The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 21, 1925, Page 3

Wednesday, January 21, 1925 INDIA YOKED BY BRITAIN'S RULE OF VIOLENCE White Terror Thrusts Many in Prison (Special to The Daily Worker) LONDON, Jan. 20.—The Gov- ernor General of India, Lord Reading, has been hard pushed to explain away the extraordi- nary ordinance, issued on his own duthority, which subjects the 320 million people of India to unlimited police violence. “Young men of the student class have been Very active in the political movements,” Read- ing said as an excuse for insti- tuting the white terror in India. But the long suffering people of India fail to see the connection be- tween this statement and Reading’s ordinanés which gives the police ab- solute and unquestioned power over their very lives. Under the terms of the ordinance, the British police can arrest any person, search any pre- mises, and siezé any propérty, with- out Waftant. The policé can imprison the persons so arrested wherever and whehever they choose: The trials, be+ fore magistrates, are “confidential”, and pfisoners are denied the right of legal counsel. Those who turn infor- mer are promised pardons, The British aim by means of this white terror rule at the surpresion of the Communist Party of India and of the Swaraj party which favors na- tionalistic self government and oppo: ses domination of British imperialism, but which insists on practicing non+ resistance. President Coolidge in the face of this brutal terrorization of the work- ers of India recently assured the Bri- tish ambassador that he “desired to promote sentiments of good will be- tween this country aid England.” See. retary Of State Hughes at the same time spoke of the “traditions of liberty and progress and the settled purpose to resort to the peaceful pro- cesses of reason for the adjustment of differences” which prevailed in Eng- Jand. Hughes conveniently forgot that the English government rules in India with the great majority of the masses opposed to England’s domina- tion. The British rule in India is kept up by the business interests of En- gland only by making use of the white terror which British imperialism is ever ready to put into foree to crush the workers of her colonies. Among other oppressive measures, the ordinance issued by Lord Reading, provides that the local government may arrest without warrant any per- son “against whom a reasonable suspi- cion exists”, stipulates that the police may search any place and seize any property they desire, and try those ar- rested by “commissioners” appointed by ‘the local government. Latare Te ast, thrkar a Mas AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHERTY. (Continued from page 1) chop he is eating was taken from the anatomy of Mary’s little lamb, tho Mary herself would not feel any too happy chewing her pet's windpipe, provided she knew her fodder’s ori- alright, but a person does not lose much sleep over the thought that the animals. It is tough on the animals ginal address. Plants also have souls, we understand, and unless our e: treme vegetarian (most'of us like combination salads) keep off our meat so to speak, we will start a movement to punish anybody caught eating a raw head of cabbage. We will in- sist that it be killed painlessly before eating. re es NDER threat of a libel suit, this part of The DAILY WORKER goes on record With an apology to W. G. Daniel, of Davenport, Iowa, editor of the Davenport Free Press, for dam- age done to his character and his so- celal standing, in and about the said city of Davenport and thruout the world, wherever the DAILY WORK- ER circulates. The libel was uttered on January 14, and it characterized said Daniel as being a socialist and his paper a socialist paper. Daniel in the lion's den did not wail any louder than our libelled Davenport editor when he began to read The DAILY WORKER of th by date, , . ‘HE demand for the apology is com- plied with. Had this column put him down as a Kilkenny Tom-cat or a Kentucky Doodlebug, he could raise a sore throat howling for all we would care. But calling an honest man a socialist is no laughing matter. Dan- jel offers as evidence of his innocence that he is called a red by the Daven- port socialists and by the ‘capitalist press. That should be enough. Com- rade Daniel, consider yourself under- stood. Lrtue The ashy lies fy Mas ca OUR LENIN MEMORIAL MEETINGS Many Meetings Planned. The list of Lenin memorial meet- ings follows: Wednesday, Jan. 21. Chicago, Ill, at 8 p. ms at Ashland Auditorium, Ashland and Van Buren Sts. Speakers: Browder, Dunne, Eng- dahl, Swabeck and Owens. Kan: City, Mo., hall to be an- nounced. Speaker, J. E. Snyder. Friday, Jan, 23. Niagara Falls, N. Y., at 7:30 p. m., Hippodrome Hall, carner Pine and 19th Sts. Speaker to be announced. Saturday, Jan. 24. Philadelphia, Pa., at 8 p. m., at the Lulu Temple, corner Broad and Spring Garden Sts’ Speakers: Olgin, Baker, and Carlson. South Bend, Ind. at 8 p. m., at Workers’ Home, 1216 W. Colfax Ave. Speaker, Manuel Gomez. Milwaukee, Wis., at 8 p, m, at the Auditorium, Speakers: Foster and Max Bedacht. Seattle, Wash., Painters’ Hall, Un- ion Record Bldg., at 8 p.m. Speaker: Norman H, Tallentire. Passaic, N. J., 82 President St. Sunday, Jan. 25. St. Paul, Minn. Commonwealth Hall, 435 Rice St, at 8 p.m. Speaker: Earl Browder. Minneapolis, Minn. Humboldt (Fin- nish) Hall, 1317 Western Ave., No.; at 2 p.m. Speaker: Earl Browder. Denver, Col., at 8 p. m., Machinists’ Hall, 1715 California St. Speakers to be announced. Omaha, Nebr., at 2:30 p. m., Labor Lyceum, 22nd and Clark Sts. Speak- ers, J. E, Snyder, David Coutts, David Reznick, Tom Mathews, B. M. Mishkis. Grand Rapids, Mich., at 2:30 p. m. Workmen’s Circle Temple, 347 Mt. Vern@m Ave. Speaker to be an- nounced. Newark, N. J., Labor Lyceum, 2 p. m., 704 S. 14th street. Hartford, Gonn. Labor Educational Alliance, 287 Windsor Ave., at 2:30 p.m. Speaker: Joseph Manley. Detroit, Mich. at 2 p. m., House of the Masses, 2101 Gratiot Ave. Speak- er, Robert Minor. Boston, Mass. at 3 p. m., Scenic Auditorium, 12 Berkeley St. Speaker, John J. Ballam. Cleveland, Ohio. Hall to be announe- ed later. Speaker, Benjamin Gitlow. Youngstown, O, at 2 p. m., speak- ers, Ben Gitlow and others. Los Angeles, Cal., at 2 p. m., Blanch- ard Hall, 233 8. Broadway. Speaker James H. Dolsen. > 5 at 2p. m., Lithuanian (Bakers) Ttall, N. 7th St., near North- NEW YORK, January 20—A spectre is haunting Europe, the spectre of Leninism! At this very hour the Com- munists of Italy are raising the red banner of revolution at the very center of. blackest capitalist reaction, in the Italian ‘chamber of deputies, in the camp of Mussolini and h!s bloody bant of fascisti. Defying the fascisti reign of terror, Comrade Grieco, a Commun- ist, arose in the chamber and in stir- ring tones called upon the workers in all countries to overthrow the blood sucking bourgeoisie by revolu- tion, “The spirit of Lenin in the world,” he said, “is making fresh con- verts every hour.” Amid cries of man; LENIN MEMORIAL MEETINGS “Viva Lenin,” he declared: “We must remain by the side*of the Russian workers and peasants. We must salute Russia, from which springs the light that irradiates thruott the world. Long live the revolution of the Italian work- ers and peasants.” In America, too, the spirit of Lenin and Leninism Mves today and is daily gaining in strength. Last year 25,000 workers of New York City, jammed their way to Madison Square Garden to pay their tribute to the dead leader of the proletarian revolution, All the power of capitalist publicity could not bring together such a throng to honor a public man, But the workers were ampton St. Speaker to be announced. Dowell, til, at 2 p. m., Rex Theater, Union Ave. Speaker, John Mihelic. Bridgeport, Conn., at 8 p. m., Work- men’s Circle Hall, 310 State St. Speak- er to be announced. Akron, Ohio, at 2 p. m., Zeigler Hall, corner Voris and Miami Sts. Superior, Wis., Workers’ Hall, cor- ner Tower and 5th. Speaker to be announced. Tacoma, Wash., Labor Temple, City Hall Annex, at 8 p.m. Speaker: Nor- man H. Tallentire. East Pittsburgh at 2 p. m., Work- ers’ Home, corner Blectric and North Aves. Speakers, Joseph Knight and A. Blagelavich, Revere, M and Walnut I. Amter. » Eagle’s Hall, Shirley ves. at 8 p. m. Speaker, Sunday, Feb. 1. co New York, N. Y., at 2p. m, Maal” son Square Garden. Speakers: Foster and Ruthenberg. New Haven, Conn, Hermanson's Hall, 15 Crown St., at 8 p. m, Speaker, Joseph Manley. Buffalo, N. Y., at 8 p. m., Labor Ly- ceum, 376 William St. Speaker, Ben- jamin Gitlow. ‘Portland, Ore., 227 Yamhill St., at 8 Dp. m. Speaker: Stanley Clark. Elizabeth, N. J., Sunday, Feb. 8, 7:30 p. m., Turn Hall, 725 High street, drawn by something more than noise of trumpets and brass bands and the blare of the capitalist press. They were drawn by the light that shines from thousands of miles away, from Soviet Russia, from the first workers’ republic, the light of Lenin and Lenin- ism, This year on the occasion of the first anniversary of the death of Lenin to be celebrated on Sunday, February 1 at 2 p. m., at Madison Square Gar- den, the prospects are good for a! crowd that will flood every street in) the neighborhood. A continuous chain of workers may be seen at the offices | where tickets are now being sold: 208 | HB. 12th St., 163 East Broadway, 127 University Place, 231 ©. 14th St., Drug | Store, Madison Ave, and 11th St., 1887 Wilkins Ave,, 46 Ten Byck St., 1817 Pitkin Ave. Drug Store Moore & Graham Ave., 764 40th St “Lenin is great not merely because of the fact that he welded our class, his greatness consists in the fact that, ha allies which gave it a complete and durable AIN TO BAR POSTAL WORKERS RAISE Senate to Vote on Moses Substitute (Special to The Dally Worker) WASHINGTON, D. ©. Jan. 20.— The senators accepting the leadershir of President Coolidge are preparing to take the next step in preventing the postal employes from sectiring their increase in salary. Senator Moses will call up hig bil’ to increase the pay of postal employé: which, however, includes Collidge’: recommendations increasing posta’ rates to provide for the increase. It was only on the promise of support. ing the Moses bill that Coolidge lead- ers were able to induce the senate tc sustain the president's veto of the original postal bill. It seems unlikely that the Coolidge backers will keey this promise. Senator Simmons of North Carolina declared in the senate that the treas ury has ample funds to pay the $68,000,000 required to increase the salaries of the postal workers. Sim Mons said he will fight the Moses bi) in its present form as it is “a cooke¢ up administration substitute, admit tedly based on an unsound system o cost accounting supplied by Postmast- er General New, and having no justi: fication beyond the desire of the old guatd to soothe Coolidge’s feelings.” The democrats intend to move to strike out that part of the bill in- serted at the request of Coolidge, anc if this motion passes as seems likely, the pay increase bill will again bs be fore Coolidge in unadulterated form. Coolidge would again veto the bill and it would again be before the sen ate. Thus interminable delay in’ granting the increase in pay seem the only fate of the starving postal workers. ARE YOU SENDING IN YOUR PART TO LABOR DEFENSE? Funds for the defense fight in the Michigan Communist cases are com- ing in now with more speed, as the workers begin to fealize the impor. tance of a great fight against renewed attack which capitalist, reaction _is making. Remittances from the fol lowing branches of the Workers Party have already reached the Labor De fense Council office, 166 W. Washing ton street, Chicago, Illinois: Detroit English branch, $26.30; South Slavic branch, Chicago, $50; City Central Committee, Hartford Conn., $20; English branch, Indianapo. lis, Indiana, $10; Bronx English branch, New York, $25; the Finnish branch of Chicago has held an affair already for the Labor Defense and promises $100 or-more.. San Fran cisco, Calif., $35.72; proceeds of an af fair held by City Central Committee of Workers Party. The Young Work- ers League of Philadelphia sent in $20 some days ago. ; The Labor Defense Council and Free Speech Council of Youngstown Ohio, sent a check for $500 about a week ago. The following unions and workers’ benefit societies have already contributed: United Mine Workers of America No. 705, O'Fallon, Ill, $25; Working. mens Sick and Benefit fund, Eas‘ Pittsburg, Pa., $25; Workingmens’ Sick Benefit & Educational Fed., New York, $25; Committee ‘of 8. Slavic} Fraternal Societies, Christopher, $125; | Czecho-Slovak Workers’ Lodge, Om- ladina F. D. T. G., Chicago, $26; L. M. P. 8. No. 72, Kenosha, Wise., $5; L. M. P. 3 No. 5, Rockford, IL, $5; Russian Women’s Progressive Assoc- iation, Detroit, Mich., $10. The above list will be added to from day to day and eek to week Workers, Workers Party units, and working class organizations, rush your funds in to the Labor Defense Council. New Texas Governor Admits She Will Let Others Rule AUSTIN, Texas, Jan, 20.—Mrs, Mir- jam Amanda Ferguson was inaugu jrated here as the first woman gov- ernor of Texas, “I recognize and freely admit my inexperience in gov ernmental affairs,” Mrs. Ferguson said in her short inaugural address “I must ask the advice and counsel of others. There is so much to do that no one mind can bring relief to the people.” Mrs, Ferguson, standing before the crowd had all the appearance of fee! ing out of place, She seemed anxiour | with Page Three By SCHACHNO EPSTEIN. ve ’ Lenin, the Builder. Three years later, also in December, in Moscow, hungry but joyful. There was still war on many fronts, but the enemy was pushed back farther and farther from the centers of the revo- lution. Regiment after regiment of the red atmies were marching on, ‘Their proud steps re-echoed on the sno white bridge that glistened under the mild sun like ¢rystal. The fresh frosty air was filled with jubilant music and fluttering flags. This was the reception for the con- gress of Soviets. IT am hot a stranger any more in the human stream of the streets. I am one of them with a purified soul thru the hard bloody trigl. The same poorly clad figures like thos¢ I saw in Petrograd on Nevsky Prospect. But now they don’t frighten me any more. Still was the day as if the frost breathed with a bright tranquility, and the human stream had peacefully smiled to the sun. What depressed, worn-out faces! I myself have not eaten anything that day. Theré was no food. joy. During that time, on Various occa- sions, I heard Lenin speak; I have heard him in moments of great despair, when Petrogtad was about to fall, when Moscow was on the threshold of peril, and every time I have clearly sighted it, the masses went away from a speech Lenin has delivered, full of new courage, full of fresh energy, vigor and vitality in body and spirit, ready to show heroic miracles. His call: to atms! And thousands, tens of thousands of peo- ple took to arms in defiance of danger. Not so very long ago, after the de- feat in Poland, it happened. The spirit in the ranks of the Communist Party was low. It was felt’at the sessio of executive committee of the Soviets, at the party conference. They were finding faults, they were trying to justify them and washed themselves white of them. on the platform, spoke in simple words without oratorical tinge, with brilliant effect, like an older brother when he talks to his younger ones, good nat- uredly, but austerely, sadly and full of determination, and a spiritual depres- sion dispersed life smoke. I was, sitting on the platform among the journalists, wherefrom I was able to observe Lenin closely. The im- pression was the same from near as from far—determination, great sincer- ity and an exceptional memory. Many others have spoken after Lenin, he sat in a lonely corner so one could hardly see him; he did not take any notes; was sitting bent and absorbed of thought with his hardly noticeable smile on his lips, and when he an- swered the speakers it appeared that not a single word of all the speeches delivered was lost to him; woe to those who fall into his hands! With- out any demagogic tricks he so twist one that he must give in to him. I don’t remember of a single case when Lenin should not have been the victor. When he is applaude@, he blushes like a child, and walks quietly away and tries to avoid a front seat 80 as not to be seen by the public. The closer one observes Lenin's timidity, the more he respects him, it is of such a nature that he who PDossessess it must have the soul of a child. How do you account for his rocky-like character? Herein lies the secret power. A historical encounter occurred: on the platform appears the famous grey haired German revolutionist Clara Zatkin; she embraces Lenin the tenderness of a sister, Strokes his cheeks... The party con ference shouts with a childish en- thusiasm. Lenin is greatly moved by this meeting. But he blushes so that he runs off the platform together with Clara Zatkin like a young boy who is abashed when adults pay toc much attention to him . Laughter of the same ecstasy ac companies him . . So, Wrangel too was defeated. For the congress of the Soviets had tc discuss the most important problem: about the transition to peaceful work about the electrification of the entire country. In the street are marching the red army, the faetory: workers, singing and playing, and from everywhere carries Ike a symbol the name “Ilyitch.” His name is also on the lips of over two thousand delegates who arrived from all nooks and corn: ers of the land. The streets of Mos cow are full of people of all nation- alities, who speak as many languages and wear as many different nationa’ costumes; all blend in one unison with the soldiers and workers of Moscow under the sun of the beauti- ful, purely Moscow December days under the melody of the “Interna- tionale” sung in various languages, to get home to her family. Tonight Governor Ferguson will lead four sep arate inaugural balls. See “The Beauty and the Bolshevik” at Ashland Auditorium Feb. 5. the working class, and led it like one ving taken the lead of the working class, he contrived to find for it victory.” —Zinoviev. but in full symphonic harmony . . The large city theater was packed not @ pin to drop. The entire atmos- phere was charged with feverish ex- pectation, even the foreign corre spondents who were sitting in their But who} cared when the heart flourishes from | llyftch then appeared | Lenin As I Saw Him boxes facing the stage, were even they betame infected festival disposition on the faces the simple peasants and workers radiated with the crystal chandeliers and the golden cornices. Light and joy, glitter and splendor comingled with the dowlas coats and bast-shoes, with grey uniforms and worn out boots, sleeveless overcoats and caftans. Not a single frock or ove-pipe hat; and if by accident one sees in’ the formerly czar's box a diplomat in a white shirt, it is only a relic of the long forgotten past. Kalinin announces: the president of jthe S of the people’s commissar- jat, Valdimir Mlyitch Lenin will speak, Every one rose from his seat. were taken off. The music stopped Dlaying, the people — singing, but faces still radiated with song Lenin apeared with the yete of a child when taken by surprise; he |motions with his hand to quiet down the audience, but the entire theater from end to end is full of ecstasy and all as one shout: Long livé Dr- itch! They roar and storm so that jit is impossible to stop them. nervous; with the Hats | In the midst of thundering ovations Lenin, began to speak, His speech was so simple that a child could un- derstand him, and if anybody were still skeptical about the firmness of the power of the Soviets, about the unconquerableness of the proletarian |revolution and about its future before |Lenin spoke, they lost their skepti- cism after he ended. He gives an abundance of facts, of Statistical data embracing every part and phase of Russian life, the condi- tions of other countries; dry facts, dry statistical data, but from those dry facts grows out of the epoch of the class struggle, of what it was, is, and will be in the futtre, During his speech Lenin stool in one place, as if he were chained te it, and his look pierced the heart of everybody in the large hall; he pene- trated their hearts. with his iron jlogic, immense Knowledge and sober analysis. In the end he goes over to the ne- jcessity of electrification, showing |what wonders it will do; he proves. again and again in dry facts and numbers that in ten years time Rus- sia will be electrified from coast to | t. And not like a dreamer or a |Prophet does he appear before the jbeople; he is a builder of today, for |whom every cog and screw has its |proper place, and soon enough we will witness the beginnings of motion of Hthe gigantic mechanism to the exact jhour. . . | Lenin ended his speech lifting the thick book on electrification written |by a commission of a hundred great jengineers and scientists and said: “This is a new bible of the revolu- | tion!” | One can hardly believe that here stands a man bearing three poisonous |bullets in his body. A giant not to jbe conquered; every word of his |Peaches like a hammer that destroys jand creates, Swiftly and impetuously |works the hammer; wreck upon | Wreck are heaped in front of all and jabove the wrecks legendary construc- jtions full of sun and light grow out The theater thunders with ap- | Plause, the eyes of many delegates, |especially peasants, are full of tears and ecstasy; various languages melt in one long, lasting shout: long live llyitch, long live Lenin! How long Lenin spoke? Who cared for time? When we came out of the theater, a deep starry sky was hang: ing over Moscow, and the gigantic electric signs over the theater threw their fiery slogans of fight and vic- tory, of bloody war and peaceful re- construction work on the endless hu, man stream. : The Kremlin clock played the mid. night “Internationale” , . , Thus have I seen Lenin from a dis- tance. But I have also seen him closer, at his cabinet engaged in a long conversation. 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