The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 19, 1925, Page 3

THE DAILY WORKER Page Three UNION OFFICIAL PRAISES SOVIET. POWER PROGRAM British Labor Head Visited Russia (Continued from page 1) nous efforts of a line of brilliant scientists with the great Michael Far- aday leading the way. ‘To Lighten Workers’ Labors. Mlectricity, one of the youngest children of scientifig discovery, and still only in its adolescence, despite evidences of lusty vigor, comes as an eager friend to lighten human toil. The wise administrators of the Soviet Republics intend, to the full, to employ the marvellous natural re- sources of their boundless country, to use its energy, not in the exploitation of human effort, but to bring a new happiness and comfort to its citizens, and a lightening of man’s productive burdens. In no other country in the worli are the opportunities perhaps so great. In America and Canada, gifted with a bounteous supply of water power, competitive capitalists, jostling and fighting for the opportunity to exploit their country’s resources for sordid gain, have prevented the develop- ment of a comprehensive scheme of electrification such as Russia is ap- IMILLINERY UNION STARTS DRIVE TO ORGANIZE SHOPS Hand Milliners Have Little Organization By ART SHIELDS. (Federated Press) NEW YORK, Dec. 17—The hand millinery workers of New York and a half dozen other great cities are highly skilled workers who put their individuality into their headgear crea- tions but their wages are only half those of the machine workers’ in the industry because the latter are or- ganized and the hand worker: ‘e not So while the winter season is at its height special organizers for. the Cloth Hat, Cap and Millinery Work- ers’ International Union are putting | the case up to them in a continent- wide campaign in New York, Phila- | delphia, Chicago, Montreal, Los An- geles and San Francisco. Union Shop Conditions. In the union shops the 44-hour week prevails; protection against discharge | and a minimum wage of $65. a week | for operators. In the nonunion hand | work shops basic hours are longer with uncontrolled overtime; the boss hires and fires as he pleases ana wages are only half as high. The machine shops have been sol idly organized for only a few years. & big strike’in 1919 was followed ir 1921-23 by a sustained organizing cam paign that brot that branch of the in ‘haan Imperialists Worried as Chileans Maintain Deep Silence SANTIAGO, Chile, Dec, 17—Amer- ican imperialists are worried as all the Santiago newspapers are silent on the Tacna-Arica plebiscite activities. They do not even say whether Chile’s reported appeal has been forwarded to President Coolidge. Considerable interest taken in the question whether the plebiscite commission will continue its work in Tacna and jArica or transfer its activities to Washington. There is a question as to who would be left in charge should “Black-Jack” Pershing go to Wash- ing for a conference with Coolidge LABOR DEFENSE CHICAGO BAZAAR AIDS PRISONERS |Big Sum Goes to Zeigler Defense qd &.. 8. ‘Breas Service.) One of the most successful bazaars yet held by the radical movement of | *hicago, was the unanimous verdict of ll those who attended the bazaar giv- n by the International Labor Defense of this city and which lasted for four ectic nights. The local committee announces that i has already turned in to the national fice the sum of fifteen “hundred dol- ars as proceeds from the affair, which SATURDAY. the New Magazine Supplement of the Daily Worker will publish a very inter- esting article plying. dustry into union relations and raised : Bolshevik Plans. minimum wages $10 a week. Now in|%o for the Zeigler defense. | i this first big drive on the hand work Not only were those who attended | from earl: of the s fens = inne shops where conditions are worse| he bazaar given their fill of an or- Bolshevik revolution of 1917, the de- signers, experts, and working elec- tricians of Russia have been plan- ning the technical details to carry out than they were in the machine shops | linary good time but they were treat- when the latter were unorganized the ; ed to special features’ which were giv- union finds a fertile field. Shops range | en by the various nationalities who co. in size to,300 workers, The first step|oPerated in making the affair a suc- —written 25 years ago while the great the Soviet government's decision to resumed. The upper photo shows | powers that are determined to des- i ji . is the formation of, shop committees|cess. Besides this, Max Shachtman, Heron a national system of electri-) “HE lower photograph of the rich | some soldiers of tho Red army of | troy the Soviet Union. The pictute | which present demands to the employ.|who recently returned from Zeigler leader was strug- cation. Baku oil fields shows why the | the Soviet Union. It is the militant | in the uppér right hand corner is | ors the union furnishin r hi 0 , 2 WA 4 @ the workers|ave a short account of the frame-up Plans have been drawn up for 22} American capitalists are eager for®| daring and courage of these soldiers | a photograph of a ship that has | with meeting places and organization |and called upon all to aid the miners gling for the forma- intensive 15 years’ work for the elec-| the recognition of the Soviet Unions |»—workers and peasants—that has | been subsidized as a freight-carrier. methods and. eventually the union}Wwho are putting up such a brave de- ti f th t | trification of industry. With the recognition of the Soviet.) beaten the Anglo-American-Franco- | This vessel recently brought a cargo | stops in officially, tense. on oO e truly rev~ The country is divided into 10 areas}! Union, they expect to get conces | Japanese intervention, destroyed | of Russlan'products to the United Had Good Time. each with 81 electric stations. The stations in the areas are being linked up so that in the event of failure of siohs as rich as this one in the / Kolchack, Denikin, Wrangel Yuden- | States. The*inset is Boris Skvirsky, Supreme Cock Binds In’ Cha task day Ae eon bas ths olutionary party of Union. The Soviet government re- | Itch, and other counter-revolution- | the unofficial representative of the Young Workers League orchestra th - e working class, fuses to hand out concessions be- | arles and is now guarding the Union | Soviet Union, who is now in Wash- Small Responsible for | played to the swaying of innumerable an alterna fi " pr snptbacrt ating igucrmc eet oy thé fore diplomatic relations are fully’ | from any attacks by the capitalist ington, D, G* “Taking” State Funds feet. Two young Negro comrades, and to lead the pro- ik Dp ‘ is Hughes and Galloway, treated the au- l 7 , |dience to a genuine Charleston danc- etarian mas: i remaining stations. ‘ees : i sg a ses ij inks ceads tho aboee oe. Third Year of the Prombank COURT DISMISSES nole gupreme court upheld the decis,| 8 exhibition which was pronounced was sii : : ay noig supreme court upheld the decis-|gooq by all those who had the slight- olitical act grade coal, end peat being employed. ion of the circuit court of Sangamon ; y ‘i 10n | Daan. stale An Gov Len Small est appreciation for terpsichorean \ \ ‘The Volkhofstroy Station is one of (Continued from page 1) Enlarge Factories. aaa y a Hap Abe “ae cee tone, ed ot the The V. S. N. H. (Supreme Council of ‘Na-| The Peoples Commissar 6f Finance, es he erat stat ipa vig re Tom | The local committee especially ex- ee eager A od hem tional Economy)... The interest of de:|G./¥.. Sokolnikoff, showed in the Com- fh oy : : g ati rae bekerwad neater is on srs tends its thanks to the Karl Marx mated to be about eight million} Veloping Soviet industry demands the|mercial-Industrial News the great im- eh Sih pi $2,000 ns Scandinavian Club for its energetic = pounds. Work was commenced in) Consolidation in the Prombank of all portance of the functions erage: re 5 ee “Small opponents are taking'steps to |°OPeration in making the bazaar g- be 5 its credit activities, particularly cen-}by the Prombank in the Soviet Repub- ns : ;,, ;over big, as well as to all other com- L i = Erde) wer seas sos serene: hie tralizing these financial resources|lics’ economy, and the enormous role Int Dro ps sapere ib Sais tide belittle“ rades and organizations who helped This article, The which are to be used for long term| Which it must bear in the mobiliza- % to put the affair over and help the i pigatee dineya! tuaraleary acres industrial credits. tion of financial resources for tHe _ Fram $y ‘Up Charges aga tothe: ate Sen: BUMS at Zeigler miners in their case. Vital Problems of attract a sufficiency of skilled tabor} The vice-president of the V. S. N.|Testoring and enlarging of the basic/ y,stice agil@ispensed in Chicago] —__—_ Our Movement,” tor the erection of the station. What|H., U. L. Piatakoff, pointed out tlat|capital im Soviet industry. The B0V-| a eainst the workers during labor dis- ‘ Criminal Syndicalism* has happened in this formerly obscure |during these three years the Prom:|ernment planning commission in the) bites was luridly shown up when the Senate to Consider Sar as cnet was vere in country district is that a miniature| bank became the largest (not count-|Person of its president, A. D. Tzurupa| go ang more eases of Amalgamated Debt Funding Pacts Victims’ Strike Nears ing the state bank of the Union of|and vice-presidents, G. M. Krzhizhan-| (o+nin, Se wninnists arrested “ “* mee Socialist Soviet Republics) .credit. in+|ovsky and I. T. Smilga, also indicated while pip ak International Tal- ‘ " - End of Third Month ISKRA n 1900. stitution in the country, with a 500,-|9n the pages of the Commercial-In- loring compapy strike was on were WASHINGTON, Dec. 17. — Altho 000,000 rubles on its balance sheet dustrial News the exceptional results} gigmissed one and all, From the petty facing a conflict of legislative powers SAN QUENTIN, Cal.—(FP)—The and with a 1,500,000,000 rubles turn: attained by the Prombank and the charge of digorderly ‘conduct to the with the house, administration leaders | strike of 21 criminal syndicalism pris- over in loans and discounts 10, Phigh place which it now occupies in| ominous accygation of conspiracy to of the senate were ready to begin con- | oners in San Quentin is still on after dustry. The bank became the center|the credit system and in the whole} murder every, unionist is set free on sideration of the six foreign debt fund-| nearly three months. It has now as- of reserves for industry and the main | economic life of the Soviet Union, motion of the defense counsel. The ing pacts, under which the govern- | sumed the nature of a lockout, for the B : organizer of its credit turn-over, serv-| The enormous importance of the overwhelming bail bonds fixed by the ments of Italy, Belgium, Roumania,| warden has ordered that even men ut this work of a ing the needs of its clients with the | work of the Prombank in the whole| municipal court, amounting in one Czecho-Slovakia, ‘Esthonia and Latvia | seriously ill from their dungeon and a utmost of satisfaction. Speaking f|economy of the Union of Socialist} case to $105,000 alone, have been re- will repay their war loans, The bills | solitary experiences are to be kept master is as valu- the fundamental problems of the |Soviet Republics was likewise indicat-| \eased and the Amalgamated can once | We? favorably reported to the senate | there indefinitely. Underground let- bl. d Prombank in light of its activities in|ed in the same newspaper by vice-| more use its cash for direct trade! PY the finance committee with a un-| ters state that five of the men are in able today as the the immediate future. U. L. Piatakoff | president of the supreme administra-} ynion purposes. animous recommendation for their|a dangerous condition. One of the d: . Pe pointed out that the bank must take |tion board of the metal industry, V. State Against Workers. Tatification. men in solitary is Tom Connors, twice ay it was written, tions. Tumanoff; by member gf the presi-| case was dismissed for lack of evi- Bank Aids \industry. dium of the All-Russian Central Coun-| dence. The pofice and the daily board of directors of the Prombank,|ROVitch; by vice-president of the Tex-| cials and had" stories day after day (lL. L. D. Press Service.) Scabby Ward Baking Co. : . V. N, Ksandroff, gave most important tile Syndicate, Eromine; by vice-pres-| of sinister plots discovered just in} CHICAGO—The birthdays in Jan- offers in the economic life of the| threats, the aSsaults, the shots, the | follows: Trading Assn. of Brooklyn, N. Y. Soviet Union. burning of a truck with mail, all are| Jan. 18.—Richard Ford, Marysville |} When you aren’t near the co-operative town has been temporarily. erected. ‘The number of men actually wot! ing on the scheme when George Hicks and I arrived there, a couple of months ago, was over 7,000. The maximum number employed was 11,- 000, but as the work is nearing com- pletion the numbers are being re- } duced. i Communal Spirit Manifest. ga There is a communal spirit every- t where manifested amongst the people. They are supremely proud of the great achievement which is being ac- complished under their eyes. Imagine these peasants and workers, who for- merly knew practically nothing of those gigantic electrical developments with which more industrialized coun- tries are familiar, now themselves proudly undertaking the immense task, completing this super-power station. It is hardly to be wondered at that they are eager to display the * product of their own work to the in- terested \visitor.. Moreover, there is a warm affection for the British work- ers whieh is radiated by the Russian masses, and which is almost embar- rassing in its fulsomeness. long-term industrial credits as well as|of directors of the State Bank, Union| police and the courts are always bering” because as secretary of the and has a special JAIL FOR YOU: D0 NOT out circulars appealing for repeal of vitality for Ameri- 5 ter of the Commercial and Industrial |", by president of the board of! of the raids on the union offices, had achievments of the bank for these |cotton committee, Nazaroff; and by| evidence, the! firearms, the acid, the | ican prisons are announced by Intl. of bread for 24¢ if you are’ within to greatly enlarge its foreign opera-|0f Socialist Soviet Republics, N. G.| against labor during a strike, each California Defense committee he sent the criminal syndicalism law. FORGET THEIR BIRTHDAYS Co-operative Undersells Baim ce News (Moscow), president of the|‘irectors of the Sugar ‘Trust, ‘Kalma-| pictures of the arrested union offi- many others of the most important| brass knuckles, the bombs, the | Labor Defense, 23 S. Lincoln st., as|reach of the Finnish Co-operative a the most active part in the operating |Nozktauk; by president of the board! As if to point the motal that the sentenced to five years for “jury tam- On being interviewed by the repor- cil of Trade Unions, M. P. Viadimi-} papers had made a tremendous affair figures, which characterized’ the {dent of the supreme board of the/ the nick of tite. Now all this alleged | ary of politicals confined in ‘Amer. NEW YORK—(FP)—Three pounds = three years. Comparing the balance- sheet of the third year as of October 1st with the balance sheet of the first } forgotten andithe whole case goes to | prison, Cal, you pay Ward Baking Co., or one of | Workers Greet British. year, Ksandroff showed that every Importance of Oil Industry. pot 26 IAS imence, ‘an, 24.—Jack Nash, San Quentin| the other big baking companies par- { As soon as we afrived at the rail-| rouble of the initial capital increased| The president of the board of di- The explanation is simply that the | prison, Cal. ticipating in the $400,000,000 merger, Saad station we were met by several|to 35 roubles; every rouble of the}rectors of the Azerbeidjan Oil Trust,| union won the istrike. The company} Jan. 24.—F, Franklin, San Quentin|32c for your loaf. The co-operative poss ray of people, headed by the] first years current accounts ‘balance |Serebrovsky, in his telegraphic greet-| settied with dabor. The auxiliary | prison, Cal. uses better materials and has fall un- ‘ } band, end to the inspiring increased to’ 814 roubles, and every)ings to the Prombank expressed the! forces of the! boss, the police, the| Jan. 27.—Peter Dirks, Thomaston] ion conditions. Every trade unionist f ' strains of the “Iinternational” we|rouble of the first year’s loans and|wish for cdntinued progress on the! courtg and the dailies, have therefore | prison, Me. knows that Ward is antiunion. made our way from the train. discounts became 604 roubles in the|road mapped out during its former} peen restored to a peace footing in| Jan. 27——Dan Fallon, Thomaston gy, Speeches of welcome were inevit-| balance sheet of the third year. The/activities, and indicated the excep-| the Amalgamated sector. prison, Me, W. re) Don t for et F * able, and before proceeding on our| balance sheet of the Prombank at the|tional importance of the work of the 1 i omen’s rganizations investigation we had to inspect a de-| beginning of the present year of oper-|Prombank in the development of the tachnient of the Red army, and an-|ation amounts to 571,000,000 roubles|oil industry as well as its role in other of the militia, as against 276,000,000 roubles on the|strengthening the financial condition Then we went forward with the/same date in 1924 and 87,000,000 of Azerbaidjan. band still tootling bravely, passing on|roubles in 1923. Prombank has at| From the numerous articles which ‘our way concert rooms, cinemas, the-| pres 82 branches in the territory}appeared on the Prombank’s third ‘eters, hospitals, workers’ clubs, and| of the Union of Socialist Soviet Repub-|anniversary in all the central and many other institutions which have|lics in addtion to 150 large factory | provincial newspapers, characterizing been erected provisionally for the|and mill cash-offices, The indebted-|the role of the Prombank in the work workers efigaged on building the sta-|ness of industry alone to the bank|of restoring industry and other tion—Reprinted from the Sunfay|amounts at present to more than|branches of public economy, attention | Worker, London, 270,000,000 roubles, . must be called to the article by the Mn MMT stn ‘| assistant manager of the foreign de- ' sheen ‘ sal TT partment of the supreme council of CELEBRATE 20th Anniversary 1905 Revolution Union, M. Roshal, He points out the 100th Anniversary Decembrist Uprising role which the Prombank must play in the animation of the Soviet’s im- SUNDAY, DECEMBER 20, at 2'P. M. at Central Opera House, 67th St. and 3rd Ave., New York port and export business in the fol- lowing words: Prominent Speakers in Many Languages. — Excellent Musical Program. Admission 25 Cents. — ' Import Machinery. “As much as the importation of in- ‘Auspices: Workers (Communist) Party, Young Workers (Communist) League, District No. 2,0 Oppose “Ma” Ferguson —The Satur DALLAS, Tex., Dec. 17—Women of * _ day, Texas will oppose the re-election of Magazine Supple Gov. Miriam A. Ferguson, Mrs. J. D. Claybrook, president of state demo- ment. cratic women’s association, declared in an address before the democratic women of Dallas county, Mrs, Clay- brook said the women of Texas, re- gardless of party, are not behind Mrs. | Ferguson who has been charged with ibe the misuse of state funds, Uu SCri ‘ Foreign Exchange, NEW YORK, Dec. 17.—Great Brit- And get the new ain pound sterling, demand 4.84%; and improved ma cable 4.85. France, franc, demand, 3.65%; cable 3.66, Belgium, franc, azine section evei week. ~ Ps, . : ° Lives and ” Nicolai Lenin in one attrac- Lessons of Karl Liebknecht tive booklet Rosa Luxemburg BY MAX SHACHTMAN. ary meetings during January there the memory of our martyred com- oklet into every corner of the country— On the occasion of the is no more fitting way to radés than to distribu wherever workers cong Because of the nearness “ot the meetings we expect a great rush of | orders. We therefore ask that you get ‘yours in early so as to give us plenty of time to get them to you, Single copy 15c—In lots of ten or more 10c ————— + Fill Out the Blank Below: — — — — Young Wi (Communist) League of America, 1113 W. bi ma Bivd., rasa ye I. Enclosed find the lives of Lenin, | Name: demand 4.53; cable 4.53%. Italy, lira, demand 4.03%; cable 4.08%, Sweden, krone, 26. cable 26.79. Norway, krone, 20.29 le 20.31. Denmark, krone, 24.86; cable 24.88, Shanghai, taels, 77.50, dustrial machinery, which is necessary for enlargement of the basic capital of our industry, requires Jong terni credits, the Prombank, as the special bank of industry,,can and must play the main role: as’ the natural guaran-|| tor for dndustry; when it secures the credits from abroad.” Watch the Saturday Magazine Section for new features every week. This is a good issue to give to your fellow seorkery 1, Getenesee) aNd ae