The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 19, 1925, Page 2

— eer Page Two “DOWN WITH FRENCH IMPERIALISM!” Hundreds of thousands of Syrians are responding to the call “Down with French Imperialism!” and “An Independent Syria!” since the French bombarded Damascus, are preparing to drive France Out of Syria, which was- mandated to her by the league of nations. shows angry natives discussing the outrages the French have committed on their people in Damascus. armed French soldier: trolling about to prevent demonstrations, All religious sects are forgetting their differences and the natives The upper picture You will note Below, three of the thousands of Syrians that were killed when the French troops bombarded the Moslem quarter of Damascus. Ramsay MacDonald Fraternizes with the Horthy Hangmen (Continued from page 1) minister of England fraternizes with the Horthy hangmen. Altho MacDon- ald had intended to stay but two days with his ilk here, the social-democrats, he was able to extend his time so as to visit Bethlen, Horthy’s prime min- ister and participate in an official din- ner. By this action the irresponsibilty and malice of which can hardly be condemned too much, MacDonald has weakened and undermined the great a time when all decent revolutionary workers consider the boycott of Hun- gary, the leader of the most prom- inent European labor party goes to Budapest where he has nothing to do, exchanges polite phrases with the Hungarian rulers and thus gives them a shameful hint that the protest of the labor organizations of all coun- tries—amongst them that of the Brit- ish labor party—should not be taken seriously. The British workers should not tolerate any more without resistance this shameful attitude of their “lead- er” and when they rise in protest against the hangmen of Hungary, they must also protest against the ac- protest action of the international working class which threatened to drown the whole Bethlen-Horthy gov- ernment in a flood of indignation, At complices of these hangmen,: their former prime minister who~has ap- parently lost the last remnants of feelings for proletarian solidarity. Chicago Exploiters in New Drive for - Open Shop Rule (Continued from page 1) a campaign to arouse the workers re- garding the significance of the affair. Booze War Rages. While the conference, or “survey,” is being conducted the booze war be- tween various bands of bootleggers im the department stores of.Marshall- Field, Carson-Pirie-Scott ané*other places slave for the most shameful stipends that cannob possibly keep them alive. In factories children slave from early in the morning un- til late at night and the sweat-shop thrives in the miserable hovels call- ed homes for workers, where children of six, seven and eight years of age sew long hours beneath the faint rays of oil lamps and gas jets. protected by various agencies of the | city, state and federal governments, goes merrily on, with a killing or two a day. In the fashionable hotels the mabobs flit from one drunken de- bauch to another, with an occasional suicide of some society lady suffering Following the fake survey of the bankers and manufacturers organized labor should conduct a real survey of the condition of the proletarian mass- es in this city and proceed to launch a drive against those parasites who distill the blood of men, women and from a sentimental jag. Girls slave children into profits. Scotland Yard Has Hard Time in War on British Communists (Continued from page 1) bureau of the Red International of Labor Unions at Berlin, in which the British party was asking for funds to carry on the work of the R. I, L. U. in England. Upon cross-examination, Sergeant Henshaw, who was in charge of the raiders, attempted to deny that he planted the letter of the R. I. L, U. in the Communist Party head- quarters and was forced to admit that he had found no other R. I. L. U. cor- respondence in the headquarters, After Printshop. The prosecution then spent some time reading into the evidence bills from the printers and receipts for pay- ments of dues and literature, and tried to establish that the Centro-Press, Limited, was owned by the Commun- ist Party. Did Not Know of Fascists, Laughter was produced in the Bow Street court room when the defense asked one of the Scotland Yard de- tectives whether he saw any members of the British fascists break the win- dows of the Communist Party head- quarters, since the detective boast- fully described how he had kept the Communist Party headquarters “un- der surveillance,” and why he did not arrest these fascists for destruction of property. The detoctive began to feel uneasy and denied that he had seen members of the fascists near the building and denied that he knew of their existence in England and that they had held an open parade thru the streets of London in which they carried firearms demonstrating against the Communists. Another detective who attempted to give a garbled account of a speech made by a number of the leaders of the British Communist Party was _ forced to admit that he was found I, | that his stenographic notes had been hiding under the platform of the Re- hearsal Theater at Bedford street and taken away and that he was now giv- ing an account of the speech from memory and not from notes as the crown attorney tried to make it ap- pear. Scotland Yara Terrorizes Workers. Sergeant Kitchener, another Scot- land Yard dick, on cross-examination felt as tho he had been out on a bed of hot needles when William Charles Rust, one of the defendants, asked him whether it was not true that Scotland Yard dicks had visited homes of correspondents of the Work- ers Weekly and terrorized these con- tributors to the paper so that many of the correspondents stopped writing for the Communist organ. During the cross-examination of this IN. Y. Auto Workers’ Union in Big Drive (Continued from page 1) solution in order to overcome this condition? “Why are your conditions not bet- ter? Let’s see. You know that the organized workers are working 44 hours a week, and in many places less than that. In addition, they receive time and a half wages for overtime, with double pay Saturday afternoons, Sundays and holidays. Besides, or- ganized workers have established a minimum wage scale. If you are not enjoying the above conditions, there is a reason. The reason is that you are unorganized. “On every side, you have the pow- er of organization before you. The workers who are organized have tl best comiditions and of course you know ity, The bosses have their as- sociations to better their own condi- tions and. profits. The longer hours you work and the less wages you re- ceive, the.more the employer profits, without regards to you, whether you make a bare existence or not. Are You Working? “Just a@ word more. No matter if you feel that you have not used the | best judgment in the past in your attitude toward the union, whether as a union man you neglected your duty toward organization, or whether you never belonged to a union at all. That is not important. If you are still engaged in the auto industry, your place is to line up with the members of your union for improved conditions, What do you think?” witness the Communists brought out that the British army became a stand- ing army as a result of the growth of British capitalism and that tho the soldiers were recruited from the work- ing class, the officers were recruited from the upper strata in society and that the function of the army was to crush strikes and other demonstra- tions on the part of workers. Unions Protest Against Trial. Unions thruout England are sending in protests daily to the British gov- ernment heads demanding the im- mediate release of the arrested Com- munists and protesting their trial un- der the ancient sedition laws, The International Class War Pris- oners’ Aid, British section, with George Lansbury as fts treasurer, is raising funds to carry on the legal battle for the arrested Communists. Syrians and Druse Smash French Lines (Continued from page 1) the rebel Druses and Syrian number of pla sudden were made upon the rebel forces. The French murderers and the christian recruits have been terror- izing Lebanon since the invasion of hat territory by the rebels and the winning of large numbers of the native population, but in the fighting yesterday the combined forces of the French and christian mercenaries suf- fered complete route with every vil- lage. and town under their control falling into rebel hands, Smash French Attack. In face of a terrific sweep of ma- chine gun fire from the French the rebels steadily advanced and in spite of a loss of three hundred dead and many wounded captured thestown of Merjayoun and expelled the French forces, and also routed a buzzards’ nest controlled by American presby- terian missions. French reports here are to the ef- fect that overwhelming numbers for ced them to retire. This indicates new recruits to the yanks of the re- bels. Information also reaching Bei- rut describes big movements of Arab- jans toward Syria, in order to join in the fight against France. Appeal to League. Deeply resenting the butchery of France there is arising from the Syrian natives a demand that the league of nations withdraw the French mandate. British interests are taking advantage of this sentiment and have bribed a group of Syrian politicians to press the demand for revocation by the league. These peo- ple, however, do not demand freedom from all mandates of the league but simply from French administration of the mandate, which plays into the hands of Britain who wants the man- date, for herself in order to obtain a natural outlet for Mosul oil, The enlightened natives oppose both France and Britain and correct- ly view the league of nations as a predatory combination of imperialist powers preying upon the colonial peo- oi 16 { AHE DAILY WORKER LW. W. HEARS MESSAGE ON International Is Given Hearing at Meet The 17th general convention of the Industrial Workers of the World now in session took up the question Tues- day of international relations. The proposal brot up Monday to send a delegate to the Berlin anarchist inter- national was turned down and after Harrison George, who presented cre- dentials from the Red International of Labor Unions was: granted the floor for 15 minutes to speak In the name of the R. I. L. secepentire on the question of affiliation,/took similar ac- tion toward the . L. U. and as- serted by resolution that the scattered administrations in other lands should be integrated as an international or- ganization in itself. Wants Definite Stand. Delegate Mincoff’ moved that the R. I. L. U. representative be given the floor for 15 minutés,' explaining that everywhere the membership asks— “Where do we stand’on international affiliation?” It had to be settled. If the convention didnt grant a hear- ing, all would say they were afraid to discuss policy. His motion was carried eight to four, those voting for it being Foster, Graham, Olson, Kiviniemi, Wagner, Mincoff, Schultes and Francezon. The floor being open, Harrison George spoke for the time allotted, covering all points thoroly ii a speech which will be published in Saturday's maga- zine section of The DAILY WORKER. Approves “Dictators.” Mincoff argued against sending a delegate to the next ‘R. I. L. U. con- gress. He dwelt at length and in de- tail with his charge of “Moscow dic- tatorship.” The 1. W: W. could not affiliate to the R.d.°L. U., he said, because of its opposition to this prin ciple and to what he alleged to be the R. I. L. U. bélief in “politics.” The I. W. W. was closer to Beflin, he |’ held, and to the anarchists who did not dictate and who Were opposed to all governments, -even a workers government. oe | Roger Francezon, of the Marine Transport Workers reminded his fel- lows that international relations is a deeper question than some of them thot. Conditions force closer rela- tions. But he saw “menace” if world unity was_brot “politicians” who suite the, wine Class’ a steppin: eg. t, he did not say. The big job is to°organize. Must Disregard Political Difference. When that is done; then-the subject could be talked about, But he warned that whenever workers are in a fight anywhere in the world, the I. W. W. must support them: and co-operate with their political views. Delegates Elsasser and O'Connor spoke, without adding much light to the argument, and the motion, which was to abide by the policy set by the 1922 convention carried unanimously. This is, briefly, thatthe I. W. W. rec: ognizes the need of, keeping in touch with world labor to: lay a basis for world wide organization, but that no delegates be sent to the R. I. L. U. Meanwhile, however, the G. E. B. is instructed to maintain friendly corre- spondence to the end of world solidar- ity and organization. Wants Something Definite. Mincoff then introduced a_resolu- tion to instruct the G. E. B. to plan for a world conference of I. W. W. branches and administrations in for- eign lands to integrate the I. W. W. as an international distinct from all others. His argument was that the fact of I, W. W. administration affili- ating, as in Chile, to the Berlin an- archist group, showed we had no defi- nite organization, The I. W. W. was no where between Bérlin, Moscow and Amsterdam, It must take a stand. As a whole it then might affiliate where it chose, or remain in opposi- tion to all. Some were doubtful at first. Elsasser Speaking for thé present status. O'Connor alleged that the M. T. W. had liquidated the British adminis- tration by remitting from its English branches to New ‘York headquarters instead of to the British administra- tion, This was denied. But the mo- ie of Mincoff passed without opposi- jon, ‘Phe convention earlier voted against permission for the industrial unions to departméntalize themselves, some holding such’ provision as being already in the constitution. Boost Alimony Rate. MADISON, Wis., Nov. 17—Col. Wil- liam Mitchell, before court-martial in Washington, must pay $2,000 more an- nually for the support of his three children by his first wife. The state supreme court ‘so ruled today in affirming a decision of a lower court increasing the amount Mitchell must pay from $4,800 to $6,800. Burglars Are Back. HUNTSVILLE, Ala., Nov. 17.—Bur- glars armed with an acetylene torch melted the lock of the vault in the Tennessee Valley bank, at Scottsboro, near here, and’Woted the vault of $20,000 in cash, ‘éscaping in an auto- mobile PROFINFERN Against Soviet’ Rule Liquidates Capitalism’s Brutalities the Children By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. "T00ay: the Chicago Tribune tries to find comfort for the capitalist system it supports, from a news cable by Walter Duranty, Moscow correspondent of the New York Times telling about the wayward children of Moscow. Thus the Tribune reaches the conclusion that: “Civilization rests on its care of childhood. No civilized state would or could allow dependent childhood to revert to savagery and worse in its streets.” s * * * * No Communist, especially the Communists of the Soviet Union, will deny that the Workers’ Republic has a child problem on its hands. This has been repeatedly pointed out in The DAILY WORKER, with the solutions offered for suc- cessfully meeting this problem. The Tribune’s editorial will not admit that it has a child problem under capitalism. If. it did, according to the reasoning of its own editorial, it would be compelled to con- fess that capitalist society is unstable to that extent. * * e * The unprincipled Tribune also builds its.argument by claiming that Russia’s child problem has grown up under Soviet rule, charging it is “indicative of the Soviet lapse from civilization.” This, of course, is the sheerest sophistry. Russia's child problem is an inheritance from the black days of czarism. It was made acute by the world imperialist war, when millions of fathers, bread winners, were slaugh- tered on the battlefields. It was augmented when the United States, egged on by this very same Tribune, joined all the other great capitalist nations, and made war upon Soviet rule in an effort to overthrow it, resulting in the devastation of great areas of the Russian nation, the crippling of its indus- tries, the destruction of its agriculture and the murder of new thousands of fathers and mothers, not to mention the children. It grew bigger when crippled Russia was unable to meet successfully, as it will in Has future, the ravages of famine like that of 1921, that continued the destruction of family life in spite of every contrary effort by the Soviet state. * * * J _ But the problem is being met. Orphaned children are being taken care of in homes specially prepared for them; usually the palaces and country estates of the dukes and princes that are gone. Here they are educated and prepared for the life ahead; not herded ‘as undesirable outcasts in asylums no better than capitalism's prisons. At this moment a special drive is being made to find homes for orphaned children among the peasants, enjoying the New Day that is coming to them thru the development of agriculture along modern lines instituted and encouraged by the Soviet state. Bolshevism builds its future on the winning of the children. The care of the children, the liquidation of all the capitalist barbarities toward children, including taking them out of the factories and sending them to school, this is the first respon- sibility of Bolshevist rule. All unprejudiced observers, non- Communists, even some enemies of Soviet rule, admit that the problem is being solved. 2 * \ But in the United Sates the problem grows worse. The — number of children sent into industry grows, resulting in men and women stunted mentally, boys and girls robbed of their childhood, life’s energy sapped out of them before they reach maturity, and when they come in conflict with the cap- italist law, thru the commission of some crime, labelled as Ba ay ri “degenerates.” artin Durkins, illiterate and savage, hunted like beasts i the jungles of the great American cities with police aig? of “shoot them on sight.". The war records, with their exam- pesca ifn millions called to arms, give conclusive testi- ony that American capitalism h normal naitan ielnae pi as produced a breed of sub- he great American capitalist crime of mo ‘ th 1,000,000 children under 16 years of age in industry isi he —— of the whole profit social structure in the United It is easy to agree with the Trib i oo Apa its care of childhood.” Pica ae that has come into existence under capitalism rush its merited destruction. The new “ivitention thee it evolve under Communism wilf development. ization By that test the “civilization” Maintenance Men Still at Work Such conditions produce the . mark a higher stage of human ‘ ee | Pay NTN AaReNTET EEA Continued from page 1) membershi maintenance men working is larger afi taa The present drift- than it was the first day of the strike, ‘he mines are in better shape now than they were then and, according to all reports, Lewis was willing to allow Pinchot to call together an arbitration commission but the oper- ators were not. It is hard for the miners to un- derstand this method of conducting 4 strike. It is hard for anyone to understand it if the intention is to win the demands of the union. The miners’ puzzle over these con- tradictions but the only light they receive, if such it can be called, is when Lewis, Murray, or Kennedy ac- companied by a collection of priests, parsons and businessmen, speak at the few meetings held.in some of the mining centers, At the meetings where Lewis speaks he generally tells how Samuel D. Warriner of the Lehigh Coal and Navigation’ company, could not. find time to have dinner with him recent- ly and states that “the day will come when Warringer will be glad to eat with John L. Lewis,” This state- smacking of this great Ameri- jocracy with its implication of the classlessness of our society, usual- ly produces great applause, especial- ly from the priests and businessmen. But news of the strike and its ob- jJectives is lacking. The publication of a strike bulletin in the various languages would do much to raise the morale of the miners and draw them more closely to the union, Playing Into Operators’ Hands, The United Mine Workers officials will have to ottline a policy for the ing policy is dangerous for the rea- son that it plays into the hands of the operators. Their agents are able to cause confusion which as yet has not resulted disastrously because of the loyalty of the miners to the union as such and because a settlement is expected. ; But in the smaller and more iso- lated camps, where the miners live in company houses—the “patches” as they are called—toremen and super- rar? PROGRESSIVES. OF FURRIERS SHOW WEAKNESS Kaufman Trick Wins on G. E. B. Report (Special to The Daily Worker) BOSTON, Nov. 17.—In defense of use of injunctions by the Furriers’ Union in its battles with the employ- ers, President Morris Kaufman, in the battle over accepting the report of the general executive board, em- ployed every sophistry of class col- laboration and every argument of the opportunist in his attempt to escape criticism for the general executive board’s use of the injunction in the Boston struggle against the Mill- burn firm. In his talk Kaufman, shedding large crocodile tears, regretted) that of course, he would like to see more revolutionary changes, but, declared this bureaucrat, “Revolutions some- times do not show results in less than a generation, how can the delegates expect more from the officers in a period of one year.” Vulgarizes Marx. Kaufman's lieutenants came to his rescue jn the convention in an at- tempt to jam the majority report of the general executive board thru the convention, Stetsky, one of the vice- presidents, even went to Karl Marx to justify the use of injunctions against employers and declared with a ridi¢ulous smugness that “man makes history, not out of whole cloth, but out of conditions at hand,” and concluded that the union must accept conditions as they are and recognize that we are living under capitalism and that we must act as capitalists act. The lefts, Benjamin Gold and Schneider, introduced a minority re- port and attacked the general execu- tive board’s report showing the con- vention that the union had commit- ted itself to recognizing the injunc- tion since it employed the injunction against the Milman firm and that the union had won a doubtful victory as a result, Left Wing Battles. The minority report also attacked the Jack of organizing work and the miserable agreement made in South Norwalk, where the members were bound to a five-year agreement with onditions which agreed to no chair- +imanghip and longer hours than in other centers. ; The minority report showed the ‘ut- ter incompetency of the Kaufman ma- chine for leadership in the urfion. After a campaign of flimflamming the delegates by the Kaufman ma- ‘| chine, the majority report was adopt- é@d with 38 delegates voting for the report. Thirty-five delegates refrain- ed from voting for the report, think- ing by this means to express them- selves in favor of the minority re- port. Why Progressives Fell Down. Many of the delegates who ideolo- gically and traditionally cling to the Kaufman machine, but because of the pressure of their rank and file are forced to take a progressive stand, were disarmed by the demogogy of the Kaufman machine and supported the majority report. These so-called progressives lack the left wing ide- ology and have not decided in their own minds to break completely with the general executive board political- ly and ideologically. The Kaufman machine which the latter part of last week was meek and humble when the question of the New York joint board came up, fill- ing the air with peace talk, have start- ed their. war on the left progres- sive bloc when they thought they stood on firmer grouhd and stood a chance of flimflamming the delegates. This tactic was used to the extreme by the machine. The lamb turned wolf. The fox remained foxy. The Kaufman policy was clear—peace on the bad case of the New York board -+fill the air with peace talk, Then beat the opposition on the work con- ducted and thus maintain the ma- chine’s prestige. This the machine accomplished, due to the weakness of intendents are telling them that “the se aeee mines are open,” “go in and work if you want to,” In addition to this campaign, the lo- cal press in the anthracite region, while not actually hostile to the min- i ers so far, is cunningly hinting at the foolishness of the whole proceed- ing, the willingness of the operators to come to terms, the danger of the loss of the market for anthracite, ete. The operators’ propaganda machine is busy, The unions must start a counter offensive or morale will suf- fer. Foreign Exchange. NEW YORK, Nov. 17.—Great Brit- ain, pound sterling, demand 4,84%; cable 4.84%. France, franc, demand 3.99%; cable 3.99%. Belgium, franc, demand 4.53; cable 4.53%. Italy, lira, demand 3.99%; cable 4.00, Sweden, krone, demand 26,72; cable 26.75, Nor- way, krone, demand 20,42; cable 20.44, Denmark, krone, demand 24.94; cable 24.96, Germany, mark, no quote, Shanghal, taels 78.37%. Build the DAILY WORKER.» Furriers for Recognition Amalgamation of Russ, (Continued from page 1) for organization and we will go te them with such proposals with sin- cerity and spirit.” gute Cohen's bitter castigation of the machine followed Gold's attack on Kaufman for insinuating that the membership was not willing to sac- rifice for the cause. He declared that the rank and file are alwalys willing to work for a strong union but “we understand well your petty maneuvers because you do not be- lieve in organization. You do not sup- port this proposal and when you come with such spirit of ridicule no one ean believe that you mean anything more than to kill th * proposition.” -o» Yebuution was ayopted in spite of the tactics used by the Kaufman machine, « ‘ i Organize the League in the/shops and mines: there is where it COUNTS! | Pa