The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 15, 1926, Page 5

epiecawomettey 1000 WORKER. CORRESPONDENTS BY JANUARY 13 5 1927 SESS ess rssssssesssssy THE WINNERS! The first prize, “Whither England?” by Leon Trotsky, goes to a worker In the Eagle Pencil company In New York City. In his article, “Eagle Pencil Company Fears Workers’ Point,” he tells of the splendid response given by the workers to the first issue of their shop bulletin and the effect of its contents upon the bosses. this article. Wednesday, May 12, issue, Every worker should read It appeared on the Worker Correspondents’ page of the goes to a miner in Wyano, Pa,, who wrote on a vital problem confronting the coal miners there. His article, “Wyano’s Miners Fight Osborne Mines,” appeared on the Worker Correspondents’ page of Thursday, May. 13. The third prize, “Bars and Shadows,” by Ralph Chaplin, goes to a worker in Tampico, Mexico, who tells of the formation of United Front Committees of Labor Organizations in Tampico, this page. His article appears on Next Week’s Prizes! “Lenin on Organization,” a very valuable book, is offered for the first Prize of next week’s best Worker Correspondent story. “Romance of New Russia,” by Madeline Marx, a book to be enjoyed by everyone interested in how they live in Soviet Russia today, Is offered as the second prize. The Little Red Library, consisting of 8 bookfets, practical as well as valuable (can be carried in a coat pocket), Is offered as the third prize, Worker Correspondents; Send in your stories, SESS SSS ES ESTES WINNER OF THE THIRD PRIZE, TAMPICO LEADS IN MOVEMENT FOR FORMATION OF UNITED FRONT COMMITTEES OF LABOR ORGANIZATIONS The second prize, “The Awakening of China,” by James H, Dolsen, ‘“ By a Worker Correspondent, TAMPICO, Mexico, May 13.—The port of Tampico ig one of the biggest labor centers in Mexico. ment can accurately be taken. It is here that the pulse of the Mexican labor move- At present the workers in different labor organizations (with the excep- tion of the C. R. O. M.) are beginning to realize the importance and the need for a united front of labor against the capitalist class. They are taking steps towards the creation of more or less permanent committees that will rep- resent and fight for the interests of the workers. The Communist local here is small. Their members, however, are very active. Their move towards the united labor front was due to the persistent agitation of the Communists, Tam- pico labor's united front has become a reality thanks to the efforts of the Communists. May Day Celebration, The May Day celebration here was very effective and demonstrated the power of a united labor front. The city remained at a standstill during the daylight hours. tant place was open. There was no traffic moving on the streets—not even a jitney. From about 8 o’clock in the morn- ing a parade composed of all the local organizations marched thru the city until about 11:30 o'clock, carrying banners and slogans all showing the need of the united labor front. After the parade a monster crowd gathered in-the Plaza and almost every organization had a speaker address the workers, who in spite of the burning tropical sun, stood almost motionless as they listened to them. Mass Meeting. At four o'clock in the afternoon a mass meeting was held in one of the largest theaters in Tampico. The speakers pointed out the meaning of May Day to the workers and urged them to carry on a continental strug- gle against the capitalist system. The name of Lenin was mentioned fre- quently by the ‘speakers. The- united front committee formed here is becoming a national move~ ment, Thanks to the Communists and other militant elements in the labor "movement this will be accom- plished. Imperialist Tools Fear Unity. Attempts are continually being made by tools of imperialism here to hinder-the progress of these united front committees. In their press and speeches they shout to the workers: “Do not trust the Communists and the socialists,” Their efforts to create dis- trust are to no avail, The Mexican workers realize their interests and are forming these committees, Tampico, which is one of the big cities td take the lead in that respect, has over 150,000 workers, most of whom are workers in the oil industry. Prolet-Tribune No. 8 Will Be Out Saturday at Workers’ House The eighth number of Prolet- Tribune, the Russian living newspaper by the Chicago worker correspondents of the Novy Mir, will be out this Sat- urday, May 15, at the Workers’ House, 1902 W. Division street. The Prolet-Tribune is the oldest liv- ing newspaper in this country, being published regularly for the last eight months, It is a powerful weapon in the hands of the worker correspond- ents who are fighting the white guards and czarist lickspittles, This will be the last indoor issue of the paper. The next number will be issued in the open, probably at some cial picnic arranged tor this pur- pose. Beginning at 8 p. m. Admission 25 cents, \ Not one impor-|, 900 CHARLEROI MINERS STRIKE AT Y. & 0, MINE Demand Operators Sign Union Agreement By a Worker Correspondent MONESSEN, Pa., May 18.—Over 500 coal miners, all members of Local Union No, 593 of the United Mine Workers of America, have gone on strike at Charleroi. Every union miner in the Y, & O. mine at Charleroi, just across the river from here, is on strike. The agreement of the miners’ union with the bosses expired. The bosses refused to renew the agreement and also refused to agree to the union de- mand that the company employ only union men in all its mines. This com- pany, it is stated, employed non-union miners in some of its mines. The miners are determined to stick until they force the company to renew the agreement. Chicago Daily Worker Boosters Meet Friday Every DAILY WORKER Builder should be present Friday May 14, 8 Dp. m., at the Northwest Hall, North and Western to hear Wm. F. Dunne speak on thé English Labor Press, At this meeting the DAILY WORK- ER drive will be fully discussed and talk over ways and means of getting every party member into the Chicago Boosters’ Club. This will be the great- est Builders’ Meeting held so far. Every live member should be there. A committee from the worker cor- respondents class will attend this meeting. WORKER CORRESPONDENCE FROM THE SOVIET UNION STAND TO AND DO AS WE DO By J. MARTINOVICH, Worker Correspondent and One of Uncle Sam's Deportees. MOSCOW, U. S. S. R. (BY Mail) — Under this title I write to you, com- rades, and I wish you would not un- derstand it as propaganda but as a most sincere statement. In one of Shakespeare’s plays of stories it says: “Stand to and do as we do, faith, my. sir, ‘and not fear, for every man is needed for victory.” Thruout' the yellow papers of the United States you have had so many shining occasions to learn about the bad sides of the Russian working class and their party whose name has been despised by the yellow and black edi- tors of the ‘bourgeoisie as well as by the renegade traitors of the social- de} But over here you can really” ‘seo, the truth about what our mighty organization did for the farm- ers and workers. When they knocked the crown off the Romanoff’s head they knocked off his head, too, and cleaned house of all the rats and lords. Then they opened the doors wide for the toilers whose ambition was suppressed by the czar’s adherents for centuries. These men are active and wise and they know how it shall be good for the new generation to live in a state where there shall be no poor and no rch, no classes and therefore no class war either. You will ask the question of how they are building up a new and just social order. For this purpose. they they take care of the tots who aré the real buds of a Communist order of society, and, second, the develop- ment of industry on their territory as high as possible. Of course these two things are the most necessary things and the hardest to do, and they take the longest time and are a painful process. Ey" courageously they say, with a smilé on their lips, “Neechevo, we work and we shall triumph.” You comrades who are reading our press know better than I can tell you how the industries are growing, some from 20 to 80 per cent. During the time of the entrenchment of soviet power they built nearly a hundred new electric: stations. -Of course you have many more elqctric stations in America, but they are not for workers, they are only built and invented for exploitation of your energy. If you could come over here, maybe if you saw that all the industry was not perfect yet, you might become a little disappointed, but if you saw their young people that are organized in the “Komsomol” you would certainly ex- claim, “Hurrah!” for the pioneers of the new order. They put the children under the guidance of modern pedagogy and sent the priest to take care of him- self. They know how the priests in France when they had power over the children used to sell them to the Egyp- tian traders, and they know how in modern England Mr. Baden-Powell tried to organize them in Scouts so they would be obedient to the boss in the mill while he squeezed their blood out of them. And they know, too, that the Second International youth movement which was founded long ago in Belgium never got anywhere because of Mr. Vandervelde’s bour- geois ideology. But in Russia today the boys and girls get a chance to bq really con- acious citizens of new social society. A woman in Russia is freed from duty two months before her child is born, and all the time she gets full salary, also for two months after. She can take care of the child herself or she can have it taken care of in the “Chil- dren’s Garden” (Djetski Saad). I per- sonally believe there are more chil- dren’s parks in Russia than there are automobile or nail factories in the United States. In these parks the kids are being raised in the spirit of the most outstanding revolutionary lead- ers, like Karl Marx, Friederich Bn- gles, Nicolai Lenin and so many oth- ers. The inspiration to do something useful is very firm in the children, and the teachers are doing one of the most important jobs for the revolu- tionary Russian state. After the boys and girls finish their seventh year they go into the “Pion- eers,” they become crusaders for the extension of Communist understand- ‘ing. After they are thru another seven years they go into the “Konsomol,” where they are thoroly trained in the international questions of the labor movement and all the schemes of the international bourgeoisie and the im- perialists’ policy. When they finish here they go into the Party, as con- scious members in the ranks of their class, as fighters for human rights and rebels against injustice every- where, That is the second factor in the Socialist State of the Soviet Union, In my next letter I will write to you about the life of the women here. WRITE AS YOU FIGHT! THE MAY ISSUE IS OUT! (Mere as you Figlil S AMEDIGAN WORKER , CORRESPONDENT Jagazine By and For Workers in the Factories, the. Mines, the Mills and on the Land ‘ Price 5 cents 1113 W. WASHINGTON BLVD, nly 60 Cents Per Year! “AMERICAN WORKER CORRESPONDENT, Become a Worker Correspondent! CHICAGO, ILL. ye THE DAILY° WORKER WICKS ADDRESSE PROF.. COMMONS’ ECONOMIC CLASS U. of W. Students Hear Communist (Special to The Daily Worker) MADISON, Wis., May 13. — H. M. Wicks, editorial writer for The DAILY WORKER, addressed Professor John R. Commons’ class in economics at the University of Wisconsin here yester- day afternoon on the subject of Marx- ism and Leninism, Professor Commons, whose class is engaged in the study of socialism and labor, had intended dealing with the Communist Manifesto, but with Wicks in Madison for debate with a lawyer for the Wisconsin Manufacturers’ As- sociation, he desired that the Com- munist clear up certain disputed ques- tions concernings the claim of the Kautskyans that they are the true ex- ponents of Marxism. Professor Com- mons himself, holds that not Kautsky, but Lenin, carried out the theory and practice of Marxism. Introducing Wicks to his class Davis Sends Out Bunk on May Day (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, D. C., May 13.—A dispatch from the labor department of the government says: “May Day found employment stable, wages high and industrial peace general, with red radicalism showing little strength and trade unions quietly expanding their efforts to improve the economic and cultural conditions of their mem- bers.” Of all the brazen stuff to be hand- ing out, this is the limit. The West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkan- sas, Oklahoma coal fields are non- union and gunmen on duty to see that they stay that way, with one- half the mines in Illinois closed down and the other half running two to four days a week, with the militant miners of Zeigler on the road to prison, thirty-five sentenced and fined in Indiana for “conspiracy,” with Pas- saic still struggling and being fed by these same red radicals, and—but what’s the use to say more. It just shows what the Washington labor dope amounts to, Bahama Government Recalls Currency Professor Commons stated that he was glad to be able to have a recog: nized authority.on the subject handle the session, Evolution of Revolution, Wicks introduced his subject by stating the fundamental propositions laid down in the Manifesto and traced their developniént, step by step thru the Paris Commune, the criticism by Marx’ of the Gotha program, the Sec- ond International, the 1905 Russian revolution, thé world war and the Bol- shevik revolution; showed the break- down of the Kautskyan position and the triumph of Leninism, which is Marxism applied to this stage of im- perialism, At the conclusion of the lecture Professor Gemmons instructed his class to prepare papers on what they had heard and gave them as readings the “Manifesto,” Lenin's “State and Revolution,” and “The Proletarian Revolution, a Reply to Kautsky.” Two Classes Listen. Professor Commons, whose “History of Trades mism in the United States” is w known as a standard work, has of the largest classes at the university. In addition to his regular c the class taught by Miss Bran daughter of United States Supri Court Justice Louts J. Brandeis, 1 ed to Wicks’ lecture and after session many of the students swarmed around the speaker and asked qugstions on the subject. Capitalist Wireless League' Controls Air Towers:Thruout World MONTE CARLO, Monaco (By Mail.) | —The recent meeting of the Wireless League at this premier gambling hell | of the world deserves attention, for it illustrates how the most powerful cap- italist nations: are manipulating the) latest and most wonderful scientific; invention for:the diffusion of knowl- edge and thereby forming public opin- ion to suit their own purposes. The league was established three years ago by representatives of wire- less concerns in America, Great Brit- ain, and France. German firms were later admitted. The object was to avoid fhe duplication of expensive stations, especially in South America. The importance attached to the or- ganization is evident from the selec- tion of Owen D. Young, chairman of the General Electric company, the electrical trust in the United States, and of General Harbord, president of the American: Radio corporation, as the American delegates. The league represents virtually all the wireless concerns of the United States, Great Britain, France and Germany, and is therefore in effect a world trust, as there are few powerful corporations in any of the other countries. Huge! \Alr Stations. The WirelessLeague constructed a very powerful; sending and receiving station at Buetios Ayres in Agentina several years ago and has just com- pleted a monster tower at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, costing $4,000,000. Each of the four nations has an equal interest in the¥e stations, which are adjusted to receive messages from all over the world, Other countries have tried to get in on the leagué but failed. Mussolini at the recent sesion attempted to secure an interest for Italy but was turned down. Capitalist Control, How conscious the men in control of the organization are of the actual and potential influence of the wireless in an international sense is shown. by the fact that the United States gov- ernment has brought pressure enough on American firms to prevent their un- dertaking constructing high power wireless stations for the Soviet gov- ernment. In the United States Secre- tary of Commerce Herbert Hoover rep- resents the American trust and is prac- tically dictator of the air, The American authorities, like their European capitalist friends, are deadly afraid. of Communism being propa: gated by this medium: So long as messages must, be relayed over sta tions controlled by reactionary govern- ments in Germany or France or Eng- land, they feel safe, | NASSAU, Bahamas, May 13, — Cur- rency of the Bahama government has been ordered withdrawn from circula- tion, according to announcement by treasury officials. New paper money will be printed to replace the old, it was stated. This action was taken after three months search had failed to locate the gang of bandits who swooped down on the government treasury March 16, looted the government stronghold of $47,000 in gold and $30,000 in currency. Company Union in Ferment, Is the Standard Oil losing control of its own company union? Annual elec- tions just held by the Republic of Labor of Bayonne shows the over- whelming defeat of three delegates from the parafine department who had gotten in bad with the rank and file by opposing the recent strike of 125 boys for an increase of wages. The new delegates are pledged to the orig- inal demand. ON THE JOB IN THE THIRD ANNUAL NATIONAL BUILDERS’ CAMPAIGN New York Shoots Ahead of Chicago. Chicago was ahead of New York. York got peeved and shot in a load of bricks and new Chicago is eating their dust, a fraction under. these two big boys fight it out! It was, but it is'nt anymore. New New York has reached full 5% of their quota while Chicago is just And now Chicago is peeved. Just watch the fur fly while Grand Rapids Gets the Point! Gene Bechtold has 1,185 points to his credit and the numbers just keep on getting bigger and bigger. There's a point to this story ... it looks like another full-blown candidate for that trip to Moscow. The Detroit distri¢t which is leading the world right now, will please take notice. Grand Rapids as 7,000 points to go and has already secured enough to make it look like there may be a celebration in this town in July when they will hang a ban- ner from Berlin or Moscow! A Spector Is Haunting John Heinrichson. Frank Spector of Los Angeles accepted the challenge of John Heinrleh- son of Chicago to get more subs and went him a few points better. So John got peeved. .Thinking Spector was In Frisco, he went out and got a sub for that city! When he learned it was Los Angeles, he got more peeved and got a sub from that city also. And now Comrade Spector gets more points than John has and the battle gets more interesting. Comrade Heinrichson swears (and he sure can swear!) that “this man Spector is golng to be left so far behind within the next week or two that I’ll need a telescope to find him.” Well, alright John... + but what does Frank Spector say about It? i Chicken Pickers Strike. SAN FRANCISCO—(FP)—Chicken pickers in San Francisco are on strike to restore the rate of 5c per chicken, reduced by the employers to 4%¢c. The strikers also want an §-hour day. The San Francisco Labor council says the season lasts only 12 weeks a year, and that the maximum for skilled pickers under the old rate is only $720 a year, Bring | Out the Heavy Cannon! Carmen Get Increase. SAN FRANCISCO—(FP)—The San Francisco board of supervisors has again put the matter of a 40c daily wage raise for municipal carmen up to the board of public works, which recently refused the men’s plea. The supervisors voted unanimozsly for the increase, three of them saying it should be 60 instead of 40c and that if proper bookkeeping methods were used the city’s funds would be ample. are gone FOUR w weeks campaign. This is will never do. prospect—and on every where workers are. If the builders of the Communist press are to add ten thousand new readers to The DAILY WORKER half-measures action. 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