The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 12, 1926, Page 3

UNION OFFICERS: SUE AUSTRALIA AFTER RELEASE Deportation Charge Is Quashed by Court SYDNHY—(FP)—On the morning of Nov. 20, the federal government of Australia arrested Thomas Walsh and Jacob Johnson, general president @nd assistant secretary of the Austra- Han Seamen’s union. They were dragged from their homes at day- ‘break to await deportation from Aus- tralia. The supreme court has since quashed the order and the men are suing, for damages, Deportation was ordered under @ special law recently passed, it being held that both men had been hinder- ing trade and commerce and that their presence in Australia would be injurious to the “peace, order and good government of the country.” The government stated that the wives and families of the two men would be allowed to accompany them from Australia. Walsh has been in Austra- Na 33.years, has a wife and seven children; while Johnson has been in Australia for 19 years and had a ‘wife and one child. The, courts were invoked for a writ of habeas corpus demanding re- lease on the ground that deportation ‘was illegal inasmuch as Walsh was a British citizen and a resident of Australia before the federal law came into operation, while Johnson as a naturalized Australian citizen was beyond the jurisdiction of the depor- tation law. —— One Arbitrator Says Another Was Unfair NEW HAVEN, Conn.—(FP)—Con- necticut Co motormen, conductors and bus drivers had an unfair chairman on the arbitration committee which ‘decided that they should not get wage increases. Arbitrator James H. Va- hey charges that chairman Charles Kleiner “was antagonistic to the em- ployes, and, so far as he was con- cerned, the whole case was conduct- ed with the manifest idea of trying to discredit the witnesses who were call- ed in their behalf.” Vahey says in his 14 years’ arbitration experience he has never met a more unsympathe- tic arbitrator than Kleiner. The award leaves wages as they are to June 1, 1926, except for a slight in- crease to one-man'‘car operators. Build the DAILY WORKER. —unnnMnoon NMR z 4 TO WISH E The Daily Worker a Happy BIRTHDAY Come to these ° PARTIES Birthday Party With a Load of Good Fun Wed. Eve., January 13 New party Headquarters, 188% 8. Spring St. Dance and Social Friday, January 15 Labor Lyceum, 463 Broadway, A joint party of the Jewish branches of Chelsea, Revere, Lynn and Winthrop. Admission 50 Cents, San Francisco Workers’ Hall, 226 Valencia St. Banquet Musical Program—Living News- paper Joint celebration of Oakland and Berkeley Sunday, January : 24 I nny Lind Hall, ‘aph Ave, Hungarian Fascisti Try to Block Probe of Horthy Forgery BUDAPEST, Jan, 10—It is reported | that the Hungarian cabinet is consider- ing the arrest of Richard Barta, priv- ate secretary to the regent, Admiral Horthy, the murderous dictator who overthrew the Hungarian Soviet and massacred thousands, Also consider- ed is the arrest of a secretary in Premier Bethlen’s office, both over the gigantic counterfeiting plot of coining French francs to the sum of 30,000,- 000,000. It is officially denied—by the cabin- et—that members of the cabinet are implicated. But there are signs of friction in the cabinet and those identified with Horthy and the fasc- ists are doing all they can to block Premier Bethlen from exposing Horthy, who is said to be deep in the whole plot. FRENCH UNIONS MAKE A UNITED FRONT ON WAGES Get Together on This Despite Split By LEN DE CAUX, PARIS—(FP)—Trade union unity to the extent of drawing up a unified wage demand has been achieved by the organizations of French ra{lway- men, The demand is for a fixed minimum wage of 7,000 francs (1 franc, 4 cents) with a movable scale above that amount varying with the cost of living and based on a present minimum of 740 francs. The reform- ist federation of labor (C. G. T.), the radical federation (C. G. T, U.) and neutral craft unions catering for rail- waymen united in the consultations leading to this joint demand. 150,- 000 union men were represented, The French trade union movement is badly split as there are three na- tional trade union bodies, the C. G. T., the C, G. T. U.and a Federation of Autonomous Unions. Feeling ig bit- ter. Consequently it is quite an achievement that the rival rail unions should have drawn up a common de- mand, even though their co-operation may not go much further. This is the second occasion of Which the rail unions have achieved a temporary united front, the former being the Tours conference ‘when the unions made a common. demand for the re- instatement of railroad workers yic- timized for their activity in the big general railroad strike some years ago. This split in the ranks of French labor is not so serious in a number of industries as it might seem. French unionism is decentralized, and the local is still the most important unit But this does not apply to such in- dustries as the railroads, where na- tional action is imperative, A simi- lar division on a lesser scale arose in Germany owing, to the expulsions of Communist railroadmen who then formed a rival union, but this was healed recently by the readmission of the opposition union into the parent organization, Worker Correspondence will make The DAILY WORKER a better paper —send in a sto~ *hout your shop, THE DAILY .WORKER NEAR 7,000,000 MEMBERS IN THE RUSSIAN UNIONS Larger Than Any One Country of World MOSCOW—(FP)—The 1925 mem- bership figures of the Russian trade unions—6,950,000—represent an in- crease of more than 5,000,000 since October 1918, when the organized workers numbered 1,946,000, and present a remarkable contrast to czarist days when membership. fluc- tuated around 100,000. Over 90% of all hired workers and employes are now organized in the trade unions. The Russian unions are industrial in form, 1,400 local organizations throughout the country being amal- gamated into 23 central organizations, and are based on the factory unit, the union taking in every worker in the factory from watchman to chief en- gineer, The Russian trade union movement is larger by 2,500,000 members than any other trade union movement in Thousand? tadio Men on Strike; British Boats Violate Laws LONDON—(FP)—One hundred and seventy-eight British ships have sailed without radio operators, and others without the full number of operators, since the beginning of the radio strike, according to government fig- ures, This breach of the law, which endangers passengers and crews alike, has been sanctioned by the British board of trade over the protest of the striking marine radio operators and of British labor generally, There are now about 1000 opera- tors on strike against an attempt to cut wages $65.50 a month. The num- ber of strikers increases dally as ships come into port, and secretary Tuck of the radio méi’é union reports that only 11 of tha 760 union men called out have scabbéd. REVIEW. OF 1925, SHOWS CURRENTS OF BIG: CHANGES Capitalism::M Militant, the world. Great Britain comes second with 4,343,000 trade unionists and Germany about 4,200,000. The trade unions of Soviet Russia publish 22 newspapers—6 of them dailies—and 83 magazines. In addition there are 30 trade union bulletins, and a large number of small publications and wall newspapers which are posted up in the factories. Total circulation of the trade union newspapers is 981,275, and of the magazines 907,600. These are in addition to the circula- tion of government, local soviet and Communist party papers. The Russian unions in 1923 publish- ed 300 books, in 1924, 794. Ten per cent of the income of the Russian trade unions is devoted to educational work, Employers are compelled by existing collective agreements to pay about 1% of the payroll into the union cultural-educational fund. Workers clubs are a feature. There is one such club to every 2,000 trade union mem- bers, the majority of the clubs being at the factories, Social insurance rests wholly upon the employers. Some 7,000,000 people are insured against loss of in- come, whether on account of illness, confinement, disability, or unemploy- ment. The social insurance budget this year amounts to $300,000,000. During the summer season of 1925 local sanitariums treated 45,000 peo- ple, while 17,000 persons were sent to health resorts, all at the expense of the social insurance bureaus. Over 70,000 people received treatment at the health resorts at the expense of economic institutions, the trade unions and cooperatives. Cleveland Federation Sends Strike Relief CLEVELAND—(FP)—Local unions dragged Christmas out of Cleveland’s debauch of commercialism when they forwarded large shipments of clothes and food to the striking West Virginia and Ohio coal miners. The Fairmont and Charleston districts received the bulk of the donations, sent by the Cleveland Federation of Labor and affiliated unions. The federation voted $500 for relief work. ‘< A, . August @1 to 30, 1925. party’ ete., ete... Now, DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING co. 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Ill. THREE ata Special Price Form An Arsenal of Facts About the American Communist Movement The Fourth National Convention. RESOLUTIONS—THESES—DECLARATIONS Constitution of the Workers (Communist) Party Adopted at the 4th National Convention, held in Chicago, a Party Organization. Introduction by JAY LOVESTONE, The letter on reorganization from the Communist Inter- national; the reorganization plan on shop nuclei basis; constitution, properly indexed; organizational charts, From the 3rd Through the 4th . Convention. By C. E, RUTHENBERG. A review of the developments of the party, stages it went through, a brief history of the controversies within the party on the Labor Party policy; Trotskyism, Loreism, cable from the Comintern to the National Conven- ALL THREE For 50 Cents the 166 the different wed sanitarium |, Labor Seeks Peace By LELAND oips, F Federated Press. Growth of militant property-consci- ous unity in capitalist ranks and a strong current in labor ranks toward class cooperation are outstanding features of 1925 from the worker's viewpoint. Not only in the United States but with the possible exception of China the world trend has been to the right. Russia is no exception, Pres. Green of the A. F. of L., as the official spokesman of American labor, has consistently developed the cooperate-with-capital Philosophy. Large consolidations of capital are no longer damned by representatives of organized labor, who chiefly denounce any organized effort to impose revolu- tionary ideas on the American trade union movement, The Communist ele- ment serves, as @ foil against which American labor. gan Prove its conserv- atism, The openshop offensive, having suc- cessfully met ths postwar attempt of labor to consolidate gains in the metal industries thro’ organization of iron and steel and haying broken the mili- tancy of the rail unions through the 1921-22 shoperaft lockout, turned its fangs in 1925 inst the United Mine Workers, Abe’ associations, been starving last stronghold of anthracite field. ,, efficiency methods enabled capital to maintain high in@ividual wages and so to prevent general social unrest while dealing with the-unions in separate in- dustries. Redugtions in total wages have been achieyed by laying off work- ers and so cr ing the labor surplus labor necessary, to exert pressure on those employed, Powerful m: anipulation of public opinion by ae controlled press has maintained a litical government completely favd ‘able to the capitalist program. Except for foreign relations and the exercise of police powers the government has gone far toward abdi- cation, So capital has been rapidly consoli- dating its position through trade as- sociations and huge mergers in steel, oil, coal, transportation, power, bread, ete, It has been developing the re- gions where labor is still cheap and unorganized. It has been perfecting its paternalism through company un- ions, group insurance, employee, stock ownership, and numberless other ex- periments in attaching workers to their industry, Ithas been extending its empire throigh manipulation of the country’s ereditor position to se- cure the private(investment of over a billion dollarsea year abroad. This involves a change in the nature of society. It hasdts counterparts and its reaction, in other continents. Am- erican labor should watch Italy in which class cooperation is becoming the structurer of government, England where! a striking de- monstration of the united labor front is being followed by deliberations trending toward, class cooperation, China in whieh:the workers revolt against foreign exploitation is an in- tegral part of the movement for na- tional independence, ‘ The salient developments of 1925 should enable American labor to un- derstand its plage“in history. It may announce its determination to seek nothing beyond wages and conditions, But its new wage policy based on co- operation with capital is none the less part of a worldwide social revolution. Not whether it wants a new social order but what role to play in it is the question which must determine labor policy and tactics, Amalgamation of the Craft Unions Going Forward in England LONDON—(FP)—The London So: ciety of Machiné’ Rulers has amalga- mated with the’ National Union of Printing, Bookbinding, Machine Rul- ing & Paper Workers, effective Jan. 1, 1926. 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