The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 1, 1925, Page 5

—_ ° IMPERIALISM IN PLOT FOR LOOT TO CALL CONFAB Subject Peoples Are Near Revolt (Continued from page 1) guard government is backed by French capitalism, which is against the British-German alliance, England Kills League. The “disarmament conferénce,” now that the league of nations has been practically killed by BEngland’s ‘re- jection of the league protocol. will according to reports, take up su¢h in+ ternational disputes as the immigta- tion quarrel between the United States ‘and Japan, andthe ‘struggje between the French and English, ‘with the Balkan states and Turkey lining up on one side or the other, ‘for the Mosul oil flelds. British Colonies Restless. England’s capitalists are frantically trying to hold down the lid on their restive colonial possessions. Egypt's . Parliament was immediately dissolved as soon as it was found that oppon- ents of British imperialism were in control. Now the elections are being indefinitely postponed. India also is being ruled by the increasing use of the white terror. Poland is trying to drag the Com- munist deputy Stanislav Lanzutsky to the scaffold, and the Polish workers are rallying to his defense. U. 8. Imperialism Active. ~ Altho the mouthpiece of American imperialism, Cal Coolidge, is saying little, his dictators, Wood in the Phil- ippines and Pershing in South Amer- ica, are increasingly active. William Randolph Hearst, who owns huge estates in Mexico, has offered part of this land to Mexican peons in order to stave off a peasants’ upris- Ing. England is sending the Prince of Wales to her South African colonies to attempt to re-establish good feel- ing, and General Wood, pursuing an- other method, is murdering the Phil- ippine leaders who are fighting Amer- ican imperialism. > Japanese Fight U.S. Ban. Tsuneo Matsudaira, the new Japan- ese ambassador to Washington, in a speech in New York said that Japan did not regard the United State’s immigration bars as “final.” At the same time Sir Charles Higham ts ege- ing on the United States to arm against Japan, while British and American capitalists intrigue ‘and quarrel for control of China and the Pacific colonies. Soviet Russia, of course, has not | im: been invited to attend an interna- tional conference to discuss a divi- sion of this plunder.» But Soviet Rus- sia has shown the people of China and the east that she can be relied upon to fight against any foreign im- perialism, and to befriend the op- pressed workers and peasants of all subject countries. MILITANT WORKERS of THE DAILY WORKER IN EUROPE UNITE AGAINST FALSE, LEADERSHIP AND TO COMBAT INFLUENCE OF DAWES PLAN ance of thé unions in England’s~key -ind| tries, for which the militant ele- LONDON.—The first definite steps dpe the formation of a new alli- ments within the unions haye long-been carrying on an energetic campaign, have now been taken. * On March 11, the executive committee of the Miners’ Federation of Great Britain met with ‘the executive committee of the National Union of Railwayimen, and later, the exetutive of the Transport Workers’ Federation; and on March 12, the miners’ representatives conferred with those of the Amalgamated Engineering Union, and a committee representing the 41 other unions into which the remaining #—— metal workers are unfortunately div-| consciousness and no struggle for ided. Miners and Railwaymen Meet. At the meeting of the miners and railwaymen, the miners made a state- ment regarding the present position in the industry, the wages and hours under which their'members were,work- ing, and expressed the opinion that the improvement of-conditions stead- ily growing worse under the Dawes’ plan, could only be carried thru suc- cessfully, by forceful and determined action,.in common with the unions in the.metal and transport industries. The proceedings at this initial meet- ing, were. largely informal, and fur- ther meetings are to be held. Follow- ing this. meeting, a joint statement, signed by Mr, A. J. Cook, secretary of the Miners’ Federation, and Mr. C. T. ‘Cramp, industrial secretary of the N. U..R.,. was issued, merely announcing that the position as it affected both organizations had been discussed. After the meeting of the miners and transport workers, the following of- ficial statement was issued under the names of Mr. A. J, Cook, for the min- ers, and Mr. Robert Williams for the transport workers. It says: “After Mr. Herbert Smith and Mr. A. J, Cook had examined the objects of the meeting, Mr. Ben Tillett and Mr. Robert Williams presented the case for the Transport Workers’ Keder- ation, “A frank discussion took place on the whole, position, which will be con- sidered by both organizations, and further méetings will be arranged.” In congection with this important step towards achieving unity in the struggle that, is facing the British workers, the Communist Party has ar- ranged a great campaign for the min- ing, railway, metal and transport in- dustries, to take place during the last week in March. In announcing the campaign, the “Official organ of the Commuhist Party: of Great Britain makes the fdiléwing significant ‘state- ment: eer “The campaign will have a two-fold object. Patan “(1) To ouffiné the party’s propos- als for securing’ the unity of the work- ers in the immédiate struggles, with emphasis onthe’ fecessity of proceed: g with the formation ‘of local solid. arity committees. e “(2) The need for a mass Commun- ist Party which will striye to widen and deepen the Workers’ struggle both in regard to the unity of the workers and to the objectives which they are struggling) 40:T9e Without such a party we may have more éfficient trade uni t no revolutionary power. “Already the party has fifty factory groups functioning in the industries mentioned. We must double the am- ount of the factory groups operating in those industries and increase the membership of the existing factory groups at least four-fold.” ee 8 Metal Workers of Italy. ITALY.—The first of a series of three conferences of militant Italian metal workers was recently held at Milan, under the auspices of the Na- tional Italian Communist Trade’ Un- ion Committee. Following this con- ference, at which over 40 metal work- ers’ sections of northern Italy were represented, conferences of the cen- tral and of the sourthern districts will be held. Among the sections par- ticipating in the Milan conference were those of Turin, Milan, Venice, Bologna, Trieste, Fiume, Ferrara, Tre- viso, etc. After approving a motion for uniting the agitation being carried in Lombardy, Tuscany and other parts of the country, against the reformist tactics of the labor bureaucrats, and their acceptance of government arbit- ration, the conference adopted the fol- following resolution: “The conference of revolutionary minorities of northern Italy'within the Italian Federation of Metal Workers (F. I. O. M.) and the representatives of the shop committees of Milan, hav: ing the question of international rela- tions, under discussion: “Denounce the sabotage carried on by the Amsterdam International, sab- otage which has lately been once again confirmed by the last resolution adopted by the plenary session of the Executive Committee; “Pledge themselves to fight within the Italian Federation of Metal Work- ers for admission of the Russian Metal Workers’ Federation into the Metal Workers’ International, and the calling of a world congress to realize the unification of the two trade union internationals; “Affirm the absolute necessity of the revolutionary trade union unity of the working class, in order to form a front against the development of the cap- italist offensive, aided by the seces- sionist action. of social democracy; “Declare that, against this offensive, characterized by the application of the Dawes plan, which strikes not only at the German proletariat, but at the toiling classes of the whole world, there must be created at any cost a united front for the decisive struggle.” se Unity Struggle in Czecho-Slovakia. CZECHO-SLOVAKIA, — The past year has demonstrated that the hopes of the bourgeoisie of Czecho-Slovakia ‘|that the economic crisis would soon It is no exaggeration to say that theré has never appeared in this country such an important journal of information and theory—when yau.can find ar- ticles by Gregory Zinoviev, Wm. Z. Foster, I. Stalin, Earl R. Browder, Wm. F. Dunne, Alexander Bittel- man and other well known writers in one number— as you will in the April issue of THE WORKERS MONTHLY which has just come off the press. New York Readers, Attention! ALL REVOLUTIONARY WORKERS. will celebrate the | THIRD JUBILEE of the FREIHEIT SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 4, 1925 at CARNEGIE HALL, 57th Street and 7th Avenue. Moissaye J..Olgin Only First Class Artists Will-Participate I. CARMELLA PONSELLE y Mezzo Soprano of the Metropolitan Opera House. ~ II. MARMEINS Miriam - Irene - Phyllis. Ill. THE STRINGWOOD ENSEMBLE Joseph Stopak, First Violin. Samuel Ruskin, Second Michael Chores, Viola. Simeon Billison, Clarinet. Abram Dorodkin, Cello. Arthur Leosser, Piano. SPEAKERS: © ; Auspices Executive Committee of the Jewish Federation», 9 ni Workers bai Violin. Shachno Epstein. « Party. come to an end, are absolutely with- out foundation, The number of unemployed has ris- en to 180,000, and is steadily increas- ing, due to the application of the Dawes plan and the sharpening of the economic crisis. The capitalists admit the existence of this crisis, and declare that there is no way of solv- ing it save by lengthening the work- day. The workers are prepared to offer vigorous resistance to the plans of the capitalists. The cost of living is constantly in- creasing, food prices having risen 45 per cent in the course of one month. The situation of the working class is difficult in the extreme. The labor bureaucrats refuse to fight for wage increases, on the grounds that “our industry is not yet sufficiently devel- oped to allow of an increase in wages.” Thru the treachery of these yellow “leaders,” the strikes of the miners, machinists and the textile workers have been crushed. ‘The state employes, of whom there are about 342,000, are in a wretched situation. The government has decid- ed to dismiss 120,000, of which num- ber 45,000 have already been dis- charged. The resportsibility for these dismissals rests with the social dem- ocratie authorities, who are sacrificing these workers to the commands of the foreign financiers from whom they hope to get a loan, The reformist or- ganizations of state employes absol- utely refuse to engage in a common struggle with those adhering to the RLL Uv, Despite the opposition of union of- ficials, the slogan of the Communist Party “towards trade union unity” is finding a living echo among the rank and file. _ 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. Philadelphia, Notice! Weber Printing Co. 350 N. FIFTH STREET, | Philadelphia, Pa. DAWES PLAN HITS BRITISH LABOR BELOW THE BELT German Slavery Used Against Unions. (Special to The Dally Worker.) LONDON.—British labor is flicked with the whip of foreign competition just when the leaders of the largest unions are working for a united front in the struggle for higher wages. A contract for building five 10,000 ton cargo boats goes to a German con- cern on the ground that the work caw be done more cheaply in Hamburg. Many British shipyard workers are out of a job and the anti-union forces ffid the contract a made-to-order ar. gument for reducing ‘wages and abol- ishing trade unjon conditions. The ability of the German firm to underbid British yards by from $290, 000 to $480,000 per “boat is still a mys- tery. There is evidence of collusion on the part of the British employers who are bent on, undermining the wage movement and substituting a downward one. ‘Secfetary John Hill of the Boilermakers’ Union points out that the winning German bid was con- siderably above the normal British price per ton and: that the lowest British bid was inexcusably high. Hill says, “It is all part of some capitalist design which is tlow being applied not only to shipbuilding but to ship- ping.” s 2 Foreign competition underlies the deadlock in the British metal trades negotiations. The employers’ federa- tion refuses to discuss wage increases unless the Amalgamated Union agrees to consider lowering the stand- ard of working conditions. Among the points the employers want considered are the lower wages and longer work- ing week of co! n jeting countries ability of continental countries to un- dersell owifig to thé’ depreciation of their currencies, ‘abnormal credits given to foreign Competitors in their efforts to capture world markets, en- gineering ‘importélitiereasing and ex- ports decreasing ny value per ton, great unemployment in the metal trades. eo et Cheap foreign competition is also the bugbear of the British miners ir their attempt to win a bare subsist- ance wagé. The average cost price of hard coal is $2.60 in Germany com- pared with $2.8%."in England, the wage cost amounting to 42 per cent of the price in Getmany and 65 per cent in England. German mine work- ers put in 8 to irs a day com: pared ‘with a "-honr day in British mines. Lord Rothermere, head of the capitalist press combine, has. given the miners an ultimatum about.as fol- lows: “If you don’t stop your talk about getting decent conditions we'll get our coal frompneemany and then where will you m! be?” Final decision 9} 6 miners’ pro- gram awaits the’ of a bill spon- sored by their itatives in par. liament to amend coal mines min. imum wage act. e miner officialg are meeting the executives of the other big unions°in an attempt at common action. Charge Graft_in Klan. LEXINGTON, Ky., March 30.— Factions within the ku klux klan are at war, and suits have been filed a- gainst George Bigerstaff, grand dragon of the ku klux klan,; and other state klan officials. The suits charge the officers of the klan with misuse of funds, exhorbitant salaries, false state- ments, employment of fraud to obtain funds. Bigerstaff, the charges state, re ceives a salary of $60,000.00 per year, in addition to the graft. Wheeler Gives Bonds. WASHINGTON, D. C., March 30.— Senator Burton K. Wheeler,, indicted here on conspiracy charges in con- nection with oil land permits in Mon- tana, furnished $1,000,00 bond in the district of Columbia ‘court. Dutch Argue Disarmament. » THE HAGUE, March 30.—A pro- position to abolish fle army and con- scription will be debated in the next seasion of the Datel Parliament. Give your shopmate this copy of the DAILY WORKER—but be sure to see him the next day to get his subscription. Eat at the GLOBE CAFETERIA Best Foods at Moderate Prices. 14th STREET, COR. IRVING PLACE (Opposite New York Party Headquarters) 1 Sia tet AOC SOS Mn a LI Eh. LEE in BE SE TE AL te ch i TE BUILD DERS A THERE’S A DANGER! And Also a Golden Opportunity. N the enthusiasm and the interest born of the competition between the various locals in the Second Annual Sub Campaign for the DAILY WORKER, we want to warn our agents and Bullders of a danger: you might forget the Workers Monthly. it is important that altho this is the time to get subs for the DAILY WORKER with redoubled energy, it is also a golden opportunity for get- ting subs for the’ Workers Monthly. The second is also important. While the DAILY WORKER is the official organ of our party giving a daily picture of the revolutionary movement the world over and serving as the guide for our actions, the Workers Monthly is the valuable journal that serves as the theoretical teacher of our membership, to give the guid- ance and understanding for our Communist activity. The Workers Monthly serves as the ballast for reading “our daily”"—giving a proper balance to Communist viewpoint and action. No doubt, if you are an agent your efforts In the DAILY WORKER sub campaign have led you to wisely begin rounding up for subscriptions ‘wo! they should have done long ago. many you can use, Monthly to hetp you do It. (Continued from page 1) various organizations represented were the Illinois Chamber of Com- merce, the Illinois Manufacturers’ As- sociation, the Illinois Bankers’ Asso- elation, rotary clubs, kiwanis clubs, automobile clubs, etc. All suddenly interested in protect- ing rural communities! The Line Up. Opposed to these mighty ones are the poor farmers themselves, as well as every labor organization in the state worthy of the name. What this important struggle is about the readers of the present ar- ticles must now thoroly. tnderstand. In this concluding article, I intend to sum up briefly everything that has been brought out before relative to the scheme to establish a state pol- ice and to draw a few conclusions. In my earlier articles I have shown: (1) That the Dunlap bill now be- fore the Illinois legislature provides for the establishment of a heavily armed, military police force, free to invade any community in the state at will, with or without the sanction of those communities, (2) That a vast and expensive cam- paign of propaganda is on foot to de- ceive the workers as to its real pur- Poses and to bring about the accept- ance of the measure. A Business’ Man Bill. (3) That altho it is pretended that the state police bill is for “rural pro- tection,” it did not originate with the farmers, but with bankers and wealthy business men, who are at present its chief backers. (4) That its purpose is industrial, to break strikes and to interfere with every organized effort on the part of the workers to better their conditions, (5) That insofar as its purpose touches the lives of rural communities it is as an enemy of the poor farmers, in the interests of landsharks, money- lenders, monopolists and railroad mag- nates. To Suppress Exxploited. (6) That a state police force means & system of permanent system of in- ternational law, with complete disre- gard of constitutionally guaranteed rights, such as free speech, free press, freedom of assembly, etc. (7) That the scheme is simply a de- velopment of the present tendency of American capitalism to build up a Powerful centralized governmental machine to protect its monopoly prof- its from the “encroachments” of those whose labor power produced them. (8); That all the;above is proved not only’ by thé conditions surrounding the agitation for the Dunlap bill in IMinois, but by the actual experiences of military police establishments in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, New York, Colorado, etc., and by the depre- dations of the nortorious Royal North- west Mounted Police of Canada, The continued pretenses of the cap- ifalists that they want to protect the ature-in this count Chitago, Illinois. the membors of your branch who have up to now, thru lack of under- standing or lack of funds, failed to become subscribers. If you have, see them again as well as those who have already subscribed to learn if they subscribe for the Workers Monthly. If they see the copy of the latest April issue (which is just off the press) they won't fail to do what And when you—reader, BUILDER, agent—speak to your shopmate or member of your union for a sub to the DAILY WORKER, be sure to hand him (or her) a sample copy of the Workers Monthly and you will get the second subscription without the necessity of trying. gladly furnish the sample copies for this purpose if you tell us how We will The first task Is the Second Annual Sub Campaign. “Now is the time for all good Communists to come to the ald of the: party”. . . and in the meantime be sure that when you get a DAILY WORKER sub to “make another Communist,” you also give out a sample copy of the Workers STATE POLICE NOT LIKE FICTION poor farmer are revealed |as a miser- able hypocrisy. What could three or even the maximum of sevén troops of 65 police thugs do to suppress “crime” in the rural sections of Illinois, a state with an area of 55,000 square miles? Concentrated Suppression. Nothing. They will bé uséd against the workers and poor farmers, con- centrated in special aréaw'(# 1 Penn- sylvania) and shipped’ intd au indus- trial center whenever a conflict is on between the boss and the workers. And the people of the’state will be obliged to support and maintain this private army of capitalist gunmen. Seven’ troops at a -very® conservative figure would involve a first direct cost of from $1,000,000 to $1,200,009 a year. Add.to this the cost of equipment— guns, pistols, uniforms, motor cycles, ammunition—and the poor farmers, al- ready taxed to an unendurable degree would suffer another serious blow. Sign of the Intensified Struggle. The class struggle intensifies. The state police force is for use in that struggle, on the side of. the bosses. But the workers are not, idle. They are putting up a militant resistance. The most class conscious: section of the workers, under the leadership of the Workers (Communist) Party, is alive to the realization that the-power of government is always the power of the ruling class in society (and in the United States that means the capital- ist class!): it knows that when the bosses. agitate for an extension and centralization of state power they are only forging a new weapon of their own to protect their stores of ill-got- ten wealth. The present scandalous campaign for a capitalist-owned state police force in Tillinois should serve to convince every worker who has ever been in a struggle, who has ever been on strike, to understand that what the Communists have been ex- posing ig true. For a United Front. A united front of all labor elements, tokether with the poor farmers, will put the fear of proletarian might into the hearts of the puffy legislators in Springfield. It is the only way in which the Dunlap bill can be defeated. The Workers (Communist) Party is lending {ts full support to the estab- Ushment of such a united front. The Chicago and District 8 organizations of the party have already made them- selves felt in the fight against injunc- tions now being waged in this state; they were instrumental in bringing the call to action before hundreds of local unions and fraternal organiza- tions thruout the state. An even mightier effort is needed if the work- ers are to defeat big business in the attempt of the Dunlap bill to put them under perpetual martial law. ef (This concludes the series of ar- ticles on state police.) GET A SUB AND GIVE ONE! Page Five FOREIGN WORKER MENACED BY THE ANTI-RED BILL Protest Meet Arranged in New York (Special to The Daily Worker.) NEW YORK, March 30.—The new deportation bill, introduced by Con- gressman Holiday and passed by the house of representatives in Febraury, is one of the most vicious bills that have ever been considered in this country. It is worse by far than the alien. bill passed after the revolution of 1776, The workers of this country must awaken to the seriousness of the sit: nation, The government is preparing a new attack on the foreign‘born workers, in order particularly to erlp-: ple the trade union movement. The most active trade unionists in this country are, in great part, torelgn- born workers. They are the workers who today are causing uneasiness to the reactionary trade union official dom. They are the ones who are not content to accept wage slashes, long: er hours and worse conditions. They are the ones who are fighting for amal- gamation into industrial unions. They are the ones who are fighting the gangsters in the unions. The foreign- born workers are among the best and most energetic militants of the whole working class of this country. And the government thinks that by Bill No. 11796 it can drive this-militancy out of toeir heads. Bill Must Go. The capitalist government of Strike breaker Coolidge and “Minute-Man” Dawes will succeed in putting this bill thru the senate if the workers of this country do not wake up. The workers of New York City will tell the government on Friday, April 8, at Manhattan Lyceum, 66 East 4th St., that this bill must go. The native and foreign-born workers will not be divid- ed on this subject. Ex-Representative Chandler, speaking a few days ago in New York said that the “alien Reda must be told that Russia ts thetr nor mal abode. American Reds must be told that Leavenworth or Atlanta is a better living place for them than New York City.” Workers of New York! Come by the thousands to Manhattan Lyceum and show the government that you are determined to fight for, your rights. Agitate in your shops and trade un- ions. Get resolutions passed and send them to the Labor Defense Council, 108 E, 14th St., New York, who are ar- ranging this protest meeting. Does your friend subscribe to the DAILY WORKER? 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