The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 15, 1925, Page 4

Page Four THE DAILY WORKER. Se een eee Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, DL (Phone: Monroe 4712) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mall: $3.50....6 months : Vitae a months By mail (in Chicago ently): { $4.50....6 months $2.60....3 months $6.00 per -year $8.00 per year Address all mafl and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER 1118 W. Washington Bivd. ~ 3. LOUIS ENGDAHL Bait WILLIAM F. DUNNE coraetenees sores EA ILOPS MORITZ J. LOEB.......nnsemnme Business Manager Chicago, Ilinels —— Entered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1923, at the Post- Office at Chicago, Ill, under the act of March 3, 1879. <> 20 Advertising rates op application We Apologize The following letter has been sent by the DAILY WORKER to the Chicago Federation of Labor and the Teamsters’ Union in reply to criticisms of the Premier taxicab story printed in the Feb. 2 issue of the DAILY WORKER: “Dear Comrades: “The story published in the DAILY WORKER of Feb. 2, in which it was stated that the manage- ment of the Premier Taxicab company was respon- sible for a letter to all taxi drivers employed urg- ing them to join the ku klux klan, and the further statement that the union did nothing for the taxi drivers who are members of it, was incorrect in these particulars. ‘Tn pursuance of the policy followed by all Com- munist papers and Communist. parties, we freely admit the mistakes made and on the day following the incorrect story we printed the statement of those who took issue with it. “We wish to point out, however, that the story of the ku klux klan letter sent to the employes of the Premier company, was furnished us by one of these workers and that it was printed in good faith in line with our policy of waging war on this labor- hating organization wherever it shows its hooded head. “While we were incorrect in stating that the let: ter emanated from the management itself, never theless we think that it is better to err in oyerzeal in these matters than to allow some sinister activity of the klan to escape unnoticed. “The only reason we in any way regret any ineonvenience suffered by the Premier company as a result of the publication of the incorreet story is that it is perhaps the only concern of its kind in Chicago that is unionized to any extent. “Aside from this it is a collection of capitalists who are engaged in making profit by taking as much of the revenue produced by their workers as the workers will stand for and therefore to be treated “by us exactly as we treat all other exploiting en- terprises—as enemies of the working class. “The statement that we regret the most and that demands complete retraction and explanation, is that which states that ‘the union’ does nothing for its members. “This statement is entirely wrong and has no place in a Communist paper. It is entirely out of harmony with Communist theory, policy and. tac- tics which regard the unions as the basic organs of the class struggle. It was not written by a responsible member of the staff and the error was overlooked at a time when two of the staff were ill and the careful reading of all copy physically im- possible. “The Communist Party and the Communist press do not fight unions or endeavor to discredit them. On the contrary, the Communists aim to be the most active in organizing and in the work of the unions. We believe that only by building powerful fighting industrial unions thru a policy of amal- gamation can a real labor movement be created as a solid foundation for the struggle for the over- throw of capitalism and the establishment of the dictatorship of the working class which will in turn lay the basis for a Communist society. “In the daily struggles of the workers the Com- munist Party and press looks upon the unions as the most efficient weapon of the workers. “We do not fight unions. We do fight the con- servative, reactionary and corrupt officials where- ever we find them. We fight them because we know that they obstruct the progress of the unions and of the class struggle and therefore delay the victory of the workers, “Had the DAILY WORKER directed its. crit icism at the officials and not at the union, we would still have been subject to censure if the facts were incorrect, but we would not have committed a grave political error. “The DAILY WORKER never consciously prints manufactured news of the labor movement. Those who are opposed to our policies do not like the manner in which we handle the news, but so far as untruths are concerned it is-our object to print the truth of all labor controversies even when we get the worst of it. “Quite aside from any ethical or moral consider- ation, it is only by establishing a reputation for accuracy and detailed knowledge of all the prob- lems and struggles of the unions, the unorganized workers and the working class as a whole, that the Communist press can gain their confidence and support. “We call your attention to the fact that in the year since the DAILY WORKER began _ publica- tion, a year in which Communists have been slandered, vilified and denounced in all the official union press, their policies, tactics and objects lied about, a year in which they, have been éxpelled by the trade union bureaucrats from labor organiza- tions of which they are generally the most active ‘ 7” EGER WAL eS ERS Tek OT members, a year'in which every form of abuse and persecution -has ‘been heaped upon the party and its members, a year in which the prosecution of members of the. Workers (Communist) Party has been renewed by, the government of Michigan backed by the strikebreaking Coolidge government, and Ruthenberg, the executive secretary of the party, sentenced to three years in prison, with Foster and 30 other comrades slated for trial, the story in question is the only one which our enemies can prove to be incorrect. “Considering the fact that the DAILY WORKER has the smallest staff of any English language daily in the world, this is a record of which we have a right to be proud. “As our sole object is to mobilize: the whole working class behind the Communist Party and the |Communist International for the conquest of the capitalist government and the establishment of a workers’ and farmers’ government, this should be sufficient proof to any intelligent person that the DAILY WORKER does not wish to print apything that is untrue and would hinder this work. “With Communist greetings, “The DAILY WORKER.” Just a Slight Misunderstanding Brother William Green is not going to stray far from the rutted track beaten by the shoes of the late President.Gompers. Every speech and interview, every article by President Green bears the stamp of the American middle class. ‘ Miami, Florida, the haunt of the Teapot Domers, the refuge of the coupon clippers from the wintry blasts which the workers they exploit must face, was the scene of the latest exposition of “labor’s” program given by the heir to the Gompers throne. Surely the organized workers treat their officials well when a city without any industry except the plundering of unwary strangers by real estate sharks, is picked as a meeting place by the ex- ecutive council of the American Federation of Labor. After basking in the Florida sunlight and view- ing the beauties of millionairedom as the guest of the Miami advertising club, President Green de- nounced “imported labor theories” and advanced ‘the doctrine that —— between labor and capital is the cause of all industrial strife. “Labor and capital,” said he, “cannot hate each other if they understand each other.” ‘We Communists measure the intelligence of our class by the degree of militancy with which it fights capitalism, but this is all wrong, according to Green. He advises the workers to love and un- derstand the dear little capitalists who are kicking their ribs with spurred heels. - This, miasmatic formula may sound good in Miami, but the 66,000 left wing votes in Green’s own organization—the United Mine Workers—in- dicates that a considerable portion of the organized workers are tired of having their ribs lacerated and understand capitalism and capitalists to an ex- tent that is going to make it increasingly difficult for Green to put over Ifis gawdsaking brand of trade unionism. \ Every day get'a “stb” for the DAILY WORKER and a member for the’ Workers Party. The Irish Famine The population of the entire west coast of Ire- land, fishermen’ and farmers, is in the grip of the worst famine in seventy-five years. Crops and fuel supply have failed and dispatches tell of terrible misery—British fishing enterprise has ruined the Irish industry. The International ‘Workers’ Aid and the Work- ers (Communist) Party are on the job. In response to a cablegram from the I. W. A. requesting co- operation from the party in relieving the distress of our Irish comrades, a committee has already been formed to enlist the support of the American workers and farmers. The appeal of the Irish Workers’ and Peasants’ Famine Relief Committee should meet with a gen- erous response from the American working class _THE DAI ba TRACTION BILL OF DEVER GIVES CITY NO VOICE Entrusts $700,000,000 to Board of 9 Men The municipal railway ordinance which has been recommended to the city council by the transportation committee, provides for expenditure of $700,000,000 of the city's money, under complete ci ot a board of nine men, who jot be account- able to the city o or anyone else. The certificates forthe building of the subways and ed extensions, and the purchase traction lines, are to be issued at Interest of five per cent, Follow; consultation between Mayor id Samuel In- committee pro- “shall be paid Insull for his elevated lines. Insull demands $90,000, i Ordinance Ni ide Public One alderman to vote for the ordinance dec! » “We haven't even had an opportunity to read the ordinance, At the last meeting you put thru an amendment of two pages which we did not have before the meeting. At this time I could not vote either for or against the ordin- ance. You are rushing the ordinance thru in scandalous fashion. We do not know what it means.We have asked Attorney Frank on whom we relied for legal advise this and that and he has been puzzled.” The meeting revealed that altho the transportation commfttee of the city council authorized the publication of 25,000 copies of the ordinance in pamphlet form, thé lawyers have fail- ed to comply with this order and have surpressed publication of the ordin- ance, The board of control which accord- Ing to the ordinance will have charge of the traction lines if the city council and the voters approve the recom- mendations of the transportation com- mittee, will consist of three members appointed by the mayor, three ap- pointed by ‘the bankers now control- ling the lines, and thrée by these six board members. Aboard members salary will be ten thousand dollars per year. FE When the city has-paid the bankers 51 per cent of the debt the three ‘neutral” members are to be dropped and the city will then have a fourth member to three for the bankers. The bankers thus have a chance to control the traction lines until every dollar of the debt is paid them by the city. This will be for at least forty years. {nm other words, Dever’s ordinance gives the bankers a franchise of forty years, Communist Charges French Socialist With Wilful Lying MOSCOW, Feb. 13.—In a letter, ad- dressed to M. Renaudel, and published in the Humanite, the president of the council of people’s commissars of So- viet Armenia, M. Hrnskian, makes charges against the French socialist leader, accusing him of deliberately concealing from the French people many facts which came to his knowl- edge when he visited Georgia some time ago, for the sole reason that such facts disproved his janti-Soviet ide- ology. te > In this letter the author cites numer- ous cases proving thecruelty of the former menshevist Jordania’s govern- ment to the Armenian population, the robbing of the Georgian State Bank, etc, On the other hand, M. Ernskian points out the prosperity enjoyed by Georgia under Soviet rule. In conclusion the author challenges M. Renaudel to refute the charges pre- ferred against him, warning the lat- ter that new revelations are in store of which so large a section is of Irish birth and|#% ™!™- descent. The Free State government, that creature of British imperialism, has shown its true character in this emergency. It first tried to conceal the ex- tent of the famine and does not now acknowledge the actual desperation of the starving masses. Its relief measures have been wholly inadequate. The pitiable conditions of the Irish workers and peasants in the famine district is the answer given by history to the church hierarchy and Free State ministers who proclaimed loudly two years ago that the Russian workers and peasants were famine stricken because they had rejected god along with the ezar. The Free State government and the Irish clergy are providing plenty of prayers for the hungry populace, but the Workers (Communist) Party and the Irish Péasants’ and Workers’ Famine Re- lief Committee will provide money to buy food, clothing and fuel. One hundred and thirtyeight German miners die in the deathtraps of industry while the jelly-bellied coal mine owners sell those who live into double slavery—slavery to them and to the allied imperial- ists. This is the-history of Germany as it is being written today. ‘Tomorrow. ‘The dome of, the capitol is collapsing, say Wash- ington dispatchés.» We are not greft*believers in omens, but could anything be moré symbolical of the ungtable con- dition of capitalism? _ Italian Liberals: in Gesture. MILAN.— The national executive committee of the libéral party was on record today as declaring the policy of the fascist administration in oppo» sition to liberal printiples and invit- ing liberal followergy to the defense of their ideals. t - FINDS CAPITALISM REWARDS TALENTS WITH HUNGER AND SUICIDE SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 13, — Worn out by the struggle to keep alive while he juced his art. Maurice Moch, a inter of unusu- al talent, commi sulcide by turning on the gas if his bare room in a poor section of San Francisco. With his last strength he wrote a letter, adorned with sketohes, stat- ing that life was “all rent and bills” and that had spent his last cent for oils and canvas, The night be- fore, Moch had fainted on the street, from hunger, and an unknown physi- cian had given him food and taken him home. 1 Faced by the idn that he could not succei his chosen work, and unwilli live without It, Moch wrote: “hi filzve found hell. It is on earth,” a Open Foru Room, Ashland Night, Lodge jum. A WORKER @ politician. To Comrade Cejka, the question is very simple, for, as he sees it, nothing is too good for the workers. X Cejka was born in Vienna, Austria, in 1881, He has been a member of Machinists’ Local 84 since 1903. For MILITANT MACHINIST IS COMMUNIST ALDERMANIC CANDIDATE IN 22nd WARD Louis A. Cejka, candidate for alderman endorsed by the Workers Party of Chicago in the 22nd ward, works as a machinist every day and con- sequently is thoroly familiar with the needs of the workers. He is not involved in high politics in Chicago and therefore does not approach the question of municipal government from the point of view of five years he held the office of chair-| man of his local, was secretary for three years, financial secretary four years. He is now a delegate to the Chicago Federation of Labor from his local, which he has been represent- ing there for the past three years. He has also been a delegate to the dis- trict council of the machinists for four years and is a member of the district executive board. | UNITE AGAINST CAPITALIST CLASS | (Continued from page 1) upon your immediate needs, and which leads to the establishment of YOUR CLASS POWER In govern- ment and Industry. That party is the Workers (Com- munist) Party of Americal The Workers Party is the party of the tolling masses of America, having no interest separate and apart from the working class and the toiling farmers. It fights for the unity of the labor movement, for its close alliance with the farmers, and a relentl struggle to advance the interests of all who toil, against the exploitation of capitalism, with the goal always in view of the over throwal of the system of exploita- tion, and the establishment of a workers’ and farmers’ government, the dictatorship of the proletariat. The Workers Party calls upon all workers and farmers who are pol- itically conscious, who realize that they are in the midst of a class struggle, who understand that only by a close union of workers and farmers on the basis of their class interests, for a relentless struggle against capitalism and all its tools —upon all such Workers we call to join hands In a united struggle with the Workers Party, not only for our ultimate aims, but for such immedi: ate demands as: 1—Abolition of child labor ex- st | WAGE SLASHERS PRAISE ABE FOR LOVE OF PEOPLE Negroes Segregated in It is no new experience to Cejka] Washington Exercises to contest for the office of alderman— this is his fifth experience. Not hay- The exploiters of labor claimed ing the backing of a powerful political machine and the money furnished by such a machine, Cejka’s merits have not brought him to the point of sit- ting in the aldermaniec council. How- ever, the workers must realize that the only man who can represent them and fight for them is one who, thru his own experiences, knows what they want and offers them a practical pro- gram of municipal measures, Cejka belonged to the socialist par- ty for 15 years and joined the Com- munist Party on its formation. His trade union record speaks for itself. Abraham Lincoln as_ their own in speeches thruout the country on the 116th anniversary of Lincoln’s birth, In Chicago the Lions’ Club, composed of Illinois business men, heard. Charles Dawes speak of the. “prosper. ity” of the nation. The Lions’ Club Tast year held a conference at Her- Winvin co-operation with the Illinois eoal operators, where it was demand- ed that the coal miners accept redue- ed wages and break up their miners* union. Hypocrits Applaud. It was these same Lions’ Club mem- bers who applauded Dawes when he said “America’s nation wide prosper- ity is based on wages for labor that'are better than any other coun. try in the world.” And it was, ironically enough, Charles Dawes, the enslaver of the workers of Germany, who | extolled Lincoln as a friend of the workers, Dawes did not mention in his speech the campaign for wage cuts that the employers have instituted under the protection of the Coolidge daihaaae ment. ploitation, with government main- tenance of children by funds pro- cured thru taxation of large in- comes, 2.—Natlonalization of railroads, mines, public utilities, monopolies, and natural resources, to be oper ated under contro! of the workers. 8.—Securing the farmers in pos- session of their land; no foreclo- sures, no evictions; the land belongs to those who till it. 4.—Nationallzation of terminal and marketing facilities with joint management by farmers and work- ers. 5.—State ald to co-operative dis- tribution and production, 6.—Recognition of Soviet Russia. 7—Unity of the trade unions, ally; sup- ° Negroes Segregated. In Washington, where the Negroes have just waged a bitter but unsue- cessful fight against segregation at the capitol’s bathing. beaches, Negro children were brought into the cele- bration at the Lincoin memorial, to sing Lincoln's praises for freeing their race. But the white politicians in charge of the exercises segregated even these Negro children singers, making them stand in one group, “be- neath the three marble panels on the north wall of the shrine,” and a lit- tle away from the rest of the crowd. WOMAN DEPUTY TO TRY LABOR CASES, FRIEND OF BOSSES NEW YORK, Feb. 18.—MI. T. Swain, deputy attorney ge: has been appointed to do all the trial work in the prosecution of labor Union Unity committee. 8.—Defense of class war prison- ers and defeat of so-called “criminal syndicalism” jaws. i 9.—Defeat the Dawes plan for en- slaving European labér. Workers and farmer! Unite all the forces of the working class for struggle against the exploiters, a- gainst the capitalists and all thelr agents. Unite with the revolution- ary workers of every land, under the leadership of the Communist International, for the battle against Movies for Workers “The Beauty and the Bolshevik” and “Russia in Overalls” will be Central Executive Committee Workers (Communist) Party of America. WILLIAM Z, FOSTER, law violations thruout the state. Miss Swain, whwo among the first of women deputies, is a member of the Brooklyn chamber of commerce, the Daughters of the Revolution, and other organizations favored by the employers. shown: St. Paul, Minn. Feb. 20, 444 Rice St. St. Louis, Mo. Feb. 22, Unity Hall, Grand and Page. Binghamton, N. Y. Feb. 27, Hider Theatre, 193 Clinton St. Feb, 28, Happy Theatre, 38 Clinton St. East Pittsburgh, Pa. Feb. 28th, Gary, Ind., Marh 3rd. Milwaukee, Wis. March 7th, Pabst Theatre. ~ San Francisco, Calif. “Polikushka”, “Life of Lenin”, and “Soldier Ivan’s Miracle”, will be shown at: Chicago, Ill., C. S. P. S. Hall, 1126 W. 18th St., Feb. 22, afternon, Kenosha, Wis. Sat. Feb. 28th,.4 to 11 P. M. “Russia shown at: Galloway, W. Va. Feb. 28th, Union Theatre, German Workers and Their Children Get Packages from I. W. A. News has just arrived of the Christ- mas distribution of parcels of food and clothing to locked out workers and their families in various parts of Germany. Fifteen local committees of the Ger- man section of the International Workers’ Aid distributed 10,000 pack- ages to those who had lost their means of livelihood in the shutdown of large factories. In addition special packages were given to 3,779 children of imprisoied and exiled in the 17 cities. Police Forbids Workers’ Gifts This action will be continued, In January, 500 “disciplinary punished” and Germany” will be all the enemies of the working class. Only thru struggle can victory be won. Unite for the struggle! Chairman. Cc. E. RUTHENBERG, Executive Secretary Red Revel Masquerade Ball, 37 Seuth February 28, By THURBER LEWIS No. 3 The Reformers, No. 3—Josiah Warren and William Weitling. (OSIAH WARREN is known as the, ative. He said of Marx: “I see in father of American anarchism. He |‘Marx nothing else than a good en- joined the Owenite movement and | Cyclopedia, but no genius. Rich peo- lived in New Harmony during his | ple made him an editor.” earlier years. His experiences in the} In 1847, he came to America, The colony and his studies led him finally | revolutions of 1848 sent him back to to reject the so-called socialism of the | Europe. He returned to America in day. His philosophy became a crude | 1850 and began publishing his “Re- sort of anarchism. He devi a sys-| publik der Arbeiter,” a newspaper for tem of economic exchange that was | spreading propaganda among the Ger- calculated to change the whole basis |man working people. He had not been of society. In 1827, he began putting | in America long before his extremely his scheme into practice. He opened | radical views began tempering to the what he called “time stores,” on the | conciliatory. In the end he became formula, “labor for labor.” more anarchistic than Communistic The business of these stores was de-| and like all early anarchists played the role of reformer. The salvation for the workers, he signed so that no profit could be) made. The time of the store keeper was paid for by the customers in the} thought, consisted in set the form of “labor notes.” These notes | Problem of money. His he promised to pay the store keeper, on |Summed up as _— follows: ~ “The hank of exchange is the soul of all reforms, the foundations for ‘all co- | ‘operative attempts. Just ‘ent money system in its fications, creates, organi: fles, all social evils trom demand, “labor-time,” hour for hour, as compensation to the store keeper. Warren founded estate in Ohio and Long Island in which this principle was to be applied. He published a book in 1846 ex- 200 in Greitz will receive similar par- cels. In several towns the distribu- tion of proletarian Yuletide gifts was forbidden by the police. So much cloth was donated in Essen that the volunteer workers could not get it all made up into clothing by Christ- mais time. 1. W. A. Grows in Germany ‘The German workers are on the job helping their less fortunate comrades through their own German section of the I, W. A. There are at present 483 local groups with 33,600 individual members. Fees paid monthly range from 6 to 300 gold marks, depending upon the size of the membership in the shop or factory. Very tew groups pay less than 6 or more than 100 marks monthly. workers in Berlin, 300 in Stuttgart pounding his theory tMt price ‘should movement, they added to the swell- ing number of social formulas for saving mankind that were confusing the minds of what American workers were interested in such things during that period. ~ William Weitling began his career as a German revolutionist. He was born in Magdeburg, Germany, which was known at that time as a hot-bed of German liberalism, His early life ‘was spent in poverty. In 1837 he went to Paris. There he undertook active revolutionary work. He flitted from one doctrine to another but always managed to be looked upon as a revo- lutionary of the deepest dye. Gas Claims Many Victims, NEW YORK, Feb. 13.—-Five per- sons were found dead in their rooms: today, two in the Bronx three in Manhattan, all the victims of fuel gas fumes, J less than two years. ‘In 1860-51, Weitling stood” pater ot the German workingmen e country. His paper was a leading | organ of the German labor movement © and his influence was widespread. His wilful individuality, “however, soon made him enemies, The failure of his plan of exchange soured him. He grew conservative, In 1854, he gath- ered enough political influence to get Pare man immigration in New York. fl ‘Many years later, in 1871, he attend- ed a sort Of reunion of revolutionar- himself appointed as registrar of Ger- ! suffering, so the bank of exchange be determined by labor cost. His | Will represent the new m system, j favorite method, however, of spread-| Which will be a strong weapon against ing propaganda was in what he called old money system of pee» Plann “parlor conversations,” doubtle:® the ed to put his bank of a source of our modern “parlor anarch- |.central house of exchange the ists.” Tho his ideas didn't meet with | Products of trade of @ very popular response in the labor | Workers, into operation, It an ’