The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 26, 1925, Page 3

FIFTIETH YEAR Kalinin Has Lived Thra Three Revolutions Michael Ivanovitch Kalinin, presi- dent of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics, has passed his fiftieth | stone, of which 27 of his best years were spent In revolutionary activity among workers and peasants. Kalinin entered the party in 1898, that is after the first victorious strug- gle of Marxism with the Narodniki, after the first’ gréat advance of the la- bor movement of the ’nineties, in the year of the first congress of our party. He belongs to that famous fighting body of advanced’ workers who were beginning to’advance the cause of the workers and to build up our party at the énd of the ‘nineties of the last cen- tury. Thru Three Revolutions. Kalinin has passed thru three revo- lutions .a8 well as the black years of reaction, the victory of the October Tevolution, the civil war and the enor- mous progress ini the building up of the Soviet state, In him there is em-|- bodted the battle-tried advanced sec- tlon of the working class of our coun- try and an extraordinarily compre- hensive experience in struggle and in constructive work. Kalinin is not only a turner, but alse a tiller of the soil, not only. a worker but also a peasant, He is the embodi- ment of that alliance between the workers and peasants which couisti- tutes the strength and stability of the Soviet Union, Saw Red Army in Action, During the trying days of the strug- gles and encounters of the civil war, the Red Army saw Comrade Kalinin more than once in its fighting ranks on all sections of the Red front. He is not for nothing an honorary mem- ber of the Red Army. Comrade Kalinin unites by a specia] bond our firmly-steeled party with our heroic working class. Comrade Kal- inin isa Bolshevik of the genuine Leninist school. After that talk with your shop- mate—hand him a copy of The DAILY WORKER. It will help convince him. Information Wanted. Daniel George Carson, 34 years of age, last heard of in the state of Washington in the summer of 1917. Any ‘information will be tefully received by his mother— BRIDGET CARSON, Warspite, Alta., Canada. PATERSON TEXTILE UNIONS MAKE A UNITED FRONT TO STRIKE FOR THE EIGHT-HOUR DAY JANUARY 4 By ART SHIELDS. (Federated Press Staff Correspondent) NEW YORK, Dec. 23.—Paterson silk unions are setting a unity example in the joint strike plans the United Textile Workers, A. F. of L. and the Associated Silk Workers, independent, are making for January 4 against all firms’ in the silk capital that refuse the 8-hour day. This is the first united campaign these two rival movements have ever conducted. The date for the walkout comes at the end of a 3-months’ series of joint meetings for the nis econ nnnnennerinnnne nanan ORR OROS Worden, STINGING ARCTIC WINDS; | DRIVING SNOW GREETS MANY JOBLESS WORKERS INDIANAPOLIS, Dec, 23—Winter has descended on Indiana in full force. Stinging Arctic winds and a driving snow left the entire state mantled in white ushering a Christ- mas filled with joy for the parasites and misery for many Jobless and underpald workers, British Capitalist Press Excited Over » Bolsheviks in Navy LONDON, Dec, 23—The Westmin- ister Gazette’s correspondent at Ply- mouth asserts that Communistic sym- pathiés exist among the seamen of some of the ships of the British navy. He difés the circulation of Commun- muni ‘publications and the singing of “The Red Flag” aboard certain war- ships as proof of his statement.: ' During the recent prosecution of domibnitiaes in London the fact was reveilfed ‘that Communist propaganda was >'active in the army and navy. The admiralty tssued notices to the personnel of ships aiming to counter- act such propaganda. The - Westminister Gazette attri- butes,.to seamen the statement that the authoritiies cannot stop the cir- culation of Communistic publications on ships. The correspondent quotes members of the crew on the cruiser Vindictive as having said to him “the Vindictive is one of the Bolshevik shtps of the navy.” Are yow going to give? Make it a book on Communism! CHRIS at INTERNATI Admission ‘i IN CLEV) afiits and a Happy widaoala, DETROIT, ATTENTION! Grand Concert and Ball * Given. by Ukrainian, Russian, and Polish Branches Workers Party } For The DAILY WORKER \-» on'Friday, December 25, 4:00 P. M. 3014 Yemans St., Hamtramck, Mich. IAN REVOLUTION 1905” PLAY IN FOUR ACTS Presented by the Russian Dramatic Club at Bohemian Hall, East 49th St. and Broadway Sunday, December 27, 5 P. M. Tickets 50 Cents. We Take Pleasure of Thanking Our Patrons for Past Favors, and Wish Each and All a Merry Christmas - WORKINGMEN’S COMMERCIAL CO. So. Superior TMAS ONAL HOME, 50 Cents. y{in the Engineers’ Societies Building an eter. thee th, The pui oi the ELAND! New Year. Hanna, Wyo. Both the Associated and the A. F. of L. people talk confidently of suc- cess. The co-operation the two unions have been giving each other, they say, has heartened up thousands of work- ers who had wearied of past feuds. Bosses Divided, ‘The employers on the other hand do not appear to be united well. There is no general labor policy. There are 30 to 35 thousand silk workers in Paterson of whom the greater part are said to be in 8-hour shops. In fact the ribbon and hatband workers gen- erally have the 8-hour day and the fight will center in the broadsilk divi- sion where perhaps half the workers of the total 20,000 have to put in the compulsory overtime that means nine, ten and more hours a day of toil. There are about 500 broadsilk shops. Of the employers who are running plants overtime today some have promised that they will come thru with the demands January 4 if the unions make a good show of strength. But those that hold out for the archaic workday policy are promised fights. these strikes will be jointly conducted by the two organizations. The As- sociated has Its among the weavers, the most numer- ous single group of craftsmen while the A. F. of L. locals are with loom fixers, warpers, designers, etc. Machinists Interested. The Machinists’ Union (I. A. of M.) is also interested in this campaign for there are some machinists in the mills and more in the machine shops that repair or manufacture textile ma- chinery. John Richardson, business agent of the Paterson’ machinists’ Local, spoke at the last united front meeting. Addresses were also made by Fred Hoelscher, secretary of the Associ- ated; by James Radcliff, of the hori- zontal warpers, affiliated with the United Textile Workers and George Hays of the broadsilk loom fixers presided. Cornelius Post, organizer of the Associated ribbon workers, has been a frequent speaker. The last big Paterson strike took Place in 1924—for the 8-hour day, wage increases and the return to the 2-loom system. It was under the ban- ner of the Associated and was partial- ly successful, but since then many em- ployers have returned to the old sys- tem against which the strike was called, Municipal Engineers Start Organization (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Dec. 23—More than 500 municipal engineers from New York, Chicago, Boston, Baltimore, To- ronto, Philadelphia and other cities in the United States and Canada are expected at @ convention to be held formation of a national municipal en- gineers’ organization that will link up the new Association of New York Engineers with those of the other cities. Officers complain that city engi- neers boss bricklayers and other me- chanics who make nearly twice as much as they do, “The difference be- tween a white collar and a flannel shirt,” says one, “does not make up for the difference in wages.” A flat salary increase demand of 25 per cent made by the New York engineers re- cently was turned down, Y Severe Storms Sweep French Coast; Many _ Injured; Two Killed (Special to ‘The Dally Worker) PARIS, Dec, 23,—Severe stroms are ysweeping the French coasts and do- THE DAILY WORKER SCHWAB WELCOME THE “NEW SPIRIT’ INU. S. INDUSTRY Class Collaboration Policy Hot Stuff (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK CITY, Dec. 23.—Chas, M. Schwab, steel trust leader, told fellow-members of the Pennsylvania ; Society in New York at their annual dinner at the Waldorf Saturday night that “the American people ought to be the happiest people in the world,” because unprecedented prosperity was here and the future bright, “I was very thiich struck reading a few days ago a’feport by a repres- entative commission of the Federa- tion of British: Industries which re- cently made a’ study of conditions in the United States with a view to re- porting them to British business men. This commissi@n] called attention to the fact that thi lume of production in this country’ Wds increasing much more, relatively,) than the number of wage Cathe bmproved, and tha nevertheless Wage earners were en- joying steady ployment with high wages, if Relations With Employers. “Not the least important element of the realization,of these satisfactory results was noted''to be the satisfac- tory relations which exist in this country betweememployers and em- ployed. A most?striking feature in this report of the British commercial mission, was @ summary of the situa- tion in this language: ““The American employer believes in high wages and he pays them. But he also believes in high output, and he sees that he gets it. In the United States co-operation between capital and labor seems possible and the fatal doctrine that there is a necessary con- filct of interests does not prevail.’ “This is high tribute, but it puts the finger on the most important element in our present prosperity. Halls “Thi New Spirit.” “It is tremendously gratifying to those of us whd are engaged in the jarge industries of the United States to attribute somé ‘of our prosperity to the fact that this 'new spirit is abroad in industry in thid country. When one of our leading Tabor organizations re- cently sent word to a visiting Russian delegation that there was no place for Communism in tHe United States, he voiced the spirit’of constructive con- servatism which is at the basis of much of our prosperity and which con- stitutes much affour reason for op- i strength largely) timsim on th 88 Outlook.” Laundry Trust Starts i to Form in New York a NEW YORK, ‘Dec, 23. — (FP) — With the formation of Consolidated Laundries Corpi?© “organized to ac- quire, either directly or thru wholly owned subsidi all the properties or stocks” of 17 metropolitan laun- dries the baby beginning of the laun- dry trust climbs onto the bandwagon of mergers. The new corporation con- trol all types of*’machine laundries anjong the 17 listed for acquisition: household, hotel, ‘6ffice and linen sup- ply laundries serving New York and New Jersey. These laundries will clear nearly a million dollars profit this year, Bonner, Brooks and Co., brokers floating the corporation’s stock issue, state, Meanwhile metropolitan laundry workers are being urged by the union, the Women’s Trade Union League and the Trade Union Committee for Or- ganizing the Negroes (because so big steam laundfies) parts of the citys ed Biddle KANSAS CITY}! Mo,, Dec. 28. — Launching into ing denuncia- tion of Warden W, I, Biddle, of the which he said the prison official was potentate and imperial 000 bond thief, frag today from nearly noon, put up at 4 hotel, and in com- pany with personal friends decided to wait a while before going to Mil- waukee to meet Fannie Brice, his ae Ec i Sc alo Do RL eS pe a ‘Nickys}- Arnstein, $5,000,-| be for textile machinery. The depart- two years at hard prison labor, ar-| probably be of greater actual benefit rived in Kansas City shortly after|to the foreign-owned textile mills in IN DETROIT. “The Adding Machine’ A Drama of the Workor Under Capitalism ’ ‘will be played by the DETROIT REPERTORY THEATRE co. THURSDAY, DEC. 24, at 8:00 P. M. in the HOUSE OF THE MASSES, Gratiot and St. Aubin Avenues, Detroit. Auspices Daily Worker Press Club, General Admission 75 Cents. Page Three “PEACE ON EARTH, GOOD WILL TO MEN.” (As seen by an Advertising Distributor.) By HENRY GEORGE WEISS, All yesterday, in mad career, | published far and wide the cheer Of Christmas gifts that could be bought— For cash, of course! By God, the rot. The papers print of Santa Claus, The Christmas “spirit,” such like saws, Old, and the bunk, this hundred years, And drowned ‘neath the bitter tears Of little children lacking bread, And men and women living dead, Who never, never give or get, But only starve and weep— ‘ Ah, wet The pavement under feet well shod, In fancy leather, with the blood Of bleeding hearts and bruised feet! A thousand Christs go down the street With thorn-crowned heads, outcast, forlorn, To Calvary on Christmas morn; And like a devil in hell, From blackest hatred weaves a The hopeless look of misery, On some poor mother’s pallid face When to her side the kiddies chase spell With that false sheet, each crying Of peace and love high o’er the out, coals, “Look, Mamma, look! Write me a To torture damned and burning note, souls ; And tell dear Santa Claus that he With cooling stream and shady Can bring them roller skates to dell, me!” They deck the shops to sell and Poor kids! Below the figures sell; states: For filthy lucre all the glow Of health and cheer— The window show A hundred thousand gifts and toys, To madden little girls and boys; To madden women, madden men, Who have not cash to buy. And then— For further mock, at every door Of all the city’s countless poor, They hire needy ones like me To leave their advertising, See! A jolly Santa Claus decked out Upon the sheet in crimson coat And ample furs; well-fed and fat; With bulging bags of this and that; And underneath this scrawl sub- lime: “What Will He Bring You Xmas Time?” And I—I fling them down, the sheets That flutter over all the streets For little stunted kids to gloat O’er Santa and his crimson goat, O’er bulging bags and gifts sublime That he will bring them “Xmas Time.” And in my mind’s eye | can see Skates For Your Child—$2.98. © outcast men, O starving poor! Tell me, what are you waiting for? Have ye not heard, “I shall cast down Take what they have and feed the town!” Have ye not heard: “Woe to ye scribes, And Pharisees, and moneyed tribes For that you starve and robe and wreak Your greed vices on the weak.” Rich Dives’ table is well spread While you and yours lack even VALENTINO AND / MARY PICKFORD BOYCOTT SHOW But ‘Processional’ Will Draw the Berries The only object In wasting large sums of money on advertising Is to draw the crowd. How many of you have not stood for hours in the cor- ridors of some Chicago theater wait- ing for the opportunity to see Theda Bara seduce an Austrian count? Or Gloria Swanson bring home to the two story tenement in which she was born, a real live baron! It's all for the dough. Same here. Rudolph entino has no more to do with w’ lows than the shah of Persia, yet dollars to doughnuts, at least one hundred dollars will flow into the tr of the district of+ ers Party because ame features the headline, t of the dollars will come im course of events, nt saw “What Price sit sion; in faot, y well be otherwise than in succession, What attracted his attention was the picture of @ soldier with a trench helmet on hig head and his lips curled to squirt as choice a collection of obscenity ag ever flowed from an ‘ irritated taxt driver. Not that obscenity by itself is-en et traction. And perhaps there is no ob- scenity in “Processional.” Ag @ mate ter of fact, it is the uncertainty of the thing that intrigues us Having never seen the play, we are in @ poe sition to write a fairly impartial ree view of it. Who chases a street car after he hops on the running board? “Processional” is one of those plays that defies description, particularly from one who has never seen or heard it, except from the manager of the show. But the manager of this pare ticular show is a very responsible person and the show is presented sot for profit but for use, Get Your Lungs in Order, The main feature of the play will Glory it could not v bread. No famine stalks thru this wide|be laughter. Besides it will be feat- land, ured on December 27, two days efter Food, plenty lies on every hand; | Christmas. There is more joliity The windows blaze in red andjaround Christmas than any other white time of the r despite the efforts To draw your eyes and claim your|0f those who wish everybody to abide sight, by the unwritten word of Jesus. Suf- So that you cannot help. but see The wealth of gifts and luxury That’s running o'er—for them that pay, To eat and give on Christmas Day. For your own sake, when will you awake And for your wives and children —take! AMERCIAN BANKERS SEE CHANCE FOR ENORMOUS RATES OF PROFIT IN UNDEVELOPED CHINESE NATION Greater opportunity to exploit Chinese labor in competition with work- ers of older capitalist powers is the economic motive in America’s apparent magnanimity toward Chinese national aspirations. Tariff autonomy for China will help American business almost as much ag it will hurt British and Japanese producers of textile products. To Open Market in China, “From a purely economic standpoint,” says a report of the department of commerce on Chinese tariff autonomy, “Americans should welcome such a development. With it should come¢————————__________., greater demand from China for ma- chinery, iron and steel products, auto- motive equipment and railway mate- rials.” Dominant capitalist interest faced many Negroes are employed by the | with strong trade unions at home are to organize. } beginning to see in China a greater Meetings are beimg held in various |opportunity for profit as a market for investment. America as the lead- ing capitalist power with a vast sur- plus of idle capital is certain to take the lead in encouraging China, It is American capitalist necessity rather than pressure of American liberals which assures this attitude. To Export Machinery. Already American machinery is go- federal prison at Leavenworth, inj ing into Chinese flour mills, foundries, machine shops, etc. but the immediate demand following tariff autonomy will ment says: “Tariff autonomy will the treaty ports in permitting them to compete with foreign imports than to Chinese-owned mills in Chinese ter- ritory. In the textile industry a migra- tion from Manchester and Osaka to ¢ Shanghai and Tientsin has already be- gun.” Prior to the war most of the tex- tile machinery came from Great Brit- ain, but the war gave American firms a chance to cut in. Cheap Labor Power, Attraction. Good labor at bargain rates is China’s chief attraction to foreign cap- ital. To quote an earlier report of the department: “China’s greatest re- source, by long odds, is its man power, No country has so vast a population 8o thoroly habituated to industry; but without foreign capital little industrial progress in China would have been made.” Take this copy of the DAILY WORKER with you to the shop SST essssessssss: Chicago Read at C. S. P. S. Hall, 1126 Principal Speakers—Robert Mi Admission 75 Cents. GRAND CONCERT = — AND DANCE == for the benefit of Delnik will be given by the F, D, T. J. OMLADINA and Czechoslovak Fractions FRIDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1925 Freiheit Singing Society—Symbolic and Folk Dances by the members of F. D. T. J. Omladina—Musical Selections—-Piano, Violin and Vocal Solos~-Recitations—DANCING DURING EVENING, fice it to say that those who have al- ready seen “Processional” in New York want to see it again. It takes a good play to bring me twice to the box office. ‘ Besides “Processional” there are other attractions on the bill which ean only be hinted at. The truth is that the district office of the Work- ers Party needs the money and at least one person will be provided with a suit of clothes, better than any that decorated his person to date, There are other attractions also. Some may be able to tune in on Mos cow if they are lucky. Those who do not understand this are too stupid ¢o know a good radio set when they see it. Now, to get down to businoss, On the evening of December 27, there will be held in Lawndale Hall, 3487 Ogden street, corner of St, Louis avenue, a social afair comprising @ play with all other features that so cial affairs usually embody. Bring your friends. Practically every mem- ber of the Workers Party will be there. Those who are absent will be reported sick, Ten grand prizes giv- en away. SICK AND DEATH BENEFI SOCIETIES Frauen-Kranken-Unterstuetzungs Verela Fortsohritt i, Meets every Ist anc ureday, a Wicker Park Hall, a 2040 W. North Avenue. Secretary. To those who work hard for thelr money, | will save 50 per cent on all their dental work, : DR. RASNICK DENTIST 645 Smithfield Street, , PITTSBURGH, PA,“ SNe Eee SEE Tee TST TT TTT Sata. ers, Attention! W. 18th Street, Chicago. nor and Lovett Fort-Whiteman,