The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 17, 1925, Page 6

EE Page Six ee? BS its WwiE DAILY WORKER Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO, 1118 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ul, 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, Illinois J, LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F, DUNNE MORITZ J. LOEB pleocetrserertioetnient eel diengineoncaeeeneiecenneee tp hendeesipentanpemereennnnnerceintelishinsons Entered as second-class mail September 21, 1923, at the post-office at Chi- cago, Ill, under the act of March 3, 1879. Editors Business Manager Advertising rates on application. <a 290 |wing delegates fmm jecutive board satisfied the (Coutinuve: 6 from haba issue.) OR six days the battle at the fur- riers’ convention lasted. Left- fought—the right- wing played in accord with the in- structions of the imported socialist ad- vocates. On the seventh day, the convention really entered upon its work, The report of the general ex- commit- tee, which was appointed to accept it. The majority of the committee had no word of criticism, Six locals had returned their char- ters—had no more locals. The ma- 4 —— = | jority of the appointed committee had . . . no word of criticism on that. Among Hail the Russian Communists |those locals which exhaled their last The congress of the Russian Communist Party is now in session in Moscow. Congresses of the leading party of the Communist In- terntaional are always of tremendous interest to all revolutionary elements everywhere. Every congress means a long step in the direc- tion of socyailsm, as history has imposed upon it the task of guiding the destinies of the outpost of the world revolution—the: ‘Soviet Union. The party is the vanguard and the motivating — of that revolution. At this congress reports will be made showing the most’ notable advance in the eight years of Bolshevist rule. The recent ‘economic report, published in Tue Dairy Worker, proves conclusively that the nation has travelled far on the road toward Communism that the rule of capitalism is gone forever and that each passing year makes more and more impossible the return of the old system. r Not only is capitalist rule destroyed, but the very soil upon which capitalism thrives is being uprooted as the new economic sys- tem develops under the conscious direction of the Communist Party, By way of diversion we have the usual barrage of insipid droolery of capitalist propaganda from the lie factories of Riga, where white guard exiles hover like hungry buzzards over the border of the Soviet Union, eking out a mere existence thru receiving doles from capitalist newspapers for the fantastic lies they spin regarding the condition of Russia. A convening of the Communist Party congress is always the signal for activity on their part. But intelligent workers never believe anything the capitalist press publishes bearing a Riga date- line, Tue Dairy Worker hails the congress of the Russian Com-} munist Party and assures the Russian comrades that we will serve! their cause, which is the cause of the working class of the whole world, by striving to achieve in the United States thé victory over capitalism that they have achieved in Russia. Scouring the Earth for Peons Christian imperialists with designs upon the Near and Middle Last shed crocodile tears over the alleged deportation of christian populations by the Turks, in order to inflame prejudice against that country preparatory to a rapacidus war, but they maintain a pro- nounced silence on a system of organized pirating of human beings that is in vogue in India. On October 19, this year, according to reports of the United States department of labor, the government of Guatemala and the Mexican and General torporations, limited, entered into a_contract which permits the eorparation to bring natives ef India to Guatemala to work as laborers on the corpbration’s plantations. Of course, they will have to work until they pay for their transportation. Needless to state they will be cgnfronted by conditions similar to those existing in certain coal regions in the United States where the workers are paid in company script and kept in debt to the company so they remain in a perpetual state of peonage. That which is imposed upon white people in this country will be intensified against the slaves transported from Indian to Guate- mala. The fact that these peons are secured in India is evidence that British capitalists are behind the thing. If this practice is permitted to continue it means that large numbers of the seething masses of India will be deported to all parts of the world to furnish cheap labor power for British im. perialism. It is about time world unity of the labor movement is estab- lished to forcibly prevent slave ships sailing the seas. Only the power of labor can stop this contemptible traffic. Registration of Aliens \ definite policy in an effort to place laws upon the statute books compelling the registration of alien workers has been adopted by the Coolidge adminitration. The Coolidge message to congress wherein he said, “If investigation reveals that any considerable number (of aliens) are coming here in defiance of our immigration restrictions, it will undoubtedly create the necessity for the registra- tion of all aliens,’ was simply a more mild formulation of the vicious statement of Secretary of Labor Davis, in his report to congress; — “No one knows how many agents of anarchy there are in the United States today. They come in divious ways and operate by stealth and concealment, That they should be found and deported no true American can deny.” This means that foreign-born workers will be subject to arrest and deportation any time they participate in a struggle against the capitalists. The government of Wall Street will deelaré’ their activity in the struggle, whether it be a strike for better conditions| or a, politica! demonstration against some” intolerable abuse, to be illegal and evidence that they are “anarchists,” hence they are in the country illegally because of restrictions against what’ the gov- ernment interprets as anarchy. Whether the victims ever heard of the bourgeois philosophy of anarchism is of no concern to the government. What Davis titerprets as anarchy cannot be questioned, tho it is contrary to all known facts. This threat is not aimed against the radical worker alone, but against any worker who dares challenge the despotism of the employer of labor. It is only a step from registration of alien workers to registra- tion of all workers, American-born as ‘well, on the pretext that regis- | tration must be complete to determine who are aliens, This means registration for industrial conscription and the gov- ernmental establishment of a black list, so that any worker who has the courgae to rebel against industrial despotism will be terrorized | and hounded into submission to the domination of the exploiters. Ii, means a complete registration to enable the capitalist class and ite executive committee, the United States government, to pre-| pare the ground for military and industrial conscription of every worker in preparation for the next world war that is now being | provoked by the clash of imperialist interests. All workers must resist: this assault with every weapon at hand. | Get a member for the rkers Party and a subscription lor the DAILY WORKER. Ayeaiy breath of life under the right wing leadership was local Cleveland. The committee raised no question about it. The furriers know the history of Cleveland. For weeks the tom-tom was beating about the gigantic strug- gle at Cleveland. The “strongest” forces, headed by the president, led the strike at Cleveland. And the holy Forwards proclaimed the final triumph—why worry? Why? There is no local in Cleveland! What hap- pened! The local has been “dis- solved!” Waste Union Funds. In Mount Vernon, two first-class organizers led a shop of twenty on strike. The strike cost about $2,000. And it was given up. In Chicago the pressers and dyers were organized in a local—the local EDITOR’S NOTE:—The Trade Union Educational League offers to American workers a series of ar- ticles on labor in the Far Hast, the present series being on Japanese labor by Comrade Tani, member of the Executive Bureau of the Red International of Labor Unions for Japan, The first told of the split forced by reformists in the Japan- ese General Federation of Labor, the formation of the left wing cen- ter, the Nihon Rodokumiai Hyogi- kai and its class struggle program. The second, told of this organiza- tion’s activities on the serious prob- lem of unemployment. Today we read of the problem of forming a labor. party, called in Japan the “Proletarian Party.” This has been realized since the article was writ- ten, but Comrade Tani tells of the struggle put up for it by the left wing. The next series will be on the labor movement of Indonesia, eee ARTICLE II. A such an attack of the re- formists the Nihon Rodokumial Hyogikai has come out with energetic propaganda, mercilessly _ criticizing the attempts of the reformists and calling for the solidarity of all pro- letarian elements for the realization of a unified national political party. The slogans of the Hyogikai are: 1. Stick to class-conscious leader- ship, 2. Mass organization of workers and tenant peasants, 3. Political party of daily struggle.” O* July 7th the Central Executive Committee of the Nihon Rodoku- miaia Hyogikai idsued a manifest to the affiliated unions. It begins with the following words: “On June 21st the Japan Peasant Union issued a call to organize a pre- A Letter EAR Brother Editor: f I take this opportunity to express my opinion thru the columns of your paper onthe present situation in thé Chicago locals of the Amalgamated. Tho I don’t agree with your ways and tactics, since I express the opinion of hundreds and perhaps thousands of other workers I would lfke an answer to my questions in The DAILY WORKER. Now to the point. Ten yeas ago we, the workers in the men’s clothing industry revolted against the corrupt and bureaucratic administration in the United Garment Workers’ Union. The revolt against the policy of selling out to the bosses, against czarism in the union and for the interests of the rank and file was successful and we founded the A. C, W. U. ua beg like many other fights, we now find that we have won the battle, but not the War. While we defeated the bureaucracy in the old union we failed to build the new, union on such a basis that we would prevent the rise |of another bureaucracy. In the beginning the A. C. W. U. was a fighting organization, but that only lasted until our own Hilimans, Rosenblums, Harry Cohens and Levins |intrenched themselves in power and now we have the old story in a more brutal, more corrupt, and more ugly form. ; And | write this ta you because ase the lefts, are unconsefously do |ing your best to prevent history re- | peating itself today, Here are some facts to which I ex- pect an answer: t —The members have lost confidence in our leaders and every time a movement.starts to refuse to finance these mm by refusing to pay them tie ip the officials thru your THE DAILY WORKER ~ {has been “dissolved” | The organizers: » visited ‘the great out-of-town scab shops where skilled workers toiled ten: hours a day for $18 a week, they reported—well— they had visited. What else? In St, Paul, there is a struggle go- ing on for the past three weeks for a ten per cent ‘raise in wages. Two years ago the president himself con- ferred with the president of the boss- es’ association, The general execu- tive board acted upon it. Messages and messengers ran back and forth; mass meetings were held, and the de- cision was made—to delay until the next season. Finally—it’s being de- layed again. In Boston, the international forced a boss to abide by’ the union condi- tions! The international took out an injunction against’the firm. This, of course, was done Hy’ the able counsel of the socialist lawyer. The report showed few gaité—but chiefly de- feats. Above alithe report says nothing about work ‘that has been ne- glected. No attempts were made to organize the thousands of unorgan- ized, be Forget New York. The successful “organization work of thé New York Joint Board is not even mentioned in the report of the general executive board. Why? They are left wingers—ddmn them! The successful stiike and gains of the 1,200 Greek workers is not men- tioned, just as tlid the international officers felt ‘of it. The com- liminary organ for the foundation of a proletarian party. “We, the workers, have hitherto declared that we are the van- guard of the toiling masses and are by duty bound to lead the peasants and others, In spite of it, certain of the leaders of trade unions have for- gotten to lead the proletarian class on the political field. We accept with great pleasure. the call of our peasant brethren, who have taken the initiative upon themgelves. We must now rectify with redoubled energy the negligence of some leaders among us and hasten the, realization of the proletarian’ party.” 5. Ae the Executive meeting of July 12th, the Central. Committee of the Hyogikai issued the following in- structions as to “e;task of organiza- tion of the part; q “1. The Distric litical Bureau of the Hyogikai sha _irect the political committees of * unions in respec- tive districts qhall organize a special. .com: committee for the organizati. party. “2. The said’ com ee shall be or- ganized with ‘two: «three members from each affiliated: union together With the members:pinthe District Pol- itical Bureau, Thege members of the committee shall degote their time en- tirely to the assigned task. “3. The work ofsthe committee is: a) to hold locabgconferences with other labor organigmtions; b) to con- bate agitational and propaganda work h as mass meetings, placarding ana broadcasting Jeaflets, etc.; c) to assist the Peasant) Ynion in carrying out its program; dj, to fight against the tendency to. wrganize scattered local parties; e) to-carry on discus- sions on the program of the party. “4. The Central Political Bureau shall issue a draft of a program and organizational plan. The local com- press and the organized group in the |Tv UBL Yetta the” last wage cut conference } called by ¢ progressives, to which I was invited, where we were supposed to find a way to stop wage reductions that “are being put into effect thru cot acies between the manufacturefs ‘antl ‘the officials of the union, a gatig ‘ot thugs led by the scum of our w » Novak Brothers and Cooper, rai the meeting with guns and bla 3 and slugged the men and women’ irapant, blinding Brother Hirschler‘did wounding many others. You “rest assured they got well paid f6rthe job. Hundreds of workers, when they heard of the incident, were’ “enrag and were ready if the oWly* organized opposi- tion in our uniéit; the T. U. B. L., would start a ‘tiovement against hav- ing an assessm@nt of twenty-five dol- lars levied that Will certainly be used against us insf¥ad of -against the bosses. We wer’ ready to line up and give our n¥A@hine the proper an- swer that they“deserve. But when we édime to the local meet- ing one ‘of your members, M. Berson, gets up and makes a speech that we should pay the twenty-five: dollars assessment. The officials laughed in their sleeves at such an opposition. othe thugs are, known to the police because of the many crimes charged against them, When they at- tack us they know that /no matter what they do,you will protect them against the police, end in this way sive them a free hand to terrorize the membership. > 4-Ths rank and file. have lost con- fidence in the elections carried on by the Amalgamated. The know that uo matter for whom they vote it is the machine t! tion and Instead of the election and The Convention Is Over, What Next? mittee reports everything 7 alright and recommends its acceptance. Only Comrade Schneider had a great deal to oppose in the report. “Injunctions 0. K.’" / The ex-president answers in a long speech, Injunctions are O. K. As a practical labor’ leader, he recognizes that capitalists fight workers with in-| ban junctions—but, workers, too, may em- ploy them. A very gapd means to cure a boil! About the locals that did not wish to become locals, it is the fault of the rank and file. A fact! Milwaukee workers do not want to be organized. The rank and file is a double crosser. It wants benefits in time of strike. The rank and file is a traitor. Leaders are alright. Oh, in what cynical relations are the leaders to the workers! Oh, what a joke, what a pun! Can one believe his own ears. One wonders is it a convention of workers’ representa- tives? “The rank and file is a double crosser; has a greed for money, is a traitor”—and the leaders, the social- ist lawyers, they are “alright.” Financial report reads: $33,000 were spent for organization work, Over $23,000 in benefits to the double crossers—the rank and file. Over $50,000 were paid out to the holy and pure international employes. “Rank and File Ignorant.” The rank and file, bursts out the president, is dumb and ignérant, it, does not want to be organized, Don’t worry, the Forwards Will edu- cate it. The Fur Worker, organ of LABOR IN THE FAR EAST mittees shall discuss them in the light of the specific local conditions. “5, The local committees shall send weekly reports to the Central Polit- ical Bureau.” N the 10th of August the prelim- inary Conference for the organ- ization of Proletarian Party” was held in Osaka. 11 labor organizations, two peasant organizations, one polit- ical organization (the Seiji Kenky Kai) and two Suiheisha (parish) or- ganizations were represented in the conference by 56 delegates, The more important of them: were the Japan Peasant Union, the Japan ese..Federation of Labor (the feder- ation joined the conference in spit of its advocation of local parties), th: Government Factory Workers’ Feder ation, the Nihon Rodokumiai Hyogi ‘kai, etc. The conference resolved ti establish a permanent preliminar: committee for the-organization of th: Proletarian Party, This committee was elected. The drafting of the marty program, the outline for the future tasks of the committee, the program for the sec- ond conference, the financial affairs, ete., were also decided on. DD epee the opening of the confer- ence, a certain amount of uneasi- ness was expressed as to the possibil- ity of the flaring up of friction once again between the split Sodomei and the Hyogikai, thereby endangering the conference. was unfounded and through skillful maneuvers of left wing delegates the conference closed with vietory on their side. The appearance of a na- tional party of the proletariat has thus been arsured at this memorable Osaka conference, The left wingers will endeavor to put the following demands ,among others in the platform of tae Proleta- rian Party, How many Or .nese pojnts carrying on a campaign against such fake elections-you go ahead this year again and put up Brother N. Green to run as manager of the joint board and in that way recognizing the legal- ity of the election. We proved in 1914 that the way of open revolt; and defiance 6f the fake leaders is the only way to fight suc- cessfully, You have shown in 1923- 24-25 that your tactics of maneuver- ing has helped the . bureaucracy to create for themselves such a power that the membership is terrorized to the extent of being afraid to come to a local meeting. In conclusion ‘of this letter I have the following to say: If your tactics are correct I challenge you to print this letter and answer my questions, If the letter goes into the waste basket I will understand that you have nothing to say and that it is time that we organized a real pro- gressive group. that don’t believe. in your Jesus Christ tactics. Hoping that you will answer me as well as the hundreds of others that hold my opinions I remain, Fraternally yours, L. Marcus, Local No, 39, > oe @ t The Error of the Splitting Tactics. Brother Marcus makes a mistake in tactics which has been committed often—much too often—in America. That jnistake is the idea that the pro- gressive and left wing members can defeat the reactionaries by refusing to pay dues, But the reactionary of- ficials cannot be defeated that way. The blow falls against the unio a whole, divides the membership /e04 two camps fighting one another, thus gives a new lease of lite to the old officials, who come before the members in the role of angels of .| peace pleading The lett {No wonder, the This fear, however, | and| {tant leadership. When the ‘nietbers By Ben Gold fatid soul, Cynicism and petty sarcasgh Yhade no effect on “the left wing dele- “ gates. Resolute and certain of the final triumph, have the left wing led. ithe struggle against the old, degener- ate, mould-breathing pests of the la- bor movement. The maneuvers and the deals did not help. Even the jok- er did not aid much, Saved For Short While, Only for a short while has the ma- chine saved itself from complete an- nihilation, Here and’ there, it has smuggled in a few on jobs; but no positions, because: the membership paid them in return with the same coin—hate and disgust. Of, what value is the machine without the trust of the workers? Of course, the machine may avenge itself on the workers and throw down their reso- lutions and fail to bring into action their desires. But it is not as in the days gone by. The force of or- ganized membership has shown “how it may combat its enemy! : Let:them try to challenge the furrier workers. Vurriers know no half-way battles! The fight against Kaufmanism will be brought to its completion, At the meeting in Cooper Union, the membership has “Shown its rage against Kaufmanism and the »For- wards, supported .by -the socialist party lawyers, which is proof enough that the workers will not tolerate any oppressor. The good old days are gone, the right wing in the needle trades, should Iearn a lesson from the history of the Furriers! Union. + the international, will stimulate’ their conscience, Over $10,000 were spént on the Fur Worker, to slur the left wing and throw mud at Soviet Rus- sia. Just examine the Fur Worker and see what sort of educational™work you find there. What a shameless led it! Mr, President, Secretary Organizers sought $110 weekly wages and their expenses, quite legal- ly, but vented their spleen on the workers, when they wanted benefits while on strike. The right wing dele- gates felt at ease when the president rubbed it. into the:rank and file. They laughed heartily. “That’s right, give it to them, and at the same time hand it to those left. wingers, who still have faith im-the rank and file.” How can the.rulers-be the representatives of, the workers,:when they have no faith in them? .How can one represent workers, «when one would eat. them alive?) The relations and feelings be;. tween»the workers and the. leaders forced upon them are quite mutual! labor movement makes,guch progress! Mock. Workers’ Resolution. To :the,, proposed resolutions, the leaders hada mocking tone—cynicism, full of mockery. The tone was of de- feat, ,of..used-to-be’s. Their only re- venge--a petty sarcasm. Be it their consolation, The convention is over, It ;was,no usuad convention. Every- thing did not ride along as. smoothly. as usual. Wherever there are left wingers, there must be strike, life (JAPAN) will actually be adopted is a matter o. future interest, for it will show the relative strength of the left wing in By TANI masses to shake hands with the Rus- sian workers who have accomplished their revolution. the movement, pes desire had no opportunity to 1..Down with imperialism and its express itself for eight years ow- wars, * ing to the complete blockade set up by 2, Self-determination to Korea and other colonies. 3, Hands off China. 4, International unity of labor. 5, Those who toil the earth shall own it, 6, Eight-hour' work day and full maintenance for unemployed. 7. Workers’ control of industry. 8, Universal suffrage to all from 18 years of age. the bourgeois government. The burst of enthusiasm manifested by the Jap- anese workers in meeting the Rus- sian delegates on their way through Japan is quite understandable in con- sideration of these facts, At the same time the contemptible attitude and laughable confusion of mind manifested by the Japanese po- lice authorities regarding the un- | welcome guests is also quite under- 9. Freedom of press, speech, asseni-| standable, when we remember the aly, and organization, high tide of the revolutionary labor 1. Abolition of all gag-laws (peave- | movement in the country. There is sfeservation law ete.). nothing more fearful for the Japanese 11. Abolition of Upper-House, Privy | bourgeois government than the inter- Jouneil, “Genroes”, etc, national solidarity of the revolution-~ By A workers’ and peasants’ gov-; ary elements wit#t the country. The ernment, new “peace preservation law” which ‘MONG other activities of the left | imposes ten years’ imprisonment upon A ‘wing minority“ot Japanese labor, | '@Volutionary workers is aimed at we must count its international activ-| discouraging their international activ- ity first. When the! Chinese textile ities. “ wor’ started a! colossal fight Oy spite of all such moasuria of sup it world imperialism early this pression and obstacles, the Japan: year, the Japanese revolutionary} ¢se working class is more and more “ine at once responded to the call| closing up its ranks with the interna- iF gers workers and started an| tional labor under the leadership of ented ic protest movement against | the left_wing minority. It has already ay own imperialistic government. declared its intention to join one in- ovement was relentlessly ‘sup-| ternational'when it will be formed. ~ wet by police and gendarmerie, It refrains at the present from join- Bathe as succeeded in awakening the | ‘itig’ either to the Amsterdam or to f international solidarity of| the Moscow Internationals. As a mat- the working class, even amongst the} {-r of fact, this is the result of the 4 most ‘backward masses. tactical move on the part of the Jap- vitation issued by the Nihon} aifese left wingers to nullify the re- jaia Hyogikai to the del-| cent attempt of the right wing leaders ‘of the Russian uhions and con-| to push the Japanese organized labor nt _Visit of the delegates ty Ja-| into the mire of the Amsterdam Inter- pan “48 ‘also a topic worthy of/men-| national and thereby firmly establish tion,” “It has been a long cherished| the rule of reformism in Japan, dream of. the Japanese working (End of sats i on the Amalgamated and a Reply bership for the support of class strug-| stead of fighting against the wrong le policies as against the class-col-|nolicies and wrong leadership. laboration policies of Hillman, Levin | Brother Marcus should not fall, into & Co., and any attempt to rally the | their trap, but should stand shoulder membership only on‘ the destructive|to shoulder with the left wing, Platform of non-payment of dues} build up the fighting power of would wreck the left wing and the] rank and file. union. So, the proposal of Brother Marcus, cannot be accepted. f That, does not mean, of course, that whenthe, membership has given its si to the left wing program and to left wing leaders, that then the membership must submit if tricked Out; Of-its. victory by the old official- dom: oNo,; in such a case the left wing» silk, not hesitate in following the, glorious. bistory of the foundation of. ©. W. of A. in the struggle against. Ri ickert and the scabbing U, G. Waren 5 Sener? for othe struggle against thug- gery, which is now a burning question ingthe A.C, W., the left. wing is, ant pacifist; and it does not subscribe. to theydoctrine of Jesus, to “turn other :ehgek.” Resistance must, be or. ganizedtaemeet and defeat gangster- ism,°But'this must be done by the members themselves. ‘The police will net do it for us. And while we have no interest in protecting the gangsters from the police, neither have we the slightest idea that we can expect any police protection, nor does the left wing solicit it. The left wing depends upon the organized power of the mem> bership. In both the points raised by Brother Marcus, the left wing has only one| We'll weld the chains of Labor... objective toward which it struggles—| And abolish the parasites, “ as|that is, to rally the membership to oa fight for correct policies, and for mik| Oh! we ‘aint gonna Nar 20 more no more. ‘hd are drawn into that fight, then’thesé! We ‘aint goin®-to slave, no more: i problen an be solved—and' in: io] We hone pi will take =o") other uRw el wa ob —Earl R. Browder. Slave Awaking (Tune—It Ain't Gonna Rain No More) Oh! the days were dark and y While in slavery they were spent, When the workers stood at their ma- chines ‘Their bodies bathed’ in sheen s “/Oh! we ‘aint gonna aleve? no’ more : / no more. We ‘aint going to slave, no. more;— What in hell will the bosses do, f When we ‘aint gonna ini ancrat ~ ty © They appealed to Calvin ‘Coolidge When the shops, to picket we went — And to protect their interests The Army. and Navy he sent, Fe ah Oh! we ‘aint gonna slave ho thore no more. We ‘aint going to slave any. more; ‘They can shoot and club, and torture us But we ‘aint gonna slave no more. We will join the Workers Party; Strive with all our might.