The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 8, 1925, Page 1

SE re The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government Vol. II. No. 280°. Subscription Rates: Outside Chicago, za eo a Hy ° wr 44% g ba * c Nin: sla igs «2 8 FARMERS OF NORTHWEST GETTING WISE TO FAKE NOSTRUMS OF THE - COOLIDGE-JARDINE POLITICIANS ‘ By ALFRED KNUTSON. (Special to The Daily Worker) BISMARCK, N. D., Dec. 6.—The struggling farmers of the northwest, who are going broke farming under the capitalist system, see in President Coolidge an avowed enemy to their) economic interests. . With the exception of a very small group of rich, reactionary farmers he is decidedly unpopular with the vast masses of farm- ers in this region, and whenever he makes a gesture to “better” Fa In Chicage, by mail, $8.00 per year. 4 a § + HNN their lot and extend “aid” to agriculture in general they merely shake their heads and shrug their shoulders in disgust. | This almost contemptuous attitude towards Coolidge is clearly noticable in practically es AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHERTY Nothing succeeds like success, Only a few days ago, dispatches from Paris, col- HIS is a terrible world! loqually , speaking, kidded several Russian grand dukes, barons and dukes who were plotting to overthrow the Russian Soviet government in a eafe with Tchitcherin, Soviet foreign (Continued on page 6) AL Coolidge comes to town to- day to talk to “representatives of the farmers.” The fact that these were Self-appointéd, from a narrow circle of bankers, business men, promoters of fraudu- lent co-operatives, small town law- yers, in the service of railroad lines operating in th territory, state legislators—who sel! out the farm- ers to the transportation trust— and a few absentee farm owners, does not prevent the ‘thing bi hailed as “a meeting of farmers.” From every part of the country for weeks information has poured into The DAILY WORKER proving this so-called farm meeting to be a vile swindle upon the farmers of the middte-west. The lowa farmers who are obtaining only 50 cents a bushel for their corn crop (a drop of more than 100 per cent in 13 months) are not represented here. The poison gas thrown out by Cool- idge will be reprinted in the cheap subsidized farm papers in an effort to make the farmers believe the government will do something for them. VERY newspaper in the agri- Keacultural region, most -of them subsidized by the railroad and bank- ing interests whose one motive in life is to gouge the farmers, will publish eulogiums to the beneficent government. Secretary. of Agricul- ture Jardine and the federal reserve banking system will pretend to aid he farmer, by placing more funds ai-the d sposai of the country bank- er so that more farmers may be in- duced to place their land into the hands of the banking combine, Plans may be devised to raise live- « in greater quantities on the be of the middle west, thereby forcing the farmers to become but hired men, living below the condi- fon of the wage-slav in order that a steady flow of stock may v- h Armour & Co, Cudahy, Mor- ris and the other meat packers, "-+1& one impelling motive’of the governmen: is to aid big busi- ness to so beat down the farmers that they become mere land serfs, producing raw material for the cing house trust, the milling the transportation trust, all being brought more and moe under the contro! of Wali Street. GAINS? this conspiracy, the soisummation of which spells ruin for them, the farmers stand helpless. Alone against’ the organiz- ed power of the capitalist ol and their servile government the farm- af 4 ‘ ) | tout the Dakotas and the other Coolidge Comes Today! An Enemy of the Farmers or selected | 4) sumer, every farming community thru northwestern states. In the year 1923-24 Coolilge became “convinced” that the bankrupt farm- | ers of the northwest needed economic assistance and he therefore urged that the government come to the rescue by loaning them money. With | apparent generosity some ten million | | dlolars of government money was} sent to various banks in this terri- tory ostensibly for the purpose of “aiding” the farmer who had_ gone broke. (Continued on page 6) ers cannot hope to escape the fate that is hovering over them, From | irmers they are being re- the wage-workers. The farmers are being victimized by the system the same as the work- ers. Both groups in the United States are two indespensabje fac- tors. in production. The furnish the raw material and the industrial workers in thé packing houses, factories and mills and on the railroads prepare it for the con- In the whole process the agricultural workers and the indus- trial workers contribute thelr labor power, the result of which is to pile up more wealth for the capitalist cla Seagainst Coolidge, the capitalist president, who is merely a meg- aphone for the despoilers of the farmers, we sound the call to the farmers to refuse to support the old parties of the capitalist class, and rally to the industrial workers in their struggle for a labor party to fight against the government of the United States, which exists in Its present form only for the purpose of enslaving the useful members of society in order that a gang of worthless parasites may live in op- ulence, By J. W. JOMNSTONE. (Special to The Daily Worker) PHILADELPHIA, Pa,, (By Mail)— It ig very interesting to study the maneuvering of the reactionary offi- cialdom in the Philadelphia conven- tion of the International Ladies’ Gar- ment Workers’ Union. The Sigman \| machine is quite desperate, in spite of its majority in the convention; that is becatise it is a paper majority, and a very shaky one; it is not sure that it will be able to survive the crucial tests. The lett wing, with a minority of the delegates (approximately 112 out of 265 total), actually represents 70 per cent of the total membership, It is a minority with a great deal of power back of it. With a proper un- derstanding of its functions and of.the left wing program, it can wreck any majority, especially if it retains solid- arity in its own ranks and develops some able leadership. So far in the convention the left y below?that off | > by mail, $6.00 per year, LY WORKER. Entered as Second-class matter September 21, 1923, at the Post Office at Chicago, Llinots, under the Act of March-3, 1879. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1925 >” Life Of Mine Union In : Bala SCRANTON, Pa., Dec. 6.—Miners of the Pennsylvania Coal company at Pittston voted Friday night to favor the calling out the mainten- ance men now keeping the anthra- cite mines in nice shape while the operators are destroying the union. The proposal will be placed before John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers. This is the first of the local unions to demand such action, and if Lewis ignores it, the miners’ locals are expected to act on their own initiative. Fakers Get Panicky. That the Lewis machine officials even are thoroly alarmed at the sit- uation, is seen in the speech of Thomas Kennedy, International Sec- retary-Treasurer ‘at Hazelton, in which he said that the operators are “out in the OpeMsand are out to smash the union and force wage So it seeme that the machine's policy @f class collabora- tion and “discussing things around a table instead of striking” has proven a flat failure, even for the fakers themselves. Major W. W. Inglis, chairman of the operator's association, te is- sued a statement for the operators, in which he mi of the proposals put forward by jovernor Pinchot and accepted by Lewis, and those of the operators. These he gives ae follows: a@ comparison nce in Anthracite Pinchot-Lewis Plan. “1, Five-year contract. “2. Men to go to work after con- tract is signed. “3. Wages fixed for five years— negotiations on all other demands. “4, Check-off. “5. Arbitration limited to raising wages. “6. No means for avoiding dead- lock.” The Operator’s Plan. “1, Five-year contract. “2, Mining to begin at once. “3. Present wages and other con- ditions until changed by negotiation or arbitration. “4, No check-off. (Continued on page 2) WORKER AND FARMER: “Hey, ate yow going to do anything about us?” CONGRESS: “Sure! Increase the army amd conceal the income tax report.” COOLIDGE’S “EXPERTS” CANNOT OVERCOME THE FARM CRISIS WITH FRAUDULENT LOAN SHARK SCHEMES By J. E. SNYDER. OMAHA, Neb., Nov. 6.—John Troumble, president of the’ Kansas Farmers’! 7 | Union, lets the cat out of the bag when he declares “that western farmers | | have nothing to brag about when they are in debt on their Mnd about aaty dollars per acre.” 4 With corn at fifty cents a bushel, which is below the cost of production and transportation to market, the farmer is wondering where his part of the (Continued on page 6) wing has stood solid; on the other hand, the Sigman machine broke its ranks on the question of seating Dele- gate Rea of Local 38, New York City. This was a public demonstration of the fact, known before, that the ma- chine has no solidarity within itself. The credentials committee report, which was against seating Delegate Rea, was defeated by a vote of 111 to 71, This is not decisive for the con- vention, of course, nor is it of great importance in itself, but it shows the instability of the Sigman machine forces. The left wing asks no aid or favors. But the Sigman forces are depending a great deal upon the expected rein- forcements, when William Green, pre- sident of the A. F. of L, will, at the “psychological moment,” address ghe convention, This will probably occur when the convention is considering the report of the general executive board, (Green addressed the conven- tion Saturday.) ~ It is nothing strange for the presi- dent of the A, I. of 1. ro attend the convention, It is quite the thing to antion! Workers of Philadelphia be done, But if @feen is coming to crush the left wing in this convention he is taking on quite a job, Gompers attended the Boston’ convention; but he had nothing td do except to con- gratulate the Sigman machine on its “noble. work” of xexpelling the left wing delegates, Awd the very men and women who were expelled from the Boston convention are the ones who are leading thefight of the left wing in this Philadelphia convention, Today the slogancof the machine, on the floor of the convention, is harm- ony, peace, unity.: At Boston, seven- teen months ago, they proclaimed that at last peace had been attained, That was the cry of the victor of the mo- ment who, thru ruthless methods, had won a very temporary victory, but the “peace,” “harmony” and “unity” “of Boston turned into struggle and chaos. That was because it was based open a deteat of the membership, of the left wing program, and the temporary vic- tory of the class collaboration policies and leadership. The same issues that the reaction- Then See Are‘You Against War? INTERNATIONAL MOTORS COMPANY TO BUY PLANT OF NILES-BEMENT-POND PLAINFIELD, N. J., Dec. 6—Ru- mors that the International Motors company is negotiating for the $14,- 000,000 plant of the Niles-Bement- Pond company, manufacturers of heavy tools, now closed, were con- firmed by officers of both companies. ary machine defeated In Boston are before this convention. Peace within the union? Yes, but only on the basis of a fighting program in the interests of the workers, with a militant lead- ership to put it into effect. Thirty ‘pages of the report of the General Kxecutive Board deal with the struggle between the C. E. B. and Locals 2, 9 and 22 of New York City. It is an elaborate attempt to becloud the real issues of the struggle, as iu Boston, but this time the left wing will not let them get away with it. The report gives lengthy quotations from Foster and Browder, it prints the united front policy of the T. U. E. L,, and excerpts from the theses and resolutions of the Communist In- ternational, and from Losovsky's re- port to the third congress of the R. I. L, U. It then says, very naively: “Partly thru tactical oversight on our part, and partly thru adroit maneuver- ing of the opposition, which benefitted our opponents and befogged the real issues of the fight, there was brought in. such issues as the change of the Published Dally except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., | | | } VICTORY and other one-act plays about the NEXT WAR. & Wednesday Evening, Dec. 9, 8:15 Sharpw:|) GIVEN BY THE WORKERS’ THEATER ALLIANCE \fer the living, fighting tadicalism to | the leaflet quite closely, but in dealing | lowed the. reactionary policy of blam- NEW YORK | EDITION | 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Il. Price 3 Cents “* SPEAKS AGAINST EXPULSIONS ¢ ‘UNITY IN DEEDS, NOT IN WORDS’ DEMANDS LEFT WING AT 1. L. G. W. CONVENTION AFTER GREEN'S SPEECH By WILLIAM F. DUNNE (Special to The Daily Worker) PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Dec.«6.—Sins of the Morris Sigman machine brought it to a new crisis just as President William Green concluded his unity speech. C. H. Zimmerman rose, just as Sigman was about to adjourn the convention, and said: “The committee appointments made this morning are not |in accord with the unity advocated by the president of the Amer- ican Federation of Labor. They are’an insult to the progressive | delegates.” Unity must be shown by acts as well as words. We are tired of hearing your lip service to unity when your acts speak otherwise. We will not serve on these committees as they are now constituted.” The left wing chose the best possible moment to deliver its ultimatum and while Sigman allowed no further remarks and adjourned the convention, there is little doubt that the commit- * | | | | | tees will be rearranged. GREEN OF A. F.\OF L. RENOUNCES EXPULSIONS AGAINST LEFT WING By WILLIAM F. DUNNE (Special to The Daily Worker) PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Dec. 6,—President William Green of the American Federation of Labor, met on his arrival at Philadelphia by a leaflet signed by “Progressive Cloakmakers of Philadelphia” asking him to deal with ques- tions of organization of the unorganized, the ku klux klan, the fascist move- ment, class collaboration, and other trade union questions, made a unity speech. If the policy laid down by Green before the International Ladies’ Gar- ment Workers’ Union is to be followed, it means a complete reversal of the line of the American Federation of¢ Labor convention and an abandonment of the expulsion policy recommended SIXTY. NINTH = to the affiliated unions. (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, Dec. 6.—With the | opening of the sixty-ninth congress the principal battles will be launched ‘within a few days. The question of Did Not Attack Communists. the world court and the question of Probably. for the first time in his|the revision of taxes are the first im- (Continued on page 2). (Continued on paye 2) CHICAGO POLICE TRY TO TERRORIZE GITLOW-WHITNEY DEFENSE MEETING Radicals Necessary. Green stated radicals are necessary to our movement. “They inspire us to} ren@wed activity and-service: I pre-! ary*rot. We must learn to get along with them.” Green followed the suggestions of h the question of organization fol- ing,the workers themselves for their lack, of organization. (By I. L. D. Press Service) In a meeting to protest against the imprisonment of Benjamin Gitlow and Anita Whitney, the big West Side Auditorium at Racine and Taylor | Streets, Chicago, was well filled with cheering workers and liberal sym- pathizers who crowded the hall in spite of one of the most remarkable ex- hibitions of police terror that has been seen in the city in many months. Every man who entered the hall was met half way up the stairway by a squad of six or eight strong-arm men, who seized by the arm and without explanation roughly handled each man+ and then ordered him to “go on up.” Every manner of humiliation thru per- in an effort to provoke resentment and sonal handling was employed as tho The Struggle for Unity in Philadelphia representation system at the joint board, the question of higher dues fraudulent elections, extravagance of the joint board and local offices, the election of officers by referendum.” These questions, according to the report of the C. E. C,, are not the real issues. If this indicates how they will settle the questions with their paper majority, then it is certain that there will be no peace, harmony, or unity. The left wing wants unity based up- on a progressive program of action, As for peace and harmony, the left wing does not expect to achieve that now; it would be only the peace and harmony of the grave. A live, fight- ing organization cannot be peaceful and harmonious in these days; there are differences of opinion which must be fought out. Unity ig a different matter; that can be attained. But it must be a unity of the workers, a unity within the ranks of labor, on the basis of struggle against the employers for the interests of the workers. That is the unity that is being fought for by the left wing in Philadelphia, Admission 50 Cents if possible a physical encounter, Even women, tho the police did not in any known case-actually pass their hands over their bodies, were seized by the arm and made to stand while eight tough-looking. policemen looked them over searchingly from head to foot Protests against the humfliating indig- nity were met with the curt statement, “We are officers.” In many cases, peaceful men, upon being suddenly seized and feeling (Continued on page 6) DEPARTMENT OF WORKER || CORRESPONDENCE IN THE DAILY WORKER EVERY DAY Starting today there will be a spe- | cial department appearing every day in Page 5 devoted to worker cor- respondence. Not ony the amount but the quality of this matertal coming into The DAILY WORKER office is rapidly improving. This im- provement will surely continue thru the worker correspondents’ classes that are being started over the coun- try as part of the eaucational activ- ities of the Workers (Communist) Party. These classes are open to non-party as well as party members. Watch for announcements of these classes in your city, All Proceeds Go to the Defense of Class War Prisoners. The Most Entertaining Evening of the Year. Eagle’s Hall, Broad and Spring Garden Sts. (Right Across from Lulu Temple.) ‘ Violin Recital and Singing. ess