The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 2, 1925, Page 4

See ae JAIL SENTENCE Lodz Court Sentences Communist WARSAW, (By Mall.) — Stanislaus Lantsutsky, former Communist mem- ther of the Polish #eJm, was sentenc- hed to three years’ Imprisonment fol- plowing the so-called trial at a court In Lodz. At the trial, Comrade Lant- sutsky declared that his trial was not a question of justice, but was an at- tempt of the Pollsh bourgeoisie to rush the working class movement in Poland. To be Tried Again. Comrade lLansutsky was tried again in Warsaw on Sept 15. He was tried for sending an open letter in November, 1922, to the then Pre- mier Novak. In this letter he called attention of the premier to the viola- tions of the election laws and com- pared them to those practiced in simi- lar dictatorships. Democracy a Lie. “Under your government, Polish elections will be ‘henceforth identical thruout the world with shameless fraud and violation of the rights of large sections of the population of Poland. They can be compared with the wild excesses of elections in Hun- gary and Roumania,” stated Lantsut- eky in the letter for which he is os- tensibly being tried. “The present elections have shown to the masses that in a bourgeois state such as the Polish republic the freedom of the subject is an exceptional privilege of the landowner-capitalist clique and its lackeys. Bourgeois democracy is nothing but a He, a vile travesty, un- der cover of which the proletariat suf- fers czarist oppression.” oe ae Three Peasants Acquitted. WARSAW, Sept. 30.—Three peas- ants whose case had been appealed to the Warsaw appeal court, have been acquitted. These peasants were ar- rested and sentenced to nine months’ imprisonment by! the Lomsaer court because they made a statement that the police torture their prisoners. ee Norway Workers Protest. MOSCOW, (J. R. A.), Sept. 30. — The workers of Norway have sent a protest to the Polish government de- nouncing the murder of the Polish Communists Botwin, Hibner, Rutkov- sky and Knievsky. The telegram from the congress of the General Trade Union Federation ot Norway to the bhangmen of the Grabsky Polish government, follows: Demand Release of Lantsutsky. “The congress of the General Trade Union Federation of. Norway which represents the whole Norwegiah working class, expresses its fury and its disgust against the shameful mur- der of our Polish comrades, Botwin, Hibner, Rutkovsky and Knievsky and demands that the trial against Lant- sutsky be stopped and our comrades released from prison.” Hell ’n Maria Dawes Foiled in Attempt to Break Up Union General Dawes, now vice-president of the United States, was foiled in his attempt to force an imported Rouman- ian orchestra into the La Salle hotel by quick action on the part of the union musicians. The hotel now agrees to handle nothing but American Federation. of Labor musicians. Months HIS is ly. it: ticles on worker. NAME STREET... offer to enlarge the list of readers to the Workers Month- Take advantage of for yourself—to extend your sub—or to subscribe for an- other worker. Such an important magazine—with ar- vital events in the world of Labor—the work of Labor’s best artists—and features by outstanding revolutionary ers—is not only a pleasure, but a real necessity for every | W- 4 GIVEN 3 YEAR ENTHUSIASM OVER: REORGANIZATION v4 AMONG LITHUANIANS OF DIST. No. 8; COAL MINER RELATES EXPERIENCES By NELLIE KATILUS. The Lithuanian section of District 8, at its conference held Sundaay, July 26, 1925, in Chicago, was greatly enthused over the reorganization of the party. After a lengthy report on the reor- ganization and its future as a Bolehe- vized and centralized revolutionary party, Comrade Juskauskas, a .coal | miner from West Frankfort, Illinois, | told how a shop nucleus works in coal mining region in Southern Illinois. He said that before the organization | of the shop nucleus, they had doubts | as to the possible success of the work, but after the short period of the shop nucleus in effect, they have found out that party work is carried, out much | more effectively than before. | He pointed out, that miners who| were hard to draw into the party are now attracted by the work done by a centralized body and are coming into the party. And the enemies recog- nize that we are a growing power. He said that the sooner the party is re- organized on the shop nuclei basis, the sooner its Communist work will be more effective and the growth of the party assured. Then delegate after delegate took the floor and pointed out the bene- fits our party will derive from reor- ganization. Altho it was admitted that we shall have some difficulties, but once the party is reorganized on the shop muclei basis and centralized, it will draw all the active and fight- ing elements of the working class,in- to it. It is especially hopeful for foreign- born workers who have so many la- bor and semi-labor organizations and for whom it is hard to distinguigh the differences between the party and other labor organizations. It was re- peatedly pointed by delegates that after the party is reorganized, they will easily see that the centralized and Bolshevized party is the vanguard of the working class in its struggles for its immediate demands and for the final task. There was also a healthy discussion on how to best reorganize the eighth district. The conference was enthusi- astie and unanimous on every import- ant question. There were 29 regular Aelegates from the district. WORKERS Ty AIR MEETINGS HELD INN. Y. THIS WEEK \ NEW YORK, Sept. 30.—in New York Workers Party open air meet- ings are being held thruout the city every night during the week of Sept. 28 to Oct. 3 in the municipal, mayoralty campaign. now in pro- gre FRIDAY, OGH. @ 10th St. and 2nd ‘Avei—Grecht, Trachtenberg, Bentall,)Royntz. 110th St. and 5th’ Aye.—Wein- stone, Krumbein, Markoff; Mitchell, Shapiro, ren 2 Intervale and Wilkins—Krumbein, Pollack, Royce, Pasternack. Grand and Havenmeyér—Nesin, Primoff, Poyntz, Rosen, SATURDAY, OCT. 3 7th St, and Ave, As+Pollack and Russian speakers. 8th Ave. and 38th St.—Clarence Miller and Greek Speakers. 149th St. and 3rd Ave.: McDonald, Bentall, Powers. Grand and Roebling—Primoff, Ne- sin, Siskind, Hartman, Stone and Pitkin—Wolf, Lifshitz, Chernenco, Mitnik, Rukenstein. Baum, ANTI-SOVIET WAR COST 70 MILLION ROUMANIA CLAIMS’ U. S. Envoy Advised Attack on Bessarabia | GENEVA, Sept. 30.—The Rouman- jan debt funding commission is com- ing over here With a claim against the United States for $70,000,000. They are going to say that Oscar Crpsby, official American representative to Roumania, joined the allies in order- ing Roumania to attack the Bolshe- vik army in Bessarabia in December. 1917. The Roumanian government had sent $70,000,000-in gold to Moscow for safe keeping and the attack on the Boisheviks lost them their chances of getting it back. The U. S. state department will very likely disclaim the action of Crosby and, in any case, will point out that Roumania occupied Bess- arabia and kept it. Bessarabia is worth considerably more than $70,- 000,000. The Roumanian commission will leave for Washington Oct. 10. The Bratiano dictatorship of the Boyar country wants to borrow $100,000,000 in New York. The three Bratiano brothers who rule the country are also its chief bankers. They need money.for their banks and they have been informed that they can’t have any from Wall Street until they wor- ry about the $45,000,000 they already owe. So they are sending a commis- sion to talk it over with Mellon. Foreign Exchange. NEW YORK, Sept. 30.—Great Brit- ain, pound sterling, demand 4.83%; calbel 4.84%. France, franc, demand 4.73; cable 4.73%. Belgium, franc, de- mand 4.42%; cable 4.43. Italy, lira, demand 4.06%; cable 4.07. Sweden, krone, demand 26.85; cable 26.88. Nor- way, krone, demand 20.04; cable 20.06. Denmark, krone, demand 24.10; cable 24.12. Germany, mark, no quote. Shanghai, taels, demand 79.50. If you want to thoroughly un- derstand Communism—study it. Dollar j i a special the most lead- Chic: Our Readers’ Views S. L. P. Miss-information! To the DAILY WORKER:—I had occasion to hear a S, L. P. speaker at Bug-House Square, a short time ago, ooze his venom upon the Workers | Party and the Communist movement a while. His chief criticism was of the dictatorship of the proletariat. According to the speaker, the pro- letarian state does not need any form of dictatorship as there would be no one jto¥dictate to (?). The question arising from such a menshevik argu- mentation would be: Does the Com- muhist Movement believe in dictator- shipjas a'thing in itself, or as a means to anend? Ihave @ pamphlet published by the S. Ty Pi’ “Historical Materialism,” a part of Engle’s “Socialism, Utopian and Scientific,” in which it is clearly shown that every epéch is the dicta- torship of a dominating class, that economic domination of a class means domination of every human activity by that’ élass and it is very essen- tial that during a proletarian revolu- tion or diiring the process of liquida- tion of the capitalist order the dic- tatorship''of the proletariat be en- forced!*""Th& success of the revolu- tion wowld! depend upon its ability to liquidate the capitalist order until such time when a Communist state has. been..established in the literal meaning of the word. Again this\question is clearly ex- pounded jn the Communist Manifesto, in the following words: “The pro- letariat, will use its political suprem- acy to wrest by degrees all capital from the bourgeoisie, to centralize all instruments of production in the hands of the state, i. e. of the prole- tariat organized as the ruling class.” The: abgye words are simple enuf to be understood and it is high time that the S: lL, P. forgets its hair-splitting controversies.—John Lucas, Cerrection by Robert Minor, Editor, DAILY. WORKER:—In the issue of the DAILY WORKER of Thursday, Sept. 24, my article on “Bolshevik Reorganization” becomes a victim of a slip of the printer’s hand. Ordinarily typographical errors, which are inevitable in a daily newspaper, have to be endured with no space wasted in correction. But in this case the misplacing of five lines of type happens to produce the following em- barassing statement: “The development of history in this period of the decay of capitalist or- ganization, lack of’ political franchise, ete.) led to a different basis of organ- ization. Workers could not hold meet- ings in public halls; yet the same workers were drawn to ‘democratic’ institutions and of the proletarian revolution,” etc., ete. Several comrades have asked me “what the hell this means.” To avoid further misunderstanding it is neces- sary to explain that the above para- graph as printed contains five lines of type that belonged in an earlier paragraph. “Correctly the text should be: “Different political conditions in which the Russian party developed (the prohibition of all working class organization, lack of political fran- chise, ete.) led to a different basis of organization. Workers could not hold meetings in public halls; yet the same workers were of necessity drawn to- gether every day in the factory at their employment. The formation of the working class revolutionary party in Russia inevitably took the outline of the workshop as the outline of the basic unit of the party—the shop nu- cleus. ecessity had brought the Russian party to the best type of organization, while the rest of the parties lagged behind with an inferior form. The development of history in this period of the decay of capitalist ‘democratic’ institutions and of the proletarian revolution,’has created in oll industrial countries of the world the essential conditions which now compel the reorganization of all sec- tions of the revolutionary party in the higher form, on the basis of shop nuclei.”—Robert Minor, |, W. A. OPENING CAMPAIGN FOR THE DAILY WORKER NEEDY CHINESE Civil War and Famine Scourges Nation The International Workers’ Aid thw located at 1553 W. Madison street, Chicago, Ill, is now. garrying on a nation-wide drive for relief; of the struggling and starving workers -and children of China. This is the same organization that did such splendid work for the relief of the famine stricken workers and persants of Russia in 1922-1923, then known as the Friends of,Soviet Rus- sia, and which came to the rescue of the German workers in 1923-24 and the Irish famine stricken peasants in 1925. The I. W. A. is the American sec- tion of the Workers’ International Re- lief with headquarters: in Berlin, Ger- many, having national every Country of note ‘thruout the world. From a report sent out by the Ber- lin office, we note that, the German workers collected. a million gold marks in four weeks’ time for the re- lief of their suffering fellow workers in China. In England the Chinese relief work is being supported by labor in a man- ner that leaves no room for doubt as to how they feel toward the Chinese workers. At a recent W, J. R. con- gress held in London, the delegates pledged their full support and solid- arity. Many Tough Problems. The Chinese Workers who are only just awakening to the realization of the class struggle, are ‘eonfronted with a triple problem; first,their own exploiters and profiteers; second, the capitalist. invaders who mow rule China, and as per late reports, they have had a flood that has. pauperized millions of workers and peasants whose crops were wiped out. Two million families were left high and dry without a morsel to call their own. The American I. W. A. looks forward to receiving unstinted and im- mediate support from all sections of the country, from the ranks of labor and sympathizers. Pr It is to be hoped that the American workers will rally to the support of the Chinese workers morally and financially. It is not charity but a duty that calls. Send your contribu- tion to the International Workers’ Aid, 1553 W. Madison street, Chicago, m., rs Da Sessburs rs Fight Fake McAndrew Yote on Salary Schedules Superintendent of Schools William McAndrew took the teachers by sur- prise with a lrasty or for a vote on his proposed inary paved dur- ing school hours. When the ballots wi sprung on the teachers 2861, thé more exper- fenced ones who had bé@n thru many a battle with the schoolYboard refused to vote without first discussing the fy move among themselyag at their fe- deration meeting. The younger ones 2887, being less experienced but courageous nevertheless, voted against the schedule at once, 3,310 voted in favor of the bill. The vole shows that McAndrew has either convinced or intimidated only 3,310 teachers out of 9,068 for his bill. Tea Pot Dome Figure Demoted WASHINGTON, Sept. 30.—Rear Admiral J. K. Robinson who gave his consent to the lease of Tea Pot Dome and who figured prominently in the scandal, reverted to the rank of cap- tain when he gave up his post as chief of the navy's biveau’ of engin- eering. Robinson had. to be re- tired as a rear sical bat te senate wseetions in'} NEGROES-FIGHT SEGREGATION IN ‘FREE" AMERICA Rasideatial te Bars to Be Resisted NEW YORK, Sept. 30.—The fight on residential segregation is spreading thruout the North according to re- ports received. Recently there wasa small riot in Philadelphia and now it is reported that an organization has been formed in Cleveland to debar colored people from a white residen- tial district To Bar Negro Doctor. The fight in Cleveland is being made to bar Dr. C, H. Garvin, a col- ored physician from occupying a house he is having built on Wade Park avenue. Two hundred white property owners recently held a meet- ing and formed an organization. At the meeting whfte neighbors of Dr. Garvin protested against his occu- pancy of the house he was having built. One white attorney, Frank F. Gentsch, of 11104 Wade Park ave- nue, N, E., near Dr. Garvin’s prop- erty, is reported to have said to G. W. Willis, a colored man present at the meeting: “I want you to know that you will never live in the Wade allotment. Furthermore, you can say to Dr. Gar- vin that he will never live in the house that he is building on Wade Park avenue.” Not for Sale. Dr, Garvin is reported to have said in a press interview that he was not trying to speculate in real estate but that he was building a home in which he intended to live and that the prop- erty, was not for sale at any price. Y, W. L. DISTRICT HELPS MINERS IN ANTHRACITE Demands Free Speech and Victims’ Release PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Sept. 30.— The following resolution, presented by Norman Tallentire, district organ- izer of the Workers (Communist) ‘the Party, to the convention of District 3 of the Young Worker League here, was carried unanimously: ‘WHEREAS, four active workers, militant leaders of the strik{ng miners in the anthracite coal fields of Penn- sylvania, in contravention of capitalist law, have been denied the right of free speéch, and are now held in jail by the hireling political bosses of the coal operators, and “WHEREAS, the struggles of the workers against their exploiters de- mand constant vigilance and constant fight to maintain the semblance of rights which remain to them under the capitalist system controlled by the bosses’ government. “THEREFORE, the convention re- solves that we condemn the action of the bosses’ political agents in arrest- ing Comrades Valentine, Reid, Toohey and Zarak ,and pledge our full moral and financial support to procure the unconditional release of these com- rades, and we further “RESOLVE, that the fight for free expression by the exploited workers isn essential fight for a fundamen® al weapon, necessary to the workers in their struggle, and pledge ourselves to continue the fight for free speech for the baad, Germans Give Russ $50,000,000 Credit for Big Purchases MOSCOW,"U, S. S. R., Sept. 30.— It is reported that/Germea commercial circles are preparing to extend credits purchase of agricultural machinery, automobiles, tractors and industrial equipmemt. While Germany is jn- willing, fh fact, hardly able, to ex- tend large credits to any country, it is plain that Russia offers her biggest outlet. Russia is not in a position to pay cash and insists’ on long term loans that are possible of liquidation thru exports of raw materials and Rus- sian products. The loan to Russia is said to be private German affair in which the government is taking no part, American Investments in Mexican Oil Over Two Hundred Million WASHINGTON, Sept, 30,—Invest- ments in Mexican oil production, re- fining arfd shipping now total $390,- 000,000, according to the Mexican News Bureau in Washington. Of this total, American companies have in- vested about $221,000,000, British $102,000,000, Dutch $42,000,000 and Mexican companies $12,000,000, The area now under production or held by oil barons is 6,539,000 acres, That worker next door to you may not hada yay ting to do to- night. 7 im _" copy of the DAILY WORKE: ian leit 0 of $50,000,000 to Soviet Russia for the | RRA ALERTED CONDUCTED - BY Thi MOOKEDS UNG WORKERS LEAGUE Y. W. L. CONVENTION LAYS BASIS FOR BUILDING UP DISTRICT No. 8 (Special to The Dally Worker) SPRINGFIELD, Illinois.—Thirty-one delegates from Y, W. L. branches thruout District 8, met here Sunday and were unanimous in laying the basis for constructive work in this district This was the first district conventi in the future. ion held by the Young Workers League in this district, and the delegates representing branches in the Chicago n- dustrial district, such {mportant in,+ dustrial sections as Waukegan and Milwaukee, the coal flelds of Southern Illinois, St. Louis and other import- ant units of the Young Workers’ League demonstrated their intentions of building up one of the strongest sections of the Young Workers’ League in this district. Willlamson arid Kaplan Report. Comrade John Williamson report- ed for the National Executive Com- mittee reviewing the past activities of the Young. Workers’ League and touching on some of the problems be- fore the coming national convention. Comrade Nat Kaplan was the minor- ity reporter. He spoke for more than one hour on the past and future poli- tical tasks of. the league, ‘William F, Dunne, co-editor of the DAILY WORKER made a report for the District Executive Committee of Workers (Communist) Party, dealing mainly with the work that the party was starting for the Bolshe- vization of the party. Valerla Meltz Reports for D. E. C. Comrade Valeria Meltz, district secretary, made the report for the District Executive Committee, in which she outlined the huge tasks before ‘the Young Workers’ League in this district, stressing the importance of Bolshevizing our league by com- pleting the reorganization on the bas- is of the shop nucleus, by more in- tensive Leninist education, thru the further development of our economic trade union work as well as the many other. important league activities which were enumerated by Comrade Meltz. Definite: recommendations for 9¢- complishing the many tasks before the district were made by Comrade — Meltz in her report and the delegates showed their enthusiasm for carrying out this work in the léng discussion that followed. D. E. C, and National Elected, . A new district executive commit- tee consisting of seventeen members and seven delegates to the national convention were elected by a vote of” 28 and 29 to 3, The delegates elécted to ,the na- tional convention of the Young Work- ers’ League are Meltz, Harvey, Will- iamson, Shachtman, Zolisko, Allard and Angello. The new district executive commit- tee which will consist of ten resi- dent members in Chicago and seven comrades from important units thru- out the district, was elected as fol- lows: Meltz, Harvey, Shachtman, Go- mez, Letchinger, Greenberg, Bren- berg, Weintraub, Blechsmidt and Phil- lips, Chicago; Angello, Springfield; Allard, Dowell; Zolisko, Milwaukee; Plotkin, Maywood; Zunich, Gary. Alternates: Shapiro, Shaffner, Dy- beio, Sarney, Kline, Mass, Glotzer, Kaplan. " Resolutions Adopted. In addition to the program for work presented by the D. E. C. which was adopted unanimously by the conven- tions, resolutions were adopted on the reports of the N. EB. C. and the party. Delegates URGE UNITY IN Y. W. L. ON BASIS OF THE COMINTERN’S DECISION ‘CLEVELAND, Ohio—(By Mail.)—The district convention of District Six of the Young Workers League was held here last Saturday. It elected as delegates to the national convention of the Young Workers League Comrades Wishtart, a miner; George Papcun, office, worker. a steel workers, and Al Schaap, an Delegates including those of the party representing branches from Cleve- land, Bellaire, Dillesbottom, Youngstown, Yorkville and Bradley, Ohio, were seated inthe convention without exud pA RESUME BENASSI CSN SAR contests. Comrade’ Schaap, representative of the minority of the National Execu- tive Committee of the Young Work- ers League, in the debate pointed out the hééd for unity in the ranks of the Young Workers League on the basis of the, last decision of tie Communist International. He also criticized con- structiyely the work of the outgoing National Executive Committee, both orgatizationally and politically. Comradé Williamson spoke as the representative of fhe majority of the National #Executive Committee, de- fending their actions on the organ- izational and political field. After the introduction of the resolu- tions by both ‘representatives, the resolution of the minority represen- tative of the National Executive Com- mittee was carried by a vote of 10 to7. Upon the basis of this vote, the convention elected three delegates to represent the convention’s point of view. Vy Following the election of the dele- gates the district organizer of the -Young Workers League, Comrade Salzman reported. * His report was not approved by the convention. Comrade Amter, the district organ- izer of the party in this district re- ported for the party. He gave an out- iine of the work that the party must conduct. In his report he stressed that the league and party must work together and that the party must help the league and vice versa, not only im its organizational _but also political work. A district executive committee of 13 was elected of which the former Ruthenberg group is repreesnted’ by Comrades Gordon, Shatz, Hotz, Gold- berg, Wishtart,, Vuclich, Kobylak, Schaap and a party representative. The former, Foster group is repre- sented by Comrades Salzman, Rob- boy, Sn¥der and Chukoloff. After the district convention a meet- ing of the district executive commit- FULL INFORMATION tee was called which took up the ques- tion of the organizailn of the district. ; executive committee. A district council of seven resident members of Cleveland of the district executive committee was elected consisting of Comrades Gordon, Shatz, Hotz, Salz- man and Robboy and the district or- ganizer of the Young Workers League and a representative of the party. Comrade Schaap was elected as the district organizer. **e2 8 Pittsburgh Convention Meets. PITTSBURGH, Pa.—(By Mail) — The district convention of the Young Workers League of District 5 was held here in the Labor Lyceum, last Sun- day. Negotiations between the represen- tatives of the majority and minority of the National Executive Committee failed to bring an agreement as to the regular delegates to the district convention. The offer of the minor- ity representative, Comrade Schaap ~ to organize the convention on the basis of the call sent out by the district executive committee was re- fused by the majority representative Comrade Salzman. Thereupon the convention was called to order upon the basis of the call of the district executive commit- tee. -The convention seated all dele- gates in accordance with the call of the district executive committee: Ad- ditional credentials were then pre- sented for the Cannonsburgh shop nucleus and the Daisytown branch. These delegates seated unani- mously. . Comrade Buyan, a young steel worker was elected as delegate to the national convention, eight ‘vot- ing in favor and four delegates absent. It also voted for the amalgamation of the Cleveland and Pittsburgh dis- tricts requesting a paid ‘organizer from the National Executive Commit- tee and that the matter of the compo- sitton of the district executive com- mittee be left to the National Execu- tive committee, +4 REGARDING / MEMBERSHIP MEETINGS BEING | ~ HELD IN REORGANIZATION DRIVE Workers (Communist) Party mi party’s reorganization campaign with the following dates: jembership meetings arranged in the oy speakers assigned to be held on BUFFALO, N. Y.—Suiday, Oct. 4, 2 p.m. at Finnish Hall, 189 Grider, St. 9. J, Ballam and R. T. Sullivan. CHICAGO, ILL.—Wednesday, Oct! Ruthenberg and Martin Abern, it. 7, at the Northwest Hall, C, fo we NEW HAVEN, CONN.—Sunday, Oct. 11,. 2 p m., Labor Lyceum, 38 Howe St, J, J. Ballam and. William Simons, An organization’ ‘tour of the’ wi Central Executive Committee Se and other party centers. Yuta ern districts is being planned by the te, Portia id, Tacoma, San Francisco, ‘ of the west will arrange mass member. . to be addressed by @ representative of the Central Executive. r bon paot ee ~ Rae he rye age Tpit tte. ie sil t NI vil