The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 2, 1926, Page 6

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Red Tide Rising in France The election te*the French chamber of deputies from the second district of Paris last Sunday of the two Communists, Fgurnier and Duclos, is symptomatic of the political situation in that nation and affirms the contention of Tue Dairy Worker that the reason the opposition parties of all. stripes, from the most malignant national- ists to the pale pinks of the left bloc, desperately strike to maintain some semblance of government rather than dissolve the chamber: of deputies and hold national elections is because of the dread of the rising red tide among the masses of France. The election Sunday was specially called to fill two republican vacancies caused by death: At an indecisive election held two weeks ago the nationalists polled the largest vote, some 47,000; the Com- ,000 and the combined radical and socialist vote munists polled ¢ was some 30,000. Because of-the pressure of the rank and file of ihe socialists who responded to the Communist call for a united front against the fascist (nationalist) elements, the leaders ef that group were forced to issue a call for their supporters to vote for the Communists. The result was 68,190 for the Communists as against 61,620 for the reaction. It should also be emphasized that the sec- ond district of Paris includes the financial center of Paris and four wards (arrondissements) gave a majority to the conservatives, but in spite of this handicap, the heavy voting in the working class cen- ters made victory for the Communist possible. With this election to haunt them it is certain that the reaction- aries, the Briands, the Poincaires, the Caillauxs, the Herriots and the other heroes of the French bourgeoisie will do all in their power to avoid a test of strength thruout France. Now, more than ever, will be heard demands for a reactionary dictatorship. The situation is approaching the stage of decisive action. For the Communists of France this election means much. It definitely registers the fact that the war and its aftermath, the occupation of ihe Ruhr, the long period of financial strife, with the frane now on the toboggan and the ever recurring cabinet crisis, combined with the exposure of the monstrous savagery of French imperialism.in Syria and Moroceo, have produced their counterpart—a revolutionary pro- letariat. Parliamentarism has one advantage and no other for the work- ing class. It indicates their relative strength. As Frederick Engels said: “The ruling class rules directly thru universal suffrage.....- Universal suffrage isthe gauge of the maturity of the working clasa. it can and will never be anything else but that in the modern state. RY But that is sufficient. On the day when the thermometer of universal : Ms suffrage registers the boiling point among the laborers, they as well t+ as the capitalists will know what to do.” The capitalists of France have shown that they know what to do: prolong the present state of things by any means. The more mili- + tant of the capitalists openly espouse a dictatorship. The workers of Paris and of France, with last Sunday’s evidence of their power, will also know what to do.. The period of parliamentary stagnation is passing. The period of open revolutionary struggles in France is not far off. The French Communist Party, under the leadership of the Communist International, can be depended upon to contribute i the final and most brilliant chapter to the glorious history of revolu- tionary France. A Boomerang for Labor Australian natfres use a curved or angular club called a boom- eraitg as a missile and when it misses its object it returns to a point near the place whence it was thrown. If thrown with terrific force it not infrequently returns, inflicting serious injury upon the thrower. The “labor” bill recently passed by the senate and legisla- ture of New Jersey which was supposed to legalize picketing is cer- tainly a boomerang for organized labor, and again proves the im- .mense futility of playing the filthy game of old party politics. The labor fakirs. of New Jersey have long been notoriously connected with the Frank Hague machine, with headquarters in Jersey City. This machine is democratic, an adjunct of New York’s Tammany x Hall in national polities. As a pretext for their infamy in supporting a Tammanyite can- didate the labor fakirs succeeded last fall in haying a plank incorp- orated in the platform of. A, Harry Moore, then candidate for and now governor of New Jersey, upholding the right peacefully to picket without interference from injunctions. The bill was passed at Tren- ton last week and proyed to be, instead of a defense of picketing, the most drastic sort of anti-picketing bill. While the main part of the bill proclaims the right to picket and assails injunctions against picketing,, there was attached an amendment by Senator Henry A. Williams of the feudal domain of the silk barons at Paterson which defines peaceful picketing to mean that strikers must walk at least ten paces apart. Since there is, much uncertainty regarding pre- cisely what constitutes the distance of ten paces it is up to the dis- cretion of the policemen. When haled into court for violation of the picketing law the judges can be relied upon to interpret the facts in the interest of the employer and against the strikers. No effort was made to conceal the fact that the amendment was aimed directly at mass picketing, which, proves so effective in the Paterson strike and which is winning at the present time in Passaic. While this fiasco growing out of the traitorous policy of labor leaders endorsing old party candidates on the slogan of “reward your friends and punish your enemies,” will not influence the labor jeaders who are wedded to Tammany to mend: their ways, it ought to be a lesson to the rank and file of organized labor and impel them ' 10 strive for the creation of a labor party that will serve their class interests against capitalism, against Tammany and to discredit the scoundrels at the head of the various city and state federations of jabor who regularly play the game of the enemies of the working class. te thegld | Paces Meares 47MQ Mayaguez, P. R., March 24, 1926, By J. NEVARES SAGER, Secretary of the Porto Rican Section of the Anti-imperialist League, The ever sharpening revolts ofthe colonial and semi-colonial peoplés the world over also finds its echo in the little island country of Porto Rico. Like their Philippine brothers, the masses of Porto Rico ate determined to set their island free from Yankee domination, which has shackled them for almost three decades. Tho the movement for independ- ence is but recently taking on a mass character, the desire for independence dates back to Spanish times. This de- sire manifested itself at various pe- riods under the Spanish domain, by in- surrections of various revolutionary groups; one of the outstanding insur- rections against the Spanish tyranny was the one led in 1870 by Ramon Betances, who was an ardent fighter for independence, As a result of these insurrections ‘the Spanish crown was finally compelled to grant the island to some extent autonomy and grant civil government, giving the island the status of a province of Spain. In 1898 Porto Rico was occupied by the victorious American troops un- (Continued from Page 1) membership are far below the stand- ard of 1923-24. Our present administration has completely sabotaged the progressive measures passed at the last conven- tion. No serious attempts have been made to attain the 40-hour week. Ignore Amalgamation, The question of amalgamation of all needle trades was completely ig- nored. Tho the shop delegate system of or- ganization was adopted at the last convention giving each city the right to put it into effect with the approval of the G. E. B. The present admintstration has done nothing to educate the member- ship and to carry on an ideological campaign for this form of organiza- tion, Goes Back. Our organization in the past ranked as the most progressive union in the needle trades. It was the initiator of the 44-hour week, a higher standard of living and in matiy respects lead- ing the. way to progress in the labor movement. Today it’s just the re- verse. While the Furriers and the Ladies Garment Workers’ Union are putting up an energetic fight for the 40-hour week and week work, the present ad- ministration is collaborating with the employers in increasing efficiency of production, reduction of cost thru the medium of standard of production, piece-work, reduction of working forces and reduction of wages thru the so-called re-adjustments, Too Many Banks. Our leadership today is more con- cerned in the promotion of banking, insurance schemes and other business enterprises than with the welfare of the membership. In Chicago. the local administration has put into effect the national polic- jes fully. They have co-operated with the em- Ployers in the re-adjustment schemes which resulted in the reduction of at least 20 per cent in the last two years. The increase of production at the ex- pense of the workers had a damaging effect upon the workers in the shops. Many union conditions have been abolished because of the leadership's desire to keep pace in the industry. The concessions granted to the em- ployers have brot about the “elimina- tion of many workers from the shops, these concessions being made without struggle. The result of which is an increase of unemployment. Expulsion Policy. They have followed a policy of ex- pulsions of elements in opposition to them, Intimidation of members and slugging of members became a usual occurrence in our organization, with business agents, vice-presidents and other local officials in the lead. In- ternal differences are settled in this manner. Our unemployment insurance has proven to be a total failure in so far as it does not provide for those unem- ployed who are not attached to any shop. / In this election of delegates to the Montreal convention the administra- tion will support and elect people who will without question support the present administration, represent the different cliques that make up the present machine, therefore sent to the given by them to the machine in the past two years, Rank and File Delegates. Fellow workers! important conventions ever held in the history of our organization. Never in the history of our union have ing the very life of,our organization and the welfare of our membership taken place in the short period of two years, Tt becomes of vitaimportance that we in Chicago send to the Montre: convention delegates who reures« der the command of Géneral Nelson Miles, who came witli the pretense f saving the Porto Rican people from the clutches of Spanish tyranny and favor them with the blessings of Amer- ican institutions of democracy and liberty.. The population of Porto Rico Soon came to learn what yankee democracy and liberty means. An*un- scrupulous, rigid military dictatorship was imposed upon the civilian popu- lation, and after two years of suffer- ing under the military heel of the democracy-loving yankee invaders, the unfortunate Porto Rican people were finally permanently deprived of the few liberties gained under Spanish rule, and réduced tocutter political slavery and humiliationiby the impo- sition, first, of the Foraker act and later of the similarly epecnaas Jones act. Thus politically throttled, the sugar and tobacco trusts and the banks+ began the systematic and ruthless ex- propriation of the numerous small holders and peasants of their lands. Extensive sugar and tobacco fields and numerous sugar amd cigar facto- ries were established? and into them the propertyless masses: were driven to be most ruthlessly: exploited. So intense was the exploitation and so impossible grew the conditions of life T. U. E. L. in Amalgamated Program the rank and file opinions prevailing in our shop§" Workers, who are fear- less, workers who are ready to put up a fight for a,program that is progres- sive in chafacter and offers a solu- tion to the many problems and diffi- culties now confronting our organiza- tion. The Demands. For that reason the progressive element in the Chicago organization is appealing to you to send delegates to the convention who will make a fight at the convention of a militant pro- gram, such as: i 1—Against expulsion of members because of differences of opinion, against intimidation of members, against slugging. 2—For a 40-hour week. , 8—For week work, with a minimum scale of wages and maximum produc- tion. 4—For a genuine unemployment in- surance, 5—One national agreement, for all markets. Amalgamated group éf the Chicago Section of the Ti fUnion Educa- tional League. SEND gus. that they soon gave birth to Fast resistance in the form of labor unions. The newborn labor movement prom- ised to follow militant lines; it be- came threatening to the landlords and manufacturing corporations. But the situation for the imperialists was saved by the American Federation of Labor. The Gompers bureaucracy un- dertook to guide the Porto Rican labor movement upon the sure path of Gom- persism, The American Federation of Labor succeeded in placing at the head of the Porto Rican Free Confederation of Labor and at its political adjunct, the socialist party, one of the vile: of Wall Street’s labor lieutenant: namely, Santiago Iglesias, a lal takir of the first magnitude. Yet, in spite of the reactionary lea ership forced on the movement, the years during and those immediately following the war witnessed great gen- eral strikes, which in many instances almost assumed the character of armed revolts. However, these mass movements were finally’ crushed by the superior imperialist forces, aided by the Iglesias outfit. It is interesting to note that for his service to im- perialism against the working class of Porto Rico fakir Iglesias was recently awarded the desirable post of Spanish secretary of the Pan-American Fed- International Workers’ Aid to Hold Tag Day in St. Louis for Strikers ST. LOUIS, March 31—Saturday and Sunday, April 3 and 4, hundreds of The siueaie? for Independence in Porto Rico eration pf Labor (known to intelligent Latin-American workers as the Pan- American Federation of the Betrayal of Labor.) After these defeats the working masses became passive and indifferent towards further resistance; the situa- tion looked hopeless. However, it is now apparent that the situation will in the near future be altered. The successes gained ‘by the revolting colo- nial people, the insistent stand mi by the Filipinos for independence, are instilling a new ‘breath of hope into Porto Rico. The struggles for independence is taking on new life and will proceed more surely. Thus we have the birth of a new nationalist party, which de- mands the immediate and absolute in- dependence ‘of Porto Rico, and that ‘it means business is demonstrated by its activity, It organizes the nationalist youth for the struggle; it exposes the native cliques who act as lickspittles of the imperialist invaders; {it has gone so far'as to call upon the people not to pay taxes and \to boycott the insula government thru the resigna- tion of alt Porto Rican employes, and finally it has issued a call for a con- stitutional Convention to create the republic of Porto Ktco, Another significant development is (Continued from Page 1) the devlopment of the shop councils movement and the question of emi- young workers will be on the streets of St. Louis with their “Help the Pas- saic Strikers Band” on their arms and a collection box in their hands. The organized workers of this city have pledged their full support, moral and financial, The Young Workers League and the Jewish Freiheit Club have already made liberal donations and promise more. All St. Louis young workers should report to Robert Long, 706 Pine St., for Tag Day duty. World-Famous China Works Is Partially Destroyed by Flames LIMOGES, France, March 31 — The Haviland China Works, renowned for more than a centyry for its porcelain and enameled China, was partially des- troyed by fire today. The loss is placed at more than a million dollars. Several*hundred workers, many of them highly-skilled masters of the intricate craft of China making, have been thrown out of employme FARRINGTON TRIES TO THROW COAL MINERS’ VOTES TO BOSSES’ LACKEYS Frank Farrington, resident of the United Mine Workers of Illinois, has issued a circular to 100,000 union coal miners in this state urging them to throw their support to Frank L. Smith, “Keeley Cure” proprietor from Dwight and a cog in Len Small machine who aspires.to the United States senatorship in the coming elec- tions. Farrington, whose ;record as a myrmidon of the corrupt Small gang is “well known, has the following to say in behalf “of his political play- mate: “One of the aspirants for the nomination on the republican ticket for United States senator ig Col. Frank L, Smith, who has risen from the ranks of labor to his present com- manding position by sheer energy, ability and square dealing. He is known as a ‘square shooter’ and as one who never betrayed a trust or profited by a questionable trans» action. “He has vision ani capacity to do things and by his omplishments he has come to be pied as one convention, because of the support This coming con- vention of ours is one of the most so many fundamental changes affect- of the outstanding memeof his country. Tho he has been regeived in high places, he still has a Beart that beats in sympathy with the: cause of the common people because he is of that class and he makes no ‘attempt to con- ceal the fact but is pr#ad of his hum- ble beginning.” Farrington, it willbe noted, has nothing to say about, what Smith is likely to do in the gent of a coal strike; he does not whether or not Smith would fight injunctions is- sued against the mingg; he does not say whether or not Smith is prepared to help alleviate the ‘suffering among the Illinois miners, Farrington knows very well that Col. Smith will do none of these things. Farrington ‘is obeying orders from his political chieftain, Len Small, whose republican machine helped to put over Coolidge and “strikebreake: Dawes in the last presidential elec- tion. Farrington is a republican ward heeler on a large scale who, by his position in the miners’ union is able to throw thousands of votes to this machine of the bosses or that. At present Farrington, along with Johnny Walker of the Illinois Federation of Labor, ts tied up with the Len Small machine that rode int§-control of the state government with the support of labor's votes garne: by these pre- tended leaders of ‘The coal mine! votes helped to elect Small to the} hip, are asking themselves Small is do- ing for them. They asking what the Small machine is doing about the widespread unemployment and de- privation in the coal fields. They think back to the last strike and try to recall what the Len Small machine did for them. The answer is plainly, nothing! Similarly with Col. Smith. What will he do in the senate? He has de- clared he will support the Coolidge administration. He claims to be op. posed to the world court but it is plain that his opposition is purely in the nature of a political football in his campaign against another boss’ tool, Senator Wm. McKinley, traction mag- nate and wheel-horse of a rival re- publican machine. The miners are learning, thru bitter experience, that old line candidates, republican or democrat, far from help- ing them in the struggle against the operators, invariably prove to be enemies of labor after their election. The miners are learning also that when Frank Farrington, taking ad- vantage of his office in the miners’ union calls upon the coal diggers to support such candidates that he is in effect selling the miners out to the bosses. The only possible representatives of labor are those proposed and elected by the workers themselves, The only time the workers will have a senator in Washington who will fight against government strikebreaking, expose boss maneuvers against the workers and oppose anti-labor legislation and injunction judges is when they are nominated on a genuinely working class ticket and elected by the work- ers against the will of the republican machine that Farrington supports and all other old party machines, Watch the Saturday Magazine Section for new features every week. This is a good issue to give to your fellow worker, gration and immigration.” Next Tasks. The second session began with the report of Lozovsky on the next tasks of the revolutionary trade union move- ment, These he enumerated as fol- lows: (1) The struggle against the utilization of the workers in the colonies and the emigrants against the workers in the home countries. For this struggle the emigrant workers must be drawn into the trade unions and the organization of the trade unions in the colonies must be assist- Factory Unity. (2) The organization of the colored workers. (3) An active participation in the economic struggles and a. ser- ious study of. the .questions in con- nection with this struggle. (4) A wide campaign, for unity in the factor- ies upon the basis of concrete de- mands, and in this connection, in- creased attentioguto the shop coun- cils. (5) The struggle for reorganization according to the principle of indus- trial unionisn,-in this connéction the mental laziness. of a section of the supporters of the Red International of Labor Uniong “must be overcome. (6) The organizational, consolidation of our political. influence. We must not only work in the reformist but also in the nationglist, liberal and chirstian unions... Everywhere where the masses are.to..be found gathered together, there we must be also. New Fore: (7) We must pay the greatest atten- tion to the educating of new forces of trade unionists, in this connection, the work amongst the youth. (8) The consolidation of our organizations, a fight against the instability of the membership of the workers’ federations, the creation of assistant treasuries as assistant or- gans of the unions. (9) The necessity of the work in the most important in- dustrial branches and the most im- portant industrial districts where the bourgeoisie is particularly strong. (10) In eonnection with the activity of the industrial sections and the in- ternational strikebreaking which is permitted by them, we must fight for the creation of active professional in- ternationals, (11) The struggle for the creation of a united world inter- national of trade: unions, not merely a European international and (12) the struggle against expulsions, Reports of Delegates, Comrade Haiss © (Czecho-Slovakia) spoke as the first in the discussion following upon the speech of Losov- sky. He'declared that the Trade Union Federation of Czecho'Slovakia which ‘hetepresented and which was @ powerfdl ‘weapon for unity, was pre- pared to bid its Indeperidence and hand its sections to the united industrial unions. Comrade Reedens (Poland) de- scribed the situation in Poland and declared. that. oppositional elements were developing. The revohitionary wing reckoned in the immediate, fu- ture with an active struggle for unity, -Alilance with Fascists, Comrade Anselmi (Italy) pointed out the difficulties of the struggle for unity in Italy as a result of the trade union monopoly decreed to themselves by “the fascists. The leaders of the General Confederation of Labor pursue REGULAR MONTHLY MEETING OF THE CHICAGO LOCAL GENERAL GROUP OF THE ~ TRADE UNION EDUCATIONAL LEAGUE will be held on __ WEDNESDAY, APRIL 7th, 8 P. M. ¢ at the * NORTHWeRy BALL. Corner Nortiyifing Western Aves, All Militants Should Attend This “Meeting! - ADMISSION FREB.G. — - Future Tasks of Revolutionary Unionism revolutionary | ' the Porto Rican section of the American Anti-Imperialist ‘League, The section was initiated thru the or- ganization at’ Mayaguez of a united front committee consisting of mem: bers of the nationalist and soctfalist parties and trade union locals. Tho yet in its infancy, the section has already atttacted wide attention and is winning adherents from athong all i-imperialist elements, ; The sharp resolution adopted by the section in Connection-with the Mella affair in Cuba has created such an im- pression thruout the island that it forced the consul of the Machado gov- ernment to issue a statement in the press, which not only failed to weaken the resolution but rather gave ft strength in that it admitted that Machado is selling Cuba to Wall Street for a loan. Together with the’ growth of the nationalist movement, the near future holds in store the realignment and revival of a militant class struggle. The proletarian struggle will coordi- nate with the nationalist movement, for in Porto Rico national political independence is the first step tobe gained on the road to the proletarian revolution, which will be achieved un- der the leadership of the coming Com- munist Party of Porto Rico. a policy of understanding with the fascists. Amongst the working class however, the revolutionary feelings were strong and the slogan of the Communists for the reestablishment of the old class organizations will meet with great success. Com. Maerker (Germany) charac- terized the situation in Germany as follows: a serious economie crisis, ra- tionalization, deterioration of the situ- ation of the working class, an in- creased exploitation of the worker un- der the banner of the rationalization of production. The Yeformists make common cause with the government and with the employers. The Cpmmu- nists are faced with the task of unit- ing and preparing the proletariat for the coming egonomic struggles. Anarcho-Syndicalism. Comrade Monmousseau (France) Pointed out that once again anarcho- Member of the Executive Committee of the R. |. L. U. from Czecho- Slovakia. syndicalist tendencies were showing themselves with ote or two leaders of the C. G. T. U. This must chiefly be put down to the activity of those persons above all of Monatte who wore expelled from the Communist Party of France. The C. G. T. U. will fight energetically against the anarcho-syndicalist and right tendene jes in its ranks. Monmousseau further pointed tothe incorrect attitude in the unity ques- tion. One must not regard unity as the absolutely necessary condition for success, without which no victory for the workers is possible. Despite the split in France, the C. G, T. U. has led and will still lead many strikes to a successful conclusion, Shop Councils, , Comrade Gaillard (France) de- clared that the tasks of the leaders of the trade union movement in the period when the working class was on the defensive, was the preparation of the ground for the ereation of revolu- tionary shop councils, The proletar- jan unity committees play a great role in the struggle for unity and in the preparation for the creation of the revolutionary shop councils. It-is the task of these committees to unite the workers, those who follow the r ist or revolutionary ynions as well as the unorganized workers, : , If There Are Horses Left? CEDAR RAPIDS, March 31—Hugh )Hursey, Quesqueton, Ia,, has just brated his ninetieth birthday, and | seventieth anniversary as a black- smith, He still works at his forge Fevery day and says he expeots. te'be shoeing horses when he is ~ As nse sib