The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 26, 1925, Page 6

a THE DAILY WORKER. (7) aes assailants ca ates tion 4 Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO, 1118 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, IL e (Phone; Monroe 4712) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mall: $3.50.:..6 months $2.00...8 months By mail (in S ohisaae only): $4.50....6 months $2.50...8 monthe Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER 1918 W. Washington Bivd. io oon AIOFS ~ mem Business Manager $6.00 per year $8.00 per year Ohicago, tinele J. LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F. DUNNE MORITZ J. LOEB... Dntered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1923, at the Post- Office at Chicago, Ill, under the act of March 3, 1878. <p 290 Advertising rates on application Holding Power by Terror Chicago is the stronghold of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers’ machine. In New York the} wholly illegal and arbitrary action of the Hillman administration has lost the support of at least 75 per cent of the membership. In other centers the membership is lukewarm. The Hillman-Levin gang in Chicago is desperate. They know that if the left wing revolt in Chicago, a revolt already under way, gains’ much more impetus the Hillman machine is wrecked. Its use| of the blacklist and starvation, put into effect by taking members from their jobs for distributing a leaflet issued by Local Five of New York has aroused widespread resentment. The machine makes no pretense of carrying on organization of the unorganized, it is preparing to surrender to the bosses in the new agreement, but last night it mobilized at enormous cost to the union an army of sluggers to prevent the black- listed members holding a meeting. By threats to wreck the Temple auditorium, the manager of the hall was intimidated and the doors kept closed to the thousands of rank and file mem- bers who had assembled at the call of a conynittee of the blacklisted workers. Dozens of the workers who distributed the leaflet calling the meeting, and the leaflet distributed this morning telling the gang- ster methods of the Hillman-Levin administration, were beaten up. The Chicago administration is holding power by terror alone. The answer to the Hillmanites must take the} form of an extension of the struggle to every dis- trict of the Amalgamated. The truth about the Hillman administration, long masked as a friend of Soviet Russia and the left wing of the labor moyement, must be told to every member of the union. This is what the machine fears and this is the} reason for the desperate form of its attack on the} rank and file. Mexico’s “Labor” ” Government “Some time ago the } press carried the iéws that a “labor attache” had been sent to the Mexican em- bassy in Washington. The liberal “friends of la- bor” fell all over themselves in explaining that this an important event and that it occurred only} se there was a “labor” government in Mexico. The function of this labor attache is now plain. Krom Washington emanate press reports excusing the destruction of the union of railway workers by the Calles government. There is no denial of the fact itself, but certain “explanations” are made. The labor attache uses against the railway work- ers the old lie used against the Communists by the Mexican labor officialdom—that they supported de la Huerta. ‘His press interviews contaid such glib phrases} as “aristocracy of labor” and emphasize the “high” wages of the Mexican railwaymen. These workers! have been deprived of the right to strike and the | railway property is to be handed back to Wall Street. The Calles government with its labor attache publicity service is consequently a government, not of labor, but of American imperialism. Its chief support comes from the officialdom of the Mexican labor unions just as support of the program of American imperialism is received from the official- dom of the American Federation of Labor. If American imperialism cannot have its way in Mexico while the railwaymen’s union lives then the union must be destroyed. This is the policy of the Calles government, it is the policy of Morones and his henchmen in the Mexican Federation of Labor, it is the policy of the Greens and Wolls and it is the policy of Wall Street. No sooner had the El Paso convention summated the union of the labor offic United States and Mexico than the Workers (Com- munist) Party told the working class that this was the first step to betrayal. The party was cor- rect. The on the militant Mexican workers is in full swing. It will be followed by other be- trayals until all power of resistance is wiped out. Aguinst this foul scheme the militant workers of Mexica and the United States must fight with power. The Communist parties of the two countries must enlist in the struggle the workers of all North and South America. Anyone that | seriously believes that religion has no political character should read the story of the «tholic revolt now in progress against the French government. Foreign-born Communists are de- ported from France—but the agents of the vatican operate openly and carry*on a campaign against the public school system and for the return of the} monarchy. : | : con- ‘Our idea of something that is not news is a - German cabinet erisis. Like the undnployed in ‘open it is a permanent institution. does big things in a big way. It ylvania miners’ wages $2.25 per |questions—answers uncolored by racial prejtidice. jeffect of racial discrimination and suppression in jless to try to reason with the holders of blind ldom of the |to the native bourgeoisie, win some of them to their side. Both unite to crush the workers’ and|* The Racial Purity Bugaboo The aristocracy of the south, whieh could be called much accurately the southern degeneracy, appears in its warfare on the Negroes in the panoply of a champion preserving-the purity of the Nordic strain. To keep the Anglo-Saxon blood stream untinged by the mingling of the two races is-considered an enterprise worthy of untinted praise. ’In pursuit of this high purpose the horrible deaths suffered by Negroes at the hands of white mobs is supposed to be a small price to pay. Just what is this bugaboo of the race mixture? Is it bad per se and is there such a thing as pure racial stock? Is the so-called. white race a distinct product of nature, unaffected by the fact that black and yellow races inhabit the same planet? Does the maintenance ‘of racial inequality,’ expressing itself in suppression of one particular race preserve the racial purity of either the dominant or the con- quered race? Answers have been given by science to all these That the facts as established by impartial investiga- tion are not more widely known is a tribute to the censorship powers of the Negro haters and baiters. In the first place science has been unable to establish that racial mixtures alone produce in- feriors. The offspring of mixed unions maybe and often are inferior, but this is shown to be the result of social and not biological conditions. The white race is no more a pure stock than are the yellow and brown races. It is an amusing fact that the race most despised by the white ruling class—the Negro—is the purest racial stock in the last and most important question, that of the maintaining racial purity of the dominant group, let us hear from a scientist, Doctor Alain Locke of Harvard university, a Rhodes scholar and special- ist in ethnology: 1 can say it is my opinion that race amalgamation proceeds much more rapidly where the races are socially and economically unequal, and that it is this kind of miscegenation that is from both*Negro and Caucasian points of view undesirable. Considering that the considerable amount of race~ intermixture has up until recently been the outcome of such exploitation of the economically and socially weaker group, we must, | think, conclude that al- most any degree of amalgamation in the future could not produce deterioration of physical stock or of the standard of living in this country, since it has not done so thus far. ~ i Theoretically, then, no unbiased mind can be op- posed to the principle of race amalgamation. On the whole, nature has answered that question affirma- | tively. It will be seen by the above that the suppression of a race automatically increases the number of racial mixtures. Doctor Locke is not alone in this opinion, it is generally held by all investigators and ig the result of exhaustive research. A Negro burned at the stake becomes in the light of sober scientific judgment a torch which’ the path on w the male and female o! races meet and thingle. Science establishes the tine for programs and action, but it cannot liberate the Negro. It is use- hatreds. Thorold Rogers, a great English so- ciologist, said many years ago: “No time is so mueh wasted as that spent in arguing with persons who have strong convictions but no knowledge.” Our job is not to convert the capitalist class of the north and south. Our job is to destroy the prejudices injected into the mass mind of the working class by capitalist publicists. This work must keep step with organization of both black and white workers. The mass pressure of both is |the only thing that will wipe out the horrors of racial strife under capitalism. Freedom for all races can come only with the | dictatorship of the working class building the Com- jmunist society. eyes The Filipinos’ Straggle Underneath the struggle for national independ- ence for the Philippines is the clash of class forces. The rice field workers are the latest section of the Filipino working class to feel the iron in the dic- tatorship-of American imperialism. As in all colonial regions the imperialists strive to win the landlords and middle-class elements to their side, to get them to betray their. countrymen. In the internal struggles between the native ex- ploiters and the workers the colonial government jappears always as the protector of the property owners. American capitalists, by showing favors | peasants’ organizations. ‘The uprisings against intolerable oppression that oeceur from time to time, like that of the Kati- punan Macabula Macasilage of which we told yes- terday, a hundred members of which are now in jail, are ruthlessly suppressed. Then the uprisings themselves are used to show the “incapacity of the Filipino for self-government.” The working class organizations of every colonial country are the basis for any strong independence movement. To these organizations of the Filipino workers and peasants the American working class must give its fullest sympathy and support. Poison gaa is used against the workers in Poland and two are killed by this method. Poland has a “democratic” form of government. Do you remem- ber the outburst of indignation in the eapitalist press when the German militarists first used poison gas? Have you seen anything at all in the capital- ist press about the use of it by the terrorist Polish government? , ed William Green, not having been in- Washington as long as Gompers was, has more’ sensitive nos- trils. He could not stand the smell of Chester Wright. mhage> we FOES. RUSSIAN THE! 1h viTY cminaeis to Explode NEW YORK, ‘arch pal coun- ter-revolutionaries aré raising their voices against Soviet B Russia with in- creasing vehemence, Abramovitch has. had his say—and has been turned down by the workers of this country. Now, a new attempt is being made to attack Soviet Russia, disguised under the name of a comthittee to aid polit- ical prisoners “in ‘all countries.” Pro- minent among the’ members of. this new committee abd yellow socialists whose record in’ the counter-revolu- tionary movement “is clear. Cahan, Viadeck, Hillquit—the yellowest of the yellow are the! ‘associates of this’ committee. It is not strange’ that this committee begins its work ata time when the capitalist world Has been forced to re- cognize Soviet Russia and the only big power that still holds aloof is the United States, Theyforces making for recognition in this country are grow- ing—especially aiéng the capitalists who absolutely require a new— market—and especially want Russian oil. To offset this movement toward recognition, the international social- ists are doing; everything in their power to slander Soviet Russia. Noth- ing serves them better than to carry on a campaign for the relief of polit- ical prisoners in “all countries.” These counter-revolutionaries are trying to prove that the “political” prisoners in t Russia are fm- prisoned for expression of opin- ion. This is a lie. They are there for active organizational work against the First Workers’ and Peasants’ Repub- lic in the world. These counter-revoluttonaries pay little heed to brutal acts of the capitalist nts against the workers and | farmers. They do not heed thé ery of the imprisoned revolutionaries inf Germany, Poland, Hungary, India, Bulgaria, Spain, eaten Be i eae China. They say nothing about “recent ‘est and sentencing to ao sen Stghislav Lanzutsky by the ent for standing i parliament for the rights of the sts; of Maurin, the for defending workers. New York will give counter-revolution- Nae Polish bourgeoisie are plotting the murder of Stanislaw Lansu- tzki, railroad machinist, ‘Communist deputy to the Sejm, parliament and leader of the Polish revolutionary pro- Metariat. Comrade Lanzutsky was a member of the Polish socialist party, until 1921, when becoming convinced of its treason to the working class which it was meant to represent, he left the socialists and entered the Communist Party. Comrade Lanzut- sky at once became a leading figure in the party by his courageous stand in the Sejm and at workers’ meetings, and his fiery advocacy of revolution- ary action against the bloody Polish bourgeoisie. From the first the Polish goyvern- ment sought a pretext for waiving “parliamentary immunity” (always an empty fiction where Communists are concerned) and silencing this champ- ion of the workers and peasants who was daily becoming a greater menace to the*bourgeis exploiters. His arrest finally came in connection with the events of the fall of 1923, when the smoldering spirit of revolt against the bloody Polish bourgeosie burst into flame and swept the whole country. In the fall of 1923 a strike of Polish railroad men developed into a great general strike, during which nation- wide revolutionary mass demonstra- tions of workers and peasants were held, On Nov. 6, the commander of the Cracow garrison, being met with a refusal when he ordered an immense |mass meeting of workers to disperse, sent troops to enforce the carryi out of his orders. The soldiers, how- ever, themselves workers and peas- ants, refused to fire on the crowd, fraternizing with the workers, and finally united with the latter to seize the city for the proletariat. For three days they held power, until the social- ist traitors, true tq their Judas role, came to the rescué of the Polish but- (Continued. from Page 1). Black Sea, Great Britain got free ac- ‘cess to the Black Sea and left it to France to watch over Georgia. French Admiral Governs Georgia. After the evacuation’ of Batum by the British, Mr. Lloyd George told Krassin that Great Britain could not interfere with the relation between the Soviet Republics and the Caucas- us, but would regard the Caucasus as _|the sphere of influence,,of, the Soyiet shortly ment and torture of the revolution- aries in the capitalist dungeons and a forceful condemnation of the new at- tacks on Soviet Russia, All class-conscious workers must be there. Auspices; Workers ‘Party, Young Workers League and the In- ternational Workers’ Aid. HERRIOT FOES WAGE OPEN WAR ON GOVERNMENT PARIS, March 24.—The life of the Herriot government will be cut short if the extreme nationalists can bring about its overthrow. It should not be difficult considering the shilly-shally- ing policy followed by the left bloc since it assumed power. © Millerand opened war on Herriot, making his principal attack on the recognition of Soviet Russia and the suppression of the French embassy at the vatican. a is a former socialist. Britain ebestncl to ask France for payment of debts-and is using Ger- many in Britain's present diplomatic war on her former,ally. Two Million Jobless Don’t Trouble Green, - “Business Is Good!” BOSTON, Mass. March 24, America’s army of unemployed num- bers two million, president of the American Federation of Labor, said as‘he departed for Fal! River to meet thé textile workers of that city and Néw Bedford. cause for alarm, the busines) outibok was good. Pros- pects for peace in'the coal fields were bright, he said, déspite talk of a Sep- tember strike, “One person's guess as to the cause of unemployment is as good as an- other's,” Green said, waving aside the continual development of the machine process, the science of political economy and other things he is too ignorant to understand, and too comfortable to want oe learn. All Play y ahd No W Work. NEW ORLEANS, March 24.— International Utifon of Steam neers are in s@ in this city and continuo f, days at least. “Au bile ri¢ rides and several scheduled for tl have not as yet 8 ‘ness, altho in William Green, | blics. ‘This, before Georgia aa iet Republic, and, as a. matter of fact, Great Britain took no action. During the time of :the:Jordaniya government, Georgia was. practically governed by the French admiral, Dumesnil, who had his agent, Mr. Chovalier, at Tiflis. It was Dumes- nil who systematically inspired the Georgia menshevik government with enemity and faithlessness towards the, Soviet Republics. The treaty between the Soviet Re- publics and Georgia contained a sec- tion which legalized the Communist Party in Georgian territory; and -it was this section which turned into a trap. \ The legalization gave the Jor- daniya government the opportunity for numerous expulsions, and all sorts of repressive measures, to indiscrim- inate executions in the villages, par- ticularly in the South-Ossetia, so that the treaty virtually came to an end. Starves Armenia, This policy was imposed by Dumes- nil upon the menshevik leaders—Jor- daniya, Gegetchkori, Ramishvilla, Dshigelli. In obedience to the French suggestions the menshevik govern- ment prohibited the transit of corn to Sovietized Armenia. In Arnrenia the Soviet Republic was proclaimed at thg moment when the Dashnaks government concluded the shameful Alexandropol treaty with Turkey, by virtue of which Turkey was entrust- ed with the pratection ofthe rémain- ing part of Armenia against the “in- ner enemy,” so that the safety of Ar- menia was bound up with the fate of the Loviet power. At the same time when the menshe- viks were delivering orations that the enemies of all civilization were marching against Georgia, they caus- ed starvation in Armenia and made it impossible for her to fight on. When the insurrection began in the neutral zone between Georgia and .Ar- menia hopeless. forbidden the corn transit to Ar- menia, the Georgian representative in tion was prabably organized by French agents. When the Armenian Communists hastened to the agsist- ance of their comrades, the Dashnaks occupied the Erivan from behind. The Moscow wireless station could hear the conversation going on by wir between Admiral Dumesnil, the Tiflis shevik government and the Dashnaks at Erivan. The in- surrectionary working people were, accordingly, taken between the fires of the French fleet, the menshevik and Dashnak soldiers. At thi @ time Dumesnil prepar- ed a landing in force for the protec: | tion of the. Jordaniya government, | that is, for an attack upon the rising || LANZUTSKY MUST BE SAVED! a Sov- | The Jordaniya government “having | Moscow suggested that the insurrec: | chers, and, telling the workers that the government would settle their grievances, and that. those who had -participated in the revolt would not linquish power. On Nov..11, Comrade Lanzutsky ad- dressed a great meeting of railroad ‘workers in Prsemysl, showing them the revolutionary significance of the Cracow uprising, and pointing out the necessity of seizing—and holding— power, Though afraid’ to take any action against Lansutzki at the time, when the’ masses were still seething with revolt, the government began Plotting to use this speech as a pre- text for his arrest. At length, on Dec. 18, 1924, the procurator demanded that the Sejm should waive Lanzutsky’s right to parliamentary immunity, and hand him over to the police. The so- cialist parliamentary fraction without the consent of which immunity could not have been waived, agreeing, Lan- zutsky was given up, and the next day taken to prison. The charge on which he was arrested Was a violation of paragraph 58 of an Austrian crim- inal code, several centuries old, an an- cient law of monarchistic times dug up by the “democratic” Polish repub- lic as an excuse for murdering the man whom they ‘so hate and fear. While the session of parliament that -decided on Lanzutsky’s betrayal was being held, the streets before the building were thronged with infuriat- ed workers demanding his release, and the government massed special guards thruout the city, to prevent a serious uprising. In all the industrial districts of Pol- and demonstrations are being hel demanding. the release of Lansutzki, and as the date set for the trial ap- proaches, excitement is reaching fever heat. rom end to end the country rings with the cry of the proletariat: “Lanzutsky must and shall be saved.” | Chicherin Exposes the Mensheviks | tection against the offensive policy of the French admiral. * Stole All They Could Carry. The Jordaniya people went on board of a French ship to Paris, heavily loaded with valuable objects which they appropriated. , In the French recognition formula it is said: France recognizes the Sov- jet power, where the Soviet power has been recognized by the popula- tion. In order to exclude the possibili- ty of applying ‘this ambiguity to retest Mr. De’ le handed over: whieh it ry: ; eee tie above formula did not include Geor- gia. The same assurance was given us recently by the French ambassador Mr...Herbette. Nevertheless, when Mr. Renaudel declares the contrary in the French chamber, the French government keeps silent. When Comrade Cachin pointed out in his speech that Georgia for the sake of security had to keep up close relations with the other Soviet repub- lics, Mr. Herriot in his reply did not touch the essence of the question, but simply declared that Cachin enter- tained imperialist views. Without the recognition of Soviet Georgia no understanding with us is possible. Hold Paris Commune Meeting in Paterson PATERSON, N, J., March 23.—The Paterson organization of the Work- ers Party will hold a mass meeting Sunday, March 29, at 2 p, m. in Car- penters’ Hall, 54-56 Van Houten St., Paterson, N. J., to celebrate the first attempt in history of the workers to establish their own government—the Paris Commune. The Freiheit Singing Society will take part in the program. Harry M. Wicks will speak. Admission is only. 10 cents. Bronx, Attention! NEW YORK, March 24.—A course in the principles ‘and tactics of the Third International will be given at Bronx headquarters, 1347 Boston Road, on Tuesday evening at 8 p. m., com- mencing Tuesday, March 31, with Dr. I, Stamler as instructor. Dr. Stamler needs no introduction to Bronx stu- dents, Every party member and sym- pathizer of the Workers Party should acquaint himself with the principles and tactics of the Third International. Enroll now.—B, Robins, Education Director, Bronx, 1347 Boston Road. Spring Fever! Flowers that bloom in the Spring Tralala . . Have something to do with this dance Hahaha . . Molo TUE Branch One English Bronx Y. W. L. has arranged this Spring Fever Cos- tume Dance on Saturday, April 4, at 1847 Boston Road, Bronx, N. Y. for Youth, Jolity, and Be merry and |be present! The price to breeze in is 60 cents, Give your shopmate this. copy be persecuted, perstaded them to re:| IRON LEAGUE. ADMITS STRIKE ‘HURTS BUSINESS Asks for Permanent In- junction NEW: YORK, March: 24.—The open shop fron league contractors are los: ing orders hourly because of the strike of iron workers’ union in New York, counsel for Levering & Garigues Co., member of the league, argued in the hearing on making the injunction against the unions permanent. Judge Merritt Lane, representing the Iron League company, admitted that if the union were not permanent- ly restrained by the court, the Inter- national Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers would suc- ceed in making the building industry of New York and Vicinity completely closed union shops. He said that Iron League contrac- tors are at present the only ones not working under agreements with the iron workers union. All other trade§ connected with building are complete- ly organized and all other iron con tractors than those.in the league deal with the iron workers’ union. Iron League Illegal Frank P. Walsh, attorney for the International union and Locals 40 and 361, Local 197 of Steam Derrick Work- ers and Local 170 of Riggers and Machinery Workers, pleaded that U, S. District Judge Knox. vacate his tem: porary restraining order against the unions because no complaint nor aff: davits had been served on any of the defendants. He argued that the Iron League it elf came to court in bad faith because It is an organization existing illegal ly to restrain trade, Walsh called attention to thé fact that previous cases in the state su- preme court brought by certain of the Iron League and National Erectors association in the Bronx’ courts were further attempts to injure the: unfon in its legitimate business. He argued intimidated and confused union work- ers so that they were not able to do even the permitted strike activities. In the state case the Iron League was denied its injunction and the other case is still pénding. Judge Lane denied that the earlier cases had anything to do with the present one. A Long Drawn Struggle Judge Knox advised the Iron League - complainants to serve their papers upon “the defendants so that the un- ion’s case may be properly prepared for hearing in two weeks. He took under advisement whetler He: iwould extend the temporary injunction which is expiring before further hearing on its, merits. The iron workers’ strike against the Iron League is the continuation of one called last summer. Strikes on all jobs where iron work is sublet .to Iron.League members are in force. The union demands a closed union shop. Washington English Branch Announces Powell’s Departure WASHINGTON, D. C., March 24.— The city central committee of the Workers (Communist) Party has pass- ed the following resolution commend- ing Comrade Powell’s work as secret- ary of the Washington city central committee. Comrade Powell has left Washington. The resolution states: . WHEREAS; The uncertain business conditions of the capitalist system, under which we all exist, have com- pelled Comrade’ J, Powell, secretary of the city central committee, to leave the city of Washington; THEREFORE; Be it resolved by the English branch of Washington lo- cal of the Workers Party of America, in regular meeting assembled, that we express our hearty appreciation of the effective manner in which Com- rade, Powell has conducted the busi- ness of this organization during his sojourn in this city. Comrade Powell’s indefatigable work for our party has been an inspiration to all of our com- rades in this city. Comrade Powell takes with him our gratitude and leaves with us the cer- tainty that his efforts for the emanci- pation of the wage slaves of the world will remain unabated, regardless of where he may locate. Be it further RESOLVED, That the secretary be instructed to send a copy of this re- solution to Comrade Powell and to the editor of the DAILY WORKER. 8. R. Peachman, secretary; L. J. Bradsky, recording* secretary. GET A SUB AND GIVE ONE! Negré Literature and - Art Collection at the Harlem Branch Library NEW YORK, -idarek 24.—A special Negro collection of history, literature and the arts 1s being made by the Harlém branch of the New York pub- Me library under direction of ine Rose. Documents on manu scripts of works by epee Oe \