The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 30, 1925, Page 6

Page Six THE DAILY WORKER.) The Monarchical Dung Pile Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO, 1118 'W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, IL (Phone: Munroe 4712) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mall: $8.50...6 months ; yiaganid months By mail (in Chicago only): ¢ $4.50....8. months $2.50...8 months $6.00 per year $8.00 per year Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER $113 W. Washington Bivd. Entered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1923, at the Post- Office, at Chicago, Ill, under the act of March 8, 1879. <a 200 Chicago, Hlinele J, LOUIS ENGDAHL NE woe EItOPS women Business Manager WILLIAM F, DU MORITZ J. LOE Advertising rates op application British Terror in India The British financial secretary to the government of Bengal reported to Downing street that an elaborate plan for the assassination of British of- ficials in India is on foot. The report states that two terrorist leaders are under arrest, that organizers are at work in twenty districts, that the Hindoos are being trained in the use of arms, and that bomb factories have been discovered by agents of the British government. In addition, large quantities of ammunition are re- ported to have been smuggled into the country. The British official urged that drastic measures be taken to suppress the rebels. Undoubtedly there is a movement on foot in In- dia to drive the British invaders out of that coun- try. It is also certain that the pernicious pacifist propaganda is relegated to the limbo of history. But the stories of attempted assassinations are merely for the purpose of preparing the ground for the inauguration of a reign of terror in India that will glut the scaffold with the blood of those best able to lead the Hindoos from the bondage in which they are now in under the rule of the British Em- pire. At this moment, Britain is engaged in a world- wide conspiracy against Soviet Russia, her most dangerous enemy. Russia is looked upon by the oppressed peoples of the east as their saviour. The diplomacy of the Soviet government is not directed towards acquiring new territories as was the diplomacy of the czar, but towards the liberation of the oppressed of humanity whether they be wage slaves under the yoke of capitalism or colonial peoples doubly robbed by a foreign imperialism. Britain has temporarily crushed the revolt in Egypt. She has succeeded in getting the Irish ques- tion off her doorstep for the moment. But another storm will break and the robber empire will go down in a hurricane when her victims all over the world and her slaves in her own industrial hells rise in revolt and sweep one of the most hateful tyrannies in. the history of the world from the face of the earth. Our French Party The French section of the Communist Interna- tional has now a dues-paying membership of 76,000 and the circulation of its mighty daily paper, Humanite, has reached 200,000. The growth of our French party is in striking contrast to the decline of the socialist party, which was compelled to suspend its daily paper last year thru lack of finance. On the other hand, the Com- munist Party raised a subscription of 1,000,000 francs for organizing purposes and a party loan of 800,000. This was done between last summer and the end of the year 1924, The growth of the Communist parties in Europe and elsewhere cannot be measured by the number of representatives sent to the bourgeois legisla- tures, tho that is a very important form of Com- munist activity. But unlike the socialist parties, he basis of Communist strength is in the mass or- ganizations of the workers, in the trade unions and in the shops. Thus the Communist Party of France influences the political situation consider- ably more than its representation. in parliament would indicate. It is.a tremendous revolntionary force and a terrible challenge to French im- perialism. Only Eight Lynchings in 1924 Official records show that ONLY eight Ne “were lynched in 1924. We are getting more ‘and more civilized. They don't lynch the Negroes in the south so much now, because the Negroes are migrating to the north. The Negroes are, very valuable and cheap hands fur the southern cotton planters and cotton manufacturers, and when they began to leave the south for the north, the southern capitalists got frightened. So they are making life a little easier for the Negro workers—they are not lynching them so much, ‘Let the Negroes organize and then begin to talk “white” language to the bosses, and then big fights, big strikes will begin. Then they won’t lynch the Negroes; they will call out the militia and federal ' froops andmow them down with machine guns. That is the civilized method. — \ } ——_—_—_—_—_—__}1- Get a member for the WorkersParty and a new subscription for the DAILY WORKER. > H _ Meeting in N. Y. City, Feb. 1. E Gathered Into One All the Tears of the Working Class Mothers, and All the Groans That Rose From the Field of the Imperialist War Found an Echo in His Heart.—Lenin Memorial The little town of Coburg in Germany has be- come a dumping ground for unemployed monarchs. The principal tin cans on this monarchical rubbish pile are Grand Duke Cyril of Russia and. the ex- king Ferdinand of Bulgaria. Ferdinand, once called the “Fox of the Balkans ;” is at least foxy enough to keep his mouth shut, but Cyril is not so tight lipped. He keeps an army of literary hacks busy issuing proclamations and countering the proclamations of other pretenders to the throne of the Romanoffs. The woods are full of such. y No matter how much the bourgeoisie hate the Soviet government, they nevertheless consider the play-acting of Cyril and his competitors as so much buffonery. But Cyril has several automobiles, servants and an abiding belief that God kept him alive until now so that he could ascend to the throne which most people have forgotten in the hurly burly of modern life. The Grand Duke Nicholaivich, THE DAILY WORKE LIES OF PRESS PROMOTE WAR, EDITOR SAYS Newspapers Falsify at Government’s. Behest WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 28.—The capitalist press is one’ of the agents which fosters war, Bruce Bliven, well known newspaper man, and former editor of the New York Globe, told the conference on the cause and cure of ‘war meeting here today. “The influence of the newspapers promotes war by commonly allowing tense international situations to drift toward war without trying to avert a clash,” said Bliven. “Newspapers de- liberately lie at the behest of govern another. preten-| ments and often encourage their gov- der, objects to Cyril’s claim that God is on his side|ernments to become bellicose. They and cites marks of divine favor to himself as evi-|Ptint the propaganda of war fe te dence of his standing with the deity. The Soviet|‘™Sistle during the time of hostili- government, when it has a few moments to spare, vatches the antics of the crazy czarists and remem bers Napoleon’s phrase that God is on the side of the heaviest battalions. Treated Worse Than Dogs That Chippewa Indians on. the Minnesota reserv- ations are treated worse than dogs is, the report brought back to. Minneapolis by two women mem- bers of the Indian relief committee, after a week’s visit among the unfortunate wards of the United States government. The committee found the most appalling con- ditions among the Indians. Dozens of women, eighty to one hundred years old, were lying on rags with no food in the house. Scores of children could not go to school for lack of clothing. What looked like a bundle of rags lying under a canopy turned out to be an old woman who was starving with hunger. The burglars who stole their land from the In- dians now leave the unfortunate victims of their thievery to starve in the midst of their patrimony. The American capitalist class that raise their hypocritical voices in horror over the confiscation of industry by the Russian revolution, look with equanimity on the robbery committed by them- selves on the people whom they drove from their lands and into starvation. But robbery is their profession, and will continue to be their profession until the workers put an end to it. Happy Farmers Poets are inclined to sing the praise of the vaga- bond who wanders from place to place, unworried ties that they prevent the conclusion of sound peace at the end because of prejudices engendered.” Coolidge Promises Of Prosperity Stark Joke on Schenectady SCHENECTADY; N. Y., Jan. 28.— There are about 5.000 unemployed in, Schenectady, the home of the General Electric Co. These workers are down. to their last penny, and many of them are starving. The city has been called upon to extend them aid, but the men want work, not charity. To help out the wives and daugh- ters of the workers are taking in work, or going out-as charwomen. In the midst of the greatest plenty, with profits accumulating in the pocket of the capitalists—with the wealth of the country computed to be about 320 bil- lions, there are starving workers in a rich industrial town. They were promised that the begin- ning of the new year, the opening of the first year after a presidential elec- tion, would see jobs for all. But they got it as usual “in the neck.” They voted as they were told to vote—or out of fear of “losing their jobs,” and now they are without jobs’ just the same. Unemployment has hit the largest families. hardest, families of 8 and 10 being without any means of subsis- tence. Somebody is getting the Profits. The workers cannot even get work. They voted just as they were. told by the bosses and now they face hunger. and unbound. But now the farmer is getting into Jack Johnstone the same class. Only he is not unworried and un- bound. On the contrary, the latest reports indicate that the farmers are being driven from ownership of the soil with great rapidity. There are 3,000,000 tenant farmers in this coun- try, or nearly 50 per cent. In Texas there are 150,000 tenant farmers who, with their families, total about 650,000 persons, who wander from one tenant home to another, with their possessions in| their wagons. Eighty per cent of the farmers and farm help in Illinois are over 50 years old. It looks as’ if farming is attractive to young fellows in Illinois— so that they let it alone. In 1920, 38.1 per cent of the 6,500,000 farmers were tenants. In 1925, nearly 50 per cent have been turned into tenants. Happy farmers—their pro- letarianization solves the farming question. ‘It links them up more closely with the working class and makes revolutionary factors of them, “Mexico Not to Be Outdone Commissioner Enright of the police department of New York is finding an emulator of his finger- printing plans in Mexico.. Ramon Ross, governor of the Federal 'District of Mexico, has decided: ta| impose fingerprinting on all the inhabitants of his district—“for ‘the use of the police.” It is obvious against whom this is being directed. The workers and poor peasants of Mexico are be- ginning to see thru the hollow schemes of Calles, the president-elect of the “people.” Before election, he talked of the “workers and poor peasants,” now he talks about his friends in, Wall Street. Hence the governor is preparing in advance for the bitter struggles that are about to come in Mexico, President Calles gained more favor in the eyes of the capitalists when he ordered the courts to proceed against his own chauffeur who was caught violating the speed law. “Ain’t we giving them hell,” was the slogan of the southern planters who drank champagne on the verandas in the cool eve- nings while the “white thrash” and their colored slaves were facing federal bullets during the civil war. Calles is setting a worthy example in law enforcement but we would like to know how the chauffeurs like it. Frank Duffy, treasurer of the Carpenters’ Union, fears that the radicals haye their eyes on the union treasuries. They will need microscopes to find any- thing there by the time the reactionaries yet thru. Speaks at North Side English Branch Comrade Jack Johnstone, assistant secretary of the Trade Union Educa tional League, will speak at the edu- |cational meeting of the North Side ‘English Branch at their educational meeting next Monday evening. Comrade Johnstone, who attended the meeting of the Pan-American Federation of Labor at Mexico City, will tell of the lessons to be drawn from the convention. or ; When tt pay. get an “Ad” for the DAILY WORKER. By H. GOLDY In New York City recently there appeared on a public platform the leader of the Second (soeialist) Inter- national, the active whiteguard R. Abramovich, ; THe meeting as well as his visit to America, was arranged, by the “Jew- ish Socialist Verband” 2nd the pur- pose of transfering his activity from First, to renew the ‘counter-revolution- ary attack on the Soviet government, secondly, to rally, if possible, about the once-influential ~name—Abramo- vich, those forces, which Morris Hillquit and Abe Cahan have ‘shat- tered. It was evidenced, however, that both, the American socialists and Ab- ramovich, who undoubtedly, accepted their information as authoritative, were mistaken in their: evaluation . o/ the sentiment among the Jewish. work- ers in this country. : After several weeks boom in the Forward and New Leader “about the honor bestowed upon us” by the visit of “our great” and “famous tead- er,” it is doubtful whether the New Star Casino would have been fillod to a third of its capacity. For the:crowd- ed capacity, thanks is due those class- conscious workers who came to extend @ welcome to Abramovich, such as he deserved, That the organizers of the meeting anticipated the following events, was evidenced by the warning issued by: the chairman Mr. B, eck (once konwn as the young ) that \Usturbers will be treated according- ly, ’ Viadeck’s warning was not mere phraseology. The most conspicuous among the audience were the innumer- abls blue-coats and plain clothes de- tectives. a ; our Montha Too Long!” e A Red Welcom Europe to this country was two-fold: |° R BOSTON, Jan. 28. — The following letter has been sent to the secretaries of all shoe workers’ unions in Lynn. It was read at the meetings of the local shoe workers’ unions and was favorably acted upon by many, The letter ‘occasioned much comment in the capitalist press of Lynn, ,Since they all favor the Boot and Shoe Un: ion, The chamber of commerce, the cap- italist press, the shoe manufacturers and the agents of the bosses’ Boot and Shoe Union (?) are all united to force the B. & S. down the throats of the Lynn’ shoe workers. The letter speaks for itself: “Dear Sir and Brother: “Mr. Joseph Manley, eastern dis- trict organizer of the Trade Union Ed- ucational League, is advertised to speak at a mass meeting of Lynn shoe workers at Lasters’ Hall, Mon- day, Jan. 26, at 8 o’clock. “The meeting is being called due to the propaganda now being carried on to forte the Lynn_shoe workers into the Boot and Shoe Workers’ Union. “It is the opinion of our committee that the affiliation of the Lynn unions with the Boot and -Shoe would be nothng short of disastrous. The last vestige of independence and eco- nomic well-being would be wiped out. “The Boot and Shoe is not a bona fide’ trade union. Wherever the B. & 8. has organized the workers have lost the most elementary rights ar union men. Witness the Brockton situation, where thousands of mem bers of the B, & S. are placed in Local ‘0’ and are deprived of all mem. bership rights merely because they exercised their right of criticism of the B. & §. officials or demanded mil- itant aviion against their employers. “Our committee stands for the amal- gamation of all existing shoe workers’ unions into one big, powerful indus- trial union upon the following pro- gram: “(1.) Consolidation of all independ ent unions in an amalgamation con- vention to be called as soon as pos- sible; .(2.) Amalgamation of the in- (Continued from page 1) tween capital and labor, the crimes of Soviet Russia, and the fine arts of craft union strikebreaking, would be onsidered necessary. to prepare for caMlination. a aa a O. « ERBERT H. ASQUITH has ac- <A cepted an earldom. They all fall for the blandishments of Buckingham palace sooner or later. Even Balfour ‘had an honor thrust upon him. But H..H. Asquith was a great liberal! The ‘story of how Asquith got the title and the. emoluments that go with it, ir said to be as follows: When Asquith was. defeated by a labor candidate in the Paisley election, the king was deeply grieved and sent for Henry and spoke somewhat thusly: “Her- bert, after your many years of loyal service to your king, I am sorry. to learn that my subjects turned their thumbs down on you. However, you have found favor in my eyes and I will bestow an earldom on you, with the consent of Mr. Baldwin. But first I would be grateful if you paid a visit Chanin secretary of the Verband, who opened the meeting, attempted to glad- den the hearts of the audience by in- forming them that “our dear com- rade Abramovich” will spend four months’ with “us.”-—“Too long” was fired from’ the audience. Then he in- troduced. the chairman who. dropped the famous’ warning mentioned above, and a few more pearls, “Not Me, Not Mel” When Mr, Weinberg, chairman of the Workmen's Circle and of expul- sion fame, i. e., -by turning all left- wingers into “members at large; greeted Abramovich in the name of 100,000 menibers of the Workmen’s Circle, these members shouted back “Not me; not me!” Not ‘knowing the strength of the rebels in the audience, the committee of “clubbers” commenced to drag trom their seats and beat some of the workers. Chaos followed, a number were expelled from the hall, the speaker was forced to cut short his address. “Equity for the Workers” When order was eventually restored, James O'Neil rose to his feet, not yet totally discouraged by the preceding scene. He disregarded entirely the occasion, 1. e. the guest of honor, and delivered a “socialistic” talk, his key note: was that “we will rebuild the capitalist system and bring about ‘Equity for the working class,’” laughter greeted this remark. Hillquit’s Share in the Russian Revo- ¢ J lution Morris Hillquit deigned to leave his Riverside Drive apartment and came before the workers to claim his share in the Russian revolution “since Martov and Plekhanov, and not only the Bolsheviki”’—he, said—‘made the revolution,” therefore it behoves us to empower him, the formidable Hill- _ |uit, to democratize the Russian revo- lution and then we will have peace on|pour forth The first shot was fired, when Mr, | earth. ‘ the Russian voi veccanensnintdeathnd arene a: SN: | AS WESEEIT -:- ByT.J. O'Flaherty | depenednt shoe unions with the B. & S. upon the following demands which will transform the B. & S. from a com- Pany union to a genuine trade union; (a) Abolition of Local ‘0’; (b), Use of stamp to be governed by local councils; (c) Abolition of company. collaboration in’dues collections; (d) Establishment of bona. fide. grievance committees; (e) . Establishment of rank and file control of B. & S. locally and’ nationally; (f) Officials to be elected by rank and file. “Our committee does not believe that amalgamation can be accomplish ed by merging with the B. & S. un- der its present constitution and con. trol. “The employers will welcome the B. & S. in Lynn because they know that under the rule. of the B. & S. they would be guaranteed against wage de- mands and thru the class collabora- tion of the B. & S. officials the bosses could have complete freedom in more thoroly exploiting the shoe workers under the B. & 8. stamp. “We invite the co-operation of your organization in ‘arranging the mass meeting and ask you’ to have an of- ficial representative onthe’ platform “If we are ‘to successfully preven the B. & 8. from entering Lynn ther we must organize a united front of als shoe unfons to awaken the workers 0: Lynn to the menace of the B. & S. movement. “The bosses want thé B.&8. The capitalist’ newspapers want the B. & 8. “The bourgeois politicians want the B. & §. The chamber of commerce wants the B.& S. WHY? “It is the policy of our committee that the shoe workers must maintain their own independent organization in Lynn until such time as they can amalgamate into one big militant in. dustrial union of shoe and leather workers in this country, “Fraternally yours, “For the Massachusetts Trade Un- fon Educational League, © “(Signed) John J. Ballam, Organiz- be. 5 to my Egyptian realm where the peo- ple still have some confidence in you and subdue tlie rebels by word of mouth, words being ‘much cheaper than bullets” =” se e- HER ‘this is a correct ver- Sion of what took place inside the walls of Buckingham palace or not, we cannot voich for, not having @ stenographic teport of the dialogue, but certain it is that He and his better half, Margot of the wagging tongue, went to Egypt and the old faker Asquith will be able to ‘sit in the house of lords on Feb. 10. David Lloyd George may begin to hammer his old target, the upper house, witt renewed vim, now that his political rival is included’ among the antique human furniture stored there. Brit- ain knows how to repay her servants whether they be liberal, tory or labor but it is safe to predict the king will never hénor the ‘Communists with anything more honorable than a num- ber in one of his majesty’s penal in: stitutions. The Warm Welcome In introducing “the guest of honor” the chairman who sensed the sen- timent of the audience, 'tried to pre: vail over them by portraying Abra- movich as‘not only a great leader of the Second International, but also a martyr of the social revolution. Re- gardless of his appeal, the welcome extended to Abramovich when ha arose to addréss the meeting sent an icy ‘chill to one’s spine.. The scant ap- Plause and the overwhelming booing and hissing left no-doubt as to the nature’ of the audience. ' The guest was prepated to give an historical analysis of the role of the poasant revolts of the 18 century in the present revolution, He. mustered all “his ‘ edunter-revolutionary © know: ledge to prove that the Bolshevik revolution’ realized’ the peasant revy. \ution. This was the first signal for ‘ spontaneous demonstration for the Bolshevild, From all parts of the hall the strains of the International echoed forth, Ab- ramovich ‘turned pale, lost his self. aret. bossession and portrayed a pitiful sight, indeed: ‘The chairman. seemingly nowhere, obtained a cane, apparently thinking that'in that man- ner he will stop the surge of enthus- But even this. was. helpless, x Suddenly the fists of the gangsters, and. the clubs of the policemen, show. ered down upon the heads of monstrators, dozens of them e tinued for @ long. only prolonged it, his feat sc raat, ng of MASSACHUSETTS BOOT AND SHOE WORKERS HAIL AMALGAMATION AND WHOLE T.U.E. L. PROGRAM STONE HELPED MORGAN ‘ROB MINING MAN So Charges Getisitor in Public Speech. (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, Jan. 28,—Sweeping into the open the bitter fight against promotion of Harlan F. Stone to the supreme court of the United States, Senator Thomas Heflin, democrat, of Alabama, this afternoon denounced the attorney general from the floor of the senate for his “legal” activities on behalf of the J. Pierpont Morgan in- terests, Heflin attacked Stone solely on his “record” as attorney for Morgan in a case against Colonel James A. Owenby, colored mining man. Heflin charged Owenby had been “robbed of his prop- erty” in the suit. Heflin’s speech provoked a new out burst between republicans and demo- crats, Senator Sterling, republican, of South Dakota, sought to defend the attorney general by reading messages from other attorneys in the Owenby case, This action was denounced by demo erats as a violation of the senate’s rules and Sterling was finally halted when the presiding officer ruled him out of order. Molders Want Job. ST. LOUIS.—Iron molders tn 8t. Louis particularly have been hard hit by unemployment. All stove shopr are closed. Job shops are operating below normal. * See “The Beauty and the Bolshevik” at Ashland Auditorium Feb. 5. MORE UNIONS GET BEHIND FIGHT ON SYNDICALISM LAWS NEW YORK, Jan. 28—A number of unions have gone on record pro- testing against.the criminal syndi- calist laws of this country. Since the imprisonment of Comrade Ruth- enberg, secretary of the Workers (Communist) Party, several unions of New York have sent their protest to the «governor of. Michigan, de- manding .the release of Comrade Ruthenberg and the dropping of the Prosecution of -the other comrades: arrested in connection with the con- Yention at Bridgeman, Michigan. jong these unions are the Archi- tectural tron, Bronze and Structural Workers’ Union; the Amalgamated Food Workers’. Union, Bakers’ Local. No. 5, the Waterproof Garment Workers’ Union, Local No. 20; the Amalgamated Metal Workers’ Un- lon; the Ladies’ Tailors, Theatrical Costume. and Alteration Workers’ Union, Local No. 38, and the Amal- gamated Food Workers’ Union, Bak- ers Local No. 3, This spirit of solidarity should be followed by other unions. If the fighters of the working class can be sent to prison on such flimsy pre- texts, then the- whole American working class will face persecution and the labor organizations will be Smashed up. Solidarity is the only watchword for the»workers. e to a White Guard his historical introduction, this arous ed the audience, and Shouts of “liar”, “traitor”, “white guard” greeted him like so many missiles, ~ Hillquit took over the chair, and in & manner befitting a lawyer, appealed to the police not to beat the demon: strators. He apparently meant to ap Deal to the democratic sense of justice of the rightly-enraged workers. In fact, he became so tolerant, that he stated he would permit a question to be put to the speaker. However, when one attempted to avail himself of the privilege, he retracted his promise, stating, that only after the meeting questions will be permitted. Fes Audience Walks Out ‘