The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 25, 1926, Page 4

“Page Four THE DAILY WWORKER Published by the DAILY WORKER RUBLISHING CO. 1118 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill. SUBSCRIPTION RATES ss) By mail (in Chicago only): $8.00 per year $4.50 six months $2.50 three months $6.00 per vear $2.00 three months Phone Monroe 4712 By mail (outside of Chicago): $3.50 six months Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chleago, I lInols ———____ J, LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F, DUNNE MORITZ J, LOEB Editors Business Manager Entered as second-class mail September 21, 1923, at the post-office at Chi- cago, lil, under the act of March 3, 1879. e230 ——== Advertising rates on application. More A. F. of L. Official Treachery After a splendid struggle against the powerful New York I. R. T. the strike leaders were compelled to advice their followers to apply for their old jobs, believing that a continuation of the strike was futile in view of the odds against them. The odds agajnst the I. R, T. employes were: The traction trust; the city government; the capitalist press and the treachery of the American Federation of Labor officialdom. That the traction magnates and their hirelings in the city gov ernment and on the capitalist press should be hostile to the attempt on the part of the traction employes to organize a union and smash the company’s harlot organization need surprise nobody. their business. That is But is not the American Federation of Labor supposed to be the leader and organizer of the American trade union movement? ts business is to encourage and aid all efforts on the part of the werkers to build unions for their own protection. Yet here was a splendid opportunity to organize the employes of very important transportation service. of counsel or encouragement was given. And not even a word Neither the executive committee of the A. F. of L. nor the offi. cials of the Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Rail- way Employes moved hand or foot to help the I. R. T. employes in their struggle with the company. The leaders run banks, insurance companies, coal mines, and other business institutions, with the workers’ money. What do they care if a few thousand wage slaves go on strike for higher wages? They don’t want too many members in the A. F. of L. They have enough per capita now to keep them going. In a short time they hope to destroy whatever semblance of militancy there is left in the trade unions and the employers will no longer have to bother about company unions. This is the way the leaders have gone. Ralph Easley of the notorious strikebreaking National Civic Federation is a welcome visitor at the headquarters of the Chicago Federation of Labor and an official of that body shows him the new labor radio station. Fraternization! Matthew Woll is eulogized in the New York Times for urging labor to scrap its war weapons and get out the powder puffs. Green assails the Passaic strikers and denounces a group of labor men who were planning to visit Soviet Russia to see how the workers were getting along with the business of running one-sixth of the earth. The old leaders of the A. F. of L. have gone over bag and bag- gage to the employers. ganized. They are thru with organizing the unor- Their fondest hope now is, that the employers will see the wis- dom of tolerating an organization of the most highly skilled work- ers and that those will be granted “most-favored nation” conditions at the expense of the great majority of their fellows. The present leadership of the A. F. of L. must give way to one that will organize and lead all workers, skilled and unskilled to fight for better conditions now, and ultimately for ownership and con- trol of industry. Get a member for the Workers Party and a new subscription for THE Daity Worker. THE DAILY WORKER They Defend Capitalist Politicians |B SMALL REFUSES PARDON TO STRIKERS—EITZPATRICK, NOCKELS AND THEIR ORGAN DEFEND HIM FROM CRITICISM—PICKETS ‘MUST SERVE OUT TIME WHILE FITZPATRICK ET AL CLING TO GOVERNOR SMALL’S BANDWAGON. By JACK JOHNSTON, HE FEDERATION NEWS, official organ of the Chicago Federation of Labor; again comes to the defense of Governor Small and launches an at- tack upon the militant garment work- ers’ pickéts who are now serving prison sentences for correctly violat- ing the injunction issued by Judge Sullivan Guring the 1924 dressmakers’ strike, As usual this attack is covered up with the convenient drawing of the red herring across the trail. The gist of the whole ridicutous position of the Chicago Federation of Labor or rather their camouflaged excuse, is, that as long as any members of the Workers (Communist) Party take up the strug- gles of the workers, the Chicago Fed- eration of Labor will have nothing to do with it, The latest attack upon those men and women, who did’ very little talk- ing but went to jail. for the labor movement, is based upon a report made to the federation by I. L. David- son, organizer of the I. L. G. W. U. For weeks the joint board of the I. L. G. W. U. tried to get Fitzpatrick, Olander, Walker and other officials to speak at a meeting called by the joint board to protest against the imprison- ment of these pickets and to demand their immediate release, Oppose Demonstration. HEY not only refused to speak themselves but opposed the idea of a demonstration at all. The joint board of the I. L. G. W.’ U. naturally refused to join the Federation in this conspiracy of silence and have carried on a policy of ‘publicity, mass meet- ings and demonstrations as much as its small organization has been able. Many. local unions affiliated with the federation have assisted to the best of their ability. But the organizations that should carry. the burden of the struggle, namely the Chicago Federa- tion of Labor and the Hlinois State Federation of Labor have been silent as far as labor demoustration against the imprisoned injunction violators ate concerned, but they have been very definite in the defense of Govern- or Small and in their attack against the men and women who went to jail, labeling the public agitation, carried on under the auspices of the I, L, G. W. U. joint board, tgr their release as Communist propaganda, News Gets Indignant. HE FEDERATION NEWS waxes indignant over Davidson's attack upon Governor Small. It says, “In a tirade, unsound and unwarranted, he (Davidson Ed.) accused Gov, Small of being unfair, although he knew that Attorney-General Carlstrom was to Sears, Roebuck Extends Its Chain of Retail Stores Seats, Roebuck and Co, will begin the construction soon of a new gene- rai retail store in Philadelphia. A plot of three and onehalf acres has been acquired for the, new building at 64th and Market Sts. By GREGORY ZINOVIEV The general etrike had no clear aim, no clear program. Whereas in reality it had, and had of necessity, a political character from the very. beginning, the general council per- sisted in asseverating at every street corner that the strike was only an @oonomic one, that it was not di- pected against the’constitution and so @@. In the meantime the government essiduously organized its strikebreak- ers. The general council called upon the striking masses to spend its leis-|}- ure time in games, dancing, and sport. The general council, in which the masses had at first placed unbounded confidence, and to whom it had with enthusiasm entrusted the fate of this gteat movement, was capable of vacil- lating, even in view of the govern- ment’s threat to declare the strike illegal, a threat which was coupled with the “promise” to confiscate the personal property of the official trade union leaders. , The Magdenburg trial recently proved with absolute certainty that in 1918, when the great strike began in Germany, the leaders of the social democrats, Ebert, Scheidemann and Noske, deliberately joined in the or- ganization of the strike in order to wreck the strike of the workers. They openly admitted before the court that, whilst they were members of the strike committees of the workers, they were at the same time in touch tries. the Communist strike.” in England. Informed on this Workers’ mand will be large. In the August number of The Workers’ Monthly will appear the theses of the executive committee of International “Lessons of the British General On the basis of this su- premely Important document ofthe leadirg committee of the world pro- letarian revolution, the units of the Workers (Communist) Party will discuss the great events of last May on Needless to say, no worker can be world-shaking event without reading the theses of the Communist International. ders for the August issue of The Monthly containing the full text of the these should be sent NOW, as it Is expected that the de- Or- —— the 4th of August, 1914 was for the | majority of the leaders of the Second the language of a strikebreaker? The upper stratum of the executive of the Railwaymen’s . Union refuses even. to answer the miners’ request for help and dec¥ires that it has no reason to discuss anything with the miners. That is quite in Baldwin's style who also refuses to negotiate with the miners before they have cap- itulated. Cramp, the “leader” of the railwaymen, now calls the general strike a “soap-bubble.” At the national conference of the Shoemakers’ Union in Blackpool, Joseph Simon and Smith have already nternational, The behaviour of the With the staffe:of' Hindenbarg andthe | ieaders of the general council after crown prince. Something of thé same |i, canitulaiton completely confirms sort has now been done by the righ leaders of the general council. Just | as in 1913 the independent social dem- | ocrats Haase, Ditimann & Co, in the government of “People’s Commissar: | fes” acted in the same way as Ebert and Scheidemann, #0 Purcell. and Pugh have no wacted tn the same way as Thomas and Peeenene. 26 The 12th of Muy, 1926 (the day of the capitulation of the general coun ell), 1s for the general council what this, The majority of the leaders of the general council not only took up a neutral standpoint (a la Pontius Pi- late) towards the continuation of the], ,°, |miners’ strike, but even directly op- po dl the miners, Hicks, the leader of the “left,” stat- a public speech that it was “dis- yi of the miners to fight for the aintenance of their wages, whilst jin other trade unions there were cate- gorjes of workers who ara worse paid than the “miners. What {s that but made actually fascist speeches against the “Reds:” “The Reds have the habit of agitat- ing for the proclamation of the gen- eral strike, and when the strike is proclaimed, they act as strikebreakers and. take possession of the most ad- vantageous functions,” declared Smith. Is not that the language.of a fascist? Swales of the “left,” the only one of the members of the general coun- cil, who put up a weak “opposition” to the capitulation, is now finding no better*occupation than trying, in com- mon with Hicks and Ben Tillet to gloss over the attitude of the general council and to represent the major- ity of the members of the general council as having been led astray by Baldwin and Samuel, With regard to the causes of the defeat of the strike, this same Swales declares: “The chief cause of the defeat of the strike is to be laid at the door ot the miners, Baldwin felt himself justified in not carrying thru the Sam- uel memorandum since the miners had also declined to accept it and to submit to the general council. The disorganized behavior of the miners -” ete. If Swales is not a deceiver but “only” deceived, he is in reality more dangerous than any deceiver, Frank Varley, a member of the exe- cutive of the Miners’ Federation (to sdy nothing of Hodges), openly. sug- sests a project of reducing wages and of compulsory arbitration for the miners, blame for the pardons not being granted to the jailed pickets with- out delay.” Again in defense of Governor Small they quote Fitzpatrick as saying, “The Federation actually secured the pardon for nineteen of them, Attorney General Caristrom then advised Governor Small that ac- cording to the-law he had no right to issue pardons in these cases,” In other words the Federation of- ficial position according to their offi- cial paper is, that G@gvernor Small was willing to pardon the pickets, Attorney General Carlstrom told him he could not do it and he didn’t, So therefore nothing can be done in the matter. The convicted pickets fhust serve their sentence, and ayy individual who pro- tests publicly is a Communist, or any union who demand’ ‘mass meetings and public demonstrations demanding the immediate release of these victims of the class war, are carry on Com- munist propaganda which will not be tolerated or supported by the Fed- eration, ° “Friend Small” i COORONG to the quotations made in the Federation News from the speeches made by! Fitzpatrick and Nockles, Governor Small is an angel and Attorney-General €arlstrom is the devil. From their progressive posi- tion for a labor party of a few years ago they have become the most ar- dent supporters of the slogan, “reward your friends and punish your ene- mies.” In this instance the “friend is Small” and the enemy is Carlstrom, Nockles is quoted as saying to the federation: “We heard Davidson's ti- rade about Len Small, I remember when he pardoned 19 Communists in the penitentiary. I do not suppose that they gave him any credit for these pardons. I was one of those who saw the governor and ‘urged him to issue these pardons. And he did pardon them—nineteen of them.” Deserves No Credit. You are damned right, Nockles! Let Small got no credit ftom the Com- munists and deserved none. It suited his political purpose at that time to pardon the conyieted Communists just as it suits hig political purpose not to pardon the imprisoned pickets. There is no difference of opinion be- tween Small and Carlstrom when it comes to quastions concerning labor, only in the case of the pickets Carl- strom seems to have more gall than Small in expressing his opinion, or to put it more concretely, he does not ex- pect to get the support of the trade union officialdom, so he does not have to be as careful as Small, who has their endorsement, On the other hand, the credit for the release of the 19 Communists and all other class war prisoners is due to the workers’ organizations alone, and just as they gave you and others credit for taking a correct working class position in these cases, so will they severely criticize you for sink- ing the interest of the imprisoned pickets to cater to the political ambi- tion of capitalist politicians, trying to gloss over the class antagonisms that exist between the workers and j their.exploiters, by spreading the poi- | efficiently. “The 4th of August” of the British General Strike CONCLUSION TODAY OF ZIROVIEV’S ARTICLE ON THE BRITISH STRIKE DITOR’S NOTE—The conclud- ing instalment of Comrade Zino- viev's article on the British general strike, printed herewith, will be fol- lowed by other articles on the same subject by several of the foremost Communist leaders of various coun- Finally, Purcell, of the “left” pub- lishes, in the Danish Social Democrat an interview in which he states: “The great strike was called off as soon as it had accomplished its task, that of insuring negotiations in the coal industry on the condition that the mine owners, who had dictated terms to the workers, implying the cutting down of wages, should withdraw their demands, It is only in this field that the great strike had jalmea at obtain- ing results.” ‘ This is a treacherous declaration. + ee r. is now a perfectly established fact that, if during the last year or two the general council has pro- fessed in words to be “left,” it was only a reflection of the trend to the left of the masses.” The masses liberating themsel¥@m from tradi- tional trade unio! which is saturated with ervative ide- ology. The masses demand above all an approach to the ‘king class of the Soviet Union, The fighting spirit of the masses is growing. The “left” leaders adapted the ves to this at- titude of mind of the @8 SO as not to lose their influe: They have now dropped their “Mft” mask, This is what should be ned above all to the broad masses of the English workers, The broad stratum of the “leaders” of the English trade union movement, from the local and dis- trict officials of trade unionism to the upper stratum of the general council represent a uniform reactionary case, It is sufficient to remind outselves that even the cause of the fusion of the small trade unions, or overcom- ing craft unionism, of amalgamating the trade unions and reorganizing them into industrial federations is everywhere obstructed by the egotis- tical interests of the trade union of- ficials, who openly sabotage this work, The matter went so far that it became necessary to guarantee the trade union officials ir salaries for ten years so as to them. hinder- ing the fusion of th all trade un- fons into large ones, « ; ~ sonous propaganda of class collabora- tion. Nearly fifty pickets are or have served their sentence in the Cook county jail. Yet the federation has not held a single protest meeting against their imprisonment. The rea- son is obvious. Governor Small re- fuses to grant them a pardon and so they have decided to go along with Small without a pardon. To call a mass protest meeting to demand the release of these victims would expose those labor leaders who are in Small’s band wagon. It would bring out the erying need for a labor party. So the interest of the working class as a whole has to be submerged, the con- victed pickets must shut up and serve their time all in the interest of class collaboration, which is the modern ex- pression of working-class betrayal. THE NUCLEI WHICH ARE RESPONDING lection and settlement for the United Labor Ticket Special Assessment, | since the last report was made: City State Oakland, California San Francisco, Cali San Francisco, Cal Leadville, Colorado Chicago, HMlinois iforn Chicago, Ilinois Chicago, Illinois Clicago, Mlinois Chicago, Ilino Chicago, Iilinois Chicago, IMlinois Madison, tilinois Madison, Illinois Madison, Illinois Madison, Ilinois Baltimore, Marylan Baltimore, Maryland Boston, Massachusetts Boston, Massachusetts Green, Michigan Detroit, Michi Detroit, Michig: Negaunee, Michigan Negaunee, Michigan Newberr; Michigan South ond, Michiga Wainola, Michigan Minneapolis, Minne: Minneapol Minnesota Minneapolis, Minnesota Minneapolis, Minnesota Buffalo, New York Endicott, New York Endicott, New York Endicott, New York New York, New York New York, New York New York, New York New York, New York New New York New York, New York Cleveland, Ohio Cleveland, Ohio Cleveland, Ohi Cleveland, Ohio E. Liverpool, Ohio Martins Ferry, Ohio Yorkville, Ohio Astoria, Oregon McKeesport, Pen: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Scranton, Pennsylvania Mt. Vernon, Washington Tacoma, Washington Superior, Wisconsin CORRECTIONS—Street Nucleus No. credited for Mass.—Street Nucleus No, 1, $5.00. Credit should go to Shop of August. Every member should insist that the name of his nuclei be in the honor who have shown that they are functioning roll of those units of the Party In these circumstances the English trade union movement cannot make a serious step forward, if the proletar- ian vanguard does not unmask the treacherous part played by the bour- geois and petty bourgeois trade union leaders, the climax of which was the treacherous behaviour of the general council in the recent general strike. The bankruptcy of the general coun- cil means a new bankruptcy of reform- ism both of the right and of the “left” wing. .. The Communists must of course un- derstand how to make a distinction between the right and the “left” re- formists. In the present period the situation in England is such that the so-called “left” are causing a particu- larly great amount of harm, Just as are|in 1914-1918, the so-called “Kautsky- ans” were the arch-enemy, so at pres- ent the “Center party,” who call them- selves “left,” are the chief obstacle in the way of the further development of revolution in the English labor move- ment, The fight against reformist illus- ions will now become the chief task in England, The strike has prepared the soil for this fight. It 1s not out of the question that the labor party, even in its present form, will again have great success at the elections; this however will soon result in the labor party turning against the pre- dominance of the right. The by-elec. tions since the strike have shown this, The task to be performed is to show up to the masses of workers Just the “left” reformists, who in real- ity side with Thomas, In the summier of 1920 a delegation of English workers visited Soviet Russia for the first time. At that time, Soviet Russia was particularly in need of support from the English trade unions, Neverthel Lenin in 4n open letter to the English workers (of May 3rd, 1920), says straight out: “I am not surprised that a number of members of your delegation do not take the standpoint of the workin, class but that of the bourgeoisie, the clasa of the exploiters, tor the Jm- Fa orresh a Nucleus Street No. 1 Shop No, 4 hop No. 6 hop No. 1 ~Shop No. 1 $5. Credit should go to Street Nucleus ‘No. Testes war has revealed a festering cranes sts T. OFFICIALS IGNORE LAVIN; STRIKERS ANGRY Bosses Refuse to Treat with Strike Head (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, July 23.—Four hun- dred striking Interborough Rapid | Transit Company employes, who. to- day marched in a body to the com- pany’s yards to ask that they be given back the jobs they quit on July 6, were met with the announcement that the company would not treat with Ed- ward P, Lavin, the strike leader. The strikers shouted a derisive an- swer at the company’s officials and re- turned to their headquarters to dis- cuss the new phase of the strike. They declared they would not break allegiance to their strike leaders, SEND IN A SUB TODAY TO THE! DAILY WORKER, ’ Amount $ 5.00 » 8 WITH THE STAFF . ~ | Being Things From Here and | There Which Haye Inspired |, Us to Folly or Frenzy They. Live on the Muddy. * (We always had an idea about Kan- sas City that was far from - being either idealistic-or sentimental, but what would you say to the following gem purloined from the letter of a correspondent: “The residents of this city are congested and of the worst type. Some sections are abso- hutely unsanitary.” Our Suggestions for a French Cabinet Premier: J. Pierpont Morgan. f Foreign minister: Charley Chaplin. Finance minister: Mr. Ponzi, now “summering” at Hunts- ville, Texas. 5 i: Minister of war: Rudolph Valentino. Minister of marine: William Petterson of the M. T. W. 510 of the 1. W. W. Like Herriot, . HE following units of the party have heeded the ‘urgent request for col-| Bill is against any dictatorship. Minister of Justice: Daugherty; First Assistant, Scar Face Al Capone. Big Tim Minister of Posts: Murphy. Minister of Education: Aimee Semple McPherson. i Minister of the Interior: Doc- tor Cook. Now You Tell One “T am going to Europe to shoot grouse.”—J. Pierpont’ Morgan, PPEISAN TSS OONGNATOTANNNIG SASS AONGOPA OLN ASEHSANONIBOOD S8sssssessesessesssessssssyssesssssssssesssssssssess 4.50 1, Camb: Arlington, San Francisco; Calif., wrongly credited for ucieus No. 6, San Francisco, Every other street and shop nuclei must follow the example of these units of the party by making a prompt settlement. The collection of the United Labor Ticket Special Assessment mi ist be completed by the first’ sore in all capitalist countries, i. e. that the parliamentary and trade un- ion leaders of the workers are going over to the side of the bourgeoisie,” R"* LUXEMBURG, after the 4th of August, 1914, called German social democracy a “stinking corpse.” Lenin entirely agreed with this de- scription, Since the 12th of May, 1926, the general council in its present compo- sition, is also a stinking corpse. | This does not mean that it no longer represents a force. The stinking’ corpse of German social democracy has continued to poison the atmos- phere for more than” 10 years since the 4th of August. This May also, for a few years, be the case with the’ Seneral council. Ag leader of the fighting masses of the workers, the general council 1s anyhow a corpse. The English workers will tinderstand how to.clear {t out of the way and to elect 'thelr-own leaders into the gen- eral council; they will understand how to build up the general council out of real, fighting labor leaders, Let us avoid any misunderstanding. After August 4th, 1914, Lenin issued the slogan of a direct split in the so- cial democratic parties and the crea- tion of independent Communist par- ties, of a split in the Second Interna- tional and the formation of the third International, b Are we now to issue the slogan of a\split in the English trade unions, of secession from the unions? Of course not! In no circumstances! Where’ we do this, it would mean forgetting the difference between party and trade union, it would mean forgetting everything that Lenin taught us as to the necessity of work in the reac: tionary trade unions, Let us multiply our efforts to win over the trade unions from within at the same time proclaim the whole truth regarding the general cotncil’s “4th of August!” They do not con- tradict each other; on the contrary) . they support each other, ] ‘ A Solon Judgeth “Better Indeed for you that a millstone be tied around your neck and be cast into the sea, nay, even scratch a mule’s heel, than be heard threatening to kick the breeches off the least of our pro- phets.”—Jeremiah. Verses 3-7-77. Because Elmer Moore neglected to read the gospels, tho he may have drank of the spirit of the Lord, he was forced to stand up In court before Judge Jack McGoorty and take his meditine. Not that Elmer did not need it, In fact, a whole can of ammonia would not be wast edon his breath. AND THERE CAME A SOOTH- ASAYER, Elmerewas a guard In Cook coun ty wail and one of his pleasant du- ties was to, escort various bootleg- gers to court. Now, it is no secret that bootleggers are bad people to stay away from. Elmer did not do that, henee the tale. Now for ‘the facts. Elmer Is an employe of Sheriff Hoffman, who ie an employe of the G. O. P. of Cook county: While the sheriff was in jail his guards were dancing, even as mice are in the absence of mem- bers of the feline species. Having nothing to do théy hovered around the ‘cells of the bootleggers, thus being overcome by alcoholic fumes. JUDGE NOT, LEST YE BE f ‘THRASHED. Now it came to pass that a Phark see by the name of McErlane, was taken before the publican MeGoorty for justice. McErlane, like Pontius Pilate wished to wash his hands of the law and told it to the judg threatening to lay violent hands him! The judge mumbled exceed ingly. Whereupon the judge driven to er by the threats of the Pharl- called upon Elmer to take him hither. Elmer having looked upon Harry the bootlegger when he was red, ~ ered awkwardly. The Judge incensed, demanded that he be tak- en from hence. But it was easier Elmer lurched towards the bench, The multitudes laughed loudly. IF A MAN ASKETH THY TROUSERS— “You are drunk,” court, “Like hell, | am,” retorted Elmer, “and furthermore, if you say it again, | shall di ociate your hon- or's person from his B. V. D.’s.’”” Whereupon his honor gathered his robes around him and retired to hie chambers. ~ - ‘ A WISE JUDGE M MERCY WITH MOONSHINE. _ When Elmer next appeared be- _ fore his honor he was sober. Tak- ing advantage of his condition, Me- Goorty got real nasty and rebuked him, held him for contempt of court and refined the punishment by post: poning a Verily indeed, he that razzes a Judge Is looking for trouble, declared the © 4