The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 21, 1928, Page 1

| THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY Vol. V. No. 17. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside New York, by mati, $6.00 per year. OHIO BOSSES’ WAR COUNCIL HELD FOR DRIVE ON UNIONS County, State and Federal Agents Discussing How to Fill Coal Fields With Gunmen Horde “Stirring Time Soon,’ Says Sheriff, Ready to Evict Miners and Start Scabbing By AMY SCHECHTER. (Special To ‘The DAILY WORKER.) PITTSBURGH, Pa., Jan. 20.—‘A crisis is approaching in Eastern Ohio coal fields,” declared a joint council of war of county, state and federal authorities meeting at St. Clairsville, Ohio, for discussing the means of supplying armed forces to back the at- tempt of coal operators to open up scab mines in sub-district five. Charles Wise, president of the Belmont Commissioners, de- manded that Governor Donahey dispatch troops immediately to his county, claiming that ounty funds are‘ inadequate to provide a force large enough “to keep order in the fields.” Sheriff Hardesty declared he feared a “stirring time,” particularly when the eviction order issued by Federal Judge Benson Hersh goes into effect April 1. “Unless we have a much larger force, the public can look for most unything,” the sheriff told the con- ference. Strikebreakers Quit. One hundred and fifty scab coal loaders at the Rose Valley Mine of the Boomer Coal Company near Adena, Ohio, have walked out, follow- ing the change from straight day wages of $5 to a tonnage basis of 58 cents a ton. Arrest Women. Three strikers’ wives were arrested at the Somers Mine of the Wheeling Township Coal Company near Adena, on a charge of trespassing on mine property, for gathering along the road to the mine and shouting “un- complimentary” remarks, according to the deputies and two men who were on their way to work on steel tipple under construction Mine officials are circulating work blanks among the Somers strikers, trying to persuade them to return at the 191? scale. i’reiiminary picket lines are forming at Neff’s No. 7, Dillon No, 1 and other mines in the sub-district where preparations for opening are under way. There is talk of a series of mine marches around the sub-district. 2 RELEASED IN BOMB FRAME-UP Due to obvious lack of evidence against them, Judge Taylor in Kings county court yesterday directed the jury to acquit three of the five Latin American workers charged with plac- ing a bomb near -he Brooklyn court- house on Sept. 5, 1927. The action followed a motion by defense counsel after the prosecution had rested its case. The men freed are Joseph Roa, Eugenio Fernandez and Victor Fern. Jesus Silva and Julian De Hoyos are the remaining defendants. Evidence in defense of these two men will be heard beginning Monday morning. Their lawyers will prove, they promise, that the so-called “bomb equipmen.” said to have been found in their Brooklyn rooms by detectives, were in reality material for the mak- ing of toys. CORRUPTION OF BUILDING UNION LEADERS EXPOSED Bricklayers’ Officials Betray Workers Complete exposure of the graft, ex- tortion, dual unionism and other cor- ruption with which the building trades union officialdom is infected was made: public) by — Patreks “MeNich- olas, president of Local 33, Interna- tional Hod Carriers, Building and Common Laborers of America, testify- ‘ing before the Industrial Survey Com- mission in an interlude between other testimony on an in,unction bill. MeNicholas, who for over 15 years has been fighting the labor bureau- cracy in various unions in the city and who for the last four years has made an unsuccessful attempt to se- eure action from the American Fed- }eration of Labor, was finally forced, he stated yesterday, to appeal to the Industrial Survey Commission, al- though he expects to receive very,| little justice there, he admitted. | 100 Cases Known, \ Graft and corruption is prevalent among practically all the officials and | business agents in the building trades, MeNicholas testified, but this is es- ‘pecially true of the bricklayers and | plasterers. | “Hundreds of cases may be discov- ered,” McNicholas charged, “if this commission will investigate the mat- ter. \of letters. board of governors of the Master | Builders’ Association, whom I ac- -eused of dealing with crooks and} scabs, admitted to me that in the| | Bronx, Queens, and in Brooklyn, thru ‘the agency of the union officials, the | | building trades workers are employed | | below the union scale. Norman also stated to me that some of these of- | | “Christian Norman, chairman of the | | ficials were getting checks from | builders to maintain these non-union conditions, i | “I have written to William Green, president of the American Federa- tion of Labor, complaining of these conditions and of many others but he has failed to act. Other union lead- ers of this city have likewise sabo- taged all my attempts to get justice. Gill Accused. “The executive board of the Brick- (Continued on Page Fives President Cosgrave Jeered By Insh Rebels on Arnival Riding in a closed car and guarded by over 3,000 police and hundreds of detectives, William T. Cosgrave, president of the Irish Free State was welcomed to New York yesterday by a Republican demonstration of oppo- sition to the Free State policy which Cosgrave represents. Many Irish Republicans were driven from the dock at the Battery shortly before Cosgrave docked in the city’s official boat the “Macon.” Some of the banners carried read: “Who Is the Real Head of Cosgrave’s Free State?—King George V.” “Who Hates Republics?—Cosgrave.” “Who Murdered 77 Irish Patriots ?—Cos- grave!” Call Him Murderer. “Cries of “murderer,” “assassin,” “King Georges Agents” greeted Cos- grave along the line of march from the Battery to City Hall where he was given a reception by Mayor Walker. One woman was arresied when she shouted: “I’m ashamed to} be an American after this!” “You wouldn’t cheer Benedict Ar- nold, and Cosgrave is the Arnold of Ireland,” she cried as she was taken into custody. Distribute Leaflets. When the Irish visitor was being officially received by the mayor, a group of women, supporters of the Republican cause, distributed thous- ands of leaflets exposing Cosgrave as an agent of England. After the reception at the City Hall Cosgrave went to the home of Car- dinal Hayes where the prelate prayed (Continued on Page Two) THE DAILY WORKER. Entered as sccond-cinss matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the act of March 3, 1879, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JANUARY 21, 1928 Lenin, Great Strategist of World Revolution Born April 10, 1870, died January 24, 1924, Vladimir Ilyitch Ulyanov, later known to the world as Lenin, became the greatest historical figure of \the time, the world’s greatest labor leader, the greatest master in the science of revolution. Tonight at Madison Square Garden, New York City, and at hundreds of other meetings thruout the’United States during the next few days, as in every city of the civilized world, the memory of Lenin is celebrated with mass demonstrations. (The above is an unusual photograph of Lenin in conversation with the bourgeois novelist and ex-socialist, H. G. Wells.) Lenin, ic Mountain Eagle By JOSEPH STALIN. (This incisive characterization of Lenin is a chapter from Stalin’s “Theory and Practice of Leninism” accidentally omitted from the English translation. It is published for the first time in this country.) * * * FIRST became acquainted with Lenin in 1903. This ac- quaintance, it is true, was not personal but developed by means But it left an indel- ible impression on me which has not left me during the whole period of my work in the party. I was at that time an exile in| My acquaintance with | Lenin’s revolutionary activity | from the nineties and especially | Siberia. after iui, after “iskra” began to ve issued, led me to the conviction that we had in his person an unusual man. In my eyes at that time he was not simply the leader of the pariy; he was in fact its creator, because he alone understood the inner nature and the immediate needs of the party. When I compared with him the other leaders of our Par‘y, it always seemed to me that his co-workers—Plek- hanov, Martov, Axelrod and others— stood lower than Lenin by a whole head, and that Lenin, in comparison with them, was not simply one of the leaders, but a leader of the highest type, the mountain eagle, knowing no fear in battle, and boldly leading the party on along the untried path of the Russian revolutionary movement. This impression penetrated so deepy into my soul that I felt the necessity of writing about him to one of my close friends who was at that time living in emigration, re- questing his opinion. Within a short time, being already in exile in Siberia, —that was at the end of 1903—I re- ceived an enthusiastic reply from my friend, and a letter, simple but pro- found in content, from Lenin, whom my friend had evidenty made ac- quainted with my letter. Lenin’s note was comparatively short, but it gave a bold and fearless criticism of the activity of our party and a re- markably clear and concise analysis of the whole plan of work of the party for the next period. Only Lenin was able to write about such complicated things in such a simple and clear manner, so concise and so daring, when every phrase not merely speaks but shoots. This simple and bold note strengthened my conviction still more that we had in the person of Lenin the mountain eagle of our party. I cannot forgive myself for having abandoned this letter of Len- in’s, as well as many others, to the flames, according to the custom of the underground workers. From that time began my acquaint- ance with Lenin. Lenin’s Simplicity. MET Lenin for the first time in De-| cember, 1905, at the conference of| |the Bolsheviks at Tammerfors (in | Finland). I hoped to see the mountain eagle of our Party, that great man, great not only politically, but also, if you like, physically, for Lenin pre- sented himself in my fancy in the form of a giant, stately and imposing. What then was my disappointment when I saw nothing but an ordinary man, smaller than the average in height, differing in no way, literally |in no way, from ordinary mortals.... It is taken for granted that a “great man” usually must come late at meetings in order that the mem- bers may await his arrival with pal- pitating héarts, and just before his appearance warningly murmur: “Sh-h!... quiet... he is com- ing.” What then was my disappoint- ment when I discovered that Lenin had come to the meetings before the | delegates, and, skulking somewhere in a corner, was carrying on a conversa- tion, the most ordinary conversation with the most ordinary delegates to the conference! I cannot deny that this seemed to me somewhat of an in- fringement of necessary rules. Only afterwards I understood that this simplicity and modesty of Len- in, this striving to remain unnoticed, or, at any rate, not to become con- spicuous and not to emphasize his high position—that this is one of the strongest traits of Lenin, the new leader of the new masses, the simple and ordinary masses of the deepest depths of humanity. His Logic. O speeches of Lenin at that con- ference were remarkable—on cur- rent events and on the agrarian ques- tion. Unfortunately they have not been preserved. They were inspiring speeches, arousing the stormy’ en- thusiasm of the whole conference. The usual strength of conviction, the simplicity and clearness of the ar- gumentation, the short phrases, un- derstandable by all, the absence of posing, the absent of fancy gestures and phrases for effect, for making an impression—all this distinguished the speeches of Lenin from those of, the ordinary “pariiamentarian” orators. But at that time it was not that characteristic of Lenin’s speeches which charmed me. What charmed me then was that irresistible strength of logic in Lenin’s speeches which, a little coldly but thoroughly, takes pos- session of the audience, gradually electrifies it and then takes it, so to speak, completely prisoner, I re- member what many of the delegates , Said at that time: “The logic of Len- in’s speeches is like a mighiy tentacle, which seizes you from all sides with pincers, and from the embrace of which it is impossible to extricate yourself; either you surrender or re- | sign yourself to complete ruin.” | I believe that this peculiarity in | the speeches of Lenin is the strongest \ characteristic of his oratorical art. No Wimpering! HE second time I met Lenin was in 1906 at the Stockholm Congress of our party. Every one knows that at this con- gress the Bolsheviks remained in the minority, suffered a defeat. That was the first time I saw Lenin in the role of the vanquished. Not by one iota did he resemble oiher leaders who whimper and become dejected after a defeat. On the contrary, this defeat transformed him into a con- densed bit of energy, filling his sup- porters with inspiration for fresh struggles, for fuiure victory. I speak of Lenin’s defeat. But what | was this defeat? We need only ob- serve Lenin’s opponents, the victors | at the Stockholm Congress—Ple! hanov, Axelrod, Martov and other they were little like actual victors, f Lenin, in his unsparing criticism of Menshevism, beat them to a pulp. I remember how we Bolshevik dele- gates, huddled together, looked toward Lenin, asking his advice. The talk of some of the delegates betrayed weari- ness and dejection. I remember how Lenin, in answer to such talk, caus- tically said through his teetn: “Don’t whimper, comrades; we are certain of winning, for we are right.” Detestation of the whimpering in- tellectuals, faith in his own sirength, faith in victory—that is what Lenin spokqgahout with us. We felt then that the defeat of the Bolsheviks was only temporary and that the Bolshe- viks were bound to win in the near future. “Dont whimper in case of defeat” —this is the characterisiic in the ac- tivity of Lenin which helped him to rally round hmself an army, devoted to the end, and confident in its strength. No Haughtiness} At the next congress in 1907, in London, the Bolsheviki became the victors. That is the first time I saw Lenin in the role of the victor. Usually victory turns the heads of other leaders, and makes them arro- gant and haughty. Most.often in such cases, they begin to celebrate the vic- tory, to rest on their laurels. But not by one iota did Lenin resemble such leaders. On the contrary, just after the victory, he became especially vigilant and alert. I remember how (Continued on Page Four) LENIN MEMORIAL TONIGH 25,000 WORKERS TO RALLY AT MADISON SQ. GARDEN HERE FINAL CITY EDITION Published daily except Sunday by The National Daily Worker p- Publishing Association, Inc., 33 First Street, New York, N. ¥. Price 3 Cents Huge Demonstration to Start at 8 O’clock; Will Protest Nicaraguan War Exceptional Program Arranged; Revolutionary Pageant of 1,000; Prominent Speakers With workers, women and children being slaughtered by U. S. marines in Nicaragua, and strikers being killed or evicted from their homes in the coal fields, the biggest mass demonstration of labor ever witnessed in the country will be made at Madison Square Garden tonight under the auspices of.the Workers (Com- munist) Party. Called specifically for the annual observation of the anniver- sary of the death of Lenin, leader of the Russian Revolution, — 925,000 workers at tonight’s» SCORE ARRESTS OF Anti-Imperialist League | Denounces Machado MEXICO CITY, Jan. 20.—A de- mand for the immediate withdrawal | of United States marines from Nica- | ragua and for the discussion of | United States intervention in Nicara-| gua at the Pan-American conference | was cabled to the Havana meeting by | the All-American Anti-Imperialist | League whose’ headquarters. are in’ |Mexico City. ¢ ee ae | The Mexican section of the League | sent the Havana conference a similar | |protest against United States inter- | {vention in Nicaragua after a large | mass meeting at which speakers de-| nounced Wall Street aggression in Latin-America. U. S. Section Hits Arrests. } Protesting against the wholesale | arrest of workers by the Machado| regime, the United States section of | the. All-American Anti-Imperialist | League, with headquarters in New| York city, has sent the following cable to Guerredo Machado, president of Cuba: | “We energetically protest against the order for the arrest of Zoltan| Weiss, who cabled the New York} DAILY WORKER information that| the Cuban government has arrested 200 people in connection with the Pan-American conference. Machado, a Puppet. “We protest further against all) these arrests and particularly against the deportation of Hundecourt and the delegation of the Union Patrio-| tique of Haiti who intended demand- ing action against United States} domination in Haiti. | “Your conduct proves that the (Continued on Page Two) Membership Meeting of Young Workers League Will Be Held Tomorrow The Young Workers (Communist) | League will hold a general member- | ship meeting tomorrow at 1 p. m. at) 133 Second Ave, The order of busi- | ness will be: 1. Report of district | tional status of the league. 2. The} Young Worker subscription drive. 3. The Liebknecht Day Memorial fee ing. CUBAN WORKERS : meeting will protest as in one great voice the invasion of Nica- ragua by United States government iery and the attacks by courts, police and other governmental agen- cies against the mine workers and other sections of the American labor movement, Featuring the program of the | meeting will be mass singing, led by }200 ‘oices of the Freiheit Singing Society, a mass revolutionary pageant and a ballet. A thousand worker- actors will participate in the pageant, which will depict scenes from the Russian Revolution. The ballet will be given by 100 dancers, led by Edith Seigal. Members of the New York Symphony Orchestra will provide music. Among other music the Frei- heit Singing Society will sing “The Internatiow:1"* and ““The March of the Revolution.” For a Mass Party. An appeal for new members for the Workers Party will be made from the platform. The meeting will launch a national campaign for 5,000 new members for the Party and 10,000 new readers for The DAILY WORKER, its official organ, the on- ly English language Communist daily paper in the world. Another feature of the meeting will be the presentation of a jewelled sword sent as a gift to the Workers arty by the Trans-Caucasian Repub- lic. It was brought to this country by Frank Condino, member of the United Mine Workers of America, who recently returned from the Sov- iet Union. The sword was among the effects of the czar seized in the name of the revolutionary workers of the (Continued on Page Two) , WORKERS ATTACK TRACTION DELAY Active preparations are being made to fight the injunction battle—in the courts—according to an announce- ment made yesterday by officials of the Amalgamated traction union from their headquarters, Hotel Come tinental, Broadway and 41st. “We are sure we will win against the Interborough when the issue is argued next Monday,” was the an- nouncement. The officials refused to state their position in the event the committee on activities and organiza-|issue is decided against them but it % has already been announced that no action such as a strike will be taken. “We may still ask the company to arbitrate.” independence movement led by his Sandino has lost his job with the Metro machinist. Yesterday, at the offices of the All- America Anti-Imperialist League, of which Manuel Gomez is U. S. secre- tary, Sandino told reporters that his | brother was prepared to sacrifice his life if it would aid in making public “the crime now being committed against the Nicaraguan people.” Sandino, who is 29 years old, and’ who has been in the United. States | for a year and a half said that when he was discharged he was told that it was because of “slack work.” “Hew many lost their jobs at the same time?” he*was asked. “Two workers,” Sandino replied. Ave., where he was employed as a® Sandino’s Brother Loses Job for Nicaragua Talk For his activity, apparently, in pleading ‘the cause of the Nicaraguan brother, Augusto Sandino, Socrates politan Engineering Co., 1215 Atlantic “How many work in the Brooklyn plant of the Metropolitan Engineering Co.,” he ~as further asked. “Over 300 men.” Sandino said that no complaint had heretofore been made against the quality of his work or his personality, and there had been no intimation that he avould be discharged. Asked whether it is not likely that the reason for his discharge is to be found in the fact that he addressed 2,000 workers at Irving Plaza last Sunday, Sandino said he “wasn’t sure, but it is possible.” He spoke in Spanish to newspaper- (Continued on Page Two)” Faneral i