The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 24, 1925, Page 6

—_—_—_—_—_—SSSS SSS THE DAILY WORKER. Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. o© > 4218 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, DL i (Phone: Monroe 4712) sUBSC . 1 roa RATES mall: $6.00 per year = 33. 50. "6 months $2,00....8 months wa y mail (in Chicago. only): $8.00 per year $4.50....6 months $2.60....3 months pds? hoo Rk, Sa ER ae cet eee es abbr aatatan Address all mail and make out checks to , THE DAILY WORKER 1913 W. Washington Bivd. +3. LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F, DUNNE MORITZ J. LOEB....... Chicago, Iilinele Editors Business Manager Gntered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1923, at the Post- Office at Chicago, Ill, under the act of March 8,-1878. | Wall Street-Calles Socialism The socialist party of Mexico is to be reorgan- ized, state dispatches from Mexico City. All elements supporting the Calles govern- ment will be admitted to the party following a conference scheduled for April ist. This rather novel qualification for member- ship in a party hitherto calling itself revolution- ary is more evidence of the traitorous work of the Yankee imperialist-labor faker-yellow social- ist combine which visited Mexico City during the El Paso convention of the American Feder- ation of Labor. We recall a sob letter written by one Nellie Seeds Nearing, ex-mate of Scott Nearing, to The Nation showing how Mexican workers sup- ported the union label campaign of the A. F. of L. by throwing their-scab Stetson hats in the Rio Grande after the big fat American brothers —most of whom had Stetson hats themselves— had pledged their support to the Mexican masses. It is now quite plain that the Mexican work- ers are going to lose the rest of their wearing apparel. The reorganization of the Mexican so- cialist party on the basis of support of the Calles government which is now engaged in breaking up the Railway Workers’ Union preparatory to returning the railroads to Wall Street, is one more step in a plan of plunder that is designed to strip the Mexican workers to their coffee- colored skins, Some of the skin itself will be lost before the imperialist jackals, their Mex- ican retainers, the American labor fakers and slimy socialist elements are satisfied. The coming unity is unity for American im- perialism. It is one more example of the be- trayal of the masses to the capitalist masters by the parties of the Second International— the international to which no self-respecting leech or louse would consider affiliation. The Communist parties of Mexico and the United States are the only organizations carry- ing a struggle against the domination of Latin- America by Wall Street. The support for these campaigns comes from the workers and farm- ers of imperialist and semi-colonial countries alike and the struggle will continue with in- creased success since the socialist party has exposed itself as the champion of the oppres- sors. Advertising rates op application Disarmament France wants no agreement for lessening arma- ments. The French press is speaking harshly of any interference by the Coolidge administration in the schemes of French militarism. It warns the government of the danger of entering into any further treaties that would call for even a tempo- rary halt in the militarization of Europe. French imperialism looks with a knowing eye at the’trap set for it by its American and British rivals. Aircraft and submarines will be on the order of business of the next disgrmament confer- ence’ if one is ever assembled and these weapons are too valuable for France against England for her to surrender them lightly. The territorial arrangements made by the Vet- sailles treaty’are not permanent and everybody knows it. They are-produetive of endless friction and guerilla warfare as was the case in Danzig the other day with the constant menace of these breaking out into larger conflicts. France wants, therefore; to ties the allied nations to these frontier agreements; it is not only the question of the Franco-German frontiers, but those of Poland, Roumania, ete.—the French vassal states. ‘Inasmuch as Great Britain and America have interests in eastern Europe opposed to those of France, the demand of the French press that, in return for a limitation of French aircraft and sub- marines, the frontiers of France and her allies be gtaranteed, amounts to making a farce of all dis- armament proposals. Such proposals can be nothing else than a farce, but it happens that French imperialism is slightly more cynical at the present time than its American and British prototy pes and therefore more frank. ’ France may be forced to limit her military pre- parations by pressure from the House,ef Morgan, this will indicate only that she has been brought within the circle of American imperialism and only such reductions will be made as will make interest payments more’probable while not weakening her as an enemy of Great Britain. Some liberals are already getting ready to give three cheers for Coolidge, the great peacemaker, but anyoné who becomes enthusiastic over any disarmament conference under imperialist auspices is hopelessly insane, Only sheer imbeeility can ac- count for enthusiasm over this one. The Milwaukee Leader says the, British trade union report on Soviet, Russia is a mass of contra: | dietious. So ixecapitalism, but the Leader does ci nn i it dor t Soviet Rus- Seattle Reactionaries Lose Read the clear and direct statement of principles made by the Seattle Communists in the Central |Labor Council in answer .to.the charges of the re- actionaries and contrast-it;with the vicious and hysterical denunciation,of Communists and their aims in the labor faker, press, There are in the laber,,moyement as well as in other séetions of modern society. what Veblen calls “vested interests.” It is an axiom that the most bitter enmity is aroused by anything that irritates the pocketbook nerve and which threatens to cut off its source of nourishment. Communists attack the vested interests of the labor fakers openly, In Seattle there was during the war period an orgy of graft and corruptionjin which the upper strata of the labor movement,and most of the of- ficialdom took part. This gang, the remnants of it at least, are still in power. Long, ago the welfare of the workers became something to sneer at. The fight against the bosses and, the state was shoved into the background and. the labor movement be- came a field for private enterprise. The Seattle Communists exposed this condition and the economic security of the fakers was threat- ened. They feel that the Communists must be} driven out of the labor unions that peace and} profit-making may continue. In this maneuver they display some cunning, but, the Communists have} gone to the rank and file and hell has broken loose. | It is not/so easy to expel Communists and it is still harder to do it quietly. The Seattle reactionaries have not been able to unseat the Communist delegates as yet. Whatever the final result is the mass of the organized work- ers will have a better understanding of the role of | the Workers (Communist) Party, a better ap- preciation of the anti-working class attitude of) fakerdom and a stronger will to fight for their class. The Seattle reactionaries cannot win because | the Communists have already counted coup. | . . eae Polish and American Capitalism. The Polish government which is trying to send Stanislav Lgnzutsky, worker and Communist} memben of parliament, to the gallows, borrows | $30,000,000 from the House of Morgan and spends | the most of it in the United States for war sup- plies. s Unemployment in Poland is chronic, the coun- htry is being systematically looted by French cap- italists, its military budget has increased to $160,- 000,000 pet year and it is deporting all militant workers in the territories it received under: the Versailles treaty from Germany and Russia. The Polish “democracy” is a government of ter- ror. The working class is enslaved four times— to the Polish priesthood, to ‘the Polish white guards, to the French imperialists and to the House of Morgan. The Polish hangman’s government is persona grata with the ruling class of the United States. Our rulers look with grinning approval at the ter- ror directed against the revolutionary workers and peasants of Poland. It pledges its support to the finance-capitalists who loan money with which to finance this murderous activity. Most of all is Poland praised as a bitter foe of the workers’ and peasants’ government of Soviet Russia. | The demonstrations in this country against the | execution of Stanislav Lanzutsky which will be carried out by the Polish workers under the leader- ship of the Polish Federation of the Workers (Com- munist) Party are therefore not only protests against the Polish capitalism. They are directed just-as much against the Morgan government of the United States which acts as paymaster for the murderers of the Polish working class. ‘Peaceful’ Denmark Fifty thousand workers in basic industries are locked out in Denmark. In a few days it is be- lieved that 130,000 workers ill be involved, as many unions have already stated their intention of answering the lockout by striking and tying up all Danish industry. Wage demands made by the workers in cement factories, metal factories, sugar and butter plants, have been refused by the bosses altho, like in all European countries, the cost of living is going up. The Danish conflict is significant because it is this little nation whése, exports are principally foodstuffs and where heavy industry merely sup- plies the needs of the domestic market that the! reformists have pointed to as ay example of peace- ful progress; the Danish, co-operatives have been held up as forms that would solve the class struggle peacefully, |1924 was double pre-war. jthe maintenace of the 85 per. cent THE DAHLY WORKER RAISIN: GROWERS FORCED: 10 GIVE UP SALES POOL Had Refused to, Deal with the Workers CHICAGO, March 28—After thir- teen ‘years of ups and downs as the largest raisin growers’ group in the United States, the Sun Maid Raisin Growers’ Assn! of California is. re- turning to competition for the 1925 crop. They faffed'to sign up 85 per cent of the crop for their pool. This news and the story of the rais- in growers, is told ‘by J. C. Coleman, former raisin grower and representa. tive in the association from his dis- trict. Boosted Price. “The Sun “Maid raisin growers center in the San Joaquin valley about . Fresno,” Coleman explains. “When they got 85 per cent of the crop into their. co-operative produc- ing and marketing. pool in 1912 the price had been running from 1% to 3 cents a pound for the prepared raisins. “They brot it up to 3% Cents the | first year, to 7 cents in 1917 and 14 cents in 1920.° Then it slumped rapid- ly to 4 cents a pound in 1922 and about 1% cents in 1924. In 12 years they had gone the whole price cycle and_are back where they had started | but hopelessly in debt and no way tc get out. Now in 1925 the plan is given up. Banks™Ruined Growers. “What were the reasons for the rocket-like ascent and fall? The re- | tail price of raisins has nothing to do ; With it because that has remained fairly constant ranging up to 25 | cents a pound, no matter what the | wholesalers and. jobbers, paid the growers. It is a stony, of. overpro- duction, mistakem labor. ; policy, real jestate sharks, selling difficulties and opposition of the big banks. “No sooner had the raisin growers established a guaranteed price for themselves with extra: cash’ distribu- tions if the market price: went above the guarantee than speculative grow- |ing by outsiders began to increase the acreage vastly above ments. the require- The raisin production in This made Pool almost impossible. The gambling in land values had been beyond be- lief. ¥ Refused to Deal with Labor. “The association ‘suffered from a boycott by labor consumers since it refused to deal with organized labor, either A. F. of -Ii%r TE W.°W. It suffered also from a boycott by the Retail Grocers’ Assn. because it sold to chain stores at wholesale, rates, discriminating against the retail groc- ers. Tho upheld py the ‘supreme court this practice makes no friends among the thousands. of retailers still outside the chain systems. The wholesalers boycotted them for the |same reason. Direct gelling, pro- posed in 1922, was no longer pos- sible because of the. $20,000,000 de- ficit in the association treasury dis- covered at that time. ;< “Large investments. in packing Plants and in research proved extrav- agant on a falling market. The big banks looked with displeasure on | the banking conducted-by the associa tion for its members. without charge and put a stop to it.” EDITOR’S NOTE.—The following declaration on the recognition of Soviet Russia was adopted at the tremendous “Paris Commune” cele- bration held recently in Madison Square Garden, New York City. It might well serve as the basis of similar resolutions to be urged else- where. It fs as sgiown: IR seven years Soviet Russia has struggled against a world of en- emies. From the moment of its birth the first government of workers and peasants found itself confronted with Yet, the Danish workers are forced into battle in spite “of the non- imperialist, nature of Danish production. They are part.of the world’s working class just as the Danish capitalists are part of the world’s idle ruling class, the Danish unions with their syndicalist structure and tendencies will have to recognize this basic fact, . | World capitalism has closed, jong ago all peace- {ful paths to freedom even in pastoral Denmark. Communists recognize. the realities and strip the camouflage from capitalism,,but, this they could not do if capitalism, itself didp not suck into its maelstrom the whole working class: no matter how ardently sections of it desire to “co-operate” to Communism, The Hillman machine has a revolt on its hands that it cannot handle. Its suspension of Local 5 of New York, its starvation tacties in Chicago— forcing members of the dion put of their jobs be- cause they distributed a legal leaflet-—has tended to solidify the mass of Jeft wing sentiment, The rule or ruin policy is not going ,to stand the test. ae Gee. RO SP For the first time in his ¢ayeger Czar Hutcheson of the Carpenters’ Union hag jad to back up. He speaks with less ass Chicago militan since he got trimmed a ‘ thd Me the united forces of capitalism emerg- ing from the world, massacre gorged with profits and greedy for further plunder, RUSSIAN COMMUNIS Dear Comrades women to the party. faith.” people; everyone tried to be first. do not know, for did not the “Dyna- mo” workers show'tip well in “Oc- tober,” (Nov. 7, 1917) ‘being the first to throw off the yoke and mount the barricades? On Wednesday, instead of the usual “Party Day” in the theater of the workers’ palace, ‘the “proletarian smithy,” a general’ meeting will be held/to receive the above-mentioned working men and women into thc party. Before anyone can’ be finally admitted into the party’ those present at the general meeting are asked if they have any objections, and then the vote is taken, Here is a sample taken from my note-book of what kind of people are admitted into the party: Alexandra Zakharova has worked years, employed in the factory since the age of 14. Abjured all mythical beliefs and prejudices since that age. Michael Kizikov, aged 26, votunteer already in the Red Guards from 1917 to 1923 and now in the teritoriats, Father and mother are peasants, em- Dloyed in the factory as a roofer. Alexandra Zakharova, has worked in the factory since childhood, almost illiterate. Woman delegate of the women’s section and does, also, other social work. Some one taxes her with having an “ikon” in her room and she is told that if she wants to join athe. ists she must “break off all com- munication” with gods. “It it is necessary, I will remove the ‘ikon,’ for I have had my doubts about it for some time, and I do not want to part with my fellow-work- ers.” It was decided by a unanimous vote to admit her, and to insist that she attend classes of general and po- litical education. She is to be a can- didate for 6 months. Michael Oblizin, factory chauffeur. Fought in the civil war, was an offi- cial member of the party since the age of 19, but left it because he could not understand the new economic pol icy. He'.is now sorry and is suffer ing mentally, Admitted as a candi- date for 6 months. Martha Nikitushkina, employed as a Presser since the age of 16. Does so- cial work, has gone thru a course of political education, her parents are peasants. “My room is but small and there ir no room in it for any gods; where the ‘ikon’ used to be is flow the electric. ity meter.” She was admitted amidst loud applause. All attempts at objections to her admission were drowned in loud ap- Plause, which grew in volume whe? it was announced that the whole Young Communist League was enter- ing the party. But here is a difficulty—there are no proper premises to hold party meetings. Even before it was a rather tight squeeze, and with the new comers we shall be 400 party mem. bers, a whole regiment of Commun- ards. Our cultural commission has begun! lution, The collapse of the military offen- sive was followed by a diplomatic of- fensive. Thru economic isolation and diplomatic suasion, the capitalist world hoped to gain what it could not take by force. At Geneva, at Laus- anne, The Hague and London the im- perialist governments attempted to wring economic concessions from So- viet Russia and force her to surrender the conquests of thé revolution, to re- compense and reinstate the landlords and capitalist And again capitalism failed. Again Soviet Russia won. “The diplomatic of- had failed, as boycott and famine had failed to break the proletarian dicta- fensive failed as the military offensive | ‘POIs a T TELLS HOW WORKERS JOIN COMMUNIST PARTY _ NUCLEI IN THE DYNAMO FACTORY To the Workers of Western Countries, Not 80 long ago I described our life, and today ; will tell you something ‘about the second Lenin levy: A few day ago we had a meeting in the factory of all the members of the bureau of the party nucleus for the purpose of admitting working men and Up till now 120 questionnaires have been examined, and people were called up accordingly, every one in his or her turn for their “confession: of In the corridor outside the nucleus, bu; yupeau there..was a big throng of Patience is a virtue which our chaps the nucleus and the manager of the factory and asked them to help us out of the difficulty. There gre many schools and there is an influx of peo: ple, but premises—there are none. We had five’ rooms in.the restaurant, but they have been taken up long ago for different purposes ‘in: their turn, Previous to the recent:»mass” influx into. the party there were thrée schools for political education, two more schools have ben opened, as well as a Marxist circle and: a ‘workers’ correspondents’ circle, “three - circles for the liquidation’‘of “illiteracy and one circle for agitators’ and propa- gandists, etc. What is to be done? ‘And the influx is continuing and what a lot more rooms will be needed for vérious commissions’ and nuclei. It almost looks as if we shall have to meet in the office after office hours. The general meeting took place as usual, but today the International was sung even with more than the usual enthusiasm. And truly when one hears the words: “Arise ye starviings from your slumbers, arise ye criminals of want, for reason in revolt now thunders and at last ends the age of cant.” One be gins involuntarily to ask oneself how “|much the workers have received from the menshevik lackeys; miserable creatures, what Have you mensheviks given to the starved and wretched of the earth? ; 1. Ginesen, ‘Dynamo Factory. to be very busy, It has approached vm Page Three PARTY STUDENTS — WILL SEE BOTH SIDES OF CITY Hell Town nee Gold Coast Contrasted © This afternoon, after the adjourn ment of the last class at three o'clock, all the students of the Chicago Lenin School will-be taken on a trip thru the stock yard district of Chicago and then on a’bus trip thru the “gold coast” section for contrast, Public Speaking Course Begins Today, Today at 10 a. m. and continuing thru the week till the end of the school, Comrade Thurber Lewis will give his class in Public Speaking which will be a practical course and take advantage of the material al- ready presented in the other classes, The school enters upon its second week with a great deal of success al- ready to its credit. Already as many as thirty lectures have been delivered on the various subjects. Both students and teachers are highly satisfied and feel that the school has,done much more than merely teach the comrades attending so many subects. It has created an excellent atmosphere and spirit. The schedule for today is as fol lows: 9 A. M.—Trade Union History and Tastics: Dunne. / 10 A, M.—Public Speaking: Lewis. 11 A. M.—History of American Com- munist Movement: Bittelman. \ 1 P. M—Elementary Marxian Econ ‘omics: Lerner. 2 P. M—Leninism: Gomez. Germany to Enter League. PARIS, France, March 22.—The Ger- man goyernment is about to demand admittance to the league of nations, a dispatch here states. France in- tends te-insist on_reparations and se- curity treaties as the price of German admittance. ONE RESULT OF INTENSIVE TRAINING. By F. $.F. (Detroit) The fact that‘our national office is situated in Chic#go'is a result of the fact that Chicdg® fs one of the best concentrated cémters ‘of capitalism— has thé most* dévelopéd slave pens and the largest ‘ones in the entire ebuntry. ~ Our clatebdSiiGinted in this cen- ter—have taught us the dynamic forces that operate. We can ascribe to the economic conditions, and the resultant class ‘antagonism why our national office “is. really situated in this vicinity. ‘Thé -way we arrive at such a conclusion 8 by the “Dialetic” reasoning. A cothbination of the two will give us: the’ “Dialectic Material- ism,” the fact that we arrive at our conclusion thru the understanding of these economic forees. Such is one.result of our “Intens- ive” training, qcict ag The students now think in terms of commodities, surplus value, dialectics, Internationals and ways of organiza- tion. This is Yat being an evil. The result of this course is taking deep root. It is being impressed on the plate of the memory of each and levery student. It is not only’ im- pressed thereon but will remain for believing the only means whereby the workers can achieve their emancipa- tion and clear the way for a Commun- ist society to be the dictatorship of the proletariat as egerczsed by the Russian workers; regarding the feder- ation of Soviet Republics as the chief bulwark against an all-devouring cap- italist imperialism, with its attendant misery, slavery and war; seeing in Soviet Russia with its control of one- sixth of the surface of the globe an all-important factor in world economy, whose isolation from the rest of the world dislocates the economic life of all other countries, causing unem- ployment and offer evils; therefore BE IT RESOLVED, we, the workers of New York, 20,000 strong in mass The international imperialism of western Europe ‘ America in its effort to extend its dominion over the whole world found 48 the sole obstacle in its path the few power of the workers and peasants in Soviet Rus- sia, and their allies; the revolutionary workers of all other countries com- bined in the Comthunist International, Capitalist impetidilism, represented chiefly in the governments of Great Britain, France and America, launched a combined attack upon the new So- viet power. Bayonet and machine- gun, torture and starvation, boycott and famine, every weapon was used to force the Russian workers to their knees, to break their power and re- store capitalism and czarism. The American Soversaaee co-operated eagerly in this onslaught with the i agents, the Wrangels and Denik! Capitalism fi won thru untold workers and peasyn polled and its Judenitches, Soviet Russia the Russian torship. Baffled, defeated, vanquished, inter- national capitalism fell back from its intended victim and sued Yor One after another the leading po’ ers of the world have recognized Sovi Russia—Great Britain, France, /Ger- many, Italy, Poland, the’ wian countries, Japan, @hina, Until today there ig no countrysot any importance in which Soviet Russia is still un- recognized except the United States of America, This last and strongest itadel of international capitalism still delays recognition, fearful of the growing prestige of Soviet Russia and the increasing influence of the inter- national Communist movement, and hoping to extract greater economic concession from the Russian workers and force them to submit to the cap- italist yoke. £0. 56 Wherefore, we, the workers of Am- meeting assembled, demand the im- mediate full, free recognition of So- viet Russia without conditions, and lalate: seasoning iiraped "ARE THE REDS rpais question will be. answered by association at the International pmity Demonstration, and benefit en! ment, at Ashland Auditorium, avaday afternoon, March 29, The muscular strength will not be displayed after (The Impressions of a Student) many a day. Every student will go back to his city a wiser and mote ac- tive member. Not only that, the course has cre- ated a desire to know more. It has shown a realm of pursuit that will as- sist our movement in its actual eve day struggles—books that will gi’ us a theoretical knowledge of ef to fight the actual fight of rallying the working class, our own inactive members first, and the trade union- ists and members of other orgamtza- tions composed of workers but so far not infused with the class conscious- ness that is necessary for the- final fight against capital: This new thing, the understanding and the desire to know more what lies in these instruments of clearer class consciousness, will permeate into the very beings of our other members who have not had the chance to visit this school. They themselves will also try to understand the his- tory of the labor movement and this will, in turn, create a clearer vision of what they are fighting for. . So this experiment, I am confident, will prove more than an experiment— a means of gathering our forces to act consciously for our final goal. For the Recognition of Soviet Russia erica and upon the trade unions to join us in a protest against the gov- ernment of the United States for its persecution of Soviet Russia in the interests of a clique of capitalist bond- holders, for the lying propaganda against Soviet Russia’ spread by its, own department of state over the seal of Chas. E. Hughes, lackey and ser- vant of Wall St. LONG LIVE THE COMMUNE, THE GOVERNMENT OF THE WORKERS AND PEASANTS! LONG LIVE THE FEDERATION OF SOCIALIST SOVIET REPUB- Lics! LONG LIVE THE SOVIET UNION —AND ITS ALLY, THE COMMUN- IST INTERNATIONAL! DOWN WITH THE EXPLOITERS, THE IMPERIALISTS, THE WAR- MAKERS, AND THEIR GOVERN: MENT! : y MOLLYCODDLES? — be a-prize-winning group Slovak girl athletes. Altho isa national convention of Bohemian — workers' sport organizations in Chi- cago on that day, these girls will show their solidarity with the workers of other nationalities by a brief appear- ance on the program, _These* will be only two of a long Mist of splendid program numbers— the longest and best list’ hes tht bled on one pas eign speaking ‘i vided tot pasa of one oF or ‘he a numbers 7