The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 20, 1926, Page 6

THE DAILY WORKER Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. . 1118 W. Washington Blyd., Chicago, Il. Phone Monroe 4712 Pe SA RN SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mali (im Chicago only): By mail (outeide 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 Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 1118 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Ilinolé J. LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F, DUNNE MORITZ J. LOEB.... Bntered as second-class mail September 21, 1923, at the post-office at Chi- cago, LiL, under the act of March 3, 1879. EP 290 ‘Advertising rates on application. SSS . ag Repeating Lewis’ Propaganda John™L, Lewis, the ne-plus-ultra of labor lieutenants of cap- italism, achieves distinction not only because of his ability to betray the organized mine workers of this country, but he now. becomes} the theoretical and intellectual ieader of the rich Jewish fur manu- facturers who are trying to break the strike of the 12,000 fur workers, Lewis raises the bogey of Communism every time he wants to stifle exposure of his role as agent of the mine barons. Now, in New York, the manufacturers have taken up the same hue and ery against the formidable lines of pickets. Tho Lewis is a lamentable fraud as a labor leader he might achieve undying fame as the bell- wether of the obnoxious crew endeavoring to drive the workers oft New York back to sweat shop conditions. Certainly we Communists have no objections to such creatures assailing us. To be attacked by Lewis in the anthracite and the fur manufacturers in New York is to be distinguished. To incur such enmity is praise-worthy and we shall endeavor always to merit it. We do object, however, to any one trying to befog the elementary issues involved in labor struggles by raising the fake ery of Com- munism. But no matter how much the petty capitalists of New York or the mercenaries of big capital at the head of the trade unions may rail against us, we are not injured thereby. The workers in every industry will not fail to perceive that the most determined fighters for the demands of labor and those most thoroly hated and feared by the greedy exploiters are the Communists. In the Furriers’ Union, the Communists, who were a very small minority in past struggles, now play an important role be- cause in the bitter fight against the Kaufman reactionary machine our forces convinced thousands of workers that the Communist Party is the real vanguard of the working class. If the real opposition to Lewis comes from the Communists, when the full realization of the immensity of his betrayal spreads to every habitation in the anthracite slave regions the masses there, who are now awakening, will unquestionably follow our leadership. Purcell’s Impression of Our Trade Unions President A. A. Purcell of the International Federation of Trade Unions, fraternal delegate to the last A. F. of L. convention, who toured this country speaking for world trade union unity, gave an interview recently summing up his impressions of the American labor movement. He is astounded at the backwardness of our trade union movement because of the following: Schemes to buy up the machinery of production by investing in savings banks; the number of competing small unions instead of amalgamating them into larger units in each indsutry; the B. and O. plan; ‘the lack of solidarity in the workers’ ranks, and the opposition by the A. F. of L. officialdom to sending a trade union delegation to Soviet Russia. In pointing out these defects in trade union policy in this coun- try Purcell exposes the reason for the powerlessness of our trade unions. He graphically describes this policy in one sentence when he says, “The American slogan seems to be: ‘We take a step in ad-| vance when we get into the picture with the capitalists.’ ” Purcell points out that President Green’s statement that the! British trade union delegation to Soviet Russia was composed of Communists is absolutely untrue. These things show the difference between the leadership of the British and Amercian trade union movements. The British move- ment is forging ahead on the road of class struggle against the bosses. In this country the trade unions are wallowing in a servile policy of co-operation with the capitalists. The American workers must sooner dr later learn to say along with Purcell: “It does not sound right to me ... . . we cannot hope to gain by schemes proposed by the capitalists.” When thousands of American trade unionists begin to say that then our trade unions will really function as defense organs for the entire working class. f Lese Majesty Against Wood Antonio Paguia, city councilman of Manilla, Philippine Islands, attacked Major General Leonard Wood, watchdog and gunman of American imperialism, for his despotic regime in the islands. For this “crime” he was sentenced to prison for four months, sentenced to pay a fine of $100 and disqualified from holding office. This latest act of despotism against the Filipinos was con- dueted: by the American chief of police in Manilla. The reptile press reports that “Wood had nothing to do with the prosecution.” Those who know the character of the liveried thug who placed the iron heel of militarism upon the necks of the steel strikers of Gary in 1919-20 realize what a gentle, retiring, modest creature the general is. The fact that Wood is dictator of the islands proves that no prosecution of such a nature could start without his consent. A servile native judge, corrupted by American imperialism, de- cided that Paguia, for criticism of Wood during an electoral cam- paign, was guilty of “sedition” against the United States “to which he owes allegiance.” Probably the victim, like the majority of the informed Filipinos, denies that he owes allegiance to a nation guilty of the crimes perpetrated against the natives of the islands. A list of the crimes of military invaders and governors against the inhabitants of the Philippine Island would make the charges against King George ILI contained in.the declaration of independence seem trivial in comparison. If ever an oppressed people had good cause to rise and throw off the tyranny of an invading power itis the Filipinos.’ This eon- vietion of the Manilla councilman for the crime of “lese majesty” against Wood is one more indictment against American imperial- ism in those islands and enlightened American workers will sym- pathize with and support any move the natives of theg oppressed What the Bosses’ By JAY LOVESTONE, - U. THE McCLINTIC BILL. Bete bill introduced by Congress- man J. V. McClintic, of Oklahoma is an out-and-out deportation bill. It makes no pretense whatsoever at de- laying persecution of the foreign-born worker by giving the latter an cp- portunity to enjoy the costly and useless due-process of the law pro- jVided for-in other measures, The McClintic bill fits in very well! with the bill introduced by Congress- man Aswell. We have seen that the bill introduced’ by the gentleman from Louisiana provided for certain ar- rangements which made it much more difficult for foreign-born workers to become citizens of the United States. The McClintie “bill follows right on the footsteps of the Aswell bill and declayes that'any foreign-born worker who has failed to become a citizen, without in the slightest way taking into account the difficulties in the path of becoming a citizen, is to be punished very severely thru deporta- tion, To Deport the Unnaturalized Worker, E find that ‘the bill declares that all workers who ‘have been five years or more:in the United States and who have not applied for citizen- ship papers shall be deported if an application for citizenship is not filed within six months of the enactment of this bill as a law. This declaration is as effective a strike-breaking weapon as that pro- posed by the Aswell bill. It gives the Department of Labor unlimited power to cajole and persecute workingmen. It really turps the department of la- bor into an open strikebreaking agency, : Little time need be spent here in examing the difficulties that interfere with foreign-born workers becoming citizens of the United States.’ We simply want to cite one ipcident which is typical rather than excep- tional in the treatment accorded to the foreign-born workers by the ruling class of the United States. Orr, in the federal district court of Pittsburgh, refused © ‘naturalization papers to workers because they were struggling against the mine operators, The judge then said: “Public senti- men is against the strike.” An appli- cant who passed every test given him in applying for citizenship was told by this judge: “Go back to work and I will grant you papers.” Under the provisions of the Mc- Clintic Bill, this worker, who was not allowed to become a citizen because of the high-handed conduct of a judge of the coal operators, will then be punished and deported. It is very in- structive to note that first the bour- geoisie do not allow the workers to become citizens, don’t allow the work- ers to become natur#iized, and then enact laws to punish workers for not being citizens, for not ‘being natural- ized. This is capitalist class justice with a vengeance, 4 There! is no limit to fhe number of workers that Mr, Me(lintic would have deported. The more the better, in his opiniom. We find section 2 of | During the sttike of the bituminous coal miners in 1922, Judge Charles D. Tomsky Speaks on the Work of the (Concluded. from last: issue) Dealing with the activity.of the An- glo-Russian unity committee, Tomsky declared, that perhaps from the point of view of Communism its decisions and declarations left much to be wish- ed for, one shoulé perhaps have inten- sifled one or :two expressions used against the opponents of trade union unity, but politically considered, that which was said *was essentially cor- rectly said in order to make it accept- able to the working class or to the European trade union functionaries. The Anglo-Russian bloe has complete- ly justified itself and this is corrobo- rated by the affiliation of the Finnish and Norwegian trade unions to its point of view. But to turn the Anglo- Russian committee into an English Russian-Norwegian-Finnish committee would mean to awaken the impression of an attempt to create a new trade union international. Tomsky declared that the British trade unions were right in their de- sire to take a few preparatory steps before calling the conference, to dis- cuss with other trade unions, as far as supporters of the idea of unity were present in them and afterwards ap- proach Amsterdam once again, and then call the conference without a for- ‘Openshop Long’ Calls (Continued from page 1) make headway. Organized labor is not ire be frightened by such tricks, But organized labor should also wake up ‘o the fact that the open shoppers will go to any lengths in order to dis- credit the trade union movement and to incriminate “trouble makers.” The American plan association is on the job in this state, and is proud of the fact that they have increased their membership during the last year. The trade union movement must be unified. The unorganized must be brot into the unions, The campaign that ‘the Cleveland Feder- ation of Labor, under the instructions of the American Federation of Labor is conducting to organize the unor- ganized is not vigorous enough. The rank and file of organized labor must be drawn into the organization cam- paign. Men, women and young work- ers must be Hned up and no smug self: : satisfaction that “we are doing every- thing that can be done” will suffice. The American plan association is growing in power, Class collaboration schemes, the buying of stock by the workers—“to make them shareholders in the operations of the company,” ete, ete. are only tricks to win the workers away from trade union or- ganization, Fight Class» Collaboration, It the American Federation of La- bor officialdom knows these things why does it not warn the workers against them? Why does it not take steps to fight against them? re- part of the world may take to expel Wood and everything that » represents, , maining indifferent to them—in ‘fact, by sponsoring such relations the “B, & OQ.” plan, the Ameri Federa- & this bill declares: “Every alien ad- mitted to the United States on and after the passage of this act who does not make application to become a citizen within a day of three years shall be eligible for deportation.” Closing the Doors of Citizenship to the Workingman. 1O the superficial observer, it would appear that these gentlemen from Louisiana and Oklahoma are very anxious that the foreign-born workers should become citizens of the United States. The fact is quite the contrary. These lackeys of the employing class have not introduced a single bill to make it easier for foreign-born work- ers to become citizens of the United States. Instead, they have spent their time working feveris to enact laws to cut down the mobility, to limit we rights and destroy the freedom of the foreign-born workers. It is an easy task to say that a foreign-born worker should become a citzen in three 's after he. lands. Why haven't these licksp vf the exploiters proposed a = sure to remove the restrictions interfering with foreign-born workers becoming citizens of the United States? Why haven't these servants of the bosses proposed a ‘single bill which would inake it possible +for foreign-born workers to become citizens at any time after they arrived in this. coun- try? The reason for this action of the congressmen is a very plain one and will be understood by all workers. These congressmen are serving the bosses. Therefore these congressmen cannot take a single step which will tend to improve the economic condi- tions of the workers or in any way facilitate their becoming citizens of the United States. These congress- men cannot take a single step which will remove the restrictions against the foreign-born workers because that would mean that the foreign-born workers would be helped. Thesé con- gressmen can do nothing else except defend the interests of the capitalists twho are their masters, Striking Labor at Every Turn. fas McClintie bill does not forego a single possibility to take hostile measures against the working men who come from other countries, to the shores of the United States, In ac- cordance with the provisions of this bill, the secretary of labor and the attorney general have power to deport all unnaturalized workers who have not been “regularly” admitted into the United States and who do not comply with these provisions. Thus, if this bill should become law, the secretary of labor and attorney gen- eral or the numerous agents of these two departments would have a right to arrest any worker at any time they please in order to investigate him to find out whether he landed regularly or otherwise. In the case of a strike in a steel or coal community, agents of the department of justice or the department of labor or both could easily stoop down upon the striking workers and arrest them for examina- tion and deportation. What more ef- fective strike-breaking method could be perfected by any detective agency? And, the United States government being a government of business, by business’ and for business interests, certainly means business in providing for such strikebréaking measures. In mal character between the Russian tunions and Amsterdam, - Will Amsterdam Refuse Again? I am no prophet, said Tomsky, but I believe that Amsterdam wil! also reject this conferences Phe future will show whether or’ not; we must per- haps look for other ways, perhaps to- gether with the English to call a con- ference of the trade unions in favor of trade union unity, perhaps once again thru Amsterdam, or above its head call the workers of the whole world to unity. The numerous demonstrations of solidarity from various countries in favor of the Anglo-Russian committee show that its progr isin accord- ance with the real and needs of the international ie class, It must be absolutely 7 for every- one that the creation a@ united in- ternational embrac! mot only Eu- rope, but also the yoting trade unions of Japan, China and Australia and lat- er also America would be the great- est gain of the international working class movement. For the first time in history the whole internationally organized class of wage workers would stand opposed to the capitalist class. The next task of the Russian un- ions is to establish a brotherly and Unions Bomb. hrowers tion of Labor is opgning the door to the tricksters of the Long type to lay every crime at the door of organized labor. Need Militant Policy. A militant policy is demanded by la- bor today. The unorganized worker will not join the unions for the sake of being in a union,. at protection does the union give him? What will he get out of Day tA his dues and assessments? These are the questions that the workers ask, for they see no advantage in belonging to a un- ion, especially as in most cases— with the exception ‘of the building trades—they must work in open shops, And in some instanées, their pay as organized men, is lower than that of unorganized men, = + Unemployment Increases, Unemployment is increasing in this state, Steel mills, automobile facto- ries are cutting down their forces, What can the American Federation of Labor do in a period of declining pros- perity with workers being compelled to work 9, 10 and more hours a day? There is one issue that the Amert- can Federation of Labor and the Ohio Federation of Labor can raise that will get the support of tens of thou- sands of unorganized men, and that 1s the eight-hour day, That is a formi- dable issue, To introduce it will mean 4 fight. Is the American Federation of Labor willing to fight? If not, its organization campaign will be a fail- ure, the American association will continue to and the condi- tions of the workers @will deteriorate, ‘The eight-hour day Should be the an- swer to the open shoppers. friendly relation with the trade un- ions of the East, in particular with those of Japan, The calling ofa world congress of trade unions with propor- tional representation would in the opinion of the Russian unions be the best metlfod of creating a united trade union international. ‘Neverthe- less, one cannot yet say which way the struggle for unity will go. For us, unity is no agitational maneuver to expose the social traitors, they have been exposed and expo) and exposed again. It would not be worth while to undertake such coniplicated maneuvers against them, For us unity is a great strategic maneuver of the class struggle in the truest and widest sense of the world. Our, aims are to bring the workers together against the dangers of War and against the economic and political of- tensive of capitalism, to establish the ca-operation of the revolutionary workers outside Russia and inside Russia, to propagate the experiences of the latter. The struggle for unity is difficult, but we must and will fight it to its end. (Applause), * * The following comrades took part in the discussion which followed: Losovsky, Riassanoy, Glebov, Avilov, Melnitchansky and Andreyev. The I. L. D. SPEAKERS 10 BE AT BULGARIAN AND LETTISH CLUBS The Bulgarian Club will hold a meeting Sunday afternoon, Feb, 21 at 842 West Adams street. Alex Reid will speak on the Zeigler min- ers’ trial and on the anthracite min- ers, There will also be a speaker in Bulgarian, eae The Lettish Workers’ Society will hold a meeting at larmony Hall, corner Thomas and Kostner Aves., Sunday afternoon, Feb. 21. The Bimba blasphemy trial will be dis- d and also the Zeigler mine ee Workers are urged to reserve March 5 so they can hear and wel come Walter Trumbull at the Inter- national Labor Defense rally at the North Turner Hall. The other speake! ire; Professor Robert Morss tt, Ralph Chaplin and Max S$! man drafting of the resolution in this con- nection was handed over to a com- mittee, Leningrad for United Party. In the same session the party con- gress received the greetings of nu- '|Rue Des Abbesses”; merous delegates from various dis- tricts and from the largest shop nuclei of the Leningrad .organization, The delegates declared, that the Leningrad delegation had broken the decisions of the Leningrad party conference which had voted unanimously its complete confidence in the central committee, that the i cnc Pravda misled the party members and that the Lenin- grad workers and Communists had learnt with the greatest indignation of the voting against the resolution upon the political report, which they accepted fully. The Leningrad party members, in contraiistinction to the Leningrad delegation in ‘the party con- gress, would not oppose themselves to the whole party, but would fight for theacomplete carrying out of the party decisions and for a real maintenance of an iron party unity, above the heads of a few leaders, The speakers communicated numerous unanimous decisions of their shops to this effect. After the Viborg district organiza- tion had taken an attitude similar to the position of the Leningrad delega- The Paris Tee national office of the Workers Party has just published a most valuable and interesting colle¢tion of historical Net of the struggles of the French proletariat to establish power, “The Cannon on Montmartre” which the Thiers tried to take away from the people of Paris by force, which was the point of departure for the development of the raising of the Commune; “Barricade of the Place de * one of the most consi- derable defensive works of the Com- mune; one “Street Barricades in the “Street Battle in the Avenue Du Roule a Neuilly”; "Rue De Rivoli on the Morning of the 24th of May, 1871,” one of the most terrible days in the memory oft Pari A “Ministry of Finance Buildin; slowing the result of the bombard- ment and destruction of Paris by the “civilized” Versailles bourgeoisie; “Fire When You Please!” one of the episodes among a thousand of that bloody week and the lust for blood by the bourgeoisie; “Women Prison- ers jp Concentration Camps,” “Trial of Communards” and many other pic- tures which place before the eyes of the reader the struggles of the Paris Commune in no uncertain terms, There are six pages of fascimilies of the manifestos and proclamations and decrees issued by the Commune and translations of same, The Covers in Three Colors. HE front cover: The execution of the last group of Communardy in a cemetary is reproduced in'three. col- ors. So is the back cover; the fight Congress Wants to Do Against the Workers order to put into force these anti-labor laws, the bill provides that the United States marshall shall secure the names and addresses of all foreign- born workers, ‘This: means cataloging the foreign-born workers for prosecu- tion and persecution at the hands of the agents of the employing class. It means the setting up of a big army of government agents who shall be charged with doing nothing else ex- cept cajoling and terrorizing the workingmen who, happen temporarily to have certain language difficulties or be at a disadvantage because of their having arrived from a foreign country. The McClintic bill, like the Aswell and other bills, also pretends to speak in the interests’ of the foreign-born. workers, But no honest working man will be fooled by this ruse. Every” worker will understand the purpose of these bills, Any legislative measure which aims to deport workers to coun- tries in which they may be imprisoned, tortured or even killed, is not a bill in the interests of the workers. Every bill proposed in congress which aims to limit the freedom, the motions of the ‘working masses, regardless of nativity, is not a measure put forward in the interests of the working class, A Dangerous Union-Busting Machine, i uate: McClintic bill aims to set up deadly efficient strike-breaking and union-smashing machinery, In order to stop this bill from becoming law it is the task of the workers to smash the fanks of the open shoppers and the labor-hating crew, that are behind this bill. If this bill should become a law, it will be enacted, in reality, by the working class of this country. There is no doubt that if organized labor in par- ticular and the working masses in general show a strong front against this measure, it will not be enacted as a law. This bill must be killed and killed in quick time. If this bill lives, trade unionism will die. The Me- Clintic bill will let loose a deportation mania which can do nothing else ex- cept undermine, weaken and paralyse the fighting capacities of the whole working class in the United States, Every working class organization in the United States must denounce and oppose this bill with all its might and main, Trade Unions tion and for the political resolution, the resolution of the officials’ meeting of the Leningrad district upon the in- formational report of Yevdokimov and other delegates to the Party congress who had left the party congress in order to justify the attitude of the Leningrad delegation to the Lenin- grad organizations, was reported. In this resolution the officials’ meeting declared that they had been misled by a few leaders of the Leningrad or- Sanization by the action of the latter at the Leningrad party conference in concealing their differences of opinion with the central committee, and in de- claring their solidarity with the aeti- vity of the central committee and then voting suddenly ar the party con- gress against the rafification of the Policy of the central committee, The Leningrad party organization sharply condemns the fractional at- tempts of the Leningrad delegation in the party congress and adopts the de- cisions of the party congress complete- ly as these decisions represent the conviction of the whole party, The party congress welcomed the meetings of the Leningrad organiza- tions with stormy apprause, Comrade Clara Zetkin then greeted the party congress in the name of the Communist Party of Germany, Commane ers for the establishment of the first Workers’ republic in their uniforms, among them a woman soldier. Intro- duction by ©. EB, Ruthenberg, and quotations on the Paris Commune from Marx and Lenin. {SEF because of the large edition the supplies department of the na- tional office ot the Workers Party is getting out, it is enabled to sell this * beautiful little album for 25 cents. It is a real thing and no workers’ home should be without one of these al- bums, Place your orders at once. Single copies 25c. In lots up to 100 or less 18 cents; in lots of 100 or more 15 cents. Special rates in lots of 1000 or more, Send money orders and check with order for albums to nation- al office supplies dept., 1113 Washing- ton Blvd., Chicago, Il, Order a sup- ply and then sell them to the work- ers in shops, meetings, etc, Watch the Saturday Magazine Section for new features every week. This is a good issue to give to your fellow worker, Women's Day Celebration in Chicago SATURDAY EVE., MARCH 6 , at NORTHWEST HALL Cor, North and Western Aves. (3rd_ floor.) 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