The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 28, 1925, Page 2

meen i _— es a ee HELD BY Y.W.L. IT. U. E. L. ISSUES STATEMENT ON THE CONVENTION 1S |. as follows: SITUATION IN “THE AMALGAMATED” The statement on the situation in the Amalgamated Clothing Workers’ nion by the national committee of the Trade Union Educational League is *_ * @ © HE administration party within the A. C. W. A. has definitely set its feet upon the path of “respectability,” away from the road of the militant class struggle, which made the union a mighty organization, backward to- Local Chicago Elects|¥era reconciliation with the most reactionary trade union bureaucrats and New Officials with the employers themselves. This policy is marked on the one hand by concéssions to the bosses (witness the readjustments, so-called, that lowered the earnings of the laid down by the sixth semi-/| annual convention of the Chi- |nand, it has been accompanied by war cago Young Workers League on |against ths left wing and against all Sunday. This was the first con- | progressive and miltant policies with- vention of the Chicago league since its reorganization on the| basis branches, from the six new branches showed a great desire to get down to real work making this | convention the most construc- tive one in the history of the Chicago league. - Comrade Valeria Mette, secretary of the Chicago league, reported at the egnvention for committee, pointing out in her report | the issuance of any leaflet stating its the great gains made by the Chicago league as a result of the reorganiza- tion and showing that today there was nothing in the way of complete reor- ganization on the basis of shop nu- clei. the coming six months was also out- lined and the sentiment expressed in the discussion showed that the dele- gates were almost unanimously in fa- vor of making all efforts to see that this program of action is carried out; demonstrating that whole Chicago membership is ready to give full co-operation to the new| 2. C. E. C. in seeing that real construc tive work is carried on in the future, and that no factionalism is permitted to interfere with the accomplishment of the great tasks that lie before them. dealt with only those problems first in importance such as: the organiza- tion of shop nuclei; the intensification of the trade union work, factory cam- ram of work was A full ie cago that sacrifices the cutters to new demands of the bosses). On the other jin the union. It is the duty of the left wing to of the working area |fight against bed bg des: i ated | being systematically introduce y Peo acpi Sidney Hillman. Under no condition can supporters of the T. U. BE. L., members or sympathizers of the left, support the policies of class collabora- tion practiced by the administration party, and to be silent is to give sup- port, In the recent election within the union in Chicago, some members of the city executive ;the T. U. E. L, local group opposed position, This was the first mistake made by these comrades, because it would leave the possibility of large numbers of workers getting the im- pression that the T. U. E. L. was not opposing Hiliman’s class collaboration policy. However, the progressive cam- paign committee, with the approval of the national committee of the T. U. E. L,, did issue a leaflet which laid down a left wing policy and declared in support of the T. U. BE. L. program and the candidates of the left wing. This leaflet was a good fighting left wing document, which could be sup- The Chief Problems. A complete program of action for practically the workers, the latest concession in Chi-+ unhesitating support of the left wing in the coming struggles they can; prove that our hopes are justified. In the face of the desertion of the class struggle by the administration party in the A. C. W. A, the T. U. B, L. calls upon all true left wing work- ers to unify their ranks on the basis of the class struggle. It is the function of the left wing not to win the offices for the sake of offices, but to win the leadership of the masses FOR the class struggle and AGAINST class collaboration. To protect the workers against wage cuts—we must unite for struggle. To protect against unemployment—we must unite for struggle. To build the power of the working class for the overthrow of capitalism—we must unite for struggle. To win the mem- bers of the A. C. W. A. away from the misleading policies of the ad- ministration party—we must unite for struggle. AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHERTY. (Continued from page 1) in subjection, by force. The capitalist government is a dictatorship, tho in ported by every member. of the T. U. L. But several members of the T. U. E. L., because they had not them- selves authorized the leaflet, de- nounced it in a document which they delivered to the leader of the ad- The major portion of the discussion | ™inistration party in Chicago, By so doing, they delivered a serious blow their act, the fundamental solidarity which must exist between all those " ho oppose the policies of class col- paigns; education, literature, work: | ¥' ers’ correspondence, children’s work, |/@boration of the administration par- etc., ete, ty. Whether the leaflet was issued by In Better Position. the T. U. B. L. or by someone else, against the left wing, undermining, by whether the comrades approved it or some countries such as the United States, Great Britain and France, it masquerades under the cloak of democracy. It nevertheless rules by force and throws off its democratic mask whenever its power is imper- iled or a crisis confronts it, Such a crisis was the European war. It then enforced conscription without regard to law or constitution. It made its own laws, Pet ies ‘HE question that faces the workers is not whether it is wrong to treat the capitalists in Russia as the capi- talists treat the workers in America, | Young raided the home of BE. C. Frick, The party delegates to the conven- tion stressed the importance of greater Participation in the party life by the league membership. This suggestion was strongly upheld in the, report of the C. E. C. The Chicago league showed itself in @ better position than ever before to accomplish the tasks that lie before it. Impressed by the great and impor. tant work ahead, the large majority of the delegates showed a great enthus- jasm for getting down to real work immediately in co-operation and under the leadership of the C. BH. C. and the N. E. ©. and plainly expressed the sentiment that they would have no pa- tience with any factional attempts to obstruct work in the future. The report of the city executive committee was accepted almost unani- mously and the new city executive committee proposed by the elections committee was elected by vote of 25 to 6. The delegates also showed them. selves almost unanimously in favor of @ resolution presented endorsing the supporting the C. E. C. of the Work. Every day under this head you will learn not only what BUILDERS thruout the country are doing to bulld a pm ened to accomplish more for OUR paper. lo ing—and we will “tell the world.” Nine Good Men—From wr good work can be turned Communist cause is shown by this group In Jacksonville, Fla, Nine good men, most active among whom are L. Bernhart, Ben Berlin, Loebe, and Welseiman have in the Inst nine months contributed $1,500 Of this amount $330 was given on the last visit of Comrade Loonin, national organizer of the Jewish fed- in cash to support the “Freiheit.” eration. This alone is proof of support to the Communist cause. But they did more, They pledged $100 to the DAILY WORKER which they mean to send in as soon as able. Adding not, to sign a document against the leaflet at the request of an enemy of the left wing was a blow at the whole left wing movement. Serious mistake, or, if it was not a mistake—if they struck this blow in- tentionally—they have no place in the left wing movement or in the T, U. EL. U. E. L. believes that the comrades made a mistake which deserves and does receive severe censure, It is very reluctant to think that any member of our movement would intentionally injure the movement in such a man- ner. Altho it has been necessary in the past, particularly in the case of Comrade Schneid, to combat a ten- dency that looked for a common ground with the administration party more energetically than it looked for an opportunity to fight for our prin- ciples of class struggle, yet we still want to believe that the comrades merely made a mistake, and that they N. EB. C. and the stand it took inj}can be brought to correct. their at. titnde, that they really wish to work ws Party in its major political policy. ! with the left wing. By their loyal and but whether the capitalists have a right to exploit the workers or whether the workers are justified in THE DAILY WORKER SMALL WINKS AT MURDERS BY KK K PALS IN HERRIN (Continued from page 1) to the klan. Among crimes committed by Young, which the klan now admits, were the theft of $250.00 at an Italian wedding in Pittsburgh, Wlinois, Young assaulted Paul Corder of Marion, and was tried for this offense in Herrin. On February 6, 1924, foreman of the county grand jury, which was then investigating Young’s lawless activities. Frick was kid- napped by Young and spirited out of the county in an attempt to postpone jury action, He wae held on a charge of possesing liquor in his home, but it was later proved that Young had Planted the liquor there previous to the fake raid. At another time Young kidnapped the Herrin mayor, and took him out of the county. Klan Pays Young. ‘When the Kian saw that Young had attained a national notoriety as a killer ,they attempted to repudiate him, but Young did not permit them to get away with this, The klan sup- ported Young and his family up until the time of his death. Young returned to Herrin, breaking his promise to remain away for the good of the coun- ty. He had been given $1,000 by the klan, but ran out of money and came back for more. The klan gave him more money and paid his expenses at the Lymar Hotel, the best hotel in Herrin. Just before his death Young had completed plans to organize for the klan in Jackson county as he had done in Williamson county. Young had al- ready completed financial arrange- ments with the klan for his lawless work in Jackson county, and on the day of his death said: “I contemplate cleaning up Jackson county in the near future.” Lies In Baptist Church. The body of Glenn Young is lying in state at the first baptist church, which from the start ardently sup- Ported Young in his murderous career. State’s Attorney Arlie Boswell is representing the state here, but he has refused to say what action Governor Smell will take. He was asked whether Small had taken any steps to curb the klan’s lawlessness here, and admitted he knew of no such ac- tion, freeing themselves from the grip of a gang of highway robbers? If we be- liéve that thé present system is a’rob- ber system and that the capitalists are robbers, then we should not insult the intelligence of the exploited workers, who realize they are being exploited, by talking nonsense cuch as igs in- dulged in by those who put the dic- tatorship of the proletariat in Russia on the same level as the open dictator ship of the capitalists in Italy or the camouflaged dictatorship in America. ** 8 ND when a stoolpigeon*like Abram- ovich, comes to America in order to spew his venom ‘on the Russian revolutionists from the platform, and the workers of New York refuse to lis- ten to him, we are of the opinion that such, action is justified. We are glad to learn that the New York workers have enough red blood in their veins and enough class consciousness to re- sent the visit of a czarist spy. ne N yesterday’s paper there was a re- Port from London of a Lenin me- morial meeting being broken up by fascisti by means of tear gas bombs. We read of Communist meet- ings getting broken up all over the world, by the capitalists and their yel- low socialist allies. We read of Com- Munists being expelled illegally trom the trade unions by the yellow social- ists and the labor fakers. We know that Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg were murdered by the yellow socialist allies of Abramovich and that Lenin would have been killed by Kerensky had he been able to lay his hands on him. Knowing all these facts and many more, we refuse to do penance for the vigor of our language in de- scribing the perfidy of Abramovich, et © OMMUNISTS are not bloodthirsty. In fact they have the only pro- gram that will inevitably bring peace on this earth. Until capitalism is eliminated there cannot be any peace Tho conflicting interests of capitalist groups bring wars between nations and groups of nations and the conflict between the workers and thé capital- ists produce the class struggle which must culminate in civil war. The victory of the workers over their mas ters will bring lasting peace when The ¢omrades ;either ecammitted a The national committee of the T,’ WORK Greater Legit ir, but also ell us wi ‘OU are Jacksonville, Florida. in by workers sympathetic to the Insurance polley campaign of the this it makes a mighty good record for the Group—but they did stil! more! They turned over to Comrade M. Zevin, a member of the Phila- delphia Jewish branch who was visiting there, $80 worth of subscriptions to “Build the DAILY WORKER” as further evidence of their willing- ness to build the Communist movement. That In-our opinion constitutes a record of buliding they can well be proud of. Our hats go off to the nine good men of Jacksonville, Florida! ™ If You Live in Philadel phia— Jot This Down in Your Tool Box! On Friday evening, February 27, at the New Traymore Hall, and under the auspices of the Workers Party and the Young Workers League, there wil! be held the event of the jon—-A DAILY WORKER BALL. You will hear a lot more about It—but jot it down now. bows! a ort ia class conflicts and all incentives to war are eliminated thru the establish. ment of Communism. When you buy, get an “Ad” for the DAILY WORKER. Courteous Service CONGRESS BALKS ATPASSING FIVE COOLIDGE BILLS (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, Jan. 26—With ad- journment only five weeks away, administration forces faced impassable barriers today in attempting to enact President Coolidge’s administrative program before the summer vacation. Five major legislative measures remain on the administration pro- gram, aside from the usual appro- priation bills. These includes the Isle of Pines treaty, the Underwood Muscle Sheals bill, the Moses postal bill increasing postoffice salaries through higher postal rates, a farm bill to control co-operative marketing and the president’s own recommendation for American adherence to the world court. The administration also faced serious difficulty in obtaing senatorial con- firmation of the appointments of Harlan F, Stone to the supreme court and of Charles B, Warren as attorney general. Fights have been waged against both appointments. Warren has been exposed as a sugar trust lawyer, “The outlook was that congress will Take little headway on subjects the administration fayors and much noise where the president desires quiet. “The Beauty and the Bolshevik” is coming to Ashland Auditorium Feb. 5. New English Branch Is Organized on “The Hill” in Pittsburgh PITTSBURGH, Pa., Jan. 26,—A new English branch was organized at the Labor Lyceum, 35 Miller street, Pitts- burgh. This branch is located in the heart of the famous international dis- trict known as “The Hill.” This branch has a nucleus of old and tried comrades and in view of the character of the population im this section there is wonderful opportunity for the de- velopment of a big and effective branch. The branch will meet every Thurs- day evening at the Labor Lyceum, The next meeting is Thursday, Jan, 29, 8:30 p. m. Workers interested should attend the next meoting and get in the organization at the time it begins. Reasonable Prices “TME PLACE TO CAT" WEST INN CAFETERIA 734 W. Madison St., Chicago. 2nd Floor—8 Doors Kast of Halvted St., Chicago, Ml. Phone Monroe 0120 “Right Over the Big Clock” Dinner 10,30 to 2.16 Strictly Hor Supper 4.16 to 7.16 Cooking and Baking fo The Most Home-Like Euting Place in This Neighborhood Letters of Hope and C Hate Reveal a Friend and Foe of Communism By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL ODAY, two letters stand out from the host that daily piles my desk. They are interesting because of the striking contrast that they present. One is from a New York “socialist,” an enemy of Com- munism, He spews the’ venom that only disappointed “so. cialists” can; especially those whose latest disappointment is the ytter failure of the Anti-Soviet propaganda with which the counter-revolutionist, Raphael Abramovich, was going to flood this country. His is a sample of two or three let- ters that have come to the DAILY WORKER since it joined with the whole Communist press in exposing this agent of the counter-revolution. It breathes the hate of the foiled conspirator whose schemes have been rudely set at naught; in this case the attempts to hold the Abramovich meetings under the cloak of socialism in New York City. *. *¢ & © The other letter comes from a Communist sympathizer in the west. He reads the DAILY WORKER. He is enthused by its Communist message. He is not a member of the Workers (Communist) Party, but he is the kind of material that is heiping build the American Communist movement. His letter is. published in full as follows: Sisseton, So. Dak., January 24, 1925, Gentlemen; Your paper comes to my desk every day along with another Chicago daily. From your paper | can get the real conditions as to the laboring man and his family. From the other daily | can see that we farmers of this northwest are having a bunch of prosperity that should make the city people envious of us, | would like to give you some information on the real conditions out here in this part of South Dakota and I believe that the entire north- west is in the same condition, Last fall | had occasion to investigate the crop mortgages that our good farmers of Roberts County were compelled to give the bankers and machine men. This amount that | am giving is only crop mortgage on the first of September and does not include any other personal pro- perty or real property. The crop mortgages amounted to $956,000. Again going to the Register of Deeds office of this county | found that in the four years previous to 1920 there were 54 mort ge for- closures recorded on land. The last year or 1924 there were registered 124 forclosures. ‘ | might add that this part of the state has not been settled over twenty-five years. At that time the government gave this land to the settlers that were willing to go thru the hardships to settle it up and now they are losing their homes every day. They have worked hard, not only the men but children and wives have spent long hours laboring in the fields trying to pay the interest on their home and now they are seeing them go. Just the other day the state legislature voted the child labor amendment down, and still the voters of our state do mot awaken but keep sending the same bunch of parasites to make the laws for them. What can we do to wake them up? The reason for this information that | am so freely giving is be- cause | think the laborer and farmer has a common cause and should be made to see the light—Yours very truly, W. P. WOHLHETER. e+ * & This correspondent utters the hope that unity of the exploited in the cities and on the fand will be effected for their common struggle against capitalism. It was the al- liance of the city workers and landless peasants that Lenin fought for and achieved in Russia. It is the strength of the Bolshevik revolution. The hatred of “socialists” for this re- volution is contained in the second letter received as follows: Mister Engdahl, Idiot and Liar: Raphael Abramovitsch, a blacken, at the New Star C: ruffians failed so miserably in their scoundrelly attempt to break up, that there are two kinds of opposition, one that is intelligent and one that is otherwise. He referred to the howling gang of maniacs who are So afraid that some one might learn something that they brayed like the jackasses they are in order to prevent him from being heard. Alas for them, he was heard, no thanks to your hooligans. That is what he referred to as “unintelligent” opposition. But that was before anyone had seen the delicate little piece in your issue of January 23. That beggars description. The words to describe that haven't been invented yet. Louis Engdahi, | always knew you were a little weak in the head. That's why you went Communist.’ But 1 al jays thought you were a little more decent personally than the u: breed. But | guess the people who have bought your services have bought, not only your feeble ability, but also your soul and you have sunk to the level of your Proprietor, the unspeakable Zinoviev. You have fallen below Hearst in decency. You are lower than the Chicago Tribune in manhood. No honesty can be expected from a Communist, no decency. If a person had any he wouldn’t be a Communist—it’s against the rules. He'd be expelled from the ranks as a petty bourgeois if he showed the slightest signs of decency. But that editorial is the furthest south you've gone 80 far. Keep it up, you poor fool, and maybe some day you'll sink low enough to be invited to Moscew to be Zinoviev’s right hand man.— With the supremest contempt, W. M. FEIGENBAUM. *.* &£ & The writer of the above, William Morris Feigenbaum, is one of the editors of the New Leader, the official organ of the “socialists” in New York City. Feigenbaum does the Scavenger work for the New York “socialists” that is re- jected by others as being even too repulsive for them. In Hillquit's “socialist” court he is the master buffoon, and how he turns apologist for Abramovich. As a weekly The Leader succeeded The Call, when this “socialist” organ died in the arms of a combination of “so- cialist” trade union bureaucracy in the needle trades and the petty bourgeoisie who parade as “liberals.” !f Abramovich had been able to inject his poison into the New York labor movement, especially into its Jewish section, it iby continue the dictatorship of this wing of the American labor reaction a little longer. But Abramovich failed. And his failure was due to the spontaneous resent- ment of New York's rank and file workers against the Abram- ovich breed; just as they have fought and will continue to fight the Cahans, the Sigmans and the Kaufmanns, *_* & & It is a rather sickly wail for “socialists” to claim that Communists are trying to smother their attack on Soviet Russia. The whole capitalist press is open to the “social- ists,” where their own press has failed. It is‘a rather healthy sign when mots ro workers can get their resentment against the enemies of Soviet Russia across in spite of this capitalist-socialist press alliance, in spite of the police and private gunmen and gangsters who try to rule at the Abramovich meetings; in te of every weapon of the “socialist” counter-revolutionar! Such workers display an et knowledge of what they really desire—the triumph of American labor sven capitalism. The “socialists,” including the imported Abram- oviches, are madmen to try to oppose it. capitalism breeds even this form of insanity. ; ° . * . The exploited workers and iit learning that they must fight these imbeciles of id talism's lunatic asylum, as well as the rest of the cap class. Having learned this the workers and farmers speed the day of their victorys : jor farmers of America are ROWD CHEERS SOVIET RUSSIA WHILE SPY LIES (Continued from page 1) steps taken toward world trade unton unity. The speech of Alexander Bittelman, member of the central executive com- mittee of the Workers (Communist) Party, to party members here, caused much favorable comment among the trade unionists. Comrade Dittelman exposed Abramovich as an emissary of the Second (Socialist) International who is trying to discredit the Anglo- Russian trade union move toward trade union unity. Bittelman declared in his speech that, “The labor reactionaries all over the world are quite alarmed at the re- approachment between the trade un- fons of England and Russia.” Com- rade Bittelman continued: Play A. F. of L. Against British Labor “They see in it, quite justly, a real menace to their domination, which means the domination of capitalism, in the labor movement. You should read the Berliner ‘Forward,’ organ of Schiedemann and Noske, and you wil! get and idea of how bitter, resentful and alarmed they really are. “So what do they do? They attempt to discredit the report of the British delegation in order to neutralize and counteract Its effects. They attempt to break up the ‘Anglo-Russian unity committee’ In order to prevent the unity ef the international trade union movement, They are also trying to it get the reactionaries of the American * Federation of Labor to re-enter the = Amsterdam international In order to ‘t @ reactionary counter-balance to the growing left wing and particu. 6 larly to the powerful influence of the e Anglo-Russian unity committee. With ir this last maneuver you are familiar h & o ia ee ee ee EES PSPS LS SPSS SSS TST ese from the statement of Comrade Fos- ter made upon the occasion when Gompers and Grassman, representa tives of the Amsterdam international were discussing in El Paso the coming | of the A. F. of L. back into Europe. _ “Now comes Abramovich tu conti- nue the work begun by Grassman. He comes to mobilize the Gompersites for a new crusade against the world trade unity, against the Anglo-Russian unity committee and against the left wing of the labor movement generally. Abramovich Is here to prevent the for- _ mation of a united front of fabor | against the united front of capital. £ 4 Seda ee Flunkey of “Open Shopper” Dawes. “Abramovich ig here to do a job for ‘Open Shopper’ Dawes and for ‘ American capitalism. You must real- !! ize, comrades, that one of the main ob- _ Jectives of the world unity of the trade fr union movement is to unite the forces © of labor against the enslavement of | the European working masses by American imperiallam, t. e» against _ the Dawes’ plan. “The American imperialists know full well that the success of the unity movement wili spell the defeat of the Dawes’ plan. The American imperial- | ists and their servant, ‘Open Shopper’ Dawes, are therefore bitterly oppos- ed to the ‘menace’ of world unity in } the trade union movement, The Sec- ¢ ond International and its emissary in } the United States, R. Abramovich, are ! doing the bidding of Dawes when they | engage in obstructing the unity of § the working class. Abramovich is do. ? ing now in the United States a job for world imperialism and for its chief master, the imperialists of America, Expose and Defeat the Counter-Revo- lutionary Plan of Abramovich, “Comrades! It is the task of our Party to tell the American = Z Fe cess of Abramovich and the } counter-revolutionaries generally will { mean more hardship, more misery and more bitterness in the itt te | working masses of America. We must arouse the masses to protest and de- monstrate thelr resentment against this flunkey of Dawes and servant of imperialism, “Let every working man and work- ing woman in the United States know what the Second Invernational stands | for, what Abramovich stands for, and | what the Russian white guards stand | for, Lot every worker and every pro: gressive know what suffering and mi-! Sery these agents of imperialism have | i i E E cause of the treachery of these servants of noe Teale, ener ont ev-, other capitalist country in the world because they had tho courage , m" of Da who calls himself R. then ee erywhere with only one response: “Not an ounce of support; “Not a cent of money-— t “For the agents of imperialism and ie high