The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 26, 1925, Page 2

‘ —_s Page Two COMMUNISTS IN AUSTRALIA HAVE OWN CANDIDATES Refused Affiliation to the Labor Party By W. FRANCIS AHERN, (Federated Press Staff Correspondent) SYDNEY, Austraila—At a confer ence of the Communist Party of Aue tralla, held at Sudney, it was decided to run Communist candidates in the forthcoming New South Wales elec- tions and In the senate (federal par- lament) elections at the end of 1926. This decision was made because of the refusal of the Australian labor party to admit.Communists to affilia- tion in that party. Communists took the view that having been denied affi- Mation by the Australian labor party other action must be taken to give expression to Communist principles, Gontest Four Seats. The Communist candidates will con- test four of the leading industrial seats in the N. 8S. W. elections. In those constituencies where no Com- munist candidates will stand, the Communists will support the labor party candidates. The conference resolved that all Communist parliamentary candidates must place a signed undated resigna- tion’ with the central executive of the Communist Party to be put into force should they fail to remain true to Communist principles, if elected to parliament. It was also resolved that the salary and fees of any member of the party elected to parliament must be the property of the party, the cen- tral executive to renumerate members out of same. Urge Pan-Pacific Conference. The conference also resolved that a congress representing all countries bordering around the Pacific Ocean should be held during 1935 for the pur- pose of securing concerted action to preserve peace in the interests of the working class. It was suggested that the congress be held at Sydney, and convened by the council of action of the All-Australian Trade Union Con- gress. If the council of action fails to issue invitations before March 31, 1925, then the labor council of New South Wales should be the convener. The conference has decided that the following partial program shall be put forward by the Communist Party candidates in parliamentary elections: Planks From Program. 1, A minimum wage of $30 per week for all workers, irrespective of Sex; payment of the full basic wage to all workers in the event of sick- ness, accident, or unemployment; a six-hour day and a fiveday week, 2. Absolute preference to union- ists and no open shop; abolition of all scab and non-union bureaus; con- trol of the registration of the unem- ployed by the trade union movement, and the replacement of the existing government labor bureaus by indus- trial bureau directed by labor and in- dustrial councils. 3. Reinstatement of all railway and tramway workers victimized during the general strike in 1917, with full seniority rights and compensation. 4. Free access to all jobs at any time for all accredited trade union delegates, who shall be made honor- ary inspectors, with the full powers of industrial inspectors under the ar- bitration act. 5. Safety first in all mines, with the provision of the latest technical flevices. 6. Full upkeep of children until the sarning age, and motherhood endow- ment. 7. The extension of the system of state education to include training for industry, such training to take the Place of the present apprenticeship system; the school leaving age to be extended to 18 years of age. This platform will be added to and adjusted by the newly-elected central executive of the Communist Party. Late Emperor of China in Flight; in Protection of Japs PEKIN, Feb. 24.—The former boy emperor of China has fled Pekin. Deserting his refuge in the Japan- ese legation, Hsuan Tung, presumably disguised as a coolie, made his way by train to Tien Tsin. He was fol- lowed on another train by his wife and retinue. The party is now living in the Jap- anese concession at Tien Tsin pend- ing a trip to Japan, it was learned to- day. Threatening articles in the Chin- ese press are said to have precipitat- od the flight of the fomrer emperor. | corner Western and North avenues. Hutcheson is leading a campaign of expulsions in Detroit, Philadelphia, Chicago and Los Angeles. Reports on the activities of the militants in the unions in Chicago will be made at the meeting. Particu- larly interesting are the reports re- garding the situations in the metal, printing and building industries, Fol- lowing the reports, discussion will take place in which those who are interested are invited to take part. These meetings of the Chicago T. U. B. L. are gatherings of all trade union militants who are fighting for progress in the unions, The problems confront- ing them in their struggle are dis- cussed and every militant, irrespect- ive of the union he belongs, gets a comprehensive view of the situation in every union. Readers of the DAILY WORKER as well as all trade uniopists and members of the Workers Party are invited to attend, Springfield, Illinois, Invites All Workers to Its Study Class That the circuit school conducted in District 8, has been of great value to the members in the district, is proven by excellent results that have been so far gotten in Springfield. The cireuit, which started with some 12 comrades, has increased where it is now in the neighborhood of 30. Mem- bers of the Young Workers’ League, members of the Workers Party and sympathizers of the Communist move- ment have been attending these class- es and from the lively interest taken in the various sessions, exemplify the need for this educational work as part of the general work of the party. Last Monday night Comrade Lerner, circuit teacher, spoke on the Material- ist Conception of History. The meet- ing was the best attended yet. The comrades present promised to add even more to the attendance in the coming lectures. The next lecture is to be held next Monday night, March 2, and will deal with the role and tactics of the Com- munist Party. The sessions take Place at 221% S. 4th street, Spring- field, Illinois, at 8 o’clock. All comrades who desire to listen to the remaining lectures in the cir- cuit should attend the next lecture. A lively discussion is expected as in the case of the past lectures. Judg- ing from Comrade Lerner’s lectures in the past, comrades will gain a great deal from the three lectures remain- ing to be given. Milwaukee to Hear Lectures on Trade Unions by Lerner After the completion of the regu- lar circuit tour of District 8, in Mil- waukee, a short course in trade union history and tactics was started two weeks ago. This course has met with the best response, the comrades of all the various branches in Milwaukee at- tending. Two lectures of the four lectures have already been delivered. The next two lectures are of espe- cial vital interest to all party mem- bers and sympathizers, inasmuch as they deal with the rebellion in the trade unions and tactics in the trade unions. Comrade Lerner, who has conducted the circuit course in Milwaukee and who is delivering the lectures in. this short course, promises to make these two lectures even of greater interest than the previous ones. This course has been eagerly welcomed and lec- tures given so far have aroused a great deal of enthusiasm and interest. The comrades are urged to attend the next lecture on Rebellion in the Trade Union Movement, which will take place Friday night, February 27, at party headquarters, 802 State St., Milwaukee, Report Quake at Denver, DENVER, Colo., Feb. 24.—One of the most serious earthquakes that has been recorded for more than a year was reported here today. The quake lasted 29 minutes, be- ginning at 5:01 p. m. yesterday and ending at 6:30 with the maximum at 5:13, The distance of the disturbance was placed as approximately 2,200 miles south west. Get your tickets for Red Revel Ball, February 28, GENERAL T.U, E. L. MEETING TONIGHT, NORTHWEST HALL; REPORTS ON METAL, BUILDING AND PRINTING INDUSTRIES The regular monthly meeting of local Chicago of the Trade Union Educational League will be held tonight at 8 p. m. in North West Hall, Comrade Jack Johnstone, secretary of the national committee of the T, U. E. L., will tell of the present situation in the Carpenters’ Union, where NEW YORK WORKERS TO CELEBRATE ON WORLD WOMEN’S DAY NEW YORK, Feb. 24.—The New York district of the Workers (Com- munist) Party will hold a mass meeting to celebrate International Women’s Day, which is the inter- national holiday officially design ated by the Communist Internation- al. The meeting will be held at the Labor Temple, East 84th St., near Third Ave., on Friday, March 6, at 8 P. M. The speakers will be Comrades Rose Pastor Stokes, Juliet Stuart Poyntz, M. J. Olgin, Warshafsky and Anna Thompson of the Young Workers League. CLASS IN MARXIAN ECONOMICS EVERY WEDNESDAY EVE, Here Are This Week’s Ten Questions Class held every Wednesday even- ing, 2613 Hirsch Blvd., Chicago. Max Lerner, instructor. This week's les- son; Chapter 10, “People’s Marx.” Questions on Chapter 10 1. Describe the effect of machine production on the members of the workingman’s family—how does it affect the relationship between the workingman and the capitalist—des- cribe the conditions prevailing upon the introduction of machinery as to the above—also conditions which exist today. (Look up report of in- vestigations of vice commission, state of Illinois, 1916. for modern data or other modern. material.) 2. Describe the effect of machin- ery on the resistence of the workers against the despotism of capitalism under machine production as against the manufacturing period. Is the in- troduction of new machinery ever used as. a. weapon to break strikes. Illustrate, 3. How are the wages of the male worker affected by the employment of the other members of his family? 4. Describé the factors that oper- ate to make the working day longer for the worker under machine pro- duction—what economies are effected by the capitalist in having his ma- chines operate all the time. Describe the special incentive for the prolonga- tion of the working day which makes itself felt most acutely during the early life of machine production. 5. What is the driving force which impels the capitalist to introduce new machinery—what contradiction does this eventually bring about and what is the further reaction of the capital- ist to reduce the effect of this con- tradiction as much as possible? 6. What effect has the production of commodities with aid of machinery on the value of commodities and what resultant effect on the cost of living? 7. Describe the process of the in- tensification of the workday by the capitalist once the workday is limited —what effect has the intensification of the workday upon the length of life of the worker, etc. Give modern illustrations for above. 8. Describe the process which creates an industrial reserve army. What effect has this upon the wages of the workers? 9. What effect has the machine process under capitalism upon the mind of the worker? 10. What great paradox does ma- chine production bring to the fore? Red Revel Committee Meets Tonight at 8 Wednesday, February 26, 8 p. m., 166 W. Washington St. All party and league branches must have their delegates there. All final arrangements must be made tonight. When you buy, get an “Ad” for the DAILY WORKER. FRIDAY EVENING, FEB. 27 Dancing to 1 Arranged by the Workers A. M. Party and Young Workers League, Local Philadelphia THE DAILY WORKER EXPULSIONS FROM CARPENTERS STIR RANK AND FILE Officials Use Police to Control Union (Special to The Daily Worker) DETROIT, Mich—The expulsion of Willam Reynolds by the general exe- entive board of thé United Brother hood of Carpenters’ and Joiners, pre- sents one of the most flagrant out- rages on trade union justice which the history of trade unionism sets forth. The trade uniop movement has been the victim of, persecution and nurtured in the struggle, and as a result a rugged sense of justice and fair play has been develeped in their ideology. a These guarantees of \jrights have been secure from attack during per iods of militancy in the past, but the wave of class collaberation now sweeping the whole trade union move ment has weakened the morale of the rank and file so that Hutcheson’s ex pulsion policy, which isjbut the car- penters’ edition of the camprehensive drive on the left wing dn the whole labor movement, has made: consider able progress before the rank and file have become alivejand aroused to the situation. sid Unjustified and IMlegal Expulsion, On January 9th the G. B. B. of the Brotherhood expelled Wm. Reynolds president of L. U. No. 2140 for alleg- ed membership in the Trade Union Educational League. There was no charge laid against Reynolds. He had no opportunity to defend himself. None of the constitutional guarantees were observed by the G. BE. BY Section 55 of the constitution which protects the rank and file was totally ignored. The first Reynolds knew oj the expulsion was @ notification sent him by the secretary of the district council four days after the action war taken. # % Local 2140, to which ‘Reynolds be- longs, has in its two meetings since the expulsion, taken action to sustain and protect the rights »f! Reynolds. The action of the G. u, s+ has been re- pudiated. A circular letter has been sent to all local unions’ in the Broth- erhood and many favorable answers have already been received. The various local unions:‘have, with one exception, taken favorabie action on the case and in the éxceptional lo- cal union favorable action has been forestalled by the arbitrary ruung of its president, James Shayrock, as yel- low a one as ever called,out the police or got out an injimetion.~ * The district council is overwhelm- ingly against the expulsion and har also been thwarted in é€pressitig’ its will by the would be czdt, Sharrock, fortified by a contingent’ of police. Police and Injunctions. At the inception ofthis struggle an injunction was sectiéd against Reynolds restraining hini from attend- ing his own local union*or any other meeting of the carpenteré in Detroit. This injunction was “prayed for” in a bill of complaint sighet by Sam Botterill, general organizer; James Sharrock, president of ‘the Detroit district council, and Hardld’ Fish, sec- retary of the district éotincil. The injunction has been violated dozens of times but the spineléss’ curs who secured it lack the guts to enforce it. The police have been ¢alled by the reactionaries on many occasions to guard them from the wrath of the rank and file. At the Feb. 12 meet- ing of the district council a shift of five police worked from eight to eleven, and a similar shift from 11 to the end of the meeting. At the meeting of Local Union 2140 held Fri. Feb. 13, General Organizer Botterill tried to read the minutes of the local union to a police sergeant to convince him that Reynolds had been expelled and should be ejected from the room. Instead, R ids and an- other member ejected a‘shyster law- yer, sent to Detroit by, the general office, when he refused to keep order, Bribery Trieds Hutcheson’s tools hays tried brib- ery in the shape of offers of jobs on the general office payroll, threats of further expulsion, injunctions, police and open club wielding thuggery, but they stand today utterly discredited and defeated before the mank and file. Let Us Hear Front) Others! The carpenters of Detroit expect those carpenters everywhere who are militant in defense of; the right of trial and other constitutional provis- ions to rally to the defense of the members of Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, and Detrojty who have been expelled without trial and whose cause rests with those; who have fought against the reactionaries in the past. orto Rico And Its Philippines By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL ODAY, the fears of American imperialism, Incidental to the recognition of the Russian Soviet Government, bub- bled to the surface. They ooze out of the black hatred of capitalism for Soviet rule. Washington wants pledges from Moscow; “assurances against the incitement of revolutionary violence’in this country and in the Philippines and Porto Rico,” is the way that Laurence Todd, the Washington correspondnt of the federated press puts it. cs *+ ¢ 8 Sorry day for Washington that the Communist Inter- national was not in existence when American militarism administered the water cure to the Filipino desire for inde- pendence, and brought the islands under the sway of its dollar diplomacy. Washington might then seek a basis for charging that the Communists were responsible for the cour- ageous struggle of the Filipinos that continues under the bloody dictatorship of the militarist strike-breaker, Gen- eral Leonard Wood, whose dissolute son is now being chased over western Europe by irate creditors, chiefly keep- ers of gambling resorts. .* 8 @& Washington, with Coolidge or any other agent of cap- italism in the White House, will never admit that the same forces that led to the overthrow of czarism in Russia, are inherent in capitalism in the United States, and operating thruout its colonies, for the overthrow of American Wall Street rule. All discontent instead, according to the auto- cracy of capital, as well as the aristocracy of labor, is due to Communist activity. Washington always claims that the Communist struggle for power is imported to the United States from Moscow, just as London, or France, or Berlin, all claim that it is im- ported into Great Britain, France, or Germany from the same source. The servile press will argue long to this effect, both in its news and in its editorials, in the days ahead. * * * * This discussion will bring before millions of workers and poor farmers, who had never thought of it before, that the United States has a colonial empire, that extends from Porto Rico, around the globe to the Philippines, islands of the orient and the occident. Washington shows the same anxiety over its colonial possessions as England does over India, Egypt and other subject nations writhing beneath its crunching heel. ' This anxiety does not in the least temper its rule. The Porto Ricans have been protesting these many years to their capitalist masters in Washington against the dire op- pression visited upon them, resulting in the abrogation of all political rights and the forcing upon them of the worst economic conditions. . * = @ The inspiration of the triumph of the workers and pea- sants of Russia over czarism will help. That inspiration would and does span the seas without recognition of Soviet Russia by the United States, But the germs of the victory for the American work- ers and poor farmers are planted deep in American capital- ist soil, both at home and in the dependencies. The workers and peasants of Russia had the guidance of the teachings of Marx and Lenin that are ready to hand for all the oppressed everywhere in warring upon their Op- pressors, ss 2. = @ The power of the Communist International grows as the workers and poor farmers everywhere accept these teachings and not thru any “incitement to revolutionary violence” from Moscow,—mere figment of the capitalist imagination. This wail from Washington means that capitalism is bending in the United States, is bending to its knees, while the working class is beginning to rise and stand erect. Recognition of Soviet Russia by the United States will be the signial for greater struggles for power by the whole American working class, in league with U. S. imperialism’s slaves in all its colonies, State LaFollette Forces in Session The “provisional progressive party of Illinois” met at the Lexington hotel yesterday, and tried to organize around the skeleton of the forces which worked for LaFollette in Ili- nois during the presidential election campaign. The name “provisional” was used, Charles J. McGowan, leader of the present “progressive party of {Mli- nois,” said, because the exact name of the organization has not been decided on. It was declared that the name “la- bor” will probably not be used as it might seem “too radical.” The state meeting is attempting to further the interests of a national “progressive” party, to be formed out of what is left of the conference for progressive pol- itical action, revolutionary worker, Give us your order NOW! THE DAILY WORKE Spend Your Sunday Evening at the Open Forum. PHILADELPHIA, NOTICE! First Annual Daily Worker Ball evolutionary Working Class Daily Paper in America. 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It was sent to a New Yorker who read an advertisement in the New York Times by the South River chamber, advertising the city as ad- vantages to prospective purchasers of factory sites, because of the “abun- dance of unorganized labor.” The New York man sought information on the point and here is the answer; “Replying to your favor of Febru- ary 5, 1925, relative to labor condi- tions in South River, I might advise that this town has an abundance of unorganized labor. “There have been several instances in which labor agitators from differ- ent sections of the country have come in here, but the borough authorities have taken the matter in hand, and they have yet to make a foothold. “Two years ago one of our large brick plants at Sayreville, which is across the river from South River, were disturbed by labor leaders from New York who attempted to form labor unions among the brick makers. The result was that the borough au- thorities, with the chamber of com- merce, took a leading part in the matter, and the strike was beaten, and the Sayre & Fisher company are today operating as an open shop. War on Labor Organizers. “Sometime within the past year or so, labor agitators visited South Ri- ver to organize the needle industry into a union organization. The au- thorities were advised, that the lead- ers were in town by the chamber of commerce and the result was that the chief of police notified the parties who had come here from New. York to organize this movement, that they would be ‘allowed thirty minutes in which to leave town, and they left immediately. “There has not been a strike of any character within fifteen years, and there is no union here of any kind among the laboring class of peo- ple, or semi-skilled laborers.” The letter of South River's busi- ness head is indicative of the way the manufacturers run the politics of the typical New Jersey industrial town. For Sale! An automobile, belonging to ©. F. Fraser, Detroit, member of Local No. 17, International Brotherhood of Bleo- trical Workers, who lies in St. Joseph’s sanitarium, Mt. Clemens, Mich., with his right arm badly burn- ed while working at his trade. Will- fam Frost, secretary of the local, is trying to sell Fraser's car for him. Fraser’s arm will have to be amputat- ed. Subscribe for the Daily Worker! copies of the SPECIAL NEW TRAYMORE HALL, Franklin Street and Columbia Avenue Tickets 35 Cents