The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 13, 1925, Page 5

Tuesday, January 13, 1925 LONG LIVE THE DAILY WORKER! Birthday Greetings to Our Communist Daily From | THE JEWISH BRANCH, | Cleveland, Ohio BIRTHDAY GREETINGS and Best Wishes to the DAILY WORKER . From B. BENSON, Anniversary Greetings and Best Wishes for the Success of the DAILY WORKER. DR. B. L. HERZBERG, Dentist 3551 & 1612 Roosevelt Road, Chicago, Ill. Greetings to The Daily Worker COKOS BROTHERS Groceries, Cigars, Cigarettes, «Tobacco » and Candies 4411 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Ill. 1151 Belmont Ave., Chicago, Ill. By GEORGE MAURER. 2 Communist Party, and there- fore the Communist press, has no interests aside from those of the work- ing class as a whole. The interests of the working class, from its most advanced leaders to the most oppress- ed wage slaves are in constant con- flict with the interests of the employ- ing class and its instrument, the capitalist state. As the class struggle intensifies the capitalist class more openly and ruthlessly, and with ever greater frequency, uses its’ instruments to suppress working clcass opposition to its slave driving rule, and to gain more privilege for the employing class. These capitalist instruments are popularly known as the forces of “government,” “law and order’ and “justice!” Europe's Open Conflicts. In Bureope we see how far things have developed—tascist dictatorship, Horthy’s murderous irol heel, the white terror, the workers and revolu- tionary working class leaders, Com- munists, murdered, jailed by thou- sands, their organizations attacked by white guards, and we see the workers building their counter-offensive, rally- ing to the Communist Party and press, aiding and defending the political Prisoners—the victims. of the class war. In a full sense, workers and working class leaders, especially those who are most actively, militantly and effective- ly fighting the battle of the workers against capitalism—are made victims of capitalist punishment, the only “political” victims. To a capitalist dictatorship, workers who fight to wipe out that dictatorship are natur- ally its only true (class) political enemies. Workers—Not Dilettante, Suffer During. the war, of course, even a few bourgeois supporters of the capitalist order, who happened to be non-resistant pacifists, and a few “philosophical individualists” who op- posed capitalism’s war and draft were made political prisoners. But the overwhelming bulk of political pris- oners and victims in capitalist states were, are and will be in increasing number, workers, especially radical workers and more particularly revo- lutionary workers—Communists—who THE DAILY WORKER Communist Press and. Political Prisoners fight the class war. ' The big capitalist newspapers know this well and they have tons of lies, vicious attacks calling for merciless suppression of the class enemies of capitalism, appearing in them. day after day. We see in capitalist news- Papers incitement to violence (and what not?) against working class opponents. Lies Furnished Wholesale. When courts. judges, officers of the law “stool pigeon” detectives, ignore the law (capitalist law, mind you) in their zeal to keep the workers in sub- jection, the capitalist dailies sing their praises and dish out pages of ridiculous, fabricated stories about “terrible” Communists, I. W. W., or other workers who dare oppose their injunctions, their strike-breakers and gunmen, their would-be complete open shop rule. Political ‘prisoners, working class victims of capitalism, stand out as one of the most clear revelations of the class war that is waging. The cases of Mooney and Billings, Sacco and Vanzetti, Foster and Ruthenberg in the Michigan Communist cases, the many I. W. W. cases in the west, the deportation cases of alien workers, in all their details expose capitalism and its interests and methods clearly to the light of day. It Speaks for Whole Class, It is quite natural then that the Communist press, being what it is, speaking for the Workers (Commun- ist) Party, having no interests aside from those of the working class, should champion the cause of political prisoners. Readers of the Communist papers the world over, in all lan- guages, workers who have been read- ing the Communist papers of America need not be reminded of the many cases of working class political pris- oners of capitalism which have been detailed in them, well know that this is because of the importance and significance of such cases. They know that Communist papers call for action, for all workers and workers’ organiza- tions to rally to the support of politi- cal prisoners, to do everything pos- sible in the way of concerted action and mass protest, because Communists and Communist papers know that the cause of political prisoners is the cause of the entire working class. Readers of the DAILY WORKER know how valuable the DAILY, its predecessor, the weekly WORKER, and other Communist papers were in the Michigan Communist cases, the defense of which, or rather, the working clcass counter-offense around which, served to considerably strengthen the fighting spirit of the working class and its revolutionary vanguard. What Are Your Duties? Do you know what it demanded of you—the workers—in relation to the case of Sacco and Vanzetti Do you know your duties as a worker, as a fighter in the cause of the workers, which includes the cause of Sacco- Vanzetti? Read over again the call issued by the Workers Party for a united front of all organizations of workers in America to save Sacco and Vanzetti from death. It was in the DAILY WORKER, Dec. 27, along with a cartoon by Robert Minor, who is himself to be brought to trial at St. Joseph, Michigan, in February. This call raises the slogan of full freedom for Sacco and Vanzetti. It calls for mass protest to show Ameri- can capitalism that millions of work- ers realize “that their persecution is class persecution, no matter how hard the capitalist executioners try to dis- guise the baseness of their deeds!” It truly states that legal defense with- out mass protest will not save their lives. It acclaims “Sacco and Vanzetti must be freed by a jury of millions of their class—theé working class for whom they fought and for whom they are sehtenced to die!” Dally Worker to the Fore. This call appeared in the DAILY WORKER because the DAILY WORK- ER, official organ of the Workers (Communist) Party, has no interests aside from those of the working class, and knows that Sasso and Vanzetti were tried as enemies of capitalism and that their cause is the cause of the whole working class. The editors of and the writers for the Communist press, the most active leaders of the Communist movement, all of those who build, maintain and strengthen the Communist Party and press, are most often made political prisoners. Just see, for instance, who some of the Communists are that are now be- ing defended by the Labor Defense Council and who are editors or writ- ers for the Communist Press—Dunne, Browder, Foster. Ruthenberg, Minor, O'Flaherty, Lovestone, Bedacht among those of the Michigan defendants; John Lassen, editor of the Hungarian paper Elore; Vajtauer, editor of the Czecho-Slavok paper Obrana, etc. To you, who believe in the Communist press, we say, rally to the defense of your working class leaders, the mili- tant fighters for the cause of labor. Your Cause, Too! Workers, the cause of C, E. Ruthen- berg, executive secretary of the ‘Workers Party, class enemy of capi- talism, sentenced to 3 to 10 years in| prison and whose statement appeared | in the DAILY WORKER of Jan. 5, is your cause. The cause of William Z. | Foster, William F,. Dunne, Robert) Minor, Barl R. Browder and the other | 27 defendants in the Michigan cases, is your cause. The cause of Lassen and Vajtauer is your cause. The cause of all the workers who are victims of American capitalist tyranny, persecution and railroading, of political prisoners and class war victims in Europe under the white terror, is your cause. You are told about, and ‘called to action for all these cases by the Communist press. Most recent is the call to ac- tion for the Michigan defense. sent out by the Workers (Communist) Party and the Labor Defense Council. Will You Help? You can help this cause of political prisoners by responding to the calls AND by building a great, strong, Com- munist press, We are sure that those who are In jafl for us—for YOU— want us to help out utmost to build the DAILY WORKER into a great fighting mass Communist daily. You must rally to the cause of the Com- munist political prisoners—keep them out of prison—if you want the best, most pewerful Communist press. Our cause is one! Free political prisoners, Free Ruthenberg, Tom Mooney and the I. W. W. prisoners, save Sacco and Vanzetti from death! Keep Foster, Ruthenberg, Minor, Dunne, Browder and the others out of prison, free to fight and lead in the class struggle. More power to the Communist press! Down with capi- talist dictatorship and oppression! Up and on with the DAILY WORKER to the workers’ rule, the Communist society, The » Daily Worker and the I. W. W. i By HARRISON. GEORGE... N its year of life the DAILY WORK. BR has layed a tremendous part in relation to the I. W. W., both in that organization’s struggle against the suppressive forces of capitalism, and its internal struggles, in which a rev- olutionary resistance arose to the steady dry-rot of anarcho-syndicalism, liberalism, pacifism and political ster- ility that has been steadily eating the heart out of the I. W. W.—an organ, ization which, before the war, stood easily ahead of any other in the rev- olutionary struggle of the American proletariat. Tho the DAILY WORKER in the first months of its life went largely unnoticed by the membership of the I. W. W., in the last few months since the I. W. W. has been shaken by in- ternal struggle which aroused the self-complacent to a thinking atti- tude and created an ideological storm in spite of all official efforts to stifle and. ignore it, the DAILY WORKER has become a powerful influence in the I. W. W. This influence is far greater than I. W. W. spokesman wish to admit, probably greater than they know—because most of them live in @ world of undeality, hob.nobbing with each other and convincing each other that Communist influence has no ef- fect on their rank and file because it has none on them. The Unofficial Friendliness. But in the office’ of the DAILY WORKER where the rank and file of the I. W. W., equally with all workers of all unions, have a chance to be heard, the great number of tributes to the DAILY WORKER from members of the I, W. W., in prison and on the jobs, from the Pacific to the Atlantic and even from overseas, tells a story of warm faith in our workers’ daily that cannot be gainsaid or waved away. In spite of the stupidity of the I. W. W. in refusing all co-operation with the Workers Party and the Trade Un- fon Educational League to fight the menace of criminal syndicalism laws afd free the class war prisoners of whom the I. W. W. furnishes nearly a hundred in California alone, with these and the victims of the white guard Legionnaires of entralia in Washington as the outstanding cases in spite of fruitless efforts to come to some agreement with the I, W. W. whereby a general and combined fight fér these workers could be carried on, the DAILY WORKER has done all it could without the assistance of the I. Ww. W. oer organization to give eee to cases of In spite ci the pip thae the DAILY WORKER is the only fa labor daily in the United States, reaching opinion small but expanding have maintained such a hidebound{ER has heaviest inroads on Dose of loftiness that the Heng helped the cause of imprisoned | class war in the minds of the I. W. W. men by prompt and special publicity matter or any other arangement with the DAILY WORKER to which all kinds of unions and union men and large numbers of unorganized work. ers bring their stories of capitalist op- pression. 1. W. W. Prisoners Like Their Daily. But while the I. W. W. defense gives the capitalist press as good and better news service than the DAILY WORKER, the boys in San Quentin and Folsom have repeatedly expressed their appreciation of our DAILY, which is THEIR DAILY, too. It is, in the field of ideological struggle, however, between the rapid- ly growing group of Communist sym- pathizers, adherents of the Red In- ternational of Labor Unions, and the dogmatic leadership of syndicalist con. fusionariés, that the DAILY WORK: ot membership. By space given the I. W. W.’s grave internal struggle against the injunc- tionites and all they stood for, the DAILY WORKER has aided the Red International Affiliation Committee to clarify the understanding of I. W. W. members everywhere as to what the Red International really proposes in. stead of the lies and misrepresenta- tion they had been fed upon for years almost uncontradicted. Partial to Revolutionary Struggle. In the struggle between the injunc- tionite, job-unionist, pacifist element and the revolutionary left wing, the Red International Affiliation Commit- tee unhesitatingly took the side of the revolutionary element, tho it criticized | this left wing for its lack of program and definite organization and childish faith that the class war can be fought GIANT POWER PLANTS TO PUT TENS OF THOUSANDS OUT OF JOBS AND MAKE SKILL USELESS By LELAND OLDS (Federated Press Industrial Editor) Warning that the development of giant power promises serious problems for organized labor was voiced by Carter Goodrich of the University of | Michigan in his address to the American Economic Assn. in Chicago, on the effect of giant power on the position of wage earners. Goodrich pointed out that control on the employers’ side is likely to be massed in a huge trust of the sort against which trade unions ¢—— have rarely made headway. Immediate displacement of tens of thousands of workers with the result- ing drift and maladjustment is the first. hardship which he mentioned as likely. He noted’ that a saving of 50,000,000 to 100,000,000 tons of coal represents the livelihood of 50,000 to 100,000 miners. “If to this are added t imilar tho less striking disturb- ances where the new power replaces thousands of other workers on the railroads and thruout manufacturing industry it is clear that the problem of immediate hardship alone is a very real one,” he says. The more lasting evil resulting from such displacement will be its ef- fect on the labor standards of the in- dustry out of which t! men were squeezed, due to the weakening of the bargaining power of those who re- main. Dealing specifically with the hundreds of thousands driven out of the industries affected he said: “There is every prospect that the greater number of these men will cling for a considerable time to their old industries, ready to accept part- time employment or lower wages and so pull down the standards of their fellows, rather than take up the search for unfamiliar work. ‘The pro- cess may well be long enough drawn stroy the workers’ chief agency for their rebuilding.” By this agency he means the union. Giant power, he further states, brings with it the familiar threat of the breakdown of craft skill. He called specific attention to the fact that electric locomotives are recog- nized in a wage agreement on the Norfolk & Western as calling for less skill than the older type. This may be enough, he said, together with the displacement of engineers and a much larger displacement of firemen, to make a problem even for unions as strongly entrenched as the brother. hoods. Summarizing he said:. “Certain great technical changes in the past have held out promises almost as glowing but have fulfilled them only at the cost of grave and in some cases long continued hardship for the work- ers, Analysis makes clear that here again as in earlier revolutions there are certain factors that will make it very hard for the workers as wage bargainers to claim their share in the great benefits of the change. Wherever the change permits the re- duction of forces or the reduction of skill, the coming of giant power brings real danger to the workers and their unions.” | stone's oe tase ot thy ALLY WORK. pat pil wenger go get “In Memoriam=-Lenin® to be shown ® Yeberecation! Ge ateageie’ and even ripple oe deslJan. 18,04 Gartner's Theater, to a successful conclusion on any ther way than the Communist pro. gram of winning the wide masses for the overthrowal of capitalism. The DAILY WORKER is not a colorless, “{mpartial” tribune in editorial policy and editorially took the position of the Red International Affiliation Commit- tee against the splitters of Rowan and company. During the 16th general convention, which lasted 25 days, the DAILY WORKER was a more influential force upon the I. W. W. membership than either the injunctionite group, the convention’s right wing or left wing. So confused and disintegrated ‘by misleadership is the I. W. W. that the R. I. A. C., with its straightfor- ward program of clean-cut revolution- ary struggle attained nearly, if not quite a balance of power in the I. W W. with no more formidable weapon than the DAILY WORKER and a sin. |eere purpose to advance the cause of jrevolutionary industrial unionism jamong the members of the I. W. W. Every day the convention met, each delegate entered the hall with the DAILY WORKER in his pocket, and all over the nation the wobblies were visiting the news dealers where the DAILY WORKER was sold to see “What the Communists had to say" about the convention. Into the DAILY WQRKER office came great numbers of letters from wobblies cursing their own censor-gagged press and enclos- ing sub money and praise. R. 1. L. U. Believers Speaking Up. Friend or foe, they all read the DAILY WORKER, end—having got the habit, are inclined to continue The old fear of speaking up in de- fense of the Communists is passing. Six months ago in the I. W. W. halls, the wobblies would read in silence “what the Communists say” about the I. W. W,, and, feeling it incontrovert- ible, would not discuss it even with one another, fearing to be called “Communist” by sneering dogmatists. Today, this fear is passing. Those who agree at least partially with the Ovommunists, and those who believe the I, W. W. should affiliate to the Red International of Labor Unions, are standing up like men in wobbly meet- ings and saying so and giving the reasons why other wobblies should do likewise, Keep On Doing It. The “liquidation” He, which lived too long, is dead; the harmony be- tween the program of the Red Inter. national and the I. W. W. is become clear; the differences which are not so vital as the points of agreement, are also clearer discerned and there fore easie: tled; the injunctionites. while alive, are not in control; anar- cho-syndicalism, pacifism and false democracy are discredited together with their teachers and in the same degree, Much has been done—and to the DAILY WORKER goes a large share of the credit and the duty of keeping on doing it. To ommunist Defense! RUTHENBERG IN PRISON MINOR CALLED FOR TRIAL THIRTY OTHERS IN DANGER HOLD OFF THE JAILER HOLD BACK THE ENEMY FIGHT CAPITALIST REACTION Demand the freedom of your working class leaders. Make a united front offensive against the bosses’ “anti- syndicalism” laws. The entire labor movement is menaced. 166 W. Washington St. Jan. 13,1924 For the Federation of Labor Bidg., GREETINGS TO THE DAILY WORKER! MAY IT CONTINUE IN THE YEARS OF STRUGGLE TO COME AS THE BEST AGITATOR AND ORGANIZER OF OUR PARTY! Chicago Russian Branch Workers (Commanist) Party Birthday Greetings from PURVES & GIVEN Tires, Tubes and Accessories 1122 Washington Blvd., Corner May St. » Telephones—Monroe 5524—Haymarket 8555 f ' Branch: 3201 Fullerton Ave., Corner Kedzie. Culture Page Five ction! Give Generously and Now to the Defense! Ten of thousands of dollars are needed for the legal battle. Send your contribution at once. Get donations and collections in your branch, union, fraternal society, and in your shop. Send check, money orders or bills to the Labor Defense Council Chicago, Ill. Chicago Tel. 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