The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 5, 1925, Page 1

a gf a | | j | | | . with other factors helped the G. The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government Vol. i. No. 176. AS WE ae By T. J, O/FLAHERTY HE executive council of the Amert- can Federation of Labor has re- pudiated its feeble and faltering ad- venture in the direction of a political party, in opposition to the parties of the democrats and republicans, when it returned to the mis-named nonpart- isan policy sacred to the bureaucracy, which never misses an opportunity to support one or other of ,the old par- ties according as their individual in- terests' may be served. When the executive council decided to support LaFollette im the last election, it did so by a, majority of one, Gompers casting the decisive vote. Green was opposed’to this policy. * * # VEN Gompers supported LaFol- lette under pressure from the rank and file, Coolidge’s prosperity prom- ises and threats of unemployment oO. P. to bury the LaFollette campaign. At the present time there is little en- thusiasm among the workers for a break with the democratic and repub- lican. parties. The elections are away off and while the capitalist par- ties are preparing their fences the workers are apathetic. But this ap- athy is only short lived, and the ukase of the labor bureaucracy against in- dependent working class political ac- tion will prove as effective as old King Canute’s order to the tide. oe ee é Te barrage aganst Mussolini con- ducted ,by the Chicago Tribune still continues. What the devoted Trib is’ now publishing appeared many times in the DAILY WORKER. We did not expose Mussolini merely because of the methods he uses to maintain his dictatorship. It’s the dictatorship of any other class but the working class that we are op- posed to. And when somebody rises to say, that we are everything but ‘aocratic, we plead guilty to the cnarge but at the same time claim that the will of ninety-five per ce! of the population even when» ex- pressed thru a. pane is. more, democratic in the real sense than the rule of five per cent over the ninety- five per cent, under the camouflage of a democracy. _* * IRANCE is fighting for civiliza- tion in Morocco. At least this is what Premier Painleve tells us. And no less a person that Karl Von Wieg- and, German correspondent for the Hearst papers reinforces Painleve's statement. When France was fight- ing against Germany both Germany and France were fighting for civiliza- tion. So far, Abd-El;Krim only claims to be fighting for the freedom of his country from French and Spanish rule. And despite Arthur Brisbane's airplanes, Krim seems to be doing nicely. | * * . HE British tories are not at all pleased over the turn taken by the coal strike negotiations. Baldwin bought peace at too dear a price they claim. The addition to the tax- ation burden is not what bothers those gentlemen so much as the moral effect of the government being forced to surrender to the might of the workers. Should the workers get the idea into their heads that they possess the power to make. all the British capitalists bite the qust, the British tories would not have to wor- ty about taxes. , * * «© HE crown prince of Germany (he ~ still carries the title), would like to tour the world like the prince of Wales, but he can’t For one thing he hasn't got as much money as the (Continued on page 2) Saiki Rates: Ss PICKETING THE In Chicage, by mail, $8.00 per gear. Outside Chicago, by mall, $6.00 per year. AILY W Entered as Second-class matter TO CONTINUE AT GARMENT PLANT Strike rds Arrested; Benefits Are Paid The striking members of the Amal- gamated Clothing Workers Union will continue to picket the struck plant of the International Tailoring company and the J. L. Taylor company exactly | as they have during the past five weeks, it was announced at the strike meeting yesterday. Judge Hugo Pam’s decision, upholding the constitutional- ity of the Illinois anti-injunction law, but restraining certain forms of picketing, will not hinder the Amal- gamated strikers. The injunction was interpreted by William A. Cunnea to mean that only “violent” picketing is unlawful. The attorneys for the International Tailor- ing company, however, declare they} will endeavor to prevent mass picket- ing as a result of the writ. Injunction Not Posted The International conrpany is ob- viously disappointed that all forms of picketing were not outlawed by Pam. No copies of the injunction have as yet been posted on the walls of the struck building at 847 West Jackson, the usual procedure when an injunc- tion is issued. It is reported that the International is contemplating ignor- ing the injun¢tion until an appeal can be taken, or a test case be taken to |- the supreme court. Picket Is Arrested One more arrest has been made, Tony Gollotti, a picket, being kept in jail for several hours before his re- lease on $400.00 bond. were standing along the walls. They were enthusiastic over the upholding of the anti-injunction law, and loudly applauded the statement of business agent Rothbart that picketing would continue exactly as it has in the past. Strike Benefits Paid The J. L. Taylor company, which is owned by the same employers, but separately incorporated, will apply for an injunction on Thursday and the fight must be waged in court all over again it is rumoured, But the strikers know that their battle for union conditions will not pe won or lost in any court, and they are determined to picket in the face of court orders or police clubs. The usual strike benefits were given out yesterday, $12.00 to strikers with dependents, and $8.00 to single strikers. Cunnea was in conference with the Amalgamated officials yesterday as to the meaning of the injunction issued by Judge Pam. Picketing Is Lawful The verbal decision rendered by Judge Pam stated, “Now, gentlemen, you have my opinion. I am upholding the constitutionality of the Act (Cuth- bertson anti-injunction act.) I will re- fuse to grant any injunction in this case which prohibits picketing in it- self. I recognize the right of labor to peaceful picketing and persuasion.” Lawyers for both the Amalgamated and the International presented to Judge Pam forms for the writ, and Pam did not use Cunnea’s form as his model, but amended the writ proposed by the employers. TWO WORKERS REPORTED DEAD IN WILKES-BARRE, PA., MINE BLAST WILKES BARRE, Pa., Aug. te Res me men were reported ve teen seriously burned and seven- a result of an explosion of gas in the Bornance colliery of the Lehigh maine Coal company today. ——. WON'T CHECK FIGHT, SAYS LOUIS HYMAN Discuss Resignations of | Feinberg and Perlstein | (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK CITY, Aug. 3—The resignations of Feinberg and Perl- stein from the Joint Board were discussed this evening at Cooper Union, at a meeting of shop chairmen and shop committees called by the joint committee of action, of locals & 9 and 22. The call for the meeting went out to the members on Friday, and they were urged to remember that the bat- tle is not yet won; that Feinberg and Perlstein are still vice-presidents of the union; that the joint board ma- chine is still in power and as corrupt as ever; and that until these things are changed and the expelled mem- bers of the union are re-instated, the fight must go on. The meeting tonight discussed the events of this past week and made plans for the future, especially with reference to the shops and the work- ers’ jobs. Arrest British Police in Thibet. OURGA, Mongolia, Aug. 3.—Three members of the British military po- lice in Thibet have been arrested for exceeding their authority, according to word from ah th beeen THOUSANDS ATTEND WORKERS’ PICNIC, VILNIS WINS POPULARITY CONTEST, ENGDAHL AND DUNNE SPEAK Four thousand workers attended the fourth annual workers’ press picnic j at Riverview picnic grove, Belmont and Western Ave., | the dancing; games and music; and to listen to the speeches of J. Louis Eng- eS” | presented to them by UPSEER. } Post Office at Chicago, Illinois, under the Act of March 3, 1879, \¥, AUGUST 5, 1925 Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1118 W. Washington Blvd., Chi NEW YORK EDITION Price 3 Cents cago, Tl. OMES GERMAN LABOR 'FRUNZE, COMMANDER OF SOVIET FORCES, WELCOMES DELEGATION OF WORKERS VISITING RUSSIA (By International Pre ss Correspondence.) MOSCOW, U.S. S. R., July 17—(By Mail) —Comrade Micha- el Frunze has published an article in the Pravda entitled “Wel- come!”, in which amongst other things, he says: “The awakening interest of w ide circles of workers in Europe in the work of reconstruction in Soviet Russia is one of the most significant phenomena of the present time; delegations which were recently *— our guests and who represented | all possible shades of political opinion, are proof of a profound psychological change which has taken place in the West Purope- an working masses. “The working masses seem tdjose ever more their confidence in that pic- ture of affairs in the Soviet Union the bourgeois and social democratic press, The} truth begins to be victorious. To See for Themselves. “The working class feels that the | ictual situation in the Soviet Union| 8 very different from what they have | been informed. However, they do not dare to take the word of the all| too few friends who are prepared to tell them the real truth, Therefore, they have decided to form their own opinions upon the basis of their own observations. “A few days ago we parted from the Franco-Belgian delegation. At the moment we are greeting a numer- ous German delegation which con- sists exclusively of workers from the shops. This fact is sufficient to in- sure them the warmest possible greeting in all parts of the Soviet Union, quite apart from their politi- cal opinions. They can be sure that hot the smallest detal of our life and work will remain hidden from, them. J 9y jim Vietories—Sympathy- in { Defeats, “The working masses of the Soviet Union know that our successes will awaken the spirit of common joy and proletarian pride, and that our defici- encies and mistakes will not awaken a malicious pleasure in them, but honest’ sympathy and the fraternal Sunday, to enjoy | dahl and William F. Dunne, editors of the DAILY WORKER. | Vilnis, the Lithuanian Communist. paper, carried off the Communist | press popularity contest, with 14,020 votes, Rovnost Ludu coming second with | 10,256 votes: and the Metal Trades | Worker taking the booby prize with | 140 votes. Hach vote cost one cent and there was much rivalry for the jie, which were a percentage of the receipts. - The picnic grove was decorated with red banners bearing slogans coined by Marx and Lenin, and posters with pictures of the Communist leaders. The banner of the South Slavic Fed- eration, with pictures fo Marx, Lenin and Ruthenberg, entitled “Our Lead- ers,” excited much comment. One of the»novelties of the picnic was a wall newspaper. The large borders depicting workers and. farm- ers hailing the.red dawn of the Com- munist revolution, was painted by Lydia Gibson. The newspaper car- ried articles by worker correspondents describing the meaning of the work- ers’ press, and giving humorous quips at the expense of the bosses. Hun- dreds of those present took delight in pulling the long'tail that was fastened to the caricature of William Jennings Bryan, The DAILY WORKER did not take part in the voting for the most popular newspaper, as forty per cent of the receipts went to the Com- munist English daily, and it was taken for granted that the DAILY (Continued on page 2) The American Negro and the The following resolution was unanimously adopted by the Parity Com- mission for submission to the National Convention of the Workers (Com- munist) Party to héld August 21: The Negro in American History. sib Negro has played an important role in American history, First his. labor transformed the southern wilder+ ness into an empire. More than a score | of heroic slave revolts enrich the tor- gotten pages of American history. The. smoldering fire of slave rebellion was one of the immediate forces, impelling the first centralization of the govern- ment of the capitalist republic—the adoption of the constitution and the formation of the national army. | From being a passive center of the bloody struggle of 1861, the. Negro was transformed in three short years into the black shock troops which helped to turn the tide of war against thé southern oligarchy. Thus the Ne- gro toiler played also his part in the consolidation of the capitalist re- public, * “Abolition,” however, did not free the Negro laborer from all of the im- pediments of chattel slavery. The de- cade of “reconstruction” closed with a rapprochment between the northern capitalist class and the defeated southern landlords,’ who obtained a free hand to exploit the Negro masses to whom the land was not allotted and who remained in a position of semi- slavery, politically disfranchised, vic- timized by super-exploitation and by exception laws. IODAY the majority (about 8,000,- 000) of the Negro population con- sists of exploi farmers (mostly landless tenants} and agricultural la- status little above third (4,000,000) lation are residents vand industrial dis- POLICE KNOW WHO ARE ENEMIES OF THE BOSS; ARREST LEFT WINGERS NEW YORK CITY, Aug. 3.—A fine of $10 each was imposed on Abra- ham Lupin, Anna Solomon, C. &. Zimmerman and L. Greenberg who were arrested. ‘uly 22 In front of 164 West 25th street. These defendants were arraigned in Jefferson Market Court and the hearing in the case took three days. Altho Zimmerman was ar- rested because he urgéd an officer to arrest one of the thugs who was attacking the pickets, and altho the | others had committed no offense and were simply peacefully picket- ing, ‘all of them were found guilty of disorderly conduct and fined. French Did Their Part. PEKING, Aug. 3. — Reports that France has not co-operated in protec- tion of foreigners in China are untrue, the French Minister declared in a statement today, He said the policy of his country in China was un- changed. Proletarian R labor to industrial labor in the heavy industries. Practically without ex- ception these are held by law and custom within the bounds of a labor caste, segregated, habitually terror- ized, and exploited to a greater degfee than any other section of the prole- tariat. Nevertheless, unlike the Negro rural population, a large portion of this greup, especially in northern in- dustrial centers, has won the right to exercise the franchise, A number of them have come into the labor unions wish to help us. “The workers ‘of the ‘Soviet Union cam,with an easy conscience show the German workers many mportant things. Above all, the feeling of lack: of confidence in their own strength that is given to the German workers by the disruptive and oppor- (Continued on page 2) FRENCH DRIVE ON RIFF FAILS TO MATERIALIZE Natives ‘Mass Troops | Opposite to Quezaan PARIS, France, Aug. 3—Riffians ac massing around Ouezzan, sixty miles northeast or Fez, Moroccan cap- ital, to repel any attack of the Euro-| pean invaders in that sector. The | French have been bringing up traps | and heavy artillery. The long heralded attack on ant Moroceans, which the French boasted would drive the Riffians to destruc- | tion, has not materfalizéd. The war | office-announces that the drive will | begin when the heat of summér has | passed, © However, it is known that the) ‘Spa- | nish ha¥é not yet signed an agree- | ment to aid a proposed French attack to. any; real+extent, and England has | made it ainderstood that she frowns on any maneuver that would’ esta- blish either France or Spain aegged the English fortress of Gibralter. and consequently have been drawn directly into the general struggles of the American working class. From the Negro industrial workers the lead- ership of the American Negro mass movement must come. The “Negro bourgeoisie” is but a petty-bourgeois section, small in num-} ber and of little significance as ex ploiters except insofar as they become agents of the big (white) bourgeoisie in the role of poisonous propagandists in reformist race movements or in capitalist political parties. With the The many workers GREEN UPHOLDS SCAB POLICY IN GARMENT STRIKE Praises Renegades for Scoring Communists Commendation for denouncing the Communist and condemnation for giv- ing verbal support to the Amaiga- mated Clothing Workers in its strike against the International Tailoring company, was the double barreled massage sent by President William Green, of the American Federation of Labor to the Chicago central body. The letter was read to the delegates attending last Sunday's meeting of the federation, The Chicago Federation of Labor took the position that the action of the United Garment Workers in re- ‘cruiting strikebreakers for the Inter- national Tailoring company, against which the Amalgamated was on strike, was.a piece of bcabbeny and could not be condoned. by \the j bor nog sie "Chicago: This’ abtiow was urged on the Federation by the DAILY WORK- ER, the Trade Union Educational League and the Communists in the locals. As the Communists surmised, the attack made on them by Fitzpatrick and Nockels at the same time as the resolution against the United Garment Workers was passed, had for its ob- ject a form of protection inst the wrath of Green for oppos:ng what Jeff Peters of O. Henry's story would say a “legitimate form of scabbi that is, scabbery conducted respect- ably under the banner and label of the American Federation of Labor. Fitz Said Wright was Right Prior to the reading of the commun- ication frori president Green, delegate Lichinstein, of Painters No. 275, creat- ed a mild sensation when he denoun ced the United Garment Workers as a scab organization, and not only that but he deplored the general deteriora tion of trade unionism, as exemplified by some international unions. He In- stanced cases where labor leaders deliberately broke strikes on their own members. Perhaps he was referring to Berry of the printing pressmen. What ever (Continued on page 2) AUSTRIAN GOVERNMENT REFUSES RAILWAYMEN RIGHT TO VISIT SOVIET MOSCOW, U.S. S. R., July 17.—~ (By Mail.) — Yesterday's report upon the arrival of a delegation of Austrian ‘railway workers in Kiev is incorregt, Actually it is known that the Austrian government re- fuses the permission to leave the country to the Austrian railwaymen who have upon their own initiative formed themselves into a party of fifty to use their holidays for 4 Journey of study into the Soviet Union. a4 Tha latter exception the Negro petty-bour- geoisie as a whole itself suffers under racial persecution. In chattel slavery the aspiration of the Negro was to attain the condition of “free labor"—the wage slavery of the white worker. The remaining special inabilities of the Negro dis- crimination in employment, exclusion from trade unions, inequality of pay, cause great masses of Negro workers even today ot regard the position of the white worker in industry as one (Continued on page 6.)