The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 17, 1926, Page 4

Page Four - _THE DA ILY WORKER POLICE CHIEFS | HEAR EVIDENCE OF BRUTISHNESS -Probe in the 1] Paper Box Strike Starts © (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Dec, 15—Hvidence of brutality of police against the paper box makers im their strike here was heard by Police Inspector Thomas P. Cummings of the first inspection dis- trict in his investigation of the charg: es brot against the officers by the American Civil Liberties Union. Polloeman Accused. \AMdavits from fourteen members of the union, mien and girls, were pre- sented at the hearing telling of the policemen’s activities in attempting to break the strike. Cummings is to make a report to Police Commissioner McLaughlin, un- der orders of the mayor, with the view of prosecuting the officers. The accused policemen include Captain Daniel Mangin, Patrolmen Thomas Wiliott, Thomas Maddigan, and Price. Strikers Testify. Jacob Arkin appeared at the hear ing and told how he was attacked by the police captain and three other offi- clals while on picket duty. He was struck in the mouth and three teeth were knocked out. Two girl strikers, Virginia Dessoules and Kate Levy, testified that policemen threatened them with revolvers if they did not @top picketing. Ruth Sharoff told how she was attacked by Patrolman Price, who struck her on the back, hurting her severely. Deny Charges. The accused policemen, who were at the hearing, denied vehemently the eharges, maintaining they were “do- ing their duty to maintain order.” The fourteen affidavits presented were only a few that could have been | obtained from the strikers. Trammell Fight on World Court Thorn to Administration WASHINGTON, Dec. 15 The Tammell resolution, proposing to take America out of the world court be- fore she actually becomes a member, Promised to become a “thorn in the side of the administration. While republican leaders hope to bury the resolution in some committee pigeon-hole, members of the irrecon- cilable bloc were plotting means of keeping it constantly before the! sen- ~ate during the present session, Trammell, who voted for adherence to,the court, changed his mind during thé recess of congress, Norris Fails to Get Stuck on Cal’s Syrup) WASHINGTON, Dec, 15.—‘Vermont maple syrup and buckwheat cakes have no charm for me,” remarked Senator Norris of Nebraska, “if the object is bridging the chasm made by ‘the fraud and corruption disclosed in the Illinois and Pennsylvania pri- maries.” president’s “harmony breakfasts” do not appeal to him. “The pen Is mightier than the sword,” provided you know how to use it. Come down and learn row in the worker correspondent’s classes A SPECIAL OFFER To Get You Acquainted With THE CUMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL (Cee ge neers Commies of Communi arama The first three numbers of the new form of this important publication which have JUST ARRIVED! 25 Cents No. 1, No. 2, No. 3 of the new form are now ready. Only these three numbers are beieng sold at the special price. SINGLE ISSUES 15 CENTS SUBSCRIBE! $2.50 a year $1.25 six months ORDER BLANK The Daily Worker Pub. Co, 11138 W. Washington Blvd, Chicago, Ill. Enclosed find 26 cents for the last three issues of the “Communist Inter- national,” for.. to the Enclosed $. wae months’ subscription munist International.” He was explaining why the | | | } (Continued from page 3) jnot the left, He accused the Comin- tern of fighting only the left energet!- } cally, | Defende British C. P. | | Smith (England) defended the Brit- | \tsh Communist Party from charges of | |right tendencies. He admitted the | Weak policy of the leadership of the {Party after the general strike, but jsaid it soon corrected the mistakes. The Comintern cannot allow fractions within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union itself. The British party, he declared, again emphasizes its solidarity with the measures taken by the Communist Party of the Soviet | Union against the opposition and will oppose Trotsky attempts at disruptive and demoralizing tactics with regard to the British party. \ Ercoli (Italy) declared that the |Italian delegation, after hearing Trot- sky's and Zinoviev’s speeches, entirely upholds the view expressed in an earlier statement by the delegation |thru Cavalli (that the political line of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union was correct and a realization of Lenin’s directions). The opposition’s action and speeches are Mable to undermine the leading role of the Soviet Union Communist | Party within the Comintern and there- |fore all western parties must support |the é6xecutive committee of the Rus- sian party, he said. Zinoviey Unconvincing. Ercoli remarked that Zinoviev’s numerous quotations from Marx and | Engels and Lenin were unconvincing, misguiding and aiming to conceal his | wrong policies and theories. Zino- viev’s assertion that the affirmation |regarding the possibility of building |socialism in the Soviet Union will cause passivity in the Communist parties and the proletariat of other countries, is/wrong. The reverse is correct, that the Russian revolution is a powerful factor in the revolutionary movement of the world because it con- firms the confidence of the working masses that the Soviet Union can build socialism, Trotsky’s argument is again essen- | tially the theory of the “permanent | revolution,” alleging that the Russian revolution can favorably develop only | if the revolution in the west begins in jthe near future. From this funda- | mental lack of faith in the revolution follow all other mistakes of the op- | position on internal and international questions, driving the opposition to- wards syndicalism and reformism. Therefore, Ercoli concluded, the op- position must be liquidated ideologi- cally and politically in the Soviet Union and thruout the Comintern. Manuilsky Assalls Trotsky. In the twenty-second session on the 10th of December under Remmele’s chairmanship, Manuilsky (Russia) spoke. He pointed out, that the Com- }munist Party of the Soviet Union was the center of the political activity jof the world -proletariat and there- \fore a lack of faith in the possibljty |of building socialism in Russia means an attack against the Communist In ternational, N the evening session of Dec. 8, Gregory Zinoviev, former chairman of the Comintern and leader of the opposition, took part in the debate on Stalin’s repoft on the Russian’ ques- \tion. He admitted the crucial diverg- jence of views on the question of so- |clalist construction in one country. | Zinoviev asserted ‘that the execu- | tive of the Comintern’s draft program does not contain a single point pro- viding for the feasibility of the theory | of socialism in one country. He cited | Marx and Engels in an attempt to |prove the law of the irregular devel- opment of capitalism, which was well known to Marx and Engels, and pre- cluded the possibility of the victoyy of the proletarian revolution in one country alone, altho Zinoviev admitted | the possibility to start the onslaught in one country. Cites Lenin, He declared that Lenin entirely shared Marx’s and Engels’ view. He cited Lenin as saying that while the Soviet Republic stood alone in the capitalist world encirclement that it would be utopian to believe that it is possible to achieve full economic independence, Zinoviev, often interrupted in his speech by his opponent’s remarks, continued to cite Lenin and tried to | Prove that Lenin in 1915 and again in |1917 after February, propounded the idea that the proletariat can sieze political power in a backward coun- try, but cannot achieve the full eco- nomic victory of the revolution, ‘ Zinoviey protested against the af- firmation that Lenin taught the theory that the victory of the revolution was possible in one country alone, International Prospects. The speaker further attempted to |refute the charge that the opposition is guilty of non-recognition of the | prospects of the revolution and pas- sivity, He declared that the building of socialism willbe completed with the help of the proletarian revolution in other countries, that the Soviet power will stand, and that while the «| prospects of socialist construction are necessary they must be international «|in scope. Replying to the arguments that the relations of the workers and peasants of other countries must be the same as in the U, 8. 8, R. Zinoviey pointed The Plenum of the Comintern Executive Trotsky, Manuilsky sald, recognized | his mistakes with regard to Lenin, | but fafled to recognize his errors in | respect to the party and the Comin- tern, The party’s development from the beginning of the revolution went thru three states: First, on the eve of October, when the problem was one of seizing power in a backward coun- try. Second, the period of war com- munism when the main problem was that of keeping power and whether the proletariat of other countries could prevent imperialist intervention, Third, from-the new economio policy until tef@ay, when the fundamental problem is the building of socialism, Lenin’s Advice. In each stage Lenin advanced the main point: alliance withthe peas- antry assures victory. The social- democrats always asserted we cannot | achieve our tasks; elements within jour own party constantly share the | social-democratic drift. Trotsky hope- |lessly mixes up these three stages. | Manuiisky, emphasizing that the | question of socialist construction is an international and not only a Rus- sian problem, pointed out that the social-democrats in Gefmany in 1923 jand in Italy in 1920 discouraged the workers and alleged that @ revolution | in ‘one country was impossible. We must say the contrary: the revolution jin separate countries is possible even now, as witness the rising in Esthonia last year. Trotsky, he went on, considers the Soviet Union still part of world capi- talism. We must energetically oppgse such a view because of its dangerous inferences. In conclusion, Manuilsky pointed out that the social-democratic press (Lehvi, Germany, Arbeiter Zeb tung, Australia, etc.) is wholeheart- edly backing the Russian opposition. The Comintern, he declared, must deal with the opposition according to its merits, Neumann Speaks. Neumann (Germany) pointed out that Trotsky has not renounced Trot- skyism, ‘particularly the theory of the | “permanent revolution.” Zinoviev has | entirely joined with Trotskyism. The opposition, seeking to minimize impe- rialist conflicting interests, reverts to- wards Kautskyism and the views of the social-democracy. Trotsky, ‘he said, not only denies the building of socialism but even the possibility of the progress of Soviet economy. | The big mistake of the opposition, Neumann declared, is the view that | the Soviet Union is an isolated coun-| try and part of the capitalist economy, While Trotsky stresses the “isola- tion” of the Soviet Union he over-/| estimates the influence of imperialism and underestimates the strength of the international proletariat. Trot- sky’s fundamental mistake is a lack of faith in the prospects of the social- ist revolution in the U, 8, 8, R. and other countries, The -Comintern, said Neumann, RANKS OF PAPER BOX BOSSES ARE SHOWING BREAKS One of Largest Shops Gives In NEW YORK, Dec. 15.—The close of the tenth week of the general strike of three thousand paper box workers resulted in several significant develop- ments. Chief among these is the set- tlement made with one of the largest of the United Association’s shops, Wm. Herman & Co., 69 Wooster St, The bosses had succeeded in holding their ranks solid for a stretch of eight weeks, but the determination, solidari- ty and militancy of the strikers even- tually took its toll. Other settlements are expected very soon. The trend of events may readily be grasped when it is realized that the bosses had taken the position that un- ‘der no circumstances would they deal further with the union. “This is an open shop,” read the signs hung in the windows of the shops. Stoolpigeons Active. During the past two weeks, the stool- pigeons and tools of the bosses have been extremely active in their at- tempts to break the strike. It 1s al- leged that the so-called “brains” of this conspiracy, Harry Roden, editor of the bosses’ trade journal, was to receive $20,000 if he succeeded in get- ting the drivers back to work under open shop conditions by Saturday, Dec. 11. It is also believed that one John Repaci, who is frequently seen in the company of the association heads, tho he parades as a strjker, is implicated in the dirty work. He had not worked for a long time before the strike, and yet he has lived on the fat of the land, the source of his income a dark mystery, His game was to bribe leading -members of the drivers’ branch to do his traitorous bidding. The game failed, however, and this bluff is now called, despite the guerilla and gangster backing from the east side promised him by association leaders, Union Not “Thru.” Tho the indications are that the bosses are nearly thru, the union is not. A relief conference was called for Monday at Labor Temple, 244 East 14th St. The following ‘organizations answered the call: Joint Board, Furriers’ Union; Bakery and Confectionary Workers, Local 169;, Hebrew Butchers’ Union; Shoe Workers’ Protective Union, Local No. 53; Architectural Iron, Bronze and Structural Workers’ Union; Suit Case, Bag and Portfolio Makers’ Union; Bakers’ Union, Local 305; Bakers’ Union, Local 100; Fur Nailers’ Union, Local 10; Joint Board, Shirt Makers’ Union; Photographic Workers’ Union, Dear Children: You are reading this because your father or your mother or some of your relatives or friends are * readers of The DAILY WORKER. That means that they are workers—and workers that know how to and have eo many good things! 'M In the) newspapers. “MERRY CHRISTMAS”—FOR know. a fine time, good foods, Report of Zinoviev’s Speech must rally the Communist Party of |Local 7830; Pants Makers, A. C, W. the Soviet Union, the most revolution-|of A.; A. C, W. of A., Local 54; Amal- ary and international party in the}gamated Food Workers, Local 1; world, to defeat the block of the Rus-|Workmen’s Circle Branches 597, 247, sian and foreign oppositions and com-| 359, 656; Hungarian Workers’ Club. pletely liquidate them ideologically. ‘ Experts Advise That Receiver Take Over Chicago Surface Lines out that this was true numerically in regard to colonial and semi-colonial}] The experts who are advising the countries, which must hope for eman-|surface lines in the present traction cipation only after the revolution in| muddle will turn down the city’s sug- two or three chief imperialiggystates. | gestion of a six month’s extension of The relations between the workers|the present franchise, which expires and peasants can be properly consid-|Jan, 31. They say that they cannot ered only after the overthrow of the legally negotiate with the city and bourgeois in the principal countries of | that a receivership must be asked of the world. We must remember, Zino-|the federal court before the franchise viev went on, the fact that world expires, on which date also $165,000,- heavy industry and technique is still}000 in bonds fall due. sufficiently strong to win the peasants Such a move, it is pointed out, will and that the majority are not always prevent the city from turning the indispensable to the victory of the| streets over to others. In the opinion revolution. of F. J. Lisman, New York banker, Other Charges. who has submitted a plan for re Zinoviev briefly reviewed ‘the other | financing the lines, this move will charges against the opposition. He|prove hazardous to the bondholders, pdeclared that the opposition’s atti-|The default in principal would be the tude towards the social-democrats was | largest that ever occurred in the unchanged, that the opposition still! United States,” he said. believes the stronger official social-| By this moye, too, thé city will lose democracies the worst enemies of the |the benefit of all previous negotia- proletariat. He said that the opposi-|tions, tho it can petition the court tion, pointing out the growth of the |for protection during the receivership. power of the peasants and the new/The car lines will then be operated bourgeoisie and the degeneration of | under the direction of’ the court, the Communist Party signalled dan- pk is tank ae and not accom- Supreme Court Turns Down Teachers’ Writ Zinoviev alleged that the Comin- tern’s policies against the lefts were 4 too drastic and against the rights! SPRINGFIELD, Ill. .— Permission too lenient. He asserted that he had /to file writ of mandamus was denied nothing in common with Souvarine’s|by the superior court to James A. views, Mead, representing a joint committee He declared that the charge of sym- | of Chicago Teachers’ Federation, The pathy for the idea of two parties 1m | writ sought was to compel the Illinois the Soviet Union was unfounded. On/|tax commission and the Cook county the question of unity and fractional|board of review to tax the capital opposition they had recognized theit'|stock of all corporations, and thus own mistakes @nd warned their fol-| raise ninety millions more in revenue. lowers to abandon fractionalism, The; The writ was denied on technical unity of the Communist Party of the | grounds, first that relief could not be Soviet Union must be maintained, he | afforded at this term of court and that declared, there was a possibility of an issue of For Lenin. facts that might be brought before Referring to the question of Trot-|the courts of Cook county, skyism, Zinoviev remarked that the| If the teachers succeed eventually former mistakes dividing Trotskyisin | in their efforts to get the tax dod, from Leninism, which Trotsky him-|underpaid city employes may wel self no longer defends, are not the | follow @ similar course, basis of the opposition bloc and the opposition especially does not share in “the theory of the permanent revo- lution.’ Loe In conclusion, Zinoviey, declared that he will stand on the of Lenin- . ism and that he is. guilty of a “soctal-democratia 4,9 BR QUT. IN’ JANUARY, they've got something to eat? Or NEW YEAR’S! For whom and joy? work? LIBERTY—WHERE ARE YOU? Coal Miner: Why does the Statue of Liberty stands on water? Iron Miner: Give up! Why? Coal Miner: Because—there is no room for Liberty on the land in Ame- rica! WORKERS’ SEASONS. Teacher: Arnold, what are the sea- sons of the year? * Arnold (Whose father is & worker): There are two seasons, teacher! Busy and slack seasons, stick together and fight the bosses. 4 You are workers’ children; so are all of us who are reading this. Although our fathers work hard and produce a lot of things, they are poor; the bosses, who themselves do nothing, pay the workers mis erable wages and keep for themselvés what the workers make That’s why the rich kids are so well off erry Christnias—the season of good cheer, joy, and happiness!” That’s what we hear everywhere these days—in school, in church, know. For the RICH CHILDREN for whom Christmas means a happy For the. RICH children for whom Christmas lots of fun, or for the POOR CHILDREN for whom Christmas means a few days, when Instead of going to school, they have to go to work in the factories, shops, and department stores because of the Christmas rush? For whom ts Christmas a season of “good cheer, happiness, and joy?” For the RICH CHILDREN in nice warm houses receiving lots of beauti- ful presents; or for the POOR CHILDREN, cold, hungry, and lucky if For the RICH CHILDREN for whom the New Year means a new year of gladness and good things; or for the POOR CHILDREN for whom the New Year means another year of poverty, \hunger and hard “MERRY CHRISTMAS”—“HAPPY NEW YEAR”—for WHOM? For the RICH or for the POOR? That's what we'd Iike to know! COMRADE CORNER. HELLO, CHILDREN! Ask them about It! Don’t you think we workers’ children ought to stick together and stick by the grownup workers and help them fight the bosses? Ask your father or mother about it! The first thing to do Is to get to know each other. And so The DAILY WORKER is giving you this space every week to print letters and stories sent In by YOU. Write us how rich and poor people live—especlally the children. Write us about your school. stories, puzzles,.Jokes, everything! What are you going to do with it? Write us about things that interest you. Write us Send us In drawings and pictures! Come on—this section ia YOURS! A CHRISTMAS POEM By BEATRICE BROWN, Omaha, Nebraska. A little poor boy walking A little rich boy met, All dressed in lace With big white face And red cheeks that looked fat. That’s what we'd like to is a holiday, and many splendid presents; WHOM? The little poor boy talking To the little rich boy sald: “We workers eat What we can get While you are quite well fed.” The little poor boy talking + To the little rich boy said: “Christmas is near And you'll have cheer, While we'll be shivéfing and ead.” is New Year’s a time of happiness The little rich boy talking Sald to the poor boy sweet: “What do I care How bad you fare As long as | have meat.” HOW'S YOURS? Johnny Red: Bet my teacher is meaner than,yours! Rosie Red: G'w'an, you're crazy! Mine’s meaner. Here is another number purzie 5—21—7—5—14—5; 2293-20 —156—18; 4—5—2—19, To solve this puzzle: Write down the alphabet and then put num- bers in place of each letter, thua: ais 1, b is 2,-c is 3, and #0 on. Now put the letters baok for the numbers In the above puzzle, You will get the name of a man who died recently. Johnny: Well, look, my teacher borrowed my finife to sharpen her pencil to give me a bad mark with. Rosie:.. Aw, that’s nothing!., My teacher told me to remind her to- morrow to give me a bad mark and if | didn’t remind her she'd give me two bad marks. WORKERS DON’T STICK TO BAD JOBS. TURN-OVER FIGURES SHOW By LELAND OLDS, Federated Press, Low wages, long hours and feudal working conditions in the south tend to saddle its textile mills with ex- cessive and expensive labor turnover. This is shown in a U. S. department of labor bulletin on lost time and labor turnover in 18 cotton mills. Accord- ing to the bulletin, the turnover rate in nine southern mills averaged 189.5 per cent, or twice the 94.9 per cent average of nine mills in the north. The labor turnover rate shows the number of new workers a mill must hire in a year to keep up its regular working force. A 100 per cent turn- over means that workers are leaving the job so rapidly that the mill must hire 1,000 new workers a year for each 1,000 employed; that is, must replace the .equivalent of the entire body of workers, Costs Money. The constént breaking in of new workers costs money—estimated by experts to range from $15 to $300 per worker, according to the job: This includes not only the direct cost of hiring and training the worker, but also the indirect costs, since workers who are constantly shifting are inef- ficient and liable to accidents. A 100 per cent labor turnover in a mill em- ploying 1,000 operatives might well cost more than $25,000. The report shows that mills work- ing 54 hours or less per week had a labor turnover of 96 per cént. Those with 55 hours or more showed an av- erage turnover of 179, per cent, nearly twice the figure for mills working the shorter hours, Discontent Index. These figures are a real index of industrial unrest or discontent. They MADISON SQUARE — GARDEN constitute a severe arraignment of the private management of industry. When President "Magnus W. Alexan- der of the national industrial confer- ence board was with the General Hlec- tric Co, he held that.a 21 per cent 50th Street and 8th Avenue turnover would provide for all un- avoidable changes in employment, NEW YORK — while the department of labor figured that during the abnormal war condi-| The Largest Hall in the World tions a 100 per cent turnover was a fair allowance. Figures like those for = the southern mills, running up to where one of the mills had to hire nearly four workers for every one it wanted to keep» on the payroll, indi- cate inexcusable working conditions. Railroad Gets Missing Link for Big Merger NEW YORK, Dec. 15.—Bankers for the Delaware & Hudson Ry., of which Leonor F, Loree is president, are re- ported to have been buying in stock of the Lehigh Valley until they have acquired 30 per cent of it. It is be- lieved that this will enable the Del4 aware & Hudson to effect a satisfac- tory traffic arrangement with the other road, and is a step to a larger merger. Wants to Fight. PARIS, Dec, 15.—Miguel De Rivera, son of General De Rivera, Spanish dictator, is anxious to arrange a duel, but is being restrained by his father, according to a Perpignan dispatch to the Paris Midi. Miguel is reported to have taken exceptions to slight remarks made by artillery officers ‘concerning his father, form every month. THD YOUNG COMRADBE, 10 If You Give Christmas Gifts—- Give One That Will A SUBSCRIPTION TO THE Young Comrade will delight your ¢hildren. Your son or daughter will find more than enjoyment in this magazine of and for workers’ children—it is a liberal education presented in an attractive If you want your children to become mnilitant fighters in the labor movement—start now by giv- ing them the YOUNG COMRADE to read. It's Fifty Cents a Year — 4 — Use This Blank Now — 2 1118 W. 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