The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 18, 1926, Page 4

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Advertising rates on application. =e { so acsasieticaie ia os ALCOR Business Manager <> 290 Capitalist Class Justice in Passaic Events transpiring in Passaic depi¢t ‘on:.@ small scale and to a limited degree precisely what is in store.for ‘the working class generally when it eccimulates sufficient powér and consciousness to challenge the power of the capitalist class, ‘The capitalists rule directly thru their fraudulent democracy: But; the moment, the workers seriously challenge, their power: they throw. off their hypo- critical mask and the sanguinary nature of capitalist government as the mortal enemy of the workers, as the dictatorship of the cap‘ italist class, is revealed:in all its bestial hideouspess. Passaic is not a struggle of the workers. for supremacy over their capitalist masters. It is a wage struggle,‘a desperate attempt of long-suffering men, women and children to obtain’ for their labor some of the most elementary demands of life... But the avaricious mill owners deny them even that minimum’ of existence without which it is utterly impossible to sustain normal life and use the crushing power of the state to beat them back’ to slavery. For twelve weeks the workers have stood out on the Picket line against wage cuts and intolerable conditions: The “employers stubbornly refuse to yield one iota of their enormous surplus-realized from the exploitation of these workers. The season for all orders approaches and still the ranks of the strikers are unwavering. Confronted with this determination on:the part of their former workers the employers cease their blandishments, their.flattery, and command their henchmen, the police and the courts, to erush the strike. They are doing their best to carry out orders. Every semblance of civil liberty is contemptuously-trampled under foot. Anyone who dares enter the strike’ zone and.raise his-voice in the name of those so-called inalienable rights as proclaimed in the magna charter, the declaration of independence, the, constitution and in the utterances of the founders of this republic.is thrown in jail by depraved police thugs without a semblance’ of constituted authority, hailed before mill owners’ judges’ in’ kangarod. courts— vile travesties that disgrace the courts that prisoners im jafis main- tain for themselves—and held in excessive bail, “No dpum-head courts martial was ever more arrogant and: despotic. One of the pre'exts of the tyranny is that the strike is under Communist leaderslip. Communists are-trying to fulfill their duty as the vanguard of the working class in this strike:as in\all other strikes. We have declared and do declare that the government is the weapon by which the master class imposes its will by force upon athe workers. We are now aided in our work of convincing the work- ers that our position is right because the police and the courts have proved by their action that what we told the workers was true. Regardless of the outcome at Passaic, thousands of those work- ers who participated in the struggle will never again believe in the fiction of capitalist democracy and will join the ever-growing ranks of that army of the class conscious proletariat that will eventually generate as Antonio Labriola said, “that accumulation of energy, that concentration of force and continuity of resistance” that will] hurl capitalism into oblivion before the mighty sweep of the revolu- tion. The Baseball Season Opens The so-called American game is on again. ‘The baseball season is open. The pool rooms are busy handling the seagon’s gambling business. In most industrial establishments some slave with cap- italist ideas of graft in his warped brain peddles pool tickets to the other workers in order to inveigle them into taking chances on the winners of ball games. Many large gambling establishments ‘in which hundreds of thousands of dollars change hands'thrive thruout the land. This is the real game. The men of the opposing teams who meet upon the base ball diamond are only incidental, as are the litte balls that used to roll upon the gambling devices in faro establishments of the west. And just as there were expert gamblers who manipulated the little balls, so there ate~far more astute gamblers who manipulate the men who scurry around the base ball diamond. 5s The team that is backed by the heaviest betting is the team that wins. That fact has been established sufficiently to need no elaboration. The game is not “square.” The ‘brand of capitalism is indelibly stamped upon its features. It reeks with slime and cor- ruption. Only deluded workers believe the thing is on the level. Before the money they bet is in the’hands of the'collector the out- come of the game they think they are taking chances on is known. The big boys in the game take no chances. - It is something for the workers to stay away from, to hold in contempt. ° The only sports that interest intelligent.-workers are those or- ganized by them and while base ball in itself ig an excellent sport it has been so debased by capitalism that in its professional aspects it is precisely like any, other device used for ‘gambling purposes. Today at the opening of the season there are men in the game that know precisely: who will be the “champions” at the close of the season next October. Besides climate, Los Angeles claims to possess something else to brag about—a blushing policeman. In that benighted citadel of the scab shop the police arrested the cast of O’Neill’s “Desire Under the. Elms.” A policeman testified that an actress in a flannel night- gown that came up to her neck so embarrassed him that he eould not look the world in the face for hours just because it was a night- gown. We do not publish this comment because we believe the story of the policeman, but only to emphasize the atrocious lengths to which these creatures will go in order to secure convictions. It is part of the sublime legal system of capitalism. ‘ ; pose. jevening, April 19, at 8 p. m., [: TIVEN if you are not planning to Workers (Communist) Party THE LIVING NEWSPAPER OF THE CHICAGO WORKER CORRESPONDENTS Maia tine snake, manarr, DAILY FREIHEIT HE*Chicago Living Newspaper will be given on May 5 at the Workers’ Chicago Workers to Fill Temple Hall Saturday House. It will be conducted in the Saturday evening workers of Chi- following manner: Each participant will write out. his article. It will be | with a pleasant evening and you will cago will celebrate the fourth anni- versary of the Jewish Daily Fretheit CITY COLLEGE STUDENTS your suggestions will be valuable and your presence will be encouraging to the new students, of whom there are a number, Come if it is only to get acquainted. You will be rewarded’ licity in “Campus” of the. college of the city of New York, while investigating conditions 44 take part in the Living Newspaper | QUESTIONS FOR THIS MONDAY'S GLASS IN TRADE UNION TACTICS Meets every Monday night at the DAILY WORKER building, 3rd floor. First lesson of second term: Trade Union Organization of Un- organized Workers. a. Organization in heavy Industry. b. Organization In light industry. Instructor, Arne Swabeck. Questions for Monday, April 19: 1. lait essential that in a given tra@e or industry all the forces of the unions be mobilized for an or- ganization drive and, If so, how can this best’ be accomplished? 2. ts organization in itself a suf- ficlent slogan for an organization drive and, if not, what should be the additional slogans? Name any two industries as examples. What is main-difference of tasks of organization in heavy and in light All members of the sub-section are urged to attend. ‘Bring dues books. Those who have no& yet receiyed their new books. will gem from their unit organizers at) /meeting:* n ‘urged to prepare reports, The next sub-section meeting will be given over e agitprop de- partment for educa: foun! work only. Czecho-Slovak. Youth Will Hold Gymnastic All committees industry? 4. To what extent must an organ- ization drive have an industrial character in such industries as steel, clothing, building and printing, and what are the examples of measures necessary to give the organization drive an industrial character? 5. What is the essential role of left wing in solving problem of or- ganization of the unorganized? CLEVELAND T0 HOLD FESTIVAL THIS SUNDAY Excellent Protiee Has Been Arranged CLEVELAND, April 16.—The spring festival will take ‘place Sunday, April 18, starting at 2 o’clock.; A revolu- tionary play entitled “181” will be given. This is a mass play telling the story of the fall.of the . Paris. Com- mune, in three scenes. The Moose Auditorium, 1000 Walnut St, Will be the scene of the festival. WAUKEEGAN, Ill, April 14.—A big Five of the best workers’»choruses| Workers’ amateur wrestling tourna- will participate. The Freiheit Ge-|ment was held here Saturday and Sun- ‘sangs-Verein, the Slovak, Hungarian,|4@Y- The contest:.was between the Ukrainian and Lithuanian choruses|™embers of the Finmish Mid-Western will sing, H, Offner, violinist of the|Section of the Workers’ Sports. Al- Cleveland symphony orchestra, and at Hance of Waukeegan’vs. Detroit. The . huskies from Detrejt_were: Th. Pauk- soprano soloist, -will be ber’ other konen, 0. Laakso® ¥. Hirkkanen, K features. The Finnish Athletic Club eng os Wan. will do some unusual performances. ion ge The comtgnders from: Wan- eegan were: R, Hanson, KE, Laukko, S. Kokho, Hj Lahti, V. Mellin and V. Karvola, Exhibition Sunday The Czecho-Slovak Workingmen’s Gymnastic Associijtion Omladina (Youth) are giving Sn annual public zymnastic exhibition. ard dance on inday April 18, at Pilsen Pavilion, 26th/St, and Albany Ave. The exhibition opens as 2:30 in the afternoon and the dance will start at 6 o'clock. Tickets are being sold in advance for 50 cents. At the door they will be 75 cents. Atmembers of the Young Pioneers will be admitted with- out an admission charge. Don’t waste your breath, put It on paper. criticized’ in class, and also by the} be pleased to see how many new ac- editorial board appointed for this pur- | tivities the class has undertaken. turned to the author, who will be ARTICULARLY interesting will be ser ae to dee oe quad cling the articles to be handed im by stu- aaa hei saber ae a otal Ghat dents and then be forwarded to news-|at the Temple Hall, corner of Van is or interest ns workers can take part | D@Pers in England, Canada, Germany, | Buren and Marshfield streets. Russia and other iy haat Some are ee et Freiheit is really the holiday of the | not particularly noteworthy e: HETHER you are a beginner, a|/#78U8se Papers a his country, workers that know and understand | the circumstances pertaining to the member of two terms, three Le what this Jewish Communist Daily | case. . terms or one who has completed the | JF you are plannifigeto write a May | has accomplished in its four years of} ‘The social Problems Club! course does not matter. You are to|* Day article prepgrg it and bring it| existence. The Jewish labor mov@| college, which started the military worker correspondents on’ Monday | ful criticism in ¢ i It may be ac-| four years ago. The Jewish labor | ether a group of five men to. go to in the | cepted as an article to be read at the | movement then had for its undisputed | passaic to study the strike situation. editorial room of ‘The DAILY |Liying Newspaper. leaders the ‘pillars of Samuel Gom-| Carl Weissburg, the student who was WORKER to take part in discussion| It you have an.dd@a for an article | Pers Such as Schlesinger and Morris) sjugged was among them. \)-Weiss- and preparation for the Living News- | for the Living Newspaper don’t keep ‘illquit. The most popular daily | burg, after the students had left, slept with the class. | Was the Forward, which defends all! 4+ the headquarters of the Wnited The claes wwitt Sele promptly ati Counter-revolutionary activities of the | rront ‘Textile Workers. In the morn- 8 p. m Second International and enemies of |-4¢ he, in the company of other work- Soviet Russia. But tremendous | ors, went out to the picket ling, ‘There Py changes have taken place. A DoWer-|iney marched up and down the side- Sub-Section 1 brilliant victories in freeing the JeW-| into their ranks trying to break them Meeti | ish labor movement, of the Sse flup. The officer succeeded tempor- | the enemies of the working class. | arity, only to have the workers form opting: Tuesday a ore ota ik yer i ee smaller lines. Weissburg, who was —_— 3 . NEW YORK, April 16—Members of in one of the lines with two other ! one to dispute the Jewish Daily Frei- 7. t meeting, April 20, hear Weinstone on} heit has been a powerful instrument pipe 5 ea LY a6. bs Ne ba Issues in the Workers (Communist) | of this great change. policeman. “Here was where,” Weiss- Party of America. At the same meet-|' he workers of Chicago know the wirg says, “we almost got killed for ing reports of the functionaries con-) value of the Jewish Daily Freiheit. obeying orders.” The three boys, ference will be discussed and at the Temple Hall, Chicago, will therefore }and on the other by the mounted po- executive committee will take “place. | he the expression of their recognition |1iceman, were herded against the wall Yi and appreciation of the role of their |on the other side of the street, where fighting organ. The sacrifices that|the beating was administered. the Jewish workers of New York and Police Swing Clubs. Frojnott eal suredy be shown In CB lerom the Social Problems Club ro- ceived a broken nose and had two ‘The workers of Chicago have in the teeth knocked out by the gentle club past made each auniversary of thes cr the Passaic guarder of\“law and Fretheit a great revolutionary holt order.” The other young worker took ORE DEES CE DRE Seremnane Enine Scr trying to oppose the textile hierarchy. gether and made it a holiday, Carl Weis&burg, the City College stu- Comrade Moissaye J. Olgin, who is | dent, narrowly escaped a broken head the most popular writer and orator of | py seizing the club of one policeman the Jewish labor movement, will come | in one hand and taking the descend- enberg, the national secretary of the | for his skull—on his clenched fist. Workers (Communist) Party will] ‘The heroic struggle of the textile speak at this celébration. A very] workers, its importance to labor, the elaborate and fine musical program | significance of the strike for the stu- will be rendered. dents of City College, and the brutal- and revolutionary workers of other | of the Sociaf Problems Club to hold nationalities will come to the anni), meeting with Carl Weissburg as the versary of the Fretheit in order to ex-|main speaker. The authorities, sens- preds their international solidarity ing tke situation, refused a room to with the Jewish workers. the Social Problems Club for: this some technical point sufficient ground for the denial of the meeting place. Nevertheless, thé meeting was held in the student concourse before about three hundred “boys, among whom was The Issue in “The Campus.” The entire outrage was to come out in the next issue of the college paper, “The Campus,” .when Harry Holler, then editor, was. cautioned by the The article will then be re- -* 6 in the Living Newspaper, being written to want to tonilen ‘The anniversary of the Jewish Daily | policeman. The incident, of itself, is attend without fail,the next class of |along so that it Benefit by help-| ment was generally very reactionary | science controversy, paper. it to yourself—come and talk it over.| U°WSPaper in the Jewish language} with the other guardians of the office ful left wing has grown and has won | waix until a mounted policeman rode Sub-Section 5A will at their next By ia ancile tha Yet ak Dally weet angen isn ndgathet Pa Ae close of the meeting election of a new la ps ge pr le ccc ge age goed other cities have endured, for the One of’ the boys with the delegate day. It is the event when all differ- many blows on the head and chest for to participate. Comrade C, E. Ruth-Jing club of the other “cop”—aimed It is hoped that the class conscious | ity of the police aroused the members meeting, claiming the violation of collected $15 for the textile strikers. MAY | Labor Sports Union Faces New Tasks The field for spont activities in Illi- nois is a very good one. The young workers who are influenced by the cap- italist clubs could be taken away if the Labor Sports Union will take initiative in organizing the sport activities for the coming summer. The conference that was held in Chi- cago laid the basis for future work. In the future special attention must be paid to southern Illinois, where dit- ferent kinds of teams are organized in the mining towns. The Labor Sports Union will have to put its energy to organizing those young miners under Put a copy of the DAILY 3 the slogan, “Workers sports as-against WORKER in your pocket when % capitalist sports.” Similar conferences Gyptner Shows Need as the one in Chicago will be and must Jon:g0: te, Four Raton mePRHE. of Sports Activity be arranged in cities and towns where BIMB A WILL SPEAK jew po rc is controlled by IN ST. LOUIS, M0., ON SUNDAY AFTERNOON “Say it with your pen in the worker correspondent page of The DAILY ST. LOUIS, Mo. April. 15—An thony Bimba, editor. of the Lithu- anian Communist daily Laisve, who was recently tried under the 200- year old blasphemy law at Brock- ton, Ma will speak at Niemeyer’s Hall, ighth and LaFayette Ave., Sunday afternoon, April 18, at 2 o'clock. The meting is being held ‘Under the auspices ofthe Interna- tional Labor Defense, HELP! Workers’ Amateur + Wrestling Bouts Held in Waukegan sy ie Me RSS a SE REE RENE Tage ORT SE" GSfagiay es SS REC SRT Pe ee ETERS. OE Ree James P. Cannon Corine Robinson MOSCOW, U. 8. 8 April 14.—Re- larged executive International, Comrade Richard Gyptner enphasized the necessity of- intensifying the co- operation of the ‘Young Communist Ii- ternational with the workers’ sports movement, 7 In part he said: +The sports depart- ment takes an active part in the work of the Red Sports International. On this field the task remains as follows: (a) All leagues are to take up work on the field of sports; (b) continuation of unity campaign and sports collabo- ration; (¢) increased activity in the Red Sports International,” HELP! Pia, SRR eB ne 2d 8 AT RIO hh eee aceite SEES TEMPLE Marshfield and Van Bi FOURTH ANNUAL / PROGRAM: SYMPHONY. TRIO: _ Give Us a Hand! The big campaign is on at present and all the work has our office force just swamped. If you want to vélunteer your services (to fold circulars, enclosures, starip envelopes, etc.) come around and you'll be more welcom@ than a raise in wages. We are going to build The Daily Worker to twice its size, Come around and help us i SLUGGED IN. PASSAIC Goose Step Heads Ban Pub- NEW YORK. CITY.—It may not have come ‘to the notice of the repor- torial staff at Passaic that a student on the picket line, was clubbed'by a ee pt for gathered to- WM. Z. FOSTER Just returned from Russia Bishop Wm. Montgomery Brown > crano OPERA BALLET—— COLISEUM Saturday, May Ist, 8 P. M. e Ba, FREIMEIT JUBILEE ane | April 17, 1926 Freiheit Singing Society . Freiheit Mandolin "Orch ue rae erat faculty that the entire affair should be ignored. This Holler refused to do, considering it “an unwarfanted en- croachment on editorial. honesty.” Holler was removed by the Campus Association, a body consisting of trus- tees and former editors of “The Campus,” on the following day for the (temperamental incompatibility” and “poor taste” he had shown in an editorial written two days prior to the Passaic strike meeting and not per- taining to the affair at all. It is al- leged that, the Campus Association de- posed Holler after receiving a tele- phone call fro {Dean Robinson, who, in turn, we realize; is-only playing the game of politics and has his actions directed by..some group higher up, or else has exceptionally good judgment and realizes the nevessity for the pe- dantic lackeys of the capitalist system of guarding against néw’ ideas, Liberal Speakers Barred, Robert Dunn, memberof the Amert- can Civil Liberites and author of “America’s Investments, Abroad,” was invited » to,speak before the Social Problems lub on the Thursday fol- lowing the: Easter recess. This was tefused amd, wé were further told, Scott Nearing would never again be allowed to speak at the college. Also, it was asked of us, why do we hold meetings so often (once a week), and why do we, choose subjects so ex- traneous to. the curriculum as the Passaic, strike. . ; Thus is free press, free speech, and free thought—those three great pillars of American ‘‘democracy”—denied in one of .the,great educational institu tions. PLUMBERS’ HELPERS FORM ANOTHER CLUB IN N, Y. "NEW YORK CITY.—Because the plumbers’ helpers are more exploited*’ than any other workers in the build- ing trades Makes it’ necessary that they be organized. ‘The committee for the organization of the Plumbers’ Helpets’ Club in New York has issued an organization call, which in part states: “The Plumbers’ Helpers’ Clubs of Brooklyn and Bronx therefore call upon you to demand and fight in an organized manner for the unionization of all plumbers’ helpers in the trade by organizing a plumbers’ helpers’ club in New York.” A meeting for this purpose will be held Tuesday, April 20, 8 p. m. at the Ukrianian Labor Home, room 2, 15 East Third street. Telephone Lehigh 6022 DR. ABRAHAM MARKOFF Surgeon Dentist 249 East 115th Sti, Cor. Second Ave. NEW YORK CITY” Office Hours: 9 to 12 A. M.; 2 to 8 P. M. Daily, except Friday; Sunday 9 to 1-P. M. Special Rates to W. P. Memi For Rent in New York: 2 sunny rooms, front; kitchen; in elevator apartment. For about five months. Reasonable. 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