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ROBERTrhrvpt MINORxrmrvß EditorTMitnr Address and mail all checks to The of the paper depends upon how much help will be given by rhe DaiJy Workers 2 6-28 Union life the W\l. F. DUNNE Ass. Editor Square, New York, N. Y. workers and friends who are our readers. Gompers Betrayal of the Railway Strikers of What Is “White Civilization” In Africa? Send your contributions QUICK to 1894; Haywood Now a Convinced Already the forces that will drive'European imperialism The DAILYWORKER, Revolutionary Unionist out of the continent of Africa begin to show formidable 26-28 Union Square, strength. The point of greatest friction at present appears to New York. Previous chapters have told of Bill Haywood’s boyhood among the Utah; youth as miner and cowboy in Nevada; mining be in the field ruled over by Great Britain. The government Mormons in at Silver City, Idaho; as an official of the Western Federation of of the Union of Africa is busy proclaiming its mission South Miners; delegate to its convention in 1898; Gompers’ hypocritie treat- to “save white civilization” in that section of Africa. The ment of the Haymarket victims of 1886; their words which so im- South African Labor Party—one of the most reactionary im- pressed Haywood’s life—he asked before his death that his ashes perialist parties in the world, which is not even constructed be buried besides their graves. Now go on reading. upon the basis of a labor party, but is in fact an extremely Working Women Must Fight Jingoes ... By D. HAYWOOD. yellow social-democratic party of the bourgeois politicians Then the food conservation drive. WILLIAM and labor aristocracy—fights tooth and nail for the enslave- By VERA BUCH. Every one remembers the garbage PART XXIV. ment of the masses, and especially of the Negro masses of The mobilization of American wo- Must Not Allow Mobilization for Imperialist pail campaign. How a group of pa- | men in support of the last war triotic dames supposedly visited the revelation of what could be termed nothing less than treasonable labor and peasantry. growing | which the American government con- War, but Fight for Proletarian Revolution home of Hoover then Food Admin- THEaction on the part of Gompers increased the hatred agairjst But the tide of the proletarian and peasant masses of ducted in 1917-1918 has a poignant istrator, to inspect its garbage pail the man, and this hatred extended to the countil of the A. F. of L. when Negroes is surging upward. Already the outlines of future lesson to the working class. It is a extraordinary development in Amer- city and devotion of the women —and behold, it wT as empty!—the we learned the facts about what they had done during the American suppose, It was generally known events can be at least dimly seen. The Negro workei’S in warning to us to realize the import- ica, were thus at once systematically of the United States. . .The implication being, I that Railway Union strike in 1894. the Hoover ate got on the train at Indianapolis mining and other industries are becoming bolder and more ance of the women, and to begin mobilized and thrown into action country depends upon the women family up its gar- that when Gompers under the leadership of the Wom- for a large part of the inspiration bage. The empty garbage pail was to go to Chicago he had said: self-reliant in their demands for the sweeping away of the energetically the task of organizing and teaching the working class wom- en’s Committee which got its orders of its life.” held up as the emblem of perfection “I am going to the funeral of the A. R. U.” E> treacherous imperialist system of labor organization which en, so that when war breaks out and inspiration from the U. S. im- And the secretary of war chimes to the A. lerican working class house- A funeral without a corpse would be a strange tries to bar the Negro workers from all unions and even from again, they will be mobilized, not perialist government. in: wife. She was _ apposed to cut out thing. What Gompers meant was that they were the right to organize on any basis. Already there is a very for the support of the imperialists, Thorough Local Organization. “I think there is a certain sig- meat and wheat from her menu and going to kill the American Railway Union and there- In fAfJt nificance. . scrimp on her poor table so necessary corpse for the funeral. And considerable organization of Negro industrial workers. Held but for the fight against capitalism These state conferences were con- .when a secretary of already by provide the ¦CQ victory prole- as war says to the women that the as to save the food for the army. this was what they proceeded to do. A conference ’ .JlraL back control, and for the of the stituted permanent groups. There in the past by military police by treacherous i tartan revolution. were organized similar committees success of the United States in On May 5,1917 Secretary Houston of the Executive Council of the A. F. of L. was called, conspiracy of trade union bureaucrats and the high-skilled "Women Under Gov’t Control. on a local scale in each county, city, the making of this war is just as of the U. S. Dept, of Agriculture and met at the Briggs House in Chicago. In addition white labor aristocracy, and at times by timid, unreliable Systematically, on a national scale, town and village. In the cities, there much in the hands of the women issued a special appeal to the women to the council there were fourteen delegates from the of Rail- leadership, the organization movement among Negro workers an apparatus was created, using the were also ward organizations. When of America as it is in the hands of the cor”try for food conservation affiliated unions, the First Grand Master of the Brotherhood bourgeois women’s or- of the soldiers of our army.” and econc y in the way Trainmen, and the Grand Secretary and Treasurer of the Loco- seems now to be assuming powerful proportions. permanent it came down to local groups, mem- home. He ap- ganizations, which reached to the bership no longer based upon On August 2, 1917, the secretary pealed also to the “loyalty” of the motive Firemen. Eugene V. Debs appeared before this conference and was the A strong factor in the change for the better of the last corner of the country and drag- organization, but any individual wo- of the navy declares: working women. He said: asked that they present to the Railroad Managers’ Association proposition as a body, upon emancipation movement can be found in the recent improve- ged in not only the middle class man who could be brought in was “American women have always “Employed women, especially that the strikers return to work at once ready answer of they former positions, or, in the women, but the working women and eligible. Thus there was a possi- been to the call those engaged in the manufacture the condition that be restored to their ment brought about in the Communist Party of Bouth Africa, members this con- workers’ wives as well. Under the bility of getting those who had es- service and have cheerfully under- of food or clothing, also directly event of failure, to call a general strike. Five of for it is an undisputed fact that such a movement at this time gone the untold sacrifices Gompers being one, were appointed draft resolutions. Here direct control and with the full sup- caped membership in the permanent and bur- serve their country and should put ference, to can if places upon proposals: make effective headway only it is guided by a con- port of the federal and state gov- organizations, and of reaching each dens which war them. into their tasks the enthusiasm and are extracts from their They are already making sacri- scious, disciplined proletarian political revolutionary organi- ernment apparatus, this organization and every working woman and work- energy the importance of their The great industrial upheaval now agitating the country has penetrated only the fices and enduring hardships with zation of leadership—i.e., a Communist Pai’ty. The Com- of women not er’s and farmer’s wife. The purpose products warrants.” carefully, calmly fully considered, and a conference of the whole United States, but the a spirit which commands our in- been and • munist Party of South Africa has been very weak. Historical even uniting all these divisions was to see At of the national “that necessary tense admiration.” one first con- Executive Council of the American Federation of Labor and the ! colonial possessions. all forms of pa- ferences called by the Women’s Com- conditions necessarily produced certain handicaps to the de- imperialists fully or of defense program And listen to the secretary of the executive officers and representatives of the national and interna- The understood triotic service mittee of the National Council of velopment of Communist Party in South women. lost interior in June, 1917: a Africa: A country the value of the Thpy as outlined by the Women’s Com- Defense, Hoover, the new Food Ad- tional unions and Brotherhoods of Railway Men, called to meet in Fifteen days after war “Unless our women feel the ruled by the most highly developed imperialism over a no time. mittee were actually carried for- ministrator, gave a plan for enlist- the city of Chicago, on the twelfth day of July, 1894. In the light was declared on Germany, on April ward.” words, greatness of the moral issues in- tremendous mass of native population of which only a re- In other the women ing the women in the first nation- all the evidence and in view of the peculiar complica- 21, 1917, was were volved in this contest, and unless of obtainable the mobilization be- to be mobilized in the most wide campaign for food conservation. latively small portion is drawn into industry, this portion be- a Women’s they have raised their boys to tions now developing in the situation, we are forced to the con- gun by the creation of thorough manner to sacrifice their In the Liberty Loan Drive, too, ing kept in a semi-peasant condition even while enslaved in Committee of the Council of National all for the bloody duty of winning fight, if necessary, for the things clusion that the best interests of the unions affiliated with the for which we stand, the cannot the women’s organization was inval- the mines during : part of the year under a standard of living j Defense. This council had been or- the war for Wall Street. war American of Labor demand that they refrain from be won.” uable to the government in putting Federation incredibly low, while old tribal customs are utilized by capi- ganized by act of congress in Au- Departments were established in over its for filching from or local strike which be proposed And so on “ad nauseam.” In pul- plan the participating in any general may gust, 1916, and consisted of the sec- all divisions for the following fields American workers their hard-earned talist employers to perfect a deadly mixture of wage slavery connection with the railroad . . . retaries of six state departments, of work: registration, food produc- pit and press, in movie and school, in present troubles. and chattel slavery. in parade and mass meeting the dollars for the manufacture of arm- plus an advisory committee of seven. tion and home economics, food ad- aments We further recommend that all connected with the American campaign went on to drive the last and munitions which would British imperialism has been able under these conditions It was thus a direct appendage of ministration, women in industry, Federation of Labor now out on sympathetic strike should return Women’s working woman, the last workers’ kill both American and European to cultivate the most corrupt imperialist ideology among the the government, and its child welfare, maintenance of ex- by the Os course, contemplate Washington and farmers’ wife into doing “her workers millions. to work, and those who going out on sympathetic strike among Committee, meeting in isting social service agencies, health here, many other important agencies elements heretofore decisive the white wage workers. council, was bit” to support the noble cause of are advised to remain at their usual vocations.* as a sub-division of the and recreation, education, liberty were at work. Large firms made “Socialism” historically became, before the advent of the Com- relief. defending imperialist profits. in the closest connection with the loan, home and foreign The the jobs of their factory and office This was the blade of treachery, with a handle made of a double Party, Support to munist a monstrous distortion of ideas and movements government center. Nine women chairmen of the committees on food Women Enormous Gov’t dependent upon the pur- cross, that was plunged into the breasts of the strikers of the Pullman The actual results of the workers against the masses of Negro workers, in favor of British im- were put on the committee, most of administration, women in industry concrete chase of so many Liberty Bonds. car shops. It caused the death of the American Railway Union. It big bourgeois perialism in particular, capitalism in general, and the en- them heads of wom- and liberty loan were considered so campaign were of enormous help to Poor workers, women included, sent Eugene V. Debs and his co-workers to prison. Gompers, writing organizations, such as the Gen- that they were appointed the ruling class. After a few months slavement of “niggers” en’s important pledged their arnings for months about the event in after years, said: as the first basic principle. eral Federation of Women's Clubs, only in consultation with the Wom- campaign among the women for the and years to pay for these. The The course the Federation was the biggest service It is not surprising, then, that the work of producing the National Council of Women, the en’s Committee in Washington and saving of waste bread, the National pursued by in Liberty Loan department of the that could have been performed to maintain the integrity of the r National Women’s Suffrage Asso- worked directly with it. Not satis- Commercial Economy Board stated South Africa a genuine Communist Party was a slow and Women’s C immittee was instrumen- Large of left ciation, and others. Dr. Anna Ho- fied with mobilizing the women of that enough bread had been saved Railroad Brotherhoods. numbers their members had difficult one. After the formal founding of the Communist tal in distributing 700,000 Liberty organizations had joined American Railway Union. ward Shaw was the chairman of the the U. S., proper, similar organiza- each day to feed a million people. their and the Loan primers and hand books to not weakening a very serious extent.** Party it was sick with the diseases of imperialism—pre- Chapman were 8350,000,000 worth of crops were It meant, if disruption, to committee. Mrs. Carrie tions created also in the Pan- teachers and 1,500,000 special let- a raised by women in backyard ga-r ... dominantly party of white workers still saturated with the i Catt was also a member.' Later two ama Canal Zone, in Porto Rico, the ters to farmers’ wives. It also as- | women added, one Philippines, the’ dens during 1917. And in the *ame white chauvinism with which imperialism succeeds in poison- other were of Hawaiian Islands signed 1,600 women speakers to tour The A. F. of L. had also refused to live up to the pledge given president of work was year, $36,000,000 worth of garments ing the workers of the “superior” race in order to make them them the the Interna- and in Alaska. The car-1 the country for the drive. It was during the Leadville strike of 1896. This and other information be- Glove Workers’ Union. ried out so efficiently that by June made by women, says Mr. Davison, tional no accident that in such working coming general among the delegates, the Western Federation of Miners supporters of what is called “white civilization,” i.e., rule by Within a few weeks, the Women’s 15 six states were already thorough- head of the American Red Cross, class centers as Pittsburgh and Al- was firmly determined to have no further connection with the A. F. of the capitalist class in conspiracy with a small layer of skilled Committee had formulated a plan of ly organized. sent to the troops abroad. This were leghany Pa., women subscribers L. The A. of L. had made a record of treason, treachery and avarice which was well- Jingoes Send Hot Air Barrage. in addition to the many millions of Co. F. white workers who gather a few crumbs from the table of action sent out to were one-third o* the for relief raised to the loan that must not be forgotten. the masters as a result of the enslavement of the b'ack known patriotic women in 48 states. Simultaneously with creating and dollars purposes total. Red Cross work also, that is, through the activities of the women. Representatives of the Utah Federation of Labor paid their re- masses. be said frankly that the At once the organization work was perfecting the structural apparatus the making of surgical supplies and It must Communist Party chairman was sent out The activities carried on by the spects to the convention of the Western Federation of Miners, and begun. A temporary for the work, there was “comforts” for soldiers, was a prin- of South Africa, during its early years was prevented from first committees were forget to remind delegates the W. F. M. was the only appointed in each state. Her a barrage of sentimental, jingoistic various women’s cipal activity of the women. did not the that being a truly Communist, a Bolshevik Party, by these im- job was call together a confer- propaganda for enlisting the wom- manifold. One of the first jobs was organization that had assisted the Utah workers in carrying the e:ght- to To Be Continued perialist influences. ence consisting of the heads of wom- n’s moral support, for working them the registration of the women for hour law to the United States Supreme Court. en’s organizations having a state- up into a patriotic frenzy in which service. The women were prepared the years \o sooner in tli« exploitation of These conventions had been a significant point in my life. I In past two the Communist International has individuals as would to make any by letters and a message i wide scope, and such they be prepared special the laborer by the manufacturer* keenly realized the importance of the revolutionary labor movement, been working to purge the Communist Party of South Africa ! she wished to represent unorganized sacrifice. The women suddenly be- from the government. Some states so far at an end, that he receive* hi* ivaKes in cash, then he i* set . and now had a deeper understanding of the struggles that had been very eyes and cities instituted classes to train of these diseases. White chauvinists are ruthlessly expelled, women. Recognition was to be given come important in the of upon by the other portion* of the ! made and the sacrifices demanded of the workers in their efforts to the is to clubs, to religious denominations, government officials, they acquire women registrars. Within six bourgeoisie* the landlord* the shop- Party made to shift its base away from the white labor keeper* the pawnbroker, etc.-—Karl emancipate themselves from wage-slavery.* I knew the struggle must to philanthropic so- qualities zeal, and intel- months the national committees on aristocracy to the Negro and white proletariat. The tradition fraternal and of heroism Marx (Communixt Manifesto). go on and I was determined to take an active part in it. cieties, to patriotic and protective ligence unsuspected before. registration received over 9,000 calls of the “socialist” party—the tradition of a “white party” associations. All the innumerable Said President Wilson: for women workers from firms hold- The hintory of all hitherto ex- While I was in Salt Lake City I had many pleasant visits with my conspiring against the Negro masses —is being mercilessly women’s organizations under bour- “I think the whole country has ing government contracts for war isting society i* the history of relatives. I had not seen my mother and sisters for some years, or ; class struggles.—Karl Marx (Com- my Gudgell, wiped out by the Negro and white Communist -workers of geois influence, which have had an admired the spirit and the capa- materials. -1 munist Manifesto). cousin Mae with whom I had carried on a correspondence Africa under guidance of Communist since I had left home. I went to see my uncle Dick, who during the South the the Inter- course of the afternoon referred to his “baby boy.” Charley was then national. The Negro proletarian masses are being shown a big, fine strapping boy of about sixteen. I thought of myself at that the Communist Party is first of all their party. Likes Haywood’s ¦Exposure Mormon Church Leaders eleven years old, when my uncle Dick had bound me out to John Holden, The program of the Communists South Africa of saying that I was old enough to earn my own living. for has tabernacle in Salt Lake to hear a fathers in this valley. That first and prayed for relief. They were When I returned to Silver City I at once work in the Blaine been clarified; it is the revolutionary Bolshevik program From Vancouver, British Colom-! Mormon elder expound the won- summer when the grain was head- answered by flocks of seagulls, went to mine. I was then president of the union and made my report of the which includes the overthrow of British imperialism and the bia, one of the first letters ders of the faith to a collection of ing out, came swarms of locusts which came all the way from the comes convention at the next meeting. The Western Federation of Miners Negro Daily Worker invited from work- ‘in Can’ tourists looking for thrills. that threatened to devour every- Pacific Ocean, and saved our col- establishment of a great Republic, with provision for the began the publication of a monthly called the Miners’ I ers concerning Bill Haywood and Near the end of his talk he said thing. Our people saw starvation ony—proof of a divine plan.’ Magazine. white minorities. wrote articles for it, and a ninety his memoirs now being published something like this: ‘Those early staring them in the face so they “Then he asked for questions. some at one time sent in bunch of subscriptions. The union had then what the same These events cannot but affect the morale and determina- exclusively in this paper. L. Fill- years were trying ones for our called the whole colony together So I asked: Yesterday I was out was practically as the shop-steward system. were neither business agents nor tion of the Negro workers’ movement, though ther more, of Vancouver, is particularly to the salt marshes and saw thou- These even Com- walking delegates, but members appointed by the union on both shift* munist Party is still very small and still very slightly con- pleased at Haywood’s exposure of sands of seagulls. What more na- tural they come at every mine, and the same at the mills. It was the duty of these nected the masses. these preparations strug- the Mormon Church. Save the “Daily”! than that should with And for The Daily Worker entirely agrees from there and devour your fath- “vigilants,” as we called them. 1 to report the conditions of work about the mine or mill on shift, was a gle are none too soon. History is pushing toward the cataclysm with what Fillmore says about the ers’ grass-hoppers, instead of mak- their and also to see that every man the union good in which the revolutionary Party and its program will be Mormon Church, with the slight ing a miraculous flight from the member of in standing. tested. amendment that all the other Pacific ? * * * are equally based on super- “The answer, of course, was that Ed. Boyce made a visit to commended the union on Ilertzog, premier of the Union of churches Silver City and Mr. South Africa, to- stition, exploitation and are also I was a sceptic and did not know the progress that had been made. Silver City was then not only or- gether with the other British imperialists (including those guilty of mass murder, having either the history of those early days. ganized, but completely unionized. Every man working In the camr who speak of "independence”) may well scream for the sav- engaged directly in religious wars Now after reading Haywood’s was a member of the union. With two or three other miners, I wen! ing of “white civilization.” This so-called “white civiliza- and massacres or have sanctified and clear explanation of this even in with Boyce to Delamar, where he met with the members and officers his book, us more ready tion” simply the system assisted capitalist and imperialist let be of the union there. On the trip we discussed many things. He went is most monstrous of human slav- than ever to question these pom- rather deeply into the history Knights ery. It will be and must be smashed up and blotted off the wars. of the of Labor, and told us Quite true, many churches and re- pous fakers in such away as will something of the International Workingmen’s Association. We talked face of the earth. Only after the destruction of the imper- ligious leaders, before armed con- tend to break their hold on the about the educational work so necessary among the miners. The head- ialist slavery which Mr. Hertzog dignifies with the name flict begins, say they are against minds of working people. quarters of the W. F. M. was then in Butte, Montana. The general “white civilization,” can real civilization be establshed. The war, and assist to delude the work- “With good luck to the ‘Daily’ Situation of the organization was improving. There was no serious security by and a ringing campaign for sub- anywhere, emancipation of the working class and the peasant .masses ers into a sense of false controversies but trouble war fomenting, especially In the aiding in the passage of “Kellogg scriptions centering around the lead district of the Coeur d’Alenes. in Africa, as in all countries, is the only means by which masses think life story of militant comrade Pacts,” making the our work in the union kept me during civilization rescued —Bill Haywood, is the wish of,— My busy my extra time when that degree of which now exists can be such things will prevent war. Never- delegate Yours fraternally, L. FILL- I was off shift I was again elected to the convention, which from destruction by the decaying, rotting, war-making capi- theless, Fillmore’s letter expresses to be held Salt Lake for Haywood’s MORE.” was once more in City. Just before leaving talism of this period. By freeing civilization of its cancer, one angle of the value of the convention, got the of the explosion d’Alenes, ¦ workers. we rumble in the Coeur : memoirs to the American the newspapers and a wire from capitalism, the workers’ and peasants’ revolution which in- CHALIAPIN ON RADIO. W.F.M.. headquarters bringing the He writes: story. The men of Silver City were not excited, but every one was cludes the liberation of oppressed nationalities, will carry “The ‘Daily’ containing the first Feodor Chaliapin, Russian basso, will make his radio debut early in thinking about what might happen further, and they were mad clear civilization to a higher development than can be dreamed instalment of ‘Bill Haywood’s through. March, it was learned yesterday. * a The Union of Socialist Re- Book,’ just received. It should * of by parasitic society. Soviet „ A- cause a sensation and give our publics is already showing the reality of this. - modern bourgeois society In the next instalment Haywood struggle in Daily a well-deserved boost. Par- writes of the bitter hits from ruins the d’Alenes strike 1899; the It is a dogma of imperialism that Negroes cannot give a ticularly did I relish Bill’s remarks thnt sprotited the Coeur of Bunker Hill and Sullivan of feudal society* has not done Mill and 8,000 pounds of dynamite; martial law; Haywood at the initiative but the of the on the Mormon leaders in those Creative to civilization, early history away with class antagonisms. It 1899 M.; to showing how their ha- convention of the W. F. elected executive in Butte, Negro peoples proves this to be a lie, and the splendid fu- early days has but established new classes* to tred and was carried to 1899 convention of the W. F. M.. elected executive; in Butte. of a liberated world of toilers will demonstrate it. prejudice new conditions of oppression* new Montana. ture the point of mass murder against struggle place forms of In of the *lbid, pp. fe First comes the revolutionary struggle to drive “white opposing sects. old one*.-—Karl Marx (Communist 411-412. p. year th. Manifesto). **lbid.t 414. KiMilization” into the se.% | “Last I rambled up to