The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 15, 1925, Page 6

Page Six { mn | F THE DAILY WORKER THE DAILY WORKER 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 (outside of Chicago): $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 Blvd,, Chicago, IIlinois J. LOUIS BNGDAHL i WILLIAM F, DUNNE (°"""ereee fg MORITZ J. LOEB...... Business Manager ... Editors Entered as second-class mail September 21, 1923, at the post-office at Chi- cago, Ill, under the act of March 3, 1879. ‘Advertising rates on application, <> 290 LABOR IN THE FAR EAST (JAPA EDITOR'S NOTE: The Trade Union Educational League, having received a series of articles on labor in the Far East, is giving them to the American workers thru The DAILY WORKER. The series on China and the Chinese labor move- ment is just finished. Today we begin a short series on the Japan- ese movement. Japan itself an im- perialist country, offers a different picture, These are written by Com- rade Tani, representing the Japan- ese labor on the Executive Bureau of the Red International of Labor Unions, cratic central committee, This was workers. In order to lower their the result of a heated fight between| standard of living and to enslave the Communist left. wing minority in| them. the federation and the reformistic | right wingers, carried on for over a year. The root of the split was in the his- toric development of the labor move- ment along the general development of Japanese capitalism. It was a min- iature incident equal to the birth .of the Profintern after the world war and the temporary collapse of the world labor movement, The same situation “The principal policy of the labor movement in the situation—Against the offensive of capital the force of the working class must be strength- ened. In order to do so, the masses must be organized into trade unions on the basis of their immediate de- mands and must be trained to fight. Representing the immediate demands of the masses does not mean concilia-| tion with capitalists. ures. t “5, Organizing and training .the union members on the basis of the class struggle. “6, Educational propaganda on the basis of the class struggle. came to Japan in a national scale and five years later following the earth- Bi Bae present status of the trade union movement and criticism of “7, Active participation of all union members in the trade union movement. “8, Local, national and industrial unification of trade unions. " “9. Co-operation with peasant unions, “10. Promotion of the political movement. - “11, International unity of labor.” 'UCH is the outline of the ideology N) eine ARTICLE I. | The Amalgamated Elections Wlections of local officers in the Amalgamated Clothing Wo: UE Ste RINGACY LAD areas | recent split in the Japanese Gen-/; | quake instead of the war. T is not at all surprising, then, that the newly-born center of the revo- lutionary labor moyement of Japan is very much alike;,in spirit and -in leadership.—Accompanying the offens- | of the left wing labor in Japan. ive of capital, the difficulty of main-|The revolutionary workers of Japan taining the status of the workers, not | 8°@™ t9-be, not so blind to the general to speak of its improvement, consid-| World situation nor to the immediate ers’ Union are to be held beginning tomorrow and in some localities | continuing for three days. The joint board of the union, in an- nouncing the addresses of polling places says: “Election period Is an appropriate time for our members in which to manifest their interest in the welfare of our organization.” True! But the welfare of the organization hinges upon certain| definite changes in the conduct of the organization. The workers in this union for years have been forced to accept the most shame- ful wage cuts under the euphonious slogan of “readjustments.” Since the series of wage cuts thruout the country in 1922 that Sidney Hillman and his gang characterized as “great victories,” the workers have been subjected to periodic “readjustments,” to the advantage of the employer. All reactionary officials conducting drives against the member- ship in the interest of the employers realize that the first essential is to silence exposure of their contemptible role by smashing the left wing and stifling criticism. Members have been expelled for voicing the elementary demands of the rank and file. Sluggers and gangsters have been employed to break up meet: | ings of loyal members of the union who endeavored to discuss the disgraceful servility of the officialdom to the bosses. Indeed the election period is an appropriate time for members to manifest their interest in the welfare of the organization. The wel-| fare of the Chicago organization can best be served by going to the} polls and voting against wage cuts, against gangster terror, against | expulsions, against suppression of opinion, and for an effective fight- ing organization by voting for Nathan Green whose program em-| bodies the demands that can strengthen the union in its struggle | against the employers. | eral Federation of Labor (Sodomei) and of the founding of a left wing center, the Japan Labor Union Coun- cil (Nihon Radokumia Hyogikai). The | event was one of the most important happenings in the history of the Jap- anese labor movement and its further developments are worthy of close at- tention, for it marks the beginning of a new turn in the whole labor move- ment of the country. Toward the end of last May, after the 14th Congress of the Japanese General Federation of Labor, 28 un- ions were summarily expelled from the federaiton, on the ground that ey supported their Communist lead- as against the h of the bureau- Factory Sport i By FRITZ REUSSNER “If we mean to carry on a sensi- ble labor policy and to have peace with labor, the state and the em- ployers should proceed systematic- ally to establish sports grounds and to support all sport enterprises. This is an investment which will yield high interest.” Karl Diem, general secretary of the German Reich Phy- sical Culture Committee (“Deutsche Inciting Assassination The presence in the capitols of the world of representatives of | the Soviet Union enrages the reptile press so it launches a propa-| nomic subjection. Its fo®merly we said | ganda of assassination against Soviet diplomats. The Chicago Tribune of Sunday joins the clamor in an editorial describing Tchitcherin, foreign minister of the Soviet Union, as a modern Macbeth living sleepless nights for fear of the vengeance of some infuriated MacDuff whose family has fallen at the hands of the Bel- sheviks. The difference is that instéad of the modern MacDuff being | Millions of persons take an active part | an opposing military leader with the courage to stand face to face in open combat and with broad sword in his hand meet blow for blow, he is a snivelling, craven modern white guard conspirator who for capitalist bribes tried to throttle the workers’ revolution in order} that all Russia could be turned into a slaughter house. Instead of | meeting his enemy in open battle, he sneaks in the dark and his} weapon is not the sword but the assassin’s bullet in the back. | Aligemeine Zeitung”). HE bourgeoisie uses every pos: means to bring the ¢lass into complete spiritual and eco- that the best opportunities of the bourgeoisie were the schools, the church and military service, we can today add also sport, Sport has be ture in the general life of the people. in sports. From Ahe politica -onom- ical standpoint too, sport is far from being unimportant. The workers in particular are taking up gymnastics and sports, namely, physical culture. With*its keen instinct the bourgeoi- sie has long felt that here is a field of grea vilities for winning over the masses, and is therefore giving ble | proletarian | ome an important fea- | | policy with the R.Ixk. U. The simi- | larity is due to the similarity of situa- tion and not to any artificial control | same time the capitalists attempt to of the movement. :2 defeat the trade union movement: by | The synopsis of the, declaration of | corruption. Bureaucratic leaders have | | the inaugural congress of the above-| .umitted themselves to temptation. mentioned Nihon Redokumiaia Syog-| put in the present deadlock situation ikai is given as follows: the working class gains nothing thru | “YVORLD capitalism and the trade | oonaporation with capitalists. Its bet- | union movement—The Interna-|terment may only be expected thru tional capital is onthe way to ¢ol-| constant, aggressive struggling. lapse. The proletarian mass is rising! «Oy jine of action: agains the reformism sof bureaucrat / “4. Atracting the laborites and their split policies. ia the Gade donone ‘The present situation of Japanese | capitalism—The capital in Japan is'in Active fight for the betterment deadlock. Thereupon,.the capitalists |of the working class. d the government;more and more tempt to exploit and.to suppress the “4, Utili ering the existing strength of the) A i | trade unions, has increased. At Sat working masses “3. Organizing women workers. tion of\reformistic meas- Russian Workers Score Rakosi Court-Martial | Organizations | } house. The grounds of Schwartz- | — | Kopf in Wildaucansist of a boat | woscow, U. 8. 8. R., (By Mail) | house, a swimming bath, a gymnas” i rhe placing of Rakosi and his com-| | Berein, ener ee ed on | rades before an extraordinary court ball paid 4 hooky ground, @ gym | despite the tremendous volume of pro- | uattetali eee iatniding bath, | est from the international working | There aeb sige the port grounds of s without distinction of political the Werner, Bamag.and Osram com- opinion, caused the greatest indign a panies, and many-others.. With this | tion in all circles in the Soviet Union. support-it has been possible to form The Pravda points out that the mur- | cla. good and capable sport.organizations |der in Budapest is being carried on within the works: The Krupp Gym- | 2&ainst accused, who have been, re nastics Society, the Siemns Sports j faned every possibility of legal de-| League, ete. ot | fense, which is unusual evén for wel . | reactionar, zaria erste ii A conference of superintendents | reactionary Hungarian understanding | i f law. The public prosecutor seems to “ svthan e | hoki bein ee the for. | be aware how absurd the accusations | rf jare and for this reason the accuse mation of a league;to which the | i a | |were refused permission to see the technical schools of the following id ok ‘ | firms are affiliated: As E. G,, Rein- material pon which they were being Jickendort, A. E. G., Kabelwerk Ober- charged. The Pravda asks whether spree, Borsig, Siemens, Lowe, Wer- the public prosecutor does or does not} ner, Stock, Zwietuschy Mix & Gen- |CUSCiously lie when he declares that est, Bergmann, Knoprbremse and | Rakosi was sent to Hungary on the} athe jorders of a foreign power for’ the| Tha lange aie iby Ld with the | Purpose of bringing about the fall ot) object of GIVING ANUQPPORTUN. | ‘Ze State. | ITY TO ALL APPRENTICES, Does the prosecutor really believe | THAT IS TO SAX,, ALSO TO that a revolution can be made on the | THOSE WHO HAVE. ALREADY | order of a foreign state? Does the DEFINITE POLITICAL VIEWS, TO | ublic prosecutor himself believe in GO IN FOR SPORT,ON A PER. |'His slander? |must-pay a particular attention to the situation close around them. A little explanation on the points enumerated as the!line of action may further prove their eorrect thinking. . As to point 3, they say: “Owing to the spéeffic character of the industrial life of Japan, women comprise a large part of the; Japanese working class, the trade union movement, therefore, problems of female workers. . .” | Of point 4, they state: “Reform- | istie measures and machineries may be actively utilized only from the ground of class struggle. While they | = m ByTANI Of co-operation with peasants they declare: “that the non-propertied elements comprise a majority among the agrarian population is.a feature of the Japanese capitalistic society. Unity and co-operation between city workers and village workers is a fun- damental condition for the success of revolutionary movement. The trade union’ movement should, therefore, always be in close co-operation in a united front with peasant move- ment, “A LL other non-propertied elements +-and their movements are also 1m- portant factors in the proletarian army.” They declare touching point 10, “The proletarian party is to unite: all these elements and thereby to en- large the front of the class struggle on the political field. Therefore, the trade union movement is by duty bound to co-operate ‘with the non-prop- ertied elements outside and should ac- tively strive for the realization of the proletarian party.” And finally they declare: “The trade union movement is a move- ment based on_ internationalism. ‘Workers of the world, unitel’ the slogan, must be turned into deeds at every opportunity. The Japane: trade union movement must, on the one hand, unite with the movements in China, Korea and other neighbor ig countries, and, on the other hand, may be resorted to for the benefit of | the working class, their true character | shouN, constantly be unmasked before | the eyes of the working masses.” must strive for the realization of the genuine unity of international labor.” (To be continued in next issue.) HE Labor Defender is a new magazine of which the first num- ber has just appeared published by the International Labor Defense, edit- ed by T. J. O'Flaherty. This paper is a fresh and vigorous presentation of the ideas of a movement which can shake the world; the organization of millions of workers for the simple de- mand that the champions of the labor movement shall not be butchered and imprisoned by the capitalist govern- ments of the world, We remember how the prosecution of William D, Haywood, of the West- ern, Federation of Miners, in 1907, on the charge of murder of the governor of.Jdaho, opened the eyes of hundreds of thousands of workers. The militant defense of Haywood gave a power- ful, impetus to the crystalizing of the class, psychology of the workers of thig-country into something more de- finitely approaching a class ideology. Many thousands of workers can trace their first awakening to the realities and the ideals of their class thru the thinking that was induced by the case and applied to the experiences of the struggle for existence in the capital- ist world. Before that the Debs case had taken its. dramatic place in history—and The Labor Defender Appears The Chicago sheet visualizes Tchitcherin repating to himself the | liberal financial support to bourgeois | introspective dirge of Shakespeare’s Macbeth: jSymmastic and sports organizations. | “s igh | It is generally said: “Sport is a neu-! But let the frame of things disjoint, both the worlds suffer, ‘tral-factor and has nothing to do with Ere we will eat our meal in fear, and sleep politics and class questions.” This is In the affliction of these terrible dreams just to lure the workers into the bour- That shake us nightly; better be with the dead, | geois organizations. The million fig-) Whom we, to gain our peace, have sent to peace, FECTLY NEUTRAL BASIS.” (Em- phasis mine—F. R.) , One can see by this that the capital- | ist gentry do not mindexpending some- thing in connection with the matter. | They hasten to explaim the object,| namely to give also apprentices who Naturally Rakosi and his comrades! s¢j}) earlier, the terrible case of the and the whole of the Hungarian work-| Haymarket martyrs had brought the ing class are dissatisfied with the pres-|pjJoody launching of the eight-hour ent social order in Hungary, but the|moyement. In more recent years the overthrow of this order can only be! schmidt and Kaplan and McNamara the work of the whole working class |caseg tore across the capitalist in Hungary and not the work of indi-| skies as a warning to the parasitic ures showing the membership of bour- | Than on the torture of the mind to lie This sort of rot may appeal to the Babbittry that gets its inspira- tion from the editorial columns of the Tribune, but we can assure} them that the Soviet foreign minister, in case he quotes Macbeth} in regard to any czarist or white guard who has perished in the flames of the revolution that “have lighted fools the way to dusty death,” will simply observe that: ‘After life’s fitful fever; he sleeps well.” No Bolshevik is ever plagued by dead counter-revolutionists. | As to the story of Tchitcherin’s sleepless nights because he fears | the assassin’s bullet at the hands of the exiled czarist and white guards; we may recall still other words of Macbeth: “It is a tale told by an idiot, Full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing!” Sigman’s Desperation Morris Sigman, president of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, who is endéavoring by every means, fair or foul, to hold his control of the organization against the overwhelming majority of the membership, has finally arrived at the last refuge’ of | the labor faker. When his own policy of terror failed he proceeded to a methodical program of provocation, indulging it deliberate’ dnd | studied insults and slander against the left wing. Members of the union, in attendance at the convention, resented this and showed | in no uncertain manner their contempt for such tactics, which further infuriated Sigman. « | When 8. Yanofsky, the discredited editor of the official organ- Justice, was under fire from the left wing Sigman, in utter despera- tion, called on the Philadelphia police to stage an assault upon: the visiting members. The police drove the convention delegates: from | the hall, beat up aud arrested workers in the audience. Here is) revealed in the most flagrant manner the role of Sigman and his machine as agents of the employers. Trade union officials who use the police to fight their battles deserve nothing but the undying execration of the membership. x The left wing in the International has proved in action that it is more competent to lead the union than the vile Sigman machine and in spite of Sigman’s desperate methods to provoke a split will hot countenance any such thing. It showed in the bitter struggle in New York that it would fight for the unity of the organization and it will prove to Sigman that his union-wrecking campaign in order to maintain his own rule will be decisively defeated. | Louis Lochner, in his book “Henry. Ford, America’s Don Quixote,” revealed the futility of the voyage-of the “peace ship” of ten years ago. Now Coolidge propoges an official delegation to Burope to establish a basis for permanent-peace. Before another le has passed Coolidge’s a one, will be viewed he. respective factori jto control the leisu geois gymnastic and sport organiza- tions show that many workers have allowed themselves to be misled by this bourgeois swindle and have joined the organizations $ enemies. The capitalists sfled with the fact that the wi are mostly organized in bourge: gymnastic and sport organizations. ‘hey want to bring the workers étill more under their control and to bind them to their Capitalists long of the workers. Moreover they are anxious to form in the factory a nucleus of righ-minded workers in sympathy with the “bene- volent” employer, in order to esta- blish Velass co-operation.” Among other institutions they also factory sports clubs. These clubs are mostly formed in the big industrial enterprises. The big industrialists are actuated by purely capitalist considerations. The first and foremost of these considera- tions is to divert the attention of the workers’ from political and trade un- ion life. The second consideration is the recognition that a healthy and physically trained worker is a better producer, and the third consideration is that their own sport grounds are a good investment of surplus capital and “this investment yields high interest.” | Increased productivity of labor means bigger profits, Factory sport organizations’ are al- ready fairly widespread. They are an international phenomenon, particularly developed in America, France, Italy, Great Britain and Gérmany. We get a good insight into factory sport or- ganizations from an article of a bour- geois gymnastic instructor. This ar- ticle contains the following statement: “Various big industrial enterprises have complied with the wishes of their manual and office workers and have given sympathetic support to thelr gadeavours on behalf of sports and “gymnastics, For instance, Krupps in Essen have built an up: to-date swimming bath, two first- | cla gymnastic halis and a big sports ground, Berliners are fami- liar with the magnificent sports grounds of the Siemens workers which consist of a sport field with a concrete race-course and stand for spectators, dressing rooms which can be heated, bath rooms with douches for men and women, tennis courts, several fields for games and a boat form | have already definite ,political views The DAILY WORKER sub- |gesellschaft, the Bank of the Berliner aged * - : rs Kassenverein, etc, scription list is a Communist One could multiply these examples honor roll. Is your name on it? |from various countries, For instance, an electrical company in Chicago has a factory sport, Jeague with over 10,000 members, all gf whom are em- ployed in the enterprise. The Re- nauld works in Parig,and other Paris works have strong sport leagues, and | the same may be said of motor car and other: factories, in. Italy. The firms are endeavoring to give | their factory sport leagues high quali- | fications and use thigat the same time jas an advertisemenfy.In order to at- |tract highly qualified: sportsmen they jare offered good pogétions and higher |Salaries. By various favours and priv- \ileges the workers dn, these factory |sport organizations,@fte corrupted and made willing tools of the employers. It is obvious that the privileged members of these fgetory sport clubs and leagues become gtrikebreakers and informers. They will mostly keep at a distance from trade union and politi- jcal organizations, They will be in | fact hostile to the endeavours of the | workers. Through the sport organiza- tions employers will transplant the spirit of class co-operation to the fac- tories. Trade unions and political organi- zations must realize these facts and must therefore pay special attention to factory sport organizations, The slogan must be to place the factory sports club under the sole control of the workers and to affiliate it to the central workers s; federations, to win the memberg_of factory sports clubs for the tradg union and political movement, In comection the factory nuclei of the Communist Party and the Young munist League the design: he Capitalist ¢!re: have still a big | before them, = || gooleny ee ty ‘8 ey gations to the Union of Soviet Ri On the side is a picture of a participate in all affairs of the the men, The treaty that wi farmers have rkers and peasants such as these that the British, Norwegian, French, Czecho-Slovak, Hungarian, nad Japanese dele- ' of the Soviets and constitute the real backbone of the Soviets. Due to the energetic support of workers such as these Rus- | sian industry and agriculture have been steadily climbing upward until in some fields it has surpassed the pre-war peak, drawn up by the capitalist powers at Locarno is' Bind at the government which these workers and been able to form and maintain thru many bitter years of cfvil war, famine, intervention and blockade. The duty of all workers in other lands is to support these workers agai: viduals and to accuse these of insur-|clasg that all was not perma- an opportunity to go ap for sports on rection is the work of a maniac. But | a “perfectly neutral basis.” To put it} the Public prosecutor is not in the | bluntly this means thafetheir attention | least interested in the innocence or is to be diverted from. political and guilt of Rakosi, the only interest is to trade union questions, settle him as quickly as possible. wep " The whole international proletariat Beri shite ee ees | must raise its voice in angry protest tions in the Berlin Gymnastic and| ;eams the-shamelul justice gomedy Sports week, shows the extension of | peat. gr; ~ — Ppa P rio | must take Rakosi and his comrades the organization in the various enter- prises. In this Hsteaee wate: the under their protection! / The maniacal German Reichs, Post, the Dresdner te al bangits mustibe brge to 6 ! Bank, the Reichshauptbank, Osram, si |Daimler Motor Company, Schultheiss Patzenhof Brewery, Berlin Handels- nent in the world of silks and satins and rags. Then, nine years ago, the frame-up of Tem Mooney and Warfen Billings reached around the globe from the scene of a little street- car strike in San Francisco and play- ed even its own small part in the Russian revolution’s early days and in the affairs of the world war. The al- most incredible facts of the mass trials of the I.W.W, and the condem- nation of Sacco and Vanzetti to the electric chair were piled upon it, Yet the famous labor cases which have gripped the vitals of the work- ing class heretofore, now appear as only a fragmentary part of the tre- mendous. mass of prosecutions that THE BACKBONE OF THE SOVIET UNION fepublics beheld running the affairs Russian working woman. Women Soviet Union on an equality with d 4 is are now going on all over the world in these sharper times of the last period of capitalism and of the dawn of the proletarian revolution: Every one of a thousand terrible dramas now being played in every country in the world has the.same power to move and edu- cate the working clasé, But actually there has been too much material for the purpose—too many dramas play- ing at oncas to be able to command the same concentrated attention, The very volume of the battle-ground brot deafness to the battles. There was need of a powerful hand to reach out and gather and organize the material and to present the drama of “the thou- sand Mooney cases” in one all-power- ful presentation, It seems that the International La- bor Defense will succeed in organiz- ing and presenting to the workers this big drama on its world scale. It suc- ceeds in reminding us again that the fighters are still in, and that new fighters are legion. The presentation in the first number of the Labor De- fender gives something of the flavor of the old single dramas—but with the new flavor of mass struggle. At the same time the organization behind it serves to do the practical work of gathering material aid for those who are being mangled and tortured behind the bars. CHICAGO LENIN MEETING TO BE THE LARGEST IN “LODAL PARTY'S HISTORY The largest hall in Cilcago, the Coliseum main bullding has been en- gaged for the Lenin Memorial meét- ing to be held Sunday, Jan. 24th 8 p.m. An elaborate program is be ing prepared and all local party un- its mobilized to make this the great- est Chicago gathering In the history of the party. The delegates will meet at The DAILY WORKER office 1113 West Washington Bvd., Tues. Dec, 15th, 8 p.m. sharp. Much work remai: to be done and delegates must make sure to attend. If any nuclei have not as yet elected delegates the seo- retary should be present. —_-