The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 21, 1925, Page 5

———EEEEE ee MEMBERSHIP IN UNION FALLS OFF IN CANADA (Special to the Dally Worker.) TORONTO, Ont., Canada, May 19.— The 14th annual report on labor or- ganization in Canada, for the year 1924, issued by the department of la- bor, shows a decline in membership from 270,092 in 1923, to 260,643 in 1924, and an also yearly decline since 1919, when the membership was 278,- 047, On Down Grade, The 2,429 local branch. unions of all classes in the dominion are di- vided by provinces as follows: On- tario, 1,007; Quebec, 429 British Co- lumbia, 236; Alberta, 217; Saskatche- wan, 164; Manitoba, 133; Nova Scotia, 126; New Brunswick, 106; Prince Ed- ward Island, 11. Of the eighteen non- international organizations four re- ported having made disbursements during 1924 for benefit purposes, the total expended being $33,027, a de- crease of $9,208 as compared with 1923. Of the 89 international organ- izations operating in Canada, 60 made payments for one or more benefits, the combined disbursements amount- ing to $20,300,364, a sum $3,876,577 less than that spent in the previous year. Disbursements Decline, Besides the expenditures of the cen- tral organizations a statement is also published in the report showing the amounts disbursed in benefits by lo- cal branch unions in Canada to their own members. These payments, which totaled $358,902, were $25,693 in ex- cess of those for 1923. Juniors and Youth to Have a Meeting Sunday on Religion Juniors and young workers of Chi- cago will hear how the capitalist uses god and his friends, the preach- ers, to advantage in keeping the work- ers in a state of subjection, at Work- ers’ Lyceum, 2733 Hirsch Blvd. at 10 a@. m. Sunday May 24. The speakers will be: A junior on capitalist religion in the public schools, a young worker on the bus!- ness of religion, and a worker on reli- gion, the opium of the people: Soandinavian Branch at Kenosha. A new branch of the Scandinavian section, Workers Party, was organized last Sunday, May 17, at Kenosha, ‘Wis., by some members from the Lake View branch of Chicago. The new branch received fourteen charter members. Officers were elect- ed and as every member is young and energetic we expect a lot of prop- aganda work for our ideas, Well done, Comrades, John Malmborg, THE DAKLY WORKER FIGHT TO SAVE SEVERINO (Continued from page 1) diction of the federal courts and will be heard by a federal district judge of the northern district of Ohio. Deci- sion will be made by the judge with- out a jury. The workers of this country should observe in this case how the prin- ciples of the constitution are violated under pretense of defending and up- holding that document. Under the American constitution elections are held in which political differences are decided by the ballot. Severino has participated in elections ever since he has been a citizen. In 1922 and 1924 he was the candidate of, the Workers Party for congress in the 22nd Qhio district. In 1923 he ran for city council and was in the field again in the recent councilmanic campaign, in the 4th district. But if because of his ‘political views, Seve- rino is to be deprived of citizenship, and thus of the right to be a candi- date and a voter, the principle of po- litical expression thru the‘ ballot will be set aside in his case.’ If done in his case, it can also be done in the case of Other foreign-born Commun- ists; (and others active in the labor movement), thus preventing the Com- munists from exerting their political influence thru the ballot. Whether the disfranchisement of Communists is completely carried out or not, the disfranchisement of some Communists is evidence that those who attack the Communists under the cloak of constitutionalism do not real- ly believe in the efficacy of democrat- ic government themselves, as they are not willing to leave the question of the right or wrong of the Commun- ists to the decision of the ballot. Why the Action Against Severino? Of course, this is not done from any personal desire to place hard- ships upon Severino and his Ameri- can-born wife and family. No; it is because of his political beliefs and his activities in the labor movement. Severino is one of the thirty-one de- fendants in the so-called “Michigan case,” which resulted from the depart- ment of justice raid on the Commun- ist convention at Bridgeman, Mich., in August, 1922. William Z. Foster and C, HB. Ruthenberg, have been tried al- ready in this case, on the charge of violation of the Michigan criminal, syndicalism law. Foster’s jury. dis; agreed and Ruthenberg was convict- ed; his case now being before the. U, S. supreme court on appeal. Max Burger, department of justice agent, one of the “red specialists” in, the Michigan case, has been active in the preparation of the case against Severino, for cancellation of citizen. ship. This is evidently very closely connected with the Michigan case, representing an effort to revoke citi- zenship preparatory to deportation proceedings, and thus insure action of some kind against Severino wher ther the Michigan courts find him guilty or not. cellation case also affords an oppor-| OUR DAILY PATTERNS PRACTICAL SLIP OR FOUND4&TION MODEL Sateen, long cloth, nainsook, 4723. silk crepe may be used for this de- sign. It is suitable for slender and stout figures. Additional ‘width is provided by plait fulness below the hips. 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Pattern mailed to any address on receipt of 12c in silver or stamps. eoee FASHION BOOK NOTICE! Bend Hong pe silver Aa oy stamps { The citizenship can: tunity to gain evidence to use later in the Michigan case, Such procedure works hardship on the defendant be- cause the citizenship cases are in the federal courts, where the defendant lacks the advantage of a jury trial and other protection of his interests by the criminal court procedure. Other Cases of Suppression. The Michigan criminal syndicalism law is paralelled by similar laws in thirty-three other states. The Michi- gan law makes it a felony to advocate the doctrine of “criminal ism,” defined to be the “advocacy of crime, sabotage, violence, and other unlawful means of terrorism as a means of accomplishing industrial or political reform.” It is a crime even to “assemble with,” “any society, group or assemblage of persons form- ed to teach or advocate the doctrine of criminal syndicalism.” This law and the other similar ones are absolutely in violation of the con- stitutional guarantees of freedom of thought and expression, inasmuch ag they do not apply to the commission of crime but only to the expression of opinions. Neither the Communist nor the trade union movement ad- vocates the doctrines of criminal syn- dicalism, nevertheless these laws are used to prosecute Communists and they can be used against trades unionists in case of the slightest dis- order during a strike, caused by the employers’ guards and strikebreakers. These laws were a product of the anti-red hysteria of the period follow- ing the waf, but the fact that they still remain on the books indicates a desire on the part of the captalists to use them against the workers when expedient. Another form of suppression is the deportation of foreign-born (political “offenders”) radicals. In the last nine months about seven thousand foreign- born workers have been deported on grounds of improper visas, likely to become a public charge, etc, Others have been proceeded against by the immigration bureau, including John Lassen, Emil Vatjauer, S. Zinich, edi- tors of Workers Party papers in Hun- garian, Czech and Croatian languages. A deportation bill is now before the senate, having passed the house, prov- iding that an alien convicted of one year’s imprisonment shall be de- ported. The effort to introduce regis- tration, finger-printing, photographing of foreign-born workers, is another line of oppressive action, Support Foreign-Born. The foreign-born workers are es- pecilaly subjected to exploitation by long hours and low wages, and it is but natural that.a large percentage of workers active in the labor movement come from their ranks. Hence to sup- press the active elements among the foreign-born is to place handicaps in the way of the whole labor move- ment. For the same reason all work- ers, native-born and foreign-born, must support those workers who are subjected to attack by criminal syn- dicalism laws, deportation proceed- ings, ete, The policy of governmental sup- pression in these various ways is an accomplishment of the capitalist cam- paign of wage cuts, open shop drives, speeding up, reduction of force with resulting unemployment. The workers must be made to accept their lot as decided upon by the employers and to insure this it is necessary to suppress the radicals, the agitators, the lead- ers of the working class in their strug-|, gles to resist oppression and wring from the bosses better wages and im- proved conditions, If the Communist receive especially severe treatment it is not primarily because they are Communists, but be- cause their activity and influence and policies result in their being an especial hindrance in the way of the employers, Therefore all workers must defend and support the Communists in order to at the same time defend and support all active workers in the labor movement, whether Communists or not, Long Labor Record, Severino has belonged to the Brick- layers’ ever his arrival in this country from Italy in 1909. He has been active in his union and has served it in vari- ous Official capacities. He is vice-presi- dent of the City Co-operative Dairy Co. He is an advocate of amalgama- tion of the craft unions; 6f an ag- gressive policy on the part of the or- ganized labor movement toward the employers, instead of the present gen- eral policy of conciliation and class collaboration; of an aggressive cam- paign to organize the unorganized; of independent political action by the working class and poor farmers. His activity and study of the labor move- ment have led him to the conclusion that Communism offers the only cor- rect political guidance to the working class. All workers must support oF ous | Severino in his fight to retain his plates | citizenship papers, in order to pro- aarene:. The) ay, ant im, 1118 W. Washington Bi! ma PITTSBURGH, PA, To those who work hard for thelr money, | will save 50 per cent on all their dental work, _ DR. RASNICK DENTIST oon a ing class. tect the general interests of the work- Call For United Front. Every labor organization should pass resolutions demanding the repeal of the criminal syndicalism laws; against the passage of oppressive citizenship for political reasons; against the passage of oppressive legislation against the foreign-born workers, Every organization and all unorganized workers should con- tribute to the expenses of the defense of Severino, the Michigan defendants, the brothers faced with deportation, | and to the for the repeal of syndical- | Page Five SOVIET; TRADE WITH GANADA IS ON THE INCREASE (Continued from page 1). purchases, made by the U. S. 8. R., are given below: Flour. The largest purchase of any com- modity made was that of flour. The total sum inyolved was nineteen mil- lion dollars. Rhe purchases were made partly in the,early part of December and partly at the end of February. The first tramsaction was for 706,- 000 barrels. totalling about six mil- lion dollars,.and was made from the Maple Leaf ;Klour company, Ogilvie Flour .Mills,,-Western Canada Flour Mills, Theo)second purchase, tot- alling about 1,300,000 barrels, total- ling about thriteen million dollars, was handled; by. the Maple Leaf Flour company ex¢lusively. The financing of these purchases was negotiated thru United States banks. The mill- ing companies: were paid for the flour upon deliverys;:The banks, however, extended their credit to. effect these payments: and-were, in return, reim- bursed by the: Soviet purchasers on arrival of the.cargoes to a Soviet port. Several attempts were made to in- terest Canadian banks in the handling of these short credits, but negotiations did not reacheany conclusion, and all of this financing was done in New York. Agricultural Machinery. Ce BUILDERS AT WORK ONLY ONE MONTH LEFT To Action Comrades! HE campaign to “Build the DAILY WORKER” is nearing the finnish. On June 15, your local—and your branch—will answer the roll as to whether or not it has done its Communist share of building the official So far from.the many negotiations | that were carried on with a number of Canadian manufacturers purchases | have been made from Massey Harris company, Toronto. These include reapers, binders, grinders and vari- ous spare parts. The total purchases made so far amount to about $150,000. These purchases were made on credit terms, part 6f'twhich is to extend to February, 1926, The Massey,,Harris company have agreed to supply the U. S. S. R. with machinery for:the season 1925 to the extent of $350,000. This sum, how- ever, has «not been fully utilized as the credit terms extended were not very advantageous. As is known, immense : quantities of agricultural machinery can be used in the U. 8S. S. R. On the: conditions of . limited credit only;a small fraction of the needed supplies can be purchased. The creditss‘which the U. S. S. R. asked of Canadian manufacturers were a period to‘extent, at least over two harvests. 4° ITO Regrettably,,these terms were not extended, andein turn the Soviet pur- chases did mot utilize the full sum offered by Massey Harris. From con- versations -awith banks.shere it is evident that/discounting houses in Canada are not prepared to negotiate trade acceptances of Russian pur- chases. Needless to say, with proper credit facilities Canadian machinery purchases forithe U. S. S. R. market would, for years to come, count into the millions. © Atluminum. At the end’ of December a pur- chase was made from the Alluminum company, Shawinigan Falls, Que., covering 195 tons amounting to $100,- 000. ’ ,, Zine. During April-a purchase was made from the Consolidated Mining and Smelting company of Electrolytic zinc totalling 415 tons amounting to about $75,000. Seeds. There are a number of seed var- ieties which are not generally grown in the U. 8. 8. R., while in Canada they are widely adopted. Active ex- periments of varieties suitable for the U. S. S. R. are. being carried on and a number fo seeds have been pur- chased in Canada. In February a pur- chase of seeds was made from the Steele Brigss Seed company totalling 90,000 tons,,,amounting to about $11,000. ‘Thru the assistance of the Canadian Seed Growers’ Association a number of seed samples are being transmit- ted to the department of agriculture of the U. 8. S. R. For the coming season the U.S. 8S. R. hopé to be in a position’to place representative orders for Ci ian seed, There se to be an active inter- est in ¢o: originating in the U, 8. 5. R. ‘the Canadian market. From various jpondence which has been carrléd on with over a hun- dred firms considerable interest was developed in the following: Casings, alcohol, ply -wood, rubbers, bristles, matches, horg@ hair, caviar, linens, handicraft toys, rugs. Some of the attempts, however, to place some of these commodities on the Canadian market have received a setback due to statutory customs ob- stacles. Van Sweringen to P! ir Trust. WASHINGTON, May 19.— 0. P. Van Sweringen, the master mind who developed the, ambitious plan to con- trol five big ri ds into a trust will come before interstate commerce commission ig the last week in May to explaill the proposed merger, it was learned today. Minority stockholders of the Chesa- peake and Ohie and Hocking Valley railroads, tworrintegral parts of the proposed system, have, attempted to knock down A eta Sweringen plans on the grounds that they were not getting adequate compensation for holdinge-tx the » merger plans, — organ of the Workers (Communist) Party. You will answer also. Will you be able to answer that you have filled your quota? It’s an easy task to get at least two subs—and two subs from every Communist ‘will; fill the quota of your branch, your local—and it will double the cir- culation of “Our Dally”. A DAILY WORKER twice its present size will double the strength of the Communist movement—how seriously have you worked to do this much? Getting a sub for the DAILY WORKER is the EASIEST task a member of the Communist Party can do. In the Second Annual Sub Campaign On Monday, May 18, the following comrades sent in new subs to show how easy it really is: CHICAGO, ILL.—Shop Nucleus No, 5—Stolar, Rubicki, Wirkkula (6); Frank Martin; Valeria Meltz; William Kuperman; Arthur Necker; Lillian Goodman (2); Chas. Durck (2), TOLEDO, O.—Dedakis, (3); Stephenson (2); Miller (2); A. W. Hor witt (3); Davey; Buehler. NEW. YORK, N. Y.—L. Hirschman (3); Katterfield (4); R. Auerbach (2)¢ A. Gosukoff (2);.Fred Cammer; Fannie Markizon. BOSTON, MASS.—Jeannette Espirian (2). KANSAS CITY, MO.—E. H. Oehler (2). KANSAS CITY, KAN.=-M. Saras (6). SIOUX CITY, IA—Walter F, Swezey (3). ST. PAUL, MINN.—W. H. Wangerin; 0. L. Johnson. MANSFIELD, O.—M. J. Berry. NORTH COHOES, N. Y.—Edward Hechchel (9); Arthur Hechchel. OAKLAND, CALIF.—P.,B. Cowdery (6). CINCINNATI, O—L. A. Weeks (6). STAMFORD, CONN.—I. Wofsy (4). NEW HAVEN, CONN.—I, Hoffman (3). WARREN, O.—M. Popovich (2). BRIDGEPORT, CONN.—James Monczport. PHILADELPHIA, PA—Lena Rosenberg. HAMMOND, IND.—Frank Hotinsky. BOSTON, MASS.—B. Leib. CLEVELAND, 0.—Owens. TAYLORVILLE. Iil.—Szolyar. Ever Issued by the Communist Movement A beautiful collection of fairy tales that you will enjoy and children will be delighted with. 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ANTI-EVOLUTION LAW WOULD SCRAP SCIENCE BOOKS (Speclal to The Dally Worker) KNOXVILLE, Tenn., May, 19—Hvery science instructor in the state high schools and all science professors in the University of Tennessee will be subject to prosecution should the state antl-evolution law be found consti- tutional at the trial of Professor J. T. Scopes, young Dayton, Tenn., pro- fessor for violation of the new law, Dr. John R. Neal said today. Dr. Neal, who has been retained to head the defense counsel for Scopes, has accepted the offer of Clarence Darrow and Dudley Field Malone to aid in the defense. This trio of legal lights will oppose the prosecutors headed by William Jennings Bryan. Science textbooks prescribed by the state textbook commission are based on the Darwinian theory of evolution and 20 textbooks used at the univer- sity of Tennessee also contain theories of evolution, according to Dr. Neal. “Every instructor who teaches science in the public schools with the present textbooks is guilty of vio- lation of the anti-evolution act,” said Dr. Neal, “and if the statute is not held unconstitutional by the court, we shall insist on its enforcement by prosecutions.” Rain Falis Over Spain. MADRID, May 19—There was great rejoicing thruout Spain today because of heavy rains which have come in time to save the crops. | Your Union Meeting THIRD WEDNESDAY, MAY 20, 1925. 38 yg Clothing Workers, St. Ww. stone Derrick, 180 ington Federation, 62nd and sing. Carpenters, 12 Garfield Bivd, 10 21 Carpenters, Western and Lexing- ton, 4 , 5443 S. Ashland Ave. Blacker’s Hall, Lake 643 ateneen st. 180 W. 1693 Carpenters: 505 S. State 1784 Carpenters, 1638 N. ‘Halsted St. H. 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