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a i! SORES, ~»ewfor the. poor. T.UC. | {$ STIRRED BY WOMEN'S VOICE Deliver Ultimatum To Fossilized Officials (FP)—"The British Trades Union congress still falls to take the women workers seriously, as was shown at the Bournemouth sessions early this month,” sald Dorothy P. Gary ofthe Minneapolis Teachers’ union In pase Ing thru Chicago back to her Job from a summer In Europe. At the British labor meet she assisted Scott Nearing and Bill Ross, the Federated Press correspondents who had been assigned to cover it. “One of the liveliest sessions was that assigned to the women, but it was the rank and file delegates and not the officialdom that made it so,” Gary relates. “While the numberof women in industry has reached 4,000,- 000 only 800,000 are organized. “This large body of workers, about one-fourth of the total British work- ing class, ts proving, when unorgan- ized, a menace to many unions, and @ drag on the entire movement. The bulk of the women are in the clerical, semt-professional, textile and cloth- ing trades. They drive down the wages of organized workers and in time of strike they scab. Many Militant Women Unionists. “On the other hand, in many la- bor battles, women unionists have demonstrated that women make as militant fighters as tho men. “This first annual women’s trade union conference had 85 delegates in all, 48 women and 37 men. Three resolutions were moved by men mem- bers, and the founth by a woman member of the council. Women Waste No Time. ; “The protest from the women dele gates began immediately. With great candor and rather pointed humor, these women unionists expressed their disappointment. Bllen Wilkin- son, labor organizer and newly elected Labor M. P. led off: Why did the general council draw up these harmless resolutions? We unionized women have some ideas on the sub ject. Why are so few women on this program? Pointed Remarks. “Delegate Horan, National Union of General Workers, stated, ‘This program savors of a happy evening Too much time is spent on plans to organize workingmen’s wives, and too little on the woman in industry.” “This silly stuff, another woman delegate said, reminds me of that Daily Herald poster there: Women Will Like the Popular Picture Page in the Daily Herald. Want Freedom of Action. “Ruby Part, Women Workers’ Un- ion, told her experiences in organ- izing women. She ended with the statement, ‘This policy of spoon¢eed- ing the women is detrimental to trade unionism.’ She was followed by Dorothy Evans, Women Clerks and Secretaries’ Union, who also dis- cussed methods. “The conference discussion, which continued 3 hours, showed that the British labor movement does not lack intelligent trained women ready to tackle the problems which especialy] concern the working woman. It also showed a growing independence, and determination on their part to demand their full responsibilities in the movement. “In all good humor, the women told the general council, ‘If you would let us handle this question it would be much better.’” Alfonso and Rivera Reach Compromise on Spanish Government MADRID, Sept. 26.—While the re sults of the recent cabinet meeting with the king are still a profound secret, it is believed from the an- nouncements so far made that the king and Primo de Rivera have reached a compromise that will tend to forestall any republican revolution, The king has evidently forced Dic- tator de Rivera to yield to the demand for constitutional forms of govern- ment. De Rivera: had previously in- sisted that his dictatorship must go on for three years. Now the national assembly is to be called for November, On the other hand nine high of- ficers of tha artillery corps are an- nounced to retire from command. This apparently is in line with de Rivera’ “demand for a reorganization of the corps and indicates that the king has given way to him on that issue, De Rivéra’s own retirement ds the subject of conjecture. Some rumor he will be forced to retire gracefully with the advent of the national assembly. De Rivera’s enemy, or one of them among the conservative party, Sanchez Guerra, has been called in by the king. Senor Guerra opposed de Rivera so bitterly that he refused to attend birthday receptions of the king and queen becanse they were supporting the dictator, PARIS, Sept. 26.—Georges Michel, the Boulogne baker who holds the record for swimming the English chan- nel, has tentatively accepted’ the in- vitation of the American Bakers’ Ae i eh ESP ALY WORKER e Page Three a The Funeral. Pyre of an Air Adventare | ALLIANCE WITH BRITISH LABOR WILL NOT BREAK Russ Union Head Says Bond Unbreakable (Special to The Dally Worker) MOSCOW, Sept. 3 —(By Mail)—In connection with the refusal of the British government to permit the dele- | gation of the labor unions of the U. 8. S. R. to the British Trade Union Con- gress in Bournemouth to land, com- |) rade Melnichansky, a member of the Presidium of the Central Council of the Soviet Labor Unions declared: Strike Was Political. “This fact merely corroborates the political nature of the events in Great Britain. From the very first day of the miners’ struggle the British bour- geoisie in the person of the conserva- tive government grasped the political significance of the attitude of the workers and put the whole power of the state into operation in omer to throttle the general strike. “The British bourgeoisie and the conservative government have at- tempted to isolate the miners from the outside world. The refusal of per- mission to land is without doubt an act of revenge against the Central Council of the labor unfons-of the U. S. 8. R. because of their regular as- sistance of the British miners in their struggle. Cannot Break Alliance. “The British government has the apparatus necessary to preveat our journey to Great Britain, but it will never succeed in breaking our alliance with the British trade union movement or in preventing us giving assistance to the fighting working class of Great Britain.” VATIGAN PEACE PACT BLOCKED IN ARGENTINE (Special to The Dally Worker) BUPNOS AIRES, Argentina, Sept. 26.—The government was prevented by the socialists from settling the dispute with the vatican over the appointment of an archbishop over Argentina. ‘The conflict with the pope is a year old and originated with the refusal of the government to accept a papal appointee who was persona non grata, The government had intended to settle the vatican question by having senate select three candidates for submission to the vatican as candi- dates for the office of archbishop, the vatican to select his favorite from the th Unless the socialists compromise the struggle is liable to intensify and pro- duce internal complications, Soviet Labor Unions Send Relief Fund by Millions to British MOSCOW, Sept. 5. -— (By Mail) — The Presidium of the Central Councy of Soviét’\Labor Unions has decided to send the British Miners’ Federation the amount of the contributions which have at present come in together with an ad) upon future collections, sum of 8,000,000 der, Thick black smoke, from a deep red core of flame, marked the funeral aerial adventurers and the famous Sikorsky-Fonck biplane, three min- utes after It had started ,on Its non-stop flight from New York to Paris, soclate pilot, Lieut. Curtin escaped with minor Injuries; vier, wireless operator, and Jack | Islamoff, mechanlo, died at their posts In the after fuselage of the machine, oline and a defective under-carri- gedy. Before the plant plane had run half the distance necessary for the take-off, one of the temporary wheels broke and damaged a rud- cession of acoldents was climaxed by the plane’s collapse in a field- depression which ended the career of the “New York-Paris.” belching, pyre of two Captain Fonck and his as- Charles Cla- An overburden of gas- | were responsible for the tra- From then on a quick suc- and the explosion CANTONESE CALL OFF ANTI-BRITISH BOYCOTT FOR RECOGNITION, BELIEF PEKING, Sept. 26, — Reports reached here from Canton that the antl-British boycott In progress there for a long time had been called off. Opinion here is that such action must be based on de jure recogni- tion of the Cantonese government by Great Britain, MEXICO CHAMBER REFUSES PLEA OF CATHOLIC CLERGY Insubordinate _ Bishops ’ Are Not Citizens MEXICO CITY, Sept. 26, — The Mexican chamber of deputies today formally rejected the catholic epis- copate’s petition for amendment of the constitution and adopted resolutions declaring that Archbishop Mora y del Rio and Bishop Ascual Diaz have for- felted their rights to Mexican citizen- ship by opposition to the constitu- tion, eee Refuse Arms Embargo, MBPXICO CITY, Sept. 26.—Directly contrary to the policy adopted by the United States, the Mexican govern- ment has decided against the estab- lishment of ati embargo on the ship- ment of arms and munitions to Nica- ragua, the International News Service learned today. The American gov- ernment has taken a stand forbidding such shipments, Mexican officials. are represented as taking the stand that an arms’ em- bargo is not necessary in Mexico be- cause there are no large private manu- facturers of arms in this country. Spain’s Dictatorship Tottering as Infantry Grows Cold to Primo PARIS, France, Sept. 26—The dic- tatorship of Primo de Rivera is either about to end or else Spain is for a civil war if General Berenguer, com- mander of the king’s guard and mor- tal enemy of the dictator accepts the premiership offered to him by Al- fonso. The final break came when the king refused to sign a decree drawn by de Rivera limiting ‘the powers of the national assembly to a consultative status, The dictator's intention to go ahead with the decision to punish the ring- leaders of the recent rebellion is said to have lost Rivera the sympathy of the infantry among whom he was popular because of his atttack on the artillerists, the aristocrats of the army. It is confidently believed here that the days of the dictatorship are num- bered. King Alfonso is now hoping to gain credit for the restoration of constitutionalism tho he has histerto supported Rivera, U.S, Sailors Visit Berlin, BE jept. 26.-—Admiral Robert Wells, 8. N., Commander Delaney, U. 8, N., and 100 members of the crew of they, 8. 8. Memphis, now in port at Kio}; ,are arriving in Berlin this to be the guests of the Ber. suthorition, bli BRIAND LOOKS LONGINGLY AT POINCARE’S JOB Staking Political Life on German Entente (Special to The Dally Worker) PARIS, France ,Sept. 26.—Aristide Briand is getting lonesome out of the premiership and is greasing the skids for Poincare according to indications, Briand, agptoreign minister has more ‘to ‘do” determining France’s for- eign polity than any other individual in the republic and he is now staking his political life on a Franco-German entente. Preparing a Return, Briand is said to be looking around for timber for a left government head- |surance company, A Beau? period 1864-1869 saw the for- mation of the Co-operative Print- ing Society and the Co-operative In- The first National Co-operative Congress was held in London, 1869, and was responsible for the creation of the central board, from which twenty years later sprang the Co-operative Union. The union is a propagandist federation of the major- ity of Co-operative Societies in Great Britain. It looks after the legal in- terests of the movement, and conducts the educational side by means of liter- ature, lectures, classes, summer schools, ete., and is advocating and organizing the formation of a Co-oper- ative College, Once a year it organ izes a National Co-operative Congress and exhibition of productions. This functions in a similar way to the Trades Union Congress. Many resolu- tions of a progressive character await fulfilment in the far-away future, or else are quietly buried. Material Progress and Education. Material progress has handicapped education. As long ago as 1883 the Wholesale Annual stated: “We regret to find that educational grants do not keep pace with the general growth of societies, Necessity led many of the old co-operators to study co-operation; but the growth of profits which has re- sulted from that study appears to make many young ones care less than the old ones, Now, unless the young ones are taught what co-operation means, and what it is calculated to do, how are we to prepare our future directors, managers and other officers? Our opinion is that it will pay every society to devote at least 2% per cent of its net profits to education, and that, though societies may and do suc- ;eeed without this, yet it is because the older generation still lives and guides them.” The Communist International and its sections thruout the world are | progressively taking a more active | part in the development of worker and farmers co-operatives. The fol- lowing is extracted from a report | on Communist activities in the co- operatives made by Comrade KRU- GER at the Co-operative Conference held in Moscow, during the sessions of the last Enlarged Executive of the Communist International, ie a ed by himself. The Poincare crowd on the other hand want a wholly con- servative government. The national union government has not produced any results, The franc is still at the danger point and Poincare’s drastic decrees have not satisfied the people, Notorious Militarist. Poincare, the most notorious sword- rattler in Europe outside of Mus- solini, has been remarkably pacifist on the surface since his return to power, tho it is apparent that he is still spending French francs bolstering up the military machines of Poland and Roumania. . oa Police of Capitalist Nations to Ignore Law * “ye . in Jailing Communists MOSCOW, (By Mail) The Pravda of August 31, prints the following des- patch from Vienna, In connection with the failure of the Hungarian police to discover the persons alleged to be responsible for the explosion in the ammunition plants on Chapele Island, Hungarian police organizations have again reviv- ed the question regarding the estab- lishment of a united police front on an international scale. “For the last few months,” writ the Hungarian newspaper “A Reggof,” “the Hungarian police have often felt the lack of direct connection with the Linenlbesnateteptiin. nity sovalinn police of other countries for the pur- pose of promoting pursuit and loca- tion of illegal Communist organiza- tions.” The newspaper reporte also that the police authorities of many Eu- ropean governments urge the estab- lishment of international police communication and co-operation In order to carry on pursuit of Com- munist organizations in various countries. It is pointed out that under the present jurisdiction police investiga- tion begun in one government can be transferred to another government only thru ministries of foreign affairs or other displomatic representatives, The new project aims to elimin- ate intermediary instances and estab- lish direct international polige con- nection whenever the particular in- vestigation concerns the Communist movement,, , The pri t is sponsored by the Vienna police commissioner Schober, who is président of the International Police Union, and’ supported by the chief of thayHungarian department of Ramasian Onde and the chiet of phe | operati See UR co-operative work is indeed | still in its initial stage, and we l\eannot yet boast of specially great success in this field. Nevertheless we }have undoubtedly achieved appreci- able results in some countries of | Western Europe. Communist co-oper- jative work is advancing slowly but surely in a number of countries such as Czecho-Slovakia, England, France and Switzerland. But even in these countries, the connection between the Communists working in the Co-oper- atives and the centres of the corres- ponding sections of the Comintern is not yet established in such a way as would be desirable and necessary. In no country of Western Europe is there so close a contact between the Com- |munist Co-operatives and the Central |Committee o fthe Communist Parties, as for example, in Soviet Russia. The Central Committees of the Communist Parties do not yet devote sufficient jattention to co-operative work, do not lyet allocate sufficient party forces to the work and £0 on. In the beginning, even the Executive Committee of the Comintern paid com- paratively little attention to our work; as however we always tried to link up our work as closely as possible with the whole labor movement, and as the work in the separate countries began to develop more and more actively and the Communist co-operators also began to defend their point of view with energy in the sphere of the Inter- national Co-operative Alliance, the work of the co-operative sections has now become inseparably bound up with the whole work of the executive. Recently we have several times had the opportunity of reporting to the Secretariat and the Organization Bu- reau.of the Executive Committee of the Communist International and we have received a number of directions and practical instructions, In Germany, our comrades have al- ready for several years been working to carry out the instructions of the Comintern Congress and of the Inter» national Conferences of Communist co-operators, The formation of frac- tions in the co-operatives has proceed- ed better and more quickly in Ger- many than in any other country. All the same, we in Germany, cannot yet boast of any decisive success. The German co-operative movement is in the hands of extremely counter-revo- lutionary leaders. The co-operative bureaucracy is fighting desperately against Communism and is leaving no stone unturned to get rid of the Com- munists, A nutgber of individual Com- munist comradés having already been excluded from: the leading bodies of the Co-operative®ymovement; the co- is now threat Co-operative Section This department will appear In every Monday's Issue of the The DAILY WORKER. Co-operative Gulids. Toynbee and Stuart uttered similar warnings, To counteract this ignoring of the original aims and ideals the Women’s Co-operative Guild mainly came to be founded (1883), This has been a valuable training ground for women taking an active part in pro- gressive movements, and it has con- ducted an active agitation in the Co- operative movement, particularly in favor of the co-operative minimum wage. The Guild has for its objects: The organization of women, as co-opera- tors, for the study and practise of (1) co-operation and other methods of social reform; (2) improved condi- tions of domestic life. The Guild had 1,077 branches, and a membership of over 61,000 in 1923, There ig a Men's Qo-operative Guild very much smaller in membership (only 6,320) and in fluence, 1871 saw the birth of the Co-opera tive News, and the publishing side has steadily developed since then. The movement now publishes two weekly newspapers, six monthlies, and a quarterly. The total circulation of all these publications was 932,000 copies in 1921, only about 24 per cent of the membership of the whole movement (And this is not an exact proportion, as naturally an interested member probably subscribes to more than one paper.) “Federalism” and “Individualism” During these years an acute contro- versy raged between the advocates of federal co-operation, the “federalists,” and the champions of production by the workers, the “individualists.” Let each side speak:—The Federalist :— “We want an organization of the whole community, and the basis for this is the retail store, Every one, rich or poor, should be asked to become a member, and purchase from it. The practical question before us is whether the existing organization founded on stores from the central league. The obpective conditions of development of the German co-operative, movement are at present entirely favorable to our activities. The immediate task of ‘the German co-operative movement fs |to form a left wing round our Com- munist fractions as its nucleus, In Czecho-Slovakia, the Communists hold firm positions in the co-operative movement. About 50% of the mem- bers of the Czech Consumers Co-oper- jatives belong to our party or sympa- |thize with it. Our comrades are carry- ing on successful economic co-oper- jative work, but the political effect of their influence on the co-operative movement is as yet insufficiently felt. The formation of Communist fractions in the Consumers Co-operative is pro- ceeding very slowly. In the German Consumers Co-operative Socicties hardly any fraction work is being done at present. In the future our com- rades should devote far more atten- tlon to the political side of their co- operative work and aim at bringing about the inclusion of the co-operat- ive movement to a much greater ex- tent in the revolutionary fight of the Czecho-slovakian working masses, England. The party has completely recognized the necessity of Commu- nist ¢o-operative work and has com- bined it with party work as a whole. It is a fact of special significance that even the trade union Minority Movement is carrying out systematic co-operative work, thus promoting the formation of an opposition wing in the co-operative movement. The fur- ther development of Communist co-op- erative work, still closer alliance with the left wing of the trade union move- ment and the comprehension and in- tensification of the class problems in the English co-operative movement will result in the English co-operative moyement gaining a firm foothold. In France, the Communists exercise the greatest influence in the co-opera- tives of the Paris district, where about 15 consumers’ co-operative societies are in their hands. There is a cen- tral co-operative commission in the central committee of the party which does systematic co-operative work. In- \dividual Communist co-operators have {been active since 1920 at the national congresses of the co-operative move- ment and display considerable initia- tive. Nevertheless the co-operative work of our French comrades leaves much to be desired. One of the draw- backs, for instance, is the concentra- tion of all their forces on the task of creating revolutionary co-operative circles parallel to the existing reform- ist co-operative circles, instead of con- centrating their attention above all on the creation of Communist frac- tions in the co-operative organs, Our French Communist co-operators have also taken the wrong line in the fight against the increase of prices. Instead of mobilizing the mass of their members round the fighting slogan rades took the point of view that the committees of action ought, in the fight againat the rise of prices, to en- force abatement of prices from priv- ate traders, This way of course leads to bargainings and agreements with private trades, and to a misrepresenta- against the rise of pretes, our com- | } | NEWS AND COMMENT Progress and Poverty---In Ideals the stores shall, in their confederate capacity, seek to utilize thetr rapidly growing capital by producing for them- selves the staple articles of their own consumption, or whether they shall induce their well-to-do members to withdraw their dividend from the stores, and to set up independent com- |panies, which will seek, like any or- |dinary manufacturer or wholesale jdealer, to get the highest prices for | their goods from such stores as choose jto deal with them,” To this the individualist replies:— |“What is the federal aystem? To have |@ body of men like those employed jin the wholesale society's shoe works at Leicester, governed by a manager who is appointed by a committee lected by a large number of voters? workmen could not by any pos shareholders in the oncern in which they are employed, and yet they are told that they ere their own employers. If, then, a few men share the results of their own work, they are their own employers, but if one or one hundred men hire a number of other men who may be arbitrarily discharged, and over whom they have complete control, ft is @ mockery to call such men their own employers, The effect of such Co operation would be to make it impos sible for any workman ever to be his own employer, It would go on perpe- tuating trade unions and strikes all the world over. To the federal scheme, put forward as a general rule for reg- ulating co-operative industry, we make the objection that the bulk of the profits will go, not to the working pro- ducers in any shape, but to the wealthy consumers,” Some of the federalists, to overcome this argument, advocated a bonus to labor employed in the stores and pro- ductive societies. But the trend of events, and the extension of the whole sale’s productive side, settled the argu- ment. Communist Activities in the Cooperatives action. All these mistakes must be rectified in the near future. I should like further, speaking quite in general, to say that, in our work of agitation and propaganda we ought particularly to follow the example of the co-operative movement in Belgium and Austria, where the co-operative ovement forms an integral part of the political movement—it is true in the social democratic movement which is hostile to us Now a few words oy the position jof the revolutionary elements of the |co-operative movement within the in- | ternational cooperative alliance. ;Among the 62 members of the cen- | tral committee of the alMance, 15 jare Communists (14 from the Soviet |Union and one from Czechoslovakia). | Among the 11 members of the exeow |tive of the alliance, there is only one |Communist. Since our comrades have taken part in the work of the alliance |there has been a change in the char- | acter of the conferences and meetings jof the bodies forming the alliance. At these meetings questions are now con- stantly being brought up which are lof great significance for the whole la- bor movement, In the first place, our comrades are fighting against the principle of the neutrality of the co-operative move- ment. There are already signs that some leading co-operators are being compelled gradually to revise their attitude towards this question. At the last meeting of the contral committee of the alliance in Paris, even Profes- sor Gide stated that the question of the neutrality of the co-operative movement is not one of principle but of tactics. Putting the problem in this way undoubtedly means a partial abandonment of the principle of neu- trality, WORKER WHO ACCEPTED LADY ASTOR'S BLUFF GETS LENINGRAD JOB (Special to The Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Sept. 6—(By Mall)— The English worker John Morton who has journeyed to the Soviet Union with hie family at the eost of Lady Astor has been given work in the Putilov Works In accordanes with his qualifications, Hindenburg Receives U. 8. Admiral, BERLIN, .Sept. 26.—President Hin- denburg today received Admiral Roger Wells, U. S. N., who bas arrived here from Kiel, where the U, 8. 8S. Mem: phis is in port. Make It a Day’s Pay TODAY to Keep the Daily Worker