The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 25, 1925, Page 2

/ } Page Two BRITISH MINORITY MOVEMENT ACTIVITIES ARE STIMULATED BY GOVERNMENT PERSECUTION By TOM (Special to The LONDON—(By Mail.)—The MANN. Daily Worker) prosecution of twelve comrades including the general secretary’ of the National Minority Move- ment, Harry Pollitt, a member of the Boiler Makers’ and Ship- builders’ Union, and Walter Ha nnington, the secretary of the metal workers’ section of the National Minority Movement, has/ stimulated left wing activities among trade unionists. Hannington is a member of t he Amalgamated Engineers and closely connected with the National Unemployed Workers’ Com- mittee movement. T. Murphy a very active member and still another of the twelve is Another of the twelve being’ prosecuted is J. | of the Amalgamated Engineers, | Arthur MacManus also a mem- ber of the Engineers, and Tom Bell a member of the Moulders’ Union, and William Gallacher? also an engineer and member of the A. E. U. ‘There are no other six men in the country that have worked more ef- fectively in the unions, to secure a one hundred per cent membership, to eliminate sectionalism and to make working class solidarity a fact. They are to appear at the “Old Bailey” for trial before a jury in a week or ten days time, they are to be placed on trial for sedition under the incitement to mutiny act of 1797, the same act that the present writer was tried under and sentenced to six months imprisonment at the Manche- ster assizes in 1912. * ’ Activities of Trades Council. The Trades Councils in England and Scotland have in earlier times been of | great service to the cause of labor, | but in recent. years they have been frowned on by the council of the Trade Union Congress and by the con- gress itself. During the past two years, however, it has become re- cognized that the Trades Councils have a very important role to fill, and mainly as a result of left wing pro- paganda the General Council of the Trade Union Congress has convened a national conference of Trades Coun- cils in London, and a series of county conference thruout the country, and what is known as the Joint Consult- ative Committee is preparing model rules for Trade Councils with a view to uniformity of action and the link- ing up of the councils nation-wide for national requirements. The Trades Councils have in a num- ber of instances been stultified by the fact that many of them paid so much attention to political affairs that they seriously neglected industrial matters. Many now see this to be an error and definite action is being taken to in- dustritize the councils and to prepare tor concerted action over a big field. Alliance of Trade Unions. With the object of preparing for de- finite action early in 1926, when the miners and other unions affairs are expected to become critical, several of the largest unions have been en- gaged forming an alliance. Draft rules have been agreed upon and these are being sent to the members of the unions concerned, but the Na- A = B DECEMBER stirring | Fiction 1825. re) © 4 S Literature Latest wo R K E m S Sociology MEREZHKOVSKY. historical novel dealing with one of the most episodes in R tempt to dethrone Czar Nicholas I in December, 12 mo, 320 pp. Max Goldstein Max Goldstein died in the Doftan prison in Roumania after a hunger-| strike that lasted fifty days as a pro- | test against the inhuman torture he was subjected to by the Roumanian secret police. tional Union of Railwaymen submitted proposals which were not accepted and they have withdrawn, which dé- tracts seriously from the fighting ef ficiency of the new allignce. Some’ are of opinion that the proposals made by the officials of the NationaT Union of Railwaymen were intended to sabotage the alliance; if this is so, it is a very serious matter and will deserve and receive strong censure. Soviet Oil Industry Investigates Mexican. Productive Methods MEXICO, €CITY—(FP)—Because | of Mexico’s importance as an oil pro- ducing country; the government of Russia sent a commission to Mexico to study the methods used. Economics THE FOURTEENTH by DMITRI An intense and gripping ian history,the at- $2.00 AS WE SEE IT | (Continued from page 1) promoter recently offered to pay the Roumanian debt to the United States if he could have the services of the queen of that country to boost his business. He promised to return her in any condition she desired. That lady, however, was unable to accept the offer as she was then engaged to write a series of articles on “How to wear a crown” for the Hearst papers. 2 8 OON, members of Europe’s royal families will be as plentiful in the United States as persons mistaken for Martin Durkin, who defeated the Chicago police department and was obliged to go to the hospital to re- cover from the strain of laughing at the efforts of the police to capture him, An Austrian count married the daughter of an oil king. The oil man felt so peeved because his daughter did not marry into royalty that he threatened to disown her unless she disowned the count. But the count refused to be disowned until the oil magnate raised the price of gasoline half a cent a gallon and gave half a jday’s proceeds to the perfectly satis- fied husband. ee HIS particular count, Salm some- thing or other, is now in New York, but is not making much head- way. He is working very hard, nights, and never looks at the clock, A fellow like him should get along. But the competition is too keen, Why should the daughter of a near beer king marry a count of no account when any steamer may come in laden to the Plimsoll line with the monarch- ial output of Europe? And why should dukes, kings, and other an- |tiquities degrade themselves by mar- |rying for gain, when they can earn an honest living either at a circus or |drawing attention to a sub-division in need of advertising? * 2 ALVIN COOLIDGE told New York business men a few days ago |that American, money saved Europe after the war. The business men must have gotten a deep feeling of Satisfaction out of such exalted recognition of their generosity. The papers tell us that they applauded the president when he told them they were a lot of good fellows. Next he told them that in future business would suffer from no fool- ish restrictions, which hampered it in the past. Business has now been purified, Calvin told them. eee LS Meee situation in Europe is fairly satisfactory to American business now. After the war Europe’s only export trade consisted of penniless aristocrats and missions in search of loans. While the aristocrats could be utilized to amuse the daughters of the business men and the manufac- ers loaning the begging expeditions nioney with which to purchase the Products of American factories, the European workers were dangerously near following the example of the Russian workers and peasants and getting rid of their robber rulers for good. Our masters did not like the prospect at all; hence their generos- ity. i. had no objection to the bank- none is where the American dollar stepped in. Wall Street is now } Managing the financial affairs of Ger- many, Hungary and Austria. Re- cently a $100,000,000 loan was grant- ed to Mussolini to enable that assas- sin to stabilize his rotten currency and to give a new lease of life to his still rottener government. France and her ally, Poland, are on the brink of a financial precipice, but Wall Street will put them on their feet, temporarily, if they agree to Wall Street’s terms. .In the mean- time England is flirting with France, THE DAILY, WORKER SOME sous TRAINING LABOR TO RUN SOCIETY New IntelligentsiaComes from Workers KHARKOV, Russia— (FP) —“Uni-| versities train the generals and other high officers who command the affairs of modern society. If4he workers ever} expect to take control of the world! they must have their leaders trained in the universities.” ) This is the educatjonal proposition laid down by Jean Riappo, chairman of the higher education committee of the Ukraine, Riappo,, supports his contention by pointing out that in ezarist days there were thtee kinds of schools in Russia, the common schools for the children of workere and peasants, the high schools for the children of the little business’men and the universities and, teghnical schools for the aristocracy and the masters of industry. This system produced an ignorant working Class and a high- ly trained ruling class of landlords and capitalists. In 1913-14 the universities and tech- nical schools of Russia contained 64 per cent aristocrats and children of the big business men; (30 per cent children of small buginess men, 4 per cent children of peasants (who made up over four-fifths of Russia) and 2 per cent of children of the workers. “Universities gave the training to the class in power,” Riappo argues, Gand this training was a great source of strength to the Russian rulers. The universities were a big element in maintaining a czarist dictatorship.” Then came the revolutions of 1917. By 1918 there were no aristocrats left in the universities, but in their places the children of the new-rich class of business men made up the great body | of university students. In 1920, 70) per cent of all Russian ‘university stu-| dents belonged in this Glass. | “Here was a real danget. 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A moy- narration of Man’s age-old strug- FOUNDATIONS OF CHRISTIAN. perhaps hinting of . an alliance against England’s only formidable competitor in the capitalist world— the United States. * * * T is rather significant that France and England have made an “oily” alliance in Syria and Mosul, against the Druse tribesmen and the Turks, ostensibly, But there is bigger fish in the pond than the Druses and Turks, Only a few days ago a Lon- don correspondent of a big Ameri- can newspaper announced that war had broken out between the Stand- ard Oil company and the British oil interests. This is nothing less than a skirmish in the inevitable conflict between the British and the United States government. e. 2, © CT is plain to anyone with the slight- est insight into the ways of capi- talist diplomacy that Britain is pre- paring the diplomatic ground for a struggle with the United States, In view of the refusal of the United States to settle the French debt on terms favorable to the latter, the re- cent agreement between France and England for joint action in the oil fields of the Near East are signifi- cant, Also England’s offer of 20 per cent of the Mosul oil to Germany. When Washington intervenes to “save” the Druses or the natives of Irak, you will know it is the Stand- ard Oil talking. Tax Book Profits, WASHINGTON, Noy. 23.—In a 5- to-4 decision, the supreme court held today that distributions made by a corporation to its shareholders in 1917 are taxable to the shareholder at the 1917 tax rates, if the corporation has eae | Catnings for that year to pay them, ” y workers and peasants, but to the sons and daughters of business men, We were threatened with the same dan- ger that overtook Germany—a dictat- orship of the new-rich business class.” Riappo continued: “ We had to act quickly. Workers wére not ready to enter the universities. They could not get ready, officially, as,they had never gone’ eyen through elementary schools. So we created the workers’ faculties (rabfacs); Sent the men there direct from the factories and in 3 or 4 years had then ready for the university courses. ‘Séme of these factory workers did their 8 hours in the shop and then did'4 or more hours in school, five evenings a week. In other cases their unions pai their way through the rabfa¢s ana the men gave full time to study, “At the same time’ we built up a system of technical Schools in the factories and in the industrial centers, Today, in the Ukraine, 67 percent of the students in these'tethnical schools are the children of workers and peas- ants. “Between the rabfiics and these technical schools, we have solved our university problem. In 1920 there were only a few more children of workers and peasants in the universi- ties than there were in 1917. By 1924, 24 per cent of’ the university students were from peasant families and 18 per cent from workers’ fam- ilies. In 1925, workers and peasants made up 56 per cent of the university student body. This fall the per cent is about 65 per cent. “There are three landmarks,” Ri- appo concluded. “Aristocrats, 1914, 64 per cent of university students; small business men’s children, 1920, 70 per cent; and in 1926, workers and peasants, 65 per cents That shows the swing of the pendulum. The work- ers and peasants of ‘Russia have tak- en economic and “political power. Their sons and daughters, in the technical schools an@ universities are learning the art of tsing that power for the benefit of themselves and their children.” w Riappo smiled. “You, in the United States,” he said, “aéeuse us of being undemocratic in owt education. Un- democratic? Perhaps, but we are al- so wise. We are safeguarding the workers’ republic by seeing that the workers get the training necessary to protect their own «interests. That means university education and we Propose that the warkers keep what they have gained byvlearning how to use their power efficiently.” Refusal of Pardon to Whitney by Governor May Aid Fight on Law SAN FRANCISCO—(FP)—The re- fusal of Gov. Richardson to pardon Anita Whitney means, according to the Whitney committee formed in San Francisco, that the movement for her pardon will be tunned into agitation for repeal of the @alifornia criminal syndicalism law. Tis ig satisfactory to Miss Whitney, gwho refuses to ask for a pardon while nearly 80 I. W, W. members are serving time for the same “offense.” 0, ¢ : "By J, LOUIS ENGDAHL. B dot fascism in France looks about for an opportunity and bides its time for an auspicious moment to strike for power, In fact, it is declared that the League of Patriotic Youth, that has already paraded its blue-shirted followers by the thousands thru the streets of Paris to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and beneath the Arc de Triomphe, offers its chosen dictator in the person of Alexandre Millerand, late occupant of the presidential palace, and previously a power in several cabinets, L With the second fall of the Painleve cabinet, Sunday, the numerous forces within the French capitalist state again come into collision in the struggle to organize a new cabinet to take up the nation’s financial problems. * . * * it ; In the ambitions of Alexandre Millerand and his follow- ers, there is a parallel to the coup d'etat that madg Benito Mussolini the fascist dictator of Italy. a7) Mussolini was a “socialist.” So was Millerand. They were both considered firebrands in their youth, But both have developed into the vilest of traitors against the working class, Millerand, like Mussolini, stands today for principles directly opposite to those he championed when at Saint- Mande in 1896 he proclaimed the right of French workers to strike. * * om * Millerand would-be fascist dictator of France, did not wait for the war to offer him an opportunity to turn against labor. Ten years before he had championed, along with Viviani and Briand, in the Second (Socialist) International, the right of socialists to enter bourgeois governments. This trio saw their treason capture the French socialist party dur- ing the war, when French socialists were taken into the war cabinets. * * ° s It was in 1920, during the wave of revolutionary enthu- siasm that was sweeping Europe's working class, that Miller- and, as president, used the whole power of the capitalist state to crush the French general strike of that year. In recent years Millerand has attacked Herriot's vatican and Soviet policies, thus endearing himself:to the most reac- tionary elements in France, including the royalists who plot the return of a monarchy. * * ° e i It is declared that the League of Patriotic Youth, or- ganized by Millerand’s tool, Pierre’ Taittinger, extreme conservative deputy, is spending millions of francs to strengthen the organization. No mention has so far been made of where these lavish funds ‘¢ome from. But the sight of Wall Street handing out a $100,000,000 loan to Mussolini's dictatorship in Italy might naturally be considered as easing the way for. spending huge sums in France in the hope that Morgan may look with equal favor upon a fascist tyranny in Paris. * * * * Millerand, however, has several’ obstacles in his way that did not confront Mussolini. The Italian Communist Party was young and inexperienced when Mussolini seized power. The French Communist Party is today one of the best in the whole Communist International, The Italian party was still organized on a social-democratic, geographi- ca! basis when Mussolini triumphed. The French party is today built solidly upon a shop nuclei basis, firmly imbedded in the masses of French labor. Millerand may wish to be a French Mussolini. But the French workers in increasing — under Communist leadership, struggle for a Soviet epublic. s The issue becomes daily clearer above the petty scurry- ings of bourgeois politicians to form short-lived cabinets to deal frantically and hopelessly with the insoluble contradic- tions that will continue as long as capitalist rule lasts. LL.D, PROTEST —|LABOR PLANKS MEETING AGAINST} DISCUSSED BY JAILING GITLOW Labor Organizations to Participate By L. P. RINDAL. (Worker Correspondent) ‘HOBO’ MEET (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Nov. 23.—A protest demonstration against the imprison- ment of Benjamin Gitlow, arranged by the International Labor Defense, will take place Tuesday, November 24, at 8 p. m., at Webster Hall, 119 E. 11th Street, Comrade Gitlow is well known in the labor movement as one of the best fighters for its cause. The decision against Gitlow is a decided menace to the working class of the whole coun- try. The sustaining of Gitlow’s con- viction by the United States supreme court supplies a precedent which will mean a railroading to long terms in prison of many other well known fighters in the ranks of the labor movement, t The International Labor Defense is fighting this case, and calls upon all labor bodies and working class or- ganizations to take the same stand. This decision of the United States supreme court must be met with a united front on the part of all work- ers of this country. Come to the de- monstration. Demand the freedom of Comrade Gitlow, Among the speakers to address the meeting are Louis Hyman, general manager joint board of the Cloak, Dress and Reefer Makers’ Union, Sam Lipzin, chairman Amalgamated Action Committee, Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, Robert Dunn, member national committee Interna- tional Labor Defense, Willian Wein- stone of the Workers Party,» Py. -P. Cosgrove, of the Shoe Workers’) Pro- tective Union and many othergy.) .. | LOS ANGELES, Calif., —(By Mail) —News bulletins received here from V. C, Anderson, delegate from the In- ternational Labor Defense to the In- ternational Brotherhood Welfare As- sociation’s convention at Denyer, Colo., state that this “hobo” gathering is discussing a program containing such demands as unemployment in- surance, a shorter work day, a labor press, and international co-operation. James Eads How, the “hobo million- aire” is a “back number” at the con- vention, according to reports, The migratory workers are antagonistic to his ideas of improving social condi- tions by getting such charity as doughnuts and coffe. Tho he gets a lot of advertising from the capitalist press, he doesn’t get many good words from convention delegates. Hundreds of men are at the conven- tion and one woman, Susan S. Harris, organizer from Colorado Springs. She is a white-haired nurse of English edu- cation, now out of work. , To Save THE DAILY WORKER a eres Communi An Obstacle to Millerand’s Hope for French Fascist Victory LENROOT TO LEAD WORLD COURT FIGHT Best Spokesman Cal Can Get WASHINGTON, Nov. 23.—Senator Irving L. Lenroot, of Wisconsin, is relied upon by President Coolidge to lead the administration forces in its fight for the world court. Lenroot held a long conference with Coolidge on the possibilities of passing the measure to endorse the participation of the United States in the perman- ant court on the basis of the Harding- Hughes-Coolidge demands. Unyielding warfare-upon Senator Borah and the other irreconciliables is the watchword of ‘Lenroot? The Wisconsin senator was almost as vin- dictive against Senator Hiram John- son of California as he was against Borah. Both Johnson/’and Borah oc- cupy important positions on the for- eign relations committee, while Lenroot is a comparatively new ntem- ber of that committée. The committee will probably recommend nonconcur- rence in the administration proposals, and Borah will lead the fight against the court. , Lenroot, himself, is a machine pol- itician of small-bore type. He never had an idea worth repeating in his whole life. His utterances are recogn- ized as the phonographic reproduc- tions of Wall Street. In his own state of Wisconsin he threw his support to the opponent of young LaFollette in the last senatorial election held in that state and was miserably defeated in spite of the fact that he pleaded with the voters to support Coolidge’s administration. The defeat was a re- buke to Coolidge. But Lenroot is the only staunch Coolidge man on the foreign relations committee so he will be pushed forward. The political situ- ation in Wisconsin is such that Len- root will meet defeat next year whon he runs for reelection. Tho a stubborn fight is predicted it is conceded by most political observ- ers that the proposition of this coun- try’s adherence to the world court will win. Lenroot' claims that’ the administration has assurance of sup- port from at least 75 senators, enough to win the fight. Under a rule adopted at the last session of the senate, discussion on the world court will ‘commence on De- cember 17 and may be continued well into 1926, The sponsoring of adherence to the court by the government is openly talked of as a move in the interest of American finance capital, especially since Coolidge’s New York speech last week wherein he not only advocated adherence to the world court. but also threw out a strong suggestion in favor of this country entering the league of nations. He said that the government must follow American investments in- to European affairs, BRITISH RULE [RDEA Speech of Shapurji Saklatvala in the House of Commons. A bitter indictment of Brit- ish imperialist domination, given by Secretary Kellogg as a reason for barring the author from the United States. Add this sp!endid pamphlet to your library or give it to your fellow worker in the shop and trade union. 10 Cents In lots of 100 or more—5 Cents, THE DAILY WORKER PUB, CO. 1113 W. WASHINGTON BLDv,, CHICAGO, ILL. COME AND HEAR WM. F. DUNNE, who has just returned from the anthracite zone, PAT H. TOOHEY, youthful leader of the striking miners, ALEX REID, national secretary of the Progressive Miners’ Com- mittee speak on “The Anthracite Strike, the United Mine Workers of America and the Government” at NORTHWEST HALL, corner North and Western Avenues TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 8 P, M. SHARP. spices Progressive Miners’ Committee, Admission free. —