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Page Six DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK. FRIDAY. IWTEIimgK 1, 192* A NEW BURDEN By Fred Ellis Misleaders in jOuilyiiSiJftxrfcer the American Central Organ of the Workers (Communist) Party Labor Unions Published by National Daily Worker Publishing SUBSCRIPTION RATES: By WILLIAM Z. FOSTER Ass’n., Inc., Daily, Except Sunday, at 26-28 By Mail (in New York only): Following “Skinny" Madden came as 80,- Union New York, N. Y. Telephone, Simon O’Donnell head of the Square, $8 a year s+.so six mos. $2.50 three mos. organized Chicago Building Address • 000 Stuyvesant 1696-7-8. Cable “Daitvork” By Mail (outside of New York): Trades Workers. O’Donnell was a $6 a year $3.50 six mos. $2.00 three mos. pupil of the master faker, Madden. ROBERT MINOR Editor While a policeman in 1901 he be- Address and mail all cheeks to The Daily Worker , agent Plumb- Assistant EJitor 26-28 Union Square, New York, N. Y. came business of the \VM. F. DUNNE ers’ Union. For several months he drew salaries from both jobs. A bold and unscrupulous type, O’Don- Strike In Rhode Island he was defending were those of a past era. nell soon forced his way to the front. The Textile ' The policies enunciated by Jefferson were so He became president of the Building 350 workers in the strange to the ears of Hibben’s vicious and Trades Council, where he remained The strike of the textile 1920, resigned a ignorant prosecutors till when he after Parker Mills in the Pawtucket Valley in that they could not tell defeat by 4 to 1 in his own union. the difference between them and Bolshevism. Rhode Island should be the signal for a He died in Feb., 1927, and was The past few years of Captain Hibben’s given a spectacular funeral. ILs general strike throughout both the Black- life were spent in literary pursuits, which he j coffin alone cost SIO,OOO. valleys. For many stone and Pawtucket put aside during the Sacco and Vanzetti cam- O’Donnell’s regime was the golden era of graft in the Chicago building months there have been wage cuts following paign to go to Boston and participate in the mill where trr.des. The various unions were in upon wage cuts. In the Parker demonstrations against Fuller and his asso- j the hands of a clique of gaum *n wages are so low that the bosses feared an- ciated murderers. ! and crooks, who freely roboed work- ers and employers and ruled their other cut would evoke a strike, a vicious blow Captain Hibben’s death removes from one the up- unions bja sheer terrorism. It was was struck at the workers by the announce- American political life of few a period of labor shootings and labor holders of the old traditions of this country. immediate inauguration of the trials for graft, such as has never ment of the He aided in exposing the malignant character been equalled in the American la- week, 53-hour week in place of the 48-hour j of the agents of imperialism today without, bor movement. without any change in wages. however, realizing that the course of history Ordinarily the Chicago employ- Island the is not back to the declaration of independence ers tolerated and encouraged the In these mill valleys of Rhode j building but forward a higher form of society and trades grafters, because officials of the United Textile Workers to they helped them maintain their Union, affiliated with the A. F. of L. have that it is the revolutionary working class monopoly control of the industry and been busy in their familiar role of aiding the ! whose historic mission it is to deliver the they stood guard against too radical millbarons put through wage cuts, the speed- 1 death blow to the tyrannies of today. demands from the workers. But often, either in a period of unrest in up and lengthening of hours of labor. the industry, when strikes threaten- At this moment, when the mills are be- ed, or when the graft demands be- ginning work on spring goods, the workers in Hooverizing the Newspapers came too exorbitant, the employers the mills should seize the opportunity to protested vigorously. Then would all Announcement was made yesterday of the follow strike for the purpose of resisting the arro- exposures in the newspapers perfection of a process by which type can be and jailings of labor leaders for gant drive of the bosses and establishing grafting. Many set in unlimited number of printing of- such exposures took their union. The workers in every mill should an place. 11,us in 1916, to cite only instantly go out in sympathy with the fices in response to the operation of a type- one, 14 local building.trades officials Parker mills strikers. To fail to aid these writer keyboard by one person. This in- were convicted of extortion. Os these strikers and permit them to be defeated Achievements of the Cultural Relations C were sentenced to jail for from vention, when in general operation, willmake 1 to 3 years and 8 were assessed only be an invitation to every textile would it possible for an agency to write news in By A. LUNACHARSKY. ferent elements, and our schools fines of from SSOO to $2,000. As slash wages further and in- mill owner to | The slogan of a “Cultural have been brought nearer to the usual these grafters were played up only result in further New York and have it transmitted almost Rev-! as martyrs in the unions crease hours, which will olution” was most emphatically New Type of Education; Proletarian Theater ideal of a uniform, technical, work- and their unemployment. simultaneously to typesetting machines in proclaimed at the XV Party Con- ing school. It is not possible to trial was made, the occasion for col- enumerate the achievements effect- lecting huge defense funds, a large First and foremost, in entering the strug- Chicago or San Francisco, thus doing away gress of the Communist Party of and Literature the Soviet Union, but it is no novelty ed in this direction in a short article. share of which found its way into should avoid any con- with news editing as well as operators of the the pockets gle the textile workers j for the Communist mentality. Celebrated foreign pedagogues who of these same grafters typesetting machines. Any number of type- have visited us have delineated them and thair pals. tact with the treacherous United Textile year budgets country 104,000 schools; now j setting machines can be operated from the Lenin on Culture in U. S. S. R. In the present the there in Workers Union, which is merely a company of the municipalities can provide are 150,000. But our success lies full. The nation-wide post-war attack typewriter pro- Lenin frequently expressed his Creative in the schools is against the union for the employers. There is but one one keyboard. The finished but little for cultural purposes, see- not so much in the number of the work building trades unions ideas on the subject and declared! being increasing brought exposure fights duct can be in any size type or any width of : ing that the present year is an extra- schools as in the number of children continued. The about an of O’Don- union in the textile industry that in j in his famous theses that the chief | of nell’s line desired. ! ordinary difficult one. But it cannot frequenting them. In this respect means and the growing attention grafting and produced a whole the interest of the working class and that is and only obstacle in the way of j young jbe denied that the local organiza- we can record an increase of 45 per the Party, of the generation, j series of extortion trials in 1921- Union, This particular invention the achieve- Socialism in the territory of ourj 22. the National Textile Workers born is tions, too, have done to put cent, for current year 10,500,- and of the entire Soviet publicity, This discrediting of the union i Soviet Union lies in the low cultural much in the of the struggle of textile workers in Pas- ment of Walter J. Morey of East Orange, N. principles announced children are being taught as together with the growing care of leaders was a prelude to the great out level of the masses. If this level is through the 000 Bedford and other places. J., and was yesterday put to a practical test by the Party. against 7,200,000 before the war. the economists for the enlightenment j building trades strikes of 1922, in saic, Paterson. New sufficiently raised, so Lenin as- pos- percentage taught of the population, provide the which the unions, attacked through workers! Make the in Rochester, N. Y., by the Frank E. Gan- sumes, nothing more stand Illiteracy Being Reduced. The of children Rhode Island textile would in the elementary schools has in- sibility of making big strides for- the infamous Landis Arbitration nett string of newspapers. in the way of the realization of our A second presumption for the next I strike general! by or per ward in the course of the few Award, fought to preserve their Socialist aims. realization of the slogan of a cul- creased at least 20 25 The mechanics of the new invention are cent. years. existence. The most important Join the National Textile Workers Union! True, Lenin immediately went on tural revolution should be a wide- quite generally The government has worked out In regard to schools, increased at- the many labor trials in this pe- lengthening of familiar to all engaged in the to declare that culture itself costs, spread and general movement in the i>ry Defeat the wage cuts and j I plan general compulsory tention is being paid to the seven- ,-d, which altogether totalled 218 production of newspapers.