The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 6, 1925, Page 6

THE DAILY WORKER. Published by the DAILY -WORKER PUBLISHING CO, 1118 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, DL (Phone: Monroe 4712) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mall: 6 months Led months Chicago only)? erent $2.50....8 months $6.00 per year $3.50 By mail $4.50... 38.00 per year AQdress all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER 1113 W. Washington Bivd. Chicago, Hlineis ~—< $$$ $$$ — rd 3, LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F, DUNN oe ALORS MORITZ J. LOEB.......00enem Business Manager Entered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1928, at the Post- Office at Chicago, Ill, under the act of March 8, 1879. <p 290 Advertising rates op application The New German Crisis i While the German workers and their families. were starving and striking against the occupatign, ii of the Ruhr, the German government, with social- f democratic ministers, paid the industrial barons— Hl the real rulers of Germany—$162,500,000. Stinnes, Thyssen, and other multi-millionaires received this huge sum from the treasury of the German “republic” to reimburse them for losses | sustained in the Ruhr. They had this gold in their strong boxes at the time when the police and mili- tary were shooting and jailing workers for strikes and demonstrations against the high cost of food. 8,000 members of the German Communist Party are itt prisons and concentration camps because they took the lead in the struggle. This last infamy of the social-democracy should convince the most apathetic German worker that further support of this gang of traitorous leeches is in itself treason to the working class. The exposure of the German government in this theft of bread from the hungry mouths of millions of men, women and children, has brought on an- other crisis which adds to the rapidly increasing instability of German capitalism. We can trust : the German Communist Party to acquaint the : German workers with the fact that in Soviet Rus- sia, which the German rulers hate, such crimes as these are punished with death. The exposure of the close financial connection between the great capitalist groups and the Ger- man government reads much like our own Teapot Dome scandal and shows that no capitalist nation Moscow Lawyers’ Manifesto We publish_what in our opinion is one of the most remarkable documents ever circulated. Ger- tainly it is one of the most remarkable ever given publicity in the United States of America. It is an appeal for the defense of revolutionists issued, by a union of lawyers—the Bar Association of Moscow, Russia, and is as follows: TO THE LAWYERS ALL OVER THE WORLD! Dear Comrades: All the “civilized” world is drowned in a flood of White Terror. Never before, during the existence of right- eous government and the actual system of justice was law so openly neglected and trodden. The ruling capitalist classes in their struggle with the revolutionaries make of justice a blind weapon of bloody murder, of law—a sheet of paper they tear to pieces and tread on. The jails are overfilled, the bloody work of hangmen does not cease, dreadful or- deals and most refined tortures are now the commonest methods of punishment as in the cruel epoch of the middle ages, Revolutionists are, shot for a rough word to the court of justice, they are slowly killed by means of longlasting penal servi- tude—for free speech (cases of C. Tomp in Esthonia, Fekhenbach and Toller in Ger- many). Innocent men are sentenced to death (Montejo, Sanchez and others in Spain, Sacco and Vanzetti in U. S, A.), the prison- ers are tortured to death in jails (Poland, Hungary), they are killed on the slightest occasion (Bulgaria). In Esthonia were shot about 300, among them children 12 years of age. Among others was executed Doctor Poliakoff for medical aid to revolutionists. The government of Zankoff in Bulgaria which came to power by means of a mili- tary putsch, executed 19 lawyers, who were suspected of giving juridical aid to the rebelling peasants. In Hungary lawyers sufficiently courage- ous to defend the accused in juridical pro- cesses were compelled to flee in order to avoid becoming victims of the White Ter- ror. In spite of this storm of White Terror, the duty of the lawyers all over the world _ is to defend its victims. Don’t allow the revival of the bloody jails and cruel courts of the middle ages, don’t let justice be made a comedy to conceal open murder, don’t let cruel violence and il- has a monopoly of graft and corruption—all are alike in their drive for the wealth extracted from the flesh and blood of the working class. We believe that nemesis treads close on the heels of the German rulers. They have bought and sold the lives of the German workers a dozen times since the Hindenburg line broke and now crisis succeeds crisis. The German workers were fooled into endorsing the Dawes plan by promises of peace and prosperity, but the allied troops are still in Germany and prosperity still does not show above the horizon. The latest exposure, just as the betrayal in the last elections, will send thousands of workers into the Communist Party and immensely increase the army of its sym- pathizers in the industrial centers. Capitalism in Germany is the best organizer the Communist Party has and the social-democratic | traitors can no longer pose as saviors of the work- ‘ing class, Their connection with the capitalist robbers is too easily seen. Postwar Germany exemplifies the’ Communist analysis of the disrupting processes at work in’ capitalist society—economic disintegration, chronic crisis, the weakening of the grip of capitalism on the mass mind, the crystallization of the revolu- tionary forces headed by the Communist Party, revolutionary struggles and—the dictatorship of the working class, Making Revolutionary History Who is fighting the battles of the working class against treason and reaction in the American labor movement? Who is taking the blows of tools of eapitalism in the unions and organizing the rank and file by precept and example for action against the bosses and the capitalist government that i: their instrument? The answer is found in the story of the strug- gles in the labor movements of Detroit, Chicago, Minneapolis, St. Paul, Seattle and other centers, in the story of the struggles in the unionsof-coal miners, machinists, needle. workers, .carpenters, steel workers, railway workers, where the -Sopr munists and their program are the pivot aroun which the battle rages. The Trade Union Educational League page in the DAILY WORKER gives the bare facts of these struggles, but it is a record of achievement against big odds in-a labor movement soaked in the belief that workers and robbers of the workers ean live in peace. In a nation where capitalism has still resources untouched with which to wage.war on the working class, the Communist program, as proved by the record in black and white, gains sup- porters every day and is the fighting issue around which the militant workers rally. We are witnessing now the crystallization of the forces in the American labor movement that alone are capable of building unions that will be weapons in the class struggle and as a record of this process, day by day, the Trade Union Educa- tional League page is history hot with the. fierce breath of the battle. In the years to come it will be a record of the rise of the American revolutionary movement in the mnks of the organized workers—the spot where revolutionary activity registers its best = limited despotism triumph. We call you to defend, to protect the White Terror victims, we call upon you to raise your voice against tortures and hein- ous inhuman‘ murder. Protest thru press and on platform, de- fend revolutionists in the bourgeois courts of justice, organize yourselves for giving pares and'material aid to the revolution- aries, The lawyers of all the world must de- fend the victims of White Terror against the bloody justice of the ruling class. : Presidium of the Organization of Lawyers of Moscow. This appeal is of special interest to the Workers (Communist) Party at this time because of the pending prosecutions of 32 of its members in the Michigan courts, but we hope that none of our readers are naive enough to believe that we expect large numbers of members of the American Bar Association to volunteer their services in our be- half as a result of this appeal. Nevertheless, we, in company with revolutionists the world over, are grateful to the Moscow lawyer comrades for the spirit they display. We hope that after the American revolution the legal fraternity in America will show the same spirit, but we are violating no confidence if we say frankly that we have grave doubts of their doing so. Perhaps there will not be many lawyers left after the revolution here. “ Get a member for the Workers Party and a new -ubseription for the DAILY WORKER. Sun Yat Sen If the news that Doctor Sun Yat Sen is dying is correct and not a “wish-father-to-the-thought” dispatch of capitalist press agencies, the Chinese nationalist independence movement will suffer a serious loss. Sun Yat Sen heads the Kuomingtang party, the fighting party of the Chinese revolutionists and has given his life for the independence movement. He is a friend of Soviet Russia and it was largely his influence that made possible the Russo-Chinese treaty. His party is the expression of the most revolu- tionary group of the Chinese nationalists and it has stood, under his leadership, against all domina-’ tion by western and Japanese imperialism. His friendship for the working class movement of the Far East was shown last year when the conference of the transport workers of the Far Eastern coun- tries was held in Cahton under the protection of his government. We hope that the news of his losing fight with death is not true, but if it is we extend our con- dolences to the movement he served so weil and so faithfully, confident that it is now of such pro- portions that it will survive and grow in spite of the passing of Doctor Sun Yat Sen. We hope he can live'to' see a China freed from the imperialist bandits and united with Soviet Rus- sia in a powerful wnfon' Sf workers and peasants building a Communist society. we Every day get a “sub” for the DAILY WORKER and a member for the Werkers Party, a | ; THE DALLY WORKE pa (7) Ta ZAR HUTCHESON’S machine ir the Detroit séetion of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Join- ers must be in a sad way when it is compelled to ¢: _ upon the armed forces of the state thru an injunction to prevent one illegally expelled mem ber from participating at meetings oi his union, William Reynolds, vice-president o the Carpenters’ District Council in Detroit and president of Local Unio: No. 2140, was expelled from the un ion without trial. In fact, the firs! Reynolds heard aboyt his expulsion was when he was fa notified by the general executive board in Indianapo: lis. Constitution Violated. According to thedaws of the United Brotherhood, every, member is entit- led to a fair trial under specified con- ditions. One of these conditions is that, the defendant has the right to ap- pear before his accusers and defend /jhimself. This or any other conditior of the constitution of the brotherhood was not complied with in the railroad ing of Reynolds. Jt was even amor: high-handed piece of business than the expulsion of the five members oi Local No, 181 in Chicago. The rank and file in Detroit are supporting Reynolds in his fight for justice under the laws of the Car- penters’ Union. Reynolds has refused to consider his expulsion as legal and insists on a trial. The members are with him in this fight. When the fak- ers attempted to have him expelled from the meetings of his union, the members voted that he remain; hence the appeal to the courts for an injunction restraining Reynolds from attending his union meetings. Scrap of Paper. This scrap of paper issued by the capitalist court to the capitalist labor lieutenants, will not avail Hutcheson very much. It will serve to shed more light on his character and expose him to the membership. The document is a unique one and is herewith published for the sake of the record: 4 STATE OF MICHIGAN In the Circuit Court for the County of Wayne in Chancery. To the Circuit Court for the County of Wayne in Chancery: Wayne County Carpenters’ District Council by James W: Sharrack, presi. dent, and Harold R.'Fish, secretary and James W. Sharrack, individually and Harold R. Fish, individually, and United Brotherhood, of Carpenters afd Joiners of ica by Sam Bot- A “Honora ~|terill, its duly authorized agent, plain. tiffs herein, complain of William Views tof Our Re Solution For Unémployment To the DAILY WORKER: This letter was refused publication in our local “labor” press: * E. J, Stack, acting» president of the Oregon Federation of Labor; recently declared before the Spokane Central Labor Council that: unemployment is one of the gravest problems confront- ing civilization. As a solution to this grave problem, he reeommended the Reynolds, defendant herein, and respectfully show unto this court as follows: 1, That the said United Brother? hood of Carpenters and’ Joiners of America, is an organized national’ un- ion of the carptenters of America; that Sam Botterill is the authorized representative of said United Broth: erhood for the district which em- braces the city of Detroit; that the Wayne County Cfrptenters’ District Council is a subsidiary of the said United Brotherhood, and has direct control of the district embracing Wayne county and the city of Detroit; that James W. Sharrack is a member of said United Brotherhood and presi- dent of said Wayne County District Council; that Harold R. Fish is.a member of said United brotherhood and secretary of the said Wayne County District Council. 2, That William Reynolds, de fendant herein, was a member of said United Brotherhood and _ vice-prest- dent of said Wayne County District Council and president of Local Unton | No. 2140, one of the locals of said United Brotherhood. The Famous Paragraph. 3.. That the said defendant, Wil- lam Reynolds, was expelled from membership in the United Brother- haood of Carfenters and Joiners of America, by the action of the general executive board of the United Broth. erhood at the regular quarterly meet. ing of said board, on Jan. 9, 1925; a copy of which order of expulsion is attached hereto and made a part hereof. That the said defendant, William Reynolds, was expelled from sald United Brotherhood for violation of paragraph U. section 42, of the constitution and laws of said United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Join- ers of America, which provides: “U—No member of the United Brotherhood can remain in or he- come a member of more than one local union, or any other organiza- tion of carpenters and joiners, or any mixed union of building trades- men, under penalty of expulsion.” 4. That a copy of said order of expulsion was mailed by the genera’ secretary of said United Brotherhoo¢ to the Wayne County District Coun cil and also to Local No. 2140; that the expulsion of the said defendant William Reynolds, from the United Brotherhood and from the District Council and from the Local Union was made effective by the official ac. tion of the meeting of the said Dis trict Council at Detroit, Michigan,’ on Jan. 15, 1925, at which time said or. der was read in open meeting; that ; copy of said order was personally served upon said defendant by Harol¢ unemployed, as the latter, unlike their American brothers in distress, refuse to take a underpaid job, as long as they can get the same amount of money from the state, and refuse to | scab on their unemployed fellow- workers. A. J. Clarke, Spokane, Wash. Red Revel Masquerade Ball, 37 South | Ashland Avenue aders R, Fish, secretary of District Goun- cil. . ‘They Rub It In. 5. ‘That since receiving” notice of sald expulsion, the said defendant William Reynolds, has in various ways attempted to stir up strife, and discussion among the members of the other local unions; that he has at. tempted to interfere with the meet ings of other unions; that he has stated at various meetings that he will refuse to obey’ said order of ex: pulsion; that he has sought to repudi- ate the action of the general execu. tive body in expelling him from mem bership; and to continue ih ‘his former capacity as. president of Loca’ Union No. 2140; that hé has threat ened to. disrupt the entire organiza: tion of said United Brotherhood ° in this district, ~6. That as president of sald Local’ Union. No. 2140, the said defendant, William. Reynolds, would have con- trol of disposition of the funds anc moneys of said local; that if the saic defendant attempts to carry out hic threat to continue .ag president of said local union, .he will thereby jeopardize the rights of»every mem- ber of said local aimion; that such ac. tion would render every;member .li- able to expulsion and would cause the forfeiture of all benefits derived from said membership, including disability to pay death and old age _ pension, funeral donations and all representa- tion at national. councils. - The Tale_of Woe. 7. Plaintiffs believe that unless said defendant, William Reynolds, ir restrained by an injunction of thir honorable court from attendance at any of the meetings of the said United Brotherhood and the said “Wayne County Carpenters’ District Council. and the said Local-Union No. 2140, that the plaintiffs herein will suffer irreparable damage, and that these plaintiffs and members of said Loca! Union No. 2140, ‘will lose membership in ‘said union-and will forfeit all the benefits. of said Ee ypred as enum- erated in paragraph 6, of this bill of complaint... . 8 Plaintiffs further show that the amounts. herein Anvolved are in ex cess of.one hundred dollars ($100.00) WHERERORE,.. plaintiffs eine without aid,.save in a court of equity respe| Yopray.the aid of this court 88 LOMOWB Ee ers. is That» the said defendant, Wil. Mam Reynolds, 3 without oath (hic answer, under ath Pee nergy ox pressly waived) full, true, direct and perféct an ike to all and singu lar the matte and things hereinbe fore stated and charged. ble” ( Court Enjoins a’ Carpenter Reynolds, be restrained by an injuno tion of this hofiorable court from the attendance or participation ‘in any of the meetings of the sald United Brotherhood of Carptenters and Join- ers of America and the sald Wayne County District Council and the said Local Union No. 2140, or from in any other way molesting or interfering with the conduct of said meetings or any of the affairs of the above men. tioned Brotherhood Council and: Loca) Union, r 8. That these plaintiffs may have such other, further and different re. lief in the premises as shall be agree able to equity. $ And these plaintiffs will ever pray United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, by Sam Bot: terill. S Wayne County Carpenters’ District Council, by James W. Sharrack, prest dent; Harold R. Fish, secretary. James W. Sharrack. Harold R. Fish. Attached to this document were tws othérs, one a notary public statement attesting to the fact that Sam sot terill, Hutcheson’s tcol, was what he represented himself to be, to wit and so forth, and a letter from’ «rank Duffy, general secretary of the Broth. erhood, advising the recording secre. tary of Local No. 2140 that Reynolds was expelled. This innovation in preventing trade union militants from attending thelr union’ meeting may become popular, The next step will be to have ali those members who have cast their ballots in the recent elections for. op. ponents of “Czar” Hutcheson expelled by injunction. It. will save the fakera the trouble of looking up the constitu. tion. But of course they don’t do that now. The desperate straits to which the reactionaries are driven in their ef- forts to exclude all progressives from the union is here amply demonstrated. That they should be compelled to re- sort to the courts in this fashion is Positive proof that the majority of the membership are against them. This kind of conduct will-only quicken and sharpen the growing discontent of the rank and file against Hutcheson and hasten the day when the. present fos- silized bureaucracy will give way to progressive leadership. , That Hutcheson is panic stricken is proved by the fact that several locals are in open rebellion against him yet he fears to take disciplinary: meas ures. The fight in the Carpenters’ Union, under the direction of the Trade Union Educational League is making such headway that fakerdom justly sees the end of its rotten 2. That the said defendant, William | regime. OFT BYE vey ce . Housewives and insurance Agents. To ghe DALLY, WORKER:—I' would like tevgey,a, word in behalf of the “white-collared slaves” of the big life in fompanies, who secure jobs pape tients, the belief that if they will-only hustle for a while they will sqon-work-up.a good paying busi- ness..providing, of course, that they are goad, hustlers. In this way the company, gets collecting done for application of the unjon label principle.| Corner of Monroe and Madison Sts.,_ almost nothing. _. The Union. Label The union label principle is no doubt a desirable one for the workers; but as a solution for unemployment in the here and now, it is of remote utility. When the Root, Russell, Duncan delegation representing this American “democracy” visited Russia in 1917 they offered to the ‘Russian workers, then engaged in a hand-to-hand strug- gle with both capitalism and czardom, the union label weapon as a means of emancipation; pointing to their “suc- | cesses” in the U.S.A. Would Give Us!Day Dreams The American bourgeois cultivate a notion among theirislaves that the '| percentage of unemployed in “God's country” is less thamin Great Britain. This not so. ae The Russell Sage report recently wublished admitsvthat from 10 to 20 per cent of the whole labor force of this country are far weeks and month: at a time unempleyed—the . number varying from one te six millions. Here in the Nexthwest there are from sixty to sevepty thousand out of employment. ft jer The “4. L.” bulletin admits that there is a vast army of “potential la- bor” or homeguanda hibernating in the small towns, wadting for sqmething to turn up.” bs In Spokane, Seattle and Portland, thousands of lo; and mechanics are bucking the, kboards on the skidroads—eager work for their board. Unorganized, they are at the mercy of the masters of bread—and believe that nothing can be done, hence they accept a job at any price. Unemployment Insurance Let us inculcate in their minds that capitalist, industry and government must support rs, both employed and unemployed; if they are able to collect it. This Cah be done by agitat- ing and demandifig work or full main- tenance by natighal unemployment insurance from @ tax on profits. Make it an issifé in the trade union movement. It Wy not be a revo- lufionary issue BUt it is essentially a class demand, The British ers have achieved state unemplo; insurance; there- by preventing togration of the trade unions them, competition of the LEA f February 28, These young men. are tsually fairly Ammunition for the Workers’ Arsenal | By MANUEL GOMEZ. Distribution of Working Population tnto Employer, Salaried and Wage-earning Classes, Capitalist industry means ever-increasing wage slavery. ‘The tenden- cy is for the working class to include a greater the whole population, while the fortunat, industry become ever fewer, and at the and greater proportion of w who reap the profits of utime more fortunate. This tendency, pointed out by Karl Marx nearly three-quarters of a century ago, can be observed in every capitalist country in the world, not excluding the United States. Here are some figures which speak for themselves. In the years 1910 to 1920—in spite of, the, fact that American industry expanded tremendously and the wage-carners. and salaried employes. in- creased from 24,889,192 to 29,621,297—the number of bosses. and individuals self-employed decreased, from 18,175,711 to, 11,974,369. meee Total Number of Employers and Self-Employed (all industries) Extraction of Minerals . Manufacturing Industries Transportation .. Building Trades Trade Pro ervice ... Domestic and Personal Service Agriculture, etc. ......0.. Salaried (supervisory and professional) Extraction of Minerals ....000+« Manufacturing Industries ,. T Domestic and Personal Sei Wage Earners (manual and clerical) facturing Industries Transportation ... Building Trades Stationary Engineers Stationary Firemen Clerical Workers ......sseseeuee Agriculture ....u5% povenr’ wm From the above tabulation it appears that the earners constituted 62. eet and the employer and sehaee Z ryice . Public Service (not elsewhere classi Agriculture, ete, ...csceeceseeceees VS eine aleve 9 ale 18,175,711 8 17,884 202% 14,287 Tete eens i, total number of. 3! think S47 lin the DAILY WORKER ¢ _ lfor the “on Many Subjects well educated and have a great deal of pride and conceit. They do, not consider themselves working men. They belong to some imaginary middle class. Perhaps.the reason they claim to belong to the middle class is be cause they are about half way be- tween poverty and starvation, ..« In the 61 weeks that we have, been insured eleven different agents. have collected and on 16 occasions. the assistant superintendent has gollected when he had no agent. In addition, to his 16 calls he has had to go, with each new agent to break him in, which makes the total of 27 trips for the superintendent. One man stuck out for 14 weeks, thus depriving several others of some good rich experience. Another stayed six weeks, wore his shoe soles thru and had no money to get them repaired, from Tuesday un- til Saturday. I asked a third agent, “Why do the insurance companies change agents to often? Is it the inefficient help or small salary?” He said, “Small sal- ary.” He gets $14 a week, but if he sold more policies he would get 10¢ on the dollar. He also said the must be married men, as they ma better ‘slaves. 7 When agents come to our house (which is very often) I usually offer them a chair to rest themselves. Then after a while I asked them: “Are a working man or do you belong to the middle class?” After some disclt sion, I close the conversation’ by = |.ng them our DAILY WORKER or Workers Monthly, or other good tead- ing material we have on hand. Tn tlils 1 | way I think the housewife can spread propaganda and advertise Who Wit! Visit? ¢ To the tae AILY WORKER: * Would ble to publish this letter the conflenment of Comrade Andrew Graham at tho Swedish Hospital, Fos. - ter and North Califorina. Except for the moral aid of only two or three comrades his belief in @ recovery would be nil. Any comrades who wish to bring a parcdl along may : fresh ,fruit such as apples, o1 < |grapefruit, pears, ete. Comrade ham has been in a cast for i2 Subscribe for “Your DAILY WOR: rai ine