The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 13, 1925, Page 3

. AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHEATY. OUR FIRST YEAR. Revolutionary Optimism. Alone in The Field. Some. Big Scraps. Worst is Yet to Come. The Leader of the Revolutionary Movement. Our Loyal Army. VOLUTIONISTS are optimists. When they cease to be optimistic they cease to be revolutionists. Last- ing optimism is born of the knowledge that this rotten capitalist system which breeds so much misery among the workers is destined to pass away, broadly speaking, because it has about reached the end of its usefulness. Speaking in terms of corn beef and cabbage, sauerkraut and goulash, sys- tems are given the boot only when they can no longer keep the popula- tion’s stomach properly tickled with the necessary elements that go to maintain existence. sf. 8 'HE collective stomach is as sensi- tive to fear as the ears of an ar- tist are to flattery. When it looks as if a particular system was about to declare a moratorium on , breakfast, dinner and supper, the collective stom- ach calls upon its allies, the collec- tive legs, eyes, ears, tongue, etc., etc., to go to bat and ease the lazy, ineffi- cient system out of business. It goes alright, but it does a lot of kicking. Hence ;the necessity for organizations formed for the purpose of burying it and” putting something better in its place. Sr ie HAT I am’ getting at is that it took a lot of optimism to start The DAILY WORKING. You will no- tice that we are celebrating our first anniversary and we are all asking each other—when we have a few min- utes to spare—“How did we ever get this thing started and kept it going?” But facts have a habit of speaking for themselves. Here we are. eee NLY a few years ago, while our party was living in a condition of enforced low visibility, the sanity of many of our comrades was seriously questioned when they suggested the advisability of starting a daily Com- Munist paper. But capitalism is bound to go and Communist Parties are or- ganized to make it go quicker and Communist dailies are the most effec- tive weapons at the disposal’ of Com- munist Parties to organize the work- ers for the overthrow of capitalism. 8 8 “HOSE who do not understand that the contradictions within capital- ist society prevent it from solving its own problems might be disappointed ».@tea temporary lull in the-class strug- ‘gle and say:..“Oh well, I expected the revolution before my next birth- day. Now, it looks as if it will never come.” This type does not stay put. It does not found revolutionary dailies. It was not the type that started The DAILY WORKER. 2 Wren the department of justice raided the spot where the Com- munist convention was held in 1922, Bridgeman, Mich., they grabbed sixteen Communists and took them to Berrien county jail. While waiting for bail, ‘We amused ourselves in many ways. One of our means of passing away the time was to get out a few sheets of manuscript which we bapitzed The DAILY WORKER. We hardly expect- 6d that two years and three months afterwards we would be celebrating the first anniversary of a real Com- munist daily. of @ HORTLY before The DAILY WORKER was launched, the New York Call curled up on the sofa.and never woke up again. Several liberals with more money than ability gave if-a shot in the arm and it wriggled along for a couple of months under a new name and then quietly fadéd away. .It took about $100,000 worth of dope to keep it going for two months. This experience naturally made some people pessimistic about the future of The DAILY WORKER. 3 ow @ New York Call died because - it was not true to the cause of the workers. It deserted them for a hoped-for prosperity as the handmaid- en of the petit bourgeoisie. But it had too much competition. The time was not ripe for a prostitute socialist daily in America to render itself indespens- able to the capitalists. American capitalism was not yet in the condi- tion of German capitalism where the Vorwarts and other yellow sheets were essential to it. a see 'UCH less than what it cost to keep the New Leader alive for (Continued on page 4) ‘ SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per year. DAILY WORKER. Entered as Second-class matter September 21, 1923, at the Post Office at Chicago, Illinois under the Act of March 8, 1879. TUESDAY, JANUARY 13, 1925 <2 Published daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill Help Insure THE DAILY WORKER for 1925! Price 3 Cents LABOR RAIL WORKERS DEMAND THER WAGE INCREASE Bosses’ Press Uurges an} Immediate Showdown By LELAND OLDS. (Federated Press Industrial Editor) Engine service brotherhoods| are demanding a straight in- crease in wages without modifi- cation of the standard rules on all western railroads with the exception of the Chicago & Al- ton, the Southern Pacific and the Western Pacific on which) settlements have been made. | This means that the rail labor board’s “short order” decisions | will be disregarded in the nego- tiations. On many roads the| rule\ changes proposed by the board would largely offset the small wage increase granted. Lots of Southern Pacific Money The Southern Pacific could pay more, according to The Wall Street Journal. But it refers to dividends not wages. The ability of this carrier to make profits far in excess of divid- end requirements is treated as war- ranting an increase in the annual 6 per cent cash payments to stock- holders to 7 per cent. In 1924 the S. P. made about $37,000,00 over and above all interest requirements or nearly $11, a share on the $344,380,906 capital stock. Rail Labor Board In Cold The Locomotive Figemen & Engine- men’s magazine sees the wage settle- ments in western territory as a clear demonstration of the uselessness of the U. S. rail lebor board.” says editorially: “It is worthy of special note that in the memorandum of |agreement between the Southern Pac- ific and the Brotherhoods no reference whatever is made to the railroad labor board’s decision. That the abortive, and insofar as the brotherhoods are concerned, unsolicited decision was designed to aid certain western rail- road managements in an effort to de- stroy the engineers’ and firemen’s schedules must be apparent to anyone having a close knowledge of the facts in the premises. “Said decision; however, far from having that effect, served to arouse the officers and members of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and our own brotherhood to the point of fighting to a finish for the preser- vation of their agreements unimpaired by the abrogation of the single rule.” Commerce Journal Talks Rall Strike Likelihood that a strike will be forced on the brotherhoods by western carriers in 1925 is suggested in signed articles for the Chicago Jour- nal of Commerce by T. F. Woodlock. Evidently after a talk with represen- tatives of the managements on Jan. By WILLIAM Z. FOSTER 'HE Workers Party is a young par- ty. Whilst development has been comparatively rapid, it has still a long road to travel before it can be called a Bolshevik party in the full sense of the term. Particularly our party ig weak organizationally. It is not firmly knit together, nor is it suffici- ently mobile and responsive to its tasks. During the party’s existence we have conducted much important and successful activity on the econ- omic and political fields. Consequently .we have been able to wield a great amount of fiifluence upon’ tiie ideo! and struggles of the American work- ing class. But in all of our activity during these years of persistent and energetic work, the party has not made the progress that it should have done in building up the size of our membership and in welding what members we have into a compact and cohesive whole. Qur party’s organizational weakness are to the greatest extent responsible for our faflure to take the maximum advantage of the opportunities created by our activities, to build up the size and strenght of our party. One reason for this is that our party lacks cap- able organizers. We have not devel- oped organizers to any degree com- mensurate with our development in other dircetions. Yet there is no lack of material in the party out of which organizers may be produced. In per- sonal contacts which I have made practically everywhere in the country, I have become acquaintanted with many comrades who have the inher- ent qualities which go to make the most competent organizers. But in most cases these comrades are not developing these abilities nor are they 3 he urged the public to protest against the working rules of the brotherhoods. He said in part: “It is clear from the action of the railroad employes in connection with the recent labor board decision that the brotherhoods are in a mood to defy the public. They have not yet given up the hope of eliminat- ing it from direct participation in the adjustment of labor disputes in the railroad industry and they still hope to abolish the labor board by means of the Howell-Barkley bill. “It is not impossible that this year may see an open conflict after-the fash jon of 1922, For this reason It is im- portant that public opinion should be awakened in good tnme, The place to begin reforms ie in the working rules. Sooner or later we must have a show down on this thing and no time will ever be more appropriate for it than now.” CAPPELLINI, RENEGADE RADICAL, _ IS FORCED TO OFFER CONCESSIONS TO MINERS HE HAS BETRAYED (Special to the DAILY WORKER) " SCRANTON, Jan. 12—The seriousness of the unofficial anthracite strike situation In District 1 of the United Mine Workers has led President Cappel- lin] to offer the strikers In the Scranton fleld the best terms since the strike ‘The terms, conditional on the strike. tional union when the charters were men returning to work, are: rompt action by conolllation board on grievances which caused the Full restoration of revoked charters and funds held up by the Interna. lifted. - Complete amnesty of all leaders of the strike. Strikers opposing the Cappellini plan said it carried no certain assurance against the company. that grievances would actually be adjusted. The grievances are of long applying them effectively towards the building of our party. In the first anniversary issue of the DAILY WORKER it is particularly appropriate to point out the field open- ed up to us by our English language daily paper for the development of organizers and for the organization of our party. Obviously one of the best ways to build the membership of the party is by building the circula- tion of the DAILY WORKER. In fact it is so obvious that in all too many instances this way of making the par- ty grow has been overlooked alto- gether. But, although it is quite gen- erally understood that by building the DAILY WORKER we are also build- ing the Workers Party, it is not so generally understood that in extending the circulation of the DAILY WORK- ER there is an open road to the de- velopment of organizers for our party. Organizers are not born. They are made, They are products of active participation in the daily struggle. They are made in the process of doing real organization work. In our party we will develop the necessary organ- izers by putting the membership, so far as possible, systematically to work upon organizational tasks. There is no better school for organizers than in the building of the DAILY WORK- ER. This does not consist of filling the columns of the DAILY WORKER with theories of organization, but in jutting effective theories into practice by the organized selling of DAILY WORKER subscriptions, Here, in the building of the circula- tion of the DAILY WORKER, lies a field for the development of Commun- ist organizers, which is open to every member of our party, In the perform- BY TURNING ON THE LIGHT LEARNS OF SOVIET GAINS BRITISH TRADE UNION DELEGATES this country. sian workers and peasants since o the effective sale of DAILY WORK- ZR subscriptions, and for that matter the sale of any of our party press subscriptions, there is called into play the qualities which go to make real organizers and propagandists. In building the DAILY ‘WORKER circulation we approach non-party workers, workers who are not class conscious. DAILY WORKER and ask them to subscribe. We must explain to them | at least the main essentials of the| class struggle. We must overcome objections, prove the advantages and necessity of organization, of working lass as against the boss and his pliant tools, the trade union bureaucrats. We must exploit the growing revolt of. these workers. Wesmust connect up our paper and our party with these workers by mak-| ing the DAILY WORKER the spokes- man and champion of their grievances. | All this must be done upon the most far-reaching scale and in the most sys- tematic manner possible. Such work is getting down to funda- mentals. It means real contact with the masses. By carrying it on ag- gressively and persistently we build up our self-confidence and our ability to give expression to Communist prin- ciples. In other words, we develop We tell them about the| The DAILY WORKER---A Communist Builder ourselves into organizers. In subscrip- tion campaigns the immediate goal to achieve is, of course, to extend the circulation of the DAILY WORKER. But this is by no means the only ad- vantage to be gained. By the very act jof trying to sell such subscriptions, whether he suceeds or not, the com- rade in question is not only doing mis- sionary work for Communism, but is also gaining valuable organization ex- perience. The Workers must take seriously the necessity for mass participation in the work of spreading the DAILY WORKER. The bililding of our great Hriglish langtiage daily must ever and always be kept in the foreground of our program as one of the most important tasks con- fronting our party. A DAILY WORK- ER with a great circulation means tremendous strides towards the build- ing of our organization into a mass Communist Party, a Bolshevized Par- ty, a party of organizers and leaders. Let us work to the end that when the second anniversary of the DAILY WORKER arrives we will have a vast net-work of organizers and militants throughout the party working ceas- lessly to extend the circulation and influence of our paper amongst the struggling masses, LABOR DEFENSE COUNCIL RAISES SLOGAN, “STAND FAST AND FIGHT” FOR 32 MICHIGAN DEFENDANTS STAND FAST AND FIGHT! TO ALL MEMBERS OF THE WORKERS PARTY: TO ALL WORKING CLASS ORGANIZATIONS: TO ALL BELIEVERS IN FREE SPEECH FOR WORKERS: The executive secretary of the Workers Party, C. E. Ruthenberg, is in jail. _Robert Minor, Communist cartoonist and writer, has been notified that he will be brought to trial within a few weeks. Thirty other party members will be tried as fast as possible’: fhe prosecuting attorneys in Michigan, with all the labor-hating bootlickers of capitalism at their backs, are prepar- ing themselves for new and more vicious assaults. The Workers (Communist) Party faces a critical situation. Prosecuting Attorney Bookwalter has already declared that he wishes to try the remaiuing defendants in the Michigan cases in gangs, instead of JIM ROE, WOBBLY, OVER 70 YEARS OLD, COMES OUT OF JAIL (Special to The Dally Worker) SAN FRANCISCO.—Old Jim Roe Is out of jail. He hi erved his criminal syndicalism sentence and is free once more to look for a job and keep on working for industrial unionism. Roe is over 70, crippled with rheumatism, obliged to spend all his time in San Quentin in the “old men's ward” in the hospital, But his spirit is just as eager and his loyalty as firm as when he was arrested in Sacramento for selling 1. W. W. papers and sent up for four years, one of the very first to be sentenced under the criminal syndi- calism act. While behind the bars he urged his frie to concentrate the am- nesty campaign on younger men who could still be useful in the class struggle on being freed. “Polikushka” is coming to Gertner’s Independent Theater, Jan. 15. one at a time. We intend to pre- vent this. But it is clear that the Michigan authorities are preparing for more trials to follow on the heels of that of Comrade Minor. The brib- ed officials of capitalism state openly state that they will put William Z. Foster behind prison bars. They have already laid their plans for the trial of William F. Dunne. Everyone of the 32 Communists indicted in Michi- gan is in immediate danger. We are confronted with a desperate offensi jainst the entire Commun- ist movement of America. The leaders are attacked. The or- fanization is threatened. Now, as never before, the Communists are called upon to show what stuff they are made of, With closed ranks and with undaunted courage, with whole- hearted devotion to our great cause, sparing no sacrifice or expense, we must stand and fight amidst the blows which the capitalist power is raining down upon us, Why is it that the Michigan cases have been revived again, after months of delay, during which it appeared that they had been dropped? On all sides one sees signs of an awaken- ing labor movement to meet the chal- lenge of the lowered standard of liv- ing which capitalism 1s trying to force upon the workers. President Coolidge Montinued om page 4) ‘ Party membership} advantageously in developing the tremendous unexploited wealth of Russia, the report says. The members of the delegation are: A. A Purcell, John Bromley, Ben Til- let, Herbert Smith, A. A. Findlay, John Turner and Fred Bramley. The preliminary report reads: During the six weeks’ tour the dele- gation travelled over 6,000 miles, visit- ing some of the most important indus- trial centers in Russia, for the pur- pose of investigating the industrial, social and economic conditions pre- vailing under Soviet rule. A full report of the delegation’s ac- tivities will appear in a few weeks, which it is hoped will effectively re- move many misunderstandings with regard to Russian affairs, mainly due to the misrepresenation of the poli- tical platform and press. The investigations have covered several industries, including transport, mining, boot factories, printing, en- gineering and electrical undertakings, railway shops, oil fields, water power, electrical schemes, warehouses, distri- butive establishments, and the several economic departments responsible for the administrative control of indus- tries. Case of Workers. Social institutions such as hospitals, rest houses, workmen’s clubs, holi- day homes and children’s homes, are also visited in connection with the in- vestigations into the working of state insurance schemes for dealing with unemployment, and the health of the workers and their dependents. Facilities were given for free entry into all government institutions, and interviews readily arranged. Documents, charts, and reports have been supplied, and expert translaters are now at work preparing detailed material for the delegation’s report. Pending the publication of the full report the members of the delegation place on record the following sum- mary of their general conclusions: (1) The social, industrial, and eco- nomic conditions of Russia have enor- mously improved since the visit of the British delegation in 1920. Members of both delegations and the expert advisers formerly residing in Russia for many years, are agreed as to the very rapid process of eco- nomic restoration now operating un- der the direction of Union of Socialist Soviet. Republics. Sound Finance. (2) The financial stability of Rus- sia is more secure than was expected. | The Russians have almost balanced their budget, and have restored their productivity relative to the pre-war standard at a rate which compares favorable with the general European average. (3) The industrial undertakings are being rapidly developed, especially (Continued on page 4) - TO RUSSIA ISSUE PRELIMINARY REPORT Of RESULTS OF MISSION (Special to The Dally Worker) LONDON, Jan. 12.—The Trade Union Congress delegation to Soviet Russia has issued a preliminary report on its return to The report notes the rapid progress being made by the Rus- a previous trade union delegm- tion visited that country. Millions of new capital could be used DOCTOR IN SOVIET RUSSIA TELLS OF NEW CANCER CURE LENINGRAD, Russia, Jan 12-— Dr. Molotkev, professor In the ney- rological academy here, announces the employment of a new methed of treating cancer, which he de- clares will effect cures. The treat ment consists in cutting the nerve leading directly to the cancerous growth. According to Prof. Molotkev the nerves play a vital part In all cases of cancer. At the academy of medi- cal sciences hi hibited several pa- tients who he said had been cured by the new method. The same treat- ment, he asserts, will alse heal gan- grene and inflammation of the mar- row of bones. THEY WILL TRY ANYTHING BUT AMALGAMATION. Building Trades Fakers Tinker with Calif. (By Federated Press.) WASHINGTON, Jan. 12.—President Hedrick and Secretary Tracy of the building trades department, American Federation of Labor, will meet the presidents of the sixteen national and international unions affiliated with that department, at the Sutter hotel in San Francisco on Feb. 12, to seek a full settlement of the disputed bas- is of representation in the California Building Trades Council, which is now doing serious injury to the movement in that state. The state council was taken into the national department many years ago on its own basis of organization, including representation on state and local councils based on membership. This gives to the carpenters, now out- side the national department, a ma- jority in the state and local councils— in violation of the laws of the nation- al department. The sixteen executives of unions affiliated with the department are unanimous in their program of ad- justment, which will not exclude the carpenters, but will deprive them of control of the state and local coun- cils’ policy. for Git, a putt a@ ger GREETINGS FROM CANADA! Communist Party of Canada sends greetings to the DAILY WORKER on its first anniversary as follows: THE DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Illinois. Toronto, Canada, Jai 9, 1926. The Communist Party of Canada sends sincerest Communist greet- Ings to the DAILY WORKER, on its first anniversary. opportunity of congratulating the Communists a We take this milltant workers in the United States upon their wondérful achievement In making the DAILY WORKER possible, and trust that their energies wiil be devoted to maintaining and extending the influence of this fighting working class paper. ‘The workers of the American continent in the great conflicts ahead with the brutal forces of capital, will require militant, fighting weapon as the DAILY WORKER. The Communists of Canada feel proud of the energy and sacrifice of their comrades in the United 81 tes that made the DAILY WORKER possible and feel confident that such devotion will ensure the existence of this revolutionary organ for the coming year. Long live the Workers (Communist) Party of Americal Long live the DAILY WORKER! Central Executive Committe of the Communist Party of Canada, |