The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 31, 1926, Page 4

Page Four one THE DAILY“WORKER THE DAILY WORKER Published by the DAILY WCRKER PUBLISHING CO. Washington Blvd:, Chicago, Ill, Phone Monroe: 4712 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail (In Chicago only): By mall (outside of Chicago): $8.00 per year $4.50 six months | $6.00 per vear $3.50 six months $2.50 three months $2.00 three months 1113 Ww. Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, IIlinols $$ J, LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F, DUNNE iets MORITZ J. LOEB CL SAT Se cAI SRSA AESSRS RO AS tir SUne aoa Entered as second-class mail September 21, 1923, at the post-office at Chi- cago, Ill., under the act. of March 8, 1879, t Ye NES usinéss Manager <i 290 Advertising rates on application. The Ford Acquittal A jury in Marysville, California, has acquitted Richard (Blackie) Ford on the charge of murdering Deputy Sheriff Reardon, during the hopfield strike in 1913. On another charge Ford spent more than eleven years in the penitentiary. On his release he was rearrested and charged with the murder of the sheriff. Undoubtedly the release of Ford comes as a ‘surprise to those workers acquainted with the record of the courts of California in the matter of persecution of workers. This state is notorious for its frameups against labor leaders and workers active in the labor move- ment. Especially have the I. W. W. suffered from the class justice of the open‘shoppers in California. It is deemed sufficient to prove that a worker carries an I. W. W. card to have him railroaded to prison. Also in California Tom Mooney and Warren K. Billings have been languishing in prison since 1916 when they were framed up on a charge of throwing a bomb: at.a preparedness day parade. In the trials the defense was able to prove that the whole case against Mooney and Billings was a frame-up, and that the witnesses were the scum of the earth who admitted that they had committed per- jury to aid in the judicial murder of these two workers. Mooney and Billings escaped the electric chair only to be sentenced to life im- prisonment. Naturally when a worker like Blackie Ford escapes the clutches of the courts in a state with such a reputation there is a tendency to predict that at last an end has come to the period of savage persecutions of workers active in the labor movement, that’ the period of “war hysteria” has ended, and that a new period is open- ing that will not witness such savage persecutions. It is more correct to look upon the release of Blackie Ford as the abnormal situation, tharf*it is to consider that the persecution of the workers is the abnormality. The actions of the California courts is of a piece with all the other actions against the workers thruout the country. Instead of looking upon the Ford acquittal as the end of a savage period the workers must look upon it as an| ARTICLE II. The League—An Ambitious Dream of World Imperialism. H. M. WICKS PON the guins of the world war the victorious nations endeavored to erect a super-state, an instrument of conquest and vengeance that would subdue all the earth to its will. It was an ambitious dream of world im- perialism. Its immediate objeetives were to reduce the vanquished na- tions to the Condition of colonies, crush the proletarian revolution in Russia and partition the earth among the victors, but irreconcilable antag- onisms within the capitalist economy of the world prevented its full real- ization, Woodrow Wilson, as the agent of the House of Morgan; Clemenceau, the tiger of French banking capital; Lloyd George, the darling of the Brit- ish imperiailists and Orlando of Italy were the big four at Versailles where the treaty and the covenant of the league were hatched.. The primary purpose of the league of nations was to throw the mantle of legality over every plundering expedition the con- spirators representing their various imperialist governments desired to were concealed beneath exalted phrases, A past master, a virtuoso in sophistry, Professor Wilson applied his talents to the task of formulating exalted slogans to sanctify the mon- | strous conspiracy, U. S. Considered Member. N the 28th of June, 1919, the prin- cipal allied and associated powers signed the treaty of Versailles with Germany. The treaty was a ponder- ous affair consisting of fifteen sepa- frate parts dealing with: various phases of the settlement, with 440 articles in }the thing. The first part of that treaty constitutes what is known as {the covenant of league of nations and {consists of 26 articles. It requires no |profound analysis to reveal the fact that the league is definitely organized for war. It was created with the idea }of carrying on war against any state |that refuses to bow to its will. - In a short memorandum attached urge toward the establishment of a great mass organization whiclt | to the covenant itself, which ‘is called will be able to block the capitalists when they seek to wreck their/ wrath on the militant spirits of the working-class. | The International Labor Defense has done great work in seeing | to it that the Ford defense did not lack for funds. But this is only! a small part of the role which the International Defense is destined | to play in this country. While we gain one important victory in one part of the country in the release of Ford, in other parts of the country the savage the annex is recited the names of the governments which were the original members of the league of nations and the names of the states invited to ac- cede to the covenant and thereby be- come members. The United States is named as a party to the treaty of peace and also appears in the annex as an original member of the league of nations. The repression of working class rebels continues. Next month in Zeigler, | league organization was to consist of ll., twenty miners are going op trial variously charged with murder | and conspiracy to murder. In Pittsburgh nine members of the} Workers (Communist) Party are awaiting the outcome of the ap- peal of Edward Horacek against a verdict of guilty on charges of sedition under the state laws. Over eighty members of the I. W. W. are still in the penitentiary. Mooney and Billings, McNamara and Schmidt, Crouch and Trumbull, and Suhr, sentenced along with | scats, Blackie Ford over eleven years ago, are still in prison. So long as capitalism exists, just so long will the courts be used as weapons against the working class in the interest of the capital- ists. Every battle will claim victims. The working class.alone has any interest in aiding these working class victims of capitalist class justice. On the shoulders of the working class falls this task. Every worker must see to it that the leaders, the fighters, the daring spirits of our cla re defended against the attacks of the capitalists. In building up an organization to take up this task the Inter- national Labor Defense is performing a great service to the working the assembly which was to meet from time to time, with all member nations represented. This was to be in the nature of a lower house, similar to the house of congress in the American government, Then there was to be a ‘council of twelve, comprising six’ per- manent seats and six non-permanent The Perma to be occupied by Bngland, France, Italy, Japan and the United States of America, with a seat reserved for Germany if and when that nation joins the league. The non-permanent seats were to be elected by the assembly of the league, Senate Refuses Ratification. ILSON returned triumphantly from his second trip to the peace table at Versailles, confident that the United States would take its place in the council of the league, sBut he met with a veritible avalanche of ‘opposi- tion from the senators who’ served the interests of the seh of industrialist capitalists who considered the Central and South American; republics the lo- gical sphere for deyelopment of the imperialist policy of America, In vain he appealed to the nation to support him. Though, as war president he was able to terrorize thé: population into waging the fight to defend the invest- ments of Wall Street. in Europe, he nent Court of | ‘International Justice WITH THEY CONDUCTED - BY TH industrial forces of the world to furn- ish the economic basis for an inter- national army to carry into effect thru wars of conquest the imperialist aims of the nations that dominate the league. Every important section of the cow enant deals with war or thfeatens war against all who do not submit to the league, By. HARRY YOUNG. (Continued from ‘yesterday's issue) The immediate possibilities are in Colonial Conquest. the industrial ‘conferences of the pee the most loathsome and |mining youth in’ the Rhonda district brazenly imperialist clause in the }of South Wales, and the youth con- covenant is Article 22, which refers |ference of the Minority Movement in to “people not yet able to stand by |an important locality in London, themselves under the strenuous condi-| Jt is impossible to prophesy the tions of the modern world” and adding | exact lines upon which this work will that “the well-being and development | develop. This will be worked out in could not consolidate the victory by imposing the league, of nations upon this country. glee The antagonisms existing within the capitalist system of the United States defeated the Morgan dream ‘of world domination thru the league, The seat reserved for the Untited States re- ined ere were but launch. The most malovelent designs | ™“n® Thocespiet ere : four members occupying permanent seats in the council—Hngland, France, Italy and Japan. i The As ly. i gees assembly of the league of na- tions has met six times since the inception of this imperialist venture and at each of these meetings, without exception, the predatory character of the “achievement. of the ages” has been more clearly shown in its true light. Between, assemblies the council meets and takes up questions of in- terest to the plunderers. Not once has there been a decision that can be in- terpreted other theses an imperial- ist move, as we shall see when we discuss some of the amore obnoxious and notorious deci stand 0! the legal instrument of the leggy) nations, Encourages Work \Combines. EMBERSHIP league! of nations carries with it member- ship in another creature, of Versailles, the international labor organization, which is composed of so-called rep- resentatives of wborn=representatives of employers and agents of the various governments. The number of alleged labor delegates is insignificant com- pared to the number of employer and government delegates. Without ex- ception the so-called representatives of labor are well-known lackeyg of the bourgeoisie, traitors to and murderers of the working class who earned in- effable infamy by their roles of apos- tates in the world war, This outfit is supposed to aid the “economic evolution” of society thru the establishment and peaceful opera- tion of industries of an ever-increasing international charact®¥ and to help establish a world mayket. The real The six permanent seats were mission is, however, to mobilize the NEW YORK PLANS INTENSE DRIVE class of this country. All workers should suppert this non Derr defense organization of the working class of America. ON LABOR PARTY A Strike Against Wage Cuts Mill workers, of Passaic, N. J., to the number of 5,000, are on strike against a ten per cent wage reduction imposed yast year. They also demand time and a half for overtime and the reinstatement of union officials who were discharged for activity among the workers. Like all recent textile struggles the mill owners are raising the cry that the trouble is caused by “outside agitators.” Of course, in the eyes of the mill owners and tlieir kept press, the wage reductions are gleefully accepted by the workers who, were it not for the agita- tors, would petition for still further wage cuts, % Never was there a more pressing need for organization drives among the workers in the whole textile industry and we hope the Passaic strike will be the starting point for such organization. “Golden Rule” Nashin Town Sidney Hillman’s friend, “Golden Rule” Nash, clothing manu facturer of Cincinnati, is to harrangue the Chieago forum tomorrow, ostensibly about the marvellous results of his class collaboration scheme in effect in his shops with the full consent of the officialdom of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers’ Union. It is as tho the officials of the B. & O. railroad came forth to eulogize the classic example of a labor leader perverting trade union- ism into company unionism, which means no unionism at all. Members of the Amalgamated and other unionists whose officials are busy betraying them into such pacts will be interested in the things this notorious open shop boss has to say in favor of Hillman. INDIAN WORKING CLASS MOTHERS DRUG BABES AS THEY GO TO WORK BOMBAY, India, Yan. 29.-—-At a meeting of the Bombay Municipal cor- poration it was brought out that many working women drug their babies with opium before going to work, so that the babes will be quiet. The report of the medical relief committee on this matter was adopted, but no steps will be taken to lcate this evil as the council declares that any legis- lation along, the line of prevention “would be premature” and would be “resented unnecessary interference with a prevailing practice that would deprive them of the opportunity of earning bread.” No attempts are made to it that the heads of the family are able to earn enough so thatf Party Units Mobilize for Campaign paign for a labor party in New York is getting under way in earnest and the 1926 congressional elections are expected to show decisive strikes in the direction of its formation, The campaign will include a series of articles in the press on the labor party and its significance for solving the problems of the workers of the United States in general and of those NEW YORK, Jan, 29, — The cam-|2 Lenin Memorials MISSOURI. Kansas City—Musicians’ Washington St., W. F. Dunne, PENNSYLVANIA. Pittsburah—Jan, 31, 8p. m, at the La- bor Lyceum, 35 Miller St. Speaker: D. 1017 in. 31, E. Earley. Cannosburg—Faleon Hall, Jan. 30, 8 Pp. D. E. Earley. Daisytown—Home Theater, Jan. 31, 2 pom. A. Jakira. « “ New Brighton—D. £2 Garely, Jan. 31, p.m. WEST: VIRGINIA. Pursglove—Union Hall, Tom Ray, Jan. 1, 2 p. m. 4 ILLINOIS. Waukegan—Worke! jall, 517 Helm. holtz Aye, J. J. & » Jan. 31, 2:30 Pp. m, er. A public debate is to be arrang- ed. The tieing up e labor party issue with all of th@ concrete cam- in New York in particular. Some of the articles planned include; “Smithism and the Labor Party.” “What the Labor Party Means to the Needle Trades Workers,” “The Labor Party a Shield for the Foreign Born.” } “Labor Defense and the Labor Party.” “The Central Labor Union Bureau- cracy and the Tammany Machine.” “Republican ‘Labor’ Politicians,” “The Socialist Party and the Labor Party.” “The Workers Party and the Labor Party.” : “The Housing Problem.” “What the Labor Party will mean to the Negro population of New York.” . Mimeographed bulletins. outlining the basic problems connected with publication of a ;pamphlet dealing ing class mothers would not have to work and drug their babes to keep quiet while they are away- é % wh the labor party problems as they specially affect the New. York work- ‘ paigns of the development of a special series #f workers’ corre- spondence articles Bhowing the rela- “The Labor Party as a ‘Weapon| tion of shop probleips to the need for against Injunction Courts and|a labor party are u planned. Judges.” ' Philly Workers Party to Test Ban on PHILADELPHL January 29.—' Police assumption of power over Phil- adelphia meeting owners will be tested by a meet! with Workers Party and American Civil Liberties’ Union spénkers, as.a result of the ban on Ben Gitlow’s Lenin memorial speech at Lulu Temple, Police Super- intendent Mills told owners of the hall #fat the police department op- posed Gitlow’s speaking “at this time because of certain conditions” which he refused to explain, : the labor party campaign and the| The Lenin meeting “was held with- steps in that campaign will be dis-|out Gitlow, who will, however, speak tributed to the agitprop directors of | at the test meeting. He addressed the all nuclei, sub-sections and sections | International La Garment Work- and they will be instructed how |ers’ Union convention in Philadelphia to conduct a discussion on the labor | without interfere: upon his release party in every unit. from Sing Sing . Goy. Al Smith Other steps to be taken inelude the jof New York pa him when his appeal from sen nder the crim- inal anarchy law in supreme court 4 me Lome we / , of such peoples form a sacred trust of | the league’s.practical activity. civilization,” reaches the conclusion that the league must try to “elevate” such unfortunate nations. tions are “aided” by the league estab- lishing a system of mandates, and assigning to the highly civilized na- tions the mandates over the nations | 1, not yet enjoying the superlative bles- sings of civilization, This mandate system has been ap- plied to territories formerly belonging to Germany and Turkey, two of the vanquished nations. France exercises some of the mandates, Britain others. It is merely a new form of colonial exploitation. No language in all the earth can ever describe the immeasurable in- famy of the atrocities perpetrated against the unfortunate inhabitants of The league\has recently demonstrat- ed that its active participation in the Such na-| mining and ‘textile crises was no ac- cident, but the ‘outcome of systematic planning of eoonomic activity, This is demonstrated by its month mg preparation of a campaign in the railway industry during the period of the negotiations for the new wages agreement, These negotiations now show indicaton of a severe and bit- ter struggle. The league by its con- centration on the railroad yards and depots of its concentration groups, its establishment of connections with young workers in the industry, its devotion of special space to the rail- way question in the Young Worker, its organ, and the preparation of the! UNG WORKERS LEAGUE THE EXPERIENCES OF BRITISH LEAGUE IN ECONOMIC TRADE UNION WORK from Dec, 14 to 20, comes at an op- portune ‘time for our English league, during this period, when: several of the thost important unions, (railway men, transport workers), are carrying on campaigns for the elimination of non-unionism, the exceptional op- portunity to raise the question of the trade union organization of the young workers is available, While appreciating all the success and results of the economic trade union work of the English league, we have no desire to delude ourselves into the belief, that the economic trade union work of the English league has reached perfection pitch, Much remains to be done in this field. The main tasks of the future are, a substantial increase in the number of factory groups, the consolidation of the existing fractions, and organiza- tion of new fractions, the systematic work in the Minority Movement and the organization of young workers’ conferences for the most important industries and districts. The decisions of the last Manchester conference of, the league places the economic trade union work on a firm foundation. The English league un- thi mandated . The French membership for this campaign, will|derstands that the economic trade Sinaia 0] River ak Bre fright. participate in the dispute as a well|union work is the most important fuln@ss that subsequently raged in Syria is the most recent exhibition of jthe peaceful and disinterested motives Impelling the league of nations, The world court, as the legal cloak of the league, has recently climaxed its record of brigandage by declaring that the league has the right to sanc- tion Britain’s looting of the Angora republic in order to obtain access to Mosul ail. Just as the holy alliance of the early Part of the last century was created by those Who believed it was their destiny to rule by divine right and to keep the world forever under the pall of the feudal system, so today the league and the world court advocates imagine that they are specially set apart from other people to impose their will upon the rest of mankind. The holy alliance signalized the resistance of feudalism to capitalism as this system emerged as a young giant upon the stage of world history; the league of nations is one of the last bulwarks of capitalism as it gropingly and desperately strives to hold the world in check, But just as the rising power of capitalism shattered feudalism with its holy alliance, so the rising pro- letariat of today will conquer the de caying imperialism in spite of and against the league of nations and its world court. se se 8 Next Article—The Hand of American Imperialism in Creating the Court. Workers (Communist) Party Has Your Street Nucleus Adopted a Shop Nucleus List? Have you adopted a shop nucleus? There are a number of shop nuclei who can turn in a larger number of names for a three weeks’ trial sub- scription #2 The DAILY WORKER than they can pay for and a number of street nuclei tell us they have the money but not the names, The plan is to get the names fro the, shop nuclei and where the street nucleus cannot supply enuf names they should adopt a shop nucleus who can supply the names. Names of workers to whom the pa- per is sent need not be in your own oiled fighting machine. The international campaign which the executive committee is running for an international trade union week feature of the mass work. To the ex- tent that it carries out its decision on this question, it will advance on its path to the mass organization, Wanted: Suggestions and Experiences on the Work of Concentration Groups As the Young Workers League in- tensifies its campaign to reorganize the organization upon a shop nucleus basis, numerous problems arise which never confronted the young-Commun- ists before. Among these problems are those that face the concentration group. How shall it conduct its work? What are its tasks? How can this task be accomplished? What are the best methods of procedure? From what experience can they learn to im- prove their work. These questions are Young Worker Sub-Campai The national office is receiving about twenty-odd new “subs” a day on the “sub” campaign. This is far too little. At this rate it would take us close to a year to make the quota of five thousand new subscribers. Our comrades must choose-special squads to visit unions, outside clubs, party units, fraternal organizations, etc. and get subscrip- tions there. The units have depended too much on our own members buying the cards. The object of the campaign daily problems for our league mem- bers, *The Young Workers League column of The. DAILY WORKER is now being opened for short, meaty contributions from league members on the experiences and suggestions that they have in concentration group work,’ Send your articles to the Young Workers League so that we can use this column for a thoro dis- cussion of these problems which will be of incalculable value to the better ‘functioning of the league. gn Progressing Too Slowly workers rather than the league mem- bers, It was for this reason that the campaign was made a popular one... Put more pep into the drive. Get flying squads on the job. Have them gather every night. Get up lists of the organizations that meet on that night and distribute them among the members-of the squad. This will bring far better results than conducting the drive in thé desultory manner in which we have been doing this very is to reach the non-Communist young ' important work. Glorious Opportunities for Youth Come to Light in Juvenile Court (By a Worker Correspondent) YOUNGSTOWN, imagine three little chaps, 15, 13, and 12 years of age violating the so-called Curfew law? Maybe you have never heard of such a law, but Youngstown has the pleasure of one. . A couple of days ago, the above mentioned boys were arrested and turned over to the juvenile court. The reason for their arrest is as follows: Being unable to get their daily meals, they decided to 160k for a job, where they could ‘earn something. They happened to meet a boss of a Ohio — Can you | establishment. bakery, who offered them jobs in his The kids started to work for him from 6 p. m.,to 6 a, m. For this work they were getting two loaves of bread. When the Young- stown officials found out about this they arrested them on the charge of defying the Curfew daw. Instead of arresting the owner of the bakery for exploiting child labor, they arrested the boys. Instead of giving them food and shelter, the “good hearted” offi- cials sent them to the juvenile court. That is how the officials here are trying to abolish child labor, “Hundred Percenters” Want Investigation of California Schools LOS ANGELES,. Jan.:29.—A resolu- territory—the names will be given to| tion callin for @ federal investigation the nucleus nearest to the territory | of the scliools here ‘was adopted at where the new readers live and the|@ Joint meeting-of the ten chapters nucleus turning in names will be noti-| Of the daughters of the American rev- fied of the nucleus to which nameg| lution following a report by Mrs, W. have been given. Twenty-five three week trial subs from each nucleus would mean about twenty-five hundred new readers. Three dollars a week 25 trial subs. W. Stilson on the activities of the Young Workers (Communist) League and the Young Pioneer groups in the schools and colleges of California. The resolution fpllows: ‘We, as will pay for vi Nine dollars.will pay tananiers of the American revolution, we a duty of patriotic service, to for a three week trial sub to 25 names. oppose every, movement that \ is » Take this plan up at your next destructive of the spirit of loyalty, meeting and send in your answer in deep regard and faith in the principles money or names to the City Dept.,/and ideals of our government. We DAILY WORKER, 19 So. Lincoln St., deplore the growth of Communism and we will do the rest. in the United States and particularly, ENTERTAINMENT AND | [titi etoss clon and DANCE BY SECTION 6, SATURDAY, JAN, 30TH ‘We therefore recommend that the federal authorities investigate this situation, with view to eradication of Communist propaganda.’ Shop Nucleus No. 27, Section Six, MILWAUKEE Y. W. L. BAZAAR Chicago, has arranged an entertain- MILWAUKEE, Wis.—All Milwau- ment afid dance for Saturday even- |kee workers are asked to donate ing, January 30th, There will be two |s80mething for the Young Workers Speakers, one in Slovak and one in |League bazaar that is to be held at English, a good entertainment, and |Miller’s Hall, February 13 and 14, an excellent ce orchestr: jo |1926. Send or bring all donations to price of admission is set. Pay at the |the Y. W. L, headquarters, 802 State door whatever you can or think the |St., Milwaukee, Wisconsin, “evening's fun will be worthy All workers are invited to attend.* The Place is Slovak Hall, 2751 Wi Chi- / eago Ave, : AiR 4 Come Ahead Into the Young Workers —minnnentis NEWARK YOUTH: ATTENTION! The Young Workers’ League of Newark, New Jersey, wil hold its third anual dance in the Newark Labor Lyceum, 704 §, 14th street, Newark, on Saturday evening, Jan, 30, 1926. Admission is only 35 cents and not only is everybody welcome but a good time is guaranteed or money re- funded. — Missing Young Workers, Those comrades who have issues Nos. 9, 10, 15, 29 and 40 of the Young Worker are ‘requested to send them to the National Office, 1113 W, Wash- ington street, Chicago. RUSS YOUTH MEETS IN FEB, MOSCOW, U. S. S. R—The fifth Plenary session of the central com- mittee of the Russian Leninist Young Communist League has decided to convene the seventh congress of the league in Moscow on _ Feb ary 20, 1926, ‘The agenda is as follows: 1, The present situation and the policy of the party, 2. Report of the central committee, 8. Report of the delegation of the R. L,Y. ©. L. to the executive com- mittee of the Young Communist Inter- national, 4. The next tasks of the league, 5. On the situation and education of the working youth, 6. Thp work on the land, It is expected that some thot delegates will be present, each one representing 1,500 mem! ‘ } WORKERS | \