The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 15, 1925, Page 6

Page Six mes simile teen ssn = THE DAIL/IY WORKER THE DAILY WORKER. See lheeseenecSsaeasn athe EY ] Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. ; 1118 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, IL. ; (Phone: Monroe 4712) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mall: $3.50....6 months ‘ Ara months By mail. (in Chicago only): if $4.50,...6 months $2.50....8 months — $6.60 per year $8.00 per year Address all mail and wake out checks to 4y : THE DAILY WORKER 1118 W. Washington Bivd. 3, LOUIS ENGDAHL . WILLIAM F. DUNNE MORITZ J. LOEB.. Chicago, Ilinels {nner EOFS -ccmene Business Manager Entered as second-class mail* Sept. 21, 1923, at the Post- Office at Chicago, Ill, under the act of March 8, 1879, <> 290 Advertising rates op app’cation Decline in France Begins The German crisis reacts on France and the formation of a cabinet is made more difficult by the uncertainty of the outcome of the German elections. The German rulers, uncertain as to the composi- tion of the new French cabinet, are unable to settle on a definite program. From England comes the report that the Easter holiday closing of the stock exchange has made it impossible to estimate the extent of the influence of the French crisis, but it is known that any un favorable developments on the bourse will have an echo in London. So closely are the affairs of the nations of Europe interwoven, so delicate is the balance of the scales in international affairs, that internal crises like those in France and Germany have be- come matters of world importance. The dissolution of the French cabinet comes at a time when unemployment in France is at a minimum and this alone prevents it having wider consequences. It has come because the French im- perialists have not dared to tax the middle class and the peasantry to recoup the war losses—be- cause Germany was to pay the cost of the war. The French government is bankrupt and des- ‘perate measures are needed to forestall another crash of the franc. Taxation is unpopular in France, more so than elsewhere, and any govern- meut that tries to force a levy on the thrifty bourgeoisie will meet with disaster. The military adventures of the imperialists must be paid for, the vassal states must be kept in line, the army and navy clamor for additional appropriations and upon the continued catering to the militarists de- pends the supremacy of French imperialism in Europe. But the French government is not a free agent. The international bankers demand. guarantees for further loans. If these guarantees are not giyen down goes the franc and with it the stability, of the French government. The threat of social revolution is present, in every government crisis and this alone accounts for the manner in which France has been allowed to engage in her military enterprises while deferring any attempt to liquidate her enormous debt,.. The one continental nation that has been able to-keep her workers employed, France has blackmailed her creditors into postponing the day of payment. , But all things have an end and France has been compelled finally to realize that she is not a country separate and apart from international capitalism. It can be said with some certainty that the course of development.in France from now on. will parallel that of Germany—there will be a series of government crises which will become chronic, but there will be this difference: In place of an improvement in employment which brought some temporary lessening of the pressure in Germany, France will experience an industrial decline due to the export of capital to escape heavy taxation and to German competition. The crisis in France then is the forerunner of a deeper and more far-reaching condition of in- dustrial demoralization postponed artificially until now, but all the more serious for that reason in its consequences for the French ruling class. The French crisis, coming at a time when the Y apologists of capitalism are boasting of the ten- p dency towards stability, is proof of the fact that no stabilization of the whole of capitalism is pos- sible—that improvement in one nation is at the cost of demoralization in another, that the whole course of world capitalism is downwards. “Self-Control” in the Pacific Governor Wallace Farrington of Hawaii, in an interview published in the capitalist press, says: “The coming of the United States fleet for exer- cises in these waters and a further tour of the Pacific is one of the grandest educational programs on which the citizens of our great country have gone forth .... I believe it timely that very American citizen should be reminded of the fact that while the total export and import trade of the United States increased more than 200 per cent during the ten years that @nded in 1923, the in- crease of trade thru the ports of the Pacific was more than 500 per cent... . The people of the Pacific area have everything to gain from the exercise of friendliness and common sense and self-control.” The sentencing of two soldiers in Hawaii to 40 and 26 years in prison for forming a Communist league shows that American imperialism’ teaches self-control by the harshest methods. That is why the fleet visits Hawaii and other Pacific ports— to teach the natives*self-control. Cause and effect are yery closely linked in the governor’s interview—it is an imperialist classic. Our trade increases, our investments in the Pacific gtow, we have a vested interest in the Pacific ter- “Friendliness, common sense and self-control” are abstractions, but under the guns of the Amer- a : a f t ican navy they turn into very practical things. It will be the exploited peoples that forget them- selves, not the American capitalist who robs them. And if the*eolJonial peoples cannot exercise “self- control” there ate the battleships to bring them the message of “common sense.” The punishmené..meted out to two American soldiers for holding revolutionary views is in- tended as a warning to all the workers and farmers in the Pacific area _as well as to their fellow sol- diers. The savage sentences are intended to tell the colonial masses that American imperialism will tolerate no opposition to its rule. Back of this message stands the guns of the Pacific fleet. The answer to the challenge of American .im- perialism must come from the workers and farm- ers of the United States, its colonies and spheres of exploitation. In every robber scheme the Amer- ‘ican ruling class must meet a united front of American and colonial workers. The two soldiers who have been condemned. to spend their lives in prison because they dared to think of freedom, must be made to symbolize the slavery American imperialism forces on the work- ing class. ee Legalizing Peonage The Tennessee legislature has a bill before it that, if passed, will further enslave the tenant farmers and farm laborers, black and white. The intention of the bill, which makes violation of contract punishable by fine and imprisonment, is to place the victims of the peonage system out- side the law—by aarefully excluding landlords and employers from the penalties of the measure. Section 1 of the proposed law reads: “That any employe, laborer, servant, renter or share-cropper who wilfully breaches a written con- tract between employer and employe, laborer, servant, renter or share-cropper shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.” Under this provision the victim may be fined from $20 to $50 and sentenced to hard labor for three months. At present many tenant farmers and share-crop- pers (those who till the soil for a share in the crop) find themselves in debt to the landlord at the end of the year. They cannot leave until the debt is paid and from year to year find themselves owing the landlord a larger amount. This is the way the peonage system works. With the lécal and state governments in the control of the landlords and bosses there is no redress for the victims. They are chattel slaves in fact tho not in name. The proposed law is designed to strengthen the control of the feudal lords. It makes a criminal of any tenant bold enough to leave the land of the robber baron because he has “broken his contract.” That such legislation is contemplated in any section of the United States in the twentieth cen- tury is sufficient proof that the civil war did not <destroy chattel slavery. With the northward migra- tion of hundreds of thousands of Negro farmers it has become more difficult to enforce the peonage system. It is now to be legalized. This bill alone is evidence enough that the tenant farmers and farm laborers of the south must or- ganize. They cannot organize effectively as long as the ruling class is able to divide them on racial lines. Here is an immediate issue on which both Negro and white victims of the peonage system can come together. This and similar problems will be on the agenda of the American Negro Labor Congress that will be held in Chicago some time this summer. Get a member for the Workers Party and a new subscription for the DAILY WORKER. The Philadelphia Transport Workers’ Strike The Marine Transport Workers’ Union of Phila- delphia, affiliated with the I. W. W., is on strike for recognition of the organization. The union de- mands that no worker be hired unless he wears the button signifying membership in the union. This union is a militaant one and has fought many battles with the stevedoring companies and shipowners in its territory. It has never succeeded in organizing all of the transport workers in the port, but at one time it set wages and working conditions for the 12,000 longshoremen employed in and around the Philadelphia docks. In 1923 the general strike of the marine trans- port workers was lost and since that time the Philadelphia union has been slowly making good the losses. Its present action is undoubtedly more in the nature of an organization campaign than anything else and reports from the scene of the struggle show that it is meeting with considerable success. In Philadelphia there are large numbers of Negro transport workers and to these workers the Marine Transport Workers’ Union has always made an especial appeal. Ben Fletcher, one of the best organizers in the industry and one of the leaders of the present strike, is a Negro. 5 The marine transport industry is one of the most poorly organized in the United States. The capital- ists of the industry aye among the best entrenched and the most ruthless-im their treatment of the workers. The success of the present strike, there- fore, will be of great importance to the labor move- ment and give added impetus to the united front movement in the industry endorsed. by. the. New Orleans convention. In no industry is international organization more of a burning issue. That the Marine Trans- port Workers’ Union, of the I. W, W. understands this is shown by the fact that only two branches of the union failed,to support the program, of a united front outlived by the Red International of Labor Unions,and accepted at New Orleans, EY ante Every day getasnb” for the DAILY WORKER and a member forthe Workers Party. yes Ho ext § 4 ANTI-LABOR LAW OF KANSAS IS HIT BY: COURTS Howat Broke Power of “Industrial Court” WASHINGTON, D. C., April 13.— The Kansas court of industrial rela- tions was dealt another blow by the United States supreme court today, when the industrial court’s authority over working hours was repudiated. The industrial court law, which was sponsored by former Governor Allen as a means of preventing strikes, was virtually smashed by Alexander How- at, then head of the Kansas coal min- ers’ union, who defled the anti-labor law and struck the Kansas mines. Howat Jailed. For this, Howat served nearly two years in prison, but Allen was defeat- ed at the polls because of Howat’s fight, and Howat was then freed. John L. Lewis and the international officials of the United Mine Workers of America suspended Howat as presi- dent of the Kansas thiners as punish- ment for his loyalty to the miners’ interests. Howat.has been re-elected president time and again by the Kan- sas miners, but has néver been recog- nized by Lewis’“official family. A decision by the Kansas supreme court, upholding the industrial court's authority over working hours was re- versed by the supreme tribunal. The decision was rendered in the case of the Charles Wolff Packing company. Last year the supreme court of the United States held unconstitutional provisions of the court of industrial relations law giving it authority over wages. The packing company held this de- cision invalidated the law generally, but the Kansas supreme court did not so interpret the higher court decision. It ordered the packing company to observe hours of labor as required by the industrial court, The supreme court of the United States now holds this provision of the»Kansas law in- valid. New Haven Comrades Call on Workers for May 1 Demonstration NEW HAVEN, *Conn., April 13— The Workers Party, local New Haven sent out a call to‘ll the labor uniofs and fraternal orgatizations of New Haven to. lay do ther tools and demonstrate on May’ Day, the holiday of the working class!'of the world. The letter states’in part: “We are faced in America -!With wage cuts, open shop drives afi@ child labor. We are faced with ‘critiinal syndicalist laws, deportation*laws, gag laws, and persecution of ‘wofking class mili- tants. Numerous ‘élass war prisoners are in jail, or facitig it. Our foreign born brothers are Hétnded. America enslaves the defenseless workers of Central and South America. We must make a stand against this. We must unite our forces to-eombat it. “We must fight fatyrecognition and support of the bf Cunt republic of the world, the’ m of Socialist Soviet Republics. ; We must fight for unity of the world trade union move- ment, uniting Amsterdam and the Red Labor International. We must abolish all discrimimations against the Negro race. ‘We must support the victims of the international class struggle by supporting the Interna- tional Red Aid. We must raise the cry: ‘Down with ‘the government of the Strikebreaker Coolidge and Open Shopper, Dawem Hail the workers’ and farmers’ government of Ameri- ca.” “May Day—the day of protest against industrial slavery. May Day ~—the day of struggle for a bright fu- ture, 7 “Let us get together. Let us lay down our tools. Let us demonstrate the solidarity of labor in New Haven. The workers of otlier cities of Am- erica and the world will do the same. Let not New Haven be behind, but up in the procession.” Ludwig Lore’Next Speaker at Harlem Forum it New York NEW YORK, April 13.—With two more discussion eyenings left, the Harlem Forum, at 64 East 104th St., will soon wind up a highly success- ful season which will be repeated next fall because of the, satisfactory at- tendance. The coming Sunday, April 19, Ludwig Lore, editor of the New Yorker Volkszeitun} will speak on the significant “The Capital- ist, Labor and Com For the last disc: Jacobson will open the discussion on “Proletcult.” That ‘will be Sunday evening,April 26. There will be, in addition, recitations of poems by Simon Felshin, John Lassen, and from the new Russian poetry. Ragozin’s Class Begins in Harlem. The class in “Fundamentals of Communism” started last Friday .eve- ning at the Harlem section head- quarters, 64 East @@4th street, with a fair atendance, There is more room in the class for students, Ray Ww Ragozin is consid one of the best teachers in the rk Party, and ought to have a cla: It is ex- pected that the will grow and will continue thruja, season, | Local police were searching today for PHILLY MAY DAY. CONFERENCE HAS ALL PLANS MADE The united front May day confer- ence in Philadelphia has made defin- ite arrangements for a huge May day celebration to be held Friday, May 1, at the Lulu Temple, at 8 p, m. Wm. Dunne, editor, and Benjamin Gitlow, of the Workers Party will be the principal speakers at the meet- ing. The Italian and Russian Feder- ations, the Young Workers’ League and the Y. W. L. Juniors will be rep- esented with speakers. The Freiheit Singing Society, the Lithuanian chor- us and the junior chorus will furnish the meeting with revolutionary songs. Instrumental and vocal solos are be- ing selected by the arrangements committee to round up the program, The conference decided to co-oper- ate with the Workers Party May Day festival that is being arranged at the Eagles’ Temple for Saturday, May 2. Dancing, music, _ refreshments, pageant and folk dancing will give color and revolutionary spirit to the May Day festival. The next meeting of the May Day conference has been set for Wednes- day, April 22, at 8 p. m., at 521 York Ave. ‘ All working class organizations are invited to send delegates to this con- ference. Credentials can be mailed to R. Baker, 521 York Ave. Dubuque, Iowa, to Hear Marxist Ideas from W. P. Speakers DUBUQUE, Iowa, April 12.—This city gives the visitor an impression of being a hot-bed of religious quar- rels, with “protestant and catholic” calling each other every sort of un- complimentary epithet. Even the labor organizations are suffering from their share of this Main street stupidity, with a few of the old-timers busy holding down the. lid. Everyone is too bysy either en- gaged in or preventing such discus- sion to consider the causes of such “klan wars” and how they benefit the ruling capitalist class. Marxist education is always in order, however, so J, E. Snyder and Tom Matthews have arranged to lec- ture at the Community Band Hall, 20th and White, on Tuesday evening, April 21st, at 8 P. M. ‘ Admission to this lecture will be free and every progressive worker, working class woman and student in Dubuque is urged to attend. Sport Club Members to Chew Nails and Bend Iron at Party NEW YORK, April 13—At last we have it! The first affair of the Work- ers’ Sports Club since its organization. The most novel entertainment that ever a branch produced, including a musician who plays on the saw and many others equally interesting. Miss Lee Cohen, a singer of note (high note) will render several selec- tions. Comrade Davidson, and accom- plished cellist will delight us with a few numbers. Irving Shoebe is the one who will show us how to play Rackmainoff’s preludes on a saw. A Communist Breitbart will chew up nails and bend iron for our benefit. And not only do we have this fine program, but following it we will have dancing with the jazziest music that can be obtained. Don't forget. The place is 108 #. 14th St. The date is Saturday eve- ning, April 18, 1925 at 8 p. m. Be there early for the entertainment wil) start at eight sharp. Important Meeting for Party Membership at Elizabeth, N. Y. Wednesday, April 15, there will be an important membership meeting of al party comrades in Elizabeth, N. J. The meeting will be held in the eve- ning at Lutwin Hall, 39 South Park street. The speaker of the evening will be Israel Amter, who will speak on the subject of “Shop Nuclei.” Com- rade Amter has just returned from Soviet Russia and Germany, where he has had an opportunity to study the functioning of shop nuclei at first hand. Comrades should not fail to be present at this important and interesting meeting. Gets $125 “S, 0.” Money. TERRE HAUTE, Ind,, April 13,— two bandits who dragged John Tor- rence, 62, into an alley and robbed him of $200 and later held up a Stand- ard Oil filling station, escaping with $125, Authorities believe both rob- berles were committed by the same men, é Jail Polish Officials, 12, WARSAW.—Nine officials, im z ing Vice Admiral Peremboski, .com- manding the Polish navy, were tinder jno’ arrest today pending investigation of charges of abuse to the comptroller's’ office of the navy department. Workers Party—Local Chicago Activities Tuesday, April 14. Czecho‘Slovak~ Cicero Wowen's G. Masaryk “School, 57th and 22nd Place. rT, Irving Park English, 4021 Drake avenue. Nosthwest English, 2733 Hirsch Blvd... ° 3 Rumanian Branch, 2260 Clybourn Ave, v Ukrainian No. 1, 1532 W. Chicago Ave, Italian 31st Ward, 511 N, Sangamon St. Wednesday, April 15. CITY CENTRAL COMMITTEE MEETING, 722 Blue Island avenue, 8 p.m. ? Czecho-Slovak, ‘Cicero, 22nd Place, Cicero, "Ill. f Italian Cicero, 14th St. between Sist Ave. and 50th Ct: Italian Terro Cotta, 2475 Clybourn avenue, 57th and Thursday, April 16, Russian No. 1, 1902 W. Division St. South Side English, 3201 S. Wabash Ave. , South Slavic No. 1, 1806 S. Racine Ave. Scandinavian Karl Marx, 2733 Hirsch Blvd. / Friday, April 17. Polish North Side, 1902 W. Division St. ———__—_— YOUNG WORKERS LEAGUE ACTIVITIES. LOCAL CHICAGO, ‘Tuesday, April 14. Meeting of all branch literature and Young Worker “sub” agents tonight, Tuesday, 7 p. m., at 19 8. Lincoln St. Meeting of all Y. W. L. members working in Mail Order, Houses and Department Stores, 19° South Lincoln street. Plans for furtfiéring’ our Mail Order House campaign-will be dis- cussed: 1—Getting imtoxthe union. 2—Taking up new problems in, the in- dustry. 38—Further: «organizational tasks in the campaign.oors. Thursday, April, 16. Area Branch No: 4;03118&.W. Roose- velt Road. Activity: meeting. Friday, Apribtfac Activity meetings of;,all the league branches this Friday. Activities of in- dividual members, ;work:of existing shop nuclei, prospective « anclei, _fac- tory campaigns, etc. of. fhegbranch are discussed. 12 Hyecp + The. meetings will be -heldvas fol- lows: a Branch No. 1, Room »606,,; 166. W. Washington St. Branch No. 2, 19400; Wy): Roosevelt Road. Branch Ng 3, 3201 Ss Wabash: Ave. Branch No. 5, 2613 Hirsch Blvd. Saturday, Aprif: 18» t Dance given by the.Jewish Propa- ganda Committee, Werkers. Lyceum, 2783 Hirsch Blvd. thir Sunday, Aprile49. City Hike. End .af.Grand Ave car line; groups to meetiat;$:80 Sunday morning at the following stations: South Side—3116 S..)Halsted St.; West Side—3118 W.2Roosevelt Road; N. W. Side—2733 Hirsch: Blwd.;:North Side—2409 N. HalstedySte “WATCH FOR FURTHER DETAILS,» * Tort e—anils Pe “Socialist” Davenport to Get Real Marxism from Workers Party DAVENPORT, Towa, April 13,— Davenport has a powerful social-demo- cratic tradition. This is the Iowa city where they elected the “socialist ad- ministration,” mayor ’neverything, but they didn’t keep their socialist label long after getting in. So while Davenport has a strong socialist undercurrent, particularly among the German population, it is a current of pessimism which springs from lack of understanding of the real fundamentals of undiluted Marx- jan socialism, “Teach the Teachers.” Consequently the task of the Work-| ers Party in Davenport is nothing more nor less than the teaching” of socialism to the socialists. That deep- rooted disease of the labor movement —lack of Marxian education—must be attacked with the weapons of Lenin- ist understanding which leave no room for the muddle-head and the un- scrupulous politician, Davenport is jist an extreme dramatization Of our’ task thruout the national office territory. Not only must we present the program of the Workers Party, but we must also clear up the clouds of confusion left in the wake of our once beloved “socialist party.” In so doing, we must remem- {ber that the socialist party was so- Clalistic in name only; that its tactics were only perversions of Marxism perpetrated upon the éollowers of Marxian ideas in this country, » Will Speak April 18. J. BE. Snyder and Tom ’ Matthews, of the Workers Party, will speak in Davenport.on Saturday evening, April 18, at the Pinkus and Kinneman, Hall, 701 West 3rd St. No admission will be charged. hy Senyrghsittty, | This meeting is part of the contin- uous educational campaign which ‘s deing initiated to build up the state organization of the Work- Party, and place it on a solid of education and clarity, IN WISCONSIN TO BUILD THE PARTY Sub-District Meeting at Milwaukee, April 26 _ (Special to The Dally Worker.) HEWAUKEE, Wis. April 13.—In order-to build up in the state of Wis- consin, amore effective Communist movement and to centralize activities of the organization, the district ex- ecutive committee of District No. 8 issued a call for the sub-district con- ference, » Fight Capitalist Allies, It iscexpected that the conference will be: the means of establishing a strong,» organization in Wisconsin which will be able to combat not only the capitalist class but also their most valuable allies from the camp of so- called LaFollette republicans and also of Victor Berger's socialist party. The recent presidential elections which in- dicated the decline of the socialist party. also pointed out the tremendous possibilities for the Communist move. ment. Almost 5,000 people voted for the Communist candidates in their first appearance on the Wisconsin ballot. The results of elections only partial. ly indicate the Communist sentiment in the state and the conference will undertake the task of © organizing, developing and. increasing this senti- ment. The call for the conference follows: tibet * Call for the Wisconsin Sub-District Conference. Dear Comrades: In accordance with instructions of ‘the district executive committee, a call is being issued for the Wisconsin sub-district conference of District No. 8, to be held in Mil- ‘waukee, Wis., at Miller Hall, 802 State street, on April 26, at 10 o’clock Sun- day morning. All branches in the state of Wis. consin of District No. 8, including Mil- waukee, West Allis, Kenosha, Racine Sheboygan, Madison and surrounding towns are instructed to send one dele- gate from each-branch to the confer- ence. Branches having more then 26 members should send two delegates. Young Workers League groups*and Junior groups are also instructed to send delegates to the conference. Mi The district executive committee proposes the following order of busi- ness: ‘ 1. Report on the election campaign and the general political situation in Wisconsin. Reporter G. S. Shklar. 2. Report on party problems. and general situation by the district or- ganizer. ' 3. Report on the educational work, Reporter J. C. Gibson. 4. Report on shop-nuclei and trade inion activities. Reporter G. Pro- danich. 5. Report on youth movément and Junior groups, by S. Sungal. 6. Report on the International Workers’ Aid, by Cora Meyer.: 7. Report on the DAILY WORKER, ly F. Pilachek. (a) Second annual subscription drive; (b) Group of workers’ correspondents. 8. Organization of the sub-district. ws (a) Finances; (b) Election of the sub- district executive committee. 9. General. , Fraternally submitted, G. S. Shklar, Sub-District Organizer. What have you done for your local campaign quota? Baltimore Y. W. L. to Hold Banquet, Dance on Sunday, April 19 Baltimore has been eagerly await- | ing a Young Workers League affair. At Jast they are coming forth with a real one. The first anniversary of the Baltimore league will be celebrated’ with a banquet accompanied with good jazz music. Comrade Wicks of New York will be the main speaker. There will be many surprises, good eats and every- thing, all for 60c. The banquet will be held Sunday, April 19, at 7:30 p, m., at Labor Lyceum, Riscquith and Lex- ington streets, Baltimore. Tickets , maybe obtained at 1135 EB. Baltimore street, second floor. ) Subscribe for the DAILY WORKER!” } CONCERT AND DANCE FOR AID OF GREEK weet | EMPROS, THURS,, APR. 23| You are invited to attend the In: ternational Dance and itertain- ment given by the Chicago hw branch, ‘Workers Party, for the benee + fit of t! Greek Communist Weekly, | | Em at Bowen Hall, ‘Hull | Sts., Thi re Admission cents, Good freshm: ised to all.