The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 30, 1925, Page 1

= The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standerd for a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government Vol. I. No. 198. 192: BOLSHEVIZATION pia Subscription Rates: Suaite Giseet ry _Afl o ie by be 38.00 per sear. mail, $6.00 per year. E DAILY Bntered aa Second-class matter September 21, int 4 WORKERS (COMMUNIST) PARTY BIG SUBJECT BEFORE THE FOURTH CONVENTION The Fourth Convention of the Workers (Communist) Party of America, after some delay in getting started on Thursday, opened that session with the re port of Comrade Cannon on the reorganization and Bolshevization of the party. The above process depended upon developing the theoretical basis of party members, in changing the party to a Bolshevik from the present social-democratic structure and uniting theory with practice. AS WE SEE IT By T. J, O'FLAHERTY pre has an unfavorable trade balance. The government decid- ed to place an embargo on all im- ports. The zloty, the unit of Polish currency, is depreciating. “The white guard rulers are in panic, The recent orgy of executions of Communists has not helped the stabilization of the country. While Poland’s trade bal- ance leans the wrong way, Soviet sia has a different story to tell. yu do not read so much nowadays about the failure of Communist lead- ership. The industrial and agricultur- al statistics coming out of Russia defy the art of capitalist lying. “#8 N irate reader ‘rises to inquire” in a superior sort of way, whether those “who are in the forefront” of the revolutionary, movement write what they feel or as they feel, about the capitalist system and about those } who support that system and_bene- fit by it. This inquiry originated from an esthetic revolt on the part of this Reader against our comment on the ‘fiemise of the czar of Russia, and the use of the word “fertilizer” in de- seribing the chemical transformation which. took place afterthe last.of. the, ‘Romenotts proutned his last. ** @ N open sewer could not have caus: | ed our critic more physical dis- comfort than this graphic and scien- tifle description of the metamorphos- is of the czar from a “Little Father of all the Russias” to a crumbling mound of clay, which is supplying sus- ienance to living matter that grows out of the earth. That is the function of fertilizer, of which there are many varieties. Most of our proletarian readers are very well pleased with role now being played by the ars body, and would -rejoice ex- ceedingly if all the other royal para- sites served the same useful purpose. ee UR critic disclaims any pro-czarist sympathies, but judging by his protest he is either a reactionary or #. befuddled sentimentalist. » As to writing how one feels, it can be said that only those writers who put what is usually called “soul” into their work | are worth reading, Class conscious proletarian writers are not squeamish about applying epithets to the robber class. They know, being proletarians themselves, that the masses will not suffer any mental agony in seeing the rod of castigation applied to the poli- tical hides of their foes. +“ NE reader threatened to cancel his subscription unless we (Continued on page 4) SPANIARDS DRIVEN OFF AT ALHUGEMAS, RIFFS READY FOR NEW DRIVE MADRID, Aug. 28.—Spain will re- sume: the bombradment of the Mo- qroccan coast at Alhucemas Island eptember 6, it is understood, in an ittempt to even matters with the Riffs. who last week bested. the Spanish warships. The Spaniards will try to land batteries on Alhu- ida Island in an artillery battle, SOCIALIST CONGRESS UPHOLDS LEAGUE OF NATIONS, DENOUNCES RUSSIA, CHANTS PATRIOTIC SONG MARSEILLES, August 28.—After passing resolutions condemning the Soviet government of ney the soci today. The congress had been in session thruout the night discussing a four point motion condemning the Soviet of the league of nations The motion was finally adopted breaking into the The congress stopped | The party in its early years had been opposed, ji ideas were static. Now we have made a start, the New York Workers’ School, study classes, circuit classes and 80 on. Difference With Poyntz. In the controversy over the New York school the C, E. C. had first col- lided with Comrade Poynts. The Cen- tral Committee wanted the school an instrument of the party. Poynts had resisted, wanted the C. E. ©. to keep its hands off and resigned when re- fused freedom of action. Her resig- “nation was accepted. The present territorial branch form of organization was useful for the socialist party because it wanted or ganization only for elections. The fed- era ton form of party structure iso- lated these federations both from the party and from the class struggle. There are backward elements in all federations, and their influence is aided within the party by all those |who resist reorganization. Federa- tionism resists what is called the “in- terference of the party.” Shop nuc- |lei reorganization is the needful cor- |rection. But the shop nuclei were jonly a part. They must have a pol- |icy of political struggle, must react TY 00 "VOTE OF OF SYMPATHY ' By a riging vote of the whole gathering, the Fourth Convention of the Workers (Communist) Party, at the opening of Thursday night session, expri ed its sympathy for Comrades William F. Dunne and Marguerite Dunne in their bereavement thru the sudden death of their little son, William F. Dunne; i Jr) a member of the Young ‘Workers (Communist) League “Juniors, who met his death in an automo. bile accident. instantly to the party center and re- spond to every need of the workers around them. Excuses. Language differences were used as an excuse for resistance. It was not valid. Instances were mentioned, |Comrade Ballam of Boston had said it would take years to overcome the language difficulties’ and in the mean- time only the English speaking mem- bers should be reorganized. Comrade Askeli had said much the same. He also wanted a federation of Finnish workers outside the party jand objected to the “mechanical con- | trol” of party fractions in such or- ganizations. If we cannot control ted- erations inside the party; how can we control them outside the party. The question is: who is going to be con- trolled, the party or the federation? What we want is a’ national organ- ization of party fractions and a de- centralization of non-party groups. Against Right Wing. Those who resist Bodlshevization and reorganization do so under the banner of objection. to “mechanical control.” After Superior thére had been the Minneapolis braich regolu- tion, written by a comrade who said that the party tractlon dhe g party workers’ clubs would a tactics.” The struct ns hase a) the ideological phase wére two Btieey (Continued on page 2) $< jalist congress here closed its seésion SUNDAY, AUGUST 30, 1925 ‘) MINERS QUIT WOR =“ general \.., ‘ nsportation “es supplied and Mr. “two pac! S cits pd = = OZ LITTLE BILL’ DUNNE DIES UNDER AUTO Funeral at at Waldheim Cemetery Today “Little Bill” Dunne, only son of Comrade William F, Dunne, editor of the DAILY WORKER, and Comrade! Marguerite Dunne, was killed Thurs- | day. He was going home to supper | when he was bowled over by one car and thrown under the speeding wheels of another, Death was instant- aneous. The body was taken to Hod- kingon’s undertaking parlor, 3153 W. Harrison. His mother and father were at the convention of the Workers Party at the time. Tho he was but seven years of age, he was always able to take care of himself and when not at school, play- ed near his home all day long. Will- jam and Marguerite Dunne were on the point of collapse after the news was broken to them, and were rushed to the undertaking parlors by auto- mobile. ° “Little Bill” will be laid to rest in Waldheim Cemetery. The convention of the Workers Party will adjourn and attend the ceremony. The procession will form at the undertaking parlor for the drive to Waldheim, at 2 p. m. Saturday. Wm. Z. Foster, chairman of the Workers Party, will speak the last words, Wreaths and flowers will be laid on the grave by the staff of the DAILY WORKER, the delegates to the convention, the Young Workers’ League and its Junior section and the printing shop. of the DAILY WORKER. Waldheim cemetery is at the end of the Forest Park “Ly aud walk west, California-Hawaiian Non-Stop Airplane Union and approving the Jurisdiction @ prevention against war, unanimously and with the delegates ‘Marsellaise’ the congress came to a conclusion, Flight Starts Monday SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 28.—Final details of the California-Hawatian non- stop airplane flight which will start hore Monday. were boing pertected to.| BULGARIAN COMMUNISTS GIVEN LIFE TERM BY VIENNA, Aug. 28— The execu- tion sentence of twenty-three Bul- garian Communists has been with- drawn by King Boris and changed to life-term, according to dispatches from This action is due to the rising wave farmers of Bulgaria Zankov terror rule, that has mar- tyred PUT OFF; FEAR Lawyers ‘Retained to (Special to The Daily Worker) ZEIGLER, liminary hearing of the eighteen union! miners arrested in Zeigler on a charge) alleging conspiracy to murder D. B. Cobb., the United Mine: Workers, was post- poned charges grew out of a fight that fol- lowed Local District President Lon Fox r The United Front Against the Minsis i in Illinois Tl KING, SAYS DISPATCH Sofia today. of protest of the workers and against the thousands question, ference, Defend Miners il, Aug, 28—The pre- row. sub-district vice-president of until next Wednesday. The | | | | a meeting of Mine Workers’! 992, when D, B. Cobb agd Sub-| joved a general POWERS MEET FOR CONFAB ON SECURITY PACT France, Britain and U. S. Wrangle Over Debts LONDON, Aug. The conference which opens tomor- row is not expected to take any de- cisions or to enter into discussions of RAILROADING oben oles will confine itself largely to drafting an agenda for the forthcoming con- matters but Germany Notifies France. BERLIN, Aug. Caillaux’s Tricks. WASHINGTON, Aug. 28.—Despite the fact that the government has | promptly turned a cold shoulder to the Anglo-French debt agreement as @ basis for settlement of France's $4,- the officials of Local 992 against the | 990,000,000 debt to the United States, wishes of the 1/300 members of the| it was privately admitted in official | union. It was at this meeting that) circles today that all the skill which Sarovich, a trusted Zeigler! the American debt funding commis-| miner, was murdered by a supporter) sion can muster will be necessary to of Cobb and the sub-district machine. cut thru the maze created in London | The miners of Franklin county have | by Caillaux and Chamberlain. organized a county defense commit- tee with branches, in practically every local union in the sub-district to fight against what is known to be an at- tempt jail because they are progressives and have challanged the leadership of the corrupt sub-district officials, fense committee is:working in co-oper- ation nse to railroad the Zeigler men to This de- with International Labor De- which has undertaken to con- B sine DAYTON, The settlement of France’s debt to England was made contingent upon the granting by the United States of the most liberal of terms to France. Rival to Bryan's College. Tenn., Aug, 28.—A mod- ernist college may be established in | the Cumberland valley as a rival of the fundamentalist school proposed as a William Jennings Bryan memorial, hore today, PUBLISHING GO, 28,—Preliminary SESRMK pew we Rs discussions of the proposed European security pact will open here tomorrow, ywhen legal experts of Great Britain, Germany, France and possibly . Bel- }gium will meet to prepare the way for conference on the pact 28.—Germany has notified France that she regards fur- ther notes on the proposed security pact as unnecessary pending, the re- sults of the experts’ preliminary con- ference, which opens in London tomor- ORKER. phe 1028, af tha Mont OMNGe at Chicago, Mingle, undef Whe Act of March 2 1879. NEW YORK EDITION Published Dally exce; bag M4 THE DAILY WORKER its Ww. ‘arhington Blyd., Chicago, UL Price 5 Cents PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Aug. tools. The decision was arrived tricts. committees of citizens to avert dent Lewis of the mine workers #— delivered an ultimatum to the operators that was followed shortly by the order to strike, Demand Increase. The miners’ demands are a dollar a day increase in wages and the ‘in- stitution of the “check-off” system. The operators had refused to discuss the wage increase and called the check-off “impossible.” 4 The strike order is effective in Dis- tricts 1; 7 and 9 of the United Mine Workers. 158,000 Miners Affected. These three districts have- juris- diction over the sole anthracite region in this country centering around Lu- zerne, Lackawanna and Schuylkill counties im Pennsylvania. About 158,000 miners working in 828 mines controlled by 135 companies are af- fected. The operators had held out hope to the last minute that the miners would give in. The strike order came as a distinct surprise to them and Major Inglis, their spokesman said, “The suspension order is unnecessary. It means that the employes will lose more than $1,000,000.00 a day in wages.” Owners Try to Dodge Demande. The operators had tried. to get the miners to continue at work under the old’ agreement, signed two years ago, until a new contract could be drawn up. But the scale committee empowered by the mine workers tu call a strike saw that the operators had no intention of listening to their demands. The operators charge that the strike call. was in a large part due to the miners “pre-occupation with condi- tions in the soft coal field.” This refers to the fact that many bitu- minous operators have refused to abide by their agreements. The min- ers do not deny this. Controversy Over Maintenance. A controversy over mine mainten- ance during the strike has been set- tled on the basis of the operators’ agreement to keep as many men at work as are necessary to properly man the more than three thousand pumps in the mines during the strike. Those who work will benefit from the final adjustment in wages by the consent |of the operators to make any increas- es that may be granted retro-active to September first. The miners are financially well-fixed and are prepared to withstand a long seige. The operators say there is a three months’ supply of anthracite in store. The soft coal magnates are claimed to be already moving into the hard coal markets and the substitute companies consider the present strike a boon for them. But the miners are in no way fright- ened- by these statements. They hap- pen to know that there has been a great demand for steam sized anthra- cite and they charge that the profits of the anthracite operators are large. The government at Washington is trying to present a calm face to the country and act unconcerned over the stoppage, .But the activity of the In- terstate Commerce Commission in giv- ing ‘right of way to all grades of coal on the rails and checking up on surpluses seemg to indicate that offi- cial Washing! is in no way pleased with’ the ‘prospect of a Saal famine, Callies Satisfies Britain. MEXICO CITY, Aug. 28.—Great Bri- jreached a satisfactory arrangement this coming week it is reported to- day. tain and the Calles government have | and official relations will be opened | T WORK TUESDAY COAL STRIKE WILL TIE UP U.S. HARD COAL INDUSTRY: 828 MINES WILL BE SHUT DOWN (Special to The Daily Worker) 28.—At midnight August 31st, 158,000 hard-coal miners of Pennsylvania will lay down their at by the sub-scale committee of the miners last night at the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel and the strike order was sent to the 325 miners locals in the hard coal dis- The strike order. followed the breaking off of negotiations with the operators at Atlantic City on August 4th since which time frantic efforts had been made by government spokesmen and the walk-out. Yesterday, Presi- PARTY BEHIND STRIKE 100 PCT., SAYS FOSTER Asks United Support for Mine Workers At the fourth national convegtion of the Workers (Communist) Party sitting in Chicago news of the anthra- cite strike was received with enthusi- asm. William Z. Foster, chairman of the Workers Party, and atso chairman ofthe present convention, sald regard. ing the walkout: “The strike of the 158,000 organized anthracite miners of Pennsylvania has the unqualified aup- Port of the Workers Party. “This is but one of many battles— thirteen, I believe—that the bard-coa! diggers have fought and won. The anthracite miners of Pennsylvania constitute one of the chief sectors of the American proletarian front. The winning of this historic conflict will advance the cause of the American working class and serve to encourage the more backward and less organizea sections of the toilers.” Warns Against Intervention. Asked regarding possible govern: ment interference, Foster replied: “The striking miners can well expect to have the whole power of American capital aligned against them, not ex- cepting intervention—forcibly or oth- erwise—of the state and federal gov- ernments thru their courts, police, troops, etc. This is a lesson the labor struggles in America has taught the workers. “The Workers Party will do its full duty in organizing the power of @ united proletariat outside the coal in- dustry to assist financially, morally and materially in making the anthra- cite strike a victorious landmark in the onward march of the American workers.” Taek of Communists. What will be the work of the Com- munists among the striking miners? Foster answered: “It will be the task of the Communists and progressives in the United Mine Workers of America to take a leading part in the strike and to battle relentlessly against the coal operators. At the same time’ they shall be constantly on their guard against possible treachery on the part (Continued on page 2) | Hebrew Butchers Get Ready to Fig,ht the Bosses for New Pact | The Hebrew Butchers Union, Local 5996, pledged to tax themselves to | fight the bosses in case they do not | sign the agreement. This action was taken Wednesday, Aug. 26th, at a spe- cial meeting where the agreement com- | mittee reported that there is possibilt- | tiles of a refusal to sign the agree- ment. The membership unanimously and enthusiastically decided to tax | themselves $5 each. There are still | hopes that the butcher bosses will see that they cannot fight such a militant organization as Local 596 and will submit to the just demands of the _loe al (Signed) Abe Klein, captured that city on August 25. REPORT CADETS IN POSSESSION OF CANTON; ARREST OFFICIALS (Special to The Daily Worker) SHANGHAI, August 28.—Advices from Canton say that Whampoa cadets 100 Cantonese officials have been placed under arrest and al! strategic points in the city are held by the cadets who a and are sympathetic to Communism, % well equipped with artillery. The cadets are strongly anti-imperialistie “é