The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 21, 1926, Page 4

~-which has issned an inviation to the U, N. I. A. to participate in its Page Four THE DAILY WORKER Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. $418 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, I. Phone Monroe 4713 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mali (in Chicage only): By mall (outside ef Chicage): 06.00 per year $4.50 six monthe | $6.00 per year $3.60 six meathe $3.50 three months $2.00 three months Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 1118 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Iilinele stellate eect de a a An J, LOUIS ENGDAHL tors WILLIAM F, DUNNE MORITZ J. LOEB....... —mvewwen Business Manager Sintered &s second-class mall September 21, 1923, at the postoffice at Chi- cago, Ill, under the act of March 3, 1879. = Advertising rates on application. a. 6 ° ° Dissipating Its Energies The Universal Negro Improvement Association, now holding its convention at Detroit, shows no indication of extricating itself from the visionary and impractical program of Garveyism. Instead the convention is embarked upon a path which will inevitably lead to the disruption of this really great mass organization of American Negroes. In the dispute over leadership persons predominate over principles. Even in the matter of the release of Marcug Garvey, who was incarcerated because of his interference with the designs of American imperialism to hand over the Liberian Republic to the tender mercies of Mr. Harvey Firestone’s rubber interests, the U. N. I. A. convention made a weak and entirely inadequate protest. It is the intention of the republican administration to deport Garvey, and the U. N. I. A. convention is engaged in a controversy ag to which set of individuals will inherit the crown. The Universal Negro Improvement Association seeks to solve the problems of the Negro of America by a utopian zionism and colonization schemes. They raise the slogan of “Africa for the Africans” and by implication concede to the ku klux klan their con- cept that “America is a white man’s country.” America is not a white man’s country any more than any other spot of this earth is exclusively white man’s territory. America must belong to those who built and made America—to those who felled its forests, tilled its soil, delved in its mines, manned its transport, sweated in its steel mills and slaved on its plantations. In the work of building this nation the 12,000,000 Negro workers and farmers have, in common with their white brother workers, per- formed their share and more than their share of the work. The Negro worker is beginning to réalize, together with his white brothers, that their common problem can be solved only thru mili- tant struggle and by economic and political organization, under the guidance and inspiration of the Communist International. The workers and farmers of the Soviet Union have found the practical, immediate and permanent solution of the so-called race problems that plagued the Russia of the czars, by laying the axe to the root of all race problems—by destroying the soil in which race prejudice grows—by overthrowing the capitalist economy and building in its place the socialist economy under the direction. of the rule of the workers and farmers. It would be well if the Universal Negro Improvement Associa- tion would study the method and program of Soviet Union in deal- ing with the race questions and national minorities and decide to affiliate with the International Association of Oppressed Peoples DEMANDS TO THE (Continued from Page 1) settlement of differences existing be- tween the mill owners and the em- ployes now on strike in the New Jersey textile industry. Inasmuch as you have wisely and partially de- clared of many occasions that a mere living wage is not in harmony. with American traditions and ideals, but that every worker should be guaran- teed a saving wage to provide for old age, misfortune, and education of off- spring, we are assuming that you will use your good offices to have our pro- posals for a settlement of the strike promptly accepted by the mill own- ers. We desire to make the following ad- ditional suggestions and requests: Bar Colonel Johnson, That A. F, H. Johnson, represent- ing the Botany Consolidated Mills, the largest mills affected, should not be permitted to represent the employers in case of the acceptance of our pro- posal for conciliation and adjustment, for the following reasons: 1—The company represented by Mr. Johnson, as you are doubtless aware, is owned and controlled large- ly, if not exclusively, by foreign financiers and mill owners, This com- pany has thirty affiliated textile mills in Germany, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Czecho-Slovakia and Holland. 2.—The company represented by the said Johnson was, with three others of those textile mills, seized by the United States government, and during the period of the war and for a long time thereafter was in charge of the alien property custodian of the United States, 3.—We have appointed a sub-com- mittee charged with the duty of de- manding an investigation from the United States government authorities into the circumstances under which the present owners of the Botany Consolidated Mills secured the return of the property from the alien pro- perty custodian, 4, The said Johnson represents the Prussianized system of factory oper- ation and control which is repugnant to American industrial standards and cannot be tolerated by respectable American citizens, 5.—The said Johnson has repeated- ly denied the right of his workers to a living wage and the right of col- lective bargainings, and has person- ally influenced and fostered attacks made on the constitution rights of free speech, free press and peaceful assemblage, as evidenced by the fol- lowing: a He arbitrarily discharged the entire representative committee that waited upon him with respectful re- quests for redress of intolerable grievances. Assaults Strike Pickets. b The employes of the Botany mills were attacked with poisonous bombs, and men, women and chil- dren deluged with plug streams of water on a bitter cold day, causing intense suffering, resulting in ill- ness and imperiled lives, Many vic- tims of the assaults are still confined to their beds on account of their brutal treatment, some of them suffering from gas poisoning caused by the bombing. c© It was for the benefit of the mill controlled by the said Johnson, and directly in front thereof, that peaceful citizens, including strikers, newspapermen, and local mer- chants, were clubbed and beaten in order to suppress protests against the conditions in said Botany mills. Raps Protective Tariff. world congress at Canton, China. Self-Perpetuating Government Certain American financial and industrial magnates never tire of extolling the virtues of the fascist despot, Mussolini of Italy. Their ideal government is one after the pattern of the fascist government, where labor is pinioned to the industrial slave pens by the bayonets of the state and where every form of peaceful protest is obliterated. The “laws” of the fascist dictatorship are such that no political criticism dare challenge the Mussolini brigand crew. ie The secretary of the fascist party, Farinacci, announced recently that the present chamber of deputies has carried out its work so well that no new elections will be held until 1929. In reality no elections will be held on that date or at any other time according to the unique procedure adopted by the Italian government in conducting the affair. Says Farinacci: “Then (in 1929) the elections will be held much differently than they have been in the past. The government and the party will SECRETARY OF LABOR, JAMES DAVIS ! THE DAILY WORKER [PASSAIC STRIKERS PRESENT THEIR UNION-SMASHING In comparison with the situation of the unfortunate workers and the ex- ceedingly high tariff granted to this industry, we call-your attention to the fact that, according to high financial authority, the net earnings of some of the mill companies involved, as re- presented by cash dividends and the issuance of preferred and common stock dividends, exceed 93 per cent a year, National Strike Looms. ‘We also call your attention to the fact that one of the reasons given by the mill owners 4 ying starvation wages in New Je is their alleged inability to com with the New England textile mills, where rents and other living costa,age lower than in Passaic. Obviously, df conditions are not relieved in New Jersey, this strike must and will extend to the other textile industries of the country, there- by bringing widespread maladjust- ment, as well as hunger and suffer- ing to countless thousands of honest and industrious workers, We are taking the liberty of making these suggestions*toythe end that a just and peaceful fséttlement. of the strike may be brot about and the present reign of terror in the New Jersey textile industry ended. For Prompt Settlement. We recognize it. ‘he fundamental basis of right to eojlective bargaining is the free ‘sele of representa- tives by both employers and em- ployes. Nevertheless, we feel it our duty on behalf of those whom we rep- resent to present these facts for your consideration so. that you may use your conciliatory influence to prevent the selection of the said Johnson as a representative of the textile employ- ers and endeavor to bring about a prompt settlement of the strike and relief to the thousands of suffering workers. Very respectfully, Employes’ Strike Committee. Coolidge and Davis Passaic, New Jersey, Textile Profiteers (Continued from page 1). their spies and stool pigeons to get delegations satisfactory to them so that the vast majority of the workers could be betrayed into accepting any imposition of the bosses, Strikebreaker Proposal Rejected This impudent demand was flatly rejected by the committee which de- clared that they would not permit others to pass on what they shall eat or wear. Frank. Walsh plainly said that for the government to take re- sponsibility for such a proposal was to place it in the role of strike- breaker. After more than two hours the con- ference finally adjourned with the promise that a statement would be submitted by Walsh for the commit- tee in a short time. After a day the statement was drawn up and re- iterated the full demands of the strikers, and launched a counter blast, against the demands of the mill own- ers that Weisbord get out of the strike by assailing the representatives of the owners, icularly Colonel Johnson, who speaks for the Botany Mill tefore which all the violence in the strike has occurred. Police Terror at | Mass Meeting March 24 directed against foreign-born workers in the United States. eign-born worker in the country will Workers (Communist) Party CHICAGO LABOR WILL PROTEST ANTI-ALIEN PACT at Schoenhofen Hall There are before congress four bills If any of these becomes a law the status of every for- be that of a suspect Hable to crim- ihal prosecution, The significance and especially the class nature of these laws will be discussed in full at a meeting to be held on Wednesday, March 24 at 8 p. m. in Schoenhoffen Hall at Ashland and Division streets. The speakers will be Robert Minor, editor of the New DAILY WORKER Magazine and Arne Swabeck, district organizer of Workers (Communist) Party District Bight, The most dangerous of these pro- Posals, the Aswell bill, asks that every alien worker in the country be forced to submit periodically to the indignities of the rogues’ gallery. Photographs, finger-prints, complete family history and biography, regular registration — in word, provisions that go the worst European passport laws one better, constitute the Aswell bill. The penalty for failure to reg- ister is $5,000 fine, two years impris- onment and deportation, Full powers are vested in the United States de- partment of labor for the execution of the law. The other bills, the McClintic bill, the Hayden and Taylor bills and the Sosnowski bill are either variations or supplements to the common object of all the proposed laws affecting aliens—the intimidation of the for- eign-born worker and a blow at or- ganized labor as a whole, The class nature of these measures is obvious. They constitute an at- tempt to initiate a great national black-list system in the operation of which the government will directly co-operate with all the big employers of labor. The primary object is to destroy all organization among for- eign-born workers and to make impos« sible in the future such brave strug- gles as the steel strike of 1919, the great textile strikes and the gigantic mine conflicts, the backbone of which have been the foreign-born workers, Every foreign-born worker has a di- rect interest in these pernicious meas- ures now before congress and will do well to acquaint himself with all the details of them by attending the meet- ing in Schoenhoffen Hall on Wednes- day, March 24, TRADE UNION CLASS WILL MEET MONDAY AT NATIONAL OFFICE The Trade Union Tactics and Or ganization Class now meets on Mon- day nights instead of Thursday nights. The class will hold its meeting Monday night at the na- tional office of the Workers (Com- munist) Party, 1113° West Washing- ton Blvd. instead of at the Workers’ School, 19 South Lincoln St. Every member of this class. must be pres- ent at the meeting Monday night. Below are given the questions for review and also for Monday night. eee Arne Swabeck, Instructor, REVIEW QUESTIONS. 1, What is the reason for the rap- Id growth of the trade unions thru- out the world Immediately upon the end of the war? 2. What are the main Ideological divisions of world’s trade unions producing. definite types, and what are the main types? 8. What are the four maln char acteristics of relations of the varl- ous world trade union types toward the existing proletarian parties? 4 What are the particular fea- tures of. the anarcho-syndicalist types of unions? eee ADVANCE QUESTIONS, SUBJECT: The Role of the Trade Unions, 1. What Is the function of trade untons In America during present rise of imperialism, and to what ex- tent do they function as class or gans? 2. Do the trade unions have po- litical functions and to what extent? 3, What is the function of shop committees? 4.’"What will be the relation of trade unions toward shop commit- tees? 6. Draw a comparison between the role of the trade unions during the first stage of the Russian Revolu- tlon and those of Germany during revolutionary upheavals, 1918 to 1919. 6, What Is the role of the trade unions after the seizure of power by the proletariat. see REFERENCES, LOZOVSKY, “The Role of the La- bor unions in the Russian Revolu- tion.” LOZOVSKY, “Lenin and the Trade Union Movement.” FOSTER, “Revolutionary Crisis: Germany, England, italy and France.” “THESIS ON TRADE UNIONS, Workers’ School Opens in Boston District BOSTON, Mass., March 19—The Workers School in District No. 1, be- gan last Sunday with a class in Eng- lish at Malnatis Hall, South Quincy, where members from the local nuclei took their first lesson in reading The DAILY WORKER. Classes-will be held regularly every Sunday at three o'clock and comrades who live in Quincy are urged to attend the ses- sions. The teacher assigned to the class is Ida Glatt McCarthy, The class in English at Chelsea op- | Third Cngress Comintern.” “Resolutions and Decisions First Congress Red Labor Union Interna- tional.” (Resolution on the Role of the Labor Unions.) Next Lesson For Class In Capital Last Monday, the class in Capital had a lively discussion on the lesson assigned to it previously by Comrade Wicks. The lesson for the next class, Monday, the 22nd, will be chapter fourteen, pages 368 and 404. All mem- bers of the class should study. this lesson and attend the class on Mon- day, The school committee is taking up the matter of appointing a comrade to take charge of the class in view of Comrade Wicks having left the city. Philadelphia Nuclei Functionaries Attend Section Conferences PHILADELPHIA, Marth 19.— The Polcom has decided to call in sec- tion conferences in each section of the city. All major campaigns of the party will be considered and plans worked out to put them into effect, The campaign to get our members into the trade unions will be given special attention, All organizers and ‘secretaries will be considered regular delegates, Other nuclei functionaries are invited to attend. All organizers and secre- taries should put aside all other work and attend these conferences, All conferences will be held at the district office, 521 York Ave. on the following dates: March 23—Section 4. March 24—Section 2, March .25—Section 3, March 26—Section 1, The attendance of all delegates is necessary to make these section con- ferences successful, Floyd Dell Speaks at Workers’ School Sunday Night Forum NEW YORK, March 19. — Floyd Dell, formerly editor of the Liberator and the Masses, now on the staff of the New Masses, author of the series of articles called: “Literature in the Machine Age,” and various novels and works of literary criticism, has been secured by the Workers’ School Forum for this Sunday night at 8 o’clock at 108 E, 14th St. His topic is “Laterature and Revolution.” He will attempt to trace the effects of social currents in modern history up- on modern literature, thus applying historic materialism to the under- standing of literature. On the Sunday night following, Louis Lozowick, artist, also on the staff of the New Masses, will lecture on “Art and Revolution.” HONOR ROLL . OF WORKERS AIDING PRESS J. Bauman, Milwaukee, Wis.. Elmer, a Builder and Friend, Detroit, Mich. .... Nucleus 25, Chicago, Il, essen I, Sonkin, Chicago, IIL... I. S. P. C., Pittsburgh, P: John Makitalo, Wethersfield, Lithuanian Section, Branch 1 Williamsburgh, Brooklyn, N. Y. 15.00 Rescue Party, Worcester, Mass. 21.75 Finnish Educational League, Warren, Ohio .... Freiheit Branch 272, New York City, N. Y. .. M. Sternberg, Bronx, N. Y. Mark Kapsha, State Branch, Cresson, Pa. .. wevee 1,00 ‘ 50.00 30.00 Kansas City Celebrates, KANSAS CITY, Mo., March 19. — Kansas City local of the International Labor Defense is holding a meeting to celebrate the Paris Commune on Sunday evening, March 21, at 7:30 o'clock at the Musicians’ Hall, 1017 Washington street. One speaker will lecture on the Paris Commune and another will talk on “Labor’s Fight For Justice.” We also respectfully call your at- tention to the fact that this industry SELECT THE CANDIDATES from amang the most deserving of the present deputies and from those party members who, while ens next Thursday night at eight o'clock at the Labor Lyceum, 453 Passaic Brings is one of the most highly favored orweneg fitted for the task, never have been interested in becoming penéficiaries (af. thes protective tari? Protest from Labor Broadway, and will meet hereafter MARCH is puties. : es ne ‘ .__|system, enjoing an average rate of oils regularly every Thursday at the same Thus there is no possibility of opposition. Only fascist deputies | 7g per cent on its products, The pro- Continued. Meni Page 2) place, Comrades and non-party mem- LABOR DEFENDER MONTH (Co. bers desiring to take the course ponents and defenders of this tariff tell us that it was passed to protect shall be permitted to run for election and the government and party the wages and working conditions of shall choose these: No opposition to fascism is permitted. The voters may endorse any fascist who happens to be selected for them. Recent exposures tn the Matteotti murder, which was instigated by Mussolini to prevent his exposure as a plain thief before the whole world, have made it rather difficult for the fascist apologists to make much headway with their propaganda. It is all right for the black- shirts to butcher workmen in the streets, but when it becomes neces- eary to dispatch a deputy by the approved methods of fascism it sometimes evokes scorn from the rest of the world. Hence in the future adequate precautions will be taken to avoid the disagreeable task of assassinating opposition members by the simple device of changing the rules of the election game so that there can be no op- position in the chamber. ‘If the yare too disagreeable they will be _ butchered as private citizens, but not as publie servants. ay _ However, the fascist government will soon learn what all ruling classes have learned and that is the simple lesson of history that whenever despotism stifles opposition it has no means of measuring _ the forces of its enemies and eventually goes..down amidst the thunder and lightning of revolution. But as for Mussolini, one thing s certain and that is he knows that even within the fraudulent of parliamentary democracy fascism would be so overwhelm- rebuked that the masses, perceiving the immense numbers d to it would rise and crush the tyrannical government by the of the proletarian revolution. United Front Committee and the relief work for the Passaic strikers is meet- ing with an enthusiastic response here. a J. O, Bentall and “Mother” Bloor are to speak tom@rrow at two street meetings and Sunday they will speak to a hall meeting in Andover in the afternoon and in Lawrence in the evening. The noon shop meetings are very successful. =The meetings are under constant poji¢e surveillance and as yet the police. e not tried to in- terfere with the meetings. It is planned to extend the campaign to Lowell the early part of next week. should register at once, pern is the instructor. Registration for all other classes is Proceeding, and while not all units have reported, it is planned to start other classes shortly. Great interest is being manifested in the school and a successful season is predicted, List of subjects for which registra tion is going on is as follows: English, Fundamentals of Communism, Meth- ods of Work in Nuclei, Workers Cor- respondence, Leninism, Imperialism, The fee for each course is $1 and units are ufged to select representa- tives to take the courses, RAILROAD WORKERS T0 DISCUSS WATSON-PARKER BILL SUNDAY AFTERNOON All railroad workers are invited to attend a meeting at the Walters Hall, 6212 South Halsted St., tomor- row afternoon at 2 o'clock, and hear a discussion on the Watson-Parker OTT L My Oratorio “Die Tzvai Brider” (Words by J. L. Peretz—Music by J. Schaffer) with the Freiheit Singing Society and the New York Symphony Orchestra Conducted by Lazar Weiner, |” Clara Hal- Forty thousand workers were killed in 1871 in the Paris Commune, the American workers. The earnings of an overwhelming majority of the workers in these mills are from $12 to $20 per week, and stoppage and ir- régularity of employment reduce their incomies even far below these figures. Im consequence, we are unable to pay our rent, We have produced the pass books of our grocers to show that many of us are unable to pay for ne- cessary food, and practically all of us are deeply indebted to the local merchants, Almost all of the adult workers have families, and on our present wage we cannot sufficiently clothe and feed our children to keep them in school. In fact, hundreds of mothers with families are compelled to work all night to add enough to their husband’s wages to support their families, thus causing enforced neg- lect of helpless children and strongly tending to destroy the family unit, The infant mortality rate in our community is frightful in comparison with other localities, and the percent- age of illiteracy among the impover- ished workers is appalling. STITT ULL LLL LLL ULL LLL LLL LL Fourth Jubilee Celebration of the ‘Freiheit’ at the Mecca Auditorium 55th Street and 7th Avenue, New York City Saturday Evening, April 3rd, 1926 Tickets $1.00, $1.50, $2.00 © at Frelhelt Office, 30 Union Square, New York City. TTT TILL LLL F u Fifty-five years later hund- réds of thousands of work- ers have been killed or im- coor under the White error. Syckae aes Pes A.sub to THE LABOR DEFENDER is a blow against the persecution of workers—added strength to Inter- national Labor Defense—help to class war prisoners. Do you know what American prisoners think about the I. L. D, and THE LABOR DEFENDER; such as Debs, Billings, Chaplin, ete.? You can read what they say in the March issue (Paris Commune Anniversary Number.) The April number, better than ever, has over thirty illustrations (with articles) about such cases as Bimba, Corbishley, Trumbull, Combs, Passaic, etc. Start YOUR subscription NOW! Get others to sub- scribe! Get 3 yearly subs at only $1.00 each and re- ceive FREE Ralph Chaplin’s famous prison poems “Bars - and Shadows.” You Must Be a Subscriber to THE LABOR DEFENDER—If You Want to Help—and Be Equipped for the Fight! THE LABOR DEFENDER, 4 23 So, Lincoln Street, Chicago, Ill, Please send THE LABOR DEFENDER foF seen. months, for which remittance is enclosed, to 2s Los Angeles. Demons LOS ANGELES, March 19. — Los Angeles local of’ the International La- bor Defense will ‘hold its Paris Com- mune celebratidn, at the Music-Arts Hall, 233 South Broadway, Sunday afternoon, March 28. There will be speakers, an é@xcellent musical pro- gram and a spéptacular drama of the last days of the Paris Commune. A diamond ring will be given away at the meeting to the one holding a lucky number, The local agents of John L: Lewis at Castle Shannon, Pa., y to the United Mine Workers’ Journal, taking a wallop at Tun Worker for a story in which we said that the company is to blame the miners for an explosion in which 20 miners were ed. “Credit where credit is due,” write the fakers, boosting the company. If we erred, it was in the direction of the working The errors of the Lewis outfit are‘always in the direction of emy of the workers, They never miss an opportunity to do a good turn. Therein lies the difference. Name .... a+ CTS BRRSEST SS 2 AAS ne a EER Ba Eth Sie Se Ate ME in EN TM 5S it ERE ral 2 lA tenet ie WOW Dinu tare A eipesPtBi ended senha | ode ac, SEEDER ERE |. FE SE ck SRS RON Dc Ae Rt hs ON SO dB Se AB) a ETO le A