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x PS a" 4 ,Page Four THE DAILY WORKER Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 1118 W. Washington Biyd., Chicago, In. Phone Monroe 4712 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mali (in Chicago only): By mali (euteide of Chicago): $8.00 per year $4.50 six monthe | $6.00 per year $3.60 six months $2.50 three months $2.00 three. months Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 1118 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Illinois eee NR Oa SS et Se SESS J, LOUIS ENGDAHL ftors WILLIAM F, DUNNBD : MORITZ J. LOEB......00 ee Business Manager Pnnannresnees ss gSnISEnVSOsSAUSSRNSNSSSAAANASRINANOSSAAAAASSANONSRRIIIIND 00 shrruttadnisk DISS OTE Sy Eutered as second-class matl September 21, 1923, at the post-office at Chi- cago, Iil., under the act of March 3, 1879, Advertising rates on application. | <p 190 Lewis’ Mysterious Absence Explained Reports from Wilkesbarre, Pennsylvania, on Thursday to the | effect that John L. Lewis, president of the nited Mine Workers of | America, was absent from his temporary headquarters on some mys- | #erious errand gave rise to the suspicion that the gallant leader of | the strikers was holding secret conferences with the employers pre-| paratory to delivering the miners into the hands of the mine owners. | Within twenty-four hours that suspicion was vindicated by the an-| nouncement from the Lewis headquarters that a new plan proposed by E. J. Lynett, publisher of one of the servile newspapers of Scran- ton, was acceptable to the mine chief and that the strike of the 158,000 anthracite miners would soon end, since the proposal has| been approved, with slight reservations, by W. W. Englis, chairman of the operators’ negotiating committee. The plan provides for an immediate return of the strikers to the mines and also includes a five-year agreement with provisions that will safeguard the industry against future tie-ups. Observgrs of tactics of labor agents of the capitalist class knew when the general grievance committee at Wilkesbarre adopted reso- lutions urging thé tri-district committee to call out the maintenance men and make the strike general that the operators and union of- ficials would soon get together to defend their mutual interests. ‘When the rank-and file began to act in their own behalf the mine owners then decided they had to deal with Lewis and that, after all, he and the officialdom were useful. Lewis probably re- peated his performance at Cleveland, when at the close of the 1922 strike he told the operators they had better deal with such a'‘moder- ate, considerate person as him, rather than deal with representatives of the rank and file who might depose him if the struggle continued. The action of the grievance committee at Wilkesbarre ‘permits Lewis| to again function as labor lieutenant of capitalism. ' It is to be hoped the rank and file will repudiate this infamous agreement and refuse to return to the mines until their demands are granted, and that the skulduggery of Lewis will not avert the threat so magnificently voiced by representatives of the rank and file to make the strike general: Agents of the Railroad Bert M. Jewell, president of the railway employes’ department of the American Federation of Labor, and O. H. Beyer, who carries the title “consulting engineer” to that aggregation, spent last Wed- nesday evening trying to convince some 500 workers from the shops of the Northwestern railroad that they should gleefully embrace the “co-operative” or “B. & O.” plan of union scabbery. This meeting was evidently part of a campaign to get the men to endorse the plan after they had been fooled into accepting it by ‘a fake ballot prepared by their slimy officials. Some time ago the men voted on the question of price and a half for overtime. All of them were, of course, in favor of forcing the railroad company to pay a premium on overtime, so they voted for it. Many of them failed to perceive the significance of an added clause to the effect that such overtime could not be paid unless the “co-operative” plan was at thé same time put into effect. It seems that the overtime rule adopted is now being eliminated, but the railroad owners and the labor fakirs are trying to enforce the “co-operative” plan, which means turning the shop crafts unions into company. unions. The Chicago meeting at which Jewell and Beyer spoke was con- ducted under strict forms of gag rule for fear the rank and file would rise and tell this pair of swindlers and scoundrels who have sold out labor to the railroads what they think of such treachery, The actions of Jewell, Beyer, and the original “B. & 0.” planner, William H. Johnston, prove the oft-repeated charges of Commun- ists that the reactionary officials will wreck the labor movement rather than permit it to fall into the hands of those who will defend the interests of the rank and file, The “co-operative”.and “B. & 0.” plans are tombstones designed to mark the grave of unionism in the United States. Bert Jewell and Otte Byer tried to widen the grave in which they hope to hurl the railroad unions. If the workers object: to having their organiza- tions dumped into the Holes prepared for them by their officials they will have to get rid of such officials. vf Lenin Memorial in Russia In the remotest corners of the vast territory of Russia for the past two days millions have assembled to commemorate the second anniversary of the death of Lenin. All industry, all activity except that necessary to care for the. most elementary social needs stand still while the citizens of the workers’ and peasants’ government pay tribute to the indomitable revolutionist who a decade ago dare not set foot upon Russian soil because the czarist police had marked him as an enemy of the imperial state. Today the czars and all their retinue are gone; they are remem- bered only as symbols of the most frightful thralldom known to man. No one in Russia celebrates their births or mourns their deaths. But to Lenin, the liberator, the masses pay tribute as one man, and as his monument he leaves behind the invincible Russian Communist Party and the Communist International that carries his lessons to the farthest parts of the world to inspire all oppressed, whether they toil in the industries of the great cities or slave in the plantations of colonies, to rise and destroy the oppressor. As time goes by the path to the shrine of Lenin, the revolution- ary leader, unconquerable insurrectionist, will be worn ever deeper as all the workers that today groan under imperialist oppression rise and strike to earth the czars of all lands as he struck to earth the czars of Russia. With shady characters in the labor world supporting State’s Attorney Crowe, Frank L. Smith, former Attorney General Brun- dage, former Mayor William Hale Thompson and others formerly mixed up in the camp that spewed forth the crooked governer of | Illinois, Len Small, it might be well for honest workers to investigate the connection between these county, city and state officials and labor union gangsterism and thuggery‘a& practiced by certain gun- men and dynamiters against the rank and file of labor, 3s SR 84555 pill | their common grave: the social-demo- THE DAILY“WO / RKER Notes of an Internationalist No.6—THE DEAD RIDE SWIFTLY. By JOHN PEPPER. A GERMAN proverb declares: “The dead ride swiftly.” The events of the last few days show the truth of this old saying. The policijally dead, the renegades of the Communist In- ternational, ride with ghostly speed to eracy. After Hoglund, now Bubnik. After the Swedish traitor, now the Czech renegade, Hoglund, after an ephemeral stardom, rejoined the so- cial-democratic party of Branting, now Bubnik after a still briefer appear- ance in the Communist movement, goes over with bag and baggage, with his: entire puny. group to the Czech- social-democracy of Sokorys, The Bubnik question became acute prior to and during the last E. C. C, I. plenum. It was discovered that Bub- nik, within the Communist Party, was} hatching plans for the liquidation of the Communist Party of Czecho-Slo-| vakia, The left party leadership ex- pelled him. The center (Smeral) was for a time not particularly pleased at this expulsion, but the BE. C. C. I. en- dorsed the action and branded Bub- nik as @ traitor. After the expulsion the traitorous character of Bubnik revealed itself in fullest bloom. Instead of consider- ing himself a Communist even outside of the party, instead of appealing. to the next congress of the Communist International, he immediately founded an’ “Independent Communist Party.” This Bubnikist party from the very first minute served only as a destruc- tion and vilification organ against the Communist Party of Czecho-Slovakia. It was “independent” of the working class but not. “independent” of ‘the government, Bubnik and his party fought the Communist Party chietiye on “moral” grounds, in questions of “honor,” and in a short time it wag ven by au- thentic documents t! ibnik’s party accepted money from ; government and that the most ex] secretaries of this fine society werg accomplish- ed international police @pies. Bubnik tilted against the “ yw dictator- ship,” only to accept fn @ very short time the dictatorship jpf the bourgeo- isie in the fullest senge of the word. His chief slogan was all elements of the labor move’ must be united—but his chie’ ttivity, from | the very first to the last minute, was directed to the splitting, the shatter- ing of the Communist Party. In Czecho-Slovakia “during the current period he sought to confine recogni- tion to the method of parliamentar- ism—but even parliamentarily he fail- ed miserably: in the last elections the Communist Party received practically a million votes while Bubnik’s “inde- pendent” group in all Czecho-Slovakia mustered only 7,850 votes, Bubnik’s is the typical case of a renegade, In 1921 he entered the Communist move- ment, in a period when the possibility of the immediate success of the prole- tarian revolution seemed so close at hand, and he miserably and ignomin- ously deserted the Communist move- ment, when to be a Communist meant an obdurate, grim, selfsacrificing slow preparatory work in the period of relative stabilization. Bubnik’'s return to the Czéch-social- democracy is the most complete justi- fication of the policy of the Commun- ist International in that country. The Communist Party by the expulsion of Bubnik is no smaller, the social-de- mocratic by his acquisition no bigger, but merely still more corrupt and traitorous, Workers (Communist) Party FORWARD TO MASS ORK! Unite All Forces for Action! 'HE central executive committee alls upon all members to rally of the Workers (Communist) Party in support of the 1926 campaign. for mass struggle against the capitalist program-which was presented to congress in the message of President Coolidge. The party must be mobilized for action. Every Bolshevik on the job. Coolidge’s message was a direct challenge to labor, vs executive = committee of the capitalist class—its chief executive and His cabinet— has drawn up a program and presented it to congress inthe form of a “message.” This program includes strengthening and increasing the army and navy; proposals for legislation to outlaw strikes in the mining and rail- road industries; graphing the foreign-born workers militant; refusal to recognize the ment—the Soviet Union; continued has already created an agricultural Proposals for registering, finger-printing and photo- and the deportation “Of the most first workers’ and farmers’ govern- exploitation of the farmers, which ‘crisis. The whole program is a scheme for strengthening the financial position of the capitalist class and for the use of all government power against all op interests of the capitalists at home and in foreign lands. ‘ The vanguard of the working class—the Workers (Co! —must answer this @hallenge to labor not only in words ition to the nist) Party in DEEDS. The program of the working class for 1926 must be: A UNITED LABOR TICKET IN A LABOR PARTY AGAINST THE CAPITALIST PARTIES. THE 1926 ELECTIONS. A FIGHT AGAINST ALL ANTI-UNION AND ANTI-STRIKE LAWS, ORGANIZATION OF COUNCILS EIGN-BORN. DEFENSE AND RECOGNITION FOR THE PROTECTION OF FOR- Nora OF THE SOVIET UNION. UNITED FRONT OF THE EXPLOITED FARMERS AND. WORK- ERS FOR A WORKERS’ AND F. UNITED STATES. AMERS'’ GOVERNMENT IN THE #¢ as In order to carry out this program the central executigé-committee of the Workers (Communist) Party calls upon all units of the party to a fund of $20,000 in order to carry it has issued a contri in list and support this Program iagd to raise out. cI This must be made a standing order of a in every unit of the party. The raising of this fund is the first step which must be taken to realize the party program for 1926. It is necessary to set the workers and poorer farmers into motion on the basis of our program. The party is the engine which will furnish the power. “THE PARTY IS THE ENGINE WHOSE COGS GRIP THE COGS ‘OF THE TRADE UNION WHEEL AND SET THEM INTO MOTION, THE TRADE UNIONS SET IN MOTION THE GREATER MASSES.” Every party member should mefnorize these words of Lenin. The party is the engine which sets in motion our DAIL’ WORKER, which moves into action the workers ance, guiding, directing and furnishin We must not allow this engine every members must make the ut effective; every member must circulate the contribution mill, factory and mine—and in the workers’ homes, Unite the party behind the cen’ work! Try to get your shop nucleus or international branch upon the party’s howpr roll in the campaign of 1926, GRAND RAPIDS WiLL HOLD LENIN MEMORIAL MEETING ON SATURDAY GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., Jan, 22.— All preliminary arrangements have been completed to make the Grand Rapids Lenin Memorial meeting to be held Saturday, Jan. 23, 7:30 p. m. at the Workmen's Circle Temple, 345 Mt. Vernon Ave. N. W., a mass demonstration, John J, Ballam, member of the central executive committee of the Workers (Communist) Party, and Nat Kaplan, member of the nation- al executive committee of the Young Workers (Communist) League, will be the principal speakers, while Comrade Eugene Bechtold, local or- ganizer, will preside over the meet- ing. A suitable iu, di ed by local Communists, will be one of the main features of the program. The Young Pioneers of Grand Rapids are taking part in full force at this meeting, and will add the proper spirit to the event thru selec- ted revolutionary poems and songs. No admission will be charged. a) od Ga | ‘ Pema on every field of defe: ig power to the whole to slow down for 4; ‘most sacrifice to tral executive commi saa he first 9 Lima, Ohio, 5 = . \ Lenin"Memorial (Special to The Daily Worker) LIMA, Ohio, Jan, he Lenin memorial that was heli here was one of the most enthusulastic ‘meetings ever held. Robert jor, editor of The DAILY WORK‘! magazine was the principal speak and gave a masterly review of the ®ussian revolu- tion that gave birth ta the Soviet gov- ernment, Trades unionists composed the greater part of the audience and Ernest Bridge, president of the Cen- tral Labor Council, was the chairman, After the talk by Minor a number of questions were asked. One of the questions asked by Corbin Shock, the labor party member of the city com- mission government, was: “Why do| the Communists support a reform la- bor party with ‘yellows’ like myself in it?” eg 9 The answer was a@ brief review of. the principal polit! parties in the United States and ing the need of aclass labor to get the workers away fro; capitalist. owned republican lemocratic par- ties and to fight, own class interests, ; : WORKERS’ SCHOOL IN NEW YORK T 0 START NEW TERM Many New Courses Are Offered (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW York, Jan, 22.—The New York Workers School is completing the, most successful term in its his- ‘tory and is preparing to open the second term within a few weeks. Offer English Classes. The new English courses will start the last week in January. They in- clude various grades of elementary, intermediate and advanced English. These courses assume ‘exceptional importance on account of the reor- ganization of the party which re- quires that every member of the party learn to speak, read and write English, The subject matter of the courses is of a political nature so that any foreign-born member of the par- ty taking these courses will develop a capacity for participation in the party political discussions in his nucleus. The other courses of the Workers School for the second term are to start’ about the middle of February. They include the courses of the ad- vanced party training course of which the trade union course and the course in party history and problems, instructors Miller and Weinstone respectively, will be re- peated for the groups that did not take them during the preceding term. A new course in Leninism will be offered to those members of the party training course who have completed the course in,Marxism. The instructor is Bertram D. Wolfe. é New Courses Offered. Other new courses which will be offered include an advanced course in economics, Capital, vol. 1, instruc- tor, J. Mindel; an advanced course in the fundamentals of Communism for those who have completed the ele- mentary course, instructor, Siskind; a course in the history of the Amer- ican working class, modern period, instructor, Solon De Leon; courses in trade union work, public speaking, workers’ correspondence, social psy- chology; research, modern litefature, and various other courses. Registration can be made any after- noon or evening in room 34 of the Workers School, 108 E. 14th street. The fee for most courses is $2.50 fora three-months, once-a-week course. Comrades should register at once. Some Changes Made in New York School NEW YORK, Jan. 22.-— Solon De Leon has been secured as instructor for the course in “History of the Ame- rican Working Class” at the Work- ers’ School, He takes the place of Anton Bimba who is going on a pro- longed tour. The hour of the class has been changed to Monday evenings 9 o'clock. The course in Workers’ Correspon- dence, formerly, given on Monda; 9 p. m., is changed to Mondays, at 8 p.m. The instructor is Joseph Free- man, The shop nucleus training courses for shop nucleus organizers, or some other member of the nucleus, are now getting under way, one of them is giv- en on alternate Thursday nights, from 9 to 11, and the other on alternate Friday nights, from 9 to 11, The Fri- day night course opens Jan. 22, and the Thursday night course opens Jan, 28. The same lesson taken at the cen- tral school should be given, by the one taking the course, to the shop nucleus at the meeting following the lesson at the central school, “The proletariat struggles for the conquest of power”"—Lenin, How Lenin lived this struggle will be to at the Lenin Memorial meetings, zi: — 0 WITH THE Y . CONDUCTED = BY TH NG WORKERS LEAGUE With the Young Workers (Communist) League Comrade “D.,”"-Member of the Young Workers (Communist) ; League For several years Comrade D. has been a member_of the Young Workers (Communist) League of Chicago, Com- rade D, is neither a prominent or well known member of the league, At meetings Comrade D. is notably in- conspicious, He never takes the*floor to make unnecessary speeches, and seldom takes it to make necessary ones, Comrade D. is anything but a talker, Also he is not a leader, and what is still more, remarkable, he makes. no pretensions of being one. Comrade D. cheerfully leaves to others the glory of words, prestige and prominence, Such is the negative side of Comrade D.’s virtues. But do not conclude from it that Comrade D. is characterized by lack of energy and purposefulness. Do not assume that Comrade D. is one of those who just “happen” to belong to the Young Workers (Communist) League. To do so is to have a very wrong picture ef Comrade D., for the fact is that he is a member ofthe league for a very definite purpose, that he acts solely from it and for it and that is tireless in pursuing it. And what is this purpose? Well, it is @ very prosaic purpose, comrades, a very familiar purpose, a supremely important, but often much neglected purpose. It is the purpose of doing work for the revolutionary movement. That, comrades, is Comrade D.’s sole and only purpose in belonging to the Young Workers (Communist) League. Comrade D, has never yet, when a ¢all has been made for: volunteers to do work, whether it was the passing out of announcements, the selling of liter- ature, the collection of signatures,'the distribution of leaflets, or the visiting of homes and meetings, Comrade D. has never failed to offer his services, At factory campaigns, street meet- ings, strikes, reorganization drives or other league activities, Comrade D. is YOUNG WORKERS inevitably present and helping the work along in his efficient but inof- ficious way. Comrade D. is as reliable and as punctual as the sun. Having made an appointment it is a dead certainty that Comrade D. will be there and gp time. Once he under- takes a‘task, it is a foregone con- clusion that task will be performed. Comrade D, never makes and never has to make excuses. He always does what he promises to do which is in- deed’ remarkable considering that Comrade D. is a very active comrade, Also Comrade D. has lately begun to show the benefits of his several years of practical experiences. He is mani- festing ability to lay out plans as well to carry them into effect. He is well on the road. towards becoming a (responsible functionary of the Com- munist movement, NEW YORK MEETING, The district executive committee is calling a meeting of all section exe- cutive committees, also organizers of concentration groups and nuclei. Thig meeting which is of great importance will be held Monday, January 25, at 6 p .m., at 108 Hast 14th St. Those members of the section exe- cutive committees and organizers who fail to show up at the meeting will be positively disciplined. ANNIVERSARY JUBILEE, PITTSBURGH, Pa.—A third anni- versary jubilee will be held by the Young Workers’ League at the Labor Lyceum, 85 Mill®r street, on Sunday evening, Feb.,7, 1926. Refreshments will be served and there will be recitals in different lan- guages. Admission 25 cents. All workers are invited to attend, and'help make this a success. i Missing Young Workers, ; Those comradés who have :jssues Nos. 9, 10, 15, 29 and 40 of the rons Worker are requested to send them | to the National Office, 1118 W. Wash- ington street, Chicago, t OF OTHER LANDS | a Soon 100 Pct. Russian Youth in’ Y. C. L. MOSCOW, U. § 8. R., Jan. 22.— On an average there are 42 per cent of the working youth in the league. The greatest percentage of the youth is employed in the small and middle sized factories, in the small enterpriz- 28 68.9 per cent, in the intermediate 57.1 per cent, and in the big indus- tries 32.6 per cent, Of the entire num- ber of rural youth in the U. S. S. R. 11.5 per cent are in the league. YOUTH COMMUNISTS OF SOUTH AMERICA HOLD CONGRESS. URUGUAY.—On September 19-20, the Third Congress of the Y. C. I. N. took place in Montevideo. Eleven districts were represented by 16 dele- gates at the congress, plus representa- tives from the Argentine Y. C. L. and the Uruguay C. P. The congress was opened with a report on the situation of the Y. C, I. In further business the congress concerned itself exhaust- ively with the economic trade union work, as well as with the formulation of concrete demands in the interest of the young workers, and tactical deci- sions in the matter of trade union work. On the matter of reorganization the league it was decided to take up this work according to plan and energe- tically in the month of December. This work of reorganization will be initiated in the holding of district con: | ferences. It was also decided to re- sume publication, on ovember 1, of | the former periodical, El Jovel Com- munista, On the question of Bolshe- vization of the party, the congress adopted theses and instructed the league bureau to take practical meas- ures for the Bolshevik education of the membership. -In the closing speech it was brot out that this con- gress marks a new stage in the his- tory of the league and that the optim- istic view of the future was fully jus- tified. a SE uen THE YOUNG COMMUNISTS OF HOLLAND FOR LINE OF . COMINTERN ROTTERDAM, Holland.—The new- ly elected central executive commit tee of the Dutch league at its first meeting adopted a resolution in which it fully endorsed the new Dutch party central committee witch followed the line of the Comintern, ‘The resolu- tion ratifies the political decisions of the last league congress which op- posed the old party leadership and en- dorsed the line of the Comintern, « The resolution deals with sending 4 young workers’ delegation to the U. 8. 8. R. Extensive propaganda is to be developed in the factories ‘for the election, The departure of the delegation is forecast for the spring of 1926. The resolution indicates that the league organized a recruiting week, November 22-29, for the adinig- % * | Come Ahead Into the Yo sion of young factory workers in the league. This recruiting week was combined with a campaign for the en- trance of young workers into the trade unions, THE RESULTS OF THE PERSECU- TIONS, FINLAND.—-The arrest of the cen- tral committee and provincial fune- tionaries of the Socialist Youth League, which is known to be the only revolutionary legal youth leaguein. Finland, called forth a tremendous ' protest movement among the mem-° bership and the entire Finnish work- ing youth. Protest meetings were held in. all parts of the country in which resolutions were adopted ; against the government and for the Socialist Youth League. The spirit among the league membership is a very militant one. The league in Helsingtor issued a manifesto calling upon the membership to continue their work more actively than hither- to. The robbing of the league of its central body should not intimidate the membership—says the manifesto ——but this faet-should inspire us to— carry the struggle further. OE ETS How German Youth Delegation Was Elected. BERLIN, Germany, Jan, 22—The Young Guard furnishes statistics on‘ they number of young workers who elécted the Young Workers’ delega- tion to Soviet Russia: Wuertemburg—7,100 young workers represented by 135 delegates, Thuringia— 8,000 young workers represented by 72 delegates, Saarbruecken—10,000 young work- ers represented by 51 delegates, . Leipzig—3,000 young workers rep- resented by 122 delegates. Frankfurt a. M.—3,000 young work- ers represented by 46 delegates, Lenin _Liebknecht Luxemburg By Max Shachtman. ‘ A pamphlet on the lives of the one most universal and two most ‘heroic leaders of the working class. The only special booklet to be issued for the Lenin-Liebknecht meetings. Well written—attractively bound—illustrated with three beautiful photos, + Single Copy 15c. Bundle Orders 10c, ” Published by the Yeung Workers (Commun. e: bed W. Washir bys CHICAGO, ILL.