The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 19, 1925, Page 1

The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ and Farm- ers’ Government Vol, II, No. 6. SUBSCHIPTION RATES: ™ \ o me % a i) 2vor DAN W. STEVENS, COMMUNIST, CHALLENGES UNION BUREAUCRATS (Special to The Daily Worker) MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Jan. 18.—A challenge to reaction in the unions that shall ring thruout the whole labor movement of America and other lands, was the speech in the last meeting o the Minneapolis Trades and Labor Assembly of Dan W. Stevens, delegate from the Painters’ Local No. 186, placed on trial before the Labor Assembly by orders of Phul J. Smith, special emissary from the executive council of the American Federation of Labor sent to expel all Communists and left wing unionists from the Minneapolis assembly. _ tin their favor. something to do with it. speech, in full is as follows: AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O’FLAHEATY. years of my activity in the labo URING this week millions of workers thruout the world will pay tribute to the memory of Lenin. Great demonstrations will be held in his honor in the industrialized capital- ist countries and. the oppressed col- ‘onial peoples will pay tribute to the man who e than any other sup: plied them the means by which to emancipate: themselves. Millions ot subject peoples who never read the ‘Communist Manifesto. or know any: Fenn pee Co: recogn: Lenin as champion and. the Communist Inter- national’as their leader: ** * Lenin’s death was flashed Worcs he wires, the convention of the Untted Mine Workers of America was in session in Indianapolis. The fakers in control of that mighty in- dustrial union privately rejoiced over Lenin’s death, rejoiced with the capi- talists. There was no expression of regret from the lahor lieutenants of capitalism, over the passing of the great leader, The news of the form- ation of Ramsay MacDonald's fake la- bor government was received by the upon to show. cause why I. should no to the labor movement. very best defense possible. here it is different. Bui of yop del cere A for the past five, ten, fifteen, some. of you, twenty years. sixteen years. FROM MEXICAN reads as follows: “DAILY WORKER, “1113 W. Washington Bivd., in Chicago. by. mail, $8.00 per year. Outside Chicago. by mail, $6.00 per year, IN MINNEAPOLIS LABOR ASSEMBLY In spite of the packing of the meeting with delegates never attending before, to vote with the reactionaries to unseat both Stevens and William Mauseth, a Communist also on trial, altho a regularly elected delegate from Machinists’ Local No. 91, and in spite even of these fighting members’ expectation that they would be unseated, the vote, tho very close, stood seventy to sixty-nine Perhaps” the speech of Dan W. Stevens had The After Twenty Years of Union Activity. “When I look back over the twenty movement of Minneapolis, it is hard) Mail.)—That thé Union of Sov- for me to realize that that time would ever come when I would be called/fore all be cast out this assembly as a traitor If I was on trial ina capitalist court, there is no doubt but what I would put up the “I have been associated~with many I have}towards the 1 been an officer of this assembly for|, “By letter of Jan. 14, 1924, the gen- T have held every of-}eral secretariat of the league of na- fice in this central body. In. all these!tions extended an invitation, on be- et WE RECEIVE ANNIVERSARY GREETING » The DAILY WORKER has received the accompanying telegram from the Communist Party of Mexico congratulating it on its first anniversary. “Mexico City, via Galveston, Texas, Jan. 17, 1925. THE DAILY WO! Batered as Second-class matter September 21, 1923, at the Post Office at Chicago, Illinois under the Act of March 8, 1879. MONDAY, JANUARY 19, 1925 EB 290 Published daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill. Help Insure THE DAILY WORKER for 1925! Price 3 Cents | \BOR REACTION GETS SETBACK t Soviet Foe in Anti-Recognition Drive FRERCH COMMUNIST RECOGNITION OF OSES LH SOVIET BY U. 5. PANG: ian 10 oe, -erenan EXPECTED SOON Communist Party's congress is in session today in Clichy, a suburb of No Dawes Plan for Us, Says Rakovsky Pari At the entrance to the hall (Special to the Daily Worker) a big streamer with the inscription, “Proletarians of the World Unite!” is stretched from end to end. and admission to the congress is only by red membership card. MOSCOW, Jan. 18.—That the United States will recognize the Soviet government before long is the belief of Christian Rakovsky, Soviet charge d’af- faires at London, who is now on a visit to. Moscow to confer AGAINST OPIUM with his government over new overtures made by Britain to Capitalist Nations Dare the Soviet: government. Rakovsky addressed a convention Not Go As Far (By Rosta News Agency) of provincial school teachers in Mos- MOSCOW) Dec. 15.— (By f cow. Japan, he said, would soon recognize the Soviet regime, while it was likely that American recognition would come during the present year. * ‘Fantastic Yarns. Commenting on fanatastic yarns Dublished in the American and British capitalist press that Soviet Russia would modify its Policy in order to meet the Wishes of President Cool- idge, Rakovsky declared that Russia would never allow herself to become 8 colony of the international capital. ists, like Germany, The robber pow- : @ Dawes plan on r iet Socialist Republics goes be- other countries of Europe in the struggle against the spread of drugs, is stated in a letter of George Chicherin, people’s commissar of foreign affairs, to the general secretary of the League of Nations, under date of Oct. 30, 1924. . it it revolution when. its borders black with, enemies in battle foma- tion, ‘Today, ‘when Russia has’ van- quished her enemies there is less rea- son than ever to: believe that any modification of Soviet policy would be contemplaied to satisfy the desires of Wall Street. Dealing. with the newspaper reports about the demands of the capitalist bowers that the Soviet - government suppressed the Communist Interna- tional and forbid it to conduct its propaganda-in other countries, Rakov- sky pointed ont that the Third Inter- national had its headquarters in Rus. league, follows: COMMUNIST PARTY It NO DECISION YET IN RUTHENBERG CASE NOW BEFORE HIGHEST COURT (Special to The Dally Worker) WASHINGTON, Jan, 18.—Attor neys Isaac Ferguson and Frank P, Walsh, acting for the Labor Defense Council in the case of C. E. Ruthen- berg, are here today in conference with Justice McReynolds of the United States supreme court upon a petition for a writ of suporsedeas In the execution of judgment impris- oning Ruthenberg in the Michigan state prison for from thiee to ten years on a charge of “assembling” with Communists at a convention of that party. No decision was an- nounced. PROSECUTION IN NEW MICHIGAN CASE PROPOSAL Judge Also Bluffs About Return of Bail Money (Special to The Daily Worker) ST. JOSEPH, Mich., Jan. 18. —The prosecution has made two overturss to counsel for defense in connection with the trials of th on the Michigan criminal syndical- ism law. r The defense has declared its intention from the outset of de- manding separate trials for all the defendants. 32 Defendants In All. William Z Foster, the first of the defendants to be brought to trial was tried in April of 1922. The jury dis- agreed. Since then the only one other trial, that of Ruthenberg, has been. heard. There are thirty more. The state is beginning to worry about where all the money is coming ABRAMOVICH, FLUNKEY OF PARIS IMPERIALISTS, SLIPS INTO U. S. QUIETLY ON SINISTER ERRAND (Special to The Dally Worker) NEW YORK CITY, Jan. 18.—R. Abramovich, Russian men- shevik, enemy of the workers’ government of Russia, member of the executive committee of, the second (socialist) inter- national, participant in the counter-revolutionary conspiracy in Soviet Georgia, in which the capitalist governments of Europe attempted an armed coup, arrived in New .York City on the steamship Mauretania and fires the opening gun today in a great campaign to pion the recognition of Soviet Russia by the government of the United States. : Workers in this city who are acquainted with the record and connections of Abramovich, assert that his coming here at this moment can mean nothing else than a concerted drive against Soviet Russia in the newspapers, among the labor organizations, and in all the circles influenced by the counter-revolutionary, socialist, and white guard circles. : It is expected that Abramovich will also be used in the drive against the left wing especially among the Jewish unions. Abramovich, wherever he’ goes, always becomes the darling of the anti-Russian forces of all ————___— shadés. Undoubtedly his. slan-|vehement expression in the meetings ders against Russia\ will be jof the labor organizations when they widely reprinted in all the New |meet. Abramovich slipped into the York dailies tomorrow. United States unheralded, apparently Thrucut the labor movement | of|!n the hopes that he could do his work New York, especially among the Rus- and leave before the workers realized sian and Jewish workers, protests are|Who he was or what he meant. But being uttered against this counter- the working class knows Abramovich, revolutionist and enemy of Soviet and as an enemy. Russia beine greeted by so-called} The Workers (Communist) Party leaders of the labor movement. exposes this fiunkey of capitalism in Undoubtedly this protest will find’ the following declaration: “Down with the Emissaries of the FE: Rassian Counter-Revolution! % HE Russian counter-revolutionists|will give additional strength to the and the second (socialist) inter-]wage-cntting campaign now in pro tational of Noske and Scheidemannjcess, to the persecution of working have sent to the U. S. one of their|class militants, as in the Michigan emissaries, R. Abramovich, to raise ajcase, and to every attempt of the campaign against the Union of So- capitalist reactionaries to destroy the cialist Soviet Republics and against |labor movement. thé international unity of the trade| Such.a conspiracy against the So union movement intitiated by the|viet government, against the proposed Russian trade unions. Also Mr. Abra-|unity of the international trade un- movich, emissary of. the Second In-|ion movement and against the labor ternational of Noske and Scheidemann, will attempt to raise funds in the U. glee. They sent MacDonald a tele gram of congratulations. feather. es Donald’s government. something, that stays put. smell. Lenin was a revolutionist. Lenin did. “ee « HEN Lenin died, nothing of the kind happened. Lenin is more potent since his death than when he was alive. He left an or ism, discipline and leadership with anything in the history of the world. been tried 4 proletarian manhood and wheod. In addition the Russian Communist League has ap- | members, the pick of Soviet Russia's , youth. This organization of rhe ig will supply the future ‘leaders of Sov- fet Republic, } a1,e i \] ENIN’S death did not mean the ‘L.demoralization of Russia. The Communist Party remained. Despite ‘a bitter controversy within the party, led by such a prominent leader as ‘Leon Trotsky, the organization that | (Continued on Page 4) ig same collection of labor fakers with Birds of a UT after the lapse of one year, it is worth: while using up a little mental energy thinking’ over the ef- fecis of Lenin’s death, and of Mac- Lenin built MacDon- ald left nothing: behind him but a bad MacDonald was and is a reformist, a clipper of evpitalism’s claws, not one who believes in killing the tiger as superficial thinkers expected that the Rus- sian Communist’ Party, which Lenin founded, would go to pieces and with tt would go the proletarian dictator- ship and the Soviet government. But genization behind, which 1 believe, it is; safe to say, can compare in ideal, The leaders thet Lenin trained have a year of trials, and they respo! splendidly to ist Party of Russia _ opened its ranks “hundreds of thousands of worker applied for admission. This million members, the flower of “Chicago, Hi. “Anniversary edition just arrived. Congratulate American prole- tariat on the first anniversary of their dally. It is a valuable weapon against capitalism and imperialism. “COMMUNIST PARTY OF MEXICO,” —— —— eee sia just as the. First International founded by Karl Marx had its -head- quarters in London. He pointed out that when, after the Paris commune the French@ government asked the British government to expel the exe- cutive of the First International, hold- years I have never run away from ajhalf of the council of the league, to fight and I am not going to run away/the people’s commissariat of foreign from this one. affairs to take part in the conference Fake “Democracy” in Government. |called for November of the current “To those of you who love to prate| year on the limitation of opium and about democracy and constitutional | other drug traffic. guarantees, to those of you who, but} “Later, on March 20, the general recently, expressed a willingness to| secretary transmitted ‘to the people’s foliow the Wisconsin crawfish back to|commissariat of foreign affairs the 1776, I wish to state that whenever | proposition of the league couneil to the dictatorship of the capitalist class | participate in the labors of the prepar- is even mildly threatened (it is not}atory committee on the same ques- necessary to do much threatening be- | tion. cause the capitalists areclassconsci-| “Then, on August 10, the people’s ous are jealous of their power), never-|commissariat -received a wire from theless, whenever the dictatorship of | Geneva, sent hy the chairman of this capitalism is threatened by the out- (Continued on page 3) . 26 Bolshevik Girls - pretense of democracy and contitu- will usher you to your seat tional guarantees is cast to the four winds and they proceed with militia ve the Lenin Memorial meet- ing. and their thugs and gunmen to ruth- lessly crush any ofganized protest on the part of the workers, “For example, I cite you to the mas- sacre at Ludlow, Colorado, where the union miners, who were on strike and living in their tent colonies, were at- tacked by the mercenaries of the coal barons, Their tents were riddled with machine-gun bullets. Women and chil- dren were foully murdered and the tent colony burned to the ground, 1 could cite you hundreds of other in- stances of this nature if time would permit. Fake “Democracy” in the A. F. of L. “Whenever the power of the per capita tax absorbers at the head of the American Federation of Labor ls likewiso mildly threatened by the (Continued on Page 2.) TEX (Special to The previously been ing it responsible for the commune, Britain refused. Two Separate Instutions. The Soviet government and the Communist International are two sep- arate institutions and the former.will under no cfireumsstances interfere with the latter in its task of organ- izing the working class of the world for the overthrow of capitalism. « The Soviet diplomat said that the past year was 2 very successful one for Bolshevik diplomacy. Despite the tearing up of the Anglo-Russian trgat- jes, great gains were made by. the workers’ and peasants’ government in its ‘relations with England. He Pointed out that Britain's refusal to ratify the agreement signed by Ram- sey MacDonald and the Soviet govern- ment was not due to bad terms con- tained in the treaties but’ to a desire on the part of England and other capi- talist countries to put Russia under (Continued on Page 6.) HUNDREDS OF WEAVERS JOINING TILE STRIKE AT FALL RIVER Dally Worker) FALL RIVER, Mass, Jan. 18—Six hundred and fifty. more weavers Joined the strike movement against the ten per cent wage cut. The new strikers are from the Granite, Barnard and Lincoln mills. The six-loom-per-operative system is one of the demands of the Lincoin weavers. The company requires the men to tond to eight looms each. Managers of the Davis mills, where the strike movement started, are. re- ported to have offered to cancel the new cut in cases where into effect In the last few months. Organizer Horace A. Riviere of the United Textile Workers’ Union has arrived to take charge of the strike of dyers and bleachers at the Kerr milte. reduetion had F THE WORLD,’ from to prosecute all the cases, ‘I. E. Ferguson, one of the attorneys for the defense. was recently approached by the state in an effort to put an end to the cases, Ferguson was first asked to group the cases. He refused. Then the prosecutors came with a proposition that required all the ations dishoe Morement. defendants to plead guilty. For this, Such a campaign of, reaction and they promised Ruthenberg wouid be |Counter-revolution if permitted to take pardoned and the rest of the defend-|Place without challenge, will seriously antes let go with fines. affect the aged ¢ Se binges forces in the American labor move- Bay - seuhigare an ty she? ms ment, will strengthen the reactionar- ies and “open shoppers” thruout the ) a pian lanes roe — country and willimmeasurably aggra- obviously not guilty. ‘The prosecution vate the-economic and political condi- is getting worried. At the rate the 11s ib cscw behle secon ner oenne eine canes are now being .dis i of the working class is carrying on its strug- other ‘thiirty cases will occupy the gles egainst the capitalists. This whole attention of the St. Joseph|*@™Paign by Abramovich will - un- Court for months to come. donbtedly encourage and strengthen ‘An effort is being made to get a re-|@!! those elements of capitalist reac turn of the bail money deposited in| tion that are carrying on a fight to the St. Joseph for Ruthenberg pending the | bitter end against the recognition of decisions of the United States supreme | Soviet Russia and that are plotting courts prior to his iimprisinment, |S¢cretly for the forcible overthrow’ of The bail amounts to $5,000 and|the Soviet government. It is signifi- rightfully should be returned now that |¢ant that the arrival of Abramovich Ruthenberg is in custody. in the U. 8. coincides with the exit of Wants Bail Money for Fine, Charles I. Hughes, the most reaction- Circuit Judge Charles © White, who |ary end uncompromising enemy of the sentenced Ruthenberg, had this to say |Soviet government. The United States about it, “The money will not be re-jis fast becoming the refuge and ha- turned until Ruthenberg’s fine is paid.|ven of international reaction and Of course, tf it can be proved that the| white guardism. During the past year money isn't Ruthenberg’s, I might|there have come to our shores large ehange my mind.” numbers of former ezarist. generals, The money is certainly not Ruthen-|counts and princes, pretenders to the berg's. It is Ferguson's opinion that| Russian throne, that are continually Judge White will change his mind and |conspiring against the safety and as quickly as defense can bring action | woll-being of the ‘Russian to recover the money. Now we are about to be visited by a ‘The Supreme Court Reaction. representative of anothér brand of George Maurer, secretary of the La-|Ccounter-revolution, a prominent men- bor Defense Council, which is hand-|shevik and collaborator of the hang- ling the cases of the 32 Michigan de-|man’ Noske, Mr. ‘Abramovich. fendants who “assembled with” the] ‘The success of Mr. Abramovich’s Communist convention in 1922, had| mission will give aid and comfort in the following to say about the Michi-/the United States and thruout. the (Continued on Page 2.) world to every enemy of labor.. It 8. for the Russian counter-revolution and while in America, he will assist the trade union reactionaries and the socialist party to initiate a new cam- paign of persecution and extermina- tion against the left wing in the Am- masses. movement of the United States must \ be combatted by every honest worker in the United States. The Workers (Communist) Party of America calls upon the American working class to raise its voice in thunderous protest against this new counter-revolutionary attempt by the socialist flunkeys of international imperialism by the ag- ents of the “open shopper” Dawes which are known as the Second Inter- national. Let every labor organization in the U. S., every shop, factory and mill re- sound with the demands: Down with the bloody agents of in- ternational imperialism! . Down with the flunkeys of “open shop” Dawes! Down with the emissaries of the Second International, the enemies of labor and servants of capital! Hail the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics! Hail the international unity of the trade union movement! Hail the united front of Jabor against the united front of capital! Hail the Communist International! Workers Party of America, Central executive committee, Wm. Z. Foster, Chairman. Earl R. Browder, Acting Secy. Frenzied Socialist, Forgetting Dignity, Throws Things About PARIS, Jan. 18.—The first day of business of the new parliament was enlivened a little from the peaceful processes of capitalist democracy, by the debate over the sardine cannery strike of Douarnenez and the arrest of the Communist mayor who led the strike and set the whole country in a turmoil. The Communist deputy Balanant made such caustic comments upon the yellow socialists defending the capi- talist side of the dispute, that the so- clalist then occupying the speakers tribune grew so frenzied that he “EVEN IN HIS COFFIN LENIN IS STILL THE APOSTLE OF COMMUNISM, EVEN INDEATH HEIS THE TRUMPET CALL THAT ROUSES THE WORKING CLASSES 0 —ZINOVIEY. ——— % pitched a glass of water in the direc: tion of Balanant, but succeeded only in drenching the dosk of the speaker of the chamber, Balanant was un- touched, which was more than could “ said of the dignity of the cham-