The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 14, 1925, Page 4

wamengses y aS oes f i ane eee Page Four Amnesty for Class W ar Prisoners! Aid for the Victims of Reaction! ITH a demand for amnesty of all class war prisoners and for combined efforts to come to the ald of the tens of thousands of victims of reaction in capitalist prisons the revolutionary proletariat of the world pays homage to the hi eoes of the Paris Commune on the 54th anniversary of that first great victory of the proletariat. And well may that be The victims of capitalist reaction and counter-revolution, the class war prisoners of today, are worthy suc- cessors to the Commune fighters o' revenge of the French bourgeois f 1871 who fell victims of a bloody And we comrades and workers still free and unwounded in the battle lines can not pay homage in amore fit form that in dedicating this day to the aid of our imprisoned comrades. HE workers of the United States, too, have all reason to pause for a moment and remember those of their comrades that are lan- guishing in prison for their cause. have its Gallifet. capitalist judges enforcing them. brought Billings, Mooney, Sacco, V. stairs of the hangman’s scaffold. » The United States may not yet But It has Its criminal syndicalist laws with “good” It has its frame-up system which anzetti and countless others to the It has its department of justice which hunts down “undesirables” and tears them from their families, often leaving these families im misery and hunger. It has its Legion which, as was the case in Centralia, goes on a rampage of destruction and then perjures the victims into penitentiaries just because they defended themselves and their be! not have its wall of the federals bu’ longings. The United States does it it has its Ludiow and its Calumet. It does not have its bloody May days of 1871—but it has its November days of 1887. APITALISM reigns supreme in America and consequently the American workers suffer the exploitation, oppression and per- secution of capitalism. On the eighteenth of March, ti Communards of 1871. dead of the class war of days gone class war of today? ONG live the international world! Demand the opening of the pri: he workers of the world honor the What better method is there of honoring the by than to aid the wounded of the solidarity of the workers of the ison gates behind which linger your fellow workers for no other crime that that of having fought for their, for our class interests. Collect aid for the defense of t their dependents. On the Day of the “Paris Commune” and International Red Aid. 1 During the month of March, and * especially on March 18, the pro- letariat of all countries remembers the heroes and martyrs of the revolution- ary uprisings of the working class,| aimed at the overthrow of the throne: of the ezars and kings of the bour- geois social order. The February revolution in France and the March revolution in Germany in 1848, the uprising of the Paris pro- letariat, the proclamation of the Paris Commune on March 18, 1871—these are the first milestones in the strug- gle of the working class for power. The Russian revolution of 1905, the overthrow of czarism in March 1917 are the next stages thru which the proletariat went prior to October 1917, to the triumph of its dictatorship, the Seviet state, in the realm of the former czarist Russian empire. Its power extends over one-sixth of the globe. ? In June 1848 and in May 1871 the "bourgeoisie, with the aid of their Generals Caveignae and Gallifet, sup- pressed the uprising of the working slass. Tens of thousands remained on the battlefield, thousands were tortur. hese victims and for the’ support of |ed to death in prisons and by compul- |sory labor. In December 1905 the Rus. |sian czar suppressed the uprising of the proletariat, and like his fore-run- ners, the executioners from the camps of the French and the German bour- geoisie—was convinced of the cer- tainty of his victory. £2 UT the class conscious proletariat did not forget the great cause ‘of he liberation of humanity proclaimed |from the barricades of Paris, Berlin jand Moscow in 1848, 1871 and 1905. |It repressed its hatred and desire for |revenge, and when, in consequence of the sufferings of the war and the dis- organization resulting from the bloody | battles of 1914 to 1917, the patience of | the toiling masses came to an end, the | workers of Leningrad, under the lead. |ership of Lenin and the Russian Com- munist Party—the Bolsheviks—cour. ageously proceeded to the realization of the bequest of the former revolu- tionary generations, and with the overthrow of the power of the bour geoisie, an epoch of the international socialist proletarian revolution was en- tered upon in one country. The day of the Paris Commune, as well as November 7, are therefore in- ternational revolutionary holidays of the entire proletariat, which mark the first concluding strokes of the 75 years of history of the revolutionary fight PRESS PAGEANT PROMISES TO PACK MADISON SQUARE GARDEN, MAR. 15 NEW YORK, March 12 Advance sale of the special DAILY WORKER 75¢ one-month subscriptions which carry with them as a premium a ticket to the Paris commune pageant, concert and ball to be held in Madison Square Garden on Sunday afternoon and evening, March 15, indicates that the his- toric old garden will witness another overflow crowd on that date. Branch after branch is calling for more.subscription tickets to sell. Party members who never before sold anything have already sold several sets of five each. folders and are helping. Over three thousand folders are now in the hands of willing workers, many of whom haye already disposed of thirty and forty subscription tickets each. The names and records of individu- als selling ‘will be ‘kept confidential until the close of the subscription contest at 9 p. m., Sunday, March 15. ‘The winners will be announced at the grand ball in Madison Square Garden that night, and the complete list ot all comrades selling subscriptions and the record of every branch will be published in the party press immedi- ately thereafter. So many comrades are making a real effort that it has been decided not to limit the third and fourth prizes to two, but to give the gold plated Lenin watch charm fo each one that sell: at least fifty and the silver plated Len- ing watchy charm to every one that ils at least twenty-five of the sub scription tickets. These watch charms will bear a suitable inscrip- tion and will be mementoes worth keeping and handing down to poster: ity. To make correct decisions when the contest closes 9 p. m., March 16, it is absolutely essential for the comrades who have charge of this campaign in the various branches to keep exact record of members selling subscrip- tion tickets, to collect for all sub- Numerous individuals that are not members of the Work- | ers Party or the Young Workers League have taken out the subscription | “a scriptions sold, and to bring this ree- ord to the Garden. Our Thanks to Uj Elore. The DAILY WORKER New York agency has received from our Hun- garian sister daily a first class office desk as a donation. The DAILY WORKER accepts this with thanks as a token of good will from the Hun- garian comrades. Our appreciation is also due to Comrade M. Bortnick, who has made several advertising signs for the DAILY WORKER, donating his time, and who has just done some very ar- tistic lettering on the DAILY WORK. ER office door, Room 21, 108 Hast 14th street, New York. Bring in the Cash. All workers selling subscription tickets for the Paris Commune Page- ant, Concert and Ball, Madison Squar Garden, March 15, are advised that al tho the contest does not end until Sunday, March 1o, at Madison 8 a. m,, at Madison Square Gar comrades must come. T and the lessons drawn from the defeat of 1871 as well as of the victory of October 1917. The revolutionary workers of all " countries are conducting their present struggle for the abolition of the power of capital and for the dic- tatorship of the proletariat under the leadership of the Communist Interna tional and its sections. Revolutionary Marxism, Bolshevism, Leninism—i: the only direct continuation of the life-work of the first great teachers of the working class, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, the direct partici pants and leaders of the fight of the proletariat in 1848 and 1871. ‘\ Social democracy, the Second In- ternational, has rejected the continua tion of the revolutionary fight which was begun in the preceding revolu- tions. ‘They turn to the workers with the request to reject the class strug- gle. They themselves stand at the head of bourgeois governments or aid directly in their activity. From their midst have arisen many executioners such as the German social democrats Noske, Ebert and Hoersing, the Hun garian social democrats, the Esthon- ian, Finnish socialists, who, with their own hands, organized the military slaughter of the revolutionary upris- ing of the working class. 'HE working class, which carries on the work of the cause of the Paris |Communards, must conduct a deter- mined, ruthless struggle against the whole bourgeois front, and with un- flinching will, drive from their midst the social democrats, the watch dogs {of the bourgeoisie, who weaken the revolutionary energies of the working class and deliver them defenceless to their enemy class. Only if the working class.unites in the @nly workers’ party, the Commun- ist, will it be prepared for and capable of meeting the decisive struggle against the bourgeoisie. Only then will, it. be able to prevent a repetition of the mistakes of the Parisian Com- munards and be able to achieve an equally decisive victory as that which the Russian proletariat achieved in October 1917. 4 The Paris Commune of 1871 be- queathed to the revolutionary pro- letatiat the first experiences in the sphere ‘of the organization of its power, its dictatorship. The Paris workers realized that they could not complete their Itberation if they built on the foundation of the ex. isting bourgeois state. They over- threw this state and gave their power @ firm basis. Simple workers, abso- lutely tmknown up to that time, cour- ageously took into their hands the lead’ in the revolutionary commune, beset on all sides by enemies. Two armies were against the com- mune which until the day previously had still been fighting each other; the armies of French and German capital. But the defeat of the commune can be ascribed in the final analysis to the vacillations in the ranks of the Communards, their refusal to make the decisive attack against fortified Versailles, where the bourgeoisie with their leader, Thiers, had taken refuge. The defeat of the Paris Commune was actually a consequence of the AE eo 5 SP ntuy WORKER’ weakness of its military organization. Heroism, courage and flaming enthusi asm of the Paris Communards did not suffice alone to Secure victory: the French proletariat at that.time did not yet possess an internally firm revolutionary mass party, which might have led it without a pause to decis- ive victory. URING the present period between two revolutionary waves, the revo- lutionary working class, which learned from the experiences of this defeat, is preparing for fresh decisive battles, is directing all its energies to organizing its forces, to the creation of a strong Communist Party, to preparing it for the armed struggle. The Russian proletariat has already avoided the mistakes of the Parit Commune, and created a revolutionary party long before the uprising, organ- ized the Red Army, the army of its class, which is armed in accordance with all the rules Of the latest mili- tary technique and absorbed all thc experiences of the military struggle. The cause of the easy victory ‘ gained by the bourgeoisie over the Paris Commune was the fact that the Parisian workers were not supported by the workers of France and the workers of other countries. The fact that the French peasantry, which stood apart from the fight of the Parisian workers, not only did not support the latter, but even sided with the French bourgeoisie, helped the lat. ter to defeat the revolutionary work- ing class. Following the teachings of Lenin, the revolutionary workers entered into direct alliance with the peasants fighting against the yoke of imperial- ism, they support them in this strug- gle and strive to bring about the revo- lutionary alliance of the workers and peasants, which conquered in the Oc- tober revolution of 1917 and which will help the workers and peasants of the countries of the West to attain victory, and every day bring it nearer and nearer. The revolting Parisian workers " during the March days of 1871 had no illusions about and no confidence in the bourgeoisie and its govern- ments. Their slogan was the revolt of the working class, the fight for power. Neither does the advance guard of the revolutionary proletariat of the “pres- ent day harbor any illustions and de- ceptive hopes. The past year; however, has de- stroyed these illusions in the broad masse’ of the proletariat. The “demo- cratic-pacifist era,” proclaimed a short time ago, very quickly came to an end. The bourgeoisie of all countries ad- opts the undisguised policy of fascist violence against the working class and prepares for fresh imperialist wars. 'HE parties of the Second Interna- tional also support this fascist pol- icy of the bourgeois governments, just as they supported the “democrat- ic-pacifist era” preceding it. In Great Britain the conservative government is militarizing the rail- ways in the fight against striking workers, proclaimed recently the tran- sition to a protective. policy, which will increase the prices of all articles of consumption of the working class, March 15 they should turn in all the cash possible by the 14th at the dis. trict office. Only one point will be allowed in the prize contest for each subscription ticket paid for on March 15, whereas one and a half points are allowed for every subscription ticket paid for at the district office, 108 East 14th street on or before the 14th. Subscriptions paid for after the 15th will not count at’all in the con- test, and will not be taken into con- sideration in figuring the percentage of the proceeds to go to each paper. Members are therefor’ instructed not to hold their money until the fin. ish, but to turn in the cash as fast as the subscription folders are sold. ORIENTAL BRANCH AND YOUNG WORKERS HOLD FIRST JAPANESE DANCE NEW YORK, March 12.—Branch five of the Young Workers League of New York, in conjunction with the Oriental branch of the Workers (Communist) ty, has arranged a Japanese social and dance, to take place on March 28th, 8 p. m., at 108 E, 14 St. { A unique program has been ar- ranged for the evening. Everybody is promised an exceptionally good _ MASS REHEARSAL FOR COMMUNE. NEW YORK, March 12.—Five hundred ¢omrades are wanted at once to come to the mass rehearsals for’ the “Paris Commune Aet,” Square Garden, Rehearsal on Friday, at Ukrainian Hall, 17 E. 3rd street. Fin time. The proceeds will be donated to the DAILY WORKER and the Young Worker. mas rts are ag rehearsal Sunday, sy to learn and The WITH THE Y CONDUCTED - BY TH | Young Workers League Meetings Tonight, One Lecture on the C. I. | cualstsiies A lecture on the sixth year of the Gommunist International is the pro- gram for tonight's meeting of Area Branch No. 56. The lecture will be igiven by Comrade Sidney Borgeson and questions and discussion are to |follow. The subject is very timely and one that has had much publicity in the press ely. All members, as well as party members and sympathiz- ers, are urged to’attend this interest- ing meeting. Other branches are having a class on the A. B. C. of Communism. The meeting places and speakers are as follows: : Branch No. 1-.Sixth floor, 166 W. Washington St. Speaker, Pete Herd. Branch No. 3-“6116 8S. Halsted St. Speaker, Nat. Kaplan. Branch No, 6—-A social has. been arranged by this branch. Branches 2 and 4 have changed their meeting nights. Granch 2 meets every other Friday and Branch No. 4 meets every Thursday at 3118 W. Roosevelt Road. * . rea Branch No. 1, Vorkers’ League of he downtown dis- next educational of “The A. B. C. Comrade Peter ‘HE Working of the Young Chicago, taking igy trict is having fo meeting the stut of Communism, Herd, the educal@p city will start } and is conducting an open, violent campaign against the revolutionary movement of the peoples of the East and of the colonies, subjected to Brit- ish imperialism. ‘HE “pacifist” and. “democratic,” Herriot, supported by the social- ists, is trying to disguise with phrases his open-desertion to the imperialist policy of force introduced by Poin- care. Under Herriot reprisals against th: Communists have begun and are be- coming more and more intensified, the military occupation of the Cologne district was prolonged, but with re- spect to the Soviet Republic, the pol- icy of the British conservatives has been imitated. N Germany, as a logical result of six years of social democratic betrayal of the coalition government, power fell into the hands of heavy industry and the Junkers, the party of the Ger. man nationalists, of the monarchists. The characteristic phenomenon in the sphere of international politics, is the general offensive of world capital against the colonial and semi-colonial peoples, under the slogan of the “united front” of the whole bourgeois. ie, organized the British conservative government. ACIFIST phrases are completely unmasked by the increased arma- ments on land, sea and air with re- course to the destructive chemical means for future wars; the refusal, in spite of the Versailles treaty, of the allies to evacuate the Cologne district; and the preparations of world capital for an armed attack on Soviet Russia. In view of the increasing reaction in all countries, and the breathless pre- parations for fresh imperialist wars, the working class must close its ranks and march in a solid united front under the leadership of its revolution- ary vanguard, the Communist Party, and the Communist International. ° URING the revolutions of 1848 and 1871,,the bourgeoisie had already manifested that unlimited cruelty of which it is capable in the fight for the maintenance of its privi- leges and its power against the work- ing class which ventures to rise up'to secure its own liberation. And at present also, the more deter: mined becomes the will of the van: guard of the working class to Over. throw the bourgeoisie by revolution, the more ruthlessly does the’ bour- geoisie deal with the fighters for the cause of the workers, no matter whether the bourgeoisie in question is @ monarchist, a fascist or a reptbli- can power, ‘HE prisoners of capital who fell in- to the hands of their class enemies. at the defeat of the Hungarian: and Bavarian Soviet Republics, are still languishing in the prisons of Bayaria and Hungary under the most unendur- able conditions. The prisons of Ger- many are filled to overflowing with prigoners who were imprisoned after the revolutionary fights of 1920 and 1921 in the Hamburg uprising and dur. ing the other fights in October in 1923. The prisons of the colonial countries of Great Britain and France are filled ¢ the comrades of the branch will fur- ther discuss the text. Working Area Branch No. 1 is one of the most active branches in the city. It has two functioning nuclei, one in a department store and another in the clothing factory and a num- ber of prospective nuclei in the de- partment stores where thousands of young workers. work and they will take up the matter of organization of these nuclei at the next meeting of the branch which will be the activity meeting, where the activiiies of the comrades individually as well as of the branch as a whole, are taken up. This branch has been assigned a quota of 100 subs for The Weekly Young Worker by May 1, (one-fifth of the amount assigned the whole city) and at the recent Young Workers cele. bration pledged to raise $50.00 for the weekly, It has already raised some- thing like $10.00 of that amount and gotten in about eight subs. The branch meets every Friday in Room 506, 166 W. Washington, St., Federation Bldg. Everybody is wel- come to attend our meetings. Boston Juniors Busy. First annual concert and. play ar- ranged by the Junior groups of the Y. W. L. of Boston and vicinity, Friday, March 27, at 8 p.m. at Dudley street opera house, xbury, Mass. Admission 35 cents. hw, Get, a sub for the. DAILY WORKER from your shopmate and you will make another mem- ber for your branch... , . iM VAS to overflowing with revolutionaries]Reyolutionary Communism, Bolshew who fought for the overthrow of the}ims, never had recourse to the meth imperialist yoke imposed by the Eu-/ods of individual terror and has al ropean bourgeoisie on the colonial| ways conducted its preparatory work peoples of the Hast. for the rising of the working class The republics of the German social|under the slogan of the struggle and democrat Ebert and of thé Polish so-| solidarity of the broad masses of the cialist’ Pilsudski, the monarchies of|proletariat. “The liberation of the Roumania and Jugo-Slavia, the: “free” | working class is the work of the work- republic of American ‘capital, vie with |ing class itself.” each other in the effort to invent the] The adventurous policy of perpetrat- most outrageous persecutions against (ing individual acts of terr.rism against the Communist vanguard of the work-|the enemies of the working class’ dur ing class. ing the period of the first Russian 'HE social democrats of: Esthonia,}revolution in 1908, was not character. whose ranks the Reval uprising of | istic of the revolutionary Marxists, but the Esthonian workers penetrated, to-}of the petty-bourgeois narty of the gether with the wealthy peasants and} Ruasian socialist revolutionaries, wha the speculators, and with the full en-|belong to the reformist Second Inter dorsement of the Second International, |nationdl, and are friends of the Ger before the eyes of the whole of Eu-|man social democrats. : : rope, mass execution of workers are ‘HE masses of. workers will not al- organized, in most cases simply be- low themselves to be misled by cause they belong to the working class.|the provocative methods of the Ger- Cynically and insolently the Hungar-}man social democratic secret police, ian social democrats, under the pres-| And the renewed attempts to suppress sure of the workers, publish their no-|the Communist Party of Germany wil! torious agreement with the bloody | prove to be as futile as the former. Hungarian ruler, Horthy, while a spe-| This attack of Gerthan reaction on cial commission sent by the Second|the German workers will result only International to “investigate” these|in the growth of the sympathy of thé base dealings of the Hungarian social-| workers of all countries for the fight ists, openly endorses the part played/ing German workers, in further by their friends in the bloody settle-| strengthening the slogans against the ment of accounts with the Hungarian| white terror, we must issue the fol- working class. lowing at our demonstrations on 'HE total number of victims of the|March 18, in all countries: “Down white terror during the period/ with the provocation of the German from 1918 to 1924 amounts to half a| bourgeoisie and social democrats,” million. In the uprisings in Germany,|“Long live the German Communist Finland and Hungary (without count-| proletariat.” ing the victims of white terror in Rus- 9 The Russian proletariat, armed sia), etc., 100,000 people were killed,|¥ with the experiences of all the pre 150,000 were compelled to leave their| ceding revolutionary. fights of the country, tens of thousands are in pris-| workers of all countries, which car on (7,000 in Germany, 6,000 in Poland, 5,000 in Italy, 3,000 in the Baltic bor. der states, and 4,000 in the Balkans. The working class must put an end to this white terror. In the course of the last year the fight for the liberation of political prisoners assumed a violent character. On March 18 our slogan “Liberate all the political prisoners who have suf- munards who died in the struggle, haw’ already reached the eighth year of its power in its tremendous country waich it has united imto a Union’ ot” Soviet Socialist Republics. > In spite of the pressure of world capital, which at present is leading the attack with all the weapons of the eco- nomic fight, as well as with lies and fered in the fight for the cause of the| denunciations which are spread by the workers and for the liberation of op-| socialists of all countries in alliance pressed peoples,” must resound morejwith the Russian white emigrants powerfully and unite millions of work*Jabroad, the Soviet Republic lives on, ers in street demonstrations and pro-|its economy is becoming more stable cessions. every day, and it is demonstrating to 8 The German bourgeoisie and the |the whole world the increasing ability * social democrats, who are prepar-jof the working class to organize the munist Party of Germany, the batter-|mendous ‘country. eganesige. 3 \ing-ram of the proletarian revolution, 1 March 18 is the day of Inter- jare having recourse to the great pro-|!¥s national Red Aid. This revolu- ‘vocative “Tcheka tarial.” tionary working class mass organiza- Spies and provocateurs of the Ger-/tion unites millions of workers in its man criminal police flooded the ranks|ranks who realize the necessity of of the Communist Party of Germany | struggle against the white terror, and during the period of the revolutionary |the necessity of. aiding all the victims events in October 1923, and under in-|of the white terror who were thrown structions from the social democratic by the bourgeoisie into prison or driv- head of the police, organized a numberjen into exile. The bourgeois goy- of the most senseless and provocative!ernments and the ‘social democrats acts of terror, murder, etc. persecute the International Red Aid The German reactionary state ad-|with deep hatred, called forth by the ministration,-with the approval of the|fatc that Red Aid is one of the strong. German social democrats, laid all the|est supporters of the revolution- blame on the Communist Party of Ger- ary struggle. many in order to provide a formal ex-| “Support International Red Aid;” cuse for fresh mass arrests and a fur-|“Workers, join in the ranks of the In- ther prohibition of the Communist |ternational Red Aid;” “Help the polt- Party of Germany. tical prisoners”’—these must be the # [ines was one of the most insolent|slogans of every worker on March provocations of the bourgeoisie |18. BAYONETS PROD HAITI PEASANTS GENERAL MEMBERSHIP NEW YORK SHOP NUCLEI ORGANIZATION MEETING (Special to the Daily Worker) | Peasants are obvious,’ INTO SLAVERY America’s Marines Are Spreading Terror | WASHINGTON, March 12—Haiti’s | “progress” under the urge of Ameri- can bayonets is shown in ‘the annual report of John H. Russell, military dic- tator of the republic under his title as American high commissioner, This report, dated January 1, has just been given out by the state department, It. appears that stabilization of Haitian finances js still under way, af- ter eight years of occupation, and that the national railroad is still un- der process of reorganization. However, “The state of peace which the country h enjoyed since the American intervention, and especially in the past three years, has continued undisturbed thruout the year 1924, ‘with the result that the Haitian peo- ple’s feeling of security has been for- tifled. This is most favorable to agri- culture, for the native peasant, cer- tain of peace and security, has been enticed back to the soil and the re- sumption of cultivation. Encouraged their lands without fear.of damage to their property or harm to their per- sons, the peasants, during the year just closed, have placed under culti- vation much additional arable’ land, To a traveler thru. the interior the contentment and well-being ot the ’ Yet only a few weeks ago’ Secre- tary Hughes said that Haiti would not be evacuated by our marines until the people showed a willingness to keep ee Ne ilbeeses by the feeling that they can now till NEW YORK, March 12.—A gen- eral membership shop nuclel organ> ization meeting will be held Satur- day afternoon, March 21, at 2 o'clock sharp at the party headquar- ters, 108 E. 14th St., New York City. This meeting is of great importance. It is held for the purpose of organ- izing the party members who work in the factories situated between 14th and 42nd streets into shop nu- clei, All party members who work in the above section should attend this meeting. Already over eight shop nuclei have been organized in the city». This is only a beginning. Comrades come to this meeting so that all the comrades who work in this section can, be organized into, | shop “nuclei thus forming the fi shop nuclei section in the Workers (Communist) Party. Comrades don’t forget. Meeting takes place Satur- day afternoon, March 21, at 2 o'clock at 108 E. 14th St., the party head- quarters. The meeting is for party members only. BEN GITLOW, Shop Nuclei Organi: the peace. Russell ignores the tact. that the killing, looting and general demoralization of native life in Haiti, in these years of the occupation has been credited to American terrorism and reprisal. _ a Give your shopmate this copy. of the DAILY WORKER—but be sure to see him the next day to get his subscription. ane dha, aetiacathy Aen O09 ried out the behests of the Paris Com: ing a new campaign against the Com |administration and economy of a tre- Theses for Agitators dn Day of March 18th, | “Paris Commune” and International Red Aid 4