The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 17, 1925, Page 1

The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ and Farm- Vol. I. No. 5. 9 = XCRPTION RATES: outsice Cnicaco, by o tame be % sz = awn WO. COMMUNIST LEGISLATOR IN NORTH DAKGTA POINTS OUT CLASS NEEDS OF WORKERS AND POOR FARMERS (Special to The BISMARCK, N. D., Jan. 16.—The workers and poor farmers of North’ Dakota are fortunate that state the one Communisi, body. ; Not that one Communist can attain for them all ° D LABO! For the Emancip Daily Worker) in having in the legislature of A..C. Miller, elected to such a ‘that is their due as workers and farmers, but he is actively pointing out to them the only means whereby attained—and explaining that t Pee ho Parte erg ancl “AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O)FLAHEATY. EFUSAL of the Norwegian govern- ment to grant amnesty to the im- prisoned Communists may result in a general strike according to news’ dis- » patches from Oslo, formerly Chri8- tiana. The trade union leaders act- ing under pressure from the rank and i) file, have warned the government that unless the Communists are released labor will down tools. The yellow so- cialist press was recently chortling over the split in the Norwegian Com- munist Party when the right wing leaders: Ye to carry out the in- structions of the Communist Interna tional. But’ the Communists ‘know how to win the masses to their side. , see continued ‘existence of Dr. Sun ‘at Sén is seriously embarrass tales of his demisé, dnd other tales of serfous illness. The latest complica- tion from’ which we aré told Sun is suffering is an abscess on‘ his liver. ‘The capitalist reporter who concocted the liver story says that-unless Sun is operated on he will die. Sun ‘refuses to permit an operation. ' Therefore he will die. Everything is quite logi- cal, excépt 'the facts. © ; oe 'HE letters from Theodore Roose- velt to Henry Cabot Lodge now running in several papers, reveal the former as @ shallow timie-serving poli- tician. There is no redéeming feature in the correspondence. “Teddy” was an accomplishéd mountebank tho not 80 nauseating a hypocrite as his com petitor Woodrow Wilson. Roosevelt’s advice to Lodge was to stick to the G. O. P.'machine, even while differing with it. Lodge saw in Roosevelt the makings of a good demagogue and kept his eye on him, while Roosevelt needed Lodge's erudition and political sagacity: They made # good team; Roosevelt ‘attacking big business and Lodge, his second, assuring the plutes that “Teddy” was only addressing the votes. : “* ‘HE, Soviet. police ‘have exiled 90,000 Russians without trial ac- cording to a Kerensky: paper publish- ed in Berlin. Those of you who have short memories are reminded that a person by the name, of Kerensky held out in Petrograd for a few months in the year 1917 after the czar was given a vacation by the petty bourgeoisie at the instigation of Great Britain. It might also be of interest to learn that the private diary of the British Ambassador Buchenan, stationed in Petrograd (now Leningrad) at ‘the time proved conclusively that ‘it was Britain’s revolution. The czar was go- ing to make peace with the Germans ie tee ie or Lege pen, vegas rcer their needs as a class may be he burden of fighting for their betterment and emancipation, must lie with them, and not be trusted merely to the capitalist controled legislature. The secretary of the agricultural district of the Workers Party, Alfred Knutson, has issued in the name of the district executive committee, a statement outlining the program of Comrade MiJler in the legislature and among the workers and farmers. The statement is as follows: Calls for Class Struggle. “The farmers and the workers of North Dakota and the United States will never be able to emancipate themselves from the exploitation of the banks, the investment companies. the grain combine, the railroads, the steel trust, the coal barons, the Wall Street financiers—in short: the whole capitalist system of business and its government—without a fight, without a struggle. “As far as the broad masses of farmers and ‘workers are concerned there can be absolutely no compro- capitalists, big or little, who are rob- bing the farmers and the workers, is a clear betrayal of their basic needs and can have no other outcome for them than certain defeat and disaster. Calls for Pressure on Legislature, “The following. bills and resolutions constitute the legislative. program of ‘the Workers Party and are being placed before the North Dakota legis- lature by its representative, A. C. Mil- ler, member of the house of represen- tatives from the 41st legislative dis- trict. Every working farmer, who is a member of the state legislature, should give his whole-hearted support to these measures which touch the im- mediate needs and demands of the farmers and the workers, and all farm- ers and workers thruout the state should by resolutions, petitions and letters to their representatives in the state legislature, urgé their immedi- ate and prompt adoption. No Foreclosure—No Eviction. “1. A bill prohibiting foreclosures of mortgages on land tilled by work- ing farmers. No farmer shall be evicted or dispossessed for failure to pay his debts. All lands held by trust companies, banks, and corporations generally, to revert back to the state without compensation. This bill or resolution is to be based on the prin-| ciple that the land belongs to those who toil upon it. “2. & bill providing for state aid to co-operatives controlled by workers and working farmers. “8. A resolution prohibiting the use (Continued on page 2.) JEWISH BUREA GREETINGS (Special to The U. SENDS BIRTHDAY - NEW YORK, Jan. 16.—The Bureau of the Jewish Federation has $8.00. per year. $6.00 per. year, BISHOP BROWN STANDS. BY THE TEACHINGS HiS COMMUNIST CLEVELAND, Ohio, Jan. 16— Bishop William Montgomery Brown affirmed his boliefs. stated in ‘his book, “Communism and Ch ism,”. and refused. to retract an his teachings. The court of re: declared they found no error in the trial last June when Bishop’ Br was convicted, and allowed tive “se: tense” to stand. “It is the judgmsnt of.this court that you, William Ment- gomery Brown, should be deposed from the sacred ministry,” Bish Leonard declared at the end of the hearing . : Bishop Brown's conviction of APPEAL TO High COURT IS GIVEN HEARING TODAY Headgear Workers Sup- port Communist Fight Attorneys for C. E. Ruthen- berg, executivé secretary of the Workers (Communist) Party, will appear before the United States stipreme court in Wash- ‘ te 4 ington today, and apply for per- ab aeen Seana tae ®Y | missidn to atgue the validity of with the power ‘to “put rie er the Michigan procedure and to tence” into effect. The. house: have Comrade Ruthenberg re- of Millionaires’ Lackey to Remain. WASHINGTON, Jan. 16.—Secretary bishops will review the case at leased on bail pending the high- Orleans next September. It takes a | Ruthenberg is now serving from two-thirds vote of the house of bii 3 to 10 years in the Jackson. ops to confirm the sentence, and fal | Mich., prison for his Communist Gre to obtain a two-thirds’ vote of | principles. the bishops would amount to di Labor unions thruout the country sricdaainitipaeneningnen, |}Tage to free speech and assembly ir ‘}volved in the conviction. The Head gear Worker, official organ of % Cloth Hat, Cap, and Millinery Work- LIKE MINE SAYS jers’ Intl. Union, declares thru its edi- » nm 5 q “The inherently vicious tendencies Of these anti-syndicalism laws is best aff| Wiustrated by the sentence imposed by @ Michgan court on. Charles Ruth- Mussolini Says U S Also berg. Neither he nor the conven- we justified by as which now é@x- ists: in the Ui States. . “The executive power in America has pass.| ‘© Workers Party to send money to trol of the legislature,” Mussolini gaia. |'4¢ Ruthenberg’s defense, goes to the “When the parliamentary. system. of Detroit English branch, which sent any ‘country is discovered to be fail- $26.30. to the Labor Defense Council ing, the executive’ authorities must|°™¢e 8t 166 W. Washington St. Chi- assert themselves to take the ‘situa-|°28° Close ‘upon the heels of this tive control. Look at America for in-| Y0U"S Workers’ League of Philadel- stance.” phia, the money having been raised Mussolini also said that the “prin- at the Liebknecht memorial meeting ciples of the British electoral ‘sys- there. tems” ‘had been: incorporated into his The city central committee of Hart- and the bourgeoisie three votes to one to go toward the defense of Ruthen- for the industrial. workers and peas’ berg and the other Communists ar- ‘anita. ores rested at the Bridgeman convention The opposition in the chamber o{/9f the Communists in August 1922. deputies took the offensive by pre- Robert Minor, writer and cartoonist for the present Mussolini governmen:|** the Berrian county court in St to hold a general election, as-long as Joseph, Michigan for trial early in it curtails freedom of.speech and of February. the pregs, and “the individual liberty] All comrades and sympathizers of its citizens.” who wish to write to Comrade Ruthen- three former premiers,. Salandra, Gio-| ling address: C. BE. Ruthenberg, litti ‘and Orlando and is signed by 27 No. 17,332, Jackson State Prison, care deputies, forniing the’ petty bourgeois mail superintendent, A. L. Van Horn. wing of the opposition, Jackson, Michigan. Two Workers Killed, of Commerce Herbert Hoover * ser In Factory Fire offered him the post of secretary of . agriculture, but that he had not ac-|_.A aged watchman, Frank Korda, cepted the: offer and would remain in|1932 North Francisco Ave., and Rus- the commerce department. sell Wetson, a chauffeur for the City ‘ Distributing company, are known to missing, as a result of the explosion and burning of the Varnish Manufac- turing company belonging to Frauk S. Lewis. , The explosion was followed by the general church convention In est court’s decision. Comrade proval of the sentence. +) pare taking action on the Michigan out tor, J, M. Budish: m which he attended have been as- ed almost completely. out of the con- the Labor Defense Council for Com- tion in hand, must assume full execu: contribution’ came $20.00 from the eléctoral bill, which allows the nobles| fT! Conn., seat a check for $23.00 senting a motion that it is impossible | fT the DAILY WORKER, will appear The motion was put forward by the berg are given the following correct Three Are Missing nounced that President Coolidge had have been killed and three people are burning of gasoline, and other volatile TO DAILY WORKER Daily Worker) the} sed.of any eriminal act or of even ttempt to commit any criminal , e to The honor of being the first unit of EBiso 290 PUBLISHING Ci > L [n Memoriam MANIFESTO OF THE WORKERS (COMMUNIST) PARTY ON THE COMMEMORATION OF THE FIRST ANNIVERSARY OF THE DEATH OF LENIN. ‘© THE WORKERS OF AMERICA: It will be one year on January 21 since our great leader, Viadimir Ilyitch Lenin, breathed his. last. Do you remember how, one year ago, all the bitterest enemies of the working class hailed with joy the death of Lenin? Do you recall the deep sorrow at our loss expressed by the milions of oppressed people around the globe? One year ago the enemies of the proletarian revolution hoped to rob us of our greatest achievement, the Workers’ Government of Soviet Russia, and from that march on to- ward crushing the entire labor movement. Millions of work- ers were apprehensive because the giant brain and powerful hand of Lenin was no longer at the heim. But Lenin, embodiment of the working class revolution, proved as powerful in death as in life. For he had created that which cannot die so long as there is still a working class struggling against the exploitation of the capitalist class; and this, Lenin’s greatest service to the toiling masses, is the world party of the proletariat, leader of the struggle for the new society, THE COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL. In this World Party of the workers, Lenin is still the leader. Thru the years of struggle which culminated in the Workers’ Government that holds one-sixth of the globe, there has been accumulated in the Communist International all the revolutionary knowledge and determination of the working class. In the teachings of Marx and in Marxism, and in these teachings applied in the epoch of imperialism, the final stage of capitalism—in the teachings of Lenin and in Leninism—the working class of the world has the sure guide that protects the fruits of past struggles and leads ever onward to new and greater victories. On January 21, millions of workers in every land will come together in memory of Lenin.. The spirit of these gatherings will be, not so@much of sorrow, but rather of iron determination that our great cause of which Lenin was the greatest loader shall forge onward, overcoming all ene extending its dominion over the minds and hearts of the workers, continually leading the struggle that can end only with the destruction of the capitalist dictatorship, the estab- lishment of the dictatorship of the proletariat, and thru this, the building of the Communist society. The Workers (Communist) Party of America, section of the Communist International, the party of Lenin, calls upon the entire working class of America to observe the 2ist day of January in the spirit of revolution, in the spirit of Lenin. Unite for militant struggle against the forces of capital- ism! Unite to resist the daily aggresssions, the wage-cuts, the “open shop” drives, the union-smashing campaigns! Unite in support of the Michigan Communist Defense as a part of the defense of the working class! Unite to destroy the blood-sucking capitalist system and all its instruments of oppression that are used against the workers! ; Unite with the revolutionary workers of the entire world under the leadership of THE COMMUNIST INTER- NATIONAL! Join the Workers (Communist) Party of America! CENTRAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, William Z. Foster, Chairman. Earl R. Browder, Acting Secretary. |} UNIGH AHD SCAB MIHERS BATTLE; ONE MAN I$ HURT AND ONE SCAB IS DEAD FAIRMOUNT, W. Va. Jan. 16.— Eight union miners and five non- union miners were placed in the county jail today and other arrests are expected this afternoon in connection with the shooting to death of Walter Tobin, an non- union miner and the probably fatal wounding of John Kelly, union miner, in a free-for-all fight at Granttown, a mining settlement near here, last night. Sheriff J. C. Riggins is maintain- Chicago Teachers Meeting at Art Institute Today The Chicago Teachers’ Federation meets this morning in Fullerton Hall, Art Institute, at 10:30 o'clock, In view of the recent announcement by Superintendent McAndrew on his open shop plan of reorganization of teachers’ councils, which he will sub- mit in the form of a recommendation to the board of education and the failure of the board at its last meet- ing to get action on the secret mark- ings controversy this meeting will have important matters to consider. There will also be other reports Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORK ., 1113 W. Washington Blvd., tic . s f ‘ % > Browder, ay ehtling ee firmnl ean” Sheth, so J. Bull pulled his stuf, But e| the following telegram, gréeting the DAILY WORKER on the occasion of tus stored an pedi oi Maia did not keep his name on the revolu-| the paper's first anniversary: theing used to make phar tion very long. Before:long Lenin put “The Bureau of the Jewish Federation of the Workers (Communist) ' whiskey and one theory of the fire his John Hancock on it. Of course,| Party sends Its flaming greetings to the DAILY WORKER, the first Com: jis that . still exploded. Kerensky has a kick coming and s0| munist dally newspaper to be’ printed in the English language, on its first. ts has the czar (if he could only kick) | birthday. ing several extra deputies on guard at various points in the county to prevent another outbreak, Anti-Fascisti War Closes University. NAPLES, Jan. 16\—The university among which is the one on the legis- lative program. Chief engineer B. J. Kelly will speak. Crash in Loop. Three gifls and two men were geri- The DAILY WORKER Is a béacon light in the dark: but Kerensky is lucky that he still ig! larkness of the has his head on his shoulders; ; see ~ _ PY the way what has ed f 4 once rather well an’ Mariar Dawes? He made a lot * noise during the election period and it was epected that he would play oppo- site to Calvin Coolidge in the White i to} wn Hell of political life of the United States. juture power of the working class. “Long live the DAILY WORKER! “The DAILY WORKER'S faithful adherence to the principles of the class | T! m ggle, and its penetration into the depths of proletarian life and struggle |fornia prisons today. John Sears, 21 leadership in all political, economic and cultural activities of the workers |Ye%rs Of age, and Jack Ferdinand, 30, made It an organizational center of first importance and a hope for the “Long live the Workers (Communist) Party! } ig “Onlooker” is Executed. SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Jan, 16.— hree youths were hanged in Call- ‘were hanged in San Quentin ‘prison, and John Geregac, 22 years’ old, was executed at Folsom’ prison, Geregac died for a crime in which he claimed '|to have played the part of an unwilling ously inlured and scores of others were thrown into a panic when two Street cars collfded in the loop today during: the morning rush hours. The front vestibules of both cars we virtually demolished. Trafic was para- lyzed for several blocks around. here remained closed today. Police action was necessary prior to closing on account of friction between fascist and anti-fascist students. London Fog Bound. LONDON, Jan. 16.—London and ita environs again were fog bound today. Watch for “House during the next four years, Dawes supplying the fireworks; and - Calvin the silence. Surely thd gen. eral did not use up all his o y during the Seaton ‘fghtt ; . “THE partial report madé by thd vis- (Continued on Page 2.) — “M. HOLTMAN, Secretary, Jewish Burédu.” onlooker. \ |_MOTION MILLIONS OF PEOPLE OVER “ONE MAY SAY THAT NEARLY EVERY AGT OF LENIN'S DURING THE LA THE WHOLE WORLD. When you buy, get an “Ad” __ZINOVIEV. ST TEN YEARS SET IN The Red Star. CENTS Including Saturday Magazine Section. On all other days, Three Cents per Copy. , Chicago, I. Price 5 Cents tion of Labor! Lenin Leads! + WEEK'S PROGRAM OF MEMORIALS IN EVERY LAND Great Gathering to Be Held Here Wednesday The workers of the entire world will gather in demonstra- tions next week, to honor the memory of the great leader and teacher of the working class of the world, Viadimir Ilyiteh Lenin. The Russian workers and peasants, under the leadership of Lenin, in 1917 established the first workers’ government of the world, which stands today as the shining example and in- spiration to the struggling pro- letarian movement. An Indestructible Monument. Lenin’s monument is everlasting and indestrucible. It is the Russian Soviet government, the Third (Com- munist) International and above all, the legacy of Leninism. The members of the Workers (Com- munist) Party, the American followers of Lenin, call on the workers and poor farmers of the country to join with them in these great demonstrations, in honor of the man who forged new weapons and new tactics for the ac- complishment of world proletarian revolution. At the Chicago Lenin memorial meeting the speakers will be Earl R. William F. Dunne, J. Louts Arne Swabeck ‘and. Gordon Owens, 8 The list of Lenin memorial meetings planned for the United States will be found on page two. WEAVERS STRIKE AT FALL RIVER OVER WAGE CUT Big Resentment Stirs the Textile Workers (Spectat to the Dally Worker) BOSTON, Mass., Jan, 16.—Turmofl reigns among the textile workers as the bosses begin their assault on wage scales. Small craft strikes are begin- ning, little detachments of workers are being defeated, but underneath @ Promise of an uuprising wave of greater strikes may be observed. One thousand weavers were out on strike at Fall River from the Davis, Granite, Lincoln and Barnard mills, but yesterday the 300 from the Davis mills went back to their looms. These are all fine goods mills. Accepted 10 Per Cent Cut—Got Mere, The weavers struck over what they termed was an excess cut, over the “agreed” ten per cent cut. The treas- urers of the various mills held meet- ings with the weavers’ union officials trying to convince the workers that their pay wasn’t cut so much as it was, More weavers joined steadily the strikers from the Lincoln mills, the \Strikes so far being confined to the weavers, no effort apparently being made to spread the strike to other de- Partmerts and crafts. From the Granite mill, No. 3, 150 weavers struck on Tuesdry. Weavers Only Strikers. Notices of the cut were posted that morning, and at once the upper weave shops struck, went to the lower weave room and took the workers there ont with them, but made no effort to call out the workers thruout the mill, con- fining their action to weavers. ‘They declared that the new seale guts their wages more than 10 per cent and in some Cases 15 per cent, Resentment prevailed at union head. quarters, and complaints were made that the cut of pay made the weavers unable to live. Protests were heard against the limited craft character of the union, and the fact that even the weavers in Grafite Mills No. 1 and 2 did not strike. United Promises Mass Picketing, The Dyers’ and Bleachers’ Union, a part of the United Textile Workers, was organized Monday with the 50 Kerr Mill dyers as a start, This ua- ~—. {Continued on esi