The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 11, 1925, Page 6

THE DAILY WORKER| T } } ‘ i HE DAILY WORKER Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO, 1118 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ml. (Phone: Monroe 4712) rn SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mall: $6.00 per year $3.50....6 months $2.00...8 months By mail (in Chicago only): $8.00 per year $4.50....8 months $2.50...8 montha A@dress all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER 4118 W. Washington Bivd. 3, LOUIS ENGDAHL { WILLIAM F, DUNNE MORITZ J. LOBB....vssvve Chicago, Ilinels wee Editors meee Business Manager Entered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1928, at the Post- Office at Chicago, Ill, under the act of March 8, 1879. <= 29 Advertising rates op application Britain’s Dangerous Game Foreign news today is that Great Britain will fight for the admission of Germany to a new alli- ance to which Poland, Czecho-Slovakia and per- haps Roumania will be signatories. This is a concession to the French position as it would bind Great Britain to war in defense of the existing territorial arrangements in eastern Europe. Of these the Danzig corridor now con- trolled by Poland is the most odious to Germany. It alone is bound to be a constant source of trouble and the British dominions will not support London in any war growing out of these sources of friction. The readiness of the British foreign office to make this concession to France in answer to her refusal to break with her vassal boundary states is evidence of the serious nature of the crisis aris- ing out of the attempt to maintain peace in Europe while at the same time perpetuating the national rivalries aroused and intensified by the Versailles . treaty and imperialist ambitions. The inclusion of England in such an alliance means that she isolates herself from her colonies in the event of another European conflict and that only her navy alone is at the service of her allies. This is undoubtedly a powerful weapon, but with- out Dominion co-operation even the British navy is not an instrument of world power. If France cuts loose from Poland and the other border states they will be absorbed either by Ger- many or Soviet Russia. If she maintains her alli- ance and England enters the security pact with Germany nothing has been accomplished except to build a bloc of nations whose strength is mere- ly on paper because of the internal conflicts. The anti-Soviet bloc will have been organized, but its main result will have been to bring close enough to claw one another the capitalist nations that com- pose it. Great Britain will lose more in South Africa,|}o Australia and Canada than she will gain in Europe. But she must have a breathing spell. She must bring Germany back as a foil for France. She is playing a dangerous game and knows it. Soviet Russia also knows that the extension of the influence of the workers’ and peasants’ gov- ernment in India, Persia and the Far East is fore- ing Great Britain to stake everything on an European alliance that cannot last. Send in that new “sub” today! Feudal Survivals The employers of the south have developed their own special technique for intimidating workers and especially Negro workers: We are in receipt of a poster prominently displayed in tobacco plants in Florida, signed by the ku klux klan and an‘ nouncing that “no loafing or strikes will be per- mitted.” The wages of packers, nailets and cutters are set at $3 per da strippers and sorters are al- lowed $1.50 and $1.75. A correspondent writes that the klan paraded thru a number of towns and fastened these posters to poles and trees. The only difference between a situation of this kind and chattel slavery is that the workers are not provided for after the seasonal work is finished. They are turned loose to get a living as best they may. The fate of rebels against the bosses and plantation owners is not hard to picture. This particular incident has a Florida back- ground, but the policy of suppression and intimida- tion, the methods used to this end, are common to the whole south, Under such conditions the workers have to fight for the most elemental privileges and are met with the same brutal onslaught that results only from a struggle for state power in more advanced com- munities. Feudalism is not dead in the south. New Strike Wave in Europe A general strike of railway workers has tied up transportation in Greece. The workers grew tired waiting for the government to deal with their de- mands for higher wages while the cost of living increased rapidly. The German railway workers are also on strike; beginning with a strike of freighthandlers, it has spread to almost all classes of railway employes. The British miners are pre- paring to move for an increase in wages and all over Europe there are signs of a new strike wave. The yellow officialdom of the European trade union’ are no longer able to keep the workers bound to their respective capitalist states. The reception that the world trade unity campaign of the Red International of Labor Unions has been ae- corded by the workers shows that the decay of the yellow leadership has been rapid since it followed its outright support of counter-revolutionary gov- ernments by actual betrayal of the daily struggles of the workers. A Communist Trial—in Germany When the German capitalist state is forced into the open in its war on the Communist and the working class as in the trial of 33 Communists which has just ended, its weakness is easily seen. The trial of these comrades was made an event of international importance, The capitalist press of the world carried scare headlines announcing the discovery of a Communist secret service under Soviet Russian auspices’ and the most horrible crimes were attributed to these comrades, crimes ranging all the way from secret murder of German officials to the initiation of a typhus plague by the distribution of disease germs. The prosecution emphasized—before the trial— the immense mass of documentary evidence it had secured and the labor haters of the world pre- pared for hair-raising disclosures that would arouse the masses to action against the Communist menace. The result? Ten of the Communists. were acquitted, three were sentenced to nine months imprisonment and the rest were penalized by small fines! These comrades were guilty of waging war’ on German capitalism and this is a horrid crime in the eyes of the social democrats and other less con- temptible friends of the capitalist state, but the German government could not prove that they were guilty of anything else. -How much more efficient is American capitalism which can get convictions and sentences of thre years for members of the Workers poset Party who merely held a convention in Michigan. The German capitalist state can send eight thou- sand Communists to jail and keep them there when it hands them over to dictator Von Seeckt, but when. it is forced into the light it has to appear before all the world as an institution whith the masses do not respect or even fear. The trial of the 33 Communists and the subse- quent verdict has made the German capitalist state | the laughing stock of the world. The German workers understand that the Com- munist Party does not fight with typhus germs but with-a program and plan of organization that the whole capitalist class fears. Get a member for the Workers Party and a new subscription for the DAILY WORKER. ‘ Unemployment Great Britain heads the.list of nations with her unemployed army, according to Moody’s Investors’ Poreign Service, 26 of each 1,000 of her population being unemployed. Austria comes next with 20 per 1,000, and the United States is third with 2,100,000 unemployed or 19.09. per 1,000 of the population. Austria has had a.startling increase of unemployment, due to her financial collapse since the figures were compiled and the proportion i is now probably about 30 per thonsand, In Germany out of every 1,000, inhabitants more than seven were out of work at the beginning of the year. Denmark leads the Scandinavian king- doms with a rate of over eight per 1,000, while Sweden’s unemployed number less than three per 1,000. The relatively low figures.reported by Rus- sia are of interest. In the western European coun- tries, Belgium makes the best showing with a rate of 2.39 per cent, as compared with 9.26 per cent in the Netherlands. The following table shows the number of unem- ployed in the principal countries at the beginning of 1925, together with the population: Number Rate per Estimated of unem- 1,000 of population. ployed pop. Austria 6,500,000 130,000 20.00 Australia 5,800,000 32,708 5.64 Belgium 7,700,000 18,444 2.39 Canada 8,800,000 10,540 1.20 Czeéchosivakia ... 13,600,000 73,006 5.37 Denmark ... 3,300,000 27,518 8.34 Finland 3,400,000 1,803 53 France . 39,200,000 11,863 30 Germany 59,900,000 436,450 7.29 Great Britai 44,700,000 1,158,000 26.91 . Hungary 8,000,000 26,020 3.25 Italy 40,000,000 134,719 3.36 Netherlands 7,100,000 65,740 9.26 Norway 2,700,000 20,500 7.60 Poland 27,200,000 155,245 5.71 Russia 132,000,000 1,300,000 9.85 Sweden 17,344 2.89 Switzerland ...... 3,900,000. 9,451 2.42 United States ..110,000,000 2,100,000 19.09 The effeet of low wages and the reduction of liv- ing standards in Germany, Poland and the eastern! European countries upon western nations like England and the United States is clearly apparent from these figures. Unemployment is one method of reducing wages and standards of the workers and its existence in a country so naturally wealthy as the United States shows that we cannot escape! pistrict 5, the evils that follow in the train of capitalism,|on the class struggle program pres-|and the general executive board for because of immense natural resources. The 2,100,000 unemployed in the United States at present can be taken as the absolute minimum to which the jobless will decrease. The ranks of the unemployed are recruited steadily from the workers displaced by improved ——_—_—_—_——_—_—_—_—_—_————_——————— | BELLAIRE, OHIO, COAL DIGGERS IN CONVENTION Reactionsmes! RaiseMore Smoke Screens (Continued from page 1) left-wing candidate, received 2,761. The counting, of course, was control- led by the reactionaries and their method of tallying can be judged by the fact that one local union with 6 members cast 118 votes. Atmosphere Tense Naturally the atmosphere surround- ing the convention is terise. The basis of the attack upon the left wing is contained in a circular issued by’the sub-district offigials in which they ac- cuse the progressive miners of desir- ing to form “an_alliance with an or- ganization noy operating non-union mines in West. irginia. ” This is their argument against that plank in the program of the progressive miners which calls for,an alliance between the railroad workers and the miners. Warren 8. Stone and his adminis- tration, with a few members of ‘the Brotherhood of, Locomotive Engineers and Firemen, owns and runs the Coal River Colliery upon an “open shop” basis. And because of this Frank Led- vinka, John Cinque, and W. T. Ro- berts place all of the rank and file of the 16 standard railroad brother- hoods onthe basis of scabs and strike breakers gnd urge that the miners do not form an alliance with them. Fakers Dig Up Fake Issues In the circular issued by. these bu- reaucrats they accused the progress- ives of trying to get into office thru using the name of Dominick Ventu- rato, now serving time, for trade union activity, in the penitentiary at Columbus, Ohio. These are the fake issues raise in order to hide thei, own short-comings and to obscure the real issues that nowconfront the miners for which they have no proposal ex- cept that of class collaboration. They ask why did not the progress- ive miners endorse “Dominick Ventu- rato for executive board of the sub- district. They* «conveniently forget that in the last election the progress- ive ‘miners nominated Venturato and that this same; yellow socialist, Ler- vinka, pleaded< with the progressive miners to withdraw this nomination on the grounds that it would hurt rather than help Venturato, even going so far ags’to produce a docu- ment, supposedto be signed by Ven- turato, withdrawing himself from the ballot. OeR Radicals Defended Prisoners Of the 13 prisoners involved in this case, only Venturato remains in jail, and very littlehas been done in his interest since ‘the Miners’ Defender and the defense committee were liquidated at the instigation of these “election supporters” of Venturato. They accuse the progressive miners of hurting the Venturato case by no- minating him as one of their candi- dates in the election of 1922 and now they accuse this same group of hurt- ing Venturato by not nominating him in 1924. It is a case of being damn- ed if you do, and damned if you don’t The progressive -miners only nomin- ated two instead of three for the executive board. They did not place any candidate against Venturato but supported him in the election. The votes he received were the progress- 4ve votes. The one who defeated him were the Ledvinka-Léwis supporters. This case will be one of the major issues in the convention. The pro- gressives will fight for the re-estab- lishment of the Venturato defense comittee and will demand that this committee be formed by represent: atives from each local union; that a publicity campaign be conducted and pressure brought to bear upon the powers that be, so that the gates of the prison will be thrown open and Venturato set Many other issues will come up of vital importance, such as the present, [ ‘Oppression Aid to World Solidarity (Continued from page 1) ers and peasants, which this law is to suppress by savage prison senten- ces, are those without which workers are condemned to slavery. The Japanese capitalists, in article 10, of the proposed law, go so far as to bring under its provisions acts of workers in any other country that can be interpeted as affecting Japanese capitalism. In other words, the work- ing class activities of Japanese im- migrants in other countries are to be punished if the workers can be arrest- ed and returned to Japan. This sec- tion reads ag follows: “Article 10—This law Rdiikenaee applies to those persons who. com- mit the above mentioned crimes even outside the limits of the en- forcement of this law.” The Japanese workers and peasants are more conscious of their power and place in the international class strug- gle than ever before. Since the entry of Japan into the world war the Jap- anese labor and revolutionary move- ments have made more progress than in the whole previous period, The rise of Japanese capitalism has brought intq being a great property- less working class. The Eta, those former outcasts, three million strong, »| Who do the hardest anil most unpleas- ant tasks for the Japanese rulers, are awakening to the new spirit abroad in the world labor movement since the Russian revolution. Strikes and demonstrations against militarism and imperialism have struck terror to the hearts of the Japanese rulers. Japan-\ Aese capitalism is breaking up. More than 3,000,000 workers ara jobless. War is the only solution the Japanese rulers have to offer. ‘The pressure of the Japanese mass- es forced the recognition of the work- ers’ and peasants’ government of Rus- sia and the rulers know that war on Soviet Russia is impossible. The rulers of Japan and the United States, greedy for more power and wealth, quarrel with and threaten each other; they would have the workers of Japan and the United States butcher one another to decide which ruling class shall rob the work- ers and peasants of China and the Far East. To fool the American working class into believe! that its enemy is the Japanese: bis Bo and peasants, and not the American capitalist class, the American rulers have passed a law ex- eluding Japdnése Workers and peas+ ants from ‘the United States. The Workers (Communist) Party of America déélarés that this law does not express tie sentiment of the mass- es of Amétitin workers but only of their rulers and betrayers—the cap- italists, the 'éapitalist tools in the la bor unton§ nd’ the middle class re- tainers of: ¢apitalism. The Améfican capitalist class oe presses nat Tobs the American work- ers just ais the Japanese ruling class gppresses and robs "the ones workers and peasants, In the Phillipines, Haiti, pans Do- mingo, in Hawaii and Gam, in Cuba and Mexico, in South America and China, American imperialism, either outright thru military force, or thru native agents bribed: to betray their countrynien and their class, rules and robs. s The Japanese rulers follow the same path in Korea where fifteen mil- lion workers and peasants groan un- der the heel of Japanese imperialism. In China the Japanese ruling class vies. with Great Britain, France and the United States for power over the people and natural resources—it re- ernits the Japanese workers and peas- ants to fight ‘and‘dié ‘for profits in which they havé’‘ho ‘share but which only add, like all the loot of imperial: ism, to the strength of the. hangmen of the labor and fevolutionary’ move- ments. The ‘Workers (Communist) Party declares: ‘that the “ ‘proposed « anti-se- dition law’ of’ the: Japanese rulers is proof of their fear of the growing power of the Japanese workers and ‘peasants—proof that capitalism is the samé'the world over, the same in the United States asin» Japan. The Workers (Communist) Party of América; while’ 32 of its most active members ‘are facing long prison sent- ences because of their devotion to the revolutionary working class move- ment, declares its solidarity with the Japanese workers and peasants. It denounces the tyrannical acts of its own, rulers and those of Japan in categorical terms. It calls for a united front of the working class of both nations, under the leadership of the Communist In- ternational, against American, French, British and Japanese imperialism. Across the Pacific Ocean, the Work. ers (Communist) Party of America, in the name of the revolutionary’ work- ers of the United States, extends its hand to the Japanese workers and peasants in a warm grip of fratern- ity. It pledges itself to fight against American imperialism and war. It asks the workers and peasants of Japan to unite in the world strug- gle against the bloody rule of world capitalism with the workers and peas- ants ‘of all lands under the banner of the Communist International. .It'galls the attention of the Japan ese ‘working class to the splendid strugglé and glorious victory of the workers and peasants of Russia over the: eat, Russian and world capital- ism.> Long Live Soviet Russia! song Live the Social Revolution in Japan! - Long Live the ‘United Front of the ‘Workers and Peasants of America and Japant Long Live the World Revolution! «Long Live the Communist Interna tionak—the Leader raf the World Revo. Sutin ‘i (Continued from page 1) ing inimical to the interests of our | brotherhood; and Whereas, Local Union 181 adopted this resolution and sent it to the general convention held in Indtanapo- lis for action there, a right guaranteed them by the constitution; and ‘Whereas, These fiye members have been declared expelled over the pro- test of the m@mbership, who were denied a vote on this matter, the local president first declaring them sus- pended, and later the records of the local were changed to read “ex- pelled”; and Whereas, Three members, a major- ity of the trial committee have sign- ed an affidavit stating that the report of the chairman of said trial commit- tee submitted to the local was not the report agreed tipon by the trial committee in session, that this re- port was a distortion of the facts, as the defendants did not plead guilty of the charges as reported to the lo- cal by the chairman of the trial com- attempt on the part of the coal oper { mittee; therefore, be it ators to inaugurate another wage cut Resolved, That the members of Lo- which is the, beginning of a new|cal 181 of the U. B. of C. & J. of A. “open shop” rive in the coal indus-|demand that these five members be try. Organize the unorganized, fight immediately restored to full member- against wage,cuts, nationalization of} ship and given a working card; and mines and railroads, alliance with the | be it further railroad workel » unemployment in- Resolved, That. we request the gen- surance, abolishment of the appoint-|eral executive board to immediately ive power, the conventi set up by Le militant ran! ented by the "progressive miners. aL. aaa ai “Anise” Speaks in Denver. DENVER, Colo, March 9,—Anna Louise Strong is to speak at two meet- ings here for us. Sunday evening, March 15, at the Labor Lyceum, W. production methods, standardization and special-| Colfax and Julian streetg, and Monday ization, It increases in “good times” when industry |evening Mar, 16, at the Barnes School is working almost to capacity. In times of indus-|A¥d!torium, 1410 Gleveran St. The trial depression it will grow to millions almost|?™ceeds of both affairs will be divided | , overnight. Unemployment in the United States is a per- manent fixture. We can paraphrase the famous saying of the southern colonel; “There,is no such} Armed ba’ thing as ‘good times,’ others,” Every day get a “sub” for the DAILY, WORKER and a member for the Workers Party. equally for defense and the children’s colonies and school homes of Russia. Union No. 181. su Robbers Busy. bales of rawysilk. employes 1 touring cars 4 the real issues before | compel the officers 'of Local 181 'to live’ ‘and all the camouflage | up to the constitution; and be’ it tur yinka will not deter the| ther r file miners of Sub-| Resolved, That a copy of this resolu- Dist. 6, from uniting | tion be sent to the general president,’ action, and to the official journal for publication, and be it further ~ ‘x Resolved, That we condemn the ae+ tion of the officials of Local 181 in} bringing the police to the local meet- ings in defiance of the will of the rank an@ file of the membership. Presented by the “expelled” mem- bers of Local Union No, 181. Niels Kjar, A. T. Jacobson, Matt Peterson, Nick vis Andrew wanted, Endorsed by miiniciere ot Local B. Jednaki, C. Christensen, 1, Peter’ son, S. Boboski, » mer. P. Sall,. 8, its, traveling in an auto~} Shallcross, J. Napier, Emil Lund, Wm. |} Some times are worse than| mobile, today kidnaped two drivers | Engels, Christ Hansen, Ed, Larson, | of the Heineman Silk company and|J. Ferguson, D. Myer, Walter Janu: | drove away with their truckload of 30| zak, Edolf Terarsen, Anton R. Lar- The silk company | sen, Nels Pygh, Jens Pedersen, James were thrown out of ye g Rybandt, Hd. Peterson, A. H. Richter, £.G, Lindenberg, A. Wickman, Edw! ean Hansen, ara Fahrman, John Adams, V. P. Madson, Ed. Thomsen, T, Olsen, H. J. Cleve, Carl Dalum, H P. Clausen, John Paulsen, H. G. | Wendt, Fred Paetz, Carl Larson, B. Waselitz, Tom Royek, A. J. Maki, A. Bomer, J. Caplar, J. Jorgensen, Earl W. Sovich. Original resolution and signatures with Niels Kjar, 3257 W. Hirsh St. Commune Celebration and Vetcherinka in Cleveland, March 15 CLEVELAND, Ohio, March 9.—A Paris Commune anniversary celebra- tion and Vetcherinka will be given by the East™Side English branch of the Workers Party of Cleveland at Oak Pythian Temple, 105th St., near St, Clair Ave,; on Sunday March 15, The party will begin with a supper at 6:30. and will be followed by music, dancing ‘and other entertainment. Max Salz- man, member of the national execut- ive committee ‘of the Young Workers League will speak on “Lesson of ‘Paris Commune.” The entire proceeds ‘jof'this affair will go to the DAILY ‘WORKER. Watch for more news of this affair. - "ada in Siakintary Marxian Econ- omics, Wednésday March 11, 8:15 'p. m,, 2613 Hirsch Blvd. 1, Give a brief summary of ‘the transition period from feudalism to the beginnings of capitalism, 2. What were the principal forces back of this great change? 3. Explain briefly how this trans- jition period furnished ‘simultaneously (a) The original, or as Marx calle tt, “primitive” accumulation, the ori- gin of capital, as’such. _(b) The “free” laborers for the (c) A source of raw material, and (@) A market, for the commodities produced by this new system of in- dustry. 4. ‘Tell of the moral and physical ‘effects of this transition period upon AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O")FLAHERTY. (Continued from Page 1) ulous sums of money they are gétting, tells them about the pretty airplanes in which they whiz to work, they point to the $10,000 a year that their broth: er Bill draws from the steel trust and the other emoluments which a grate- ful ruling class bestows on so loyal and non-fractious a servant. + ie OMETIMES the pressmen go on strike, It is true that their presi- dent breaks it before it has much of a chance to develop, but one would imagine that Mr. Berry would be say ed from the necessity of leaving hie vast industrial enterprises in Ala- bama in order to pull off a strike: breaking job in New York since the most promising heir to the British throne, the niftiest toe glider and.the champion whiskey magician in Great Britain has a~ paid-up card in the § Pressmen’s Union. Only a few days ago, David P. sent his check for $7, representing, two months’ dues to New York local of which he is @ mem: ber. The French Marshat Foch is algo a, member of a union, tho not of the butchers’. Still we have strikes and threats of strikes. 7. 8 FE appears that the attempt to wel if the labor lion lying down with the capitalist lamb has. not been @ pro- nounced success for the lamb. De- spite the efforts of the labor Ieuten- ants of capitalism the old quarrel be- tween the exploited ane the exploiter over the division of the fruits of la- bor’s efforts goes on and nothing can stop it short of the elimination of, the exploiter, 2 @ AMSAY MACDONALD is in dan ger of losing his leadership of the parliamentary labor party. This was inevitable considering his conduct during his premiership and «since. Many revolutionists gave MacDonald credit for honesty while disagreeing vigorously with his iceas. But he has shown himself to be one of the most despicable grafters that ever feathered his own nest at the expense of the working class. But he might continue to hold power had he only sinned in making his hay while the sun shone. Crooks are tolerated even in the labor movement provided they have un- usual genifs as politicians. This Mac- Donald did not have. ‘i se * E blundered badly in handling the “Zinoviev” fake letter. His in- competency cost the labor party dear. Philip Snowden, another low-lived faker, is jealous of MacDonald’s po- sition. So is J. H. Thomas, who is, if such a thing is possible, the most hard-boiled crook in the pack. The left wing, in the labor party, such as: it is, is out to wrest the leadership from MacDonald and Co. The most talked-of man for the position is John Wheatley from the Clyde. Wheatley, is reputed to be* radical. But while he is a great improvement on Mac- Donald and the other traitors of the same ilk, he will never lead the Brit- ish working class against the citadels of capitalism. He is a Roman catho- lic, for one thing, which is proof sufficient that he is not a revolution- ist, at least not the kind that will “|lead the masses in the final . strug- gle. \ 0:8: -®. MALL tho it is comparatively, the Communist Party of Great Britain is the only organization that can be expected to take the lead in con- signing the British ruling class to the ash can of history. The situation in England is developing rapidiy. There is a great breaking away of the mass- es from the old leadership and while the middle-of-the-road men who are now assumuing a more dominant fole, will only go part of the way, it can be said that the maeses are on 'the move and moving in a forward — tion, Pennsylvania Buys 'Em Up EVANSILLE, Ind, March 9.—The Pennsylvania railroad has under con- sideration the purchase of the Chi- cago and Hastern Illinois, the Lehigh Valley and Lehigh and New England railroad lines, according to informa. tion received here today ‘trom’ the Pennsylvania lines general “offices. ‘The reports said a desire to increase New York, Chicago and St. : Louis service was the basis of one purchase of the three lines, the masses of the population, 5. What are the two steps fr individual hand production, to” the present highly developed, monopol- . “nal system of production? Explain w 6. What class is expropriated by each of these ‘steps, and by whom? 7. What is the most important function of a medium of such as gold? Explain how it is by virtue of this function shat it be- comes money, 8. Name one other function of money. 9. Does gold. make other . commo: dities measureable? Explain, What element is contained in all commodi- ties, including gold, the medium of exchange between all of them?_ 10, What is the relation the cireulation of money ‘and that of commodities? Explain with special reference to cause and effect, ts