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

— alboak a niviaincadnaieneensirente ET me Page Six THE DAILY WORKER. —<$$—$— Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 1118 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, TL (Phone: Monroe 4712) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mall: $3.50.,.6 months $2.00...8 months 8 ail (in Chicago onty): f "F. 50....6 months $2.50....8 months 66.60 per year 68.00 per year 4@drese-all mail and wake out checks to THE DAILY WORKER 4918 W. Washington Bivd. pectic eas 3. LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F. DUNNE MORITZ J. LOEB. — Gntered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1933, at the Post- | Office at Chicago, Ill, under the act of March 8, 1879. <a 50 The New Code—“Guilty Until Proven Innocent” The deportation proceedings in New York against Emanuel Vajtauer, Czecho-Slovakian worker, have revealed the fact that under the immigration law of 1924 there is no such presumption of innocence of the accused as is found in other statutes based on the established legal code. In other words the burden of proof rests on the accused. The defendant is presumed to have en- tered the country illegally, or to have violated the immigration law in some other manner until he can prove otherwise. This complete reversal of the very foundation of criminal processes in all Anglo-Saxon countries will doubtless astonish many well-meaning people who believe all the bunk about the impartiality of laws and courts that they read in the school books and the capitalist press. It is a cold fact, how- ever, established by the decision of Judge Hand in ruling on an application for habeas corpus in the Vajtauer case, that in its war on the foreign- born workers, the capitalist government of the United States has abolished the right of trial by jury and placed every foreign-born worker at the mercy of the spies and stoolpigeons which infest the ranks of fhe workers and particularly the labor unions. The New York Times states that a member of a union furnished the government with the informa- tion resulting in his arrest. If this is true it shows that just as during the war period, the membership of the trade union is being debauched and turned into spies and informers. The purposes of such laws is to divide the labor movement—to create suspicion ,and dissension among and between the native-born and foréign- born workers. No one profits from this except the capitalists and it is enlightening to note that the loudest shouter for drastic regulation and registra- tion of foreign-born workers is James J. Davis, the steel trust tool who is secretary of labor in the Coolidge cabinet. The Communists suffer most from these excep- tional laws at present, but it is the labor move- ment against which they are directed and which they are designed to cripple by cowing the most militant of its members—the foreign-born workers. Chieago, Ilinels | woe Editors mem Business Manager —————— ED Advertising rates op app“cation | Get a member for the Workers Party and a new subscription for the DAILY WORKER. The New French Cabinet The French cabinet received a vote of confidence, 216 to but the real weakness of the new com- bination was revealed best by the fact that Marcel Cachin, Communist deputy, attacked the govern- ment in the longest speech ever delivered in the chamber while the other parliamentary blocs re- mained silent. Painleve, in his opening speech, showed that the new cabinet is a creature of the bankers and this point was emphasized by Cachin. Painleve clings to the old demand for a security pact from which Germany will be excluded and thus continues the conflict with Great Britain, altho he admitted that the probability of substantial reparation payments was becoming dimmer. The Communists are preparing huge demonstra- tions for amnesty for political prisoners all over France and the government is in a delicate posi tion as a result of Caillaux’s elevation to the post of finance minister after haying been convicted of treason and amnestied. The deportation of immigrants and the war on foreign-born workers, including Roy, leader of the Communist Party of India, upon whose head the British government set a price, is also being made an issue by the Communists. There are some 800,000 foreign-born workers in’France, many of them refugees from the fascist terror, and the right of political asylum. has been denied them. The Vainleve cabinet is not in a position to stand much criticism on this score and the Communists know it. The cabinet is called upon to raise funds to liquidate $1,000,000,000 worth of short-term notes, which fall due thig year, and any disturbance of the population will most certainly prevent this. The reception of the new government by the chamber and the press do indicate a very long life for it. N ADRES oh Every day get aveub” for the DAILY WORKER and a member for’the Workers Party, Company Unions The growth of company unions is\ one of the ‘dangers that ‘confronts tHe labor movement, but safe and sane labor, leaders deal with the problem by closing their eyes to it. In interview after interview which they give on the subject they declare.either that ‘company unions do not exist, that they are but a passing phase of the period, or that they are no menace to organized labor. > It is wrong to say that all the labor leaders close | their eyes to this problem for many*of them, like “B. and O. Bill” Johnston of the International As- sociation of Machinists, are the most active work- ers for the company union plan. Latest figures show that 1,177,000 workers are now organized in company unions—organized, that is, for the boss. This is about a third of the present membership of the American Federation of Labor and shows the strides made by these openly capitalist-controlled bodies. In the United States these unions occupy about the same place in the social structure as the christian unions of Europe. They not only make militant organiza- tion difficult in the industries in which they are formed, but they also are a reserve army that can be shifted around and used as strikebreakers. The spread of these company unions is due to the lack of interest in organization work displayed by labor officialdom. To say that the great. bulk of the American workers are unorganizable is to jadmit that we must surrender to American cap- | italism. The labor officialdom takes this viewpoint. It furnishes them with an excuse for adventures in financial enterprises like banking and insurance schemes, it gives them a sort of protective color- ing and they can pose as saviors of the working class whom the ignorant mass will not recognize. But whenever the resistance of the labor official- dom to systematic organization campaigns like that in the’steel industry has been broken down to some extent, the unorganized workers have responded. The truth of the matter is that the labor bureau- cracy in this country wants no more organization of the workers. It has enough to furnish huge salaries and to finance profit-making schemes that bring in added returns. It sees in the rise of the company unions the working out on the industrial field of its class peace schemes in banking, etc. The labor bureaucrats have quit fighting the bosses with whom the fakers are on good terms. There is no other possible explanation for the speeches and articles clamoring for ~industrial peace that emanate from high officials and the of- ficial journals of the labor movement. The organized workers are to be sold out to the capitalists after being lulled to sleep by talk of industrial peace. To expose this conspiracy is the urgent duty of the left wing of the labor movement and more and more proof of the nature of the plot is disclosed every day, ranging from the united front of the miners’ union officials with the coal operators to that of Hillman and Levin with the terroristic government of Poland. German Government Aids Zankov The German government comes to the support jof the bloody Zankov regime of Bulgaria by ar- |resting 38 Bulgarian students in Berlin, charged with conspiracy in the uprising. The students have been given the third degree and all the documents found are to be turned over to the Bulgarian goy- ernment. If any country in the world should be willing to give asylum to refugees from terror governments it should be Germany., The allied governments that now back the murderous Bulgarian govern- ment in its war of extermination against the work- ers and peasants blockaded Germany and starved thousands of ‘people to death—children for the most. part. The German government calls itself republican, a popular government, but its, latest action shows it to be merely a tool in the hands of. international counter-revolution. The insincerity of. the protests against the international organization of workers under the leadership.of the Communist Interna- tional is evident when we see every capitalist gov- ernment acting in concert and particularly. when such action is in support of a government. based on mass slaughter of the worker and peasants—a slaughter so merciless that even t the capitalist press is sickened and at which the professional sgldiery revolt. Every day get a “sub” for the DAILY WORKER and a member for the Workers’ Party: » Obit Denmark’s General Strike™’ The lockout in Denmark has developed into a strike affecting 200,000 workers. In Denmark there are 240,000 organized .work- ers so the strike is evidently a national one. We have commented before on the.comparatively. peaceful development of the class struggle in Den- mark due to the lack of heavy industry producing more than the domestic needs, but the general strike shows that, as in all the European nations, the struggle is being sharpened and ever wider masses of the workers brought into the fight: for the maintenance of living. standards.» 4. &:« Nothing could show better the increasing in- tensity of class antagonisms in this period than this veneral strike in a nation whose principal exports are butter, ehees¢ and other psi products. dhe Qt - THE DAILY WORKER Sessions of (Continued pial last issue.) Moscow, o2—(By Matl)— N April 2nd, Agitprop confer- ence was opened: in the Kremlin. Comrades Treint (France), Winterich (Germany), and Bell (England) were elected into the presidium. Almost all sections of the Comintern were present, The conference began with a short report by Comrade Bela Kun. He touches upon the need to bolshevize the Communist mass parties, the time has arrived when every party must place on the agenda the question of Marxist-Leninist education. This conferenct should answer two questions: firstiyi-What the content of our propagandi should be, and sec- ondly—what the Organizational forms of our educational work should be. Leninism must aot temain the mono- polistic property ‘of’ the leaders; it must become the common property of membership mas¥es, and the mem- bers must be developed into real mom bers of the Communist party. The main task is to’éstablish elementary party schools for the education of the membership. A Says The second task is, to develope a competemt party cadre for the pur- pose of Geese cand central party schools, FTER the report’ of Comrade Volk on the bolshevization of the party press, the conference heard the re- ports of the Czech, English, Italian, French, German and Polish parties. For the purpose of thorou examina- tions of thé various fields of Agit- prop activity, sub-commissions were appointed. N the debate on the report of Com- rade Bucharin, the Yugo-Slavian Comrade Boshkovitch describes the situation on the Balkan, where the feudal agrarian conditions have not yet been fully abolished by land re- forms. In Bulgaria, Zankov is. liquidating Stamboulisky’s agrarian reforms; in Roumania the Ignd.reforms have sharpened the situatisa; in Macedo- nia and Dalmatia féudal agrarian con- ditions prevail. In!Greece there are no land reforms; ‘fi ‘Albania’ Akhmed Zogu ‘represents agrarian reaction. TRACTION BOSS AUTHOR OF BARR FRANCHISE BILL Len Saitll Masks tacutl Trolle 1 SPRINGFIELD, » April 22.—The “terminable permit”. bill now before the Illinois legislatuf$, which was in- troduced into the sfate by Richard Barr, lieutenant of corer Small,and which has the ba of Governor Small’s delegation, written by J. R. Blackhall of Joliet, general man- ager of the Chicago-and “Joliet elec- tric company, presidént of the Joliet chamber of commerté,’ and ‘chairman of the joint committéé"of the: three Illinois public utilitiés! associations. Insull Prompted Bill The “joint public: policy commit- tee”, of which Blackball is chairman, is composed of representatives of the Ulinois Gas association, Illinois Elec- tric association, and Hlinois Electric Railway association. These three as- sociations are controlled by Samuel Insull, the open shop public utilities magnate, and comprise practically every gas, electric, and electric rail- way company in Illinois and neigh- boring states. On the “joint commit- tee” are Britton I. Budd, and G. A. Richardson, employes and close as- sociates of Insuli. “Blackhall has ‘been a friend of mine for years,” Senator Barr admitted. +1 went over the bill as"Blackhall gave it to me and I agreed’ to-prevent. it.” Bankers Influence Legislators The law which ‘todk from Chicago the sole power to give franchise as vested the power if a’state corhmerce commission was signed by former governor Edward F* Dunne, in 1913. Governor Dunne wid ‘was agaifist the Dever traction orditiance which was défeated this month}*himself signed the bill which allied the Barr bill to be presented to ‘the senate. Both the Dever’ tfaction ordinance and the-Barr bill give the public util- ities corporations wal fran- chise, and they we! vor of both measures. The BafrDill allows these corporations to extéhd their fran- chises to any strédt, at will. Millions Lost in Stores Fraud NEW YORK, April, 22.—-The Feder- ated Food Stores company of, chain groceries has been declared bankrupt in an involuntary petition filed in federal court in Brooklyn, It is char- ged that “the company defrauded in- vestors out of over a million dollars, and made huge ete on fictitious securities, The Mabilities orsethe ‘corporation, | which, operated stores, were placed at four mi‘ a | dollars. we ge Get a sub—make another Com- munist! SIT AS Recah a REE Bis 8P Rae A tac R ins Ra A <s EE Tt hD e Tn e E cEL EEE c ca oA nea Enlarged ITAMBOULISKY’S peasant gov; ernment has proven that the peasantry cannot create a, strong solid Power; that a peasant govern- ment accelerates the class differentia- tion on the land, and that without an alliance with the workers the peas- antry carfiot maintain power. The speaker then characterizes the peasant organizations in the Balkan countries, and points out that the peasant masses are steering towards the left. The Communist parties must support the Peasants’ International; they must support the left wings in the peasant parties, and discard the social democratic prejudices in their own ranks. Bu KUN declares that he fully agrees with Comrade Bucharin's critique of the peasent policy of the Hungarian Soviet dictatorship. The overthrow of the Hungarian Soviet Republic was predetermined by the absence of a Communist Party as we understand it now; also by the world situation and by the strategic posi- tion, But the main cause of the over- throw of the Soviet government was the role played by the peasantry. The Hungarian Soviet government had turned the large estates into agricul- tural productive co-operatives. The land proletariat therefore felt no real change. In the Red army the demand for land distribution became loud. The speaker is convinced that had the Soviet dictatorship continued to exist, it would have been com- Pelled to distribute the land. The opinion of some comrades, that the slogan “Workers’ and peasants’ gov- ernment” is applied to agricultural countries only is false. The Hunga- rian social democracy has opposed the workers to the peasantry. The Communists must promote the alliance of ‘workers and peasants, otherwise be threatened .by great dangers. ARGA: Does not agree with Com- rade Bucharin’s statement that no peasant parties should be formed. The speaker favors the formation of peas- ant parties under the leadership of the Communists. Peasant leagues are not analagous with trade unions, since they conduct a direct fight against the state in questions of taxation, etc, (Continued from page 1). junction was issued, assisted the workers in their struggle. He was arrested together with three others, sentenced to six months’ 'imprison- ment and actually served three months before releaged. Stevens today issued the following statement: “I am filing as a candi- date for mayor at the request of the Workers Party and of many mili- tants in the labor movement of Minne- apolis. During my campaign I will en- deavor to point out to the workers the struggles that lie before them and to organize them for that struggle. The capitalist class \of this city, as well as of the world, are doing every- thing within their power to force the working class to accept lower wag- es, longer hours, and working condi- tions that border very closely on ac- tual slavery. These conditions will continue to become worse until such time as the workers thru their own organizations wage a militant fight against these capitalists for their own demands. “The Workers (Communist) Party, of which I am a member, and upon whose program I am running, is the only working class party with a can- didate in this campaign and the only party that will wage the fight against the present capitalist government and for a workers’ government such as has been established by the workers and peasants in Russia. “The Workers Party not only fights for the ultimate establishment of a working class government, but partici- DECIDE SALARY, BILL ON MERITS, URGE TEACHERS Passing Buck to Mayor ’ Won't Do It ‘NEW YORK, April 22.—Letters and petitions are being secured on a large scale calling upon Governor Smith not to sacrifice the interests of the schools at the behest of the realty associations. From all indications and from re- ports in the press it seems the gov- ernor is planning to pass the buck to’ Mayor Hylan by vetoing the Ricca teachers’ salary bill. Whatever reas- ons he may give, such a move can not help being interpreted as a direct response to the powerful propaganda of the realty associations thru their attorneys and press agents. The teachers’ maintain that they expect the governor to reach a deci- sion on the case “solely on the basis of the needs of our public schools and’ the economic needs of the teachers” and they say the signature to the! Ricca bill will be the strongest proof, thereof, Communist Is Candidate for Mayor , POWERS (America): The Amer- jean farmer has become a universal figure.. America is no only the largest industrial country, but the largest agricultural country as well, The de- vastation caused by the American agricultural crisis can hardly be imagined. One fourth of the farmers have been ruined. The proletarianiza- tion of the indebted and bankrupt farmers is progressing very~ rapidly. The proletarianized farmers ar streaming into the industrial towns, thereby changing the whole outlook of the American proletariat. It is one of the main tasks of the American Communist Party to continue the work among the farmers. Unfortun- ately the party has not, in the year just past, worked as intensively among the farmers as in 1923, when we at- tained considerable success among the farmer masses. The party must correct this deficiency as soon as pos- sible, OBNER (Ozecho-Slovakia): Des- eribes the frightful condition of the peasantry in Carpatho-Russia, where a few big landowners and a handfull of Jews own. three-fourths of the land, whereas the peasants own one one-fourth. MESTCHERIAKOV (6,P.R.): Calls the attention of the parties to the methods of work among the peas- antry. / GRIECO (Italy): Describes the dif- ficulties of emigration after the war, The return of the city proletariat to the land has intensified the agrarian crisis. This explains the creation of an independent peasants’ party “Po- polari,” after the war. This party is however dominated by the large land- owners, The Italian socialist party did not understand the agrarian question, and was unable to co-ordinate the occupa- tion of the factories by the proletariat with the occupation of he land by the land workers. Fascism has not solved’ the agrarian problem. The speaker describes in detail the present activities ‘of the party, the formation of ‘workers’ and peasants’ committees, and. expresses his belief that the agrarian problems in Italy can be solved “ass ~ the re- volution. pates in every strugglé “OF thi workers for improved conditions How. It ad- vocates the formation of'd Ixbor party, which together with & party of farm- ers, will fight for thé ‘political needs | of the workers and farmérs. “Tt points out the weakness of the present trade unions and calls upon the workers to amalgamate their craft unions into industrial unions. It states emphatically fhat‘tefore the workers can even start'thdlr fight for improved conditions, théy Must organ- ize their forces, the nnorganized must be brought into the unfotis"and a mili- tant struggle waged st the boss- es. Various schemes of class colla- boration, such as supporting republi- can politicians as is.-beingdone by so-called labor leaders in this cam- paign, the establishment. of labor banks, and co-operation with the boss must be fought by the workers... “Capitalism thruout theworld is on ‘the décline. The attack’ that is being launched against it by th workers together with its own ‘inner difficul- ties will lead to its fall. The work- ers can wage their fight successfully by organizing their forces. As a candidate for mayor and as a membe' of the Workers (Communist) Party, I will aid in organizing the workers for the successful struggle against capi- talism that lies but a comparatively short distance ahead.” Stevens will deliver his speech at the May celebration to be held at. Moose Hall, 236 Fourth St. So., Sunday afternoon, May 3. keynote Hunt Escaped Convicts, SACRAMENTO, Cal., April» 22,-> More than 75 police officers searched in Sacramento's residential districts today for Joe Tanko and Floyd Hall, escaped San Quentin’ prison ‘murder- ers, The men shot and probably fatal- ly wounded Patrolman Clyde Nunn late yesterday and ares believed to have killed at least one other ‘person and robbed several others since their escape siete prison, Foreign Exchange. NEW YORK, April 22.—Great Brit- ain, pound sterling, demang 479%; cable 470%. France, franc, demand 5.18%; cable 6.19. Belgium, franc, de- mand 6.04; cable 5.04%. Italy, lira, demand 4.09%; cable, 4.10, Sweden, krone, demand, 26.93; cable 26.96. Norway, krone, demand 16.33; cable 1635, Denmark, krone, demand 18.4 cable 18,48, Germany, mark, unquot- ed. Shanghai, tael, demand 74,00; cable 74,50. EE Japs Launch Airplane Carrier. TOKIO, April 22—The new air- plane, carrier Akagi, one of the larg: est in the world, was launched today at the Kure naval arsenal. The Akagi, which will weigh 26,600 tons, has a length of 763 feet and a speed of 28 knots, an hour, and will be commis- ‘sioned in 1927, Fe ncutive of the C. Ll gi BrRexevirce (Poland) emphasizes’ the preponderance of agrarian po- pulation in Poland, and describes the misery of the peasantry, the prevail- ing poverty, the heavy tax burden, the ‘economic crisis, unemployment, and the bad harvest. The revolutionary ferment is grow- ing and in the border districts of Po- land, peasants’ revolts, guerrilla war fare and tax-boycotts are the ordér of the day. The last party congress of the C. P. P. has decided to correct old errors and to pursue a real Lenin- ist policy, OMBAL (Poland): Declares: that he is not’ in favor of forming peasant parties, but that Bucharin’s viewpoint is not quite clear, since peasant parties were coming into existance anyway. We must’ know what to do with them. He proposes the formation of transitional organ- izations of the peasants, “Bucharin, in his closing speech polemizes against Varga, who advo- cated the creation of peasant parties. Peasant leagues are a more suitable form of peasant organization than political ‘parties, because the league represents economic and political de- mands, has a looser organizational form, permits the activities of differ- ent parties, and requires less dis cipline. The peasant league enables us to reach greater masses than the politic- al party. The small party. organiza- tions of the peasantry cannot displace the mass organizations. OLEMIZING against Mestcheria kov, the speaker states that the agricultural workers’ unions may join the peasant organizations. The bour- geoisie has demonstrated its ability to bring peasants and landowners to- gether. This we must also learn, Polemizing against Varga's foreword to “Data on the Agrarian Question,” the speaker points to two, dangers: firstly, the danger of a passive attt tude on the peasant question; second- ly, the danger of being absorbed by the peasantry. The role of the party, and the hegemony of the proletariat must not be forgotten. Varga dis- regards this factor; which is theo- retically false and politically dan- gerous. TWO CLEVELAND. SOCIETIES HIT AT CHILD LABOR Workers Pa Party Cam- paign Brings Results (Special to The Daily Worker.) CLEVELAND, Ohio, April 22. — In the drive, against child labor conduct- ed by the Workers Party in Cleveland resolutions were adopted by Lodge No. 346, Knights of St. Nicolas, signed by Elias Dauculovie, chairman and Ely Latincij, secretary and Lodge No. 47, Croatian Women’s Society of St. Mary, signed by Johanra Jekinovis, chairman and 8. Studen, secretary. The resolution adopted were -. part as follows: : “That since the child labor amend- ment is meaningless without govern- ment maintenance of the school chil- dren of the workers and: poor farm- ers, the state and federal legislatures shall pass a law providing full gov- ernment maintenance of all school children of workers and poor farmers, the funds for this purpose to come from special taxes on high incomes. “That the trade unions delete from their constitutions all discriminatory clauses against equal rights in the’un-" ions of young workers; also that the admission fees and dues be made low- er for young workers to enable them to become members of the unions which will thereby become strength- ened in their struggles against the bosses.” Party Members Are Invited to Attend Young Workers’ Meet The branches of the Young Work- ers League, local Chicago, realize fully the importance of bolshevising the league. One of the examples of the work that is being carried on to accomplish it, Area Branch No, 6 is haVing its regular educational meet ing Friday night devoted to the study, ./ of Leninism. A lecture on Leninism will be given by Comrade Manuel Gomez tomorrow, 8:15 “p. m. at the temporary headquarters, 19 So. Lincoln St. (Lo- cal W. P. base Everybody is wel- come. j Oliver Carlson to Speak on Youth | Movement Sunday At the Bronx, N. Y., Forum, 1947° Boston road, Sunday evening, April” 26, Oliver Carlson of the Workers’ School, will lecture on the “The International ‘Youth Movement.’ faba is invited and mecaccog hs is free. Does your. friend subscribe the DAILY yen Ask sim / ;