The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 26, 1925, Page 4

THE DAILY WORKER. Published bythe DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING 00, 1118 (W: Washington Bivd., Chicago, UL (Phone: Monroe 4712) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mall: 93.50....6 months $2.00...8 montha Chicago only): $2.60...8 month $6.60 per year ‘By $8.00 per year Address all-mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER 1118 W. Washington Bivd. t Editors 3. LOUIS ENGDAHL MORITZ J, LOEB..,...wsiseem- Business Manager Chieago, Hlinele WILLIAM F, DUNNE Bntered as second-class mail Sept..21, 1923, atthe Post- Office at Chicago, Ill, under the act of March 3, 1878. <p 290 Advertising rates om app“cation The Straggle in Bulgaria The capitalist press dispatches from Bulgaria have lost their exultant tone. The sturdy resist- ance of the workers and peasants to the murder gangs of-the Zankoy government has aroused the admiration even of their enemies. The Zankoy government has been allowed by the allied commission to’ add 7,000 troops to its army to aid in crushing the revolution and as this was over:the protests of Roumania, Jugo-Slavia and Greece it appears that the Bulgarian.revolt is of a mass character, contrary to the inspired dispatches that at first laid ‘all the blame on a little band of terrorists. Three labor members of the British house ‘of commons, who were in Sofia at the time of the bomb explosion, “have made a‘ vigorous protest against the support of the Zankov government and denounce it as a bloody clique to which the work- ers and peasants owe no allegiance. They, have called upon British labor to take action*to stop the wholesale murders of workers, peasants, Com- munists and members of the left parties. British labor has a way of popping up. these days in unexpected places and its utterances be- come more and more of a menace to the imperialist plans of the rulers. These three members of par- liament are a long way from being revolutionists, but the way to aid the workers and peasants of Bulgaria is the way they have suggested—action- by workers in the countries whose governments support the Zankov murder regime. : When reformists like these British members of parliament protest war on revolutionists led by: Communists, it is evidence that the imperialists are overplaying their hand. From the Balkan corridor the Huropean revolu- tion may come; even the capitalist press admits it and the rulers seem now to be confronted with the choice of either precipitating great mass out- breaks by continued support of Zankov or of al- lowing Bulgaria to set up a workers’ and peasants’ government that will be the nucleus of a Balkan federation hostile to European capitalism and friendly to Soviet Russia. The route to Asia, the pathway of European imperialism, may be closed again as it was closed in the_ fifteenth century to the merchant classof Europe. Get a member for the Workers Party and a new subscription for the DAILY WORKER. The Dawes Plan at Home The dilemma Of the capitalists of the allied coun- tries which “won the war,” in collecting repara- tions in goods from Germany by extracting the last drop of blood from German workers under the Dawes plan, without at the same time ruining their own markets and putting their own pro- ductive machinery into cold storage, is beginning to have a definite effect upon the lives of American workers. The president of the Bethlehem Steel company, Eugene G. Grace, in the company’s bulletin ad- dresses a message to the steel workers, telling them how the inflow of goods produced by cheap labor in foreign lands makes it necessary for American business, and—of course—American labor, to “use every method to keep down the cost of production.” Grace’s message says, in part: “There is no doubt but that economy thru the elimination of waste is becoming increasingly im- portant. We must obtain the same refinement in the use of time and materials as we have in the use of machines, To meet the inflow of lower-priced goods., from overseas and the keen competition which is developing at home, American business will be ob- liged to use every method at its disposal to 3 4 down the cost 6f production.” Mr. Grace in his} message goes on to say how peculiarly fortunate it is, that in this struggle be- tween great combines of capital, each trying. to cut costs lower than the Dawes slave plan can, the Bethlehem Steel corporation can count upon the “economy and co-operation obtained as a result of the company’s plan which gives the employes, thru their committbe; representation in the oper: ation of plants.” The Communists have always pointed out that such companf unions are for the benefit of the company, and are conflicting to the interests of the workers. Some of the trade union officials pre- tend to oppose the company unions, but their devo- tion to class collaboration will either force them. to surrender tothe ¢ompany union or to turn the existing unions ‘into organizations for class col- laboration * Undistihguishable from company. unions. Pressure from, both classes is increasing swiftly with the cogtradietions. involved in international capitalism, and the Jabor bureaucracy is therefore seen to be busilyy aged in making company unions out otawhge the rank and file looks, to as organs of pistivo:. ) Communist Campaign in Minneapolis Dan Stevens, Communist; for years one of the most active union men in the Twin Cities, at one time or another having held every responsible post | within thé gift of the labor movement and now president of Painters’ Union 186, is a candidate for mayor of Minneapolis. He is running on the Commusist platform after the efforts of the local party organization to form a united front with the reformists on immediate demands had been sabotaged by the reactionary labor element which, in the last year and a half, has become one of the most out and out boss-ridden groups in the American labor movement. Minneapolis is an important industrial center and the Communist candidate will have the op- portunity of putting the party program before thousands of workers. The Communists have already won a large fol- lowing in’ Minneapolis and St. Paul by their work in’ the trade unions where they and they alone have kept the reactionaries from disrupting it and turning the fragments over to the employers’ as- sociation. The issues in the Minneapolis election are clear- cut. It is a question of the workers’ candidate against the capitalists and their tools in and out of the labor movement. The campaign will be car ried on in the factories, the unions and on the streets and will result in great gains for the Com- munist Party, in Minneapolis—the largest city be- tween Chicago and the Pacific coast. The Barbers’ Agreement The officialdom of the local barbers’ union is trying to force an arbitration agreement on the membership. If the committee of the union and the master barbers cannot agree a third party is to be called in. The rank and file barbers should remember the deal handed out by State’s Attorney Crowe to the coal teamsters and helpers when he was the third man in an agreement of this kind last winter. The teamsters demanded a raise of $1.25 and the aboli- tion of the provision that forced them to unload the coal, and carry it wherever the purchaser wanted it, in addition to driving their wagons and tricks. Crowe gave them a sixty cent raise and told them to goto hell with the rest of their de- mands. His word was final. The real issue for the barbers ‘is a shorter work day; The proposed-agreement gives a nominal raise |of $4 per week, but it is no raise at all because most of the barbers.are already getting the scale called for in the new agreement. Nothing is said about shorter hours. International President Shaughnessy and Sec- retary-Treasurer Fischer are in Chicago, sup- posedly to take up the union insurance plan, but in reality to help the local officials put over the fake agreement. The machine element has been making threats of violence against the progressives as part of the plan to prevent any opposition developing at the meeting to be held in Ashland Auditorium Sunday, where Shaughnessy.and Fischer will speak. Whatever is worth having is worth fighting for and the progressives should put their program be- fore Sunday’s meeting at all costs. They may be .defeated, but they will have shown the mem- bership the difference between a militant progra and one of surrender to the bosses. The Russian Delegation’s Record When the British capitalist press insinuated that the Russian trade union delegation was not working class in makeup the London Daily Herald made a reply that will become historic. Never has the British trade union movement entered into negotiations with a delegation whose record of working class origin, struggle,*suffering and sacri- fice, compares with that of the Russian delegation. Not one of the Russian union delegates but began work at an early age, not one of them but spent many years of their lives in the prisons of the ezar for revolutionary activity, not one of them but has been in the labor and revolutionary movement all their lives. None of them has ever accepted a $150,000 bribe from a biscuit manufacturer, none of them have ever connived at the bombing of Hindu peasants and workers, none of them has ever attended a royal function or been dined by the nobility, but all-of: them bear the scars of the battles of their class in which they have taken a leading part. It was because they were workers and not fakers that the British capitalist press attacked them! British labor has answered and more than one British labor faker with middle-class leanings has been forced to blush. The-Los Angeles Elections The Communists in Los Angeles, a city of a mil- lion, population, the largest on the Pacific coast and, the stronghold of California reaction, like their comrades in Minneapolis, have entered the municipal campaign in earnest. The news from there is of big meetings, organ- ization of, and demands by the unemployed on the city government, an intensive campaign in the unions, agitation against the open shop, Our party also has a candidate in the school elections and has issued a splendid statement on education. These activities indicate a steady and healthy party growth and grasp of the issues on which the masses can he reached. The Los; ‘Angeles Times, prize labor-hating sheet, will now have something more to worry about. Every day. get 4 “sub” for the DAILY WORKER and a member a lee the Workers Party, a } THE DAlt-Y—WORKER MUST SUPPORT PARTY OF LABOR Communi ist, tatement to Trade ists Says (Special to Dally Worker.) LOS ANGELES, April 24—The election statement of the Workers (Communist) Party ‘of Los Angeles to the membere of organized labor follows: Once again members of the trade union m it are called. up- on by the labor Waders of this city to support candidates for political office. It is well known that the political Policy of “rewarding your so-called friends and punishing your enemies” is a policy of attaching the labor movement to the kite of capitalist politicians who are primarily the rep- resentatives of the employing class. Horn and Cryer In Deal. The Central Labor Council dom- inated by the Horn-Buzzell machine, Horn being secretary and Buzzell president of the Central Labor Coun- cil, have endorsed Mayor Cryer for re-election, It must be remembered that Cryer appointed Horn to the Civil Service Commission. Horn owes Cryer a political debt, not only -for being appointed on the Civil Service Commission, but also becausé Mayor Cryer’s administration, thru “his po- lice department, aided John ‘Horn in fighting the progressives’ in ‘the Los Angeles trade uhion movement, Horn Ally of Police. John Horn and his satellites made an alliance with the: police who raid- ed a business meeting of thé Trade Union Educational . League, - an or- ganization whose «purpose is to strengthen and unitg the labor move- ment. They arrestedséme thirty-nine members of organized Jabor and con- fiscated all papers, letters and docu- ments, copies of which were turned over to Horn’s ‘supporters. The names of those arrested were also turned over to the above named group who immediately started a campaign of expelling a number of those arrested from the Central La- bor Council, Metal Trade’s Council and carpenters’ unions, thereby dis- rupting and the trade uni- on movement, ™ Political Trading Revealed. The issue is clear. Horn and his agents united with Mayor Cryer’s po- lice force to eliminate their political opponents in the trade union move- ment. John Horn is repaying Cryer by betraying organ! labor, The object of sup} iE capitalist Politicians by these’s6-called labor of- ficials is to receive litical jobs and patronage for thempe ves and their friends, BE : The rank and file pave nothing to gain by supporting Mayor Cryer or any other representatives of. the.em- ploying class. a Fs Lampton Indorses ‘Injunction | Judge Not all of the offieigis are-support- ing Cryer. Some officials and -par- ticularly E. E. Lampton, secretary of have endorsed Judge Bledsoe who is a confirmed reactionary, Open-shop- injunction Judge Bledsoe is well known to the workers as an avowed enemy of labor. Any official that will support Bledsoe has more gall than good judgment, The present labor leaders are con- sistent in one thing and that is their treachery to the rank and file. They betray the workers'on the economic field during strikes by expulsions of Progressive members-from the trade unions and by fighting the amalga- mation of craft unions into industrial unions. On the political field they do likewise by su; ing the fifty- seven varieties on fans, Voted For Labor Party. © fact that:in the Tt is a well kn Jast municipal election, held two years ago, the rank and ‘file of organized labor voted to establ! labor party, which was formed fat a convention held in the Labor Temple. In spite of the fact that the, trade union offi- ih ing which called convention, agreed to abide by the decision of the convention, they knifed the la- bor party right after it was formed by endorsing at that time candidates who were supported by the Los An- geles Times, Only Party of Labor. It is the duty of the rank and file of organized labor to support the only party of labor, the Workers (Communist) Party and the candi- dates running in the present munici- pal election who are endorsed by the Workers (Communist) Party. The following candidates are en- BOSTON, Masi called on strike April 24.—Four wielated the the District Council .of Carpenters’ cials, at a joint executive board meet-. 400 Clothing Workers Strike in Boston Communists Active in Los Angeles Election Communists Fight for the Schools COMMUNISTS WAR (Continued from page. 1). unions of teachers be permitted, that students’ and teachers’ committees be given control of the schools, that mili- tary training be abolished, and race segregation wiped out, Open air meetings are being held, and thousands of leaflets have been distributed. The Communist program, indorsed by Levin, follows: ee . Education for service—Not profit! Let the teachers run the schools! Program of Emanuel Levin, work- ing class candidate for member of board of education in the May munici- pal elections, 1925, endorsed by the Workers (Communist) Party. Since the existing school system is. one of the institutions used to per- petuate the capitalist system, I, the working class candidate demand that: Our school system be changed to train and fit the child and youth to be citizens in a society based upon production for use and not for porfit; in a society in which the means of. production and distribution and nat- ural resources are in the hands of the workers and farmers. The working class has no voice or influence in shaping the educational policies of our school system. The existing educational system antagon- izes the school cMildren against or- ganized labor. The\text books used, @he military training and so called “Patriotic Ob- Servances” are no more than means to mold the child into an instrument for the interest of the capitalists as against the interests of the working class. war and in every strike for better conditions in which the workers have been engaged. The teachers are deprived of their rights to express their views on s0- cial and political problems out of fear of losing their positions. The working class districts are thé last In which school improvements aré made or new school buildings erected, while the wealthy residential sections are. given first consideration. Buildings are constructed and im- provements are made under open shop conditions. The purchase of school equipment ana building construction are con- trolled by those who are financially interested in the contracts either di- rectly or indirectly. for This was seen in the world]. RANK AND FILE. |[—conmonit Fp fore Seo + To realize the benefits the workers should derive from the schools and colleges I propose the following: Education. (a) That history text-books used at present in- our public schools be thoroly revised and only* such text- books that conform with the estab- lished scientific and historical facts be used. .(b) That service to society along the lines of arts and sciences be em- phasized as the accomplishment to be sought by our future citizens rather than. personal gain and the chase for profits. (c) Keep religious training and in- fluence out of the schools. (a), No working’“class publication should be barred from our school lib- raries. (e) Strict enforcement of compuls- ory school attendance laws. Essential Prerequisites for Teachers. Courses in working class history and kindred social sciences should be prerequisites for all teachers. . Teachers’ Rights. Teachers must be permitted to or- ganize in labor unions. No teacher should: be expelled for holding beliefs inimical to the present capitalistic system, Administration. Management of schools should be vested in committees elected by teach- ers with representaiton from the students in the high schools. Building, Construction and Mintenance. (a That strictly union labor be em- ployed in all construction of new schools as well as on repairs and maintenance in existing school build- ings. {b) That only union made school equipment and supplies be purchased. -, .Military Training. SMittary training should be abol- ished as it fosters militarism which is am instrument in the hands of the ‘capitalists to crush the workers in their struggles for emancipation. Race Segregation. > No segregtion or discrimination be- catse of color, race or creed. “ The candidate running on the above platform knows that the ruling class will not permit the realization of his ands under the present system of society and therefore pledges himself when elected to Work for the estab- lishment of a Communist society. (Signed) EMANUEL LEVIN, Candidate for Board of Eduction, Los Angeles, he 65,000 Jobless in Los Angeles (Continued from page 1). which the bankers pay to the city 2 per cent interest. The bankers, on the other hand, re-loan this tremendous. sum to private individuals at 7 per ‘| cent interest in this maner deriving a tremendous profit on city funds for their private gains. Brother Murphy suggested that this immense sum be withdrawn from the banks and used for public improve; ments, thus relieving the unemploy- ment. situation. To this suggestion Mr, Mushet, chairman of the finance’ é€ommittee of the city council, replied that this money cannot be used, as that fund was secured thru city ponds, that the city council has no funds at its disposal for the relief of the unemployed. Sidney Bush, another member of the committee, representing the Workers Party told the gentlemen, the representatives of capitalism of Los Angeles, that the problem of un- employment must not be considered a temporary condition. Unemploy- ment is the result of Net yr ex- Ploitation of the working class, the wages system. As long as we will have this system, we will have un- employment. This fact the commit- ‘tee representing the city council must. realize. The unemployed are those very workers who have helped to pro- duce and create all wealth. And be- cause they produced much and re- ceived little for their labor is the reason why these workers are now in distress. Therefore, the unemployed demand that the city provide them with work, at union scale of wages and under union conditions. The work- ers want ‘no charity, they are able bodied men and women and want work. Mr. Mushet,’the spokesman for the finance committee replied that the city council has already done a little towards the unemployed situation, and--that- the money appropriated, ($5,000) was used in employing those ages. frother Murphy who showed that the workers were supposed to receive ion wages but when pay day came 'they found that after paying for trans- portation and other incidentals the workers, the few of them who were employed, had 25 cents left for four hours work, ~ Goes Under Advisement Comrade Queen Silver, warmed the capitalist representatives that the un- employed will grow so desperate that |’ they will take things into their own hands when they will find out that the city council refuses to do any- thing for them. When that time comes, there is no telling what will happen, The final reply that the committee of the unemployed received was that the council will take the unemploy- ment problem under serious advise- ment. Mr Mushet ending the hearing by stating that “Poverty always was, and I suppose always will be with us.” Sixty-five thousand unemployed in the city of Los Angeles. Yet the cap- italist thru the chamber of commerce is spending hundreds of thousands of dollars in advertisements all over the country for more workers to come. to “sunny California,” where the “open shoppers” rule supreme, where jobs .are scarce, wages low and the hours long. California is a paradise for the “open shoppers” but a hell for workers, dorsed by the Workers (Communist) Party: For board of education, Emanuel Levin. For city council, 15th district, Bd-|. ward Harris, member of Machinist 311. Education for profit. The open shop must go. Fraternally yours, City Central Committee, Local Los Angeles, Workers (Communist) Party of America, Room 200, 224 8. Spring : | hundred clothing workers have been (San Pedro Harbor), Lodge No. service, mot for Amalgamated Clothing Workers’ Union from the Trimount Clothing shops Bespine 2 the company, say union alia KLAN ORGANIZER WHO DESERTED FAMILY OF 5 ~JNILED FOR ABDUCTION JOHNSTOWN, N. Y., April 24 —Hugh Knowles, ku kiux klan or- ganizer of Northville, will be brot here to stand trial for abduction, Knowles was, arrested in Buffalo, after a search lasting ten days, dur- ‘ing which he had been missing. With him in the Buffalo rooming house, when arrested, was Cora Reynolds, 15 year old daughter of a neighbor, who fied with the klan organizer. Knowles has a wife a four ‘children, whom he left with: Support in order to take the girl to Buffalo. Shaan ars eee re: prenieumecantnt Fout of work. These were paid unton| This statement: was repudiated by, ON OPEN SHOP IN LOS ANGELES Non-Union W: ages Paid in San Pedro Harbor By J. STEVENSON (Special to ‘The Dally Worker.) Los ANGELES, April 24.—“The open shop must: go.” This is the opening slogan’‘on the program of Comrade Ed. Harris, the Workers (Communist) Party candidate for councilman in the municipal cam- paign in progress at San Pedro, The Harbor district of Los Angeles —San Pedro—is beginning once again to come to life. When the petty bourgesis elements are congratulating themselves that at least these pesky: Com-moon-ists have been stamped out. lo and behold, up they come, fresher than ever! Open Shop Holds Sway We are hard at work, holding open: air meetings, distributing lterature, and taking every possible advantage of the respite (so far) from police interference, to reach the workers of this city with the message of Com- munism. Since the strike on the waterfront two years ago, the longshore organ- izations have been losing ground. The , I. L, A. has dwindled in membership . and is but a skeleton of its former self. The I. W. W. is non-existent as an organized force and-the open shop holds sway; some of the crafts have a semblance of union conditions, par- ticularly in the building trades and also amongst the culinary workers, but this advantage is overcome by the state of disorganization at the vital point, on the waterfront, Non-Union Wages The scale of wages paid to mechan- ‘ ies who are municipal employees, is lower than the union rate, yet this © 1s tolerated we suppose under the argument of not putting too. heavy a burden on the taxpayers! The oil companies and the shipyards are~in the same category, less wages and non-recognition of the unions. Doheny the Scab It is significant that Mr. Doheny of Teapot Dome renown is having his palatial steam yacht “The Casiana” overhauled by the Los Angeles Ship- building corporation, one of the scan- biest, lowest paying, labor hating out- fits on the Pacific Coast. These few facts go to show that we have some work ahead, and we feel in good condition for getting in some licks before we are many moons older, hence our slogan “The open shop must go.” Negro Workers ‘Are - Drawn Into Campaign of the Communists — (Special to The Daily Worker.) Los ANGELES, April 24.— The Workers “Party in Los Angeles is swinging into action in the munici- pal election campaign for May 15, Ev- ery available means is being used to get the message of the Communist program over to the workers and to the organized labor movement in this city. Street meetings are held every Tuesday | and Saturday nights at Brooklyn and Soto to get behind the candidacy and program of the Work- ers Party for the city board of edu- cation, in the person of Emmanuel Levin, city organizer of the party.. Last Saturday night an enthusiastic — parade énded up/in a big meeting on this corner, where Comrade Leyin told the assembled crowd of the fight that the Communists are waging to organ- ize the exploited workers against the capitalist rule, - The Young Workers’ League’is ac- - tively” supporting the campaign with speakers of their own and with Com- munist literature.on the political is- sues confronting the working class. ‘Tuesday: night; April 21, another street meeting “was held at First and Cumntings, addressed by Comrades Gorman and ‘Bush, and this meeting was marked by the presence of a dele- gated body from @ Negro workers’ organization in the city. Plans are being made to hold-other street meet- ings in th en section of the city where large numbers of Negroes live, in an effort to- caret ii aieero workers to sand to the struggle srind Ra hagupmics especially. The’ party is’holding open air meet: ings at Fourth and Beacon streets, at 8 p. m., April 5, 7, 30 and May 2 and 4, These meetings are held in San Pedro, where the Workers Party can- didate for District 15 is running. This is a real proletarian district, and to combat the influence of the ku kluxers there, the party is making every effort to reach the Wwoi Harbor. = 4 © = Saturday. night! ‘the Young Workers’ League held a = 3 Street meeting at Fourth and Pedro Har- bor, with t a) rs cover- ing the political issues: of the cam- ‘paign. By this’ ce activity we anata cee “ae on =~ TR Sear een