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SOVIET UNION
HEADNEACHES
FIFTIETH YEAR
Kalinin Has Lived Thru
Three Revolutions
Michael Ivanovitoh Kalinin, presi
dent of the Union of Socialist Soviet
Republics, has passed his fiftieth mile
stone, of which 27 of his best years
were spent In revolutionary activity
among workers and peasants.
Kalinin entered the party in 1898,
that is after the first victorious strug
gle of Marxism with the Narodniki,
after the first grbat advance of the la
bor movement of the ’nineties, in the
year of the fltßt congress of our party.
He belongs to that famous fighting
body of advanced workers who were
beginning to advance the cause of the
workers and to build up our party at
the end of the ’nineties of the last cen
tury.
Thru Three Revolutions.
Kalinin has passed thru three revo
lutions as well as the black years of
reaction, the victory of the October
revolution, the civil war and the enor
mous progress in the building up of
the Soviet state. In him there is em
bodied the battle-tried advanced sec
tion of the working class of our coun
try and an extraordinarily compre
hensive experience in struggle and in
constructive work.
Kalinin is not only a turner, but also
a tiller of the .noil, not only- a worker
but also a peasant. He is the embodi
ment of that alliance between the
workers and peasants which consti
tutes the strength and stability of the
Soviet Union.
Saw Red Army in Action.
During the trying days of the strug
gles and encounters of the civil war,
the Red Army saw Comrade Kalinin
more than once in its fighting ranks
on all sections of the Red front. He
is not for nothing an honorary mem
ber of the Red Army.
Comrade Kalinin unites by a special
bqnd our firmly-steeled party with our
heroic working class. Comrade Kal
inin is a Bolshevik of the genuine
Leninist school.
After that talk with your shop
mate—hand him a copy of The
DAILY WORKER. It will help
convince him.
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Information
Wanted.
Daniel George Carson,
34 years of age, last
heard of in the state of
Washington in the
summer of 1917. Any
information will be
gratefully received by
his mother—
BRIDGET CARSON,
Warspite, Alta.,
Canada.
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Kalinin (at Left) on Red Square in Mossow
PATERSON TEXTILE UNIONS MAKE
A UNITED FRONT TO STRIKE FOR
THE EIGHT-HOUR DAY JANUARY 4
By ART SHIELDS.
(Federated Press Staff Correspondent)
NEW YORK, Dec. 23. —Paterson silk unions are setting a unity example
in the joint strike plans the United Textile Workers, A. F. of L. and the
Associated Silk Workers, independent, are making for January 4 against all
firms in the silk capital that refuse the 8-hour day. This is the first united
campaign these two rival movements have ever conducted. The date for
the walkout comes at the end of a 3-months’ series of joint meetings for the
STINGING ARCTIC WINDS;
DRIVING SNOW GREETS
MANY JOBLESS WORKERS
INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 23—Winter
has descended on Indiana in full
force. Stinging Arctic winds and a
driving snow left the entire state
mantled In white ushering a Christ
mas filled with joy for the parasites
and misery for many Jobless and
underpaid workers.
British Capitalist
Press Excited Over
Bolsheviks in Navy
LONDON, Dec. 23.—The Westmin
ister Gazette’s correspondent at Ply
mouth asserts that Communistic sym
pathies exist among the seamen of
some of the ships of the Brttbfh navy.
He dtfes the circulation of Commun
muntet publications and the singing
of “The Red Flag” aboard certain war
ships as proof of his statement.
During the recent prosecution of
Communists in London the fact was
reve£fbd that Communist propaganda
was ' active in the army and navy.
The admiralty issued notices to the
personnel of ships aiming to counter
act such propaganda.
The Westminister Gazette attri
butes to seamen the statement that
the authoritiies cannot stop the cir
culation of Communistic publications
on ships.
The correspondent quotes members
of the crew on the cruiseT Vindictive
as having said to him ‘‘the Vindictive
is one of the Bolshevik ships of the
navy.”
Are you going to givet Make
it a book on Communism!
-♦■orthodox workday.
Both the Associated and the A. F.
of L. people talk confidently of suc
cess. The co-operation the two unions
have been giving each other, they say,
has heartened up thousands of work
ers who had wearied of past feuds.
Bosses Divided.
The employers on the other hand
do not appear to be united well. There
is no general labor policy. There are
30 to 36 thousand silk workers in
Paterson of whom the greater part
are said to be in 8-hour shops. In fact
the ribbon and hatband workers gen
erally have the 8-hour day and the
fight will center in the broadsilk divi
sion where perhaps half the workers
of the total 20,000 have to put in the
compulsory overtime that means nine,
ten and more hours a day of toil.
There are about 500 broadsilk shops.
r Os the employers who are running
plants overtime today some have
- promised that they win come thru
- with the demands January 4 if the
- unions make a good show of strength,
t But those that hold out for the archaic
. workday policy are promised fights.
- these strikes will be jointly conducted
j by the two organizations. The As
- sociated has its strength largely
among the weavers, the most numer
f ous single group of craftsmen while
i the A. F. of L.' locals are with loom
i fixers, warpers, designers, etc.
‘ Machinists Interested.
The Machinists’ Union (I. A. of M.)
is also interested in this campaign for
. there are some machinists in the mills
■ and more in the machine shops that
. repair or manufacture textile ma
i chinery. John Richardson, business
agent of the Paterson machinists’
, Local, spoke at the last united front
, meeting.
Addresses were also made by Fred
Hoelscher, secretary o| the Associ
ated; by James Radclift, of the hori
zontal warpers, affiliated with the
United Textile Workers and George
Hays of the broadsilk loom fixers
presided. Cornelius Post, organizer of
the Associated ribbon workers, has
been a frequent speaker.
The last big Paterson strike took
place in 1924—f0r the 8-hour day,
wage increases and the return to the
2-loom system. It was under the ban
ner of the Associated and was partial
ly successful, but since then many em
ployers have returned to the old sys
tem against which the strike was
called.
Municipal Engineers
Start Organization
(Special to The Daily Worker)
NEW YORK, Dec. 23.—More than
500 municipal engineers from New
York, Chicago, Boston, Baltimore, To
ronto, Philadelphia and other cities
in the United States and Canada are
expected at a convention to be held
in the Engineers’ Societies Building
later this month. The purpose is the
formation of a national municipal en
gineers’ organization that will link
up the new Association of New York
Engineers with those of the other
cities.
Officers complain that city engi
neers boss bricklayers and other me
chanics who make nearly twice as
much as they do. ‘‘The difference be
tween a white collar and a flannel
shirt,” says one, “does not make up
for the difference In wages." A flat
salary Increase demand of 25 per cent
made by the New York engineers re
cently was turned down.
Severe Storms Sweep
French Coast; Many
Injured; Two Killed
(Special to The Dally Worker)
PARIS, Dec. 23.—Severe stroms are
•sweeping the French coasts and do
ing heavy damage. Along the English
channel, in Brittany and Provence,
trees are being uprooted and tele
phone and telegraph communication
is Interrupted.
THE DAILY WORKER
SCHWAB WELCOME
THE S NEW SPIRIT'
IN U. S. INDUSTRY
Class Collaboration
Policy Hot Stuff
(Special to The Dally Worker)
NEW YORK CITY, Dec. 23—Chas.
M. Schwab, steel trust leader, told
fellow-members of the Pennsylvania
Society in New York at their annual
dinner at the Waldorf Saturday night
that “the American people ought to
be the happiest people in the world,”
because unprecedented prosperity
was here and the future bright.
"I was very much struck reading a
few days ago h report by a repres
entative commission of the Federa
tion of British industries which re
cently made a sthdy of conditions in
the United States with a view to re
porting them to British business men.
This commission i called attention to
the fact that thfe volume of production
in this country' w&s increasing much
more, relatively, 'than the number of
wage earners > employed, and
nevertheless wag£ earners were en
joying steady deployment with high
wages. 1 f
Relations With Employers.
"Not the important element of
the realization,,of these satisfactory
results was noted to be the satisfac
tory relations which exist in this
country between employers and em
ployed. A most- 1 striking feature in
this report of the British commercial
mission, was a summary of the situa
tion in this language:
“ ‘The American employer believes
in high wages and he pays them. But
he also believes in high output, and
he sees that he gets it. In the United
States co-operation between capital
and labor seems possible and the fatal
doctrine that there is a necessary con
flict of interests does not prevail.’
"This is high tribute, but it puts the
finger on the most Important element
in our present prosperity.
Halls “Thlk New Spirit.”
“It is tremendously gratifying to
those of us whb are engaged in the
large industries of the United States
to attribute some of our prosperity to
the fact that this new spirit is abroad
in industry in thik country. When one
of our leading lkbor organizations re
cently sent word to a visiting Russian
delegation that there was no place for
Communism in the United States, he
voiced the spirit 'of constructive con
servatism which is at the basis of
much of our prosperity and which con
stitutes much of | our reason for op
tlmsim on the business outlook.”
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Laundry Trust Starts
to Form in New York
NEW YORK, Dec. 23. (FP)
With the formation of Consolidated
Laundries Corp., “organized to ac
quire, either directly or thru wholly
owned subsidiaries, all the properties
or stocks” of 17 metropolitan laun
dries the baby beginning of the laun
dry trust climbs onto the bandwagon
of mergers. The new corporation con
trol all types of machine laundries
an]ong the 17 listed for acquisition:
household, hotel, office and linen sup
ply laundries serving New York and
New Jersey. These laundries will
clear nearly a million dollars profit
this year, Bonner, Brooks and Co.,
brokers floating the corporation’s
stock issue, state.
Meanwhile metropolitan laundry
workers are being urged by the union,
the Women’s Trade Union League and
the Trade Union Committee for Or
ganizing the Negroes (because so
many Negroes are employed by the
big steam laundries) to organize.
Meetings are being held in various
parts of the city; >
Nicky Seems to Think
He Discovered Biddle j
KANSAS CITTfI Mo., Dec. 23.
Launching into a'scathing denuncia
tion of Warden W. I. Biddle, of the
federal prison ait Leavenworth, in
which he said ths? prison official was
a "czar” a potentate and imperial
dictator,” “Nlckylf- Arnsteln, |5,000,-
000 bond thief, frqs today from nearly
two years at hard prison labor, ar
rived in Kansas City shortly after
noon, put up at a hotel, and In com
pany with personal friends decided
to wait a while before going to Mil
waukee to meet Fannie Brice, his
wife. «
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; IN DETROIT. |
|“The Adding Machine’!
; A Drama of the Worker Under Capitalism
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: DETROIT REPERTORY THEATRE CO. ;
THURSDAY, DEC. 24, at 8:00 P. M.
in the HOUSE OF THE MASSES, ;
! Gratiot and St. Aubin Avenues, Detroit.
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Auspices Daily Worker Press Club. J
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General Admission 75 Cents.
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“PEACE ON EARTH, GOOD WILL
TB MEN.’’
(As seen by an Advertising Distributor.)
By HENRY GEORGE WEISS.
All yesterday, in mad career,
I published far and wide the cheer
Os Christmas gifts that could be bought—
For cash, of course!
By God, the rot.
The papers print of Santa Claus,
The Christmas "spirit,” such like saws.
Old. and the bunk, this hundred years,
And drowned ’neath the bitter tears
Os little children lacking bread,
And men and women living dead,
Who never, never give or get,
But only starve and weep—
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Ah, wet
The pavement under feet well shod,
In fancy leather, with the blood
Os bleeding hearts and bruised feetl
A thousand Christs go down the street
With thorn-crowned heads, outcast, forlorn,
To Calvary on Christmas morn;
And like a devil in hell,
From blackest hatred weaves a
spell
Os peace and love high o’er the
coals,
To torture damned and burning
souls
With cooling stream and shady
dell,
They deck the shops to sell and
sell;
For filthy lucre all the glow
Os health and cheer—
The window show
A hundred thousand gifts and toys,
To madden little girls and boys;
To madden women, madden men,
Who have not cash to buy.
And then—
For further mock, at every door
Os all the city’s countless poor,
They hire needy ones like me
To leave their advertising.
See!
A jolly Santa Claus decked out
Upon the sheet in crimson coat
And ample furs; well-fed and fat;
With bulging bags of this and that;
And underneath this scrawl sub
lime:
“What Will He Bring You Xmas
Time?”
And I—l fling them down, the
sheets
That flutter over all the streets
For little stunted kids to glost
O’er Santa and his crimson goat,
O’er bulging bags and gifts sublime
That he will bring them “Xmas
Time.”
And in my mind’s eye I can see
AMERCIAN BANKERS SEE CHANCE
FOR ENORMOUS RATES OF PROFIT
IN UNDEVELOPED CHINESE NATION
Greater opportunity to exploit Chinese labor in competition with work
ers of older capitalist powers is the economic motive in America’s apparent
magnanimity toward Chinese national aspirations. Tariff autonomy for
China will help American business almost as much as it will hurt British
and Japanese producers of textile products.
To Open Market in China.
“From a purely economic standpoint,” says a report of the department
of commerce on Chinese tariff autonomy, “Americans should welcome such
a development. With it should come
greater demand from China for ma
chinery, iron and steel products, auto
motive equipment and railway mate
rials.”
Dominant capitalist interest faced
with strong trade unions at home are
beginning to see in China a greater
opportunity for profit as a market
for investment. America as the lead
ing capitalist power with a vast sur
plus of idle capital is certain to take
the lead in encouraging China. It is
American capitalist necessity rather
I than pressure of American liberals
[which assures this attitude.
To Export Machinery.
Already American machinery is go
ing into Chinese flour mills, foundries, 1
machine shops, etc. but the Immediate
demand following tariff autonomy will
be for textile machinery. The depart
ment says! “Tariff autonomy will
probably be of greater actual benefit
to the foreign-owned textile mills in
the treaty ports in permitting them to
compete with foreign imports than to
Chinese-owned mills in Chinese ter
ritory. In the textile industry a migra
tion from Manchester and Osaka to
,
The hopeless look of misery,
On some poor mother’s pallid face
When to her side the kiddies chase
With that false sheet, each crying
out,
“Look, Mamma, look! Write me a
note.
And tell dear Santa Claus that he
Can bring them roller skates to
me!”
Poor kidsi Below the figures
states:
Skates For Your Child—l2.9B.
O outcast men, O starving poor!
Tell me, what are you waiting for?
Have ye not heard, “I shall cast
down
Take what they have and feed the
town!”
Have ye not heard: “Woe to ye
scribes,
And Pharisees, and moneyed tribes
For that you starve and robe and
wreak
Your greed vices on the weak"
Rich Dives' table is well spread
While you and yours lack even
bread.
No famine stalks thru this wide
land,
Food, plenty lies on every hand;
The windows blaze in red and
white
To draw your eyes and claim your
sight.
So that you cannot help but see
The wealth of gifts and luxury
That's running o’er—for them that
pay.
To eat and give on Christmas Day.
For your own sake, when will you
awake
And for your wives and children
—take!
Shanghai and Tientsin has already be
gun.”
Prior to the war most of the tex
tile machinery came from Great Brit
ain, but the war gave American firms
a chance to cut in.
Cheap Labor Power, Attraction.
Good labor at bargain rates is
China’s chief attraction to foreign cap
ital. To quote an earlier report of the
department: "China’s greatest re
source, by long odds, is Us man power.
No country has so vast a population
so thoroly habituated to Industry; but
without foreign capital little industrial
progress In China would have been
made.”
Take this copy of the DAILY
WORKER with you to the shop
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! Chicago Readers, Attention!
GRAND CONCERT
= AND DANCE =
| tor the benefit of Delnlk
i
! will be given by the F. D. T. J. OMLADINA and Czechoslovak Fractions
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1925
j at C. S. P. S. Hall, 1126 W. 18th Street, Chicago.
! Frelhelt Singing Society—Symbolic and Folk Dances by the members
J of F. D. T. J. Omladlna —Musical Selections—Plano. Violin and Vocal
Solos—Recitations—DANClNG DURING EVENING.
! Principal Speakers —Robert Minor and Lovett Fort-Whltsman.
| Admission 76 Cents. Doors Open 1 P. M.
VALENTINO AND
MARY PICKFORD
BOYCOTT SHOW
But ‘Processional’ Will
Draw the Berries
The only object in wasting large
sums of money on advertising la to
draw the crowd. How many of you
have not stood for hours In the cor
ridors of some Chicago theater wait
ing for the opportunity to see Theda
Bara seduce an Austrian count? Or
Gloria Swanson bring home to the
two story tenement in which she was
born, a real live baron! It’s all for
the dough. Same here.
Rudolph Valentino has no more to
do with what follows tham the shah of
Persia, yet dollars to doughnuts, at
least one hundred dollars will Oozr
into the treasury of the district of*
floe of the Workers Party because
Rudolph’s name features the headline.
The rest of the dollars will come in
the natural course of events.
The press agent saw “What Price
Glory?” twice in succession; In tact,
it could not very well be otherwise
than in succession. What attracted
his attention was the picture of a
soldier with a trench helmet on his
head and his lips curled to squirt as
choice a collection of obecenky a#
ever flowed from an irritated taxi
driver.
Not that obscenity by Itself is an at
traction. And perhaps there Is no ob*
scenity in "Processional.” As a mat
ter of fact, It is the uncertainty of
•the thing that intrigues us Having
never seen the play, we aTe in a po»
sit ton to write a fairly impartial re*
view of it. Who chases a street car
after he hops on the running board?
"Processional” is one of those plays
that defies description, particularly
from one who has never seen or heard
it, except from the manager of the
show. But the manager of this par*
ticular show is a very responsible
person and the show is presented »ot
for profit but for use.
Get Your Lungs in Order.
The main feature of the play will
be laughter. Besides It will be feat
ured on December 27, two days after
Christmas. There is more Jollity
around Christmas than any other
time of the year despite the efforts
of those who wish everybody to abide
by the unwritten word of Jesus. Suf
fice K to say that those who have al
ready seen “Processional” in New
York want to see it again. It takes
a good play to bring me twice to the
box office.
Besides “Processional” there are
other attractions on the bill which
can only be hinted at. The truth is
that the district office of the Work
ers Party needs the money and at
least one person will be provided with
a suit of clothes, better than any
that decorated his person to date.
There are other attractions also.
Some may be able to tune in on Mos
cow if they are lucky. Those who do
not understand this are too stupid to
know a good radio set when they see
it.
Now. to get down to bnsinoes. On
the evening of December 27, there
will be held in Lawndale Hall, 3437
Ogden etreet, corner of St. Louis
avenue, a social afair comprising a
play with all other features that so
cial affairs usually embody. Bring
your friends. Practically every mem
ber of the Workers Party will be
there. Those who are absent will be
reported sick. Ten grand prizes giv
en away.
SICK AND DEATH BENEFIT
SOCIETIES
Frauen-Kranken-Unterstuetzungs VertlN
Fortechritt
Meets every Ist and 3rd Thursday.
Wicker Perk Hall,
2040 W. North Avenue.
Secretary.
To those who work hard for thalr
money, I will save 50 per cent oh
all their dental work.
DR. RASNICK
DENTIST
645 Smithfield Street, f
PITTSBURGH, PA.
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