The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 27, 1925, Page 6

a ee ; se. POP Saat eer 4 } Page Six THE DAILY WORKER THE DAILY WORKER. (Snelson Me Cah has SR ie se Be a ee Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO, 1118 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, IL (Phone: Monroe 4713) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mall: $3.50....6 months $2.00....8 months | By mail (in Chicago only): | i $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 | 1113 W. Washington Bivd. Chicago, Mlinele | J. LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F. DUNNE yoooes EGItOPS MORITZ J. LOEB........ eemenn Business Manager | Entered as second-class matl Sept. 21, 1923, at the Post- Office at Chicago, Ill, under the act of March 3, 1879. << 290 Advertising rates op application Effective Strike Action The news of the garment workers’ strike sent by. our New York correspondent, which we publish in another column, is good news for workers every- where. Not only are the garment workers forcing the bosses to toe the mark, but the strike is being con- ducted by a huge rank and file committee which has assumed responsibility for the conduct of the conflict. , When large numbers of workers are drawn into the important task of directing strike activity as in this case, it is. a good sign—a sign that there is a real basis for the development of the left wing. The theory of the officialdom is that the mem- bership cannot be trusted to make decisions, that the election of officials by machine methods auto- matically classifies them as the only ones in the union posessing brains. It never occurs to them seemingly that the way to build a fighting union is to bring as many members as possible into the work of directing and carrying out the tasks of the union. Our story of the garments workers’ strike refutes the official theory. When the union membership understands the issues confronting them, when they have a chance to carry out a militant program, they rise to the occasion as in this instance. Thefeft wing program: has nothing in common with the anarcho-syndicalist idea of undisciplined activity with its emphasis on the freedom of the individual. Its program is based on the solid ground of the permeation of the unions with class pride and understanding of the class struggle—on the activity of the most conscious and courageous elements of the union. Insofar as the rank and file committee handling the garment workers’ strike is a result of the application of this policy in the union, it marks an important development in the needle trades and the whole labor movement. The manner in which the membership of the unions affected has thrown itself into the struggle indicates that the rank and file committee has suc- ceeded in gaining its confidence. This is no minor achievement in a labor organization where the of- ficial leadership by its attacks on Communists and the left wing which they lead had created a wide- spread distrust of the union itself. An Admiral Speaks The brutally frank. statements of Admiral Phelps, relative to the rivalry of British and Amer- ican imperialist interests in the world’s oil fields and markets, has shaken official Washington as nothing has succeeded in doing since certain sen- ators took the lid off the famous Teapot. The admiral read a paper before the representa- tives of women’s patriotic societies in which the basis of the irreconcilable conflict between Ameri- can and British capitalism is set forth clearly. Militarists are proverbially more outspoken than their slimier colleagues in the diplomatic service and the deliberate statements of the admiral are without doubt of an official or semi-official nature. He pointed out the control of the major portion of the world’s oil supply by British capitalists and openly accused Great Britain of trying to ruin American shipping. “Serious differences are brew- ing,” he said, “differences which can be prevented from developing into a conflict only by a strong navy.” “Strong navies” occasionally postpone but never yet have prevented war and in this particular case the inference is so obvious that it might as well have been stated openly; it is that war with Great| Britain is inevitable and that the processs of pre- paring the minds of the masses for it should begin. It is especially significant that just at this time, when the air is filled with rumors of disarmament conferences, for which Coolidge stands sponsor, a high officer of the navy should have been permitted to disclose the real attitude of the administration and its capitalist owners. The speech of Admiral Phelps is an event of in- ternational importance and no one will be more interested in it than the Communist International which long ago called the attention of the world’s working class to the danger of just such a world conflict as that mentioned deliberately in a pre- pared speech by the militarist spokesman of Amer- ican imperialism, . The C.,P. P. A. is now a scrambled egg. It was a rotten egg. Its component parts are trying to unseramble it. But without political gasmasks the job cannot be done. When the yolk, represented by the railroad broth- erhoods, decided to withdraw from the conglomera- tion that constituted the C, P. P. A. there was nohing for the rest of the egg to do but to look for ‘another yellow nucleus. The soctalist brand was yellow enough, but lacked virility. William John- ton offered to fill in during the transition period. LaFollette and his famous collection of freaks will become the new yolk. | by sf . Ab ve o e ‘ ~_ The Dawes Plan at Work The Dawes plan already has effected one of the highest skilled and best paid unions in the United States—the electrical workers, A New York dispatch tells of the bitter fight now being waged by the manufacturers of electrical ap- paratus against the efforts of the union to or-| ganize and enforce its working conditions and wage scale in the manufacture of electric fixtures. We quote a portion of the statement made by Charles Eidlitz, chairman of the elctrical’ board of trade of New York City. It contains the stereo- typed arguments of employers with which the work- ers are familiar and which they will hear with in creasing vehemence as the Dawes plan is extended Eidlitz says: “Tn certain lines, particularly small items, the competition from Germany and Japan is already serious. “The small manufacturer particularly, can- not compete favorably with certain of these small devices, due to the cost of labor and the result of this is that they attempt to compete simply by selling these products at prices that bring no real return in the hope of keeping the demand for the foreign-made product down as low as possible. “If organized labor were successful in estab- lishing union conditions in electrical manufac- turing it would, of course, mean the elimina- tion of piece work and the general increasing of wages, with a corresponding reduction in efficiency. The American manufacturer would soon find himself unable to compete with many of the materials made abroad which cannot be brought to this country today on any competi- tive be suming, therefore, for argument’s sake, that the efforts aow hging made by labor to unionize electrical products were 100 per cent successful it would mean that American pro- ducts would disappear and foreign non-union products would take their place and the unions would, ‘for lack of any other material, be com- pelled to handle and install these or go with- out it. *“Generally speaking, building material is not exclusively union made. An attempt, there- fore, to start in on the electrical industry can- not and will not be tolerated.” It is the officialdom of unions like the electrical workers with its craft form of organization and agreements with the bosses, a comparatively high scale of wages and good working conditions that are the most hostile‘to the Communists and their program and disdainfut of any suggestion that the class struggle is international or that it exists at all. i American finance-capital, as it extends its rule over the world will} however, against its own in- terests but inevitably stieceed in convincing even large sections of thé'“labor aristocracy that no worker is guaranteed immunity under capitalism in this its final stage. The Communist program is going to get a hear- ing in many quarters fwithin the next few years where only hostility exists today. Get a member for the Workers Party and a new subscription for the DAILY WORKER. The Chicago Dailies and Negroes Next to the press of the southern states the cap- italist dailies of Chicago are perhaps the worst inciters of prejudice against the Negroes. Chicago has a large Negro population, one of the largest of any American city, and the capitalist press, if all those who read it believe it, must of had some success in creating the impression that 90 per cent of the Negro population is of a criminal and degenerate character. Not a day passes that some headline does not emphasize the color of some alleged offender, gen- erally in connection with an attack on the proper- ty or person of a woman. The statistics on police court cases, the testimony of judges and police of- ficers is in direct contradiction to the capitalist press. The proportion of Negro offenders is far smaller in proportion to the Negro population ‘than that of whites. This is in spite of the well-known fact that an arrested Negro is presumed to be guilty until he can prove himself innocent. Even then it quite often makes little difference if a scapegoat is needed. In defiance of all these established facts the Chi- cago capitalist press continues a deliberate policy of fomenting race hatred. Some day there will be a race war in Chicago and then the capitalist press will shed buckets of typographical tears over the “deplorable” situation. Perhaps the best way of putting at least a tem- porary stop to this sinister campaign would be for the Negroes to institute a boycott of these foul sheets among their own race and white sympahiz- ers. A substantial decrease in circulation would probably bring some of these papers to their senses for a time. The Communist Party will certainly give such a move all the support in its power. e The socialist party is now in the wilderness. Whether “Moses” Hillquit will be able to lead them into the promised land is questionable. Like Lew Stone in the movies, the socialist party deserted a faithful wife for the tempting but uncertain joys of more elastic virtue, The wayward spouse, badly scorched, would fain return’ and begin all over again. But unfortunately; the happy ending so typical of screen reel life, does not always hold good in real life. The once htppy home is no more. Every day get a “sub” forthe DAILY WORKER ‘ ’ BiG BRIBE IN OIL GRAFT TAKES U.S, PLUTES TO PARIS Midwest and Prairie Companies in It (Special to The Daily Worker) PARIS, Feb. 25.— Despite reports that his stay in Paris would be ex- tended and that he would appear in | defense of H, M. Blackmer and James |E. O'Neill, Ameri oil) magnates, |should they be called into French |courts to give that information they | may have in connection with the Unit- Jed States naval ofl Scandal, George Gordon Battle, New. York lawyer, de- | parted today, ostensibly for the Unit- | ed States. | Battle's departure,from the United | States was almost coincidental with that of U. G. Mengert, counsel for the United States government, said to be the bearer of letters rogatory is- sued by an Americam judge in Chey- enne, Wyo., and “@émanding that Blackmer and O'Neill testify in French court concerning their alleged part in the case. ~* Blackmer formerly was head of the Midwest Refining €6., in the United States. O'Neill untfl recently was president of the Prairie Oil and Gas Co. There is a rumored matter of a $2,000,000 bribe by O'Neill to Wash- ington politicians, which account for this gentleman’s sojourn in France. Anger of Workers Against Frame-up of Sacco-Vanzetti Grows (Continued from Page 1.) dict, therefore be it “Resolved, that we protest with full energy against the tnfair verdict and demand a square deal for Sacco and Vanzetti, namely a ‘retrial, we make the plea for principles of justice that should not be sacrificed, “Most respectfully yours, “Emil Kara, ident, “Andy Pleha’ lec. Secy. “Joe Kobylak, Fin, Secy.” Buffalo announces a rousing mass meeting to be held Friday evening, Feb. 27, at the Labor Lyceum, 376 William street. The principal speech will be made by Joseph Etior. James Battestoni, of the amti-fascist society of Buffalo, Ray Raymond, of the Buf- falo Central Labor Gonneil and others will also speak, or: The Buffalo gatheritig was arranged by a conference of representatives from working clas#* organizations which include the Workers Party, the Central Labor Council, the Molders’ Union, and the Workmen’s circle. The call for the conferenge was initiated by the Workers (Communist) Party of Buffalo. b CHICAGO MEMBERSHIP MEETING ‘ VOTES FOUR TO ONE TO ENDORSE C. E.C. UNITED FRONT CAMPAIGNS Pigment Byaa vote of 169 to 41 the membership meeting of the ‘Workers (Com- munist) Party Local Chicago, Tuesday, Feb. 24 at Northwest ‘Hall, endorsed the United Front campaigns initiated by the C. E. C. of the party_which are now being carried on in their many forms by the membership. The following resolution proposed by the City Executive Committee of Local Chicago was passed by the above vote after the membership listened to'a splendid report on the party campaigns by Comrade Browder, acting secretary of the Work- ers (Communist) Party: “RESOLVED: That the member- ship meeting of the Workers (Com- munist) Party, Local Chicago, takes note of the xecent victories of our party which show especially. in the magnificent showing in the Miner’s Carpenter’s and Machinist's Unions, and. that the party faces a period’ when the most fruitful work is’ pos- | sible. This favorable sentiment must be used to build our.party ever more solidly as the leader of the working- class in America. “To this end We endorse the cam- paign now being carried on the pledge our full co-operation to the leading committees of the party.” The Chicago membership meeting was one of a series of meetings called by the C, E. C..of the party in the maia cities thruout the country: to mobilize the party membership for Ue united front campaigns “of. the party.” Browder’s Speech In a_ brilliant review, Comrade Browder discussed the present pol- itical and economic situation con- fronting the workers in the United States. The following points were made by Comrade Browder: The campaigns against child labor are being conducted on the basis of de- mands for ratification of the national child labor amendment but pointing out at the same time that the child labor amendment is meaningless without government maintenance of all the school children of the workers and poor farmers and hence calling upon the state and federal legislatur- es to pass a law calling for govern- ment maintenance of those children, the funds for this purpose to come from special taxes on high incomes, With the revival of the rope | Communist cases the party has rei ponded nobly in coming whole-heart- edly, on short notice to the defense of our comrades. Comrade Browder reported that this work was goiig forward on the basis, not only of de fending our own comrades but as’& national and international united front in defense of all political prison- ers and that this work gives a splend- id opportunity to get a hearing before all labor bodies on class struggle issues. Cc. P. P. A. Blows Up ‘The demoralization and collapsé' of the C. P. P. A. which occurred" iff Chicago at their convention within the last week, was due in a largé IN MARCH,».1871 able of social initiative. played in MAKIN Make History on March ie March is a month of revolution. came the establishment of the Paris Commune, following the first revolution in history in which the working class was*openly acknowledged as the only class cap- IN MARCH, 1917 came the great revolution overthrowing the Russian czarist government and bringing into complete power the werld’s first working class government. IN MARCH, 1919 came the founding of the Communist International, forming a world-wide organization of workers preparing themselves for the eventual world revolution. March is a month of revolution. BUT REVOLUTIONS ARE NOT A MATTER OF MONTHS. History is not made in a month, nor a year, nor a decade. It is a gradual growth, extending thru the minutes, hours and days of all time. And small happenings, as well as. stupendous events, have their significance in the historical process. If the campaign to INSURE. THE DAILY WORKER is proved to be a success on March 5th, its last day,—then Amer- ican Communists can well be G HISTORY. HAMMERING at a task,—day in and day proud of the part they have out; never laying down the TOOLS,—driving in the SPIKES, doggedly,—remem- bering that the goal, no matter how far off it seems,—is REVO- LUTION; this isto MAKE HISTORY. On march Sth, 1925, one page in American Communist his- tory will be turned. cial Comintern The DAILY WORKER will issue its .spe- edition, This will be over-flowing with news of the triumph of the past March revolution it will be a chronicle of proletarian progress since the establishment of the Communist International six years ago. In its pages will be a special section devoted to a record of months struggle to for the coming year. PLETE THE TASK. COMMUNIST ROLL-CALL. Here is m the DAILY THERE ARB-SEVEN MORE DAYS IN WHICH TO UP WITH THE HAMMER! DOWN WITH THE SPIKE! LET THE SPARKS FLY WHERE THEY WILL! dollar to help MAKE HISTORY by insuring for 1925, State ...issseoropMMMMeer wheapserdboevessesoseressscenpvovseseiconsoons the achievement’ of the WORKERS PARTY in the past four make the DAILY WORKER financially stable When history turns the page on the 1925 drive to INSURE. THE DAILY WORKER, the record of each branch and of each DAILY WORKBR reader will be placed on life publicly in the ie \ DRS MNRED BS Su A NSB RD Se Shi a measure to the campaign conducted against the C..P. P,-A. by our party members’ thruout ‘the ‘labor move- ment. The rank and file of labor was’ not represented’ there; and this was' to a-great exteht’dweto the’ slo- gan Of the party “whidh "said, “Don’t participate ‘in ‘the bourgeois’, P, P. A.conferénee.* Unité for Independent working’ class ‘politi¢dl’action under the leadership ‘of the’ Workers (Com- munist) ‘Party.” ‘Thé ©: P,P. A, was made up of socialist’ renegades and capitalist hirelihg# anid was' not a con- ventioh—it was @ post mortem. “The campaign against wage-cuts is @ real basis for a thited front with the rank and file’ “Wage-cutting has not ‘yet reached the wide-spread na- tional menace “that itis certain to within’ the next few months. But it is already showing’ its head in the textile: industry ‘ih particular where our party units ate active. Resist wage-cuts by ‘strikes ‘is the slogan of the party dnd is finding response in the rank and file of those parts of the working ‘class affected. The wage-cut leaflet issued by the party is getting splendid: distribution nationally and local Chicago leads with an order of fifty thousand «to be distributed in the shops and factories. The DAILY WORKER The central instrument around which united fronts rally, Comtrade Browder said, is the DAILY WORK- ER. Local ‘Chicago must move as one man ‘in furthering the scope of our labor daily. Local Chicago has ndt given ‘the attention of the daily up to date that it deserves and it must re- main one of the chief tasks for Com- munists to negage in. The victory of our party in the Miners’ Union of gathering sixty-six thewsand votes for avowedly Com- munist candidates came as a pleas- ant ‘surprise and indicates that our éfideavors'in the unions must be in- ténsifiéd “to take advantage of the fa¥orable sentiment that is showing itself:* Party work in the Machinists’ and Carpenters’ Unions is meeting With’ Tike ‘success. The T. U. E. L., thé’ party instrument in carrying on oF Work’ in'\the unions; the main orgars®-of working class struggle, fits Peceive the fullest co-operation from party members. S59 GeCampaign Against Spy ‘<@ther points touched upon by Com- tidée*“Browder were, the campaign against the counter-revolutionary spy alid’* yellow’ socialist, Abramovich, Which hds prevented his appearing in public: in» this country, the fight against unemployment, the new cam- bait for Irish relief. _ The discussion on Comrade Brow- der’s* report. was enthusiastic and many ® comrades “participated. The itiembership showed itself ready and ‘willing’ to ‘carry out the campaign of the party. With few exceptions every- otié who spoke made special reference to the importance of pushing the DAILY WORKER. to a position of prominanice’ in the local struggle. The membership’showed that it was pre- pared to go forward with renewed efforts in making the coming sub- scription, campaign a@ success. Amendment Snowed Under The following amendment to the motion of the city executive com- mittee was made by Comrade Nat Kaplan: “Membership meeting points out that recent developments expose a tremendous unorganized sentiment that must be crystalized into Com- munist organization, We call for the concentration of dll party energy on one united front campaign at a time. We point out especially the need for such caipaigns of the fleld of de- 'fense, ‘unemploymedit, protection of foreign born and recognition of So- viet Russia.” © " This amendment’ received only for- ty-one votes ‘as ‘agifiist the motion of the city executive committee of which received 167. The membership show- ed itself ‘in an’ enthusiastic mood for prosecuting thesé campaigns present- ed for work by the C; B. C. of the party on the basis’of its observations ‘ot the political afd economic condi- tions of the country and our progress in the working cldis movement, Wants Goose to ‘Remain. ~ CINCINNATI, ©) Feb. 25.—An attack was ‘made on ‘the modern schools. and.modern methods of teach- ing. by superintendent of the board of educatign of Toledo, Charles Meek, at the convention of the national edu- cation association here. “The dear children who attend these schools are free and happy, but their heads are empty,” said Meek. ‘The national edu- cation association: ig, controlled by the manufacturers’ and business men’s association, evs _ Eight Killed in. "LANGTRY, Texas, workers were killed.in a dynamite explosion here at a rock quarry own- ed by the Southern Pacific railroad. The bodies were blown to bits. It is said by workers that the railroad sup- plied a poor grade of dynamite, ast. CZAR HUTCHESON IN RULING BACKS UP SATELLITES (Continued from page 1) be punished as per Section 54, Para- graph B. of the General Constitution and inasmuch as it is the duty of the presiding officer of a Local Union to announce or impose penalty where said penalty is prescribed in the Con- stjtution for the offense committed, the President. of Local Union No, 181 was justified and within his rights and acted in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution im’ de claring ‘the appellants expelled and & shall therefore concur in his action and dismiss the appeal. 5 Fraternally ‘yours; pm (Signed) WM. L. HUTCHESON: . f General President “Another Liar!” bby When the members of Local~ 18t were shown copies of Hutcheson’s letter, they simply said: “Just another liar.” The last sentence in the second paragraph. is purposely obscured, in order to create doubt in the mind of the reader as to what the three:mem~ bers of the trial committee actually wrote. The report of the secretary, read at the meeting of the local union stated that the defendants admitted they were guilty. What the affidavit said was that the members did not Plead guilty as charged. ‘ So the only count on which Hutch. eson could justify the expulsion. was that they signed a resolution protest- ing against the signing of a Landis award contract and condemning the officials who signed it. To protect the union and the rights of the members against official scabbery is a high crime and misdemeanour in the eyes of Hutcheson and his satellites. The Thugs Falled Last Monday evening the offictals of Local 181 and Harry Jensen the president of the digtrict counctl, were early at the hall with a gang of thugs. They had the Hutcheson letter and thot foolishly enought that would have a hyponotic effect on the mem- bers and force them to surrender, When the “expelled” members showed up as usual, the thugs at- tempted to prevent them from enter- ing the hall, The following members of Jensen’s strong arm squad were particularly active: John Steffen, slugger-in-chief; Herman Htnzle; Ed. Anderson; Martin Plaw; Jim Jensen and Inar Peterson. These worthies grabbed the “expelled” members and tried to shove them out but despite Harry Jensen's exhortations the ef- fort was fruitless. When the mem- bers inside the hall heard what was going_on, they rallied to the door and sent the thugs flying in all direction. Jensen’s army retreated in disorder and “General” Jensen the Landis award hero retreated ahead of his “flying” column, Almost Unanimouely As told yesterday in the DAILY WORKER, the membership voted unanimously, with the exceptiom of the sluggers, to seat the “expelled” members. (According to the consti- tution it requires a two thirds: vote of the members present at a local union meeting to expel members after having had a trial in conformi- ty with the constitution. The unani- mity with whjch the members of Lo- cal 181 are backing up their fellow workers shows plainly that they were illegally expelled.) Infuriated by their faliure to ernsh the opposition of the rank and file and feeling that the time to do it was now or never one of the hangers-on, of the faker Jensen, a ple card artist and political porn by the name of K. G. Torkelson, who has spent his life chasing the pork wagon, sent for the police. é Torkelson was formerly an. of Jensen, but the latter had some experience in winning the affections of members of the. canine species by hurling meat bones in their direction: He threw a sop at Torkel- son in the form of a ey. From then on Jensen had a loyal friend which will hold just so long as he holds the cover of the soup pot. An Amusing Scene’. The police had ‘no. other effect on the membership except to irritate them. They booed the blue coated gentry. © Ae Sepa An amusing feature of the meeting were the antics of “Jim” Jensen, ‘fin- ancial secretary of the local,. This worthy came up to one of the: pelled” members and grabbed him | the coat removing a button from that garment. But not alone was J not able to move the solid of rebel carpenter that he had his mitts on, but it may interest Jensen to know that the button was ered and is occupying its old place — just as that carpenter is in the union despite the efforts of Jensen and his namesake Harry and all the other payrollers and sluggers, a The five “expelled” members have issued a leaflet giving a brief sum- mary of the history of the << and also announcing @ mass for Sunday afternoon, Fel at 2.30 at Imperial Hall, 2409 Ni ‘Hal- sted street. The principal speaker will be William A. Reynolds, vice- president of Detroit District ( of the Carpenters’ Union, —_ 1