The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 19, 1925, Page 6

wm Page Four THE DAILY WORKER. 0 5 me Hoobly Sia dei alan climeaMantaatse Ps) oleae: Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 1118 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, NL (Phone: Monroe 4712) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mall: $8.50....6 months $2.00...8 months By mail (in Chicago only): $4.50....6 months $2.50...8 months $6.00 per year $8.00 per year Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER 1118 W. Washington Bivd. Chicago, tlinels —<$< $< $$$ J. LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F, DUNNE mene AItORS MORITZ J. LOEB.......0smm Business Manager Ontered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1923, at the Post- Office at Chicago, Ill, under the act of March 3, 1879, Se The A. F. of L.’s Southern Survey Will the executive council of the American Fed- eration of Labor, in the survey of labor in the southern states which it announced its intention of making after its Miami session, feature the con- ditions of the Negro workers as the principal problem ? Advertising rates op application Will it make concrete recommendations for the organization of the Negro workers into the trade unions? Will it approach the problems of south- ern labor from this all-important-angle of race pre judice and discrimination against Negro workers as the most efficient weapon of the southern cap- italists? The south is being industralized. Last week we carried the news of a gigantic southern merger under House of Morgan auspices of electric power, coal mining, chemical and fertilizer industries that means more intensive exploitation of the southern workers, black and white. Georgia, North Carolina, West Virginia, Louis- iana, Kentucky and Tennessee, with coal, iron, lum- ber and water power, are fertile fields of invest- ment for northern capital. The agricultural south is dying. The smoke of factories, mines and smelters smudges the cotton blossoms. Feudalism, with the plantation owner as the overlord is replaced by modern capitalism. The erack of the slavedriver’s whip is replaced by the more efficient spy system of the industrial baron. To all this the labor movement must have an answer, but the correct answer will never be given by the Greens, Wolls, Ryans and Morrisons. Their recommendations will consist of the usual plati- tides and leave the problem of the Negro in in- dustry unsolved. The Negro workers in the north and south who now toil side by side with white workers, will get no aid from the bureaucrats whose prejudices are the same as those of the ruling class. Strife be tween the races growing out of competition for jobs and aggravated by hoary falsehoods and reiterated vicious dogmas of a degenerate aristocracy, can be prevented only by opening the doors of every union to the Negro workers. The Negro workers of the new industrial south and the hundreds of thou- sands who are in northern industry must be or- ganized or the labor movement will be wiped out like a picture on a slate under the wet finger of a schoolboy. To believe that this task will be accepted and carried out by an officialdom and a program that has organized but one-seventh of the American working class in thirty-seven years, is to make one eligible for a madhouse. It.is to the rank and file of the organized workers that the problem must be put. It is only the rank and file aroused to the need for action and organ- ized for it by the efforts of the Workers (Commun- ist) Party and the Trade Union Educational League that can and will make the American trade The United Front of Capital B. M. Jewell, head of the railroad department of the A. F. of L., after calling off the shopmen’s strike which began in July 1922, states in a letter that “Every possible effort that legally and properly could be made” was used to bring the strike “to a successful conclusion,” Mr. Jewell then says that the calling off of the strike is justified—“with no basis for hope of further efforts.” A few lines above this, in his apology, he declares that the strike was not lost. With no “successful conclusion” nor any “basis for hope,” it is an uncurable “look on the bright sider” who can gayly remark that the strike was not lost. Mr. Jewell cites the reasons, nevertheless, for this peculiar “victory.” At least he cites one of the reasons. He says: “Not only the railroad manage- ments, but other organizatiofs of employers, of capital and of investing interests were represented in those who presented a united front against the strikers.” And how about the working class, to whom the labor fakers of the Jewell type denounce the united front of labor as propoged by the Communists and the Trade Union Educational League as a thing of evil? Were the workers, even on the railroads, all in a united front against the acknowledged united front of all capitalists? Not by a long way! It is Mr. Jewell and his kind who made no effort to complete the unity of all railroad workers, in fatt they constituted the obstruction to unity. The disgraceful state of affairswhich allowed—and even forced—seven rairoad crafts to remain at work as union scabs, while the other nine were on strike and walking the picket line, this is the direct responsibility of Jewell and his kind. It is a vain thing to point out that some of the railroad systems were crippled by the strike. The united front of the whole employing class and in- vesting interests took good care of the “loss.” That is what a united front is for. But solely by reason of the treachery of union officials, with Jewell at their head, other crafts and other workers in various industries were prevented from aiding the shopmen. Let us have a united front of labor, and let us oust the Jewells who try to prevent it. Butler, the multi-millionaire campaign manager of Cal Coolidge, is finding that putting over wage cuts in the New England mills isn’t as easy as keeping Cal in the White House. Butler has hit the workers on a sore spot and they are ready to hit back. Secretary Kellogg The announcement that Secretary of State Hughes intended .to retire to the practice of law after March 4 next, was the subject of considerable speculation in Washington when the news first leaked out. The general opinion was that Hughes and Coolidge could not see eye to eye on the ques- tion of relations with Soviet Russia. Hughes was the head and front of the anti-Soviet propaganda here, aided by Samuel Gompers. The appointment of Senator Borah as chairman of the foreign relations committee made Hughes’ pésition still more difficult. The Idaho senator favors recognition of the Soviet government and he was in entire disagreement with the intran- sigeant attitude of the secretary of state. It was officially denied at the White House that the resignation of Secretary Hughes was due to any difference of opinion between the little New England strikebreaker and the Standard Oil at- torney over Russia. But it is rather significant that Borah, advocate of Soviet recognition, should move to secure unanimous consent for the consider- ation of Kellogg’s nomination without its reference unions a place where black and white workers,!to committee. meeting as equals, join in a common struggle against American capitalism. Every day get a “sub” for the DAILY WORKER and a member for the Workers Party. It was good while it lasted. Five million votes were cast for Robert Marion LaFollette. The so- cialists horned in on the publicity and on the votes. They claimed them as their own. LaFollette had big business badly scared for a while. Not that he wanted to do that. But the G. 0, P. was anxious to be the official spokesman of big business and in order to offset the protesta- tions of loyalty to the capitalist system that came from LaFollette and his supporters, it pictured the Wisconsin senator as an extreme radical, who wonld liquidate Wall Street the day after his elec- “tion and hang the big corporation heads on con- venient lamp posts. It is now only a few months after the elections, The shouting and the tumult has died down. Sen- ator Wheeler is defending himself in an oil indict ment. LaFollette is taking a sun bath somewhere in Florida. The C. P. P. A. is going to meet and talk. Nobody seems to know what to do with it. The Milwaukee Leader declares that those who should be interested don’t know where they are at, excepting the socialist party and the Nation. A -ather weak foundation to base a new party on! | This is what the Leader says about “Fightin’ Bob”: “As for LaPollette, apparently he does not know where he is at either. If he does, he is keeping still about it, while some of his followers are on their knees before the elephant beseeching admit- tance to the republican circus tent.” It was a grand and glorious feeling while it lasted. The jag was a good sticker. But Bergéb is now suffering the agonies of the morning after, Instead of being one of the “Buffalo Bills” in the LuFollette circus, he has a tough job trying to hold on to his job as one of the clowns. Capitalism even uses clowns once in a while. ws 7 perma nae Sa ne eee The United States is now the only important country in the world that has not recognized Soviet Russia.. The recent treaty between the Soviet gov- ernment and Japan has given the movement for recognition a decided impetus. The Hughes policy has proven to be a failure. Soviet recognition is undoubtedly in the offing. Airplanes for the proposed state cossacks in Illinois is another indication that the bosses are plawhing to intensify their struggle against the workers in this state. The fight is especially against the coal miners. Remember West Virginia! The Free State and the Famine The Free State government and its agents in the Irish labor movement are trying to play down the reports of the Irish famine. Having done little to relieve the distress of the 750,000 starving workers and peasants, the Free State government has sunk to the lowest depths of infamy in spreading stories minimizing the serious- ness of the situation in order to conceal-its own incompetency. Such betrayal as this is to be expected from the choicest collection of agents of British imperial- ism that has ever cursed Ireland. The work of collecting funds for the relief of the famine district must be carried on with renewed vigor and the Free State government exposed to those in the United States who now support it as the blackest of all the puppet governments which serve the purposes of the British imperialists. Don’t forget to read the T. U. E. L. page. Then pass it on to some worker who hasn’t read it, but who should. You can’t be happy until you have taken a whack at that spike. See page four ‘today! ! Get a member for the Workers Party subscription for the DAILY WORKER. et se oman ee ena oan MA THE DAILY WORKER NATION GIGGLES AT CAL AND HIS ELECTRIC STEED President Prefers Spark Plug to Elephant (By The Federated Press) WASHINGTON, Feb. 17.—Call Cool- idge’s hobby-horse, presented to him by Dwight Morrow, partner in the banking house of Morgan & Co., was a deep, dread secret of the presiden- tial dressing-chamber until the cau- tious one attempted one of his official denials by presssing the stop and gal- lop buttons at tha same instant. Then, whether for pe of oil or other reason, the electri¢power-fed beast went smash, and was sent to the navy yard shops for repairs. A mechanic Possessing a sense efwhumor on the issue of economy gave a hint to a newspaper, and the story broke out on front pages all over the country Milions of robust Americans laughed at the imaginary picture of this purse- lipped little man, clad in underclothes and dressing gown, solemnly riding 2 rocking-horse in his own room, and possibly casting suspicious glances at the walls and ceiling for stray wit- nesses of his frivolity. Whoinell ts He? There isin Washington this winter a former progressive writer who has seemingly undertaken to explain away, apologize for, or boldly deny as untrue and blasphemous, anything and everything spoken or written in disparagement of the glory of Cool- idge, Hughes, Dawes, Longworth, the Italian fascist ambassador, Stone, Warren and so on ad infinitum. He has outdone even Senator Spencer of Missouri, whom Jim Reed declared to be worthy of a tombstone inscribed with the names of Daugherty, Fall, and the rest of the men whom he has whitewashed, with the legend—“He found no wrong anywhere.” Upon this court apologist the burden of hushing up the laughter of America at the hobby-horse will logigally fall. And when the ingenuity of the whole administration has been expressed in this blast of anti-laughter publicity, the society columns of Washington newspapers will tell the world who gave a tea or a party in grateful ac- knowledgement. N. Y. Dressmakers Open Big Drive to Win the Unorganized NEW YORK, Feb. 17.—The dress- makers’ department of the Interna- tional Ladies’ G mt Workers’ Union have started a campaign to organize all the open shops in the industry. It has o) d special head- quarters in Stuyvesait Casino where the work is carrie@*jon with vigor. Already several shi have been _or- ganized and the militants are actively participating in this undertaking. The bosses have hired gangsters who attack the organizers whenever they discover their_activities. These thugs assaulted and beat up Brother Rosenfeld so severely that he has been laid up. But in’ spite of this opposi- tion on the part of the bosses the union is growing stronger and new shops are falling in the line from day to day. Militant Furriers Decide to Have Olgin Reply to Abramovich NEW YORK, Feb. 17.—To counter- act the attacks of the counter-revolu- tionary agent, Rafael Abramoich, the furriers in the Trade Union Educa- tional League have arranged for a lec- ture by Moissaye J. Olgin, at ‘Webster hall, to which all the members of the organization have been invited. The reactionaries: recently called a meeting of the chairmen of the differ- ent departments and distributed some presents to them, ‘causing them to brighten up and get into a receptive mood, not knowingywhat the reason for this generosity was till the lead- ers of the ruse imtyoduced Abramo- vich to spill his poison against the Workers’ Republic:f Russia. This trick so angered the honest element that they have devided to let their fellows hear the truth, hence the mass meeting in Webster hall. MORE ‘THAN 30% of the total population in Ameri- ca is foreign born. “The American For- eign-Born Worker” By Clarissa S. Ware. is a most valuable little arse- nal of facts on a large body of the American Working class. Most useful information in a pamphlet that sells for only 5 CE TS Order from THE DAILY WORKER | Literature partment | 1113 W. Washington Bivd., uh expensive hotel. dent “democratic” republic there, centered, branches of the federal government. Fajardo and Yanco to ascertain elec- tion frauds, poses.” This objection by Atty. Gen Coates of Porto Rico—appointed by Mr. Cool- idge—is described as being without warrant in any law of the territory, and as being simply a coercive ges- ture from Washington. Accordingly the bureau of insular affairs in the was dept. has been asked to “inquire whether the department of justice of Porto Rico is interested in preventing the truth as to the election frauds from being known, by abusing its power against the decision of the court.” Job Holders Use Lincoln’s Birthday As Day of Thanks (By The Federated Press) WASHINGTON, Feb. 17.—Judge W. J. Graham of the court of customs appeals, which is a lifetime appoint: ive job at $8,500 a year to which he was appointed in payment for sery- ices to the Harding-Coolidge admin- istration as a member of the house from Illinois, gave due thanks at a Lincoln memorial meeting of republi- cans at the Willard hotel. He denounced the 17th amendment, permitting popular election of United States senators, and said that Lincoln would have opposed the child labor emancipation amendment, because Lincoln had to work hard when a child—and look how he thrived on it! Loud applause greeted his sentiment, “Let the constitution alone.” Get your tickets for Red Revel Ball, February 28. b Educational League. education. italism. 4 ‘ +} the attorney general op- Manley to Speak This is the mark on the cover of every book of The Little Red Library, Ready February 15: No, 1—TRADE UNIONS IN AMERICA, Wm. Z. Foster, Jas. P, Cannon and’, arl R. Browder, is a brief statement of the trade union movement in America and the history of the development of the Left Wing, with an explanation of the struc- ture and program of the Trade Union No, 2—CLASS STRUGGLE vs. CLASS COLLABORATION, by Earl, R. Browder, is a study of labor banks, the .“B, &.0. ,- Plan,” insurance schemes, and. workers’. = Original manuscripts, translations and suggestions for reprint will be welcomed blishers. For the present manu- ust be limited to 15,000 to 30,000 This little book throws the spot-light on the methods used by the labor bureaucracy to divert the working class from militant: hrugele. against cap- RUSSIAN COUNTER-REVOLUTIONARY HOLDS FORTH AT SWELL HOTEL; URGES OVERTHROW OF SOVIET RULE (Special to the DAILY WORKER) WASHINGTON, Feb. 17—Vassily Dumbadse, another counter-revolu- ary anti-Sovietist, claiming to represent a Transceucasian Republic of Georgia and Azerbaidjan, which is located in Paris and which attempted the recent revolt in the Caucusus region, has been interviewed at Washington’s most He suggests that when the American business men realize the value of Baku oil and the manganese deposits in the Caucasus they will understand the importance of helping to establish an indepen- American famine relief workers who have returned from that region say that shares in the Nobel and other oil companies operating in/ the Baku field were sold to speculators in Paris after the Russian revolution had nationalized this property, and it is around the holders of these oil shares—at present quite worthless—that the anti-Soviet movement is CAL’S GANG TRYING TO SUPPRESS VOTE THEFT PROBE IN PORTO RICO (By The Federated Press) WASHINGTON, Feb. 17.—Proof that it is the Coolidge administration that is trying to suppress inquiry into the theft of the election in Porto Rico‘on Nov. 4 last, despite the president’s claim that he has “not heard” of the wholesale election frauds in the islan@ by the unionist alliance which is/backed by Gov. Towner, was made public by officials of the labor move- ment of the island before returning home from Washington, rebuffed by all A eablegram sent to President Coolidge by Bolivar Pagan, member of the insular canvassing board, was as follows: “In spite of a judgement and peremptory order of the district court of San Juanto make a recount of the ballots in the municipalities of At Harlem Forum On Sunday, Feb. 22 (Special to The Dally Worker) NEW YORK, Feb. 17.—Joseph Man- ley will be the speaker Sunday eve- ning, Feb, 22, at the open forum of the Harlem section of the Workers Party, Local New York, at 54 East 104th St. Manley will speak on the American Labor Movement, a subject with which he is thoroly acquainted, due to his long years of experience in the organized labor movement of this country. Comrade Manley is a very fine speaker. The subject for discussion at the open forum on Sunday evening, March 1, will be Literature, Art, and the Revolution—a Symposium, led by Simon Felshin, Louis Lozowick, and Joseph Freeman. This is a very in- teresting topic and will be handled by.,eapable speakers. The Harlem open forum will continue over the spring, and a program of. further topics and speakers will be made pub- lic later. ine WHITE TERRORISTS CRY FOR MERCY By MAX BEDACHT Is a new pamphlet just off the press. Contrasting the treat- ment of political prisoners in Russia with that given to political prisoners in other countries— It is also an exposure of the counter - revolutionary activities of “socialists.” Filled with facts this little book will give you material for a subject so much in .present discus- sions. 5 CENTS EACH THE DAILY WORKER Literature Department 1113 W. Washington Boulevard Chicago, III. 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