The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 22, 1925, Page 3

| COURTS TOOLS OF CAPITALISM; WORKER PARTY REPLIES “NO” TO “BETTER GOVERNMENT” SOCIETY The municipal state and national governments are subsidiaries to the The Workers (Communist) Party has written the better big corporations. government association, in reply to @ letter asking the Communist can- didates for alderman in the aldermanio elections whether they would aid in “law enforcement” if elected. “Better government is impossible under capitalism,” the Workers Party reply, signed by the four Communist candidates for aldermen, stated. “The Workres Party is for the work- ing class first, last and all the time.” The statement then cites the cases of persecution of members of the working class by capitalist courts and pledges the Workers Party to fight for the defense of working class victims of capitalist justice. The letter of the ‘Workers Party is printed in full below:— Reply of Workers Party The Better Government Association, 721-26 Chicago Temple. Dear Sirs:- In reply to your questions submit- ted by your organization we assert first that the title of your body is misleading unless you stand for the overthrow of the capitalist system, Better government is impossivie un- der capitalism. You say that the “crime wave has become a great menace to life and Property in Chicago” and then ask: “Will you pledge yourself (if elected) that you will not inter- vene In behalf of any person charg- ed with violation of the law unless the same be done publicly and in @pen court?” As Communists we know that capi- talism is responsible for most of the so-called crime and we are therefore interested only in such cases as arise out of the class struggle going on in society—what are generally termed Political crimes, In the cases of workers arrested for activity in strikes, for agitation, for educational work, for loyalty .to revolutionary working class organiza tions, we and our party, the Work- ers (Communist) Party of America stand pledged to do everything in our Power to free these victims of cap- italism and its courts. In these oi we carry on the widest possible agita- tion among the workers with the ob- ject of arousing them to defense of their comrades. 88 of our members are now under indictment under the Michigan criminal syndicalist law as are result of our fight for the work- ers, Men and women arrested for the activities we mention are not regarded by us as criminals but as the very i types of manhood and woman- Fullest Publicity You may rest assured that in these kind of cases there will be the fullest SSE Dz S: ZIMMERMAN IDE Nv sT, 2232.N. CALIFORNIA MY NEW LOCATION Special X-Ray rices —_ to Gas Workers Given ESTABLISHED 12 YEARS. My Examination Is Free My Prices Are Reasonable My Work Is Guaranteed Extracting Specialist DELAY MEANS DECAY Where Food Is Good And the service is fine. Meet your friends at the Zlotins & Plotkins Restaurant 100 Per Cent Union 29 South Halsted St. The best of food at a moderate price evnaurrvaenaqnoeuvensaeasrnvaenntnvnegenanncnacneqite stats Get your tickets for Red Revel Ball, February 28, Get your tickets for Red Revel Bail, February 28, WORKERS PARTY WANTS ELECTION POLL WATCHERS Volunteers are wanted by the Workers (Communist) Party to act as watohers at the polls on election day, Feb. 24, All Communist watch- ers are urged to report for duty at the local office of the Workers Party, room 307, 166 West Wash- ington street. The polls open at 9 a. m., and close at 4p.m, The Workers Party has candidates in the 34th, 28th, 24th, and 22nd wards. The watchers will not be required to work all day, it is announced, but can take shifts with other comrades, After the polis close the Workers Party watchers must remain until the votes are counted, which it is antleipated will require only about two hours. ree publicity, not because we have any moral scruples about gecrecy, but because we always try to get the ear of the largest possible number of workers for these cases and the Com- munist program, Your other question is; “Will you aid, as far as ties in your power, the public law enfore- ing officials in the performance of their respective duties?” Inasmuch as all the so-called “law enforcing” agencies are in reality for the purpose of protecting the stolen wealth of the capitalist class, wealth produced by the working class and taken from them by non-workers who own the government and industries we consider that these robbers anc their retainers can look after thel: Protect Our Candidates! Property without any aid from us. Organize the Workers We do not approve of individual terrorist or criminal acts which serv no purpose but to discredit the work ing class and revolutionary movemen‘ Our purpose is to organize the who! working class, wage-earners and wor! ing farmers, for the establishment © a workers’ and farmers’ government which will administer industry and agriculture for the benefit of those who work—the reverse of the preseni process. Public law enforcing officials, with a few exceptions that do not count in the scheme of things, are the willing servants of the class enemies of the workers and farmers. We are run- ing for election to the Chicago city council with no hope of changing this fact thru the parliamentary Process. If elected we will use our positions a8 @ means of exposing the phony nature of capitalist democracy, of ex- posing the inseparable connection be- tween capitalist party politicians and the traction barons, steel corpora- tions, packing house lords and all the other brood, big and small, of the robber clique of which the Chicago municipal government, the state gov- ernments and the national govern. ment are subsidiaries. Party of Working Clase. The Workers (Communist) Party is for the working class first, last and all the time. In its struggles with the capitalists the working class is al- ways right as far as we are con- cerned, It is not interested in “crime waves” and “law enforcement” campaigns which are always merely an excuse for adding more thugs and parasites to the armed forces of capitalist gov- ernment, Signed: Louis Cejka, Communist candidate in the 22nd Ward. Hyman Epstein, Communist ean- didate in the 24th Ward, Nicholas Dozenberg, Gommunist candidate in the 28th Ward. Harry Brooker, Communist can- didate in the 84th Ward. , Daily Paper DANCING TO 1 A. M. PHILADELPHIA, NOTICE! FIRST ANNUAL Daily Worker Ball The only Revolutionary Working Class Friday Evening, Feb. 27th NEW TRAYMORE HALL Franklin St. and Columbia Ave, Arranged by the Workers Party and Young Workers League, Local Philadelphia in America TICKETS 35 CENTS ere ee | THE DAILY WORKER $500 Blow Struck By Unknown Friend ad a aS: BESS Down $1,233 Like a blacksmith shop, the DAILY WORKER office re- sounded Saturday morning as the last dollar spikes were be- ing driven in the 1925 insurance campaign. : Altogether, $719.50 worth of blows were struck Saturday, making a total of $1,200.00 driven home by ihe hammer this week. BUT IT WILL TAKE THAT MUCH A DAY to raise the entire $50,000 by March bth! Over one-half the Job is still to be done. One old-time friend of the Communist press in America — struck 500 blows with the ...+ he brought in a $300 ) oneck! Five hundred dol- lars to be used unrestrictedly to keep the printing machinery going,—grinding out propagan- da weapons against capitalism, As this DAILY WORKER tne is not a member of the PARTY, ot want his name disclosed. His generosity, however, brings a new burst of inspiration to the campaign. The revolution isn't so far off, after all:#that’s the way it makes a fellow feel. Following on the heels of this gorgeous gift came an- other, not so large,—but just as generous, The accompany- ing letter told the story: “I worked all last summer on the bridge gang and saved me enough money to get along thru winter. But on Jan. 14th, the bank closed its doors and left me penniless. So the strug gle for existence goes on un- endingly. “Bnelosed find one dollar to insure our paper, with much regret that I can’t ‘send more.” The sender of this hard-earn- ed dollar is J. A. Blasutch, Box 141, Kellogg, Ia, If every branch, and every individual peng ie HIT AS pear wouldn't be Bore lon Paty spikes in the DAILY RKER structure: it would be as for 1926 as the rock of Gibraltar | he does. HAMMER THIS. SPIKE WITH A DOLLAR! Send this Greeting to the Comintern: “The Daily Worker Safe for 19; $30,000 NEEDED BY MARCH 5 REMIT! State. LAST SPIKE. Here is my dollar to HAMMER , I am with you for insuring the DAILY WORKER TO THE IT HOME ; ane AS WE NEED IT By T. FLAHERTY. ‘OU have often heard tell of the “subsidized press.” The term was considered one of opprobrium in the days when the socialist party was the leading political organization of the working class in America. But those were the days when socialism meant nothing more nor less than pacifist liberalism, a vain protest against the iron methods of capital- ism and its government. The cap- italist press is subsidized.in,one way or another by the capitalists. It is worth every nickel they put into it. UT the Communist press is also subsidized, unfortunately not very healthy. The DAILY WORKER is a subsidized sheet in the truest sense of the word. It is subsidized by the class-conscious workers who realize the necessity of having a daily organ that will fight for their inter- ests and give them leadership and inspiration in their struggles. It is only right that the workers should subsidize their own press as the cap- italists subsidize theirs. Now we are getting down to brass tacks. We are coming down from the clouds. We have our feet on firm ground. We know we are engaged in a fight and there is no nonsense about it. ‘HE Communist press against the capitalist press! The workers against the capitalists; the workers under the leadership of the Commun- ist parties. As the workers grow in class-consciousness; as the steel of rebellion enters their souls, they will _ become more and more convinced of the necessity of supporting their own press. But in the meantime, it re- mains for comparatively few to carry the burden. Those who have blazed the trail in every age of human de- velopment have been few. It takes courage and a spirit of self-sacrifice to stick when the great majority are hostile or apathetic. F the great masses of the American workers realized the necessity of having a paper devoted to the inter- ests of their class, there would not be any need for an appeal for funds. The circulation of this paper would be at least half a million, and be- sides paying for itself, it could afford to devote its surplus to extending its propaganda machinery. But that time is not here yet, hence, the plea for funds. We are calling on every reader of the DAILY WORKER to send us at least one dollar, One dol- lar is not the limit but every reader is urged to do at least that much. SINGLE taxer from Philadelphia, sent in a five dollar bill for an insurance policy, He said the DAILY WORKER was the best working- class paper he ever read. It even made him to decide to give the single tax organization a chance to make good or expel him. He will be ex- pelled, if that party has enough en- ergy left to purge itself of a revolu- tionist. If the DAILY WORKER can convert a single taxer, what can it not do? ‘HIS drive for funds will close on re March 6, Whether the DAILY ORKER will be insured for 1926 or not is up to you. Think of a great labor daily with half a million cir- culation, That is what we are aim- ing at, with dailies in New York and in every other big industrial center in the United States. Dig up your dollar and send it in. Get your name on the honor roll in our special March edition, CHICAGO CITY CENTRAL COMMITTEE, Page Three WORKERS (COMMUNIST) PARTY BACKS IRISH FAMINE RELIEF CAMPAIGN T its meeting Wednesday, Feb. 18, Party, Local Chicago endorsed t! the City Central Commitee Workers he campaign for famine relief for Irish workers and peasants and instructed all delegates of Labor Defense council to give complete support to the International Defense Day com- memorating the Paris Commune, March 29th at Ashland Auditorium. The demonstration will be for the release of world’s class war prisoners and for the relief of Irish workers and peasants, The various language units of the entertainment and propaganda for tha’ energy behind the Irish Workers’ and + Peasants’ Famine Relief Conference and every effort will be made to get affiliations of labor unions and other working class organizations to the conference, Work in the Unions, A spirited discussion took place on ways and means to get more of the trade union comrades active in the unions and the Trade Union Educa- tional League and to get others into the union, The work in the building trades, carpenters, metal and needle trades sroups is of paramount importance and has greater possibilities for the development of left wing movement in the trade unions than was ever before possible, The building trades comrades are siting the party branches explair ing the work and every co-operation | should be extended. In the needle trades the T. U. B. L. group decided to isue a leaflet thru the Amaigamated group on the coming agreement. The issue in the Amal- gamated today is clear; it is Hillman. ism versus the left wing and the Communists. In all of these unions the fight for reinstatement of the expelled has tak- en on a militant and national char- acter, The coming pamphlet expos- ing the corruption of the Hutcheson machine in the Carpenters’ Union promises to be a scorcher and many orders are already coming in for this pamphlet. Labor Defense Council activity is being pushed thru the unions and our speakers are appearing wherever pos- sible, and where our comrades are on the job to get them the floor. The T, U. EB. L. groups are preparing to push THE WORKERS MONTHLY in the unions, The North Side English branch, as a starter, has decided that every mem-| ber of the branch must get at least | three copies of the Workers Monthly each month and, further to push the} Communist work in the trade unions, has decided, altho the comrades in this branch are already more active than the others that anyone failing to | attend a union or T. U. EB. L. meeting | in the needle, building, printing and metal trades is automatically sus- pended from the party for three months. This is a good example for other branches to follow and will no doubt do a great deal towards getting our party members active in the un- ions, the basic organs of the class struggle. The T, U. EB. L. page covers the un- fon activities in detail and an en- deavor is being made to see that every group has its correspondents. Com- rades who fail to attend unions are being made to run the gauntlet in the branches and city central committee. This is especially necessary be- cause in some local unions, on the question of expelled carpenters and labor défense work as well as elec- tions to executive boards; the left wing lost out from two to five votes and absent party members would have been sufficient to carry the results in our way, The DAILY WORKER drive is men- tioned elsewhere in these columns, Propose to Form Shop Nuclei Branches. On shop nuclei the city central committee instructed the nuclei de- partment to proceed with the district- ing of the entire city in order as quickly as possible to form shop nu- clei branches out of the existing shop nuclei, These shop nuclei branches, when organized, will send delegates to the city central committees, conven- tions, ete, in place of shop nuclei units. This is in accordance with the organizational form of nuclei. In order to become more fully ac- qainted with the language press the party are to furnish special forms of t day. The party is throwing full May Day Committee Forming. - Branches are to elect delegates at once for a May Day committee in an endeavor to make the coming May Day a gigantic affair. Also all branches are to make cer- tain that delegates come to the La- bor Defense Council united front con- ference on Thursday, Feb. 26, 8 p. m., 180 W. Washington St., Room 301, Membership meeting schedulted for next Tuesday in accordance with ©. E. C. instructions and agenda given in another column, was reported on, The fight against the C. P. P, A is one point on the membership meet- ing agenda, and in this connection there are hardly any local unions in Chicago which have endorsed the C. P. P, A. conference. The issue is cold 2 the rank and file and is roue- ing no sentiment whatsoever, an indica- tion of correctness of the policy of the party in exposing the C, P, P, A. as a bourgeois outfit, Push the Child Labor Campaign. On the child labor campaign now that the Illinois legislature has the issue of a referendum before it, com- rades in the unions and fraternal or- ganizations should push the child la- bor campaign and resolutions in ac- cordance with policy and send in re- ports at once to the local office. Comrade Swabeck has been appoint- ed district organizer by the Central Executive Committee in the Pitts- burgh district and Comrade Abern has replace him, 70,000 Election Campaign Leaflets Distributed. On the elections campaign it was reported that the 50,000 election cam- paign leaflets containing the program of the Workers (Communist) Party in the aldermanic elections had al- ready been distributed. In addition, special leaflets are now being printed for some of the remaining aldermania candidates and also special cards. The |namber of election leaflets used will run up from 70,000 to 75,000. As re- | ported previously, thtee of the party | candidates were eliminated from the ballot by the usual methods of capital- ist procedure and legality. Comrades Brooker, Cejka, Dozenberg and Bp stein remain 6n the ballot. The situation in the Italian Federa- tion was reported upon and the Ital- ian comrades are now working to is- sue again the I] Lavoratore as a daily as quickly as possible in the eity of New York. Federation bureau also to be moved there. The city central committee aproved the expulsion of six comrades from the South Slavic branches for their support of the paper, Novy Swijet, against the policy of the party and for their support also of the Svetkoff an- ti-party group outside of the party and also approved the reinstatement of two of the comrades upon a written declaration of loyalty to the party. The following applications for mem- bership were accepted: Polish North Sid Finnish . Douglas Park ‘Englis! North Side English Mid-City English Italian 19th Ward .. Greek ...... South Slavic Poll watchers are wanted for the aldermanic elections on Tuesday, Feb- ruary 24. Comrades should report to the office to get credentials and ad- dresses of comrades who can be poll watchers. All arrangements are being made for a successful Sacco-Vanzetti meet- ing on March 1, which will be held in the Emmet Memorial Hall. The next meeting of the city cen- tral committee will be held at 722 Blue Island Ave., on March 4, 8 p, m. Fraternally yours, Workers Party—Local Chicago, delegates will report at the C. C. C. on contents and make up of the lang- uage press. MORITZ BUSINESS MANAGER O Sunday, Feb. Martin Abern, Secretary. Patronize our advertisers, J. LOEB F THE DAILY WORKER Will Describe “How a Labor Daily Goes to Press” 22, 8 P. M. at the WORKERS PARTY OPEN FORUM ASHLAND AUDITORIUM (Lodge Room), Ashland Avenue and Van Buren Streets Take Metropolitan “L” to Marshfield Sta., or surface lines on Van Buren | QUESTIONS AND DISCUSSION Single admission 260 Tickets good for any three admissions, 50e