The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 30, 1926, Page 3

— EMPIRE CONFAB Ulster and India Resent ‘ Slight (Special to The Dally Worker) LONDON, Nov. 28.—The imperial conference of prime ministers from all ithe British dominions has ended after five weeks of deliberation. The chief results of the conference are two; formal recognition of the autonomous gtatus of the dominions and the lay- ang of plans for “better defense” of #be empire. All of the dominions except India pnd Ulster are now recognized as sep- Brate sovereignties, altho theoretically ptill a part of the British empire, Stress Laid on Suez, | In the discussions on defense, spe- | ial stress was laid on the importance of holding and defending Egypt, be- ~ pause of the Suez canal, the mainten- ‘ance of which is considered extremely amportant to the “safety” of British tradé routes. A significant resolution is that which provides for the establishment ft airplane bases thruout the empire, Pesigned to, reinforce the navy and . “Regret” Militarism. While making plans for more mili- ary defense provisions, the confer- ‘gnce passed resolutions “regretting hat more progress could not be made foward disarmament.” » An immediate result of the confer jence is the arousing of the ire of both Wlster and India because of the action Yaken on- recognizing dominions ‘as qual powers to England. Ulster and Jdia were both omitted from this pro- vision, and public sentiment is decid- edly antagonistic to their, treatment. Ulster to Investigate. The Ulster cabinet has ordered that Sir James Craig, prime minister, should go to London immediately to protest the action in ignoring Ulster and to discover the reason, ‘The New India of Madras has made this comment: “India will now be subordinate in a household in which fhere are six mistresses instead of pne.” Bulgarian Communist Killed in Jugoslavia VIENNA, Nov. 28.—The body of the Bulgarian Communist, Ivan Christov, was found !n Morava, Jugo-Slavia, ac- pording to a dispatch in the Bulgarian ‘newspaper, Politika. The causeg of (Christov’s murder have not been es- ‘ablished- Chinese Servants strife. HANKOW, Nov. 28. — Foreigners here were without house boys, and Gooks today, as a result of a strike among servants in the foreign settle- ment. The servants walked ont after demand of higher wages was re- fused. The best way—sudscribe today. WHAT THEY THINK OF THE DAILY WORKER IN EVERY SECTION OF THE COUNTRY From R. 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In the past century, the Carlist army (monarchical absolutists) maintained a constant ‘civil war against the state’s. army, The Carlist army was not very numerous or even well organ- ized, but their soldiers knew the coun- try perfectly well, as they were fight- ing. on their native ground. This Spanish civil war was very long and bloody. The Carlist strategy was similar.to that used by the tribesmen jagainst thé Spanish imperialists in the Morocco war. Francisco Macia, the leader in this late separatist putsch, had organized an army of 3,000 mén, Those men, fighting like the Carlists on the mountafns of Gerona, could quite easily have kept the government army busy for a long time; they would also have had the real help of the in- habitants of the region, where the separatist cause has many partisan: Catalonian Separatism. «In Catalonia, which has a history, language, literature, and customs en- tirely apart from the rest of Spain, the feeling for independent administra- tion has existed since long ago. Since the beginning of the present century, this old movement, led by business and industrial men, became af im- portant political issue. Previous to the coup d’etat of 1923, the Catalonian separatist movement was quite strong. It really was the reflection of the struggle of some other European countries for their inde- pendence. Primo de Rivera himself says that one reason for his coup d'etat was the increasing development of this movement, At that time, the Catalonian masses were deserting their leaders, because they could live without trouble in Madrid and even expect to be crown ministers, Three Tendencies. The Catalonian separatist movement comprises at present three tendencies, représented by the “Lliga Region- alista” (Catalonian League); the “Ac- tion Catalona,” Catalonian Action, and “L'Btat Catala” (Catalonian State). The Lliga Regionalista is formed by the big Catalonian bourgeoisie. It really does not have a true separatist or independent sentiment. It is just a political group trying to obtain ad- vantages for their products. ‘The intellectuals of autonomous feel- ing make up the Action Catalana. The real separatist nuclei are enlisted in L’'Etat Catala, the members of which (Continued from page 1.) makers of the dictatorship of the gov- ernor’s commission, says the state- ment. Following are a few salient para- graphs from the declaration: After nineteen weeks of bitter strug- gle, we succeeded in forcing the manu- facturers to a settlement, which freed the union entirely of the dictatorship of the goverhor’s commission. ‘The fight against the jobbers—the most important factor inthe cloak industry —is still on. And now, when it is ab- solutely necessary for the union to mobilize all its forces for the fight against the jobbers, the right wing leadership of the labor movement— friends of the governor and his com- mission—are attempting to misinter- pret our gains, misrepresent the true facts about the strike and confuse the minds of the workers, so as to de- moraliza our ranks and hinder the further development of our fight against the jobbers. Our enemiés dare not deny that we have won, thru this strike, a five- day week—42 hours the first 18 months of the agreement, and a 40-hour week the last year of the agreement—a de- mand which was entirely ignored by the governor’s commission. The chief attacks directed against us by our enemies are based principal- ly on our inability to defeat the de- mand of the bosses for a 100% reor- ganization, recommended by the com- mission and openly accepted by our al officials, The union, nevertheless, succeeded in Mmiting the WORKER remain a factor in the | power of the bosses to take advantage uplift and betterment of the ‘toller,’ the producer of the world’s wealth" ere To The DAILY WORKER. Dear Comrades: Three additional affairs for The of the reorganization right, due to the courageous struggle conducted by the cloakmakers. These gains were won by the strik- ers despite the strong opposition of the bosses, who were supported by DAILY WORKER have been ar- | Governor Smith, the police, mas ar- ranged for early In Dec, are short of our quota by the December we will manage to make a loan to complete it, which loan is © ‘to be pald off by the proceeds of the December affairs, Fraternally yours, /R. BAKER, District Organizer, Detroit, Mich. THIS 18 THE RIGHT SPIRIT, IT 18 THE SPIRIT WHICH WILL if we | Tests, injunction, courts, detectives, 1st of | Pald sluggers, » Not only did the strikers have’ to fight against the tacks of the enemy from without, but also against the sabotage practived by the right wingers who attempted to hinder the strike by spreading rumors amongst the workers that the strike was lost and the fight hopeless, This was done with the object of destroying the fighting spirit of the strikers ‘and thereby strengthening our PULL THE DAILY WORKER j|enemy., THRU. IT 18 THE SPIRIT OF* ante DETERMINATION, ICH NOTHING Brothera and sisters! In face of the dificulties and hardships endured in CAN _CON- this fight, our gains are a significant victory. All attempte of our enemies ILING IN PAST PRESENT METHODS, MUST FALL BACK ON COMMUNIST TACTICS FOR SUCCESS |The government has closed their club N. Y. Cloakmakers Denounce Right Wingers are mostly from the middle class, peasants and a few industrial work- ers. j The Repression. In a former article in The DAILY WORKER, we have seen that the dic- tator’s repression was equally intense for the Communists and separatists. houses, has prohibited the speaking of Catalonian in public, the hanging up} of the national.flag, and the singing | of their hymns. All of these measures have caused a more violent inerease of the separatist movement. The old leaders, the ones who used the movement as an easy way for becoming ministers at Madrid, have been abandoned by the Cata-| lonian masses,*who are helping in| every way posstblethe triumph of the| cause. Francisco Macia, ex-colonel of the Spanish army. and Catalonist ex- deputy, is at present the idol of the Catalonian peasants, Since 1923, when he croseed the border, he has been or- | ganizing from Perpignan the separatist | movement, being helped by the Cata- lonian French. ‘ The Putsch Tactic. Since 1923 the Spanish Communist Party has concentrated itself to pro- pagate the united front of all workers and other forces in order to fight against the dictatorship with success, This is why ft organized in Paris a “Committee of Action,” formed of anarchists, separatists. and Commun- ists. The committee was not able to live long, on account of the differences existing from the very first moment between the Communists on the one side, and separatists and anarchists on the other. The Communist Party con- sidered it necessary to organize an agitation campaign all over Spain, while the anarchists and separatists were trying to realize some putsch. The anarchist putsch in 1924 in Yu THE™DAILY WORK SURFACE LINES, SUBWAYS, PAWN OF BIG FINANCE Worker Asks for Strap to Hang On The traction situation 4s holding a considerable portion of the spotlight ‘in Chicago, The situation 1s complicat- ed by the fact that the twenty-year franchise of the Surface Lines expires on Jan, 81. According to the opinion of many lawyers, the holders of the| $165,000,000 in bonds will immediately | call for a@ receivership, since by ‘no stretch of the imagination can a traf- fic solution, $e arrived at before that date. In the mayor's officestregs 1s placed on the immppdiate need of building downtown subways, and Mayor Dever favors consigering this matter apart from the general traction muddle. The mayor's planecalls for a north and south subway on State street thru the loop, with another somewhat in the shape of a horseshoe from the Van Buren tunnel, bending to - Michigan avenue, and turning west to the Wash- ington street)tunnel, To finance this scheme, Mayor Dever suggests that the cost be met partly from the traction fund and partly from special assessments levied against the property to'be benefitted. Opposed are those counciimen who object to using any of the fund for work which will benefit so small @ section of the city, and who fee] that property owners should meet @ much larger proportion of the expense. Two Ordinances Offered, From the office of Corporation Coun- sel Bysch comes word that he and his. assistants have been at work for some time preparing two ordinances to be presented to the council a week from today. Engineers and attorneys have been called into consultation in the matter. One ordinance, which has the Vera (Guipuzcoa) -was a bloody bal ty of local interests, calls for a feat. The government, informed the Spanish police in Paris, repressed violently this anarchist movement, Communist Tactic. The failure of the present separatist movement on the border will be a good experience for the Spanish revo- lutionary movement in the future. A putsch will never bring Primo de Rivera’s defeat. The only tactic is the establishment of the united front in a vast revolutionary movement, as has always been proposed by the Com- munist Party since 1923. [ Primo de Rivera has a gfeat num- ber of spies among.the”Spanish emi- grants in France and knows ahead of time of the movement® prepared against his dictatorship, and this is why the putsch of 1924 at Vera and the present program at Perignan have been a complete failure. to minimize the significance of our gains and to belittle your brave strug- gle are intended to demoralize ‘our ranks and strengthen the position of the enemy. Our struggle must con- tinue. The jobbers are not yes de- feated. The attacks of the Forward and our own right wingers must not weaken our fight. You have proven that you can fight courageously and | with determination against all enemies | under all conditions. #8 26,000 Cloakm: 's Affected by Settlements. NEW YORK, Nov. 28.—Twenty-six thousand of the 40,000 New York clgakmakers who struck in July are affected by settlements of their em- ployers, Salvatore Ninfo, chairman of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ settlement committee an- nounces. Union representatives are discussing settlement now with the sub-manufacturers, or contractors, who do work solely for jobbers employ- ing no needle workers themselves, isman ordinance, on the other hand, provides for diother twenty-year fran- chise for the Surface Lines. All hopes of unravelling the tangle before the expiration of the Surface Lines’ franchise at the end of January disappeared the other day, when Cor- poration Counsel Busch pointed out to the council transporation committee that a referendum on the question could not be held, under the law, be- fore Feb. 22. Some aldermen suggest a six-month’s temporary extension of the Surface Lines’ franchise,-to ward off a receivership on ‘behalf of the bondholders, ut. the. committee. was told that this would hardly be satis- factory to the bondholders unless they were at the same time that some satis- factory settlement would soon follow that action. The mayor yesterday urged an early referendum of the popular vote on the question, and denounced’ himself as favorable to a six-months’ extension of the franchise. The Poor Straphanger. Meanwhile the straphangers are still hunting even for a strap on which to hang. . y What concerns the worker and his family in any solution of the traffic problem is that he shall not indirectly as well as directly be called upon to pay for the cost of solution severa} times over. It is notorlously the case that the cost of every new subway in New by | prewee of all lines. The Harlan- twice by the traveling public—once in and again in increased rentals, which immediately follow in every district that benefits by the improved transit facilities. ‘ Franc Takes Jump, But ‘Financiers See New Slump Coming Soon PARIS, Noy. 28—The frane took a slight climb despite much pessimism in financial circles ‘because of an ex- political battle involving ithe workers. Independent manufac- turers make up the bulk of other set- tled shops. asking the union to abandon its de- Their shops employ nearly 10,000 of Lent finances. Monday the franc was quot- ed at 27.43 to the dollar. The pre- Sub-manufacturers are{Vious Saturday the quotation was 28. Some financiers do not believe that mand for Hmitation of contractors per|the too rapid rise of the franc is a jobber and jobbers refuse to accept good sign, and predict that activity of responsibility for conditions of work |SPeculators will cause a sharp decline in their contractors’ shops—another | 800. : union demand. MILITARISTS OF POLAND WOULD STIR-UP TROUBLE OVER VILWA BOUNDARIES WARSAW, Nov. 28.—Military jin- gol in Poland are attempting to foster anti-Soviet spirit here on ac- count of the reply sent by the Soviet Union to Foreign Minister Zal note on the Vilna border question. ‘The government does not share the feelings of the military and views the Russian note as conciliatory, The Soviet note declared that Russia does not Intend to violate the provisions of the Riga treaty of 1921, but that Soviet Russia and Lithuanla refuse to accept the coun- cll of ambassadors’ fixation of the Polish-Lithuanian frontier in 1923, or thelf right to settle boundary questions, The counoll of ambassadors gave Vilna to the Poles, and the Lithua- nians never agreed to this, High Spanish Army Officers » Convicted in De Rivera Plot MADRID, Nov. 28.—High army of- ficers were @onvicted by the supreme war council of Spain for taking part in a plot against Primo De Rivera last June. Their punishment was ~ not. made public, Among those named are: Colonel Calva La Casa, Major Ecija, Dr. Mar- anon, special physician to the queen; Jose Albinana, Antonio Corres and Ceferino Garcia Pefa, It ig thought that the punishment is a fitie, Fascisti Invade France. “LONDON, Noy. 28.—New fascist in- vasions of France are reported today in dispatches to the Datly News. The Daily News states that 150 fascist! have crossed the Franco-Ital- ian. border #4 Mentone and have cut telegraph wires and committed other depredationy } York City has been paid for at least transportation fares afd then agatn’ eR , Hat ALBERTA WHEAT POOL OWNS 40 BIG ELEVATORS. Handle 2,000,000 Bush- els This Season CALGARY, Alberta, Nov, 28.—Forty elevators owned by the Alberta Pool Blevators, Ltd., are now in operation in this province. A number of these, which have been constructed for the pool, have been compléted and brought into operation in the past month, : Well over 2,000,000 bushels of wheat have been handled since the season opened, by the total of just over 30 pool elevators which have been in op- eration since that time. Considering ‘the lateness of the season in several important crop districts, this makes @ very creditable showing. Some of the elevators have handled in excess of 100,000 bushels, and in exceptional cases more than 150,000 has been handled. Early in the shipping season it was announced that the Coaldale Pool ele- vator had received over 30,000 bushels and shipped ovér 20,000 bushels in the course of three consecutive days. Later figures show that for the four- teen consecutive days the same ele- vator received approximately 110,000 bushels and shipped approximately 65,000 bushels. The manager of the pool elevators, C. M. Hall, states that the pool mem- bers are patronizing their own eleva- fors apparently to the fullést extent possible, and that only lack of larger facilities has prevented a much greater handling: While reference has been made to the receipts at Coaldale, there are various other points correspondingly good. At a number of points records will be established for the handling Cotton and Silk Wages TOKIO—(FP)—Cotton and silk tex- tiles still employ more workers than any other industry in Japan, according to a report on industrial conditions and labor legislation in Japan which has just reehed Tokio from the Intl. Labor Office in Geneva. Of the 893,- 266 workers in textiles in 1922, more than 500,000 were women over 16, and 219,221 were chfidren, chiefly girls, un- der 16 years. The girls and young women in the city cottonmills are largely recruited from country districts by agents of the companies. Those who come from outside the city are housed in com- pany dormitories which make them in- accessible to labor organizers. They get meals furnished below cost. The Cotton Spinners Assen. of Japan claims that the dormitories, kitchens and other “privileges’ increase the earn- ings of operatives: to something over one-third the cash wage. No exact wage figures for spinners later than 1921 are available. At that time the average cash wage for a woman spinner was 40 cents a day, American money. Women weavers in February, 1924, were reported earn- ing 45 cents American money. In visiting one of the show cottonmills of Japan at Osaka, we were told by the manager that women spinners earned 75 cents a day, American money—but all other information in- dicates that this must have been the highest wage of the most skilled worker in the factory. Five years ago a spinners’ union conducted a strike in a cotton yarn mill employing more than 1,000 work- ers. But that strike was lost and the union never regained its strength, Meantime, the latest-report from the Japan Cotton Spinners Assn. shows that while 12 of the 50 member firms reported losses during the fiyst 6 months of 1926, the average half-year- ly dividend of cotton spinning firms was 15.3%, New Social Legislation TOKIO—(FP)—The new health in- surance act becomes effective through- out Japan, Jan. 1927 for all persons employed in factories, mines, building operations, transportation, loading and unloading goods, but not for shipping workers, farmers, nor domestic work- ers. It extends compensation to in- jury, illness, or death arising out of or in the course of the ,employment. A maternity benefit of $10 at time of confinement and a continuing payment of 60% of the daily wage is granted to a wage-earning woman before’ and after childbirth for a period to be fixed by imperial ordinance. Insur- ance funds will be set up from pay- ments by the state, the employer, and The Farmers’ Section will appear regularly In every Monday morning’s Issue of The DAILY WORKER. Watch for it. Political Program e evils of the me hru the system the 1, Relief from bh mortgage and tenantry evil adoption of a land tenure which will secure the land users all- 2. The nationalization of the rail roads, the meat packing plants, gralt ‘or combines and the control and nagement of these marketing OF. ations by the organizations | 0! in co-operation with of city industrial rs who are employed in these ustries, 4. ‘The control and operagion of the to farm credit system by th@organiza— tions of working farmers, in place of thru capitalist banking institutions which’ now use this, the farm cre system, for their enrichment. Relief for the farmers from the ssive burden of taxation thru ng higher income taxes, and in- heritance taxes on the swollen for- tunes of great capitalist exploiters and higher taxes on the profits of the railroads and great industrial com- bines. 6. Against the expenditures for &. big army and navy, which serve no other purpose than to support the im- perialist adventures of the great financial houses of Wall Street in other countries. 6. Fight against Wall Street - Dol- lar Diplom; * and expenditure of the wealth Sproduced by the farmers and industrial wokers to support the capitalist exploiters In their effort to muke profits out of the people of Cubu, the South American countries, le China and the Philippines. Freedom for the Philippines. Self-determina- tion for Porto Rico, Hawaii. With- drawal of all American soldiers and marines from the Central and South American countries. No intervention in China. 7. Against the Dawes plan, thru which the American banking houses are securing control of European in- dustries and paving the way for a new war. 8. Close co-operation with the farmers of other countries and partic- ularly the farmers of Russia, who are so important a factor in the world market. The recognition and estab- lishment of economic relations with the first workers’ and farmers’ gov- ernment—the Union of Socialist Sov- fet Republics. ; 9. The alliance of the working farmers and city Industrial workers to establish a workers’ and farmers’ gov- ernment of the United States. Only a united struggle of all working farm- ers, together with the city industrial workers,. in support of this program will win relief for the farmers from the conditions under which they now suffer. of grain for the season. Owing to the lateness of the season, it will not be possible for the pool to build many additional elevators before the spring. '. JAPANESE LABOR NEWS By ANNA ROCHESTER, Federated Press, Labor Party Bars Reds TOKIO—(FP)—Left wing radicals who reject parliamentary action, who believe in dictatorship and who would suppress the minority within the or- ganization have been excluded from the councils of the new Labor-Farm- er Party of Japan. The party repre- sents, however, the first attempt to organize a proletarian party to lead the 9,000,000 new voters enfranchised since the last general election. Toyohiko Kagawa, Motojiro Sugi- yama and others active in or- ganizing the tenant farmers took the initiative in creating the party. Vari- ous industrial unions are unofficially represented on the executive commit- tee. Many other unions are led by communists and left-wing sympa- thizers who consider the platform too moderate, The social and econamic demands are: Recognition of the right to strike, collective bargaining, right to cultivate idle land, legal minimum wage, abolition of night work for women and children and their exelu- sion from dangerous trades, 8-hour day, better factory and mining laws, equality of men and women before the law, abolition of licensed prosti- tution, insurance for sickness, old age and accident, compensation for those arrested or convicted unjustly, free text-books and education, limitation of landlord's right to evict tenants from dwellings. ¢ Wages Way Below U. S. TOKIO—(FP)— Even the highest paid Japanese factory workers earn less than unskilled workers in the United States, according to Iwao F. Ayusawa, a Japanese expert. Machin- ists are said to average ‘approximately $1.30 a day in American money. But the average for all male factory work- ers is just under $1 a day, and for all female factory workers less than 50c a day. The minimum cost of living for @ worker and his family is estimated ‘at $35 per month, The foreign resi- dent in Japan finds that prices are at least as high as in the United States, The increases in wages in Japan since the beginning of the war still leave the regularly employed factory worker |unable to support a family even at a decent Japanese standard of living. \Japan is still feeling the depression and on every hand one hears of ser- fous unemployment, except among the building trades workers still engaged in reconstruction in the earthquake area, TOKIO—(PP)-—At least 75,000 of the 810,000 day laborers of Japan are now finding work through the public the worker, ‘The maximum of insur-/ employment exchanges which have ance contribution to be exacted of a| been ap tmportant posbuar develop: worker is fixed at 3% * - " . re 3 , ‘ ' ” 3 Pet Short Session Will Perhaps See Passage of Farm Relief Bill WASHINGTON, . 28-—The short session of congress, soon to assemble, will see a renewed drive for farm re- lief, Senator McNary of Oregon has completed a new draft of the McNary- Haugen farm relief bill, which pre- viously was defeated. He had made changes in some features which for- merly mitigated against its passage. The advisory board, a feature of the other bill, is eliminated. Instead, a federal farm board on the plan of the federal farm loan board, is proposed. There will be twelve farm districts, with a representative of each om dhe board. The equalizationefee feature is re- tained, but the manner of its collec tion is simplified. A stabilization fund for cotton, corn, wheat, swing, and tice would be collected, not from the farmer. directly, but from the ginner, the miller,.or the packer. Senator Capper of Kansas will sup- port the new McNary bill. He be lieves that farmers of the west aad south will be stronger then ever for the bill or some similar plan, “to en j| able the farmerg to control and man- age excess supplies of crops at their own expense.” He believes that the farmers are now doing “more good, solid thinking this fall than in any former year.” A rumble comes from Representa- tive L. J. Dickinson of Iowa, who says that “it seems that a surplus in the United States treasury of two or three hundred million can cause more excitement than the loss of sev- eral times. that amount by the produc- ergs of our basic commodities.” This is a slam at Coolidge’s tax refund, the greatef portion of which goes to large corporations. Eastern Farmer Has to Face Competition of Industrial Wages HARRISBURG, Pa., Nov. 28.—That the farmer in the east is facing a double competition—on the one hand forced to comrpete in paying his farm help with the wages paid in industrial centers of the eastern states; and on the other hand to compete with the foreign-born farmer who works the whole family, and therefore pays to wages at all, except the ham and eggs necessary to keep his consort and off- spring alive and working—is the wail that goes up from a regional confer- ence held in this city between fepre- sentatives of agriculture and other in- dustries from Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Maryland and West Virginia. Montgomery Robinson of the New York State College of Agriculture of Cornell University, after giving some very debatable figures on the increage of industrial wages as compared with the increased cost of living, asserted that, so. far as the farmer was con- cerned, wages in the farming indi had increased 190 per cent over pre-war level, while he received for his products approximately but 135 per Cent over that level. That the farmer cannot hope te compete with his city cousin im the matter of tax-dodging, one inferred from the claim of Professor Fred P. Weaver of Pennsylvania State Col- lege, who said the farmer pays from 37 to 40 per cent of his net income in taxes, as against the 12 to 14 per cent which the city resident disgorges. Farm Federation Meets in Chicago, Dec, 6,7,8 The convention of the Amertean Farm Bureau Federation will meet in Chicago Dec, 6,7 and 8. Sessions will be held at Hotel Sherman, Speakers at the convention will ia- clude Frank O, Lowden, Magnus W. Alexander, Dr, Carl C. Taylor, Fr. B, W. Kilgore, Mrs. Charles W. Sewell, Dr. C. H. Lane, Robert F. Pack, J. C. Hedge and Macy Campbell. A message from Lloyd George, for- mer premier of Great Britain, will be yead as a feature of the first day ‘ses- sion. Wm. H. Thompson is presidemt of the federation. Irish Workers Party / Issues Bright Paper From Dublin, there comes to the editorial offices of The DAILY WORK- ER a small, four-page paper, called the Workers’ Republic, which as its name implies stands for a workers’ republican government to supplant the Irish Free State, which it calls @ “government of estate owners, bak: ers, capitalists, and the imperialists.” The paper is the official organ of the Workers Party of Ireland, which is now in its seventh month of life, We extend to this paper and its edl- torial staff our best wishes for ttre success of their publication and er [the principles tor which it