The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 21, 1925, Page 2

PARTY HISTORY Lenin Training School of Permanent Value Commenoing today, 11 a. m. Com- rade Bitteiman will give his course on the History of the American Com- munist Movement which will last for the eight remaining days of the achool. The outlines of the first several lectures of Comrade Bittelman's course, we understand are already on hand in mimeographed form so that the students will have the advantage of that additional help in the course. The preparing of the course in this manner will assure the party of a permanent contribution In this direc- tlon which will be preserved for fu- ture use and elaboration. It is planned to get as many of the courses completely outlined as possible and prepared in a form avail- able to the students and for future use. The schedule today is as follows: 9 a. m—Trade Union History and Tactics—Dunne. 10 a. m—Party Organization and Structure—Abern. il a. m—History of American Communist Movement—Bittelman. 12 m.—Lunch. 1 p. m.—Leninism—Gomez. 2 p. m.—BHlementary Marxian Boo- nomics—Lerner. Comrade Lerner has announced the following lectures already given by him for the past four days and also the lectures to follow. 1. Commodities. 2. Money or Circulation of Com- modities. 3. Production of Surptus value. 4. Co-operation (includes manufac- ture). 5—6,, Development of Machine Production, Friday and Saturday. 7. Concentration and Centraliza- tion, Monday. 8. “Primitive Accumulation,” Tues- day. 9. Average Rate of Profit, Wednes- day. 10, Division of Surplus Value, Thursday. 11. Modern Capitalism—Imperia!- ism, Friday. 12. Summary of World Economic Situation, Saturday. Browder to Give Last Lecture in Economics Course, The last lecture of his course, £om- rade Lerner announces will be given by Comrade Harl Browder, editor of the Workers’ Monthly and acting ex- ecutive secretary who is no doubt, the one best equipped at the present time in the party to speak on this subject. Comrade Browder’s lecture. will be based on reports of Varga, economist of the Communist International and on his own research in that fleld. All students are requested to read Com- sade Browder’s article in the March Workers’ Monthly dealing with the economic situation in the United States in preparation for this lec- ture. The article is entitled “Indus- trial Depression or Prosperity.” 34 Coal Miners Still Entombed in W. Va. Mine (Continped from page 1) women and children, who waited tire- lessly for hours behind the police lines to hear some word from inside the shaft. The rain drove to shelter thou- sands of spectators but relatives re- tained their positions apparently un- mindful of the downfall. Three Suspects Arrested. Three men were placed under ar- rest today in connection with the ex- blosion. Their arrest followed the report of a possibility that the dis- aster had been caused by a bomb, an evident attempt at a frame-up. The report was promptly denied and it was said that an accumulation of gas was believed to have caused the explosion. Officers declared, however, that sufficient credence had been given the report to cause the arrest of W. D. Bmonds, Clarence Whetnel and A. G. Kendall. They are being held in the county jaid pending further in- vestigation. No specific charge has deen placed against them. The mine has been operating on a non-union basis since last October. Newark Workers To Hold Dance on Saturday Night NEWARK, N. J., March 19.—The dance of the Workers (Communist) Party will be held here on Saturday eveping, March 28, at 8 p. m. The dance will be held in the New. ark Labor Lyceum, 704 South 14th St., Newark, N. J. Admission will be 36 cents. |WE MUST KEEP ARMED FORCE TO RETAIN BUSINESS LIKELY? SAYS U. NEW YORK, March 19.— Rear Admiral William L. Rodgers, debating at Town Hall with Scott Nearing on preparedness incautiously made the ad- mission that commercial rivalry is the cause of wars and the reason for Said the read admiral: “We must maintain armed forces to retain freedom in our business relations with the rest of the world, To kéép an unshakable hold on our traffic, inde- pendent of rival great manufacturing nations, we need a great merchant Our riches and our complex industrial organization put us in armies and navies, wielding greater force. fleet. economic danger from other nations, sisting what we regard as an attempt to take unfair economic advantage of us.” Use State Police (Continped from page 1) tion; it was a frankly brutal weapon for use against a colonial people. What has been’ the history, from that day to this, of the mounted state police of Pennsylvania?—those “220 hard-riding, hard-headed and straight- shooting officers, all proud of their jobs and of their organization,” to quote Major Adams’ fervent speech to the guests of the Mlinois cham- ber of commerce. Signed affidavits of police brutali- ties and interference with workers’ rights cover Pottsville, Allentown, West Chester, Hazleton, Erie, Wilkes Barre, McKees Rocks, Philadelphia, Mt. Carmel, Reading, as well as the coal strikes in Westmoreland county and in the Ligonier and Allegheny valleys. They were set forth in a 14l-page book issued ten years ago by the Pennsylvania State Federation of Labor, entitled “The American Cos- sack.” Evidence has been accumu- lating rapidly since then. Examining a map of the state of Pennsylvania, one finds at the western end, the city of Pittsburgh and nu- merous steel centers, and also coal mines. In the east there are Wilkes Barre and Scranton, the center of the great anthracite coal fields and also several important steel centers. The great agricultural sections are locat- je4 to the north and down thru the center of the state. No Cossacks in Farming Districts Where do we find the police bar- racks and the sub-stations from which the Pennsylvania troopers travel? In the great steel and coal miting sec- tions of the west and éast, Along the northern border of the state there is no sub-station in a space of about 200 miles. Most of the farmers of Pennsylvania have never seen a state policeman in their lives, but every in- dustriak worker—every steel worker and coal miner—has had plenty and bitter experience of them. It is obvious that the 220''troopers whom Major Adams speaks: of as naking up the constabulary.in Penn- sylvanta at the present time are not sufficient for any rural highway pa- trolling. The farmers early discov- ered that the state police was not intended for their protection in any sense of the term. Reading the following paragraphs AR IS 5. ADMIRAL without dictation from nations War is likely to come to us in re- to. Break Strikes and bearing in mind the large terri- torial extent of the state of Penn- sylvania, as well as the small num- ber of men in the force, the reader will see that the cossacks had little or no time for rural policing. A Few Among Money. Practically the entire state police force was on strike duty for three months, from March 15 to June 9, 1916, in the anthracite and bitumin- ous coal regions during the miners’ strike of that time. During the street carmen’s strike at Chester, 143 members of the con- stabulary were on strike duty for six weeks, from April 16 to May 25, 1908. During the strike at the Standard Steel Car Works, McKees Rocks, 41 of the constabulary troops were on strike duty for.two months, from July 15 to Sept. 14, 1909, and 44 addition- al troopers were on strike duty from Aug. 23 to Sept. 13, 1908, During the strike at the plant of the Bethlehem Steel Co. of Bethlehem, Pa., 91 troopers were on strike duty from Feb. 27 to April 18, 1910—eight weeks. . Always On Strike “Duty.” During the strike of the miners in the Westmoreland district, which last- ed sixteen months, 101 troopers were on duty for a period of three months, 84 were on duty for four months and 57 for 16 months—from March 9, 1910, to July 1, 1911. During the anthracite coal strike of 1912, 205 troopers were constantly on strike duty from May 7 to May 21. During the strike of the molders at Erie, Pa, 40 troopers were ‘on strike duty from Aug. 22, 1913, to March 9, 1914, and 22 were on duty from Aug. 22 to Nov. 16. During the strike of the Wilkes Barre Street Railway employes in 1916, 228 troopers were on strike duty for a considerable length of time. The above are just a few instances which will serve to show the pur- pose for which the state police is used WARN DHINESE AGAINST MOSCOW But Strikers Welcome Red Aid SHANGHAI, China, March 20,—The Japanese owners of the lexuile mills, in which 40,000 Chinese workers re- cently won their demands for aboli- tion of brutal overseers who whipped the workers to make them s,eud up, and wen also an increase in wages after 1epeated mass den:onstrations, have been trying to secars a “red scare” by charging that the strike was “ordored from Moscow.” These foreign capitalists from Japan have a newspaper which says that a Bolshevik official of the Chin- ese Eastern Railway aided the strike by directing the workers what to do to win. i The paper also charges that “Mos- cow” subsidizes students and faculty members in the Chinese schools. This peculiar “defense” of the Chinese by the hated Japanese, who themselves have subsidized and over-awed China with armed force for years, ~only amuses the Chinese workers, They say, “Moscow aids us, Japan oppresses and exploits us. It is not hard to choose between the two.” Navy Chief Defends Oil Steal in Teapot Dome Bribery Trial CHEYENNE, Wyo., March 19.—Tea- pot Domers who helped steal the Wyoming oil land from the govern- ment testified here in behalf of the Sinclair Ofl company, which is on trial charged with corrupting cabinet of- ficers, One of those who testified for the oil trust was Rear Admiral John K: Robin- son, chief of the engineering bureau of the navy department, who himself was implicated in the oil lease frauds, Robinson was the “liason officer” who acted for former Secretary of the Navy Denby in preliminary negotiations with Fall regarding transfer of naval oil lands from the navy to the in- terior department. Robinson defended the oil steal. His testimony was given by deposition. ' Reveals Pacific Plot. In his deposition Robinson stated that “domination of the Pacific re- quired oil reserves for the American navy at Unalaska, San Diego and Honolulu.” Robinson stated that these reserves “must be,built up to insure American naval supremacy in the in Pennsylvania. They suggest a to- tally different kind of troopers from the constabulary of the fairy tales in the Daily News. Tomorrow I will write of the crimes against the workers perpetrated by the Pennsylvania cossacks in the great steel strike and the miners’ strikes. Charge Sam Levin Is in Conspiracy With the Bosses (Continped from page 1) plainly in the interests of the em- Ployers with whom Levin has already announced an alliancé, pursuant to his policy of collaboration. Conspiracy Between Bosses and Levin. These bosses have not been able to conceal their part in the conspiracy to deprive the militants of a chance to make a living in their chosen trade. The following workers are so far known to have been put upon the street to starve, and there are many more whose names the DAILY WORK- ER will give later: Bramorski was taken out of Meyer and company by Levin. He is a mem- ber of Local 38. H. L. Kahan and J. Lieberman of Local 39 were thrown out of work by Levin from the shops of Hart, Schaffner and Marx. J. Pinto, Local 270, and 8S. Miller and BE. Levin, both of Local 152, were also deprived of their living by Levin in taking them out of Hart, Schaffner and Marx. 8. Simonian, Local 39, was robbed of his living earned at Rosen- wald and Wiel ;Helen Kaplan of Local 89 was turned out of employment at Edward VY. Price; G. Resnick, Local 39, was taken out of Edward E. Strauss; A. Rudman and W. Savanov- sky, of Local 144, were deprived of work at Alfred Decker and Cohn; and Clara Shapiro, of Local 39, was taken by Levin and put in the unemployed army from her job with Plotke Broth- ers. And there are many others, Sympathizers Also Victimized. Besides, even those who express dis- approval of this outrageous action of ‘Levin, are themselves penalized, and members are inquiring, how far this will go and the whole Chicago market is in an uproar. J. Bilsky, a member of Local 89, was, by Levin's order, taken off from shop chairman because he felt that Levin was committing a crime against the membership by rob- bing union members against whom no regular charges are made of their chance to earn a living at a trade of their choosing, 105 APPLY FOR ONE JOB PHILADELLPHIA, Pa., March 19.—-One hundred and five men applied Tor the position of night watchman here when John Maneely, 247 North 12th St., put a small advertisement in one of the local papers, Scornfully Levin tells these workers, just as a boss or a prison guard might talk: “Go get a job from Local 6 in New York!” The bosses say: “We are will- ing for you to work for us.” But, none the less, their shop managers are sending the victims to Levin them- selves, and telling the workers that they cannot work until they get an O. K, from Levin. A carefully prepared game to pass the buck from one to another. Definite Action Coming. Against this combination between Levin and the bosses the workers are filling the shops and the manager's office with uproaring protest. The left wing is crystallizing this protest into definite action for a finish fight to check the autocracy of the Levin machine in depriving union members of the opportunity to earn a living at their trade. The example of New York is cited as showing how the persistent effort of the officials to destroy the fighting spirit of the A, C. W, can be checked. In New York there are fully 20,000 tailors strongly behind the fight of Local 5 for a united and militant union, and the coat makers have again formed a joint board of their own to take up the fight on the reactionaries, Protest Meeting Monday. In Chicago the workers who have been taken down from the job by Levin are calling a mass meeting of the members of the Amalgamated to consider the disruption and expulsion policy of the officials and the latest outrage of taking members off their jobs. The meeting will be held on Mon- day, March 23, at 8 o’colck in Temple Hall, corner Van Buren and Marsh- field streets, All members of the Amalgamated should attend this meet- ing and express their opinion of the present situation in the union, Take Machinery to Russia. NEW YORK, March 19—The groups of Russian-American farmers who left New York during February under the organization of the central bureau of the Technical Aid Society to settle on co-operative (communal) farms in different parts of Russia, took with them machinery and capital valued a’ $91,161. Their departure was planned so that they will arrive in Russia in time to assist in the spring planting of crops. The Technical Aid Society has organized 25 such settlements which serve as demonstration farms for the peasantry, Pacific in the event of an Anglo- Japanese alliance.” 15,000 NEW SUBS LY JUNE 15! Philadelphia Police Break up Forum “to Protect Flag” (Continped from page 1) accepted this latest example of Penna “democracy” in a good spirit by giv- ing liberally to a collection and mak- ing the hall thunder with the strains of the International as they left. Next Sunday, March 22, Comrade Rebecca Grecht will speak in the same hall on the subject of “A Century of Class Struggles.” Care will be taken that a flag of proper dimension, color and number of stars will adorn the walls of the Grand Fraternity hall next Sunday. Workers Party open forum hag be- come an established Communist in- stitution in this city and has been growing in size and interest every week, Philadelphia readers of the DAILY WORKER are invited to attend these meetings which are being held every Sunday at 8 p.m. Admission is free, Comrade Rebecca Grecht will be the main speaker at the celebration of the Paris Commune which will be held Saturday, March 21, at 8 p. m., in the Eagles’ Temple, Broad and Spring Garden streets, 15,000 NEW SUBS BY JUNE 151 Illinois Employers. Plot Formation’ of Anti-Strike Police SPRINGFIELD, Il., March 19.—The Mlinois) Manufacturers’ association, which has been the principle booster of the anti-labor state police bill, has written a letter to all Illinois employ- ers urging them to work for the bill's passage, The employers are endeavoring to Pass the bill in order to create a strike breaking agency. The letter to the members of the association states:—‘Attention is di- rected to the fact that the state police bill still slumberg in the senate com- mittee on military affairs, If you want prompt action on this measure use your influence to force a favor- able report from the committee.” “Communicate not only with each member of the committee, but also write your senator and house mem- bers urging them’ to use their in- fluence with the members of the com- mittee to get favorable action.” The association letter then gives a list of the names of the members of the house militaryyaffairs committee, It is signed by John M, Glenn, secret- ary of the olf { sesdetens: By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL TODAY: the employers’ propagandists are working over- time trying to ed a silver lining on the black’ cloud of unemployment. They seek to persuade the worker who is out oa job that he isn’t so bad off after all. And if he is down and out, that is his fault, they blatantly howl. ,. This school of capitalist apologists finds an unscrupul- ous exponent in the ex-editor, ex-college president, George W. Hinman, who conducts a financial column for theyHearst publications. In fact, however, this column is’ funnier than any of the Hearst comics. It would be funnier still if some workers didn’t read the stuff and a few probably believe in it. It becomes humorous only thru ability to dissect it, * * * This Hearst writer tries to explain away the fact that there are 2,000,000 unemployed in the United States. He does it with the sleight of hand peculiar to the tricksters of circus side shows. This Hearst mountebank thus dis- poses of one million of the unemployed as follows: “Half of the two millions are unemployed because they are un- employable, because they are too sickly or mentally defective, be- cause they are too lazy or too restless to stick to any steady employ- ment, because they are what in the Southwest are called five-day or ten-day men—that is, men who no sooner earn a few dollars, than they quit work to spend the money.” Hinman includes here the part-time unemployed, which is estimated to total not one or two, but ten mil- lions in the United States. The human wreckage on in- dustry’s scrap heap, the “sickly or mentally defective,” as Hinman calls them, will resent the stigma that Hearst's charlatan seeks to place upon them. Hinman “O, K’s” the brand of “unemployable” that every exploiter places on used-up labor. He joins his master and his class, on every occasion, to denounce aid to these victims of capitalist in- dustry as Bolshevism. Equally outrageous is the Hinman vattack on the casual worker, who builds the railroads in summer, reaps the nation’s crop in the fall, toils in the for- ests in winter, following the job wherever it is to be found. It is this aggravated form of wage hang? Ba drives many to “take to the road,” causing them to be despised and hunted by the ruling class, one @ @ That railroad work, for instance, cannot be done in winter, extending it over the year, “is no fault of the rail- way business,” argues Hinman. He gives evidence of the usual bankruptcy of capitalism, in solving its labor prob- lems, by declaring, “IT IS THE FAULT OF NATURE AND THE CLIMATE.” But neither nature nor climate takes the trouble to feed, house and clothe the working class. The workers are, therefore, indirectly told to find a way for themselves. ; Then it is claimed that perhaps 300,000 or 400,000 of the two million are in the building industry, with its seasonal work. This is a confession indeed. \it should be taken in connection with the standing attack inst the wages of building workers, which the bosses cl to be so high. When Hinman makes his next attack on wages in the build- ing acer he will not mention the seasonal character of the work. He will not tell how many days these workers are unemployed during the year. " “There is something wrong,” of course, but what is “wrong” is not man-made business, but nature-made weather. That sentence, for which Hinman claims author- ship, is really published in the Hearst, press. It is doubtful if such piffle could get by anywhere else, except on the bench of the United State supreme court, now presided over by Chief Justice Taft, who joins Hinman in leaving the un- employment problem to god and nature.* * s . This Hearst propaganda, setting forth so clearly the in- ability of capitalism to solve its contradictions, st awak- en the workers to the need of finding their own solution themselves. The Communist solution depends neither upon nature nor the weather. It depends upon the working class will to take control over its own destiny. When workers’rule, thru Communism, after having abolished exploiters and their profits, there will be no unemployment; which is today the most harrassing brutality under capitalism. Time not devoted to useful labor will then become leisure to enjoy life. Man- kind will then labor with joy because work will have become Weather ‘and Nature Are Blamed for Job Crisis By Capitalist Apologist Coal Miners Are Hardest Hit By Devastating Storm ({Continped from page 1) ployment. The Chicago, Wellingtor and Franklin Coal company mine at West Frankfgrt, known as the world’s largest mine, had just shut down two days before the storm, throwing 1,20( more men out of work. Less than half of the mines in southern Illinois were operating before the storm. * Many tipples were destroyed, mak ing it certain that many thousand more will be thrown out of work. In almost every town and village school children paid the greatest price, Hundreds of children met quick death when the powerful twist er enguifed them in the timbers and rock of village schools, More than 100 pupils perished at De Soto, thirty at Parrish, and ‘scores more were killed at their desks in Mur phrysboro, West Frankfort, Vergen nes, Bush and Logan. 300 Orient Miners Killed, Three hundred miners were report: ed killed at the Orient mine near West Frankfort. Dozens have become insane from the shock. Doctors and relief workers from Chicago and St. Louis have arrived, and are sending the wounded to the cities. Many are reported dying hourly. Herrin and Marion . were both in the path of the storm, but no word has beén received from these towns. Subscribe for the DAILY WORKER! GET A SUB AND*GIVE ONE! aed a pleasure. That isa time worth fighting for. “B. & O.” Johnston Says He’ll Speak Before the “Progressives” (Continped from page 1) worse failure than as a labor union official—and that is saying a lot. The International Association of Machin- ists are overwhelmingly opposed to his treacherous scheme to aid the bosses at the expense of the workers, and in the coming election within the union he is certain to be defeated largely because the machinists are utterly opposed’to his program and his conduct in office. Too Late to Fool Anybody. The C. P. P. A. which catered to the small business and professional class, and which openly avowed its hostility to the working class and to any effective program of struggle against capitalism, has been rejected by the working class as a whole, It is too late in the day for Johnston to try any beguilement upon organized labor, after thé continuous murder of working class control and working class programs in the C, P. P. A. dur- ing the election campaign, Bronx, N. Y., Comrades Attention, Michael Gold, famous journalist and poet, will speak at the Bronx open forum on Sunday, March 22, at 8 p. m., at Workers Hall, 1347 Boston Road, on “New Literature and Dra- ma of Soviet Russia.” All welcome, Q Submarine Finally Floated, WASHINGTON, D. C., March 19,.— The submarine 8-19 aground for more than two months off the Cape Cod lighthouse, was finally floated yester- day and is being towed into Province- town, Mass, Fawn WOULD. REAK RUSSO- BERMAN TREATY Enslave Germany (Special to The Daily Worker) BERLIN, Germany, March 19,— Further concessions have peen offer- ed Germany by the league of nations in an effort to induce that country to break the Rapallo treaty with Soviet Russia and join the league. The Ger- man treaty with Russia stated that neither Germany nor Russia would enter the league without the other, The league council is said to have offered Germany a place on the coun- cil, and assures Germany “the right to decide in what measure it will con- tribute to the military forces of the league,” France is said to be behind the move to have Germany enter the league, aS France sees thereby a chance to postpone the ‘acceptance of a mutual security pact and the eva- cuation of the Cologne area by French troops. ; AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHERTY. (Continued from Page 1) their country; I am concerned with the working class who have no coun- try now, but who have the power to take the country which rightfully be- longs to them. When the workers really own this country, then it will be time to talk about the welfare of the country as a whole.” ** @ OOK declares that he is “a humble disciple of Lenin.” This got un- der the tender skin of the yellow so- clalist, Philip Snowden, chancellor of the exchequer in the MacDonald gov- ernment. Perhaps the language of Snowden and Hodges will be more illu- minating to the American working class than any arguments Commun- ists could advance against them, as proof of their collaboration with the capitalists. Snowden, the king’s so- cialist has rallied to the side of the ex-civil lord of the king’s navy. 7 as NOWDEN does not write to the London Daily Herald, in attacking Cook. He writes to a capitalist pa- per and no doubt got well paid for it. This is what he says about Hodg- es and Cook: “The greatest catastro- phe which has ever befallen the Min- ers’ Federation was the decision o! conference following the gene: election of 1923 when Frank Hodges was returned to parliament. It was then decided to ask him to relinquish. the position of secretary of the feder- ation under some rule which forbide the holder of that office from being at the same time a member of par liament. In consequence the miners lost the leadership of the ablest brain in its organization, and secured the services of ‘a humble disciple of Len- in’ who promises, if left for long un- controlled, to bring that great organ- ization to rack and ruin.” en ¢ HIS is not so bad. Another little item. Fred Bramley is telling of his experiences in Soviet Russia. Her. bert Smith of the Yorkshire Miners’ Federation had his watch stolen. In this respect it seems, Russia ig some- thing like Chicago. The Russian au- thorities were furious and within twenty-four hours Smith was present- ed with a handsome gold watch by Russian trade unionists. Bramley said that the British trade union delegation traveled 7,000 miles thru Russia and were under armed guard for a fortnight to keep off bandits. He said the government was using the profits made from the off fields in. Batum to revolutionize the housing conditions of the workers there. se « baste trade unionists unlike our shoddy intellectuals did not go around looking for petty faults. They could see the big outstanding fact in the Russian revolution; that the workers were the ruling class, that they had their hands on the throttle of power and were building up a new social order, despite all obstacles, and were overcoming the inexperience of a class that was new to power, that was under the iron heel of oppression for centuries. Senator Slaps at Dever ‘ SPRINGFIELD, Ml, March 19,—A measure was introduced into the sen- ate providing for municipal ownership of the traction lines of Chicago, It provides for acquiring the surface lines at their “real value.” ‘The Dill, introduced by Senator A. Marks, fs a slap at the Dever traction ordinance. Another bill provided for preventing the railroads of the Dever ordinance on. April 7, when it will be voted on, This bill would force a delay in the ordinance referendum until the people have time to study the provisions of the ordinance, Curzon’s Condition Critical. LONDON, March 19.— The condi- tion of Marquis Curzon still was cri- tical today, Physicians said he had passed a “fair night.” Curzon was op- erated on last week following a col lopse while preparing for dinner at Cambridge. « GET A SUB AND GIVE ONE! Tries to Use League to {