The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 24, 1926, Page 6

i a aha hole, charged with kicking one of the horses used to ride down Page Six THE DAILY WORKER Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. ‘ 4118 W. Washington Biyd., Chicago, I. Phone Monroe 4718 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mall (in Chicago only): By mall (eutelde ef Chicago): $8.00 per year $4.50 six months | $6.00 per year $3.50 six meaths $2.50 three montha $2.00 three months Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 1118 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Ilinele J, LOUIS ENGDAHL mate WILLIAM F, DUNNE MORITZ J. LOBB......nmenirnneen Business Manager —_——— ee Eatered as second-class mai] September 21, 1923, at the post-office at Chi- cago, lil, under the act of March 3, 1879, Sa __—_—Arortising rates on application. What Does Norman Thomas Mean? Norman Thomas, socialist, spoke at a strike meeting of the Furriers’ Union last Friday. The chairman introduced him as a representative of the socialist party and as late can- didate for governor on the socialist ticket. He also stated that in a strike the union was glad to have all who are inter- ested in the success of the strike come and help along. To this Norman Thomas responded and said, “No honest socialist can work against the strike. In a strike political differences must be set aside and the common cause of the workers considered above all else.” What did Norman Thomas mean? Does he not know that the Jewish Daily Forward which is run by the socialists is fighting the Furriers’ Union and this strike? Would he then say that the Forward and the socialists responsible for it are not honest? Maybe Dr. Norman Thomas can explain. It seems that either Abraham Cahan, editor of the Forward, is not an honest socialist or that Thomas was wrong about the attitude of socialists in case of a strike. Or is Thomas breaking away from Cahan? Uplifters Assail Literature Just as the early christians committed the most atrocious acts of vandalism against the literature of ancient Greece, which culmin- ated with the sacking and burning of the magnificant library of Alexandria, so the modern self-appointed uplifters and purifiers want to scourge from the earth every glimmering of human intel- ligence and reduce humanity to their own low level. The latest outburst, following the notorious anti-evolution agitation, the Scopes “monkey” trial at Dayton, Tennessee, and the Bimba “blas- phemy” trial at Brockton, Massachusetts, occurred at Albany, N. Y., where a group of irresponsible freaks gathered in an effort to place a “clean books” bill upon the law books of the state, Aside from the very well-known fact that. certain seab publish- ing houses that make a specialty of ‘turning out stereotyped. drivel of the most nauseating character purporting to appeal to the morals and “decency” of the community pay some of these modern vandals for their nefarious agitation, there is a psychological question in- volved that merits consideration. That is the well known fact that the preachers, reformers and others who object to realism in liter- ature and art are in reality psychopathic cases; emotional perverts whose reaction in the presence of undraped statuary or a descriptive love scene are extremely abnormal, leading to most offensive hallu- cinations sometimes manifesting’ themselves in~public displays -of their infirmities, thereby exposing them to their fellows for what they really are. Most creatures of this type are religious, so they add to their offense by cloaking it with a holier-than-thou garb and haunt legislative chambers trying to refrain from enjoying the things that sheir disordered minds unfit them to enjoy. Should they succeed in passing the “clean books pill” the next thing would be to try to outlaw all literature thgt criticizes their perversions or exposes the society in which they li¥e and that toler- ates them as a transitory stage in human history. Such moves must be resisted by every intelligent section of society or we will be confronted with pee-wee legislators and creatures of the type of prohibition agents pillaging people’s book shelves to dis- cover if they are “bootlegging” something that might contain some semblance of human nature. In a society organized for the benefit of all, such freaks as these uplifters would be placed in asylums, under care of competent physicians in diseases of the mind, instead of being permitted to roam at large. Berger’s Passaic Resolution At a time when a committee of Passaic strikers were arranging to have a senate resolution introduced so that the proper committee could start an inyestigation of the horrible conditions in the textile industry of the country and when things began to look favorable for such an investigation thru the senate, the “lone socialist” congress- man, Victor L. Berger, of Milwaukee, horned into the affair by in- troducing a congressional resolution to the same effect, without consulting anyone and knowing full well that it would be killed. This act of Berger proves that hé doesn’t care a rap about the Struggles of the working class, that the-question of seriously striv- ing for an investigation of this atrocious industry means nothing’ to him and that he is so low in the scale of capitalist politicians that he seizes upon the misery of the strikers in order to make a spurious labor record that he ean use in coming elections in» Mil- waukee, when he tries to keep the voters hoodwinked with the delu- sion that he is a friend of labor, instead of a real estate agent and a lackey of the bourgeoisie. Certainly the mill owners of Passaic could deyise no scheme better caleulated to befog the issue. The resolution will probably be used as an excuse for another of the familiar debates (?) on the floor of the house between the Wisconsin apostle of Scheidemann—the Kaiser socialist—and blatherskire Blanton, the Texas donkey, but will do the strikers no good. As a friend of labor Berger would qualify as an excellent court jester for the Coolidge cabinet. An old editor said to a cub breaking into the game: ns bites a man that is not news, but if a man bites a dog that is news.” In Passaic the thing can be put this way: “If a horse kicks a woman that is not news, but if a woman kicks a horse that is indeed news.” The other day a woman was arrested by the cossacks of that hell- and children, We do not know whether the horse tic i court as the complaining witness or not. Pep International Press Correspondence. MOSCOW, March 21.—U. §, S. R., (By Mail.)—Feb. 24—The sixth ses- sion of the enlarged executive of the Comfnunist International was opened today under the chairmanship of Comrade Geschke with the speech of Comrade Pepper who declared: “The previous discussion has been rather limited to the internal party situation. The essence of the devi- ations consist in the mistakes which have been made in the aplication of the tactic of the united front, these in their turn are connected with the uncertainty of the analysis of the world situation, The analysis of Bor- diga: Here is Soviet Russia, there js the rest of the world, is extremely Schematic and false, and ‘from it comes a false tactic, The all-embracing slogan of the theses upon the basis of an analysis of the world situation is: The Unit- ed States of Socialist Europe. Many comrades are skeptical of this slo- gan, they remember the argument of Lenin in 1915. At that time; how- ever, both the meaning of the slo- _|8an as well as the world situation were different. At that time the slo- gan meant: A unification of the Eu- ropean state upon a bourgeois-repub- lican basis thru the overthrow of the monarchy, today it means a socialist unification. The economic dominance of America and the growing contra- diction between her and Kurope char- acterize the present situat The concentration and accumula- tion of American capital, the clean- ing of the petty bourgeois elements out of the republican party, the offi- cial abandonment of the anti-trust law by the republicans and further the widening of connections with Bu- rope and the tendency ‘to abolish the high customs barrier in which the farmer and the growing class of cou- pon-clippers are in alliance with finance capital, all these factors lead to a sharpening of the dominant situ- ation of American capitalism and to a deepening of the contradiction be- tween America and Europe, “In contradiction to the onetime policy of isolation from Europe, Ame- rican capitalism now sets up poli- tical and economic conditions, as for instance the demand presented to Belgium for a reduction in the strength of the army. , Locarno was not only an attempt to’create a block against the Soviet Union and an at- tempt on the part of America to rend- ’ By H, M. WICKS, soq(Special to The Daily Worker) “WASHINGTON, D. C., March 22— Thousands of workers come to Wash- ington every year on excursions, wed- ding. trips and for the purpose of see- ing the sights of the national capital. They see the show places,*the glamor, the shrines of the patriots, monu- ments to Washington, Lincoln, historic tablets adorning myriad walls carrying the legends of past acts, they See the Potomac river, Arlington military cemetery and view the capitol build- ing, the treasury and the White House. Washington for them remains a pleas- ant interruption of their drab exist- ences, But of all the toiling millions in the United States a very_small percentage of them ever see Washington. Espe- cially is this the case with the poorly paid workers in the grim slave pens of the woolen centers. So when the delegation of strikers from the Pas- saic battle front came to this city it was the first time for any of them. Somewhere in their minds they had very vague ideas of the United States government. To most of them it ap- peared something that stood above the every-day sfruggles of Passaic. And they were coming to Washington to tell the president of the United States and other officials of the gov- ernment, wnose pictures they had seen in the Sunday supplements, of their long hours of unrequited toil, of their struggle to maintain a wage just sufficient to enable them to live from day to day, of the fierce despot- ism of the foremen who drive them to the limit of human endurance, of the fact that they have no regular hours of labor, that they are always at the beck and call of the bosses and that some weeks they work two hours and other weeks they slave from seven in the morning until late at night and then get up early and drag back to the mills for angther fifteen or sixteen hour's stretch until the rush was over and then another period of short time employment with the consequent diet of black coffee and hard bread. These grievances and many more, such as the clubbings ad- ministered by the cossacks in the strike, the turning of streams of water from high-pressure hose upon them in the cold of winter, were to be re- lated to the officials of the government of these United States. The delegation that came from Pas- saic was headed by Albert Weisbord, leader of the strike. He is a: young man, 25 years of age, and has him- self been an employe of textile mills and, knows the problems of the mill slaves, ‘The mifl-owners claim they will have flo to do with Weis- bord or the Front Committee that is condi the strike because Pav THE DAILY:WORKER er her loang secure, it was also an attempt to form a block of debtor states against America under the leadership of England. Arising from the growing contradictions between America and Europe there grows a certain paralleling of interests of Soviet Russia h Burope, on the other hand there ig a.certain parallel- ing of the interests of Soviet Russia with the interests of America in China, Mosul, etc. Naturally, the motives are varied. The Russian Mosul policy aims at defending young revolutionary Turkey against English imperialism whereas American Mosul policy aims at defending Mosul oil for imperialist reasoxis- eet Eng- land, HE speaker then! proceeded an- alyze in detail thé‘ difference be- tween the slogan of thé United States of Burope in 1915 an@‘now. The ar- guments which Lewin! used against this slogan at that-e¢ime were abso- lutely correct, Atithat time objec- tively considered, thee slogan direct- ed itself against the: colonies and against the young Japanese and Ame- rican imperialisms. Today the hege- mony is no longer. with Europe but with American, At that time the slogan meant a denial.of the possti- bility of the victory of the revolu- tion in a single cot r , today how- ever, we have the Soviet Union. To- day we can and myst connect this slogan with the slogans for an alli- ance with the colonies and with the Soviet Union. We mist not only ex- pose the swindle of! the pacifist slo- gan of Pan-Europe, but we must our- selves Tsue a positive slogan. HE task which the American party must place before itself hangs in connection with this. The chief task of the American~ party is to build bridges to the masses. Such bridges are: The left movement in the La- bor Party, the organigation of the un- skilled workers, the leadership of electoral campaigns, the setting up of a platform of combined struggie against the power of the state and trust capital, the struggle against im- perialism, ete. ete. A very impor- tant task for the party” ig to shift its main weight from light to heavy in- dustry. The central Slogan from the standpoint of the division of work in the Comintern must”bé, the alliance with the suppressed pédples of Latin- America who in the fature will play the role of China, With Mexico in the role of Canton. Finally, the Com- munists must set up the revolution- ary slogan of “open*door to revolu- the strike and counté#'4iith the state- ment that they will permit the employers to depriv@ them of the leadership that are- convinced can realize their de ls in the strug: gle by outgeneraling-the-agents of the employers. Others inythe delegation are: ~ Carl Trocolo, who we dryer in the United Dye Works at) Lodi. He is American-born of Italiém parentage, is 28 years of age, marfi€d and has one child and receives the’miserable wage of $23 for a full weék-of 48 hours, but does not always work a full week because of slackness + the industry. Gustav Deak, the barra of the relief committee, is dryer in the notorious Botany Mill, is American- born, 21 years of age and is compelled to expend his energy 48 hours a week for the sum of $22. Theresa Staudinger, is an 18-year- old girl who is a mender in the Botany mill, who was born in this country and who Works 48 hours for the miser- able sum of $15. She has been work- ing ever since she was of legal age to work in the mill and helps her father support the family because he is a mechanic in the mills, but under the best conditions of fulltime work only receives $30 per week’ Anna Braznak, Sy fifty-year-old mother of nine chi , works in the Passaic Worsted mills and when she gets in a full week gets $16.08 in her pay envelope, whi er husband as a common laborer, the industry receives but $12. per week. Her oldest daughter is 1%,years of age and had to give up her sehool studies in order to enter the and help sup- port the rest of thepfamily, For -her work she receives the sum of $14 per week. Thus three peuple working full time are able to re but $42.58 which must suj a family of eleven. This old “Soman came ‘to Washington ‘and ha#'told her story to senators, the se of labor and various other officialfi’ She is a natur- alized citizen. i Frank Giacomini,“orn in this coun- try 33 years ago, and an expert work- man, gets $28 for working 48 hours in the Botany mills. He says he does not get married because conditions and wages in the textile industry pro- hibit one supporting @ family in de- cency, if Steven Res, works 48 hours per week in the Forstmann-Huffmann mill for $22 per week, on which he must support one child and a sick wife. Matyas Haydu gets $20 per week’ from the Botany for a 48-hour week on which sum he a support a wife and three child) Stephan Klepar, ‘a! man 48 years of age, who looks five because of the devastation tionary propaganda” against the re- formist “wofkers’ Monroe doctrine of the cutting off of the American con- tinent fr revolutionary propa- ganda. ” EE STEPHANSKI (Poland) bor not in agreement with Zino- viev with regard to the revolutionary possibilities of Poland. The new events place the party before great tasks. Fascism grew and proceeded to carry out a mass agitation, even formed trade unions. On the other hand, however, the leftward move- ment in the working class also grew. In conséquence of the coalition poli- cy, a left wing was formed in the Po- lish Socialist Party. If the Commun- ist Party pursues a correct policy here this can lead to the breaking off of large masses of workers from the social-democracy. In the last session of the trade union council under the pressure of the masses, not only those in favor of an alliance but also right railway leaders and min- ers’ leaders voted for the proposals of the left. The Kulaks are going to the right, all other elements to the left. The Communist slogan which was issued over two years ago for the expropria- tion of the large landowners without. compensation has become the slogan of large masses of the peasantry, The Fourteenth Congress of the party li- quidated the ultra4eft crisis. The ul- tralefts have made very many great mistakes, Already in 1923 Domsky accused the Russian Party of oppor- tunism and when the ultra-left ob- tained influence over the party lgad- ership the isolation from the mass- es followed, the united front was flung overboard, a stupid sort of re- volutionary gymnastics was indulged in without the participation of the masses and the social-democratic workers were rejected. Altho there are still ultrateft ten- dencies left over, the crisis has been passed. The situation of the party is favorable. In Kalisch the soldiers refused to shoot upon the workers. The party is nevertheless insufficient- ly active and for this reason the strike of the Dombrova railway work- ers proved so surprising as a result of the ultra-left policy of isolation, from the-masses, The coming eco- nomic struggles can very well raise the question of the workers and peasants’ government, nevertheless, it is possible for the bourgeoisie to ob- tain a breathing space by. an impe- rialist loan, this, however, would be under hard conditions, On the other Passaic Textile Strikers “S | dren that he hopes to be able to keep in school so they will have the ad- vantage of an elementary education, something few people get in this in- dustrial jungle. Anna Malick is one of a family of seven children and is but 16 years of age yet has spent a year and a hal of her life toiling in the Dundee tex- tile mills, for which she receives $12 if she puts in the full week of 48): hours, Her father gets $30 for a full week, while another sister gets $16, but they seldom get a full week's wage. Their combined salary must support a family of nine. Like all other families in the mill district cer- tain members of the family must’ abandon all hope of being anything other than mill slaves in order that some other member of the family may have a chance to struggle, with their assistance, out of the hell holes of New Jersey, Nancy Sandusky, an 18-year old girl, is also in the delegation. She works inthe New Jersey mill with her moth- er and sister and gets on an average $15 per week. All except one delegate are citizens and he has his first papers. All of the delegation have faced the | go terror of the police cossacks in the streets when they endeavored to picket the mills on strike. et Try to See Coolidge. Under the guidance of Frank P. Walsh, who knows his way about the labyrinths of the senate building and who has had varied experiences as joint chairman with former President Taft on the war labor board and who was chairman of the committee on in- famous report of a decade ago, the ommittee of Passaic strikers was ken to the offices of Senator Wil- Mam B. Borah, who listened to their grievances and expressed amazement were permitted to operate in this country. He was particularly inter- ested in the conditions of the workers in the whole industry because of the high protective features of the Ford- ney-McCumber tariff. Since he is the ranking member of the committee on labor and education he suggested that Senator Lawrence ©. Phipps, of Colo- rado, who is chairman of that com- mittee, be visited. When Phipps was interviewed he asserted that he could have nothing to do with it at all. Of course, no one expected that he would have anything to do with such an investigation as he is the mere lackey of the Colorado Fuel and Iron company, the Rockefeller concern, re- sponsible for the butehery and burn- ing alive of women ‘ahd children. at Ludlow, Colorado, in 1914, and which Walsh exposed in his industrial rela- dustrial relations that submitted the}’ that industries of such a character} hand’a fight upon the. ‘part of fascism for power is also possible, The most {mportant task is that of winning the masses away from the social-de- mocracy, and the conditions for this are more favorable than ever they were, OMRADE RUTH FISCHER de- clared; I am in complete agree- ment with the theses of Zinoviey. The struggle must at the same time be conducted’ against both right and left, The ultra-left tendencies can unless they are defeated lead-to a liquidation of the party, to a catas- trophe, There is also an internation- al right danger. A section of the s0- cial-democratic workers -who were led . by ‘the''stream of the revolution into the ranks of the German Com- munist Party, are tending back to- wards . the .social-democracy. The rights, who support themselves upon | the one-time socialdemocrats and upon the aristocracy of labor, are sit- ting fn Noah’s ark and waiting pa- tiently until the left flood has died down. The solution of the,German question is one.of the most important with which the enlarged executive is faced.» The -history of the German party ‘Consists of vaccillations be- uitra-left and right. Every party congress swung the course of the party round. At the inaugural congress of the party ultra-lefts voted down, Liebkmecht and Luxemburg. The.,Heidelberg party congress ex- pelled. good workers. Jena was @ weakened ultra-left, party congress. Frankfort was ultra-left, the embodi- ment of all ultraleft anti-bolshevist tendencies in the party. After Frank- fort the Berlin party congress repre- sented a turn, unfortunately only half a turn, For this reason the E. C. C. I. letter was necessary and politically absolutely correct. The letter of the E. ©. C. I. declared not that the left was bankrupt, but only a few left leaders. (Interruption: “You and Maslov.”) The left made a tremen- dous mistake when they failed to draw an honest ‘balance at Frankfort. (Interruption: “Instead of a balance it’ produced double bookkeeping.”) It faifed‘to fight the ultra-left mistakes in the’trade union question and in the tactic’ of the upited front. “It did not reject the tactic of the unitéd front, but it also did not fight against the feeling of the majority of the\party membership against this tactie:. The EB, C. C. I. was right when ftewarned against ultra-left errors in Frankfort. As early as September derer of women, who teaches Sunday school classes in plutocratic churches sunday and harms babies on Mon- @¥oung LaFoliette was visited and 1d that he would, if necessary, in- treduce. a resolution urging the ap- pointment of a committee to investi- gatesthe Passaic strike and the textile industry. / ‘Wheeler of Montana was interview- d’and was almost as cautious as Coo- gat! but asserted that in case it ‘to ‘aid’ it. ‘After’a weary, but exciting day for the‘strikers, they secured places to stay for the night and next morning started out to the White House to lay their case before the president, They got as far as the office of Saunders, the secretary of Coolidge, and were brutally informed that not then or at any future time would Coolidge listen to their grievances. The old lady striker, Mrs. Raznik, was speechless and tears came to her eyes as she realized that the head of the govern- ment she had been told was her own and had believed was the defender of the oppressed, would not even conde- | to, listen for a few moments to hee vances, Other of the girls and women also. cried when they were ‘tur away ‘from the White House, ‘The. .DAILY WORKER representa: return -to the mille, and then submit + to, arbitration. 6 f > “*& settlement thee aoka you to 0 to-work before your demands are met is no settlement” it was declared. One speaker told of a postal workei strike in Canada in which a similar proposal was accepted. “No sooner were the workers back at their places than the strike leaders were weeded out, the whole movement crushed, and the strike irrevocably lost,” he said. Roger Baldwin, of the Civil Liber- ties Union, made a flery addres¢ at the same meeting, which was held in Belmont Park hall. “I am under a suspended sentence of six months in Jail that 1 aos for helping the strikers in Passaic,” he said; ‘and I am ready to incur another six months’ sentence | in helping the strikers in Fasahic tt it isn c He “to age” regarding the proposed investi-! was ‘started he would da all He could) pper Speaks on the American Problems Maslov pressed for an alteration of the tactic in order to bring the party out of its isolation, but because we feared the mistrust of the party masses we did not do it, (Interrup- tion: “Once again the workers at fault.”) After the elections for the Reich- stag (parliament) we made a half turn, but even then we did ‘not fight the ultra-left tendencies openly. The Hindenburg election showed us that we had to correct our course and at that time in the question of the united front and in the question of the peo- ple’s bloc we fell a prey to new and serious right errors, and thru this we caused an open rebellion amongst the ultra-left elements, At that time we led the. struggle against the ultra-lefte mechanically and administratively, “At the Berlin party congress we covered the differences and made & holy legend out of the Frankfort party congress. For this reason the letter of the B. C. C. L was a saving and purifying action. And for this reason I signed the BH. C. C. I. letter. After two years of serious errors the B, C.. GC. I. letter pointed out the correct way. For this reason I wanted to carry thru this letter in order to pre- serve the party from convulsions. (A storm ‘of laughter.) For this reason I requested the central committee to carry out the BE. C.-C. I. letter in Ber- lin, but the central committee pre- ferred to settle the Berlin district leadership administratively. The let- ter of the E. C. C. I, however, had also bad effects and the central com- ‘mittee neglected to regularize these, and for this reason it is understand- ible that workers have been expelled with Katz. The party has now great objective possibilities. The illusions connected with the Dawes plan are waning. (In- terruption: “You also.”) We must prevent bad traditions of united front tactics rising once again in Saxony. A great danger is the fact that the right fraction is not liquidated and that the ultra-left fraction exists. The best elements from left and right must be brought into the leadership. There are no differences of opinion |upon the present situation. We must continue the tactic of the united front without falling into illusions about the character of the social-democratic party. The people’s referendum was correct. With regard to the internal party ‘situation, the ultra-lefts can be fought provided that the rights are fongtit also. Jee” Washington tive spent a few moments enlighten- ing them tegarding the true charac- ter of the government of the United States as the executive committee of the blood-suckers on Wall Street, and gave the strikers’ delegation a talk on the blessings of class government, ex- plaining the role of Coolidge as a strike-breaking president, and told them that instead of weeping over the fact that the head of the capitalist po- litical!’ machine would not see them they should understand the fact: that he, like the government, is their bit- terenemy and that only thru a class party of labor can they hope to have a government that would represent them. When this was impressed upon them their tears turned to bitter hat- red and they vowed that Coolidge was not a damn bit better than the mill owners and their thugs and gangsters in Passaic. Everett ~Saunders, at the White House, told.the strikers they should go and visit the secretary of Tabor, Davis. Davis had been in conference with the Passaic mill bosses, and had offered the services of the goyernment to them as a strike-breaking agency. He consented to see the committee and endeayored to break up their ‘union’ by dulent proposals, But that will be the subject of the next story of the experiences of the visit- ing Passaic strikers to the capital of Wall Street. . “MAKE BOSSES MEET DEMANDS “FIRST, THEN RETURN TO WORK,” IS CRY OF AE PASSAIC STRIKERS SPORTS PASSAIC, -N, J. March 21—"Do not trust any attempts to settle the striké based upon your going back to work under the old conditions and with- but fecognition of your union.” This was’ the Pape flung down to the tex- tile Btrikers at their’ meeting here Friday. tlement. proposed by Secretary of Labor Davis, suggesting that the workers The speaker referred to the set- » Vieky Bratovsky of Passaic. was badly ‘beaten by police clubs and was arrested, and other strikers were beaten and trampled by horses and motoreycles when a police force of 45 broke up a large picket line at Gera mill, that formed after the meeting in Mokray’s hall. Mrs, Bratovsky was falling out of the line of six hundred strikers at the police order when she was struck with a club, and bruised about the body so badly that she had to be carried to the patrol wagon, ceptions Strikers Appeal for Relief. WHEBLING, W, Va, March 21.— ‘Distress among the striking coal miners of the four panhandie ¢ounties of W. Virginia caused an appeal to"be 4 q