The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 29, 1925, Page 4

Page Four THE DAILY WORKER Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 2118 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill. Phone Monroe 4712 —_——_ SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mali “(in Chicago only): By mail (outside of Chicago): $8.00 per year $4.50 six months $6.00 per vear $3.50 six months $2.50 three months $2.00 three months Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ilinols J, LOUIS ENGDAHL . WILLIAM F, DUNNE MORITZ J. LOEB. \ditors -Buginess Manager — Entered as second-class mail September 21, 1923, at the post-office at Chi- cago, Ill, under-the act of March 3, 1879, 290 Advertising rates on application. French Communist Program The Communist-Party of France, which played an important role in the chamber of deputies preceding the fall of the Painleve cabinet is rapidly gaining the confidence and support of the working masses of that country. Its most important agitational work is its con- sistent struggle against the imperialist adventurers in Syria and Morocco. Following the true Leninist policy of aiding the colonials in their nationalist struggles against imperalism, the French party is delivering sledge hammer blows against the policy of the socialist imperialists of the Herriot camp as well as the avowedly reactionary Poincareists. On the question of. stabilization of the frane and the tax pro- gram of the Painleve ministry, the Paris: Commiunist ; organ, Humanite, charges that the Painleve program followed the 1924 scheme of Poincare: inflation of currency by an increase of 9’ billion francs and a general taxation of 6 billion francs.’ The burden of direct taxes would fall on the masses; the industrial ‘tax of one billion would fall on the consumer; the small holder of government bonds was to be taxed 15% additional, while a head tax of 20 francs was to be placed on every citizen. To these taxed was added a heavy tax on small peasant holdings. Hwmanite remarks that the whole program is designed to avoid progressive income taxes on ,the big bourgeoisie and is similar to the German currency scheme Yf 1923 that in such suffering for the masses of German workers and middle elasses. Against the enslaving of the workers and peasants theCom- nist Party of France proposed: 1—Nationalization of banks and control of industry. 2—Nationalization of big capitalist monopolies ,such as railways, coal mines, insurance companies, etc. 3—Control of foreign trade. 4—Cancellation of foreign debts. 5—Equalization of wealth thru a tax on capital: a 6—Workers’ and peasant control of production and establishinent of co-operatives of workers and poorer peasantry... _.._ ake This program is linked with the colonial wars and is serving the purpose of exposing in a most glaring manner the collapse of the policies of the government that just fell as well as all the various bourgeois political strata of France. The demands can never be met by the capitalist government, but by popularizing them among the exploited masses the Communists effectively expose the class char- “aeter of the government and arouse the deepest resentment against it. The chaotic economic and political conditions in France create the objective conditions for great upheavals, the Bolshevik tactics of the Communist Party can be depended upon to rouse the workers thereby creating the subjective conditions that will produce a series of bitter struggles, intensifying the class conflict preparatory to the final onslaught. y Diplomats Follow Bankers a London dispatch containing information: that of international bankers in New York City antitipated acts of the Peking customs conference dealing with Chinese proves the Communist contention that diplomats are merely uts of capitalist interests. The of financiers that took up among themselves the question of Chinese customs duties occurred in the offices of J. P. in & company in New York on October 19, 20 and 21. The prin- in atte » Thomas W. Lamont, representing the Wall Publication of a consortit the meetin ndance we combine; R. St. Pierre, representing the French . 8. Addish, the British, and H. Kashiwagi, the Japanese. This consortium of bankers had met from time to time and had been keeping a close record of the events transpiring in China. The fact that the consortium met in the House of: Morgan has great historical and economie significance. ‘It indicates the rise to supremacy of Morgan, since first he played a decisive role in Chinese aff in 1913. At that time six great powers of the world were preparing to float a loan, known to history as the “Six-Power Loan.” It never materialized because Morgan did not want to share with five powers the exploitation of the resources of China. He; thru his presi- dent, Woodrow Wilson, intervened and the United States withdrew from the group arranging the loan. In place of a consortium of six nations, the “open door” policy was advocated so that Morgan could throw his immense financial powers against thé other national financiers. The war and its aftermath placed the House of Morgan in the position of bankers to the whole world. Now, twelve years after the liquidation of the six- power pact, Morgan unqueattonsbly dominates the situation. But none should mistake the present consortium as a medium assuring peace in the Pacific. Until the Wall Street collossus holds the destinies of China in bis own hands there will be strife in that part of the world. Phis agreement between bankers is as evanescent as was the original consortium of six nations. Tho now narrowed to four, the United States still strives to increase its naval power in the Pacifie. The naval base of the island of Oahu is not to be abandoned. Instead it is to be made as formidable as science, architecture and modern military equipment can make it, prepar- atory to the time when the consortium will-be reduced to two and then to one. And that one is to be Morgan if the military power can be developed to defend the financial power of Wall Street. Conferences of banking cotisortiums and customs commissioners alike are preludes.to war. Against this conspiracy the workers of Britain, France, Japan, China and the United States must fight avith untiring energy. The only force that can defeat the sanguinary schemes of the brigands of imperialism is the proletarian revolution. Get a member for the Workers Party aud a new subscription for the DAILY WORKHY . ». T HE DAILY WORKER TEIGLER MINERS TRIAL OPENS AT BENTON MONDAY Farrington. Machine Frames Militants (Continued from page 1) hoodwink the miners, the company re- fused to permit the assistant to enter the mine, with the result that the reg- ular weighman declined to stay on the job because he was unable to weigh the coal correctly, * Miners Walk Out, Thirteen hundred miners then walk- ed out of the Bell and Zoller mine. That same evening, at a mass meeting in resentful miners to return to work next morning and permit the stb-dis- trict officials to“handle the case in ac- cordance with the contract.. The men returned pending this settlement, Four days later the dispute was settled! Settled by D. B, Cobb, yice- president of the sub-district, im accor- dance with every detail of the de- mands of the company! . These de- mands were simply that the local pres- the park, Corbishly induced the} By EARL me DER. HEN the speci es of the International’ Ladies’ ment Workers’ Union Meets Monday in Philadelphia it ae faced’ with problems which re! d anticipate the problems of t ea the imme- diate future of the’ Be American labor movement, For this reason it will be studied carefully by everyone with the slightest interest in the la- bor movement. Its results will give some measure of the maturity of the forces which carried thru the glori- ous battle against reaction in the ident, Corbishly, the vice-president, Oscar Farthing, the pit committeeman, Steve | Meanoyich, and the ~check weighman, Pete Blazin, be ‘Témoved from|office. Mr. Cobb complied. Immediately, the mines were once more emptied. Not all the ufgings of the deposed officials could induce the men to,return, The miners demanded that their officials be replaced in of- fice. On’ the second night of the “wild- cat” strike, Lon Fox, president of the sub-district, came to a special meeting which he had ordered called for the purpose of electing néw oMcers and calling off the strike. Almost 800 min- ers packed the hall, listened to Fox, Cobb.and Babbington, a district board member, and firmly refused to elect new officers or to return to work. Klansmen Shoot Miners. The meeting was adjourned. In one section of the hall, as the miners were leaving, a fight started supposedly over a remark made by old Bert Farthing, who had supported the Klan up until two or three months prior to the sttike. Two Wilson brothers, both known to be klansmen, struck him to the floor. Young Farthing, who was at the door, hurried to the aid of his father. A general scrap followed dur- ing which Cobb pulled a blackjack and attempted to use it. He was knock- ed down and the weapon taken from him. After most of the men had left the hall, Alec Hargig an another well- known klansman and a thoroly dis- eredited member of the local, appear- ed in the doorway with a .38 auto- matic in his hand. Looking straight at one of the progressive and best liked mfhers, Mike Sarovich, he fired a shot which went thru Mike’s abdom- en and lodged in the hip of Hezza Hindman, a. sub-district board mem- ber who was behind Sarovich. Whitewash Murderer. To whitewash Hargis and:to frame up the local miners’ officials ig the purpose of fhe combined forces of re- action, Hargis who was found by the coroner’s jury to have fired the shot that killed Mike Sarovich was completely freed by an obliging grand jury. The charge was instead fasten- ed on Frank Corbishly who was not even in the hall when the shot. was fired. The two Wilson's who started the fight and Cobb who tried to use a blackjack are scot free, But 20 miners are being held for trial on the charges, made by Cobb, of assault with intent to murder, and conspiracy to murder. To Stifle Opposition. The aim of the Farrington-Fox ma- chine in this frame-up is to” kill off all opposition in the miners’ union to the traitorous policies pursued by the machine. Thompson, Watt, Tom Par- ry, Joe Angelo and others are already expelled; more are slated for the same fate. The machine wants no opposi- tion to it in the unions and at the next convention. Farrington uses cun- ning judgement. An honest and milit- ant miner expelled here, another one somewhere else, and so on, with the hope that soon no one will be left to open his mouth against this infamous scoundre] and his clique. The Zeigler frame-up is a case of honest working class fighters who are struggling against a solid bloc and under great handicaps. Thruout the county the rank and file miners have organized the Franklin County De- fense Committee, with Victor Cernich of Christopher, Ill, as treasurer, 'They are appealing for immediate aid in the form of donations, The International Labor Defense and every progressive labor organization is cooperating with the defendants, To “Abolish” Submarines. BERLIN, Nov. 27.—Abolition of sub- marines is now advocated by Admiral Von Tirpitz, the master mind of, Ger- many’s great war time submarine campaign against the merchant ‘ships of her enemies, “The inviolability of private proper- ty upon the high seas is an old legal principle, and | therefore favor the abolition of submarines,” said the ad- miral. The endoresement of abolition of submarines by Admiral von Tirpitz was not without qualifications how- ever, for he demands ‘that with the submarine there must also be abolish- ed naval blockgdes, New York garment market last sum- mer, The immediate background of the convention is the ma iggle which rallied 35,000 worke; Fie Tnterna- tional Ladies’ Gar it*Workers into open struggle for r,three months against the offici the union, Never was such a stration of mass sentiment s efore in Am- erican labor struggles in this move+ ment which began fiilling all the available halls in tinued in the gig: dium \demonstration, into the open-air Madison Square, an general demonstratis shops. It ig the poy movement which foi convention, and it is movement Which mus brought td expression in victorysat Philadlphia. The issues of the mass struggle last. The Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Convention Se centered around the betrayal of the | to use every energy to crystallize the workers’ interests by the officials; | entire broad left and progressive bloc especially the refusal to enforce the} as definitely as possible on the basis bosses, and the surrender of the cloak- Gar-| dressmakers’ agreement against the | of a program. The program of the recent National Needle Trades Con- makers’ demands to the governor’s} ference of the T. U. E. L.. provides commission of bankers and lawyers. such planks as a militant struggle The mechanism by which the officials | against the bosses; opposition to class carried out the betrayal—the “rotten | collaboration; for the shop delegate borough” system of representation, system; for proportional representa- the arbitrary raising of dues and] tion in joint boards and conventions; placing of assessments without the | for amalgamation of the needle trades consent of the membership; the | unions; for a labor party; for world wholesale expulsion of Communists | trade union unity; and other funda- and left wing officials; the use of hired | mental planks of this mAture that re- gangsters against the membership, present basic demands of the work- etc.,—became burning issues of the | ers, the broad left wing can be con- struggle because they flowed out of | solidated at Philadelphia. the basic surrender to the collabora- tion of the union officials with, the bosses, OT only has this movement an op- portunity to consolidate itself, ideologically and organizationally, at OF of the struggle a mass left wing ] Philadelphia. It also has the opport- was born. It contains all the honest} unity and the duty to completely militants in the union. Its leadership | smash and eliminate from the union and composition is a united front be-| those black forces represented by tween the Communists, the rank and] Breslau, Sigman and Dubinsky, and file socialists, anarchists, ete. Its | to give the I. L. G.'W. U. an adminis- backbone is the clear-cut left wing | tration based’upon a fighting program organized in the Trade Union Educa- tional League. Its most effective fighting weapon has been the Com- munist Jewish Daily Freiheit. program is as yet incomplete and in- definite. It has yet to come to matur- for the workers in the industry. Philadelphia is the battleground on which will be tested the new army Its | of progress in the I. L; G. W. U. With complete solidarity based upon the program hammered* out in the strug- ity. But it is one of the most promis-| gle of the past” year, with uncom- ing developments in the labor move-| promising militancy, with ‘flexible and ment of this country. It has immense | realistic leadership, the left wing and possibilities before it, At Philadelphia | progressive bloc can’ make Philadel- it will meet its first acid test, The task of the organized and con- phia a historic landmark in the pro- gress of the American labor move- summer were clear ” ecli They | scious left wing of the T. U. is | ment. CLEVELAND W. P, WINS IN FREE SPEECH FIGHT Judge Dismisses Case ’ Against t Benjamin Clevfand, O, (By (By Mai) After sev- eral unsuccessful attempts to frame a case that would justify t! the recent ar- rests of party members in this city, police were to-day forced to dismiss the case against Herbert Benjamin, district organizational secretary and admit that he was justified in resist- ing the arbitrary orders to cease dis- tributing leaflets on the street. Comrade Benjamin was arrested on Oct. 30 when he sehines ed to obey or- ders of local police quit distribut- ing the party’s program in the local elections. He was offered a release at the time of the arrest ‘providing he would sign a waiver. This he refused to do, insisting that if. the party is to be prevented from distributing our lit- terature it would talfefmore than an arbitrary order by nplice, which can be enforced or not asi they see fit. In dismissing the case Against’ Comrade Benjamin, Judge Gorlett, took occasion to express his angenathat it was im- possible for him to ‘find a law that would at the same time prevent the dissemination of Communist literature without interfering with those politi- cians whose views he shares, Only Party to Offer Program This is the third time that Comrade Benjamin appeared before the same judge on the charge of distributing leaflets. On the occasion of a prev- idus appearance Comrade Benjamin pointed out that the program- which he distributed and for which he was arrested was the only program ~that had been offered by any party in this election and that the candidates in the local elections had sought votes by means of “red fire campaign and hired clowns, who sang silly songs.” Judge Corlett admitted that’ this was not an intelligent way to appeal to voters. To which Benjamin replied by pointing out that these polificians were not lodged iu ‘the jail or dragged into court to be lectured fo, With the discharge of the case against Benjamin and the admission of Police Commissionam Barry that the arrest of Benjamin while speaking on the public square st the murder- fous Horthy regimé; twas unjustifiéd, the police has been forced to abandon their effort to intim! ite and harrass Workers Party mem The outcome of these cases will en- courage party memUers everywhere*in the district to resist the attempts’ to curtail the rights which they are sup- posed to have according to the boasts lot the champions gf American dem- ocracy, The district executive committee will now more energetically than be- fore prosecute the fight for the right to meet and speak in the cities like Bellaire where our meetings have been interfered with, Profited Thru ankruptey. WASHINGTON, lov, 27. ~The spe- cial house committde which has#peen investigating charges that Federal Judge G. W. English, of the eastern district of Illinois, “profited in bank- ruptcy cases beforehis court, will re- sure sessions here next Tuesday, Rep, Boies of Iowa, chairman, announced. PRM 4s e What do you earh? ‘What are con- ditions in your shgp?” How do you live? Write a 6 for The DAILY WORKER cone: The Workers Party GLEVELAND NOTES Work Among Women. Cleveland, Nov. 299.—The last party convention, acting on the instruction of the Communist International, de- cided to make work among women one of the important departments of the party work. With this in view the district ex- ecutive committee of district 6 is call- ing a meeting of women members of Cleveland for discussion of ways and means for starting work among wom- en in this city, Attendance of women comrades is compulsory. But work among women does not signify work only by women among women. The, men members of the party are also in- vited to attend the meeting. It will be held at the district office, 5927 Euclid ave, on Sunday, Dec. 6 at 2:30 p. m. PHILADELPHIA NOTES Open Forum Begins Sunday Philadelphia, Pa., Nov, 27.—At last the long awaited Communist Open Fo- rum is here. William F. Dunne, of Chicago, will be here to address the first forum on Sunday 29th at 8 P. M. The subject: “The Swing to the Left in the American Labor Movement”, is quite appropriate as it comes imme- diately after the furriers’ convention and on the eve of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union con- vention which opens on the following day in Philadelphia. The forum will meet regularly every Sunday at Grand Fraternity Hall, 1628 Arch st. at 8 p. m, sharp, Admission free, NEW YORK NOTES Important Meeting Monday. New York, Nov. 27.—Meeting of all party fraction secretaries and branch industrial organizers on Monday, Nov. 30, 108 EB. 14th Street. Bert Miller, Industrial Organizer, Read—Write—distribute The DAILY WORKER. CHINA The Hanging Question in the Colonies Booze-Running Co. Catalogues Grafting Volstead Act Enforcers < Despite all precautions that: prohi- bition enforcement administrator, E. C. Yellowley of the Chicago’ district was able to take to keep the fact that a black book, containing the names of all prohibition enforcement offici- alg and classified as to whether they could be “seen” or not, was taken in the raids onthe establishment of J. B. Scheure’ & Co,, 17 Austin Avenue. has leaked)out much to the anger of the director. : In, this: black. fuoki part of which is in code, ate'the names of the dif- ferent -enféréement~ officers and in- formation as to whether they could be “seen” and by whom. The book also contained the dif- ferent traffie routes over which it ‘was “cheapest” and best to send their shipments of booze. In this section the names of the different enforce- ment officials and their “scale of pri- ces” was listed as well as the “trust- worthy” drivers and workers on the roads and express lines. During the raid on the warehouse one of- the members of the local. bu- reau was found in the building. A vault, which it is expected will con- tain pre-Volstead spirits bore a seal of the intérhal revenue department and “le; hibition squad from opening the safe. This warehouse, in which thousands of gallons 0f-spirits of all kinds were found, wag directly across from’ the Chicago criniinal courts building and has been in business quite some time. ' Firesin Laboratory, Damage '6f $100,000 was: caused by fire, fed: by exploding chemicals, to- day in the $1,000,000 plant of the Ab- bott Laboratories. at North Chicago. The flames were placed under control after apparatus from nearby towns had joined the north Chicago firemen and prevented the fire from spreading after two buildings had been attack- ed. A checkup showed all employees safe. The ouly casualty was Edward Lindgren, a former Waukegan City fireman, who was overcome by chem- ical gases before gas masks were dis- tributed to the fire fighters. His con- dition is not serious. * difficulties’? kept. the pro-, SHOP NUCLEUS TRAINING CLASS _ THURSDAY Nicht Also Four Other Classes at N. Y. Workers’ School New York, Nov, 23.—Perhaps the most important course of the five at the Workers School is the Fundamen- tals of Leninism (Shop Nucleus Train- ing Course), instructor, Jack Stachel. This course will train one worker of each shop nucleus, preferably the or- ganizer, to lead political discussions in his shop nucleus. The shop nucleus will select the comrade to take the training course, exact attendance from him and pay his fee. The course will combine the “Fundamentals of Lenin- ism” and “Party Organizational Prob- lems”, the outline being approximately as follows: 1, Capitalist wage slavery—The sys- tem under which we live. 2, Imperialism, present dominant form of capitalism—The last stage of capitalism. 8, The breach im the imperialist front and the epoch of social revolu- tion. 4. The Communist order of society —The abolition of the contradictions of capitalism and the emancipation of the workers. , 5, The dictatorship of the proletariat ~The unavoidable pre-requisite of the struggle for Communism. 6. Proletarian dictatorship and the allies of the revolution—Colonies and the Balance, 7. International party of the proleta- riat—The roail to the dictatorship of the proletariat. 8. The party and the masses. 9. Structure and organizational problems of the party—Shop nuclei, street nuclei, shop committees, etc. 10. Special campaigns of the party —Blectofal campaigns, Soviet Russia, recruiting campaigns, Communist press, 11. The work of the shop nucleus, . Work of the different officers. . The shop paper. . Legal and illegal methods. How the nucleus brings the party into the shops. . How the nucleus mobilizes the masses for the party cam- paigns. 12. Problems of Bolshevization, In addition to meeting the needs of our educational work in line with the party’s program of Bolshevization, the “Shop Nucleus Training Course” will also serve to maintain a steady per- sonal cnotact with each of the shop nuclei through its best representative —the one chosen by the nucleus to take the course and be the leader in” the nuclei educational work. The nuc- leus members wil therefore have a direct means of bringing any special problems in the shop directly to the attention of the party higher commit- tees for solution. Thus the shop nuc- leus training course will help in the function of the nuclei. Marxian Economics, instructor, J. Mindel, will take up the different schools of economics and then con- sider the fundamental elements of Marxian economics. This course is preparatory to a second course in the Economics of the Era of Financial Capital and Monopoly. It takes up all the classie concepts of Marxian economics, An interesting feature, seldom or never treated in a course in Marxian economics in the United States, is the study of the concentra- tion of capital in agriculture and the general economics of the agrarian problem. _The Fundamentals of Communism, instructor, Geo, Siskind, is a course particularly designed for new entrants into the party. and those who may. have been in the party for many years but not had the time to get a funda. mental training. The second section of the course includes such topics as: the dictatorship of the proletariat, so- ciety under Communism, relation to the party, to its leaders and to the masses, relation to socialist and bour- geoisie revolutions, ete. “Class in Russian Language -The Russian Iginguage Course is also announceed. The purpose of the course is to train a selected group to read certain literature in Russian which is not - ‘available in» other Jan- guages. Finally, there will begin @ course entitled: The Social Interpretation of Modérn Literature, instructor, Bli B. Jacobson, This course aims to provide critical survey of the most important works in modern literature, . thelr special significance and attem ing to estimate them from a Com- munist viewpoint. The novel, drama essay and poetry of America and major European countries in times will be considered. Among thors to be taken up are: a, United States: Sinclair Carl Sandburg, Sherwood An Theo. Dreiser, Floyd Dell, ete, b, England: Shaw, Galsworthy, H. Lawrence, Wilde, etc. ce, Russia: Tolstoy, Daa Andreyey, Gor! C exander Blok, Demyan, Redny, yakovsky, Lebedinsky, i d, Scandinavian; Ibsen, Strindberg, Hamsun, ‘ e. France; Anatole France, Rolland, Henri Barbus: : f. Germany; eaeop Do: b |