The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 13, 1926, Page 6

if ata Page Six THE DAILY WORKER Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, I. Phone Monroe 4712 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mall (in Chicago only): By mall (outside of Chicago): $8.00 per year $4.50 six months | $6.00 per year $3.50 six months $2.50 three months $2.00 three months Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 1118 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Iilinele $e J, LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F, DUNNE MORITZ J. LOEB. Entered as second-class mail September 21, 1923, at the post-office at Chi- cago, Iil., under the act of March 3, 1879. Advertising rates on application. Call Out the Maintenance Men The general grievance committee of district one, United Mine Workers of America, meeting at Wilkesbarre, Pa., Sunday, adopted resolutions, that if put into effect will bring a speedy termination to the anthracite strike. These resolutions demand that the tri- district scale committee be urged to call a general strike ‘in the an- thracite, which would result in the maintenance men deserting the mines “in order to wage our struggle effectively and to bring our fight to a quick, successful termination,” and reaffirm the determination of the strikers “to reject absolutely the operators’ proposal for ar- bitration.” Here we see the real sentiment of,the rank and file of the organ- ization. ‘The general grievance committee, composed of elected rep- resentatives from the local unions, reflects the sentiment of the membership. Thru the terror of Cappellini and his henchmen in the strike region the immediate representatives of the strikers have been prevented from voicing their demands. At the outset of the*strike it was plain that the one effective way to terminate the struggle was to bring out the maintenance men who were not merely keeping water out of the mines, but were im- ccc ae antane sasneoenvenvsscerneneee Business Manager > 390 proving the timbering and placing the property of the employers in | city council (Clancy, Wenzel, and Me-| better condition than before so scabs may more easily carry on pro-|Glogan) and Scott for re-election as) duction. The Workers (Communist) Party has many members in the ranks of the strikers and from the first day of the conflict we urged withdrawal of the maintenance men from the mines, thereby aiming to make the strike general and force the capitulation of the anthracite combine. While John L. Lewis and other leaders have been conducting gentlemanly conferences with the agents of the coal barons in various cities and resorts far removed from the struggle in the an- thracite, the rank and file of the strikers have faced the grim realities of a winter in the trenches against a formidable enemy. At first, when the Communists raised the slogans that are today the battle-ory of the stfikers, it was possible for Cappellini and his agents, acting as police spies for the operators, to jail the leaders of the rank and file. But the seed sown by our comrades on the fertile-soil of the class conflict has sprouted and will soon be ready for the harvest. The resolutions at Wilkesbarre do not signify the end ‘df the fight, but only the second stage. The task now before the general grievance board is to carry the demands into every section of the anthracite and, in spite of Cappellini and the police and kept jtldges of Scranton and the whole valley district, bring out the mainten- ance men. 4 The anthracite struggle is not, as Lewis & Co. would have us believe, a gentlemanly discussion with equals, but a grim struggle in whieh the victory goes to the side having the most power. The miners have the advantage in numbers; they have the potential power. The one thing required is to use that power without ‘stint and beat the mine barons to their knees. Get the maintenance men out of the mines! Force the employers to deal with the miners in the anthracite, instead of sitting at conference tables conferring with Lewis as to the best terms on which the rank and file will be driven back into the mines. Make the strike general and this struggle will speedily terminate with victory for the st _Labor Fakers Crawl Before Tammany The unprincipled traitors to labor, who dominate the Central Labor Council of New York City, have again shamelessly displayed their teuckling to the exploiters of labor by endorsing Governor Simith’s message to the state legislature of New York. Smith -is the big chief of Tammany Hall, and Tammany is the lowest, the most corrupt and debased nest of political graft in the States, if not in the whole world. Ordinary crooked polit- themselves besmirched if they are accused of being tmman) oliicialdor lias no h scruples. Woliticians of the most degraded type, they exist as leeches upon the labor movement and are thankful for the fruits of venality that nany throws in their direction. They are directly allied-with the cap tha way butterf italist class thru the medium of Tammany n Mayor Jimmy Walker (a male Broad- y) want to pose as friends of labor they get their hench- in the Central Labor Council or in the New York labor banks » a public statement endorsing Tammany, These same labor nis of capitalism conveniently ignore the -anti-labor -acts such as his hurling state cossacks against strikers as ve the steel strike of 1919 at Lackawanna, New York. » politicians debauching the ranks of labor itation, because a labor party would force them udon their support of the old parties or stand exposed in thei This fact should cause the class conscious workers to strive ever more determinidely for a labor party. nd when Goy, wen resent labor party v either to i true colors, Pilsudski, erstwhile socialist, premeir of Poland, and general allaround lackey for French imperialism, is heading a movement io eveate a fascist dictatorship in Poland. To “divert him from that purpose” the proposal is made that he be put to work in eommand of the arthy. The Poles have a queer sense of humor and historical per ive if they think they ean arrest fascism by making the chief fascist head of the army. Englind’s domination of the league of nations is being utilized to the limit. ‘The latest move is to remove Herr Van Ghyn, a Hol- lander, acting under the direetion of the league of nations as con- trotler of the Austrian National Bank, and replace him with a Brit isher named Charles Robert Kay, of the.Bank of England. We wonder if the senators and congressmen boosting the world court will have to pay income taxes -on-their share of the Bok slush fund. ~ of the Central. Labor Council of. New York | (Continued from page 1.) by the labor candidates, completely disregarded the executive committee elected in the labor convention and }ran the campaign entirely under their direction, Cast Iron Machine. | The campaign was financed and con- | trolled by them evén to the extent of barring bonafide labor speakers from participating. In the state campaign that followed the headquarters were completely financed by this gang. | Both the state candidates and the La- | Follette forces permitted the O'’Con- jnor machine to run their campaign in | St. Paul, | These things have aroused great |resentment among local workers. If the pre-convention statements of left- | wingers can be taken at their face |value, this rotten situation will be |cleaned tip even if they have to file |an opposition ticket to that put for- ward by this anti-labor crowd. | Maneuvers by O'Connor, The fight presents itself to the con- | vention in-a rather novel form, Labor jat present has two “representatives” in the cify council in the persons of Clancy and Wenzel. The city comp- troller, Scott, and the ,city clerk, Mc- Glogan are also supposed to represent {the workers. All of these, however, are said to be associated with the O'Connor gang working within the |labor movement. Their actions in the |city government as well as the atti- tude of the O'Connor elements to- wards them certainly gives color to the charge. In this convention, the extreme |right wing proposes that labor shall }nominate three candidates for the comptroller. By this maneuver O’Con- THE DAILY WORKER nor can satisfy the other elements that go to make up his politica ma- chine by giving them the mayor and three councilmen whieh constitutes a majority of the council. Mahoney’s Position, In opposition to this complete sell out are two groups. The first, a small group led by Mahoney expresses their opposition as~ follows: “A ticket without a head will mean a scramble of individuals for political jobs, and that sort of thing has no appeal to the thousands of yoters who have built up the present fine. political move- ment. We are willing to give those who favor “trading with the enemy” credit for sincerity but we do think they are deceived and. misguitied. They are stabbing the ‘great political movement of labor in the back by ad- vocating the surrender of the advanc- ed position conquered.” (Editorial by ‘Wm. Mahoney in the Minnesota Union Advocate). a In the*same editorial he says, “If the labor political movement of St. Paul fails to indorse candidates for mayor, comptroller, and.at least three councilmen—it will: have abandoned j the advanced ground it has secured |by years of labor——” (emphasis | mine—C. A. H.) The Mahoney grou: | demands a candi | it this is granted | forces they will | the lett wing.” fis not granted | Mahoney, at least, il unite with the | right wing as he did in the last city | campaign and in the LaFollette cam- paign. The very nature of this group | makes it impossible for them at this | time to, unite with the left in a real | working class fight in this election. The Growing Left Wing. Opposed to both the right wing and | to Mahoneys’ wishy-washy policies is ‘therefore, only “for mayor and ‘the O'Connor in opposition to _ Minnesota Labor in Politics ” RE a growing left wing movement, /Mhis left wing lacks clarity and is spffer- ing from the theory that “let the: actionaries. go and they will eveytu- ally hang themselves.” The Commu! ists are working with this group and are urging them forward to make' a real fight in this convention and in the campaign, They are pointing out that this gang will not “destroy itself” but will only be destroyed by the growing number of class conscious workers organizing a block against them, There is an apparent stiffening in the ranks of the left wing forces that speaks well for @ fight. They are put- ting forth demands for a campagin based on a clear cut labor party, with a full labor ticket, a working class platform, and a clean break with the O'Connor machine, No More O'Connor Deals. The temper of the workers in St. Paul is against any more O’Connor campaigns. Any efforts engineered by Starkey and Mahoney to again try to lead the workers into any such alli- ange is sure to lead to an independent labor ticket and to their political death as labor political leaders. The 12,000 votes polled by J. F. Emme in the last congressional election in opposition to their attempt to lead the workers back into the republican party is still fresh in the workers’ minds, These votes were obtained with Emme run- ning openly as a Communist. With an independent ticket supported by the entire left wing the strength shown would make talk of alliances impossible in the future. This fight in St. Paul will be watched by the entire state move- ment. The defeat of the right wing will clear the boards for the calling of a state convention at which a real labor party can be formed. | (Continued from page 1). {York than a labor leader) he began jto deliver his speech declaring that |the workers must be paid high wages and that the American manufacturers could easily compete with those of for- eign lands, not by cutting wages, but | by paying high wages and “eliminat- |ing waste” and “improving the effi- |ciency” of the workers. His entire speech sounded like one made by Cal- vin Coolidge. This speech of his, in which he calls upon the employers “for a square deal” was carried over the radio and ‘undoubtedly, many of the “elite” listened with great approval as Green, under the guise of speaking jfor high wages tried to sell the speed- up system to the workers. In order to abolish over-production and all the other economic evils of capitalist society—his solution was— higher wages, decrease waste and in- crease the efficiency—a pleasant name for speed-up of the workers. Dodges Issue. Following his talk the floor was opened for questions. Every question which required a serious answer and a statement of policy was always put aside and dodged by the president of American Federation of Labor with his wise crack: “If you had read the official minutes of the Atlantic City convention you would know.” “Grappling! Grappling! Grappling! A number of workers asked Green what his program for solving unem- ployment was. Green had made much of unemployment, painting its mi- series to the assembled audience, most of whom were well-to-do liberals, and had stated that the question could be easily solved and was solvable. | When the workers present asked the Green Tries to Sell Speed-up | question he would assume a dramatic | He did all he could to dodge the issue ‘pose on the platform and state that! and then with a brightening smile, de- | he was “grapplingjigrappling, grappl-| ing” with the problém:and that as yet | he was not ready t@ give his oracular | advice, te Fears Labor Party. Another workef’ ‘asked what was Green’s stand on the labor party and was not the formation of such a party necessary in Amerfa. Green, a little flushed, declared,"™¥f "you had read the official proceediiigs of the Ameri- can Federation of'{abor convention, you would know wiftt my answer on | that question was'thfihe Russian emis- sary, Purcell.” ‘IF A working-fart {the meeting to the labor movemef the farmers in this tar the labor mov the farmers was“@lso told! that the | “honorable” presid@nt of the Ameri- can Federation of Gabor was “grappl ing, grappling, grAppling” with the problem and that | sympathies of thi tho had come to ‘Something about id its relation to ountry and how nt would go with , Organized labor movement.” Dodges Ffice Issue. A Negro work’ who was seated | Il rose and asked | the question: “In, Chicago we have twenty of thirty groes that want to join the pluni union. The plumbers’ union will not accept them. What shall these Negro plumbers do, stay unorganized and wait to be or- ganized?” To this question Green hemmed and hawed and then declared that the American Federation of La- bor did take them in and that they were the best fighters in the United | Mine Workers. He spoke of the Ne- groes being admitted to many unions but was only able to mention a few. clared that there were autonomous bodies in the American Federation of Labor and that he could, not force them to admit Negroes if they barred them. He dodged the question of the local problem by saying, “I am not acquainted with the situation here.” Mussolini Could Do No Better. Many workers in the audience tried to get the floor, but the chairman re- fused to recognize many of the work- ers—tho he had started the meeting declaring that these forums were “for free and open discussion.” All at- tempts were made to keep questions of a working class nature from the floor. “To Hell With The Radio.” As the active trades unionists left the hall and gathered outside of the hall, discussing what the president had said, many of them remarked that “he was a dude” and some asked each other if that was really Green’s meet- ‘6 farmer “had the | ‘8 Or a meeting of the Rotary, cham- ber of commerce, or Kiwanis clubs? A number were heard to remark “If that’s the kind of junk they're going to peddle over.the radio, the federa- tion wants to buy, to hell with the radio station.” Crowd Escapes Burning Building, WASHINGTON, Ind. Jan. | 11.— While fire was destroying the build- ing, 500 persons marched calmly from the theater in whicl/ they were watch- img a performance. Four other build- ings also were destroyed. Total es- timated loss $100,000. Put a copy of the DAILY WORKER in your pocket when you go to your union meeting. | | 1 ‘ 4 KARL LIEBKNECHT, Fe eM |QN=s mood becomes depressed, By MORRIS BACKALL. Shs seen the Aedon Hotel, in Berlin where the two revolutionary lead- ers were assassinated. Dumb stands that aristocratic structure, casting en- fearing shadows on those who pass it by. I look at it and feel as if the very stones would cry out of the agony the two noble-heroic rebels. suf- fered before they breathed out their last, r On one of the days during which the revolutionary world honors the memory of Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg, I went to pay homage to their graves, , r Friedrick's field is an old cemetery with lofty trees, thru the barren branches of which played a soft wind that broke thru the thickly overhang- ing clouds. Human faces draped in black are here and there. White flowers hang over graves. A lot of flowers are there, flowers not all liv- ing but they create atmosphere. Ashphalt byways lead on and on. Here in a corner, at the @id of the fence are rows of graves hemmed in by young trees: These are the 38 graves of the fal- len heroes of the Spartacan uprising in 1919, It is they who dyed our strug- gle with their own blood. In three rows is the little cemetery in a ceme- tary laid out. Two rows of 13 martyrs and one of twelve. In the center, a bit separated are the hillocks under which le Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg. On the grave of the first lies a placard of the Italian comrades “We honor the memory of the mar- tyrs of the revolution.” casting his eyes from grave, unknown names; sile: ATAY AMA, JAPANESE COMMUNIST, GREETS “DAILY’S” SECOND YEAR HE mission of The DAILY WORKER is a difficult but very Im- portant one. It is very difficult because the organized American ..workers are yet.in a backward state owing to the ultra conservative character of the American Federation of Labor. Under Gompers It has been misguiding and misleading the American workers in the past and now Green follows the footsteps of Gompers, The DAILY WORKER has been successful in carrying out its mission by daily fight and attack on the conservative leadership gang the Wall Street magnates! The English imperialism In. Chinal lution. works In the past. successfully, having The DAILY WORKER to interest! Moscow, Dec, 11, 1925. POLISH WORKERS sug 50 CitAbanian members; thousands privet Workérs to this struggle. ahd the mai LEONARD, of the American Federation of Labor by exposing thelr betrayal and misrepresentation of the American worker and shameless service to DAILY WORKER has boldly and cleverly fought the imperialistic and bourgeois conduct of the Amer- ican Federation of Labor leaders at every step and all occasions, 'HE DAILY WORKER has been conducting the campalgn not only against the A. F. of L. but against American Imperialism with great success, The American.imperialism is now the strongest In the world and it is growing ever stronger, extending its dominant Influence over all the world. The riches and resources are ever ex- tending the power of the ‘almighty dollar! , the German workers, and is shooting down the workers and peasants in Central, South America and on the islands of the Carribean Sea. So also it is exercising its greedy power over the Philippines and now even the Chinese workers and the peasants by supporting The DAILY WORKER has been ex- posing to the American workers all. these imperialistic brutalitles and by so dolrig it has alded materially the cause of the world revo- It has already enslaved The DAILY WORKER has been binding up the-Communist move- ment very successfully Jn spite of many difficulties. Its power and influence is growing among the American masses. The DAILY WORKER has performed many important and lasting It has ably defended the American Negro cause and the interests of the foreign-born workers. i Vig DAILY WORKER now enters upon its third year better quali- fied and prepared for the fight than ever before, tinue to fight against the growing power of American as well as other imperialisms across the Atlantic and on the Pacific. American imperialism has long been preparing for the coming imperialist war. The DAILY WORKER'S mission and task is to educate and lead the American masses against American imperialism and its new war, The task is great and important, but It must be carried out and 1 believe firmly The DAILY WORKER will surely fulfill the mission 1 congratulate the American workers and farmers on It must con- fight for thelr cause and in their LONG LIVE THE DAILY WORKER! LONG LIVE THE WORLD REVOLUTION! SEN KATAYAMA, ° e IN THE UNITED STATES MUST SUPPORT THE DAILY WORKER, SAYS THE POLISH PARTY HE “Communist Party of Poland, condemned to absolute itlegality, deprived of a legal press of any kind, sends you greetings on Behalf of its Polish, Ukrainian, Jewish, German, White Russlan and of whom linger In republican Wé are filled with admiration for your courageous struggle agdfnst the most powerful stronghold of world capitalism, and con- side ‘your Paper as the alarm-bell which unintermittently calls the f€'s the sacred duty of all Polish-born proletarians In America fight in the ranks of your party, the Workers (Communist) Party, and to help to forge its most effective weapon, The DAILY WORKER. Long live The DAILY WORKER! _The Central Committee of the Communist Party of Poland. COMMUNIST PARTY OF HOLLAND URGES DAILY WORKER IN EVERY FACTORY, WORKSHOP AND FARM 4 O* behalf of the party presidium of the Communist Party of Hol- ind and of the editorial board and of its daily organ, De Tribune, § send hearty congratulations to the only English Communist daily on the occasion of its second anniversary. May The DAILY WORKER be instrumental in penetrating Communist Propaganda right into of American workers and farmers! WORKER s00n find its place in every. factory, workshop and farm. irty Presidium, Communist Party of Holland, May The DAILY who ktows their age; ‘who knows what lives were extinguished, There. in a corner is a graye with fresh flowers thereon, a token of love of someone who cherishes’ the spot where the fallen hero lies, A symbol of the eternal light that radiates from one’s heart to the one that has “given preter A pain riins thru my limbs, :I can’t stand on my feet. I fall to the grave of Rosa, the holy, great revolutionist, A poetic soul was. she and, q. world of knowledge has.she possessed. “There she is, I can see her looking out from behind the bars and listening to the thrilling carols of the birds: She con- verses with these birds; she writes here notations on life, character ‘of birds, here she reads Galsworthy and communicates her impressions. to Sonyia, wife of Liebihecht; discusses the problems the British, author em- bodies In his works. Rosa Luxemburg lies here, beneath this mound of dirt, beside this boul- der—and we,-we are at our comfort- able homes, at our work—how petty is the old world in connection with this grave. Y hand stretches out. 1 have a de- sire to tell how loyally “The Com- munists ‘of America honor the mem- ory of our holy martyrs.” No sooner was the epitaph written, when doubts bégan to bow my mind. Are we wor- thy enuf? Earnest enuf? Consequent enuf? Not only to live like they lived, but even die like ttey died? Are we capable to carry on the: work, for which these martyrs sacrificed their lives? My heart feels lighter now, Ag ii rom the bosom. of.the earth Rosa’s forting glance penetrated it, New |AT THE GRAVE OF KARL LIEBKNECHT AND ROSA LUXEMBURG hopes were kindled, new energy was poured in, What reverence do these graves call forth. Thirty-eight lives were exting- uished on the altar of capitalism for an “ideal. But we don’t value enuf these graves. © Seven years elapsed and yet without monuments, None were even ordered. The struggle of the German Communists is so bitter that, they are incapable to {do it. They are being bled white. ” They have no material means to buy ade- quate marks for their dead. The Com- munists of the world sould create the necessary funds. The American Communists, espec- |ially our youth should take a live in- terest in the monument fund. This will be a rich addition to our own tra- ditions which beautify our ideal, BABBITRY EXCITED AT HARRISBURG; COMBINED: ~ CLUBS FAIL TO WORK (Special to The Daily Worker) HARRISBBURG, IIl,, Jan. 11—Fur- ther efforts to bring about a settle. ment of the strike of operators for the Illinois Southern Telephone company are being made with the committee of nine men, three each for Rotary, Lions and Kiwanies clubs conferring with General Manager © L. Mays of the company, The jay conference yesterday of business men with Mays falled to accomplish anything it was an- nounced. Businessmen here say the situation is becoming serious, ,