The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 12, 1925, Page 3

at vase < ' rat SS ENGLAND IN ~ EFFORT 10 ~ TRICK RUSS Uses Soviet Reception for Spreading Bunk (Special to The Daily Worker) BERLIN, Nov. 9—British diplomacy is well schooled in the axiom that the best way. to win support for war is to, pretend to be anxious for peace. This is exemplified by the attendance for the first time since the war, of Great Britain’s ambassador at a recep- tion given by the Soviet embassy last night in celebration of the eighth an- niversary of the Bolshevik revolution and in honor of Georges Tchitcherin, Soviet commissar of foreign affairs, who arrived yesterday from Wies- badén, British Ambassador Lord d’Abernon attended the function and engaged in lengthy conversation with Tchitcherin in-an ‘effort to make publicity for the hypocritical claims of Britain, that in its building an anti-Soviet bloc of western powers against Soviet Rus- sia, Britain is moved solely by an earnest desire for peace. Tries to Neutralize Soviet Influence. Great Britain, moreover, has its worrles lest Soviet Russia may wield such influence in Germany as to de- feat the British move to fasten more firmly the chains upon Germany by Germany’s full acceptance of the Locarno “peace” pacts. Lord d’Aber- non undoubtedly was aiming in his talk with Tchitcherin to advance plausible argument why Soviet Rus- sia should remain passive while the Dawes plan is being extended and permanently guaranteed by the Locarno pacts, the Dawes plan being a deliberate scheme for preventing a revolution by Germany’s workers. To accomplish such objects, British imperialism is willing to make any sort of promises, but more important yet is the need to make the masses of western countries think that the Locarno pacts are not a part of Brit- ish plans for an ultimate war upon Soviet Russia. Offers League Seat As Bait. For this reason Lord d'Abernon let it be known that he had talked for more than an hour with Tchitcherin, assuring the Soviet representative of the “friendship of Britain,” ‘of Britain’s “ alleged desire for peace and even of- fering to Soviet Russia membership in the league of nations. “" ‘Tehitchérin “has-nothing to ‘say for the press, but he gave no indication ‘of having changed his views since a few weeks ago, when he announced the Locarno pact as an anti-Soviet move which would lead to war, de- nounced Great Britain as the leading [ Your Union Meeting 9 Second Wednesday, Nov. 11, 1925. Name of Local and Place of Meeting. lacksmithe’ District Council, 119 Throop St. 1 Boller Makers, Monroe and Racine, 10 Carpenters, 12 Garfleld Bivd. 21 Casmentere, Western and Lexing- on. 1784 Carpenters, 1638 N. Halsted St. H. Fehling, Rec. Sec’y., 2253 Grace St. Irving 7597. Carpenters, 6414 S. Halsted St. Carpenters, 1581 Maple Ave., ston, Ill Coopers, 4901 Esc: 3 Hod Carriers, 13! No. 1922 2507 van- 'y Wo ‘8, 1 Ad: UD Germans Workers, 328 W, Buren Street. Marine Cooks, 357 ..N. Clark St. 126 Machi: » 113 &. Ashland Bivd. 524 15 N. Cicero Ave. 375 ce of Way, 426 W. 63rd St, 54 Sherman & Main Sts., ny Ie 6 » 910 W. Monroe St. Carmen Dist, Council, 5448 S. Ashland Ave. 697 Railway Carmen, 5444 Wentworth 1340 Railway Carmen, 5445 Ashland Ave. 219 big og Trainmen, 426 W. 63rd St., 130 ‘p.m. ; 11 Roofers, 777 W. Adams St. 73 Shi Metal, 714 W. Harrison st. Metal, 5324 S. Halsted St. 175 W. Washington St. (Meat); 220 S. Ashland (Bone), 6959 S. Halsted 8, 810 W. Harrison St. Subway Wor! 914 Harrison St. otherwise stated all Ww. Note—Uniess See eee spirit in this menace to world peace and stated that the league of nations is dominated by British imperialism. About 800 guests, strangely mixed between diplomats who have come to respect the power of Soviet Russia, and Communists who have built up this power in spite of their guests’ armed attacks and blockades, attend- ed the reception which was marked by plenty of red flags, revolutionary music and blunt assertion By the Soviet representatives of power in in- ternational affairs of the Russian workers and peasants. The monocled German and British officers and diploments were required to stand respectfully while the orches- tra played the Intrenational. Against Multiple Loom System. BIDDEFORD, Me., Nov, 10.—Weav- ers of Pepperell Mills will'have to de- cide whether to put their opposition to the multiple loom system being, intro- duced by the management into strike form or not. Out of 506 workers only three voted for the system, In spite of the weavers’ opposition company of- ficials’ say the new plan will be in- stalled. ’ ‘4 Radiator Workers Strike;;° BAYONNE, N. J., Nov. 10—Thé 600 radiator workers employed” at: the American Radiator company plant are. striking for a return to wage and hour conditions existing in April and since gradually changed. Two delegates from each of the 17 departments: pre- sented their demands to the board of directors. Higher wages and shorter hours are demanded. The Movement This is the third instalment of a series of articles dealing | \ ow THE=DAILY WORKER — Page Three THE ANGLO-RUSSIAN UNITY‘COMMITTEE |"Niy) Ee) AND THE RIGHT AMSTERDAMERS. DICK’ ESCAPES international. The only result that they will obtain by their tactics is that they will detach themselves from the international trade union move- ment. The unity of the international trade union movement has taken a serious step forward at the Scarbor- ough congress, whether the Amster- dam right wished it or not. i “A Disgraceful Document.” HIS deseription is taken’ from the Vorwaents,,,the central organ of German soejal.““Barmatism.” It refers to the last proclamation of the Anglo- Russian Committee which, as is well known, was finally constituted after the Scarborough congress. The Vor- waerts is) extremely disconcerted at the “remarkable paths” along which the English. trade marching towards unity. The Vor- waerts quoted the most important passages from the proclamation pub- listed by the Anglo-Russian Commit- tee and adds: “One cannot lay down this docu- ment without a feeling of shame: the fact that the Russians could de- (Continued from page 1) ately resisting the international unity congress and the creation of a united unionists are mand that the English members of the committee should accept such a manifesto, is an irrefutable proof of how completely the latter were un- der their thumb. «The analysis of the present economic situation is Russian, the inclusion of the Dawes’ plan is Russian, the formulation with regard to the guarantee pact in the west as a military alliance is also Russian as is finally the echo which the Anglo-Russian dis- cussions are said to have found among the workers thruout the world, the description of which in no way corresponds to reality. It is anyhow a piece of impudence mere- ly to record enthusiastic assent and to quote this ag an incontestable “proof that the way taken was the right one, and not to breathe a word of the fact that millions of or- ganized European trade unionists have looked on at these negotia- tions for unity with a mixture of in- credulity and horror and have only observed silence because they wish- ed to avoid giving the British bour- geoisie the chance of exploiting their protest against the English workers. With the latest document how- ever, the British trade union repre- sentatives have allowed themselves to be maneuvered by the Russians into such a position that it slwould be impossible for the international || trade union movement to maintain, silence any longer. It is high time that the other trade unions organ- ized in the Amsterdam International should give emphatic expression to their dissentient expression to their dissentient attitude; for there is good reason to suppose that t members of the British trade union executive are no longer in the least aware how for they have already allenated themseives from their gues on the continent for the of their friendship with Rus- sia.”—~-(Emphasis by me, A. L.) Wh ie expressions of opinion of the Vorwaerts with regard to the approach between the trade unions of the Soviet Union and of Great Britain deserve very serious consideration. The Vorwaerts had no shame at ‘'the<time of the Barmat scandal, The Vorwaerts had no feel- PUNISHMENT FOR BOMB THROWING Striker Shot in Legs in Frame-up By PATRICK SARSFIELD. (Worker Correspondent) JOLIET, Iil., Noy. 10—Attempts of feelings of |the Burns Detective Agency to fasten \bomb “plots” on the striking auto me- |chanics here have ceased suddenly ing of horror when Karl Liebknecht | With the return to Chicago of “Dan” and Rosa Luxemburg were murder- ed, with they moral participation of German social-democracy. The Vor- waerts felt neither shame nor horror when thousands and thousands of German proletarians were thrown in- to prison; the’. Vorwaerts never host its sangfroid::when the German pro- letariat, helped by German social- democracy, lost day by day, one after the other of the positions it-had con- quered “and gfadually became a Eu- ropean coolié, ¢ No, this ‘is all in order, this is all as it should be in accordance with the new Heidelberg program. When, how- ever, the trafle unions of the Soviet Union and of Great Britain come to an agreement on the basis of mutual concessions, when a way is found for the creation of a united international, when the English labor movement gets on to the lines of class war, then the Vorwaerts becomes hysterical and is overcome by feelings of “shame” and. “horror.” IMULTANEOUSLY with the de- mand that pressure should be ex- ercised on the English trade unions, German social-democracy is making endeavors to draw the reactionary bu- reaucracy of the American Federa- tion of Labor into the Amsterdam In- ternational thru the delegation of the A. D, G. B. which is at present in the United States. The cynical venality of the reactionaries in America pro- duces no feeling of horror in German social-democracy, but the move of the English trade uniong towards class war produces a feverish attack in the whole sotial-democracy, the most se- eret thots of which are so crudely expounded by the Vorwaerts. The appeal of the Vorwaerts to the right wing’ of the Amsterdam Interna- tional has! not failed to take effect. Amsterdam has appeared on the scene with explanations which ex- plain nothing except the feeling of horror of the “Aiisterdam right for the growing will of the masses for unity... : _ We jate_proud of this “disgraceful ‘document? ,which causes German so- cial-democracy to shudder with hor- ror. —_——_———— If you want to thoroughly un- derstand _Communism—study it. Botte, leader of the dicks, following his sensational capture, arrest and cross examination by the police for |several hours for throwing a rag bomb into the passageway between the | Studebaker and Buick garages. After “his rél€ase, Botte with his jgang of four beat it, declaring that they are“thru,” after having admitted being hired by the National Automo- St. |bile Protective association of Louis, Police Shoot Striker. The victim of their frame-up, Atello Dallapiazza, one of the strikers, is in St. Joseph’s hospital, recovering from bullet wounds received in both legs when police shot at him believing him to be the one who threw the bomb. When the truth came out, however, it was Botte and not the worker who was arrested. Members of Machinists’ Lodge No. 124 are continuing on the picket line to compel four scab companies to sign union agreements. They con- sider the “mystery” of previous bombings, and window breakings solved, Frame-up Revealed. The detectives have been in Joliet for some time attempting to “learn” who bombed the Winston Motor Co. garage and broke windows in others. Seeking “information,” Botte made friends with Dallapiazza, posing as an insurance man. The night of the frame-up, he played cards with the striker until 12 o’clock and then sug- gested that they go out for lunch. On their way to lunch, the detective threw the bomb. According to the information ob- tained by Chief Corcoran of the Jol- iet police force, the Burns detectives planned to capture Dallapiazza in the act of placing the “bomb” in the pass- ageway between the garages and then obtain a statement which would impli- cate him and others. Police Warned of “Plot.” First indication of the plans was given to police when Edward Powers of the state’s attorney's office and H. L. Kendricks and A. A. Lapitz of the detective agency appeared at police headquarters declaring they had infor- mation that a bomb was to be placed between the garages. Captain McCarney was told that J. GOD BLESS OUR BIG FAMILY, SAYS WILLYS-OVERLAND, INC., BUT DEVIL TAKE AGITATORS! By A Worker Correspondent. TOLEDO, Ohio, Nov. 10.—Every week when the workers who make the Willys-Overland “Fine Motor Cars” get their forty, or forty-five cents an hour pay, they are given as extra compensation for their long labor a literary treat in the form of a sermon, printed on a card and enclosed in their pay envelopes. This week's text was, “This company believes in every man’s happiness,” and lest the workers would not accept this as “gospel,” the card goes On to show what Willy-Overland has done¢——————-—— to make everybody happy; it has es- tablished clean working quarters, good ventilation, fine lighting equip- ment, athletic facilities, and “many unusual things to safeguard the wel- fare of our employees that are not found elsewhere.” Workers Fired For Thinking. The entire rhapsody is entitled “Thots of an Executive.” However, it happens that the workers in this particular shop have “thots,” too, and quite different from those of execu- tives. Just recently, eight of them were taken from the paint shop by a squad of guards, marched to the time office, and fired for agitating for bet- ter conditions. Executive’s Thots Are “Padded.” But the executive doesn’t have any “thots” about this, at least, not out loud. He doesn’t “think” about the paint shop being a breeding place for lead poisoning. Nor does he stop to speculate publicly over the idea that that the “company” doctor, who is one of the “many unusual things to safeguard the welfare of our em- ployees,” almost always writes on his medical reports, “and the above party is not entitled to compensation.” At least, these are not the “thots” A. Wise and J. J. Garvey of the de- tective agency also would assist the police in the capture of the bombers. Hid Across Street, Captain McCraney and Detectives Lehner and Talkie, together with the quartet of Burns detectives hid across the street from the garages until 1:20 o'clock in the morning when Detective Botte and Dallapiazza ap- peared. Then when Detective Botte lighted a match the detectives dashed across the street, believing Dallapiazza would stay between the buildings. Instead, Dallapiazza ran north on Scott street. Police and detectives fired several shots, but Dallapiazza re- fused to stop until he was shot in the legs after climbing to the track eleva- tion at Clinton street, Members of Machinists’ Local 124 are now beginning their sixth week on the picket line, in their strike against the four scab firms, the Buick, Hudson Essex, Studebaker, and Dodge Motor companies. They are support- ed by the largest local union in this territory,, Carmen’s Local 882, and they have already signed agreements with seventeen local garages. that Willys-Overland executive think when he is preaching to his employe about how he cherishes their happ ness. Deep down in his pocket boo) or in his “profits” book, he may thinl this over quite comprehensively nonetheless, as he teeters himseli gently in his padded office chair. A Lean Pay Envelope Thinks. The thots of a worker far off in the clanging shop, as he pulls the “thots of an executive” from his lean pay en- velope, run just cross-wise to what he reads. “A good living assured everyone.” What to hell? Over 12,000 employes paid on the basis of 45 cents an hour straight time, 40 cents for pieés work, Piece work is cut so low that even in the body department, where the rate is highest, a man has to slave to get $7.00. And all straight time work is $3.60 per, and they call this a ‘good living’ "? Let some of these fiction circulat+ ors come down from their perch and try it for- themselves’ and they'd change their views. They'd soon find out about the “athletic facilities.” Nerve-wrecking work under speed-up artists in an unventilated work shop; that’s what their “gymnasium” con- {sists of. “God bless our big family,” says the Willys-Overland executive. But the worker says, “If this be blessed- ness, give me some other damned thing!” Taxi Bosses Get Injunction, BOSTON, Nov. 10—Checker Taxi Cab strikers have been served with an injunction of the usual sort intend- ed to hinder picketing activities. Six strikers were sentenced in connection with charges growing out of the fight which occurred when strikebreakers tried to take cars out on the streets. Two were released; two held on $500 bail when they appealed one year and eight months’ sentences respectively; one appealed a $50 fine and another a $5 fine. A tear gas bomb, clubs and fron bar found in the taxis were produced in court as evidence, but strikers denied their use. Carpenter Commits Suicide Because he was out of a job and could not find another, Michael Tho- mas, 56, a carpenter, decided to put an end to his troubles. He opened a gas jet after locking himself in his room at 1408 W. Madison St. where he was found dead. for World Trade Union Unity talism. The capitalists seek to solve the‘crisis by reducing the workers’ standard of living to the lowest minimum, by placing the Executive Committee of the Red International of Labor Unions with the question of World Trade Union Unity. This instalment deals with the Red International of Labor Unions, its policy and tactics. Following instalments will deal with the British Work- ers and International Trade Union Unity and the Communists and World Trade Union Unity. The Red International of Labor Unions. The other trade union international of importance today is the Red International of Labor Unions. This interiational unites the revolutionary trade unionists of the world and has as its basis the 5,500,000 trade unionists of Soviet Russia, and ad- herents in every counrty in the world. The R. I. L. U. grew ov of the revolutionary period of the victory of the Russian workers and the revolutionary upheavals in Europe following the world war. . The R. I. L. U. differs on every question from the Amsterdam International. The R. I. L. U. policy is based upon the class strug- gle, while the I. F. T. U. practices class co-operation. The R. I. L. U. fights the capitalists, while Amsterdam is a wedpon in their hands against the workers. The R. I. L. U. initiated the move- ment for international trade union unity and leads the move- ment for it, while Amsterdam splits the trade unions. and fights against the unity of the workers’ forces. The R. I. L. U. stands for the dictatorship of the working class, while Amsterdam is one of the greatest props of the capitalist dictatorship. The R. I. L. U. stands for the socialization of production while Amsterdam aids capitalism to maintain private property by reducing the workers’ standard of living and suppressing the workers. The R. f. L. U. was started in 1920 by the establishment of an. international propaganda committee at a conference of repre- sentatives of the Russian unions and representatives from min- orities in the British, French and Spanish unions, known as the International Council of Trade and Industrial Unions, The im- perialist war and the Russian revolution created reveiutionary elements among the trade unionists of all countries. To unite these elements and combat the capitalist influence of Amsterdam over the other trade unionists is the function of the R. I. L. U. But the R. I. L. U. does not issue the slogan of “Destroy the con- servative unions.” On the contrary, the A. I. L. U. issues the slogan: ‘Win the trade unionists for the revolutionary struggle against capitalism.” The R. I. L. U. was founded in Jmly, 1921, wher a definite constitution was decided on as well as a program and the tactical line to be pursued. The R. I. L. U. views the post-war economic crisis as the in- evitable development of the contradictions inherent in capitalism. This crisis shows that the ecoyomic basis of capitalism has been cracked and makes the recovery of capitalism and further organic development impossible, i ¢., capitalism has entered upon its period of dissolution. In this period the class antagonisms will increase, class conflicts will increase in size and bitterness and history will place on the order of the day the question of the workers seizing power and socializing ‘the productive machinery as | om sm solution lang 8. . oooTn such a e duty of the revolutionary trade union- iste is the mobi of the workers for the destrucion of capi- } | whole burden of the solution of the crisis on the backs of the workers. The workers are faced with the choice of submitting to a coolie standard of living or overthrowing capitalism and or- ganizing production on a socialist basis. The R. I. L. U. chooses the latter and issues the slogan: ‘Mobilize the trade unionists to resist the reduction of their standard of living, the struggle for the socialization of the means of production, and the estab- lishment of the rule of the workers and farmers.” The fundamental economic crisis renders impossible any vic- tory for the workers waged upon the old craft union and nation- alist basis. The trustification of capital has overcome the nation- al boundaries and takes on international scope. This removes the basis for the narrow craft form of organization and makes neces- sary industrial unionism based on factory and shop committees and international co-ordination of all struggles of the workers if they are to be successful. The wage cuts and chronic unemployment forced on the workers by the capitalists during this period places before the workers the question of workers’ control of/industry as the only effective means of fighting these effects of the economic crisis. The only organs adapted to lead the struggles for control of in- dustry is the factory and shop committees. ~ These factory com- mittees are’the mass organs of struggle capable of mobilizing all workers irrespective of trade union membership in the struggle against the bosses. The decline of’ capitalism makes impossible any permanent betterment of the workers’ living condition’. Gains in wages cap at best only, maintain the present standard of living—a higher standard of living is impossible for the workers under capitalism. Only when the capitalists have been a workers’ rule has socialized industry will it be possible for the workers to real- ize a higher standard of living. bi : Recognizing the lack of unity among the workers, split up into competing unions the R.I. L. U. issues the slogan of a united front for the defense of the elemenary needs 6f the working class. In the struggle for the achievement of this’ ‘united front of the working class forces the actual process of mobilizing the workers against capitalism is being carried on. The central slogan for the achievement of the united front is: “International trade union unity.” The development of capitalist industry in the colonies is pro- ducing a growing industrial working class which is an ally of the workers of the more developed capitalist countries. This indus- trial working class of the colonies is not bound by traditions of craft prejudices as are the workers of Europe tnd America. Thus they are more fitted for revolutionary forms of organization and struggle against their oppressors both native and foreign as has been shown in the Hongkong seamen’s srike of 1922 and the great textile strikes in Shanghai and Bombay this year. This new force must be linked up with-the trade union movement of the devel- oped capitalist countries. The R. I. L. U. does not base itself ex- clusively upon the European workers as does the Amsterdam In- ternational but. becomes international in the most complete sense by linking up the trade unions of the colonial countries with those of Europe and America. \ , By Tom Bell 1) A. Losovsky, secretary; 2) Monmoseau (France); 3) Jim Larkin (Irela ind); 4) Jovani Jermanetto (italy); 5) Dimitrov’ (Bulgaria); 6) Andre Nin (Spain); 7) William Z. Foster Ww. S.); 8) Pollitt (England); 9) Van Go-Po (China). L. U. has. met with the bitterest opposition of he leaders of Am- sterdam. The exposure of their treachery by the R. I. L. U. has driven them to the length of splitting the unions and individu- al and mass expulsions of the adherepts of the R. 1. L. U. Unable to hide their treachery the Amsterdam leaders have resolved to smash the trade unions rather than allow them to become organs of struggle against the capitalists in the defense of the interests of the working class. Amsterdam is responsible for the being two trade union fed- erations in France today. The R. I. L. U. in 1921 offered as a basis of negotiations to preserve uniy of the French movemerit the liquidation of the revolutionary fractions inside the unions. Amsterdam refused this and precipitated the split. Repeated of- fers by the left wing federation (United General Federation of Labor) to heal the split have been refused by the Amsterdam leaders of the reactionary General Federation of Labor. On the shoulders of the Amsterdam leaders rests the pres- ent division of the trade union movement. They know that their masters—the capitalists—fear a united trade union movement as this would render the workers capable of fighting against the misery and degradation capitalist rule forces upon them and finally topple capitalism into ruins as the first step toward the establishment of a workers’ republic. Tomorr' The British Workers and International Trade Union Unity, CHICAGO LABOR DEFENSE CITY CENTRAL COMMITTEE HOLDS MEETING TONIGHT All dedegates of International Labor Defense branches and at filiated organizations are called to gether for tonight, Nov. 11, 8 p. ma at Room 200, 180 W., Washington street. Reports will be made by the city committee on the Rakosi demonstra- tions, the campaign for new mem- bers, the plans for the bazaar, etc. and all branches will report on activities and membership. Branch secretaries are also urged to at tend, as well as del That worker next door, to yon may not have anything todo to- night. Hand him this copy of the DAILY WORKER,