The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 14, 1926, Page 4

Page Four THE DAILY WORKER —$_$__.. Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 2118 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, I. Phone Monroe 4713 ‘ SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mali (in Chicago only): By mall (outside of Chicago): 98.00 per year $4.50 six monthe | $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 Bivd., Chicago, Ilinole 3. LOUIS BNGDAHL Bitters WILLIAM F. DUNNE MORITZ J, LOEB. -Business Manager a Batered as second-class mail September 21, 1923, at the post-office at Chi- cago, lil, under the act of March 3, 1879. =™ Advertising rates on application. Lewis’ Betrayal of the Miners The monstrous betrayal of the anthracite miners by John L. Lewis and his henchmen at Philadelphia yesterday transcends any- ‘thing known in all the long record of betrayals in the history of the struggles of the working class in America. The miners have gained nothing after 165 days of striking against the despotism of the anthracite trust in spite of the part that Lewis, himself, at the tri-district convention held at Scranton last summer, presented irrefutable evidence that the anthracite miners could not enjoy anything resembling a decent standard of living on the wages they were receiving. Lewis promised them a raise of ten per cent and better working conditions. Failure to reach an agreement resulted in the strike being called on Sep- tember 1. From the first day it was evident that no determined fight would be made to win the strike. The demand of the progressive elements for an effective strike by calling out the maintenance men and making the strike general was crushed by the combination of police, courts and officials of the miners’ organization. Everyone who had had experience with strikes recognized the fact that the officials were preparing to betray the anthracite miners. The van- guard of the strike had to be crushed in order that the combination of union officials and mine owners could smash the main body of strikers. Monday will complete the betrayal when a rump convention of the tri-district will be called to ratify it. Hastily called meetings of the locals to select delegates to the tri-district conference will be held Saturday and Sunday. Then on Monday will gather the hench- men of the Lewis machine—gangsters, thugs and gunmen—who will endeavor to terrorize the spokesmen of the rank and file should any of them slip thru to the convention. This is the last chance spokesmen for the rank and file will have to determine their work- ing conditions until August 31, 1930, if the betrayal is ratified, and every effort should be made to secure delegates that will challenge the treachery of Lewis. After Monday work will be resumed and then after January 1, 1927, but not oftener than once a year, either the miners or the owners may propose “modifications” in the wage scale. . Instead of a 10 per cent raise as demanded the miners return under the identical conditions prevailing before the strike. A board of two men, one representing the Lewis machine and the other the bosses, will have full power, without reservation or restriction, to make decisions affecting wages. That means that no matter how high the cost of living may rise in the next five years the wages of the miners will remain stationary. Lewis boasts that no arbitration clause exists, but this system is worse than arbitration, the failure of which would enable the men to again strike for their rights. James J. Davis, the labor-baiting secretary of labor in strike ‘breaker Coolidge’s cabinet, is endeavoring to share credit with John L. Lewis in this “settlement.” Davis is being groomed to run for governor of Pennsylvania against Pinchot, who opposes Coo- lidge. That means there will be a vacancy in the cabinet and John L. Lewis, who supported Coolidge in the last campaign, expects to get the job. Since the Coolidge administration is the most reactionary and corrupt in the history of the country, the cabinet officials must be able to sink low enough in their hatred of labor to qualify for such odious jobs. Lewis, by this betrayal, has reached the depths where he is fit to associate with Andrew W. Mellon, the boss of the Coo- lidge regime. Kill Tax Publicity The Morgan-Mellon-Coolidge coalition of democrats and repub- licans in the senate, in addition to their conspiracy to donate a few mililon dollars to Mr. Mellon and his millionaire friends, have passed the bill to kill publicity on income taxes. Mellon, Ford, Rockefeller and other nabobs were annoyed by the tax publicity, especially as it enabled the workers to estimate their enormous incomes and exploded the fiction that the financial and industrial lords of the nation realize small profits on their investments. Certain republicans voted against the proposition to kill pub- licity because they are up for re-election and fear the effect on their fight at the polls. The most outstanding of this element was the notorious Lenroot, bell-wether for the republican pro-court group. If there had been a close vote Lenroot would have voted with the majority, but since the majority was safe without him he was per- mitted to deviate from his position in order to have campaign material this fall. That the Coolidge administration is firmly convinced the world court will ensure the peace of the world is evidenced by the fact that a war department appropriation has been approved which provides $18,050,000 for aircraft maintenance, ineInding the building of 305 new planes. The mere bagatelle of $2,200,000 was added. to that for experimentation. resid Sen artntesisan stein Losovsky: “The unions are organizations of combat against eapitalist exploitation.” Marx: “The trade unions are schools for socialism.” By JOHN HE complicated game of cabinet building continues in Germany. They are juggling with the possibili- ties of a “small coalition,” a “big coalition,” a “government of the centre,” a “minority government of the right parties,” and even of a “gov- ernment of officials.” The social- democracy takes part in this miser- able indoor sport and thus helps to obscure the real situation in the eyes of the working masses. It 1s but natural that this unworthy Parliamentary game, these under- handed dealings behind the scenes, these intrigues for cabinet posts, call forth an everbroadening disillusion- ment and embitterment among the masses, The economic crisis becomes more and more serious. The situation is best characterised in the statement by General Director, D. Reuch, one of the chief representatives of the Ger+ man iron and steel industry: “Eco- nomic death has begun and _ will probably continue in increased extent in the coming months.” NDUSTRY in Germany is dying; the number of unemployed is rapidly growing. The socio-political achieve- ments of the workers have long since vanished—the bourgeoisie is firmly determined to make no concessions to the proletariat. Let the unemployed starve. The lower strata of the state employes can continue their already long drawn out fasting-cure. Petty bourgeois existences are being ruined by the hundreds of thousands. The crisis grips also agriculture, Symptoms of discontent are already appearing among the peasantry. The entire people looks to the government and the parliament and demands help and the solution of the crisis, The government however con- siders itself only provisional and find any sort of way out. Parliament is in no position to form an actual majority government. The only pos- sibility would be the dissolution of |parliament. But only one single party | dares, to make this demand—the Com- ;munist. The other parties view the |situation with chattering teeth and are seized with terror whenever the possibility of dissolving parliament is Notes of an Internationalist CRIES FOR DICTATORSHIP parliament proves itself incapable to | Workers(Communist) Party THE DAILY WORKER PEPPER. even mentioned. The official organ of the centre party, “Germania,” ex- pressed the feelings of all bourgeois parties (the social democracy includ- ed) on this question when it said: “Has the social democracy, has any- body at all any interest in holding elections during this miserable win- ter? This could only bring a rich harvest to the Communists.” THE impotence of the bourgeois parliament on ghe one hand leads ever greater massdp toward the Com- munists, toward fhq@-side of the dictatorship of thé proletariat, but on the other hand}voices are be- ginning to be raise for the open non-parliamentary di@tatorship of the bourgeoisie, A meeting of Pomeranian junkers demands: “ ruthless interventio: gram can be carried the complete collap: pro- . Without this . of economy is inevitable. We dem of an economic dictator who, without consideration for parlament will carry out the measures Ancymbent upon a receivership over / ¢@rman economy.” An organization of the German peo- ple’s party, which/is in the hands of basic industrialists, in a telegram addressed to Hindenburg demands the elimination of parliament: ‘The Ger- man people demand ffom this govern- ment that it immediafely, if necessary under application §f’article 48 of the federal constitution, take all .meas- ures adapted to the safeguarding of state functions, of combatting the turther fateful growth of unemploy ment and of checking the collapse of the industries,” i ae the present parliament no force- ful majority government of the bourgeoisie is possible—the dissolu- tion of parliament is dangerous be- cause it would usher in the victory of |the Communists, therefore the bourge- oisie begins to ery for naked dictator- ship, for an “economic dictator,” for the elimination of parliament, for the state of seige—for the bayonets. The bourgeoisie now formally begins to organize a campaign for its open dic- tatorship. The gentlemen forget only one thing: that theory for the bour- geois dictatorship will also arouse the desperate and enraged cry of the working class for.the. dictatorship of |the proletariat. the institution N. Y. Needle Workers in Organization Drive (Continued from page 1.) ionists who are members of the gen- eral strike committee, devote the en- tire day to carrying out the work of unionizing the open ‘shops, Both Lo- cals 2 and 22, furnish large quotas to this committee. Thus we see carried out into prac- tice what the left wing of the Ameri- can labor movement has always said— with a virile and live wire rank and file on the job, no task is impossible. Without any outside help the mili- tants are successfully unionizing the ladies’ garment industry in New York City, while the old_administrationites stand at the side lines and sneeringly refer to the rank and file workers as a “coffee and cake committee.” After the Jobbers. Elias Marks, who is in charge of the settlements of the cloak shops, when interviewed by The DAILY WORKER at Stuyvesant Casino, stat- ed that a drive to unionize the big jobbers has just began, In the past, many jobbers who had contracts with the union gave work out to open shop contractors. The organization com- mittee is investigating. and hopes to rectify this situation as quickly as pos- sible by unionizing the contractor shops. Bosses Secure Injunction. An injunction against the Interna- tional Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Un- ion has been secured by the Renter Dress Co., 498 Seventh Ave., one of the largest dress houses in New York City. The 400 workers of the shop have been on strike for over two weeks and have set up special ‘strike headquarters at Bryant Hall, Sixth Ave., and 43rd St. All of the large dress manufacturers are eagerly watching this struggle, viewing it as a test case of the strength of the union, The owners of the Renter Dress Co. have a gang of sluggers to intimidate, the strikers. the Sluggers and the injunction spir- ited picketing takes place in front of that shop daily. 175 Arrests. Since the organization drive has started over 175 workers have been arrested. This has in no way daunted the fighting spirit of the militant rank and filers, who are putting the fullest amount of life into the struggle. Those in charge of the drive are Chas. S. Zimmerman; general manager of the organization department; Elias Marks, cloak department, and A. Ko- retz, dress department. In spite of] 6 WITH THEY CONDUCTED - BY TH YOUNG COMMUNIST APPROACHES ' $ NG WORKERS LEAGUE INTERNATIONAL YOUNG SOCIALISTS FOR UNITED FRONT OF YOUTH The Y. C. L, recently sent a letter to the Socialist Youth International in which there was an appeal made of the union organization of for united front action, on the basis following points: Against war, trade young workers, for young workers’ delegations to Soviet Russia. It received a reply refusing unity on all points except that of @ young workérs’ dele- gation to Soviet Russia. The Y. ©. I. in its reply accepted this, urged that unity should Vig operate on all the a With regard to the . 4 young workers’ delegation to Soviet Russia, It suggested the formation of joint committees of socialist and Communist youth organizations in every country electing as wide and as representative: delegations as possible, The Socialist. Youth International offered to send a delegation composed of members of its own E. C. only who are all members of the social-demo- cratic party. This cannot be accepted. The delegation must be as wide as possible, covering all sections of the movement and preferably containing numbers of young workers from the factories, This development is of great import- ance for us in the United States, We are now starting our own campaign for the united front of youth. and in éyery district with a view to The Young Communist League of Iceland .was founded in 1922, on the anniversary of the insurrection in Reykyavik, at which the working youth fought against 400 armed fas- cists, and where 26 young Commun- ists were arrested. In May, 1924, the league issued its own organ, Raudi Fannin. It is incidental that the Y. C. L. of Canada came into existence at the same:time and started its paper at the same time, Build the DAILY WORKER, with the Young Workers (Communist) League Bourgeosie Sports. Build Pillars of Workers’ Power---Join By Martin Abern. ore party is intensifying its cam- paign to draw every eligible mem- ber into a labor union and to make him active therein. Thru the labor unions, our party gains access to the | large organized mass of workers and | tries to exercise influence and leader- ship over them. Without the Com- munists and left wingers working within them with a consistent policy and program, and striving for leader- ship and control on such a basis, talk of revolution becomes balderdash. Nor will it do to talk of other roads and campaign for dual organizations as means of contact with and de- velopment of the working class, “The development of the proletariat could not proceed by any other road than that of the trade unions,” declared Comrade Lenin. America is no excepe tion to that opinion, despite its Greens, Lewises, Hillmans and others. Germany has its Liepert and Grass- man, England its MacDonald and Thomas, France its Jouhaux, Yet revolutionary victory lies in domina- tion of the organizations they now control. In these mass organs of struggle of the working class, our party members must be firmly organized in their frac- tions, always prepared to take up whatever struggles and issues arise in the local unions, central labor coun- cils, district councils, labor conven- tions,, Communists have to be able not only to guide the workers gener- ally along correct paths, to know only the theoretical phase and development of the class struggle, but to lead on concrete issues, Various Burning Issues ig the Unions. In the unions will arise many is- portant than others, depending on the situation in and outside the orgariza- tion, However, our members must be prepared to take the lead in questions of wages, living standards, other trade questions, strike proposals, campaigns to organize the unorganized, trade union unity, amalgamation, labor party and independent political actfon by the workers, Communists Must Take Lead on Concrete issue: For those who join and those who are in already, many immediate prob- lems of interest confront the unions and the Communists therein. For in- stance: ‘ { In the Machinists’ Union, there is the big issue of class collaboration, exemplified thru the “B. and O” plan, To smash this class co-operation theme is to go a long way toward 4 an d sues, all of value, but some more im-| the Labor Unions Now! real labor party @evelopment there. In the Amalgamated Clothing Work- ers, the Nash-Hillnfan agreement “or- ganizing” Cincinnatti symbolizes a great threatening adanger, the slide toward company ufionism in place of a fighting AmalgaMiated. ‘Then, too, all militants and party members will have to conduct a struggle against the terroristic methods now being em- ployed against all progressive ele- ments by the Hillman administration. In the I. L. G. W. U., the left wing must consolidate its forces ideologic- ally and organizationally to be effec- tive in their struggle to eliminate Sigmanism completely from the gar- ment workers, In the railroad indus- try, a campaign to organize the unor- ganized into the various unions is out- standingly necessary, and no doubt at this time is the most appealing issue, probably more than the burning issne of amalgamation $f the railroad unions. Among the auto workers, or- Are you a tired fadical? Are you an energetic radical? Are you any kind of a radical? Or what are you? We do not ask these questions out of idle curiosity or for the purpose of gathering statistics; “We ask in order to find out how many ‘of the red- blooded, fun-loving? Working men and women of Chicago will come to the Temple Hall on February 27 in order to have the time of their lives, Naturally, you ceed to ask of us what will take pliic® at the hall on that date, And wé whisper into your ears: the Fourth Annual Red Revel Masquerade Ball! To those who have been to one or all of the previous Red Revel Balls we need not speak, They have all en- joyed hugely the fine fun, dancing, camaraderie, and amusements which |have characterized those that have gone before, But to those unfortunate persons who have for one ‘reason or another failed to attend in the past we will say this: Temple Hall {s situated at Marsh- field and Van Buren, February 27, is ona Saturday night. Fifty cents is the price in advance, and an extra two bits—making a to- tal of seventy-five jcents—is the price at the door. bay! And if you kno} on your best 1 this, then put bring your best girl—or someo! if you must— and be at the order to take part in this ands of unorganized auto workers into the Auto Workers’ Union and Machin- ists’ Union, especially, are outstand- ing requirements, demanding full en- ergies of all Communists. Among the coal miners, our comrades must be alive to the formation of the Progres- sive Miners Committee in order to fight successfully the Lewis and Far- rington machines particularly. And in every union, the Communists have work to do which would do more to establish the Communists among the masses of workers than almost any other phase of work. Trade union activity is Qne which every party member can and must be active in. Party members! Join the union of your trade or industry! Be active in the Fraction! Help build the left wing! “The unions are the pillars of the workers’ power,” says Losovsky, Win ganization of the hundreds of thous-!the union for Communism, Reds, Radicals, Militants and Progressives to Gather for Jolly Events on Feb. 27th everyone else will be there? Need we expatiate on the entrancing music, or grow enthusiastic about the wealth and color of the national costumes that will be there? Shall we point out that there will be a number of enticing cash prizes for the best cos- tumes? Must we declare that unless you are there you will find yourself, on the morning of the 28 of February, cursing yourself for being such an utterly damned fool? Of course not! You are wise enuf to make sure to be there! PARTY MEMBERS ATTENTION! A meeting of all party members who are shareholders of the Rus- sian American Industrial Corpora- tion will be held at the party hi quarters, 108 East 14th Street, New York City on Wednesday, Feb, 17, at 8 p.m. All party members who shareholders are instructed to attend this meeting without fail, ‘ —_—_—— But Not For I. W. W. OLYMPIA, Wash.—(FP)—Goy, Ro- land Hartley, wealthy Washington | lumberman, has issued 130 . paroles and final discharges trom the ‘state at .- reformatory and 61 paroles and final discharges from the Hear | ir Walla Walla. None of the 1. W. W. boys were in the emanate Zi Za Organize the Workers’ Sports Movement! | INDUSTRIAL NOTES | The Passaic Strike. The Passaic textile strike now has in its ranks a few thousand of young workers, and the Young Workers League is very active in their ranks. The young workers’ problems are now being taken up especially by thé united front .committee which is» in charge of the strike. A special meet- ing of the young strikers has been called by the’ committee in Order to discuss youth problems. This’ step already shows the step forward which has been taken by the textile work- ers who realize the importance of the youth in the industry and tlie special problems which they face. The league has an organizer in the field now, Comrade Clarence Miller, and there is every prospect of a network of Young Workers League shop nuclei being built in Passaic as a result of the strike and the league activity there. The Eastern Ohio Young Workers Conference. Harvey Murphy, special organizer of the Young Workers League in the field, ig from eastern Ohio that the work of organizing a young work- ers’ conference in that section of the country is proceeding very gratifying. Delegates- will bethere from points not only in Ohio but also in West Vir- ginia. They are coming from the mines, the glass works, the canning factories and as many other of the big industries as were reached by the agitation of the league, The response of the young workers has been very enthusiastic and a g working con- ference will be held in Bellaire on February 28. Be YOUNG WORKER CORRESPONDENT MEET The members and sympathizers of the New York Y. W. L. are invited to the lecture on “How to Write Shap News,” which will be given by the proletarian journalist, Joe Freeman, on Sunday, February 14, 2 o'clock sharp, at 105 Eldridge street, New York. After the lecture there will be or- ganized a young workers’ correspon- dence club. ’ \ Chicago League Member Meet February 14th A general membership meeting of the Chicago Young Workers (Com- munist) League will be held Sunday, Feb. 14, at Biltmore Hall, 2032 W. Division St., 2:00 p. m, The activities of the Chicago league and trade union work will be present- ed for discussion by Comrades Salz- man and Meltz, respectively, : Solve Financial Question; ; Organize Youth Fraction An exchange of snappy communica- tions between the district office and the unit was the result of an unclear attitude on the question of finances. Once, however, the question was dis- cussed the entire atmosphere changed. The comrades of the unit felt that the national organization and the dis- trict had not taken into account its peculiar loca] situation. The situation was really bad. Much unemployment in the locality, etc. Then an accident, which altho small resulted in creating a,.furore; the unit never officially received the notification of the raise in dues. against the high dues payments, When the speaker appeared before the meet- ing of the unit and explained: The na- | tional office is endeavoring to make dnes payments the center point of our entire finances, the national office is pit an acute financial crisis which is tlireatening the life of the Young Worker. Once dues are paid regularly by all members we can start system- jatically to do away with the extra- {ordinary methods of raising funds; we can concentrate on raising, money | for special funds outside the league, The payments can be made easier if the members pay 10 cents per week, ete. All this finally resulted in the unit going on record unanimously for the payment of the 40 cents which gave it more time to give to other matters, Thus a youth fraction was organized in the steel union and the first study circle in a long time was also organized. Chicago League Issues District Bulletin Starting with an attractive cover cartoon on Leninism,‘the first issue of District 8, Young Workers (Com- munist) League, which is being issued monthly, is interesting and instructive. its editorial page tells of the pur- pose of the Bulletin, invites discus- sion and criticism from the member ship on the material published in the Bulletin, One of its pages which is exceeding- ly attractive is an organization page which has a chart showing the various units of the league, and then explains the purpose and functions of all the units“from thé nucleus to the N. E, , Two pages of the Bulletin are devoted to the industrial activity of the league, This gives detailed information to the comrades and aids in carrying on their youth fraction activity in the unions, Four pages are devoted to mass agitation and propaganda. Here the issuance of a factory bulletin is urged, an outline for the discussion on the life of Lenin given, The rest of the material is devoted to distribution of the Young: Worker, of the Lenin, Lieb- Knecht, Luxemburg pamphlet, of the other league literature. ‘The Young Worker sub drive is taken up and methods of developing it discussed as well as the question of worker cor- respondence. ; t One page is devosed to sports w and another*to the activity of tho Young Pioneers, , It, had therefore gone on record”