The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 19, 1925, Page 2

Page Two CZAR HUTCHESO WARS ON DETROIT PROGRESSIVES Expels Wm. Reynolds from the Union (Special to The Daily Worker) DETROIT, Mich., Jan. 18.— When the delegates to the Dis- trict Council’ of carpenters gathered for their weekly meet- ing here, the meeting was pre- faced by the reading of a com- munication from the general executive board at Indianapolis to the effect that Brother Wil- liam Reynolds, president of Local Union No. 2140, vice-pre- sident of the district council, and member of the district council executive board, was expelled from the organization on the charge of being a mem- ber of the Trade Union Educa- tional League, “an organization antagonistic to the Jnited Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners.” After the reading of the communi- cation, Brother Reynolds requested the floor to make a statement. The floor was granted and Brother Rey- nolds made a forty-five-minite speech, in the course of which he declared: That during his nine years mem- bership in the organization, no charg- es or criticisms of his actions, either verbal or written, had been made. That the notification of expulsion was the first intimation that charges were contemplated. There Was No Trial. Reynolds pointed out that Hutche- son and the official family, including stool-pigeon Botterill, in charge local- ly, had acted as accuser; prosecutor, witness, jury, and judge, the only im- portant omission being the presence of the defendant. It was pointed out that if czar Hutcheson can get away with this latest development in ex- pulsion technique, no member of the union will be safe in his membership and his right to earn a living at the trade, and that the constitution will have become a scrap of paper. The campaign of red-baiting which has been introduced by Hutcheson, and which occupied most of the time of the last convention, was dealt with in detail. Ag~Hutcheson is now accept- ing tutelage from Phil Murray and the Lewis gang of the miners’ union, it must be expected that most of the resources of the organization will be used in fighting militancy in the or- ganization and killing the spirit of the rank and file, and that the treat- ment of Alexander Howat at the hands of Lewis, will be metted out by Hutcheson to many members of the left wing for their fidelity to the rank and file. Chairman Used Gag Rule. At the conclusion of his speech, Reynolds retired and the council was called to order. The first motion made on the subject requested further in- formation. An amendment to the ef- fect that the district council ignore the expulsion until a regular trial was granted, was ruled out of order by President Sharrock, who is evidently @ candidate for the laurels now be- ing lost by the renegade Cappellini. An appeal from the decision of the chair was refused recognition by the chair. Altho all but three delegates spoke in sympathy of the appeal and of the amendment, he ruled the meet- ing in true Hutchesonian style and the will of the body was defeated. A storm of resentment against this autocratic and unconstitutional expul- sion and the abject submission of re- nmegade Sharrock is gathering, which bids fair to sweep the carpenters’ or- ganization free of some of the dead wood (reference to Botterill’s head) which at the present time, encumbers the organization locally. The Fake Liberal. President Sharrock, “New Repub- le” Mberal who definitely stated some six months ago that he would stand for no expulsions in this district, is treading the path of all those fair- weather revolutionists of the phrase whom the responsibilities of office sober into obedient office boys for the big reactionaries. If the rank and file of Detroit wish to protect themselves and Reynolds, they must wage a fight that will car- ty the lickspittle Botterill beyond the confines of the district and reduce the crawfish head of the district coun- cil to a position where his lack of backbone will be an advantage to him in holding a job in open shop Detroit, where the guns of the general execu- tive board are being turned on the militant rank and file instead of | against our class enemies, the arro- gant open shop builders. yee TOMORROW A Troop of Little Reds has been practicing for six weeks for its part in the Lenin Memorial meeting, to (Continued from page 1) rank and file, then that fig-leaf of democracy is cast aside and dictator ship stands out in all its ugly naked- ness. They tear up their own consti- tution and they trample it in the mire and they ride rough shod over any- body and everybody that stands be tween them, their swivel chair and their $10,000 a year jobs. “We have had with us for some time a special representative of the executive council of the A. F. of L., Brother Smith, who is a special envoy of King William I. I do not envy Brother Smith in his position. He is paid well to do the dirty work of the executive council of the A. F. of L. and he is here in that capacity to- night. Only a few days ago Brother Smith rushed into the yellow press and uncovered a red plot to destroy the labor movement of this city. Won derful, isn’t it? He must have been taking lessons from Bill Burns or else reading the Minneapolis Labor Re- view or, no doubt, both. “1 Am a Communist.” “He has accused the Communists of being a bunch of craven cowards, and | Commanist Challenges Bureaucrats for those of you who do not know it 1 want to say that | am a Communist. “It does not take much courage to spread a lot of slimy filth in the press of the master class, but to lead the workers and the poor farmers in their immediate struggles with their ex- ploiters, to organize the unorganized on the basis of class struggle, to work for the amalgamation of the obsolete craft unions into industrial unions, to make them an effective weapon in the hands of the rank and file in their everyday struggles and also in the final struggle of the workers for power, to carry on a campaign for the nationalization of basic industries— that kind of a fight takes real cour- age. “And while the Communists have been putting up a fight of that nature where do you find the Greens, John- stons, O’Connells, Lewises and Wolls? Officials Are Helping the Enemy. “They are busy putting over B. & O, plans and fake class collaboration schemes to outlaw strikes and in- crease the already fabulous profits of the railroad barons at the expense of the workers. They are busy organiz- ing labor banks similar to the one wo have in this city, protected by the Wm. J. Burns’ Detective Agency They are busy putting over fake insur- ance schemes. They are passing reso- lutions urging congress, the joint naval committee on naval affairs and the secretary of the navy. to buil moré and larger battlé ships. y Why More Battleships? “Why do they want more and larger battleships? To protect the interest of the workers when they go out on strike? Hell, no! “Do they imagine that union work- ers will be employed on the building of these instruments of destruction? Certainly not. These fakers know that all battleships constructed by the ‘Wall Street government are built in the scab contract shipyards of the east. To Force Slavery on German Labor! “t will tell you why they want more and larger battleships—and that is to fasten the shackles of slavery more firmly upon the German working class thru the enforcement of the Morgan- Dawes plan; to protect and collect Morgan’s loans to the bankrupt capl- talist nations of Europe and South America. “The American Federation of Labor at the El Paso convention, unanimous- ly adopted a resolution endorsing the citizens’ military training camps and (Continued from page 1.) gan courts and the Michigan Com- munist cases: “What else can you expect from reactionary capitalist-controlled courts? The question is, will the United States supreme court again dare to openly show its face as a boss-controlled body dispensing ‘capi- talist injustice,’ ignoring the law? “C. EB. Ruthenberg sits in prison be- cause he has Ideas on working class problems, because he ‘assembled with’ an organization that believes in, pre- dicts and strives for workers’ rule as against capitalist dictatorship, and that leads in the everyday struggle of the workers against the bosses, “The revival of the’ Michigan cases, the imprisonment of Ruthenberg, the calling of Robert Minor to trial in February, the expressed intention of the prosecution to push the other 30 cases to speedy trial, are the first moves in a renewed attack on labor, on all workers and their organizations, especially those who dare oppose the reactionary steamroller which ‘rolis’ to maintain child labor; to institute widespread wage cuts, to establish complete open shop rule, and crush the workers into subjection—and misery. “If the courts are successful in rall- roading Ruthenberg, Minor, Foster, and the other 29 Michigan defendants, jit means they will be at Ifberty to |proceed to a wholesale offensive against the entire labor movement. The issue is more than that of “free speech for Communists and all work- be held at the Ashland torium. udi- ers!’ The question is, shall workers have any rights at all? Or must they submit to abject wage slavery, mass unemployment, open shop, wage cuts, PROSECUTION MAKES PROPOSALS | urging the organized workers to joir and support this militarist institution They even went further to lay th plans for a machine to mobilize the cannon-fodder among the organizer workers by providing that three assis tants to the secretary of war from the executive council and one assistant from each of the forty-eight states be named by the state federations in th respective states, Preparing Labor of the Next War. “What does this all mean? It is nothing more than a camouflage at- tempt to deliver the American labor movement hog-tied, bound, and gag- ged to the imperialists of Wall Street for whatever purpose they care to use it in the next imperialist blood-bath “But there is just one element tha‘ stands in the way of putting over this Program of betrayal and that Is the left wing of the labor movement ted by the Communists. Communist: have a penchant for turning the white light of publicity on the acts of be. trayal of the interest of the workers by these lackeys of capitalism inside of the labor movement. “That is why I am on trial here to- night. That is why a nationwide at- tempt is being made to cast the Com- munists out of the American Federa- tion of Labor. No Way to Organize Labor. “Some of your leaders here believe that in order to make the labor move- ment respectable, the Communists must be unceremoniously kicked out, and then the employers will fall over each other to sign agreements with organized labor and the unorganized workers will flock into the movement by the tens of thousands, “Naturally, as a Communist, I dis- agree with them on this matter, If anyone thinks for a moment that the unorganized can be organized on a bankrupt policy of class collaboration they have another guess coming. “1 Will Continue to Fight.” “No doubt, I will be unseated here tonight. Your vote on the appeal from the decision of the chair proves that you have the power to do so, and if Tam unseated, the next move will be for you to take the case to the Paint- ers’ International Union and have me expelled as a member of the Brother- hood of Painters. “Now, just one final statement and then I am thru. If I am thrown out of this assembly tonight because of my ideas, I will continue to fight until I get back in this assembly. The only time a! Communist ever quits fighting is when he dies and then he dies fighting with his face to the com- mon enemy of the working class,” Ruled Left Wing Off ballot, {m the election of officers for the assembly, the reactionaries without any other right than their own tyran- nical pleasure, ruled off of the ballot all left wing candidates. In addition the reactionaries put up their own slate, definitely pledging them to expel the Communists as or- dered by the A. F. of L. Red Baiters Lost to Center. However, even with the left wing candidates ruled off the ballot the re- actionaries lost their slate and a cen- ter group was elected, whose stability will be shown or whose weakness will be established soon by the pressure rot the reactionaries who, undoubtedly, will continue the fight against the left wingers and Communists. The hope of the reactionaries re- sides in the expected action of the ex- ecutive council of the A. F. of L. up- on the report of its lackey, Paul J. Smith. The hope of the left wing is in the tremendous resentment among the rank and file unionists of Minne- apolis. The whole movement is stir- red to its depths over the autocracy of the union offictals. injunctions, child labor, and the strike- breaking rule of reactionary erh- Ployers? “The entire labor movement must now rally, as never before, in a united front against this flagrant ‘injustice’ in Michigan, against the attack of the bosses on these 32 militant fighters in the labor movement, who represent a most advanced section thereof, Mass demands must be made for the re- peal of so-called ‘criminal syndicalism’ and ‘sedition’ laws, and that the United States supreme court reverse convictions under them and declare such laws unconstitutional as they cer- tainly are—unless the constitution is only a ‘scrap of paper’! Great Legal Battle Ahead. “Robert Minor’s trial is right ahead —others will follow in rapid succes- sion. The legal battle before us will require tens of thousands of dollars. Proceedings in the courts are terribly expensive, but the Labor Defense Council wants to be able to fight with one hundred per cent power every inch of the ground, It has entered a campaign of publicity, legal defense, and money raising, and calls upon all labor unions, working class or- ganizations, all who believe in free speech and assemblage for all work- ers; all who belleve in the cause of the workers, to contribute funds at once and without stint. “We will need at feast $10,000 for the defense and legal battle | Febru ary 16 and more ten thousands after that. Funds should be rushed to the Labor Defense Council, 166 W. Wash: ington 8t., Chicago, Ulinots,” 501 TOMORROW |, ue» TO GET COUNCILS BY LEGAL MEANS Bill to Legislature Is Next Move The Chicago Teachers’ Federation replied to Superintendent McAndrew’s demand for a reorganzation of teach- ers’ councils to be composed of repre- sentatives of teachers, principals and the superintendent with a motion at their last meeting to take a bill to the legislature and thus provide for teach- ers’ councils by statute law. “We see that we cannot get any- where with the hoard of education,” Miss Margaret Haley said in speaking about the superintendent's last recom- mendation, “Whatever they do at their meetings is changed over night anyway. Besides the teachers be- lieve they are entitled to have their right to deliberation just as the superintendent has his.” The bill to be drafted for presenta- tion to the legislature, Miss Haley added, will provide for teachers’ coun- ceils under the prineiples laid down by Ella Flagg Young, former superin- tendent of schools, ‘The new plan for marking teachers’ examination papers was severely criticized by the teachers. Miss Haley reported that the board had provided for a conference with representatives from the teachers’ federation, the board of education and the superjn- tendent, but that no date has been set tor the conference. The teachers voted a protest against any change in the levels of salaries, and against abolition of bonuses now paid eighth grade teachers and teach- ers of special subjects. Both of these matters are under consideration by the board at present. SNOWDEN SAYS “US. SURELY IS ENTANGLED Labor Party Trickster Laughs at America (Special to The Daily Worker) LONDON, Jan. 16.—The Paris agree- ment which granted the United States two and one quarter per cent of the Dawes annuities was “astounding, Snowden, ¥ of the exchequer, declared today in an interview in the Manchester Guard- ian. “The United States, having entered the Paris agreement, certainly will be involved in any sanctions the allies may carry out in the event Germany defaults in the Dawes plan,” Snowden declared. Says Allies Baited a Trap. “The United States has no moral right to participate in the Dawes an- nuities,” said Snowden, He said when the allies allowed the United States to participate. it was “appar- ently a concession of the allies to se cure the aid of the United States in enforcing the Dawes plan.” “The United States,” he said, “may find she has bought this concession for a big price.” A Defender of Britist® Business. Snowden and United States Ambas- sador Kellogg disagreed at the Lon- don conference last summer and their disagreement led to a series of notes passing between Secretary of State Hughes and the British foreign office. Snowden, who as a socialist and leading member of the British labor party; was chancellor of the exchequer yunder the labor party regime of Mac Donald, differed violently with Mac- Donald over the Dawes plan and cor- rectly said it meant a surrender to American impertalism. He warned British business that America was get ting control. Mussolini Kills Woman Suffrage. ROMB, Jan. 18.—Woman’s suffrage will not become a custom thru Premier Mussolini's electoral reform bill which is now before the chamber of deputies. The committee consider- ing the bill today killed the proposal that would give women a municipal vote, Plural voting also was elimin- ated from the bill. When you buy, get an “Ad.” 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 Soviet School, 1902 W, Division St. Compaign committees of Russian, Ukrainian and Polish branches and Y. W. L. No. 6 must attend, than ever. . First Workers’ Republic. the proper bow to Moscow. Gompers is dead, poison in the secret places. Abramovich, representing the left wing of the Russian ust as the unseated “grand duke” Cyril represents its right wing, will be receive brother by American “socialists,” from Abraham Cahan, editor of the Jewish (socialist) Daily Forward, down the counter-revolutionists, whole degrading list. ck has been carried on by “The years, foreign powers attackin agree to an Plan tmposed year Behind England stands the American Labor Must Proceed to Power Thru Teachings of Leninism By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL But there comes also, like a dagger in the dark, the emissary of the second (socialist) international, R. Abramo+ vich. He slips quietly into the country, seeking to keep his identity a secret, so that he might the better spread his The Chicago Tribune adopts the style of campaign that orward” these past half dozen It spreads the canard that the Russian Communists are planning to re-establish the constituent assembly, or some such parliamentary form, in place of Soviet Rule. This mouldy falsehood, however, is immediately kicked into the discard once more by Christian Rakovsky, Soviet representative in London, addressing the gathering of pro- vincial school teachers in Moscow. Rakovsky told these teachers that Soviet Russia does not intend to give way in the slightest to the demands of the proletarian dictatorship. will not pay this price for recognition. crippling of the activities of the Communist International. It will not consider even the slightest plea coming from Washington on behalf of the principle of private _lt does not intend to have any Morgan-Dawes upon it, no matter what the disgu' In other words, Soviet Russia will not deviate by a single hair's breadth, from the direct road she is towards the building of the Communist society. “[T OBaY on the eve of the first anniversary of Lenin's death, the Soviet Power stands astride the world mightier In the Orient, Japanese capitalism bends before the It will soon accord it recognition. In the Occident, American capitalist imperialism alters the personnel of its rule at Washington, in order to make Thus conquering Leninism, after Lenin, leads the world , social revolution to greater victories. s * Hughes is retiring. Yet the many enemies of Soviet Rule are ever active in this country, The czarist emigres work night and day. The ex-grand duchess Victoria Feodorovna, wife of the “grand duke” Cyril who recently proclaimed himself Cyril |, “ezar of all the Russias,” was recently here. In New Philadelphia, and even in Washington, close to the steps of the White House, she plied her counter-revolutionary task, with the aid of the wives of American capitalist statesmen and diplomats, bankers and industrialists. Now comes the deposed “grand duke” Boris, second in line to the imaginary monarchist throne that still lives in the minds of the emigre ozarists. ork, as a blood It It will in no way ise. pursuing When Rakovsky says, however, that the year 1924 was a very successful one for Soviet —-. and that the 925 would be a better one, there are not great struggles ahead. England is busy frantically building her anti-Soviet bloc. at does not mean that~ nited States. World economic conditions are the allies of the Amer- ican workers and farmers in forcing Wall Street rule in Washington to recognize the Russian Soviet Republic, But that is hardly the beginning of the struggle in this country. death of Lenin. ers also make eninism. This struggle ends only with the firm establish- ment of the American Soviet Republic against the whole front of the American counterparts of the ousted Russian grand dukes and mensheviks. The enemy class, with its Cyrils and Abramoviches, is still in power in the United States. That American labor to consider on the first anniversary of the And having considered, let American work- progress and proceed to the winnin ower, like their Russian comrades, thru the teachi is the big fact for of all ings of HALL OWNERS TRY 10 STOP LENIN MEMORIAL MEETING IN LONDON LONDON, Jan. 18— The Lenin Memorial meeting of the British Communist Party for which the Ox- ford Theater has been engage: be held up due to rumors theater officials have cancelled their permission for the holding of the meeting. Albert Inkpin, secretary of the Communist Party says the party will go ahead with its plans for the meeting. Connecticut Cotton Mill Workers’ Pay Slashed 12 Per Cent NORWICH, Conn., Jan. 18.—Wage cuts average 12 per cent are announc- ed at the Totokett Cotton Mills in the village of Occum. The cut follows an- other at the Ponemah Mills, 501 TOMORROW You Must Help! Ruthossemm prison! Thirty-one more trials ahead. Ten thousand liars wanted by ‘ebruary 15, . Volunteers wanted to help mail out tens of thousands of letters for the Michi in defense. Come during the a, phone State 5959 if you will come at po ety Ba rs. ' Labor nil, 166 West Washington Street, Room 307, 2 ame Police Linked With Crime and Politics, Is Charge While Mayor Dever is congratulat- ing himself in numerous public state- ments on having “driven the crooks out of Chicago,” Chief of Police Col- lins is in the midst of a full fledged drive—in the newspapers—to reform his police force and make them chase criminals instead of accepting bribes from them. Collins took the star of office away from Capt. Joseph Mullin of the Gresham street police station, who un- fortunately for him, got drunk just when Collins needed publicity, Col- lins has ordered captains to keep pro fessional bondsmen out of the police stations. Mayor Dever, backed by the million- aires’ committee of 1,000, is still is- Monday, January 19, 1925 CHICAGO UNIONS TURN DOWN THE. 0. P,P. A, GALL Without Discussion Vote “To File” It The Chicago Federation of Labor will not take part in the ©. P. P. A. conference to be held in Chicago on Feb, 21. P The federation yesterday afternoon, without discussion or | voted to accept the report of the executive committee, which included the state- ment that an invitation to participate in the conference for progressive po- litical action was received by the committee and “placed on file.” The Painters’ Local 180, submitted a resolution which was carried, in fa- vor of all street cars and motor busses having two entrances, An- other delegate proposed that taxi-driv- ers be required to take out: lability insurance before practicing the pro- fession of pedestrian hunting. The grievance committee reported that in- behalf of the Sheet Metal Workers it had tried to have an inter- view with the president of the Morri- son Hotel company on the subject of work to be done on the big annex. But the head of the Morrison Hotel was not to be interviewed and the committee had failed. The local Cigar Makers report that @ new agreement, with concessious made on both sides has been signed. President Fitzpatrick of the federa- tion was instructed by a resolution to appoint a. committee of five to take up and follow the traction situation. The motion introduced by Oscar Nelson as alderman in the city coun- cil last Wednesday, was attacked by Delegate McVey of the Lathers’ Union who said that the proposed scheme of school construction of concrete, is Safer than the old scheme of brick and tile. COAL DRIVERS © GIVEN A JOLT BY ATTY, CROWE Get 60 Per Cent Out of $2 and Work Ten Hours ney Crowe Saturday, of only sixty cents a day out of their original de- mand upon the Chicago Coal Mer- chants’ Association, of $2.00 per day, was the opinion of some coal drivers interviewed yesterday. The drivers walked out on January 1, and went back to work when their officials, as usual, after modifying the demands by cutting the $2.00 a day increase down to $1.00, finally agreed to let even that demand be “arbitrat- ed” by the labor-hating prosecuting attorney of Cook county, Robert E. Crowe. Great dissatisfaction may result in the drivers demanding a new deal from their officials, especially T. J. Lynch, who was so servile to Crowe that he not only left the case in Crowe's hands and promised that the drivers would abide by Crowe's deci- sion, but actually thanked Crowe for refusing the drivers’ demand on wag- es, giving them only six cents an hour raise and flatly turning down all the other demands. The drivers still are working a ten- hour day, which is generally acknowl- edged to be no better hours than it there was no union. Tim Lynch made no effort to get an eight-hour day. Be- sides, in the course of negotiations, the officials surrendered even the men’s demands that the unloading and carrying in of coal be given to helpers, The men have been extremely rest- tess while awaiting Crowe's cheating award, and the discontent, apparent- ly, is not going to be soothed any by the results, Two Workers Killed; Two Injured in Fall Of An Unsafe Wall (Special to The Daily Worker) Cal,, Jan. 18.— Two E. Walker Construction company Ned not properly supported, fell into the suing half-hearted statements about excavations a ‘the com- his “clean” administration, “I never pany. ee ae have claimed Chicago was absolutely The two injured men, B. Molena clean,” said Dever. “No big city can be. The crime situation is not as bad as it has been painted.” Ernest Fitzpatrick, English author of “The Conflict of Nations,” in a speech before the banquet of the Brit- ish Empire Association, charged that in Chicago crime is an organized busi-|bulance was summoned, inked witht local politics. “The most dangerous and difficult factor to deal with in regard to criminal condi- tions today,” said Fitzpatrick, “is that crime not only has been ized, but has entered into political alliances and has more political influence than ever before. 5601 TOMORROW will be furnished by the 20° iece orchestra of the You orkers League at the Len Memorial meeting.