The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 19, 1925, Page 6

aren ee Page THE DAILY WORKER THE DAILY WORKER. a eet a EE) Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING OO. |. 1118 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Ml. (Phone: Monroe 4712) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail: $3:50....6 months $2.00...8 monthe By mail (in Chicago only): $4.50...6 months $2.50...8 monthe 06.00 per year 98.00 per year Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER 9918 W. Washington Bivd. t soe BAItOFS 3. LOUIS ENGDAHL MORITZ J. LOBB.......ceme- Business Manager Chioago, Iinele WILLIAM F. DUNNE ——— Mntered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1928, at the Post Office at Chicago, Ill, under the act of March 3, 1879. <> 290 Lee and the Left Wing From the company union known as the “B, and O. plan” on one railroad system, established after the Railway strike in 1922, when the morale of the the workers was at a low point, the class peace policy of the trade union officialdom has extended to Canadian government railways and a number of roads on this side of the line. Now comes William Lee, head of the’ Brother- hood of Railway Trainmen, with the proposal to! hold a conference of railway managers and railway union officials to launch a “no strike” movement in * the entire industry. With ‘characteristic energy the imperialists are evidently insisting upon re- sults from their agents in the trade unions. This movement is planned on a stupendous scale. If successful it would include 2,000,000 workers in the most important key industry and introduce the company union system on a national basis. The ability to organize and strike is the test of a labor union. To, surrender the right to strike and substitute class co-operation for the class struggle, no matter how vague its conception may be, is to take the heart, blood and bowel out of the | labor unions. This is the purpose of the plan. It would be only a half explanation to say that the railroad capitalists are behind this scheme be- cause they are concerned only over demands for | higher wages and the power of the unions to en- force them. American capitalism can afford to| and does pay proportionately higher wages to the railway brotherhoods than to other groups of workers. Its quarrels with them are of a minor nature and, quite easily adjusted. But railway transport systems are of vital im- portance in war and war comes closer as the rivalry between America, Japan and Great Brit- ain becomes more intense. can be hamstrung by company unions a great burden will have been lifted from the minds of the | war mongers. Upon the whole labor movement the plan would have a demoralizing effect. It is doubtful if Lee will have much luck in secur- ing the endorsement of other labor officials. Not but that they are in accord with the general tenor of the scheme, but this manner of putting over on the union membership is a little too raw. The fakers are conservative even in their conservatism. The trend of thought of labor officialdom is in the direction of class peace and acceptance of sub- sidies from imperialism, but the “B. and O. plan’ ‘seems to them to offer a better method of be- traying the masses for the time being. There is this much to be said for Lee, howev: He has shown the logical conclusion of a class movement a their arguments against all attempts to lead the unions into the camp of the enemy for surrender instead of struggle. Elihu Root says that the prohibition law is a setback to temperance and that control of the mind by law is dangerous. The liquor drought such as it is, seems to have created a great demand for freedom from legal interference on the part of the thirsty portion of our ruling class, but we have not heard of any move on their part to repeal the criminal syndicalism laws. Another Job for the Strikebreaking President One strike made Calvin Coolidge so famous that he rode into the White House on the erest of a popularity wave. There is a possibility that an- other opportunity to show his efficiency as a strike breaker will be presented to him, if the anthracite miners are forced to strike when their agreement Advertising rates os app“ cation | with their reactionary leadership, | If the railway unions | ; joffset Bri peace policy and given the left wing in the labor pecuegouars concrete illustration on which to base | Lessons of the Danish General Strike The mighty role that the transport workers can fill in the world-wide struggle between exploiters and workers is shown clearly in the aid promised the Danish workers, now engaged in a general strike, by the Norwegian transport workers and which may be followed by similar action in Sweden, Germany, Holland and Finland. According to dispatches, the Norwegian sailors and dockworkers have agreed to handle mo Danish shipping until the demands of the Danish workers are met and there are good prospects of the boycott extending to all the ports in the countries men- tioned above. | live if the circulation system is clogged. the anatomy, so are the transport workers abused | by the bosses and among the lowest paid hardest worked and consequently most militant sections of the working class. Their weakness lies in the division of their forces by national and sectional lines—a weakness that the transport workers of the Red Interna- tional of Labor Unions realized long ago and which they set out to overcome. The first step was an effort to unify all transport unions around a common program of minimum demands, the second was their active support of the drive for world trade union unity. With the example of the need for international solidarity furnished by the Danish strike, and the evidence of a real belief in its necessity shown by the Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish, German and Dutch transport workers, the Marine Transport ‘Workers of the I. W. W., as the most militant group in the American industry, should now take the lead in the United States among’ transport workers in unity, in which the British and Russian unions have taken the lead internationally. The Riffian War | All-the glamor with which imperialism covers, jor tries to cover, its wars on colonial peoples is |to be seen in the inspired dispatches relating the \exploits of the French armies in northern Africa. Not much is said about the conscript troops, but |plenty of space is given to the officers—a slight |seratch is enough to make one of them a hero. The husband of Alice | Roosev elt, is the wife of General Chabrun, whose jheadquarters are in Fez, and this gives the |slaughter of the Riffians a domestic flavor for the dollar aristocracy that it would otherwise lack. But the Riffians, who drove the Spanish oppres. | sors out of their country, are not submitting, with ;the humility that barbarians are supposed to evince in the pcs, ts of apostles of christian civilization, to the ‘demand ‘that they live within boundaries defined by the European imperialists. They are putting up a sturdy struggle and all thru the colonial regions held in. bondage, by the French —and British possessions as well—there is evi- dence of strong support for their efforts toward liberation. 100,000 French -troops, equipped with the most modern instruments of warfare, have not been able even to rescue all the beleaguered out- posts of French imperialism. France cannot afford to be driven out of north- ern Africa. She needs a military base opposite ihe Gibraltar coast and a line of similar bases |along,the southern coast of the Mediterranean to sh control of the sea route to French colonies in the Far East and to bulwark her con- | trol of western African colonies. Northern Africa is another Balkan section. Here also the imperialist rivals clash and it is no won- der that, as in 1911-12, when France and England double-crossed Germany in the Moroccan affair, the eyes of every foreign office are on the develop ments in the bloody struggle taking place there now. War cannot be isolated these days. There is the factor of the growing discontent of the colonial peoples coupled with the sympathy and support for their liberation movements manifested by the working class of the imperialist nations which makes these adventerous conquests by the ruling class a weakness rather than a strength to their control. What better evidence that imperialism drives its devotees to suicide than the fact that confronted with a financial crisis at home the French rulers are forced, by their colonial policy to engage in an }expensive and unpopular war which strains their | badly damaged credit and encourages revolt at home? The |sister of Nicholas Longworth, \ french Communist Party has not been slow Transport is to capitalism What the heart, veins | and arteries are to the human body. It cannot} Just as} | the average human being abuses this vital part of | support of the movement for world trade union} Zinoviev Reports to the Russian Communist Party Mosc Apri. 29 29—(By Matl).— At today’s evéning session Com- rade Zinoviev delivered a report on the results of the enlarged executive session of the Communist Interna- tional. Pointing out that the plenum had the character ofa congress, Zino- viev declared that the resolutions adopted by the plenum were extreme- ly important for the Russian’ Com- munist Party, not only as a section of the Comintern, but as a party that rules a great country. The plenum established the rela-| tion of the Comintern to the retarded development of the revolution, and the partial stabilization of capitalism. This fact has beeh ‘taught up by the Second Internatiohal, and was mis- interpreted to mean that the exe- cutive of the Comintern had announ- |ced the complete stubilization of cap- italism. Certainy qvents that have |taken place since! the enlarged exe- cutive session, slig@¥'the real charac- ter of the stabilization. Bulgaria and Germany are examples of economic stabilization, Thé©French ministerial crisis was no ordinary crisis; it arose |out of the financial¢erisis. pee impending” danger of an in- flation in Fray 2, suddenly threat- ened a repetition of the social crisis experienced by Germa: ny in 1923, The crisis was overcome by & banking scheme which cg} ered the deficit of four milliards. However, there, 20 milliards. The the French stab} tion are particu- larly significant, because France is a victor country. The situation in Bul emains a deficit of characteristics of garia {.characteristic of the political stabilization. IZ unparalelled lies which the Bulgarian. government spread against. Soviet Russia, immediately after the Sofia outrage, have already been disproved. It remains a fact however, that no country can be ruled against the will of the workers and peasants, and that the class struggle in Bulgaria is permeated with efvil war. HE German elections furnished another example of political stabi- lization, Comrade Zinoviev relates in | detail that the executive had proposed to the German delegation to enter into an election compromise with the Ger- man social-democrats, whereby the Communist Party was to refrain from putting up a candidate of its own in the second election, voting under cer- tain conditions, for Braun, the social- democratic candidate, The majority of the German dele- gation agreed with this proposal, but the executive had only formulated the general policy, leaving its prac- tical execution to the German Com- munist Party. In the meantime the social-demo- crats had withdrawn their candidate, supporting the ¢apitalist candidate Marx,—in return, for which, Braun was to become prime minister in Prussia. In Saxony, many thousands of so- efal-democratic workers. voted for Thaellman, refusing to vote for the capitalist candidate,—which goes to show that there was no psychological basis for casting the votes for Marx. HE election of Hindenburg is the first historical illustration of stabi- JOB SELLERS IN NEW YORK ROB THE UNEMPLOYED Worker Pea vels All Night, Gets No Work NEW YORK, May 17.—The follow- ing letter has been received from a worker, who hag,,to depend on the capitalist exploite: “Dear Comrades;— “I am a laboren.doing work on auto- mobile highway construction. I saw an ad in the New, York World of an employment agency at 91 East 4th St. The ad called, for Scandinavians and Germans for ‘automobile highway repairers. The gffer was $105 a month, free boad. ‘At the agency they told me to take the Pennsylvania railroad to Che! 0 Bridge, one sta- tion from Bing] ipton, N. Y. I was told to be there at 6 a. m, and the boss would come tg.get me, I took the train at 9 o’clock,in the evening and travelled all night; When I arrived at the given plage there was nobody in sight. tree Boss Turns,Him Down. “I went to the,camp, but was told that I could nof,see the boss that day but would have to come back the next day. When,j,returned the next day, the boss tol@yme that there was no work for me...He offered to send me to another cone sixty miles away, but he did not ‘keep his word, I stayed there 5 days. The trip cost me, together with by board, $20. “The boss at the camp declared that he knows nothing about the agency. Another fellow at the camp told me that he earned $36/in three weeks, and not the $105 and board that was prom- ised.” These facts speak for themselves. irst, the worker is skinned by the employment” agency, then, if he does succeed in getting work, he is skinned by the boss—$35 for three weeks in- stead of $105 a month. Workers Must Fight. * This is the “' of opportunity,” where every worker can rise if he only works hard_and industriously. ‘There is only one rising that will help the working cl nd that is the ‘ising of the wor! as an organized body to put an epd to this skinning and the skinners, and to install @ sys- ‘em and a goverhment where they, ‘he workers, are the bosses. The time is coming—the workers should learn ‘rom their own itidividual experiences and from the experiences of the work- ers of all countries: ab “ZINOVIEV LETTER” A lzasion, Stabilization will last a cer- tain perfod ‘of time, but the above facts illustrate the character of this stabilization. Many votes cast for Hindenburg represent a protest of hatred against the Versailles peace treaty. The direct result of the elec- tion will be the growth of revolution- ary sentiment in Germany. (HE social-democrats will soon make their peace with Hinden- burg; not the proletariat however. This election may be expected to have some serious international results. Germany's relations with France and Poland will not be improved, but even- tually sharpened. The situation is wrought with troubles and dangers. There is also the danger of a change in German policy towards the Soviet Union. Stabiliation is there, but many symptoms show that this stabilization is insecure. Reaction is on the up- gradé in Europe. UE to stabilization, there are in our movement a number of right tendencies and ultra-left dangers. The somewhat unclear formulation of the enlarged executive must be made clear to the effect that a general reyo- lutionary situation must be different- ed form an immediate revolutionary situation. The charlatans of the Sec- ond International declare that the plenum had not registered any revolu- tionary situation at all. This is a falsehood. The plenum had merely established the fact that there was no immediately revolutionry situation, Since the bourgeoisie is unable to solve its conflicts from above, the si- tuation remains revolutionary. Ww are only at the beginning of an era of wars and revolutions, and 800 COAL MINERS FLEE FOR LIVES AS BLACK DAMP OVERCOMES 40 WILKES BARRE, Pa., May 17.—Forty miners were overcome by black damp when fire, breaking out 300 feet beneath the surface In the number 3 mine of the Kingston Coal compa surface for their lives. probably would recover. Two other a serious condition. The fire was believed to have still raging. children hurrying to the scene on trapped. Eight of the victims were brought to a hospital where It was said they Three acres of coal land had been burned this afternoon and the fire was Many mules perished when mine workers were forced’ to abandon rescue work because of the great danger to themselves. Confusion reigned at the mouth of the mine for two hours, wives and ny, sent 800 miners scurrying to the workers were sent to their homes in started during timbering operations. hearing reports that the men were LOSE HOPE OF RESCUE FOR MINER ENTOMBED WEEK IN IN BUTTE MINE BUTTE, Mont., May May 17, 1 7.—All hope of rescuing alive Gus Bolden, Butte miner, entombed by a,fall,of ground Colusa mine last Monday, was aban- doned today by rescue workers. Work will be continued, however, until the body Is located, mine offi- cials said. Boost Wages ‘of Local Labor Head: Against. Protest The Chicago Federation of Labor yesterday passed a motion to raise the salary of President John Fitzpatrick, from $75 to $100 a week. An amend- ment was added that’ the stenographer employed by the federation shquld be raised $5 a week. Delegate J. P. McCarthy, from the Carpenters’ Union’ inquired as to the scale of the Blacksmith’s Union of Chicago, of which Fitzpatrick is a member. He stated that as a general rule the officials of the American :la- bor movement were paid too highly, that Fitzpatrick should get no more than the regular union scale of his trade. McCarthy declared that the exhorbi- tant salaries of labor leaders were a corrupting influence which gave them a different class viewpoint than the members of the unions and seperated them from the rank and file, The un- skilled workers in the building trades, he pointed out, were working under the scab Landis award, and it was much more needful to use all avail- able funds for organizing the unor- ganized than in increased salary for labor leaders in a time. when the work- ing class was suffering wage cuts right and left. in the 200 foot Vevél of the West SKULL FRACTURE BROT QUICK DEATH TO ‘FARM’ BABY NEW ‘YORK, May 17.—Latest re- ports by Dr. Otto H. Schultz on the autopsy of the six-months-old infant, William Winters, who died in Mrs. Helen Geisen-Volk’s “baby farm” last | February 8 of a fractured skull, says indications are that the ' fracture caused quick death to the infant. Dr. Schultz also reports finding a large hard curd of milk in the baby’s stomach which, he says, would un- doubtedly have made him cross and irritable. Indictments for homicide for other cases came a step near thru the result of this investigation. New Board to Face School Problems at Meeting Next Friday Next Friday, the new schoo! board on entering into its duties will be confronted with the two serious prob- lems now facing the board of educa- tion. One is the deficit in the treas- ury which now comes to $20,000,000 in the educational fund; the other 1s the acute housing shortage estimated at 100,000 pupils being without satis- factory a¢commodations. The new board has before it the old board's decision to ask for a $1 in- crease in the tax rate for educational purposes and to carry out the new salary schedule proposed by Superin- tendent McAndrew. Trustee J. Lewis Coath has announced his.:ntention to demand reconsideration ,of these two matters. The members on the new finance committee selected by Edward B. Elli- cott, the new president of the board, the contradictions of capitalism are today greater than before the war. It is necessary to differentiate be- tween the stabilization of capitalism and the stabilization of the Sovie™ Union, Speaking of the rapprochement be- tween the British and Russian trade unions, Comrade Zinoviev stated that there is in England, for the first time, a@ general revolutionary situation. The rapprochement between the trade unions follows the line of historical development; hence the gfeat signi- ficance of the united front tactics. The speaker then declares that the view entertained by some that the fact of stabilization means that Trotsky was correct in his analysis, to be false. The differences did not turn about this question, but on the question of the tactics to be adopted by a proletarian party in such a situa- tion. TN connection with the Czecho-Slo- vakian party, the speaker “states that the crisis has been overcome, and that the resignations in Brunn only contribute to the healthy development of the party. HE plenum had dealt with the agrarian question and with the policy of the Comintern. Events have shown the policy pursued by the Rus- sian Communist Party in the Comin- tern to be correct. The immediate task of the Russian Communist Party is to adapt its daily work with the international movement., At the pres- ent moment the Comintern needs especially the moral support of the Russian Communist Party, which is and remains the party of international proletarian revolution. (Applause). CHICAGO WORKERS PROTEST BALKAN WHITE TERROR Thousands Slain; More Thousands in Prison At a mass meeting of several hun- dred Chicago workers yesterday held at Bricklayers’ Union hall, a determin- ed protest was vo'ced against the horrors of the white terror raging in the Balkan countries. In Bulgaria especia’ly, and also in Jugo-Slavia and Greece, many thou- sands of workers and peasants have been murdered, being shot down and hung without trial, while many more thousands have been brutally thrown in jail and vile prisons to fot for year after year, until death would seem a release from suffering. The meeting was presided over by Thurber Lewis, and the speakers wer Earl Browder, in English; Comrade | Michalachky, in South Slavic; Com- rade Koteff in Bulgarian, and Comrade Kostis in Greek. A spirited resolution of protest de- manding a cessation to the barbarities of the Balkan bourgeoisie was adopt- ed, and is to be sent to the labor press thruout the world and mailed direct to the embassies of the Balkan na- tions at Washington. Especial emphasis was laid upon the part of the imperialist powers in concealing the real perpetrators of the Sveti Kral explosion and* using the occasion as an excuse for intensified white terror murders. British Ruler In Egypt Quits. LONDON, England, May 17.—Sir George Lloyd, unionist member of parliament, has been appointed high commissioner for Egypt, to succeed Field Marshal Viscount Allenby. Lloyd served in the world war in Egypt, and was governor of Bombay. COMMUNISTS TO ATTACK FRENCH SLAUGHTER IN AFRICA, BEFORE CHAMBER PARIS, France, May 17.—The Riffian troops fighting the French Invaders for possession of their na- tive land have captured large stores of provisions and war material in the Benzi Zeural country. Official statements from Morocco | ‘do not disclose the number of French’ troops which have been killed in sever fighting, which extends over front of 250 miles. The Communists are ye to | | are Julius F. Swietanka, chairman, . i ingi >ye 2) qi onti > attack the French milita | With the operators terminates on August 30. in bringing these matters to the atte ntion of the FAKE, SAYS OFFICIAL Among the many a fakers who Charles T.-Byrne, Theophilus Schmid| tlone In North Africa ctl sind ; masses and the proof of the disastrous con- spoke in favor of the inctease in sal-| 14 ne visser Schiller. All of them ‘chamber of deputies assembles on May 25, ies News dispatches from Washington advise us ary of President Fitzpatrick, was Carl that the president is keeping a watchful eye on Berreitter of the Typographical Union ~ TRADE: UNION REPORT sequences to the stability of French capitalism will not be leng forthcoming in the form of new op- are business men, +} the anthracite region, We are informed that Coo- lidge will take active measures to break the miners’ strike, should a stoppage take place and that he will take steps to “insure a continuation of work” in the hard coal fields. This is not surprising. The bosses did not elect him president for his ability to make nice after- dinner speeches or to turn out neatly polished phrases, They needed a good efficient and willing strikebreakey and they got their man. In the meantime the operators are speeding up coal production in the anthracite region, so that they will have a sufficient supply ahead to tide them over until Coolidge suceceds in breaking the} strike if it takes place. Get a member for the Workers Party and a new subscription for the DAILY WORKER. pressions visited upon the most advanced section of the French working class, William Jennings Bryan should qualify for ad- mittance into the monkey section of the nearest zoo after his brush with the students at Brown University, Rhode Island. The students made the old fraud look like a chimpanzee. The ancient Hebrew who walked on the Black Sea may not have flat feet but lots of people are beginning to think William Jennings Bryan has a flat head, “Scabby” Bill Lee may not get a united front conference between the railvorkers and their masters, but he will get a lot of publicity. LONDON, May17.—The report of the trade union Gohgress delegation, which has been investigating the authenticity of the famous “Zino- viev letter,” publication of which by the British foreign office had much to do with the defeat of Ramsay MacDonald's labor government last election, now is completed and is declared to pronounce the letter a forgery, says thé labor organ, - Daily Herald. “© General couneil considers Hi a should be investigation of how and why the foreign Office came to issue the letter just a few days before the general ele » and will urge that a committee of the labor party, together with jals of the foreign office and home be givan facll- itles for carrying out such an In- quiry. and prominent member of the prole- tarian patry. RUSSIA DEMANDS THE RETURN OF JEWELS STOLEN BY WRANGEL | . MOSCOW, U, Maxim Litvinoff, assistant commis- sar of foreign affairs, has demanded, on behalf of the Soviet government, the return by the government of Ju lavia of jewels seized by Peter Wrangel, who delivered them to the fascist Jugo-Slav government. Wrangel stole the jewels from a safe deposit vault. Litvinoff said Russia will hold Jugo-Slovia respon- sible for any losses. +] fe BOSS PLUMBERS APPEAL TO THE PUBLIC WITH ATTACK ON WORKERS HE) Connecticut Master Plumbers’ Association met recently in New Haven and went on record condemn- ing “loafing on the job” and the prac- tice of “forgetting” tools, The conven- tion adopted a resolution “banning in- efficient workmen and favoring a re- duction in’ 8 in order to create more friend Patatloas ‘between the plumbers and the public.” The same day's papers reported that the New Jersey Standard Ot. Co., reported e: earnings of $81,00,000 in 1924, ‘The Standard Ott Co. gg 1 on yb.” It does not “for ea add-ins Bu eery we, ‘ “ of John D. Rockefeller is not “ineffi- cient.” On the contrary, the Stand- ard Oil Co, is thoroly efficient in bleeding the “people,” in bleeding the workers. It knows what its power is —the power of the United States gov- ernment. “Loafers” the plumbers are called, because they refuse to” give up their last ounce of energy to fill the pock- ota of their bosses. “Reduction in prices” is what the bosses intend to introduce, which means a reduction of the wage scale for the What are the workers about it? a {