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Page Four - COOLIDGE’S CHALLENGE TO THE DAIL'Y WORKER Manifesto of the Central Bescatee (Continued from page 1) Why are the working people of this country Committee of the Workers Party. against race discrimination and double exploitation, from which they can only save themseives thru organization and cooperation with the white workers in the fight against the class Ww! hich, Pr resident Coolidge represents, are to continue to’ get this share of the products of ee dustry. The president says to the wage workers and the Me ploited farmers: “You must be satisfied with your lot. You must stay where you are. Unless you can increase the amount of profits and dividends for the capitalist exploiters thru increased production, then maybe you can get a little more for yourselves.” ABOR The Program for the Struggle Against the Capitalists. eet Coolidge capitalist program there must be set up a program in the interests of the wage workers and exploited farmers. The workers and ex- ploited farmers must fight for the following proposals Left Wing Whips ., .. the Sigman (Continued from page 1) fight for them. “So far they have not done so,” she said. Left Wing Not Satisfied with Worda, Antonini of the right wing-and twice a delegate to the A, F. of L. conven tion objected to Wortis’’ remarks questioning the courage of the dele- gates. Dubinsky pointed out that at two previous conventions of the I. L. G. W. a similar resolution had been passed, thinking by this to stall on the } SRO IRUREI Ri ER are a a EER oa burdened with a military establishment greater ae blows seatnac the capitalisn eepanilers: caukne auton than ever before in its history? Why does the The Exploited Farmer. A Challenge to the Wage-Workers “1. Against militarism and imperialism. | rr Delegeds Dimmoermen, of. the tlt president propose a new law making it possible h E 1 . d F Against the waste of the wealth produced in the coun-| wing then demanded to know why for the government to draft every person in | {OR the farmer, the president again has nothing but nd try for maintenance of a great military and naval estab- i | this eoniity into the military uctauuanneent? words. He goes back to 1900 in an endeavor to prove a t e xp oite armers. lishment. A struggle against the maintenance of a great reasatane per esgiiadesclly oy Th rage work ga 2 ex Joi ad far ca that the farmer is better off today than he was a quarter HE president’s program is the capitalist program of | 4™™my and navy to protect the capitalist interests. In- tL tion ide th Yotione, The wage workers and exploited farmers 1 | (+, century\ago. He tells the farmer who has suffered (hoe against the workers, It is a program for use of | dependence of the Philippines. The withdrawal of | °f L convention for these resolutions. i this country will find the answer in the imperial- | poverty and degradation thru the deflation period since |the governmental power against the workers to help | American soldiers and marines from all foreign terri- | No answer was given. ist policy followed by the government in support | 1920-21 that this was expected and could not be avoided. | the capitalists save their immense fortunes and to amass oh eh pie oh fd cab ee resi ect Bane Shree es a ee of the great financial institutions. The great The president does not seem to know that the farm- | even greater wealth for themselves out of the labor of ; Domingo, Sou merican countries, to determine their |that the Unit ine ere 8 & : yn affairs, Against intervention in China t t itch international banking houses are making in-| (T,*r° Sufering thru exploitation of the bankers who | the wage workers and exploited farmers. beane saci peerage ie oa Wcaharoa ont 2 nti America had forced John Mitchell to 7 vestments forthe American capitalista:all over furn in order to. 22 their farms, to whom they have had to |, The president's party, the republican party, supports | '"D Accra registration of the foreign-born worke \Aegeetandet ne Ng herr? ecg; s ents Ame n capitalists urn in order to save themselves from starvation during | this program. The democratic party supports this pro- ree ne 8 gers 1 iat ee 9 hate Lisi He then closed up without saying the world. They formulated the Dawes’ plan | the deflation period. The president does not seem to | gram. ce pope a eneatats 4 ‘Cabo Pics ti 9 alee. what that had. to do with. the case { and loaned hundreds of millions under this plan. | 2ow that the farmers are suffering because of the high | ‘The wage workers of this country, if they want to.win | dent Coolidge a iy » nd to register. | before convention, ‘ TY oh Aap REET ANG in China, | {relght rates they are obliged to pay to the railroads for | higher standard of life'thru securing more of what fingerprint and photograph the foreign-born workers of h ney are making their inyestments in nin. | transporting their goods to the market. The president | they produce, if they do not wish to see the unions this country. Furriers’ Urge Class Struggle | All of South America is becoming the domain | does not seem to know that the grian elevators, the pack- | smashed and the right to strike taken from them, | %, Eduality for the Negro, Th wis aA ie a tele % of the American financial magnates. The great | ing houses, are \exploiting and robbing the farmers of | must organize their, power to fight against this capitalist Beda ls cee) crbies eh! pb tare Come eS wad hes pels se ’ union, j roe aan — their products because of te?ir extortionate charges. Negro. For complete political economic and social |gram from the Fur Workere’ union, military establishment the president boasts of , ‘ prontany It tne ee guoe Fst ibe ea from the equality for the Negro urging the IL. L. G. W. convention to # ig Sey y y ar . e . sa | The president proposes encouragement of cooperative | exploitation of the nks, the railroads, the marketing if < aie Ae hw , ‘and ao pepo de = law wee for De bape marketing as the panacea, but the cooperative marketing ociations, they must also organize their strength for + No cee Boa tint stylet (Oars serpent 1 Join with the Furriers in the move of defending the investments and profits of the | associations will have to use the railroads, pay the high | a struggle against the capitalist exploiters. Lake til pake trom the’ oreece this eight Ge nectieR: Pe ae the differ. ; great banking houses. freight rates, the farmers will have to get their loans The capitalist "expl t which will take from the workers the right to strike. Jont crafts into an industrial unton, ; se i ; : : e capitalist “exploiters control the governmental | against the use of the injunction in labor disputes. Sup- The president wants this country prépared | from bankers who charge them extortionate interests just | power thru the republican and democratic parties. They | port of the right of the workers to organize and of the the movement for world trade union for new adventures in support of the bankers |‘e same. use it to advance thtir interests and against the work- | amalgamation of the existing unions in strong industrial |Y2ity, and to make the needle unions such as those in Haiti, Santo Domingo, Nicar- |, The president's proposal in regard to the exploited |ers. The workers and exploited farmers must get into | unions in every industry. Organization of the unorgan- | Tans of class struggle. augua, the recent paar Sa of Amarin: Sacre farmers is not to help the farmrs but to safeguard the | the struggle to take this governmental power out of the | jzeq workers. A telegram was also received from 4 sie & ae 'S | nterests of the exploiters. hands of the capitalists, 5. Nationalization and ‘workers’ control. Mike Rosen of the New York Purcell into” Panama. We must be ready ~o subdue . The formation of adlabor party to fight in the interests Immediate nationalization of all large scale industry |Committee, urging the convention to Mexico and the South American countries A BI tL b of the workers isthe first step in this struggle. The | such as mining, railroads, steel, or other large scale |send a labor delegation to Soviet Rus- should they endanger the investments and OW a abdor. iatee a ba built upon the existing organizations | industry. The establishing of workers’ control land | gia and to take a stand for world trade es “s . ¥ " % of the workers—tl rade unions, co-operatives, fraternal articipation in the management of industry. profits of the Wall Street bankers. We must be N hi§ discussion of the coal industry and the railroads, | societies, etc. In wae city and Adare atate these organ- . 6. “Help for the witistted tuners: if union unity. Both telegrams were ready to collect from Germany investments un- President Coolidge comes out openly with his program | izations of workers should send delegates to central Land for the users, Nationalization of the railroads, |'®4 amid great applause, der the Dawes plan. We must be ready to fight directed against labor. \ conferences to form “a labor party to enter the political | grain elevators, and other marketing facilities and con- Trade Demands Taken Up for the interests of the American bankers in In discussing the coal industry, he says: : arena to fight the battles of the workers. trol of these by the economic organizations of the work- The resolutions committee began to China. { At the present time the national government has little The exploited farmers must organize their power and | ing farmers, in co-operatino with the workers in these report on twelve resolutions demand- Be ee yo eRe eal get oe ey name authority te deat with the Me yiamnen ies sf Wife | ally themselves with the labor party in the struggle | institutions. ing week-work, a forty-hour, five-de: tals Areciere en Hy ‘ y age ha Te Venn Es Chis ae BLA “s eee i as permitted “gil brs Mil, 80 | against the capitalist exploiters. The existing organiza Control of the farm credit system by organizations of hs pede - , y Bert ee eemabinant to he, for. mnes be Aya. Shah Chink J, powanlees thes s only attitude Lees eo Mages au tions of farmers should be the basis for forming in every | the exploited farmers. x week, a minimum living wage and potions an rite dye Assi: ; All o ipa ea p pean uthority should be lodged bh the president | state an organgation of farmers thru central confer- Organization of the farm laborers in labor unions | eaqualization of wage standards. p ‘atgpeeygr and “es 20 re ent wi ie inten | and the departments of commerce and labor, giving power | ences which will ally itself with the workers in the fight | long the line of the organizations of the city workers. There are three resolutions pointing v sts ie nj erni anking n speaking 0! e railroad industry, he declared: = i i * houses which are exploiting the Chinese ‘people. “A strike in modern industry has many of the aspects | , Workers, exploited farmers! ite aclaio Saree’ aiid) RO IO en ee a ee ae taanees haope and demanding the expfra- PTE president's talk about Philippine independence is | of war in the modern world. “it injures labor and it in- {27 Sillance between the wage workers and exploited | oe 4 abor party, the organization of the exploited farmers abe ae ineiger Sages emo hi 4 of the same character. He would teach the people of | jures capital. If the industry involved is a basic one, ees ee ie capitalist parties of Coolidge and to co-operate with the labor party in the struggle against in the United Sattes and Canada. the Phillipines self government and proposes “more au- | it reduces the necessary economic surplus and increases Morgan. ‘This ie te answer which the wage workers and the capitalist exploiters, are the only answer the work- Regolutions are presented from Lo- thority should be given the governorgeneral so that he | the cost of living. It injures the welfare and general | °xPlOlted farmers must make to Coolldge’s capitalist | ors and exploited farmers can make to Coolidge’s cap- | Cals 41 and 38 of New York demanding will not be so dependent upon the local legislative bod- | comfort of the whole people. It also involves a deeper | PYO8T@ f italist program. a general strike in the field covered by ies to render effective our effort to set an example of | cost. It tends to embitter and divide the community Every trade unidi; every co-operative society, every Let the American workers and exploited farmers de-|them to enforce agreements and to sound administration and governmen: into warring classes, and thus weaken the unity and | fraternal organizatlofof labor should take the initiative | clare their independence from the capitalist exploiters. | organize the industry. ‘The incoming These proposals of a big military establishment of a | power of our national life.” to help form a labor party by placing themselves on | Forward to the organization of a labor party! executive board was insructed to call draft law are proposals for Wall Street but not for the | These two quotations, altho carefully worded, have |*ecord for local andustate conferences toward that end. | Forward to the fight against the capitalist program! ral strik ; s American workers and exploited farmers. only one meaning. The president proposes to invest Every organizationiof exploited farmers should endorse | Forward to the workers’ and farmers’ government of pes, 5 ait een aagarsgortrnd 4 4 in the national government the right to prevent strikes | he Borge Be bed nigh, San aie Re farmers to form a | the United States! wie pee bed kg = ba by the coal miners and the railroad workers, He proposes | ‘armers’ bloc whi¢h shall ally itself with the labor CENTRAL EXE against the ‘opolitan Opera house a Registration of the Foreign-Born. | ‘> \rench out of the hands of tho workers in these Im. | 287%Y in a fight aggitist the capitalist program. ones eer or AMERICA, |OVer the making of costumes. dustries the only weapon they have thru which they can] ~—————S eae eA HE attitude of the president speaking in the name of | force the capitalist exploiters to give them more of what Ur fl the capitalist class is brot out clearly in his discus- | they produce thru their labor power. He proposes to U. Ss. Backs Turkey sion on immigration and the foreign-born workers in| put them under the rule of government departments OF. ers * this country. Secretary of Labor Dayis.has openly ad- | functioning in the intérests of the capitalist owners of a y. Says Paris Paper yocated the registration, photographing and finger-print- the industries, he wishes to make of the workers not ing of the foreign-born workers, which is part of the plan | per ig he riba Ripingarinage af sth the ceoiunine acd sone pps toe ae as of the big capitalist employers to make the foreign-born | ‘'°™ i a A LO COMPS! RAE. Se ee j one power that,/can Challenge Brita! workers cowed wage slaves who will not dare fight for TAs canitatue SoH ei be wrenched from thed | | c Boston Membership Is. Overwhelmingly is the United ane. ; @higher standard of lite. hende. . \ ‘Ri Thru intimidating the foreign-born workers and low- : se 6 : For Unity Resolution of the C. E. C. Turks Denounce Court. ering their standard of life the capitalists of this coun- - ie Of sgepenies © suey ome GENEVA, Switzerland, Dec.-9, — try hope to reduce the general standard of labor. Now Exploitation of the Workers. BOSTON, Mass., December 9.—The Peak the Céntral Executive Committee | Turkey has refused point-blank to ac- the president comes out with the proposal for such reg- 7 UF é 2 + Boston membership meeting, by .a] resolition, who were eager to repu-| cept the decision of the league of istration and finger-printing” He says in his message LL of the above, proposals of President Coolidge ar: vote of 99 against 22, supported the] diate any suggestion of support of the| nations over the settlement of the “if investigation reveals that any considerable number a an expression of what he thinks should be the con unity resolution of the Central Ex-| opportunism and non-Communist| Mosul Oil dispute with Great Britain. (of foreign-born) are coming here in deflance of our im- pry class ton pact wien resents Fomngraen ecutive Committee at a meeting at} views of Lore. Munir Bey, Turkish minister to migration restrictions it will undoubtedly create the | tined his view on thie Mitton tr the pee a which James P. Cannon and Jay Loye-| The Boston membership meeting | Switzerland, who is representing his necessity for registration of all aliens. | his message. He said: T stone spoke as the representatives of | was the third of a series of meetings | government at the council of the Under guise of enforcing the immigration law, the | “After all, there is but a fixed quantity of wealth in the Central Executive Committee. The | held in the larger party centers, The| league now being held, declined to president proposes the creation of a weapon thru which | this country at any fixed time. The only way we can Expose Con, 0 nspira cy question was debated at the meeting | total vote of the members at these] accept the world court’s competence the capitalist can enforce greater economic slavery on | secure more of this is to create more. The elements which began at eight o’clock and last | meetings shows that over 90% of the|to give an advisory opinion to the both native and foreign-' born Workers, in this country. < time enter nd production. If the people have su Against ‘Russia ad until two o’cldck in the morning. membership are supporting the unity] league council, and declared that he | icient moderation and-contentment to be willing to i Efforts of a small group in opposi-| resolution of ‘the Central Executive| would no longer particlyate in the { / prove their conditions by the process of enlarging pro- tion to the resoluti y r The Negro Worker. duction, eliminating waste, and distributing equitably,| Comrade H. M. Webs, editoral wri-} meeting aid pli ee ee vn veaher ta fac Dunes ecu Se te ais Fhasre-govetautent: Nae Soe a prosperity almost without limit lies bef: a. cer for the DAILY. WORKER is to| - 4 é 4 “ 30 ost pnrest, among the Negro ‘workers BS) peouig phil be dominated by saifiguicice: soektiin si nake a restirs tour from Chicago tc veated by the demand of the over | Committees, only two votes having] The dispute arose \last June when eee tear, athe beatae of the sxploitine class hs mediate richness by non-productive speculation and by | he Atlantic Coast and return; deliver whelming part of the membership! heen registered against the resolu-| the British asked to refer the Mosul em te tre e mi - a are will organize | wasteful quarreling over the returns from industry, they | ng twelve lectures in the principa oresent for an orderly meeting and | tions in the three District Executive | dispute to the world court. At that nselves together with their white brothers in a strug- | will be confronted by the results of depression and priva-| ..4 “ "| >pen discussion and decision of the | Committees, those of Detroit, Buffalo| time Turkey objected to the compro- gle against the conditions fro: hich they suff Li Pr sities on “The Locarno Pact—A Ca i if MS Gresident in bis ace cafe eligi i tion. If they will continue industrious and thrifty, con-| ¢atist_ Mobilization Mgulnet. the a question. and Boston, where the whole matter] mise. When the decision of the court Pais wusek declaring that there saat be "eaualiey | rah woe nate fair wages and moderate profits, and the Uist"Union.” The opposition even went so far as} has come to a Vote during the present | was reached a few weeks ago, Turkey makes no concrete proposals to remove these injustices What is the s POPC a citles of Comrad % wi | being taken for the support of the| tral Executive Committee. recognize the @uthority of the court. M “ stice: a ense of this paragraph? Nothing more | @"ticles of Comrade Wicks on inter | , from which the Negro suffers. Sigh oeas tie een : neeting. One of the opponents of the = é » workers and exploited farmers of this | National politics realize that this will] ~ 7 bea . peers ee posed to be equal before the law | country must not expect to secure for themselves a| ‘urnish a splendid opportunity t php gmt deads Mgr ge eanargtia peda | nd the president offers nothing new in expressing this | larger share of the wealth now produced in this country. | learn all the details of this histori | [Om Comrade Konikow, who has al ! pious wish. loes he propose any measures against the | According to reliable statistics, 5,290,659 in thi “ c . says been a Loreite, openly defended | Southern states which have dis ° ‘is coumtry | reaty, He will expose all the machin . yi, Bouthe * which have disfranchised the Negroes? | in 1919 received $23,362,317,049 of the national wealth | itione of the old worl ore in the meeting, thereby consol- 5 Hf “if Does he propose any measures in the Northern states, | produced, while the remaining 32,278,411 of those gain- | ‘1-0 the rele pia WOE arena, ant dating the Communists who support- | @ Where all kinds of race discrimination is practised | fully employed received only $34,592,405,292, ‘The pres’. | 180 the role played by the Wall Stree == | { se st the Db _Does he propose that the Negroes | dent's proposal is that, the thirty-four million of those | ™Perialists in this latest move Chiraco ¥ oO Y. LW. L. Wh Distribute the Party Manifesto Outlining the feeize am ae ey may win decent standards of life in | gainfully employed, who just got enough out of industry | inst the first workers republic. peice) wd A Cc lid: @ industries where they are doubly exploited? for a bare living, ‘are not to fight to secure for them-| This lecture will be delivered in the Work in Building . Workers’ Program Against Coolidge’s the pensidiay 5 utterances about the Negroes are | selves a larger share of the present products of industry, | ollowing cities. Place of meeting: (Capitalist Program. » growing wrath of the Negroes | and that the five million who got over 23 billion dollars | will be anngunced } | Industry to Meet waa PPh vote Dec. Grand Rapids, | League who are working in the biild- let the manifesto of F inST BALL Monday, Dec., ¥4petroit, Mich, Tuesday, Dec, 22—Buffalo, N. Y. Wed. Dec, 23—Boston, Mass. Sat. Dec. 26—New York City. Sun, Dec. 27—Philadelphia, Pa. ing trades industry will meet on Sat. at 6 p. m, sharp, at 19 So. Lincoln St NOTICE! ' Mr. Samuel Ball will deliver his MASTER LECTURE: aes party has printed in an attractive four-page | the Central Executive Committee analyzing President Coolidge’s sage from the workers’ standpoint. This | Every unit of the Workers Party mes- let should be distributed in millions of copies among the workers and exploited farmers of this country. should immediately order a supply of Monday Dec. 28-4Baltimore, Md. Tues. Dec. 29—Washington, D, C. Wed. Dec, 30—Richmond, Va. Sat, January 2—-Rittsburgh, Pa. Sunday January, 3—(afternoon) Cleveland, Ohio; (evening) Toledo, Ohio, these leaflets and distribute them 7 the trade unions and other workers’ or- ganizations. The president’s message, with wa brutal program in support of the capi- talist class and against the workers and farmers is a challenge to the whole working class. 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LR Rie Rehdiersisalancen ¥ mittee on the question of party unity and trade union work. ileal aged hed B00 4 i cited, Sen Myunios Squar Workers Hoarty Ba bbw This meeting is very improtant and every party member must ag Q as tree ic 9, 22 and 35 of the In- attend. Admission to the meeting will be by membership cards only. ternational Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union; Furrier Joint Board Office, 22 East 22nd St. Bring your membership cards with you. AWE