The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 20, 1925, Page 6

‘Page Six THE DAILY WORKER. Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 1118 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, TL (Phone; Monroe 4712) More Evidence of “Stability” Two events of major importance feature the news from Europe. sy , | First, the deportation of Germans and the con- | fiscation of German property by Roumania, actions | that are usually understood to mean a declara- SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mall: lies $6.00 per year $3.50....6 months $2.00....8 months | tion of war. By mail (in Chicago only): Second, the friction between the Polish govern- $2.50..8 months | ent and the vatican. These two events are the most eloquent testimony | possible to the growing chaos of European political Chicago, Hlinels | affairs, a chaos that cannot be concealed by labored | optimi i i hich coin- . LOUIS ENGDAHL optimism of the imperialist press and w! WittiAM F, DUNNE | cides with the end of the period of social pacifism. MORITZ J. LOEB. Roumania and Poland are both tied to the chari lism. 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Washington Bivd. ~ woo DI tore wenn Business Manager Advertising rates on application Constabulary and Capitalism “Law ’norder” is again the topic of discussion in the Illinois legislature as the employers’ associa- tion, the chambers of commerce, advertising clubs, the Illinois manufacturers’ associations, and the} brood of kiwanis, lions and rotary clubs press for the enactment of the constabulary bill—a_ bill creating a state police force like the steel trust’s Pennsylvania cossacks whose bloody record of violence against striking workers is too well known to need detailing here. The capitalists have the national army, the state militia, the municipal police forces, sheriffs and their deputies of the various counties. formidable and well-trained array of agents hostile to the working class and its organizations. But the capitalists are not satisfied. | Not a day passes but the necessity of a further | increase in all these instruments of the capitalist | power is urged by the capitalist press. The hunting down of actual criminals is a minor part of the duties, it is their social camouflage, of these armed groups—standing outside and above the masses. They are kept to put down strikes, demonstrations} and revolts of the workers. | The capitalists know that their system breeds| suffering and discontent like a rotten carcass/ breeds maggots. They feel insecure and nervous even in periods when there is very little political agitation. They are worried over their stolen wealth and in their dreams they see the working class reaching for the good things of tife that have been stolen from it. It is a very innocent and uninformed person who, in spite of the innumerable acts and utterances of the capitalists that prove to the hilt the Com- munist contention that their rule rests on force, can continue to believe that capitalism can be killed by love and kindness. Against the constabulary bill organized workers of Illinois are a unit and the bill will propably be defeated. The conditions which prompt the Illinois bosses to introduce the bill will remain, however, and unless the workers of Illinois enter into a united front on all other problems of the working | class they will wake up some day to the knowledge that Illinois capitalism has strengthened itself by the creation of another organization of professional thugs and murderers. The way to fight the constabulary bill is organize| the working class on the basis of the class struggle| and contest every salient of the capita system. To trade and truckle, to yield on other vital points, | to compromise the position of the unions in rela-| tion to the capitalist parties, to mouth the same) respect for capitalist law and order that the cap-| italist class and its middle-class hangers-on indulge} in, in short, to conduct the kind of a campaign | that the officialdom of the Illinois labor movement} * does in its fight against the constabulary bill, is| to confuse and weaken the working class movement and deprive it of its greatest asset—confidence in its own strength and the knowledge that it must separate itself from all other social groups in its} war for freedom. Workers and poor farmers, white and black, con- stitute the working class. These are the only revo- a lutionary elements in society and these are the only groups that ean and will wage an uncom- promising war on constabulary bills and all other forms of capitali Every day get a “sub” for the DAILY WORKER and a member for the Workers Party. st aggression. The International Struggle The French government needs at least $200,000,- 000 more to stabilize the franc, says Loucheur, and this is more good news for the House of Morgan. There is an apparently inexhaustible demand for the gold of the international bankers in Europe these days and they are able to dictate their own terms. It was less than a year ago that $100,000,000 was loaned the French government by the House of Morgan—a loan made to pay the interest on a previous loan of $500,000.000. Then in the latter part of 1924 another loan was negotiated to save the franc, which at that time hit the toboggan and was sliding to the zero mark. Now comes the initiation of still further obliga- tions that must be entered into to prop up French exchange. All of these measures simply pile up a burden of debt that mortgages the French working class for generations, in company with the German work- ers, to the House of Morgan and its allied gub- sidiaries. | The French, German and American workers now have the same ruler—international finance-capital with its headquarters in Wall Street. Against this ruler a common struggle must be) waged and international finanee-capital itself Jays the basis for the intenationaliaition of the struggl | of the working class. Europe to replace the vanished Austro-Hungarian empire. Roumania has in all probability been induced— not a hard task—to take the offensive against Ger- many as a reminder to the weak German govern- ment that the bandit band of: French imperialism is on the job in the event of default on reparation payments. Great Britain, who wants and needs stability in western Europe, looks jealously at these evidences of French influence. She takes them—and rightly —as indications of the hell that the French im- perialists will raise if British pressure on the franc and in the matter of armaments becomes too strong. The league of nations looks on helplessly and sends out bulletins of the “progress” made by Esthonia—a country about as large as a good-sized orth Dakota farm—progress marked by the mur- der of all the leading members of the Esthonian Communist Party. Yes, when the Communist International declares that the conflicts between the national capitaliisms inevitably prevent any real unity and recuperation of world capitalism, it says a mouthful. City Authorities and Street Cleaners The strike of the 2,500 Chicago street cleaners and garbage department workers whose tasks are of the greatest value to the whole community, dis- closes, as strikes of workers engaged in work of this kind usually do, the low wages paid for this hard, unpleasant and in many cases dangerous toil. The wages of the great majority of these men are less than $30 per week and they are asking an increase of about fifty cents per day. The city authorities claim that they were not notified of the intention~of the union to strike and we hope that this is true. It it is, it indicates that some progress is being made in an industry where prolonged negotiations which allow the authorities to make full preparations to break the strike are the rule. 4 The statements of city officials published by the capitalist press mention the number of unskilled workers available and covertly threaten the em- ployment of scabs, with the additional information calculated to line up the little taxpayers against the striking workers, to the effect that the wage raise asked would cost the city $400,000 per year. A city which can afford to turn out its police and fire departments to greet the representative of the pope and labor haters like Brigadier-Gen- eral Dawes, not to mention the dozens of other class enemies of the workers for whom welcomes have been staged, can easily afford to give the very moderate increase asked by the workers whose job is to save the lives of the population by keep- ing the city clean. This is the time for the workers in the sanitary department of the city of Chicago to make their importance felt. Let the stink of garbage filter all thru the lux- urious apartments and homes of the Chicago rich who look upon a garbageman as the lowest thing in creation, The “Forward” of the Bosses The Daily Forward, in refusing to carry news of the strike of New York laundry workers because it received publicity and support from the Com- munists and Communist press, is using an excuse that does not hold water. A few days ago we told of the support of a scab creamery in Los Angeles by the Forward and the sabotage of the strike of the laundry workers is more proof that this expression of the putrid Second International and its social traitors hates the working class and its struggles. ; It is prepared to flatter the workers when they do not fight, but let them begin to wage war on the boss and his government and ‘the Forward shows its colors—the black’ and yellow flag of the capitalist counter-revolution and its middle-class supporters, ; The Forward is against the class struggle in its every expression whether it be the Russian revo- lution or a little strike of laundry workers. Communists in City Elections Read the clear and uncompromising program of the-candidates of the Workers (Communist) Party in the aldermanic campaign and compare it THE DAILY WORKER TEXTILE BARONS CUTTING WAGES THRU BAY STATE Workers Get Publicity Instead of Wages By A. ALDEN. HASTHAMPTON, Mass., Feb, 18.— In line with other textile mills of New England, the largest cotton mill of this town, the West Boylston Mfg. Co., has cut wages 10 per cent. In normal times}'this mill employs over 3,000. At present it runs on a 50 per cent basis. The workers pre greatly discon- tented and grumblings are heard on every side, but as this mill is a scab mill, they can’t dovanything. In fact all the mills in this town such as the Glendale Hlastic;Fabric Co., Colton Mfg. Co., Hampton Mills, etc., are all scab mills. q The only strike this town has ever witnessed was im 1918 at the West Boylston Mfg. Co, The U. M. W. Local was organized, but due to poor leadership on the ,part of union or- ganizers, the strikers were defeated and soon after the U. M. of A. Local also died, 5 The present wages of male workers here are $12.00 to $18.30; female, $9.00 to $15.45. Some of the inspecting and ship- ping departments have regular school systems to speed up work. The girls on burling (cloth inspecting) that in- spect most yards per week get their names put on the mill bulletin. The girl that has the largest number of yards inspected gets a gold (paper) star opposite her name. The girls who burl less have their names on the poor workers’ list. In dull times these are the first ones to be laid off, The West Boylston Mfg. Co. and Hampton Mills own quite a large num- ber of houses in this town. They are rented to their respective employes only. Rent is\taken out of pay en- velopes weekly. War Veteran Is Leper. WAUKEGAN, IL, Feb. 18—Anoth- er case of leprosy has been found in Lake county, the third in as many months. The new case was found at Great Lakes and the victim is a vet- eran of the United States army sent to U. S. Naval hospital for treatment. He is Henry Embeek, 51, whose home is said to be in Cincinnati, where he has a brother anda sister living. Six years ago he returned to the states, after having served,jin the army in Philippines. U.S. héalth department officials believe ‘Ne™contracted it in the islands. 3 AS WE-SEE IT By T. J. 0% (Continued trom page 1) peasants are starving with the hun- ger and cold. : * * @ - 'HE offenses punishable by death are six forms of treason, under which comes any vigorous opposition to the Free State government. Per- sons suspected of such opposition are to be tried like murderers and if found guilty hanged, Any person at- tempting to overawe the governor general or members of the executive council, or any othér minister of either house of parliament, or a judge, or to set up courts of justice or courts: martial or other than those lawfully established, or who may incite any member of the military or police forces, or of the civil service or re- fuse or neglect their performance of duty is guilty of felony. : 'HE bill takes a slam at DeValera by making it a crime for anyone to style himself the president of an Irish Republic. The Jaw is ostensibly aimed at the republicans who are the most active political force in Ireland now, in opposition,to the Free State. But there is no unbridgeable basis for the republieam opposition, the large elements of pe republican party logically belong »@ revolutionary working class When such e party develops in-freland, the present assassin bill goingy;thru.the Dail will be used against the» workers. The Irish workers and peasants are now enjoying some ofjthe blessings of na- tive capitalist ruler The Finns, Esth- onians, Lithuanians, Letts, Hungar- fans and Jugo-Slays:had their lessons long ago. weg om .* HILE Mrs, Wthel Snowden was in Canada she threw several volleys into the ®anks of the radicals, She lacerated Soviet Russia, denounc- ed Communism, praised the British empire, took a mild crack at Ramsey MacDonald and upheld the royal house. But her speeches created dis- sust in labor cireles in Canada and almost caused a rebellion in the with the futile, if not reactionary, programs of all|ranks of the British trade unions. Her the other candidates. husband, Philip, was courteously re- The program of the Communist candidates is|°!ved by the king and queen when the national program of the Workers (Communist) Party translated into terms of the problems con- fronting the workers of “Chicago by reason of the ownership of the mu capitalist class. All other candidates seek to conceal this fact or to justify it. he SOTO Send in that new ub today! he was his majéi#ty’s chancellor and Hthel had the pleasure of osculating the appropria: of the royal an- te atomies, a from the man- ni¢ipal government by the] ner in which eulogies were re- ceived by the ish trade unionists it would ao a orsaine to see 6 trade union aking contact with that part of the fSnowden anatom; that is caer ke at than men tioned in polite me rh A PACKAGE OF MENTAL DYNAMITE! T last we can announce It! The NEW LITERATURE CATAL- OGUE Is ready! We are sending It today to every city and branch agent of the DAILY WORKER and we are glad to send It to anyone who will take the trouble to write ue'for one. It’s a package of mental dynamite—a collection of the finest revo- lutionary working class IIteraturé Is In it! All the classics and ever 80 many new books and pamphlets are listed, classified and described to meet every requirement of “reading hunger” that this catalogue Is sure to develop In you! ‘And het of your knowledge. feel somewhat “rusty” about, why But there Is a special value polnt of view, I'd land him In our perlence—write for a catalogue! us and you'll get It! G By THURBER LEWIS ‘HE modest advances made by or- ganized labor up to 1857 were al- most totally destroyed by the panic of that year. It was necessary to be- gin all over again. One of the saving graces of the panic and strikes of 1857 was that it gave the American labor movement its first great leader —William H. Sylvis. Sylvis was born in 1828, in Penn- sylvania. He was early apprenticed in a foundry and later became a jour- neyman moulder. A strike in the foundry in. which he worked in 1857 in Philadelphia and the desperate conditions of his trade, threw him en- ergetically and whole-heartedly into the movement of the workers. Largely as a result of Sylvis’ thusiastic work for organization o' the moulders on a national scale, 4 aational convention representing twelve local unions met in 1859, With Sylvia as national treasurer the Moulders’ Union counted forty-four locals by 1861. During that same year the rumbl- ings of civil war caused Sylvia and his friends to start on a campaign of propaganda against the impending fratricidal conflict. The agitation be- came great enuf to call a national convention of workingmen’s~ repre- sentatives in February, 1861 over which Sylvia presided. Resolutions were passed and plans laid for oppos- ing the coming war. However, when the first shot was fired on Fort Sum- ter on April 12, the agitation ceased and whole local unions answered the call of President Lincoln. Despite the war, the Moulders’ Un- ion continued stronger every year. Sylvis became imbued with the idea of co-operation. In 1867 under his leadership the moulders began the or- ganization of co-operative foundries. The convention of 1868 changed the Manley Organizes T. U. E. L. Committee In Stamford, Conn. (Special to The Daily Worker) STAMFORD, Conn., Feb. 18.—Com- rade Joseph Manly, organizer for: the Trade Union Educational League, spoke at the Jewish Workers Party Local Stamford, Conn., on the Trade Union Educational League. A general discussion followed his lecture, quest fons were asked on labor conditions in the neighboorhood Comrade Manly is certainly 4 fine lecturer, from start to finish he kept his audience in a closely attentivé mood, His talk was scentific and log- ical. He squared every statement with facts and figures, and “proved that a Communist should be more than a theorist or a dues ‘mem- ber of the Workei Patty one real essence of Communism place at the point of productibn in’ the mine, mill and factory the seed’ of the future workers state. is sown.” "The opportunity to work to this end is given thru the T. U. BE. L. A committee organized. Trainman Fatally Injured, BLOOMINGTON, Ill, Feb. 18,— Caught between the drawbars while coupling at San Jose, John_ of this city, trainman ; ago and Alton, rece: early today that may the 8 re le another feature about It: It Is made In a conventent pocket size. You can carry It:arbund’ with you and spend many useful moments In giving this Communist classics a really ‘pleasant “on Every book and pamphlet listed onrries a brief description of Its contents to advise you If It is exactly that missing Iink in the chain And If you want to brush up on a subject you collection, of over.” . you are sure to find It here; in It that we must remind you of. When you talk to your shop-mate, you soon find that there Is one subject at least In which he Is interested. sald to yourself: “If 1 only knew of &@ book on that subject from OUR You no, doubt have often branch!” If you have had this ex- The handy booklet for a Communist propagandist has a card-board cover and between these covers you will find a book for yourself, your friends and for every need In your branch educational work. Write oes The Reformers, No. 4—William H. Sylvis. name of the Moulders’ Internatioval to the Moulders’ International Co-op- erative and Protective Union. In his report to that convention Sylvis said, “The Cause of all these evils is the wage system. We must adopt a sys- tem which will divide the profits of labor among those who produce them.” The failure of the co-operative en- terprises left an impression upon Sylvis. ¢He. saw_the class struggle as @ fight ‘to the death. When National Labor congresses became the order of the day toward the end of the sixties he, became one of the leaders and urged. national “and international con- solldation the forces of the work- bs Se first American labor ler to take seriously the problem of internat unity. When Sylvis becaute president of the National La- if ie ber Union’ in 1868, he undertook ac- tively. Ne connect the organization with the First International, Marx’s International Workingmen’s Associa- tion. He carried on an extensive cor- respondence with the general council in London." ” _. Ti 1869 there were rumors of war between England and the United States. The International addressed & memorial to Sylvis urging the co-op- eration of his union in agitation against’ the conflict. Sylvis replied, “Our cause is a’ common one. It is war between poverty and wealth. This monied power is fast eating up the ‘substance of the people. We have made war upon it and we mean to win it. If we can, we will win thru the ballot box; if not, then we shal’ resort to sterner means. A little blood-letting is sometimes necessary in desperate cases.” Unfortunately Sylvis died suddenly during July, 1869. The accepted lead- er of the labor movement thruout the sixties, Sylvis typifies the revolution- ary. beginnings of the American work- ing-tlass movement and points to the existence of an inherent class con- sciousness that cannot be stified by the petty bureaucrats who are his un- happy. successors of today. t ’ ¢ é ‘ ‘ ? é é ; ‘ ns foe € uns geet ving tay old favorites, songs “Worda Only: nisiijcsssisocaaatin 1118 w. fashington Blvd, THINDOO REBEL ~ Even if you-haven't got. @ Single note in your throat! "You will join in the.crowd when they si SN It the sched Shida esas aps sae _. Edited by Rudolph von Liebich ' This new revolutionary song book contains all the f Russia and tantalizin, from that gay little Bolshevik operetta lution” by J. Ramirez (M. Gomez) and M. music by Rudolph von Liebich. 4 oo ie Words and music (Cloth Cover) Lyrics (without music) of “The Last Revolution” THE DAILY WORKER - . Literature Department { IS DEPORTED — BY HERRIOT France Took Orders from oe ) Britain PARIS, Feb. 4. (By Mail.)—The ex. pulsion of M. N. Roy, the Indian Com munist leader, from France is the lat. est example of the co-operation of the political secret police of different countries. ‘ Before the war it was the czarisi okhrana which, thanks to the Franco. Russian alliance, was allowed to main« tain an office and agents in’Paris fon the watching and harrying of poli ical refugees. Since the war it is the British gow ernment which has adopted this prax tice. It is a fact not generally known, but none the less a fact, that an in- spector of the special political branch of Scotland Yard is permanently sta- tioned in Paris, where his agents spy on any persons or institutions dis. approved by heads of the secret ser- vice, Roy’s Career. Roy has previously been @ victim of the same co-operation. From his am rival in Europe from America in 1920 he resided chiefly in Berlin, But at the end of 1923 the Prussian chief of police, at the request of Scotland Yard, ordered his arrest. He succeeded, however, in escaping to Switzerland, where he remained until last summer, when, trusting that an exile would be in safety under a radical government, he moved to Paris. But in December Mr. Chamberlain went to Paris and discussed many matters with the French premier. And on January 3 an expulsion order was made against Roy by the French minister of the interior, without any reason being assigned. The sequence can scarcely be coincidental. The order issued was only carried out on January 30, when he was an rested and conducted to the frontier without even being allowed to see his lawyer. Presumably it took Inspector Barron-and his French colleagues nearly a month to find their man. Efficiency in such matters has never been the Yard's strong suit, It is reported in Paris that other Indians obnoxious to the British gov- ernment are to be similarly dealt with, Mrs. Roy to Go. Mrs. Roy was arrested at the samé time as her husband, and released after his departure. Her ‘deportation is expected to follow. This is the lady referred to with such exquisite courtesy by the chief justice in the Cawnpore trial as “a woman believed to be of American na- tionality, and calling herself Evelyn Roy, and is understood to be his wife.” Mrs. Roy is, in fact, the daughter of the famous American pacifist, Dr, David Starr Jordan, and was married to Roy in California nine years ago. Tomorrow Night Meet You At the “Novy Mir” Ball NEW YORK, Feb. 18.—A big time with many surprises is in store for all those who have bought their tickets for the Novy Mir masquerade ball for Friday evening, Feb. 20th in Park View Palace, 110th St. and 5th Ave. If you haven’t got your ticket yet don’t put it off another minute, This ball will be the biggest and the finest ever held by our Russian com- rades. There are many reasons why you should be there, but the most important one to every good comrade is to help the Communist press. Our Russian comrades are doing their part in making this affair a real treat. ——__. Settle for the Beauty and Bolshe- vik tickets. Bring the money and un- sold tickets either to 19 S, Lincoin St., or Room 307, 166 W. Washing- ton St. g tunes “The Last Revo- 4 sei oA Chicago, Illinois