The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 16, 1925, Page 5

Workers Write About the BILL GREEN'S ADVICE GOES FAR ASTRAY Sends Information But It Only Confuses By TOM RAY. (Worker Correspondent) McDONALD, Pa.—William’ Green, president of the American Federation of Labor has mailed out sets of slo-| gans addressed to “Fellow Citizens and Trade Unionists: He states that there are 158,000 coal miners on strike in the anthracite region. But he doesn’t mention that 10,000 miners remain at work taking care of the coal operators’ property. ‘This means that the same results will come out of it as came out of the 1922 railroad strike, when nine crafts re- mained at work while seven crafts went on strike. Information Should Not Confuse, We. have learned what the fatal re- sults of such A. F. of L. policies are, and want no more of them. Informa- tion should be mailed out, but not to . confuse the workers, Green advises us to study two pam- phlets by John L. Lewis on the an- thracite. But we remember the last international convention when Lewis told us he would see us in hell before he would give Alex Howat a hearing, at a time when about 80 per cent of the delegates expressed themselves in favor of Howat, Public Sympathy Depends on Power. Green says that “public sympathy” is necessary. But he chooses to forget that the way the British miners won their strike was not by depending up- on the “public” but upon their own power, used in unity with the two other basic industries, the railwaymen and the transport workers. The British workers are not afraid of Communist leadership and as long as they have the power the “public” will favor them, just as over here the “public” favors those who have the physical force to rule. The American miners must unite their forces like the British did, so that they will all strike at once, then ‘Wor THE DAILY, WORKER —___~_—————— kers’ Life THREE VALUABLE PRIZES OFFERED FOR BEST CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE WORKER CORRESPONDENTS’ PAGE Three valuable prizes will be offered for the three best Worker Correspondents’ stories sent in this week, These will be published on the Friday, Dec. 18th, Worker Correspondent's page of The DAILY WORKER. The first prize is the much valued book by "Nikolai Buk- harin, “Historical Materialism”; the second prize, “Whither Eng- land” by Leon Trotsky and the third prize the original of the cartoon by R. Logan, framed, the reproduction of which will appear in this page. Hurry. up and write your story and send it in. Non-party: work- | ers as well as party members are included in this contest. Any worker can be a Worker Correspondent. Send all contributions to: Editor, DAILY WORKER, 1113 West Washington Bivd., Chicago, III. | EIGHTH WEEK OF STRIKE FINDS HILLCREST SILK STRIKERS FIRM; SCABS REPORTED TO HAVE QUIT By ALBERT WEISBORD, a Worker Correspondent. WEST NEW YORK, N. J., Dec. 14.—The beginning of the eighth week in the gallant struggle of the silk workers in the Hillcrest Silk Mill in West New York finds the workers who are out just as firm and solid as before. | Those who have savings are ready to spend all of their savings and borrow before going back defeated. Those who are in need are being taken care of by the strike fund which has been raised and -which is large enough to enable even the full payment | + of pickets on the picket line. How- ever, as the fight is becoming one of a A Silk Striker fight.to a finish character, contribu- tions to the United Front Committee of Textile Workers of Hudson county, made payable to George Pearlman at the headquarters, 393 Broadway, Union City are very welcome. The boss is frantic. In spite of everything he is not able to get work- | ers who will scab, at least he has never been able to get even ten per cent of the help he needs in the mill. And now it has been reported that the BUSINESS FIRMS. COMPEL WORKERS TO BE ATHLETIC Advertising Scheme Is Behind Move By A Worker Correspondent Big firms ke Montgomery Ward, Western Electric company, Taylor |Trunk companyy’ Capper and Capper, Spaulding Sporting Goods Store and many others organize, for advertising purposes, athletic teams out of the ranks of the, workers employed by them. The workers train and play after working hours. that this is done for the workers’ health, but thig is not true. Physical exercise is good for one’s health when used as a recreation but that which is compulsory and carries with it the fear of lesing one’s job can not be regarded as play. strain after a long day's work, at the The bosses spread the propaganda | Further physical | Page Five WHY THE LEFT WING OF LL. G. W. HAS SIGMAN WHIPPED IN SPITE OF FAKED CONVENTION MAJORITY By J. W. JOHNSTONE. (Special to The Daily Worker) PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Dec. 11—(By Mail)—The Inter Garment Workers’ convention, in many ways, is unique as far the Ameri can labor movement is concerned. For the first time a left wing makes its appearance representing the vast majority of the membership, but is repse- sented by a minority delegation.. This situation is seen and felt by everyone attending the convention. Of course the Sigman machine makes a verbal bluff that they represent the membership, but the left wing has many times ‘during the convention served notice that the welfare of the union demands a new administration | and the Sigman administration seems + to be very uneasy over the situation ; What the trump cards. will be is not yet visible. NEW DRIVE FOR LABOR PARTY NOW UNDER WAY; FURRIERS’ RESOLUTION The following resolution adopted in October by the Furriers’ Interna- tional convention is ilar to the one adopted on .Thursday by the Two irreconcilable Views. Left wing resolutions, such as| world trade union unity, are being} mechanically voted down and class collaboration schemes endorsed me chanically by the Sigman’ paper ma- | jority, ‘At this writing the officers’ re- port has not come before the conven- |tion. On this report will center the convention. of the International j gle a the pies eg between the lefts and Ladle. Manradh Meeeiares Onin | rights. - 4 ore The administration is frankly for| Convention at Philadelphia: WHEREAS, The organized work- ers in their struggle for higher wag- es, shorter hours and better work- ing conditions have found them- | class collaboration and even lays the | basis for another expulsion policy while the left wing, under the lead- ership of the Trade Union Education- al League, is determined ‘to compel the repudiation of the expulsion pol- icy and to turn the organization away from co-operation with the exploiters of labor and into the channels of the bench, or standing on one's feet all day, behind a ‘counter, waiting on cutomers can not be regarded as fun but only as thé ‘rankest form of ex- ploitation, * The writer happened to be present/ class struggle. at a game staged between the Mont-| The fact that the left wing dele- gomery Ward téam and some school! gates represent all the large clothing zirl team. Th€' Montgomery Ward| centers, with the exception of Cleve- girls were so tired that they were} land, makes Sigman hesitate. He can- more on the floor than on their feet.| not repeat Boston. His manner thru- You could discern by the expression} out the convention shows plainly that on their faces that they were in no| he would like to, but the membership mood to play, but they had to play| has spoken and they are waiting to or lost their jobs. | speak again if what they expect from Workers who ‘want to participate] this convention is not materialized. in healthful sports can now join a| Green’s Soft Pedal. sport organization of their own where} Bil] Green speech to the convention they will organize the games them-| was a plea for unity, a concession Selves forced to combat not only the employers directly. but also the government thru all its agencies, anti-labor legislation, Daugherty in- junctions, railroad labor boards, use of troops and police in strikes; and WHEREAS, The entire history of the struggles of the working class shows that so long as the powers of the government are allowed to re- main in the hands of the capitalist class, as at present In the United States, just so long will these pow- ers of government be used against the workers; and WHEREAS, It is necessary, in or- der for the workers to develop the political power of their class to build up a political organization of Boiler Explosion Sends Crew of 16 unite in an alliance like the British did, with railway workers and trans- port workers. And then, with mili- tant leadership they can get some- where. By NANCY MARKOFF. Ore of the students in the Chicago Worker Correspondents’ class, who is also a Chicago correspondent for the Novy Mir, New York, the Rus-| sian Communist daily in this country, gave a brief talk to the class on how the Novy Mir developed its Worker Correspondents. That account was very helpful to the class because the} problems the Novy Mir faced were similar to the ones we have to face in developing our Worker Correspond- ents. ¢ T takes a little time before a worker forms an understanding of what the | job of a Worker Correspondent re-| quires. At first he is inclined to think that an easy flow of language or the eloquence of a college professor in oratory are essentials for the job. But when he sits down to reason it out with himself he realizes that the peo- ple he will write for are workers like himself, that they live very much the same as he does, that his worries and his problems are very much like Talks with Daily Worker Correspondents theirs—and once having reached that to Watery Grave VIGO,..Spain, Dee. 14—Sixteen members of the crew of a launch at Boomas were killed when the boiler exploded. conclusion he is well on the road for active participation in the class strug- gle as a fighting Worker Cor- respondent. EXT in line comes the need to develop a nose for news. For instance, a worker will tell you that nothing ever happens where he is em- ployed that he can write about. But that very same worker will tell in the next breath that “in the store where he works the employes pay more for food than the customers because they cannot take their lunch hour during the special sale price hour!” ~ N the beginning it is better for a Worker Correspondent, if he is in |doubt about whether a story is news or not, to send it in and let the editor pass final judgment. F anyone has told you that we are averse to receiving cartoons for our Worker Correspondents’ column, | few scabs have not been able to face the steady picket line of the strikers and at least half of them quit work telling the boss they were tired of doing ‘his dirty work. Change of Front by Police. The determination of the United Front Committee of Textile Workers in pushing the case against the police for their illegal and brutal actions have ‘resulted in a change of front on the part of the local judge, police, and mayor. They have become quite polite. An offending policeman has been removed from the force pénding investigation after the papers had giv- en front page publicity to how the officer had forced someone physically to go into the mill as a strikebreaker. A big mass meeting has been staged with speakers: — Elizabeth Curley Flynn, Carlo Tresca, and Albert Weis- bord, Efforts will be made to make the mass meeting the initial force to stim- ulate into life mill committees in the other mills of the district so as to show the bosses that against their united front the workers have esta- blished an united front of their own. Worker Correspondents Join Celebration of 1825-1905 Revolts The Chicago worker correspond- ents of the Novy Mir, the Russian Jrogressive Womens’ organization, he Workers’ House and many other libor organizations joined the celeb- tion arranged in memory of the 20th anniversary of the revolu- tion of 1905 and the 100th anniversary of the Decembrists uprising to be held in Chicago Sunday, December 20, at Schoenhofen Hall, cor. Milwaukee and Ashland Aves, The following will participate in the tell him he is misinformed. The fact ‘concert program: Russian String Or- more worker cartoonists would Bet on the job. | is we are wishing very hard that some chestra of the Workers’ House; Lit- huanian, Lettish and Jewish Singing Societies, soloists, etc., over 150 peo- ple in all. Speakers in English, Rus- sian and other languages will address selves and have their say in booking the games instead of some official of the exploiting class who has the com- pany’s interests $d protect. For information on how to join the Workers’ Sport Alliance communicate ; with Emma Blechsmidt, care of Erick- son, 4911 W. Walton Pl., Chicago, Il. Prolet-Tribune, Living Newspaper of Novy Mir By A Worker Correspondent Student of Chicago Class. About a year ago the Chicago group of the worker correspondents of the Russian Communist daily Novy Mir began to talk of isgning a living news- paper. Some comirades were afraid that it is too a big job for the group. They were talking®about it the whole year until finally (they collected enuf courage to start. > A few months ‘ago the first issue of Prolet-Tribune, ‘as the paper was named, was “published” at the Work- ers’ House. Altho: an admission fee of 35 cents was charged about a hun- dred workers attended the reading and enjoyed it. The news about the novel “paper” spread among the Rus- sian workers of the city. The second number was issued about about a month. later in the same Place. The hall was: crowded not only with workers, but the “intelligenzia” also made/its appearence. The edit- ors of the local Russian newspaper, a few Russian physicians, and others attended, There was too much copy and part of it was left over for the next issue. The unanimous opinion was favor- able for the worker correspondents. The comrades from nearby cities who attended were 60 enthusiastic that they invited the group to issue the living newspaper also in Kenosha and Pullman. "7 This success encouraged the group so much that they decided to issue the paper periodically “once a month in Chicago and also’ in Pullman and other nearby places where they may be invited. They ‘also decided to low- er the admission price to 25 cents, The next regultir issue of Prolet- The Story Nosovitsky bint Tell Jacob Nosoyitsky, calling himself an inter- national anti-labor spy, has been publishing in the H new! rs a more or less ‘ fttious story of his attempts to spy on the * Corhmunist Patty and the Communist Inter- national. C. E, RUTHENBERG will tell, in next Saturday’s Magazine Sec- tion of The DAILY WORKER, how the Com- munist Party of America discovered and ex- posed the clumsy attempt of Nosovitsky to spy upon the party and the labor movement the story Nosovitsky DIDN’T TELL! — IT is interesting reading. aed be sure of getting all of the fine, new features that are coming. the crowd that is expected to fill the| TMbune will be out next Saturday, hall. Beginning at 2 p.m. sharp. The| Dec. 19, at the Workers’ House, 1902 celebration is arranged by the Vet-| W-. Division streeti It is planned to erans of the Revolution of 1905. An|ave also an article written by a admission fee of 25¢ will be charged| Worker correspondent of The DAILY for the benefit of the International) WORKER. Labor Defense. Soldiers Used Pravda ma eS Millinery Workers of to Spread Propaganda in Dark Days of Czar New York Get Exactly What They Asked for Do you know: ‘That among the first By A Worker Correspondent Worker Correspondents for Pravda, the largest Communist newspaper in NEW YORK CITY—Local 24 of the| the world and published in Moscow, Milinery Workers unanimously de-| U. 8. S. R., were the Soldier Corre- manded the-release of Benjamin Git-| spondents? They used their paper to low from Sing Sing prison, at their| agitate for the organization of a union meeting on Thursday, Dec. 10 at| Of workers and peasants, i Bryant Hall. You can use your paper, The The appeal for the pardon of Git-/ DAILY WORKER to agitate tor the low was unanimously passed at aj Organization of a union in your shop. meeting at which more than 100 work-| Send in your story. Then order a ers were present. This is one of the| bundle of papers and see that they many demands that have been made| are read by your fellow workers. Your by local unions of this city for Git-| Mame and address with contributions low’s release, will enable us to send you sugges- tions personally. Therefore, if pos- Sp aadbbaeababhbahbhhhhddddad sible, let us have it. Your name will ath 8 Raa at § ih lr oA And ‘ hose | work. thefr | 20t be used unless you wish it. You poe thee inte Lae egg da PE explain why you don’t want “money, | will save 50 per cent on { "att thet dental work, Ll understand per- D R. R A Ss N Ic K The Pravda has over one-half mil- T Von circulation. Worker Correspon- 645 Smithfield Street, dents did it. Send in your contribu- PITTSBURGH, PA, » your name used, tions and watch The DAILY WORK- to the strength of the left wing. He even praised the radicals, altho it | seemed many times that he was about | to forget his role for the moment and talk about the radicals as he would | like to. Sigman undoubtedly told him | the predicament he was in, so’the tac- tics had to be changed to suit the sit- } uation, i A left wing representing the vast majority of the membership cannot, and will not, allow itself to be ignor- and to the method of representation. Here are a few examples of how Sig- man gained the majority of delegates to the convention and why he is so uneasy about his majority. The fig- ures are compiled by the research de- partment of the international so it is Sigman’s own figures I am using. Long Island and Eastern Department. Local No. Avg. Dues Paying Delegates Members in 1924 57 4 2 7 8 2 84 2 2 fh; 207. 60 2 113 110 3 128 9% 2 134 2 2 141 1% 2 8 197 17 In five sections of the country, with 37 local unions, with approximately 1,200 members the Sigman adminis- tration has 50 delegates, Relative Strength. Cleveland is the only ‘center that Sigman controls. Six locals have an average membership of 1,470 with 14 delegates. Even here the left wing has three delegates out of the 14. Philadelphia with a membership of 2,119 sent a solid machine delegation, but the membership are supporters of the left wing. Most of the leading members of the T. U. E. L. have been expelled. Their return to the union means left wing control. Anyone who had doubts about the left wing’s claim should have attended the vecherinka given by the left wing delegates at which over 1,000 of the Philadelphia membership attended. What strength the Sigman admin- istration has les in Cleveland, and in Locals 10, 48 and 89 of New York Citye These three locals are large lo- cals with a total average membership of 11,490, and in these locals the left wing has substantial minorities, Where Left Has Power. On the other hand contrast this with the strength of the left wing. Remember these figures are compiled by the Sigman officials. Local 2, 12,000 members; delegates, 14; Local 9, 7,000 members, delegates, 11; Local 22, 12,- 000 members, delegates, 14; Local 35, 6,000 members, delegates, 10, Here we have only four locals with an aver- age membership of 37,000 with 49 delegates while Sigman has 50 dele- gates for 1,200 members. The left wing also controls Chicago, Boston, Montreal and many other smaller cen- ters.’ It can be readily seen, from these’ figures who it is that speaks in the name of the membership, and why the Sigman machine is weakening under the sledge hammer blows of the pro- gressives and why the left wing frank- ly tells Sigman that his convention's Paper majority will avail him nothing, The rank and file has spoken in un- mistakable terms, that they want and must have a class struggle program and a class conscious leadership. en @ bundle of The DAILY ORKER for every meeting of their own, a labor party which will draw the millions of workers into political activities and organize them for political struggles against the capitalists, and WHEREAS, The LaFollette pro- gressive movement, which is devot- ed to the interests of middie class business and large farmers, cannot serve as a party of the workers and poor farmers and has completely betrayed those workers who saw in | | {ed or pushed into the background) it a substitute for a labor party; | Sigman’s strength lies in | what is| therefore be it [known as the “out of town locals” RESOLVED, That the Interna- tional Furriers’ Union herewith fav- ors the formation of a labor party based upon the trade unions and in- cluding as affiliated sections ‘all other political organizations of working class nature, upon a local, state and national b: +. |“Christian” Poland: |Arrests 112 Peasants; Charge “High Treason” GRODNO, Poland, Dec. 14.—A hun- dred and twelve peasants were recent- ly arrested and forced to march long distances to the prison here. All of the peasants who were arrested are charged with high treason because of their demand that western White Rus- sia join the Soviet Union. MINE OWNERS. IN CONSPIRACY /Out to Smash Union in | Anthracite By LAURENCE TODD. WASHINGTON — (FP) Calvin Coolidge may be stubbornly determin- ed to help Morgan and Mellon and | their allies in destroying the United | Mine Workers of America "HIME. AND | ational Ladies’ | Coolidge’s closest adviser, except | Mellon and Hoover, is Dwight Mor- ;row, partner of J.P. Morgan. The | Morgan and..the Geo. F. Baker in- | terests control the anthracite industry through the Big Seven anthracite | companies, . Morrow is in a. position to tell.Coolidge of any major moves by the anthracite operators. Does Coolidge know this: That the anthracite operators, in cluding Warriner and _ Richards, with Ivy Lee, their press agent, and Merritt, their counsel, held a secret conference Nov. 19, 20 and 21 in the Railroad club.in New York City, at which they agreed to make a, fight to a finish against the union? That the big operators pledged the support of the New York banks to the smaller’ operators, to tide them over the period of the fight, and that Geo. F. Baker, Jr., was present when this compact was made? That they took this action, re- solved to brook no interference by any public official, state or federal, after satisfying themselves that Coolidge would do nothing to spoil their plan? The Federated Press is assured that this*conference was held and these decisions taken. It is assured further that the sentiment of the group is expressed by one operator when he said that “This time we will stand for no politicians butting in; we let Mark Hanna and Roosevelt break in once, but that was enough.” The reference to Roosevelt and Hanna recalls the Roosevelt letter to Sen. Lodge, published last summer, in which T. R, told of having sent Elihu Root to see Morgan & Co. since it was obvious that Morgan was the power in anthracite. Root saw Mor- gan’s partners Geo, W. Perkins and Robert Bacon, and got “old Pierpont Morgan” on the telephone, with Geo. F. Baer. He induced them to agree to accept a coal commission which should make a settlement. That was in 1902. The strike had run all sum- mer. . submission, is the plan the U, §. ; chamber of commerce offers. It is circulating this idea throughout the |country. Now the business lob- bies in the national capital are con- fident that—with Coolidge’s help and the help of the interstate commerce commission and a huge anti-labor majority in congress—they are about to witness the crushing of the strong- est unit in the American Federation of Labor. Nowhere in the administration, or among its business allies, is there any fear that the American labor movement will deliver a counter-blow. HELP SAVE THE DAILY WORKER! Young Workers League, Ger- man Br., Philadelphia, Pa. ....$ 25.00 Dillonvale, ©., Czecho-Slovak Wi Bis ove 15.00 Karl Marx Br., Wor! ; Chicago; Tl. cn. e. «ve 100.00 Pullman, Ill, Street Nucleus 1 6.00 Rose Grossman, Baltimore, Md. 3.00 Workers Party, Palidsade, Minn, . oe 6.50 Finnish Branch, Workers Party Berkeley, Calif. «60,00 Veday: Rane Roll of Workers: Esthonian Br., Workers Party, Seattle, Wash. 2.0.0.0: Finnish Branch, Workers Party Temple, Me. .......... 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