The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 19, 1926, Page 1

» union because the opposition is stupid The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ Vol. Ill. No. 6. a tee ¥ FUn CAMPAIGN born workers and to organize all trade societies, labor political becrrer% Bez By T. J. O'FLAHERTY S was stated in this column a few days ago, Superintendent of Schools, McAndrew did not object to the exhibition of the fife and drum picture entitled “The Spirit of 1776” because he was anti-militarist, but most likely because he wanted to have everything smacking of the col- onial revolt against British rule ban- ished from the school rooms. Color is lent to this theory by the fact that Mr. McAndyew favors calling schools after the libertine British queen, Eli- Subscription Rates: Pie aor “tees STRUGGLE AGAINST CAPITALIST PROGRAM INTIATED BY WORKERS PARTY e Py central executive committee of the Workers (Communist) Party has taken the initial steps in a campaign to draw the workers and exploited farmers of this country into an organized fight against the capitalist program which was presented to con- gress in the message of President Coolidge. This campaign will take the form of mobilizing the workers and exploited farmers in support ‘ef a united front labor ticket, as a step toward the forma- tlon of a labor party, in the state and congressional elections of this year, the organization of councils for the protection of foreign-born workers for a fight against the proposal to register, finger-print and photograph the foreign- organizations, peasants’ government of the Soviet Union for the recognition and defense of *the Soviet Union. In Chicago, Outside Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year, Entered as Second‘class matt . by mail, $6.00 per year, unions, workers’ fraternal and benefit which support the workers’ and President's Message an Attack Upon Workers and Farmers. HE message of President Coolidge to congress is considered to be a definite challenge to labor by the cen- tral executive committee of the Work- ers (Communist) Party. The message contained, according to the statement issued at the time of its delivery to congress, a program for the strength- ening of the financial position of the capitalist class, for the use of the governmental power against all at- tacks upon the interests of the cap- italists at home and abroad, The boast in the president’s mes- sage that this country had the great- est military establishment it has ever before maintained. in time of peace and that army and navy would be zabeth, and the hypocritical Victoria, the bloodiest queen in British history who slaughtered rebellious subjects with a glycerine tear on her eyelids. ** « cANDREW has easy sailing with the opposition in the teachers’ and tarred with the same reactionary brush. McAndrew is an imperialist, # militarist-and an-enemyof labor. He ‘has shown that at every opportunity. Yet, we find the so-called “labor mem- ber” of the school board call him one of the best patriots in town. What has Margaret Haley to say to: this? if McAndrew is jimmied front his job it will not be due to the reactionary; labor leaders and the tame tactics of Miss Haley, but simply because he put his foot in the puddle, by sponsoring a form of patriotism which is more favorable to the capitalist elements that are committed to unity with, Bri- tish imperialism, than to the more nationalistic elements who use the “Spirit of 1776” to keep the American workers in a state of emotional excite- ment. ‘ee R. JOSEPH WISE, the patriotic illiterate who serves as Chicago correspondent for the most stupid news service in existence, the Interna- tional Labor News Service, went to the trouble of sending mats of his photograph to every labor paper that receives that news service. Fortunate- ly for the news service and for the wider distribution of Mr. Wise’s like- ness, the service is distributed gratis. Otherwise Joseph’s face might not be known outside of his favorite soft drink parlor. Not forgetting that Cal- vin Coolidge became vice-president of the United States for his services— real or fancied—in breaking the Bos- ton police strike, Mr, Wise lined up with Havelock Wilson of England and is helping to break the recent sea- men’s strike. ** © HIS notorious strikebreaker Wilson claims to be head of the Seamen's Union of Great Britain and Ireland but the Irish workers would just as soon see a polecat in their midst as (Continued on page 2) 428 new subscriptions in the first 5 days of the LENIN DRIVE 5000 New Subs to the DAILY WORKER! —- used to “support stability among all peoples” involves the threat of in- volving the United States in new im- perialist war. The proposal for legis- lation to outlaw strikes in the coal industry and on the railroads means tieing the workers hand and foot in their struggle to win a higher stand- (2 support of the proposal to register, fingerprint and photo graph the foreign-born workers {s part of the program to make iteimpossible for the workers to carry on @ struggle in their interests, because it will create millions of workers who thru tear of deportation will be prevented from organizing into unions, going on strike. The capitalists hope’ to use these enslaved foreign-born workers to force down the standard ‘of life of the whole working class. The hostility of the American gov- ernment to the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics is part of the fight (Continued on page 2.) NO WOMEN WANT TO WORK MORE THAN 48 HOURS But Women Unionists Find Opposers NEW YORK, N. Y.—(FP)—New York women workers are decidedly in favor of a 48-hotr work week law being passed and are indignant that any working woman could be induced to appear in Albany or in Washington against protective legislation for wom- en workers, Mary E. Dreier, chairman of a ¢on ference of organizations interested in the passage of a 48-hour bill for wom- n working in New York factories ind stores, says that a poll of women working in Rochester, Syracuse, Utica Troy, Elmira, Binghampton, Water- town, Oswego and other upstate cities proved that it would take a miero- scope to find working women who op- pose the 48-hour-week bill, Led by the Women's Trade Union League, an “active lobby” of working women will remain in Albany during the legislative session to secure the 48-hourweek bill’s passage, Gover- nor Al Smith included the measure in the labor program announced in his annual message to the legislature. Over 100 women from New York ¢ity alone will attend the hearing at which the bill comes up, Workers in shoe, knit goods, textile, collar, clothing, kodak and other. fac- tories as well as retail women clerks are affected by the shorter work-week bill. Laundry workers would be an- other large group aided. Present New York legislation limits hours to nine for women clerks, wait- RUSH YOUR SUB! Swell the Total! resses, messengers and elevator oper: ators, 54 hours per week, 6 days, omen in canneries may now work 10 to 11 hours according to season, Work between 10 p. m, and 7, a, m. is also prohibited for women, ard of life forcing the capitalists to pay, d t sh : itember 21, 1923, the Post Office at Chicago, TUESDAY; JANUARY 19, 1926 ‘LABOR’S RAN Illinois, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Re"? Published Daily except Sun PUBLISHING CO., ay by THE DAILY 1113 W. Washington Bivd., ¢ HOLDING THE MEAT AX IN RESERVE ~ AND NATIONAL PREIUDICES TO KEEP WORKERS DIVIDED By VICTOR ZOKAITIS. Racial antagonisms and national hatreds are encouraged and exploited in every way possible by the meat packers to keep the workers in the packing house industry divided. As long as the workers hate each other they will never unite to change con- ditions. The packers know that as long as ‘they can keep the workers divided, they can continue to pay small wages, force the workers to work longer hours, maintain whatever sanitary con- ditions they please and make+ the workers speed up. Company-paid spies, who are usual- ly put among the relief hands at Ar- mours, go from place to place on the floors, spreading hatred of one work- er for another. The Negro worker is propagandized so that he distrusts the white worker. The. Lithuanian against the Pole. The “American” against the foreign-born worker. “Have nothing to do with those white B. , they’re out after your job?” is the stock argument of the stool placed next to a Negro. worker, The stool argues in the same man- ner among the white workers and in this way creates distrust between these two big groups of workers. The Negro worker fears to organize and strike for better conditions, be- (Continued on page 2.) Turkish Minister in Hot Talk on British Over Mosul Frame-up ANGORA, Turkey, Jan. 17. — The long awaited speech of the Turkish foreign minister, Tefik Rushdi Bey, was given in the national assembly while the members listened in grave silence. f His speech bristled with accusa- tions of double dealing by England which he charged had‘ violated the promise of Lord Curzon at Lausanne that no decision of the league of na- tions would be made without the con- sent of Turkey. This promise, said Tefik, “has been buried and forgotten along with Lord! Curzon,” BARS NEGRO; SHUBERT NOW SUED FOR $25,000 Richard P. Carson, a Negro pharm- acist, has filed a suit against the Shubert Theatrical corporation de- manding $25,000 as damages for dis- criminations practiced against him by the Great Northern Theater, 21 West Quincy street. Carson in his charges shows that after he had bought two tickets to see the “Student Prince” and went to the theater with his lady friend that despite the fact that his tick- ets called for seat 7 and 8 in row K he was told that “it must be some mistake” and told to sit in an ob- scure portion of the theater. Carson upon seeing this discrim- ination practiced against him’ pro- tested to the box office. At the box office little recognition was given his claims and his money was re- funded. The box office attendant later declared after being asked why Carson was accorded this treatment: “We usually attempt to be courteous about it, but when they insist on demanding the same recognition as white patrons we refund the money.” “The central question of the revo- lution is the question of power.”—Len- in, Hear this question discussed at the Lenin Memorial meetings. Read—Write—distribute The DAILY WORKER. Stalin Shows Russia In Period of Transition EDITOR’S NOTE:—In this in- stalment of his speech before the Russian Communist Party con- gress, Secretary Stalin gives figur- es to show the development of the transition from capitalism to social- ism. Russia's big problem grows out of the fact that the Soviet Union is still an agricultural coun- try. This section of Stalin’s speech follows: owe ot (International Press Correspondence) ‘OSCOW, U. S. S. R,, +Dec. 18— (By Mail)—The speaker “then proceeded to a statistical description of the people's economy. Agricultural production in coinparison with the year 1913 now stands at 71 per cent, Next year an increase of this per- centage to 88 per cent of the pre-war production is planned, With regard’ to "Industry, the total value of production in 1913 was seven milMard rubles »and in 1924-25, five milliard rubles or 71 per cent of the pre-war level. For next year an in- crease up to 95 per cent of the pre- war level.was planned, This year in- dustry has developed more quickly than agriculture. The work of elec- trification ha developed so_ quickly that, allowing for a continued develop- ment in the same tempo, the whole plan of electrification for the So- viet Union will be completed by 1932. The electrical industry is develop- ing at the same tempo, the program for 1925-26 reckons 170 per cent of the pre-war level, In 1923-24 the state and co-operative industry ac- counted for 76 mer cent and private industry*for 24 per cent of the whole, In 1924-25 the state and co-operative industry accounted for 79.3 per cent and private indwetry only for 20.7 per cent, The specific gravity of private in- dustry fell. Upon the basis of caleu- lations for the coming year, the state and co-operative industry should to- tal 80 per cent and the private indus- try 20 per cent. The private indus- try is growing in an absolute senge, as however, the state and co-operative industry is growing more quickly, nevertheless the former progressive- ly loses its specific gravity. ROM this foMows that the pre- ponderance of socialist industry over private industry is beyond, all doubt. In relation also to the wealth which is in the possession of the state and in the possession of private pers- ons, the preponderance is on the side of the state The ptate holds wealth in its hands to the value of 11.7 milliards, private | persons on the othér hand chiefly en-| gaged in the (Contin ant economy, hold on page 3) COVER NATION WITH SCORES OF MEETINGS Lenin Anniversary Draws Thousands In America, as in every country in} the world the closing days of January | are attracting countless throngs of | workers to meetings held to comme-| morate the life and work of Viadimir| llytch Lenin, the leader of the world | revolution which first broke through | the power of capitalist imperialism | in Russia. | These meetings attract not only| Communist workers who belong to or- ganizations of the Communist politic- al or industrial movement, but bring in vast masses of workers who re- cognize that Lenin belongs to. the working class as a whole and that his | life’s efforts were directed to the| liberation of all oppressed and ex: | ploited peoples. In America tens of thousands expected to gather at the Lenin me- morial meetings held under the au- spices of the Workers (Communist) | Party held in all sections of the na-| tion between January 22 and Febru-| ary 1,° The following list should be} scanned for the nearest meeting. More’may be added from day to day. cee Show Film in Chicago. In view of the great prominence given by the capitalist press to the personality of the leaders of the Rus- sian Communist Party, particularly those who took leading parts in the recent. congress, the film which will be shown at the Lenin memorial meeting at the Coliseum, on Sunday (Continued on page 4.) New Austrian Cabinet Hopes to Unite the Country with Germany VIENNA, Jan, 17. — Chancellor Ramek yesterday formed a new cab- inet after a break with the christian socialist group. The new cabinet will follow a policy aimed at union with Germany to revive, so it is hoped, the economic life of isolated Austria, now perishtng under a receivership of the league of tations, Five.thousand new subs in three weeks is.a big job—but it can be done with your help. Send in a sub, are! ROME, Italy, Jan. 17 — NEW YORK EDITION ee WORKER Shicago, IM Price 3 Cents DEMAND FOR 100 PER CENT STRIKE I GROWING FAST 40,000 Miners Asking Maintenance Men Out By PAT TOOHEY. (Worker Correspondent) PITTSTON, Pa., Jan. 17.—Following the action of the Wilkes-Barre gener- al grievance committee, which at their meeting here a few days since adopted a resolution demanding Lewis withdraw the maintenance men and declaring for a general strike in the anthracite fields, the general griev- ance committee of the Pennsyivania Coal company, composed of twelve {tccat unions with a membership of 13,000 adopted a similar resolution at their meeting here last night. The movement for the withdrawal of the maintenance men and for a general strike in the anthracite fields to insure a complete, speedy and vic- torious settlement of the present strike, two of the chief demands propagated by the progressive fore es since the ry beginning of the }strike, is gaining momentum thru- jout the anthracite field. The action |of the Pennsy committee places jon record, within three days, approx!- {mately 40,000 miners for the demand jthat the maintenance men be with- \drawn. } The resolution was unanimously jadopted by the committee. jtion will influence ot undoubtedly. By 2 pro f the jresolution the locals affiliated with the general committee are urged to | discuss and take similar action on the {resolution adopted by the general committee. Talks Turkey To Lewis By unanimous vote a wire was sent to Lewis % Union League Club N, Y. CG. stating among other things “A reso- lution was unanimously adopted this (Continued on page 3) | MINE ACCIDENT KILLS || TWO MEN; BOSS GETS CERTIFICATE CANCELLED By A Worker Corresponaent OLYMPIA, Wash., Jan. 17.—Be- | cause of the carelessness and neg- ligence of fire boss W. O. Swift at the scab mine of the Wilkeson Coal and Coke Co., two miners lost thelr lives on Nov. 27, The state has decided to punish Swift, who pleads guilty to the charges. His certificate will be re- voked for ninety days. FASCISTS’ CLUB OPPONENTS OF BLOODY REGIME (Special to The Daily Worker) Tomorrow {the chamber of deputies is scheduled | to discuss the return to the chamber opposition, the been absent of the Aventine pulists, who have some time. Mussolini and his black shirt brig- ands and murderers did not want the opposition to be there when discus- sion were going on so when the de- puties of the opposition left the ¢ham- ber yesterday they were set upon by fascist gangsters and hoodlums, led by the fascist deputies and so sévere- ly beaten that they will not be/able to appear tomorrow. ; Do- for Mothers of Brooklyn) Hold - Protest Mass Meeting Monday Nite BROOKLYN, N, Y., Jan, 17, — A mass meeting of Brooklyn mothers who are determined to get better school conditions for their children from the capitalist public school board will be held on Monday evening, Jan, 18. at 8 p. m., at the Educational Alli- ance, 76 Throop Ave., near Lorimer and broadway. The demands are better schools built near the homes of the children. Only recently six children lost their lives at the crossing of Flushing Ave, and Broadway. This is becoming very grave matter for parents. All mothers and fathers are utged to attend this meeting. There will be speakers in English, Jewish, Italian and LitMuanian, i IN ANTHRACITE WAR oe es, ean?