The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 13, 1925, Page 7

Tuesday, January 13, 1925 SECOND SECTION aiegmapercrene _ THE DAILY WORKER Page Seven SECOND SECTION _ Militant Labor Greets Second Year of “DAILY” THOUSANDSHAL NEW YORK TO HAVE ITS OWN EDITION DAILY WORKER'S FIRST BIRTHDAY Many CelebrationsHeld Prove Huge Success Thousands of Workers Party members and readers of the DAILY WORKER are rejoicing today that theDAILY WORKER celebrates the splendid achieve- ments made in behalf of the | working class and the Com- i munist movement during the first year of its existence. i TO ALL PROGRESSIVE COAL MINERS! To all Progressive Miners:—You should send in the general election returns of your local to the T. U. E. L. ' So far only the following locals have been recorded in the columns off the DAILY WORKER: Locals—1197, 2278, 1190, 1165, 816, Islan, Pa. 854, 1787, 1896, 1214,3825, 1829, 4917, 1352, 1198, 5651, 5085, 1143, 3874, 1197, 2399, 2881, 1190, 4426, 2853, 818, 260, 593, 4546, 4917, 155, 2506, 1724, 2396, 4561, 5302, 1165, 4288, 5497, 5273, 1302, 685, 3160, 2043, 2376, 2468.,4648, 705, 959, 3192, 992, 3703, 3613, 5168, 3776, 4241, 46, 3140, 3816, 2689, 3920, 5535, 2579, 2328, 905, 4134, 4346, 4285, 3244, Nordegg and Hillcrest, Alberta, and three locals from siateie 12, the number of the locals locals being omitted. The results from these locals are as follows: For president: John L. Lewis, 3,802; Geo. Voyzey, 10,867; majority for Voyzey, the left winger, 7066. Vice-president: ‘Phil: Murray, Staples, the left winger, 6,447. Secretary-treasurer: Wm. Green, 4,345; Joseph Nearing, 9,080; majority for Nearing, the left winger, 4,740. i These few returns show that the Progressive Miners’ slate and program has the support of the majority of the members of these locals, scatterc thru seven districts, 5, 6, 12, 14, 17, 18, and 22, and Indicates the tremendous vote cast for the candidates who stand on a program of action based upcn the class struggle as against the reactionary class collaboration policy of the Lewis machine. These results are splendid, and show the wonderful fight that the left wing in the Miners’ Union is putting up against the most powerful reaction- ary machine in the American labor movement. It shows how deeply the T. U. E. L. has penetrated the rank and file of the Miners’ Union with Its revo- lutionary program of action. If your local.is not among those listed above, or if you know the results of any local that is not mentioned, then fill out the form below and send it in to the T. U. E. L. When the election returns are completed an analysis. of the election will be made by the national committee of the T. Uv E. L. 3,908; Arley Staples, 10,455; majority for The DAILY WORKER is one year old today, and the militant workers rejoice that for the first time the workers are led by a militant Communist daily news- paper printed in the English | language. 1 The Chicago builders of the DAILY i WORKER met last night in Imperial i Hall at the first birthday party of 1 the DAILY WORKER. The DAILY WORKER staff attended, and com posed an oral newspaper as part of the entertainment. Big New York Meeting. The New Star Casino was jammed with thousands of workers Sunday afternoon and evening, at the .com- bined Karl Liebknecht memorial and the DAILY .WORKER birthday cele. bration. Gheat enthusiasm greeted the speakers who told of the accomp: lishments of the DAILY WOKKER during the past year and the triumphs which are expected in the coming year. , t The proceeds of the celebrations will go toward the fund now being raised to build the DAILY WORKER fe 1925. Arrangements for the Chi- ea » celebration were handled by ¢ oN ttee of three, made up of Gus- sh ise, Natalie Gomez and Emma Blas, thmidt. One year ago today on North: Hal- sted St., in an overcrowded, ‘rented Plant, the DAILY WORKER was-born. The pennies contributed by the thous ands of Workers Party members bore fruit in the establishment of the first English language Communist daily newspaper. The sneers of the enem- ies of the militant working class were even then only partially silenced. The opponents and false friends of. the Communist movement said, “The pa- per will last only a few months.” In Midst of Big Campaign. But at the end of the first year the DAILY WORKER is entrenched in the working class movement to the dismay of the exvemies of Communism. It is a daily necessity for thousands of workers and poor ‘farmers, helping them ‘carry on their everyday strug- gles in the shops and fields and mines egainst their bosses,’ the open shop- pers, and the entire capitalist class. The first birthday of the DAILY On Local Union No...... Votes Cast John L. Lewis For President Geo. Voyzey Phil. Murray, VicesPresident csossssssssseree Arley Staples Wm. Green ; evveegee Secretary-Treasurer ........ Joseph Nearing Signed: NATIONAL COMMITTEE, TRADE UNION EDUCATIONAL LEAGUE. clared that the DAILY WORKER is now more firmly established than ever before. “We are conducting well or- ganized subscription drives in all the principal cities and industrial cen ters,” said Comrade Loeb. “Thru the DAILY WORKER builders we now have a staff of efficient field organiz- ers. The literature department of the Workers Party is to be centralized under the control of the DAILY WORKER after Jan, 15.” “An important step will soon be taken by the DAILY WORKER in printing every day a special New York edition of the DAILY WORKER. This will undoubtedly increase the circula- WORKER finds the paper in the midst |tion of our paper in New York City of a successful campaign to raise |#2d the eastern states and increase funds to make the paper even stronger | the influence of the Communists in ‘during 1925. The DAILY WORKER |that section. New York news of in- ds the rallying point of the militant |terest to the militant working class workers and the American Commun- {living in that territory will be printed ist movement. In the first year the|im the New York edition daily.” DAILY WORKER has shown itself as| Over $15,000 has already been con- @ necessary and permanent weapon in;tributed by Workers Party members the capitalist class and the establish-|and readers of the DAILY WORKER ment of the rule of the workers. to the fund to insure the DAILY Comrade Moritz Loeb, business man-| WORKER for 1925, Comrade Wagen ager of the DAILY WORKER, de-'knecht, in charge of the campaign, said. “All Workers Party members must remember that the DAILY WORKER {s the official organ of the Workers Party, and just as the first duty of the comrades of all federa- tions is to support the C. E. C. of the party, so is it the first duty of ali Workers Party comrades to support the DAILY WORKER which is the official organ and the mouthpiece of the Central Executive Committee and of the Workers Party.” Comrade Wagenknecht said that while splendid progress is being made in the campaign to insure the DAILY WORKER for the coming year, some branches have nét been heard from. “There is twenty thousand dollars in pledges “outstanding, and these branches shoyld immediately send in whatever money they have raised.” The campaign will continue until the DAILY WORKER is made safe for the coming year. The DAILY WORKER is facing the year 1925 with every prospect of being of even greater service to the Communist movement than during the eventful year just passed.” “The DAILY WORKER is gaining influence in Los Angeles,” Comrade Samuel Globerman, Los Angeles rep- resentative of the DAILY WORKER, says. “The demand for the DAILY WORKER is steadily increasing.” Los Angeles friends ,of the DAILY WORKER staged a very successful celebration, speakers calling attention to the splendid progress made by the DAILY WORKER in the past year. Loaare We ashy Hake Mts ~ Results of. Membership Meetings SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.—Majority, 41; minority, 19. LOS ANGELES—(Y. W. L.) Majority, 20; minority, 2. WEST FRANKFORT, ILL.—Majority, 35; minority, 0. ZEIGLER, ILL.—Majority, 25; minority, 0. _ CHRISTOPHER, ILL.—Majority, 10; minority, 5. BALTIMORE—(Finnish) Majority, 107; minority, 0. BALTIMORE—(Czecho-Slovak) Majority, 56; minority, 0. BALTIMORE—(Russian) Majority, 8; minority, 0. RAGINE, WIS.—Majority, 10; minority, 7. ___ Fill out the goove Mis Wee ae ee eee ach. cal id send re eA a ashington Blvd., Chicago , ae educatlohal, directors and literatur agents of branches to be taken up 8 p. m., Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2613 Hirsc! Bivd. LEWIS SNOWED UNDER fil DIST. 12 Mine VOTE 'Coaldiggers Repudiate Operator's Ally (Special to The Daily Worker) TOPEKA, Kansas, Jan. 12.— The vote against Lewis in the majority of locals thruout this district was so heavy that it was almost unanimous, This is the district against which Lewis waged war in con- junction with the open shop governor Alien of notorious memory, now little more than a memory. The following is the score by local unions: Local union a776: sey, 68; Greet ray, 4; Stap! Local union: 4241: Levis, 19; Voy- zey, 116; Green, 21; Nearing, 11; Mur- ray, 15; Staples, 121. Local union’ 46; Lewis, 5; Voyzey, 88; Green, 4; ‘Nearing, 84; Murray, 4; Staples, 87.) Local union 8140: Lewis, 32; Voy- zey, 132; Green, 34; Nearing, 129; Murray, 30; Staples, 131. Local union 3816: Lewis, 4; Voy- zey, 40; Green, 6; Nearing, 38; Mur- Lewis, 5; Voy. Nearing, 66; Mur. ray, 5; Staples, 39. - Local union 2689: Lewis, 22; Voy- zey, 209; Green, 25; Nearing, 206; Murray, 20; Staples, 208. Local union 2920: Lewis, 10; Voy- ney, 162; Green, 14; Nearing, 159; Murray, 12; Staples, 160. Local union 5535: Lewis, 1; Voy- zey, 38; Green, 2; Nearing, 37; Mur- ray, 0; Staples, 38. Local union 2579: Lewis, 5; Voy- zey, 88; Green, 8 Nearing, 84; Mur- ray, 6; Stapl HE Bon. oy: bs ide 172; Murray, 10; Staples, 176. 9 310° .6 Vote Against Lewis. VERONA, Il, Jan. 12.—Local 5686, wont strongly on record for the pro- gressive slate in the national elec- tions. The vote for the national offi- cers was, Lewis, 63; Voyzey, 117; Murray, 64; Staples, 98; Green, 104; fearing, 56. For district officers, the voting was: Farrington, 119; Hindmarsh, 66; other candidates, 69; Fishwick, 120; Hew- lett, 54; Black, 56; Neshit, 89; Con- torioux, 85; other candidates, 97. Secretary Offered Deal. PLAINS, Pa., Jan. 12.— The coal “New York City is going DAILY WORKER as soon as the necess made,” declared Moritz Loeb, business m: “The decision to publish t and only details remain to be attended to. DAILY WORKER MANAGEMENT MAKES DECISION TO ISSUE SPECIAL EDITION FOR NEW YORK CITY to have a special edition of the rrangements can be age he edition has already been made The decision was made in response to the growing demand of New York comrades and sympathizers for the Special,” said Loeb. It was possible to go to the extra expense owing to the energy put behind the drive to increase the cirenlation of the DAILY WORKER in New York by our party members. The circulation doubled since last summer. New York is the firs arrangements are being m city in line for a special edition, but le to bring about spec land, Detroit and other cities. How soon this can be done de- pends to a great extent on the work of those comrades in creating a demand for the DAILY WORKER. Communist Journalism ‘By WILLIAM F. DUNNE. HE Communist daily press has brought into labor journalism in America—the record of the workers’ strugg!es and the explanation of the causes of those struggies—a new note. It is a note of challenge, of hope, of faith in the workingclass, of confidence in the final victory of the workingclass—a note of unshak- able belief in the ability of the workingclass to conquer capitalism and erect its own social order. In ali other organs which claim to voice the desires of the work- Ingelass and record their indict- ments of capitalism, trade union journals, socialist pape id pub- lications of the middle class “friends of the workers,” there is always a note of hesitation, of complaint, of hopelessness, of lack of confidence in the working masses who alone have the revolutionary heritage and who alone are capable of storming the world fortress of capitalism. ‘The Communist press, like the ‘Communist Parties and the Oom- munist International, appeals only to the workers in Industry and agri- culture. It rejects the idea that any cther social group can or will -fight thru to completion the world- wide conflict between the red hosts of workers and the black hordes of capitalism. The Communist Parties, organiz- ed in and accepting the direction and discipline of the Communist In- ternational are the sole leaders in this struggle by virtue of superior understanding, superior organiza- tion, superior courage. The Communist press Is colored thru and thru with this current springing from the well of Marxian- diggers of local 1483, left no room for doubt as to what they think of John L. Lewis, when the ballots cast in the recent elections were counted. Lewis teceived only 20 votes to 118 cast for George Voyzey, his progres- sive opponent. Philip Murray got 20 Leninist knowledge of the class Struggle. It is for this reason that every news story, every editorial, every article, every announcement, every line in the Communist press, breathes the class struggle, that its every utterance Is uncolored by any thought or wish to placate the ene- votes, while Arley Staples received 112; William Green 19 and Joseph Nearing, 111. All Down The Line, The members went all down the line for the progressive slate. On election day, the secretary of the local, a Lewis henchman tried. to make a di with the progress offering to split the local vote evenly between the two slates. The progres- sive, however, insisted on an honest election and told the faker that they did not want a single vote that did not rightiy belong to them. The re- urns showed that the members of the locel were overwhelmingly against the reactionarios. Y. W. L. Functionarics Meeting. Matters pertaining to the work 0’ mies of the workingclass, to soften the struggle or to conceal from the workingclass the inevitable outcome of the daily conflicts—the necessity of revolution. There has never been a daily pa- per like the DAILY WORKER inthe , United States. There will never be | one, lke it until the Workers (Com- munist), Party of America is able to publish in other cities a duplicate of the DAILY WORKER. It hac set a new standard of labor reporting and journalism—a standard as much superior in militancy and under standing as the revolutionary Com- munist Parties are superior to the “Peformist and apologetic and traitor- ous parties of the second interna- tional—yet a standard that can be and is being raised as the Commun- ist press grows in age and experi- ence as the most important part of the Communist movement. The DAILY WORKER has made a few wild Communists succeed?” Such a thing would be impossible besides being extremely discreditable spirit of adventure that the DAILY WORKER was started. But there har en no adventuring. Once establish: i MORITZ J J. LOEB, HEN we said, “We are going to s 1 e d 8 D r at . “ inion leaders in| “But,” some argued, “we have about Marg cory ep the fing. |$75,000, It {8 not much considering| 'f there has been anything of nd- I. waht we will have to do, but even if | Venture about the DAILY WORKER it . has been in the sense that as nove: t establish an English Commun- daily paper,” our enemies sneered. “Among the officials of the trad: on movement it was the concensus opinion that we wouldn't ‘last a month, All down the line, the fakers re amusedly skeptical. “It can’t be Hone,” they said. - Our liberal contemporaries were no doubtful. They, together with to the reputations of the world’s sat. est world savers, As a matter of fact there were many Communists who had serious doubts to our ability to put across so large an undertaki: We were poor not only in finances, but also in experi- ence. We proposed to start out on an uncharted journey. before we have adventured into real- od, there has been nothing of romance | ¢: about our daily, From the first day the task has been appreciated as a real task, with problems that required real solutions. We were conqerned not with keeping the DAILY WORK- ER alive “a litle while,” but in build. ing a weapon that would fight as long as the revolutionary struggle de. manded. if ever our party has j task with jaws set, ‘wha ‘we desired and hoped for. It is true that the party as a whole has as started to build. ing every day for a year. We are not finished, in fact, we are just begin come but at the end of a year we have pa og that we are not yet very Fr dhotther in our editorial un our administration have le to accomplish halt of mu to the DAILY, WORKER only @ small fraction of the support and activity which it deserves and, to continue, must have. But we are here! A year ago wo We have been build. ething to show for ke eforta aragh had our ee enor ott many mistakes in the first year of its existence, but these mistakes have been of the head and not of the heart. Its worst enemies will admit freely that in not,one single line has it ever expressed doubt as to the righteousness of the strug- gles it recorded or hesitation in throwing itself into those struggle. it has given two biows to capital- ism for every blow it received as the fighting guardian of the inter ests of the revolutionary working- class and its vanguard—the Com- munist Party. It criticises the labor movement, but only to correct its weaknesses, to make it stronger on the fighting front and not because it doubts or fears the workingclass. It criticises as a part of the work- ingclass and not as an expression of an organization that has inter. ests separate from and above those of the workers. The Communist daily press, if it is to fulfill its mis- sion of bsing the voice of the fight- ing workers, must be in closest con- nection with them. The Commun- ist daily press must be the product and its stories of the struggle must have the odor and coior of the bat- tle, they must carry to the other To All District Organizers, Industrial Dear Comrades: the country. home more forcefully to militants and membership at large the importance and extent of our in- dustrial work. The success of this new industrial department in the DAILY WORKER can be assured only if it has the active co-operation of all our field men. Therefore, we call upon you and urge you to furnish us with a constant stream of detailed information regard- ing the industrial activities of the lett wing in your particular sphere of activity. Your reports to this office should not be brief generalizations, but detailed statements of real activities. We real- ize that uhis will put a little addi- tional work upon you. But the advan- tage to be gained by the movement will well repay this effort on your part. We are convinced that you will give us your most hearty co-operation in this respect. Your reports should cover strikes, unemployment, union elections, expul- sions, shop conditions, and all live of the workers on the field of battle * workers who read them the picture of each conflict, identified by de- tailed knowledge of the course of that conflict and the strategy and tactics employed. The Communist daily press can, therefore, be what a Communist press must be, only when its pages are filled with news furnished by worker correspondents — workers who’ know of what they write, be- cause they write of workingclass history which they help to make. The Communist daily press is a weapon—a weapon whose keen edge Is used to cut great gaps in the walls of the capitalist system, to cut down the mercenaries of the capitalist state, to strip their corps- es of the camouflage with which the capitalist press covers them, to show them to the workers in their | nakedness as they really are—class enemies, the janissaries and Jackals of reaction. The Communist dally press must have, in every industrial center, In every agricultural district, at least one worker who makes it his busl- ness to furnish the news of the class war day by day. The workers of America have had enough of the patronizing recording of their strug- gles by kindly intellectuals and half- baked college boys whose greatest fear is that some day the workers will do away with capitalist tyranny and robbery and leave them nothing to write about. In the coming year, the second of the DAILY WORKER'S existence, every effort must be devoted to welding a chain of worker corres- pondents stretching thruout the United States, with links in every place where workers sweat and fight, a chain that slowly at first, but with ever increasing tensity and speed, will strangle the li a slanders of the capitalist press in the throats of thé vermin who write them, a chain that will show with unerring accuracy to the working- class the hills and valley of capital- ism that they must ascend, explore and conquer before the Commun- Ist papers can send hurtling from their humming presses the news that a bleeding, fighting, tired and warsworn but unconquerable work- ingclass has broken the power of world capitalism, set up its own dic- tatorship, and in a seven-column headline of flaring red, say: “Next Order of Business—Bulld Communist Soclety!™ To the workers’ correspondents of the Communist, daily press we give this slogan—“Write as You Fight.” START WEEKLY PAGE OF T.U. E. L. ACTIVITIES IN THE DAILY WORKER! SEND IN STORIES OF YOUR STRUGGLE Organizers, Secretaries of Local T. U E. L. Groups and National Industrial Committees! In order to bring more effectively to the front our industrial work, it has been decided to set aside a weekly section of the DAILY WORKER under the head of “T. U. E. L. Activities.” This section will be full of news of what the left wing is doing in all the localities, unions and industries of No need. for me to explain in detail the importance ef the innovation. It will help make the DAILY WORKER more interesting, as well as bring oure——————U0W—_____ features of the labor movement, writ- ten especially around the thot of bringing out the part played by the left wing in these movements and of stimulating our militants into actty- ity. You should write freely on these subjects. We, of course, will not pub- lish everything that comes in, but use our discrimination so as to make the department bright and interesting, We will be able, to a very large ex. tent, to judge of the efficiency of our industrial organization by the re sponse we get in the building of this industrial department in the DAILY WORKER, We depend upon you to see te ft that. your community and industries are fully reported in the department. Send all material directly to the na tional office of the T. U. B. L. Fraternally yours, Willtam Z, Foster, Industrial Director, us in our struggles, clarifying our movement, gaining us ever increas- ing influence In the working class. Every day for a year we have been building and strengthening the work- ing class. In a year we have almost tripled our circulation. We have established a central party printing plant, safeguarding for the future not only our daily, but also our monthly official organ and all the other propaganda needs of our party. We have bought a building for our daily and for the national offices of the party. We have centralized the party ter institutions and prepared the way for more Morag hc el ganda work in the future. We have started to organize the t Can’t Be pone ean by Communists hee. bogy cha Mung fo Ay or gan, and overcome, At the end of a year the DAILY WORKER is here, an infant still, but press distribution of our party upon a sound foundation, thus laying the basis for activity which is bound to multiply a hundred fold our effec. tiveness in increasing the circulation of our daily, our monthly, and the party books and pamphiets. It has been a struggle, a bitter struggle. There has been little said, most of the party did not dream, of the difficulties which were being en countered, the dangers that were faced. There were times when we didn't know where the money was coming from to meet our daily needs. There were times when the dangers and difficulties seemed almost insur- mountable, Obstacles have been met a healthy, fighting one. We have been building our daily for a year. The biggest part of the building has yet to be done. There has been struggle. The heaviest struggle is yet to come. A year ago we were told “It can't be done.” Now the immediate task is to make the DAILY WORKER safe for 1926 while we continue to build it bigger and stronger and better. Our enemies are no longer amusedly skeptical. They are furiously, terri fiedly skeptical, “It can’t be done,” they croak. ° And they aro right. IT CAN'T BE DONE—BXCEPT BY COMMUNISTS, a cmaaneadl | i