/tinct group in the Carpenters’ Union At many of the meetings of the/ resulted in a more than credible show- ing in the election. All of these fights were strengthened thru the fact that we have a daily working class paper in fact some of the fights would have been impossible without the DAILY WORKER. The struggle going on now in the Carpenters’ Union by the left wing against the signing of a scab agree- ment by Hutcheson and Jensen, which has resulted in the expulsion of five members of the Local 181 of Chicago and the fight of the re-instatement of the eleven expelled Los Angeles car- penters, are gradually rallying the membership in support of the lef‘ wing. Carpenters thruout the country are writing for information on this struggle, their attention being drawn to it thru the columns of the DAILY WORKER. These are bait a few of the struggles of the left wing that have been strengthened and made possible thru the fact that we have the DAILY WORKER. Hundreds could be cited such as the Pullman, Hegewisch, Pat- terson, and the “outlaw” anthracite strike, the fight for protection of the foreign born, the farmer-labor party movement, the release of class war prisoners, for amalgamation, interna tional unity, recognition of Soviet Rus- sia, etc. Te T. U. BE. L, in greeting the DAILY WORKER, promises the full est co-operation and support, and pledges itself to help to make the DAILY WORKER a real working class daily of mass power. Not in the sense of editing, but in the sense of helping to bring the DAILY WORKER to the workers, so that ft will be ac- cepted by the masses as their paper in the sense that the DAILY WORK ER will become’ the ideological leader of the workers in fact. Communist ideas seeping into their brains. ff * Labor Gets New Outlook It was a new outlook that confron- ted the American workers and poor farmers when the Workers (Commun- ist) Party and its candidates, Foster for president, and Gitlow, for vice president, raised the Communist stan- dards, for the overthrow of capitalism, in the 1924 elections, The American masses had been fed on the shibboleths of capitalist “demo- cracy.” They had heen saturated with the idea that they had “rights” under capitalism; that there was even some way of labor achieveing “justice” un- der the social system of private owner- | ship. Even the socialists, imbued with the hope of winning reforms within the capitalist system, were quite frightened by the Communists’ frank statement of aims. The prejudice thus aroused, espe- cially when inflamed by the misrepres- entations and vilification of the well- armed enemy, was casual distribution of leaflets. It had to be fought by} the Communist daily press, especially, our English-language daily, the DAILY WORKER, appearing day after day,! carrying the statements and man- ifestoes of our party, the speeches of our candidates, the refutations to ‘theattacks made upon us. This could only be done by our “Daily.” Our Communist party came out of the last national campaign with new |masses not only understanding, but | believing in the tactics of the Com- munists in entering the parliamentary institutions of the bourgeoisie with revolutionary aims. It is on this basis that we build for the future, es Knowledge for the Future Our party members have learned the use of their “Daily” as as weapon in the electoral struggle, just as they ARL REEVE, member of the DAILY WORKER'S staff, has pre- pared a chronology for onr first year as follows: Jan, 18-—First issue appeared. Jan. 22—Reports national conven- tion of United Mine Workers of Amer- ica at Indianapolis. Jan. 23—Death of Nicolai Lenin an- nounced to working class of America. Jan. 28—Exposure of fire trap schools. Jan. 29—Campaign to expose capi- talist control of government begins with articles on Teapot Dome oil scandal. Jan. 81—Madison Square Garden much too small for Lenin memorial meeting. Feb. 2—Series of articles exposing misery caused workers by nation’s housing conditions begins. Feb. 9—Italy recognizes Soviet Rus- sia. Feb. 11—Race Sanhedrin conven- tion, in which Workers -Party and DAILY WORKER upheld militant working class Negro delegates begins in Chicago. Feb. 16—Start serial publication of “A Week,” great story of early Soviet Russia by Iury Libedinsky. Feb. 20—Strike of 25,000 dock work- ers shuts every British port. Feb. 25—Calls on all sections of party to celebrate fifth anniversary of Third Communist International. Feb. 27—Ten thousand needle work- ers, members of the International Garment Workers’ Union, strike, de- manding 40-hour week and the union shop. As the strike progresses, the DAILY WORKER took an. active part. Several hundred copies were bonght by the strikers every day, the DAILY WORKER being the only paper in Chicago giving accurate news of the strike. Campaigned against the anti- picketing injunction, exposed indiffer- ence of committee of 15 appointed by Chicago Federation of Labor to aid the strike, and sent its reporters on the picket line daily, three of them being arrested. March 19—Special Teapot Dome edition appears. April 14—Moves into its own build- ing at 1113 W. Washington Bivd., from the temporary rented quarters on N. Halsted street. April 14—Exposes anti-Soviet plots of Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover. April 21—Five hundred Pullman car- builders strike. Leads strike thruout, reporters acting on picket line, being arrested, leading- strike meetings, and distributing thousands of “Special Pullman Edition.” May 14—Delegates to Furriers’ con- vention make unsuccessful attempt to unseat DAILY WORKER reporter. May 19—Chicago delegates present resolution at convention of Interna- tional Ladies’ Garment Workers in Boston, expressing appreciation of fight made by the DAILY WORKER in Chicago garment strike. Sigman- Perlstein machine, which had unseated left wing delegates, jam thru a sub- stitute resloution attacking DAILY WORKER and left wing. May 22-—Injunction issued against Greek restaurant strikers. Special restaurant workers’ strike editions ap- Dear. May 22—Farrington has DAILY WORKER reporter barred from con- vention of Illinois miners at Peoria by miscounting vote. Farrington later has his appointive power taken from him by left wing delegates, who ral- lied around the DAILY WORKER. May 29—LaFollette knifes St. Paul farmer-labor party convention and at- tacks Communists. June 16—Reporter jailed a second time in Cicero for writing series of articles exposing scab methods in Western Electric plant. Thousands of copies sold daily to Western Electric have learned how to use it in strikes, and other combats with the class enemy of labor. With this knowledge already gained they will be better able to utilize this weapon to even greater advantage in the future. The) will develop that knowledge in the greater struggles to come, when the DAILY WORKER Will prove a more powerful factor than ever on the side of labor, in the electoral struggle, as well in every other battle of the workers against \the capitalists, After 45 Years, Ivan Okaldski, Betrayer, Faces Revolutionists (Special to The Dally Worker) MOSCOW, Jam, 12.— After nearly forty-five years Ivan Okaldski, who be- trayed his accomplices in the assassin- ation of Czar Alexander II in 1881, has been brought to trial before a revolu- tionary tribunal charged with treason to his former comrades. After the. of Alexan- der II, Okaldski confessed his part in the plot and betrayed all the others who were implicated, They were either executed or fled to exile. Krylenko, one of, Soviet Russia's most noted prosecutors, is conducting the case for the government. Altho nearly forty-five years have passed since Okaldski’s betrayal of his com- rades, the government is able to bring to the court'a le array of wit- tet who are care with the workers. : June 17—Reports conference. of farmer-labor parties in St. Paul. July 11—Hxclusive announcement that William Z. Foster and Benjamin Gitlow are to run for president and ice-president in first national election ‘campaign of Workers (Communist) Party. July, 18—Campaign for relief of un- employed in full swing. Articles on growth of nation’s jobless army. July 22—Continuous vigorous at- tack on Morgan’s “Dawes plan” to en- jave weaker nations, Aug. 1—Exposes slave pen factory at Morris, Ill, owned by Nathan Leo- pold, millionaire father of Franks’ boy killer, Aug. 8—12,000 clothing ‘workers strike in Philadelphia, and 9,000 silk workers strike in Paterson, N, J. Takes prominent part in both strikes Aug. 13—Reporter deported from Hegewisch, Ill, carbuilders’ strike zone by four policemen, Returns next day and speaks at strike meeting, Aug. 18—Begins campaign for relief of southern Illinois coal miners, many months unemployed. Aug. 19—Robert Minor reports Gar. vey Negro convention in New York, Garvey sells out to the Klan, Aug. 26—Lovestone writes series of articles exposing “LaFollette illu. sion.” ; Sept. 26—-Begins campaign for teach- ers’ control of educational system in Chicago. Sept. 10—Reports Illinois State Fed- eration of Labor convention at Peo- ria, aiding small left wing battle gal- lantly against reaction of labor faker Our First Year Tuesday, January 13, 1925 © oh he ate rnercemmeceemememmmemmmmae Sept. 12—Campaign against “de- ‘ense day” militaristic program of Coolidge. Sept. 15—Reports left wing fight in machinists’ convention at Detroit. Sept. 22—Convention of Carpenters’ Union in Indianapolis reported. Sept. 30—Lovestone writes series of articles exposing Dawes plan. Series of articles on anti-union conditions in mills of U. S. Steel corporation at Gary begins. Oct. 4—Workers Party on ballot in many states. Leads Foster-Gitlow campaign. Reports. meetings of can- didates on tour of country. Oct. 12—Foster denounces @LaFol- lette at huge Workers Party campaign meeting in Ashland Auditorium, Chi- cago. Oct. 15—Series of articles exposes falseness of Daily News “anti-Red” campaign. Oct. 19—O'Flaherty’s articles on the black record of Frank Farrington, head of the Illinois miners, continue. Oct. 28—Articles show British “red plot’ brazen fake and “Zinoviev letter” a forgery. Oct. 29—France recognizes Soviet Russia. Nov. 17—Leads Communist cam- paign against Coolidge’s anti-Com- munist “Education Week” propaganda. Noy. 21—Jack Johnstone begins report of A. F. of L, convention at El Paso, and then covers Pan-Ameri- icam convention at Mexico City. Nov. 24—Launches drive to secure fund to build paper in 1925, Noy. 26—-Discussion of controversy within.the party begins, the DAILY WORKER making possible the most thoro discussion ever held in Ameri- can Communist movement. Dec. 1—Begins united front fight against child labor. Dec, 9—44 Communists elected to German Reichstag. Dec. 18—Hillman’s Amalgamated Clothing Workers’ machine uses gangsters to slug left wingers at polls in garment union election. Dec. 30—Italian workers attack fas- cisti leaders in many towns. Italian unrest grows as Mussolini shows hand of violence. Jan. 6, 1925—C. E. Ruthenberg, ex- ecutive secretary of the Workers (Communist) Party, sentenced to from 3 to 10 years in prison by Berrien county, Mich., court for “assembling with” other Communists in their na- tional convention in August, 1922. Campaign to secure release of all Michigan defendants begins. Jan. 8, 1925—Representatives of 12 robber countries gather in Paris to discuss division of German war spoils, Jan. 9, 1925—Miners in Pennsyl- vania hard coal fields protest calling off of strike by Rinaldo Cappellini, Lewis’ machine district president, Jan. 10, 1925—Celebrations of first birthday of the DAILY WORKER an- nounced in many cities, Lrtune Re Gast Workers, byes 1698 W. Madison St. Outgrown lis Quarters! ! Within a few weeks the Amalgamated Trust & Savings Bank (Now at 371 W. Jackson Blvd.) will be located in new and larger quarters in AUSTIN BUILDING (Clark and Jackson) Transfer Your Savings ‘Account NOW and Receive Interest from January First. Bring your pass book and we collect principal and interest for you. Chicago’s Labor Bank Open until 8 P. M. on Tuesdays and 5 P. M, on Saturdays. A CLEARING HOUSE AND STATE BANK, Wholesome Food at Popular Prices, Phone Secley 6951 * The following Comrades of The Finnish Branch, Local Chicago Send their greetings on the occasion of The First Daily Worker Birthday With wishes for greater success in 1925 to make a stronger, better, fight- ing newspaper for the American work- ing class. Olga, Elmer and Henry Halme Hjalmar Mustonen Ingrid Elk Hj. Saarela Adolph H. Joki Olga Petrell Walter Eklund T. S. Hill Tilda Heller Saima and J. B. Wirkkula Arvid Mesi Anna Mesi Miriam Kanervo ‘Henry Askeli Karl Hellman Charles Pelton Henrick Stohl Ed. Nurmi Hilma Nurmi John Wirta A. E. Lahde D. Hyvari Evert Helno Robert Immonen Ingrid Immonen John Siikki Vendia Slikki Art Veijola John Orasmaa Oskar Kokkonen 1. Vuori Olga Vuorl 0. E. Toivonen Laina Toivonen Amos Maki Hans Johnson Olga Johnson Nannie Korolainen Tyyne Jarvenpaa J. E. Moilanen Esther Moilanen Ellen Heino Sigrid Lampinen L. Pynnonen Hilma Johnson Aug. Heino O. K. Silta Tilda Rantala Oskar Stenberg Overland Jack 0. Partanen Hilda Mackey Alina Rinta ‘ Antti Stohiman Hannes Kesti Kalle Saarela Edwin Petrell Henry Paatalo Otto Tenhunen Otto Saari Phena Ollila Aili Huovinen Oskar Mehto Peter Maki Art Maki Sam Saari John Pajuoja Betty Kari Mikko Kolehmainen Hilja Kolehmainen Cecelia Tammi Nels Gustafson Margareta Boitzoff SPD OEE: Pa