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

| POLISH PRIEST (Chicago Gels Glimpses of the Agricultural Situation in the Soviet Union Speech Delivered by J. G. Ohsol of the Amtorg Trading Co. Omemne STAGES WHITE GUARDIST SHOW Tells Fable of Rescue of Hero The white guard archbishop, John Cleplak, who has been in Chicago a few days, is still the center of a de- \iberately staged show among the Polish residents of the city. This crea- ture who was convicted of receiving bribes. from French and Polish spies who’ Were *planning campaigne of as- aesination In Soviet Russia and’ who wils eleased because he was held in‘ such contempt that the Bolshevik government. ‘refused to ‘give .the white: guardists an excuse to make a martyrof him, Is pictured sin the cap- italist press as a great» hero, -' Stage Performance. A Yestemay. at St. Anne's church,; W. Highteenth. and ~S. Leavitt street, in the Polish disrtict, a fake story .was coneosted. for the purpose of be- wildering the spectators. A certain forlorn creature of Polish extraction walked up to the archbishop in the church and the two embraced and in general made « holy show, of them- selves, . To reporters present they, related the plain lie that the priest had res- cued the other man from a Russian prison whence he had been committed while a soldier in the Polish army. Nothing of the sort ever happened. The record of Cieplak is known here and he never showed anything but the white feather; a snivelling, crawl- ing, disgusting old man, whose whin- ing, cringing posture merited only con- tempt. The show staged at St. Anne’s is on @ par with the other performances of the catholic peddlers of black magic. When “pilgrims” journey to the. so-called “shrines” of St. Anne, in Canada and at St, Anne, Illinois, the flop houses of West Madison St. are canvassed to obtain supernumer- aries for the show. Perfectly healthy men are given crutches on which they hobble to the shrine, kiss the toe bone of St. Anne, the grandmother of god, and then throw their crutches away and walk out, where they collect their pay for the performance from pious priests, who have to resort to fraud in order to keep the suckers buying magic from them. The Cieplak per- formance is one with this sort of Whites Bomb Homes ‘ST. LOUIS—(FP)—White terror among Negro families in St. Louis continues. After an unsuccessful pro- test to the owner against the letting of a four-family flat to Negro fami- lies, a white mob bombed the build- ing, tearing away the front portion of the structure and breaking every window. The three Negro families who still live there narrowly escaped death’ or injury. This is the second time the place has been visited by bombers, Following the first blast, ohe of the families moved out. OUR DAILY HE importance of agriculture in the Soviet Union can best be gathered from the fact that from 132 million inhabitants of the Union over 100 million are engaged in agriculture. Furthermore as against two billion dollars worth of property in the indus- try of the Soviet Union, there are three and three-quarter billions worth of improved farm property in the hands of the Russian farmers, exclusive of land. The import and export program of the Soviet Union for the next fiscal year calls roughly for one billion gold rubles imports and one billion gold rubles. of exports. Of those im- ports about 20% is contemplated to benefit agriculture, viz: | eighty-five million gold. rubles worth agricultural machinery, (during the fiscal year ended September 30, 1925, there was imported. thirty million gold rubles worth). . , f ‘ FROM BOSTON TO PHILADELPHIA F the total exports the products of grain farming are to constitute 42%, products of the live stock indus- try 14%, and special products such as flax, hemp and various oil seeds 8%, making altogether about 70% of the total. During the fiscal year ended Sep- tember 30, 1925, the missing grain ex- ports were replaced by such items’ as petroleum, and other products of the mineral industry, also by increased exports of lumber, furs, etc. It must be emphasized that Russia is making great progress in diversified farming, having learned the lesson that ex- elusive grain farming is too risky on aceount of the vicissitudes of climate and weather, ¢ Among the other branches of agri- culture which the Russian government is trying to develop, is live stock raising, particularly sheep breeding. Sheep breeding is to serve a double purpose, First, the sheep are to “lick By J. W. JOHNSTONE. PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Dec. 3.—The Philadelphia convention, of the Inter national Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, now, in. session, can only be properly understood when one keeps in mind at all times the Boston con- vention and the past three years of internal ‘struggle. The onlooker who knows nothing of this background, who is not familiar with the treacherous record of the officialdom, who does not know the tricky methods and machine manipu- lation which gave the Sigman gang a majority of the delegates—to such a person, looking only at the first ses- sions in Philadelphia, Sigman and his lieutenants would appear as the champions of tolerance, of peace and unity. : In the Boston ‘convention, seven- teen months ago, the same Sigman officials had an entirely different atti- tude. They spent almost the whole time of that convention in throwing out left wingers. Towards the funda- mental issues raised, by ithe left wing —amalgamation, the lator party, rec- ognition of Soviet Russia, the shop delegate system, propertiqnal repre- sentation, repudiation of class collab- oration, for militant leadership in the struggle against the bosses, for or- ganization of {lie wnobge: the Sigman machine in Boston was absolutely, unbendingly, opposed, But here in Philadelphia, Sigman’s lieutenants scramble for the floor in order to “beat the Jeft.wing to it,” in presenting a resolution, for instance, demanding the: freeing:of Gitlow. There is no ge they would be will- ing to vote for many of the funda- mental left wing demands, if thereby they thought they could get back into power again, if the left wing would agree to put Sigman in the saddle the next two years, “But why,” asked a reporter from a capitalist paper, who is covering the of the delegates, does he have to pre- tend to believe in these measures or any of them, in order to get back into power? Could, he not do the same thing here as in Boston if he so desired?” There is no doubt that, with the majority of the delegafes, Sigman can (and may) force his own way thru this convention. But he will not find it so easy as in Boston, 4nd certainly it cannot. be done with even the amount of success he had in Boston. Why? In Boston, 17 months ago the same forces met. At that time the left wing had about 50 delegates, representing, conservatively estimated, forty per cent of the membership. The Sigman and allied forces had some 250 dele- gates, representing about sixty per cent of the organization. With the left wing in the minority, the Sigman forces were ruthless. Delegate after delegate was unseated. The first ten days were spent in speeches and ex- pulsions, The T. U. E. L. was de- clared a dual'ithion. The convention adjourned with’ the understanding on the part of thé'Sigman crew that the left wing was dead and buried, and must be forgotterl. But it didn’t work out so simply. And that is why Sigman wears a dif- nized, ete.—} ferent countenance” in’ Philadelphia. This conventionpcoming as the result of the Boston sénvéntion, should be an example‘atia%a warning to the lead- ers of all thése"#tions (and especially to the Amalgamated Clothing Work- ers) who aréi iOw beginning the ex- pulsion policy against the T. U. EB. L. and Workers ‘(Communist) Party members, as°Sigman did a few years ago. 4 r THE «DAILY WORKER he tongue.of the desert,” which is wrojecting itself from the planes of ‘entral Asia into south-eastern Rus- sia, north of the Caspian Sea and south of the Ural mountains. Second, it is to supply the rapidly growing Russian wool] industry with improved types of wool. Old Russia even under the princes knew how to make coarse woolens, Peter the Great tried to develop sheep farming in the Ukraine. From 1805 up to 1880 Russia was importing Merino sheep from Spain, By 1880 she counted about fifteen million heads of fine fleeced Merino, Compe- tition of Australia and South Africa, however, coupled with the rapid colon- ization of squthern Russia cut down the size of the: sheep flocks of czarist Russia. ipRe extenBive wheat farming which was stimulated at that time with a view to increase wheat exports, de- creased the sheep flocks to such an extent that “Russia began to import Merino woolgs After 1907 when the agrarian lawg{ypromulgated by the ezarist Prime,.Minister Stolypin, cre- ated small individual holdings out of village commons, th enumber of sheep flocks owned»:by the peasants de- creased still more. By 1921, after the world war and the civil war, the total sheep flocks of the Soviet Union had decreased to forty million head. From that year on, however, owing to the effective means adopted by the Soviet government for the extension of sheep farming, the number of sheep increas- ed very rapidly. At the present time the total number of sheep in Russia is estimated by Prof. Ivanov at eighty million head of which there are about 700,000 Merino sheep of various de- grees of purity. Of course the types of Russian peas- ant sheep are mostly of low inbred variety with a very poor grade of wool unsuitable for the manufacture of high class woolens and worsted. To improve the quality of these sheep and of their fleece, the Soviet com- missariat of agriculture decided to import several thousand Merinos of the Rambouillet type from the United States of Aimética, Two representatives of the commis- sariat of agriculture, Mr. M. S. Pere- ferkovitch, manager of the animal in- dustry division, and Professor M. Iv- anog, expert sheep, cathe to this country and made a hasty survey of the sheep fi of the Rambouillet in Ohio, Wyowing, Colorad oand Ore- gon during ptember. Thanks to the hearty co-operation of the Ram- bouillet Shee eders’ Association, and especially wnig to the effective assistance of jég .capable secretary, Mr. Dwight Linepln, they were able to select within a month’s time a very high grade flock of sheep. The first shipment of those sheep consisting of 1,200 head left on board the steamship, Ardenhall on October 24th, reaching the port of Novorossisk on November 20th. The sheep with- stood the severé ‘Fall storms very Yes, Sigman has a majority of the} wel!, only nine having perished, but delegates. But he doesn’t seem so twenty-one lambs having been born happy about it'as he might be. Nor) on the way and several hundred pairs does he seem ‘to know just how to] of newly we handle the situation. He has a major- ity of the delegates—but they repres- convention, “if Sigman has a majority} ent only about twenty per cent of the PATTERNS #890 $3/0 MISSES’ DRESS. “16, 18: and 20 years. A nl8 year size requires 4% yards of 32 inch material if made with long ves. If made with short slee’ 4% yards will be required. The width of the dress at the foot is 1% yard. Price 12¢, ; LADIBS’ DRESS, 5310. Cut in 8 sizes: 36, 38, 40, 42, tests to the a propose, for this’ purpose, that all del- membership of the union. So that is why in Philadelphia Sigman’s attitude is ‘so different from that in Boston only 17 months ago, why he now talks of peace, harmony and brotherly love, The credentials committee has re- ported. The left wing had contested a number of delegates. The Sigman forces contested even more of the left wing delegates. Yet the creden- tial committee (majority report) moves to seat all delegates and leave the contests to the appeals committee. But the left wing has a minority re- port. This fly in the ointment of Sig- man’s “majority,” in the person of Hy- man, challenges Sigman to try to put anything like that over on the mem- bership. The nature of the Sigman majority is illustrated by the objections they entered’ against the left wing dele- gates. They challenged the entire left wing delegation of Locals 2, 9 and 22. ‘They did this in order to stop the left wing from exposing the shady deals by which the Sigman delegates were brought to the convention. They committee which egates be seated and leave the con- meets on the last day of the conven: tion. Thus they would hide their cor- ruption by keeping the discussion ‘rom the floor of the convention, by seating all delegates on the plea of. nity. Majority Is Machine Built. That the left wing should come back so strong, in such a short time after Boston, in spite of the terrific persecutions, with a majority of the up-toedate Fall and Winter, 4 it nehildren's Seiten 44, 46, 48 and 50 inches bust méasure.|membership now supporting them, is view will require 3 yards of figured|actionary machine, They are, how- material and 1% yard of plain. The|ever, still fighting. “Bill” Green and is 2% yards with plaits extended. Price 12c, Bend tue Hn auver or stamps them in their struggle. They have a machine-bullt majority in the con- vention. But the left wing knows the real relation of forces. They cannot be bluffed, They forced this conven- ten | tion on Sigman, They are determined to force many other things in the in- terests of the membership in this convention in spite of the paper ma- fakin van Pe for completing their first honeymoon tri De HE other steamship Vestvard with some 1,600 head of sheep on board left New York November 7th, and landed at Novorossisk on November 30th. These sheep are to be distri- buted among government and co-oper- ative sheep farms in the Ukraine, Northern Caucasus and some in Sibe- ria. Some rams are to be used to improve the sheep flocks of the local farmers. We hope that those Amer- ican rams will be accorded full re- cognition by the Russian peasant sheep. je: Of equal importance is the hog in- dustry in Russig at the present time. While the number of hogs in the Eu- ropean part of the Soviet Union was nineteen and a half million in 1916, it had been reduced to nine million by 1923. a By the end of 1924 the number of hogs was againimear seventeen mil- lion, Bacon factoriéS have been establish- ed at various “points in Central and South Russia, to cure bacon hams for export, Dairying is li at a rapid of butter 75,000 tons to 1000 tons, © being developed pre-war export Siberia was about In 1920 it fell ) then it has been rising every land during the six months ended” 0 81, 1924, four- teen and a hi jusand tons of Rus- sian butter weré exported to Western Europe. During the present fiscal year the butter output is to be doubled. HE cultivation of sugar beet is in- creasing yearly. While in 1923 500,000 acres were under sugar. beet cultivation, during 1925 over 900,000 acres were thus cultivated. Last but not least there is a notice- able development in grain farming. Figures for the crop years of 1923, -Workers Monthly 26 Cents a Copy ‘ $2.00 a Year—$1.25 Six Months Page Fiv: pounds, The average yields were: For rye, 12 bushels per acre; for wheat, 122-3 bushels per acre; bar- ley, 182-3 bushels per acre; oats, 24 bushels per acre; corn 22 bushels per acre. The estimated commercial surplus of grain for 1925 is between four hun- dred fifty million bushels. HE surplus grain available for domestic: and export trade is fair- ly widely disrtibuted among the vari- ous groups of Russian farmers. It should be noted, however, that two: thirds of this commercial surplus is in the hands of twenty-two per cent of the farmers. Fear has been voiced ,in several quarters that the Soviet Union may unload large quantities of cheap grain dn the world’s markets. Any- one familiar with hte present day con- ditions in Russia will realize that this is not so. While the farmers of hte Soviet Union may desire to compete thru the higher quality of their grain, they are not disposed to The A. F. of L. and World Trade Union Unity—by Wm. F. Dunne Professor Carver Makes a “Rey- olution"—by C. E. Ruthenberg Cartoons by Maurice Becker, Fred Ellis, J. de Miskey, and’ be competitors on the basis of cheap- ness. Tt is well to recall in this connection that Russian settlers introduced the} drought resisting Crimean wheat known as Turkey Red into Kansas, and that Russian farmers from Kher- |.son introduced ‘into Iowa, Illinois and Nebraska the well-known Wisred or Sixty Day variety of oats. It must also be borne in mind that the Russian farmers are far better or- ganized than farmers in several other countries. Let) me state right here tiat Agricultural Producers’ Societies 4, European Russia, exclusive of Si- beria, Caucasia.and Khirgizia and Uk- riine have 29,000 unions with over three million nine hundred thousand farm members; with Ukraine includ- ed this membership will reach five million mark,...Phe capital of these societies is 28 ,mililon gold roubles. he consumers co-operatives embrace over ten milion ‘members in their ranks. These): consumers co-opera- tives have a capital of 32 million gold roubles, and they:are distributing at the present time bout 70 per cent of the entire output~of the textile fac- tories of Russia; from 40 to 50 per cent of the entire sugar output, 80 Per cent of thewalt output, and about 45 per cent of the domestic output of metal goods, ore, organized farmers try to ob- tain the best possible prices for their products, as do the farmers in} any other country. Furthermore these Russian farmers ‘are now steadily adopting modern me-| thods of farming. ~ Tractor farming | hag made great strides in the arid re-| gions and in the south of Russia. Some ten thousand tractors have been exported to Russia since May Ist, 1924, from the United States alone | thru the Amtorg Trading Corporation. As a result of the revolution, Russi- an farm labor is enjoying much high- er standard of living than before the war. Russia therefore is no longer to be considered a country of cheap farm labor or of cheap farm products. Rather the other way, the Russian 1924-1925 show the following grossjthe American Relief Administration harvest of all grains: Let me congratulate the Rambouillet 1923 |Sheep-Breeders Association for the 2, 122,000 bu. jhelpfulness and business efficiency (50,541,000 metric tons) Jin selling their splendid sheep, which 1924 jare now finding their way to Russian 1,921,122,000 bu. farms, (45,741,000 metric tons) The Trans-Caycasian Republics of 1925 the Soviet Union extend an invita- 2, 775,000,000 bu. |tion to American iculturists and (65,500,000 metric-tons) jfarm machinery manu ar It is to noted that not only the sown |ticipate in the Caucasian agricultural area for 1925 was 6 per cent larger |exhibition, the first of its kind to be than the sown area for 1924, but also|held near the city of Tiflis during | the yields were larger, giving 1044|March and April of next year. pounds per head of the rural popula-| The Trans-Caucasian Republics are tion while in 1924 they were only 720 |located in the Near East where west meets east in a peaceful way on the and Asia. Let us hope that the forth- coming Tiflis exhibition will not, be overlooked by Americans , FROM WHITEWING TO MAYOR LONDON—(FP)—To preside over the bosses who fired him from. his Job some time ago is the pleasant duty of C. E. Taylor, new labor mayor of Shoreditch, one of the London wards. Taylor wasup to a few years | ago employed by the Shoreditch | municipal council as a streetsweeper | and scavenger, and was fired because | a member of the council recognized him as an active labor agitator, Municipal elections in England, as | in. Germafy, have brought sweeping labor victories. Labor has gained at} least 184 seats throughout England, | and in London alone it now controls eight boroughs or wards, covering the whole east side of the city. Two New Sailor Unions. LONDON—(FP)—Two new unions for British seamen are announced as | an outgrowth of the recent strike. The United Seamen’s union is formed in London by some of the strikers, and an organization calling itself the Federated Seamen’s Union of Britain and Ireland is also announced. The seamen are one of the weakest sec- tions of British organized labor, only | about 15% organized, and even these are divided into rival unions, While the. rest of British labor is maintain- ing its wage standards, the seamen have recently had to submit to a $5 a month cut, arranged by the officials of the largest seamen’s union, the National Sailors & Firemen’s union which, like its rival the Amalgamated Marine Workers union, is affiliated with the Trades Union congress. “Scientific” Burglar. NEW ‘YORK, Dec. 3.—The daring of two women treminated the ambi- | tion of Leon Benjamin, Columbia uni- | versity-law student to embark on the! career of scientific hold up man. The women took away Benjamin's toy pis- tol.and called the -police. Your Union Ivieeting First Friday, Dec. 4, 1925, Bakers and Conf., 3420 W. Roose- velt. 8 Beckbinders, 175 W. Washington ae m. Broom Makers, 810 W. Harrison St Ww Building Trades Council, 180 Washington. 1 Carpenters, 175 W. Washington. Carpenters, 2705 W. 35th St. Carpenters’ District Council, 12 & Erie St. Carpenters, 4339 S. Halsted St, y Electricians, 2901 W. Monroe St. Electricians, 4141 W, Lake St. Electricians, R, R., 5324 S. Halsted Firemen and Enginemen, 5438 S. Halsted St. Workers, Emily and Marsh- Hod Carriers, Monroe and Peoria Sts. Sts Ladies' Garment Workers, Joint Board, 328 Van Buren St. Machinists, 113 S. Ashland Blvd. Machinists, 113 S, Ashland Bivd. Painters, 2345 So. Kedzie Ave. Painters, School and Shefield Ave. Painters, 3140 Indiana Ave. Painters, 3140 Indiana Aye. Pattern Makers, 119 S. Throop St. Plumbers, 9251°8. Chicago Ave. Rellway Carmen, Village Hall, Kol> zie, Til Railway Carmen, Village Hall, Kol- zie, 4, Raitway Carmen, 5445 S. Ashland ve. Railway Clerks, 20 W. Randolph $t- Railway Clerks, 9 S. Clinton St. Railway Clerks, Ft, Dearborn Hotel. Railroad Trainmen, 1336 &. 64th St. Railroad Trainmen, 3349 North Ave. Railroad Trainmen, 9120 Commer. cial Ave Sheet Metal Workers, Ashiand and Van. Buren. South Chicago Trades and Labor Assembly, 9139 Commercial Ave. Stage Hands, 412 Capitol Bidg. Stove Mounters, 3609 Wolfram Ave. Teachers (Women), Club Rooms, 4:30 p.m. Telegraphers (Com.) 312 S. Clark St. Waitresses, 19 W. Adams Street, 3 P.M Women’s City 484 Women’s Union Label League 220 S. Ashland Bivd. (Note--Unless otherwise stated meetings are at 8 9. m.? all Astronomer Is Going Blind After Piercing Heavens for 38 Years Thirty-ight years of peering into the mysteries of the heavens thru the lens of a telescope have taken their toll and Prof. Edwin Brant Frost, world-famous astronomer, is going blind. This tragic climax of his devotion to science is revealed in the second volume of the annals of Dearborn Ob- servatory at Northwestern Univers- ity, off the presses today. A single phrade, “he has almost completely lost his eyesight,” in the dedication of the book to Prof. Frost, who since 1905 has been connected with Yerkes Observatory at William Bay, Wis., laid bare the story. Get After Nonunionists LONDON—(FP)—Flag days as @ union organization method have re- cently been tried in England by the National Union of Railwaymen with success. To ensure 100% union or- ganization on the railroads the union had its organizers give flags with the union’s colors only to those in good standing. For the London area 50,000 flags were used, and practically 100% results reported from most of the big freight yards. An extension of this That worker next door to you may not have anything to do to- night. Hand him this copy of the DAILY WORKER. “It’s 0s farmers are eagerly hoping that the world grain markets should be stabil- ized at such levels, as to make fur- ther impprovements in agriculture remunerative. ERMIT me, on behalf of the de- parted representatives of the So- viet Commissariat of Agriculture, to express their and the Russian farm- ers’ deep gratitude to the American farmers for the effective aid tendered during the famine’ year, 1921, thru To those who. work hard for thelr money, | will save 50 per cent on all ir dental work, DR. RASNICK DENTIST 645 Smithfield Street, PITTSBURGH, PA. Instruction in English Foreigners and others wish- Georgiana ing to improve. Bonita, 1843 Lincoln Ave. Tel. Diversey 6089. The flyin Yes—in next issue of the Saturday Magazine Section of The DAILY WORKER, Kasatkin, will be given to o' papers cannot get, or dare DAILY WORKER. velous short story by the new Russian genius, Ivan And this is:only one of the remarkable new features which The DAILY WORKER has secured or is nego- tiating to seoure to make our paper the most interest- ing and informative ever published in the U. S. More short stories—the best—the kind that other regularly in the Saturday Magazine Section of The RATES —— campaign to the transport workers under the jurisdiction of the Trans- port & General Workers Union is under consideration. Him! ip! g devil!” ‘Flying Osip,” the mar- ur readers. not publish, will appear 2 year § 250~6 montis F200 9 months Saad hoo avyear F450 6 montts f 2: Smonths and Other Articles. Wm, Gropper. od