The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 6, 1926, Page 6

; ' Page Six THE DAILY “WORKER THE DAILY WORKER DAILY WCRKER PUBLISHING CO. Phone Monroe 4712 Published by the Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill. e 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 1113 W. Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Illinois J, LOUIS ENG WILLIAM F, DUND MORITZ J, LOEB. Editors ... Business Manager Entered as second-class mail September 21, 1923, at the post-office at Chi- cago, Ill, under the act of March 3, 1879. ogee 290 Advertising rates on application, = — = oye An Imperialist Butcher Seldom has there occtrred such an expose of the role of the flunkeys of American imperialism as that published yesterday in Tus Dairy Worker and written by an American adventurer acting carrying on campaigns of butchqry for the imperialists of the world. as a policeman in Shanghai, China. The man, Smith, who writes to his friend, Hank, and signs himself “Larry,” reveals himself as the typical vicious, ignorant and craven poltroon, who roams the earth His letter is a crude effort to impress his friend with his many quali- ties. His description of the unexampled heroism displayed in fight- ing against “tens of thousands” of Chinese can be discounted. | wing by officials elected and organiza The part of the letter that commends itself to those who désire to understand the part played by the United States is the reference to the man, Baker, who is described as American advisor to Chang Tso-Lin. This confessed assassin and debased pervert, Smith, boasts of the fact that he sat in the American club bar and talked over the situation with Baker. The Coolidge government at Washington should be forced to account for the presence of Baker in China as “advisor” to Chang Tso-Lin. By whose authority is he there? If he is a secret emissary of the government how can this government and its apologists explain the fact that one of Baker’s confidants is this garrulous butcher who boasts of the fact that invading | gangsters splashed Chinese blood eight feet high upon the walls of residences in Shanghai and shed so much blood the streets are slip- pery with gore? What has this government to say regarding the use of soft-nosed (dum-dum) bullets, outlawed by all participants | in the last world slaughter? “Enfield rifles, with soft-nosed bullets |Pility to organize and direct? that spread.” These are questions that must be put to the snivelling Down East hypocrite who sits in the presidential chair at the White | NOTE.—This isa continuation of the series of articles on the recent International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union convention held in Philadelphia. see By WILLIAM F, DUNNE. ARTICLE VI. Achievements of the Left Wing and its Immediate Problems. flee left wing in the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ con- vention, in spite of mistakes enu- merated and eriticized in previous articles, mistakes traceable to condi- tions Which encourage a struggle for power for the first time in one of the largest unions in the American labor movement at a time when the} rest of the trade unions lag far be- | hind the development in the I. L, G.| W., made some real gains—gains from which the whole left wing movement will profit. It would be the greatest mistake in| this period to measure the progress of and the consolidation of the left tional power established. It is just this wrong method measuring achieve-' ment which is largely responsible for) the mistakes made by the I. L. G. W. left wing as well as the disappoint- before the convention? 1O all these questions the answer) must be yes. This answer is correct in spite of the fact that the achievements of the left wing were considerably less than the possibilities and that its line of achievement represents a deviation, speaking mathematically, of an angle of about 30 degrees from the straight line of possible accomplishment. During the convention the attention of the overwhelming majority of the convention was focused on its pro- ceedings. It was evident, as shown by the rank and file attendance at the convention and a number of other concrete incidents, that every man- euver of the left found its response among the rank andé file and that the counter-maneuverfs’ of the Sigman machine aroused @eép resentment. 10 This was especiallye true of use of| police in the convention by the ma- chine which the NewYork member-| ship answered by muss’ meetings and ganizer of the needle trades workers} the first qualification for a fighting as against the the bureaucracy sufficiently, neverthe- less it made clear that unity is not a matter of words but of deeds and that unity is not a fetish, a thing in itself, which is to be worshipped and maintained at the sacrifice of all struggle by and for the masses, The left wing proved to the hilt, in the fonyention and to the rank and file, that the Sigman maofMine is guilty of co-operating with the po- lice against the membership and that its war on the membership is re- sponsible for the weakness of the union, The left wing appeared in the con- vention as the only force in the union which really fights for and not against the membership. The mistakes of the deft wing were made in struggle and consequently their effects were apparent immedi- ately. That the mistakes were cor- rected afid we need cite here only telegrams of protest! ment for the left wink. thowsand garment’ Workers was ad- dressed by left wing leaders and, in a center where the Sizman expulsion policy h reduced “the membership ment expressed by some at the re-| sult of the Furriers’ convention. | 1 estimating the achievements of| the left wing in Philadelphia we| must ask, therefore, not how many officers were captured, but: Did the left wing broaden its mass by two-thirds, the basis was laid for union and left wing organization. The convention followed eagerly by’ thousands of needle trades workers In the Freiheit. ‘he influence of the Communist press because of its support of the left wing was recognized by the Sigman Rank and file) delegations were als6 ‘Kent to the con-| vention with messages of encourage-| N Philadelphia 2 tifasé meeting of a| roceedings were | those already accepting its program? chine speakers from time to time, no Did it profit by its mistakes? Did its convention cadre gain in attempt to exclude the Communist press was made as has been done at, previous conventions. { Is it, in a word, stronger, ideologi-) A LTHO the left wing did not capi-) cally and organizationally, than it was talize its real mission as the or-| the fact that the splitting tactics of the bureaucracy were met and over- come, is proof that the left wing learned and learned quickly from its errors. This is not to say that an immensely more firm grasp of_ele- mentary policy and tactics is not needed but only that in the conven- tion much progress was made in this direction. HE left wing did not lose a single delegate during the three weeks of convention struggle. On the contrary, it showed, in the decisive vote on the election of officers, that it had actual- ly increased its convention following —casting a high vote of 110 as against support? machine. -Its correspondents were| an estimated strength of 107. Did it increase the understanding seated at the press table and altho! Considering the bitterness of the of the role of the left wing among whining insults were given by ma-| convention struggle and the lack of experience of many of the left wing delegates this is in itself a real achievement. These 110 delegates have shown by their solidarity that they realized fully their responsibility to the workers— House at Washington. Incorporated in the letter are repetitions of the banal fables | about Chinnese vice conditions that must be discounted as so much | imperialist propaganda. But even though they were true they are | not one whit worse than conditions existing in the cities of the | United States and even in the coal fields of the anthracite region | of Pennsylvania where fourteen-year-old American girls are inmates of brothels. | The expose by Tur Dairy Worker of the reactions of one of the} gunmen of imperialism sheds light upon the mercenary designs of the American government and explodes the fiction that the United States is a friend of the Chinese people. After reading such a letter every intelligent worker must come to the conclusion that every encouragement should be given the Chinese masses in excluding from their territory with any means at their command all the agents of foreign predatory powers, from the cowardly monsters of the Smith type to the wily scoundrels ot By GEORGE HICKS. Trade Unions Qnee Illegal. The Communist Party is now in the} Hicks Smashes Constitution. Sir William Joynson-Hicks has done President of the British National Union of Building Trades Workers. ‘HE most significant and the most sinister point about the prosecu- tion and sentences against leading mémbers of the Communist Party and Young Communist League of Great | Britain is contain- e@!'in the judge's summing up. the type of Mr. Baker, American confidential advisor to Chang Tso-Lin. Fascism in Greece General T. H. Pangalos, for the past six months actual fascist dictator of Greece, has thrown overboard all pretexts of democracy and now joins that batch of reactionary despots of which the brigand Mussolini of Italy is the classic example. Pangalos’ coup was carefully arranged and carried out with precision. All the military garrisons had been captured thru bribery with British gold and intimidation by British mercenaries and swore allegiance to Pangalos. Greece is one of the strategic points in /the British empire and, altho neither a dominion nor a colony of that empire, is under the complete domination of London as the result of financial penetration which was well developed even before the outbreak of the world war. Echoes of the use to which Greece was put as a pawn of Great Britain in the 1921 war against Turkey are discernible in the remark of Pangalos on assuming dictatorship that Greece was at one time at the gates of Constantinople. In carrying forward its designs against Turkey and to also consolidate into its own hands that vast territory lying between the eastern end of the Mediterranean and India, the British government must depend upon Greece. The chain of islands in the Mediterranean and Aegean Sea that are controlled by Greece are used by Britain as naval and airplane bases. Great Britain hopes to use Greece as a pawn in her desire to control Constantinople and the Dardanelles. Within Greece there still exists a nationalist sentiment that resents Pangalos’ role as the servant of Britain. These parties represent the majority of the population... With the approach of ihe senatorial elections the Pangalos government took precautions to arrange the terms of the election so that the majority could not win. The result was a boyeott of the elections by the opposition parties. The reply of Pangalos was the seizure of dictatorial powers. The first act of the new fascist regime is typical; the suppression of the opposition press and a strict censorship of the news emanat- ing from the country. Nationalist opposition to the fascist dictators of small coun- tries acting in behalf of the great imperialist powers is impotent. Only the working class, under the leadership of a Communist Party, can smash the imperialist pawns in Greece or any other country similarly situated. While suppression and terror will uproot the other parties, the Communists, trained in the art of insurrection, will devise means of strengthening their party in the struggle, permeating ever deeper the ranks of the exploited masses and prepare for the overthrow of the new fascist power. The short vacation enjoyed by congressmen enabled them to get in intimate contact with their constituents, and many of the Coo- Jidge senators and congressmen have learned that the nation, partic- ularly the corn belt, is opposed to the government’s alleged solution of the agricultural erisis. Pacific coast senators report that the policy of the seeretary of the interior, Work, will alienate all western states next year. All in all the Coolidge-Mellon gang is in for a lively time, even if we eliminate the question of the world court, the disarmament conference, the Italian debt settlement—any one of which is quite sufficient to cause disaster, “Mellon says America’s finances will not stand further tax redue- “It is obvious re toni the evidence,” fa) said’ Mr. Justice = Swift, “that you até members of an AN egal party carry- | ing on illegal work - ip this country. ad And,” he-added, “it George Hicks most stop.” That means, in effect, that no mem- ber of the Communist Party dare pro- claim himself as such. It means the denial of the right to workers of a particular school of thought to come together, to form a party, and to express the views of that party. It means the suppression of the right of free speech, free expression, and free association. That is now the law—because law in this country is practically judge-made law. METAL TRADES STUMPED OVER AUTO WORKERS Only Industrial Union Can be Organized WASHINGTON, Jan. 4. —Secretary Berres of the metal trades depart- ment of the American Federation of Labor announces that the conference of metal trades executives which will plan a campaign to organize the auto- mobile workers in Detroit and other centers will not be held until the end of January. This conference was au- thorized by the Atlantic City conven- tion early in November, arid was to have been held early in December. As set forth in his annual report by James O’Corinell, president of the de- partment, the problem of unionizing the 500,000 men now employed in making automobiles and accessories in the United States is a difficult one. Machinery has wiped out craft lines. Few skilled jobs are left. Most of the men are doing unskilled jobs at top speed, racing with machinery con- trolled by foremen, These men cannot be brought into the unions of skilled craftsmen, either as machinists, sheet metal workers, electrical workers or others. They must be gathered into an industrial union, similar in scope to the United Mine Workers in the coal industry. O'Connell proposes to summon to Washington the executives of the craft unions in the metal manufactur- ing tndustty,,and to invite them to determine what part of their present juris@iction shall be turned over to ” After reducing his own taxes and those of his fellow multi- ijllionaires, the eminent secretary of the treasury is not concerned ut further reductions. the new industrial union in order that same position as trade anions were in| more to undermine, to pull to pieces during the early part pf last century. and to destroy the constitution in a It is an illegal organjgation. That statement by fhe judge, in my opinion, is going to have for the work- ing class movement 4 greater signifi- cance than the TaffpVale decision— j also judge-made lawgjhad in its way, im its own peculiar rglation to the pro- gress of our movemgnt. It is around thisy@uestion of the legality of free spegghsand free asso- ciation that the je must be waged by the organized, working class against the forces @f,reaction. If any other . gry of persons, equally unpopular hh the govern- ment and the capitalist class, occa- sion the animosity pf the reaction- aries, they are liable, to be dragged before the courts and, put outside the pale of ordinary hyman intercourse, and denied the right to express their views, in the same way. This is a precedent which threatens the fundamental basis of what we have come to regard as constitution- alism in this cow . Constitution- al progress is onlymade_ possibie by freedom of speech and association. It will not be the Communists who will have undermined the constitu- tion, but the tory governmental party —and its legal instruments. few’ months than the Communist Party has doné since its inception, If the workers are driven under- ground to form secret societies; if they are forced—by the mere expres- sion of opinion—into antagonism with the law; if the law itself, the very heart and mainstay of the constitu- tion, ‘becomes a matter of contempt and mockery to broad masses of the people—as is bound to be the results of Mr. Justice Swift's interpretation —then goodbye to constitutional ac- tion in the future, Swift Gets Cold $houlder. What emphasizes this aspect of the prosecution is the appeal made by Mr. Justice Swift to the seven Com- munists to leaye their party in order to procure their release. We do not know what was moving in the mind of the judge when he made that appeal. He surely did not imagine that that appeal would be responded to. He surely does not imagine that that will have the effect of frightening workers away from the Communist Party. Things do not happen that way. Men of faith, will, and understanding —as these seven and the Communists generally have demonstrated |e with economic and political disruptive policy of! leadership. i Daido is no question that, by »mak- ing a few alterations in :their,pro- gram—abandoning, for instance, the shop delegate system—by softening the criticism of the machine and in general showing a willingness “to go along,” as the fakers phrase it, the left wing could have secured at least half and probably a majority of the offices, This was not done and in itself is proof to the membership that the left wing is not engaged in a mere struggle for office, that it places pro- gram first and office second. In a labor movement where insur- gent movements have followed one another into disgraceful oblivion thru the betrayal of the rank and file by leaders bribed by the bureatictats, the importance of this cannot be over- estimated. The I. L, G. W. left wing fights for control of the union but not for a few leaders—it fights for the control of the union by the membership commit- ted to a class struggle program. The left wing was tested in Phila- dolphia. Tt met the test. It rejected the bribes offered by the machine, it continued its struggle and because the membership was able, by contrasting program and method of left and right to see the left wing as the unifying force. in the union, the left wing broadened its base, strengthened its ability and willingness to struggle, learned that wrong policy and tac- tics zeacts disastrously and left the eonvention to continue the fight for the interests of the membership—not to rest on its laurels. Immediate Problems. 'N New York City the left wing has organizational power and responsi- bility. The situation may be compar- ed to that of the Russian working class after the November revolution. The organizational outposts, many of them at least, have been captured. The bureaucracy in New York has been defeated. Right and Left Wing in the I. L. G. W. Convention ‘ But it has left to the left wing lead- ership a union which is bankrupt but which is compelled to face the fiere- est opposition trom the international officials and the bosses. It is practically certain that early in this year the union will be com- pelled to engage in a general strike. In this struggle, with a treasury loot- ed Dy the reactionaries before their surrender, the New York locals can expect, at the best, only cynical sneers from the international officers, ‘VEN in New York, among the Ital- ian workers in the unions control- led by Ninfo and Antonini, the left wing has but a small following. These locals at present constitute a base of operations for the Sigman machine vgainst the left wing. There is also Dubinsky’s following, Local No. 10, perhaps the strongest Sigman base in the I. Ll. G, W. The left wing will win the general strike this spring if it is not betrayed by the machine. It is therefore nec- essary to make such a/ betrayal im- possible. Ir can be done by winning substan- tial sections of the militant Italian workers who are still confused and deceived by their leaders, to the sup- port of the left wing and its program. 'N addition to broadening its support in the I. L. G. W. itself the left wing must also enter into the closest re- lations with the left wing in the Fur- riers’ and the Amalgamated Clothing Workers’ Unions. The left wing must establish clearly among the member- ship that this is no isolated struggle but that it involves the winning of all decisive groups of needle trades work- ers for its program. The struggle against the bureau- cracy in all the needle trades unions must be intensified and consolidated to such an extent,that the reaction- aries will have no time to prepare be- trayals. The best tactics for the left wing is an offensive against the bosses and the bureaucracy on all fronts. thought of their opinions—are only hardened in their faith and deter- mination by appeals of that kind., Did. Mr. Justice Swift think that they. were poltroons or cowards or so lacking in elementary character as to make a public recantation? Was he not. aware that such an appeal to desert their party was sure to have the effect of making the party as such more sacred to them and to the other members of the party? ogo Helps Communist Cause. To single the party out for attack —to, let the- workers see that the object of the prosecution was to break and, disperse the party—to lay it down. definitely, and without ambig- uijty, that the Communist Party is ilegal—all that is bound to have the effect of making the Communist Party more . precious to those who are attached to it, and who sympathize ‘with it, and to win the ready support for it of thousands of workers who otherwise would have remained in- different. nt Government Methods. The government, with its spies and u its eavesdroppers and men 0 hide under platforms and creep behind doors, its shadowers, its make- believe Communists, its “special branch” intelligentsia who crudely selves to be, no matter what may be! theses, its legal lackeys and adepts at Railway Financiers Got $16,000,000 for _ Air Space Over Bldg. WASHINGTON, Jan. 4— (FP)— Members of the interstate commerce commission were told that the Van Swearingen brothers and their imme- diate associates inthe Nickel Plate rail merger deal Would “clean up” $86,361,765, by H. W, Anderson, coun- sel for minority sté¢kholders of the Chesapeake & Ohio} in his closing argument against Il ization of the merger, boy Anderson raised ‘tHe question as to the soundness of thé*Van Swearingen financing, He asked why it was that seven vice-presidents of the new Nickel Plate are supplied with private’ cars in which they‘and their families ami friends travel atound the country instead of their remaining on duty in their offices, aU 90 He showed, among other things, that $16,000,000 haf been taken by the promoters for the mere right to the air space above their terminal ‘building in Cleveland. No Further Tax Cuts Insists Mellon After Reducing Own Taxes WASHINGTON, Jan. 4.—A warning against reducing taxes more than $30,000,000 was sounded before the senate finance committee today by Secretary of the Treasury Mellon, at the opening of hearings on the new revenue bill passed by the house, Mellon said the mation’s finances would not stand further tax reduc- tions contemulated)by a minority sen- ate faction, He was subjected to severe grilling by jocratic commit- tee membe: additional tax cuts in the lower tax brackets, Worker Correspondence will make —_ By HENRY LABOUCHERE (In the “United States of India”) And the winds of the world made answer, North, South, East and West— “Wherever there’s wealth to covet. Or land that can be possess’d; Wherever are savage races, To cozen, coerce and scare, Ye shall find the vaunted ensign; For the British flag is there! Aye, it waves o’er the blazing hovels Whence African victims fly, To be shot by explosive bullets Or to wretchedly starve and die! And where the beachcomber harries Isles of the Southern sea, At the peak of his hellish vessel ‘Tis the English flag flies free. “The Maori oft hath cursed it, With the bitterest dying breath; And the Arab hissed his hatred As he spits at its folds in death, The hapeless fellah has feared it On Tel-elKebir’s parched plain, And the Zulu's blood has stained it With a deep indelible stain, “It has floated o'er scenes of pillage. It has flaunted o’er deeds of shame, It has waved o’er the fell marauder As he ravished with sword and flame, It has looked upon ruthless slaugther, And massacre dire and grim; It has heard the shrieks of the victims Drown ever the Jingo hyma, “Where is the flag of Englan Seek the land where the natt¥es rot; this danger spot in the line of the lg-| The DAILY WORKER a better paper | Where decay and bor movement may be eliminated, |—send in @ story about your shop. red Must soon be tho Deopje's let, Where Is the Flag of England? Go! Search for the once glad islands, Where disease and death are rife, And the greed of a callous commerce Now battens on human life! “Where is the flag of England? ,Go sail where the rich galleons come With shoddy and ‘loaded’ cottons, And beer and bibles and rum; Go, too, where brute force has tri- “~_“umphed, And hypocrisy makes its lair; And your question will find its answer, For the flag of England is there!” Daily Worker Farmers’ Section _- Will Unify Straggle of Farmers and Workers Against Capitalism Plutes Deny Workers Right to Think legal casuistry, has certainly cut @ sorry figure in the whole business, Not all the pretense of fairness of the judge in his scarlet robe can dis- sipate that ugly and reprehensible background. Then the heavy-footed raiding of workmen’s homes; the snatching and retention of private correspondence; the opening of letters in the post— highly delectable business for paid agents of the government to carry on amongst the free born electorate of the kingdom—that also possesses a most unsavory character, Government methods have “been adopted towards the Communists that could scarcely be justified against enemy spies in time of war. Forget Food Profiteers, Where are we? In what times are we living? If the government would have devoted half the attention—halt the dogging and spying—to appre- hending criminals or food profiteers, ete, as it has to persecuting work- men for holding unpalatable political opinions this country would be by far a sweeter and cleaner place to live in. If it is by such methods the govern- ment is proposing to stimulate a new spirit in industry and a closer fra- ternal relationship between all class- es in the community, it will get it, with a vengeance Reprinted from the London Sunday Worker. Pittsburgh Labor Defense Membership Meeting Thursday PITTSBURGH, Jan, 4—A general membership, meeting of all members of the International Labor Defense of Pittsburgh and vicinity will be held next Thursday night, Jan. 7th, 8 p, m, at the Labor Lyceum, 35 Miller St. Pittsburgh, Pa. ‘ All members of the defense should be present as an organizer for the defense will be at this meeting to take up some of the problems con- fronting us. All members make sure to be present and hear what she has to say. The following letter received by The DAILY WORKER hails the Farmers’ Section of The DAILY WORKER, which will make its appearai daily, starting mext Monday as one of the “great big ideas” that The DAILY WORKER is carrying on for the unification of the struggle of the farmers and the workers againat capitalism: “J, Louis Engdahl, — “Editor DAILY WORKER, Chicago, “Dear Comrade: “Greetings to the Farmers’ Section of The DAILY WORKER. of the great movement of farm and factory. “Kansas City, Mo, It’s one ideas of the many you are carrying forward for the unity “One-half of the population of America consists of farmers and a large percentage of our city population are the children or grandchildren of farmers. It is well then that the city fellow read of what battles the farmer \s fighting and at the same time get out to the farmers the battle of wage workers against their exploiters. “The farmer must come our way and this Farmer Section in Th WORKER will help bring him. “pe rig nd “Wishing The DAILY WORKER a happy and prosperous New Year, " “lam your comrade, “J, E, SNYDER, |