The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 4, 1925, Page 2

Page Two COGS IN SIGMAN’S MACHINE MESH BADLY AFTER THE PROGRESSIVES THE DAILY WORKER ‘ os BERLIN BUILDS BATHS SENATORSRAP |<Daity? Mass (EXPERT WITNESS marae me | ME bee Tae te i ATTACK REPORT ON CREDENTIALS (Continued from page 1) was a clear evasion of responsibility and without precedent jn conventions, He characterized the maneuver as a plan to disfranchise 75 per cent of the union membership and was interrupt- ed by Sigman who warned against spectators participating in demonstra- tions. Hochman raised a point of or- der that Hyman was not speaking to the committee report but Hyman was allowed to continue, Refuse to Recognize Fake Charges. Hyman then stated that the mem- bership for which he spoke would re- cognize no fake charges, would ap- pear before no such appeals commit- tee and that the whole procedure was a violation of the recently concluded peace agreement. Dubinsky Speaks for “The Machine” He said that in the war conducted by the administration against the New York membership that not only trade union ethics had been violated, but that the rules of so-called civil- ized warfare had also been abrogated. He concluded amidst great applause. The convention then adjourned as the hall could not be obtained for an afternoon session. The credentials committee reported 285 delegates with two fraternal delegates, Martin Plat- tel of the German Needle Trade Work- ers’ Union who has credentials from Amsterdam as well and Davidovitch from the Russian-Polish Needle Trade Workers’: Union. Of the 285 delegates, 100 are said to be progressive and supporting the New York locals, By WILLIAM F. DUNNE. (Special to The Daily Worker) PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Dec. many cogs meshing badly, went 2.—The Sigman machine, with into action today with Dubinsky of Local 10 as its first spokesman. The strong fight of the pro- gressives yesterday on the credentials report brought results which deprived Dubinsky’s speech of any real punch as he had to announce that the credentials committee did not mean what it said about charges against Locals 2, 9 and 22. In other words, Dubinsky in the name of the machine in- formed the convention that the faked charges against these three progressive locals would be quashed if the left wing would cease the exposure of the machine’s artificial delegates and crooked election methods. Portnoy, of Local 22, answered Dubinsky by saying that the progresives could stomach his abuse in view of his long step es backward on the credentials report. Portnoy showed by facts and figures from previous convention proceed- ings that the credential committee had violated the constitution. “You have and we can prove that you have 50 delegates representing only 700 members,” Portnoy in con- clusion evoked prolonged applause by stating “the joint action committee is on the job” and that no favors from the machine were wanted by the pro- gressives. Zimmerman characterized Dubinsky as “a cheap actor.” Dubinsky Barred Candidates. It was amusing, said Zimmerman, to find Dubinsky who had arbitrarily ruled every eligible progressive can- e-didate from the ballot in Local No. 10 now posing as a defendant of the constitution. “Our bosses,” said Zjm- merman, “are the rank and file. We are not here to split the convention or to split the union. The progres- sives came here to heal the wounds caused by the expulsion policy of the machine” referring to Dubinsky’s statement that the credentials. com- mittee had been misunderstood, warned the administration that a con- tinuation of such actions would cause the membership to misunder- stand just as the membership misun- * derstood the expulsion policy and re- volted against it. Antonini of Local No. 89 made a clever speech supporting the machine but playing to ‘the left wing he hinted’ that before the convention was over he might incline more to the left. Antonini is undoubtedly open for a deal on the basis of office. Fight Bosses and Officials. Morris Rubin of Local No. 2 made an eloquent speech concluding with the remark that the machine charged Zimmerman with membership in the Communnist Party but that altho he himself belonged to no party he was proud to fight side by side with Zim- merman because he was fighting the bosses and the machine for the mem- bership. “We learned a long time agd that we must fight the bosses,” said Rubin, “but last summer we learned that we must also fight some union officials and for the same reason we have to fight bosses—so that we can build our union.” Rose Wortis gave a summing up of the policy of the progressives ‘and stated that it was necessary that a complete exposure of the crooked acts and artificial delegations of the machine be made. The progressive bloc is well organ- ized in the convention and the ma- ¢ghine has been badly shaken by the debate in which not one word in an- swer to the charges of illegal elec- tions has been made. Unidentified Man Is _ Killed by Klansmen MARION, Ill, Dec. 2—-No identifi- cation had been made as yet of the body of a man about 25 years old which was found in a ditch along the road between here and Herrin. The body riddled with bullets, was found by Otis Sanders, a farmer, at a high- way point which is not traveled very much, The body bore a not stole from his friends." Towards a World Bolshevik Party | by Jay Lovestone—in the December issue of The Workers Monthly, TOLEDO WORKERS HEAR PAT TOOHEY ON MINE STRIKE Coaldigger Urges Need of Triple Alliance By FRED DAVEY. (Worker Correspondent) TOLEDO, Ohio, Dec. 2.—Despite the heavy downpour of.rain, the meeting arranged for Pat H. Toohey, youthful leader of the anthracite miners, in the banquet hall at the Labor Tempk here, was well attended by worker: who desired to hear of the condition: in the anthracite flelds and about th problems that face the miners. wh« are on strike for better living ¢ondi tions. For almost two hours Toohey deali with many phases of the present 158 000 miners’ strike and urged the six- hour day and five-day week, the min- imum wage scale, abolition of the con- tract system to really improve their conditions. The audience listened with great intent as he spoke of the deplorable conditions of labor, and the forces at work always in and around the mines in the operators’ interests. The inequalities of pay were gone into with some detail. For Triple Alliance. Toohey touched on the relationship of the miners to all organized labor and advocated the formation of a la- bor party which would unite all labor- ng masses so as to maintain a united front. The necessity of an understand- jing between the three great forces of abor, miners, transport workers and railroad workers was apparent. In this way the workers’ demands for better living conditions would be more readily granted. The treachery of the mine union officials was gone into; the real issues affecting the miners were submerged in the de- mands of the check-off system, Denounce Officials. After the meeting several questions were answered; the methods of the union officialdom jwete discussed fur- ther, and strongly denounced, and as long as officials of ‘the unions played into the hands, of the operators and the capitalist government, not much hope was held out for the improve- ment of conditions of the miners, It was up to the miners to support the left wing, the progressives in the nions to change the bad conditions. The chairman of the meeting was Bruce Smith who polled 5,000 votes in Toledo recently on a straight Com- munist platform. He was a candi- date for vice-mayor, West Orawa Drifts Helplessly on Sea After Losing Rudder SAN FRANCISCO, Calif, Dec, 2.— Rudderless, the steamer West Orowa is drifting helplessly at sea, about 1,933 miles off the Columbia river, according to a radio message received here. — (Special to The Dally Worker) BERLIN, Dec. 2—The magnifi- cent baths of ancient Rome will be rivalled by baths proposed for Ber- lin. It Is proposed to build a bath- | ing pool, heated and flooded with ultra-violet rays, Riviera of its own, giving Berlin a Interparliamentary Congress Exposes Capitalist Plot (Continued from page 1) ences and described the attempts of Great Britain to attach Germany to her policy. Stoecker declared that the actual wire puller in Locarno was America, bat that England also had strengthen- ed her position there, “American cap italism wishes stable conditions ix western Europe and the interests o/ England demand the forcing back oi French dominance on the continent,’ declared Stoecker. “The chief mean ing of the Locarno pact is the forma- tion of a capitalist bloc against So- viet Russia. The German bourgeoisie had sold Germany’s sovereignity in Locarno in order to maintain their class ascendancy insidé Germany. The German nationalists do not carry on any opposition of principle to the Locarno pact but an opposition in order to be able to obtain better terms for themselves in the inner political game. “Locarno is a war pact against So- viet Russia, and the stronger Soviet Russia becomes, the stronger will the contradictions between England and Russia become and the stronger will the sympathy of the colonial people for Russia grow. Instead of disarm- ament, we see overywhere a race in armaments, The workers are better able to recognize the dangers of the Locarno pact than many think, “A&A significant sign of the spirit of the workers against the Locarno pact is the fact that neither the Marseilles congress nor the London executive session of the Second International was able to arrive at any final deci- sion with regard to Locarno, The an- ti-bolshevist policy of the reformists is becoming ever more difficult to carry out. Locarno is also a pact against the European workers. The workers must place the security pact of the international working class against the security pact of the cap- italists.” Saklatvala stressed in his speech the distrust of the workers and the niddle class which must be utilized. Jn the basis of the pact text he show. 2d that it must inevitably lead to new wars. England could observe the danger of a bloc between Germany, Soviet Russia and the colonial peo- ples and was therefore working to secure Germany’s remoyal from such a bloc and its entry into the league of nations. In this it has been suc- cessful in Locarno which means a conspiracy of England against Soviet Russia. Overstraeten of Belgium declared that the Locarno pact was not only a war pact against Soviet Russia, but also an offensive against the colonial peoples, against the working masses of the East. The Polish comrade pointed out that the economic consequences of the Locarno pact must’ be realized and stressed. For Poland the Locarno pact meant the sale of Poland to for- eign capitalists. The slogan of the working class against Locarno must be the demand for an alliance with Soviet Russia. Workers of Lima, O., Form Local of I. L. D. By SCOTT WILKINS, (Worker Correspondent) LIMA, 0O., Dec, 2—A meeting was arranged to consider the question of International Labor Defense. F. G Biedenkapp a national representativ« addressed the gathering. He not onl: interested his audience on the ¢ondi tion of the working class of the world and their need of defense, but con- vinced them that International Labor Defense has the most practical and far ‘reaching plan ever proposed in this countrry, to meet the persecution inflicted on the working class. A motion was carried to form a lo- cal organization,’ which resulted in every person present taking out mem- bership. Aside from the Labor Defense, this meeting was represented by those di- rectly interested in organized labor, and the results will be a benefit to the general labor movement here, Russian Agricultural Expert Will Study Microbiology Here (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Dec. 2.—Mrs, Anastie Rokiky of Leningrad, an agricultural expert, arrived on the Royal Mail liner Araguaya. She holds a fellow- ship from the Leningrad Agricultural Tnstitute and will go to one of the Rockefeller farm experimental sta tions in New Jersey, where she wil! itudy the effect of microbiology on griculture, OF. atrotya brought into frequent debate on the AGAINST THEM Unite in Denouncing Fascist Clown (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, Dec. 2.—The threat of Vice-President Charles G. Dawes to take the stump against senators of all political faiths if they fight his Proposal for a revisiah of senatorial rules met with a warmé@reception to- day from returning senators. Republican insurgents and demo- orats'dropped their little private rows to join in “bawling out” the vice- aresident. The only, portion of the vice-president’s campaigh, which met with favor, was his pleg*for non-par- Paper Thru an Army of|| FALLS DOWN IN Worker Correspondents] KORACEK TRIAL By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. TOPAY, one of the big tasks of the Workers (Communist) Party is the organization and development of an able and efficient army of worker correspondents, who will keep pour- ing an endless volume of valuable material into the editorial office of the party’s official organ—The DAILY WORKER. This is something that cannot be accomplished thru some sporadic or make-shift activity. It must be brought about thru careful, painstaking work, that never ceases. Our “Daily” appears six times‘every week. Six days out of the week it carries its working class message to the exploited masses in this country. The strength and carrying power of that message depends on the co-operation that The DAILY WORKER receives from the workers in the shops and factories, the mills and mines, $ isan action—and thi ators were 1on-partisan in de ing Dawes, tis plan and his pr id invasion of senatorial primar of i Couldn’t Keep.Awake. | The democratic ter! toward the vice-president was dembnstrated» by Senator T. H. Caraway, democrat, of Arkansas, who said: “Senators cer- tainly will be impressed with the pro- posal of a presiding jofficer, who did not know enough to organize the senate properly and who couldn’t keep awake long enough to vote.” Senators of all faiths and shades of political opinion were united in op- posing Dawes and his plan to change the senate’s rules. Republicans Pan Dawes. The attitude of administration lead- ers to the vice-president’s challenge was indicated by Senator Wadsworth, republican, of New York, who said: “Mr. Dawes is welcome to come to New York at any time. «If I am nom- inated, he will find himself opposing the republican candidate for senator in New York. I weleomé/him.” The western reaction was ex- pressed by Senator’ McNary, repub- lican, of Oregon, who said: “I hate to see the vice-president leave the republican party. Bué/I' think he will be back long before the rules of the senate are materiallygchanged.” The insurgent bloc .“welcomed” Dawes to their ranks. ™ “The vice-presidents is* more than welcome in the insurgent camp,” said Senator Norris, republican, of Neb- raska. “The particular-thing he pro- poses has greater danger than the thing he wants to ate, sO my only fregret is that spouses in- surgency by campa' for enact- ment of a ridiculous ge in sen- atorial rules.” All along the democratic front, there was a similar reaction, “I wish the vice-president would come down to my state;’.said Senator Pat Harrison, democrat.of Mississip- pi. “He would get a qwarm welcome from my colleague and, myself.” Senator Caraway,, noted for his sar- casm, went further. “What answer can be given to a man, whose public utterances traveled all.the way from the front pages of newspapers to the classified ad sections in a single sum- mer?” Caraway remarked. “Who can follow the reasoning gf a man who says that a few men can hold up all legislation and because of that, the senate passes too many bills? Dawes’ Senate Candidacy. “Not to be personal, but the vice- president quotes as his republican authority, Mr. Mondell, who sought a seat in the senate and failed to carry a county in his state. I merely men- tion the fact, too, that Mr. Dawes once ran for the senate and nobody heard of his candidacy until after he was defeated, It doeg;seem that the senate rules might be left to those able to get elected tothe senate and not to those, whom xthe people re- fuse to place in that body. “When Mr. Dawes does invade sen- atorial primaries, I hape he confines his activities to the campaigns of my friends, because I want them elected.” Administration leaders meanwhile yut of courtesy to thg, vice-president, we planning to let.him get a vote luring the coming session upon his proposed changes inthe rules. He will be overwhelmingly defeated. A- side from this, the subject Will be senate floor, where Dawes will be speechless and forcedito listen to the views of his opponents. a Gross and Englander are Only Left-Wingers on Furriers’ Executive In the issue of The DAILY WORK- ER for Thursday, Noy, 19, a serious and regrettable error crept into the dispatch on the proceedings of the In- ternational Furriers’ convention which was held in Boston, when Gross, of Local 6, New York, and Englander of Toronto were placed in the position of joining the so-called progressives who jumped on the Sorkin band wagon to save the day for the Kaufman ma- chine, dross and Hnglander are the two ‘eft wingers that succeeded in being lected to the Furrférs’ general exe- sutive board. ‘This efor crept in dur- ng the hasty transo@bing of a tele- raphic dispatch and The DAILY WORKER nnoerely ras its error. 0 bs Communists must make up the vanguard of the army of worker correspondents, those who blast the way for this proletarian activity, that is as yet very new to the workers in this country. Communists must organize groups and classes of workei correspondents everywhere, enlisting large. num- bers of nonparty workers in this working class activity. A call has gone out to members of the party's district executive committees, city committees, section and sub-sec- tion committees, demanding that they intensify activities for the mobilization of recruits for the worker correspon- dents’ army. , Thru their activity in the revolutionary move- ment, these comrades have been given their positions of trust. But all comrades must unite with them for the suc- cessful realization of this paramount task. Some one must bring up this question in every party nucleus,.even when all others fail. The great aid rendered by worker correspondents in building the revolutionary press in Russia, especially during the darkest days of czarism, furnishes one of the brightest pages in the history of the Russian workers’ and peasants’ struggle for power. American workers must write a similar page in the history of the American proletarian revolution. Capitalist newspapers are written by hirelings of the profit system. These mental slaves pour out the kind of propaganda the exploiters wish the workers to read and be- lieve. Thru their worker correspondents, the workers tell their own stories of wrongs suffered, the methods employed thru which they hope to attain relief, and the victories achieved on the hard road to emancipation. Thus they provide in great part the contents of their own press—the Communist ress. . In New York City, Chicago and elsewhere groups of worker correspondents have already been organized for study and active work. Every city in the country that has an active Communist organization must organize similar classes. Even the shops, factories, mills, mines, where there is no Communist organization, the workers may appoint some among them to write up and sent in their stories to The DAILY WORKER. . If there is any doubt at all as to how to proceed with this important activity, the editorial department of The DAILY WORKER will be glad to give all information and render all assistance possible. Every day several’ columns of worker correspondence now appear regularly. Once each week, on Fridays, a whole page of worker correspondence appears as an established feature of the paper. But all this must be developed and perfected until The DAILY WORKER becomes really a mass paper, the accepted spokesman of broad masses of America’s workers. .Workers everywhere must co-operate with The DAILY WORKER in order to help it achieve that purpose. ~~ BOOKS ‘ Literature : FOR Economics : Lact WORKERS Sisters DECEMBER THE FOURTEENTH by DMITRI MEREZHKOVSKY. 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The prosecutor then had Mrs. O’Con- nell take the stand to identify “evi- dence” seized in Koracek's home. One of the pieces of evidence that caused many in the court room to smile was a poster advertising the “Russia Today” film that was shown in different localities. Another was an advertisement for a Cannon meet- ing. Both of these were objected to by Marshall as having nothing to do with the issues involved. The judge ruled in favor of the prosecutor on this point. The prosecutor then proceeded to introduce a copy of the ABC of Com- munism which was published by the Detroit Educational Society,a number of translations of Other books thay were also published by the society, an order for three thousand party programs and a number of defense letters that were seized. Isaac Ferguson objected to these as irrelevant. The judge who had made many rulings in favor of the prosecution, now declared that he would pass “judgment” upon the evi- dence presented as to whether these books, pamphlets, and other “evi- dence” should be submitted to the jury. Introduce Water Spigot. A box containing a number of Workers Party buttons, a number of washers, a water spigot and other trifles was introduced to show that Koracek violated the state sedition laws. When the defense attorneys called Mrs. O’Connell’s attention as to dis- crepancies in her story and she be- came confused and the judge inter- ceded in her behalf, even the chief of the stoolpigeons, Lennon, was forced to laugh. ‘Stoolpigeon Testifies, Lennon, who was the chief of the department of justice here and planted (Continued on page 4) DAILY WORKER Rescue Parties BP ee GO TO ’EM! ST. PAUL Saturday, December 5 Commonwealth Hall, 455 Rice St. Where you will meet a group of intelligent workers—and where you are sure to enjoy yourself, Admission 25 Cents, D Saturday, December 6 A SPAGHETTI PARTY—Italian Hall, 1601 §, Camac St, 8 p, m. A dinner—a gay party—good friends to meet, Admission free, 2 z= 5 f = > KANSAS. CITY Sunday, December 6 Hall to be announced later, NEW YORK Saturday, December 19 Harlem Casino, 116th St. and Len- nox Ave, SAN FRANCISCO Sunday, December 20 Music, dancing, at 225 Valencia St, at 8 p,m, { A