The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 17, 1925, Page 4

oi meena eacenest am te ep ance REET DLE EEN THE DAILY WORKER N.Y. COMRADES Saturday, January 17, 1925 THE DAILY WORKER. Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO, Ruathenberg in Prison 3 : $ 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, M1. (Phone: Monroe 4712) Ce ao RATES ly mall: $3. 50. % months $2.00...8 months By mail (in Chicago only): $8.00 per year $4.50...6 months $2.50...8 months Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER 1113 W. Washington Bivd. J. LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F, DUNNE one ALORS MORITZ J. LOBB......nesmeens Business Manager $6.00 per year : Chicago, Mlineis Entered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1923, at the Post- Office at Chicago, Ill. under the act of March 3, 1879. 290 The Fakers Get Cleaned The capitalist labor lieutenants in Minneapolis thought they were going to have an easy job clean- ing up on the Communists in the Trades and Labor Assembly. Having first driven the fear of mammon, the faker’s god, into the hearts of Robly Cramer and a few other fake progressives, the reaction- aries launched a drive calculated to eliminate the radicals from active participation in the official labor movement of the Twin Cities. Their first move was to expel Comrade Hath- away, district organizer of the Communist Party, from the assembly. His union promptly re-elected him. The fakers refused to seat him. Elated over their success, the reactionaries de- cided to oust two other Communist delegates; Dan W. Stevens and William Mauseth. Stevens has been a delegate from the Painters’ Union to the assembly for the past twenty years. Mauseth is from the Machinists’ Union. The fight against the Communists was directed by Paul W. Smith, A. F. of L. organizer. The charge against them was that they were Communists. The fakers ran in forty new delegates to the meeting which was to decide the fate of the radicals, but after a three-hour debate the assembly voted in favor of keeping the Communists in the assembly. Despite the fact that the reactionaries combed the city for every yellow bellied lickspittle of reaction available, 70 votes were cast for pro- gress against 69 for reaction. This is a splendid victory and puts the labor movement of Minnea- polis again on the progressive map from which it was pushed by the treachery of the fake progres- sives of the Cramer type. Stevens and Mauseth made a clean fight on Com- munist principles. They did not win by camouflag- ing their opinions. They declared themselves mem- bers of the Workers Party. That was the only charge made against them. This victory should hearten the progressive ele- ments thruout the country and it should be a'warn- ing to the fakers that the Communists are not alone willing to fight, but that they also know how to fight. The Minneapolis victory is another vindication of the Trade Union Educational League policy of fighting on the inside of the unions, of staying with the organized workers instead of allowing themselves to be inveigled into the mire of secession and dual unionism which has proven such a ghastly failure for the revolutionary movement in America. Advertising rates op application Commanists in Parliament Radicals who sneer at Communist parties for taking advantage of bourgeois parliaments for the purpose of bringing their propaganda to the masses, should read the story published on the|~ first page of the Chicago Tribune Thursday. It was an Associated Press dispatch with a Rome date line and was entirely composed of excerpts from a speech delivered by a Communist deputy in the Italian parliament. The speech was a violent and damning attack on the fascist regime and a plea for revolution. The Communist speaker did not confine his re- marks to Italy, but took in the whole world. He urged the workers of Germany to tear the Dawes plan to pieces. The Communist deputy explained that the other opposition groups oppose the fascisti because they are criminals, but the Communists fight against the fascisti because they are exponents of the bourgeoisie and the Communists will try the whole bourgeoisie by revolution. This challenge to the black shirt dictatorship was heard around the world. It was an inspiration, not alone to fhe suppressed proletariat of Italy but of the workers everywhere. It was proof that the parliamentary rostrum could be used to sound the clarion call of revolution. It was another blow at capitalism and at the infantile disease of petri- fied leftism and anarcho-syndicalism, which holds that the workers should keep out of politics and out of parliaments. Communists hold that the governmental organs of the capitalists cannot be modified to serve the workers even when the workers come into power. They must be destroyed and supplanted by the organs of the proletariat. But in the meantime bourgeois parliaments offer opportunities for pro- paganda which the revolutionists cannot afford to miss. The widespread publicity given to the speech of the Italian Communist deputy proves the value of parliament as a revolutionary sounding board particularly in times of crisis. It is reported that Slemp is to be replaced as Silent Cal’s secretary because the silence was tog much for him. Me may be sent to a deaf-mute uni- versity in order to prepare for reentry to human society. y Comrade Ruthenberg is behind the gray walls of Jackson, Michigan, penitentiary. It is not his first time in a similar situation. But he has never been on the wrong side of the prison bars, except for one crime, that of fighting for his class, the work- ing class. That is the unforgivable crime in the eyes of the capitalists. Had Ruthenberg been indicted for graft or fraud or some offense which would not threaten the life of this fraudulent capitalist sys- tem, he would be looked upon with benevolent sym- pathy by courts, prosecutors and wardens. They all take liberties with the law in order to get some- thing at the expense of others. They may get caught. But against. one whose aim is to do away entirely with the robber system, the benficiaries of capitalism put up a united front. Ruthenberg is sentenced to a term of imprison- ment of from three to ten years. The revolutionary movement needs him on the outside. The workers need his services. The Labor Defense Council is charged with the task of raising funds and direct- ing the legal battle to secure his release. Every worker, every reader of this paper should join in the fight to get Comrade Ruthenberg outside the walls of Jackson prison so that he can again render service to the cause of freeing the workers and the human race from capitalist slavery. We Vote Against this Raise The Workers Party stands in the forefront of a militant campaign to oppose the reduction in wages of the working class. “Instead of lower wages—higher wages!” That is the slogan of the Communists in the bitter battle to protect the liv- ing standard of the workers from the savage assaults of the bosses. In this campaign against wage cuts, which are taking the very bread out of the mouths of millions of workers, the life blood of the working class is at stake. And do we hear any support being given this campaign, and aid being given the workers by the alleged “leaders” of the labor organiza- tions? No! Instead we have the astounding sight of a labor faker, Wm. G. Lee, president of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen, asking a raise, not for the members of his union, but for the bosses! He pleads, probably with tears in his eyes of sympathy for the impoverished railway presidents, for “adequate compensation for the presidents and other high officials of the leading railway com- panies.” Can perfidy of a labor “leader” and perversion of the function of a labor union go further? With tens of thousands of railway workers unemployed, and the employed workers (in the railway shops, especially) forced to accept any beggarly wage, with no unity among the sixteen rail unions and consequently no chance for a united struggle for more pay for all railway workers, Bill Lee has the audacity to ignore these needs of railway workers and ask for a raise in pay for the bosses! Only in America would such perfidious betrayal of rank and file interests be permitted by the mem- bers of any union. Will the Brotherhood of Rail- way Trainmen stand for it? We would like to hear some -protests. We would be better pleased to see some action. William Montgomery Brown “I forgive my colleagues. I love them, every one. I am sorry for the church that it saw, fit to uphold my conviction of heresy. I love Bishop Leonard most of all. He made me a bishop.” This is ex-Bishop William Montgomery Brown, of the protestant episcopal church talking. The above christly speech was delivered in Cleveland by the aforesaid ex-Bishop Brown after his brothers in christ put the “ex” before the bishop which formerly adorned his cognominal equipment. If that is the way Brown feels about it, we should have no kick coming. Perhaps the old rebel feels grateful to his foes for scraping the antedeluvian barnacles off his exterior. He gave his brain an enema long ago. What was Bishop Brown’s crime? Were his #el- hn low bishops justified in giving him the gate? Bishop Brown wrote a little book entitled, “Communism and Christianism,” which left the chureh ‘as full of holes as a Swiss cheese and as smelly as Limburger. His remarks on the im- maculate conception would make the ears of a livorce court judge tingle. After he got thru with Jesus, he looked like a human being, in fact very much like Eugene V. Debs, tho it is doubtful if Jesus would stick to the socialist party after it had fouled its nest, as Debs did. “Banish the gods from the skies and capitalism from the earth,” was the motto of Brown’s little book. The book was printed by the hundreds of thousands in several languages. It was a regular god-killer. What the bishop left of god intact even a self-respecting atheist could accept without losing his dignity. In view of this it is not surprising that a collec- tion of fossilized bishops should decide that Brow al did not belong with them. He doesn’t. A man with | his views should feel just about as much at home with his formed associates in the vineyard of super- stition, as an ear of sweet corn in a barrel of dung. William Montgomery Brown has our respect, but not our sympathy. We believe the punishment has added to his manhood. It is further testimony to his sterling character, Another crime drive is under way in Chicago. Some of the biggest criminals in the city are run- ning it. It should be a success. TO HAVE LENIN CORNER, FEB. 1 TremendousCelebration Is Being Arranged NEW YORK, Jan. 16.—The school children of Soviet Russia | have established a quaint cus- tom of setting aside of a corner of each school room as “Lenin's Corner.” This “corner” is kept sacred to the memory of the dead leader and many original schemes -have been devised by the children of Soviet Russia, by which the “corner” is kept as a fitting tribute to his memory. Lenin’s Corners Thruout the World. This unique: custom has quietly forced its way to the most distant parts of thé earth and every corner of the earth wherever there are work: ers, whether of hand or of brain, may be fitly termed “Lenin’s Corner.” In every corner of the globe where there are workers groaning under the yoke of capitalist oppression and slavery, Lenin has come to stand for the prom: ise of a new life and a new freedom. On Sunday afternoon, Feb. 1 at 2 p. m, the corner of 26th street and Madison avenue, upon which stands the historic structure of Madison Square Garden, will be turned by the workers of this city into one gigantic “Lenin’s Corner.” Toilers from every part of the city will pour in a massive stream to do honor to the dead prole- tarian leader on the first anniversary of his death. On that day New York's “Lenin Corner” will be dedicated with fitting revolutionary speeches and mu- sic. The complete Freiheit chorus of four hundred trained voices has been secured for the occasion. In addition there will be a full symphony orches- tra of forty pieces. The speakers for the demonstration will be William Z. Foster, Moissaye J. Olgin, Ben Gitlow, Jack Stachel and C. E. Ruthenberg. national secretary of the Workers party. There ha8 been an unpreced- ented demand for tickets, which .are now on sale at the. following places: 208 East 12th street, N. Y., the office of the DAILY WORKER and all Work- ers Party branches. SALZMAN TOUR IN DIST. 5 | Lowesville, W. Va., Jan. 19-20. Galloway, W. Va., Jan. 21-22. Pittsburgh, Pa., Jan. 23. Daisytown, Pa., Jan. 26-27. Monessen, Pa., J Bentleyville, Marriana, Pa, McKeesport, Pa. E. Pittsburgh, Pa., Feb. 5. Rural Ridge, Pa., Feb. 7-8. Dates for Houston, Cannonsburg, Meadowlands and other places will be published in a few days. a! CHICAGO CANDIDATES ENDORSED BY WORKERS (COMMUNIST) PARTY Candidates nominated by the Workers (Communist) Party for the spring aldermanic elections are as follows: 8rd WARD—E. L. Doty, candi- date; R. Minor and Gordon Owens, captains. Branches participating: South Side English, Englewood Eng- lish, South Side Scandinavian and Polish South Side. 11th WARD—Victor Zokaitis, can- didate; J. Manus, captain. Branches participating: Lithuanian No. 5, South Slav No. 1, Ukrainian No. 1, and Y. W. L. No. 3. 22nd WARD—L. Cejka, candidate; A. Overgaard, captain. Branches participating: Czecho-Slovak Nos. 1 and 3, Lithuanian No. 5, Y. W. Le No. 4, Lithuanian No. 77, Douglas Park Jewish. 24th WARD—H. Epstein, candi- date; William F. Kruse, captain. Branches participating: D. P. Eng- lish, Italian West Side No. 2 and Y¥. W. L. No. 1. 28th WARD—N. Dozenberg, candi- date; W. Ozol, captain. Branches participating: Lettish and West Side Scandinavian, 32nd WARD—Peter M. Lucas, candidate; M. A. Stolar, captain. Branches participating: Ukrainian No. 1, Polish 'N. S. Russian, Y. W. L. No. 5. 33rd WARD—J. L. Engdahl, can- didate; N. J. Christensen, captain. Branches participating: N. W. Eng- lish, Karl Marx Scandinavian, and the Armenian Branch. 34th WARD—Harry Brooker, can- didate; 1. L. Davidson, captain. Branches participating: N. W. Jew- ish, an Terra Cotta, Y. W. L. No. 6, and the Roumanian Branch. 44th WARD—J. W. Johnstone, candidate; Walt Carmon, captain. Branches participating: Finnish, Lakeview, Scandinavian, North Side English, German and Y. W. L. ;||Comrade Brahtin Delivers Eleven Lectures in Toledo TOLEDO, Ohio, eleven week lectures of Comrade Brahtin are now being conducted every Thursday at 8 p. m., at the headquarters of the Workers Party, 181 Michigan St., Toledo, Ohio. All members of the Workers Party and readers of the DAILY WORKER in sympathy with the Communist policies are invited to attend these classes. CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE OF 32nd WARD, ATTENTION! Important meeting of the 32nd Ward campaign committee will be held Monday, Jan. 19, at 8 p. m., at the joviet School, 1902 W. Division St. Compaign committees of Russian, Ukrainian and Polish branches and Y. W. L, No. 5 must attend. VIJTAUER, EDITOR OF OBRANA, IS LATEST DEPORTATION VICTIM NEW YORK, Jan. 16—The only method that the United States appears to know of, in order to crush the revolutionary movement, is to imprison or deport the leaders of the revolutionary movement. That, at least, is the method that it is employing at the present time, before proceeding to more stringent measures. The Latest Victim. The latest victim of this systematic campaign is Emanuel Vijtauer, editor of the Obrana, the Czechoslovakian labor paper. Comrade Vijtauer is an old revolutionist, with a record of activity in his native country. He came to the United States in 1923 and forthwith entered the revolutionary movement in his country— as allrevo Tutionists do. He wroteand he spoke ~—and because he dared to defend the proletarian revolution in Soviet Rus- sia, and the Soviet government; and because he, declared that the workers of this country, too, would be obliged to put an end to capitalism, emulating the example of the Russian workers and peasants, he was arrested and now is on Ellis Island, being held for deportation, His arrest took place only a few weeks after the arrest of Comrade John Lassen, editor of Uj Elore, the Hungarian Communist daily. Comrade Lassen is also an old revolutionist, with a record in the seat of black re- action, Horthy'’s Hungary. Comrade Lassen was arrested for writing a poem—and the American government is afraid even of poets, Comrade C. BE. Ruthenberg, secre- tary of the Workers Party, has been sentenced to 3 to 10 years in the state penitentiary of Michigan. Com- rade Robert Minor is the next one to appear before the capitalist court of Michigan. Then will follow the other 30 comrades who were arrested in connection with the Communist con- vention held at Bridgeman, Mich., in August, 1922. Hundreds of foreign-born workers are threatened with deportation for militant work in the American labor movement, Comrades Must Be Protected. These comrades must be protected. We must make it impossible for the goveriment to carry out its intentions. We must raise funds for their defense. This can bé most effectively done by YOUR FULL SUPPORT of the joint bazaar, which has been arranged by the Labor Defense Council and the International Workers’ Aid, and will take. place at the Lyceum, 86th St and Third Ave., New York City, from Feb, 11 to 14. Reserve the dates and bring all friends. Contributions should be sent to the Labor Defense Council New York Division, 208 HB. 12th St., N, Y. City. Every worker and sympathizer must do his part. The need is very great. CHICAGO FINNISH BRANCH, WORKERS PARTY, RALLIES TO THE DEFENSE OF PRISONERS OF THE CLASS WAR Just as soon as the sad ne for the defense, On Saturday, Jan. 10, they held an entertainment at the Imperial Hall, and thru other means of collecting they will be able to donate $100 to thé se. The drastic persecutions by of Comrade Ruthenberg’s sentence (from three to ten years in prison, and a fine of $5,000) were printed In the DAILY WORKER, the Finnish comrades in Chicago started a campaign to raise funds lackeys will not destroy the revolutionary morale of the proletariat. the blood-thirsty capitalists and their Jan. 16. — The}. New York Esthonian Branch Meeting for The Majority Theses NEW YORK, Jan. 15.—The Esthon- ian branch of New York City at its special meeting, held to go thoroly into’ the discii§sion of the C. BE. C theses, decided to approve the major. ity theses, as a proper and suitable Program for development of our party at this time. Vote was 10 against 3. Signed: A, Mackie, secretary of the branch. South Slavic Branch Of Ambridge, Pa., Is For Majority Theses AMBRIDGE, Pa. Jan. 15.—South Slavic branch No. 42 voted on the party discussion 8 in favor of C. EB. C. and 1 in favor of the minority. New York Avmieninn Branch Endorses the Theses of Minority NEW YORK,. Jan. 15—The New York American branch indorsed the minority thesis by a vote of 13 to 5 1 voting for the majority’s farmer-la- bor policy and the minority’s indus. trial policies, READ THE DAILY WORKER SUNDAY, JAN. 18, IS OPENING NIGHT OF HARLEM OPEN FORUM (Special to The Daily Worker) New York, Jan. 16.—Next Sun day evening, Jan. 18 is the opening night of the Harlem section of the Workers Party open forum. Com- rade Benjamin Gitlow will lead off with the subject: “The Capitalist Offensive Against the Communist International.” The forum will be held regularly every Sunday eve- ning at 8 p/'m., 64 East 104th street. This forum can be thade of excep- tional educational value for our party. We count on you to do your part. Be there and bring your friends along. What is The Red Star? The Chicago Freiheit Office. The Douglas Park Jewish Park branch and the Chicago Freiheit of fice have established their headquar- ters at 3118 W. Roosevelt Road. Party and League branches and other working class organizations de- siring to rent this hall should call at the above address and make arrange: ments. The hall seats about 100 people and is very comfortable and convenient in all respects. Your Attention While District 3 Reports There are 786. members in District 3. These 768 members have to date contributed $548.25 to the insurance fund. than other districts have shown. This is a little better average Of the branches that have sold Insurance Policies, there are quite a number that have sent in only small sums of mohey. These branches should connect the members who have not yet contributed with Insur- ance Policies at once. ” *. * These District 3 Branches Have Helped But Armenian, Philadelphia .. English, Baltimore .. English Central, Philadelphia Esthonian, ‘Philadelphia ........s0000« English, Washington .. Finnish, Baltimore Finnish, Philadelp! German. Philadelphia German, Trenton .. Greek, Blair Station Hungarian. Philadelphia Hungarian, Coraopolis Italian, Camden Italian, Chester Jewish, Philadelphia N W. Jewish, Philadelphia ‘Jewish, Trenton .... Lettish, Philadelphia .. Lithuanian, Baltimore .... Lithuanian, Philadelphia .....svserssvcsees Lithuanian. Plymouth Polish, Philadelphia Polish, Eddystown Russian, Baltimore .. Russian, Philadelphia Russian, Scranton... Russian, Shenandoah .. Russian, Trenton Russian, Wilkes Barre Scandinavian, Philadelp! South Slavic, Philadelphia Ukrainian, Philadelphia. .... ARMENIAN—Philadelphia. ENGLISH—Edgemore, Del.; CI FINNISH—Takoma Park, D, C. ITALIAN—Baitimore, M: Luzerne, Pa.;’ Old qua, Pa. 1AN—Carbondale, Pa.; brah Pi * * Present buy policies. getting started? big in wis. campaign, @ ¢. In the list of branches that follow there are many in and near Philadelphia. tious comrades. We suggest that these active comrades visit these branches within the next tén days. SOUTH SLAVIC—Lansford, Pa, UKRAINIAN—Chester, Pa.; Clifton Heights, + Scranton, Pa.; South Bethlehem, Pa; Wilkes Mast Now Fill Their Quotas! $ 15.00 11.00 18.00 37.00 . 10.00 » 25,00 » 10,00 37.00 . 4,00 - 34,00 6.00 Philadelphia is filled to overflowing with active, conscien- We’d Like to Get a Few Thousand Dollars from These Branches Within the Next Week! CZECHO-SLOVAK—Baltimore; Bethlehem, Pa. ster, Pa.; Plains, Pa. GERMAN—Bethiehem. Pa.; Reading, Pa. HUNGARIAN-Baltimore,.Md.; Bethlehem, Pa.; Easton, Pa. Wilmington. Del.; » Pa; Glassport, Philadelphia, Pa.; Jessup, Plains, Pa; JEWISH—Baltimore, Md.; Philadelphia. LITHUANIAN—Baltimore, Md.;° Ashley, Pa.; Easton, Pa.; Miners ville, Pa.; Nanticoke, Pa.; Philadelphia. 76; Scranton, Dunmore, Pa,; Mahoney City, Pas 5 Nanticoke, Pa.; F jarre, Pa. | * * seins that belong to the above branches should raise the ques tion of insuring the DAILY WORKER at the next branch meeting. By the way, don’t only raise the question, but demand that the comrades There are 72. branches In District 3, Of these 33 have seen the wis- dom of quick action and some of thom have made very gratifying remit. |) tances. But. how about the 39 branches that seem to a hard time Every active comrade in the district is called upon to co-operate with the district organizer, A, Jakira, in Hsp: this district show - eh se a a" soso Fs