The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 7, 1925, Page 6

2a so ORO i } # Page Six rr cre errno anette romtarierneini THE DAILY WORKER. Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO, 1118 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, 0 (Phone: Monroe 4712) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mall: $3.50....6 months $2.00...8 months By mail (in Chicago only): $4.50....6 months $2.50...8 monthe $6.00 per year $8.00 per year A@dress all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER 1113 W. Washington Bivd. 3. LOUIS ENGDAHL Nw fo WILLIAM F. DU MORITZ J. LOE Chicago, IMlinels wee Editors «someone Business Manager €ntered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1923, at the Post- Office at Chicago, Ill, under the act of March 8, 1879. <<“ 290 Advertising rates op application Fomenting Race War in Washington, D. C. The story of the organized move to segregate the Negro population of Washington, D. C., which we published yesterday, shows that most of those who breathe the poisonous atmosphere of the nation’s capital have learned nothing from the race wars that have broken out from time to time under the shadow of the capitol’s dome. As usual, the real estate sharks, an element whose close connection with the underworld has neyer been given the publicity it deserves, are the moving spirits in a campaign that can result only in bloodshed. The Negroes are being forced north by the same historical factors that sent wave after wave of white workers westward to the now vanished frontier—pressure of population, persecu- tion and industrial development—economic and political pressure. The Negroes are here. They, unlike the European immigrants, did not make. the choice of location. They cannot be placed on reservations like the few hundred thousand Indians, neither can they be deported like foreign-born workers who put the in- terests of the working class ahead of loyalty to the oppressors and their state. It is useless, of course, to urge upon the middle- class groups who look upon the Negro as fit only for the most menial tasks, inferior to the noble Nordic prune-peddlers, the only way of solving the race problem, i. e. accepting the Negro as an equal and treating him as, such. Segregation is prima facie evidence of hostility to the Negro, as an in- dividual and asa race, It will intensify the fric- tion by creating in the whites an intolerable at- titude of superiority and in the Negroes a justi- fiable resentment which will and does find ex- pression in spite of lynching, burnings, denial of social, political and economic equality. Our social system is, of course, in the hands of parasites, but that is no reason why even in a stronghold of theirs like Washington, matters in which the lives and happiness of thousands are in- volved, shold be left to the sinister control of “realtors” whose idea of the solution of the race problem is to patronize Negro prostitutes, “to change their luck” while always referring to the Negro masses as “those black bastards.” There is a great opportunity for the Communists in Washington to make the revolutionary position on the race question clear to both black and white workers. The medical profession should take a great in- terest in Mussolini’s influenza. It is the only case on record caused by overindulgence in murder. Making a Mussolini General Dawes did his stuff yesterday in the best vaudeville headliner style and that is the kind of thing that goes big with the boys who read the headlines and the sport pages—the great American electorate. We hope that none of our readers will think that we are partial to General Dawes because we live in his home town, but we say again he is the white- haired boy picked by Wall Street for the 1928 race and that he is right now the real boss of the White House. The “quiet dignity” picture of Coolidge created by clever publicity men went well in the last cam- paign, but to the red blooded American there was something lacking. The rotarians and kiwanises like the lads that whoop it up, and the noisy gen- eral gives them what-they like. This is the only country in the world where a proven bank crook without the sense that an all- wise providence is said to have given geese, by the use of a deformed pipe and a loud voice, could be- come a popular hero. His attack on the senate, which ignores all of the host of fundamental faults of that body, will arouse great popular acclaim. It would bring loud cheers from all the babbittry even if it had been made by Doctor Cook. The senate is about as popular as the bubonic plague and even General Dawes has the wit to know that. It is said that the inaugural address of the general is the sensation of Washington and we have no doubt that it is. We said recently that Cal would run a poor second when Dawes reached the capital for the very good reason that Cal is “some- thing the cat brought in” and the process of elim- inating him is about to begin. What we are witnessing is the creation of an American Mussolini. Let us not forget that in addi- tion to being the slavery expert of the House of Morgan, Dawes is also head of the Minute Men of the Constitution, a militarist and labor hater. With the co-operation of the red light journalists he will soon be anointed savior of the republic from labor unions, the closed shop, vengeance of the almighty and Bolshevism, a member for the Workers Party, sight nice wnat ee nonslQe Ny wc cRAR aR elle way meno po CE AS | very day get a “sub” for the DAILY WORKER “The Leader” Explains Pity the Milwaukee Leader.’ For years it has been neglecting the class strug- gle for “Hoanesty in government” and now the chambermaids of the German socialist party who minister to the wants of capitalism—Genman and allied—have gone and spilled the contents of their receptacles all over the landscape. The resulting odor is too much even for socialists who could smell the blood of Liebknecht and Luxemburg and hundreds of Communist workers without a qualm. The Milwaukee Leader is good—in its way. It has been hypocritical so long that it has long ago lost any sense of decency and it therefore sees nothing incongruous in saying: The socialist party the world over seeks to breed a social conscience in place of the present indi- vidual selfishness. It needs leaders that deny self, that devote their lives to the noble ideal of human brotherhood, that expect no reward for this work save that of the artist expressing the best, and that cannot be BRIBED, bullied or misled. The emphasis is ours. ; The Leader explains that all the corruption in the German socialist party is due to the fact that the socialist party of Holland once let a banker carry a message for it to Ebert. This banker thus came in contact with the German socialists and seduced them. This tale may go well in the lounging rooms of Milwaukee's “socialist” policemen, but it will hard- ly be credited by the workers. The responsible so- cialist ministers of Germany sold everything they could lay their hands on to the big capitalists and pocketed the proceeds. Minor officialsof the Soviet government who did similar things on a smaller scale were shot and this has been one of the chief indictments of the social-democracy against the Russian workers’ and peasants’ gavernment. Well, we know now why they were so excited over this effective method of dealing with social traitors. The Communist press is interested in the corrup- tion of the social democracy’s leaders only insofar as it can be used to show the working class what a rotten gang they are. The taking of bribes by the socialist ministers in a capitalist government is after all a small matter compared with the out- right purchase of the leadership and machinery of the whole Second International by international | sae ee a re ae ge in capitalism. it is this kind of bribe taking that we are in- terested in and this is the charge we have made and proved against these red cross workers of the terror bands of capitalism. From MacDonald and his biscuit-capitalist angel toBauer and his banker, Barmat, the whole noisome crew of the Second International is engaged in selling the workers who still follow them into the slave pens of world capitalism. The Milwaukee Leader recommends the calling of a “purity congress” of the Second International. It is a waste of effort. The only way to purge the Second International is to blot it out in the fire of social revolution—and this will be done. ih The Chicago Tribune’s jazzy economist Scruta,, ploitation after the Soviet government is driven to complete and abject surrender. The wish is surely father to the thought. This accounts for the refusal of the United States to recognize the Soviet government to date. The above dream would undoubtedly come true if the capitalists and their yellow socialist allies succeeded in overthrowing the proletarian dictatorship. Indiana Operators Come In The latest news of the open shop drive against the United Mine Workers of America is that the Indiana operators will take part in the conference to be held March 17: The Illinois operators look sympathetically at the purposes of the gathering, but so far have not announced their intention of participating. With Kansas, western Pennsylvania and Ohio lined up, with Indiana’s coal barons taking an active in- terest and preparations being made which are of a nature the capitalist press has evidently been ordered not to reveal, it is apparent that the coal operators mean. business. The slack season in coal mining is near and there has been terrible unemployment for more than a year in most of the unionized fields. The coal barons have a lot of finance that they have accumulated for union fighting purposes and which they seem ready now to spend. With Coolidge and Dawes in Washington, they feel sure that any weakness on their side will be more than discounted by the unusual energy in which the federal government will play its usual role of strikebreaker, The western Pennsylvania operators, or at least the largest of them, have said that they ‘will close open shop basis. This will probably be the plan followed by operators in other states. They expect to starve the miners out. There is-enough fighting spirit and reserve force in the United Mine Workers to defeat the coal barons if it is mobilized In the coming struggle the members of the Workers (Communist) Party and the Trade Union Educational League will be the rallying center for the militants, Their pro- gram is the only one that offers hope for the miners. Build for the Seventh Year of Communist work in the United States under the banner of the Com- munist International. a Against the fascism of Dawes the workers and poor farmers must raise the fight of the oppressed for Communism, ‘ Get ready for the Annual Subseription Drive of the DAILY WORKER, starting March 15. “ATES TOR ‘ JHE DAILY bP Aa wy Wek 4 aN peRcE Tp. Coal Miners: Fight the Open Shop! ‘HE central ai Gativs committee of the Workers (Communist) Party has issued the following statement on the open shop drive now being pre- pared by the coal operators’ associa- tions against the United Mine Work- ers of America: To the United Mine Workers of America, the members of the organ- ized labor movement and the unor- ganized workers: The most powerful coal barons of western Pennsylvania,;Ohio and Kan- sas have said frankly).that they will break the Jacksonville agreement with the United Mine Workers of America and have called a_confer- ence to organize war on the union. Owning mines in the non-union West Virginia and, Kentucky fields, these enemies alike of organized la- bor and the whole working class give the hypocritical excuse that non-un- ion competition forces them to reduce wages and worsen.. working condi- tor sees in Russia a future heaven for capitalist ex” their mines for some time and then open up on an | tions. E coal barons of western Penn- sylvania, Ohio and Kansas :tate that their goal is the‘open shop. In In- diana and Illinois they have the whole hearted support ofthe coal owners there who simply await a more fevor- able opportunity for @ declaration of war, The Workers (Communist) Party of America says to. the coal miners that they have been chosen again, as they were chosen in 1919, to bear the first brunt of a new open shop offensive which 'will be directed against the whole labor movement if it is not re- sisted militantly. Like the textile workers the coal miners are feeling the effect of the Dawes’ plan here in America. The election of Coolidge (support- ed by the reactionary Lewis admin- istration of.the United Mine Workers of America) has given aid and com- fort to every anti-labor element in America. Coolidge, as representative of the Wall Street and the whole group of finance and industrial wits ae «5 Pap or co tea hte conte een BR ado Aastha aia yeni aa arin awed S § SLSR get the full support of the Coolidge government because they.and their kind own it. They will try to reduce the Ameri- can miners to the same living level as the German miners. plan is internationally against the working-class. ‘HE Workers (Communist) Party of America declares that the aid. given by the Lewis administration to’ the anti-working class Coolidge fore- es, the attack of Lewis and his pay- roll tools upon the Communists, his revoking of charters of those. locals of miners that’ fought the hardest against the oppression of the bosses and capitalist government, his expul- sion of the best fighters in the union because they supported the Commun- ist program or were members of the Workerg (Communist) Party, his fail- are to organize the non-union fields while spending money like water to hound the spokesmen of the militant miners, has encouraged the coal bar- ons to launch their attack, by weak- ening the union and convincing them that under the present officialdom, the The Dawes’ directed United Mine Workers of America will not be able to make a real fight. Workers (Communist) Party of America warns the miners against being led into a struggle by districts. It declares that the only effective way to fight the open shop offensive of the coal barons is to throw the whole strength of the un- ion into the fray. It urges the miners to be on their guard against anyone who tells them that by localizing the struggles the miners have a better chance to win. It urges the miners to call updn the whole labor movement t6 join them and to show to the test of the unions that this is but the beginning of an attack on labor all along the line as in 1921-22, The Workers (Communist) Party points out to the coal miners the man- ial which it, symbolizes, is*pledged to the open shop. The coal.;barons: ner in which the coal barons have broken the “sacred contracts.” maintains that all agreements salt the capitalists are only scraps of pa- per when it suits the purposes of the robber class to break them. E coal miners are the best or- ganized workers in the United States, They are the backbone of the labor movement, If their union can be destroyed or seriously weakened, the, capitalists will have an easy time with the rest.of the. unions. The miners must fight,and they must be backed by the rest.of the unions just as the ‘coal harons are backed by the rest of the. capitalist class and the capitalist government, The Workers) (Communist) . Party pledges its fullest. support to,.the min- ers. It urges them to solidify their forces: and. to set up immediately a united front with the railway .organ- izations who can aid them the most. It urges. them to a deal directly with the rank and file of the railway unions, to disregard the officials who have al- ready. betrayed the interests of their own members and all of the Ameri- can working class just as the offidials of the miners’ union ‘have. 'HE .Workers (Communist) Party of America urges: the coal miners to rally to the program of the Trade Union Educational League and the progressive miners, to set up commit- tees of action—shop committee—in each mine. These shop. or pit committees should be centers around whicn the struggle of the miners is organized. They will naturally be composed of the best fighters and most trust- worthy and experienced workers at first. but into them should be drawn all the workers employed in the same mine. ‘HE effective way in which such committees can organize and lead the union members for a fight against wage cuts and a breaking down of working conditions has been shown by the “grievance committees’”—which are really. shop committees—in the mtiepeie® fields around Scranton and Wilkes Barre. In this district these rank and file committees were able to rally thousands of miners for a fight against violations of the working agreement and to force reinstatement in the union for the locals “whose charters had been sevcher for going on strike. ’ HOP committees are the best means of getting unity of action and developing the fighting qualities of the workers. They do not and~ eannot take the place of the union, but they strengthen and build the un- ion by organizing the best elements of the rank and file for ‘control of the union, Shop committees are of the rank and file and directly responsible to them. They will fight and win when officialdom is willing to quif and ac- cept failure. The. Workers. (Communist) Party urges the coal miners to resist the efforts of those who preach that there is no danger and no need for watch- fulness and struggle, to eye carefully 2ach new move of the coal barons, to remember that only rank and file re- yolutionary discipline can meet and defeat the wavering and treachery of the capitalist politicians m tne un- ion, T urges them to support the drive for world trade union unity as the best weapon against the Dawes’ plan and to assist the Red International of Labor Unions in its efforts to ynite the unions of the world in one great body. Fight Against the Open Shop! Build the Union! Organize Shop Committees! More Wages and Shorter Hours! Fight the Coal Barons. ’ Fight the capitalist governmem that backs the coal barons! Long live the united front of the workers against American and world capitalism! Workers America. (Communist) Party of The Professional Woman i in ‘the Class Struggle By MARY J. R J, REUBEN. IN ever increasing numbers from the l ranks of the proletariat’ we ‘find vvomen struggling into the profession- al class. They had seen the women of their class wreck their health and mental opportunities in industry, or in benumbing drudgery in the home, and they had often seen“éndless tragedy among the women of the masses, and were determined at gréat sacrifice, tc scape from that class, and gain, as they thot, their freedom once and for- ever, So that in the colleges, in the public lbraries, we see them daily, pale- aced and heavy-eyed young women, cramming at their studies with an earnestness that is almost tragic. - In off hours they work-as waiteresses, mothers’ helpers, as part-time sales- girls, at almost anything, to earn enuf to pay the heavy tuition fees, and after four or five years of this heinous grind, with broken down physique, with every ounce of pep and original thinking knocked out of them, they lare still looking forward (with ‘per- haps some slight misgivings) to a “Certificate of Freedom,” together with their diplomas, Then comes the great day of job- hunting, for even “free” people under capitalism must go job hunting, and they find themselves at every step bucking up against an economic sys tem for which they cannot find a single formula in their textbooks tc offset the antitoxin. They soon find that in attempting to fight the capital ist system as individuals, they are far worse off than their fellow sisters in the trades who are organized to pro- tect their interests. Capitalism forces the professionals, in spite of themselves, into organiza- tions. They try desperately to find a name for their organization that will resemble the word “union.” But the more Qissimilar the name is from that of “union,” the less effective it is. One notices a conscious straining after something genteel so as to avoid any taint of connection with the labor movement. For that, reason, virility and effectiveness are Jacking in those organizations, and, .becomes almost useless as the clage aruasies are in tensified. In Buropean coupiiled, where the professionals have ,been reduced to the most degrading poverty, there war jno other alternative;for them but to join the ranks of the militant work- ers to overthrow their common en emy. The lessons-learned from the European situation is sufficient argu ment for the professional women to affiliate themselves actively with the militant labor movement in America to apply themselves practically in car rying out the sl and participat ing forcefully in the class struggle. The opportunities, for the profes- sional women in a Gommunist society are far-reaching an@mumerous. Capi tglism, constantly,,reaching out ¢ greedy hand for greater profits, and therefore cheaper labor, forces the professional men to! anize against the professional wor as @ competi- tive force. The me the women as competitors why accept smaller remuneration for labor, so they organize to the h utilize every the capitalist, and thereby gaining control of the profession. And 80 capitalism force’ the sexes into ar economic war that corrupts the ideals and the usefulness of the profession. Communism aims at eliminating the system of competition and giver the men and women of training and ability an opportunity to put their creative powers to practical use, to benefit society by their labors with- out draining their strength to solve jimi the bread and butter problem. Also in a period of revolution with one powerful shove of proletarian brawn, the old, stultifying traditions, and superstitions, the obsolete customs, are thrown into the bonfire and burnt in effigy, while new ideas, new inven- tions, progressive forces are given every opportunity for expansion, and the woman comes into her own. Let me mention by way of passing convention to keep the women from selling their services more cheaply. to that the so-called liberals among the Y.W.L. NUCLEUS | LEADING STRIKE IN NEW YORK SHOP Young Militants Active in Wage Struggle NEW YORK, March 5.—For a long time the firm of Greenspans Upholst- ery, located at 202 EB. 100th St., has been operating as an open. shop. A few well paid mechanics and the rest young workers who were “learning” the trade and receiving wages in many cases less than $10 a weék, made up the working force. Very little effort ‘as been made by the union up to this time to organize the shop. Thru the agitation and activity of lsague members in the shop, the ‘workers emanded a raise in salary, and improvement in the conditions of ‘ork. This was followed by the firing of some of the workers and the em: ployment of new “learners.” The Jeague members became active and succeeded in bringing about a strike which tied up the factory. Thru negotiations the union was en- gaged to take charge of the strike. ‘The league members organized into a nucleus is very energetic in keeping ‘the fight going and contributing large- ly in the activity. The strikers de- mand: the recognition of the union, that the discharged workers be taken back and are not to be discriminated tgainst, a union scale of wages based on the same rate in the union shop, 44-hour week, etc, There is day and night picketing and up to the presen‘ moment no scabs have been obtained by the boss. The union is very active. ly engaged in the strike... mt This is another overwhelming proof of the superiority of the shop»nuclei form of organization. en of the league has dem with activity based oq ae sults are forthcoming. a aE Toes your friend subscribe ‘to ,dvantage of radian, of ysage and’ the DAILY WORKER {Ask him} N. E, C. of Y. W. Le Quick to Take er labor groups participated. professionals with their “open minds” and their’ smoke-circle discussions, as well ‘as their perioditals with their prophetfe editorials that do not pan out as prophesied, lean back in their Morris chairs and wait for the prole bring about the revolution. Befo ng ‘violent quakes of econom- fc” “uphéay. ts‘ will ‘shake them out of their easy ‘cliafrs and force them into action. “'Tiose who are studying the noyement seriously, know the valuc imitiary training in the-Com. thoverient.” Women especially, ‘whe ‘até not’inclined for the most part to take’ ‘en’ ‘active part in politics, are given every’ opportunity for develop- “themselves in the Communist party. It'is ‘the duty of every profes sional Woman to join the ranks of the militant workers, and advance with them ‘stép by step to a new system of society. ~*~ The munist party is taking the initiative in organizing the women and training them to be efficient worker: M Fritters of School (Continued from page 1) parts of the country. These plans will be announced in the near future. There is no doubt that this news will be welcomed with enthusiasm by both the Young Workers League members and the Workers Party. : Some time: ago when we wrote an article announcing the inauguration of the Intensive Training Course we ex- pected a most excellent response on the party of the party members to this new great stride forward in our work, but the response. we have got- ten thus. far has excelled our expect: | ations severabfold. Comrades who have been selected for this work, have eagerly responded, appreciating the necessity of the work. Comrades who have heard of the school have written in from all over the country, congratulating the party on this step. * Sacco-Vanzetti Me Upon the initiative of the Workers in the daily class struggle. The task of organizing the women is a difficult one. Capitalist propaganda has so hemmed in the women in a labyrinth of convention and restrictions, that the task of organizing the women out» side ef*those engaged in industry, re- quires special attention. In recogni- tion of that fact, Communists have declared an Inttrnational Wo- men’s Day to mobilize the women in all capitalist countries for active work in the movement, Simultaneously, on March 8, the class conscious women in all coun- tries will be holding huge demonstra- tions, mass meetings, to arouse their less enlightened sisters to the tasks before them, pledging their active co- operation to create an international Communist form of society. The place of the professional women, one and all, must be within the ranks of the women in industry together with the men fighting for the emancipa- tion of the working class. YOUNG WORKERS FIGHT WAGE CUT IN N.Y FACTORY Organize Picket Line in Wire Strike NEW YORK, March 5.—In the Au- tomatic Wire company, a strike was called, after the company decided to reduce the wages. A member of the local Young Workers’ League was in- | strumental in bringing about this act- lion. The workers in this plant were employed under the most brutal sys tem of exploitation. The speed-up system and piece work, characterizes the mode of production in this shop. Many young employes have been crip- pled as a result of the dizzy speed at which they were expected to work. After working each week for 49% Lours, the workers only received an average salary of 20-25 dollars. Union Officials Against Negroes. The league membership succeeded by activity in inspiring the workers (Communist) Party of Rochester, a |#nd to it direction was looked for. Sacco-Vanzetti protest meeting was neld on Feb, 28. peri a o Bo r some negotiations the hall of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers was obtained and speakers, with Joseph Ettor as the, leading one,/ were cho- sen. B. Sussman, of the Workers Party, was designated ‘as chairman. About one-half hour before the time of the opening of the meeting, officials of the A: Cy W. put in an ob- jection fo Comrade Si as chair- man, and the arbitrary condition was laid down that the use of the hall would be refused unless Sussman withdrew as chairman. m Placing the interest of the gather- ing above all other conspirators, Com- rade Sussman withdrew, “another chairman was selected and tH8., ete ing was held. All of whieh’ to what length the reaction: ments in the American labor move- The International Association jot Machinists was approached. The only contribution of the representative of the union iy the situation was the flimsy excuse that because of the Jarge number of Negro workers, it would be very inadvisable to take steps towards organization, since they were on strike. The Young Workers’ League thru its speakers, continued then to press the necessity of organ- ization and organized the men to re- sist the wage cut. Demands were put up and picket. duty organized. The participation of the league dem- jonstrates that it is the only organiza- tion representing the interests of the young workers and fights for them. etre League Members Arrested for Picket Duty. NEW YORK, March 5.—Two league - ele-,| members, Eda Eisman, Bessie Eisman and six other members of the Browns- ment will go to gain what.they~in | ville branch have been arrested while their littleness- imagine advances |on the picket Une against the white ea ore Fe ee, biteay industry? i