Page Six THE DAILY WORKER THE PJMUr WORMS International Red Aid—The Child of. Red October Published PUBLISHING CO by the DAILY 1,1 - one of this WORKER w • to the world October.' The struggle Aid is the red cross service* in the Marty later on turned outAo be thousands of units pass thru IXI3 W. Washington , Chicago, 111. Phone Monroe great Blvd 4^12 By P. LEPERSHINSKY, between the workers and capitalists ranks of the proletarian revolutionary the best workers in the ranks of the school—millions are still at a By from yet, SUBSCRIPTION RATES President Qsntral Committee I. R.*A„ not only is not dying down, but is in- army. International Red Aid. its unceas- distance it. And sooner or By mail (in Chicago only): By mail (outside of Chicago): A, U. S. S. R. creasing in ferocity; the number of The International Red Aid is organ- ing propaganda (not only oral, but in later, these tens of millions will have and rear the world the idea of to go thru both such a theoretical and SB.OO per year $4.50 six months j $6.00 per vear $3.50 six months The anniversary of the never-to-be- its victims is daily increasing izing the red guard for deeds) of international $2.00 three mouths becoming and more complicated, revolution. This very fact binds the solidarity of all members of the pro- practical communistic course of social $2.50 three months j forgotten days of the October exodus more and the International Red Aid cannot International Red Aid still more closer letarian family, the International Red construction; which is only being at great Address all mail and make out checks to of the toiling masses of a coun- complain of havipg little to do, or that to the advance guard of the prole- Aid is now repaying the debt of the present undertaken by the most ad- THE DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Illinois try from the bondage of the bour- there are no more victims left on the tarian revolution. October was the Russian workers and peasants to vanced members of the toiling masses. ‘ of battle, towards whom it should first great battle between the prole- those who “had been faithful to Preliminary Preparation. J. LOUIS ENGDAHL I geoisie is, and will be, the greatest Held more Editors aid. tariat and the plundering capitalists, us than to their own governments,” It is evident that the preliminary WILLIAM F. DUNNE holiday not only for workers and pea- hasten to f I. Born in October. and has been followed by a long and who had helped us in leading our preparation of these masses, who are MORITZ J. LOEB Business Manager Socialist Soviet R. A. sants of the Union of The International Red Aid was be- period of “trench warfare,” with but October victory to a successful end at present standing aloof from the capitalist Entered as second-class mail September 21, 1923, at the post-office at Chi- Republics, but also for the gotten by the Russian Red October, rare intervals of open tightiug of one hru the barriers of barbed wire bar- Russian Communist Party is in- • cago. 111., under act March 3, 1879. the of slaves of those countries where the which not only was a brilliant episode, or another detachment of the “great •icades. dispensible. The International Red not just organization rjflQir 290 rates on application. banker has enthroned himself with but served as a banner of the prole- army of labor.” For all this, this is But the work of October did Aid is the to carry the hangman's aid. tariat in its struggle for the emancipa- a real war, and like every war, its stop by merely throwing the revolu- on best this preliminary preparation. tion of humanity from the bondage success demands a well- organized tionary advance guard—the prole- In truth, it is most successfully carry- Conquers. Buying Power of Farmers Soviet of capitalism. The International Red rear. The International lied Aid has tariat—Into the fight. Were it not ing out its task as a “preparatory On this anniversary, there will be Aid has defined itseft hs an organiza- taken this very task upon its shoul- for the support of file millions of class”/ for the many millions. The Financial writers on the capitalist newspapers devote their not a single corner in all the Union tion, which has consecrated itself to ders—that of organizing the red rear peasants, the proletariat would net most backward and politically illiter- greatest peasant opportunities peculiar talents to twisting economic facts to create the illusion of of Socialist Soviet Republics where help that very struggle by special guard. have been successful. The ate has all the waving. means. i. s Need World Support. of all lessons, arid the most practical for learning and understanding the prosperity. The latest effort in that direction is the statement ap- red flags will not be You will not find a single worker or peasant, Even before October, Ilyitch more No one has yet forgotten the fact of all slogans, given us by those ABC of Communism, passing thru to the farmers stages pearing in the Tuesday morning papers the effect that with the faintest trace of class con- than once dreamt of the Paris Com- that the Russian proletariat, who rose leaders of the October days—and, all of International Red Aid really are prosperous, despite reports to the contrary. sciousness, who will not be rejoicing mune as an example "to be used for against their bourgeoisie, owes its above all, by tlyit'ch-Ms that of the teaching and its popular explanation As justification for reports of prosperity the finance wizards over the fact that eight years have the storming of thri ' strongholds of victorious revolution to the interna- union “strong, lasting and serious” of pi all social problems, linked with the peasants and proletariat. And ever existence of the Red qtiote the increase in mail order sales by the Montgomery Ward con- gone by since that experiment of capital, for the Ru&riian revolution. tional solidarity of the world prole- International “overthrowing” capitalistic foundation And afterwards, he used to point out tariat. It would have been foolish to since then this slogan has not lost its Aid work of aiding those warriors for is 10.21 per cent over a year ago. cern, which was successfully made on a territory with much pleasure the similarities dream even of cur October without enormous significance (and never will the cause of the world revolution. One need not be a financial wizard to recognize the absurdity of occupying one-sixth of the world’s sur- between the "madly brave” Parisian this hope of support and solidarity lose its significance, so long as a I. R. A. Mission. such a claim. It is a well-established fact that farmers increase face. The capitalists have been pow- communards and trie October revolu- from the world proletariat. The Rus- peasantry exists, as a special toiling Many more examples might have their purchases at mail order houses when curtailed incomes com- erless to destroy that country which tionists in our country—finding many sian workers did not err. •Ilyitch more group) for the Cause of the world revo- been given, showing the relationship points these two than once emphasized the fact that lution, neither has it -lost its active between the October “storming of the pel them to make every penny go as far as possible. Instead of in- first blazed the trail towards social- in common ist construction, and which has not stages of the world proletarian strug- “we are victorious, not because we force. And the International Red Aid, heavens” and the historical task of creased mail orders being indications of prosperity they usually prove ability gle. stronger, does work ftfr the same cause, the International Red Aid. But the oply been able to its to , were hut because the toilers it not denote the beginning of periods of depression. exist, but also is progressing with “Storming the Heavens.” of the entente countries turned out to the same end? Does it not continue above is quite sufficient to place the The complaint of the merchants of the small towns serving agri- gigantic strides towards the red star One involuntarily says to one’s self to be more faithful to us than to their the work of October, when it unites International Aid as a revolution- governments.” (From speech ary child of cultural communities has always l»een that during “hard times” the of Communism. that the International Red Aid, one of own his the Ukrainian-or White Russian toiler October. The Interna- of- capitalist coun- the direct heirs of October, has not in at the non-party conference of the of the soil, the Ktrghes! wandering tional Red Aid. with many other order houses get all the and that the town businessmen are The proletariat mail cash tries, who are still bound hand and vain chosen for its “name day” the Borough of Krasny-Presny, January hordes, the Chinese "owner” of about helpers of the grand October revolu- asked to extend credit for goods not obtainable at the mail order foot, fix their eyes, burning with joy- anniversary of March 18, 1871, so 26, 1920.) There are numberless half an acre of land, etc., etc., with tion, continues the great work of centers. ful hope, on that pole star. It is true, warmly loved by Ilyitch. Where the proofs of this statement. Here, how- the world proletariat, by joining them October and will carry on its mission This situation exists at the beginning of periods of depression. the cities in these countries are not smoke of gun powder still hovers over ever, we will simply point out the re- under the common International Red to the very end up to the moment, the air; where the next problem is fusal of the Frenc.i sailors (and among Aid task of aiding revolutionary war- when October, having successfully As the crisis grows and the farmers are unable to obtain money decorated With red flags. But all the same, even in these days, the red that of "storming the heavens” (an t lent Comrade Marty) to obey the or- riors, prisoners of capital? covered all corners and parts of the there is a perceptible slackening of mail orders. Thus there are two blood of the workers flowing behind expression used by Karl Marx in con- ders of their officers, who demanded Finally, it is most necessary to state world, will cause all weapons of the stages of agricultural depression registered by the volume of mail prison walls will be the brightest wit- nection with the Parisian commun- they murder Russian peasants and that October facilitated the entry qj: fierce class war to be laid aside as of orders. The first is at the beginning of depression, when the farmers ness to the fact that the proletariat ards) there, for the International Red workers. the Russian proletariat to that school no more use. For in Communist so- Marty I. A. Communism, ciety war, stock up on the cheap goods from the mail order houses in order to blesses the Russian October, and con- Aid we have an ever increasing field Aids R. of known as the Com- there will be neither class tinues of activities, for the International Red It was-jiy no accident that this very munist Party. But only hundreds of nor enemy classes. make their meager funds stretch as far as possible. This shows an to strive both in word and deed increase in mail orders over normal times. The second is when the funds, which crisis reaches its peak and the farmers are without a H- M- mda produces a perceptible slump in mail orders. The farmer then de- Barriers in the Path of a Labor Party pends for his merchandise upon the credit extended by the country achieve the most elementary demands that party, as the political expression ]| nomy. the A. F. of L. desire Labor conventions can be used as stores. —- would be of to it dare goings resolution for a labor party of the working class he finance capital, led the country into j step into a strike situation starting points for agitation in the Agricultural depression results in many of the smtjll stores despotism European war | ppiess request from THEadopted by the Boston convention fighting directly against the the to defend the in-) not do so a comes local unions. out of existence and not infrequently carries down with them banks of the mine His organizers terests of the House of Morgan, Gom- the of the union involved. of the International Furriers’ Union is executive How to Start. that extend them credit. The final results of such a crisis are similar would be touring the country arousing pers followed it. Truly the leading Then if at apy the officials of an important step in the movement to time struggle for a labor party big the workers to the .threat of exter- labor lieutenant of the capitalist class the A. F, pf li did not carry out the to all crises: further concentration of capital in the hands of the break away the masses of labor from should be launched in the central mination facing the largest union he made the slogans of the war-mak- policy of international they would THE combines. the deadening influence of the old par- thef purpose of carry- within the A. F. of l* ing machine the slogan of the Ameri- be summarily,kicked out of the strike labor unions for the ties. The Furriers’ resolution should ing the fight into the center of If the A. F. of L. officialdom were can Federation of Labor. and could do nothing about it at all. reac- be utilized by every revolutionist and tion striking directly at the al- really interested in the growth of the Now that Gompers is gone and the In Its the A. F. of L. and progressive in the trade union move- constitution the Precisely, Sigman! labor movement until it could chal- democratic party is declining the of- claims to levy assessments liance of the labor fakirs with Mr. ment to get local unions and central machine politicians of the capitalist lenge the capitalist tyranny in this ficial family of the American. Federa- upon the in “emergen- con- labor bodies to endorse it, thereby internationals a fight they “Delegates: A great responsibility is confronting you at this country it would throw its power tion of Labor strives to line up the cies.” H is careful that no such class. In such can effeot laying the basis for a concentrated tively vention, the greatest perhaps in the history of our union. You are be- against the treacherous procrastina- labor movement behind the Harding- arise, for fear of alienat- be unmasked. Combined with! drive toward the realization of a labor emergences the fight in the central bodies L ing called upon to heal its wounds, to reunite its forces and to rid it of tion of John L. Lewis and the other Hughes-Coolidge government. When- ing the support of internationals that shoulil| party. After a large number of local be the most intensive campaign with- all harmful and disruptive elements which menace its existence.” officials of the miners union. The ever the interests of capitalism change might'resent such a tax. unions and some internationals are in the local unions an exposure —M». Morris Sigman, president of the International Ladifes’ mine barons would soqn abandon their the policy of the official machine,of Many unsophisticated radicals ima- on record in favor of a labor party a of all delegates to the central labor Workers’ in the organ, "Justice.” arrogant attitude if the American la- the labor movement in this country gine t}ie A. F, of L. can call a general Garment Union, official conference should be called for the against bor leaders would demand the exten- also changes. The so-called heads of strike, or'Vrlng about the amalgama- bodies who vote the labor that tlie disruptive be purpose of laying plans to carry the party. In this the labor party- Indeed it is imperative elements . the labor movement lead, tion bring manner fight into every section of the labor sion of the strike to the bituminous never never pf affiliated unions, or the that unity of the union be achieved. But that means calling.out have independent They demand can be made a most effective stifled and movement. fields and the of the main- an existence. unions infp a labor party or any one men now, full always follow in the wake of a weapon against the reaction in the that those guilty of disruptive tactics must go. It means that the Out of such a conference a central tenance who with the of the in- (}o7.en other progressive meas- capitalist trade union movement. While voicing Sigman machine that tried to wreck the union in order to maintain directing point should be established consent of the union, keep the bosses’ terests of the class. ures, Dpt iuch is far from the case. only the elementary demands of the work- from which to coordinate the senti- property in good condition in order The same is true of the state fede- Its authority is the exercise of longer be trusted with leadership. It means the harm- ’ power can no to protect the capitalist exploiters rations of labor. In New York the “moral forpe.s which is less than ing class for intelligent class action ment into a powerful movement. against the capitalist class it ful elements that employed thugs and gangsters and gunmen to crush from any loss while strikers are official machine is an adjunct of Tam- nothing in, cases of labor struggles. It serves Many tfie the left wing that had behind it the majority of the membership in Obstacles. being gradually starved and terrorized many Hall. In Illinois of the Len can neither call nor settle strikes. Its at the same time to unmask the agents capitalist political par- three of the largest local unions in New ’York City can no longer rnHERE are many obstacles to be into submission. While its very struc- Small machine. In New Jersey of the resolutions adopted at its conventions of the -*■ overcome in the struggle for a la- ture, as a loose federation, prevents Hague machine. Similar conditions are not binding upon one single inter- ties in the labor movement. With such be tolerated. It means that the scoundrel who acts as manager in a bor party. In many local unions the compulsory action against interna- exist in all other states. national .union affiliated with it. At combined drive in both local unions where the is now being held, and who for and central bodies to Philadelphia, convention question cannot be raised for the tional unions, the A. F. of L. could It is because of this intimate al- best can only be starting points it is possible $ set in that will deeply two years kept out of the union loyal and devoted members because mple reason that there are laws upon at least hold such infamies as are now liance with the capitalist political ma- for agitatfpn among the rank and file motion forces they wanted an effective union, must go. the statute books forbidding the rais- being committed by the union officials chines that the State Federation of for the measure that already has been attest the whole labor movement, bring In plain words it is Sigman and his whole machine that should ing of political issues; a heritage of in the anthracite strike up to the Labor officials and their supporters adopted by the delegates to the A. F. ing the powerful internationals into the baneful influence of Gompers. This arouse are ever watchful any attempt of L. line for a labor party. go. He is the real disrupter. It is he who, rather than see the union workers of the nation and so against convention. must be overcome by candidates to the membership of (|he United Mine to induce the workers in the trade Minor Opposition. the control of the tried wreck like Futile Resolutions. get out of recatiouaries, to it, international conventions bringing the Workers that they drould drive out unions to abandon the suicidal policy TYESIDES the powerful opposition before the membership in of rnAKE the question of amalgation for I a pirate who scuttles the ship rather than see it fall into the hands question the treacherous leaders. If Green and political non-partisanship. from the agents of capitalist poli-1 a platform containing the instance. On many the of its owners. the form of company really desired to use their From the official American Federa- occasions tical machines in the labor movement labor party demand. In unions where tion conventions of the American Federa- The delegates at the Philadelphia convention should weigh well limited power they have they could of Labor fountain head of cor- there is always a group of super- political questions can be discussed help to cordingte the labor movement ruption all the little mercenary tricks- tion of Labor itself has gone on rec- and utopian pessimists who ob- these words of Sigman, and follow his advice for he is the disrupter, there is usually present lackey ters in the ord in favor of amalgamation of kin- some of the country, but they are the labor movement draw their ject to the struggle for a labor party the union-wrceker. of the employers who opposes any sug- inspiration dred unions in a given industry, but agents of the capitalist class and and learn to repeat the by pointing to the traitors at the helm gestion offers nothing of it. Those Smash the union wreckers, the disrupters, the gangsters, the of class action and who hence at all times serve the interests whole malevolent credo of the vindic- came resolutions, of the labor party in England. They the most vicious resistance to the la- of tive adopted at a number of national con- tyrant—eliminate Sigman and place the union in the hands of those their masters. reactonaries. say: “What Is the use of creating a bor party demand. Usually the prin- With the most ventions, never came to life because who express the sentiments of the majority of the membership! Political Treachery. astonishing billings- labor party? Will not the leaders of cipal opponent of a class policy is one gate, blackguardism very few members of organized labor ■BDHILE betraying the workers into and coarse so- such a party also betray the workers Down with the Sigman machine! of the satellites qf the officialdom of phistery these creatures state that outside the delegates in attendance the hands of the employers on just as Ramsay MacDonald betrays the central labor council. the American Federation of Labor is knew they had passed. The questoin the industrial field, A. L. the British workers by playing the The professional clique of local la- the F. of the only agency that stands between then arisesc Why did the resolution machine repeats the performance on game of British imperialism?” Servant to Their Majesties bor leaders act as watch-dogs for the “democracy and the dictatorship of pass? the political field, proclaims its To such a question we reply that capitalist class. They are the back- ft revolution." They conceal their Simply .because someone introduced political character id its constitution. such will probably be the case. But Emil Vandervelde, hero of the socialist international, and for bone of reaction in the labor move- treachery by paying lip-servlcce to it and the officialdom scanned it and Article 11, Section 1, of the consti- the creation of a labor party is es- eign minister of Belgium, confessed before the parliamentary finance ment. In order to understand why this the labor movement while doing perceived that'lt meant nothing in the tution of the American Federation of sential as a means of breaking the is so it is necessary to examine the everything in their power to way of action, and so if was permitted committee that the House of Morgan forced him to cut the budget Labor says: stultify workers away from the old capitalist structure of the American labor move- it. They want the movement to exist to pass. Other resolutions were passed 150,000,000 francs after he had promised to cut no more. “The object of f-the Federation parties and organizing them into a ment. only in order that they may have year after year in the same manner, Thus the valiant who shall be the encouragement and for- class party. We as Communists will Vandervelde, betrayed the workers of his Industrial Treachery. some excuse to curry favor with the but meant nothing. They were all fu- mation of local Trade and Labor aid in the creation of such a party country into the world war and who as servant to his majesty the TlfE must start investigation capitalist But they tile as far as action is concerned. our unions, and the cldSfer federation of class. resent any for that purpose, and in elections we ” efforts to They committed the rank king of Belgium helped slaughter the working class he was presumed with the American Federation of make it effective against the and file of will support such societies through the organiza- capitalist class. organized labor to nothing. But the American MacDonalds to defend, now crawls before the king of Wall Street. It is not of Labor itself. Just what is the Fede- when and place tion of Central Trade and Labor Agitation these resolutions Hendersons In order to ration? Is it a machine for consol- I for independent political same were brot in any concern to these scoundrels and swindlers whose hands drip unions in every city ,'and the further them in positions of power where they idating the ranks of labor into a pow- action on the part of the working as part of a definite program of action with the blood of working class of the world which king they combination of sifeh bodies into can expose themselves to the worker* the erful movement against, the capitalist class meets with the toward revolutionizing the labor State, Territorial 8r Provincial or- contemptible and also expose the limitations of serve. The leadership of the Second International stands perpetually class? Everyone knows nothing charge that a labor party usurp movement, when they were sponsored it is ganizations to sectfre legislation in will parliamentary action of any kind with- of the sort. recog- the functions of the by workers strlvlhg' a po- and voluntarily on the auction block of imperialism, ever for sale to It does not even the interests 1 working A. F. of L. If to establish in the capitalist order. As Lenin erf the there is any truth litical said the highest bidder. They serve everything and everybody but the nize the fact that a class struggle masses.” in such a charge movement of the working class, “we will support them in the same exists. It is primarily a political it proves conclusively they met with the ihost working class. The lower they grovel before the royal rolies of ma- Its political character is plainly that the A. F. stubborn re- way a rope supports a map who has chine polluting the American labor of L. officials recognize the fact that sistance, and were defeated as part monarchy and the imperial sceptre of the dollar dictatorship the stated. It pretends ’tk secure legisla- hanged himself.” movement with the most incredible it is a political machine serving the of a diabolical conspiracy, a red men- tion in the interests' of the laboring capitalist The creation of a labor party will more vicious become their murderous assaults against the workers. venom of ruling class prejudices. class, otherwise a labor par- ace, against labor In masses. Its very stricture is not Indus the movement. be a great step in advance for the majesty every conceivable manner plays ty could not possibly injure From servant to his the king of Belgium, Vandervelde it the trial but political. Instead of organiz- it. The experience in the Amreican Fe- workers of this country and as they game of the capitalist class. In pe- Functions, becomes obedient lackey for their majesties, the Wall Street bankers. ing according to Industrial units, Its it's deration is duplicated by the various become aware of the limitations of riods of the most intense industrial I,E organization is based upon political W N we examine the function of city labor councils and state federa- such a party they will swing toward strife, when great unions ” international divisions; on the identical divisions the American Federation of La- tions of labor. The Chicago Federa- the Communists and prepare for the affiliated with it are struggling for Absent by Compulsion of the capitalist government and its bor and the various state and city tion of Labor used to pass every sort final overthrow of the capitalist sys- their very existence, the officials of various states and cities. federations directly chartered toy it of resolution presented by radical del- tem. the A. F. of L. Among those present at London when the pacts seldom show their Just why are the headquarters of we discover the fact that they can egates. In the launching of the last Locarno were faces. Take as example one the pres- the A. F. of L. in Washington, instead not call strikes In any industry what- campaign for amalgamation it signed were all the outstanding governmental lenders of the countries in was the ent mine strike the anthracite re- of in some industrial center? Simply soever. The only strikes the A. F. first prominent central labor body that COOLIDGE affected with one exception. That exception wus the gion. William Green, president COMMITTEES Mussolini, of the Washington is the political of L. can possibly call are those small adopted the resolution. But that by American Labor, blackshirt brigand and craven poltroon, who dared not face the Federation of rose capital ofThe nation. In those states federal unions, such us bookkeepers, no means meant that the 325,000 mem- DISAGREE to his present position from sec- ON GIVING British workers who let it be known in advance that they would make the where the state federations of labor bank clerks and federal labor unions bers of local unions loosely affiliated retaryship of the union that Is now are not in the capital city, the prin- In small towns where no regularly with the Chicago Federation or even it uncomfortable for the assassin of the working class of Italy. waging the fight against AWAY MUSCLE SHOALS trie mine ba- cipal officers of the federations spend constituted craft unions exist, an appreciable number of them were Beneath the bayonets and the terror of his criminal bands Mus- rons of Central Pennsylvania, but he their time in the capital, or actually The A. F. of L. has neither the in favor of amalgamation. As a matter WASHINGTON, Dec. I. The solini can strut with, pomp and circumstnuce, as the remains in his office at Washington or power parading live there as is the case of the pres- to call nor prevent strikes of of fact few of this number ever knew Muscle Shoal* committee appointed travels from city to city addressing M popular hero where no one has the power to challenge his pretense. ident of the Illinois State Federation any international union. If Its execu- such a resolution was adopted. It is by Preildent Calvin Coolldge, pres- bodies on the identity of is still some working interests of of Labor. The A. F. of L. machine at tive council should desire a of seldom that dp'qgptu* to the Central ented the president majority Hut where there class expression this creature capital strike with and labor instead of fighting Washington, during the life of Gom- one or all the unions affiliated with it, Labor bodies ever report the procee/b reports. Both recom- faces the open insults and execration of the masses. the of the miners battle in the coal pers was an the democratic it would meet with no response for ings to their local unions. mended leasing the plant to private That is why he sent a substitute to make the journey hi* that Helds, ill the organization of which party, although it pro- the simple reason that each interna- At best, resolutions in Central LaiT capital, but under different •endl-*' dared not attempt he is the head really functioned to fessed a non-partfzan policy. When tional union enjoys complete auto- bor bodies and State Federations of tiona. X,/! s 1