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Published NO. Address all mall to 119. CLEVELAND. OHIO, FRIDAY, MAY 14th, 1920. $1.50 at Cleveland, Ohio. 3207 Clark Ave., Cleveland, 0. A YEAR Communist Labor Party is Legal, Says Secretary Wilson

Rules cannot deport aliens who hold membership Labor's Share of Products Less ; " IT 1 Than Before War TT , , - ) - "The belief in, teaching and advocacy of the class strug- You work .v; M . - , Syoohi gle, mass action, the conquest of political Jut ' By Paul Hann, powcf & dictator- rVSa V,N ' tdforryr4on ship of ' the proletariat, , , V big Jail in front of 'O o Rail tfoqcl Cflpitali- - sstaf f Correspondent, ' union, shop committees, shop stewards and other in- The Federated Press. '!'' WASHINGTON Railroad labor has Lever Blue I W U, Ht dustrial economic and oolitical changes mentioned - Law. ,JJJ art.'ficial mflgfcj. taken the offensive ir the hearinjis , r , . ' , . r cHumnmst ijaoor party platlorm and program, howevei at Washington and denied flatly that wage increase granted since 1017 are prehensible these things may be to the minds of any or all in any degree responsible for high our people, do not bring the organization within the purview prices. of Speaking in the name of seventeen the act, as long as it does not propose to use force or different unions of railroad workers, violence to accomplish the purpose." W. Jett Lauck opens the issue with the following flat-foote- statement: With those word Secretary of Labor pinkest, red who dared to mention tho "A careful analysis of tho data Wilson, on May 5th ruled" that the "third international", "mass action" bearing on the causes of high prices Communist Lnhor Flirty is a legal and like phrases was and the relation of cost of production political party and that membership m fit only for prison or deportation and to prices leads to tho following specific it of aliens does not constitute suf- lvis conducted systematic raids upon conclusions: ficient grounds for deportation. homes, halls and meetings of workers. "1. Profiteering by which is meant The trials of tho exaction of porfits greatly in In ordering cancellatioi of a warr-n- t alleged Communists at excess of pre-wa- r profits en the part under which Carl Miller, a German, Boston recently brought out some as- of producers, middlemen and retailors was held because of such membership, tonishing confessions from agents of the Department which is a fundamental cause of tho high the secretary declared s showed that that, while prices of practically all commodities. from the organization's plat- they sought to bring about the causes "2. wages form indicated an extremely which led to the arrests of the re- Increased to labor are in radical no way responsible objective there was no evidence of volutionists. The prediction that Pal- for increased mer had prices." intention to use force or violence to- overreached himself in his Lauck is an economist of ward organized government. wild ravings against tho radicals seems many years' to be a now well established fact. training. He served as Secretary for Hundreds of members of the Com- The department of justice frankly the National War Labor Board on ler munist Labor Party have been deplored the labor secretary iormrr President Taft, Frank P.' Walsh 's'decision, 5 and charged with violations of Assistant Attorney General Garvan, "'M J 4 en to fee Rail Roads " and Basil M. Manly. His charge that $p ' ' various states' criminal in charge or on ( (jol- - " wage advances have been an raids radical elements, - rv4' ASi' - by Generous effect laws on score on O of prico advances, not a the of carrying party asserting that because of it all un- cause, is sup- activities. Since the raids of early desirable aliens could enter the folds ported by an array of facts which em- ployers fanuary, when these sleuths of tire of the Communist Labor party and be strive to ignore but cannot Department of Justice swooped down irec irom government interference. refute. in, n nation wide raid thous- netting Although Mr. Wilson Following up his written indictment ands of Communists and declared ex- Communist amination of platforms of tho profiteer as tho most con Laborites, tho exact status of their showed the "some very substantial 9 spicuous curse of modern society, Lauck Communist Labor party was in doubt. differences" between the Communist Com- took the witness stnnd late last A Secretary and tho He'll blow em long previous ruling by the cl as as You'll Chase 'em for munist Labor parties, Mr. as- wok by railroad Tjabor practically outlawed the Com- Garvan serted that concerning principles attorneys and members of tho wago munist Party which, "with Com- they tho were "absolutely the board. munist Labor Party developed out of same," and pre- dicted that members of John. Try p split in the ranks of the Socialist, the Communist ! "As a result of the war," says this party, now outlawed, would Party at Chicago A affiliate expert, "labor as a ilass is now worse last September. with the Communist number of members of tho Communist Labor party to off than it was before the war. Al- evade deportation proceedings. CHRISTIANA most Party have been deported merely on That trade relations resumption of trade relations between NORTH CHURCH PORUM without exception, a tay's wages buys less than it did in 1012 to the. grounds of their membership, "The tactics of the Communist party between Norway and Russia are soon tho two countries and that it is to MEETINGS, CLEVELAND, IOI4. in Russia," Mr. Wilson said, Tn other words, in the distribution of while many more are held under in- "can to be resumed is indicated by tho re- the greatest interest for both parties Rabbi Louis Wolfey of tho Euclid have no bearing upon tho Communist tho income of the country labor is dictments on liko charges. port of Mr. of Avenue Temple will address the open Labor party in the Holvold, president tho that they should be resumed." Ho receiving a smaller proportion than it. Department disapproves United States forum meeting May 16th at tho North of Justice of except in so far as Kirkenals Society, who has pointed out Russia would did before the war, while tho capital Secretary's those tactics are that provide Church Forum, East 72nd and St. ruling. accepted or adopted by the, just in the form of profits, interest and Communist visited Northern Russian and the a market for the fisheries of Norway. Clair. His subject will bo It is no secret that tho Department Labor party; nor can the statements rent is receiving a very much larg- of Murmansk district. Kc has reported AMNESTY FOR POLITICAL Justice and the Secretary of Labor made by prominent members er proportion," of the that order LONDON Cat doners and PRISONERS have long been at outs regarding the party be as complete exists in these estate Taking the profits listed accepted the expressions Lecture will begin at 7:30. by such status of the "reds" of various hue. of the organization parts and that therefore "externa! labourers on King George's Scottish authorities as Moody's and Poor's, unless the party Tho May 23rd meeting at this Fo- Attorney General Palmer has acted by its own action, adopts conditions constitute no to estate at Balmoral Castle have demand Lauck cites the net income on capital the barrier the rum will be addressed by Mr. Comer-for- upon the. assumption that even the earned during the camparntive ed w:ycs of U5 a week and an eight of Chicago. His subject will bo years 1012 to 1018 by a typical group of Lour day. Captain Ramsay the King's THE WORK OF THE LOYAL AMER- metal, clothing, food, fuel, light, hous- to attack the Third. The your colleagues go to ICAN LEAGUE Battle on for Endorsement of Second ho Russia, and, Oommissionar, replied by telegram: ing and miscellaneus corporations, and maintains, is still with in Tf you have anything either good or alive; it has done .the full facts your possession men option of ten makes the following .,!.. - I. . 11 I. "Give working tlen comment: niuuim- iuto; u is II.!.convened on no come back and then summon the con bad to say about tho work of this or 3-r- d hours or one weeks "The outstanding fact is simplv International narrow doctrinniro basis con- ference which shall notice." ganizntion you are invited to say it at but in consider the new staled. The corporations listed earned sonance with the principle of working International." this time. Questions and discussions during tho years 1016 1918 an aver-ag- o class The THE TRUTH ABOUT THE invited. solidarity." Third on the The Daily Herald itself supports the income of nearly $1,250,000,000 By Evelyn Sharp other hand is LUSK COMMITTEE. n doctrinaire and exclusive plan for the Swiss Conference. or 24 London Correspondent and There Some astonishing facts about THE RED RUBY year, nearly per cent of th'ir insists on tactics which can onlv are, it says, two views of lead, held the this extralegal Committee never Address to the Jury by Ben Capital stock. This appears to bo nearlv THE FEDERATED PRESS as in Hungary, to a dictatorship Third International: of before revealed. An authentic Gitlow. Also Darrow, the Judge three times tho averago for the pre- LONDON. The battle of the Inter- reaction. With Henderson is .T. 1. That it claims to impose the war years Mac-Donal- and a by 10121014, and the figures nationale is still raging in the British Ramsay report. final article Antonio me'.hod as well as the objective of the Giovanitti. 10c a copy. for production show conclusively that movement. The Independent Labor To Henderson, Clifford Allen, tho 25c the copy. on its adherents; and Address The Toiler Address The Toiler these increased profits were not due to Party at its Eastern Conference, de- leader of the younger members of the 2. open I That it leaves the choice of a large mea- rontina n ...... t . increased production. In cided to leave Second ..,-...- in . l.w(' t II ji t ,y n I a .. , definitely the . in .in T Iiln. Mlf n ...... i ., ilif- nil ,i.uu,M.l i.. ui iiiiiiniiua a II ir vv ill mi II U sure they were due to the fact International, equally definitely j' that and awiiv inui me second purpose to take tho quickest way to tho the corporations took a larger propor- tho Third. I, L. P. has failed not join Instead the because it held overthrow or . We accept the THE CF.NTRALIA CONSPIRACY tion of every dollar spent by the con- is Swiss Party to call as pre-wa- r ideas, that the urging the big fact, which latlr interpretation on the strength Chaplin sumer." soon as possible a conference to dis- Henderson cannot ignore, is that Rus- of By Ralph Lonin's own personal assurance. The The corporations cite in Lauck 's list cuss the reconstitution of the Inter- sia, Italv, France, United States, the purpose of the Swiss Conference should Every worker should read tho conspiracy of the about one-sixt- of tho national "with a definitely Socialist German Independents and a number earned total bo to remove all doubt as to tho Mos- the West to destroy the corporate income of United States, objective." Also it decided to get into of smaller countries have all left it. lumber interests of North the eow programme; and thereafter if our and that fact supports his contention touch with Moscow. "Without these parties it cannot be interpret ution is right, to affiliato with . V. W. and how that conspiracy resulted in tho Sjnco the conference the debate has revived," he says. that if the other corporations did as Moscow; if our interpretation is wron;;, at on Armistice Day. well thc tho combined corporations been shifted ,to the Labor Press par- "Therefore," 'he pleads, "we have up on tragedy Ontralia to set Internationale on the of (ho land scoojed up about $4,800,000 ticularly to the columns of tho Daily to create new International machi- basis of th? formula over- 50c postpaid of "tho more per year during tho war then Herald. Arthur Henderson. Secretary of nery." And the first step to that munt throw of capitalism in tho quickest The Toiler. tho Labour Party, has eomo forward bo to get into touch with Moseow. Address they previously earned per year possible way, "leaving the choico of (Continue! on pago &.) to defend the Second Internntionnl anl "I beg you." he writes, "you and method to the constituent parties." Trade Unionism) Industrial Unionism and Workers' Committees

econo- (ISSUED BY THE BUREAU OF THE THIRD 6. Trades Unionism (as typically expressed in is in Trades Unionism. The struggle against, this form organised in Industrial nnions under Cnpitnlist INTERNATIONAL.) the American Federation of Labor) is impotent to of unionism accordingly is nn insepernble phaso of mic conditions. The upper lnyers of tho working improve mntcrinlly conditions of labor or to conquer tho struggle against Laborism, proceeding 1. are necessary organizations in tho daises, being the impulse of Laborism, will necessarily Unions power, since the division of the workers into crnft of em- revolutionary industrial unionism; whilo tho economic struggle the workers against their or trade organizations "dits them into inumcrablo (a) Tn general by the Communist parties agitat- reject ployers, since, in spite of their the unions limitations, unions, each antagonistic to tho other, making hope- ing to drive the uninrs to more revolutionary action. bwer layers will not move very rapidly until thrown nnd often are means for resisting improving the less tho struggle against concentrated Capitalism, (b) Kncouraging every movement in the unions into action by the impnet of revolution itself. More- most, inhuman conditions of labor. Nor unions are tho which largely expropriates the worker of his skill, that tends in break the permanency of the bureau- over, tho concept that the workers under Capitalism in character, since they can transitory particularly eliminates the craft, divisions of small industry, and cracy, and placing control in the masses by means must, in their industrial unions acquire the experience as unions become means of revolu- industrial active brings masses of the proletariat together rogardloss of delegates being subject directly to instructions nnd and technical management of industry, "growing in- tionary struggle, and a factor in the Communist re- of particular occupational functions. The general mass recall. to" tho new society by the industrial unions' construction of society. strike .Gone is capable of decisive action against con- giadnal acquisition of industrial control, is identical 2. Unions in By formation of organizations such ns The Trndes persisting the defensivo centrated Capitalism; but Trndes Unionism in form (c) tie although inverted in form) with the proposals of Stewards Workers' Committees, econnmi.i struglo against Capitalism do not materially improve nnd spirit is nntngonistic to tho mass strike. the Shop parliamentary Socialism that tho must conditions. The rise of wages Is, in general, oxceeded Workers' Councils, nnd direct branches of the Com- 7. Trndes Unionism comes to gradually "grow into" Sncinlism by acquiring ex- by the rise of prices, whilo the policy of comprnmio, realize its economic munist parties in the shops, mills, and mines, whica and proceeds perience of stato affairs nnd "absorbing" control of wago agreements nnd industrial peace weakens tho impotence to Parliamentary nction, aro not alone means for moving the mnsses and the which, (ns tho bourgeois state. Ench concept, in its own way, fighting spirit of the workers. represented by Laborism typically unions to more revolutionary action but which at the in the Hritish rejects the fundamental problem of the revolutionary 3. The Trades Unions arose during the epoch of Labor Party) is as impotent moment of tho crisis may develop tho Soviets! us Unionism conquest of stato power. small industry, with its consequent division of the Trades to accomplish fundamental conquests, sinco Laborism necepsarily ac.opts the dom- (d) By endeavoring to transform the Trades workers into crafts or trades. The nrtisnn conception 14. The conquest of the power of the is inant union concepts and practice. Laborism Unions into industrial unions, that is, a unionism in state prevailed thai I worker's craft or skill wns a form of unites the objective of tho revolutionary proletariat. Neither with tho dominant union concepts and Lnbor-is- form pnrnllelinc tho economic integrities of modern property, developing n property and petty bourgeis practice. nor tho wfth petty in by tho struggle the parliaments industrial unions are tho ideology; nnd this, together with the circumstance unites bourgeois democracy against capitalism, and spirit animated tho proletarian nnd economic mastory. means for this conquest of power, but mass action and Trades Unions acquired power during a period revolution that petty bourgeois de- for political power that is the 8oviets mass action to rally the workers, or- , mocracy whica seduced by Imperialism. of intense nntionnl economic development (1870-1000)- 11 The agitation for and construction of in- ganized and unorganised, in the opon revolutionary produced the concept of limiting the proletarian 8. The guvei nmentnl form of expression of La- dustrial unionj provides, in an immediate nnd practical errugglo for power, the Soviets to contsituto the struggle within the limits of Capitalism and the nn-tio- borism is State Capitalism, the merger in tho stato of wny, the opportunity to articulate nnd mobilize th mechanism of the rtvolntteitarjr nrolctarinn state, the cnpitnliRts. the smnll bourgeois, and the upper militant spirit of discontent developing in the old the dictatorship of the proletariat. At tho moment of 4. Trndes Unionism represented (and still ropre layers of the working class dominant in the Trndes unions, to enrrj on the Rtnigelo npninst the cor- f.ctive revolution the struggle becomes not a struggle snnts) the upper layers of the working clnss, ov Unions; the state is used to regulate equnlly industry rupt BUiaaueracy nnd the "nristocracy of labor." for Industrial unions, but for tho construction nf bulk of nnd Soviets, cl.iding the the unskilled workers; where and labor for purposes of Imperialism, the proletarian Industrial Unionism, moreover, provides the opport-iait- these workers are organized in Trades Unions, they musses being compelled to accept this arrnngomcnt of calling to action the unorganized, unskill'd 1(5. After Hit conquest of aro dominated by tho concepts nnd practice of tho by means of deception and forco. workers, nnd to release the unskilled organized in th" political power anl nder the protection of In- upper layers tho "nristocracy of labor " 9. Tho tendency is for Laborism and Socialism 'trades Unionr from their bondage to tho reactionary the Soviet Dictatorship, dustrial Unionism comes actually to 5. The development of imperialism merges the to unito (oithr formally or by moans of Trades upper layers of the working class. The struggle for fnnction In tho economic reconstruction of society on a Trades Unions definitely in Capitalism, the upper Union domination of the Socialist Party) each neces-aril,- v revolutionary Industrial Unionism is a factor for the Communist working being bribed with n basis; Ittd tho stronger tho industrial unions layers of the class share accepting socinl Imperialism, since their activ- development of Communist clenring nnd for the grasp-in- tho e.istor the proeoss of in tho profitc of Imperialism by means of slightly ity is limited within the limits of Capitalism and tho of ihe might. reconstruction. Tho government higher wnges, stoady employment, and labor loL'ishi-tin- . nation; and under tho ascondency of of Soviets, of proletarian dictatorship, is political nnd monopoly and 12. Unionism trndes nnd industrial, must not Th "aristocracy of labor" dominant in Trades finance cnpltul, the of n transitory in charr.ctor, the necessary agency of re- "prosperity" nntion depends limit itMilf to economic strikes, but must acquire the Unionism accepts Imperialism, uses the unions to on Imperialism. pression tO ixpropriate and crush Capitalism. While concept nnd prnctico of tho general political strlko assist Capitalism In "stabilising" labor in industry, 10. industrial in its constituents and representation, the Laborism becomes the final bulwark of e with the Communist parties to nnd becomes the source of tho corrupt ideology develop government of Soviets functions geographically' of of Capitalism against tho oncoming proletarian the general mns utruggle of the proletarian and social imperialism. The derisive in against politically: but alongside of itself it factor the revolution; accordingly, a merciless struggle against the bourgeniR state. contracts a a I International was tho immersion of central administration of industry, wholly Socialism the oncomining proletarian revolution; accordingly, a The concept industrial Unionism economic social-Imperia- n. that alono in character, equality in in Trades Unionism with its pratice of l Uhorism is 'mpcrative. But representation and fgnctions whilo politically Labori- is necessary for tho conqnest of Capitalism must be perfecting tho organism of Inn, petty bourgeois democracy, Tin its fundamental sm expresses itself as proletarian sontrol and State Capitalism and petty decisively rejected. It is sheer Utopia to Imagine that management ot industry on counter revolutionary tendency. bourgeois domocracy tho basis of tho in- its animating impulse and forco all the worltors, or au overwhelming majority, can bo dustrially organized producers.