The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 5, 1925, Page 4

Page Four r HE DAILY WORKER Workers (Communist) Party New Interest for By A Worker Correspondent e Workers Party School in Chi Party Work Shown _ in Nucleus Meet cago, Street Nucleus 13, Section 4, Chicago, Workers (Communist) Party, carried on its first meeting since the reorgan- ization Wednesday night with renew- ed interest. Preparation was made for assist- ance to be given to the International Labor Defense for the bazaar to be held next week to raise money for the defense of the persecuted miners at Zeigler, Ml. This nuclus will try to enlist all its members for special trade union acti- vity, and as the first step elected as its industrial organizer, John Eden- strom, a veteran fighter for organized labor. Likewise, all members in shops and factories, pledged themselves to be- come active as worker correspondents. |DETROIT WILL HOLD PARTY | REORGANIZATION MEETINGS JWith almost 100 per cent attend-| : » open with eight new subscriptions | Secured for The DAILY WORKER and with six members enrolled for the DETROIT, Mich., Dec. 3—The re- organization commission of the Dis- trict Executive Committee has divided the city into sections and is issuing the following call for the comrades to attend the meting in their specific section, Section No. 1. Bounded by the River on the south, Woodward Ave. | on west, Gratiot Ave on the north, and the city limits between Gratiot and the River on the east. Monday, Dec. 7th at 8 p. m. all the members in section No. 1 consisting of Shop Nuclei No. 6 and 10, and the Armenian, Greek, English, German, Lithuanian, Italian, and Hungarian branches will meet at the House of the Masses. Section No. 2. Bounded by Gratiot Ave. on the south, Woodward Ave on the -west and the city limits on ‘the northeast. Monday, Dec. 7th at 8 p. m. members of Shop Nuclei Nos. 3, 7, 9, and 11, and the South Slav, Bulgarian, Roumanian, Jewish, Russian No. 2, Slovanian, and Dutch-Flemish branch- es will meet at the South Slavik Hall, PARTY REORGANIZ ATION DRIVE IS 1343 BE. Ferry, Section No. 3. Bounded~by Wood- ward Ave, on the east, Michigan Ave, on the southwest and on out to the city limits. Tuesday, Dec. 8th at 8 p. m. members of the Shop cleus No, 8, and the West Side Ukrainian, Czech-Slovak, West Side, South Slav, West Side Italian, Russian No. 3, and Finnish branches will meet in the Fin- nish Hall, 5969 14th, St. Section No, 6. The City of Ham- tramck, Tuesday, Dec. 8th at 8 p. m. members of Shop Nuclei No, 4 and 5, | and the Ukrainian Hamtramck, and Polish Nos. 5 and 37, branches will meet in International Hall, 3014 Ye- mans, Hamt. Section No, 4. Bounded by Michi- gan Ave. dn the northwest, the River on the south, and west to the city limits. Wednesday, Dec, 9th at 8 p. m. Shop Nuclei No. 1 and 2, and Russian Branch No. 1 will meet in the House of the Masses. Section No. 5. City of Highland Park, Composed of the same groups as Section No, 4. NOW ON IN CLEVELAND, OHIO tion of the party on the basis of shop ané street nuclei started Wednesday ) and is now going forward rapidly. 7 Sections 1 and 2 held their meet- ings on Wednesday and Thursday. Sections 3, 4 and 5 meets as follows: Section 3. hoga river where the Nickel railroad hits it. Boundaries from Cuya- Plate Along the Nickel Plate railroad east to 79 St. North | to Woodland Ave. ‘Woodland Ave. South along the east side of the to the city limits. river and east along | to the city limits. | | Section 4. Boundaries from west | 26th St. and the lake, south to Bridge | (Finnish) Hall, 1303 West 58th St., Ave. along the west side of the to the city limits. West to 65th St. from the lake along 65th St. to the city limits. Section 5. Boundaries from river West West West 65th St. west to the city limits. From AND, Dec. 3.—Reorganiza- {the lake south to the city limits, All comrades working in shops in one of these sections, and all building trades workers, housewives, profes- sionals, shopkeepers, etc., living in one of these sections, must attend the meeting taking place in his or her section. Section 3 meets at the Freiheit Hall, 5311 Woodlawn Ave., on Friday, Dec. 4, at 8 p. m. sharp. Section 4 meets at the Hungarian Hall, 4309 Lorain Ave., on Saturday, Dec. 5, at 8 p. m sharp. Section 5 meets at Carpentina’s (near Detroit Ave.) on Monday, Dec. 7 at 8 p. m sharp. Every comrade intending to, remain in the party must attend his or her meeting. Everything else must be laid aside. NOTICE TO CHICAGO MEMBERSHIP A“ general membership meetings on the unity question will be postponed for three weeks and will be listed beginning Dec. 21, Perth Amboy Party for Pioneers on Dec. 19 PERTH AMBOY, N. J., Dec. Workers of Perth Amboy bring children to the Young Pioneers’ and celebration of their first ann: ary on Dec. Home, 308 Elm St. at 7 p. m. mission children 15 cents, adul cents. Let us show you and children what good times we ive | 3.— your party jivers- 19th at the Workers’ Ad- ts 30 your haye and how splendidly the Pioneers de- velop in the environment of the Fred- erick Engles Young Pioneers’ group. Fine Arts Building Rehearing. SPRINGFIELD, Ill, Dec. 3—Re- hearing of the case involving an in- Junction barring the South Park mission of Chicago from isi com- suing $5,000,000 in bonds to reconstruct the Fine Arts building was allowed by | the state supreme court. The suit, filed originally in Cook county super- for court by William E. Furlong, asked as writ to halt financing of the } project. This was finally denied by the superior court but was allowed by the supreme court. the park commission followed. » The petition of ‘or rehearing | according to instructions of the Central Executive Committee. Trial Bares National Ramifications of Dope © Peddling Syndicates Nation wide traffic in narcotics, in which telephones were used by mem- bers of a smuggling and peddling syndicate to give orders and keep in touch with each other, beautiful wo- men were messengers and dope run- hers, and notorious gunmen were hired to protect the peddlers was dis- closed at the trial of Kitty and Willie Gilhooley, called “queen and king” or the dope ring. MONTREAL—(FP) — Addressing the annual convention ofthe Quebec Labor party, Pres. A. R. Mosher of the Canadian Brotherhood of Railroad employes strongly upheld independent political action on the part of labor, and advocated affiliation of labor un- ions with the Canadian Labor party. The convention adopted a resolution favoring an all-embracing world inter- national of Jabor along the lines laid Prosecution Fails to Reopen Its Case in Pittsburgh Trial (Continued from page ®) if the program was opposed to that of the state of Pennsylvania and was a violation of the state sedition act, why was the Workers Party allowed to appear on the ballot. During the —cross-examination |Horacek explained the relations be- jtween the Communist International and the Workers Party. Explains Class Struggle. He then went on in simple :lan- guage to explain the struggle of the workers against world imperialism. As he was éXpl@ning the struggle |between the two classes, in society, |workers who had come to the trial \to hear the case, leaned forward in their seats and listened intently. Describe Russian’ Events. He then went on to‘describe the events that transpired in Soviet Rus- sia giving a scientific atalysis in the simplest of words. His’ entire testi- mony and his sincerity'wére such that he made a favorable’ ‘impression on these workers that ha@ssempled in the court room. In the session held “yésterday, when neys for the defense"indde a second attempt to have the case thrown out due to the failure of cthe indictment to specify overt acts) committed by the defendant. bilge The last piece of evidencé to be tn- troduced by the prosecutor against Koracek was the theses;iof the Com- munist Party. Every «time that he came to the word bourggois, he pro- nounced it “burgose” and*then would chuckle and say to the ‘jury “that word means you—and me—the use- less class.” 4 Lennon Proves Boomerang. In the cross-examination, Attorney Marshall, who is defending Koracek introduced a blank ballot on which was Koracek’s name for state auditor. He asked Lennon, the chief of the de- partment of justice for this district at one time and who had stools placed in the labor unions here to carry on agent provocateur work, and one of the stars of the state’s battery of “experts,” whether Koracek “had been put on the ballot legally or not. Much laughter was caused by_ the discomfort that the sight of the bal- lit caused on this steel trust _ tool. Lennon, in spite of all his squirmings was forced to admit that the Workers. Party was on the ballot legally. This admission hurt the case of the state [ss state closed its“@ase, the attor- down by A. A. Purcell of the British workers. Off the Press on December 5 The Movement for complete, plete booklet, World Trade Union UNITY By TOM BELL. In this brief, concise booklet the worker will find a most interesting picture of the factors involved in the move for world trade union unity, the basis for the movement, the differences of principle, the bodies involved—all this valuable and essential information for every ‘worker is here presented for the first time in one com- The steps already taken, Add this pamphlet to your library—take a number to your trade union. 15 CENTS. very much as they have tried to prove that the Workers Party was il- legal American Legion Officer Bsfore School Board to Defend Target Practice A fight on military training in the public schools developed at a finance committee meeting of the board of education when Superintendent of Schools William McAndrew prot in a request for a heating system in the rifle range of Wendell PHillips Hign school, 234 East Pershing Road. John A, English fought the request on the ground that rifle shooting was a risky practice. It endangers the lives of students and instructors. Ma- Jor F, L, Beals, supervisor of military training and physical education dia not deny the charge, He said it was true that there were accidents but the target practice is guarded “as much as possible,” The debate on tne floor of the school board whicn followed brot forth the fact that the public schools are dominated by the Amert- can Legion and that mifitary training in the schools goes merrily on to train the youth of America ror the business of capitalist wars, Miners Strike for Safety WELLINGTON, New Zealand—(FP) —~Coal miners are on strike to regain the right enjoyed for 13 years in the ‘state coal mines in New ,Zealand to decide what timbering should, be used in their working places, The govern- ment, in order to cheaperi production, cancelled this safety custom; «= GERMAN, BELGIAN. A ND FRENCH YOUTH DELEGATES VISITING SOVIET , RUSSIA MOSCOW,—(By Mail)—The Ger- man and the Belgian youth delega- tions consisting of 17, young com- rades recently visited in Kharkov. The members of the French dele- gation have arrived, Elevén other members are still-on the way from France; The delegation in Kharkov was greeted with entRusiasm by the young workers and was present at the enlarged session of the Central Committee of the Young Communist League of the Ukraine, This evening 3 members of the Czecho-Slovakian youth delegation arrived at the Russo-Polish frontier and corroborated the néWs that the delegation is held up by 'the Polish authorities. Only 3 delegates were able, after long negotiatién, to pro- ceed, The rest of the delegation journeyed to Germany,,where they WORKER GROUP TO GIVE DRAMA FOR STRIKERS By SAM WEINBERG. (Worker Correspondent) PHILADELPHIA, Pa. Dec. 3. — Striking miners in Pennsylvania will receive the proceeds from the next play of the Workers’ Theater Alliance, which will be given at 8 p. m., Wed- nesday, Dec. 9,.at the Eagles Temple, Broad and Spring Garden streets. The performance will be under the auspices of the International Labor Defense, The last performance of this work- ers’ dramatic group, Sept. 20, was so successful that many labor organiza- tions have asked for bookings. The group is always ready’ to produce plays for the benefit of any labor or will once again commence a jour- ney to the Soviet Union, this time thru Latvia. d PP GORE SF id BOSTON—(FP)—An agreement in force until 1928 gives the Operative Plasterers of Boston $1.50 per hour. The plasterers and contractors alsé agreed to pay jointly ativertising on better plastering, to druin up addi- tional work for workers and con- tractors, is Pee De os et If you want to thoroughly un- derstand Communisnmi+-study it. AS WEE SEE IT -:- (Continued from page 1.) first of all interested in freeing au] subject peoples ffom oppression. And no matter what England does; no mat- ter how many clever diplomatic stunts Chamberlain pulls off, the struggle for the emancipation of the” colomal slaves will go on. Nothing can pre- vent it. Oppression is the mother of revolt. Wi eer as Nope debe central fact in Ruropean pol- itics today is the underground war between the capitalist powers on one hand led by England af the U.S. S. R. on the other. While it would ap- pear that the Soviet* Union is up against overwhelming ‘odds, it has one mighty advantage. Tue! class strug- gle has divided its toes" “In every cap- italist nations there {@’an army of workers, which regards'ffs own ruling ‘lass as its mortal edé@my. But for -his obstacle the ci list powers would have long jobilized all their available forcéd? ‘against the workers’ republic, WHat ‘the robber powers are doing noW%is trying to maneuver Russia inte a situation which will give them a¥plausible rea- son to attack. ai o © 8) 1" is obvious that ‘the capitalists have given up hope of overthrow- ing the Soviet power by civil war only, They have always ‘seized on every pretext to predict collapse. But the prophets are now thoroly discre dited. When Leon Trotsky, then wa minister had a disagréement ove. questions of Communist policy wit the Central Hecutive Committee o the Russian Communist Party, ever; bourgeois liar from Riga to Rome sen. dispatches to his paper telling of viol. ent struggles between “troops follow ing Trotsky” and troops “loyal to Zino- viev.”. This was all bunk and the bunk was finally exploded. see HAT really took place was a sweeping discussion during ae the party sought to_correct certain e roneous political conceptions held by Trotsky. Trotsky was immensely pop- ulaf among the masse#! He partici- pated in two revolutiorg and was re- garded al) over the wofld among the capitalists as one of thé’two principals devils of the age. The infin devil was Lenin. The bourgeois séribblers could not understand why a man with such popularity among the Masses and in the army would allow himself to be so Zeigler frame-up case of 15 we have the money. * FIVE THOUSAND involved. f National Office, 23 South Lincoln Street, Chicago, fil. We call upon all members of the I, friends and neighbors to contribute, ' Much depends on the outcome of these two trials, fraternal organization, deducting from the proceeds only the amount neces- sary to cover expenses, with an ad- mission price of 50 cents. Ask for open dates and information from the secretary, Clara Thomas, 509 Girard avenue. " Keep Jan, 2nd Open, NEW YORK, Dec. 3.—‘Keep this date open! Saturday, Jan. 2, 1926. “The Workers’ House wil!’have a real Russian night at 108 BE. 14th St., New York City. Come and have a good time. Admission 35 cents.” By T. J. O'Flaherty severely criticised without taking ex- treme measures, eee OCIALISTS, ‘liberals, pseudo-Com- munists like Max Eastman, and anarcho-syndicalists, sympathized with Trotsky—until Trotsky’heard about it. He did not want such sympathy, Max Eastman wrote a book “defending” him. Max said the whole thing was a wicked conspiracy to get rid of Trotsky. Differences of opinion did not count. Nothing counted except that a magnetic personality, a splend- id orator, a great organizer and a man with a record of service to the revo- lutionary movement was getting pan- ned systematically, vigorously. and thoroly as perhaps no,other leader in the history of the revolutionary move- ment got panned before, for purely personal reasons, eee 71. apeseepmee ‘to gay no» ;Communist took this position;:; least of all Trotsky. Those who took comfort from the differences between Trotsky and the central committee were dis- appointed and their .disappointment has been growing ever.since. They reckoned without the power of a great, disciplined, theoretically, grounded, ex- perienced revolutionary party. The members of the R. C. P. much tho they admired Trotsky voted against his political line. Trotsky admitted his error and today occupies a very important position in *the Soviet gov- ernment. The fiction that the central ommittee thru jealousy, wanted to cive Trotsky out of the party was aoroly exploded. Communist parties on’t work that way. ee HILE the great debate was on 1m the R. C, P., stories of threatened civil war were featured on the front pages of the capitalist press. But a few days ago the following notice— the truth of which I dosnot vouch for— appeared in a remote corner of the New York Times: Leon Trotsky’s early return to a position of influence in Soviet affairs was indicated in the declaration of Leo Kameneff of the Council of Commissars at the Com- munist Party conference today. He said, “Reports that Trotsky is not on good terms withthe members of the Central Executive) Committee are not true. He is actively engaged in party work and at the coming party con- gress in December I shall vote for him as a member of the Central Ex. ecutive and Political Bureau.” - To All Members and union miners. International Labor Defense: Two big cases are scheduled to come to trial on Novem wages in October. wages paid them in 1920, Coolidge Proseprity Bunk, “In 1920,” according to Coolidge’s statement to the New York state chamber of commerce, “wages were about 100 per cent above the prewar rates and the average wholesale price of commodities was about 120 per cent above the prewar rates. A steady increase in the wage index took place, so that during the last year it was 120 per cent above the prewar rate. Yet the wholesale price level declined to only 57 per cent above the prewar level. Thus as a result of greater economy and efficiency, and the elim- ination of waste in the conduct of the national government and of the busi- ness of the country, prices went down while wages went up. The wage earner received more while the dollar of the consumer will purchase more.” Coolidge is using the same figures which’ feature the annual report of Secy. Hoover, who refers sto the alleged facts as “one of the most. ex- traordinary transformations in eco- nomic history.” , Manufacture Good Yarn. Both Coolidge and Hoover contrive to sét up this “transformation” by contrasting the price level of goods produced by farms, mines and facto- ries with union wage scales paid in such industries as building construc- tion, printing and street railways. But the facts, based on federal fig- ures, are that with the exception of coal miners the average producer ‘of goods covered by the wholesale price index is getting considerably lower pay than in 1920. The average factory wage in 1920, according to the department of labor, oe $29.60 a week. In October, 1925, the department shows it as $26.90. Coolidge might have pointed with some justification to the increase of about $1 over Qctober, 1924. But wholesale prices also advanced over e R. 1. L. U. revolutionary trade unions unions. Emergency Call! Friends of : ber 30th. The Pittsburgh raid case of 10 workers and the The lawyers in each of these eases will not proceed with the defense unless DOLLARS MUST BE RAISED BEFORE DECEMBER toTH L, D, to rise to the test and raise this sum. Contribute all you can and get your The entire working class is on trial. Not merely the 26 workers «Rash Your Collection and Make It as Big as Possible. Fraternally yours, INTERNATIONAL LABOR DEFEN! J.P. CANNON, Executive Secretary COOLIDGE AND HOOVER SHOUT “PROSPERITY” WHILE WAGES GO _ DOWN AND UNEMPLOYMENT GAINS By LELAND OLDS (Federated Press Industrial Editor) How both President Coolidge and his secretary of commerce misuse statistics in order to sell their brand of prosperity to the country is eugy gested/ in United States department of labor figures for employment and These figures show that the average wage paid by fac- tories in October was nearly one-tenth lower than the average of 1920 while iactory workers as a group are getting @nly about three-fourths of the total ———<——$—$—— 7% in those 12 months, The strifing contradiction to Coolidge’s figures is the average wage decrease of $2.70 a week from 1920. Total Wages Smaller. Of even greater importance in terms of the wage earner’s prosperity as a class is the decrease of $350,000,000 a month in the total distributed, in wages. in 1925 compared with.1920,. The total wages paid all workers averaged about $1,350,000,000 @ month in 1920 and only $1,000,000,- 000 a month in 1926: The workers: evidently get materially less to spend. Thé-major part of this huge drop in factory wages is due to a decrease The World of Labor ‘Its Most Vital Problems Are the Subject of These Books THE WORLD TRADE UNION MOVEMENT . By A. Losovsky. This book has already received world-wide distribution. Writ- ten’ by the secretary of the Red International of Labor Unions; it is a splendid guide to an understanding of the world trade union development and its history leading to the establishment of the CONSTITUTION OF THE R.LL.U, The regulations of the great labor International of workers thruout the world. -BANKRUPTCY OF THE AMERICAN LABOR MOVEMENT By Wm. Z. Foster. In this book by an outstanding figure in the American Labor movement, a worker will find important material on organized Labor in this country. Not only does it serve as a history. of the develop- ment of American Labor but also as a deep study of it—a delineation of the insufficiency of mere trade unionism and an outline of the crying need of American Labor—amalgamation AMALGAMATION By Jay Fox. 4 A splendid statement on the problem of trade union unity im relation to the present economic organization of the American worker. No member of organized Labor—or any worker out of it— should be without this invaluable booklet. of 1,626,000 in the number of work- ers employed. This sharp drop in the number of jobs available is neglected in Coolidge’s hurrahing for prosperity. The exact position of the large seo tion of the population dependent on factory employment in October 1925 may be defined by the following fig- ures. Average factory employment in the first 10 months of 1925 was 30,000 more than in the same period of 1924. This means that an average of $23,000,000 more in wages was paid monthly in the first 10 months of 1926 than in the same period of 1925. 1,626,000 Unemployed. But the number employed fs still 1,626,000 short of the average numbér employed in 1920. The total distrib- yted as factory wages this October was approximately $318,000,000 short of the monthly average in 1920, Two Injured In Wreek. SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 3. — Two passengers were slightly injured when several cars of the Santa Fe train Number 2 bound for Chicago were de- railed near Legrand, according to ad- vices received at the company’s’ of- fices here. Paper, 50 Cents composed. of millions of Paper, 5 Cents into industrial Paper, 25 Cents . Paper, 15 Cents ‘ \ =