The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 20, 1925, Page 1

| j The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government ere WE er By T. J) O'FLAHERTY rae history of labor trials in the TYP United States would make quite a sizable’ volume and one worth pos sessing. It is a job’that needs being done. Perhaps it might open the eyes ot those deluded workers who believe ‘this, is and was the land of the free, T am afraid that some of our fellow workers‘are of the opinion that aliens create all the “trouble” for the em- ployers. This is the impression the wily employers try to create. Of course it never occurs to Henry Dubb, that we are all aliens in the strict sense of the ward. Those who are not aliens, the Indians, are asiven, out into the “wide open spaces”. and -spend their lives trying to eke out an exist- ence and hold on to their eyebrows, lest our Nordic 100 per cent Amer- icans might steal them. Pot act i igs story of the American labor movement would convince the American worker that our masters never hothered much whether the strike leader was Nordic, a Celt or an Bthiopian. When an individual in- terfered with his mass robbery of the workers, he did not go and look up his family three but he took steps to get rid of the particular limb that interfered with his pilferage. Res- pectable editors, preachers and goose step professors do not call the art of exploitation by those uncouth terms, but thank the’stars -we are not respectable and let us hope you have (Continued on page 2) is being loaded and hauled aw consumers will curse as they t mile in length and at $18 per ton: represents millions of dollars. Death a Casual Affair. A thirteen Year-old boy was shoot- ing stones at a milk bottle on the roadside while a flock of geese swam and honked in a pool of dirty water. We was a miner's son and his father had died of miner's asthma, he in- formed me in the casual manner in which life and death are dischssed in all mining camps. But, he added, this was before the union had “made the companies put beter air in the mines.” Things are not so bad now, he said. He wanted to be a miner and in another year could go to work but his mother was going to keep him in school, She (Continued on page 5) Fight Bureaucrats’ Split! That the bureaucracy of the needle trades unions are desperately trying to avoid complete defeat is seen in the facts revealed by the fol- lowing statement issued by the National Committee of the Needle Trades Section of the Trade Union Educational League, whose proposal to prevent a split by the reactionary officialdom is set forth below: * * * * TO ALL THE MEMBERS OF THE I. L. G. W. U.: Fellow Workers:—Lately at a meeting of Local No. 10, Cutters, Dubinsky, the manager and one of the leading lights of the Sigman machine, openly threatened to withdraw the cutters from the joint board and to fight the other crafts of our industry, as a means to maintaining control over his and his friends’ jobs in the local, He participated in the objection and examination committee of the joint board to vote down opposition candidates till the every end, but then with- drew the cutters’ candidates from the general election, despite the peace agreement which he declared, at a previous meeting, he accepts and in spite of the decision of the joint board to hold general election: During the election of delegates to the convention, he and his executive board flatly refused to live up to the peace agreement by barring the candi- dates from watching the’ balloting as provided for in the agreement and requested by the opposition candidates. He exeluded them even from being at the count as provided for by their constitution, CUTTERS’ LOCAL ALREADY FUNCTIONS SEPARATELY, There are no joint board busin agents from the cutters and Dubinaky is attempting to take over all complaints and instructing underhandedly the cutters not to take orders from the joint board. Evidently he is preparing for an open split after the convention, This is in line with the policy adopted ata secret meeting of the bureaucracy at which the ousted officials as well as those still in office participated with Sigman’s partnership, According to this policy, soon as the membership quiets down, the bureaucracy will attempt to regain their power and old jabs. NOW THAT WE ARE ONLY A FEW MONTHS OFF FROM A DECISIVE STRUGGLE WITH THE EMPLOYERS, THEY ARE MAKING A SCRAP OF PAPER »OF THE PEACE AGREEMENT AND AGAIN vniremapiead ie6e4 A NEW GIVIL WAR WITHIN THE UNION. Fellow workers! The left accepted the peace in good ‘eatin, For the sake of unity against the employers in the big struggle to ‘come. But the bureaucracy is preparing for war, A skunk cannot change his footprints, neither can the bureaucracy change their methods. The rank and file has beaten them to a frazzle once, it can finish the job and’ be done with it. ‘ The cutters id the other crafts to maintain their conditions, and they know it well enough. If it were rot for the power of the union as a whole, the bosses would be doing their own cutting in the one and two-men houses (which are the bulk of the trade) long before now. In a fight against the other crafts, the bosses would be the only winners. United we lick the bosses and improve the conditions for all crafts. The cutters are suffering from short seasons and all the other evils the same as the pressers, operators, finishers. Therefore their interests are the . same, The threat of loss of jobs by opposing Dubinsky is no more. The new leadership, we are ‘sure, will see to that. Therefore it Is up to every worker to convince the cutters of the necessity of unity against the employers, of the necessity of an aggressive policy against the employers which the old leader- ship is incapable of, of the necessity of having a unified centralized organ: ization and not separate autonomous locals; not crafts, but all workers in the shops to control and elect the officials of the joint board, If all workers in the shops will do their duty, this new danger will be Gliminated together with the Dubinskys and the rest, and we will then be able to build a truly strong, clean union. NATIONAL COMMITTEE, NEEDLE ‘TRADES SECTION, TRADE UNION EDUCATIONAL LEAGUE, ms \ HARD LIFE AND SIMPLE FAT By WILLIAM F. DUNNE. ARTICLE VI. Mo HAZLETON, Pa., Nov. 18.—This city, the third largest in the anthracite, with a population of some 35,000, is built on the backs of the miners who work the properties of the Lehigh Valley Coal company which with their breaker houses, gallows frames and huge dumps of slate and waste, towering hundreds of feet into the air, form a three-quarter circle around the town. The mines are idle but the huge culm pile lying in the valley |clared itself # y to New yore ey where angry coal to make th is “buckwheat” an- thracite burn. The culm. pile looks from the hill to be about aj AMIERICAN LABOR OFFERS TO AID “FILIPINO FIGHT Anti-Imperialist League for Independence Move The All-America Anti-Imperialist League sent a telegram last night to Washington inviting Sergio Osmena, Teodore:'Kalaw and the other mem- berg,of, the Filipino independence mis- Sion to the United States to address public meetings on behalf of Filipino freedom’ in Chicago, New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Cleve J. Manuel Gomez, secretary of the league, announces that his organiza- tion is prepared to go ahead with the preparation of these meetings as soon as word ig received from Washington. “The visit of the Filipino mission,” he declares, “again places the issue of freedom for the 11,500,000 people inhabiting the Philippine islands squarely before the workers of this country, who have always declared themselves against the maintenance of Wall Street's ‘American yan No one can pretend to be an e} ot ‘imperialism ‘who does not fight . {Continued on page 2) The foll 1,2 Huts towing ae BER 20, 1925 ea” Publishe: PUBLIS: | NEW YORK | EDITION : d Dail HING THE DAILY WORKER 1113. W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, dll, y except Sunday by Price 3 Cents LABOR PARTY TOMORROW! THE ITALIAN DEBT | SETTLEMENT | By H. M. Wicks. * Why Mussolini's government received more Mberal terms than S$ HANGHE LEFT WINGERS GET MINORITY ON GENERAL EXECUTIVE BOARD AT UNIONS’ CONVENTION IN BOSTON Britain or France. The political } and economic changes affecting the decision. Read It | and \ | Get New Subscribe:s | cablegram, regarding ||| _ jals was-re-}| ceived yesterday by the International Labor Defen: fter two days prog ig court martial de- ipetent. World pro- | OF HORTHY RULE} Conspira y to Execute| Leaders | Fri rustrated i HI i Withold Nobel Prizes, STOCKHOLM, Nov.* 18.—For the drst time since the firgt Nobel prizes were given, twenty-four years ago, Nl five of the prizes will be with- eld this year, it was announced by he board of directors of the fund. test of worker This meant (Cont ALL-AMERICA ANTI-IMPERIALIST. LEAGUE PLEDGES SUPPORT AND AID TO FILIPINO INDEPENDENCE The All-America Anti-Imperialist League in the followingtelegram pledges its wholehearted support to the Filipino independencé mNssion to fight for ‘the independence of the Philippine Islands and offers to arrange meetings in New York, Pittsburgh, Boston, Philadelphia, Cleveland and:Chicago, at which the Filipino mission will adaugint the American workers with the demands of the Filipinos: “Filipino Independence Mission, “Care of Philippine Press Bureau, “Investment Building, “Washington, D. C. - “Greetings. The All-America Anti-Imperialist League, with sec- tions in Cuba, Mexico, Porto Rico and the United States, pledges its wholehearted ‘support in your fight for independence for thé great Filipino people, We would gladly arrange mass meetings in Chicago, New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Cleveland, at whitch members of your mission would address themselves to American pub- lic opinion. Wire collect if you are willing to address such meetings. “Manuel Gomez, secretary, All-America Anti-Imperialist League.” MOSCOW TRADE UNIONS HAIL NORWEGIAN WORKERS’ DELEGATION AS STEP TOWARD LABOR UNITY MOSCOW—(By Mail.)—The Norwegian workers’ delegation arrived in Moscow, The delegation was greeted at the station by representatives of the trade unions of Moscow and of the Soviet Union, the delegations from the Moscow factortes greeted the delegates with particular warmth. ‘A meet- ing was held in ti station square and a representative of the Moscow Trade Union Council greeted the delegates in the name of the Moscow workers and assured them thatsthe latter were prepared in-every way to assist the delega- (Continued on page 3) hoe 1 | (Special to The Daily Worker) BOSTON, Nov. 18.—The International Furriers’ Union con- vention in its closing session here unanimously adopted a resolu- tion favoring the formation of a labor party based on the trade unions and including all other working class organizations on a |}local, state and national scale. { In the resolution, the furriers point out, that the LaFollette movement is a movement of the middle-class business men and || professionals and that it has nothing in common with the work- _}\ers and emphasizes the nec aes | of organizing the workers into \a class party. ster ke TEER: In the elections to the general exe- cutive board, the Kautman machine| | LONDON WORKERS DEMAND jthe left wing a8 incapable of leading § 0 § |th® organization, was forced to retire RELEA EOFG MMUNI TS Jand support the elements following | | Barkin, who has posed as a ‘progres: | (Special to The Daily Worker) | Left Wing Elect Two. ‘ LONDON, Nov. 18—Several hun- In the elections to the general exe- . cutive board, the left wing was able| 1"¢d Communists and sympathizers to, elect-two members of the board,| arched thru the streets of London i ; 1. | to the Bow Street court house to re- Kaufman and/ Sorkin. of the twelve arrested members of } Kaufman Supports Sorkin. The fear that the left wing under the leadership of Gold may dominate the union, the Kaufman gang threw readily accepted it. They realized | that the presence of Gold.as vice-pres- jident and Skolkin as secretary on the board would mean that the resolu- tions, which were presented by the ; Which had been thoroly diseredited by son ON TRIAL FOR SEDITION despite the united front presented by gister their protest against the trial its support to the Sorkinites, who (Continued on page 2) the Communist Party and Young Communist League of Great Britain singing the International and the Red Flag. The Communist fife and drum corps headed the procession. The police reserves were called out to disperse the demonstrating workers upon whom they bore down with their clubs, beating a number of the demonstrators very severely. RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED PROVIDE ~BASLS. FOR.GREATER STRUGGLES. IN AMERICAN LABOR MOVEMENT | (Special to The Daily Worker) j BOSTON, Mass., Nov. 18.—in view of the fact that the resolutions adopted | by the special convention of the International Furriers’ Union in its closing | sesions here are of national importance, The DAILY WORKER is requested to: publish them in full. They should be the basis for the urging of similar declarations in other labor gatherings, especially the stand taken on the labor party. This and the resolutions for the recognition of Soviet Russia, amalgamation, the organization of the unorganized and against class col- laboration, are as follows: Forward to the Labor Party. HEREAS, The organized workers in their struggle for higher wages, shorter hours, and better working conditions have found themselves forced to combat not only the employers directly, but also the government thru {au its agencies, anti-labor legislation, Daugherty injunctions, railroad labor | boards, use of troops and police in strikes; and Whereas, The entire history of the struggles of the working class shows that so long as the powers of the government are allowed to remain in the hands of the capitalist class, as at present in the United States, just so j long will these powers of government be used against the workers; and | Whereas, It is necessary, in order for the workers to develop the politica! | pou of their class, to build up a political organization of their own, a labor | party, which will draw the millions of workers into political activities aod | organize them for political struggles, against the capitalists. and Whereas, The LaFollette progressive movement, which is devoted to the |nterests of middle class business elements and large farmers, cannot serve as a party of the workers and poof farmers and has completely betrayed those workers. who saw in it’a substitue for a labor party; therefore, be it Resolved; That the Internatiohal Furriers’ Union herewith favors the formation. of a labor party based Upon the trade unions and including as affijiated sections all other political organizations of a working class.nature, upon a local; state, and national basis. For Recognition of Soviet Russia. Wwrieseas athe Russian government has withstood, for almost eight years, all:the attacks launched’ against it, from the enemies within its own boundaries, as well as from the organized capitalist governments of the world, hastile to it and constantly’ carrying on fresh forms of struggle against it, has demonstrated by its successful resistance that it has the support of the masses of: Russian workers and farmers; and Wher The delegation of the British trade unions to Russia» has just published .an extensive réport “pointing out the tremendous strides forward being made+by the: workers and peasants of Russia with their newly estab- lished society, ant giving definite proof that while the workers of the rest of the world are suffering from a declining standard of living those in Ru: (Ci scmeivase on Satanic 4) THOUSANDS OF BERLIN WORKERS JAM HALL AS RED FRONT FIGHTERS CELEBRATE RUSSIAN ANNIVERSARY By KARL REEVE, (Sperial to The Daliy Worker? BERLIN(By Mail.)—The Red Front Fighters at Berlin, at a huge mass demonstration in the Neue Welt Hall, the largest auditorlum in Berlin, un- furled a banner to be presented to the Moscow workers; while 10,000 men and women toilers cheered’ and from 12,000 to, 15,000 more tried vainly to jam their way into the hall. The tremendous demonstration for Soviet Russia was conclusive proot that the workers of Berlin will oppose with all their powers the Locarno alliance against the first workers’ state. The demonstra- tion was called to.send a greeting to Soviet Russia on the eighth anniversary (Continued on page 5) 7