The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 18, 1925, Page 2

Page Two THE DAILY WORKER LOREITES FIGHT AGAINST LABOR PARTY DEMAND Yellow Gang Joins Food Workers Reaction By BERT MILLER. (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK CITY, Dec. 16—A resolution calling for the “Formation of a labor party pased upon the trade unions and including as affiliated sec- tions all other political organizations Early Trial Demanded for Cook County Jail Heads Caught Grafting An early trial for Sheriff Peter M. Hoffman, Wesley Westbrook, former warden of the Cook county jail, and five others indicted with them in pro- ceedings growing out of unusual priv- ileges accorded Terry Druggan and Frankie Lake, millionaire bottleggers, while they were serving terms for pro- hibition law violations will be asked by the district attorney. The indictments, returned by a fed- eral grand jury yesterday, charge the seven with bribery, with acceptance of bribes, and with conspiracy to ob struct justice. same time they did not fail to use the forces of the government to their own jadvantage, thru their control of po- of a working class nature, upon a lo-| eal, state and national basis” was de- litical parties, the courts, the In this way they use police, injunctions, feated by a combination of the follow-|against the workers as in the great ers of Ludwig Lore and the most reac-| Broadway strike of the Rector com- tionary forces in the Amalgamated | pany, Food Workers’ national convention, | Kalfides also pointed out the dan- held at the Labor Temple on Sunday,|gers of recent legislation, finger Dec. 12 and 13. | Three points of view manifested themselves on this question. First there were those who demanded that the union have nothing to do with Political questions. Second, there were those who thot that the worker should be free to choose from among existing political parties of labor. Third came the view of the left wing which fought for a labor party to carry on the struggle of the worekrs on the political field. Delegate Heg- ener, of Bakers’ Local 3, who thruout the convention had been actively al- lied with the Lore forces, led by Burk- hardt and supported him on practic- ally every proposal, supported the recomendation of the majority of the resolutions committee which called for the rejection of the labor party resolution. Hegener declared that the workers’ political parties had already made trouble enuf and that there were Plenty of them. Left Wing for Labor Party, Delegate Gerber, of Bakers’ Local No. 1 was of the same opinion. He thot that workers should be free to support any political party, but that the convention had been called for or- ganization purposes only. Gerber is known in political circles as one of the leading supporters of Ludwig Lore. Against this the left wing delegates conducted a valiant struggle for in- dependent political action, thru the formation of a labor party. The fight was begun by Delegate Kalfides, rep- resenting the Hotel Workers’ Union who pointed out the necessity of a Political party of labor to “fight the | battles of labor.” He further de- clared that every economic struggle is a political struggle. He showed that while the bosses discouraged the workers from forming their own po- litical party they organized them-} selves into powerful trusts and at the| Have a Good Time SATURDAY at These DAILY WORKER Parties. Saturday, December 19 Harlem Casino, 116th St. and Len- nox Ave. BOSTON | Saturday, December 19 Dudley Street Opera House—Let- tish folk dances; choral singing; dancing; and “Kartoffel Salat.” Given by the Lettish Branch. SAN FRANCISCO Saturday, December 19 Russian Night--given by the Rus- sian (W. P.) branch, at 225 Va lencia St. Admission 85 cents. Sunday, December 20 Music, dancing, at 225 Valencia St, at 8 p. m. NEW YEAR'S ROXBURY, Mass. Friday, January 1 Singing; dancing; new year’s cele- bration with a new year’s mid- night dinner. Given by the Rox- bury Jewish Branch at the New In- ternational Hall, printing and the repressive legisla- tion against foreign-born workers as another reason for the immediate formation of a labor party. Delegates Christian and Obermeier of the Hotel Workers’ Union, Foders and Rosen- berger of Bakers’ Local No. 164 ably supported the resolution for a labor party. General-Secretary Burkhardt, who is a recognized leader of the Lore forces at the convention took no part in the discussion, even tho he was pressed to state his views. For World Unity. The convention also went on record for world trade union unity, but refer- red the matter of sending a_ trade union delegation to Soviet Russia to the various locals to pass upon. The resolution for world trade union unity was not accepted without a struggle, for the majority of the reso- lutions committee consisting of Lore sympathizers had voted it down by a majority vote of four to one. But upon the minority report of Delegate Kalfedis, demanding that the resolu- tion be accepted, the ranks of the Lore delegates were broken by Gen- jeral Secretary Burkhardt, who spoke jfor the adoption of the resolution sensing the serious blot that would be placed upon the organization if the resolution were not accepted. The majority of the resolutions committee then withdrew their recomendation, and the proposal made by Delegate Kalfedis was carried. Had Kalfedis not taken up this |fight, there is no question but that the resolution would have been |snowed under. A considerable part of the convention was devoted to a discussion of the Free Voice, official organ of the union. The paper was severely ‘criticized for its failure to carry organization material and sug- gestions for building up the Amalga- mated Food Workers and for develop- ing a spirit of solidarity and activity in the organization. It was pointed out of the left wing delegates that the paper simply reprinted clippings from the capitalist press and from other workers’ papers, Thruout the convention the left wing forces were led by Delegate Obermeier, who stressed particularly the infficiency and the lack of activ- ity on the part of the present admin- istration in all phases of its work. Resolutions were carried for recogni- tion of Soviet Russia, the release of Sacco and Vanzetti, and for the or- ganization of the cafeteria and lunch room workers. Resolutions were also carried against the policy of class col- laboration, and for the amalgamation of all the food workers’ unions into one powerful union in the foor in- dustry. Recomendations for carrying the amalgamation resolutions into effect were deferred until a later session next Sunday. Another struggle during the con- vention was around the question of the composition of the incoming executive board. Delegate Ober- meier proposed that each section of the industry be represented by three delegates on a central executive committee of nine selected from the general board of 26. Under the former procedure of the Amalgamated Food Workers concerned itself little with the broad problems of the entire industry. In the discussion, it was brot out that the new form of com- mittee would be of great advantage in organizing the unorganized, and handling the problems of all sections of the food industry. A resolution was Passed taxing each member $1 a year, which money should be spent as fol- lows: Sixty per cent for the purpose of organizing the unorganized, 40 per cent for educational purposes. The next session of the convention will be held on Sunday, Dec, 20, Millionaire’s Son Fails to Surrender and Finish Jail Term Chicago police received word that Ira D, Perry, Jr, whose father be- lieved he would surrender himself, in order to terminate discussion aroused by his parole, had failed to meet offi- cers sent to rearrest him, He had served only three years of a life term at Joliet for murder when he was paroled under a new law that permits freedom for prisoners any time after conviction and sentence, Are you going to give? Make it @ book on Communism! .| Chicago from the white house COOLIDGE GET JOLT IN FARM BUREAU POLL New Head Is Not'Real Farmer By CARL HAESSLER. CHICAGO—(FP)—All the way to in Washington, and all in vain is the bitter pill Calvin Coolidge is digesting as he scans the election results of the American Farm Bureau federation, He had come west to help keep the reactionary big-business leaders of America’s largest farm organization in power and*he had failed, A new man, not dazzled by the Coolidge bunk about “higher” things in farming than money, not impressed by Cal’s advice to go to the usurious bankers for help, not overawed by the presidential frown on government ex- port corporations, now sits in the presiding chair of the American Farm Bureau federation in place of the railtoad-packer-banker ally, C. E. Bradfute. The new man is Sam H. Thompson. : Tried to Save Old Guard. Coolidge was summoned to Chicago, not to tell indifferent farmers that “agriculture in America has been raised to the rank of a profession,” as he stated Dec. 7. His real mission was to save the old guard in the farm federation from defeat at the hands of enraged and awakened delegates who had come from 31 of 40 organized statés for a new deal. It was thought that when Coolidge declared against a government export corporation, to handle surplus farm products his stand would discredit the opposition that had crystallized around Sam Thompson and would float Bradfute back into power. But Thompson got 24 votes for president, Bradfute only 19 and 1 scattering. Coolidge proved unable to deliver. The new board of directors imme- diately went on record for the very export corporation that Coolidge had personally branded as “dangerous and not helpful.” Bradfute.returned to his broad Ohio acres in the bitterness of defeat while Coolidge in the white house is nursing his severely stubbed agricultural toe and wondering what farm policy will keep the western states out of the insurgent column in the November elections. New Head Is Banker; Too much should not perhaps be expected of Thompson in his new job. Though born on a 40-acre farm near Quincy Til. 62 years ago and father of 7 children all living on Illinois farms he is now a substantial banker, heading the Broadway bank of Quincy, and only nominally farms the 500 acres he holds in Adams county. He has been a member of the Illinois house of representatives at Spring- field and has been active in farm federation work since 1915, heading the Illinois section, known as the Illinois Agricultural Assn, since 1923. This is the second biggest unit in the federation with 63,000 members, Iowa leading with 75,000. Thompson has been close to Frank Lowden, former Illinois governor and Pullman son-in-law whose leutenants sought to buy his way to the repub- lican presidential nomination in 1920. Both Lowden and Thompson op- posed the $26,000,000 so-called co-oper- ative Grain Marketing Co. of which Gray Silver was president and which went up in smoke when the farmers refused to bite and buy its stock. It was later admitted by the principal promoter of the corporation that it was an unloading scheme by grain gamblers like Armour and Rosenbaum who wanted to get rid of their elevat- ors and equipment at a generous price if the McNary-Haugen grain export corporation bill passed eongress as then seemed likely, He will like it! Give your wnion brother a sub to The DAILY WORKER, BRING A PACKAGE NEW YORK WORKERS, ATTENTION! Daily Worker Package Party Saturday, December 19, 1925 8 P. M, UNTIL MORNING HARLEM CASINO, 116th Street and Lenox Avenue. Workers Lose Many Fingers Thru Bosses’ Criminal Negligence ALBANY, N, Y.—(FP)—Workers in woodworking factories could, be saved many fingers and serious injuries if thelr employers provided them with better workplaces, analysis of wood- working accidents by the New York state labor department shows. The study of accidents in 300. factories em- ploying 15,805 of the 71,500 workers in the industry proves again that the percentage of permanent injuries is higher than in any other industry. Most of the accidents were amputa- tions of fingers or hands by saws, especially the circular saw. “There is only one ma in industry on which more ac hts occur than the circular saw ani That is the power punch press,” labor department IN NEW YORK AT. SUNDAY! MEETING (Special to The! Dally Worker) NEW YORK; “Dec. 16.—Benjamin Gitlow, just released from Sing Sing prison, will make“his first public ap- pearance at the celebration of the 1905 revolution to be held on Sunday afternoon, Dec. 20 at 2 o’clock at the Central Opera House, 67th St. and 8rd Ave. The meeting is held as a triple celebration. This month marks the 100th anniversary of the Decembrist uprising, which was the first attack upon feudal autocracy in Russia, It also marks the,20th anniversary of the Moscow armed revolt of December 1905, which was the high point of the 1905 revolution and which first brot the proletariat into the field as the definite revolutionary force destined to overthrow czarism. With this has been combined the welcome to Gitlow and the celebration of his release from prison as a response to the demands of the working class. Benjamin Gitlow ‘will address the meeting. Other speakers are Alex- ander Trachten! ; Moissaye J. Olgin who participated in the 1905 re- volution; William! W. Weinstone; Chas Krumbein, Pascal Cosgrove and K. Radzi. Radzi will speak in Russian and Olgin in Jewish. An excellent musical program ‘with appropriate re- volutionary music has been prepared The uwperoug of the 1905 revolution residing in New York wil) be considered guests of honor on the occasion of this gelebration, A pre- sidium of veterans of 1905 will be chosen to officiater Admission to both concert and cele- bration is 25¢ and,all the workers in the city are urged to attend. The cele- bration is under the auspices of the Workers Party, District No. 2, and the Young Workerg League. One half of the proceeds will go in the form of a donation to the International La» bor Defense. 2 a: $5 Arrest Irishman for Operating Distillery in Jewish Cemetery BALTIMORE, Md., Dec. 16.—Police and federal agefts swooped down on a Jewish cemetery here and arrested Harry Graley, an Irishman, on a charge of running a still. The officers confiscated the still, 35 gallons of alleged liquor and forty barrels of mash. Children’s Clothing Workers Win Demands NEW YORK—(FP) — Children’s clothing tailors émployed by J. J. Pries & Co. won against the concern’s attempted wage réduction. The work- ers, organized in the Amalgamated Clothing workers, “followed the union policy of accepting-no reductions this season and refused to return to their jobs when cuts Were announced, JAPANESE LABOR as a present, and come prepared to , BUY \A PACKAGE ADMISSION 50 CENTS. EXIT FREE, :: GRAND BALL:: men 8 to 2 in the spinping mills and Wall Street’s Bankers Have Sufficient Votes to Win World Court Fight By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. His oils the fight in the United States senate, to secure adherence of this nation to the world court, starts in Washington. International bankers, profit petted church dignitaries, peace-time pacifists, labor reactionaries of the Gompers school, the finance-controlled daily press and col- lege presidents subsidized by Wall Street, or its connections, all join in the demand that this country resume its place as the “moral leader of the world.” _ It is claimed that this was lost when Coolidge did not send his diplomats to assume open leadership of the anti-Soviet Locarno conference. It is going to be an interesting fight; probably the most revealing in this session of congress. Senators will talk ac- cording to the note of the clinking dollar that sounds best to their ears. * * e co Secretary of State Kellogg stated the position of the Coolidge administration in New York City at the dinner of the Council on Foreign Relations at the Hotel Ritz-Carlton, reiterating that it is its fixed determination “to avoid partici- pation in purely European political matters.” This comical statement indicates the low intellectual level on which the White House hopes to press its fight, which will be opened in the senate by Swanson, a democrat. It has even caused the anti-court Hearst press to scream: “What do European countries want from the American people to- day? Higher ideals, cleaner politics, nobler aspirations, unselfish morals? No such things, As regards them all, Europe feels herself to be generations ahead of us. “There is no dividing line in Europe between politics and busi- ness. In Europe politics is business just now and business is politics. No such line as that drawn by Secretary Kellogg exists in Europe .... “What dictates Europe's politics in Persia? Business in oil. What dictates Europe’s politics in Mosul? Business in oil. What dictates Europe’s politics in China? Business, coal, iron and markets. What dictates Europe’s politics in the Pacific? Business—commerce—trade— markets.” * ° ° ° This is a rather naive confession coming even from an “expert” on the financial pages of the Hearst press. It is not sufficient to say there is no dividing line between business and politics in Europe. That applies to the whole capitalist world, including the United States. The international bank- ers want this country’ in the world court and in the league of nations as a business proposition. When the league hands over the Mosul oil fields to the British, that creates envy in the profit heart of the Standard Oil company. The world court said the league had the right to make this decision. And if it has, that is an organization worth while for Ameri- can dollars to control. ° * ° ° Government is but the instrument of business. It is capitalism's dictatorship for the suppression of the working class at home, and the oppression of eople’s abroad under the naked fist of dollar diplomacy. The political policies of the government are the business policies of great greed. It is easy to understand why the democratic senator, Swanson, opens the world court fight, when it is remembered that John “Wallstreet” Davis, Morgan's personal lawyer, was the democratic candidate for president last year. It was under the democratic president, Grover Cleveland, that the United States seized Hawaii, and began developing its imperialist policies in the Pacific. And it was the republican president, McKinley, who continued those policies in launching the war against Spain. * 2 ° ° Advance estimates say that 15 senators in both the old parties will Oppose entrance to the world court. All the rest, both democrats and republicans, a sufficient num- ber, are in favor. J f That is sufficient test! mony to show that finance capital controls both the ig political parties, and dic- tates its policies to the United States government, of which congress is the oratorical wing. 5 to 1 in the making of cloth so that the average wage in the Japanese cotton industry is less than $65 a year. These workers keep Japanese textile machinery working 22 hours a day in two 11-hour shifts, Cotton cloth from Japan goes to China, India, the Dutch Indies, Austra- lia, the Philippines and in consider- able quantities even to the United States. The value of these exports GETS LOW WAGES FOR LONG HOURS If you knew that thousands of work- ers in your trade were being exploited 11 hours a day for wages averaging fess than $6 a month’ and that thi was leaving you only partly employed, wouldn’t you do something about it? If you found that these workers were organizing to free themselves from this slavery wouldn’t you make com- mon cause with them? That's how the case for world trade union unity presents itself to British trade unions. Figures recently issued by the Japan Cotton Spinners Assn. show good ground for such action. They show the huge expansion of the Japanise textile industry and the rapid gains of Japan in the world cotton cloth market, all based on wages that would hardly feed a horse here. Average Japanese wages on a yearly basis appear so low ‘when translated into American money that they might easily be mistaken for the monthly wages of an unskilled laborer or the weekly wages of a skilled tradesman in this country. The figures for male and female employes in the spining mills are: $7.65, to your fellow worker, GRAND Japanese Cottonmills Women workers outnumber the increased from $3,437,474 in. 1903 to $21,701,705 in 1914 and to over $163,- 000,000 in 1924. Taking Alexandria, Egypt, as a typical foreign market we find Japanese goods offered at $5.90 per piece in competition with the product of American mills at Watch the Saturday Magazine Section for new features every week. This is a good issue to give ATTENTION, CLEVELAND WORKERS! CONCERT and MASS MEETING SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 19 at Carpenters’ Hall, 2226 East 55th Street. Speakers: C, E. RUTHENGERG, General Secretary W. P. M. OLGIN, of the Jewish Bureau W. P. The Freiheit Gezangs Ferein and Mandolin Orchestra and Other Musical and Literary Features, BANQUET WILL FOLLOW CONCERT IN THE SAME BUILDING, Auspices, Jewish Branch W. 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WASHINGTON, Dec, 16.—Under a broadside attack from western repub- licans and democrats, the administra- tion lost its first skirmish in the sen- ate this afternoon to obtain ratifica- tion of $3,000,000,000 worth of war debt settlements. Led by Senator’James A. Reed, (D.) of Mo., both republican and demo- crats, forced administration leaders to abandon an attempt to get the agree- ments before the senate for imme- diate consideration, Im a furious debate, which lasted over an hour, a dozen senatons de- nounced the Italian agreement as cer- tain to cost the American people bil- lions of dollars in taxation. Morgan Assailed. “The House. of Morgan has sought to influence the settlements of these debts,” Reed of Mo., charged. “The international bankers have steadily preached a doctrine of cancellation and I for one, will do my best here to defeat them.” “I want to call senate’s attention,” said Senator Johnson, “that as soon as a settlement was made of the na- tional. debt, a loan was made to Italy by Morgan at 7 per cent interest while the interest paid by Italy to the peo- ple of the United States is only one twenty-eighth of that given te the House of Morgan.” Slams Mussolini. “The difference is that we had our money in and Morgan had his money in his pocket,” retorted Reed, of Pa, “Sf our government was going to lend Italy money now, I would ask for even a higher rate of interest and I might not want to take a chance no matter what the rate of interest was.” This is a direct slap at the fascist bandit. When Smoot asked tie senate for its consent to an immediate consi- deration of the settlement, there was a flurry of objections. Reed, of Mo., protested against hasty consideration of any of the set- tlements. “These settlements involve billions of dollars and those billfons of dol- lars will come out of the pockets of the American taxpayers or out of the pockets of the people of foreign coun- tries who made a contract to pay thefh. I for one, will not give my con- sent to a hurry-scurry haphazard handling of these settlements, Senator Johnson and Senator Rob- inson, of Arkansas, the democratic leaders, also objected. Cannon Will Speak Before Detroit Labor on Sunday Afternoon DETROIT, Mich., Dec, 16—The De- troit labor forum, which is conducted under the auspices of the Detroit Federation of Labor, has engaged James P, Cannon, executive secretary of the International Lalor Defense, as the forum speaker on the after- noon of Sunday, Dec. 20. The forum opens at 3:00 p. m. 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