The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 16, 1925, Page 5

TO ANSWER LIES OF ANTI-SOIVET “SPIES MARCH 29 Dunne, Forte-Whiteman and Minor to Speak (Continued from page 1) Present themselves, Avowed enemy like Abramovich, or fair-minded critic like McKenzie and Gordin and their kind, all look alike if they feed the fires of reactionary attacks on the workers’ revolutionary government of Soviet Russia, Our answer to these reactionary manifestations is in working class mass demonstrations for Soviet Rus- sia. The workers’ faith in their revo- lution has not wavered and they prove it in hundreds of ctiies and towns in this and all other countries of the world, Chicago, the industrial heart of America, tae been the scene of a Particularly active campaign. Mc- Kenzie on March 18th, Abramovich on the 15th, Gordin’s articles in every Sunday's paper, and so on. The workers have not been slow to take up the challenge. Mass Demonstration On March 29th, Sunday afternoon, they will counter with a mass de- monstration that will pack Ashland auditorium to the doors. Three speak- ers, particularly effective on this spe- cial subject, will voicé*the workers’ answer. Lovett Fort-Whiteman, cele- brated Negro author, just returned from an eight months’ tour thru So- viet land that took him deep into the back country where few Americans have ever trod, will answer the lies spread about our revolutionary gov- ernment. William ¥F. Dunne, editor of the first English Communist daily in the world, and Robert Minor, inspir- ing labor artist, co-defendants in one of the latest capitalist raids for Amer- fcan political prisoners, will be able to tell from personal experience what the American brand of “personal li- berty” really means. A very full and interesting pro- gram has also been arranged. There will be singing and dances, dramatics and movies and gymnastics by work- ers organizations..Some of the talent 1s professional: of the highest class, most of it is the best that the Chica- go labor movement has developed in seventy years of work. Doors will be opened at 1:30 p. m., Sunday, March 29th, Ashland auditorium, Ashland Blvd. and Van Buren St., Chicago. Admission for adults 50 cents, for children. 10 cents. Come early if you want to be sure of a seat, the hall enly holds 5,000, Come early to this demonstration to answer the villifiers of Soviet Russia. * 6046-4850. Printed voile was used for this design. Collar and vestee are of organdy. Pattern 5046 was used for the skirt. The blouse may be finsh- ed with the sleeves short, or in wrist length. 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To make the costume with short sleeves for a 38 inch bust size will require 5% OUR DAILY PATTERNS A SMART SPORTS SUIT A SMART TUNIC COSTUME ‘| llustrated requires 3% yards of ma- The width of. the, (Continued trom pagel) ) 2% who during the war shouted for every worker to go to war, while he made sure he kept on this side of the fight ing, down was a bitter attack ‘on those men who have given the best years of their lives'to the miners’ or- ganization. : After Ledvinka’s report, which was one of, class peace, having nothing but a discouraging outlook, an addi- tional report was read which con- demned the progressive candidates in the last election, for having issued the following statement: To the Miners of Sub-District 5 of District 6, U. M. W. of A. Dear Sirs and Brothers: The brothers whose names ‘are signed to this program faithfully accept and en- dorse every word in the program of the Progressive Miners on which Brothers George Yoysey, Arley Stap- les and Joseph Nearing are running for president, vice-president and sec- retary-treasurer? F If you want to see our organization grow and all miners organized 100 per cent in one powerful union, if you want an alliance between the miners and our brother ra{lroad, workers, if you want nationalization of .the coaj mines, If you want to. organize every miner in the. United States in the United Mine Workers of America. If you want our Brother Dominic Venturatto to get proper support as well as the rest of our brothers in the Moundsville prison you will agree with us and endorse this program by vot- ing for the following names on our sub-district ballots and for Brothers Voysey, Staples and Nearing. " For Sub-District President—J. J. Hoge, Local Union, 1840, Bellaire, O. Vice-President—Frank Blahovec, Lo- cal Union 2059, Hopersville, 0. Secretary-Treasurer— John Gross, Local 2262, Dilles Bottom, O. For Sub-District Board Members— Frank Sepich, Local Union 3562, Neffs, O.; Con O’Kraska, Local Union 2526, Neffs, O. For Auditing Committee—Joe Koby- lak, Jr., Local Union 2059, Hopersville, 0.; Jack’ ‘Kostel,’: Local Union 971 Yorkville, Daniel, Spehar, Local Union 1696, Yorkville, 0. _ For Trustees—John Buska, Local Union 971, Yorkville, 0.; Dominte Sambuco, Logal Union, 430, Bellaire, oO. Ts a Red Baiting Speeches. An attemptoww ade to brand this statement ‘ass ¥illifyiag the officers but any one with an ounce of understand- ing can see that the¥é is no attacking of the officials in*tlfé‘above statement. Making a red4idz ‘waving speech worthy of that’enemy!of workers, W. J. Burns, Ledvinka, did all he could to whip the delegates into a-state o/ frenzy against.the, Communists and the Progressives,,. He.attacked na- tionalization of the coal. mines. 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Send 120 in silver or stamps for our ng and Summer 1926 PITTSBURGH, PA. | To those who work hard. for their money, | will save 50 per cent on; all, their dental DR. RASNICK te Os oquor’ DENTIST ot Sen0 ool get his subscription, j THE DAILY WORKER eee | Power of Progressives Angers Fakers | § Was against an alliance between the railroad workers and the coal miners, in spite of the fact that union railroad workers have been hauling scab coal. He said it was time to put a stop to the progressives, He was followed by Vice-President Cinque whos report almost exceeded in its class collaboration recommen- dations, those of his superior officen He told the men that there is seldom @ cause for a strike, and this in'spite of the fact that the bosses have been continually violating the agreement. Mines Closed Down, At the very time the convention was in session a number of mines were shut down because the bosses vio- lated the agreement in relation to the check-off. When the mines are being shut down one after another, while one coal company after another is an- nouncing that they are going to close their mines on April 1, the officials conveniently forget that the constitu tion states that one of the purposes of the United Mine Workers is to estab- lish the 6-hour day from face to face. Vice-President Cinque went on with his report telling the men to use the union label. He praised it as an American development. He neglect: to mention that the reason other coun. tries did not use the union label is because their unions were better or- ganized. He forgot that the very pa- per that the union officials had their letterheads printed on altho printed by union printers is scab made. Altho the state law calls for wash houses in the mines and after some of the mines have been without wash houses, and many more in a filthy con- dition. he recommends caution. He even blames the miners in part when the wash houses are not in a sanitary condition. For Class Peace. He recommends in his report a cen- tralized hospital and. loan association to which the rank and file of the min- ers are bitterly opposed. Then the report of the secretary. treasurer, who is a member of the state legislature, drawing pay. from both the state of Ohio and the miners’ union, all in the same vein, all smack- ing of class peace with the bosses, in spite of the fact that at this very time the bosses are planning to break the miners’ union. Instead of prepar- ing the miners for the struggles that will take place soon after the con- vention, they talk peace, they do not prepare for struggle. The miners have worked very few days. Half of the miners in the state and there are about 50,000 miners. are out of work. The rest work two, three or four days per week. The re- sources of the miners are nil. The cof- fers of the mine owners are full. They are preparing with their gun- men, with their control of the state government. And yet the officials tall peace, Yet they hint in their re- Ports that progressives who want to prepare the miners should be put out of the unions. The leaders of the miners are former socialists. Your Union Meetin Third Monday, March 16, 1925. of Local and e of Meeting. 123 N, Clark St., 1 Bridge and Structural Iron Work~ ers, W. Monroe St. ot and Shoe, 1939 Milwaukee Av he: Hebi Ri 180 W. Washington 8 4003 Roosevelt Rd. ‘2705 W. 38th St. Madison S' C., 505 S. State St. ¢., 1457 Clybourn enters, 222 N. West St., Wau- ve. 400 Engineers, 4643 gineers’ 311 8. A: Engineers, 180 izpmen. 6 ose. testing 7:30 and rators, 1710 N. Winches- 4 W. Harrison St. it, 328 W. Van Ss, 725 S. Western Ave. shoremen, Tug, 355 N. Clark shinists, 78th ‘St. and’ Dobson Machinists, 1638 N. Halsted St. Maintenance of Way, 1543 W. 103d aintenance of Way, 202 W. 47th rine 175 W. Washington St. iro Ave. ih Ave. lerks, 159 N. SI te St. orkers, tea N. ry let & 3rd Thursday, joker Park Hall, 2040 W. North Avenue. Secretary, Give your shopmate this copy of the DAILY WORKER—but be sure to see him the next day to 4 OVIET-ROSSIA HA SMABE GOOD SAYS PURCELL Admits He/is Biased on aside of Workers “I went into Russia with a working class bias in 1920, and again in 1924, and I returned with my views. con- firmed, that Russia is bound to make good,” said Mr. A, A. Purcell, a mem- ber of the British trade union dele- gation to Soviet Ryssia, in a speech at Manchaster, England, recently. “I endorse and reaffirm,” Mr. Pur- cell continued, “the view so frequent- ly expressed an@ made much of in the capitalist press,: that ‘we may have the strength to carry thru similar great changes for. our class,’ “The trade unions have accomplish- ed wondrous things—the workers’ clubs—with their circles for the liqui- dation of illiteracy, preparation of trade union workers, reading of news- papers, libraries, art and music classes, study circles, plays and living newspapers, lectures and reports on political, industrial, co-operative and economic subjects, together with the medical department, exposing the hor. rors of the dread disease syphilis. Classes for Children. “Then,” Mr. Purcell went on, “there are classes for the improvement in technique of those boys and girls who are working in the factories as ap- prentices and learners, and from this stage those showing suifable ability are encouraged to go further, and the way is made quite easy for them to go to the highest technical schools or workers’ faculties, and even to the great universities. “The question of cost of fares, books, clothing and lodging does not arise, as these are all arranged between the trade union and the education depart- ment.” 3 Mr. Purcell Went on to deal with the important question "of the technicians in industry.” —* “It was my good fortune,” he said, “to attend a conférence of these in 1920, and I got'to liear that they were holding a meeting in December last, which I attended. The chairman and the mover of the vote of thanks spoke in English. “These workers are all members of their particularT. U., but the tech- nical men hold Octasional conferences, and the delegates are drawn from the technical membership of all the unions. ond | “It is this bédy which the Soviet government is straining every nerve to strengthen and increase numeri- cally. These .arethe men who give you the impressionof high enthusiasm for their work.'* Electric Development. “Numbers of huge electricity un- dertakings are raising their towers, with house boile?# from Babcock and Wilcox in Britain, and firms in Checho- Slovakia, togethér with electrical equipment from Metro-Vickers, and 80 on. win “Thus,” Mr, Purtell summed up, “in education, trainifig of the young, en- couragement tothe technicians, the Russian working ¢fass is moving ahead of all other counties in Europe. “This is what’they are doing,” said Mr. Purcell, in’¢bnclusion. “But so much is said about what they are not “The antiJew pogroms have gone. doing, I will add my quota. There were no Tena Goldfield mas- sacres, and no Armenian, massacres. Foreign capitalist’ moneylenders and exploiters of the farmers and peasants are non-existent. There are no prison- ers in the fortress of St. Peter and t/ St. Paul, not great army threatening the peace of the world, no police or- ganization of widespread prostitution, no provocation with violence by police and spies under the auspices of the government. “In 1908, Kropotkin wrote in the Times that there were from 60 to 90 executions per month, most of which were for the merést offenses. “These and many éther horrors have passed away, under the workers’ re- public of Rus and, as a conse- quence, I say, long live Russia! Long live the Internatiohal working class! “May we be ‘given the strength everywhere to do likewise.” —Londoh Daily Herald. Soviet Officials’in Turkestan MOSCOW, Feb. 20.—(By Mail)— It is reported from Tashkent, Turk- estan, that the president of the gen- eral committee of Ahe Russian Social- ist Soviet Republi has arrived there to take part in the’ work of the first congresses of Soviet of Turkestan and Unbekistan and! ®ét’ acquainted with the building up 6f'the newly-formed republics. ’ es Bul RK AN INTERESTING EXPERIMENT And a Story of What Happened in Our Office Today. the DAILY WORKER branch and city Agents are the pro- Paganda directors of our Party. of this fact. But they are still not fully conscious For instance, we do not know of a single agent in the country who has gone to visit the subscribers of the DAILY WORKER and the Workers Monthly in his city in order that they buy literature from the catalogue he has. These subscribers are not all party mem- bers—not by two-thirds!—and here is a real field for action where you can also secure names of their friends for getting other subscriptions and making further literature s Let us tell you what happened only yesterday. A man swept into the office with the gusto of a March wind. He wanted all the articles that were on hand dealing with Russia He stated that he was a worker, feeding for long on the self-acknowledged “world’s greatest newspaper,” the Chicago Tribune, But even as he read, strange to say, he had common sense enough left to know that the “news” UNCLE .WIGGILY'S TRICKS printed about Russia was merely “fiction,” and bad fiction, at that. Accidentally, he had picked up a DAILY WORKER on the street car. He read “As We See It,” and he SAW IT! When he went away, he was loaded down with five copies of the WORKERS MONTHLY, including all the back numbers containing Zinoviev’s “History of the Communist Party;” two old issues of the Soviet Pictorial, copies of “Why Rui ia Should Be Recognized,” and Foster's “Russia in 1924,” as well as a receipt for a subscription to the DAILY WORKER! And a copy of “Leninism or Trotskyism.” The readers of the DAILY WORKER and the Workers Monthly are already interested in Communist principles and practice. party members—you can learn why not. If they are not And whether they are on not— Just pull out a few of the new pamphlets from your little grip and “talk literature.” Try this experiment on your little sub list! LABOR DEFENSE COUNCIL CALLS FOR UNITED FRONT AGAINST THE _ SYNDICALIST LAWS IN 34 STATES In its last press service, the Labor Defense Council presented its survey of the Communist cases under the criminal syndicalist laws. In order that a greater estimation of the survey of the Labor Defense Council of the Com- munist cases under the criminal syndicalist laws may be gotten, it is neces- sary to briefly analyze the nature of these cases. The first group of Communist cases, which arose under the criminal syndicalism laws of the various states, were those which grew out of the organization of the Communist parties in 1919 in California, Illinois and New York. Many prominent individ-¢+———-——___—_—________ uals who took part directly or indirect- ly in the formation of the left wing group of the socialist party which re sulted in the organization of the two Communist parties at that time in this country and those who took part in the organization of these parties were seized and put on trial. Defended Themselves. In California, eleven were put on trial, and after a long. period of strug- gle in the courts, three were finally convicted and the rest of the cases were dismissed because of either dis- agreement of the jury in the case of the others, or the dropping of the cases for other reasons, In these cases the outstanding fig- ure was Dolson, one of the defendants who defended himself and a number of his co-defendants. In the case of Miss Anita Whitney the matter has been appealed to the United States supreme court and has been there for four years. The other two served their sentences. 1. W. W. Suffered. Severely. Of the California criminal syndical- ist law, little need be said here as everyone knows what prosecutions have been carried on since under this law. The I. W. W. suffered severely under this law and time and again Communists have found this law a weapon used against them. The fame of California, its criminal syndicalis: law and other laws inimicable to the labor movement has spread to every part of this country. There is no need to point out the necessity of a concen- trated united front on this field. Eighteen Convicted in Illinois. In Illinois there were eighteen tried and convicted for participation in the formation of the Communist Party in 1919. Of these eighteen, seventeen served for a time, but were shortly released by a pardon from the governor. The other one (Comrade Katterfeld) served time for over a year in Joliet and is now out for a year’s parole, The fact that there was a pardon from the governor in the case of these eighteen, among whom were man? prominent in the labor movement ir this country, does not in any way soften the nature of the law which is still on the statute books of the state of Illinois. Of this law the judge who dissented on the original conviction, Judge Carter, himself states: “The law of this state is so drastic and far-reaching “in its provisions that many ptibife utterances of the great leaders in our past history) would have béen punishable under its provistona.”!*"" * The above quotation is enuf to rally all elements for its abolition and against any further attempt to use it against the labor movement, ‘New York Groups Served Time. The third group under the early in- dictments of the criminal syndicalist laws is the New York group, con- victed for taking part in issuing a manifesto for the left wing which fin- ally resulted in the building of the Communist and. Communist Labor parties. tences of at least two years. The cases of two were finally nolle-prossed after this long sentence, those of Ruthenberg and Ferguson, and the cases of Benjamin Gitlow has been since pending in the United States su- preme court. The above three groups of cases started the offensive in this country which had 1éd to widespread use ot the criminal syndicalism laws against the Communists, I. W. W. and other sections of the labor movement, no section being absolved from threats of its appli¢ation. Today there are thirty-four states in which criminal syndicalist laws are ready for use as weapons against the labor movement In two or three articles following the survey will take in the rest of the| cases covered by it up to the present. Hatred of Natives in Lhassa, Tibet URGA, Feb. 15—(By Mail)—Tibetan quarters in Mongolia have received news of thé recent outbreak of an an- ti-British movement in Lhassa, the capital of Tibet. feeling of dissatisfaction among the population of Tibet with the insistent penetration of English capital in that country and the activities of British agents. The main channel for British influence was Soron-Golong, the Ti- betan commander-in-chief and prime minister, Of this group all served sen-; There is a growing | Page Five NEW. ZEALANDA’S SHAM DEMOCRACY IS DESPOTISM Soviet Russia Only Workers’ Government By PHILADELPHUS. There is a fundamental differenc« between the political system of New Zealand and that of Soviet Russia. In Soyiet Russia they have the rule of society by the proletariat and poor peasants—the dictatorship of the pro letariat. In New Zealand society is ruled by the capitalist class, ie. manufactur ers, merchants, bankers, landlords—e dictatorship of the: bourgeoisie. New Zealand’s Despotism. The New Zealand scheme is not so cialism in any form and has no con jnection with revolutionary Commun jism whatsoever. Labor, in New Zea land is the victim of a pernicious sys tem of state capitalism which destroys one of the strongest weapons the working class has to fight its battles —labor unfons—and establishes a po litical despotism over the workers ir the interest of the minority capitalis( class. Union Part of Government. In Soviet Russia the land, and in dustries are not owned by landlords manufacturers and bankers. Labor unions are increasing and are an in tegral part of the government and the whole process of arbitration as it works out over there is concerned with the division of the national in- come among the city workers and the poor peasants. Soviet Russia is a so- cialist nation based on the common ownership of land, industry and fin- ance by the proletariat and poor peas- antry (majority of its agricultural workers) with the Bolshevist govern- ment, their government, acting always in the interest of the work- — us A Capitalist Nation. New Zealand is a capitalist nation (state capitalism) founded on the pri- vate ownership of land, industry and finance by the capitalists and the rob- bery of the workers thru a wages system supervised by the capitalist ad. ministration. Compulsory arbitration is the keystone of the New Zealand system. Compulsory arbitration, with the government as arbitrator, backed up by non-labor police and soldiers, and with the economic wealth in the hands of an exploiting class is, invar- iably, on every serious issue between labor and “capital,” arbitration |against labor. The fact that the clase conscious revolutionary workers there, have carried on a bitter strug- gle against the New Zealand system of state capitalism is one important proof of this point. The rock-bottom condition ‘which makes the difference between state capitalism and revolutionary Commun- ism, is not, primarily, a matter of po- litical form, but a matter of property ownership—i. e., which class owns and administers the land, industries, finance—labor or the capitalists. In Soviet Russia the land, houses, newspapers, schools, mines, shops. railroads, banks, ships, ete., are owned by the proletariat and poor agricui- tural toilers thru the Soviet state. A Bogus Democracy. In New Zealand the government is an organ of capitalist rule and func- tions as a bogus democracy—(Lenin rightly dubbed it a bourgeois democ racy) for the reason that a minority of capitalist exploiters own as pri vate property the economic wealth. Red Star of Hope. Finally, revolutionary Communism— the sole hope of a civilization wrecked by the vicious forces of capitalism. the only star of hope (red star) to the world’s workers, exploited, oppressed and degraded—revolutionary Com- munism does*not and cannot exist un less the masses of common humanity own and control :hru their own Soviet government the Lasic factors of life. liberty and happiness—the land, the workshop, finance and education, | Soviet Textiles in Persia. MOSCOW, Feb. 20—(By Mail)—a }new Russo-Persian mixed company, |under the firm of “Irakorms,” whose founders on the Soviet side are the Textile Syndicate and the People’s Commissariat of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, has opened its ac. | tivities. The paid-up capital of the so- | ciety is one million gold roubles. Its object is to sell Soviet textiles in Per- la. Give your shopmate this ¢o of the DAILY WORKER—but be get his subscription. toa A LAUGH FOR THE CHILDREN Py we So Nurse J t "Ribena agesnd?