The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 16, 1925, Page 1

The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ and Farm: ers’ Government Vol. Il. — SUBSCHIPTION RATES: ic.60 REJECTS ABRAMOVICH. In Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 puck thi tikes LN: eateries year. AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O')FLAHERTY 'VIDENTLY the Italian workers, who were led into a phantom utopia by the promises of fascism a few years ago, are coming to their senses. There are big strikes in Italy, in the heart of the industrial section of that. country. The so-called fascist unions are co-operating with the non- fascist unions. 100,000 workers have downed tools. They are not peace- fully inclined. They do not spurn violence as something unethical. That is one lesson that the fascisti have not untaught them. ee 8 HE employers are angry. “You are | biting the hand that fed you,” is what they are-saying to the fascisti| leaders. Signor Federozoni, acting | head of the fascisti government (Mus- solini is said to be dying), has called a meeting of employers. He tells them that they must compromise in order to save the fascist regime. Just as the president of the United States would call the coal operators or the rail magnates together and advise them to surrender a little to the strikers until after the election. The slack could be pulled in later. * . 1G events are destined to take place in Italy soon. Fascism does not feed the hungry stomach of the worker. Fine phrases about the glopy of Italy do not magically resolve the class struggle into nothingness. The old battle remains, the battle between the exploiter and the exploited for the difference between the pay envelope and what goes into the_ employers’ jeans. The dictatorship of the bour- geoisie in Italy, under the leadership of the fascisti, is doomed to failure. It is collapsing. The dictatorship of the workers and peasants in Russia under the leadership of the Commun- ists is destined to succeed. It is suc- ceeding. 2 3 HE capitalists are only a small, fraction of society. While the ‘ereat ‘were inflicted with: the: slave mind, ruling the many by the few was an easy task. But capital- sm, besides developing the machinery of produttion, also developed the minds of the workers. Education of a sort was necessary if the compli- cated machinery of production was to be managed. The workers learned to read. They read more than the cap- italists’ bargained for. But all their knowledge did not come from reading. Most of it came thru experience in the daily struggle for bread. 4 @ HE workers are fast losing that feeling of inferiority. They have seen the Russian workers and peas- ants throwing off one of the most powerful and oldest tyrannies in the world. They see them slowly but surely marching onward to a greater degree of comfort, gained thru their own efforts. They have seen them defeat a world in arms. It has a cheer- ing effect on the morale of the work- ers of other countries. The socially useless minority can no longer con- vince the workers that but for their brains and generalship the industrial machine would go to smash. Paar wary HE black dictatorship in Italy is going to smash. But it is not likely that it will go without a struggle. When the workers come into power there and establish their dictatorship, many of those allegedly “progressive” people who now attack the fascisti be-. cause they have trampled on the ‘tights of free speech and free press, will turn their guns on the dictator- ship of the proletariat of Italy as they have on the government of Soviet Russia. se @ NE would think by reading the effusions of the liberals and the hypocritical Yellow socialists, that the (Continued on Page 6) [TODAY SEES OPENING OF THE — SECOND ANNUAL “BUILD THE DAILY WORKER SUB CAMPAIGN” establish DAILY WORKER. its ability, adding six thousand new sub- scribers to the only English Communist daily newspaper in the world, to better fight it’s battles, to be the standard bearer of the growing, militant left wing in every step of it’s progress in the year to come. One year ago, the American revolution- ary labor movement, smaller then, weaker, less experienced—gave its energy to better it, new born champion—the It built to the best of How Well the Workers Built— can be attested by the great service the DAILY WORKER had given in every struggle for the working class in the year just passed. No battle of the American workers proved too small for the DAILY WORKER to champion—no struggle so large the DAILY WORKER woulf not dare to enter. All this aid to the American workers was rendered by a militant newspaper that was all this time struggling to grow, to gain strength and life—and oftimes giving: most of it’s energy to fight for existence alone! That fight is over! The successful campaign for funds has insured the existence of the DAILY WORKER for the coming year—but it has insured it’s existence alone! In the Year to Come— the DAILY WORKER must grow! The puny youngster of yester- day, is the youth of today. The DAILY WORKER fed with the life-giving strength of thousands of new subscribers will be the giant of tomorrow! Only with ITS strength» will come the ; strength of the Communist movement in this country. The re- volutionary movement today will srarecenly: with the growth of the DAILY WORKER: - You—Militant Labor! - oy Your field fe ‘action is the field that will bring most to revolu- tionary labor. “Build the DAILY WORKER,” to be your. greater standard bearer in the future. in this campaign Make it stronger, and it will fight your battle better in the days to come —until the day! The eyes of the world revolutionary labor will watch you! GROWING POWER OF PROGRESSIVES ANGERS FAKERS Renegade “Socialists in Control at Bellaire By MAX SALZMAN. BELLAIRE, Ohio, March 15.—The ever growing power of the progress- ives in sub-district 5, District 6 of the United Mine Workers of America, has had the same effect on the officials of the Ohio miners’ union as a red rag on a bull. Never in the history of this sub-dis- trict has these been such a well-oiled machine, bent on putting out of the miners’ union, its most militant mem- bership, because it gave opposition to the renegade socialist reactionary leadership. From the opening of the conven- tion, every speech made was a direct attack on the progressives. From the report of Frank Ledvinka sub-district president, former yellow — socialist. (Continued on page 5.) Get a sub—make another Com- munist! LEFT WING CONTROL OF GARMENT \ WORKERS’ LOCALS FIGHTING THE BOSSES WITH MILITANT TACTICS *BULLETIN. “NEW YORK, March 15—The strike on the job of the dress goods workers of New York City, conducted by the left wing.Local 22 of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, has been ended with a victory for the workers, according officials, to an announcement of the union * * By ESTHER LOWELL NEW YORK, March 15,—Over $5,000,000 worth of dresses for spring and Easter trade are held up unfinished in New York contractors’ shops by the strike on the job of 15,000 or more workers who are demanding that the jobbers in the industry live up to All dress manufacturing shops in New York are idle, in which ensembles, or dresses with (Continued on page 2) the agreement signed Feb, 2. The dress shops wid! matching coats, PARTY SCHOOL OPENS TODAY; SCORES OF STUDENTS ATTENDING Today the Workers (Communist) Party Intensive Training Schoo for party members begins at 722 Blue Island avenue. Students from many sections of District 8 and other dis- tricts are pouring into Chicago, two coming from Detroit, one from Cleve- land, and many from other cities and camps. Coal miners predominate among the out of town students. While Monday’s session will be held at 722 Blue ind avenue, Tuesday and every day thereafter, the classes will meet at the Work- ers Lyceum, 2733 Hirsch Boulevard. Today every student must report at 722 Blue Island avenue at 8:30 a.m. Sharply at 9 a. m. Comrade William F.. Dunne will open the the school in the name of the Cen- tral Executive “Committee. Monday’s schedule of classes, which will be followed also for the Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday sessions, is as follows: * a 9 A. M.: Trade Union History and Tatics. Instructor, William F. Dunne. 10 A. M.: The International Com- munist Movement. Instructor, Max Bedacht. 12 Noon: lunch, 1 P.M. Manuel Gome: 2 P. M: Marxian Economics. structor, Max Lerner, Recess one hour for Leninism. Instructor, Pope May Become Fox Trot Fiend When the Radio Unloads Jazz ROME, March 15,—Whether Pope Pius will like jazz via the ether was @ question in the vatican today. As the beautiful radiophone set presented the pontiff by George, cardinal Mun- delein, of Chicago. was being set up. Jazz is a part of the Spanish, Swiss and German programs which the set can pick up, in hardly lesser measure that it is a part of the daily enter- ternment of Americal radio listeners. The pope's set will be ready for his “se Sunday. MONDAY, MARI CH 16, 1925 [JOHNSTONE EXPOSES CARPENTERS’ UNION SECRETARY'S LETTER So widespread has become the revolt of the rank and file of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joinérs, that the fakers of the general admitistration are being pressed to the wall. Proof of this exists in the circular letter, forced out of Frank Buffy, general secre- tary in the Huteheson machine, now being sent to scores of locals and district counells which have joined in the protest at the outrageous ex- pulsion policy against the members of the T. U. E. L. and all other progressive Carpenters. The Duffy letter tries in great detall to “explain away” the inex- cusable autocracy of the Hutcheson policy, and advances the hoary Ile about the T. U. E. L. being a “dual union,” and numerous other fabri- cations designed to cover up the In- iquity of each case of an expelled member. The DAILY WORKER, Trade Unione Educational section, begl a short. seri Johnstone, . Trade Uni In Its League ing Tuesday, will run jof articles by J. W. anewering Various items of the 7 Duffy. dia’ ind exposing that lar for whi . Fete Gets (Special to’ The’ DAILY WORKER) NEW YORK, March 15.—It was a man by the name of Sullivan, tho not of the firm of Gilbert and Sullivan, who framed the’ statute making It a violation of section 1897 of the penal code, of the state of New York for an alien -to carry arms. Sullivan was not a pacifist, but he was particular as to who sho@ld carry the artillery. Sullivan being dead, the DAILY WORKER reporter was unable to get sis views on whether he had Intended that antique dron-ware, antedeluvian cutlery, or pre-Volstead steins came under his conception of lethal weap- ons. Anyhow,'three members of the ‘Workers Party are under arrest charg- ed with planning to overthrow the government of'the United States. Alaske and ‘the Isle of Pines, with fifty muskets, which had to be handl- ed carefully owing to old age and hardening of the arteries and swords that may have been borrowed from the archives of the Ancient Order of Hibernians or the Clan-na-Gael. Might Be Hibernians. At first Sergeant Gegan, chief gen- eralissimo of the bomb squad, did not know whether he had run into a cheka nest or a meeting of the ar- rangements committee for the St. Patrick’s day parade. The accents of the culprits “however convinced him that they were under the instruc- tions of Moscow, and preparing to carry out of theorders of the wicked Zinoviev, which «were captured in the nick of time! by the ex-Sherlock Holmes of the’! state department, Charles Evans'Hughes. The aforesaid) instructions had for their aim the planting of the red flag on the White House where the red flag of the auctioneers Fall, Denby and Daugherty had so long flaunted its (Continued on page 2) King’s Premier and Socialist Leader Wear Same Pants STOCKHOLM,)March 15.—The posi- tion as leader of the govérnmental social-democrati¢: party, occupied by Hjalmar Branting, who died recently, will be assumed until the next party congress by his successor as Swedish premier, Richard J. Sandler, , Increase Amount of Freight MOSCOW, e 20.—(By Mail)— The. transport section of the state planning commission has fixed the total quantity of freights to be carried in the working year 1924-25 at 4,500 million poods (4% per cent of the 1913 figure), that is 9 to 10 per cent above the quafitity of the previous year, A DAILY WORKER sub means another ite E> 290 Daily Worker Annual Sub- Published daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO,, 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, IIL scription Drive Starts on March 15! GET IN ON IT! ' Price 3 Cents ‘Anti-Soviet Meeting Is Turned [nto-an Inspiring Demonstration for Russia MINERS’ CHIEF AGREES WITH COAL BARONS So Does U. S. Depart- ment of Commerce With President John L. Lewis of the United Mine Workers of America and the United States department of commerce substantiating their conten- tion that the bituminous coal Industry is badly in need of relief the coal barons who meet tomorrow in Cleve- land to consider ways and means of breaking the Jacksonville agreement, have everything and everybody on thelr side except the rank and file of the miners’ union and the progres- sives led by the Trade Union Educat- lonal League. Condition of semi-collapse exists inj the bituminous coal industry, accord: ing to the department of commerce, which made public surveys covering all the fields of the country. A Sorrowful Tale The industry is over manned and over produced, according to the gov- ernment ‘surveyors, and the mild weather in February further contri- buted to the decline that is generally. noticeable’ thru the entire industry. Remedial measures will be discuss. ed next week at Cleveland where operators of the central competitive field are to meet. Among the most pessimistic reports were from the Illinois and Indiana fields. Inthe former state mine oper- ation for February was described as amounting to a collapse as compared with January. Demand, output and price decline with apparently no bet- ter prgspects for this month, Non-Union And Union In the Indiana district operators complained that “coal is being sold in abundance from non-union fields at prices which cannot be approximated in the union fields.” The non-union fields were said to be still making further reductions in an effort to cap- ture the market. This agrees with the position of the coal operators. Now, let us hear from John L. Lewis. In an article published in last Sa- turday’s Chicago Daily News, the president of the miners’ union de- (Continued on page 2.) FORT-WHITEMAN REPLIES T0 LIES OF MACKENZIE Tells What He Saw in Workers’ Republic Editor’s Note—Lovett Fort-White- man, who writes of the Mackenzie lecture, is one of the contributing editors of the Chicago Defender, and a well-known Negro writer and lecturer who has just returned from an eight months’ trip that took him to every section of the union of so- elalist Soviet Republics. As a member of the Negro race, active in the work ef combatting the oppression of his raee in the United States, Lovett Fort-White- man went to Russia to study the methods by which the race problem has been solved by the Soviet gov- ernment. He saw many other things as well and he saw them from .an entirely different angle than did be capitalist newspaper correspond- ent Mackenzie, By LOVETT FORT-WHITEMAN, Frederick A. Mackenzie, corre- spondent of the Chicago Daily News, in his much-advertised lecture given on Friday evening at orchestra Hall, proved to his own complete satisfac- tion that the dictatorship of the pro- letariat, as applied in Russia today, is a bad thing. | t js bad for the hundreds of big and petty capitalists, of Russia, who » (Continued on page 2) DAWES PLAN TRIES TO FORCE RAILWAY CLERKS TO SCAB ON STRIKERS BERLIN, March 13—(Delayed).— The strike on the German railways became more’ widespread today when the Dawes’ plan management tried to force the clerical workers to scab on the freight handlers. At once these clerical workers walked out on strike, and the shop committee movemeht ted by Com- munists succeeded, in spite of the efforts of the yellow social demo- cratic union officials to prevent the walkout, to tie up all departments in the Berlin freight houses. TO ANSWER LIES OF ANTI-SOVIET SPIES MARCH 29 Forte-Whiteman,Danne and Minor r to Speak An eleventh hour campaign to halt the recognition of Soviet Russia: b; the United States is now in progress | on a dozen fronts. The out and out reactionary ~ Papers and magazines, suchas the Chicago Tribune and the Saturday Evening Post, hardly ever skip an issue without full measure of attack against the workers’ and peas. | ants’ republié. The campaign’ of the socialist, Ra- phael Abramovich is well known to the workers, and is being answered everywhere @§ it déserves. Instead of creating sentiment against the Rus- sian Communists he is the means of raising favorable issues in the trade unions and Jewish fraternal organ- izations and of crystallizing dormant sympathy into militant action in de- fense of Soviet Russia, McKenzie Suppresses Facts A more subtle attack is that of | pseudo liberals who pose as friends of the Russian revolution and then proceed, from comfortable pulpits and rostrums, to tell the Bolsheviks how a revolution ought to be run. Thus | F. A. McKenzie, correspondent’ for the Chicago Daily News, gives “fair” accounts of Russian political prison- ers, while suppressing the fact that the International Red ‘Aid has offered to arrange an exchange of all such Political offenders for working class leaders held by the capitalist govern- ments of other countries. In a moment of unguarded frank- ness Mr. McKenzie admitted that the Cook county jail, famed scene of the Red raids of 1919, was much worse than the Russian prisons, both in physical and recreational facilities. Such facts, however, are distasteful to the Greenwich Village anarchists whose worship of the forms of bour- geois democracy makes them view the safety measures of a proletarian revolutionary government in the same light as the atrocities of the fascist and social-reformist defenders of cap- italism. While nominally in favor of Soviet Russia their emphasis upon the “un- fairness” of imprisoning counter-re- volutionists gives the most reaction- ary elements in this country a last fig-leat excuse for delaying reobgni- tion and trade. Thus in America also, the liberal and the progressive give invaluable service to the old order while voicing the phraseology of the new, Anti-revolutiouary service from the liberal pulpit or from the reform- ist cabinet is a difference only in de- gree, and not in kind. Liberals Betray Workers The workers learn to recognize their enemies in whatever guise they (Continued on page 5.) Hope for 25 Members. MONTREAL, Canada—Labor hopes to have 25 members in the next Can- adian house of commons, A dominion election is expected during the year, fand the new house will have 245 mem- bers, an increase of ten, WORKERS FILL STREET SINGING INTERNATIONAL’ Dunne Addresses An Open Air Meeting The batte of the Garrick theater, on Chicago's rialto, will go down as an- other struggle between the working class and the counter-revolutionary so- cialist Second International, in which the proletariat emerged victorious, with heads bloody but unbowed, as a result of Rafael Abramovich’s at- tempt to slander the name of Soviet Russia before an audience. But, it was only an attempt. In the greatest demonstration staged in Chicago for many s the work- ers, gathering in thousands outside the theater, filled the streets for blocks around, cheering Soviet Russia and refused to yield to repeated charges of police who rushed to the scene by request of the socialists with auto loads of rifles. Instead the workers stood ground, tho beaten with clubs in discriminately used on men and men, while “Bill” Dunne, editor of the DAILY.WORKER, and member of the central executive committee of the Workers (Communist) Party, spoke to cheering thousands that packed the streets from curb to curb. Inside the ‘theater,’ pandemonium reigned among the thousand or so in the audience, only one-fifth of whom |seemed, actively sympathetic to the | counter-revdlutionary murderer of the Russian workers, while many hun- dreds were just as actively raising op- Position to his lies “Heroes” Attack Women. Literally scores of workers, par- ticularly women and girls, were brutal- their | |ly assaulted by black jacks in the hands of the brave “heroes” of the so- cialist party, who dared not to speak. let alone to answer, the challenges of the men. At the hour of going to press the DAILY WORKER learns that the fol- jlowing were amo1 those arrested |after being atrociou™y beaten by the | socialists and the police: Max Lerner, Katherine O'Flaherty and Maurice Chilofsky. The names of the others (Continued on page 2) ‘GERMAN POLICE MURDER 7 REDS AT HALLE MEET Ten Thousand Workers Ordered to Disperse HALLE, Germany, March 15.—Seven Communists were murdered here by Prussian police, seven others are dy- ing and thirty-seven were severely wounded when the police fired into an audience of ten thousand Cemmun- ists listening to speeches of Comrade Ernest Thalmann, Communist cand date for president, and other Com- munists. The police, under orders from their chief, the conservative Prussian min- ister of the interior, whose party is exerting desperate ‘efforts to retain control of the Prussian parliament, fired into the densely packed crowd. Two women were among those shot down by the police, The police fired following the speech of Comrade Thalmann, while French and English Communists were about to speak. The police ordered the foreign Communists not to talk, but they refused, insisting on their right to free speech. The police, without warning, drew their revolvers and fired. Five men and two women were killed. At least four policemen were Severely injured in the battle that ensued. A check-up of casualties indicated tha? the total list of injured will rum above 100, —-