The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 18, 1925, Page 6

Page Six > eee eeeecrene eevee tetra a ream insatntntst THE DAILY WORKER. Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING OO. 1118 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, ML (Phone: Monroe 4712) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mall: $3.50....6 months . eee months By mail (in Chicago only): 4 $4.50....6 months $2.50....8 month $6.00 per year $8.00 per year A@dress all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER 1113 W. Washington Bivd. ~ 3. LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F. DUNNE [*™ one DANLORS MORITZ J. LOEB.......cnien Business Manager Chicago, Hitinele @ntered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1923, at the Post- Office at Chicago, Ill, under the act of March 8, 1879. > ° Advertising rates om application Counter-Revolution Collapses In a dozen cities of America the agent of the ecounter-revolutionary Second (socialist) Interna- tional, Professor Raphael Abramovich, has sig- nally failed in spreading his slandrous attacks upon the first republic of workers and peasants. Despite the open and shameful alliance with cap- “italist polica, this yellow traitor. is rebuffed by every audience where workers are allowed to enter. Just as his efforts to murder enough Russian work- ers to overthrow their Soviet government, despite even the armed assistance of intervention invited in from every capitalist nation, has failed, so has failed the present effort. Hireling of the bourgeoisie, traitor to and mur- derer of the revolutionary workers, the’ shameless rat has thought to succeed in raising new funds and support in America, the land of big business, Strikebreaker Coolidge and “Open Shop” Dawes, | unbridled reaction and unexampled ignorance. Abramovich has received his answer. The work- ers of America have met him with curses and ex- ecration, with derision and scorn and overwhelm- workers of Chicago know who are the revolu- tionists. And at the same hour, a few blocks from the battlefield of revolutionary struggle, another puny sect, which, moreoyer, claims to be the “real” Com- munists, which claims that they support Soviet | Russia, were holding a seance, conjuring up from | the past the honored name of Marx to bless their | “purity.” And this while the class struggle was |being fought within a stone’s throw and the | strength of the Soviet power being upheld by masses of workers arrayed against the combined forces of reactionary socialism and capitalist state. For thé Workers (Communist) Party the in- cident is symbolic of revolutionary power and virility. For the two sects it typifies decay and dis- solution. Lenin has well said that as the broad masses of the working class more and more turns to revolutionary struggle, the sects which ,in ; previous epochs had an excuse for existence, be- ‘come not only sterile, but actually counter-revo- | lutionary. , ‘The Workers (Communist) Party is the one and only revolutionary organization of the working class of this country, and as such it will lead the proletarian struggle on all fronts while the sects whine and cavil and die. * ° 5 ro Kidnaping in Britain Harry Pollit, one of the readers of the British minority movement, which is similar to the Trade Union Educational League in the United States, was kidnaped from a train in the vicinity of a Liverpool suburb by fascisti, held for several hours and then released, according to a story in the Lon- don Daily Herald. The champions of bourgeois democracy pointed with pride to the British government as a model for other governments to follow. People with all kinds of ideas could gather together in Hyde Park and talk their heads off without Jet or hindrance. The police protected them against interference. It is true that in other parts of the British empire things did nor run so smoothly. In Ireland, Egypt, ing hostility. Let the bedraggled traitor take his|South Africa and India, British democracy did not carcass back to his masters, the Curzons, the Bald- wins, the Hugheses and the Scheidemanns, and con- fess that the counter-revolution has collapsed. And let the postscript of this confession be writ- ten into the treaty of recognition of Soviet Russia, a recognition which will be an admission that the Soviet power is too strong to overthrow by force of arms, even of the combined capitalist nations of the world in alliance with the slimy yellow social- ist traitors of the Second International. Abramovich came to America to prevent recogni- tion by this country of the Soviet government. Let him confess his failure and retire to oblivion where his beloved Kerensky, Wrangel ang Denikin and the rest find fitting haven. In Again, Out Again Whether Charles Beecher Warren, Calvin Cool- idge’s favorie for the important post of attorney general, is a corporation rubber stamp or not, he acts very much like a rubber ball in this session of congress. No sooner is his name shot into the senate that| it bounds out again. This may be an example of spring fever, that has affected the stately senators or perhaps Silent “Cal” is having a little fun in this very unusual way. It is hard to say. The ways of providence are inscrutable and so are the plans of one who does not talk very much and says noth- ing when he does. Charles Beecher Warren, the sacharrine expert, is sour fruit to the senators. They don’t like him. They don’t like Dawes. They don’t like Cal. All this is quite interesting reading matter for the philosophical, but for those who are active in the class struggle on the side of the workers as well as philosophical, it shows up a weak spot in cap-! italist government which proves that the unity of the bourgeois is a very. thin myth. Kilkenny cats were models of peace and harmony compared to the capitalist groups who continually cut each other’s throats and only unite when their joint graft is endangered by the working class or some other combination of pirates. Trouble is in store for the “strong, silent little man” who wore a gas mask while the stench from Teapot Dome was smoking out the less seasoned “statesmen” who were looting the government during the Harding administration. With a hostile senate and the chairman of that august body afflicted with the sleeping sickness, “Cal” may long for the quietness of the Vermont hills, the oil lJantern.and the old oaken bucket. Who Are the Reds? Time was when the American business man used to shake with fear at the very mention of the In- . dustrial Workers of the World. That day is past. Only “in the: backwoods and corners of American industry, in the overfearful kiwanis clubs of lowa and Caljfornia can the I. W. W. raise a shiver any more. The Chicago meeting of the counter-revolu- tionary Abramovich leaves the “revolutionary” I. WoW. out of the jpcture, * . The Communists have taken the leadership of the American revolutionary workers... And while for hours the members of the Workers (Commun- ist) Party, and great throngs of workers who sup- port Soviet Russia and admire and assist the Com- munists, gave royal battle to swarms of sluggers hired by the reactionary labor fakers, and stood their ground against repeated onslaughts of cap- italist police, the I. W. W. were holding a meeting before a handful of fanatics. Their speaker was advertised as an “anti-bol- shevik.” A devotee of Chicago’s Greenwich village, an ex-wobbly, ex-soldier and ex-man—to this piti- ful cartoon of nobody the I, W. W; must turn even to retail the slanders their own tifediocrities can- not yoice. To such lice as these the fighting masses on “the loop” streets don’t mean anything. ‘But the show up to such good advantage. But’ then, per- haps the Irish, Egyptians, Hindoos and Boers were to blame. The English were law abiding! But those were the days when British imperial- ism sat pretty. It doesn’t any longer. The ruling class of the “tight Tittle isle” sees the handwriting on the wall. They are getting nervous.. And as usual in such cases, they resort’ to terror. The British fascisti have been organizing for over two years. The old-fashioned leadership of the trade union movement have watched the movement grow without interposing any obstacles in. its way. The fascist movement in England is making no mistake in attacking the minority movement and its leaders. It recognizes its natural enemy. The British black-shirts are financed by the nobility, the landed aristocracy and the industrialists. So far the labor fakers served their purpose. While MacDonald and J. H. Thomas ruled the political and industrial moyement, they did not feel obliged te call on their.cutthroats to use violence. But the right wing is slipping from power and the bour- geoisie are resorting more’ and more to violence. It is inevitable, ‘ Silesia and the Sforza Scandal The fascist. press of Italy now is explaining the theft of Silesia from Germany by Poland under the Versailles treaty as a result of a love affair be- tween Count Sforza, Italian foreign minister, and the wife of the Polish ambassador to Italy. This explaination is typical of the middle-class mind which sees only superficialties and which sees history as a series of battles and bedroom amours. i“ Sforza may have seduced the wife of the Polish minister, or she may have vamped him with the full knowledge of her husband. Incidents of this kind are not unusual in the higher circles of cap- italism’s retainers where the moral code is slightly below that of the barnyard. The Dennistoun case in puritanical England has thrown much light on the way in which advancement in official circles is secured. Husbands need no brains if their wives have beauty enhanced by an undulatory seductive- ness. But Silesia was not given to Poland because an ambassadorial spouse retired in favor of a min- isteria count who in turn retired with the ambas- sador’s wife. Poland received Silesia with its coal and iron for much more practical if less picturesque reasons—reasous connected directly with the de- sire of the allied imperialists to weaken Germany as a rival and strengthen Poland as a buffer against the workers’ and peasants’ government of Russia. Had it not been for the historical milieu of the period the amatory advances of Count Sforza would have resulted in nothing more serious than a duel between individuals instead of nations. They Are Business Men The chamber of commerce will not be barred from sending delegates to the Seattle Central Labor Council, if the reactionaries can help it. This was proven by that body when the following proposed amendment to the constitution was voted down: “In order to qualify for membership in this body, the delegate shall be actively employed at his trade and must receive the major portion of his income from wages received from actual work at the trade he represents, or as an employe of a local union of that trade.” , This was a slam at the fakers who have severed connection wih the labor movement long ago, but who retain their membership cards and use their evil influence in behalf of reaction in the labor movement. While the fakers are busy trying to drive Communists out of the central body they rise on their hind legs againgt an effort to clear that organization of the bourgeois vermin that now in- fest it. But the delousing process will take place and before long. ew THE! DAVEY ORKER 'NO ARBITRATION, CRY WILLIMANTIC THREAD STRIKERS U.S. Sends * Arbitrator to Help Bosses By WILLIAM SIMONS WILLIMANTIC, Conn., March 13— (By Mail)——Wheneyer workers go on strike, there are always those who try to get both sides to give in a little to settle the conflict. There is already in this city ‘a representative of the United States department of labor, who arrived today. What will be her rhission? To tell the workers of Willfniantic to be satis- fied with less than the return of the 10 per cent which *were taken on January 12th? If sof her task is ‘in vain, i There is absolutély no foundation for the cut in wagés\iexcept the cap- italist urge for more surplus value. | Their bonds are rated the highest, their preferred stogks pay a regular semi-annual divided their common stock gives an extraordinary dividend. They can restore the 10 per cent cut, and still make extraordinary profits, for they were making them before the cut, and they have large sums set aside in reserve funds which have been used in similar instances to pay dividends. Arbitration Deadly. Arbitration has never done the workers any good. The “impartial” arbiter has been on the side of capital. There is no group which represents the public interest. The “public” lines up, usually against workers. Arbitra- ,;tion is used when all other methods fail to drive the striker into the fact- ory or mill, And now should the workers submit their case to any board, they would lose any hope of winning their demand. | The power of the strikers lay in their laying down their tools, aband- oning the machines. and leaving the mills without a wheel turning. There- in lies their power... They have shown the doubting company that they could tie up the mill. They must demons- trate that the company cannot operate the mills without them: If they can do that, they win; if not, they lose, and other reductions: stare them in the face. t Jt was common knowledge of the strikers that if they:did not strike against this cut, another was forth- coming in April. The cut came, Jan. 12th, and the strike-did not staregntil March 9th, two months in which the company piled up extra profits even while the workers, om reduced pay, NO STRIKEBREAKERS. ... ENTER PLANT OF THE. STRUCK THREAD CO. (Special to The Daily Worker) WILLIMANTIC, Conn., March 16. —There were more-workers of the American Thread company in mass demonstration this morning begin- ning the second week of the strike, than ever before. Not one’ strike- breaker entered the plant. Only the bosses were visible, hovering around the pickets and wearing a worried look, After a mass demonstration 1,500 strikers marched along the main streets to the Gem Theater where the meetings of the various depart- ments were announced. 4 Plans are under way for securing language speakers to address the strikers. Five hundred copies of the DAILY WORKER with the Willimantic strike story will be distributed to the workers tomorrow. TEAPOT TRIAL BINDS DAWES TO STANDARD OIL Judge Again Aids Oil Trust (Special to The Daily Worker.) CHEYENNE, Wyo., March 16.— Testimony in the government's suit against the Sinclair Oil company here brought out that the Standard Oil company of Indiana owns a half in- terest in the Sinclair Crude Oil Pur- chasing company. Government counsel read into the record an auxilliary contract execut- ed between the Humphreys Mexia Oil company and the Sinclair Crude Oil Purchasing company and the Prairie Oil and Gas company covering deliv- ery of oil thru the Continental .Trad- ing company of Canada. The Conti- nental company was dissolved as soon as its purpose was served. The evidence definitely connected Vice President Charles Dawes and his family with the Standard Oil trust. Be- man Dawes, brother of the vice pres- ident, is president of the Pure Oil company, which controls the Hump- hreys Mexia Oil company. Dawes Pure Oil company, and Beman Dawes personally, entered into the contract with the Sinclair-Standard Oil com- bination. Vice President Dawes is interested with his brother Beman, in were turning oyt thread. to fill orders. Too much time wasyspent on negot- iations with the company, Negotia- tions were ignored by.:the company, the only language they understand was the international language; 0f the strike. Would that it had come sooner! My Demands! The return of thexeut is the first need. But for two months, the pay was cut. The company must be made to return to each worker the full amount robbed from:his pay enve- lope during that period. This demand must be raised so loudly that the com- pany will hear. Now is the time, when‘labor is lined up against capital in; the strike, to demand decent living wonditions. Where Were They’ Before? The U. 8. department of labor knew that a cut had been given on Jan. 12th, Where were their represent- atives then? Why did they not use any influence they may think they have, so the cut should not go thru? They were silent witnesses, and there- by accessories to the crime of wage cutting and life destruction. But, once a strike begins, a power- ful strike that the workers will win, then these representatives come to “settle” the strike. There can be no settlement of this industrial war, un- til the wage cut of 10 per cent is re- stored. é Notice should be given the Amer- ican Thread company that unless this is done, a demand will’be made that 0 many oil and gas companies. The government's case against Sin- clair’s Mammoth Oil company suffer- ed a setback when Judge T. Blake Kennedy in federal district court sus- tained the defense objection to intro- duction of bank records from El Paso, Pueblo and Denver as evidence to connect Harry F. Sinclair with the receipt by former Secretary of -Inte rior A. B. Fall, of $230,500 in liberty bonds in connection with the leasing by Sinclair of the famous Teapot Dome naval reserve. ; ae the company pay the full wages of the strikers for the time that the bar barous action of the company, forces them to be out. That is not a strike; it is a lockout by the American Thread company, be- cause the workers refused to be drag- ged into a worse state of industrial slavery. The company took the init- iative; it is the cause of the action. The responsibility for the strike, as well as the infamous wages and other factory conditions, lie with the Amer. ican Thread company, and its illegit- imate parent, the English Sewing Cot- ton company, Ltd, Nothing to Arbitrate The answer of the strikers should be a ringing, defiant refusal to con- sider any arbitration move, Against arbitration! Restoration of the ten per cent in wages! Wages for the duration of the ‘strike! Metal Workers’ Strike in Italy Compromised by Fascist Leaders ROME, March 16—A settlement which will fail to settle, is the con- sensus among the leaders of the me- tal workers strika, concerning the compromise offer made by the bosses at the instance of the fascist govern- ment today. The government of Mussolini is try- ing to break the fascist union, which joined with the socialist: union in a strike demand for higher pay, away from the strike, by offering the fas- cist union a raise of two and one- fifth liras a day, and getting the fas- cist union leaders to accept it. This does not quite settle things, however, as the membership of the fascist union is becoming more and more sympathetic to the demands of the socialist union, which, moreover, controls four-fifths of the strikers. Whether the fascist union leaders can get their members back to work as scabs is yet uncertain. LEVIN TAKES A. C. W. JOBS FROM WORKERS WHO AID LOGAL-5 Monday afternoon, Sam Levin, manager of the Amalgamate Cloth- ing Workers Joint Board of Chicago, called H. Bromorski, Helen Kaplan, J. Lieberman, S. Miller, Sam Simo- nian, H. Kahn and J. Pinto into this office and without trial told them their jobs were taken from them, supposedly for distributing the appeal of Local 5, of New York City. Capitalist Press Supports Baldwin and, Cal Coolidge To the DAILY WORKER: — In the “liberty loving” Cleveland News appeared an article supporting the statements made by Norman Hapgood, Roger Baldwin, and other believers in “free speech and free press,” that there’ ain’t no such thing in Soviet Russia. The’ Cleveland News, durifig the last presidential election campaign sup- ported that famous’ advocate of civil liberties, Strikebreaker Cal Coolidge. Who'ls' not familiar with Coolidge’s activities ‘In the _policemen’s strike in Boston;“his advocacy of Jim Crowism in the south and his failure to raise his voice’ in behalf of the hundreds of Comminists, I. W. W. and militant trade unionists who are still incar- ceratéd in the dungeons of capitalist ‘American workers are becoming tired of listening to the same old bunk abioiit free speech and free press. They are’ gradually realizing that in this-country we have a capitalist dic- tatorship; veiled under the cloak of demoératy, whereas in Soviet Russia, the ‘dictatorship of the workers and peasatits‘is open and frank and no pre- tense is made of granting civil liber- ties to ‘the enemies of the workers’ republic. ' It fs. about time that liberals like Roger Baldwin, and those associated with him, realized that to expect jus- tice from the industrial and financial barons ‘of this country is sheer non- s€nse; ‘No more than we can expect it from the black guards and fascists who’ are ruling Esthonia, Finland, Italy and Roumania. Has Mr. Bald- win mentioned anything about the per- secutions of workers ene peasants in those countries? The Cleveland News, the New York Times and the Chicago Tribune are singing the praises of Mr. Baldwin to the sky. Does Roger Baldwin under- stand the significance of the support he is receiving?—Martin Gordon. RED REVEL of the FOSTER JUNIOR GROUP of Brooklyn, N. Y—March 28, 8 P. M. > at COLUMBIA HALL Stone & Blake Aves., Brooklyn, N. Y. WORKERS FROM MANY CITIES AT WORKERS’ SCHOOL Red Students Visit the Northside Branch The Workers (Communist) ,Partyin- tensive training school for party mem: bers was officially opened in the nama of the central executive committee of the Workers Party in a ‘speech by William F. Dunne, an editor of the DAILY WORKER, and member of the tc. B.C. : Forty-two Communist workers, more than half of whom came from ‘the mines and factories outside of Chi. cago, were present at the opening ses- sion, and more were expected to ar. rive before thé second day of inten: sive study began. Workers came from Detroit, Cleve land, St. Louis, Kansas City, Milwau: kee, Southern Illinois mining towns, and Chicago workshops to better fit themselves to carry on Gommunist propaganda and organization work, The out of town Communist stu dents were: Comrades Maton, Kia sonya and Telachak from Milwaukee; Angelo from Springfield, Ili.; Arley Staples and Alec Reid from Christo- pher; B. Vogel and S. Urlich from St. Louis; Ruth Reynolds, Friedman and Pentila from Detroit; Carl Weisberg from Cleveland; R. Rohman from De- catur, Ill.; Gerlack and Podella from Kenosha. Comrade Henry Corbishley of Ziegler, president of the local un- ion of the United Mine Workers there, is ill with appendicitis in a St. Louis hospital and could not attend. Last night the Communist students attended the meeting of the northside -]English branch in a body. The north: west side English branch supplied the lunch for the students yesterday. The students are each being given $2.00 worth of books, cost price, free. The Communist students range in age from youthful members of the Young Workers’ League, to “old tim- ers,” who have fought many a bitter battle on the working class rront. ‘One change has made in the pro- gram for the first four days. Com- rade Martin Abern will lecture on or- ganization at 10 a. m. today, Wednes- day and Thursday. The school is meeting at the Workers’ Lyceum, 2783 Hirsch Blvd. The program which will be followed thru Thursday follows: 9 A. M.: Trade Union History and Tactics. Instructor, William F. Dunne. 10 A. M.; Organization. Instructor, Martin Abern. 11 A. M.; The International Com- munist Movement. Instructor, Max Bedacht.~* 12 Noon: Recess one hour for lunch. 1P.M.; Leninism. Instructor, Man- uel Gomez. 2 P. M.: Marxian Economics. structor, Max Lerner. Max Lerner, director of the. school, appeared at the afternoon - session with a bandaged eye, result of the slugging at the Abramovich meeting. Comrade Lerner appeared in court in the morning. Herriot Gets League Report. PARIS, March 16.—Premier Herriot received Aristide Briand today for a report on the Geneva negotiations of the league council. Austen Chamber- lain, British secretary of state for for- eign affairs, arrived in Paris at 9:06 a. m., and will confer with Herriot on the security problem at the foreign offige at 3 p. m. 10/000 WORKERS OF MADRID GLASH WITH COPS IN GELEBRATION PARIS, March 16.—Eight persons were injured in a battle between po- lice and participants in a parade of 10,000 workers, during which the po- lice fired into the procession in Ma- drid on Sunday, said a message re- ceived here today. The*parade was in celebration of the anniversary of the Paris commune, . Rote Fahne; Our German Communist Daily fa By MAX BEDACHT IE ROTE FAHNE, (The Red Flag), is the central organ of the Communist Party of ‘Germany. Our brother party ¢m Germany has @ number of dailies, gemi-weeklies and weeklies, But the’ Rote Fahne is the official mouthpiee® of the central executive committee 6f the Comman- ist Party of Germany?) _ The Rote Rahne f# a child of the Tevolution. It provés’ worthy of its parentage. In the memorable Noy- ember days of 1918, when the coloss' of the German army succumbed to the germ of revolt sown by the glorious example of the October revolution of the Russian proletariat; in those hectic days when the socialist Schet- demann turned his cogt three times In one day—from a if democratic deputy into the prfme minister of William If and from-that into a min- ister of the Germ blic; in the samedays when the,German workers showed signs of a ination to end the life of the capitalism, in those d rs of Berlin took po! odelebess: ojala barn . =. lin, discontinued the bourgeois sheet afd began publication of the Rote Fahne. Its first editors were Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht. In those days the Rote Fahne was inspirer and leader of the revolution. It voiced the aspirations of the revolt. It unified the army of the revolution and made heroic’efforts to supply that element of leadership which was lack- ing in the absence of a leading revo- lutionary party, The courage, the revolutionary clar- ity and integrity of such leaders as Liebknecht, . Luxemburg, Jogiches, Mehring could not overcome the han- dicap caused by the non-existence of a revolutionary Communist Party; especially because in the social. de- mocratic party the proletarian masses still saw the rebel of past days, Con- sequently the great betrayal of the workers by the social democrats, and the final assassination of the revolu- tionary leaders by the socialists was the result. fr In every crisis the Rote Eabne was true to Ite name. As the banner of proletarian revolt it preceded the rebellious masses in their advances, € No temporary defeat could dismay it. Thru the vicissitudes of the German revolution the Rote Fahne survived to this hour. In the days of the Kapp putsch it raised the slogan of savin; the “republic.” After the defeat o! Kapp and the return of the socialist dignitaries of the.state to Berlin the republic paid its debt of gratitude| to the Rote Fahne by an order | suppression. The socialists traitors knew that the Communists entered the campaign to save the republic for the purpose of building a workers’ republic, a Soviet state. Without the Rote Fahne the great campaigns of the Communist Party of Germany would have been utterly impossible, Without the Rote Fah ne, the handful of Spartacists coula never have grown into the Commun- ist Party of hundreds of thousands of members of today. While the party’ gives leadership to the struggling masses the central committee gives ‘ieadership to the party thru its een tral organ, the Rote Fahne. Reaction in Germany appreciates the effectiveness of the Rote Fahne }a8 &@ Weapon of the Communist Party, i } sami Whenever it contemplates another scoundrelly attack on the workers it takes pains to first suppress this paper. But even if suppressed one day it appears the next with a new name, but with the same old and clear clarion call of the proletarian revolution. $ The Communist Party of Germany spent great efforts to steer the exist- ,ence of its central organ over these periods of crises, But it was well re- paid. I¢ was the continuous existence of the Rote Fahne that helped the party over many a serious crisis— edpecially in the days of the illegal existence of the party. Ke The Communist Party of Germany has succeeded in building up a mass circulation for the Rote Fahne. The paper speaks to the workers and for the worke’ Thru it the workers speak themselves, ; * Phe Rote Fahne is a big vrother of our own DAILY WORKER. The Rote Fahne is for the German party what the DAILY WORKER must be- for the American Communist rty: A leader, a teacher and a ay } Ph 4b Cat abe \