The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 19, 1925, Page 4

y Page Four — _ TRADE UNIONISTS COME TO DEFENSE OF COMMUNISTS Seattle and Detroit Are Very Active The national office of the Labor De- fense Council is in receipt of a check for $500.00 from Norman Tallenttire, organizer of District 12 (Seattle) of the Workers Party of America, being the first installment of the collection made for the Michigan Defense thru- out the district. Comrade Tallentire declared this was just a beginning, only a few branches having been heard from. A public meeting was held in Seattle on March 1, at which Hulet M. Wells, John C. Kennedy and Tallentire were the speakers. The following local unions in Seat- tle have endorsed the Michigan de- fense and send delegates to the Labor Defense Council: Machinists No. 79; Boiler Makers No. 104; Building La- borers No. 242; Maintenance of Way; Coppersmiths; and Mill Men No, 338. The Seattle central committee is ar- ranging a big defense affair on Satur- day March 21 and George Vandeveer will be the principal speaker at a mass meeting on March 29. Washington D. is planning an affair for the Michigan defense and Mother Bloor is dong her usually good work on the Pacific coast. She reports good meetings in Los Angelés and Santa Barbara. A check for $500.00 was sent in by Detroit as a result of a bazaar held there in conjunction with the Feder- ation of Workingwomen’s Organiza- tions. Howat to Speak. Alexander Howat and Caroline Lowe will be the principal speakers at a mass meeting to be held in Kansas City on Sunday afternoon, April 12. The meeting had to be arranged for the afternoon as Howat is working in a mine and must be back on the job early on Monday. An affair is being arranged in Los Angeles on Mach 18 under the auspices of the I. W. A. and the Labor Defense Council. The following Los Angeles unions have endorsed the Michigan defense: Machinists No. 311; Upholsterers No. 15; Capmakers No. 26; Milliners No. 48. All the unions mentioned have invited speakers from the Labor Defense Council to address the membership. A DAILY WORKER sub means another Communist. — THOUSANDS OF MAIMED EX-WAR VETERANS STARVING WHILE FARCE OF “REHABILITATION” CONTINUES By a Disabled Ex-Soldier. The world war veterans’ act was expected to grant the disabled ex- soldiers the benefit of vocational rehabilitation for the purpose of enabling them to acquire social and economic independence. The work of the voca- tional rehabilitation is vested in the hands of the United States Veterans’ Bureau. The war veterans’ bureau spent a huge sum of ihe workers’ money but achieved no results whatever. rehabilitated they jare unable to be- come self-supportitg #Thousands of them are walking the streets hungry and destitute because of unemploy- ment, and physical and mental dis- abilities and because of the failure on the part of the U. S. veterans’ bureau to give, suftable training to those’ who aré mutilated during the world war, © Thru the lack of honesty on the part of the government officials in charge of the work, the vocational rehabil- itation is a farce, They measure the process of vocational rehabilitation by the hands of the clock, allowing a period of three to four years for the disabled soldier to master a trade or a profession. This is absolutely im- possible for the ‘ex-service “men \af- flicted with various maladies such ag tuberculosis, chronic indigestion, nerv ous troubles etc. The vocational rehabilitation meas- ure was not passed to benefit the,| disabled world war veterans but to give well paid fat jobs to . various political favorite# who act within the wall of the veterans bureau schools as officials and schoolmasters. Thru mismanagement, inefficiency, indifference and graft on the part of the United States veterans’ bureau officials, the disabled soldiers are lit- tle benefited. The majority of the applicants are not given the object- ives desired. Therefore the applicant is compelled to take up a trade for which he is unfit, and the result is failure to be benefited by the voca- tional training. The congressional investigation of the management of the veterans’ bu- reau which took place during Charles Forbes directorship did not remedy conditions in the least. Mismanagement, indifference, inef- ficiency and graft still exist in the United States veterans’ bvreau. The public money is spent to support "theé’ politicians while thousands of ‘tis- abled war veterans are starving. Warlord in German Election. BERLIN, Germany, March 17.—Gen. von Ludendorff will probably enter the German campaign as the presidential candidate of the Hitlerites, according to telegrams tonight from Munich. BROOKLYN, N. Y., ATTENTION! CO-OPERATIVE BAKERY | Meat Market IN THE SERVICE OF THE CONSUMER. Bakery deliveries made to your home. FINNISH CO-OPERATIVE TRADING ASSOCIATION, Inc. (Workers organized as consumers) 4301 8th Ave. Renuneant When the disabled ex-soldiers are declared BRITISH UNION CHIEFS EXPLODE GEORGIAN MYTH Find Country Growing in Prosperity The following interesting article is taken from a recent issue of the Lon- don Daily Herald, written by one of its staff writers: A great deal of the preliminary abuse which is intended to destroy the effect of the report of the trade union delegation to Russia is concerning itself with Georgia and the Trans-Cau- casus generally. For the ruin of Georgia under So- viet rule has been one of the Yavor- ite themes of the white propagandist. Only last autumn we were assured that the whole country was in insur- rection, that Batoum and Tiflis were in flames, and—a little later—that the population was being massacred. The delegation found, as their re- port will show, that all these stories were baseless, and that, in fact, under Soviet rule, ghe history of Georgia has been relatively peaceful, and that ma- terially it is prospering as it never did under menshevist rule. What Delegation Saw. The delegation saw the work of re- construction—or, rather, construction which is going forward: the great power station being built at Tiflis; the new machinery at the manganese mines of Chiaturi; the new housing; the new development everywhere. All of which will be furiously denied by’ the capitalist press. For it is an artiele of faith here that Georgia is a ruined country, and the Georgian So- viet government a mere bloody despo- tism. So the capitalist press says. the, capitalist does not think. Three financial groups—one British, one American, one German—have been competing against each other for the right to invest money in the maganese es.of this ruined country. hs ie American group—headed ‘ by . Harriman—is probably going to succeed. And these are the terms he is offering the Soviet government. He will invest immediately $4,000,- 000 in new railways and new plants. He will guarantee a minimum year- ly output of 800,000 tons. He will pay the Soviet government @ minimum annual royalty of $3,200,- 000—$1,000,000 to be paid in advance But so Brooklyn, N. Y. OUR DAILY PATTERNS | om the signature of the contract. The czar’s government, by the way, only got royalties of some $300,000 a year. Evidence Enuf. That shows what Mr. Harriman and his experts, after three years’ careful A €HARMING FROCK FOR MANY]A GOOD “SPORTS SHIRT” STYLE|®Udy, really believe about the ecou- OCCASIONS. 5061. Beaded or embroidered chif- fon or georgette would be attractive for this model. The Bertha may be omitted, as shown in the small view or the sleeves, as shown in the large view. The pattern is cut in 4 sizes: 14, 16, & and 20 years. A 16 year size with rtha and without sleeves will re- quire 3% yards of 32 inch material. Without bertha and with sleeves it will require 3% yards. The width of the skirt at the foot is 2% yar Pattern mailed to any addr receipt of 12c in silver or stamps. FASHION BOOK NOTICE! Send 12c in silver or stamps for Pa up. pe poh and Summer owing color pli flesigns of lad eau patterns, @ con. e eae various si hints to the home and M containin 5051. This is a good model for a negligee or outing shirt. The sleeve may be in wrist length, or short, to the elbow. Flannel, broadcloth, cam. bric or silk could be uséd for this style. The pattern’ is cut in 7 sizes: 18, 15%, 16, 16%, 17, 17% and 18 inches neck size. To make the shirt for a 15 inch size requires 3% yards 36 inches wide. Pattern mailed to any address on receipt of 12c in silver or stamps. : The DAILY WORKER, 1118 ington Bivd., Chicago, til, . . NOTICE TO PATTERN BUYERS—' tterns being sold thru the DAIL’ we RKEK pattern department are fur+ ed by New York firm of pattern manufactu: Orders are torwarded by the DAILY RKER every day as rer ceived, and they are mailed by the man+ tk direct to the custom ‘The DAILY WORKER does not | : tock of vatterns on hand. Dell terns ordinarily will take at Yeast ; from the date of mailing the ord not become impatient delayed. Give your shopmate this copy of the DAILY WORKER—but be sure to see him the next day to get his subscription, if your pattern ts* omic condition of Georgia and the sta- bility and integrity of the Soviet gov- ernment, And. the Germans are furious to have lost the opportunity of investing such sums in the country. The capitalist papers may talk. But so does the capitalist’s money. . And Mr. Harriman’s dollars seem to be say- ing very emphatically that the trade union delegation is perfectly right. PITTSBURGH, PA. To those who work hard for their money, | will save 50 per cent on all their dental work. DR. RASNICK DENTIST 645 Smithfield Street. By! THE DAILY WORKER SEATTLE YOILERS HEAR DISCUSSION ON ‘EREE SPEECH’ When It Works and When It Doesn’t (Special to The Daily Worker) SEATTLE, Wash., March 17.—John C. Kennedy, director of the Seattle labor college, lecturing at regular Sun- day night forum in Labor Temple, on the subject “Heresy and Heresy Hunt- ing,” gave a historical review of fights for ideas and opinion and drawing a moral from the. lessons of history, showed that wherever organizations or institutions have «instituted po- groms against minority opinion said organization or institution has al- ways suffered a violent reaction from such tactics. Aids Spread of. ideas. In fact said he, such activites on- ly succeed in spreading further the ideas which are attacked and conse- quent disorganization and chaos have obtained as a result of all persecu- tion of opinion. This liberalistic bourgéois concep- tion of “free speech”: in the abstract, was, however, pointed out as a mis- take, by members of the Workers (Communist) Party. This misconcep- tion of the role of pure abstraction in }, the field of class struggle, is seriously wide of the truth. For, it was pointed out, the forces of ascending capitalist society very effectively suppressed the ‘sacred’ and even the “divine” rights of feudal- ism, and the ascending proletarian power in Soviet Russia has quite suc- cessfully and frankly suppressed the Vomnaeess (Se — Se BUILDERS AT FIRST “BRICKS” SENT IN TO “BUILD THE DAILY WORKER” The Second Annual Sub Campaign Opens The campaign has officially ben opened. month sub campaign have been sent in by BUILDERS who by June 15 we expect will add 15,000 NEW subscribers to make the DAILY. WORKER a stronger weapon for the militant of the first results in the campaign i the first gun, and who have sent in news subs on Monday, March 16. Note the splendid efforts of the first John Vaikas, Milwaukee... S. Globerman, Los Angele Lena Rosenberg, Philadelph W. M. Boehning, Chicago.. Walter Schuth, Chicago... J. S. Varga, Alliance, Ohi Jos. Kapec, Cleveland, Ohio. Geo. Kraska, Boston, Mas: John Perkovich, Chisholm, Minn.. Allen Blomkvist, Pocatello, Idaho. Everyday we will list the names in a NEW sub. And every week we of the locals with the quota they have been given for the campaign. Watch to see if your branch members are listed and watch the work of your local! The first subs in the three- American workers. We are proud in this list of names who have fired BUILDERS from Milwaukee: Subs of those BUILDERS who have sent will show the comparative starf¥ing bourgeois “opinion” of the capitalist minority. The matter of the’ effectiveness of the suppression hinges not at all on its “moral” aspect, but upon whether the class which is attempting to sup- press another is historically rising or degenerating in its control of the fore- es of production. If it is rising, as capitalism was doing up to the time of the war, it is quite able to and ‘ac- tually did succeed in suppressing all opposing classes. Working Class fs Rising. But with the apex of capitalism past, and with the capitalist class no longer able to control the forces of production which it itself has generat- ed, the historically rising class is the proletariat, whose power cannot be suppressed by the capitalist class, and which, as in Soviet Russia, becomes dominant and very sticcessively sup- presses the decadent bourgeoisie, opin- ions and all. The matterof free speech within a workers’ organization is quite another matter and should always be upheld. In discussion from the floor, many present voiced surprise and regret that the labor council at Seattle was apparently prepared at this time to censure delegates for political opin- ion, and questioned the right of the council to pass upon/ the fitness of local union representatives, maintain- ing that this was a question for the local union alone to decide which gives the delegates their mandate. The Rev. Sydney Strong stated that a@ new precedent was being created in the labor movement by introducing the same methods that had driven many, sincere people from the church and he further stated that such tactics, if pursued, wourd make honest workers ashamed of their labor move- ment. Commemorate the Commune. Announcement was made that a great gathering organized by a united council of radical workers’ organiza- tions would commemorate the Paris Commune next Saturday night, Mar. 21, to be held in new Finnish hall, Twelfth and Washington streets, John C. Kennedy and Norman H. Tallen- tire to be speakers with dancing af- ter the program. It is also proposed to run a mon- ster demonstration here on Sunday, April 5, where John ©, ‘Kennedy, Anna Louise Strong, George F. Vanderveer, James Duncan and Stanley J. Clark of Texas, are expected to speak. Pro- ceeds of both the affairs will be sent to Labor Defense ‘Council for the » benefit of Michigan defense. Child Labor Amendment Has Been Defeated by 28 States! Child Labor Is Incre sing in America Today! Join the Young Workers League in Its Fight to Abolish Child Labor! COME TO HEAR BARNEY MASS, of the Y. W. L., and EARL R. BROWDER, of the Workers Party speak on “Child Labor in U, §” atc MARCH 22, at 8:00 P. M. at the “NORTHWEST HALL (Western and North Aves.) pat Questions and discussion will follow the lecture, ADMISSION 10 CENTS. ool 1A, EEE Auspices, Young Workers League, Local Chicago. CITIZEN'S JURY SAYS O'NEILL'S PLAY IS CLEAN|* Vice Body Pr. Prefers Bare Legs to Wobblies (Special to The Daily Worker.) NEW YORK, /March 17.—Eugene O'Neil will not have to appear before the New York citizens’ play jury to vindicate his Desire Under the Elms. It is the second play declared without immoral taint by the new jury. Syd- ney Howard’s They Knew What They Wanted was the first judged clean, although the public was quite un- aware that it was even questioned. Howard, co-author with Robert Dunn of The Labor Spy, has a wob- bly in his play of California. grape | vineyards and indulges in a little frankness about the processes of life but has nothing of what is ordinarily called dirty or smutty in his product- ion, O'Neill's play is a realistic study of New England farm life in the eight- een fifties. District Attorney Banton from Texas thought the play was so thoroughly bad that it couldn’t be rewritten but the play jury seemed to understand O'Neill better. John S. Sumner, secretary of the society for suppression of vice, al- lowed the play jury plan to be amend- ed so that the producer, author or translator of any play about to be condemned shall be summoned to make a defense statement to the jury. Funds for the purchase of play jurors’ tickets were given by members of Actors’ Equity association and un- announced donors, The first two play juries of citizens have vindicated themselves to the artists and to those opposed to polit- ical censorship of the stage. But the really risque plays—producer William Brady frankly admits that one of his productions is “dirty” to catch the crowd and their dollars—have not yet been touched by the citizens’ juries and are playing blissfully on to cap- acity houses as a result of the public- ity given to their unsavory character. Your Union Meeting THIRD WEDNESDAY, MAR. 18, 1925 Name of Local and No. Place of Meeting. Amadgamated Food Workers, 214 ‘anal State St., 3 P. M. mated rs Workers, 179 8. a Stone Derrick, 180 on 131 acy Pederation, 62nd and 2 Brick and Clay, Village Hall, Lansing. 10 ye ii Western and Lexing- 242 » 5443 S, Ashland Ave. 250 Carpenters Blacker’s Hall, Lake 643 pi 180 = Ly i it ‘Fehl ae ey. 0 2288 : waiwvina ‘& 1922 Ca ts s. meninien. Biva. seein 8 1619 N. California 4 cigar Makers, 215 S. Ashland Bivd., 798 “Ele: ns, 127 N. Francisco Ave. 85,, Eng So. Chicago, 11405 Michi- . Assn., 159 N. State St., ) 487 pet wows Fro Enginemen, 9118 Com- i i | Ave, Earnie Di Rygietee Counell, 814 0 Janitors (Mun.), * icedzie apd Bel- 5 Ladies" Garment Workers, 328 W. Van Buren at 624 Paint ré, Washingt: 893 Painters, a Goahas 180 W, Moose, Hall, La G Odd Fellows Hall, Blue 5 18653 "St. 46 hing 225 Railroad Trainmen, 812 W. h 900 Railroad Trainmen, 64th ane” Unt: ost versity. Railroad Tri ler 159 N. State Street, is We ‘Aeion St. ers soda), 230 S. Ashland 220 S. As! 6359 A Poles Meet Against England. WARSAW, Poland, March 17.— A demonstration here, in front of the British legation, following a meeting called to protest against the German proposal for arbitration of the eastern frontier question, was broken up by the police. Germany proposed to the allies that a Rhine security pact be negotiated. z f PR te cas a he ER ES it SE EES AROS, SRE AE TER A EI wf IS AO Di Set ED IN ACS EI EOE CRE EW HT SSCS Cee 9, MANY JOIN WITH WORKERS PARTY IN. RELIEF FOR. IRISH : Prominent Persons Offer * * Their Aid The names of three prominent fig- ures in the American labor movement have been added to the number al- ready engaged in raising relied for the workers and peasants on the west coast of Ireland rendered destitute by one of the most severe famines that ever hit that country. They are Eugene V. Debs, Upton Sinclair and Elizabeth Gurley Flynn. Debs in a wire to the secretary of the Irish Workers’ and Peasants’ Famine Relief Committee declaréd himself de- lighted to be of service in this cause, and accepted membership of the na- tional advisory committee of the Irish relief organization. Offered, Services, Upton Sinclair offered his services in bringing the appeal for famine re- lief to the attention of wider masses of the American people. Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, who is one of the most eloquent speakers in the country has volunteered to address meetings in behalf of relief work. The London Daily Herald carries an interesting item from the pen of a catholic priest in Donegal, who was peeved because the desperate condi- tion of the peasantry in his parish was brought to the attention of the out- side world by Mrs. Helen Crawford, secretary of the British section of the Workers’ International Relief. Blamed The Peasants. The reverand gentleman blamed the laziness of the peasants for their de- plorable condition. He said they never Save their money. But it is no easy job to-save money with a hungry Priest in the vicinity. The peasants may be excused for coming to the conclusion that work does not pay, seeing the priests living in luxury and idleness. Several cities are taking advantage of the Irish festival on March 17 to bring the famine situation to the at- tention of the American workers. The office of the Irish Workers’ and Peasants’ Famine Relief Committee at 19 South Lincoln street, is busy send- ing out thousands of letters contain- ing appeals for funds for relief for the victims of the Irish famine. Freiheit Orchestra Plays in New York on Sunday, March 22 NEW YORK, ‘March 17—Central Opera House will again be crowded with enthusiastic comrades and mu- sical admirers, when the Freiheit Mandolin Orchestra will be heard in its initial concert on Sunday, March 22 at 2 p. m. A group of comrades originally or- ganized by the Workmen’s Circle as @ mandolin orchestra, and then expel- led because they dared to play at the celebration of the anniversary of the Russian revolution, have formed this new branch of the Communist move- ment. Efforts of the general office of the Workmen's Circle to break them up failed. In a body they joined the Communist movement, as the Freiheit Mandolin Orchestra, and with some more new members they developed in- to the finest mandolin orchestré in the labor movement. — Edward Schwartz, correspondent, Harlem Jew- ish Branch, Workers Party. Dr. A. Moskalik DENTIST S. W. Corner 7th and Mifflin Ste. PHILADELPHIA, PA, Speaking of the Unity Conference of the National Minority Movement in England, in the March issue of the WORKERS MONTHLY. Wm. . Z. FOSTER says: Spreading Like s Wildfire in England! “The whole thing was a blaze of revolutionary spirit, It was a striking demonstration of is : the spirit of international unity, now spreading like wildfire amo g the millions organized in the British trade unions.” To understand this great movement in England which is only part of the world movement, read the new pamphlet just arrived in this country: “UNITY!” Published in By The National Minority Mévement f England Geo Mann, and other revolutionary and Including statements By rge Hicks, A. J, Cook, Tom Edo Fimmen Tomsky world | ‘8. With 14 photographs of the authors and the British delegation in Russia. au The Daily. Worker, Lit, Dept., BOY, tod we 15 Cents Each. 1113 W. Washington Bivd. Chicago, Hlinois