The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 13, 1925, Page 6

Page Six THE DAILY WORKER THE DAIL ORKER,) And We Will Do More Next Year, Published by the DAILY WORKM@R PUBLISHING CO. 1118 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Il. (Phone: Munroe 4712) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mall: $3.50....6 months $2.00....8 months Chicago only): «8 months $2.60...8 months $6.00 per year $8.00 per year Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER 1113 W. Washington Bivd. J. LOUIS ENGDAHL t WILLIAM F, DUNNE seeenseserneeseees EXCICOPS MORITZ J. LOEB......sorsmoee- Business Manager Chleago, Ilinels Entered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1923, at the Post- Office at Chicago, Ill, under the act of March 8, 1879. S20 Join the Workers Party! Thousands of working men and women will read this issue of the DAILY WORKER who have never before seen a copy of the only Communist daily paper in the English language and who know little of what the Workers (Communist) Party repres- ents in the great struggle between capital vnd labor for power to appropriate the wealth which comes from the application of labor to natural resources. To such we say that the Workers (Communist) Party is wholly different from any other sort of political party in existence, unlike the other so- called “radical or socialaist” parties. The Workers Party, unlike the parties who claim to represent all classes of people, represents only the interests of the working class, recognizing that its interests are opposed ‘to all other classes. Not only does the Workers (Communist) Party, recognize that labor produces all wealth, and that the continual struggle between the classes: can never be settled or adjusted short of a complete overthrowal of the political rule of the capitalist class which masks its real dictatorship behind fake “democracy,” but it sets out with a definite and practical, program for the seizure of power by the workers and the possession of the means of production by all the workers, mental and manual, who participate in all fields of work which con- tribute to the material and intellectual require- ments of human society. Almost every worker knows that capitalism robs the workers, but few know how to end the exploita- tion, All capitalist class education in schools, churches, magazines, newspapers and movies, tells the workers that exploitation either doesn’t exist or is dangerous to change, or cannot be ended. * The Workers (Communist) Party cuts through this fog of lies and miseducation with the light of understanding, showing all workers how they are exploited and teaching them to unite all their forces as a class to overthrow the already united forces of the capitalist class. : History shows that no ruling class volutarily surrenders power over an exploited class without open struggle, and the Workers Party warns that the workers can never emancipate themselves by simply voting and passing laws in congress. But although the Workers Party recdgnizes that only by revolution can the exploitation of the work- ers be finaly ended, it has no interest seperate from the working class, and aids to the full extent of its power in every struggle for immediate needs such as more wages, shorter hours, abolition of child labor, the fight against unemployment, the “open shop” and the suppression of workers’ rights. The Workers (Communist) Party fights for. the organization of great, strong industrial unions by amalgamation of old craft unions and organizing the unorganized, and the uniting of all workers, and working. class organizations in the fight to overthrow capitalism and establish a workers’ and farmers’ government. To all the readers of this issue of the DAILY WORKERS, we urge that you join the Workers (Communist) Party. Advertising rates on application WIPING OUT CAPITALISM | ‘ Labor's Big Job | proving its victim. } What has the DAILY WORKER dome in the year of its existence to justify the support of the working class? To answer this question would re- quire almost a republication of each issue. Even to give an abbreviated index of the subjects would cover all the pages of-this special edition. Un- fortunately, our Daily cannot afford the great clerical expense of making an index, and in both the editorial. and business departments, unknown to those who are out of touch with the Daily’s in- ternal affairs, the comrades who get out your DAILY WORKER, work shorthanded, long hours and under great handicaps. Lbs Hardly had the DAILY WORKER been born, when it had the sad task of announcing. the death of Comrade Lenin, on January 21, and calling for the memorial meetings held from coast to coast. In vast throngs the workers responded, as we hope they ‘respond this year to commemorate the life and work of the great strategist of world revolu- tion. On January 22, the U. M. W. of A. convention opened at Indianapolis, and the DAILY WORKER stepped at once into the arena of a gigantic strug- gle between the left wing of the labor movement led by the Trade Union Educational League, and the class collaborationist labor fakers of the union bureaucracy. Nova Scotia, Howat and the three- year agreement were issues. The DAILY WORKER’S baptism of fire in the Miners’ Union was but a start of its continuous struggle for the revolutionary unionism of the T. U. E. L. as the American section of the Red International of Labor Unions. Space forbids detail, and we mention only a few of the major struggles and campaigns in which the DAILY WORKER fought in the forefront of America’s workers: The united front struggle for the protection of foreign-born workers; the relief campaign for the starving workers of Germany; the fight against the Ruhr occupation; the fight against Kaufman’s sluggers in the Furriers’ Union; the OC. P. P. A. conference at St. Louis in February and the series of conferences during March in Minnesota; the savage battle between the strikers of the I. L. G@. W. and the bosses} police and injunction judges in Chicago and the persecu- tion and expulsions of that union’s best workers by the Sigman gang. Sigman and his wreckers were pilloried by the DAILY WORKER in the May convention at Boston after the Daily had celebrated May Day. Then came the Teapot Dome exposures; the martial law and klan murders of miners in Williamson county, the continual exposure of fascism in Italy ind America; the continual struggle for workers n prison for labor. Jacob Dolla, the West Vir- ‘inia miners; Mooney, the I. W. W. Centralia and ‘alifornia victims. and the, Michigan defendants aye shared our space. The DAILY WORKER followed the line of the Communist International, generally and in par- ticular matters. The Daily has given great space to international affairs;. the fight on the’ Dawes plan; every struggle of our comrades overseas; the wonderful progress of Soviet Russia in its internal and external phases; the rise and fall of Mae- Donald’s fake “labor” government; the colonial struggles for liberation of oppressed nationalities and races; China, the arena of imperialist conflict; and, among many more important events, the recent beginning of a Pan-American revolutionary labor movement, and the campaign for world unity of all labor unions of the Profintern. The DAILY WORKER has fought for the rank and file; against the Toledo expulsions of machin- |ists, and the fine battle of that union’s left wing in the Detroit convention; the A. C. W. convéntion at Philadelphia in May and the unmasking of the Hillman. treachery, the battle with Levin and his sluggers in the Chicago elections; the Pullman, Hegewisch and Paterson strikes; the conflicts in Boston and elsewhere; and the campaign against unemployment, wage cuts, longer hours and the open shop. The DAILY WORKER fought the battles of the revolutionists in the I, W, W. against splitt®?8 | nd reformists, likewise in the A. F. of L. the Daily as on the job at the El Paso convention just as 1 the I. W. W. convention, reporting events and litorially leading the struggle. In the A. F. of » and all subordinate unions, the Daily has fought x wiping out the color line, and full equality of segroes and Orientals with White workers in all elations of life. Perhaps the leading work of the year has been he first Communist campaign.in the United States n the capitalist elections, The young party. had ‘s first round with parliamentary “democracy” nd the Daily was the most powerful instrument if the battle. The republican and democratic conventions were posed, and in the middle of the campaign, Cool- (ge’s manager, William Morgan Butler, was ex- »osed as a direct employer and boss of stoolpigeons if a private detective agency in the textile unions f New Bedford. The ©. P. P. A. convention which ndorsed LaFollette was shown to have betrayed the armer-labor movement, opened with prayer and mnded with thanks to the, police. In all these und a multitude of other struggles, the DAILY WORKER has earned the support of he =) of America. Its future is in their ands, It is claimed that former emperor Willie of iermany has undergone a monkey gland operation i that he is now quite sprightly. If this report (rue, then the ex-kaiser is doing better than capi- ‘ist Germany whder its Morgan-Dawes gland eration, that seems to be killing rather than im- ee! Tuesday, January 13, 1925 a oe Wik, ‘fi . By J. W. JOHNSTONE. N this, the first birthday of our bouncing Communist baby, the DAILY WORKER, 686 is tempted to boast of our rapid advancement and heap laurels upon “the only English Communist Daily i, the world. ‘It is truly somethi 0 of, 8 achievement that wi Not | eve’ dream of two years ago, and the party especially the DAILY WORKER staff: can very well be complimented for the work done. A Long Way To Tipperary. But, when we look at the tasks be fore us, the hard, rough road that we have yet to travel, what we have done is as nothing compared to what we have yet to do. The DAILY WORKER |has not yet struck its proper Com- munist stride—the circulation be increased, closer and more fam contact must be made with the ¢ masses of workers, the DAILY WORKER must become the workers newspaper,.a paper that the workers will read and heed, a paper that wil! be able, thru its columns, to ideologi cally lead the workers in the struggle That is the task that is yet ahead of the DAILY WORKER and the Com taunist press as a whole. We~ have mot yet cast off our cloak of isola tion. We talk about’ the America workers, but what we realy mean j only the workers of the United Stater and, sometimes when we think abou it, Canada. How much thought, tim: or energy do we give to the workin class movements in that great stretc! of land south of the Rio Grande, Latin rica, composed of some 20 repub lies, with a population of approx- imately 100,000,000, a land of great wealth, terrible poyerty, and terrific persecution. Our Task in Pan-America. The task of the Comunist press in Pan-America is to draw these scatter. ed working class movements out of their national isolation, thru propa: gandizing for the unification of all Communist and left wing forces int: @ united front for class action. To wage a constant fight against the dom- ination of the A. F. of L. and.C. R. 0. M. (Confederacion Regional Obré- va Mexicana) leadership in, the Pan- American labor movement and in fav or of the united front action of the workers on both continents agains: the rule of capitalist imperialism. The rapid advance that American imperialism is making thru Latin Am- erica, makes {it imperative that we collect our scattered Communist and left wing forces to meet the assault. This means the unification of the Communist press for common action thruout Pan-America with a definite and unified program of action, In this the lead must be taken by the DAILY WORKER in the north, La Interna cional of Argentina in the south, and El Machete of Mexico for the Central American republics, These three are the recognized leading Communist or- sans in their respective territories, The Ravages: of. imperialism. With Chile, Guatemala, Peru, El Sal- vador, Honduras, under the iron heel of a military dictatorship cures by American imperialism; with the American troops KERS OF THE WORLP ONT TE! cS > ~ INTERNATIONA DICTATORSHIP Pp RGLETARI AT THE flag flying above their custom houses; Santa Domingto with a so-called lib eral government set up at the point of American bayonets; the Mexican government completely in control of Wall Street; with the Pan-American Federation of Labor acting as the lw bor-wing of American imperialism—it is truly a hard, difficult and yery. im- portant task that confronts the.Com- munist movement and the Communist .bress of Pan-America. Did You Ever Hear of This? We have, however, a solid basis in our Pan-American Communist press upon which to launch such a cam paign. Argentina has the largest Com- munist Party of both continents, with a membership of nearly 40,000. It has also the oldest Communist Daily in Latin America, La Internacional, an eight page paper that circulates in Uragnay, to 2 certain extent in Brazil d is known thruout Latin America. very close to the workers, played active role in the big harbor work- ’ strike of Buenos, Aires which last ed nearly eight months, is endorsed many unions as their official organ and leads the fight for affiliation to the R. I. L. U., which received, on a roll call, a 40 per cent vote. The El Machete, organ of the Mex- ican Communist Party, altho only 2 M.weekly, reflecting the poverty of ‘The Communist Press in Pan-America the party by the poor quality of paper it uses, can, with joint assistance and action, be built up into a powerful Communist voice. The El Machete without doubt has the best drawings and cartoon of any Communist paper in’ America. Many of its drawings symbolical and powerful, make a strong. appeal to. the Indian workers and them closer to Communism Altho its circulation fs small, it haé played local leading roles in strikes such as the successful strike of the oil workers in the Tampico district oi ‘he state of Vera Cruz. Our Forces Dispersed and Isolated. Then we have the La Defensa Ob rera, a daily organ of the Communist Party of Chile. This member of ow Communist family is not very wel known outside of its own country and is, unfortunately, tainted with th virus ef social democracy. There are other Commnntet nance in Latin America, such as Justicia, of Uraguay, and undoubtedly many other papers that we know nothing of, such is our isolation. There are many sym- pathetic papers like Justicia published in Havana, Cuba, which publisher many articles endorsing Communism and lately publighed the program o the Workers Party with favorab] comment. The La Lucha de Classe a labor union official organ of Ha How We Live and Work Editor's Note:—This paper is printed for the workers, poor farmers and those who work and sweat under the present system of society. It is a paper of the workers, by the workers and for the workers. We want to reach every corner of this country where labor is being exploited for private gains, for rofit. 9AILY WORKER. ‘We want the workers and farmers all over the country to read the In order to make it more interesting and to reflect the life of the wide Iahoring masses, WE be able better ANT OUR READERS TO WRITE TO US, This new department “HOW WE LIVE AND WORK" # jl appear as often us there wil! be suficlent letters from our readers about the Hie and working conditions under which our masses struggle. Try to make the letters interesting bringing out facts which may not be known to workers in other sections of the country. point. *** Editor-The DAILY WORKER:— About four miles from Brownsville, Pa., in the Coke Region, is the mining town known as Brier Hill, the coal camp of the Buckeye Coal company, which is a subsidiary of the Younga- town Sheet and Tube Steel company. A friend of mine worked there from the time he was 16 years old till the coal strike of 1922,. During the strike he was secretary of the Brier Hill local of the United Mine Workers of America, After the Cleveland agreement in 1922 my friend went to work in the union coal fleld of district No, 5 but owing to a shut down he was forced to look for a job. After seeking work in union mines for over four months, my friend decided to try his old hunt- ing ground and on Jan, 3 went to Brier Hill, At every mine there is a lamp house and usually the mine fore man’s office is in the lamphouse. While my friend was waiting here to see the superintendent about a job, a company deputy camd to him ‘Try to make them short and to the * « “You have to'go to the local super- intendent's office for permission to step on the companys grounds,” the deputy said. “There is no such rule xenerally, but there is your case.” The deputy had remembered -my friend’s part in the 1922 strike, and was trying to “get even,” Incidents such as the above are very common, My attention has been called to cases where union men wero fined $25.00 and costs or more for such “trespassing.” And there are people naive enovgh to hold that America is a “free” country. The coun- try is democratic only for the bosses and their Igekeys, x Working conditions are rotten. The Frick wage scale, which is the near- est one to the union scale, is far be- low union wages on contract work. Those union mines which are working are running 60 per cent capacity, but the large majority of them are still completely shut dwn, * The branches of the Workers Party here are all active in raising insur- and asked him if his name was N ——|Ance policies for the DAILY WORK- N — — My friend said yes, and the} ER, and are accomplishing a great deputy said, “Come ajong.” The dep-| deal, even tho work has been slack. uty took him in a taxi to Squire Hess'|The West Brownsville South Slavic office, and he was booked on a chargo| ranch has sent in $50.00, in donation. of traspassing, My friend was fi $11.85, with the alternative of 30 days| $100.00 before the drive ends, The membership is sure of raising "Yours for ana, Cuba, sympathetic towards Com munism, which in every issue carries reprints from the DAILY WORKER in Peru and Uraguay, we find many labor union journals sympathetic to. wards the Communist International and the R. I. L. U. Wall Street's Itch For World Power. American imperialism in its bid for world domination, is leading us direct to another world war. This imperial- istic force is determined to unite the western hemisphere into a solid Am- erican imperialistic block, so as to strengthen its position at home, en- trench itself from Cape Horn to the Behring Straits and to throw the Pan- American working class into the next world war in defense of American im. oerialism. American imperialism, in its con uering march thru Latin America, is ery versatile-in its maneuvers. Ip ‘exico, thru its labor-wing, the Paf- verican Federation of Labor, with the late but not lamented Gompers as their chief spokesman, it opposes dic- tatorship and sets up a capitalist de. mocracy, because that forth of gov: ernment at this time is most suitable -¢ 148 purpose. The Intrigues of Imperialism. In other yepublics mentioned above, . supports local military dictatorship, hile in others it boldly and forceably ‘kes over the customs houses, while gain in others it sets up a United states military dictatorship.. In Ar gentina, Brazil and Chile, which form @ loose united block, it tries to set these countries at war with one an- other so that it will have a pretext for interfering. The Communist press of Pan-Amer. ica has indeed a very important Com: munist task to perform. It will, to a large degree, be held responsible for making the labor movements of these countries really acquainted with each other, to draw them closer together and to help give them Communist or- ientation. What do we know about Latin America? Only what our Com: munist press tells us, and that is very little. What does Latin America know about us? Very little, and the Communist press must tell thi ‘The Pan-American Anti-Militarist League. The duty of the Communist press is to carry the Communist méssage to al! the workers in all America, to the birth of a new organization, “The Pan-American Anti-Militarist League," to call upon allleft wing unions and revolutionary groups to join this league, to help the .speedy unification of all Communist Parties, to encour: age the organization of Communist Parties where none exist. Birthday greetings to our vigorous, healthy, and growing Communist baby, The DAILY WORKER, is to raise the A United Pan-Atherican Comm ist Press, as against a United Pan- American capitalist press, " »A United Front of the Revolu- tionary Working Class from Cape Horn:to'the. Behring Straits, “against American imperialism. ©.) Away with our national isolation!» Pan-American Communism for Pan. Americal MA Re Down with Pan-Ametican 1 alists! Up with th ».