The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 12, 1925, Page 6

EE A es Page Six Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 2113 'W. Washington Biyd., Chicago, Ill. Phone Monroe 4712 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mall (in Chicago only): By mail (outside of Chicago): $8.00 per year $4.50 six months | $6.00 per year $3.50 six months $2.50 three months 32.00 three months Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 1118 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, illinols j. J, LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F, DUNNE MORITZ J. LOEB... OSE SSI coo ati ANE AEP AORTA LT a Ho NB SES Entered ax second-class mat] September 21, 1928, at the post-office at Chi cago, Til, under the act of March 3, 1879. Advertising rates on application. : * . Lying About the Riff Campaign After the world war was over, one British correspondent who was decorated for lying about the German army, wrote a book under the title: “Now It Can Be Told.” This meant that the war was over and no good purpose could be served by lying any longer. The truth would now be more profitable and would command a better market than false information. During the war both sides fed their followers on victory after y. Every retreat was for strategic purposes. The morale of ses had to be kept up. The bourgeoisie have no qualms of Mattors ..Business Manager <> 100 conscience about lying. Indeed it is one of their most effective weapons. The capitalist powers have not suffered any impairment in the fine art of prevarication since the end of the world war. This is plainly evident by their conduct in the Moroccan campaign against the Riffians. : Up until now the forces of Abd-el-Krim have decidedly the best of the struggle, yet stories of victories appear daily in the capitalist press—victory for the Spanish and French. Once in a while a cor respondent sneaks out a little bit of truth thru the censorship wall, but for every word of truth that reaches the public ten thousand lies follow. Only a few days ago, a Spanish troopship was sunk by Riffian fire. One thousand Spanish troopers perished with the ship. The news was suppressed by the Spanish and French censors in Morocco but one newspaperman in Paris risked losing his job by putting it on the cables to the United States. Not a word has appeared about the great disaster in any capitalist daily since then. Evidently is is hoped the public will have forgotten the incident. We have read of airplanes hurling death on Riffian forts, towns and villages, of tribes deserting Abd-el-Krim and of Spanish and French cooperation. But the truth is that ninety per cent of those stories have no foundation in fact. The truth is that the Spanish and French governments are liable to fall at any moment over the Riffian debacle. Both governments hope to stave off the inevitable by feeding their people on imaginary victories. The workers should think ten times before believing anything that appears in the capitalist press. What they read even in the news columns is not news but propaganda. Ninety per cent of what fills the pages of the capitalist dailies is copy, furnished by the thousands of agencies that exist in this country to advance some particular scheme in support of the capitalist system. Workers who want to know the truth about the labor movement here and in other countries, about the struggle of subject peoples against the imper- ialist powers and particularly about Soviet Russia should read the DAILY WORKER. Paining the Reactionary Painters If Gregory Zinoviev had walked into the convention of the Brotherhood of Painters, Decorators and Paperhangers held in Mon- treal, greater consternation could not have been caused among the reactionary officials than followed the nomination of Dan W. Stévens, Minneapolis Communist, for the office of first vice-president in oppo- tition to J. Finan of Chicago, professional red baiter. Finan (no relation to Haddie tho very much like a fish in his ways) has been going around the country lately reading the riot act to the Communists and threatening with expulsion every painter who insisted on using his head for something other than a hat rack. Finan expected the radicals to lie down and draw in their red horns after the priests of the new dispensation placed them on the index expurgatoris. It was therefore with something of a shock that the fakers heard the name of the fighting painter of the Twin Cities being placed in nomination. Was not Dan Stevens ousted from his position of secre- tary of the Minneapolis Trades and Labor Council by order of Paul Smith, traveling grand goblin of the American Federation of Labor? If the fakers thought that Stevens or the Communists are going to be intimidated by the traveling janissaries of the grand dukes of the A. F. of L. they are greatly mistaken. And the substantial sup- port given to Comrade Stevens at the Montreal convention is a warn- ing to the reactionaries that the fight to expel the Communists from the unions, is not an easy one, but one that will end in complete triumph for the radic@s and ignominious defeat for the labor lieuten- ants of capitalism. The drive for the class war prisoners will forge ahead stronger than ever on International Labor Defense Day, Sunday, Sept. 13. The Anthracite Slaughter-House A report has just been issued by the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, de- partment of labor and industry, which deals with industrial accidents in the state for the first six months of 1925. from this we learn that in this half- year period, almost one out of every ten workers engaged in anthracite pro- duction was injured, 96 out of each 1,000 workers injured non-fatally, and two out of each 1,000 killed. UT of a total of 89,494 non-fatal industrial accidents during the ‘irst half of 1925, the anthracite min- ers suffered’ 14,561 of them. Of 1,087 deaths, 296 were of anthracite miners. In other words, anthracite mining costs the workers almost twice the price in life and limb, over the" aver- age borne by all workers in Pennsyl- vania. And thi3 is not a recent develop- ment... From the year 1900 to 1920, ‘here were 12,032 anthracite. miners ‘Milled in the course of their work, sith non-fatal accidents in proportion. By EARL R. BROWDER. HE 150,000 anthracite miners now on strike are told by the employ- ers that the industry is so “heavily burdened” that their wages must be reduced. It is true that the industry fs “heavily burdened” by the capi- talist monopoly, in the shape of prof- its of gigantic proportions by the coal companies, profits by the railroads, profits by wholesalers and retailers, plus royalty to landowners running from $1.00 to $1.50 per ton. Out of the current retail price of anthracite, $17.00 per ton, the “burden” placed by wages (employers’ classification in- cluding administration) is less than 20 per cent. We shall examine this angle in more detail later. But whol about the “heavy burden” of injury and death placed upon the workers by the industry? This is the most terrible burdem of t¢ 9) industry and the workers iiust sca it all in addition to their burden of starvation oi, Te FOR ALLIANCE WITH KAISER Wilhelm Charges Col.| House Approached Him| (Special to The Daily Worker) BERLIN, Germany, Sept. 10.—In a signed article in the Deutches Zel- tung, Kaiser Wilhelm exposes the fact that Col. House, acting as President Wilson’s representative, attempted to form an alliance between Germany, England and the United States, just prior to the world war. The kaiser, writing from Doorn, in an effort to place the blame for the war on England, reveals that Viscount Grey, them British foreign minister, went to Kiel to discuss the probabil- ities of such an alliance with Col. House and German representatives. Wilhelm quotes letters from Col. House expressing satisfaction with Berlin negotiations between himself, the ex-kaiser, and Admiral Tirpitz, celative to the proposed alliance. Great Britain killed this attempt at| an imperialist alliance by attempting to conclude a naval treaty with Rus- sia instead, Wilhelm declares. He states that Britain was fearful that Wilson's negotiations for an alliance might cause consternation to French and Russian imperialism. MOTHER BLOOR REACHES GOAL OF LONG HIKE NEW YORK, N. Y.—The coast to coast tour of “Mother” Bloor will soon be completed ‘when she arrives in New York City, September 9th, after travelling for over three months from Berkely, California. stopping in every large city on the way. “Mother”. Bloor boasts that she hag not spent a cent on railroad fare,.and what is more, she insists shé wil) hot spend a single cent on railroad fare, and while hitch- ing and hiking c@nditions to be so agreeable to people of sixty years that will continue to be her way of travel- ling. Y “Mother” Bloor will be remembered by her many friends among militant trade unionists. in this city for her activity on the picket line in the strike of the Millinery Workers’ Union. At the meetings to be held collec- tions will be taken and every dollar raised will go for, two months sub- E DAILY WORKER Forward! Anthracite Miners TRIPOLI REVOLT M. W. of A., accept. the challenge of the owners and pledge ourselves to fight until the demands of the anthracite miners are met and victory is achieved, AN ATTEMPT TO KILL THE ’ UNION. The present attack on the anthracite miners is part of the general scheme of the owners to destroy every semblance of organization among the coal miners. The bituminous miners are reduced to a frightful existence by the continuous campaign that has been carried on against them by the operators, aided by every branch of the govern- ment. The owners now feel that the miners and the organization,have been weakened to such an extent that it wilk.be easy to deal the finishing blow to the U, iM: W. of A. by smashing the anthracite miner’. The fight to win the anthra- cite strike is a fight'to save the United Mine Work- ers of America froni destruction. The attempt of the employers to break up the United Mine Workers is only part of a larger scheme of the whole employing class to destroy every trace of trade unionism among the whole working class. The miners are now the center of attack. The bosses know that if they are success- ful in reducing the»miners’ wages and breaking up their union, whiehfis the most militant section of the working class, they will be far on the road to the accomplishment of their goal to establish the “open shop” in evefy industry in America. The anthracite’strike must be the rallying center of all trade unionists in America. Every working class organization must come to the support of the anthracite miners in every possible way. The strikers must be given full financial, moral, and active support in this industrial battle. It is the moment when labor, thruout America, must call a halt to wage-cutting and union-wrecking cam- paigns of big business. ALL MINERS MUST STRIKE! In the great industrial struggle now centering in the anthracite region the employers will be fully united against the workers. The anthracite op- erators will have the full support of the coal bar- ons in the bituminous fields. The press, the state, and every institution of capitalist control, will be on their side militantly. In this situation the workers must display equal solidarity and class consciousness, 2 The bituminous miner's must not stand aside and allow their brothers in the anthracite to be cut to pieces. The minexsiin the soft coal fields have been practically idle for, the past two years due to the coal operators’ attempts to break the union. The latter have pragece!ly ignored the Jacksonville agreement and have held the U. M. W. of A. in scorn and contempt, gradually destroying it in every organized district. Now is the timé for the bituminous miners to retrieve their position and standards of living. They must make Common cause with the hard coal miners. Thé bituminous miners must join hands with the ahthracite miners and bring the whole mining indtstry in America to a standstill in a general striké until the autocratic employers are forced to recognize the workers’ rights to or- scriptions. to the DAILY WORKER. Be on hand. ganize and to concede their economic demand. Failure of the bittiminous miners to strike at this JEWISH SECTION, WORKERS PARTY, the convention. time would be a monumental error for which the whole miners’ union would have to pay dearly. RAILROADERS! HAUL NO SCAB COAL! The railroad workers must also lend a hand in this struggle. They must absolutely refuse to haul scab coal. In past strikes in the coal mining and ralroad. industries there has been the sad spectacle of union railroad men hauling scab coal and of union miners furnishing coal to ‘scab railroads. This suicidal lack of solidarity must come to an end. There must be an alliance, offensive and defens- ive, between the railroad workers and coal miners. Such an alliance would be invincible. The time to lay the basis for it is now in the big anthracite strike. No railroad man worthy of being called a unionist will degrade himself ‘and betray his class by hauling scab coal in thé anthracite region. NATIONALIZATION—-WITH WORKERS’ CONTROL. The anthracit eminers, the bituminous miners, and the labor movement as a whole must realize the broader aspects of the gigantic struggle now going on. It is not merely a trade dispute over questions of hours and wages. It has a far deeper political ‘significance. It is only one more mani- festation of the great struggle that is going on between the capitalists and the-workers for control of the industries and the government. In this struggle the miners must lay the basis, in policy and organization, for carrying on the fight effectively on the broad front of the. class struggle. They, must realize that so long as private ownership endures in the coal industry, so long! will low wages, long hours, unemployment, and| the other evils of private ownership obtain. We) must fight definitely for the nationalization of the mines, with workers’ control. BUILD A LABOR PARTY! And to further this struggle we must found a labor party based upon the broad masses in the trade unions and other workers’ organizations. We must also fight for the regeneration of our union. The present crop of misleaders, who are responsible for our present plight, must go, and be replaced by a generation of real fighters. We must end Lewisism in the U. M. W. of “A. The present policy of class collaboration must giv way_to one of class struggle. e WHAT TO DO The Progressive Miners’ Committee of the U. M. W. of A. demands: ‘ No compromise to be made through arbitra- tion or in any other way. Categoric rejection of government interfer- ence. A Six-Hour Day and a Five-Day Week. Minimum wage to be not. less than the full union rates. she ;,Abolition of the Conciliation, Board. ylppediate unemployment,..relief from the state and national governments, ’ _ Bituminous Miners! Railroad workers! Workers in all industries! Support the struggle of the anthracite miners! Break up the great “open shop” drive of the employers! » PROGRESSIVE MINERS’ COMMITTEE OF +: THE U. M. W. OF A. struggle against the Lore tendency . STRIVES TO WIN WORKMEN’S:CIRCLE MEMBERS FOR THE REVOLUTION NEW YORK CITY, Sept. 8.—(By Mail.)—The first day’s session of the After the debate on the Workmen’s |even as it has in this convention altho Circle policy, the election of the bu-|a number of former Loreites are now reau of the Jewish Section was taken supporting the minority. The facts up. as shown in the debate on this ques- Comrade C. E. Ruthenberg, the rep- | tion indicate the need of a strong ele- resentative of the Central Executive |ment of the minonity in the bureau in convention of the’ Jewish Section of the Workers Party, took up the problem of the policy ofthe party in the Workmen’s Circle. ’ The report on this question was made by H. J. Costrell, secretary of the Left Wing Actions Committee in the Workmen's Circle. Costrell Makes His Report. Comrade Costrell reviewed the campaign which the party had carried on in the Workmen’s Circle and in this connection called attention to the cam- paign for relief of Russian children, which was taken up at the time the Workmen’s Circle administration pro- posed relief for the orphaned children. discussion, the speakers pointing out He also outlined the campaign in sup- port of the national presidential cam- paign of the party and pointed out that the influence of the party in the Workmen’s Circle has grown but that the left wing has been unable to ach- ieve as many victories as in the past, giving as the reason for this the or- ganization of the reactionary elements in support of the right wing machine, | with the résult that a much larger proportion of the membership of the | Workmen’s Circle was participating actively in the work of the Circle than in the past. The report was criticized during the Pennsylvania, 1921). Approximately every twelfth worker in the industry was killed during the 20 years, « ANTBBACITR is a veritable slough- i ter-house of the workers. They are on strike now because thé em- ployers want to buy their lives and limbs for 10 per cent less wages, while the workers feel the price of their blood and sweat should rise a bit, The day must come before long when the miners, together with the working class as a whole, will refuse altogether to allow capitalists to coin their lives into protfis, will take over the mines and industries, kick out the exploiters, and turn the work-places from slaughter-houses into safe and comfortable centers for producing the wealth of a workers’ republic, Until that time arrives, every class- conscious worker will help all he can in the struggle of the anthracite min- ers .to protect themselves partially | against the assaults of coal’ barons whose profits are stained with the 5 rf} yw nls $ that the policy pursued was not that of revolutionizing the workers in. the Workmen's Circle and our policy must be directed towards winning these workers ideologically for the revolu- tionary struggle ‘ainst capitalism. The lack of Drparaion in relation to the national convention of the Work- men’s Circle was fso criticized as well as the methods'used in constitut- ing the Left Wing Attions Committee after this conventions Supports C. Viewpoint. The resolution supporting the report of Comrade Costrell was adopted against a resolutiom by the minority crfticizing the repor& The voting on this resolution brot, e first break in the alignment in the convention, when Comrade S. Glaube: » delegate from Los Angeles, who supported the majority group in thé convention voted for the minority resélution and made the following staterient: ° “IT have been a supporter of the ma- jority group in the party altho I have believed that both groups were good revolutionary groupg. I have how- ever strongly criticized the methods used by the former majority group in their attack upon the minority group, for instance, the majority in its cau- cus voted to refuse to join in the demonstration when Comrade Ruthen- berg, the representative of the C, EB. C., entered the hall. Now that the Communist International has stated its position in relation to the two groups, I support thé viewpoint of the Communist Intern: al, I cannot fur- ther support the 1p which IT have been supporting. I therefore take my Position in support ‘of the present C. KE. C. of the party. The statement of/Comrade Glauber- man caused a great demonstration by the delegates and the three or four (Report of Department. of Mines: of | bldod of our working clang'ybrothers, jhundred speclatn ie seen at ve we. Committee, took the floor and made the following proposal; *“ “[ propose, as the representative | Section. of the Central Executive Committee, that a bureau consisting of an equal number of representatives of both groups be elected. The basis for mak- ing this proposal are the following reasons: “First, this convention has come very closely after the national con- vention of the party. The result of the work of the national convention, and particularly the viewpoint of the Communist International transmitted order to carry out the decisions and eliminate Loreism from the Jewish Equal Responsibility, “My fourth reason for my proposal is the decision of the Comintern in regard to our party. This decision put the responsibility for conducting the party work upon the present ma- jority of the Central Executive Com- mittee in the reorganization of the party, the bureau of the language MENACES BANKS’ HOLD ON AFRICA French Caught Between Two Uprisings. PARIS, Sept. 10—All Tripoli is in revolt against the rule of Italian imperialism, and the Senussi natives are driving the Italian troops toward the sea with heavy losses. The revolt in Tripoli, now admitted by the af- ficial Stefani agency, has caught the French in Algeria and Tunis in'a trap between the revolting Moroccans and the uprising in Tripoli. The hold of all European powers in North Africa is thus threatened, . “t Premier Mussolini, greatly alarmed has sent 20,000 troops and 300 air- planes to Tripoli. The fascisti accuse the Turkish government of aiding the revolt with officers and ammunition. The intention of Mussolini to seize all western Anatolia at the earliest. op- portunity has been blocked, see PARIS, France, Sept, 10.—The Span: ish forces have landed’ @ column of troops on the shores of Alhucemas bay, near Adjir, Krim’s capital, accord- ing to the Spanish dictator Primo de Rivera, Rivera’s dispatg) does not state the number of the Spanish losses. Meanwhile the Riffians are harrass- ing the French troops in the sector east of Quezzan, and are attacking the French position at Djebel en Nehir. In the Spanish zone Krim {s at- tacking the line of communications be- tween Tetuan and Fondack, Many New Members Enroll at Duluth, Minn., I. L. D. Meeting DULUTH, Minn., Sept. 10—The I. L. D. conference and mass meeting was hefd in Duluth Sunday, Sept. 6. Both were well. attended considering the two holidays. About 25 workers joined. The prevailing sentiment was that this could easily be increased a hundred fold. | John Soltis delivered an excellent | speech, outlining the aims and organ- |ization of the I. L. D, He also dwelt |at length with the history of all proc jress in the political field. The audi- ence was in hearty accord of uniting all elements of labor in the defense work. The local committee are pleased with rsults and will continue to hold meetings often as soon as arrange- ments can be made. We are assured | of a powerful movement in this steel trust mining district. the proposal of the Central Executive Committee and I cannot see my way clear to vote against this proposal of the Central Executive Committee.” The statement -was greeted with a great demonstration by the delegates and those present. ~ The bureau of the Jewish Section was then elected and the question of the Freiheit was taken up and a reso- luti8n passed to begin a campaign for a $50,000 fund to meet the emerg- ency in the Freiheit situation. The convention then adjourned, Col. Mitchell Again Charges Washington fractions becomes more than ever an instrument of the Central Executive Committee and it is necessary that to our convention, waé not before the |there be a bureau of the Jewish Sec- membership of the Jewish Section |tion which will be responsive and car- when the elections took place. These |ry out the decision of the Central members had no opportunity to take | Executive Committee. into. consideration the work of the} “My fifth reason for this proposal convention and the view of the Com;|is the need for achieving the unifica- munist International in electing the | tion of our party. It is necessary that delegates to the convention. the two leading groups in the party “Second, the report ‘of the creden-|@nd in the Jewish Section. be united. tials committee leaves in doubt the | This can best be achieved by electing relation of forces in this convention, |® bureau consisting of equal represen- Eleven delegates of the majority were |tation of the two groups.” elected by only 78 members, having| Comrade Mindel, for the majority, been elected by proxy to represent | Proposed a bureau of eleven represey- branches of five or six members. |tatives of the majority group, and There are discrepancies in relation to|#eVen representatives of the minority the elections in Detroit, North West {Of the convention. Comrade Mindel Jewish in Chicago where extraordin-|@8ked whether the proposal of Com- ary dues stamps purchases were made |Tade Ruthenberg was an instruction during the last months of July, and in|to the convention to which Comrade the case of Detroit particularly no |Ruthenberg $ ‘ stamps were purchased for the ‘The ‘proposal I have made is a| months of April, May and June, This |Proposal to the convention as the rep- and similar instances opens the ques-|Tesentative of the Central Executive tion of whether a number of the dele- | Committee of the party. Naturally 1 gates in the majority at this conven-|@M responsible to the Central Execu- tion actually represent the majority |tive Committee for this proposal. The of the membership, pola Nein i reap how it A “ constituted, is subjec @ approv: Ba bri pr apphieen My nc of the Central Executive Committee.” Central Executive Committee. This|, Th® vote on the two proposals be- debate showed in the statements of fore the convention resulted in 53 for the former members of the Loreist the Mindel’ proposal and 41 for the group that the majority group of this Central Executive Committee pro- convention entered into caususes, al- sdgrcouk lances and arrangements with the| Paterson Comintern Communists. Loreist group even as close as two} During the vote on this question weeks before the national convention |the delegate. from Paterson, New and that its attitude toward the Lore | Jersey, who had been supporting the group of the Jewish Section was en- ‘Tose to the floor and made tirely unprincipled and completely op-|the: following statement. “Our Pat- portunistic and the minority in this -branch has. always been a convention, on the other hand, took ee Ao | | exgensg Posttion me to vote aguinst a| Bolshevik organization. My A ty i not with Airship Deaths WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 10.—In another statement on the inefficiency of the army and navy heads at Wash- ington, Col. William Mitchell declared, “Non-fliers indulge in mental gym- nastics in Washington in an attempt to evade the truth by ing boards, alibis, and suggestions for fix- ing the blame for disasters on the dead commanders, when they know that they themselves were respons- ible.” The war department is. expected’ to court martial Mitchell, with the re- sult that he will be dismissed the army, Baltimore Has Youth — Celebration Tonight BALTIMORE, Md., Sept. 10—Inter- national Youth Day will be in Baltimore on Friday, Sept. 11, at 8:00 p. m, at the Progressive Labor ‘Lyceum. Everybody is guaranteed a good time at this celebration and lec ture. thie A representative of the Young ‘Workers League, Workers Party, and Junior Section will speak at this in- teresting occasion. Everybody in Bal- timore be present. Admission free, Rain Ends Drouth, % ST. LOUIS, Mo., Sept. 10—Ten days of scorching drouth in the INinois and Missouri regions of the ing a night of cool rains. More than & score of lives were claimed during ‘ weather bureau predicted bidet of the record heat wave ad been broken and that cool weather might be. expected, 4 abnormally hot advent of Septem. \ 1 {j yy "5 ee