The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 23, 1925, Page 6

_ ing Ae Page Six rrr ere eee THE DAILY WORKER. Peblished by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 1118 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Mil. (Phone: Monroe 4712) SUBSCRIPTION By mall: $3.50....€ months $2.00...8 months By maj! (in Chicago only): $4.50....6 months $2.60..8 montha RATES 66.60 per yoar $8.00 per year Addresa al! mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER 1113 W. Washington Bivd. ~ J. LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F. DUNNE MORITZ J. LOEB. Chicago, iilinele —— wee EAItOrS ween Business Manager Entered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1923, at the Post Office at Chicago, Ill, under the act of March 3, 1879. <p» 290 The Machinists’ Election William H. Johnston, better known in labor circles as “B. and O. Bill,” has been defeated in the election in the Machinists Union. This does not mean that he will relinquish his office immediately, but detailed returns are con- clusive proof that the membership has rejected Johnston by their’ballots. What kind of jugglery will be practiced by the Johnston machine from now: on to justify his continuation in office is hard to say, but it will have to be of the rawest kind and evidence is already at hand that fraud of the most brazen nature has been carried on. The defeat of Johnston means a good deal more than a mere change in the administration of the union.* Johnston has become the symbol of class collaboration in the United States and Canada and his defeat can be interpreted in no other way than as a repudiation of his class peace scheme. We dg not say that the majority of the member- ship eynsciously recognizes the B. and O. plan as «the company union which it is, but an analysis of the campaign conducted by the Anderson center group ¢f the union, which was supported by the left wing, shows that one of its most telling points was a danunciation of the bankers and business- men of which the Johnston group is composed. The Mownt Vernon Savings Bank and Johnston’s connection with it entered prominently into the campaign discussion and there was evident a widesprea4 disgust with the ndn-working class character of the Johnston machine. The left wing made its position clear thruout the campaign. Its election statement made search- ing criticisms of the Anderson slate and pointed out its confused and hesitating character. The An- derson slate was supported as an opposition ticket and not because the left wing thought it was a class conscious group or expected it wage a mil- itant struggle. ¥ It would be extremely eneouraging if we could say that the defeat of Johnson was a sign of real class consciousness on the part of the majority of the organized machinests, but this would be un- true. It is, however, a healthy sign that class collaboration has not fooled all of the workers nd that the Trade Union Educational League is building a real left bloc in the metal trades. The vote is the more significant in this respect as one of the principal campaign documents of the John- ston machine was a copy of the Trade Union Edu- cational League statement supporting Anderson, published in the DAILY WORKER. This was put out as proof that Anderson was merely “a tool of Moscow.” It failed to take. Advertising rates ov app’cation West Virginia and Poland : Two news items from West Virginia show the direct connection between the capitalists, the various agencies of the United States govern- ment, the struggle of the coal miners in that state and the class war which in Poland and other European countries has assumed a’still more acute form than here in America. One story tells of the arrest of 150 coal miners for picketing a scab mine near Fairmont, West Virginia, the other tells of the closing of the hall in Benwood where a Polish worker was to speak and expose the murderous acts of the Polish gov- ernment perpetrated on labor and revolutionary movement of that cuntry. The coal miners in Poland have been the target of especially vicious attacks by the Polish terror- istic government. They have suffered more than some other sections of the workers because of their fighting spirit. The House of Morgan, the most powerful section of the capitalist group that owns most of the mines in West Virginia, lends millions of dollars to the Polish government so it can con" tinue to terrorize the workers. Ih the United States, and especially in West Virginia, the Mor- gan-steel trust group wages the same war on the workers that its puppet Polish government car- ries on. The connection between all the robber class could “hardiy be much clearer than in this instance. The world solidarity of the working class is the only elfective answer to it. World trade union unity, in the drive for which the British nad Russian imions are taking the ‘Tead, is the immediate task of all the militant workers everywhere. Unity of the world trade _tinion movement against the coal capitalist in America, unity of the labor movement against the murderous Polish and Bulgarian governments and the imperialist governments of France, Great Britain and the United States, this is the need of the hour and the unity of the capitalist class and their agents in West Virginia against the _Ameriean miners and the oppressed Polish work. class is a concrete example of that need, The Kannasto Case The arrest of Mrs. Sanna Kannasto’ in Hibbing where she was held under $10,000 bail, after she has been in this country for twenty years, on a charge of illegal entry from Canada, is an instance of despicable persecution of foreign-born workers that is made possible by. the immigration restric- | tion act. | \Mrs. Kannasto was rested on information sworn to by a counter-revolutionary Finnish im- migrant, in all probability an agent of the bloody Finnish government held in power by the allies, following the overthrow of the Finnish workers’ and peasants’ government by the army of the Ger- man General Mannerheim. By virtue of the exceptional clauses contained | in the immigration act, which plates a premium on stoolpigeons and their filthy activities, the Amer- ican government has become an agent for every counter-revolutionary govrenment in the world. All of them maintain spy agencies in the United States and they keep their governments informed of the aid given the labor and revolutionary move- ments in the old countries by foreign-born work- ers here. Whenever they feel it advisable these foreign governments call for aid from the American de- partment of labor and justice in persecuting some worker whom they want to jail in order to hamper the relief movements. If this practice is to be stopped, it must be done first by fighting every one of such eases as that of Mrs. Kannast y all available legal means and sec- ondly by carrying on a campaign of publicity and agitation the laws under which such persecutions are carried out. Surely the American workers, when they under- stand the real meaning of such cases, will not al- low the agents of other governments to jail foreign: | born workers without protest and action because | they fight for the workers in the old countries, take an active part in the class struggle in Amer- ica and thus give a badly needed international character to the American labor movement. The Hangmen’s Central Committee We are publishing these days column after column of news of the white terror in-various countries and some of our readers may wonder if there is no other news obtainable. It is probable that some of them may ask if the amount of attention and | Space we are giving to news of this kind is neces- sary and we reply that because of the small size of our paper this news may over-balance other stories, but it is necessary that the American work- ing class, and first of all our readers, the most ad- vanced group of the American working class, be made thoroly familiar with the almost unbelieve- able conditions of oppression under which the labor and revolutineary movement of many European countries has to struggld. This is the more necessary in that the bloody hand of American imperialism, a hand filled with gold that is distributed to the murder governments of Poland, Esthonia and Bulgaria, is to be seen in every one of the attacks upon the working class of these nations. We must know exactly what the American ruling class is doing to our comrades in other nations that we may be steeled for the fight against it that we must carry on. The United States is the center of world reac-| ‘tion and we must make it plain that here is located the central committee of hangmen of the world’s workers. Small Strikes Tailors are proverbially peaceful people, but when the interests of the bosses and the workers clash, as told in our story of yesterday from Los character. The Los Angeles tailors’ strike is a small one. Only twenty workers are directly affected, but in miniature the whole panorama of the American class struggle passes in review. The bosses im- port scabs and gunmen, strikers are slugged and the police protect the scabs. All fo the above is important. It shows that even Angeles, the profession loses all of its peaceful | | No Charge bon ‘Ladies at Italian Comrades’ Grand Ball on Saturday Our Italian comrades are giving a grand ball on Saturday evening, May 23, at the Greek Hall, 722 Blue Island Ave., the proceeds of which will go to the fund for making the Italian Communist paper, I] Lavoratore, a daily newspaper again. Il Lavoratore has been forced to become a weekly after a long financial struggle as a daily newspaper. As a daily, going into homes of Italian workers thruout the country, ll Lavoratore can function far more effectively for Communism and the Italian comrades are putting up a de- termined fight to put ‘their paper on a daily basis again, Comrades come to this ball if only to lend your encouragement to these ardent Italian workers. Tickets are 50 cents and there is no admission charge for the ladies: Music is fur- nished by the Guiseppe Verdi orchestra and the ball starts promptly at 8 p.m. William F. Dunne to Speak Before Y. W. L. Area Branch William F. Dunne, editor of The DAILY WORKER, will deliver a lec- ture on “The American Negro Work- ers and the World Revolutionary Movement” tonight at 8 p. m., at the meeting of Area Branch No. 5, of the Noe ae Every league-and party comrade not having another meeting tonight is urged to attend this meeting. A full attendance of the’members and a live- ly discussion is expected. The branch meets at the local office, 19 S. Lin- coln St. Chramov and Cannon will Speak Sunday at Lenin Evening James P. Cannon, who recently re- turned from Soviet Russia, will speak at the Lenin evening to be held this Sunday, May 24, at the Workers’ Home, 1902 W. Division St. Comrade Alexander Chramov' of New York will speak on Lenin. The voices of Lenin, Lunacharsky and other active com- rades of the Russian revolution will be heard from phonograph records. Beginning at 7 “p.m. Admission 35 cents. ig. Philippines fom Independence. MANILA, May 21—The next Phil- ippine general elections with 850,000 electors qualified to vote, will take place June 2 when the entire house of representatives, half of the senate, provincial governors and minor offici- als are to be chosen. ~The nacional- ista-consolidato party, which controls both houses of the present legislature and the democrata party are the two major factions in the fleld. All candi- dates of both parties have declared for complete and immediate inde- pendence of the Philippine Islands from the United States. é' New York Italian'Dance. The workers of the Italian Harlem Branch are giving a red dance for the benefit of 11 Lavoratore. Do not forget it! The date is May 30, at 8 p. m. The place is Workers’ Hall, 1347 Boston Road, Bronx. Storm Hits Findlay, Ohio. FINDLAY, Ohio, May 21.—A heavy storm struck Findlay late this after- noon, doing considerable damage but inflicting no loss of life. Reports that the town had been wiped out telephoned to Lima and in the petty industries where competition has not } te? cities were without foundation, AS WE SEE IT \s yet been wiped out entirely the class differences ‘we acute and that the police power of the cap: italist state agencies find no conflict between work-| ers and capitalists so small as to call for neu- trality. Our class must adopt the same attitude. struggle of our fellow workers must be considered, because of the small minor nature of the industry, as unimportant. In this we can learn from the capitalist class. And so the allied imperialist governments and their puppet states are going to demand that the Soviet government suppress the Communist Tnter- national! We have no wish to advise the workers’ Fr (Continued from page 1) elected to save itself from becoming No}a laughing stock on account of its absurd fear of @ couple of not very number involved or the} important or able men.” That's the idea. The capitalist-government must keep its nerve and maintain its dig- nity! “Probably they were guilty and foolish” says the Leader. Well, what's the use? e se. © A hg is not impossible that another world war may develop out of the ‘ench war in Morocco, hints the and peasants’ ‘government of Russia, but it oc-| Chicago Tribune. Not by any means. curs to us that the proper reply to this would | Morocco is the key to immense wealth be a demand for the suppression of the House of |! Africa and France has troops Morgan by Great Britain, France and the United States. ‘ , RARE tila a SOLE, enough to give John Bull a creepy feeling in the spine. The imperialist buzzards are watching the French op- erations in Morgcco with an anxious The bureaucrats of the city of Chicago -have| eye. England is standing on the rock opened war on the Electrical Workers’ Union. 26]! Gibraltar with a telescope. Spain men have been discharged because they insisted on the enforcement of the union rule for payment can’t do very much, but what she can do will not be to the interest of France. Italy would like a share of for overtime. All of the discharged men are citizens | the Moroccan loot. ‘Wall Street could but first of all they are wage slaves, as this in- cident proves. é 100 per cent Americans, please notice, find some room for its millions of idle capital there. 4 we $ * pone enlarged exedutive of the Com- munist International stated that Gregory Zinoviey will undoubtedly be as much | capitalism had been able to reach a Sirprised as we are to learn of his influence in the | Certain degree of stabilization. But it teachers’ federation in New York, where a local | ¥%% careful to babbitt stated that he was respoyvible for the Ricca teachers’ salary bil}, out that there could be no per Things did not 1 tallsm when 4 it stabilization. | \ NEW YORK,—Last week a meet- ing was held of the organizers of the most important nuclei in New York City. The meeting opened with re- ports on activities in the May 1 cam- paign and the general work of the|neighborhood to the significance of nuclei. These reports showed the wonderful possibilities for shop nuclei work in this country. SHOP NUCLEUS NO. 9 reported the distribution of 4000 leaflets and 200 party papers. Twenty-five tickets were sold for the party May 1 meet- ing. Three subscribers were. obtained for the DAILY WORKER and one of the active comrades of the nucleus was one of the chief speakers at the Union May 1 banquet All the wor- kers. quit on May 1 as this is in ac- cordance with the Union rule. SHOP NUCLEUS NO. 6 reported the distribution of 1400 leaflets. Two sympathizers helped in this work. Twenty-three tickets for the party mass meeting were sold. One sub- scription for the DAILY WORKER and one for the Workers Monthly were sold—the latter being sold to a colored worker. Although no one had ever stopped work on May 1 in this shop in the last five years this year due to the propaganda of the nucleus, one half of the workers quit work for a whole day and the other half work- ed only a half day. SHOP NUCLEUS NO. 13 called a shop meeting on the question of work- ing May 1. This shop had been work-* ing on this day for the last three years. The shop meeting under the leadership of the nucleus, decided to quit. When the boss received word about this decisian he frantically ap- pealed to the secretary of the union to hold the workers back. However the workers of the shop came down in a body to the union meeting and de- manded that the entire trade quit on May 1, Although this was not car- ried, and although the secretary or- dered the workers in this shop not to stop work, when May 1 came not one worker reported for duty. , Every comrade in this nucleus is a subscriber to the DAILY WORKER. Freheit Ball tickets and DAILY WORKER subs, have been sold to a number of workers in the shop. The comrades in the nucleus make it their business to report at the shop a half hour before opening time, During -this time they discuss with workers the current news of the day, which the workers, who have either no time or ability to read for them- selves, are very anxious to hear. In the course of this talk the comrades show the contrast between the Com- munist and the capitalist press in the way the news is handled. At first the workers ridiculed this idea but now they are genuinely interested and a large number report early for: this discussion. This of course is a very interesting beginning of the verbal newspapers, which are carried on by word of mouth in many factories in ] Russia, The nucleus is planning an organi- zation campaign to organize the fe- male workers in the shop. More. will be heard from them in the near future. SHOP NUCLEUS NO. 11 distributed over 1000 leaflets and newspapers. Whereas last year only two workers stayed away on May 1, this year com- rades induced 22 workers to quit in| spite of the fact that the shop is un- organized. Twenty-six tickets were sold for the mass meeting run by the party. SHOP NUCLEUS NO. 2 is in a shop | which always worked on May 1. The shop niteleus decided to bring the matter of May 1 before the shop meet- ing. After a strenuous debate led by the comrades in the nucleus, it was decided that the whole shop should quit work. Not only did the nucleus By T. J. O'Flaherty scrambled the grand duke of Austria in 1914, Before the dead were count- Shop Nuclei Active in May Day Campaign carry this through successfully, but it also arranged an open air meeting, which was held two days before May 1. This meeting not only resulted in waking up the workers of the May 1, but it also resulted in the formation of another shop nucleus in a neighboring shop. Two new com- rades were brought into the party and a collection was made for the Frei- heit.. The nucleus also won a fine victory for the workers in that they forced the boss to cease penalizing the workers for spoiled work, a prac- tice that had been costing the work- ers several dollars each week. NUCLEUS NO. 20 also reported that they had brought all the workers out of the shop on May 1, in spite of the fact that this” shop had always worked on May 1 and in spite of the fact that there was no union rule in regard to quitting on May 1. Other reports of nuclei activity will be published as they come in. remainder of the meeting was given over to a discussion of belshevizing the nuclei through educational methods and plans. It is hoped that by tackling the comrades in the nuclei, one by one, that they will be persuaded to give serious study to Communist theory and practice as found in the classics of the party. The a | YOUNG WORKERS LEAGUE ACTIVITIES, t LOCAL CHICAGO, Friday, May 22, Branch No. 1, Room 506, 166 W. Washington St., Max Shachtman speaking on The Bolshe- vization of The Young Workers’ . League, t Branch No. 5, 19 S. Lincoln street, William F,. Dunne, speaking on The American Negroes and the Colonial Peoples. Branch No, 6, 2613 Hirsch Blvd., Manuel Gomez, speaking on Imperial- ism. Branch No. 7, N. E. corner 90th St. and Dobson Ave. Educational meet- ing. s Saturday, May 23, 1925, Y. W. Li. picnic committee, 2:30 p. m. at.19 8. Lincoln street. } Financial secretaries’ meeting at. 2. p. m. at\19 S. Lincoln street. e954 f John Reed Junior affair at 1902 W. Division St. Max Shachtman, ; will, give greetings from the Russian, -Pio- neers, Saturday, May 23. a Detroit Yowls Hike. The ‘first hike of the season, given by the Young Workers League of De- troit, Mich., will take place May 24. To get there, take a cross-town: thru car to the end of the line om: West Wafren avenue; there you will be, met by a committee at 9:30 a, m, sharp. The hike will proceed to River Rouge Park. A good time is assured and everybody is welcome, Remem- | ber: 9:30 sharp. THE RESULTS OF THE SESSION OF THE ° ENLARGED EXECUTIVE OF THE YOUNG COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL By V. VUYOVITCH (Moscow) HE Enlarged Executive of the Young Communist International was faced by the task of discussing the resolutions of the last enlarged B. C, C..1. as to the political situation and as to Bolshevization of the Communist parties, and of working out instructions for the further development of the mass work of all sections of the Y. C. I. on the basis of the resolutions of the Comintern and of the experiences gained in the practical work of our leagues during the last seven months. mlarged Executive of the Y. C. I. unanimously accepted all the The resolutions of the enlarged E. C. C. I. and pledged all the groups, especially that of Czecho-Slovakia, to a really active participation in political life, to join in the work of. the communist —————___________+—— parties, to the energetic defence, of the line of policy of the Comintern and to support the parties in the difficult task of Bolshevisation. On the basis of the estimation given by the Comintern, the Enlarged Ex- ecutive of the Y. C. L, worked out a resolution with regard to the Bol- shevisation of the Youth Leagues, in which the opinion was clearly ex- pressed that the chief attention of the leagues should be concehtrated on work in the various concerns and in the factory nuclei, on the fight for the economic demands of the working youth, and on work in the trade unions. Thanks to the vast experience of our French, Italian, American, German and other groups, our plenum was able this time to concern itself in much more detail with working out the concrete methods and forms of the economic struggle and of the mass work of the Youth Leagues in the factories. On this occasion the ple- num pointed with special insistence to the possible modifications in the fight for partial demands and to the necessity of combining our daily struggles with the outlook of the revo- lution and of the ultimate victory of the working class over the bourge- oisie. “The second question on which the plenum threw the necessary light arid for the solution of which it made con- crete suggestions, is the struggle to win oyer the youth of the rural pop- ulation. Up to now the minority of our groups has only done quite insig- ed the capitalist system itself came within an inch of being as dead ‘as the czar of Russia. Wise capitalists know that ‘another world will put them ‘on the historical scrap heap. Yet they are feverishly preparing for it. They remind one of a man who stands on the brink of a precipice and is so fascinated with the void in front of him that he jumps ‘to it even tho he knows it means death. Or like the, fly that keeps flitting around a light until it burns into ashes. Soviet Union Sends __ Protest to China Against Troop Graft PEKING, China, May 21—M. Karak- han, ambassador to China, for the Soviet Union, has registered a vigor- ous protest with the Chinese foreign office against the practice of the troops under Chang Tso-lin, who have stolen $6,000,000 from the Chinese Eastern railway by. selling military passes, The Manchurian general has been policing the railroad, Chang Tso-lin’s troops are now oc- cupying Peking,.as General Feng Yu- wm to the north- ID GIVE ONEL ann sseag nificant work among the peasant youth, The plenum pointed out the necessity of developing an energetic campaign for the conquest of the pro- letarian rural youth and the poorest members of the peasant youth, but at the same time laid emphasis on the class character of the Young Com- munist Leagues and the necessity, under all circumstances, of preventing a firm proletarian leadership which will be realized by thé~proletarian nucleus in the leagues and with the help of constant and firm leadership on the part of the communist par- ties. For this reason the plenum re- solved that the Young Communist Leagues in the West should only ex- tend their organization activities among the proletarian youth in the villages and among the poorest of the peasant youth, As regards the youth of the middle class farmer, our task is to neutralize it, The plenum took up an attitude of dpposition to the creat of youth sections in the Peasant International, as it was of the opinion that the peasant youth should join the non-party associations together with the adults, © i The plenum took cognisance of the fact that many leagues had been very successful in organizing the leagues on the lines factory nuclei... most important sections of the Y. ©. I. are about to Nevinenhe: ganization. The plenum therefore ~ had to pay’ increased attention to the purpot of the work of the nuclei in the West, and to issue a number of instruction which will make it pos- sible for the leagues to increase the activity of their members and to give the daily work of the nuclei a revo- lutionary purpot which interest broad groups of the working youth. The slogan of the Communist Youth International is: “Complete transfor- mation of the leagues into factory nuclei before the next International Youth Conference.” The plenum devoted special atten- tion to the work amongst the youth in the East, In all the most import- ant countries of the East, Young Com- munist Léagues already exist, and some of thése, especially the Chinese Mongolian League, have already done important work in mobilizing the youthful workers and peasants for the struggle against feudalism and imper- ialism. The resolution as to Bolshe- visation emphasized the necessity of differentiating our work in the Bast, and laid down the concrete tasks of the Young Communist Leagues on the basis of the three different types of , the colonial and semi-colonial coun- tries, In recent times, the menshevist youth of Germany and of other west- ern countries has developed an in- tensive propaganda against the Len- inist Youth League and against Soviet Russia, by false statements regarding the economic and political situation of the working youth in the Soviet Un- ion, The plenum accepted the report of Comrade Tchaplin, who submit- ted extensive material to the del- egates regarding the actual situation of the youth, on the basis of which all the sections of the Y. C. I. will be in a position to give young. ist organizations the answer serve, 2 The central point of the of the plenum was the question of Lenini&t education for all sections of the Y. C.. I, The present political situation involves great dangers for the ideological clearness of vision and Political steadfastness of the youth leagues and demands a sound thee oretical education not only of their functionaries but of all members of the leagues. The plenum passed ® whole number of resolutions which represent a guarantee that all sece tion of the Y. C, L. not only promote the Leninist education of their mem bers but will, in the shortest time, bring ‘this work up to the desired level, Thus the 5th Enlarged ve of the Y. C. L created tha, otiiboat and organizing basis for further worlg in the Bolshevisation of all sections of the Y. C. 1, and represents a cone siderable step forward in the develope ment of the Leninist Young Communs ist International, ie a arte