The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 18, 1925, Page 4

IET GRAIN TRUST RUN FOR PEASANTS’ USE Prevents Speculation and Suffering’ By ANIGE. (Special to The Daily Worker) MOSCOW, (By Mall)—About forty per cent of all the grain marketed In Russia passes thru the hands of the State Grain Trust;- an organization | Just now celebrating Its three year an-/| niversary. Three years ago, when the| Soviet Union went over from the basis of war Communism to free trade be- tween city and country, this trust was formed out of the remnants of the old | Commissariat of Supply, an organiza- tlon which existed to comandeer grain and other supplies and apportion them | where needed by the emergencies of the state. Under the new economic policy, the peasant could sell grain where he chose, and the function of the new grain trust was to buy it from him, trying if possible to control enuf of the market so that the peasant might be protected against private speculat- ors, It was this trust, last autumn, when the crop failure started wild shifts of prices in grain and livestock, which swiftly stabalized markets and Prevented much suffering. Importance of Grain Trust. “Great is the importance of the State Grain Trust,” says Smirnov, egmmissar of agriculture, in an in- terview given on the third anniversary of the founding of the trust. “This trust, newly organized three years ago, had to build a market for peasant produce, stabilize prices, and keep this all in harmony with the in- terests of state industry, the condi- tions of our transport and our monop- FOR A DAILY IL LAVORATORE! An Appeal to the Membership of the Italian Federation by the Central Executive Commit- tee of the Workers Party. OMRADES:—The Philadelphia Convention of the Italian Section was unanimous In Its decision that the II Lavoratore must again appear as a dally as soon as a definite fund had been secured. In this decision the convention expressed the wish not only of our Italian membership, but also of the entire party. The Central Executive Committee declares that the Interests of the party absolutely demand that the Ii Lavoratore again become a daily. in the shortest possible time. Every member of our Italian Section will subscribe to this statement of the Central Executive Committee of the party. Every class conscious and militant Italian worker, even of those who have not yet become party members, will approve and support the proposition of making the II Lavoratore the daily organ of the Italian toiling masses in the United States. What is necessary for the success of the !| Lavoratore is that every member of our Italian Section should participate with enthusiasm and devotion In the money-raising campaign initiated by the Bureau of the Itallan Federation. Comrades! The Italian workers in the United States have shown on numerous occasions that they realize the need for a daily organ such as the II Lavoratore, The experiences of the Italian masses with the brutal rule of American capitalsim In the mines, railroads, building trades, in the textile Industry and in the garment trades, have created for our movement execiient opportunities for growth. A dally I! Lavoratore will help the Itallan masses in thelr dally struggles and will enable our party to build a powerful revolutionary movement among the Italian speaking workers in the United States. The Central Executive Committee of the Workers Party calls upon every member of our Italian Section to Join wholeheartedly in the cam- paign FOR A DAILY IL LAVORATORE, We call upon every Italian worker In the United States to support our Italian Section in this cam- palgn. A DAILY IL LAVORATORE means more strength for the Italian workers in their daily struggles against the bosses, A DAILY IL LAVORATORE means more consciousness and more determination on the part of the Italian masses in their fight against the Mussolinis of American capitalism. Every member of our Italian Section must at once answer the call of the Italian Bureau, and of the Central Executive Committee to transform the IL LAVORATORE into a daly in the short- east possible time. oly of foreign commerce, Alds Industries, “Capital was very scant, and con- sisted chiefly of leftover supplies of the department of supply, most of them the things which the peasants had not wanted. Bank financing was still imperfect and inadequate. Yet in its first year this Grain Trust handled the equivalent of 45 million bushels of grain. (This figure reduces the animal products and other commodi- ties to their grain equivalent.) This was almost twice the amount expected for its first year’s work. Over half of this went straight into aiding state industries, helping put them on their feet, “But the big achievement of the first year was the building of its apparatus, both for buying and selling, using for this purpose the net of co-operative stores, wherever possible, but in very many places creating new agencies which had not yet existed. By the sec- ond and third years the work could be much widened, so that now the State Grain Trust is handling 40 per cent of all the peasants’ grain reach- ing the market. It has partly put thru @ new plan for lines of grain elevators, which will greatly strengthen its work, The commercial production of flour for the entire Soviet Union has also been transferred to this trust.” Buys Thru Co-operatives. Khinchuk, head of the Central Co- operative Union of Russia, also pays his respects to the Grain Trust in an interview regarding its relations with the cooperatives. “We have had the most attentive and kindly treatment from the Grain Trust” he says, “both in our central organization and in our local scattered branches. Our con- tracts with them have increased stead- “In its first year the Grain Trust did only 14 per cent of its buying and 16 Der cent of its selling thru the co-op- eratives; this has now increased to 25 per cent and 29 per cent respec- tively. Actually the proportion of sales thru co-operative organs is much larger, as only the large scales made on contract are listed as made ‘with he cooperatives,’ while very many ’ thru smaller co-operatives count if made by the ‘Grain Trust's own , as these smaller co-operat- ives often have that function. I should about half of all the Grain &re really thru co-operat- As our net of co-operat- Bomething over one hundred and Mfty million dollars is the present yearly turnover of the State Grain Russia. Kamenev, in pre- future steps, says: “When- ever possible it is using even building co-operatives to handle the retail trade ip the villages, It must now take i up the special feld of four produc Hon, where more than anywhere else, the competition of private capital has been felt. It will also do more export, ‘Tho statg can rely on this trust as one of the most serious toolg for yegulat- ing the grain market,” It is rather startling for an Amer can, just returned from the United States to Russia, to see how openly and cheerfully they expect “trusts” to do price-fixing and to “control the market.” What a completely different meaning the word “trust” has in the two countries! For the Russian trusts are state-owned, and directed for the benefit of the workers, DOWN WITH THE MUSSOLINIS OF AMERICAN CAPITALISM! DOWN WITH CORRUPTING INFLUENCES OF THE CAPITALIST PRESS! HAIL THE STRUGGLES OF THE ITALIAN WORKERS IN THE UNITED STATES! HAIL THE DAILY IL LAVORATORE! Central Executive Committee, WORKERS PARTY OF AMERICA. Willlam Z, Foster, Chairman; C. E. Ruthenberg, Executive Secretary. INTERNATIONAL PICNIC OF THE POLISH, RUSSIAN, AND UKRAINIAN COMMUNISTS DEFENDS CHINESE The Polish, Russian and Ukrainian branches of the Workers Party in Chicago had an international picnic on June 14. Masses of militant Chicago Communists and sympathizers came to this picnic. They knew that it had the nature of a demonstration against imperialism’s bloody dance in China and that their duty is to raise their voices in protest against the killing and murdering of China’s workers and students who fight for their liberation from the yoke of international imperialism, Joseph Kowalski opened the meeting as chairman, pointing out that the Communists everywhere are making it their duty to point out to the workers the revolutionary struggles going on¢———————__________ between the oppressed workers and their masters. And because at present in the FarfEast our Chinese brothers are in a “bitter struggle against the common enemy—world imperialism, we make it our duty to inform the men and women present about the magnificent fight of the Chinese workers, James P. Cannon, member of the central executive committee of the Workers Party, was then called to the platform, Comrade Cannon said that the Second International never was able or willing to realize the im- portance of meeting the backward masses of Asia, India, and Africa, and lead them in their fight for their liberation, Comrade Lenin was the only one who long before the world war pointed out this fact. The Second International collapsed, The Commtn- ist International was then organized. Comrade Lenin was it’s leader, And the result of following Com- rade Lenin's tactics is the fight of the Chinese today against foreign im- perialism, Our duty, Comrade Cannon said, as American workers is to prevent this government and its capitalists from sending soldiers and warships to China, because every bullet sent into the body of a Chinese worker or student, means at the same time a blow at the American working class. After Comrade Cannon, Comrade B. K. Gebert spoke in - Polish. He pointed out that at the present time in West Virginia the miners are fighting against their bosses. If some foreign government would come down and interfere the United States gov- ernment would fight the foreigners, but when the Chinese workers are fighting against their bosses, who happen to be Japanese capitalists, the foreign capitalist governments are interfering and shooting them down in the streets of their own land. Comrade Deviatkin, member of the Russian branch, and an old time fighter in the underground movement in Russia at the time of the czar, spoke in Russian. He pointed out that Soviet republics have been estab- lished over one-sixth of the earth’s surface which inspire the oppressed masses and races against their masters, The masses of Asia and India, Com- rade Deviatkin said, are looking to- ward the red banner of the Soviets in Russia and under that banner they. will liberate themselves, establishing the Soviet Socialist Republic of China, Bulgarian Comrades Picnic Sunday at Madison, Illinois MADISON, Ill.,—All comrades and sympathizers from Madison and the surrounding towns are cordially in- vited to the biggest, the grandest and the liveliest picnic of the season given by the Bulgarian group of the Work- ers Party of Madison Sunday, June 21 at Lakeview, the place consider- ed the most beautiful'in Madison county. 7 Conveyance will be made free of charge with our trucks which leave at 12th and Madison Ave., also Lin- coln Place from 9 a. m. Those who oan not get in touch with us can get the Alton car which will leave them at the very gate of this picnic ground. Others who have mobiles can follow the well paved state road, the “Lone 6tar” route and are sure not to miss it. —————e Get a sub—make another Com- munist} Ford Refusal to Pay State Compensation Fund May Wreck Law COLUMBUS, 0.—(FP)—Because the Ford Motor Co., boasted friend of the proletariat, refuses to pay into the Ohio workmen's compensation fund, the whole structure of the accident commission is endangered. A court of appeals upholds Ford in his refus- al to pay his quota. Other firms are expected to follow the Ford example. Donahey Straddies “Defense” Test. WASHINGTON, June 16. — Gov. Donahey of Ohio, replying to the in- vitation from the war department to |KLUXER . OPS, RAID WORKERS PARTY MEETING Steel Barons Don’t Like Red Message By WALLACE METCALFE (Special to The Daily Worker) GIRARD, 0., Jurié 16.—Despite in- terference on part of the K. K, K. and allied 100 per cent;plus organizations the 8rd annual steel sub-district picnic held here in Avon Park was a success in everv way, ; Steel workers from all over the sub- district with their families gathered early and enjoyed the day. In the afternoom the sport events attracted the attention of the workers. Comrade Harry Sirotnik of the Junior Y. W. L. won first prize in the 100 yard dash for juniors and he gets a fine baseball glove: donated by com- rade Jos. Coops. The junior girls prize was won by the Y. W.iL. of Warren— a fine vanity case donated by Comrade Coope. The adult race for men was won by Sam Frank. The Y. W. L. race was won by a Greek comrade. Following the sport program the DAILY WORKER contest for. the most subs to be secured on the grounds was started. Comrade A. Doago of East Youngstown won first prize having secured 6 new subs and one for our Italian paper. Comrade Frank Bespeck secured 1 full year sub while some other work- ers took sub-cards and want to con- tinue their sub getting work during Red Week. The sub-district secretary will furnish prizes to those winning out during the week. Comrade Doago was presented the sub-contest prize of $5,00 worth of Comminist literature and a personal letter’ from comrade Walt Carmon of the DAILY WORK- ER. Too Much For Klucks C. E. Ruthenberg, executive secret- ary of the Workers” (Communist) Party was introduced by Comrade W. J. White. Comparing the fake demo- cracy existing in America with the workers and peasants government of Soviet Russia was;too much for the K. K. K. who are strong in these parts. The park management insisted that the meeting diseontinue and when Max Salzman of the Y. W. L. started to speak on the imperialist invasion of China a squad of/cops, kluxers and associated law and:order: “ap- peared and stopped the meeting. Avon Park is but a short distance from Niles, Ohio, where the klan riots took place a short time ago and the law and order brigade were fearful that another such battle would occur if the speaking continued. Jt was reported that the kluxers were assembled out- side the park ready to raid the meet- ing. Across from the meeting place sweating christians were jazzing their heads off on the dance floor but the kluxers didn’t seem to worry much about dancing on their Sabbath Day just so nothing was said ‘against the government.’ Comrade» Ruthenberg held the audience for one hour and a half and made one of the finest speeches ever delivered. in the steel valley. The workers present were giv- en an example of the brand of demo- cracy dished out in the steel valley when the kluxers and cops stopped further speaking. This backed up everything charged by the speaker against the fake democracy exhibited in America. The sub-district executives announ- ced that Comrade William F. Dunne of the DAILY WORKER will be the principal speaker at a “Hands Off China” mass meeting to be held Sun- day, June 21, at 8 p. m. at the Ukra- inian Hall—525% West Rayen Ave., Youngstown, Ohio. > Articles by Anna Louise Strong (Ae Wm. Z. Foster Roger Baldwin Gregory Zinoviev Earl R. Browder C. M. Roebuck % J. W. Johnstone T. J. O'Flaherty class Tom Bell his state to take part in the July 4 defense test mobilization scheme, has replied that he will authorize the Ohio national guard to participate voluntarily, and according to what they think the best interest of the 6 Manuel Gomez Photographs 12 25 CENTS THE DAILIY WORKER FOSTER SPEAKS AT BIG PICNIC IN MILWAUKEE Communist Movement Grows in Milwaukee By ANDREW OVERGAARD MILWAUKEE, June 16.—William Z. Foster, chairman of the Workers (Communist) Party was the principal speaker at the big picnic in Tippe- canoe Park, last-Sunday, which was held under the auspices of the local section of the Party. Comrade Foster spoke for over an hour and held the close attention of his audience on the very interesting topic of the present situation of the trade union movement in Europe and particulalrly of the con- dition of the workers in the Soviet Union. Comrade Gibson of the Milwaukee local, introduced Comrade Foster. The affair was a decided success socially and financially. A new Greek branch of the Work- ers (Communist) Party has been formed in Milwaukee. The first meet- ing was attened by eleven workers and five of them poined the party. from now on with the object of bring- ing the message of Communism to the Greek workers in Milwaukee. Benefit for Irish Famine Sufferers in ’Frisco Saturday (Special to The Daily Worker) SAN FRANCISCO.—The Interna- tional Workers’ Aid and the Pierce- Connolly Club have combined their forces for the purpose of giving a big benefit entertainment and dance for Irish famine sufferers, This entertain- ment will be held on Saturday even- ing, June 20th at the Knights of the Red Branch Hall, 11383 Mission St. A program has been arranged consist- ing of Irish songs and folk dances and of various vocal and instrumental numbers. After the entertainment dancing will be enjoyed until mid- night. The admission is fifty cents, and all the proceeds of this affair will be devoted to the relief of the Irish peasants, workers and fisher folk. Worker Correspondents in New York City Enter Daily Worker Contest NEW YORK—Members of the class in Communist journalism at the Workers School in New York pledged themselves at their meeting Saturday evening to enter the Workers Cor- respondent’s Contest of the DAILY WORKER. Each member of the class will submit at least one news item during the next week. The class was addressed by Art Shields and Jack Carney. Over thirty were present and decided to hold the next session at 7 p. m. Saturday evening June 20. The new pamphlet by “Bill” Dunne is to be the text, Any worker desiring to take this course, which will last about two months, should register with the Workers School, 108 East 14th St. Armenian Communists to Hold Picnic at Reese Park, Sunday ‘The Armenian Branch W. Pl of Chi- cago will hold a picnic at Reese Park, 6400 W. Grand Ave., Sunday, June 21. Max Shachtman and S. Simonian will speak. Games, music, entertainment and refreshments. Admission free. Belgium Textile Workers Idle. BELGIUM, June 16.—Serious unem- ployment crisis is developing in the textile industry in the Flanders dis- trict with large numbers of workers in forced idleness. Meetings will be held every Saturday | | Y. W. L. Activities | Wednesday, June 17, at 8 p. m. Meetings of all literature agents of the working area branches at 19 So. Lincoln street. Since the job of the literature agent, Young Worker Sub- agent and the correspondent is com- bined, it is extremely important that every comrade holding the position of literature agent of the branch and any other officer of the branch inter- ested be present at the meeting. Thursday, June 18, at 8 p.m. Ac tivity meeting of working area branch No, 4, at 3118 W. Roosevelt Road. Besides the regular reports of the nu- clei, potential nuclei, factory groups and individual comrades. Comrade Abe Harris from the city executive will speak on Printing Industry Cam- paign and Negro work. Activity meet- ing of Working Area Branch No. 2, at 1910 W. Roosevelt Road. Comrade Hecker of the city committee will take up the matter of Printing Indus- try Campaign and Negro Work. Friday, June 19, at 8 p.m. Work- ing Area Branch No. 1, Room 506, 166 W. Washington St., Comrade N. Go- mez from the city comittee will speak on Printing Industry Campaign and Negro Work activity meeting. Re- ports from various factory groups, nu- clei and individual members will be received and discussed. Working Area Branch No. 6, activ- ity méeting. Comrade Greenberg of the city committse will speak on Printing Industry Campaign and Ne- gro work, Reports of nuclei and fac- tory groups as well as individual com- rades and their activities will be taken up. Working Area Branch No. 6, 2613 Hirsch Blvd., at 8 p. m. promptly class in A, B. C. of Communism. Every- body should attend at 9 p. m. acttv- ity meeting. Discussion of the work of various factory groups, activities of individual comrades and organiza- tion of nuclei will take place. Com- rade V. Meltz of the city committee will speak on Printing Industry Cam- paign. Arrest Pat Toohey on Frame-up Charge in Anthracite Fields (Special to The Dally Worker) WILKES BARRE, Pa.—The despe- ration of the anthracite coal barons and their lackeys in face of the grow: ing militancy among the miners is evi- Wenced by the recent arrest of Com- rade Pat Toohey, sub-district organ- izer of the Workers (Communist) Party, on a cheap frame-up. For some time the capitalist press of Scranton and Wilkes-Barre had been levelling a barrage against Too- hey, calling him the “red vampire” of the anthracite because of his bril- liant defense of his position before the working class of this region. Shortly after the campaign was launched Toohey and two others were arrested charged with cutting a steel rope and releasing a coal barge that in reak ity broke its moorings being rotten and decayed, and floated a few miles down the Susquehanna river. The facts are that some time after the barge broke away, Toohey, along with some hundred or more others were bathing in the river. Known to have been in the vicinity of the barge, Toohey and two other miners were arrested by company detectives as they came out of the mine where they were working, haled before a magis- trate and held under $500 bail, with no opportunity to summon witnesses in their behalf. Toohey issued a scathing statement to the local press taking the hides of the mine owners and their flunkkeys, the mine police and company flunkeys, who were “witnesses” against him. His “case” will come up before the court during the September sessions. Every sub you get during Red Week of June 15 to 21 is a sub to ‘make another Communist.” - The June Issue of The Workers Monthly At no time has a working class maga- zine in this country been so fortunate as to gather into one issue such splendid array of proletarian writers, artists and poets. and others—have contributed to make the WORKERS MONTHLY the outstanding American. working The low subscrip- tion rate—which you should take advantage of—permits every worker to have the pleasure of each issue. magazine. International Review THE WORKERS MONTHLY 1113 W. Washington Blvd., These writers— Chicago, III. Drawings, Cartoons and Poems by Maurice Becker Michael Gold Lydia Gibson Jim Waters Fred Ellis Robert L. Wolf J uanita Preval Henry George Weiss Hay Bales P. C. Sprague Book Reviews $2.00 a Year $1.25 Six Months ROTTEN MESS OF CLASS PEACE IN LAWRENCE UNION Union Meeting Aids “Only the Bosses (Continued from page 1,) dent of the Dyers’ & Finishers’ Union. A. B. Sutherland was the first busi- ness man to speak. He had it all fig- ured out that the low tariff was the fundamental cause of the depression and visioned that a higher tariff would bring prosperity to the worker. As if this hoary joke had not been ex- ploded long ago. U. T. W. Organizer Speaks. The next speaker was Thomas J. Regan, organizer for the U. T. W, and residing in Lowell, Mass. Textile manufacturers held a conference in Lowell a few weeks ago and one of the statements issued from this meet- ing was that the textile industry in Massachusetts must return again to 54 hours a week, in order to, com- pete with the south. Mr. Regan said in answer that other states in New England where the workers are working the 54 hours or more, conditions are just as bad as in Lawrence, Lowell or any other city in Massachusetts, and so he did not see any benefit for the workers in going back to 54 hours, Drive for Longer Hours Foretold. He argued that the large manufac- turers would, in September of this year, deliver the ultimatum to the: workers that unless they went to their legislators and asked that the eight hour law, so-called, be abrogat- ed and the workers allowed to work 10 hours a day for the same pay, and at the same time rescinding the order effecting the employment of women and minors, the mill owners would remove their mills to the south, where child labor is allowed. He closed by explaining the class collaboration principle of the U. T. W. saying it wasn’t his purpose to over- throw the government but only a de- sire on his part that the manufactur- ers meet with the workers and “lay their cards on the table and be friends.” He had no remedy to stop the drive for longer hours. God of Battles Shows up Himself, The Rev. Donald H. Gerrish, who usually struts around in an army uni- form was the next on the program. Gerrish who is the principle gospel ex- pounder on “Defense Days” and who loves the smell of fresh blood of hu- mans (he was a chaplain in the “last” war) was full of pious optimism. He pointed to the poetic lines on the school wall: “The thoughts of Youth are Long, Long Thoughts.” He thot this should apply. to grown ups as well. He meant by this that the fu- ture would take the workers out of their present dungeon of despair. This reminded one to think of that poetic soul in the story “Masters and Slaves,” who says, “And what is pov- erty? Imagination.” Rev. Gerrish: “What is hunger? Optimism.” He concluded by quoting Cal, “Have faith in Mass.” Mayor Rockefort said that unemployment was general in all in- dustries and was a direct aftermath of the world conflict. He also was optimistic and pictured a rainbow just ahead. At Last a Worker! The only one that had a message to deliver on the “causes of the depres- sion” of real value to the workers was Comrade Samuel Bramhall, a former textile worker and a hard fighter in the class struggle for many yeas. Comrade Bramhall was the leader in the Lawrence textile strike of 1919. The strike was won after a hard fight and the capitalist press and politi- cians have had it in for “Sam” ever since. He stated the basic cause of the trouble was in the capitalist system itself, and that the business men and preachers present were only beating around the bush and attempting to lead the workers up a blind alley. He mentioned the speeding up, system that has been put into effect in the mills and which has thrown hundreds of workers out of work. At this point, what workers were in the hall, showed their approval by giving him a ringing applause, while no other speaker was thus favored during their talk, which showed that the workers appreciated hearing the truth, The audience seemed very much in- terested in Comrade Bramhall’s: marks but the chairman decided that enough was said and insisted that the speaker be seated. Protests were made from the floor on this ruling to no avail. “ And It Ended by—Helping Business! A resolution was passed calling up- on the mayor to call a conference of manufacturers, merchants and textile operatives to form themselves into a “Comunity Committee” to see what could be done to help business along. A worker made an amendment to the resolution which was seconded but which the chairman decided to ig- nore. The merchants and their holy associates went home full of optim- ism and the workers’ empty stom- achs. ’ ry | Dr. A. Moskalik DENTIST | &. W. Corner 7th and Mifflin Sts.” PHILADELPHIA, PA,