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Page Four erent THE DAILY WORKER FIRST THOUSAND | DOLLARS SENT TO IRISH SUFFERERS Donations. from Alaska and New Zealand The Irish Workers and Peasants’ Famine Relief Committee has cabled “the first one thousand dollars for the relief of the famine stricken people of the west of Ireland. This money AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHERTY. (Continued from page 1) the Communists. There is no sugges- tion as to how the American workers should effectively assist in the diffi cult task of bringing about world unity in order to fight the common enemy. Nothing but the animus of a yellow socialist against the only party that is revolutionary in aim and in policy. “ee HE rubbish written by Dr. Thomas is sent out to hundreds of labor papers twice a month. There is not a By G. ZINOVIEV. V. The Fight for Trade Union Unity and the British Labor Movement. | (Continued from last issue.) The Slogan of Trade Union Unity put Forward by Comintern. Nobody, I think, will dispute the correctness of the general policy laid achieve trade union unit yh We con- sider that where revolt mistake. The Anglo-Russian committee has not yet been formed, but the latest reports regarding the preparations for its formations are of a favorable na- i@nary trade unions exist, we must try to win over every possible worker amd at the same time we must continuesthe fight for trade union unity. To dissolve with a gesture our red trade union organiza- tions when they represent: an import- ant force in comparisom with the re- formist trade unions, would be a gross the fact that they are good fellows, but is closely bound up with the four factors above enumerated. A new breeze is blowing in the British la- bor movement. In my opinion Max Beer is right when, in revelwing the British labor movement of the, past few years, he says that the situation of the British working class is be- ing affected by the failure of the class- ic tactics of the trade unionists and by the old fighting method of the la- bor party. The failure of the old trade unionist tactics is also not acci- dental. It is not due to the defects International Prospects and Bolshevization social democrats have made up their minds to go into the rural districts; they are not averse to tasting a piece of “Leninism.” They declare that Lenin was right in insisting upon an alliance with the peasantry. Lenin, of course, regarded that alliance some what differently from Otto Bauer. We know the price of the “Leninism” of the Otto Bauer. For the labor party it would be objectively a step forward to turn its face to the countryside, rike «a blow at the conservatives, and push its roots into the rural pop- ulation. NEGRO CONGRESS GETS RESULTS IN BIG STEEL TOWNS Workers Take Holiday to Hear Whiteman (Special to The Daily Worker) YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio. (By Mail). — Large audiences of Negro and white workers greeted Lovett Fort-White- man who is touring the Youngstown down by the fifth congress on this|ture.*) The right Amsterdamers are|of the leaders or to the errors they | Gomintern has Found.the Key to the RaSh ey 1 et , y sub-districts, speaking in behalf of th ly eer etaciiss te tae kate starts Thunie. ee hina alse question. It is true thet our oppo: @auarenily rether, aeammmaiet the, de- | committed, but: tq.the feet: thal Grebe Problem: of the Pasian: Leber American po rae set fs . , s 88 ; i 7 Somin- | cisi m Britain is losing her m list posi- m : and peasants in the famine region.| Oswald Garrison Villard, is always ents in the right wing of the Comin-| cisions of the British to summon an losing her monopolist posi Movement. Distribution will be superviséd by Mrs, Helen Crawfurd and Robert Stewart. The latter is secretary of the’Irish section of the Workers’ In- ternational Relief. Despite many obstacles the work of the Irish Workers’ and Peasants’ Famine Relief Committee is showing results. Thousands of leaflets have been distributed thruout the country giving the story of the famine in de- tail. The capitalist press and papers favorable to the Irish Free State gov- ernment have followed a policy of silence in_regard to the famine, this forced our committee to: resort to the publication of leaflets on a large scale and also to advertising in the labor and liberal press. A Generous Donation The heaviest contribution received to date at the offices of the Irish re- lief committee came from Miss Har- riet G. Flagg of Brookline, Mass. Miss Flagg became interested in the Irish famine relief activities thru Roger N. Baldwin, director of the American Civil Liberties bureau and member of our national committee. These five hundred dollars were immedjately cabled for use in the famine region. Our appeal is drawing response from every part of America, contribu- tions are coming even from distant Alaska. Not only have the American workers responded, but we have re- looking for some opportunity to hand the capitalists a boquet, He praises | Stanley Baldwin, British tory premier for his action in giving a goodly part of his fortune to the government after the war, in order to help the treasury. And he did this, according to Thomas, without “trying to capitalize his good deeds for political purposes in an elec- tion.” see HY should not Stanley Baldwin, whose fortune is estimated at $30,000,000, give one fifth of his in- come to his own government? If there is any thanks coming to him, the gratitude should be expressed by members of his own class. Capitalists of the Stanley Baldwin type are much more dangerous to the working class movement than common frauds like | Horatio Bottomley, who rob on all} sides without regard to the interests of the system as a whole. If Thomas | prays long enough he may yet convert} Stanley Baldwin, Charlie Schwab and John D. Rockefeller and make them hit the sawdust trail. see USSIAN monarchists are still con-} tributing to the gaiety of nations even tho their erstwhile admirers no | longer contribute very generously to the monarchists’ coffers. The poor things are not taken very seriously nowadays, but once in a while an in-| tern considered that the resolution of the fifth world congress on the trade union question was essentially contra- dictory to the other resolutions adopt- ed by it. They regarded the correct- ness of our position on this question as an “accident.” Events have since proved that the trade union resolu- tion of the fifth congress is wholly in accordance with the general tactics of the Comintern. There is no need therefore, at the present moment to discuss this quéstion in principle. What we now need is to draw up prac- tical instructions for our individual fraternal parties, The thost popular of all slogans, the slogan of the fight for invernational trade union unity, was pat forward by the Comintern, With this the Com- munist International” made a great | step forward. We must observe that in certain countries the correct policy on the trade union question in the | process of being put into effect, may | be liable to the same two dangers to | which the tactics of the united front | in general are liable. This is particu- larly evident in France and Czecho- Slovakia, and to a lesser extent in | other countries. The first danger lies in regarding | these tactics as an unimportant man- euver, as tho the whole affair consist- jed in writing open letters to social | democrats and letting everything else take care of itself. The other danger the Russian trade unions. We stick to our former policy and shall contin- ue to fight for the unity of the trade union movement without © Tunning to either of the extremes, “We shall car- ry on the struggle evefywhere, even in those places where we have our re- volutionary trade uriongi official conference in ee we, with New Factors in the British Labor Movementy! f: Historically, our whole trade union campaign arose out of the position which has developed within the Bri- tish labor movement. ‘The new fac- tors which are making theinselves felt in the international labor movement originated in England!" The factors facilitating the new tovement are briefly as foilows: 1. “Great Britain is losing her monopolist’ position in the world market. power of Britain is. being shaken. These two factors alone are of tre- mendous importance. The second fac- tor, in spite of the fact that is only just becoming apparent, is already making its influence felt upon the whole economic and political position 3. The class strug- of Great Britain. gle is becoming more acute. 4. The labor aristocracy is losing its priv- ileged position. It is therefore by no means acciden- tal that a delegation of the British trade unions recently visited Russia and reported comparatively favorable, 2." The colonial tion in the world market and that her influence and the influence of her col- onies is meeting with greater and greater opposition, which is ac¢elerat- ing the pace of the class struggle in Britain and is awakening the mass- es of the British proletariat to a new life. To this too, is to be attributed the trade union minority movement which has rallied 600,000 workers around Communist ideas (and is con- solidating the official left wing of the trade unions) has, more than any other, facilitated Anglo-Russian friendship. The British Labor Party and the Rural Districts. A tangled situation is developing in Britain. The labor party, in its present form, is hardly likely to per- sist. But its prospects for the imme- diate future are good. It has designs on the countryside. At present it is solely an urban party. At the last elections it obtained 52 seats out of 93 in industrial constituencies, and only 38 out of 230 in rural constitu- encies. I think that we shall be wit- nessing a two-fold phenomenon in the labor party; firstly, the gradual de- cline of the prestige and influence of its inert leaders in the rank$ of the minority movement and even of the Communist Party (especially in work- ing centers and industrial districts) the establishing of | Our trade union campaign is a vi- tal campaign; it has a big future be- fore it, because it isin living, organ- ic contact with the processes which are proceeding within the British la- |bor movement and with the progres- sive tendencies developing within it. For many years Engels sought the key to the problem of the British la- bor movement. Marxism could find no approach to the masses of the Bri- tish labor moventent, because the ob- situation at that time did not the solution of ths problem. You re- member how at the second congress ;a discussion arose as to whether it was advisable to enter the labor party or not. That was not a question of organization; we were seeking the key to the solution of the problem of the British labor movement. The British labor movement was a puz- zle not only in the period of Marx and Engels and in the period of the Second International. It seems to me that, thanks to Lenin, the Third In- ternational has found the key. Be- fore our eyes a new situation is de- veloping in the British labor meve- ment and the conditions will finally be created for transforming our Com- munist Party into a mass party. The circulation of the weekly paper which our comrades in England have just begun to issue, has exceeded all our expectations, The young British Com- favor Lenin also gought the key. Large audiences trom Wellsvilie and East Liverpool greeted Whiteman and the congress is now on a firm footing in the steel and pottery section, Negro workers joined with their white brothers in applauding the pro- gram of the congress and the steel workers look to the congress as @ great aid in uniting Negro and white workers against all attempts of their masters to divide them on racial lines. In East Liverpool the Negro work- ers laid off work for the day and made a holiday of it. In Youngstown a strong committee of action was organ- ized and under its direction the con- gress will go ahead. The steel and pottery workers will send a strong delegation to, the com: ing national session of the congress to be held this summer. The steel workers are heatily in favor of the congress and are enthusi- astic about the much needed work being carried on by the congress and the fearless championing of the work- ers’ cause in a section of Ohio where the kK. K. K. rules supreme, Coolidge Machine on Trade Commission in Plot to Wreck it WASHINGTON, May 24.—Dismissal of nearly 100 persons constituting the economics staff of the federal trade quring reporters with a sense of the | jies in going to the oth ti 4 | on our revoluti This is b ;| and secondly, the growth of the influ-| munist Party is moving forward 7: 25.00 from New going to the other extreme an r ution, is y no means eB commission is the next move sta glecig ne which deserves |7i2iculous locates a monarchist nest/ aqvocating the hurried and uncondt- | to be attributed to the personal quali-|°¢e of the labor party in the small) apace. It is progressing thanks, first, | which the Coolidge majority in the fepeoduction here. The letter is trom and has a little fun with its contents. | tional entrance into the reformist | tles of the representatives of the Bri-| towns and rural districts. to the change in the objective condi-| commission is expected to take, to Sorina McCarthy, of. Denaain, . New Enter Percy Jay Fuller, “humanite-| trade unions even - where just as|tish labor movement in question, to In the light of historical perspec-| tions of Britaio, and second, to the} prevent further investigation of Zealand and reads as follows: “Comrades:—Enclosed please find a profiteers’ dole toward your fund. The check is drawn from my firm's account, which I use as a savings bank. “I hope that yon will get magnifi- rian and financier” fice on Fifth Ave. cigars, the other equipment of Mr. Fuller’s office are several human beings, looking much the worse for wear and lack of jaw exercise on starches, and proteins. ee 8 who keeps an of-| Besides a box of} | strong or even stronger revolutionary trade unions exist. That is the other extreme. I have heard that certain comrades in Czecho-Slovakia even be- lieve that the weaker red revolution- ary unions are the easier it will be to *) Since this speech was delivered the Anglo-Russian Tradé“Union Unity Committee has been formed end the results of its work published in the DAILY WORKER.—Editor’s note. tives, the strengthening of the posi- tion of the labor party in these dis- tricts will objectively be a progres- sive move. Not so long ago Otto Bauer in Austria, issued the slogarf, “Into the countryside.” The Austrian fact that the British Communists have adopted the right path, along which they will proceed to the conquest of the majority of the British prole- tariat. (To be continwed.) methods of big business concerns toward their competitors and the con- suming public. Commissioners Van Fleet, Hunt and Humphrey are report- ed to be preparing to wipe out the personnel on which the work of inves- tigation of business scandals depends. N. L. Carr, Oklahoma City, Okla..... A. C. Barrett, Warspite, Alta., Can. 1.00|These economists and assistants have cent “ngage Oa ba se ULLER is engaged im the task of DONATIONS FOR IRISH RELIEF Xinnfaaed Food Wkrs. ‘No. . MeNiell, bitteburen, Pause 6.00] been employed, under civil peters s om the othe i ; Brooklyn, ; ‘ax Muns (Br. 299 W. C.), Bronx -5. . to eaveedingty rare in my experience -abihirchage Receiver EFR ALL PART, FU. S.| 8 te bec Cleveland, Ohio... B. of Carpenters No. 1888, Miami, | rules, for years in the special fleld as- ee * | the Russian throne of the Grand Duke e W.|N. P.’Morin, San Pedro, Calif. Arizona 10.00| signed them by the federal trade. act that I have regretfully come to the). wiadimirovitch, who probably Mr. Pl. Zilway, Chicago, Ill Thomas Dee, New. Brunswic 5 | * Pind conclusion that only the workers pea foes ee that ian Crar’s, throne -——_———_- K. Sandelien, Marquette, ict io George Sigmund, Eureka, Call .00 | —the gathering’of evidence of frauds » {does not know that " niet i Mary B, Broughton, Philadelphia. A. Planeart, San’ Francisco, Cal 00 g i 4 themselves can remedy their wrongs.” |. 14, being used by a. bootblack The following is a ist of donations to the Irish famine fund received in ) ONT tick Rammerstein, Brooklyn TR. Thurstein, Bethel College, “oo | and other means of unfair competi : Depend On Heaven Tht pal divides dedeles the office of the Irish Workers’ and Peasants’ Famine Relief’ Committee, |J. A. Henkensieffen, Philadgiphi Fred Skadae, Kloten. N. D. go tion and the presenting of this evi- a nes ae ik ened? it that {{Tom April 16 to April 30. Several generous contributions ‘itive been ‘re- | ert 2. Most, Simeinnil, Fe WWillisce Blas ohcabeneinia so | dence to the commission for its use Ht mest not be sssumed, however, ithat he does not need miuney, ceived si | . . | Richard Stiegler, Newark : J. J. McDougall, Concrete, Wash... 2.00| in disciplining the offenders. The in- that there 1s a unanimous free res-| his own resources are sufficient. This ceived since then, which will be published shortly. All contributions to re- aie ak: ea Too z K Bother Boots wee as S55 | veuliention Gf. the lavisemalk los ponse to our appeal for ald. ‘The | fact alone should clinch the conviction | l!eve the distress of the Irish famine victims should be sent imimediately to Mary Holiday Mite hell’ Fail River Joseph AMlitelmeler, Chicago, Til 2.00 iter and shiitubals (ccnuntinon® on ; ; . ass. .00 | Edw. H. Smith, Watervliet, N, ¥ following excerpt form the vancepaied that he is insane. The ae of a a sige clea and Peasants’ Famine Relief Committee, 19 South Lincoln Anonymous, "Watertown, ty A (Garield, NJ es 1.00 small competitors by the Big Five to the general rule may prove interest- | mentally salubrius monarchist turn-| Street, Chicago, Ill. John J, McMahon, Buffalo, N. 00 | My acDona‘ enver, Colo. 5.00| meat packing companies of Chicago— 4 e ; he . P. Jac , Indianapolis, Ind. 4.00] R. GC: W. S. &'D.:Bi No. 64) ne ‘ yn cash is unthinkable. Fuller | Mrs. A. Corry, Oakland, Calif.....0.§ 1.00¢———______ |W. F. Jackmann, Indlanapo ing: i sly ing dow . ee ‘ril did not know all | “AM Irish Friend,” Oakland, Calif...” 1.00 Md Je Corbett, Bay City, Texas 10 6 Satin ingran a ee .00| an investigation which saved scores of "Have received your eet ae admitted oY 7 .e . ‘ vations | ee eegtt:, San Francisco, Cailf. 100] Dr. §. B. Levy, New Yorks City... 5.00 ee. ae seg : 4.09| Millions of dollars to.consumers of elp, I will send my ins and outs of the preparaticns | Peter Fireman, Trenton, N. J. y uathrop, Los Angeles, Calif. 5. e at . eee cet 08D Nee who look to tien tle cesiration, ‘buf! eteh littl | Msttula, inianon, Jn. 2.00| Rev. George Diets, Connelaviile, Pa. 20.00], tic Sw $00 | meatacin ‘this countyy/in p. cinme mage, contribution thru those who a ag Seg 1 ig id wane i ania L. Dock, Fayetteville, Pa 3009/8 2. Dollard, New York City ‘z 490 ae ag ap a Sa dase bance $48 | —Wlustrates the duty which they have help.” trifled shou! no! other a ward Goodman, New York City... 2. rs. rett, Bloomington, Ill. 1. 3; ° + * y, . a 23 Ps este et Ireland have relied |duke. It should not be Overlooked | Arch. Sculptors Assn. Philadelphio 10.00) Harry Ruchokutt, Chicago, iit aad Anos om ate iil. B Gottlled (Cr Br W Nolte} gs a ata ar gre! pani la . d for fier is setting “stock. No|lp Mu. Hartmee. Gee : se a 5.00|E. McNerney, Jr., Sangatuck New York Ci 2.00 more on heaven than was g00 that Mr. Fuller is selling yr Eocene heen. eae 4 141| 8. Janis, Baltimore, Md. Irving S. Ottenberg, New York City 10.00|0W proposes to prevent them from them. They are not yet completely |doubt he reasons logically that any-|rish Relief Com., Clevelan 35 | free "00 | Erick Brickson, Minneapo Anonymous, Washington, D. € 1.00! further performin, oper, Brooklyn, 1.05 Fred Heckmann, Brooklyn, 2.00 ~ ? 5 ‘w PD iB. i cured. Between the capitalists, the |pody crazy enough to expect the re-|w. P. Branch, Hancock, Mich....... 20.00| W. 8. D. B, F. Br. No, 299 & Hor? £ as, x Sire FO. Hawley dk al = landlords and heaven's representa-jturn of the Czars in nates acts Pe Bl 5 Seng itis. peel wath St. Louis, Mo. 5.00] Peon Baelmon (Painters pot W. ‘e. Br. Pr . Bugot) 3 Brookivn 10°00 ‘Anphcve. Gulla: Mtak. vi vi jock of n DP, ed Drees Brooklyn, , nebaum, New York 1s ‘ ‘ tives on earth, they have fared very |be 3 good candidate tor a bi Pa Ree Sr gg le ge Ea L Beep t San “Diego "Satie, te Stanley Tomek, Glove: Tonn Bableek (Grecho Slov ae PARIS, May 24—The French cabi- badly. The Irish Workers’ and Peas- | stock in Greengoods Inc. Rose Roll, New York City.ccuusom 6.00| LW. A. Local (ack MeGarthy © Michael Chaney, New York City Ws 5) SmenaiitOn, Bt 2.00!net has approved Finance Minister ts’ Famine Relief Committee is ap- — B. Karsten, Long island Cit 2.00| | meeting—Col. Boston 10,00 | Edmund L,. Seidel, Providence, Edward C. Bennett, Hurrican, 2.50 o ed * Siew Wek Cher : Lenin Ym eg ‘60 | Abraham Kramer, Bronx, N. ¥. Clara Woolle Mayer, New York 0.00 | Caillaux’s plan for a readjustment of ling not to heaven but to the bro- x F. Bobich, New York City 6.00|J. Jensen, Bridgeport, Conn. ae | Aareher Reames, Brent! . McAdam Begouieg, ah. j th rs and sisters of the Irish workers Canadian Seafarers y tune see ee tele See chee 1.40 |Rudotph Denig, New York City. ‘ Nie Ps es we eae eee ee 1 3 laine, lanta, Ga. x . Aurbach, Chicago, Ill. . a ; ¥ hamber ‘on Monday. a ° ° rosin Ci H. D. Harkness, Liberty, Wash 1.00 Total .. vue $722.01 | Chamber ry. fend Sao in a = bgt gees Win Fight for Wage Lawrence O'Connor, fae L we Local (J. Fromhi * $1.00 Sam Greenburg, kos Apwoms, Calif 1.00 Both at the foreign office and at come to their assistance, 00] Mrs. B.'M. Lini . 10.00 cs Ae A \ bring them immediate aid, but help Scale on Whalers Mary Marston, San Die 0, 2-00 Alex Goraxel, Chichgo, I... 1.90 3 Ac Waa, Webel, | Sey , Chicago m0 Give your shopmate this copy eta rata eet 3 . Rich, San Deigo, . ‘arl Vogt, wrence, . # ‘g tp bring about a condition of society mane San Diego, Calificon 10.00] KL, Boras & Nick ea Chicago 6.00) FJ. Samson, Minnetpolt 12.0 |of the DAILY WORKER—but be] dept question, and this matter will not Where preventable calamities will not} victoria, B. C., May 24.—The Fed- am Bartau, ee ea, 1.00 | 2 ee New Ter oe 2.00] A. Stalcup, Seattle, Wash. 1.00}sure to see him the next day to| be among those presented to the visit them. erated Seafarers Union of Canada won 00 5.00 | M. J. Marron, Le) en aaa) hy iso| get his subscription. chamber by the new government, Money is urgently needed. Send), fgnt to retain union wages and liv- 00 . . Anderson, Tuscon, Ari contributions to 19 S. Lincoln St.,| ing conditions aboard whaling | ves- Chicago, Ill. seis owned by the Consolidated Whal- —_ ing Co. A few hours before the first r *s whal- et three vessels of the company’s w ° Textile Barons G h ing fleet set out for the whdling \ \ So Much Profits y CY | crounds, the crews were informed that Reinvest in Germany PATERSON, N. J.—Botany Consoli- ated Mills, the American textile con- tern which bas been advancing capital German mills, roports a 1924 profit $1,721,298. This represents $17 a on 100,000 shares of Class A yk or a return of 34 per cent. The forcign doal was mado possible large surplus profits. It consisted & loan of $2,000,000 to Kammgarn- 1, Stoehbr & Co. and the El- ley Textilowerke, two of the Me important toxtilo concerns in Berove. Tho loan gives Botany a long- option to acquire a 50 per cent it in @ holding company to con- i trol those two concerns which in turn Over $0 plants in Germany, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and Hulland. Excess profits American workers produce go to back the competition of low- Buropean labor. the bonus on each whale would be ro- duced from $3 to $2. The men inform- ed the company that new crews would have to be signed and after some har- anguing, the boss agreed to pay all seamen at the old schedule which call- ed for $80 a month wages and no bonus for firemen, and $50 a month and $3 bonus on each whale caught, for sailors. The company claimed that the Sei whales caught were not as profitable as sperm wales but the men pointed out that the number of whales caught increased each year. The seamen also got the right of checking off dues from wages of seamen joining the un, ion for the first time and then signing on as members of whaling crews. Hindus, Now Blessed as Citizens, to Be “Denaturalized’”’ Soon At no time has there ing class literature. Get this book for the boy or girl you know-Lyou also will be delighted with it. Story book size 9x12 inches—with large clear country a book of children’s stories like these. + Thru every story runs the warmth and feeling for the working class—and the sheer beauty of them will, hold the deep interest of both child and grown-up. 4 Don’t let your little boy or girl—(or the child of any worker you know)—be without this colleétion of working class stories written by an author whose work so distinctly proletarian, and of such a high standard, makes the book a real contribution to work- ever been issued in. this THE PRESS! 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