The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 20, 1925, Page 2

Page Two THE DAILY WORKER FURRIERS’ INTERNATIONAL MEET. ||_4s we see 1 |/A. C, W. MEMBERS FAVORS ORGANIZATION OF CLASS LABOR PARTY IN UNITED STATES (Continued from page 1) left wing and adopted by the con vention would be carried into effect Shachtman who is pledged to sup- Port the amalgamation resolution and the other left wing resolutions pre- Sented to the convention and fight corruption in the union was elected president. Shachtman is in the left group of the Sorkin following. Benjamin Gold, who was defeated by the new alliance of the Kaufman machine with the Sorkinites, has de- clared that the left wing will fight against the present board as it can- mot be trusted to carry out the de- sires of the membership and that this alliance of the Sorkin and Kaufman machines was nothing but a maneu- ver of the Kaufman machine which will attempt to recapture power in the union at a future date. He show- ed that the tactics, which will be used by the new alignment, will be one of gabotage of the New York Joint board and the sabotage of the Jeft wing resolutions in order to dis- eredit the Communists and prepare ® come-back for the Kaufman ma- chine, Must Fight Kaufmanism. He further pointed out that the left wing would lend their support to the president of the board, Shachtman, only on the condition that he fight ;Keufmanism and against any attempt ‘ft the Sorkin machine to bring Kauf- ‘man back to power. Delegate Skoinick was defeated for the secretaryship of the union as well fas Gold for the vice-presidency thru the betrayal of the rank and file by the so-called progressives, who at the first opportunity that presented itself in the convention jumped onto the band-wagon of those who have formed an alliance with the Kautf- man machine. Among these so-called progressives were Gross of Local 5, New York, and Englander of Toron- to. Wini a Sorkinite, from the same local as Gold, was elected to the vice-presidency, by a vote of 43 for and 29 against. Skolkin was de- feated by Woll, a Kaufmanite, for the secretaryship of the board. Executive Board Make-Up. The executive board as it is con- stituted today consists of two Kauf- manites, four Sorkinites, two waver- ing between Sorkin and Kaufman and two left wingers. Two other mem- bers of the board will fall to Kaut- man, as the delegates from St. Paul and Montreal did not accept and elec- tions in these locals will fall to the Kaufman machine. The general executive board by no means represents the dominant opin- ion of the union. The board is a fed- erated body in which the eleven larg- est locals are represented on the board by one representative— the vice-president of their local. The resolution introduced by the left wing endorsing the Freiheit and The DALIY WORKER was defeated by the convention due to the “bar- gain” struck by the two machines. The resolution calling for the re- lease of the political prisoners was adopted with a tail added by the new alliance of reactionary elements, call- ing for the freeing -of the counter- revolutionary socialists who tried to destroy the workers’ Soviets in Rus- sia. Gold declared that counter-revolu- tionaries were not the same as im- prisoned workers’ in capitalist coun- tries and urged the adoption of the regolution without the tail. Drive For Labor Party. The adoption of the resolution fa- yoring the formation of the labor party, places the delegates of the Fur- riers’ Union in a position where they (Continued trom page 1) the fascist government’ of Hungary trembled before the avalanche of pro: test let loose by the workers of the world when Horthy announced his in- tention to hang Rakosi and over one- hundred other workers arrested with him. Detailed information has not yet been received, but the cablegram indicates that in any event the pro- posed executions will not take place. Threatened with Death. The fight to save Rakosi and his comrades was a bitter one. Immedi- ately after the arrests were made, Horthy, thinking that he had a clear road ahead, announced that the de- fendants would be tried before drum head court martial and the sentences executed a few hours after the decis- ions were rendered. Those sentences weer already prepared. The white terrorists had decided that Rakosi and his comrades should die. But Horthy did not have his own way. The International Class War Prisoners’ Aid, with millions of mem- bers thruout the world immediately launched a campaign of protest against the proposed executions. The British trade union movement and labor party called on the Hungarian ®overnment to stay its bloody hand. The workers thruout the rest of Bu- rope joined the protest. The Prussian diet refused to re- ceive Horthy’s minister of education until the threatened execution of Rakosi, peoples’ commissar in the Workers’ Wrath Halts Horthy Hangmen must carry on an active fight before onvention for the formation of a la- bor party to represent the interests bor Party to represent the interests of the workers in this country and will be the basis for the formation of propaganda groups to agitate for such a political organization in this country. Oppose Kaufman Collaboration, During the discussion of the con- vention at Monday session on the re- solution introduced by the New York joint board and recommended for adoption by the resolutions commit- tee on class collaboration, in which the Kaufman policy of “hearty co- operation” and all policies which sought to destroy the spirit of the class struggle was condemned, the machine tried to create the impres- sion that the left wing progressives were utopians, dreamers and imprac- tical while the machine supporters were hard, practical-minded people. In the course of his attack on the] left wing he asked for a definition of class collaboration which was gra- phically portrayed to him by dele- gate Gross, one of the New York left wing, who reminded Kaufman of his opening speech in which he urged co- operation between the bosses and the workers, and also of his action in re- cognizing the use of injunctions in the Millman case in Boston as well as collaboration of bosses and union re- presentatives to discharge a worker in Chicago. The resolution was adopt- ed, unanimously, the machine support- ers fearing to show their weakness. The resolution against class colla- boration education and a program of workers education promoting the class struggle and recommending schools similar to the Workers’ School in New York and Chicago was refered to the incoming general executive board, The resolution for the Rand School was adopted by a majority of a few votes, the real left wing voting 28 against it. Fake Telegram Raised. The committee to investigate the fake telegram, purporting to come from the Workers Party in Chicago, reported that it was unable to dis- cover anything and that it would have to go to Chicago to further investi- gate the matter. Gold ridiculed the entire matter showing that the machine was raising the bugaboo of outside interference to cover its own mistakes. He show- ed that the Communist Party ‘has nothing to hide from anyone and that the Workers (Communist) Party was a functioning organization and not a dead body like the socialist party. Kaufman had appointed a number of the right wing progressives to this investigation committee, whom he seeks to arouse into an open battle against the left wing by flaunting this fake telegram. All the delegates and workers at this gathering laugh at this political maneuver on the part of the machine. Place Youth in “Felony Row.” SAN FRANCISCO,—(FP)—Nov. 18. —The accident that the victim was a rich man’s son has laid bare a per- nicious practice on the part of the San Francisco police. A 16 year old runaway high school boy from Ta- coma appealed to the police for shelter over night. In response he was placed in “felonk row” with men awaiting trial for murder, burglary and other major crimes, and was ob- liged to stay in this environment un- til he was rescued by a detective the next day. How many young boys who do ‘not happen to come from wealthy families receive their first in- troduction to crime by this method Gan only be guessed. Hungarian Soyiet government was called off. Socialists, Communists, democrats and centrists joined in the vote. The question was raised in the Checko-Slovakian parliament, Every- where the arm of the International Class War Prisoners’ Aid reached to save the life of a revolutionary fighter. 1, L. D. Led the Fight in U. S. In the United States, the Interna- tional Labor Defense took the lead- ership in the campaign. Immediately on receipt of a cable from Berlin the I. L. D. organized mass meetings, demonstrations and cabled protests to the foreign office of the Hungarian’ government, A committee of liberals headed by Upton Sinclair and Roger Baldwin, demanded that Horthy cal! off the court martials and give the de- fendants civil trials. Thousands. of telegrams poured into the Hungarian legation at Washington. Mass meet- ings were held in dozens of large American cities, the Hungarian con- sulate in New York and Chicago were picketed and a demonstration was held in front of the Hungarian lega- tion in Washington. The world wide campaign finally convinced Horthy and his Wall Street backers that the execution of Rakosi would arouse enough indigna- tion thruout the world to sweep his rotten government out of existence. He compromised and thus gave fur- ther proof of what the workers can accomplish when they have the will to act. (Continued from page 1). an equal antipathy to respectability, of that kind. HAT we would like to drive into the nob of the average worker— and he is almost everybody—is, that the employers are more interested in making profit out of a worker’s energy than in tracing his genealogy. If they can make more profit out of a black man than out of a white man they will employ the black man. Ditto, a yellow, brown or green man. There are oodles of the latter and they are not all in Ireland. s #6 ET us take the I. W. W.’s for in- stance, There isn’t a dumbell from Cape God to the real estate sharks of Los Angeles who does not believe that the wobblies come from Russia. (They used to come from Germany. during the war!) Yet the roster of an I, W. W. convention in the days of its prime reads like the guest list of a New Engtand May- flower celebration, But the capitalist papers. create thé impression that everybody who is against them is a foreigners and the Henry Dubbs’ are taught to say that those disatisfied people should “go back to where they came from.” eee OW would this work? C. E. Ruth- enberg; would go back to Cleve- land, Eugene V, Debs to Terre Haute, William Z. Foster, to Massachusetts, Anita Whitney, could not go any far- ther than where she is, Fred Merrick, might hop over from Pittsburgh to West Virginig—well, come to think of it about the only prominent alien, who would have to travel quite a dist- ance on a@ deportation warrant is Sec- retary of Labor Davis, the Welshman, who is saddled with the job of deport- ing the rest of us, (By the way, it might interest some of those who are in “durance vile,” to know that Davis gets an “iron man” which means a dollar, for every sucker who joins the Loyal Order of the Moose.) ee debe worker is an alien in the eyes of the capitalists except a fellow like a certain scissor bill, who boasted that in seventeen years he was never late for work, and so con- cerned was he over the fortunes of the firm, that he refused an increase in wages of three dollars a week, lest his employers go broke, He was get- ting twelve. By the way two of the owners of the firm died from alcohol- ism. They could afford the luxury out of what they robbed the scissor bill off. The father of the two loyal followers of Bacchus was a model christian, gave liberal contributions to the salvation army and promptly fired any of ‘his employes who had the temerity to’ ask for an increase in wages. The man who was never late for work—if man he was—was never fired, and was never arrested for having violated the criminal syn- dicalist law. He was not born in the United States, but he was never call- ed an alien, *e * I BELIEVE it is quite clear from the above that the employing class has no more Tegard for the sweat of on addle-pated 100 per cent American than it has for the muscle of a native of Zululand, provided both are equal- ly efficient in making his pocket bulge with coin of the realm. Our class war prisoners are descended from every race under the sun. If you want to be a loyal slave, just keep quiet, work hard when you get a job, buy a used tin can out of which you can make a shield for that part of your anatomy which was made to be kicked, You will need the armor. The boss will test his boot on it. You will be first in war and last at the peace table. But you will have the Satisfaction of dying a loyal Supporter of capitalist civilization, UGS I remember rightly it was Teddy Roosevelt, who uttered the famous saying: “What is the constitution among friends?” He said a mouthful, Take free speech, free press and free assemblage for instance. Those rights are written into our constitution but —take advantage fo them at your peril! Did you ever hear of the po- liceman who listened to a Soap boxer quoting Thomas * Jefferson, mistook the orator for the patron saint of the democratic party, took him to the Police station and after tapping him on the head with his club charged him with disorderly conduct? “I heard a lot about that scoundrel,” declared a republican police court judge, “I believe it was he who killed Abraham Lincoln, If the statute of limitations was not in force I would have him in- dicted for murder. As it is, sixty days for violating the constitutional provision against violating traffic regulations is the worst I can do for him!” The truth of this story is not vouched for. Tho the man who told it to me 4s neither a democrat nor a republican. He, is a Communist and therefore liable to be impartial, ee. A Hic beople might think we are pre- Judiced against the United States, a few words on the British Empire are in order. Surely nobody would be mean enough to suspect us of not be- ing able to give J. Bull an even break, John used to be the champion of free speech, everywhere except in Ire- land, India, Egypt, South Africa, ete, In England however, he was a expan- sive to radical propaganda as a pro- hibition agent to a bootlegger’s dol- lary Why? Simply because he had nothing much to fear, His slaves INDIGNANT OVER POGROM REGIME Impromptu Shop Meet- ings Show Anger News of the slugging at last Fri- day’s general membership meeting of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers’ of Chicago, and the murderous attack on Sunday morning's private gather- ing in the Biltmore Hall by business agents, other officials and sluggers, has spread like wildfire thru the shops of Chicago. Bee) Members of the A. G. W. are show- ing considerable exeitement over the threat of a terror regime of pogroms against the members by the officials. In many shops the last two or three days, workers are réported as discus- sing during the noon hour the mean- ing of the slugging’s to themselves and their interests in resisting “read- justment” wage cuts: indignation in the Shops. These discussions, in many shops are taking the form of shop meetings. where great indignation is raging and many questions are being voiced as to whether members have any voice in their union or whether the officials are czars. Such questions as the following are being asked by the members: “Is there no free speech in our or- ganization? Can we not discuss the questions and prohlems of our union at our meetings or elsewhere without fear of being slugged? Do our offi- cials get paid for slugging our bro- thers and sisters?” Others inquire: “Are we to pay a $25 assessment for the emergency fund to fight wage cuts, or is that money only going to be used to hire sluggers to beat up our brothers and sisters that dare to speak up on union questions?” 5‘ : These are the leading questions that form the talk of the A. C. W. members in the shops. To bring Charges. At the meeting of Local 39 on Tues- day evening well attended by the membershiy, some of the slugged members, far from being suppressed, stood up and announced they would bring charges underthe union law against the officials and other slug- gers involved in the gaagster attacks. They prefered to take it up in the union and had. refused, to give any information to the police when they were arrested last Songer. eth ad American Labor Offers * 4 Its Aid to Fight of eyes Filipinos for Liberty (Continued from page 1) American imperialism.” Latin-Amer- cans have already expressed their solidarity with the aspirations of the struggling Filipino people. It is now up to the American «workers. The presence in this country of a mission elected by the Filipino people to voice their demand for independence here, in the homeland of imperialism, must become a rallying center for a con- certed struggle. “The Philippine islands constitute the biggest and one of the oldest of American colonies. ‘Independence for the Philippines!’ must be a foremost slogan of any real fight against Am- erican imperialism. The All-America Anti-Imperialist League will give all co-operation to the Filipino independ- ence mission in its fight for freedom and will consistently raise the issue, not only in the United States, but in Latin-America as well.” The mission now in Washington was elected by the Philippine legislature last August and arrived late in Decem- ber, It includes some of the founders of the nationalist movement, gray- beards who are known in every corner of the islands, A second group, with Senate President Manuel Quezon at its head, is due in the United States within a short time. When this group arrives, there will be in this country practically every one of the important figures ofthe Filipino na- toinalist party. Some criticism 6£ Osmena and Quezon has been heard from time to time in the Philippines not because of opposition to their demand for Filipino independence, but because, it was complained, they did not carry on the struggle determinedly enough to suit the Filipino people, who feel that their independence ig not a subject for debate with the bought agents of Wall Street who sit in the United States congress, butva fighting issue which can be settled only by struggle. One fact, however, stands out above all others: the Filipino people desire their freedom, and the presence of the independence mission here is a sym- bol of that desire. could find something to put in their feed bags and they were used to be- ing slaves, But John has changed. So have his slaves. He is irritable because they are hungry. And John, changed man, opens his jails and jams them full of Communists and wther evid doers who claim that the workers haying produced all wealth are entitled to it ally Just the same as is done here in the United States, —enerdacnlpiggeppidi Read—Write—disteibute The DAILY WORKER. f Mask of “Democracy” Is of British Capitalist By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. , Rule ‘ODAY, vaunted British “democracy” is under fire on two fronts. In the house of commons the militant laborite~ members are attacking the tory government for its support of the fascisti on the one hand and on the other its ‘attack against the Communists, the latter being but part of its care- fully planned onslaught against the whole left wing of the British labor movement. At the same time the farcical trial of the 12 Communists in “Old Bailey,” notorious court of British oppression, as it proceeds knocks every prop from under so-called English. “liberties.” * * * * It is significant, however, that not only the ruling class of Baldwin, Chamberlain and Lloyd George, fears this un- masking, but also the betrayers af tabor in the ranks of the workers, like Thomas and MacDonald, who join the tories and liberals, in approving the attacks on the Communists. Thomas takes the same position as Green, Woll, “Majah” Berry and other American labor officials who Openly show that they love the: capitalists more-than the workers. But when the British fascists seized and damaged a motor van load of Daily Heralds, they forced Thomas to ‘show his hand. The Daily Herald is the organ of the Labor Party and the Trade Union Congress and Pramas couldn’t dodge the issue. But instead of an attack on British tory rule, at the first session of parliament, Monday, he made a plea to Premier Baldwin to temper the ferocity of the fascisti lest it injure the imperialist government. This is the way Thomas put it: “J, H. Thomas asked Mr. Baldwin Whether he was aware that wide- spread dissatisfaction existed among the British Public at the action taken by the director of public prosecution regarding four ‘national fascisti’ who admitted seizing and damaging a motor van belonging to the Daily Herald, and whether Mr. Baldwin would give an explanatién on the matter in view of the serious danger that this action of the fas- ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE.” * * Thomas weeps for the “dear public” American “labor lieutenant” * . as copiously as any of capitalism, who denies there is a working class and a class war. But every day’s develop- ment is against them all. The government replied to Thomas that all four of the fascisti bandits had ‘been arrested. Three of these, however, have been dis: the fourth is being held becau imposed “for carrying a revolver.” sed on their “ good behaviour.” It is declared se of failure to pay a $100 fine It is not stated how long he will be held before he will be turned loose to join the other three in new anti-labor assaults. Revolvers, blackjacks, dag- gers and clubs are the weapons of the British fascisti, in common with those of their Italian counterparts. them is no serious crime, italist state, which means at all. * . But in “Old be Sir Douglas M. Hogg, es eral. for the crown, tal case of the Communists. To use If it is done in support of the cap- against workers, it is no crime attorney gen- an entirely different attitude in the s No revolvers were found in the raid on the Communist headquarters. But the police took away plenty of good Communist literature that his majesty’s officers considered highly seditious. It is perfectly permissible to criticize and complain against the king's Donald and Thomas. cisti MIGHT DESTROY PUBLIC CONFIDENCE IN THE IMPARTIAL government, after the fashion of Mac- They will be permitted all the free speech, they desire to carry on this harmless attack. But to demand the abo benefit to it. They will learn that ever ni of the king's government in- auguration of Soviet rule, that 3 i peat re speech, or any other civil liberty. learn that the free speech it enjoys is beyond the pale of free British labor will thus under capitalism is of no American workers will discover the same thing. idea that threat of capitalist rule is illegal in the e: icra 1E0) But by that test such ideas will yes of the capitalist state. be accepted by the whole working class and become beacon li hts on | ‘ towards its own emancipation. “ ‘ suet dha ee WORKERS CHEER, PURCELL WORLD UNITY MESSAGE New York Labor to Send Delegation to Russia NEW YORK, Nov. 18.—Six thous- and workers filling two of the largest halls in New York City, gave Albert A. Purcell, President of the Interna- tional Federation of Trade Unions, one of the greatest ovations ever af- forded a labor leader from abroad. Never once at a loss for a phrase and with exacting conciseness, Purcell formulated for his audiences the re- volutionary role of militant trade unionism, At both New Star Casino and Central Opera House the . vast crowds took up the cry of world trade union unity and unanimously second- ed Purcell’s suggestion for a labor de- legation from America to Soviet Rus- sia. Abolish Capitalism. The climax of Purcell’s appeal for world trade union unity came when he said, “Wherever capitalism has planted its root, whatever parts of the earth capitalism enters for the pur- pose of exploiting human labor, our duty is to plant the trade union or- ganizations of a militant and ener- getic type for the purpose of uniting the workers of all lands for the stop- ping of the imperialist tide and the eventual consumation of the task of emansipating the working class, We will be satisfied with nothing less than the abolition of capitalism and the world supremacy of the working class.” Coming to the inclusion of the Rus- sian unions in the great international movement the speaker said, “The Russian trade unions‘are as bona fide as the American, the British, the Wrench or any other'trade undons, It ab } hepa, Wi Dee + ms is the view of the British Trades Union Congress that the united world movement cannot be achieved without the 6,000,000 Russian trade unionists, And we are in favor of their inclusion not only because of their numerical strength but even more because of their vast. achievements and their great experience in administrating industry, the principle task with which they are charged under the new regime.” Speaking of the prejudice existing against Soviet Russia, Purcell said it largely emanated from the fact that those who do not work under the Soviets have no vote, that no more millionaires are made and landlords can no longer’ collect rents, Raise Funds for Delegation. At both meetings ‘a resolution was unanimously adopted declaring that @ workers’ delegation be organized and sent to investigate conditions in Russia on behalf ‘of the American workers. In addition to approving the resolution the combined audiences contributed more than $1,100 in a collection to start a fund to send the delegation, i Morgan Makes Loan , to Fascist Italy NEW YORK, Nov. 18.—Conteren- ces that are now being held in New York between the representatives of the J. P. Morgan and the Italian fascist government mission, headed by Count Volpi, are preparing to launch a $50,000,000 loan for the fascist power within the next two weeks. Tho several banking firms have at- tempted to get the privilege of shak- ing the shekels out of the pockets of small investors, it is understood that Morgan will do the underwriting of this loan. Morgar is also advancing a second loan of ¥50,000,000 to Italy so that the Mussolini government can Stabilize ite exchange crodit, Francezon’s remarks, a slug of type lropped out, which made the dele gate appear to say something quite LW.W.MEET Being Stripped from Face| TALKS BY-LAW ALTERATIONS Debts of Lower Units Are Investigated The 17th general convention of the Industrial Workers. of the World yes- tenday discussed the advisability of the cancellation of uncollectable in- debtedness of subordinate parts of the organization to the general or ganization, electing a committee to examine all accounts to determine their status. Most of the day was given over to discussion of minor constitutional alterations, The printer's devil in The DAILY WORKER office on Tuesday playeda couple, of tricks with the story. Over the. paragraph concerning Delegate Mincoff’s remarks the — sub-head “Opposes Dictators” was transformed to “Approves Dictators,” which is quite contrary to the delegate’s opin- ion. Also, in summarizing Chairman different than he did. With Them, Not With Their Views. Francezon had stated that when the workers of other lands were fighting against the capitalists, the I. W. W. should co-operate with them in the fight, views. that the I. W. W. should “co-operate with their political views.” It was learned that on Friday the convention received the report of P. J. Welinder, who was general secre- tary-treasurer pro tem and member of the General Executive Board until he resigned in July. Some indigna- tion arose over the circulation of the report in the months prior to the convention by private means around the country: The report was very lengthy and condemnatory of almost everyone who held or holds any influential po- sition, except, of course, Welinder himself. In general it charged that the officials-were “dictators,” graft- ers and Communists, and it is freely predicted that the report shows Welinder is going over to the emerg- ency program split. Dual Unionism Expensive. Welinder scatters his charges about with free hand, and reports are that when he failed of evidence he was. rich in interpretation. the charges, learned authenti other sources, concerns the dual u! attacks by the Building Construction Workers’ Industrial Union 330 on the Structural Iron Workers’ Union in New York. Welinder, however, was not opposed to the dualism, but only its expensé account which was increased by sal- aries to questionable organizers of $66 a week, with no results in break- ing up the Iron Workers’ Union even rat that rate. ‘He charges that the union spent \over $1,000 on the at- tempt. Welinder also resents that the Communists have a strong influence in the I. W. W. in checking the an- archistic campaign of slanderous at- tacks against Soviet Russia, which he interpreted as the “truth about Rus- sia.” Flirting with the E, P. In the view of some I, W. members, Welinder’s report is his apologia for “going emergency” since he started out with the Rowan split a year ago as chairman of Rowan’s convention, came over to the regular organization only because it was obviously the stronger, and now has gone to Europe where he writes friendly asticles in the papers belonging to the Anarch- ist International with whieh the split is affiliated. The delegates decided that Welin- der should be instruced to come back and face those he accuses and prove his charges to the next convention. TOOHEY COMING TO SPEAK HERE “ON COAL STRIKE The workers of Chicago will be regardless of their political given the opportunity to get first hand - information on the conditions in the anthracite strike fields when Pat Toohey, young strike leader, will speak next Tuesday, Nov. 24 at North- west Hall, corner North and Western avenues, at 8 p. m, . Besides Toohey, Alex Reid, secre tary of the Progressive Miner's Com- mittee, who together with Toohey were arrested and just recently re- leased from jail for their activities in the strike, will speak. Reid is well known, particularly among the miners in Illinois, where for years he has been carrying on a bitter struggle against the reactionary Farrington machine. Wm. F. Dunne, editor of The DAILY WORKER, who is at present touring the anthracite strike zone, will be back in time to give us information fresh from the fleld of struggle. \ Admission {s free, The meeting is under the auspices of the Progressive Miners’ Committee, The mistake! made it read’ Per Si he