The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 18, 1925, Page 3

seen 4 } salam. ti en ete oe agp HARVARD PR, GERMAN WORKERS IN MOSCOW SIG | | BY GERMAN SOCIAL DEMOCRATS Speech Shows Dr. Landis (By International Press Correspondence) Is Student of Soviets (By Worker Correspondent.) i absslalite thei aly Weekes eovwconrsatolne 21—(By Mail.)—The statement of the Ger- MLA he So Lue Res aE eee lelegation entitled, “The Truth About the Krasny 2S; Hy Aug. 16.-—Dr, J. M. | Putilovez,” one-time Putilov works, reads in the original as fol- Landis of Harvard Law School spoke lows: . < ‘ ; a pide er on eae He ae “The German delegation owes its thanks to the workers of Cornell Cosmopolitan Club here. His | the Krasny Putilovez for their invitation. We have also finally convinced ourselves that the calumnies spread by international capitalism about Soviet Russia are absolutely untrue, and also speech which set out to be a plea for that the letter from an alleged * joer thsi PROTEST FIRING OF 4 The fift the | ‘ “nn CAPITAL ARE NOT FUNDAMENTAL amage, Promi company,” West 24th | e romisé ‘ gins today with more than half of Pay D age, ¥ The bosses of the Actna pine (By International Press Correspondence.) (Special to The Dally Worker) come back to work. He told them |Sions committee and put a number of questions to him concern- penalf. of the Japeiiess. cotton. sill up the shop Monday with those will- the social-democrats that the reconstruction of industry carried | .ounced an agreement that will end In protest against a proposed wage Trotsky showed, on the basis of figures, that in consequence | the result of conferences that have Page rhree 7 ate aM is. SHANGHAI MILLS the Aetna Furniture —— St., be- the 28) mani on strike parading on No Brutality | the picket line. h HL, ame k- | made desperate efforts tr MOSCOW, July 26—(By Mail.)—Today the German work-} SHANGHAL ‘Chink’ Ate eurwe to get the picketers to Stages ers’ delegation visited Comrade Trotsky, head of the COnces- | arse cued wath, octet i that all the “other strikers” were |ing the concessions policy and the economic policy. Trotsky owners and the Chinese commissioner coming back. He threatened to open pointed out in a comprehensive speech that the accusations of | foreign affairs, Hsu Yuan, have an- ing to return. But the picketers | out by the Soviet government was proceeding at the cost of fun-| the strike of the Chinese employes of knew thatial! the men who went out | damental concessions to capitalism, were without basis. | the Japanese mills. This agreement is into an interpretation of the workers’ geht itlefing “till the cows come | of the waiting attitude taken up by the capitalists to the conces-| gone on for two weeks. home,” The bluffs and tearful stor- | ions of the Soviet Union, the latter played only a very small role | The agreement provides for the pay» government of the U: 8. 8S. R. with which Dr. Landis proved himself to no’ intervention in China developed group of workers of the Krasny Putilovez printed on January 9 be thoroly familiar. . “Vorw: ” ries of the bosses failed to make a | ; + inlihieaL ened dle 2c: ~~, | ment of $10,000 as compensation for : U. 8. S. R. Not Russia. in the Ai aac od rape also the] NEGRO PROFESSORS AT | | com i” t's: in. the tEapaimer HAs Bt «the the killing of @ workman at the Nai- At the outset of his speech he made tcthoreaicr Soviet Union. gal Wata Kaisha mill, which led to the rioting in Shanghai on May 30, recognition of the mill workers’ union -provided Peking sanctions the labor nd for the adjustment of wages case living costs increase. The agreement forbids the Japanese mill foremen to carry arms except in “abnormal” times. . The Japanese own 50 per cent of | the cotton mills in Shanghai, employ 50,000 Chinese and operate 1,000,000 spindles, The settlement is expected paper, which declared that the Ger- man workers had never been invited, are absolutely in contradiction to the facts. “We have been able to convince ourselves of this because we have moved in your shops freely, and we have spoken with many workers, among them German workers, attend- | ed your mass meetings, and visited | in your shops, institutions, workers’ organizations, co-operatives, hospitals, cultural institutions, rest homes, ete., and because everywhere we have had the opportunity of discovering the ex- act feelings of the workers. “Vorwaerts” a Liar, * “The author of the letter which was CALLES IMPRISONS A it clear to the audience thaf it is in- correct to talk of the workers’ repub- lic as Russia, for it is no longer Rus- sia but the Union of Soviet, Republics resulting from the union of many other nations such as Ukraine, White Russia, Siberia, Georgia, Armenia and Many others. He explained that these nations in the union are autonomous having separate languages and inde- pendent domestic affairs hut they . have one economic, political and mili- tary united front under the banner of the U. S. S. R. It is impossible to con- ceive, of this vast country of many na- tionalities unless we think of it in terms of U. S. S. R. U. &. S. R. Goes to the People. He showed that the Soviet govern- Nevertheless, having regard to the economic strengthening, the Soviet government would gladly draw for- cor-| | LABOR LEADER TO TRY the vechoteal Tevel andthe increase | TO BREAK LABOR UNITY | | of the speed of the economic recon- | struction, (Special to The Daily Worker) | The capitalists, however, should al- MEXICO CITY, Aug. 16.—The Gen- ways: remember that their hopes of| eral Federation of Labor has called fundamental concessions from the| a strike intended to spread thruout Soviet government were useless, and| Mexico and answered at once by that the concessions would only play| half the factofy workers of Mexico a very subordinate, and never a de-| City, as a result of the Calles gov- | to do much to alleviate the tense situ- cisive, role in the economic life of| ernment imprisoning C. B. Mendoza, | ation in other foreign-owned mills. the Soviet Union | the secretary of the federation, for | fxpectation that the wharf coolies Today, before its‘departure which| “inciting a strike” of cotton mill | would return to work was a disap- gave rise to a new and powerful de-| workers. pointment. The American wharves monstration of friendship on the part| The textile industry is especially | are not affected. HOWARD AFTER STRIKE (Special to The Daily Worker) | WASHINGTON, Aug. 16.—(FP)— Dismissal of four Negro professors from the faculty of Howard Univer- sity by President Durkee at the close of the last school year, imme- diately following the students’ strike, is denounced in a report by A. W. Mitchell, president of the Howard Welfare League, upon his independent inquiry into the facts, ‘Mitchell scores Dr. Durkee for hav- ing dismissed these men without investigation or hearing “to their material damage, preventing them MOSCOW REPLIES TO ATTACK ON CHINESE POLICY Soviet Program Only! Solution in Far East (Special to The Daily Worker) © . @ % ; .| liable to be completely tied up as a ment had struck a few notes in world | published in the ‘Vorwaerts’ made the] from securing emplo: se: of the Moscow working class, the Ger: yment else- rye ee i hi jali: diplomacy by going over the heads of | following statements: (1) that the| where.” MOSCOW, July 15—(By Mail.)—! man delegation held a plenum session ot mine first answer to, the Yellow Socialist Commenting upon the attacks of the) English semi-official press, particular- ly the Daily Telegraph, on Soviet min- ister of foreign affairs Tchitcherin’s recent utterances regarding the Soviet | policy in China and the Russo-British | relations, the Izvestia observes edito- | rially that the British semi-official | comments did not contain even the least attempt:at an essential analysis of Tchitcherin’s statements. The railway workers, free from the paralyzing influence of Morones, the “Mexican Gompers,” have recently issued a call for a unity conference, and Communists point out that Calles is trying to prevent labor unity by driving a wedge between the C. G. T. (the | Mexican Federation of Labor, which has called this strike), controlled by the anarchists, the more conserva- governments directly to the people. He reviewed the many obstacles that Russia was continually’ confronted with during her reconstruction period. The Allied Powers lined up with the white czarists and supported Kol- chak, Udenich, Denekin and Wrangel in anti-revolutionary activities, Bessa- rabia was backed by English imperial- ism, Poland by French imperialism, the blockage against Russia was spon- and decided unanimously to send @ telegram to the Breslau congress of the A. D, G. Be (General German Trade Union Association) demanding that it send an official delegation of the Ger- man trade unions to the Soviet Union to ‘investigate the situation in the country and to establish close connec- tions between the trade unions of’ both counrties. Telegrams are arriving from all Russian working class was never so deprived of all rights as it is at pre- sent in Soviet Russia.’ “What is the actual truth? “We attended a mass'meeting in the Krasny Putilovez which would never have been possible before the revo- lution, and which is today impossible in such a form in Germany. Spoken Freely. Pretense of an economy motive in dropping these teachers is ridi- culed in the report, since the money represented by their salaries was at Once voted as increases of salaries for other men “and to finance a sampaign of publicity to: offset the storm now sweeping against the ad- ministration because of its prac- tice Tells Workers to Put Trust in Evolution By Worker Correspondent. DAYTON, O., Aug. 14.—The Socialist Branch of Dayton held a picnic at Forest Park with Kirkpatrick of Chi- cago as their main speaker. Altho their Branch claims a membership of sored by the allied powers—all were plotting against the workers’ govern- ment. Neither in Europe nor America was there any sympathy for Soviet Russia. Chinese Ask Russ! But in the Near East, and the Orient, Russia was differently received. There she was invited to assist in educating the people. In 1919 a meeting was held in Moscow where Chinese workers asked the workers’ government of Russia to help them awaken and enlighten that vast country thru their educational and political programs. Russia was the only country to oppose Chinese inter- vention by the allies when the treaty of Versailles had provided that Shan- tung should go to Japan. Leading up to the recent uprising in Shanghai he showed how it was the result of unbearable working con- ditions and severe exploitation of this country by the imperialistic powers. “Russia is as anxious for the spread of her gospel of Communism as Amer- ican missions are for the spread of theirs—and more so because Russia's The four professors graduated from Oxford, Paris, Harvard, Chi- cago and Pittsburgh universities. One was a Rhodes scholar. “We have spoken perfectly freely with the workers in ten large shops (Krasny Putilovez, 9,000; a rubber factory, 14,000; the Siemens cahabe 2,000; a textile factory, 1,500; the printing works ‘Petschatny Dvyor,’ 1,500; a railway works, 2,000; the brewery ‘Krasnaya Bavarya,’ 1,000; an engineering works, 1,500; an electric-' ity works, 2,000; a furniture factory, 2,250; the cigarette factory ‘Uritzky,’ 3,000.) “And everywhere we have received the same answer, never has the work: ing class in Russia enjoyed such, po- all, has approached the delegation in any 'way, and this despite the fact that the delegation is composed in its ma- jority of social democrats. ‘Menshevik Admits It’s No Us®. “A part of the delegation had the ‘opportunity of speaking with an ex- menshevik, and he declared that in 1923 a meeting of the mensheviki in thé Krasny Putilovez adopted the de- litical rights and such possibilities of | Cision to dissolve the organization. In making its influence felt as-at present, | the various meeting no single menshe- As far as the workers of thé Krapny"[vit sole nor has Putilovez are concerned, they-have two | munication been le simple workers, one a Communist. and | tion’ from such a source altho there the other a non-party worker, in the | was' ample possibility of such com-, All-Russian central government. qutifeation, and many workers availed “The workers in the Krasny Putilo-'|themselves of it. vez have 23 representatives in the “At the same time we wish to use Leningrad Soviet, and among these | this opportunity to say that altho the there are many non-party: workers. works are very old it is in continuous “When we compare the rights of the | deyelopment in economic matters and shop council in the Krasny Putilovez |in,,some respects it ha# already with the rights of the shop councils | reached the pre-war level. With re- gatd, however, to workers’ protection, soeial :nsurance, the education of the new generation, female protection, nomic and wage questions, engage-' youth labor and cultural tasks, no com- i realistic and fruitful and near- pain he ton ts of workers than |i Germany, we see, for instance, that Christianity and its accompanying | the shop couneil of the Krasny Putilo- brutal expl Qn vez has a decisive influence in all éco- ‘We do not want interventions in ‘ America but ying that freely | ments and dismissals, etc. in China lame either the | “The director of the works is him- R 1a for the present | self an old worker from the Krasny powers. It | Putilovez who during the cza,*st pe- workers | riod was three ‘times in prisun and‘in revolt and they | Siberia, are cooperation of | “The workers have the right to de- the U mand reports from all state and gov- He made more sincerity | esnmental organs upon their activi- of thought a learer understanding | ties. The declaration that the workers of international relations. of the Krasny Putilovez are politically Now Dr. Landis will probably either | without rights is therefore not true. lose his job or be forced to change “The so-called ‘group of Krasny Pu- his friendly ‘attitude toward the Soviet | tilovez workers’ declares further in Union. its letter to the ‘Vorwaerts’: (2) In the course of a few years our minds and souls will be poisoned by the con- scienceless and official press of the Soviet wielders of power. We are be- ing suffocated in the atmosphere of this press. Clinches All Lies About Soviet. “We have seen that almost every worker buys this press and reads it, and we have never heard such dissatis- faction anywhere here. The delega- tibn was further able to convince itself that hundreds of the Krasny Putilovez workers themselves write in this press. We will bring newspaper cut- tings back to Germany with us. “Articles were also printed which dealt critically with the existing de- ficiencies. In the works itself, two wall-newspapers appear every fort- night so that the workers have the opportunity of expressing their opin- ions on the deficiencies in the shop itself. It cannot be said that the Krasny Putilovez workers have no real workers’ press at their disposal. “(3) The letter in question further declares that a crusade has been com- menced against the menshevik work- ers in the Krasny Putilovez works. It is rather extraordinary that no single menshevik, if such persons exist at Bankrupt Railroad Would Issue Nine Millions of Stock WASHINGTON, Aug. 16.— The in- terstate commerce commission an- nounced today it would hear the ap- plication of receivers of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railroad for au- thority to issue and sell $9,270,000 of vequipment trust certificates, on Sept. Work Despite Prohibition, MONTREAL, August 16,—(FP)— Union bartenders in the United States are still tending bar despite the pro- hibition amendment, according to Ed- ward Flore, head of the bartendets’ organization which is part of the Ho- tel and Restaurant Employes Inter- national Union, which is convening in Montreal. One of the questions being discussed by the 300 delegates repre- senting the 38,000 union workers’ is the prevalence of Asiatic labor in Can- adian hotels and restaurants. Flore expects.a modification of the eight- eenth amendment to allow possibly for sale of light wines and beer. 0 te ee SE SWEDISH WORKERS LEAVING FOR_. HOME; GERMANS VISIT PROVINCES MOSCOW, July 24.—(By Mail.)—Today the Swedish delegation left Lenin- grad and sailed for Stockholm, Thousands of workers gave the delegation i a hearty send-off. Tomorrow the German delegation leaves in three groups, one to the Ural district, another to the central industrial district and the third to the Cauc parison can be made with the situa- tion before the war. To quote only one figure, in 1923, 1,800 workers were engaged in the Putilovez works; today there are 9,000 at work. “From all that has been sail it is clear that the letter which was pub- tished in the ‘Vorwaerts’ dos not rep- resent the truth of conditions. This fact shows in all its clearness how necessary a delegation’ of German workers to Russia was in order to dis- cover the real truth about the workers’ Russia. hy Signed with the agreem®nt and on behalf of the whole delegation: FREIBERGER, XAVER, HANS BECK, THOMAS STAUDT. Engineers Afraid . to Strike in New York; Use Charts NEW YORK, Aug. 16, — Demands for salary increases are to be made by use of charts and figures in the attempt of the Association of Bngi- neers of New York to convince the board of estimate and apportion- ment that city engineers need a 25. per ceint pay raise. The engineers, while admitting that low wages paid discourage young men from becom- ing engineers, decided not to strike Rail Strikers Blacklisted, NEW YORK, Aug. 16.—Three thou- sand leaders of the striking 15,000 workers‘on the North Western rail- way of India are blacklisted from em- ployment as the strike ends, reports reaehing Indians in New York indi- cate. Poverty and lack of outside aid helped the company beat the workers ; who stayed out over two months, The workers are very poorly paid and live most of the time on one small meal a day. The workers belong to the union of India railwaymen, Hoover Would Speed Up Filipinos. WASHINGTON, Aug. 16,—(FP)— One of the chief, economies suggested in a commerce department report on the growing of rubbér in the Philip- pines is a speeding up of native labor, Phil ie ‘om 30 to 50 cents a Thus, remarks the Moscow organ, there remained unanswered the prin- ciple indicated by the Soviet people's commsisary of foreign affairs to the effect that the government of the Union considers the creation of cen- tralized democratic China, independ- ent of any foreign pressure, as the only issue out of the present situa- tion capable of satisfying the interests of not only China, but also the coun- tries standing in need of economic re- lations ~with China. English Ensiave China. of self-determination of nations? The Moscow paper goes on to com- pare the outbreaks of the English press against the Soviet government in reference,to the Chinese events with the recently increased attacks on the U, S. S, R. emanating from the same press; in connection with the American proposal to revise the rights of extra-territoriality of foreigners in China, and points out ironically that the Daily. .Telegraph’s anti-American diatribe is more passionate and re- veals more fear than the anti-Tchitche- rin one. Attack American Capitalism. Now, the Bnglish leading press with- out. proofs at all denies the desire t government to contrib: | of Jabor. nga coud nleted.th ont Ghee oy + Oh bor statiatios. changes in the respecting the rights of the Chinese people. But what can more easily provoke a new war than the English policy of enslaving China? asks the lavestia. And what better pledge of international, peace could be found than the Soviet government's program tive C. R. O. M. (Confederation Re- gional Workers ‘Mexicana, the larg- est and most conservative body), and the independent railway unions, 100 strong there was but a handful present. The speaker’s platform was decorated with American flags. I counted nineteen of them then grew tired of the sickening job and stopped parts of the Soviet Union with invita- tions to the German delegation to visit the various districts. The Ukrainian trade union council greeted the German delegation, its| in which Communists are influen- first group is due to arrive in Kharkov | tial. counting. tomorrow, in the name of 1,300,000 SLE RERIN SBT TS J. Sharts, the lawyer, acting as Ukrainian workers, Professional Men Won't Strike. chairman made an appeal for im- NEW YORK, Aug. 16.—(FP)—De-| mediate help to keep their local paper mands for salary increases are to be| from going on the rocks. The re- made by use of charts and figures in| sponse was very poor. He then in- the attempt of the Association of En-! troduced the three Socialist candi- gineers of New. York to convince the | dates running for city commissioners, board of estimate and apportionment | All of them made vote catchng talks that city engineers need a 25 per cent | avoiding the main economic issue. pay raise. The engineers, while ad- Kirkpatrick made a long talk, the mitting that low wages paid discour- | Substance of which was not to worry ‘ age young men from becoming engi-}#bout developments in the present ‘ neers; deciaeéd tot to strike. Charts} System of society for evolwtipy will “7 will show how city engineers’ pay has | ‘ake care of everythig. advanced only 44 per cent since 1914, We distributed a goodly number of | while cost of living has increased 75] The Workers Monthly while the meet- per cent; that the engineer is now by | 128 Was going on but we had to do | comparison the poorest paid profes- some’ fast work before some of their sional worker in city service; that braves have us arrested for distribut- 10 per cent of the engineers receive} ‘8 ® Class-conscious workingclass | less than unskilled laborers; that 76% asiesigg gris We also managed to se- | per cent get less than mechanics and | CUT @ number of subs for the DAILY | 88 per cent less than foremen-mechan- ics. & Price of Food Goes Up in All Cities Charted by Report WASHINGTON, Aug, 16—The U. S. department of labor, thru the bureau retail cost of food.in 23 of the 51 cities included in the, bureau's report During the month from, June 15 to July 15, 1925, all’ bit one of the 23} cities showed increases as follows: Boston, 7 per cent; Milwaukee, 6 per | cent; Bridgeport, Manchester. and Rochester, 5 per cent; Buffalo. Indian- apcils, Jacksonville, and Portland, Me. 4 per cent; Atlanta, Baltimore, Chic. go, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Little Rock, Memphis, Norfolk, Omaha, and Wash- ington, 3 per cent; Charleston, S. ¢., WORKER... The picnic made me more confident than ever that it will not be long before we will be able to put some of their misled but conscious members on the right and only road Silk Workers Settle More Mills. PATERSON, N. Y., Aug. 16—(FP)— and Richmond, 2 per cent; and Louis- ville, 1 per cent. In Salt Lake City there was a decrease of 2 per cent. Increases from 7 to 18 per cent were shown in all 23 cities for the year period July 15, 1924, to July 15, 1925. —____ Build the DAILY WORKER with subs. Four more silk signed the new agreement Associated Silk Workers Union, ribbon mills have with the that leads towards the emancipation of the laboring class, the Workers (Communist) Party. Te The union storing the 1918 scale. won vacation of the injunction taken against them by Kravitz Silk Co. of Jersey City. The Kravitz mill locked out its workers and is attempting to run open shop. If you want to thoroughly un- derstand Communism—study it. Send for a catalogue of all Com- munist literature. “The directing lines of Britain's world policy are becoming: radically divergent from the American policy. America’s proposal of an international conference on Chinese affairs is meet- ing with favorable response except on the part of England, which alone is interested in the complete suppression of the national movement in China and which alone js carrying on a pol- fey of ruthless repression. England's isolation in the far east is daily becoming more obvious, with France carefully keeping in the back- ground of the actual events, while Japan is engaged in a complex policy, subtly playing’ with the Chinese na- tional movement. It is beconiing ever more eyident that America fs returning to her old traditional policy in China, as she probably realized that Mr. Hughes’ ese policy’ was only prejudicial to American interests engthy voluntary isolation, America ‘8 gradually stepping out into the world’s arena and slowly gaining world hegemony. Soviet Program Only Solution. With her pacifist humanitarian sio- gans, Americé js undermining the authority of her fellow powers and rivals, working for personal predomi- ce. Frightened at this danger, England is seeking the help of her for- Mer ally, Japan, whom she but recent- ly betrayed. Up to the present, how- ever, the Englishmen alone are trum- peting this new Anglo-Japanese friend- ship, while it is doubtful that the clear-sighted Japanese politicians will be caught in (h@ bait, In such cir¢umstances, concludes the leading MOscow organ, only the am of the Soviet gov ft is formulated by peopl making sound the far-eastern and the rid international relations at large, It is also becom- ng obvious that, after a period of f THE MAKERS AND + MASTERS.OF STEEL By Arne Swabeck LEWIS PERFORMS FOR THE ANTHRACITE MINERS By Alex Reid TWENTY YEARS AFTER By Harrison George ORGANIC COMPOSI- TION OF CAPITAL By Karl Marx | AUGUST “A COMMUNIST MAGAZINE” JN THESE short, clear articles (made more attractive by the work of labor’s best artists—and many interesting photographs)— The busy worker will find the most essential facts of the struggles and the problems of Labor the world over, In them is interest, education and inspiration. If send for this issue. 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