The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 7, 1925, Page 6

| | i i 4 Page Six Ue a! E DAILY WORKER THE DAILY WORKER (RiBIIN PLANT Third Y. W. L. Convention in Opening Session Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. $113 W. Washington Blyd., Chicago, I. SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail (in Chicago only): { By mail (outside of Chicago): $8.00 per year $4.50 six montha $6.00 per year $3.50 six months d $2.50 three months $2.00 three months Phone Monroe 4712 Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Iilinois | a J. LOUIS ENGDAHL IMitors WILLIAM F, DUNNE {* MORITZ J. LOEB... eves .Business Manager Entered as second-class mail September 21, 1923, at the postoffice at Chi- + cago, lil, under the act of March 3, 1879. <p 290 Advertising rates on application. | — SSS oloo————eooo——eeSSST_ ESS The Locarno Conference The eyes of the capitalist world are fagused on Locarno, the | * little Swiss city where the foreign ministers of France, Great Britain and Germany will try to reach an agreement which wil? ‘still, for ‘aj time at least, the conflicts arising out of the Versailles: treaty and | cannot crush German capitalism and live themselves. | The victorious imperialist nations, France and Great Britain, | have been humbled somewhat by the cold‘and obvious fact that they | cannot crush German capitalism and live themselves. | The Dawes plan represents the attempt of American imperial- ism to reconcile the European antagonism arid prevent the rise of | the revolutionary tide. actual loans to governments and a still larger amount in the form of commercial obligations, American imperialism is compelled to} force some measure of stabilization. But the Dawes plan is admitted even by its most ardent ad- mirers to be nothing but a temporary procedure. There’is needed something more permanent—and more drastic. | Just as the victorious nations cannot stabilize their national economics without German participation so is ‘it’impossible for | European capitalism as a whole to rebuild itself while the Union | of Socialist Soviet Republics remains to challenge capitalism and} inspire millions of workers and peasants thruout the world with the actual accomplishment of yictory attained. The “security pact” which France, Great Britain and Germany will try to establish in Locarno is directed at the Soviet Union. Yermany wants the revision of her eastern frontiers, the return of the coal fields of Silesia, the liquidation of the Danzig corridor— measures that will restore the possibility of her economic supremacy in central Europe. ’ These demands run counter to the ambitions of French im- perialism. If granted they will alienate the ring of little allies which France has been organizing and financing while her own treasury faces bankruptcy. Great Britain covertly supports the German proposals because they weaken France, her most dangerous enemy in western Europe. But the alienation of the little Entente states of Poland, ‘Roumania, Jugo-Slavia ‘and Czecho-Slovakia .while, it weakens France, strengthens not only Germany but Soviet Russia. Great Britain was forced to allow the use of these states by France against Germany, but her major reason for allowing and encouraging their formation was to use them against the Soviet Union. In the north, Great Britain has built a little ring of anti- Soviet governments for her own purposes—Finland, Latvia and Lithuania. Of these Lithuania has her own grievances against Poland arising over disputed territory. It is clear that France and Great Britain; quite apart from their own conflicts, have anything but clear sailing in the Locarno conference. One of the best evidences of this is that on the very eve of the conference, the German Foreign Minister Stresemann and Georges Tchitcherin, Soviet minister, have signed a trade agreement whose clauses are not even known to the allied governments—at least they are not known thru the usual diplomatic channels. The view of German capitalism is expressed by Stresemann in an interview published yesterday wherein he says that “Germany must look to the east as well as to the west.’ The allies demand the right to transport troops across German territory in event of war‘on the Soviet Union and to this proposal it is very probable that Ger- many will not accede altho it is the very heart of the security pact. It is doubtful if any German government which agreed to this proposal could last 24 hours. Nevertheless some agreement that will bring Germany into the League of Nations probably will be reached and this agreement will mark one more step in the imperialist alliance against the workers’ and peasants’ government of: Russia. Great Britain and France faced with the rising proletarian power Soviet Russia are unable longer to pick and choose. Germany will therefore receive sub- stantial concessions. The result will be a trend in the border states to more friendly relations with the Soviet Union caused by the increasing difficulty, in view of the double crossing by their former protectors, which the governments will have in arousing warlike sentiment among the masses against Soviet Russia. “ American workers must not forget even for a moment that altho the participants in the Locarno conference are labeled “France,” “Germany” and “Great Britain” it is the House of Morgan and the American government, sponsor of the Dawes plan, whieh are pulling the strings and making the puppets dance in Locarno. The most powerful and unrelenting enemy of “Soviet Russia is‘ the imperialist master of the world outside the Union of Soviet Republics—the United States of America. Purcell’s Visit A. A. Purcell, left wing British trade union leader, who is chair- man of the International Federation of Trade Unions and organizer of thé Anglo-Russian World Trade Union Unity Committee, has ar- rived at Aitlantic City in his capacity of fraternal delegate to the-A. F. of L. convention. WES Ye “He is to make a speaking tour which will take him to*the prin- cipal industrial centers and the rank and file of American labor must give him a welcome that will show to fakerdom the essgntially healthy working class character of the organized workers of the United States. We must make Purecell’s tour a turning point in the struggle of the left wing by bringing to thousands of workers the militant message he has for them. Purcell will be the target of abuse by the traitorous officialdom of the A. F. of L. and their masters, the capitalist class, while he is in this country. The mass of American workers, however, have not been so debauched as yet that Purcell will be left to. fight his.own battles. To the amount. of: some $10,000,000,000 in | Great Britain is reported as “puzzled by the French’ debt settlement.” There is no mystery about it. The settlement means simply that Wall Street is.going to collect the German reparation | at the doors of the employment of- | threa m vith arrest. This | eae ge ae taint > |rade Stachel quoted figures to show | followed by an attempt to tnreaten |} USES DICKS TO BREAK STRIKE Truckload of Scabs Is) Imported - As the strike of the metal” polish- | ers and buffers enters the third | week, the Cribben and Sexton com- pany, Sacramento Blvd. and Chicago Ave., has resorted to the use of de- tectives and gunmen to terrorized the | pickets, Import Gunmen | A truckload of this rift-raff wap | brought into the polishing yoom in an | effort to scare the strikers into sub- mission. Detectives have been placea fice, the main office and around the plant. Attempts are being made to drive the union pickets away, for since the picket lige has been ésta- blished the company has been unable to get any unemployed workers ‘to an- swer their ads. The wunemployee workers get as far as the picket line and on hearing that a strike ts on, they leave without going to the main office, Strikers Laught at Threats | This has tried every company strikers into submission. First taey threatened the men with revoking the insurance policies, which the pany has issued them, com: | Then they | not being successful was the wives and sisters of the gtrikers. A letter, which has been printed in the DAILY WORKER, was sent to all the wives and sisters of the strikers telling them that the msur- ance policy they hold will be of no value unless they can persuade thetr husbands and brothers to return to work within a certain time, This method is now being followed with the importation of sluggers and de- tectives, No Stoves Coming Out In spite of the load of riff-raff brought in by the company the polish- ing room is not turning out any work. The company is.desperate as It real- izes that it must turn put the stoves this month if it wishes to meer tne demands of the wiriter trade, A large order of ranges must be delivered to the Standard Oil Co. before the close of October. The order will be can- celled if the stoves are. not forth- coming. Molders Protest : The workers in the foundry have protested against the bringing in ot scabs thru the molding room. They have told the bosses that they don’t want to have these s¢abs strolling | thru this department. Some have told the boss that they will refuse to work”in the foundry if the firm persists in having the scabs walk thru the molding room. The molders are the only organized body in the shop and express their sympathhy with the polishers, if it were not for the contract which they have entered into with the bosses, they also woula walk-out. Polishers Demancs The polishers insist on their four main demands: First, recognition of the union; Second, recognition of their shop ‘committee; Third, re-aa- justment of piece prices so that it will be possible to make $1.10 per hour; Fourth, retention of the $1.00 on hour scale for day work. Finn Warship In Trouble COPENHAGEN, Oct. 5.—Hope that the Finnish warship reported sunk in the gulf of Bothnia with loss of forty- five sailors and two officers, may still be afloat was expressed in marine cir- cles today on receipt of reports that flare signals had been seen in that (Continued from page 1) in the Young Workers (Communist) League. In the question of the seating of some of the delegates supporting the former Foster group of the party, said Comrade Kaplan, the credentials committee had exercised some degree of leniency, considering that the over- coming of the crisis was more im- portant than the rigid application of the formally correct rules which would have excluded some of these dele- gates. In the interest of the unifica, tion of the league he therefore recom- | mended that the majority report on credentials be accepted. Comrade Max Shachtman in report- ing for the minority of the credentials committee, disputed Comrade Kap- lan’s claim that the majority of the credentials committee had been lenient in considering the claims ‘of | those supporting the former Foster group. Comrade Shachtman character- ized the majority credentials report as “a brazen piete of trickery,” and declared that the supporters of Com- rade Kaplan did not have the majori- ty of the league membership behind them. Comrade Williamson also spoke in tavon ot the minority report on credentials,” ~ r Comrade Jack ¢Stachel closed the debate in behalf‘of the majority of the credentials. committee. He de- clared that the statement of Com- rades Shachtman and Williamson re- | garding the voting of the membership 4 | in Yhe face e f 2 f the | could not be. maintianed means at its command to force e | of the: attual Akives “of the. member: | ship and of the voting. branch by branch, and was in effect an attempt to discredit in advance the incoming National Executive Committee. Com- that on the estimate of the total mem- bership of the league as 1,900, the former majority of the N. E, C. of the league could not claim more than 600 supporters and would have to grant that the present majority of the convention delegates represent 1,300 of the members. On the basis of an estimated total membership of 1,800, he said, 1,200 of these are supporters | of the present majority of the conven- tion delegates, and only 500 supported the minority of: the delegates. Preceding the Vote on credentials, Comrade Herbert ‘Zam moved to make the acceptance of;the majority creden- tials report unanimous, Comrade Schachtman thereupon took the floor to ask the party dele- gation to statecwhether of not the party-C. E. C, would consider a vote against the acceptance of the report to be a violation of;discipline, since the party delegationyshad recommended the acceptance.of the report. Comrade Jay°iovestone, on behalf of the ‘party tion, replied that the Central Executive Committee of the party recomitiended the accept- ance of the report; that this is to be considered only as a recommendation of the party to the Y. W. L. conven- tion, and that ajvote against the re- Port would not be:considered a viola- tion of discipline. The convention accepted the majori- ty report of the: credentials commit- tee by a vote of 29 to 20, Zam Elected Chairman. Comrades Herbert Zam of New York and John’ Williamson of Chica- So being nominated for permanent chairman, Comrade Zam was elected: Comrade Stachel then moved that Comrade Williamson be elected un- animously as vice-chairman, and this was done. Yusim of Philadelphia Secretary For permanent secretary of the con- vention Comrade Morris Yusim of Philadelphia, Sarah Whiteman of Philadelphia and Ronkkonen of Su- perior were nominated. Comrade Whiteman declined. Comrade Yusim was elected. Greeting from Jailed Communists, Jack Stachel then read a letter from Comrades Pat Toohey of the league and Aléx Reid of the party, written from the jail at Scranton, Pa., where they aré’ imprigéned for their part of the gulf where the vessel was last seen. . participation in the, strike ofthe an- thracite miners, The letter reads: Agenda for the Third National Convention . of the Young Workers (Communist ) League 1, Constitution of the convention. 2, Report of the sessiéns of the Communist International and the Young Communist: International. 3. Report of representative of Workers (Communist) Party. "wane (Under this heading Comrade Bedacht réported for the Cen- ~ tral Executive Committee of the party. By agreement it was |” arranged also tWat Comrade Cannon was given an opportunity to make a st ment regarding his position in regards to the former Foster group. Comrade Foster was accorded an op- ‘ portunity as well to.make a statement.) | Report of NationakExecutive Committee of the Young Workers (Communist) League. x Bolshevization of the Young Workers (Communist) League. a) Reorganization of League (shop nuclei, foreign-language propaganda, etc.) b) ‘Economic trade union work. ec) Children’s movement. d) Leninist education, Anti-imperialism, the colonial question and anti-military work, Defense work. * sit ‘ Agrarian work, f ' Press. . { Work among Negroes. — a7 11. The draft program of the Young Communist “international. i 12. The sport question. He 18. “Opponent youth organizations. » 14, 15, Reports of committe: Hes Election of National xecutive Committee, “To Y. W. L. National Convention: ' “Revolutionary Communist greet- ings. to our Third National Conven- tion. .So sorry I am forced.to be absent but am contented, to know your, decisions will lay the founda- tion for a mass organization in America of the exploited ,youth. Think of us sometimes, “PAT TOOHEY, “ALEX REED.” Young Coal Miner Addresses Convention. Tony Wishtart, a young coal miner from Wheeling, West Va., and a dele- gate to the convention, then spoke. Comrade Wishtart described the hard situation of he coal miners now on strike, and asked the convéhtion to register its support of the ‘fight and |to send its greetings to ‘Pat’ Toohey jand° Alex Reid. The résolution pub- | lished ‘in yesterday’s DAILYSWORK- |ER was unanimously passed with modifications. OGY Bedacht Reports for Party. Comrade Max Bedacht, then deliver- ed the report to the Young Workers (Communist) League from, the Work- ers (Communist) Party .of America. After greeting the youth. convention in the name of the C,E. C,.and the party, Comrade Bedacht .gave a vivid presentation of the world situation that faces, the revolutionary move- ment of the proletariat today. De- scribing the tremendous concentra- tion and preparation. of the world forces of capitalism against the work- ing class and for the further con- quest of colonial peoples, he declared that at no other time was it ever so necessary as now to unite the ranks of our movement. In the impending bloody struggles between the capital- ist governments for the re-division of the spoils of imperialism, he said, the United States represents by far the most powerful and aggressive of. |these predatory governments. There- fore it is doubly necessary for the (Continyed from page 1) effort on the part of the organized la- bor movement. They do not hesitate openly to sell the labor movement to its sworn enemies and simultaneously to stifle every effort on the part of the workers to launch a labor ticket and a labor party. sas Labor Officials for Injunction Judge. The last eight years under Tam- many Hall has been characterized by thé most ‘fagrant disregard of the in- terests of ‘the toilers of the city. Judgé Thomas Churchill, one of the idols of the democratic party, indorsed by the Central Trades and Labor Council, has been responsible for an injunction against the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, which jinjunction is 6f so sweeping a char- acter that today it threatens the very life and existence of every labor or- ganization in the city of New York. The city employes have been treated shamefully under the Tammany ad- ministration, whenever The prevailing scale of wages is ing violated ‘by the city in numer instances, ; Pickets and strikers have bgen brutally assaulted by the police and the courts have handed down he: sentences on the flimsiest evidenge. This has been particularly true in case of the foreign-born workers, e: pecially in the needle trades, 4 Soclalists Afraid to Fight Smith, What has been the attitude of the socialist party under these circum- stances? the socialist officials in the trade unions have not dared to take up the cudgels against the Tammany Hall labor bureaucrats in behalf of in- dependent action. In the Central Trades and Labor Council, in the so- called “labor fusion” convention and in the socialist-controlled labor press, they carefully avoid giving Jimmy Walker's faithful henchmen any of- fense. In fact the relations between these two groups of labor fakers has been more than friendly in their pol- icy of misleading the. workers, ‘When faced with’ dissatisfaction and open rebellion in the LL, G. W. U. it was Governor Smith’s,. commission which stepped in and. by*its action lined up the state government on the side of the officials of the right wing and the employers against,.the gar- ment workers and closed the door to the possibility of a strike for their demands. Thruout, the conflict be- tween the left wing and right wing, the. courts and the police were re- Deatedly used in behalf’ of! the of- ficfals against the mass lof’the. revolt ing members of the ution.’ I ‘Socialists Serve Employers. ‘Under these cirumstances the 1édd- ers of the socialist party definitely de- termined to split the forces of the labor movement on the political fleld and thus render valuable service to the employers. They have proven themselves to be\the enemies of the unity of the labor movement, In spite of the offer made by the Workers Party for a united labor ticket, they have decided to follow a sectarian policy under their own banner camouflaged under the name of the “labor fusion ticket, which de- celves no one. Due to this suici policy, ldbor stands divided and weak Workers’ rty For Labor's/ Unity, / Jn this situation the Workers Party Labor Fakers Aid Tammany in N. Y. Election ernor Smith; the result of years of! Communists of America, and especially the Communist youth, to unify and clarify itself in preparation for its serious duties in the coming sharpen- ed struggle. The imperialist powers recognize its greatest danger in the Union of So- elalist Soviet Republics, said Comrade Bedacht, unftéd struggle to crush the workers’ Tevolutionary state. But the task of defending the workers’ Soviet Union, said the speaker, is not the task of the Russian workers alone, but also of the proletariat of theentire “world. The ‘capitalist government of the Unitéd States will be able to put up the strongest force on the imperialist side’ of. this fight, and the Communist workers. of America must accordingly recognize their supreme duty, not only .to organize and unify them- selves, but also to mobilize the en- tire working glass for the defense of the Union of Socialist. Soviet Repub- lies. In the United States, said Comrade Bedacht, we are confronted with the great difficulty which arises from the fact that the American working class has not,yet crystallized its class con- sciousness, In this respect it is some- thing like fifty years behind some of the European countries, tho this does not méan that we commence only fifty years from ‘now in our Communist task. Thé* capitalist development in the United States has advanced fur- ther than the capitalism of any other struggle to a degree where capitalism can no longer befog the consciousness of the working masses. Our foremost problem, to which all else must be subordinated, is the’hastening of the development of the class conscious- ness of the American proletariat. The struggle can be successful only if it is a mass. struggle. (Bedacht’s report will be continued in tomorrow’s issue.) | has frankly stated its case before the workers, It has shown the urgent need of unity of labor in the present campaign. It has openly and publicly | declared its*-willingness to withdraw its slate of candidates in favor of a united labor ticket. This offer is still adhered to, in spite of the refusal of ‘the socialist party to recognize its duty to the workers. The Workers Party has come out with a demand for a united labor party. It has come out with a thorogoing working class program reflecting the actual needs of the workers of the city, with a genuine working class ticket headed by Ben Gitlow, a mem- ber of the Cutters’ Union, Local No. 4 of the A.C. W. A. The Workers Party has shown that it understands the present needs ‘of the workers and that it is willing to fight for their de- mands. The Workers Party deserves the support of every honest, intel- ligent worker in the present election paign. government and their right to abolish capitalists, and are preparing for a| country, thus clarifying the class | FINK’S ATTEMPT PICKET FOILED Try to Get Striker for | Arson « An attempt to frame-up one of the union pickets In front of the Chicago Plating Works, formerly known as the Cooperative Plating Co., 351 W. Superior St. on a charge of arson was frustated by the union picket Upon discovering a bundle of old rags and burning cigarettes in a hallway across from the struck shop. Dicks Harass Strikers The Chicago Plating Works has hired a number of private detectives to harass the pickets as they attempt to make known to unemployed work- ers that a strike is on. The pickets have to keep walking in front of the shop all day long carrying a heavy banner; They are not allowed to stop on the sidewalk. If they stop, the detectives forces ; them to keep moving. | Use Hallway The wife of a union man in the | neighborhood offered the use of her | hallway to the pickets for a resting place when they beconie tired. The pickets walk into this hallway, rest-up a little, then go out on the line to carry their banners, The private de- tectives have tried to bring pressurs to bear upon this kindly woman to keep the pickets out of the hallway. After the union picket had finish- ed a lunch brought him by the bust- ness agent of his local, he cleanea out the hallway and went back to the picket line. The private detectives that had been sent down to harass him were milling around the door- way of the house. A short time later, that day, the picket walked into the hallway and found the hallway strewn \ with dirty rags. Smoking cigarettes were thrown upon the rags, The union picket fearing fire might result, threw the rags out of the hallway. The union officials claim this act was committed by the private detecr- ives in an attempt to frame-up the Pickets that are picketing the shop. The union notified the west Chicago police of the attempt on the part of the dicks. 3 Jacob Branovitch, financial . secret- ary of the Workmen’s Circle, Branch 385 was called before a trial commit- tee of the Workmen’s Circle for re- fusing to join the strike and the Polishers’ Union, The trial commit- tee decided that he must immediar- ely join the strike and join the unton, Failing to comply with the demand of the Circle will meet expulsion from the Workmen’s Circle. -The strikers at the Chicago Plat- ing Works are still out and intend to remain out on the line until the com- pany refuses to handle the struck work of the Cribben and Sexton Co. DEFEND WORKERS’ GOVERNMENT OF SOVIET RUSSIA! “€all Addressed to All Lovers and Supporters of the First Workers’ Republic. For eight years the workers and pi ants of Russia have defended their the exploitation and oppression of tha They have fought the armies of the czarist generals, who sought to re- establish the rule of robbery and autocracy in Russia, They were forced to fight all the imperialist governments, including England, France, the United States, which sought to destroy their govern- ment, becuase the capitalists feared the effect of the example of the workers" rule in Russia upon the workers these capitalists were exploiting at home. The workers and peasants are no longer ruled by capitallst agents. Inq junctions; are not issued against the workers in Russia, but instead they are issued against the enemies. of the workers. Because the Soviet Union is the inspiration of all oppressed peoples im the struggle against Imperialism, because the labor unions of the Soviet] Union are creating a mighty weapon against capitalism in the trade union unity, because of the glorious example of the workers’ government creating a better life for the workers and peasants which exists in the Soviet Union, international capitalism eran and peasants of Russia. American workers must unite defer is again moving to destroy the achievements of thef with the workers of other countries! f the Soviet Union and the workers’ interests. Every work- era’ organization must place itself on record for the defense of the Soviet Union and the workers’ interests. Rally to the defense of Soviet Russia! } “RECOGNIZE SOVIET RUSSIA!” is the rallying cali for the 8th an rd niversary demonstration, Let us deliver this message to the millions of uninformed American wor! 7 _o The Central Executive Committee of the Workers Party has issued a four-page manifesto, an address to the working class of this country. This manifesto must be placed in the hands of every worker. No others than the, true lovers and supporters of the first workers’ republic will do this—you must do it ] Use the coupon below and order a supply immediately for free distribu- tion in the work shops, factories, mills, mines—everywhere! Evéry branch of the Workers Party must do its share—act now! —— oe — — — — USE THIS ORDER BLANK — — — — — — 2 ay Workers Party, National Office, : Date..... 1118 W. Washington Bivd., ‘Chicago, Iil. { t Enclosed please find §....... 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