The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 23, 1928, Page 2

if THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THL % 7 . Pos DAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1928 Red Army Led by Workers and Peasants Contrasts With Capitalist Forces ANNIVERSARY OF ARMY OF U.S.S. Jubilee Demonst ration Held in Soviet Union (Continued from Page One) the reduction of the Red Ar its return to a_peace-time Forced to'prepare for the ever creasing danger of war, the reg army has been reduced to standing army, but has at the same time organized itself better than ever before and brought its war equip- ment up-to-date. At the same time the Red Army ar i has become more and more a model} workers’ army as contrasted with the armies of the imperialist power with the good conditions for i soldiers, its educational work, its re- lations between “commanders” and “men” and its thorough knowledge of the struggles of the workers thru- out the world and its readiness to d fend rather than attack their terests. At a time when the U army is being used against the Ni araguan people, against the workers and peasants in China and against the workers at home, a concrete com- parison between the two armies is in- teresting. Not Prison Term. While the private in the American army receives only $21 a month in pay, from which the government gets pack a. large chunk for laundr clothes, etc., the soldier in the Red Army has a standard of living exa the same as that of the Rus: worker. Receiving his full equip- in- s. wits | | Unschlicht, vice-chairman of the Military Council, and M. Voro- | shiloff, young Red commander and People’s Commissar of War of | the Soviet Union. March Song of the Red Army “Vichrey Vrazhdyebnye.” ment, food and shelter, which doesn’t | mean “slum” or flimsy barracks, the Red Army soldier, besides having conditions equal to those of the work- ers, is protected by provisions fo his family during the period he is i service. Not only is he exempt from Whirlwinds of danger are raging around us, O’erwhelming forces of darkness assail; Still in the fight, see advancing before us Red Flag of liberty that yet shall prevail! Chorus. Then forward, ye workers, freedom awaits you, O’er all the world on the land and the sea; On with the fight for the cause of humanity, March, march, ye toilers and the world shall be free. + Women and children in hunger are galling, Shall we be silent to sorrow and woe? While in the fight see our brothers are falling, Up, then united and conquer the foe. Chorus. | Off with the crown of the tyrants of favor, Down in the dust with the prince and the peer! Strike off your chains, all ye brave sons of Labor, | Wake all humanity, for all social taxes, but his family is as | well. S Also families of soldiers are given first place in the waiting list wher Jand or timber is being divided u; among a group of peasants. If th soldier’s family lacks a horse to work the field with during his absence, th local soviet is bound to provide one. The soldier coming from a working elass family is protected to the ex tent that a special law prevents his family from being moved out of thei: living. quarters under any circum- stances, unless being given equally good ones and having the necessary moving facilities offered free of charge. Votes As a Citizen. Not only does the Red soldier have the best of conditions, and provisions for his family, but he parcicipates directly in the government while in service, as contrasted with the dis- franchised U. S. soldiers. The elections in the Soviet Union are carried out at meetings of work- ers and peasants in different enter- prises of a given section or ward, in cluding all members of the Red Army whose barracks are located in this locality. At these meetings the out- going Soviet Deputies report in de- tail on all the activities of the gov- ernment during the past period, giv ing the soldiers a chance to discu any problems of the army, as wel the general work of the government. Red Army a School. Before the revolution Russia well known as one of the most literate and backward countries. Red Army has been an active for in changing this under the workers rule. Instead of the soldiers in the Red Army being afraid of puniz ment, afraid of their officers, et the Red Army is for them both ao home and a school. So far is th‘ true, that in some cases of comple illiteracy, the first three months a: entirely devoted to teaching the eruit to read and write. Nx has the Red Army made big stride forward in wiping out illiteracy, but they give the Red soldiers a real political education. There are buck: * Lenin corners, question boxes, and in- stead of working twelve hours a day as the American soldier, the Ned soldier works only eight hours, and even part of this time is taken up with the systematic educational work of the soldiers. Besides giving the soldiers a Communist consciousn: special stress is laid on such subjec as: “The International Organization of the Toilers,” “The Bond Betwe: the Red Soldier and the Toiling Popu- lation,” “The Growth of the Revolu tionary Movement in the East” and an exhaustive study of the nature of the Soviet power and of world revo- lutionary activities. * * ° EDITOR'S NOTE —- Tomorrow there will be a second article deal- ing further with the conditions of the Red soldiers, and how the Red Army is preparing to meet any at- tack by the imperialist powers. STILI. USING LINDBERGH. WASHINGTON, Feb, 22.—Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh’s career would be told to every public and private school and university student in the country under a bill introduced in the house today by Rep. Kvale (F-L) of Minnesota. The bill provides for victory is near! Chorus (twice). WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 22.— A neval program which would mean the building of fifteen cruisers, one airplane carrier and possibly twenty- one submarines, all to be laid down in three years and completed in four years, is the so-called “compromise” which may mean the actual carrying thru of the huge 71 ship, $750,000,000 program, originally proposed over an eight year period. This program which is gaining strength in the Naval Affairs Com- mittee, is also understdod to have Coolidge’s support, and to have liqui- dated much of the feeble opposition from pacifist quarters. At the same time the cry of “replacements” is be- ng raised more strenuously than ever, this program being claimed a only for the purpose of replacing old ships. This is the same excuse of- fered for the bigger program, and by Great Britain; but the only replace- ment is in larger or faster ships, with Compromise Plan on Coolidge Navy Bill Shown to Be Fake | | | | those which are replaced remaining in active duty. Even the most obsolete ships which are supposed to be scrapped, are kept in the navy yards in such a condition that they can be put into service in twenty-four hours, altho apparently crippled. According to reliable in- formation here there are 250 such ships both at the Phiadelphia yards and on the west coast. Disarmament Gestures. It is pointed out here that this “compromise” not only will fool the public, but will offer a chance for the U. S, with its strongest industry, to! again wield the disarmament club | against Great Britain, trying to in- crease the proportional strength of the U. S, navy thru diplomacy at fur- er disarmament conferences, altho it is doubted if anybody except a few pacifists will be fooled as to the speed at which the navy is being built for! war. i BIC LEGION Boss |Dog Saves Workers’ Family From GasFume Death PLEADS FOR NAVY SECOND TO NONE Committea and Coolidge in Power Tiff WASHINGTON, Feb. 22 (FP).— Edward E. Spefford, national com- mander of the American Legion, told the house naval affairs committee, February 20 that 1,000.000 legion- naires demand that United States maintain “the biggest navy you can give us.” He added that the legion “has a permanent policy of maintain- ing a navy second to none-in the world.”, Thousands Protest Big Navy. Spafford. begen, after Acting Chairman. Britten had paid him fvl- some-compliments, by denouncing as “arch slacker” Frederick J. Libby. head. of. the National Council for Pre- vention of War. The legion chief war indignant .because Libby’s organiza- tion had caused thousands of tele- grams and letters to be sent to the committee in protest against its big navv program. “We can add and we will have a} million people send you telegrams urging you to carry out this program | for an adequate navy,” asserted Spaf- | ford. Britten, an ex-prize -fighter who voted against the war, and is now Joudest in bullying the witnesses who appear before the committee in op- position to the big navy plan did at least half of the talking. He com- plained that, during the war, in or- der to get a shipment of shoe polish forwarded from his district to Nor- wav he had to get the consent of the British government. “Would our government have toler- | ated such an insnlt?” he demanded of Spafford, “if we had a big power- \ ful navy?” | Spafford assured him that a big navy would have protected the shoe | polish. | Renresentative Andrew, of Massa- | chusetts, who had been forced to) anologizs to Libby, after an alterca- tion over the navy program at a pri-/| vate dinner recently, urged Spafford to direct the legion to explain to the public that the committee did not in- tend to endorse the expenditure of $2.500.000,000 for immediate naval construction. He admitted that the opposition was honest. Conflict of Political Power. Representative McClintic, of Okla- boma, spoiled the harmony of the oc- easion when Britten urged loyalty to President Coolidge, as a reason for building more ships than even Cool- idge wants. It was pointed out that the comnrittee was in conflict with the president on various points, par- ticularly when it refused to allow him the power to stop the building program at any time. The struggle batween them is for power. Not more than fifteen cruisers wil! be provided for in the naval. bill likely to‘pass the house at this ses- sion, according to the experts who are watching the fight. This reduc- tion of the scheme endorsed by Cool- idve will meet with further trouble in the senate, WORKERS STRIKE Refuse to Work Extra Loom; Locked Out (Continued from Page One) ers indefinitely, and intends to do so. Che strikers number about 400. Effective and enthusiastic picket li diligently maintained by the { strikers,.as well.as ther wives and children, have already succeeded in getting many unskilled workers to The workers believe that all led workers in the plant will join in a few days. A successful and well atiended vanquet, held by the union members recently, showed the employers that the unionization of their employees was proceuding at a rapid rate. The bosses therefore had the efficiency pert employed by them to organi- a test of strength, which the workers readily accepted. Now speed- up systems, installed almost weekly by this efficiency expert, makes the ‘kers determined to make this a ght to the finish, according to a statement made by Budenz. Bitter denunciation is heard on al! sides of the manner in which the “Milwaukee Leader,” a Socialist pa per, is ignoring the strike. The work- ers point to the publicity they have obtained, from even the capitalist press of Milwaukee, while a so-called labor paper, is not even letting it be- come known that their struggle exists. The strikers announced that they have arranged a benefit dance, to be held on The Roof, in Kenosha, Wis., on Saturday evening, March 8rd at 8 o'clock. All friends of the union are called to attend. Admission will rinting a pamphlet and distribution | be 75 cents for men, and 50 cents for y the government. ‘ women, AENOSHA HOSIERY: Plunkett Makes New + Militaristic Appeal Continuing his fiery pleas for the world’s strongest navy and his at- ‘acks on the pacifists for trying to disarm America, Admiral Charles P. Plunkett spoke yesterday at the Union League Club, Thirty-ninth Street and Fifth Avenue. Speaking before the New York Chapter of the Sons of the American Revalitign the retired admiral stated that: “In the future war is coming over night... . We must be strongly na- tionalistic and not internationalistic.” The admiral ended his speech with a strong criticism of the press which he stated was not fair in its criticism of the proposed naval building pro- gram. For Horthy Propaganda John Horvay, a Hungarian sculp- tor, has arrived for the unveiling of a OFFICIALS DALLY WITH UNIONISM Traction Workers Want Action (Continued from Page One) the company since the anti-union in- junction wads denied to the Interbor- ough by the New York court. Several workers at the meeting Wednesday were overheard referring to the reeent warning printed in The DAILY WORKER to the effect that the injunction decision actually meant A “ADVANCE” RUNS MISSTATEMENT OF The barking of their dog awoke Leo Kerestider, his wife, and two small children the other night and thus saved them from death from escaping gas which was flooding their rooms in a Brooklyn tenement. Above are the two children, shown with a neighbor. (Continued from Page One) his own life with a knife yesterday. Tis wife was out working at the time. Conlon left three children. are as Employment Decreases. WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 22— There is a very serious decrease in employment in the textile and boct and shoe industries of the country, for the month of January, accord ing to the industrial employment bul- letin made public by the department of labor. The bulletin also shows clearly the | extreme chaos existing in the indus- tries of several states, where. some factories are working part time, or are completely shut down, while oth- ers are working overtime. No effort is made to equalize employment in the industry. A synopsis of textile employment for January, by states, follows: Maine.—Part-time schedules ‘in shoe and textile plants in some sec- tions; in-others, textile mills at over- time. New Hampshire.—Curtailment in shoe industry; textile mills at part- time in some sections, overtime in others. Vermont. Mills on part-time schedules or with reduced forces. Massachusetts——Slack in the boot and shoe industry, with surplus of workers; part-time in textiles. 4 Rhode Island.—Part-time schedules in textile and rubber industries, with surplus of workers. Connecticut.—Part-time in mills. textile New York Situation New York.—Chemical plants, shoe factories, some clothing and knitting mills, shirt and collar fretories, and ui few miscellaneous textile plants, at a curtailed rate cf activity. In New York City several branches of the textile industry cn restricted sched- ules; employment in cotton and woolen hosiery mills, fur shops, silk and knit goods factories, needle itrades, men’s shirt factories, and mil- linery shops far below normal. New Jersey. — ‘Woolens, cotton goods, and some departments of silk factories on part time, with large surplus of workers. Pennsylvania—In some branches of the textile industry, below normal. Ilinois.—Curtailment in most ma- jor industries. ——eoeeoSEoEoooEE™=S=eEE==™PS $1,000 PLEDGED nothing as long as the union failed to begin a real organization drive, in which the labor movement generally would be mustered to support the traction workers, Criticism Growing. statue of Louis Kossuth, the Hun- garian liberator, on Riverside Drive, March 15.. Horvay is the first mem- ber- of a group of several hundred Hungarians sent over by the Horthy government to spread Hor hy propa- ganda and seek a loan here from Hungarians under the cloak of the name of Kossuth, Hungarian work- rs in this country have shown, Many At the meeting J. H. Coleman, or- ganizer for the union, announced that the Amalgamated Association stood ready to protect any man who is fired for his union activities. Some of the men after the meeting pginted to the fact that scores of workers had al- ready been fired by the company, the wealthy landowners and “noblemen”| reason given being always some other prominent in the terroristie reign of Horthy are now on the way over for he unveiling. Three Seamen Arrested William Curtis, 24, an oiler on the Standard Oil Tanker “New Bedford” and two other seamen described as stowaways, are being held after be- ing arrested on the tanker Monday than union activity. One of the workers whose friend was “let out” in this way complained bitterly that the union officials were apparently glad to have such an excuse to offer for failing to act. The opinion among most of the traction workers is that no organiza- tion is possible without a strike. Cri- ticism of the officials for their. indi- rect promise that no strike would be on murder charges when the tanker|called is being voiced freely among anchored at Quarantine, A the workers. : , TO THE “DAILY” (Continued from Page One) Weinstone made a direct appeal for dona'ions to save The DAILY WORKER. The response was in- stantaneous. Ben Gerjoy was un- animously elected to direct and carry to suecess the drive in Section 2 to defend the paper. He promised that Sec:ion 2 would turn the tide agaitist the government’s offensive. Leon Litvin, organizer of the section, pre- sided, Bert Miller, organizational secre- tary of! District 2, addressed the members of Section 1, mee ing at 60th St. and St. Marks Pl. This section had previously donated $350 to the \“Daily” this week, and $60 in addition | was contributed’ last night. The members of Section 56, ad- dressed by Robert Minor, editor of The DAILY WORKER, rallied to the support of the paper by contributing $841 in cash, and pledged the sum of $800 to be raised before Saturday. Ben Lifshitz, of the- Jewish Commu- nist Federation addressed Section 6 which also met last night. Fifty dol- lars in cash was raised at that time, Unemployment Crisis Used — By Employers to Bleed Labor Maryland.—Large surplus of labor embracing all trades, Virginia——General unemployment. North Carolina.—Textile industry curtailed. South Carolina.—Textile industry curtailed. Kentucky.—Slight decrease in em- ployment in textile mills, a few op- erating part time, with surplus of workers. Tennessee on Full Time. Tennessee.—Slight decrease in em- ployment in textile mills, Alabama.—Decreaseq employment, some part-time operations, and a sur- plus of labor in textiles. Mississippi—Some textile mills on part time. Arkansas.—Textile mills, decrease in employment. Oklahoma.—Some textile mills on part time, with employment decreased and surplus of labor. Texas.—Practically all textile mills on full-time; a decrease in employ- ment. PLAN TO FRAME UP MINER IN “TRIAL” Cappelini and Operators Aid State (Continued from Page One) Lillis and the shooting of Samuel Greco, opposition leaders against the contractor evil, is going to follow a “peaceful” policy. There has also been a rumor that President Cappelini was going to re- sign, but before leaving for Washing- ‘on to meet International President Lewis he said in answer to a question as to his resignation: “Absolutely not. I am not beaten yet and until I am I will continue to fight.” War on Rank and File. The determination of the district officials to aid in railroading Bonita, Mendola and Moleski is another step in the war upon the rank and file of the union waged by the operators, the contractors and the Cappelini mach- ine. Colliery Number 6, owned by the Pennsylvania Coal Company has been shut down since Janu te Around the contractors’ evil and the violations of the working agreement of which. it is part, the fight in Pitts- ton has centered. Murder of Militants. When the rank and file opposition, headed by Alex Campbell and in which Bonita, Lillis and Greeeco took an active part, gained control of union in Pittston, the contraciors were ex- pelled from the union and a sirike to enforce the working agreement planned. The murder of Lillis was the first step in the war of exiermination launched’ by the Cappelini machine against the rank and file leaders. Agati was known as the leader of the Cappelini strong-arm forces and is popularly believed to have been in active charge of the terror campaign. Save the Union Committee Acts. The prosecution of Bonita, Molenda and Moleski with the aid of Cappelini henchmen. and their failure and that of the-authorities to fix re- sponsibility for the murder of Lillis and the shooting of Greco, aligns all the official forces directly against the rank and file of the miners. The Save the Union Committee ‘has taken up the challenge of the Cap- pelini machine and yesterday had a meeting to consider ways and means of struggle against the conspiracy on a-Tri-District scale as well as the question’ of the serious crisis in the union—a crisis which President Cap- -/*DAILY'S” STAND “Worker” Hit Smith’s Unemployment Talk What is considered a willful misrep- resentation of the position of tne Workers (Communist) Party and its official organ, The DAILY WORK- ER, on the problem of unemployment is found in the last issue of “Ad- vance,” organ of the right wing of- ficialdom in the Amalgamated Cloth- ing Workers’ Union. | Governor Al. Smith for unemploy- ment “relief.” The DAILY WORK- This publication in a summary of “views” on the unemployment issue carries the obviously deliberate mis- statement that The DAILY WORK- ER has “approved” the program of ‘ER, which has taken the initiative in demanding measures of real, as against pretended, relief has branded the governor’s plan as a complete fake intended to side-track the issue. Condemns Al Smith “Plan.” The DAILY WORKER #n its issue of Feb. 9, stated editorially, that: “Governor Al Smith, Tammany Hall boss, and one of the Wall Street favorites in the race for presidential nomjnations, is trying to capitalize the widespread unem- ployment and has issued a state- ment outlining his alleged policy, which as far as the unemployed are concerned, is no poliay. . . but only a gesture in behalf of his political ambitions.” Not over a month ago the “Ad- vance” in an editorial carried a most hitter attack against The DAILY WORKER for calling attention to the increasing unemployment and suf- fering which the working class was facing. Calling attention to such facts, the “Advance” contends, worked against the labor movement by scaring the workers away from organization at- tempts. Officials Pretend to be Interested. The many thousands of unemploy- ed members in the Amalgamated Union, it is understood, have forced the officialdom to come from behind the smoke screen with which they, following the lead of the Tammany politicians, have sought to conceal the real seriousness of unemployment. The last issue of their organ con- tains a summary of views in the capi- talist press but offers no suggestion of how relief is to be secured. The Amalgamated Union has done noth- ing to help its own unemployed mem- bers. The unemployment fund which was supposed to be created in the indus- try has been abandoned. David Drechsler, attorney for the employ- ers in the industry, recently testified at the Bar Association hearing on the anti-strike bill, that the proposal” for the unemployment fund was aban- doned through the common agree- ment between the union officials and the bosses when it was decided that the fund could not be used as a “means of inducing compliance with the arbitration decisions in the indus- try.” MERCHANT SHIPS FOR USE IN WAR Admiral Wants Seamen Paid by U.S. WASHINGTON, Feb. 22 (FP).— Admiral Hilary Jones, who represent- ed President Coolidge at the Geneva limitation parley last summer, made an attack upon ‘the LaFollette Sea- men’s Act before the house naval af- fairs committed, When asked, in the course of his ee for a big navy, about its rela- ‘ion to the merchant marine, he said the government ought to build up the merchant marine as quickly as poa- sible, as a naval auxiliary. Naval Reserve Seamen. When a congressman inquired how he would accomplish this, the admin- istration’s big-navy spokesman re- plied that “The first step must be a decided liberalization of the LaFollette Seamen’s Act.” After that, he would have the gov- ernment aid private shipbuilding, by payment of the differential in cost be- tween construction here and abroad; also, he would have the government aid the marine insurance concerns and he would have the officers and crews of the merchant ships paid by the government in return for their being enrolled as naval reserves, SEAMAN FOUND FROZEN. Feusse Leaure, a 21-year-old Sen- egalese, was found nearly frozen to death n the cargo hold of the Grace Liner Santa Elisa, which docked yes- terday at Pier 83, Brooklyn. The Senegalese seaman had been unable 'o obtain work for a long time in Valparaiso, Chile. Scantily clothed, he stowed away on the Santa Elisa when that boat sailed from the Chil- ean port. i