The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 6, 1925, Page 1

‘The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ and Farmers’ Govérjr--nt EXPOSED AS TOOLS OF ‘B. & 0. BILL’ AND THE siti ee | a Mu cack ea y In @S% Outside Chicago, K ARE SIGMIAN MACHINE ‘That Edward Nockela as recently as June 6, 1925, sought an interview ‘with Jack Johnstone, former member of the executive board of the Chicago Federation of Labor and organizer of the stockyard workers, is the charge made and proved in the following reply by Johnstone to the vicious attack made on the Communists by Nockels and Fitzpatrick a few weeks ago, At the very moment that Nockels was penning the lying letter against the Communists, he was also penning a “dear friend Jack” letter to John- stone, one of the leading Communists in the United States, whose work for the revoluttonary movement is well known to Nockels, hypocrisy. This proves Nockels’ Johnstone exposes Nockels and Fitzpatrick not only as tools of the un- speakable Sigman-Perlstein machine, but also as a willing assistant to “B. & O. Bill” Johnston, in that that election stealer’s campaign to expel all the radicals and progreasiyes from the Machinists’ Union. AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHERTY HE annual congress of the German Communist Party was held recently in the Prussian Landteg. This is not so much a tribute to the amiableness| of the Prussian government as to the} Dower of the Communists, The con- gress was addressed by French and British ‘fraternal delegates from the| Communist parties of both countries. | The British delegate, writing for the official organ of his party, tells a very) interesting story of the “Red Front/| Fighters” of Berlin. + * # *@ E attended a demonstration in the) Neue Welt, a large open air the-| ater. There was an unbroken line of! nattily dressed young men on either) side of the avenue leading from the} gate. The Briton took them to be) stewardss They wore light colored) jackets with red bands on their arms. On arriving at the theater the writer noticed a commotion among the audience and thinking there was some tronble he got to the stage and wit- nessed a thrilling sight. The Young Pioneers of Berlip, with banners fiy- ing and drums beating were march- ing into the great auditorium, follow- ed by one thousand of what he took to be stewards, but. actually a detach- ence ‘O national anthems were sung. ‘Those young rebels stepped out to the music of revolutionary working class songs. The British Communist was amazed at the sight. But he was told that what he saw was only a small part of the military forces of the workers. Shortly afterwards, 3,000 more “Réd Front Firvters” arrived, There are ten thousand of those. in Rerlin. It is a non-partisan organiza- tion and was founded to defend the workers against the armed thugs of capitalism. The meeting was attended by fifteen thousand workers. You can by this that the German Commun- Party has a kick to it. ee. at TPRACTICALLY every labor organ- + ization in the United States“is in- tested with spies. This is also true of the political parties of the work- lis ing class, with the exception of the Socialist and socialist labor parties (Continued on page 2) Chicage, by mail, $8.00 per sear. * ee @ By JACK JOHNSTONE. At the Executive Board meeting of the Chicago Federation of Labor held July 8th, two propositions were ac- cepted which on the surface, seem to be unrelated to each other. 1. A resolution condemning the scab- bing tactics of the United Garment Workers in the strike of the Amalga- mated Clothing Workers against the International Tailoring Company and the J. L. Taylor Company. 2. The sending to all local unions.a four page lying and vicious attack upon the Communists, We reproduce the last paragraph of the letter, which will give the readers the essence of the whole, The Executive Board of the Chi- cago Federation of Labor. exposes the, Communists’ tactics, unmasks their schemes and denounces their deceptive methods because they are sailing under false colors and dare not come into the open using their own name as Communists and the American agents of the “Third In- ternationale”. Instead they use the titles: “Labor Defense Council,” “Trade Union Educational League”, “Amalgamationist”, “Progressive Building Trades”, “American Negro Labor Congress’, “Irish Workers and Peasants’ Famine Relief Com- cittee”, “The DAILY WORKER”, and “The Workers Monthly”. Be- ware of them! Respectfully submitted, ~ “@higago Federation of Labor; ~~ John Fitzpatrick, President, E. N. Nockels, Secretary. The uninitiated will say, well, where the connection between these two acts?—that is the basis of this drticle: Forced Their Hand. The condemnation of the scabbing tactics of the officials of the United Garment Workers is endorsed by the Communists, the T. U. EB. L., and the whole progressive movement gener- {Continued on page 3.) POLITIGAL TURMOIL IN BULGARIA, SENTENCE 10 COMMUNISTS TO DEATH | LONDON, August 4.—Reports of general political disorders continue to come from Bulgaria by way of Vienna. A Vienna dispatch from Sofia today said ten Communists had been sentenced to death. POSTPONE TEXTILE CONFERENCE FROM AUGUST 9 TO SEPTEMBER 6 _The jatest wage cutting campaign among the textile workers has em- braced a Jarge group of workers who thought they were somewhat immune 4rem such treatment—the woolen mill workers, who took no action when the cotton mill workers suffered the wage cut given them a few months ago. Im order that the victims of the woolen mill barons may be able to gather their forces and enter into a united struggle with all militant textile workers, the previously announced Textile Workers’ Conference has been “postponed, according to the following telegra The date of the Textile Conference at New York City, which was _ to. have been held on August 9, has bene postponed. It will be held on « Sunday, September 6, at 11 a. m,, at 108 East 14th street, New York City. All militant textile workers take note. . a + GENERAL AMALGAMATION COMMITTEE of the Textile Industry, by mail, $6.00 per year. WEST FRANKFORT MINES TO OPEN SEPTEMBER 1, EMPLOYING 1,650 MEN WEST FRANKFORT, Ill, Aug. 4-—-Sixteen hundred fifty men will return to work in West Frankfort by September 1, as result of an announcement here today that C. W. and F. Mine Number One, em- ploying 1,050 men, will resume hoisting operations August 17 after being idle since last spring and that Mine Eighteen of the Industrial Coal company, where surface plant was destroyed in a tornado, March 18 would start pnoduction September 1 with 600 men return- ing to work. Work has already started at both mines getting un- derground plants in condition to re- sume normal production. 4 BALDWIN IS IN HOT WATER OVER SUBSIDY Mine Subsidy Angers Other Capitalists LONDON, Aug. 4.—Farmers of Eng- land today added to the cares of the Baldwin administration with a demand for a subsidy such as onc thru which the premier found a solution of the threatened coal strike. This, complicating factor was an ad- ditional encouragement to the opposi- tion press, which continued its freely expressed criticism, in anticipation of the debate over the subsidy in the house of commons. The rest of the capitalist class are sore as a boil over the fact that they must support the burden of paying profits to the mine owners. They hoped the miners would be beaten and would stand this burden. There seemed little doubt that pre- 'mier Baldwin would be able to carry his promised measure thru parliament, but it alsq seemed certain that his ad- thinistration has been strike. It will continue to be a thorn in, the side of the administration, it was believed, as long as the tax-payers Tealize that their money is being paid out for the subsidy, : Debate on the measure in commons tomorrow was expected to be extre- thely bitter. The capitatist class as a whole cannot understand why the miners and their allies of the trade union movement were not defied and crushed—“once for all.” They could not and still do not see the revolution- ary possibilities of a general strike of 5,000,000, Troops Massed on » Bulgarian Border ‘ by Greek Dictator ATHENS, Aug. 4—The Greek gen- eral staff today denied published re- ports that two divisions of Greek troops had been moved to the Bul- garian border. Official announcement was made that a few reinforcements had been sent to the frontier outposts. For- eign minister Rentis stated today that this action was merely a tempor- ary move and would be cancelled as soon as Bulgaria takes action to in- sure the safety of Greek citizens in Bulgaria. ‘ Athens newspapers had said troops were being moved to the border be- eause of the inaction of the Bulgarian government over Greece’s protest against the murder of a Greek citizen in Bulgaria. SETTLE FOR TICKETS! All Chicago branches of the Work- ers Party settle immediately for the Press Picnic tickets, with the local office, Workers Party, 19 S. Lincoin St. Chicago. Ly “foreéd ‘Settlement of gare 2, 'ORKER. Entered as Second-class matter September 21, 1923, at the Post OmMice at Chicago, Illinois, under the Act of March 3, 1879. THURSDAY, AUGUST 6, 1925 alll A_ft NEW YORK EDITION Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1113. W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Ill Price 3 Cents SOLIDARITY OF Ninth Week Finds Strike STRIKERS LICKS | at Shanghai Still Strong; GARMENT BOSSES §=Soviet Unionists Arrive ployes of the Inter- national Tal ig company are pick- eting as usual;the company evidently having Ta ‘that the Injunction issued by Judge Hugo Pam.is so mild that it is not worth while posting on the struck plant at 847 West Jackson Bivd. No apfests were made -yester- day, and the golidarity of the strikers s:when the Amalgamated ago. of the garment manu facturers to}wse the courts to re- strain the stPillers from picketing is not yet overs the company having shown signs $f appealing to a higher court, and the J. L. Taylor company having declared their intention of ap- plying for-an injunction tomorrow. However, the present injunction against the strikers, in itself means very little, as it merely orders the strikers to, do nothing that is not already unlawful, The present injunction declares that the strikers have the right to congregate, pélicefully picket, visit the homes of seabs, and use “peace- ful persuasion.” . The injunction issued against the Amalgamated in 1916, practically de- clared the strike illegal. It outlawed payment of benefits, prohibited picketing amd congregating in front of the struck plant. Pam’s Injunctions. The injunction issued by Judge Pam states im part: “On motion for a temporary injunc- tion on the second bill of complaint and the court having heard the argu- ments of both sides orders: ig “That upon the filing by the com- plainant of ai injunction bond of idants, and each of are hereby restrain- order of the court “things: or calling upon the employes ‘of the complainant and from congregating and from picketing or maintaining any picket or pickets at or near the-premises of the com- plainant or along the routes followed by the employes of the complainant in going to or*from their homes or to and from tle place or places of business of the complainant, in a man- ner that is intimidating or unlawful. Picketing Legal. “But this does not, however, restrain in any way or prevent the defend- ants from maintaining pickets or persuading employes of the complain- ant or from following or calling upon the employes of the complainant or from congregating in a peaceable or lawful manner as provided in the act of the legislature of the state of Illi- nois entitled, ‘An Act Relating to Disputes Concerning Terms and Con- ditions of Employment.’ “2, From organizing or maintaining any boycott against the complainant, (Continued on page 2) GERMAN MINE OWNERS ALSO GETTING SUBSIDY WHILE WORKERS STARVE BERLIN, Aug. 4.—The newspa- pers report the gold discount bank has granted to ithe Ruhr miring in- dustry a three-months’ credit of 15,000,000 marks: because of the present crisis, in which enormous stocks of coal are on hand without a market. The “mine owners declare that the situation is: leading to ruin. They have rvcsorted to wholesale dismissals of »imers in an effort to economize and many pits are cios- ed down. ry (Special to The Daily Worker) SHANGHAI, China, August 4.—It should be clearly understood that thé many of the smaller and inconsequential shops are open, the important mills and all shipping of Shanghai are still idle—the general strike is still going strong at the end of its ninth week. The Union of Labor, Commerce afd Education does not care about the small places, be- ing concerned with shutting up the big mills owned by British and Japanese—and they are quite successfully doing this. Saturday, the delegation from the All-Russian Trade Unions visited the General Labor Union and were welcomed by tremen- dous cheering. The delegation is four in number, Lepse, head of the Metal Workers’ Industrial Union, Smorgins, Vaskroff and another. Strike relief is coming in enuf to; the cloak and dress shops, overflow- keep the strikers from privation more than that to which they have always been subjected under imper- ialist exploitation. The mass senti- ment is unquestionably back of the strike. China Opposes Whitewash Scheme, A dispatch from Peking says that the Peking government has cabled Chinese ministers abroad, instructing them to notify the governments to which they are accredited, that China opposes any new investigation of the Shanghai massacres, and wishes to |know what is the divergence from |facts of the first diplomatic commis- sion’s report. All China is still seething, with it, can imagine. ent in the famous “peaceful and model” province of Shanghai writes: “The energy and careful organiza- tion of the libggation movement is almost incredi| hose who recall the apathy of days in regard to politics.” Tar and Feather Woman JONESBORO, La., Augst 2:—Four men and five women took part in the tarring and feathering of Mrs. Mae Simms Nave here, and warrants have heen swornout tof tieir arrest... Oll Company President Resigns NEW YORK, Aug. 4—Herbert G. Wylie today resigned as president and general manager of the Pan-American Petroleum and Transport company. KATTERFELD GETS FINAL PAPERS FROM JOLIET PENITENTIARY (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, August 4.—L. E. Katterfeld, who was convicted for “conspiracy” in Chicago for the part he played in the organizing conven- tion of the Communist Labor Party in 1919 and who served one year of his sentence in the penitentiary at Joliet, Hlinois, and a second year “on probation” in New York, hi just received his final discharge from the Illinois state penitentiary. leading body of British labor. in a} way that mo one not now conversant | A correspond-| GERMAN FASCIST| ANTHRACITE (4,000 SHOP OFFICIALS OF NEW YORK CITY I. L.¢.W. OVERFLOW COOPER UNION, CHEERING (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK CITY, Aug. 4—The meeting last night of I. L. G. W. shop chairman and shop committees of ed Cooper Union and filled Manhat- tan Lyceum besides. Four thousand shop officials, in galvanic certification of the fact that the ‘conflict between the Sigman of- fficialdom and the membership of the I, L. @. W. is a revolution and not a partial rebellion, pledged their united support and confidence to the Joint Action Committee of the sus- pended locals, 2, 9 and 22—and di- rected that body to continue the struggle until victory. Louis Hyman, in a speech full of fire and: scorching with flaming at- tacks on the Sigmanite bureaucracy, was given a great ovation when he ADMITS HE WAS A POLICE SPY Kindermann Caught in Lies by Soviet ‘Court BY INPRECORR. MOSCOW, U. S. S. R.—The examin- ation of the German fascist, Kinder mann, by the Soviet court here, brot out the fact that Kindermann joined the Communist Party of Germany as a police spy, and came to the Soviet Union to perpetrate terroristic acts against the workers’ government. Kindermann admitted that his fath- er was expelled from the German Communist Party, and' that he, his son, had close personal connection with the German fascist leaders. He also admitted that he studied to be a detective, and knew. nothing of Com- munism. He joined the party, he ad- mitted, for the purpose of furthering his terroristic expedition to Russia. Kindermann’s Father Wealthy. Kindermann, at the request of the prosecutor, jnade a statement upon the social position and political activ- (Continued on page 4.) The Serial Publication of RUSSIA TODAY Will Be Continued Due to mechanical difficulties, unavoidable and temporary only, the serial publication of RUSSIA TODAY will be omitted from this issue—and possibly from tomorrow's. Thereafter, every day, another generous installment of this- great document will be published until the full report is completed. (The readers of the DAILY WORKER, and those especially who have subscribed only for the term of the publication of RUSSIA, TO- DAY, will have an additional period added to their subscriptions: to enable them to fully take advantage of this historical report of the Our new readers, thru this occurrence, will get a longer acquaint- ance with the DAILY WORKER—an acquaintance which the DAILY WORKER trusts will ripen to a friendship that will, prompt renewal of subscription for a longer period and continued support-in the future. HYMAN declared: “We cloakmakers suffer from hun ger—and Sigman turns us over tothe bankers that they may study our pains! “We, ourselves, aré the only ones who understand our sufferings. “There is but one way to liberate ourselves. That is, when the season opens, to say—‘We will not sew any garments until we get the possibil- ity of making a living.” The meeting adopted resolutions demanding that Sigman resign, as- serting that Sigman is more abhor- rent to the cloakmakers than even Feinberg and Perlstein. The resolu- tions also expressed complete confi- denc in the Joint Action Committee as the tru@ representatives of the cloak and dress makers of New York City, CONFERENCE. BREAKING UP Operators Trying to “Force Arbitration (Special to The Daily Worker) ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Aug. 4. — Unless the present personnel of the operators’ negotiating committee at the coal conference here is displaced by men “with power to act,” leaders of the United Mine Workers of Amer- ica will withdraw from the joint con- ference of anthracite mine operators and workers, it was reported this afternoon just before today’s session was to open. John L. Lewis, international presi- dent of the United Mine Workers, con- ferred with union distri€t heads, the reports said, and it Wa determined that unless Samuel D. Warriner re- ceded from his stand regarding reten- tion of the present sub-committee peg- sonnel, the conference would come to a sudden end this afternoon. Lewis Says Warriner Lies Union leaders said it would be “use- less” to confer any longer with the present personnel of the opérators’ sub-committee. They declared that in spite of what Warriner says, this com- mittee is not empowered to grant them their demands. Should there be a strike, they as- serted, the operators will then be tn @ position to unload nearly ten million tons of surplus coal new on hand. Warriner Denies Agents Legk Power In his letter to John & hewis, re- fusing to come personally to the con- ference, Samuel D. Warriner, chair- man‘of the anthracite operators’ asse- ciation, said yesterday: “You question the authority of our committee and the experience of its members. Let me assure you at once that this committee is fully authorized to represent and speak for the anthra- cite industry.” Warriner’s letter goes further in pressing that there be no suspension (Continued on page 2) Building t le The following resolution was unanimously adopted by the Parity Com- mission for submission to the National Convention of the Workers (Com- * munist) Party to held August 21: HE Communist Press is not only the collective organizer of the Party of proletarian revolution but the collective organizer of the masses for the revolution under the leadership of the Party. 5 This was the view of Lenin of the role of the Communist press and it is to make our press the collective or- ganizer of the Party and the masses that we must strive. . ‘Our Party has made some progre' in’ this direction, but in the United States, where the pr>paganda agen- cies of capitalism have reached their _ highest point of development, thi ates pts RGA: PRR © Pole that the masses are almost literature gives the press an extraordinary power both in the hands of the capitalists and in the hands of the revolutionary Party. The multiplicity of languages (a * score of language groups within the ranks of our own Party) in Amer- ica is a special difficulty that we have to meet and overcome. ‘This in turn eféates the need for the greatest centralization of our press but the form of organization of our Party (inherited from the Socialist Party) has made extremely difficult that 3" f . $i ¢ ized The lack of complete centralized con- trol has resulted in many organiza- tional weaknesses and serious devia- tions from the correct Communist line. ~ control the entire Party press. It has been necessary also to work unceasingly to wipe out the tradi- tions of bourgeois journalism with which many of our comrades were in- fected due to the lack of proper train- ing im the manner and method of se- curing) recording and sending to our press) the news of the daily struggles ot the American working class, «Another problem our press has had 3. to solve was the belief among jwide’eireles of party and nm ‘orkers that Communist joi onsisted in hectic and flar phraseology having little if any rela- tion to the actual feelings and strug- gles of the workers, which satisfied the revolutionary ego of the writer, which sometimes served to conceal his lack of real revolutionary under- standing but which has been charac- terized by the Communist Interna- tional in its thesis on the Bolsheviza- tion of the press as follows: “Two different things may be com- prehended under revolutionary phrases in the Communist press, There are Communist papers: which invariably follow the principle of employing the strongest and most urgent phraseolo- gy which they are capable of compil- ing and which give the impression that the writers must have been in a state of high fever, “Viewed as agitation this fails to take any effect upon the masses, re- bels them, and has besides this dis- advantage that when the newspaper has to deal with some special situa- tion it finds its vocabulary exhausted, “A second variety of the revolution- ary phrase is the ceaseless employ- ment of Communist slogans without any internal connection with the lives of the workers. Frequently the sim- ple narration of facts is more effective than the artificial and wearisome rep: etition of Communist slogans. “More faith in the thinking powers of the readers. “Lenin, on three different occasions, criticised this tendency: a “The revolutionary phrase consists of the repetition of revolutionry slo- “ gans, without taking into account the objective circumstances of the present curve of events and the present situa- tion. Wonderfully captivating and in- toxicating slogans, without any firm ground beneath them, are the essence of the fevolutionary phrase.” And again: “Why. is it not possible to speak in 10 to 20 lines, instead, of 200 to 400, of simple, well known;;obvious mat- ters, already fairly well digested by the masses. .. .?” (The Character of our Newspapers.) Finally: “Less intellectual talk, closer con- tact with life.” st 4 There has been’ th difficulty of ‘* making the Party realize that its mmunist Press in the United States daily paper is the principal weapon of the Party, that in addition to wag- ing ‘the Party struggles in the various districts, there is the duty of inform- ing the Party press of these struggles and their implications. Too often in the past it has been necessary for our press to secure its news of the struggles in which our comrares are engaged and at some times were actually leading, from the columns of the enemy press. There is finally the major problem * of building and maintaining the circulation of our press. If the news of the struggles of the workers car- ried by the Communist press is not. read by them, then much of the valu (Continued on page 6.)