The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 1, 1925, Page 4

nscale om “ Page Four THE DAILY WORKER. Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING ca, 1218 W. Washington Bivd,, Chicago, Ml. (Phone: Monroe #712) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mall: 3 ‘i $6.00 per year $3.50....6 months $2.00....8 months By mall Chicago only): | 68.00 per year $4.50....6 months $2.50....3. months Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER 1118 W. Washington Bivd, J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. t WILLIAM F. DUNNE MORITZ J. LOEB....... ChieagoyMinels ewe EA itOre Business Manager ——— Entered as second-class mail Sept. 21,.1923, at the Post- Office at Chicago, Ill, under the act of: March 8, 1879. <p 290 Using Yellow “Labor Leaders” The American capitalist press is only too glad to tell of the efforts made to save British capital- ism by British labor leaders of the Frank Hodges, John R. Clynes and MacDonald type. These gentlemen, whose badges of leadership are somewhat tarnished due to their betrayals of labor atid the publicity given those betrayals by the Com- munist Party of Great Britain and the left wing press, are calling loudly for a truce in the, war between British capitalism and British labor. Hodges is a clever fellow and bases his demand for peace upon the depression in British industry without actually telling the workers to quit fight- ing. Clynes, however, is less diplomatic. He says, ac: cording to dispatches: 7 “The best service which labor leaders can render just now is to concentrate upon and support any efforts which are being made to strengthen and im- prove the trade of this country.” Here we have the whole philosophy of the fol: lowers of MacDonald—the belief expressed “in word and deed that capitalists must first be fat and happy before labor can ask even a decent wage: According to this doctrine the royal family must also be kept in good humor—so MacDonald: and his henchmen vote to increase the travelling al- lowance of the prince of Wales. This acceptance of capitalism with all its -ap- pendages is the most characteristic feature of so- cial-democracy all over the world; it is shown also by the labor officialdoms of countries like the United States where the labor bureaucracy rejects all the theories of the social-democrats. In their sabotage of the labor movement, their war on the left wing and revolutionary eleinents of the labor unions, their kowtowing to capitalism and cap- italists, the heads of the American federation of labor and the British labor party are as one. The British capitalist press praises the “sanity” of the American trade union officials and the American capitalist press returns thé . This is supposed to aid in keeping the workers of both countries in their places. To do this is the great international problem which the whole cap- italist world is trying to solve—with rather poor success as the growing strength of the drive for world trade union unity launched by the Red Inter- national of Labor Unions proves. Advertising rates op application Reaction in the Amalgamated The Hillman Amalgamated machine is wasting no time in getting down to the business of ex- pulsions of left wingers now that it has decided to follow the trail blazed by the officialdom of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers. In New York the whole executive boad of Local 5 has been removed from office and three of its mem- bers suspended. The indictment’ against these workers shows the lengths to which the Hillman machine is prepared to go. It recites that‘ the ex- ecutive board declared a strike on a shop that fired two workers over a private matter and then went down in a body and pjcketed the place. This €yi- dence of militancy is so rarely seen in éxecutive boards that this one, it seems to us, should have been given some kind of a decoration instead of being removed from office. Perhaps the other ex- ecutive boards were frightened by the precedent set and afraid that the officials might get their high-priced suits all dirtied up on some picket line if the thing became fashionable. The important thing, however, is. the open war of the Hillmanites on the best elenients.in the union—a war that is welcomed in warm words by Justice, official organ of the I. L.G.U,, it its last issue. A new united front against the militants in the} needle trades is probably in process of formation. | It will be met by a united front of the rank and file organized around the Communists and the} Trade Union Educational League. That reaction in the Amalgamated: is not going to have easy sledding is shown by the sympathy and support given Local 5 by other New York locals of the Amalgamated. Every capitalist government, the jingoes and so- sial-patriots of all lands, believe of profess to be- lieve that the idea of the overthrow of capitalism as the only road to freedom open to the working class is an imported product, They try and fail to treat it as they do com- modities of foreign manufacture—by excluding those who hold this idea from their territories. But capitalism itself is both the soil and seed of social reyoltion. It does not need*to be imported. Like’ Topsy, it “just grows.” Russian Aid for Irish Famine The workérs and ‘peasants of Soviet Russia are the first to come to-the aid of the famine stricken Irish workers and: peasants. This is one more of those acts of. working class solidarity that the ‘workers shave cone ‘to expect from the masses of Russia. It is a symbol of the adyance of the revo- lution and a rebuke hurled in the teeth of the British imperialists, their Free State government vassals and the hierarchy of the Roman church that keep the Irish masses in ignorance and poverty The pious wails of the priesthood rent high jheaven when the Russian workers and peasants suffered from famine in 1921. They were being punished because they had gone against god, said | the. cossacked and cowled brethren of the crosg. The Irish workers and peasants have not fought and won a revolution, they have not rejected Mammon and thereby offended orthodox christian- ity but they are hungry nevertheless. The Russian workers and peasants, having no capitalists to feed, have enough food to spare for relief of other workers and peasants who are less revolutionary, but more poorly fed. It is not charity that comes from Russia. It is simply a method by which the Russian masses show their knowledge of the troubles of other work- ers and their desire to help. In the imperialist press there will be no praise lavished on the Russian workers and peasants for the manner in which they have come to the aid of their comrades in Ireland. The reason is not only that there has been a revolution in Russia, but that it was not a Russian revolution but part of the world revolution. - .. British imperialism and its hangers-on in parlia- ment and parsonage are very much afraid that the Irish workers and peasants may come to know and understand this fact. Connecticut Conservatism * Mieve is humor in the story of our victorious fight for theright to carry on Communist work in Water- bury, Connecticut, where, at a successful méeting a°woman proved that Communists were ‘crazy be- cause her brother, a rebel, had, to milk cows for a living, while she, a believer in things as they are, had a well-paying little business. We get a laugh out of this, but some food for thought remains. Unwittingly, this woman had hit upon the crux of the whole question of the causes of revolutionary movements. Her brother is not milking cows because he is a revolutionist— he is a revolutionist because he is milking cows. Please do not misunderstand us. Every worker is not a revolutionist any more than every business- man is a capitalist, but the workers as a class are revolutionary because they are at the bottom of capitalism’s social scale. If all workers could be businessmen and enjoy incomes of $5,000 per year and up, even the most ardent Communist would give up hope of revolution. This cannot be. There are millions and millions of workers and working farmers who have no op- tion but to continue the daily round of monotonous toil or starve. . The-only way these millions of useful workers who have.no photograph, galleries and grocery stores and cannot get them, can become their own masters and masters of the tools and materials they work with is to make war upon and defeat the state power of capitalism. This is what we mean when we say that the working class is the only revolutionary class in society. ¥ In spite-of the remarks of the Connecticut lady, we are not discouraged. Capitalism has not enough photograph galleries to go around. Greeting “The Young Worker” The Young Worker, official organ of the Young Workers League of America, is now a weekly. The yolume of its voice has doubled—it speaks now 52 times a year, instead of 26, to the youth of the working class in this, the most powerful capitalist nation in the world. The Young Worker is part of the Communist press of the world. It carries to young workers in the factories, mines and workshops and to young students the Commun- ist call to struggle against capitalism and its strongest weapon—the capitalist state. The Young Worker alone in the United States speaks for the sons and daughters of working men and women and with its older brother, the DALLY WORKER, appeals,to them on the basis of their class interests, It is ably edited by young work- ers—not by grayhedds. Its approach to the problems of the young work- ers is a result of its correct belief that the daily battles of the working class are of primary im- portance and that they must be organized into a movement international in outlook and affilialion; that out of the daily struggles grows the conflict that must end in the victory of the working class— young and old. The DAILY WORKER is very happy to see the growth in the Young Workers League indicated by the enlargement of its press, a growth that the weekly Young Worker will stimulate immensely. Long live the Young Worker! Long live the Young Workers League! Long live the Communist Press—the Herald of the World Revolution! Can any working man continue to believe in the even-handed justice of capitalism when he sees the textile barons, whd led the fight against child labor and whose dividends run into staggering sums, using their enormous power to cut the wages of The Chinese Eastern railway, under Soviet Rus-| workers who receive from $15 to $21 dollars per sian management, shows an increase of 24 per cent| week? { in business over last year. More bad news for the imperialists of America, France, Great Britain and Japan Fe Re 1 ‘ * Get a meinber’fér.the Workers Party and 4 new ‘subscription for the: DAILY WORKER, | ‘THE DAILY WORKER ~ (Continued | % while in Soviet and had “made rash promises,” Oudegeest and .Jouhaux clearly were not in- fluenced by any “excitement” for re- volution. Fred Bramley of the British dele- gation opened up the fight for unity in reply. It wag an achievement in itself, and will go down as the best speech Bramley has ever made, and the only pity is that it ws made in private council and is lost to the world’s workers, -* ©. Bramley Frays Oudegeest Bramley showed both surprise and displeasure at Ondegeest’s insinua- tions against the sincerity of the Rus- sian unions’ efforts to reach unity. He clearly pointed out that Oudegeest had dodged and @vaied the offers of the Russiang and ‘never made any ef- fort to meet them, ~* Bramley Uses Plain Talk As Oudegeest and Jouhaux had tak- en exception to the statements of the British delegates made‘both while. in Russia and in England, as of no im- portance because they; were “merely individual statments.” Bramley caust- iclly asked why no.reference had been made to the British delegation’s col- lective statements ¢oncerning Geor- gia, the improved and happy condi: tions of the Russian workers, and .so on. hg Bramley excoriated Oudegeest’s methods of suppressing. these and other matters in the publications of the Amsterdam International and the bitterly hostile correspondence carried on by Oudegeest in vain attempts to prevent the growing friendship be- tween the English and the Russian workers. = ‘ g British for Unconditional. Meeting Coming to his} positive. program, Bramley offered, in; the name of the British General Council of Trade Un- ions, a resolution: calling for an un- conditional conference, between Am- sterdam and the ‘Russian unions, in which a heart-to-heart talk could take place upon a later rorld congress, which might or might not follow. This regolution was “supported by Fimmen of the fntértational Trans- port Workers and Cook of.the Miners- International, while Mertens of Bel- gium and Grassman of Germany sup- ported Oudegeest. Bitter argument followed on both sides, with the Bri- tish standing like a rock for the deci- sion of their general council. Reformists Fear Ojtside Pressure Knowing that thé rank and file of European unions would never support their insolent refusal of offers of unity and faced with the solid left wing bloc of British, the reformists ad- journed and there was much scurry- ing about the American Hotel, where the meeting was heh When the nex Stenhuis of Holl moved their tricky compromise = solution, de- claring the readiness of the I, T. F. U. to meet the Russ’ delegates in the city of Amsterdam, providing the’ Russian unions declare their desire to affiliate to the Amsterdam Inter- national, = Tricky Motives The motives of 4 could not be hidden; They hate: the idea of meeting the Russian unionists, but they hate still more to have: the largest and strongest section of Am. sterdam, without which Amsterdam. Would not last a single day,' the Bri- tish unions, going over their heads and conferring with the Russians. . Another resolution from Switzerland | for an unconditional gonference to be, held at Moscow was offered. Am- sterdam, being one of, the few capitals hard for Russians to visit; because Holland has not recognized Soviet Russia yet, was unsuitable. The Vote On Three Proposals | The left wing 1 d the British resolution. But it defeated by a vote of thirteen to The sam vot« showed on the Swiss Tesolution.. Ther the Stenhuis resolution carried b) fourteen to five, five being the solid British deleg&tion supported by Fimmen, ian > The council’s meeting was marked by the most disgraceful Mes in th: capitalist press, which brazenly stated the complete falsehood that both Bramley and Pureg] had “repudiated” ssion opened the idea of a wi -Oongress as a “Communist tri Tracing these outrageous lies source, it is discovered that other than Sas- senbach of Ge gave out such “information.” Wily Socialist In On Lying Even this was enough. Mertens, in the conncil, moved that this alleged “repudiation” be redorded in the min- utes, and Purcell and Bramley vigor- ously objected ‘and proyed by the London Herald that all other reports were lies, Yet Sassenbach saw to it that Mertens’ motion was spoken of in the evening Het Volk as “carried.” The British del are determin- ed that, come may from the tricky motion bs Searcy attach- ed now to be to, the Russians, the existing MgeMedi ivi wad Anglo-Russian ngity committee to propagate the wdkld unity of all un- fons shall not be abandoned, but shall be pressed ehthusiagtically until unity of all unions of.the world in one body shall be t ot aan st: BUI LDERS AT IF ALL GOES “JAKE” IN KENOSHA— E will have a circulation much larger very soon In this town where Comrade Alex Pishon is DAILY WORKER agent. The local comrades are not entirely satisfied. There has been trouble In regular delivery. We ate now trying to get this matter straightened ‘!}” out at the post office to aid the comrades In the splendid work they are P BBs, doing. They have secured a number of boys to sell the DAILY WORKER on In order to stimulate the sale the local the streets and at factory gates. DAILY WORKER Committee decided to give a prize to the boy who selis most copies during the month. But they also have an eye on the future In Kenosha. Comrade’ Tishon writes: “The boys sold the Thursday Issue on Friday and yet the results show up well. Will yet you hear from me soon for more copies if all ‘goes Jaki “There are three large plants here. each employing about 5,000 workers and the party is planning on having a nucleus In each of them. When this is done and the members ha’ jome news to tell 1 will have them write it up and send it In to. the DAILY WORKER. This will make a hit with the readers here,” We will promise the Kenosha comrades that this will also make a hit with our other DAILY WORKER readers. But why wait until a nucleus Is ; formed—no matter how soon this will be? Send in your letters now and. “make a hit” with Kenosha workers at once. ‘ / In the meantime we want our réaders and agents to note that these live Kenosha comrades are doing and planning work for the DAILY WORKER and the shop nucleus that Is sure to build up the local Com- munist group as nothing else will. The movie showing of “Polikushka” on Saturday, Feb. 28, at the German-American Home, 660 Grand Ave., Is a particularly good time and place not only to enjoy yourself, but also to give the DAILY WORKER agent, Comrade Tishon your sub, Tell him you want t6 volunteer your services to build the local and take a good look at the ad of the DAILY WORKER on the screen. Pennsylvania Miners Are Aroused | (Continued from page 1.) that their only hope was to plead guilty to the charge that they were responsible for the Cliftonville riots. Betrayed Miners Into Prison Hell. This the men were not inclined to do. However, after being promised that their families would be taken care of just as well as if the men had taken care of the families them- selves, the men agreed to plead guilty and were sent to jail from a few months to a number of years, He told of how he had to slave 400 miles from his home, working on a road using a 16-pound hammer breaking stones from seven ‘in the morning to five in the evening, sev- en days a week. And this all because he was an active fighter in the 1922 strike. Proof of Stolen Funds. Proof that the district officials had stolen funds of the union thru pad- ding the strike relief they were sup- posed to have given the striking miners, was given when Brother Steve Susa and his wife told how the district officials padded the relief they claimed to have given them. In giving the proof on this, the following letters were read: Sturgeon, Pa., Dec. 15, 1924, ‘To the Internal Revenue Agent, Brownsville, Pa. Dear Sir: The moneys recejved by Steve Susa, from my partner (since dead). since March, 1920, to my best knowledge and belief is as follows: From March, 1920, to Jan., 1921, he received in relief $18.00 each week. From Jan., 1921, to June, 1921, he received in relief $18.00 each week and $20.00 for service. From June, 1921, to March, 1922, he received in relief $14.00 each week and $20.00 for service. From March, 1922, to July, 1923, I have no knowledge of what he receiv- ed except from me which is as fol- lows: From Sept., 1922, to July, 1923, he received $20.00 each week. Yours respectfully, (Signed) Robert Gaitens. Gaitens is an organizer for the miners in District 5, and is part of the Fagen machine, Counteracting this statement is the stter of Steve Susa which is as fol- ows: ‘ Dec. 28, 1924. Springdale, Pa., Allg. Co. Dear Sir: . Here I send you a copy of my tmount of money I made during the chree years 1920-1921-1922 up to 1923, In Jan., 1920, to June, 1920, I re- ceived in relief (six weeks I received nothing) $6.00 each week in credit, just a slip to the store. From June, 1920, to Feb., 1921, I_re- ceived in relief $18.00 each week in cash, ‘ From Feb., 1921, to March, 1922, I received in relief $14.00 each week, and $15.00 for transportation (this was expense for the local unfon). From March, 1922, to July, 1923, 1 received service money each week, $20.00, \ This was expense and relief to- gether, ° (Signed) Steve Susa, The difference in money which the district officials claim to have turned over to this miner, for relief is over $1,000.00, and in spite of the attempts of the district officials to cover this matter up thru threats, it is being known to every miner in the district. The wife of Steve Susa stated that while the government revenue agents came up to them before, regarding the difference in these statements, last week when she went to the revenue office in Pittsburgh, she’ was told that the matter was dropped. Labor Faker Thieves and Government United. This makes it appear that in spite of the fact that the evidence is in the hands of the progressives, the government is co-operating with the miners’ officials in order to hush up this matter. This is just one case. How many more cases of this sort of robbery has been going on, only the district officials and the revenue officers know. The stealing of these funds and the betrayal of the Moundsville min-| ers goes hand in hand. A letter was read from one of the boys in Mounds- ville prison in which he says that the machine is keeping them in jail and that they (the officials) would not dare stay in the state once the men got out of jail because of the information they had against them. It will be remembered by the read- ers of the DAILY WORKER that im- mediately after the formation of the Moundsville: Prisoners’ Defense Com- mittee on Dec. 21, 1924, a number of miners were released from prison, but they still keep in jail twelve of the best men the United Mine Work- ers have. These men are serving sen- tences from 5 to 10 years for their participation in the 1922 strike. Membership Aroused at Betrayal The membership seeing that the. district officials are doing nothing to get these men free are aroused. They HOME SPIKE! AS WE NEED IT By T. J. O'FLAHERTY. At the rate the spike is going down, unless our readers send in their dol- lars right away or sooner, they will miss an excellent change to try their muscle on the capitalist system. Per- haps most of you would rather have a fat bourgeois under your sledge, but take it from me, this spike, rep- resenting sharpedged Communist pro- paganda, will make things more un- confortable for capitalism than if you dopped a fistful of ants inside some money barons’ underwear. see ) That* $1,400 donation. swings a wicked wallop, I know there are many thousands of our readers who have fot yet. sent in their dollar. March 6 is mear. On that day the names of those who helped to insure The DAILY. WORKER for 1926 will be published.» Every reader of our daily who, can afford one dollar will participate in the spike-driving con- teat, © eng é‘ l. 2° © This year promises to be an un usually interesting one. Big strikes aré looming on the horizon. The coal barons are getting ready for war on the miners” union. It will be a bitter fight. The Goal barons are powerful, but the miners are groat battlers— the best in the American army of la- bor. Their official leaders are corrupt but The DAILY WORKER will help rally the workers against the bosses despite all handicaps. It will support decided at this meeting to hold a con- ference, to which all workers’ organ- izations are invited, in the city of Pittsburgh on March 15, in order to acquaint all the workers in western Pennsylvania with the cowardly be- trayal of these militant fighters in the miners’ union. They also décided to notify the dis- trict officials of the United Miné Workers, that they must get on the job and earn their salary and win back for the miners the conditigns which the officials lost for them, oth- erwise they will demand a special convention to remove the district offi- cials and expel them from the union, Dance for Defense in Cleveland, CLEVELAND, Ohio, Feb. 27.—The Cleveland International Workers’ Aid Committee and the Labor Defense Council will hold a joint dance, Sat., Feb. 28, at the Carpenters’ Hall, 2226 E. 55th St. The proceeds of this af- fair will be for the purpose of aiding in the defense of C. BE. Ruthenberg, and the other Communists involved in the so-called “Michigan cases.” Spend Your Sunday Evening at the Open Forum. Party Members! Show Your Hospitality! Lodging for some 30 comrad, — from out of town will be needed during the duration of the Party Intensive Training School in Chicago, The school will last for two weeks commencing March 15 and lodging for the comrades will be necessary for that period. . / Comrades in Chicago who can spare accomodations for one or more comrades and donate same for this party work will ald the party school im- mensely. eae If you have such accomodations please get in touch with the , | district office immediately, aia As « W. Washington St. Tel, State 79865, the rank and file against their enemies, the coal operators, and in support of progressive leadership. ee @ The Soviet, government, thru its growing power, has forced the proud capitalists of the United States who own and control this government, to take steps looking toward recognition. But the Capitalists are by no means united on this question, There are powerful elements who fear that So- viet recognition will have a demoral- izing effect on the capitalist system in the United States. The DAILY WORKER will urge unconditional ‘recognition, The Russian workers and ‘peasants owe the United States cap- .|{talists nothing. The capitalists of the United States caused the loss of thousands of Russian lives and the destruction of millions of dollars worth of property thru invasion Plottings. Other interesting s' jare on and in sight. The DAIL’ WORKER must be insured. It is most powerful weapon in the of the American working class. You cannot afford to miss the opportunity of insuring it for 1926, Send in your dollar! Here is my dollar to save our’ ©