The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 11, 1925, Page 6

i RAL SRS aaa al Page Six Published by the DAILY WORKER, PUBLISHING, CO. 1113 W. Washington Blvd, Chicago, Ill. Phone Monroe 4712 —__-__ SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail (in Chicago only): | By mail (outsids of Chidéago): $8.00 per year $4.50 six months | $6.00 per vear $3.50 six months $2.50 three months $2.00 three months $$. Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Illinois Editors Ww TL) LIAM F, MORITZ J, LOEB.. / ..Business Manager Entered as second-class mail September 21, 1923, at the post-office at, Chi- cago, Ill, under the act of March 3, 1879. ee 290 Advertising rates on application, Sigman’s Fake Issue report of the general executive board of the International | rment Workers’ Union to the Philadelphia convention is a combination of reaction and stupidity in about equal} parts. The Ladies’ cunning, But from portions of it we can get concrete proofs of the effectiveness of our party’s strategy and tactics in its trade union work. It is a fundamental principle of strategy never to accept battle on the terms of the enemy if they are not favorable to victory and in the report of the general executive board we find on page 48 ihe admission that in the struggle carried on by the left wing in New York with the aid of the Communists against the union-wreck- ing officialdom, the Sigmanites were out-mianeuvered, out-fought and defeated. Of course the Sigmanites do not admit that the left wing was fighting for the integrity and even the very life of the union. But what they do say should be read again and again by every mem- ber of our party. The paragraph mentioned says: The conflict had started as a fight against Communist contro! of some of our local unions. But soon; partly thru tactical oversight on our part and partly thru adroit maneuvering of the opposition, the issues of the fight became diverted to other channels, which benefit- ted our opponents and befogged the real issue of the fight. Thus there were brought into this fight such issues as the change of representation system at the joint board, the question of higher dues, fraudulent elections, the extravagance of the joint board and of lacal officers, the election of officers by referendum—and a widespread im- pression was created to the effect that we were fighting to retain the status quo in the union, that we were opposed to the bitter end to any reforms and any organizational improvements, and similar stories to which the opposition was trying to give wide circulation in order to arouse sympathetic publicity for itself. Everything stated above by the general executive board ‘is true with the exception that the trade union issues mentioned “befogged | the real issue of the fight.” What is the truth of the situation? It is that the issue raised by the Sigmanites, the issue of Com: munists in the union, was a real fake issue. The Sigman machine did not want to fight for the interests of the membership and it tried to conceal its cowardice and desire for class collaboration policies behind an attack on the Communist members of the union. It failed and failed miserably. third of the membership, whilé the left wing has developed and hardened itself in the struggle and enjoys the trust of at least two- thirds of the membership. a» Cherchez la Femme Cynical Frenchmen, observing the role of women in court in-| bi trigues as well as domestic scandal, have adopted the trite admoni- tion “look for the woman,” when they proceed to unravel mysteries. The recent exposure, thru a female denizen of Monmartre, of a group of British spies operating in Paris, brings up the general question of women military spies. The psychology of army officers makes them particularly susceptible to the wiles of women spies, whether they come from the Paris Latin quarter, the Cherry Hill district of New York, the mansions of Fifth avenue or appear in the guise of red cross nurses. Many an officer in the French army will have to explain his amours to his superiors. And the superiors themselves are not with- out guilt in the affair if reports of the obseevations ‘of the French military intelligence department are reliable. Interesting also is the fact that the British department under the direction of that eminent knight of the garter, Mr. Austen Chamberlain, while professing undying devotion to the “spirit of Locarno,” should countenance debauching 6f the French army by a paid demimonde. Continental and British newspapers blandly admit that every nation has spies operating in every other nation to extort military secrets that may be useful in ease of another war.. The revolution- ary workers of Europe will not fail to note the full implications of “this network of spies. As to the chic prostitute, Mlle. Moreuil, she will escape with a j light jail sentence because she was caught in peace time. If Britain A and France were at war, the British press might have another Edith i Cavell case to fan the passions of national hatred, in which case the Monmartre girl would probably be described as a red cross nurse pure as the driven snow. To the enemy country the female spy in time of war is an adventuress, while those in their own employ are of spotless character, heroically sacrificing themselves on the altar of patriotism. In Germany Mati Hari, the enticing dancer, executed as a spy in France, became a heroine. In England it was the ad- venturess Edith Cavell, wearing the garb of a red cross nurse whose fate was utilized by the reeruiting officers to entice workers into the slaughter house. Imperialist plunderers do not seruple to utilize every venal element of society in their struggles for supremacy. The salacious details of the manner in which the girl who crawled out of the Paris underworld enticed many officers of the French army will make them objects of contempt on the part of the gonscripts who are able to think and bring nearer the day when mutinous soldiers will end the loutish careers of these satraps of im- perialism. A British scholar is reported to have found an error in the holy bible. He learns that in the King James version the “wise men” who saw that strange astronomical phenomenon, the star of Bethle- hem, were in reality “magicians.” The translation. is said to be wrong. Next we will learn that Jerusalem Slim was also a magician, if we are to believe the story of turning water into wine. Either a magician or so drunk he didn’t know whether it was water or wine. . While on the return trip to Washington from Chicago the Coo- lidge family stopped for a few minutes at Garrett, Indiana, to see their old-time friend, Mrs. John Babbitt: «Comment is superfious. Get a member for the Workers Party, and. new subscription at the DAILY WORKER. It has behind it less than. one-| @: UBLICATIONS just arriving from Japan give additional and more complete information regarding the new proletarian party, the founding of which was first planned last sum- mer. Negotiations between the repre- sentatives of 30 workers’ organiza- | tions, mostly labor unions, have been going on for months. December first was decided upon as the date on which the party was to be formally launched. According to the stories carried in the Japanese bourgeois press, the ten- tative party platform, agreed upon in the preliminary negotiations, con- tains 49 planks. They constitute a program of class struggle, and while not definitely revolutionary, will make the. new.party an objectively revolu- tionary party if it struggles for all the demands without compromise. The proposed platform of the pro- | letarian party of Japan is as follows: 1. Unconditional enfranchisement of all people, irrespective of sex, who are over 18 years of age, and their eligibility for election, 2. Abolition of the Genro, the House of Peers, the privy council, the army general staff and the navy general staff. 3. Abrogation of the peace preserva- tion law (“dangerous thots law”), the police regulations and all other laws and regulations designed to suppress proletarian movements. 4, Abolition of laws and regulations restricting the freedom of the press, publications, meetings, and organizing societies and demonstrations, 5. Adoption of the one-year military seryice system, with payments of the standard of cost of living by public bodies during their service in the army. THE DAILY WORKER THE DAELY WORKER The New Workers’ 6. Abolition of slavish treatment of conscripts in the barracks. 7. State relief for the tamilies which are reduced to straits because of the death of their members in battle or their service in the army. 8. Acquisition of a vote by the priv- ates in the muitery administrative business, 9. Abolition of the gendarmerie and the court-martial systems, | 10. Opposition to all policies de- signed to militarize the people. 11, Acquisition of the right by la- borers and farm workers to organize unions and strikes, 12. Acquisition by farm workers of | the right of supervision over the pro-| duction and distribution of fertilizers and agricultural crops. | 13. State relief for, farm workers | who are in distress on-account of dam- age to agricultural crops. 14. Acquisition by farm workers ef, the right of commén’' control over land. 15. Acquisition by committees of laborers of the right of supervision over enterprises, public and private. 16. Establishment of the eight-hour day (44 hours a week); the six-hour | day (33 hours a week) in the case of mine workers. 17. Acquisition of the right to con- clude contracts collectively, 18, Abolition of the contract for la- bor system, the apprenticeship system and all other backwand’ systems, relics of feudal days. th Establishment @f the six-hour day (30 hours a week) for juvenile workers under eighten years of age. 20. Prohibition of labor by children under 16 years of age. 21. Prohibition of night work, work within pits and dangerous operations Party of Japan tn eA sTCRNA ea ;for juvenile and female workers, 22. A week's rest from labor before and after childbirth and payimeérit of full wages during this period.’ ° 28. Compensation for diseases con- tracted and accidents met with «at work, and provision for perfect pre- ventive equipment. 24. Control of employment agencies by labor unions. 25. Remission of the customs duties on necessaries of life and excises of various kinds. 26. Adoption of high progressive taxation system for the land tax, the income tax, the succesion duty, the/ registration duty and the business tax. | 27. Creation of a high capital levy. 28, Creation of a property vad au a luxury tax, 29. Defrayal of the standard cost: of living by the state for the unemployed. 30. Support by the state of aged proleiarians and mothers of deformed persons and infants. 31. State guarantee for the recupe- ration and preservation of health tor poor proletarians, 82. Supply of housing accommoda- tion by the state and autonomous. bod- ies for laborers and farm workers, and acquisition by these laborers-and farm workers of the right of control over "Vit. | Brown But Red « 33. Abolition of the peerage system. 34, Removal of all restrictions on female education and occupation. 35. Emancipation of young men’s associations, boy scouts and ex-sol- diers’ associations from official and bureaucratic control. 36, Establishment of autonomy for the colonies. 37. A drastic ments. reduetion of arma- By Earl R. Browder" \ } 38, Reforms 6f the judicial and po- lice systems. \ 39, Nationalization of land. 40. Adoption of the system er which prices for staple foodstuffs are officially fixed. 41. “Proletarialization” of indusrial associations. 42.Prohibition of traffic in proletar- jan women. 43.Abolition of secret diplomacy. 44, Revisions of various maritime regulations, and revisions of the regu- lations governing the workers at state factories. 45. An extension of the compulsory education pericd, and defrayal of all expenses for compulsory ‘education period and for vocational education for the children of* proletarian par- ents out of the State treasury. 46. Opposition to imperialistic wars. 47. Abolition of all unequal treaties with weak peoples and removal of all imperialistic oppression, | 48. Abolition of the consular juris diction and military interference in China. 49. Opposition to all barriers set up. against international unions among the proletarians. (From the Japan Weekly ChronTéle, Kobe, Nov. 19, 1925, quoted from the Hochi, Tokio, Japan.) The Japanese working class is pop- ulariy supposed, in America, to be backward and undeveloped. But if we could see the great American labor unions uniting their forces to form a labor party with a program as dis: tinctivly proletarian as the above, we would hail it as a revolutionary event. The whole east is awakening, and the Japanese workers will evi- dently not be the last to assert them- selves, How Moscow Celebrated the Eighth Anniversary — > By WM. F. KRUSE. (Special to The Daily Worker) MOSCOW, U. S, S. R.—(By Mail)— Properly speaking, the celebration of the revolutionary anniversary begins weeks before the actual event. The “October Commission” meets and lays Out the plans for the holiday, and in every factory, school, office, and club the workers begin their preparation for participation in the great holiday. Burnest discussions last far into the night—the decorations for the build- for the auto trucks to carry the children, for bringing in a peasant del- egation, or an army delegation from thé:village or regiment over which the party nucleus is “chef” or sponsor the kind of: placards’to be carried in the atade, the program of their own small clebration—all these have to be set! led Jong in advance. Then come weeks" filled with paint-pots and red iting, until finally the eve of the are it day arrives. How They Celebrate ‘Yin every one of the hundreds of wofkers’ clubs thruout the city cele- brations are held. At the Comintern Chib a group.of “Young (Leninist) Pioneers” were initiated into the Com- intern nucleus. At the German Club, the ‘largest organization of political emigres in Moscow, there was a wel- come to a delegation from the Kiev German Red Army Regiment for which the Moscow Club is “chef” In a new- ly organized club of the oil trust em- Rogoff, of the Moscow Soviet, in- roduces Kameney as the first and ef speaker. He is followed by an old bearded peasant who reads off a little speech he has written down, Then a young peasant woman, shawl over her head, roygh shoes on her feet, she speaks with force*and de- cision, her clear ge penetrates the amphitheatre and four times applause interrupts her short: discourse. Leningrad Greets Moscow Then follows a real innovation. A consultation of watghes, then silende is requested, and sagy, the great horns bring forth ‘words ef greeting from a simultaneous celehration in Lenin- grad. An awed silence spreads over the crowd. The speaker finishes, roars of applause echo from the Leningrad workers through the Moscow theatre, then “The Internat{jonal,” played in Leningrad, and the foscow audience jumps to its feet.ip, an enthusiastic demonstration thatelasts many min- utes. nor Again silence is requested, again the watches are cons , and now Com- rade Uglanov, secrgtary of the Mos- | short speech, then cow committee ang@ once holder of that position in Leningrad, steps to the micraphone to.return the greeting. He speaks, and the,Moscow applause and music speeds agross the ether to delight the Leningrad comrades at their meeting. Ovation To Chinese General A factory worl follows with a e Chinese gener- ployes, called “1905,” a long list of) a1, who receives a tremendous ovation. speakers was followed by music and a| He speaks in Chinese and very few “living newspaper.”. The -biggest demonstration is held in the Bolshoi Theatre under the joint auspices of the Moscow Soviet, the Moscow Communist Party, and the Moscow Committee of the Trade Un- fons. The great red and gold hall glistens under the lights of the crystal chandliers as brilliantly as ever in the days of old, but its shimmering beauty is reflected now in other, more appre- ciative, eyes. In the Grand Loge, where once the imperial parasites lol- led, there sit the honored guests of the Sovnarkom, today General Yu Khaff Dhin, the fighting chieftain of the Canton proletarian armies, and a delegation of youthful workers frem Germany. The admission tickets here tonight are priceless, every one has been dis- tributed through some working class organization, every comrade who oc- cupies a seat here does so by the grace of the esteem in which he is held by his fellow workers. Splendid Organization Chairman Kamenev rings a little bell and perfect silence ensues. . All rise as the band strikes up the “In- ternational”. A comrade goes to the speakers’ stand, in front of which hangs a microphone connected with great loud speakers that carry the slightest whisper to all parts of the great. auditorium. In front of the chairman's seat is another—both are connected also to the radio broadcast- ing stations that permit millions of workers in all this part of Europe to listen in on the event. The comrade pro} a list of twenty for the “presidium”—they are elected by vote of the assemblage, and proceed to their place upon the stage. Workers and soldiers and peasants here, men and women, some whose grey hairs speak of a glorious past in the cause of the proletariat, others whose young hearts ‘promise a still more glorious future. Among them is a tiny “Pioneer” girl of not more than m.. As they are greeted with the ‘International” all arise once more, ‘thé soldiers present salute—as do.the representatives of the young “Lenin- sentences he stops to~permit transla- tion into Russian by a handsome young Chinaman with a large red ribbon on his coat. A military leader in the Canton army and member of the po- litical committee of the Kuomin- tang, his speech ends with, “Long Live Leninism.” Just what the crowd wants; they are on their feet with “Long Live the Chinese Soviet Re- public.” Then a German Delegate A German youth delegate follows with the hibaivan PA of his comrades. ! their late igi Frunze, there is no military parade, the soldiers from the city marching with their fellow workers of the factories where they were formerly employed, those from outside the city marching in the civil parade. From ten in the morning un- til six at night the masses pour, twenty abreast, through the great square, past the tomb of Lenin, on which stands a small group of reviewers—among them Kalenin, Budenny, Rykov, and an aged survivor of the Paris Commune. Here too loud speakers are in service and each division is greeted by their lead- ers. The micraphone is a miracle worker, but demands cautious behay- for—the comrades on the platform Whisper among themselves, crack an occassional joke intended for their ears alone, but the micraphone be- trays every secret to the crowds in the square. -“Long live the beautiful Red women” is suggested as a slogan asa splendid detachment of girls fac- tory swings past, and the chuckle on the platform is borne out through the great horns and the whole square joins in, His conclusion is “Long Live the In- ternational Unity of the Working Class Youth; Long Live International Trade Union Unity.” After a short intermission a musical program is given by an ingenious com- bination of symphony orchestra, work- ers’ brass band, and the famous Pit nitsky chorus of about a hundred mixed voices. They sing with and without band and orchestra, and as chorus for a soprano soloist. The crowd cannot get enough “Bees,” “Bees,” (More—More) is the demand. In the course of the program we hear, for the first time, a new overture “1917,” somewhat reminescent of “1812” in the treatment of conflieting anthems. It is amost one o’clock when the program ends with a seriés of bak let numbers, of highest artistic quality but utterly devoid of revolutionary significance. It is explained that -we have not yet come around to the: Bol shevizing of the ballet, here still. pre- vails “art for art’s sake,” but when the younger generation of dancing stars, those who have grown up) ia Soviet environment, take the rudder, things will change. Recreation for Workers Only After the parade the holiday spirit Adolph Joffe Goes to France to Confer with Next Day a Holiday—Parades. ,, The next day—the big day—every- thing is closed down tight. No res- taurants, no street cars, no stores of any description are open. Every pub- lice building is gaily bedecked with flags, bunting, paintings, and electric transparencies. Every store window, every available show place, bears pic- tures of the Soviet leaders. Many show windows contain fine symbolic displays—this is what the workers committees have been working on these many weeks. Gaily decorated auto trucks loaded with yelling, sing- ing children rush along the highways. The streets are jammed with people, marching and watching. A true folk holiday spirit prevails. At ten o’clock sharp the first col- umns enter the Red Square. Already there has been a banner presentation by the German “Roter Jungsturn.” This year, due to the mourning for MOSCOW, U.S. S. R., Dec. 9.— Adolf Joffe, vice-chairman of the sup- reme concessions commissign of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics and former plenipotentiary to China and Japan, is leaving Moscow for France where he will confer with a doctor as to his health. Joffe’s health has reached a point where’ it seriously interferes with his work and it is expected that this trip will result in a course of treatment that will fit him for further work. Put a copy of the DAILY WORKER in your pocket when vou go to your union meeting. LABOR IN THE FAR EAST Editor's Note: +The eighth instal- ment of this series of articles tells us of the birth of the new, free China. Yesterday’s instalment told of the in- spiration ithe revelutionary govern- ment of Canton is to: workers in Hong- kong, which is under the autocratic rule of Britain, 2 a ARTICLE VIII. By L. HELLER. HE traditions of, provincialism and clannishness ane,still as a matter of fact strong in» China. However, within the womb of old China a new China has arisen. Owing to indus- trialization, its life has been revivified, “modernized.” The growth of cities, the development of railways, the greater mobility of the population, the spread ,of Mteracy,.the rise of the press, the springing up and proletari- anization of an intelligencia, and last and most important, the appearance of an industrial proletariat, its activi- ties and the growth of its trade union and political qrganizations—all these have undermined the foundations of old China, have led. to the readjust- ment of the social forces, to the revis- ion of the social relations, to what the Chinese themselves term as the “revaluation of thé ‘old values.” At the same time, on top of the old traditions aed developed the feeling of national hnfty/ of national integrity and a wratful protest against the colonial slavery in all Its forms and manifestations, a heightened re- sentfulness towards everything. re- stricting Chinese sovereignty and handicapping the emancipation and unification of China. All this has been briefly formulated in the slogan of the entire nation: “Down with the spe- cial treaties!“ This means, down with the “concessions,” down with the control by foreigners of the Chinese customs and railways, down with the extra-territoriality, down with the consular courts. And finally it means, “a China free, independent, sov- ereign!” HAT this is the common demand of the whole nation, of every sec- tion of the Chinese population, is not denied, even by the most dyed-in-the- wool imperialists. Thus the Peking correspondent of the arch-imperiali: Shanghai North China Daily News, reports im the middle of July: “The slogan, ‘abolish unequal treat- jes!’ used to be monopolized by the Kuomintang, but nowadays even the most conservative Chinese, who three months ago would have con- demned such talk as the talk of wild men, are asserting themselves on the side of the ‘rights recovery move- ment!’” The strike of the Hong! men in the spring of 19 Shameen strike in the summer.of 1924, represent perhaps the finest pages in the recent history of the nationalist movement—and these pages have been written by the young Chinese proletariat. But splendid and significant as these activities have been in) their time, they were only a prelude to the events of this summer, when the role of the working class as the leader of the national emancipation movement was so strikingly revealed, : This is. recognized by all, both the petty and middle bourgeoisie, and even ina cer- tain sense by the Peking govern- ment itself. Everyone became aware that the workers’ strike . movement was the backbone of the nationalist movement. This explains the support that the Shanghai and Hongkong strikes received thruout.the country among every section of thé popula. tion, This explains also the singular fact that the Tuan Tsi-Jui government contributed $150,000 to, the Shanghai strikers, and $100,000 dollars—by way of Canton—to jan Hongkong strik- ‘is role of the cuiniee proletariat,4 ¢uake considering its small numbers—there ere hardly two industrial work- with 400,000,- Doctor as to Health continues. Every.theatre and picture house is wide open but no tickets are for sale at any price, the “October committee” has distributed them through the unions and other workers organization. The day started in @ miserable drizzling rain, but still the thousands poured through the streets; it changed to dazzling sunchine a few ours later, and night brought with it a chilling cold, but the spirits of the crowd were all impervious to caprices of weather as to those of their white guard” enemies skulking in foreign |Slums waiting for the return of the dead.and buried czar. At all times the tremendous provement in the pas of Ri and of its people impresses the tra’ lerr with a sense of the solidity progress prevailing here. But on this great folk holiday the whole soul of the Russian masses seems to pour it- self out in joyous glorification of the new social order. To witness a No- vember celebration in Soviet Russia would take the heart out of the last czarist well-wisher, If a grand duke were to return to Moscow today, the only place in which he would feel at home would be the museufn. Civic Opera: Offers aWagnerian Program on Sunday Afternoon A. special performance of “Die Walkuere,” will be given at the Civic Opera on Sunday afternoon, Dec. 13. The cast will include Miss Van ; don, Olga Ferrai, Augusta Lensk| | Forrest Lamont, Alexander Kipnis Edouard Cotreuil make up the cast. Polaceo will conduct. i Mary Garden Returns, Another event is the return of Mary Garden who comes from Europe to appear with the Chicago Civic Op- era Company for the first time this season in the role of “Werther,” which will be presented ~ Tuesday night, Dec. 17. The repertoire for the week is as follows: ; Sunday, matinee, Dec, 13 at 2 p. m., “Die Walkuere,” with Van Gordon, Ferrai, Lenska, Lamont, Kipnis, Cut- reuil; conductor, Polacco, Monday evening, “The Masked Ball,” with Raisa, Lenska, Marshall and Steel; conductor, Polacco, Tuesday evening, “Werther,” with Mary Garden, Freundfi Annseau, Kip- nis, Cotreuil; conductor, Polacco, Wednesday evening, “Barber of Se. ville,” with Moluis, Hackett, Rinini> Lazzari, Trevisan; conductor, Mor: zoni. iis Thursday evening, “A Light fro} St. Agnes,” (World’s premiere) witi Raisa, Lamont, Baklanoff; conductor, (Composer) W. Franke Harling. Fol- lowed by “Cavalleria Rusticana,” with Muzio, Pavloské, Ansseau, B Peer est conductor, Grovlez, ‘aturday evening (popula rpri “Lucia di Lammermoor,” with pried Beth, Cortis, Bonelli, Lazzari; condue tor, St. Leger, _—_— School System ‘in National Republics, MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., Dec, 9—In the Ukraine all children between 8 and 10 years old will be able to attend school this year, The Ukrainian lan- has been introduced in most of the the urban and vil! the main langu: bate school as ted eee Put a copy of the WORKER in your pockets ‘ou go to your uni | hete SAVE THE DAIL! | /