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Page Two RIFFS BESIEGE TETUAN; SPANISH ARMY IN PERIL Severe Fighting on En- tire Front PARIS, France, Sept. 10.—The Rif- flan troops have surrounded the Span- Ish capital in Morocco, Tetuan, and have already captured the stra’ egic | point of Ben Harrik, overlooking the | Spanish stronghold. From this posi- | tlon, the Riffians are severely bom- | barding the city, causing panic among the civil population. | Fierce fighting is reported along the | entire front in Morocco, the Spanish- French forces having begun a general offensive, in which 112 warships are taking part, bombarding the coast in Alhucemas bay. In the Fondak sector the Spanish losses are reported as 250 dead out of 1,000 taking part. Riffians Cut Army to Pleces ‘The Spanish forces are attempting to take Adjir, Abd-el-Krim’s strong- hold, but the offensive of the Riffians against Tetuan has dealt a blow to this plan. Around Beni Hozmar a battle is raging with heavy losses to the Span- iards. The French war office announces that an offensive has been begun by their invading forces along the front from Quezzan to the Moulaia river. Primo de Rivera, Spanish dictator, has hurried to Tetuan in an effort to stave off defeat there. The Riffians have cut the western front in Morocco near Arzila for the second time, and the fighting is now going on at the gates of Tetuan, which is in grave danger of capture. All available troops on the Melilla front have been withdrawn to Tetuan. Fear Reaction of Workers Rivera has sent an urgent appeal to Marshal Petain, commander of the | French forces in Morocco, to com-| mence the French offensive in the | Quezsan sector to relieve the pressure on Tetuan. The Riffans have cut the Spanish army under Gen. Riquelme, on the Tetuan-Larache front into three | Pieces, and Spanish re-inforcements sent toward Tetuan from Ceuta have been unable to fight their way thru. Rivera, has also appealed to the Spanish directorate to send an addi- tional forty thousand troops if Tetuan is to be saved. The directorate fear if this is done, the Spanish workers will revolt. - ee. Krim Exposes False Propaganda LONDON, England, Sept. 10.—Abd- el-Krim, in a letter to a newspaper correspondent at Tangier, denies he has received peace offers from the Spanish or French governments, and exposes the propaganda declaring peace had been offered as a move to prejudice the French and Spanish workers against the Rifflans. “Up to the present,” writes Krim, “We have not been formally informed of the conditions which are proposed, and therefore I can neither accept nor refuse them. I have not received any- thing in spite of what has been pub- lished in the newspapers.” “1 am aware this is a political move, in ordtr to prejudice public opinion and deceive the French and Spanish people by leading them astray and thus bringing them to calamity and war.” GAG RESOLUTION OF KAUFMAN TO GET OPPOSITION Furriers’ Executive Act Not Popular Following the defeat of Morris Kauf- man, reactionary head of the Furriers’ International in a debate with Ben- jamin Gold of the left wing New York joint board, held before the’ member- ship of the Chicago Local 49,' as told in recent issues of the DAILY WORK. ER, Kaufman has been smarting sore. He remained in Chicago for more than a week, bringing all pressure possible to bear on the executive com- mittee of the Chicago local, and finally succeeding in pushing thru a resolu- tion in the executive board to forbid representatives of the New York joint board from speaking to the member- ship unless they get permission from the Kaufman gang in the Interna- tional. Tonight the resolution is due to come before the local membership in the executive board’s report and the membership is expected to resent the action taken, which practically gags the New York membership from an- swering the slanders of Kaufman in the official journal and in speaking tours. Kaufman wants to gag the New York joint board because their story of Kaufman's corrupt gangster rule in New York, when told in truth. ful detail, exposes Kaufman's gang as the worst disrupters of the union and unworthy to be allowed to occupy of- fice in any part of the labor move nt. eee ee SS ' THE DAILY, WORKER STIR RED SCARE IN BRITAIN TO AID RIGHT WING (Continued from page 1) transport workers, forced the Bald- win government and the mine owners to revoke the wage cut orders, as a “glorious week.” He showed his favor for Cook's pro- posal of strike powers to the general council by urging the creation of a unified control whereby the general council of the unions can in the fu- ture be a central controlling and di- recting body on all large issues, Tomsky at Searborough. Swales accused the British tory government of shéwing real hatred to- ward Soviet Russia, and he advocat- ed pressure on thé’ government to pro- vide trade relations, praising the lead- ership of the British unions for so far compelling the government to hold the door open for negotiations with the Soviet Unions The congress -has as fraternal dele- gates, two leaders,of the Soviet trade unions, headed by Tomsky. Smith Complains of Interference. The difference, hetween the right and left wing wag brot out indirectly by Herbert Smith, of the Miners’ Fed- eration, who complained that when the Miners’ Federation contemplated strike action, the right wing element led by Thomas and MacDonald of the Labor Party; interfered and tried to undo all the union Was fighting for. Specific denial, however, of any inten- tion of the left wing to split, was made by Smith and Fred Bramley, secretary of the congress. The left wing intends to stick solidly and fight for its policies in the movement as a whole. Palmerizing Great Britain, Comments, are being heard on all sides about the “coincidence” of Mac- Donald coming to the congress after a week end as guest of the king and SUPPORTERS OF DAILY WORKER -~ SHOW SPIRIT AND METHOD » ~~ THAT MEANS VICTORY ' Fund to Save the DAILY WORKER Reaches $1,500 Mark IXTY-SEVEN wide awake and militant party branches and individuals gave a mighty boost to the “Save the DAILY WORKER, Fund” yesterday. They added almost $900 to the amounts pieviously received making the total $1571.43 or almost a third of the fund necessary by the end of the week. The campaign to keep the DAILY WORKER -has thus entered into a new phase. The desperate efforts and anxious striving have yielded results which prove that Communists have not only the spirit and the willingness to save their paper but also the ability. Not that the crisis is over; by no means. The $10,000 set as the minimum amount necessary to meet the immediate emergency still stands and the need. for at least half of this amount by Monday, September 14, has not abated. But the returns thus far indicate with what temper the class conscious working: class has received the DAILY WORKER'S call for help and seem to assure us that the emergency will be overcome. Above all it is important that no individual and no or- ganized unit refrain from participation in the passive and dangerous attitude that others have stepped forward to do the work. In this crisis it is particularly essential that every militant individual and every organization assume full responsibility. By Universal Vigilance—By United Effort We Can Turn the Threat of a Crushing Defeat Into a Glorious Communist Victory. All of Us Together Load the First Mail Train with Support to Save the DAILY WORKER. se at Baisley to attack ie Com- , munists, an ie propaganda cam- = paign agafhst the Communists launch- - ed by Scotland Yard, which on the first day of the Tipe Union Congress issued “red scare™ stories warning of “sedition and window smashing by Communists.” The government claims that Communists afe distributing li- terdture among the 50,000 troops con- centrated at Andover, for maneuvers. Left Wing Wins ‘Shop Committees. Earlier, a proposal advanced by Jack Jones and ‘Ben Tillett, which called for a form of mass unionism much similar to the moribund O. B. U, of Canada, wasirejected by 500,000 card votes. Capitalist reporters. chuck- led over this supposed “defeat” of the Communists, but the Communists were not behind the proposal, being oppose¢ to it and favoring, instead of mass unionism,-as the hodge-podge may be called, industrial unionism by the amalgamation of craft unions in- to one union for each industry. Jones and Tillett represénted only a small section of confused workers who want greater solidarity’ without knowing how to get it. i AS WE SEE IT (Continued from page 1) To Save THE DAILY WORKER I am sending you my response to your appeal. I en- CLONE Gis ities, my t NOME? ‘vesrcsccverseeses Streets ccroccercecseenrconsaes OUEYS possi siscicrsenestssnegroth oad sess roeehasettncsvey MHOMRO IE. Muveds chi osalecaes ey Address letters and make checks and money orders payable to THE DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill. As Much as You Can and as Soon as You Can Thursday’s Mighty List of DAILY WORKER Savers: South Slav Branch, W. P., Bentleyville, Pa. John Allen, Bre: City, N. J... cia 1.00 cellar and began to boast about their South Slavic Branch, W. P., Yorkville, O. 5.00 compulsory purity. S. P. Ivanich, Akron, O... a 1.00 * @ 8 &. Slavic 28, We Fin Akron, C- 10.00 N the New York ¢lections the social- Muskegon, Mich., W. P., English Branch. 5,00 Bror Anerson, Little Falls, Min 3,00 ists condemn 5) eager oe Muskegon, Mich., City Central, 5.00 action, as espoused by the A. F. of L, Isaac Tarkoff, Boulder, Colo... 8.00 But, what is their alternative? Vote Albert Gerling, Madrid, la 1.25 the socialist ticket! “Nothing doing’ German Branch, Detroit, Mich 50.25 should be the reply of the workers to C. H. Hedlund, St, Paul, Min 1,09 this call. The socialist leaders are as Chas. Kistler, Findlay, 0 5.00 inseparable from the bourgeois parties 8. Slav Branch, W. P., M 5.00 as the Siamese twins are from each iy Joeenneet, Sree yt oy 2.00 other. When the connection is cut Lettish Branch, W. P., Chicago; Ill. 50.00 te. js a death in the family or. per- Harry Greenwood, Chicago, II 10.00 hi Th nb ob-Warksete till J. Vedjuka, Pittsburgh, P: 6.00 aps two. Thousands o' M. Spark, Pittsburgh, 5.00 believe that socialism ‘s a rallying cry Mark Leskovitch, Battle 5.00 against capitalism. A. P., Chicago, III 5.00 bass Jacob Dorrenbach, Dayton, 1.00 HE. Workers (Communist) Party Kashuk, Ukrainian Branch, W. 5.00 has a candidate in the New York Russian Branch, Kenosha, Wi 7.60 elections. He is not an ex-preacher Jos, Mittleman, Chicago, III 5.00 but a worker. ‘The: Workers Party is Dr. M. Baumstein, Chicago, | 25.00 o a te e-pantis litical ac- T. Henkey, Jr., New York, N. 5.00 pposed to non-pantisan Do a Jack Stein, Chicago, Ill... 2.00 tion on the part ofthe workers. Pullman, Ill., Shop Nucleus 1.. 7.00 committed to the policy that the work- Amos E, Kirk, Mishawaka, In 2.00 ers must be broken away politically Douglas Park Jewish, W. P., Chicago, Ill, 50.00 from the parties of capitalism and Mi 50.00 that this can be done thru the medium inch, W. P., Chi 7.63 of a labor party. It therefore calls for Evehen'Glub, Baltimore, Me.. 25.00 ‘a united front between all working Veit, Hartford, Conn.. 10.00 class organizationg,in New York City, Ukrainian Branch, W. P., Hamtramck, - 40.00 that th ‘fight the electi . Bulgarian Branch, W. P., Detroit, Mich 65.00 so that they may) fig e elections Geo, Rawlyk, Detroit, Mich..... 2.00 as workers, on the.ticket, It includes Dutch Flemish Branch, W. P., Detroit, MI 5.00 socialist party/in the invitations. . English Branch, W. P., Detroit, Mich... 102.50 Will the socialist,party accept? Not Sympathizer, thru English Br., Detroit, Mic! 50,00 very likely, pr “ Italian Branch, W. P., Detroit, MiCMesvssesn Philip D. Giambatista, Detroit, Mich....... Ernest Masseij, Detroit, Mic! Ai Joe Camaini, Betroit, “ H. Gadarinian, Detroit, Mic! P Rochester, HE leaders of the socialist party afraid of any contact with a party that stands for the social revo- lution. They have repudiated the class struggle. They are deceiving the workers when they say they are op- posed to the capitalist system. Their devotion to working class political ac- tion is not sincere, If it were they would gladly welcome a united front with the organizations that favor such & policy. The Communists in New York City will spread the Communist message during the election and by their offer of co-operation with other Livingston, IIl., English Branch, W. Pes... Lettish Branch, W. P,, New York, N, Y... McKeesport, Pa., City Central, W. Erick Sjolie, Alborn, Minn... Hibbing, Minn., English Branch, W, P. Pontiac, Mich, Bulgarian W. J. Martins, Moll Rosse Bulgarian ¢ Shop Nucleus 1, Sam Blein, Chica Jack Bradon, Min) 3.00 working class groups to put up a A. L. Kaplan, St. Lo 5.00 united ticket against the capitalist 5.00 parties they will have given further My ae é ins proof to the wonee that their policy A 5 i Thue wettahn, is not one of disunity in the labor Clevelan Harry Matthews, Cleveland... Mike Marks, Cleveland.. edd movement, but oné of unity, not mere- ly for the sake of unity, but becaui united action on the part of the wor! ers in any struggle against the capital- ists brings them @ step nearer to fight- ing for the complete overthrow of the robber system, © e Total received. today.. Previously acknowledged Total received to da’ $1872.08, . Newark, N, J., Led; Wages Going Up Under GIRL STRIKERS Soviet Rule But Falling|| FACE RE-ARREST Under Rule of Capitalism|| IN COURTROOM By J. tous ENGDARL. Police tried to arrest two girl Strikers as they were leaving room 1106, city hall, yesterday, following continuance of the cases of 84 strikers until October 5, but the girls, Rose Cicola and Mary DeSpenza, were re- leased aftre protest by officials of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers. “The captain at the Des Plaines St, station wants to see you, come along,” said. a police officer to the two pickets, The strikers were ap pearing to answer to charges of “dis- orderly conduct” and “assault” grow- ing. out of the strike of the Amal- gamdated against members against the International Tailoring company. After the other strikers present had protested, the policeman finally walk- ed away. “I'll get you later, anyhow,” he said. All these strikers were taken from the picket line at 847 W. Jackson Blvd., during the course of the last eleven weeks of the strike. Topas one“of our readers sends in a clipping from the Newark, N. J., Ledger showing that this capitalist sheet, ublished in the heart of an open shop industrial district, is oe spreading propaganda ee ae wages received by ussian workers under Soviet rule. The sympathy of work- ers in New Jersey for the Workers’ Republic must be grow- ing. Else why this carefully prepared polson? + * ° * The big fact for America’s workers to know is that everywhere thruout the capitalist world wage cuts are the order of the day. In the territory of the Soviet Republics, on the other hand, wage increases are everywhere going in- to effect. This is the big reply that can be made to every capital- ist attack on Soviet wage standards that have now passed the pre-war wage under ozarism and continue mounting to new heights, * * ° e The Newark, N. J., Ledger tries to minimize the fact that Soviet agricultural production has reached 89 per cent of what it was in 1913; that industrial production has gone to 98 per cent of what it was in pre-war days, by question- ing these figures that have been accepted by its neighbor across the Hudson River, the New York Times. But in order to build a case it turns from this encouraging showing and makes the bald statement that wages in Soviet Russia, even with a $4 per month increase, would “still be 25 per cent lower than the pre-war wage.” The facts are set forth in data compiled by the All- Russian Central Council of Trade Unions, revealing the fol- lowing wage rates prevailing in various industries in the party districts, (c) The dues payments made dur- ing the months of Oct., Nov., Dec., 1924, and Jan., Feb. and March, 1925 shall be used as the basis for calcul- ating the actual membership of the ‘| league. (ad) The elections to the national convention shall be by district con- ventions and no city conventions shall Soviet Union during the first quarter of the current fiscal | >¢ held. year: 5 (e) The delegates to the national Monthly Percentage of convention shall be based on one del- t, Wages in Monthly Wages, egate for every fifty members or a Pre-War Rubles in 1913 major fraction thereof for months of Average for entire industr: wee 24.01 76.0 Oct., Nov., Dec. 1924, Jan, Feb., Metal working ited hey March, 1925, Textile . 1 (f) The question of the apportion- “Mining 22.07 82.8 ment of assessment was left to a to Hem ‘apa committee composed of one member 406 from each group. A Printing and allied. 3. District conventions, 37.71 " 100 Sle 140 (a) District conventions shall be held between the dates of September Industries in Moscow... 119.7 24 and 29. Industries in Leningrad Prov.. 93.3 (b) (1) The representation from * * the branches to the district conven- tion shall be based jon one delegate for each ten members or major frac- tion thereof, with the exception of New York where the apportionment shall be one delegate for every 20 members or a major fraction thereof. (2) Representation to the dis- trict convention from the branches shall be based on the average dues stamps bought by the branch during the same six months used as the basig for the national convention. (Note). Exception shall be made in the Chicago branches where the reor- ganization to area branches took place in October. In Chicago the basis shall be on dues stamps bought dur- ing the period of November, thru April, (c) The district’ conventions shall be held in Boston, New York, Phila- delphia, Buffalo, Pittsburgh, Cleve- land, Detroit, Springfield, IIL, Superi- or, Portland and Los Angeles. (a) The Workers Party shall be entitled to three delegates with voice and vote to the district convention. The party delegates to the league dis- trict conventions shall be elected by the respective party D. E, C.’s. (Note). In order to give the Con- necticut party district representation at the league district convention of New York, the District No. 2 party or- ganization shall send three delegates and the District No. 15 party organiza- tion shall send one delegate to the District No. 2 league convention. (e) At each district convention of the league the junior section of the largest section of the district shall have one fraternal delegate. ‘ (f) At all league district conven- tions where the N. HB. C. has official representatives the representatives of the minority of the N. E. C. shall be given equal time and similar privil- eges. The N. HE. C, representatives shall open and close the debate, 4 Branches, (a) Branch elections shall be held beginning with the date of Septem- ber 17, and thereafter till the date of the district convention. (b) All functioning branches shall send a minimum of one delegate to the district convention. (c) All branches organized since July 10, 1925, shall have a fratrenal delegate only to the district conven- tion, “” 5. Members. (a) Members of the league who ha transferred from one branch to an- other after Sept. 1, shall vote in their old branches. (b) Members in order to | vote must be present at the meeting of which the vote is taken, Regardless of the proportion of strength either group may have at the national convention, the National Pxecutive Committee of the Young Workers League will contain an equal number of representatives of each group and @ representative of the central executive of “the Workers Party. These decisions have been approved by the secretariat of the Central Ex- ecutive Committee of the Workers Party. The representatives of both groups of the Young Workers League call upon all:members of the Young Work- ers League for unity and unified Com- munist work, Let American workers remember that when they con- sider their increases in wages, compared to their pre-war wage, that their dollar today is only worth about 50 cents of the pre-war dollar, with the cost of living still going up, meaning that the.value of the dollar is still decreasing. The Soviet wage of today is measured in terms of the pre-war rouble, the purchasing capacity of which. was oonsidarably higher than that of the gold rouble at present, altho it is ex- ted this will soon be overcome by the continued reduction in the cost of living thru the reduction of the prices of goods, From October 1923, to March 1925, for instance, there has been a total decline of 28.1 per cent in the prices of industrial merchandise as a whole in Russia. These facts should be remembered in studying the above table, which does not show the many special allowances made to workers under Soviet Rule, But they do show, and the r, will not publish this fact, that wages have not only attained the pre-war level in the principal branches of light industry, but have even far surpassed them. The light industries include.all except mining, metal, elec- trical and building industries, that have been slower to re- cuperate, but are now rapidly on the upgrade. * * * * Increasing productivity is making it possible to raise wages in the Soviet Union. An increase of 10 per cent has been sanctioned in the textile industry, boosting the payroll 25,000,000 roubles. poy rhs this to the wage reductions in both the American and British textile industries. _ __ The Soviet Southern Steel Trust has authorized a wage increase of 19 per cent. Similar increases are being put into force by other Soviet industrial branches. Wage in- creases have been effected in the oil industry and are im- pending in the mining industry, which should give some food for thought to the miners of both the United States and Great Britain. They may well envy the wage increases made in the three most backward industrial branches in the Soviet Union—mining, metal and textile. ° * ° om And this is only the beginning. Greater wage increases are ahead. These will be accompanied by the ‘inevitable in- creases in real wages for the workers in all branches of in- dustry as a result of reductions in the prices of industrial goods and agricultural goods. These facts the Newark, N. J., Ledger, in common with the whole capitalist press, will try to keep from its working class readers, fearing that they may not only develop sym- _ pathy for and _ solidar! ie th the workers of the Soviet Union, but strive to build viet Republic of their own. . . But those facts will, theless, in time, become known and understood by America’s workers as well as those of all other lands, That is a threat to world capitalism, TO ALL MEMBERS OF THE YOUNG WORKERS LEAGUE: Comrades: We have just had a national convention of the Workers Party. This national convention has laid the basis for the beginning of the unification of our party, for its re-organization and Bolshevization, It is now the turn of the Young Workers League to do likewise. A con- ference of the representatives of the majority and minority groups in the Young Workers League presided over4———————______ by Comrade Green has adopted the following resolutions: of this investigation the arrange- 1, The convention of the Young |™ents for the league convention shall Workers League will open on Octo.| be made. , ber 2, in Chicago, (b) A committee of two members 2, The convention of the Young|Of each group shall submit to the Work: League shall be organized | politbufeau of the ©. B. ©, a state- mont giving the average figures of ‘ membership for each existing district} (Signed) John Williamson, Max ee ot sti e pa fee in) remaining | Shachtman, Herbert Zam\ and Nat the findings | territ diline ace to PONCE TENE 6 kat aight aa ings | territory dlinented ecora ing to the ’ Kaplan, hey —E