The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 13, 1926, Page 4

Page ar th rvhracite miners something very near Page Four TR ¢ E DAILY WORKER LEWIS URGES B. & 0. PLAN (Continued from page 1) on lis message to the state legisla- ture, said that “it was a splendid mes- sage.” T an odd point of view INERS to be expressed by the Central Trades and Labor Council, for they must have message to the state legislature, Gov. Smith made grand promises to labor, all of which were killed when they Game up for action, Another delegate who stated that he is the organizer of a tenants’ organization in the Bronx, said that the lieutenant governor of New York, in a statement to the press, has accused Governor Smith of Proposes Joint Body for Co-operation (Special to The Dally Worker) NEW YORK CITY, Jan, 11.— The official statement Issued by the joint} joaning towards socialism. “If that is conference of anthracite operators) socialism, let us have it,” was the and heads of the United Mine Work-! way he put it. ers’ Union gives the plan offered by the union as a “revised Markle plan,” a plan comparable to the “B. and 0.” plan in the machinists, is the course of the statement quoted as follows: “The miners offered what they de- signated as a revised Markle plan, the principal provisions of which are: Five-Year Contract. “An agreement for five years, which could be changed by a board created When Delegate Ryan's resolution on the telephone trust was on the floor, Abraham Lefkowitz, of the Teacher: Union, made a speech in which he in- dignantly attacked the telephone com- pany, claiming the public was not get- ting a “square deal.” “We must have protect the telephone users. The pub- lic must take over the telephones id Lefkowitz, ‘just as they have tak- under the plan. en over other public utilities. We “A board to be established consist-| must wipe out privsee ownership of ing of two miners, two operators and | public utilities.” He did not mention | three representatives to be selected | what public utilities, the “public” has by ex-Justice Charles Evans Hughes. taken over. “The board to investigate and de- Waldren replied that to him, they called to the attention of the delegates the fact that many scab building trades workers and mechanics are em- ployed on city jobs. He said +that or- ig Bethe, ganized labor had fared badly under “The board to investigate, deter- | the Eee ep nrg sy having mine and recommend means of avoid-| "eat deal of trouble, also ing suspensions of mining, and for assuring the public an uninterrupted supply of coal. “The board to investigate and re- commend methods for increasing effi- ciency and reducing the cost of oper- ation. H A Machine For Efficiency. “A joint commission consisting of one miner, one operator and the con- ciliator to be created in each dis- trict to strive for greater co-opera- tion, harmony and efficiency in the industry, this commission to have the support and co-operation of op- erators, district organizations and the international union. “The check-off to be limited to $14 @ year. “The board of conciliation to equal- ize wages as provided in the agree- ment of 1923, and to handle matters in relation to conditions.” Close observers said that this plan has seemingly overcome objection of the operators, altho they might play at opposition to avoid suspicion of complicity with the Lewis machine which, in this plan, has given the an- | termine whether the operators can | reasonably pay a wage increase, if} the board determines on a wage in- crease it shall be retroactive, a that he now, with Walker as mayor. Scabs or Non-union? President Sullivan asked him if he meant scabs, as he stated, or did he mean non-union men. Waldren replied that to him, tgey are both the same. Lefkowitz introduced; a motion, which was passed, to write Mayor (Continued from page 1) the plant. It is impossible to go from one department to another. Spy System. The company not only maintains a has a spy system with an army of stools, who aid the spies. The spies, as a rule, are stuck into a department as “relief hands.” They are able to move about freely in this role, as they take the places of workers, who, leave the strain placed upon them, by the the infamous “B. and O.” plan inflict- ed upon the machinists’ union by William H. Johnston. and go into a “fit.” These spies move about freely with- out being molested and they talk to ty. SRM the different workers. They pump Foreign Exchange. the workers next to them trying to NEW YORK, Jan. 11.—Great Brit-| find out what these workers think ain, pound sterling. demand 4.84%; |}about unionism and working class or- cable 4.85%. France, franc, demand | ganizations. Any worker who is sus- 3.81%; cable 3.82. Belgium, franc, de-| pected of being “tainted” with union- mand 4.53; cable 4.531%. Italy, lira,|/ism is “shadowed” by the detective. demand 4.03 cable 4.04. Sweden,| pretexts are found to transfer the krone, demand 26.74; cable 26.77.| worker that may be working next to Norway, krone, demand 20.35; cable) the “tainted” one and the dick place 20.37. Denmark, krone, demand 24.88; | in his place. cable 24.90. Shanghai, taels, demand} The spy 78.00. then tries to lead the |“tainted” one on and if the worker admits membership in a union, he is If you want to thoroughly un-| called to one side at the end of the dei'stand Commnnisw--study it. | day’s work and told that work is IN PHILADELPHIA! You Are Invited to Attend the First Annual Labor Defense Ball Arranged by International Labor Defense, Local Philadelphia Friday Evening, January 15, 1926 MOOSE HALL, Broad and Master Streets. ADMISSION 40 CENTS. WARDROBE 35 CENTS. Union Orchestra—Dancing Until 1 A. M, Join the Release and Defend Our Class War Prisoners! International Labor Defense! Among the Splendid Features in the January Issue of the Workers Monthly - Company Unionism and Trade Unioniem....By Wm. Z. Foster Why a Labor Party?. «By JoHN Pepper - Do Workers Pay Taves? ..By Max Bepacut Build for the Third Year... «By J. Lours Encpann Beonomics of Class Vollaboration........By Berrram D., Woire BEGINNING A series of articles on “Political Parties in America”—the first The Democratic Party. BY H, M. Wiexs Good Reason to Subscribe! THE WORKERS MONTHLY $2.00 a Year $1.25 Six Months legislation passed to | knows that labor will have no trouble | Armour “Yards” Look Like Jail | uniformed police system, but it also! for the toilets or who, unable to stand | speed-up system become. over-heated | 1118 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago, Ilinois INE isitssctichnchaiiei Saltonstall Labor Heads Praise Tammany Hall Walker, asking him to appoint union |men and women on the new board of education, which he will soon select. Non-partisan Politics. A ommunication from William Green, president of the American Fed- Jeration of Labor, advising organized | labor of the fact that-33 United States senators, as well as 435 members of the house of representatives, will. be elected in November, 1 therefore, meetings should be arranged by the } non-partisan political committee of the American Federation of Labor, to prepare for the election of representa- | tives who are fair to labor. Also, that |the records of all candidates be sent |to the national non-partisan political committee, which is located in Wash- j ington, D, C. | | | | Praises Calles. A speaker, by the name of Kelly, | was introduced as a viSiting unionist |from Mexico, He stated that the Mexi- co City Labor Council's constitution | was copied from the New York's Cen- trale Trades and Labor Council, The only difference being that the name Mexico City, was inserted in the place | of New York, He first criticized the, C. T. and L. C. and in the next breath congratulat- ed it for its work. He praised Presi- |he is the first labor president in the | history of the world. He said that |the accomplishments of the Calles} | government included the returning to| | private ownership of the government | | owned railroads, also that no land has |been confiscated by ‘the government, jexcept that which could not show a | clear title. | Militants Needed. | | The type of meetings that the Cen-| |tral Trades and Labor Council is now | conducting shows an utter lack of | militancy; kowtowing to Tammany | | Kall politicians and the passing of |motions and resolutions of praise to jthem., A group of live wire progres- |sives and left wingers ought to come | and wake up that sleeping assembly. “slack” and that he is “laid off.” No | matter how long the worker may show | | up he is never put on again. He is on the packer’s blacklist. | Foster Hatred. As most of the workers in the Chi- cago plant of Armours are Negroes, they also maintain many Negro spies, | who do all they can to weed out the | | intelligent and class conscious Negro workers. Not only do they weed out ; union men, but they also spread race | | hatred among the workers. | The Negro spy and the white spy | try to create as much distrust as pos- | sible among the workers, knowing | that a house divided against itself will fall. They know that if the Negro workers and the white workers dis- | trust each other that no union will ever be successful in organizing the | the race hatred played to the greatest possible degree, but such phrases as that “God damned Lugen” has killed “this job,” referring to the Lithuanian } and that “God damned Polack is the | cause of all these rotten things here,” | in talking to the Lithuanian about the Pole. If a foreign-born worker says some- thing about the rotten conditions, he is immediately told “go on back to the old country where you belong” and in this way work up the antagonism of the American-born or naturalized | worker against the worker, who was born in a foreign country. ° When the race and nationality te | sue cannot be played successfully, ar- guments on religion are started, and catholic damns protestant, protestant damns catholic and so with the other sects. They get ‘the workers fight- ing over which of the opium peddlers in the church have got the shortest route to heaven, where every wish is fulfilled, and the route that leads far- thest away from hell where the | preachers cry human souls will sizzle in the same way that hog’s fat sizzles in the lard vats. The non-believer is played against the believer on whether there is such an animal as heaven and where it is located. These spies most often work on one worker at a time rousing his anger against the one next to him, spreading rumors that are groundless, ete., in an effort to antagonize one against another, The article in tomorrow's DAILY WORKER will deal with the speed- up system that is now practiced in different departments in the stock- yards. DETROIT ‘RESCUE PARTY’ 1$ ALL "ROUND SUCCESS DETROIT, Mich,, Jan, 11 — Under the auspices of the former Russian, Ukrainian and Polish branches of the Workers Party, Section 6, gave an affair on Christmas for The DAILY WORKER, The preparations for this || affair were very extensive and hand- led exceptionally efficient. This was the first affair given by Detroit since the reorganization and netted a total of $325.00. This speaks well for the success of this affair, is \) | enormous hall {o the Workers Party | bly, 318 Grand street, Brooklyn; Man- | the bearer to admis Jon to any one of | anian speaker. | ers mentioned a | workers in that industry. Not only is | when speaking to the Polish worker, flitical FOUR HALLS TO HOLD NEW YORK MEMORIAL MEET Thousands to Review Life of Lenin NEW YORK CITY, Jan. 11. Jay Lovestone, Ben Gitlow, M. J. Olgin, Charles Krumbein, William W. Wein- stone, and other speakers of note, will address four or more monster mass meetings in the city of New York during a single afternoon, the after- noon of Sunday, January 24. All of these speakers will speak at each of the meetings and additional halls are reservéd for the inevitable overflow meetings that can be ex- | pected. The occasion is the second anniver- sary of the death of Lenin and it will be remembered that on the two previ- ous occasions, Madison Square Gar- den was packed‘ to overflow by the workers who came’ together to pledge themselves to carry on the work of | the dead leader ‘of the world’s work- jing class. Legion at Work, Thi o a as | jdent Calles to the sky, stating that! This year, the American Legion has | attempted to prevent the big annual demonstration that the Workers Party of New York and the working class make of their loyalty to Leninism and their determination to carry on his work, and the league thot it had succeeded when it managed to get Madison Square Garden to refuse its for this occasion, The net result will be the spreading of the demonstra- tion to every corner of the city. Already four large halls have been engaged and negotiations are in prog- ress for more. These halls are: The Central Opera House, 67 St. and Third avenue; New Star Casino, 107 St. and Park avenue; Miller's Grand Assem- hattan Lyceum, 66 East 4th St. Language Spéakers, Too, Tickets are on sale all over the city at 50 cents each, Thgse tickets entitle the halls already. ¢figaged or to ad- ditional halls. Some, of the halls will have speakers in forgign languages in addition to the; §pe®kers’ mentioned above. For example Manhattan Ly- ceum will have a speaker in Ukrainian and Miller's Gray ssembly a Lithu- all of the speak- e will address all of the meetings. Tonight at eight, Chicago workers will hear the sedand.of a series of po- discussion meetings on the great leader Leningay 3201 S. Wabash avenue. i H. M. Wicks, editorial and feature+ writer of The DAILY- WORKER, and Communist teacher in the Chicago District School, will lead the discus- sion. ‘ |continuation of class from _ first ;mester. UNION MINERS WINKING FIGHT TO UNIONIZE ALL MINES IN SOUTHERN IND, EVANSVILLE, Ind, Jan. 11, — Union miners planned today to hold another huge mass meeting at Boonville, next. Sunday to continue their efforts to unionize all mines in southern Indiana. Arrangements were made at a meeting yesterda: to feed the approximately 800 m, who left their posts and joined union ranks during the last we, CHIGAGO PARTY SCHOOL MAKING GOOD ADVANGE Many New Courses for Second Semester By ARNE SWABECK, Two hundred and forty-two enroll- jments were the total for the Chicago |Party School first semester which is now almost completed, with 72 enroll- ments for the District Circuit held in Milwaukee, Gary and South Bend. While actual attendance in every in- stance fell short of the enrollments and several changes of instructors be- came unavoidable, many students will today testify to the fact that some real educational advances have been re- corded. The complete schedule for the sec- ond semester has now been completed. Comrade Carlson’s place as school sec- retary and instructor, who had to re- sign due to illness, has been filled by Wm. Simons, formerly district or- ganizer in Boston and Connecticut. The new secretary, however, is an old- timer in the Chicago movement and well versed in educational activities. New Courses. Several new courses are being added to the Chicago school’s second semes- ter which begins Feb. 1 while most of the courses already’ started con- tinue further. Complete details of all the classes, time and place, instruc- tor and outline of courses’ will be pub- lished in a subsequent issue. The following courses are scheduled: Capita} from first semester and one additional class in the same subject. Imperialism, continuation of class from first’ semester. Elements of Communism, continua- tion of the two classes from first se- mester and one new. American Social and Labor History, se New Courses. History of the Three Internationals, iW Course. distorical Materialism. new course. Trade Union Organization and Tac- tics, new course, Workers’ Journalism, continuation of class for workers’ correspondent from first semester. Research, continuation of from first semester. Aims and Purpose of the Y. W. L., new course. History of International Revolution- ary Youth, continuation of class from first semester. English, continuation of old and new classes. class To this meeting in Section No, 3, of the Workers (Communist) Party tho the attendance of the Communist membership is obligatory, other work- ers are invited. Tonight's meeting on Lenin, his life and his contribution to the revolution- ary movement, like other lectures in the series, is specific in its applica- tion of the theoties of Lenin to the world situation. Each member and visitor present, will receive a folder outlining not only the lecture delivered, but also sugges- tions for @ course of reading on the subject. The lecture Lenin, given during January to various Sections in the city are a part of the'Gommunist drive ar- ranged by the Chicago agitprop de- This Week Rosa Raisa and Mary Garden Sing in Their Best Roles Beginning with tonight the follow- ing opdras will be given at the Chicago Civic Opera at the Auditorium Thea- ter: Tuesday evening, the opera that most thoroly radiates happiness and the humor of life, “The Barber of Seville,” will be given, The cast in- cludes Macbeth, Pavloska, Schipa, Rimini, Trevisan; conductor Moran- zoni, Wednesday evening will mark the last presentation of “Falstaff.” When last announced on the program, it quickly sold out the entire house, but partment to popilarige the principles of the great leader and to strengthen their application, Administration, Not Text, of New Mexican owing to the illness at that time of Giacomo Rimini, the opera was with- drawn, The same cast that has made this opera so well liked in the past will again be heard on this occasion— Raisa, Mason, Pavioska, Claessens, Hackett, Rimini, Steel, and Lazzari. Land Law Guides U. S, | Polacco will conduct. Thursday evening, “Louise” will “MEXICO CITY, Jan. 11—Adminis- |*%" bring forth Mary Garden in one tration of the new alien property law, rather than the text of the law, will determine the policy of the United States, it was learned today. Ambas- sador Sheffield retutned today from a week-end trip and resumed his infor- mal conversations, supplementing the formal notes of protest against the law which have been presented by the United States, The controversy can not develop for @ year yet, inasmuch as a full year is allowed property holders to renounce their foreign citizenship. President Calles is understood to be working up- on regulations for the administration of the law, which are expected to am- eliorate the law to a certain extent. Two Firemen Injured. NEW YORK, Jan. 11,—Two firemen were lujured, 100,000 tons of soft coal of her most famous interpretations. This revival will bring out in the sup-|_ porting cast Claessens, Ansseau and Baklanoff; conductor, Polacco, 1, L. D. Dance in Irving Park. If you are looking for # place to go where you can have a good time on Saturday evening, Jan. 16, then wend your way to 4021 Drake avenue. Home- made refreshments and good drinks will be there a-plenty! An attractive program has been arranged. A good orchestra for dancing. Almost slipped my mind—this social and dance is given by the Irving Park branch of the International Labor Defense. Admis- sion is only 25 cents. So come on over for some fun. Preacher Favors Killing. MINNEAPOLIS, Jan. 11. — Capital punishment was urged from the pul- Section 6 of the Workers Party of | consumed, and other damage wrought | pit as a crime deterrent by Rey, Will- for a total estimated damage of $250,-| iam B, Riley, pastor of the first bap- 000 in a fire which destroyed an As-|tist church, discussing the state's torla coal yard, crime wave, Vol 1., continuation of class | UST as we are interested and Mearn thru an exchange of activi- ties and experiences between one sec- [tion of the country and another, s0 it is true to @arger extent and with richer experience, betwen one coun- try and another in our International. Especially are the young workers of each country interested in the lives and activities of ‘the Russian Young Communists, where they already em- body nearly two million of the Russian youth. *: Towards this end the Young Com- munist International is encouraging the exchange of correspondence. be- tween shop ‘nuclei of the , Russian League and the shop nuclei of Ameri- ca. Probably no country in the world creates the same interest and en- thusiasm as America. The Young Communists of Russia have heard and tread of the American technique of in- dustry, of the productive capacity of America’s factories. They strive to learn from the methods of American industrial development so as to im- prove the economy of the Workers’ Republic. At the’ same time, they inquire anxi- ously as to the activities and develop- ment of the American Young Com- munist League. What better method of acquainting our Russian comrades with the condition under which the | working class of America live and of the activities of our American League than thru a systematic international correspondence, Such correspondence has been at- tempted in the pa&t, but has been sporadic and not systemized. The Y. C. I. has now connected a series of districts (gubernia’s) of the Russian |Leninist Young Communist League to respective districts in our American |League. These will. exchange regu- lar.correspondence as districts and at the same time inaugurate a simi- lar regular correspondence with nu- clei in each of these districts. he district connections as outlin- ed by the Y. C. I. are as follows: Boston—Kostroma. | New York—Kharkoy. | JPhiladelphia—Kursk, Detroit—Siberia. Chicago—Sokolniki district of Mos- cow. Minneapolis—Pensa. Superior—Kaluga. “€alifornia—Baku. Other connections with the remain- ing + districts will be made ~shortly. This gives an immediate duty to the comradesin éach of these districts to fulfill to our Russian comrades, Al- ready they have taken the initiative and the Kaluga Gybernia has sent | their first correspondence to the .De- troif.D. BE. C. A large nucleus in the ‘Kharkov district has sent. their first letter toa nucleus in. the New York district and the Yakhromsky Textile factory, located outside of Moscow, hvaing heard of the activi- WORKED DUNG WORKERS LEAGUE e Meaning of Interna- ‘ tional Correspondence Pitts- nuclei in burgh, desire to be connected with them and have ‘sent their first letter. ties of one of our The D. E. C. should immediately take up this taks and assign certain comrades for this work. The letters written to the Russian comrades should not be formal reports, but just a reflection of the life of the ng workers in your factory and th® ac- tivities of our nucleus. cd Let us quote a few unger one of the letters of the Russian comrades: “On behalf of 250 Young Communists working® at the Yakhromsky Cotton Mills, we send out fraternal greet- ings.... Now we will tell you how things are here with us. The working day for juveniles under 16 years is four hours. Up to 18 years, six hours and over 18 years, eight hours. In 1922 factory and workshop apprentice- ship schools were instituted. . . . We already see the results; this year 20 skilled weavers, charge hands ete., have passed out of our factory sohdol. . . . In the ¥. O. L or ganization itself, deep-rooted changes have taken place, namely: Formerly, we had a, what we called, the basic system, that is, everyone came under the nucleus bureau and secretary. But as the secretary and the nucleus bureau could not get in touch with all the youth in an equal manner, this hindered our work. Therefore we reorganized and now we are organiz- ed on the shop system—a nucleus im each shop, spinning, management and weaving.” . We could go on quoting at great length from each one of these letters. Such interesting information will be given to each of our D. E. C.’s, and even to each nucleus if we efficiently organize our international correspond- ence. This must be centered thru the N. E. C., who will send all letters and receive all such correspondence. This will insure safe delivery and regu- larity. Let us build .up an international net work of correspondence with the Russian League. sage John Williamson. TO THE WORKER AND PEASANT YOUTH,OF THE WHOLE WORLD! FEW weeks ago we called you to raise your voice against the bloody deeds of the Tsankoff Gov- ernment in Bulgaria,, which forces thousands. of young workers and peasants tc pine away in prison and which has condemned almost a hun- dred youths to death. Now the blood of thousands of murdered’ Roumanian peasants and workers cries out for satistaction. Already for four years the Roumanian Government has been carrying on its murderous handiwork. The rule of the Roumanian bourge- oisie is built up upon prisons and mountains of dead bodies, Recent bourgeois press reports in- dicate that the reign of terror gges*on without end. Thus, in December 1924, 400 youths were arrested and frightfully tor- mented in the torture chambers of the Siguranza, as the Roumanian secret police’ is called. In June of last year youths received sentences of up to ten years imprisonment in numerous trials. In connection with the IT Interna- tional Youth Day, September 1925, three were again 150 young workers and peasants arrested and turned over ‘to the court martial. In the Kischenev trial against the febellious peasants of Tartar Bunar 85 peasants, among them very many youths, received sentences of up to fifteen years of hard labor. But this was not yet enough. In the last ‘weeks once more hundreds of youths were thrown into prison and submitted to every imaginable torture method in order to extort confessions from them. But our courageous and heroic brothers, despite worst tortures and death menace will never betray the proletarian youth movement, Af- ter the heroic death by starvation of MaxyGoldstein, there follows also the young soldier Comrade Crecca, con- demned to five years imprisonment, who is already 45 days on hunger strike. With three cheers for the prole- tarian revolution our brothers go to meet their death Brothers Comrades! Do not tolerate for another day the assassination of the young workers and peasants in Roumania. Demon- strate against the Roumanian reign of terror. Down with the oligarchic government! Demand the liberation of the imprisoned young and adult workers! Executive Committee of the Young Communist International. Balkan Federation of the Communist Youth International. Moscow, December 5th 1925.