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CREATE CLASS COLLABORATION BY LAW; RAILWAYS AND UNIONS PLAN ‘BOARDS OF ADJUSTMENT (Special to The Dally Worker) WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 8.—Class collaboration préceed- ing Upon the basis of a “harmony of interests” between the work- ing class and the employing class, has become almost the law of life for the high-paid bureaucracy of the American labor unions. Faced with an economic depression and an attack upon the unions, the bureaucracy, instead of uniting all unions for mili- tant struggle, seek to avoid a fight and come:to terms for a rem- nant of. concessions, But now the bureaucrats of the railway aaunions have entered into a pact to be sanctified by law, which PATRIOTS WOULD CONTROL FOREIGN LANGUAGE PRESS Demand Canaiiases Be Printed in Each Issue By SYLVAN A. POLLACK. (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK CITY, Dec. 8.—A move to force all foreign language newspa- pers in this country to print in each issue in English half a column on the constitution or the history of the United States, was launched by the allied patriotic societies at their meeting at the army and navy club, 30 West 44th St., New York City. “There are 2,000 papers published in this country in foreign languages,” de- clared Dwight G. Braman, president. “They attack our government under cover. Their influence is insidious. They are restricted by present laws only from publishing their blasphem- ous statements on envelopes or mail- ing wrappers.” Frank H. Kininicutt of the Ameri- can defense society read a bill that had been drafted to be submitted to congress. It provided that the com- missioner of education furnish the foreign language papers with suitable material, that the paper publish both English and foreign language versions and that the publications failing so to do be barred from the mails. Want It Made “Stronger.” Following the objection of Hugh Adams, also of the American defense society, that the bill was “not strong enuf, because a publication might print the fact that. the ,»material was conti ited by the government,” the report of the bill was recommitted to the committee, with the recommenda- tion that Adams collaborate-on it and that the committee then “confer with the commissioner of education and with such members of the house of representatives and the senate as show their interest.” A committee of three was appointed “to investigate such societies as the Civil Liberties Union, and American Association for the Advancement of Atheism.” HH. L. Bowlby, general secretary of the national lord’s day alliance, said that “many intelligent men have fallen unwillingly in the trap of the Civil Liberties Union.” The committee was ordered to “report so that these societies may be exposed to the authorities.” At a recent meeting of the allied patriotic societies, which was then re- ported in The DAILY WORKER, a drive to prohibit the Workers (Com- munist) Party, from appearing on the ballot at next year’s election in New York City, was started, by electing a committee which with the assistance of Président Vorhees, of the board of élection, who is also a member of the allied patriotic societies, will plan the necessary action to achieve its fulfill- ment. Tf you want to thoroughly un- “deistand Communism-—-study it, Brookhart Files Brief Against “Fraud” Charge (Special to The Daily Worker) ») WASHINGTON, Dec. 8, — Counsel .for Senator Smith W. Brookhart (R), of Iowa, today filed a brief with the senate elections committee attacking the charges of the republican state central committee of lowa that he was elected thru “fraud.” The brief sup- ported a demurrer lodged with the surrenders without even this remnant. Union Officials Surrender. executive’ officials of fifteen inca railroad labor unions have entered an agreement made with a committee of the Association of Rail- way Executives, to present a Dill in congress as a substitute for the Howard-Barkley rail Jabor bill, to provide for “boards of adjustment”— opn which representatives of the unions and Of the rialroad companies are to sit in sweet “harmony.” This is the result of months of secret negotiations and a recent three- day conference in Washington. The scheme is so pleasing to the railroad companies that even the hard-boiled open shop Pennsylvania railroad is willing to come in on it, and the only question that seems to be agitating the hearts of all concerned is whether the chief train dispatchers should be brought into the “boards of adjust- ment” as labor Tepresentatives or as company officials. Don’t Exclude Company Unions, So far as can be ascertained, the scheme does not even exclude com- pany unions, thus giving the labor unions entering the pact not even the doubtful benefit of exclusive recogni- tion. Nor is it clear what the at- titude will be in the “boards of ad- justments” to Ehe Federated Shop lingo whose. 1922 strike is still be- ing continued officially. The scheme practically forbids’ strikes, The bill to legalize this unprecedent- ed surrender by the union bureaucrats will. be, so it is said, backed by both republican and democrat leaders in congress and given early hearings and prompt report. What the judgment of the rank and file of the unions will be, once the scheme is put into oper- ation, remains to be.seen. But if it turns out as predicted, a wide revolt of the membership is sure to ensue. Wrap your lunch in a copy of the DAILY WORKER and give it (the DAILY WORKER, not the lunch) to vour shop-mate. MOSCOW METAL TRADES UNIONS INVITE GERMANS TO SEND DELEGATION (Special to The Daily Worker) MOSCOW, U. S. S. R..—(By Mail) —The following telegram sent by the presidium of the fifth congress of the Metal Workers’ Union of the Moscow district calls upon the Ger- man Metal Workers’ Union to send a delegation to Moscow where they will be able to study the conditions under which workers in the metal trades in the Soviet Union work and to establish closer relations between the two unions: “The fifth congress of the metal workers, of the which has just taken place sends proletarian greetings in the name of hundreds of thousands of organized metal workers in the Moscow dis- trict to the metal workers in Berlin. It instructed the chairman of the district committee, Striyeffsky, to send an invitation to the Berlin me- tal workers in the name of our con- gre to visit Moscow, and to study velopment of the metal indus- try and the life of the workers and the nature of their trade union or- ganizations, “Long live the unity of the metal workers of all countries! “Long live the international unity of the revolutionary working class movement!” When that argument begins at lunch time in your shop tomor- committee last week by J..G. Mitchell, |row—show them what the DAILY WORKER says about it. counsel for the senator, QUALITY vs. QUANTITY A New York bookseller abvertions “over one million books in si The Workers’ Bookstore (19 So. Lincoln Street, near Madison) may not have as many books but what we have is all worth buying. Open every bh including Sunday, from 9 a. m. to 9 p. m. 4 ELP US GRO wr THE DAMWMIY WORKER Editor’s Note:—The seventh in- stalment of this valuable series of articles describes how the working population of British-ruled Hong- kong draws inspiration and en- couragement from the revolutionary government in Canton. Article six, yesterday’s instalment, told us of Britain’s maneuver to grant conces- sions to the rebellious Chinese masses. oe 6 ARTICLE VII. By L. HELLER. HE Shanghai Trades Council was formed at the very outbreak of the strike, and soon gained general recog- nition as the center of the labor move- ment. Its popularity thruout the coun- try is enormous. To it flock with their various businesses not only the labor organizations and various groups of workers, but all the various insti- tions; the civil and military authori- ties negotiate with it, the entire stored-up hatred of the imperialists has been focussed upon it and they are constantly working to undermine “| great majority ‘women. it with all the means at their disposal. The Shanghai Trades Council is the leading light in the joint committee, in addition to the council, of the Stu- dent Council and the Committee of the Street Unions which comprises petty businessmen. The Trades Coun- cil has not only developed propagan- dist and organizational activities among the strikers, but, with the aid of its daily, devoted to political and trade union affairs, and of the special- ly created press bureau, which circu- larizes all the Chinese newspapers with daily information bulletins, it has exercised a decisive influence in the moulding of public opinion and in the growth of the national conscious- ness of the Chinese masses. Its pres- tige among the Shanghai workers is unchallenged. The latest events have proved this beyond any doubt. Only because it enjoys the complete con- fidence of the great masses of the Shanghai workers was the Trades Council able to put thru such a com- plicated maneuver as was that of shifting from the fundamental nation- al demands to economic issues, and retaining at the same time the in- tegrity and solidarity of the prole- tarian front. For it must not be for- gotten that apart from the enormous outside difficulties, the very make-up of the body of the strikers contains within itself tremendous handicaps for the mere direction of the strike, and even more so for the execution of drastic strategic turns. Indeed, the main body of the strikers consists of textile workers, seamen and dockers, The textile workers are in their Among the dockers there are plenty of migratory, semi-tramping elements. As a whole the strike movement has rallied the entirely untrained sections of the pro- letariat that have only recently got YOAKUM OF FRISCO into touch withjamy movement, The art of maneuvering such masses, of making sharp turns, requires, in addi- tion to a certain political maturity, cleverness and tact on the part of the leaders, and also, and particularly, complete confidence in them on the part of the masses, HE main body of the strikers was made up, as is known of the work- ers employed in British and Japanese establishments. The latest dispatches indicate that the strike in the Japan- ese factories has been settled in a manner denoting a serious, even if in- complete victory for the workers. The workers of the British establishments still continue ‘to strike. This again bears witness'td the strong contact existing between the council and the laboring masses. Only this gontact permits of such organized step by step liquidation of this grand strike, when one secfidn of the front is be- ing liquidated, While at the others the struggle contifiues unabated. The en- tire weight and force of the struggle will now be concentrated against Britain, and this is the best guarantee that on this front as well the Shang- hai workers will be victorious. The Hongkong strike, tho a direct continuation of that of Shanghai, has, however, one distinct aspect. Its char- acter is purely political, it being a clear expression of the national emancipation struggle conducted by the revolutionary means and methods at the disposal of the working class. In contra-distinction to Shanghai, which is a Chinese city with special settlements and concessions for for- cigners the Hongkong island is a pure- ly British colony and a “crown” colony at that, that is, a colony subject to the “crown” which appoints its gov- eronr and vests him with the greatest powers. However, the working popu- lation of this island, running up to 600,000 people (as against 8,000 Briv- ishers) is entirely Chinese. T is hardly possible to name another place on the Pacific where’ British imperialism has been revealing itself more nakedly, more insolently, than in Hongkong. A handful of big cap- italists, backed by an adequate mili- tary force under the command of the governor, is haying full and unlimted sway on the island. There is one trouble, however; within six hours travel by steamer on the opposite shore is Canton (the capital of the Kwantung province, with a popula- tion of close, to 40,000,000), the fore- most revolutonary city in China, with its Kuomintang government, friendly to Soviet Russia; a city where the labor government is de- veloping freely, and where a revolu- tionary army,of workers and peasants .has been created, In short, a city that is the very ‘opposite of Hongkong, which hates‘it/with the deepest hatred as a hotbed of the “Bolshevist germ” that is spreading thruout China por- tending nothing good to Britishers. The working population of Hongkong, LABOR IN THE FAR EAS in turn, have nothing but the heartlest hatred for their haughty oppressors and look with hope to Canton, with whom they maintain the liveliest con- nections, |No wonder that it was precisely in Hongkong that the Shang- hai events aroused not only a sym- pathetic, but a much more effective response. The proximity of Canton Played a decisive part. The Hongkong strike was led by the executive committee of the All- China Federation of Trade Unions. The latter is a very young organiza- tion, formed at the All-China Trade Union Congress early last May, Back- ed by the active support of the Canton masses and of the government, the federation, executive has been success- fully handling this extremely difficult problem. ’ The Hongkong strike—and. this must not be forgotten—is limited to a small island, dominated by a true despotism with the entire power, both civil and military, concentrated in the hands of an autocratic British govern- ment. Nor should it be forgotten that the Hongkong strike hits the pockets of the British capitalists more pain- fully than that of Shanghai, where the Japanese interests are more directly affected, And finally, it should also be remembered that the Britishers wanted to make of Hong- kong an example of the superiority of their methods of quelling disturbances. There is much “interference” in Shanghai on the part of other coun- tries and this leads to a lot of red tape and wavering; in Hongkong, however, there is a “purely” British rule, which knows what it wants and how to get it. Yet despite the fact that the authorities really did not stop at anything, including shooting, corporal punishment and mass deport- ations; despite the fact that they recruited scabs everywhere, in the Philippines, in the adjacent Portugal colony Makoa, etc.; in spite of the fact that even the Russian white guards were rallied to this glorious business of strikebreaking, despite all this the Hongkong strike, led by the Canton federation, turned into a gen- eral strike affecting every branch of employment. S a result, after two months of struggle, Hongkong is ruined, Un- able to crush the strike unaided, Hong- kong has been appealing to London, demanding intervention, military in- terference, an occupation, or at least a complete blockade of Canton. As has already been stated there is every ground to believe that these militant outeries will hardly be heard in Lon- don. The conservative government, is, of course, “at heart” with the Hong- kong reactionaries, but conditions at home, and abroad, particularly i China, are such that England will hardly dare to decide upon an inter- vention in Canton. A war with Can- ton would be a challenge to all of China. For the Chinese masses have become a nation. RAILROAD IS TRYING TO FOOL THE FARMERS INTO FRAUDULENT CO-OPERATIVE SCHEME By J. E. SNYDER. OMAHA, Neb., Dec. 8.—The American farmer has tried many times to emancipate himself during the past sixty years from the grip of the various capitalist’ groups that have come up during that time, The Alliance movement back in the eighties followed up by the populist movement in the eatly ninties were bold attempts, to step out some, politic- ally and organizationally, but both movements were burdened by a horde of bankrupt “petty bourgeois political speculators” who made them, finally apendages of the old political parties. #——— For instance when the politicians “fused” the populists in 1896 with the Bryan Democrats and later ou with the Roosevelt republicans, In our contention that the farmers’ movement, as well as the wage work- ers movement, needs a scientific nuc- leus, such as the Communist idea and organization furnishes, we do not wont it to appear as a mere egotisti- cal assumption. We need enly point out how well our leaders co? the past understcod the fate cf the American farmers political efforts. It was Fred- erick Engels, co-worker with Karl Marx, who wrote, in 1892 to his friend Sorge that “the American farmer as acl have not the strength for the formation of an independent political party. They can only fight the bour- geoisie and its big parties under the leadership of a mass party of the American workers, which in turn is led by a Marxist party.” False Co-operatives. The invasion of men like Yoakum of the Frisco railroad into the ranks of the leaders of the American Farm- ers Co-operative movement shows the same “decoy duck” tendencies as took practice along the shores of Lake Michigan in Chicago, nor seen the dupe clerks and other flunkies doing the “hep, hep, hep,” in the capitalist arsenals in the cities of the entire nation. So far, brother farmer, you may go alone with your cooperative socie- ties and no further, than the big boys want you to go, until they first stop you with injunctions, as they did the raisin growers, and if they eannot stop you that way they will shoot\you into submission as they do workers who fight their battles alone in isolat- ed unions. Yoakum is but the agent of Hoover and Hoover is the agent of big busi- ness and banking. Yoakum would furnish you a leadership from the top and the top is Wall Stret. In mat- ters not, understand me, if every act of Yokum is s: and every dol- lar he spends is se of principle, the results will be the same. As Bryan led you into the pld democrat party so Yoakum will lead you into the Wall Street shearing pen. Mr, Yoakum ies in his paper place in the political moverents of twenty-five years ago. The American farmer must, soon learn that he can-| not cooperate himself out of bondage without joining forces with the wage workers organizations, and then going much further, in establishing an ec- onomic and political unity “that ean withstand the combined financial and industrial plunderbund. It mat- ters uot how much you farmer editors talk of “peaceful means”, in bringing about a change, all of you acknowl- edge to me in private that “The cap- italist will not surrender without a struggle.” We simply ask you and your fellow farmers if you are going to wait until the day of the struggle to prepare yourselves even theoret- ieally ‘for the struggle? If so, you have ‘not seen the mounted gatling guns on the top of skyscrapers, nor witnessed, the capitalist doing target | lifted, “The Farm Magazine”, the very same kind of cartoons that were carried in populist papers, thirty-five years ago. Those papers were usually edited and controled by men of about the same state of mind as Yoakum. I warn you again, as they led you then so he will lead you now, unless you give up your “independence” and come to the full realization. that all labor is inter- dependent and must form a united front in a labor party. British Rubber Trust Raises Bar on Export (Special to Tha Dally Worker) LONDON, Dec, 8—It was announced by the colonial office tonight that all restrictions upén the export of rub- ber from Ceylon atid’ Malaya have been STATE BANK OF UNION OF SOVIET REPUBLICS ASSETS $200,000,000 By WILLIAM F. KRUSE. (Special to The Daily Worker) MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., Dec. 8.— The most recent financial statement of the issue deparmtent of the State Bank of the Union of Socialist So- viet Republics shows assets of al- most $200,000,000, of which $54,000,- 000 are covered by gold and platin- um and $11,500,000 by foreign cur- rency. The assets are sufficient to cover $8,000,000 more than the total issue of bank notes to date. The total issue of “chervonetz” to date amounts to $75,685,676. The chervonetz contains 119.4826 grains of fine gold and is equal to $5.14. The chervonetz notes mostl’ in circulation are in denominations of one, three, five and ten. In addi- tion there are one, three and five ruble notes, silver coins of 10, 15, 20 and 50 kopeks and one rouble, and copper coins for one, two, three and five kopeks. The coins are all beautifully designed and well mint- ed. . Fail to Expel Communists. LONDON—(FP)—Exclusion of the Communists, voted by the Liverpool Labor party conference, is hitting some snags among labor bodies. The decision does not apply to the trade unions, over whose internal affairs the Labor party has no control, and which refuse to discriminate against Communist members, Communists still remain members of the Labor party by virtue of their trade union membership. Many even of the local Labor parties have refused to carry out the decision and haye even nomi- nated Communists as their candidates for public offices. In the recent elec- tions 22 Communists ran in London alone as duly nominkted Labor can- didates, and the same held true of a number of other localities. Collecting for Virginia Miners. ST, LOUIS—(FP)—The St. Louis waitresses’ union is utilizing its office as collection headquarters for dona- tions of clothing for the striking West Virginia coal miners, in whose behalf a nationwide appeal has been issued by the A. F. of L. The woman's aux- iliary of the machinists is cooperating and a citywide canvass of the labor movement is being made.--Phe -re- sponse has been generous, HUNDREDS OF POLISH WORKERS ARRESTED IN GRACOW AND WARSAW BERLIN, Dec. 8—Recently, new mass arrests and searches have taken place in the Warsaw district of Poland. Approximately 150 peo- ple were arrested. Eight among the arested are suspected of being members of the Communist Party. Apart from these arrests, numer- ous other arrests of suspected Com- munists have taken place in connec: tion with the celebrations on the oc- casion of the eighth anniversary of the October revolution and the sec- ond anniversary of the Cracow in- surrection, Many arrests took place in Cracow and in other towns. It is reported from west White Russia that the process against the committee of the Communist Youth has taken place at Baranovitschi. Seven youths have received senten- ces of imprisonment of ten months each. Three others were sentenc- ed to three years’ imprisonment each. The remaining accused were released. In the village of Glubokaya in the Disnaer district, a process has be- gun against 20 peasants. The ac- cused have been under arrest since 1923, Lithuanian Clergy Must Resign Church or Leave Politics KOVNO, Lithuania, Dec. 8—Much consternation has been caused in the Roman clerical forces here by the let- ter sent by Pope Pius XI to the Bishop of Lithuania telling him that all cath- olic priests active in politics must re- sign as clergymen, on the grounds that their behavior in the government is “tending to compromise the church” and “alienate confidence of the peo- ple.” This letter has caused a great stir in clerical circles as it is the Roman catholic clerical party that dominates the political life of Lithuania. Clericals Arrest Workers Mass arrests and persecutions of workers by the clericals themselves has been practiced to much an extent | that many workers have stopped at- tending church. The confessionals were used by the priests as means of obtaining information on which ar- rests would be made. Outlaw Trades Union ‘The trades unions of Lithuania were crushed and in their pldce, clericals | trades unions were formed. The clerical government, with the able assistance of the Lithuanian so- cial-democracy, has arrested hundreds of workers on suspicion, kept them in jail tor years and then when the time came for their hearings they would be released and told that there were no charges against them. Raise Pay of Mayor’s Aid But Down Firemen ST, LOUIS—(FP)—The St. Louis board of estimates and apportion- ment, under the new anti-labor may- or, composed of the mayor as chair- man, the comptroller and the presi- dent of the board of aldermen, dis- carded all traces of consistency by approving a salary boost of $1,800 a year for the mayor's secretary, fixing his pay at $6,000. The board, which passes upon salary ordinances enact- ed by the aldermen, vetoed a $25 monthly pay boost which was grant- ed the city firemen by a 3 to 1 refer- ground that the city was broke, The firemen have asked the supreme court to decide if three politicians can over- ride a mandate of the people. Keep Red Flag Flying LONDON—(FP)—AII efforts to dis- place the Red Flag as the anthem of British organized labor have failed, ac- cording to the admission of The Daily Herald, which has been running a competition to discover whether a better labor song than the Red Flag could be written or composed. The judges have decided that not one of the songs sent in is worthy of the prize and so no prize is to be awarded. The competition was started after a speech of Ramsay MacDonald in which he criticized the Red Flag and said, “We still want our great labor song.” MacDonald’s criticism brought a deluge of protests from labor circles all over the country. “This song has so long been associated with every labor struggle in Great Britain, that a remarkable emotional loyalty to it has been developed 7 all sec- tions. He will like it!, Give your union brother a sub to The DAILY WORKER. $1.25 Six Months The Workers Monthly 1113 W. WASHINGTON BLVD. CHICAGO, ILL. Page Three rr ————— PRAVDA GREETS CZECH WORKERS ON ELECTIONS Counnniasiat. Pasty Polls Million Votes By IMPRECOR MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., Dec. 8.—The Pravada welcomes the election suc- cesses of the Communist Party of Czecho-Slovakia which has received @ million votes and has become the second strongest party in parliament. Svery seventh elector in Ozecho- Slovakia has declared himself a con- scious enemy of capitalism and a sup- porter of Communism, The success is all the greater because the Czech party recently experienced an inter- nal crisis from which the social-demo- crats had hoped much. The so-called independent Commun ist party with Bubnik at its head, em- bracing the renegade elements, did not receive a single seat. The victory in the elections was the victory of the Leninist policy over the oppor tunists. The elections have proved beyond doubt that the Communist Party is the strongest political factor in the Czecho-Slovakian working class move- ment. The success will naturally re- sult in an increase of the work carried on by the party amongst the masses. The recruiting strength of the party must be increased and the existing foothold among the peasantry and the national minorites must be enlarged. In the future it must be prevented that German workers give their votes to the social-democracy. The Com- munist Party of Czecho-Slovakia has accomplished excellent electoral work. The revolutionary proletariat of the whole world sends the brother party in Czecho-Slovakia its warmest greet- ings. Senator Berenger Will Negotiate French Debt Settlement with U. S. PARIS, Dec. 8.—The French govern- ment has asked the United States for its approval of the appointment of Senator Henry Berenger as an Am- bassador to the United States, on a temporary mission. The mission, it is understood, is concerned almost en- tirely with the negotiation of a settle- ment of the French debt to the United States. The mission of the ambassa- dor is expected for a duration of six months, and if the debt is not settled within that time, the powers of the mission will be renewed, What do you earn? ditions in your shop? How do you live? Write a story for The DAILY WORKER. FRENCH MUNICIPAL WORKERS WILL STUDY CITIES IN RUSSIA MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., (By Mail) —The delegation of French munici- Pal workers, who are to take part in the congress of Russian municipal workers, spent a considerable part of their spare time studying the con- ditions here. They were greatly im- pressed by the cleanliness and order liness of the city. Following their attendance of the congress of municipal workers they will tour a number of the cities in the Soviet Union. Sawmill Explosion Kills Four in Fla. PENSACOLA, Fla., Dec, 8.— Four men were killed when a boiler in 9 sawmill at Ponce de Leon exploded, The victims were E. C. Creel, owner, two workmen named Redman and Jenkins, and an unindentified boy, ‘What are con- Tornado Kills Two. YAZOO CITY, Miss., Dec. 8, — Two Negro women were killed and two white persons slightly hurt in a tor- nado that struck the residence sec- tion here. About 50 houses were demolished and it is estimated that the loss will be $250,000, Sails for Dope Headquarters, NEW YORK, Dec. 8. — Cardinal Hayes will sail for Naples next Wed- nesday to attend the closing cere- monies of the holy year celebration at Rome, Why not? to subscribe! Ask your neighbor $2.00 a Year \ q ' ‘