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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-31
The Last Days Of Congress

The sixty-eighth congress is now winding up its
last days No one expects any work to be done by
the lame duck legislators. OF course, when we speak
of work being done by congress, we do not have
in mind the enactment of constructive measures
in behalf of the working Masses When we speak
of work by congress we have in mind the considera-
ton and adoption of legislative proposals in be-
half of a section or the entire employing class of
the country.
In the eyes of the Coolidge administration the
last days of the sixty-eighth congress are only a
matter of formality, a matter of calender exist
ence.
The sundry proposals that the administration
has in mind will be given over to the incoming
sixtyninth congress which will be far more secure
for the reactonary clique The adherents of Cool
idge do not believe in wasting talk with recall
citrant, discontinued, so-called progressive egis
lators The Coolidge crew can very well afford to
wait few months for the more favorable moment.
There is every advantage for the ruling class in
cultivating the impression of peace and harmony
in Washington now that "safe and sane" admin
istration is in power
1t is in the interests of the capitalists to promote
the belief amongst the masses that the source of
their troubles is the interference" with industry
by legislators who do not exactly measure up to
the line as marked out for them by exploiters The
strategy of the best brains of the employing class
will be, therefore, to avoid even the slightest
wrangle in congress and to come forth with their
numerous plans soon as the new congress opens
In the latter legislature they will be able, with
greater likelihood, to put over all their schemes
without much difficulty and therefore without any
serious chances Of disturbing this precious illusion
that they are now fostering
The sixty eighth congress was not progressive
congress in the of taking steps to enhance the
welfare of the masses. The sixtyeighth congress
did not enact single vital measure in behalf of
the working class At most the sixty eighth con-
gress did not operate smoothly for the biggest en-
poying class interests 1t reflected the class con-
hicts within the ranks of the exploiters-inner
class divisions growing out of serious industrial
and agricultural arrangement in the capitalist
system of economy. We do not in the least mourn
the sixtyeighth congress. We simply say that the
advent of the sixtyninth congress should prove
a warning and danger signal to the working
masses.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-31

The Jugo-Slayian government is not having
smooth sailing with the campaign of suppression
it has launched Dispatches tell of enormous mass
meetings of protest, fighting in the streets and a
conference of leaders of coalition against the i'm
perialist controlled JugoSlavian regime
The peasants are in revolt and the Communists
have acquired much influence among them. The
slogan of a federation of workers and farmers
governments of the Balkans, raised by the Com
munists, has attracted great masses in all the
Balkan nations and with the continued failure of
the existing governments to improve the condi-
tons of the masses or to even halt the economic
decay, is proving powerful force in the struggle
between the puppet governments and the millions
of oppressed workers and peasants.
The united front of reaction against Communism
in the Balkans seems to have been impossible of
accomplishment and the masses look more and
to Soviet Russia as their friend instead to the
imperialist nations of western Europe.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-31

Wisconsin has long been held up before the eyes
of the American workers as the model state. There
the capitalist ogre had to sing low The terror of
evil doers Robert Marion LaFollette, had taken the
wicked capitalists over his knee and punished them.
One of the accomplishments of Wisconsin "pro-
gressivism" was the minimum wage law. Under
it's provisions employers could not exploit women
at rate less than % cents an hour. The employers,
nothing daunted, fouted the law and went to the
courts After considerable humming and having
the federal district court in Superior Wis, handed
down decision declaring the law invalid as it
applies to women. The court considers it crime
to prevent the employment of women in industry
at less than % cents an hour
The plaintiff held that the measure, forcing the
employers to pay twenty-five cents an hour to
women when the condition of the labor market
permitted employment at a lower rate was a viola
ton of the fourteenth amendment to the constitu-
ton, which prohibits the taking of property with
out due process of law and by interfering with
the right of contract.
The courts are strong bulwarks of the capitalist
system in every country. The workers who think
they exist in order to dispense justice laboring
under a misrepresentation. They exist to defend
the capitalist legislatures that may for
or other pass a law which strikes at some basic
principle of the robber system
The capitalist rule by a dictatorship, either
yelled or open. Where the system is strong the
mailed fist is hidden by the silken glove. The aver
age worker in the United States believes all are
equal before the law. The Wisconsin decision on
the minimum wage law proves otherwise. All the
fine phrases of the capitalists about the "mothers
Of the race" only prove their hypocrisy, in face Of
this murder Of law that would throw some Little
protection around the women who are exploited in
the slave pens of the nation.
Trying to reform capitalism is as useless as an
attempt to change the tigers nature by clipping his
claws. The only way to remove the evils of CAPT
talism is to abolish capitalism.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-31
BY JOHN WILLIAMSON.

THAT day stands out in history as
4 q blood mark which the social
democrats OF the world can never
erase On that day our leaders, Karl
Leibknecht and Rosa Luxemberg
were murdered. The week preceding
it has been one of uprising and re-
volt of the workers. The German
workers were in battle against the
government and attempting to emu
late their Russian comrades and in
augurate the Soviet Republic of Ger
many. In battles of this kind one
would expect that working class lead
ers would run the danger of being
shot and murdered by the capitalists.
Not so in Germany, Karl Leibknecht
and Rosa Luxemberg's blood soils
not the hands Of the capitalists. but
of their henchmen, parading under
the name Of social-democrats. The
socialist party of Germany, as in all
other countries shot down these work.
ing class leaders who were fighting
against the capitalist class.
Today in Germany, five years lat
er, the white terror is still being CON
Quoted by the socialdemocrats In
1919 it was the socialist Noske who
murdered our comrades, today it is
the socialist Severing, who imprisons
them by the thousands. The spirit
of revolt was not killed by numbering
our leaders in 1919. Since that time
the Communist Party of Germany has
built itself into a mass organization
embracing hundreds of thousands of
members. Today, the German work
ing class have been disillusioned and,
no longer do they have confidence in
the social-democrats. The Commun-
lists have become the leaders Of the
workers in their everyday struggles
as well as in their attempts at over
throwing the German junkerdom with
its socialist defenders.
Karl Leibknecht and Rosa Luxem-
berg were murdered on January 49,
because they dared to challenge the
capitalist dictatorship of Germany.
These working class leaders were
well-known for their constant and
consistent struggle against capitalism
during their lives. They had suffered
at the hands of German capitalism,
but it was left to the socialists of
Germany to murder them. 1t was this
type Of fighter who founded the Com
munist Party of Germany. Today
their comrades are still undergoing
the same treatment. At this moment
more than eight thousand of our lead
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-31
Los Angeles Meets
to Discuss Jewish
Colony in Russia

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 3O.-The relief
committee to aid Jewish colonization
in Soviet Russia is arranging mass
meeting and concert at Blanchard
Hall on Sunday afternoon, Jan. 4.
Mr.. Hilkovitch, who has recently re-
turned from journey all over Russia,
will relate about the efforts that
Soviet Russia is making in helping to
COLOMBO the Jewish people on the
farm.
Jan. 6 at Brooklyn Hall mass
meeting is called by the left wing
committee Of action of the Workmen's
Circle to organize a mandolin orches-
ira of workers, which will be to the
benefit of the labor movement in
general. Comrade Kenzer, who is a
member Of the Mandolin Orchestra Of
New York, will be the instructor.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-31
They Want Their Price

The string of small nations, led by Roumania
and Jugo-Slavia, that under the political direc
ton of the big capitalist powers, demand their
share of the reparations under the Dawes plan
These little bankrupts quite useful to the big
powers in serving bases for attacks against
Soviet Russia. So they can name their price and
act cocky.
The bandits interested in division Of the loot
from the Dawes plan win meet in Paris on Jan
uary g. to realot the German annuities. The little
burglars conscious of their usefulness to their
superiors, have seized the occasion to put in good
word for themselves They need the cash.
Every dollar that win be divided among the
plunderers, big and small, comes out Of the sweat
and blood of the German workers The German
capitalists will not suffer for the necessities of life
or for want Of their accustomed Injuries Only the
workers pay in the real sense.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-31
The Motion Picture in Politics

OF course Davis and LaFollette also
came in for their share Of pictures,
laying corner stones and kissing
babies, but the newsreel companies
would not touch pictures OF Workers
Party candidate when we offered them
for nothing. mo politics in the
movies"
The more subtle and more danger
GUS kind of anti-working class pro-
paganda is, Of course, the kind not
labelled as such. Picture after picture
pours its poison into working class
audiences, somehow or other the
workers are always wrong, the rich
always right. Take a recent Univer-
sal film, "The Tornado" as reviewed
in the Motion Picture News: 1T
features strong silent man who
stands forth compellingiy and color
fully. He is known as The Tornado
because of his vigorous personality
and the fact that he is stern task
master in his job Of boss-foreman Of
the lumber camp :. -. Indeed he
humanlzes the role. He Furnishes a
group of labor agltators :" No
politics in pictures? Cue for the
horse-laugh! Will 1.-THE Tornado" be
shown In the Loewe theatres! You bet
1t will.
propaganda Trimmings"
Not only the pitures themselves but
their whole setting reeks with pro-cap
italist propaganda. The music, lights
and all the other features Of up-to-date
exhibition are calculated to shut out
completely the world of reality and
make the audience actually live in
the screen and unquestioningly &C.
cept its illusions as reality. And
even the exploitation, advertising and
publicity given in advance OF the
showing, serve the same class ends
and enlist the aid of every capitals,
institution, private and public.
A special advertising campaign OF
one film included the sending Of 20t
bonafide kilograms for which the com
pany charged only one cent each. 2Ot
special letters to prominent Roman
catholics from addresses furnished b.
the church; 400 advertising book
marks distributed free by the public
library. and an announcement by th'
principal in evsry public school class
room. The ,iaily press gives spac
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-31

The whole left wing slate in the Minneapolis
Painters Union has been elected against the op-
position of the Minnesota Daily Star and in spite
of the fact that Cramer and McKillips of the Min
neapolis Labor Review, renegade progressyes, can
vassed every member Of the union on the night of
election.
The Star ran articles for three successive days
calling upon the members of the union to defeat
the Communist menace and published the reaction
airy slate in prominent position.
significant feature Of this victory is that the
strongest reactionary candidate was unable to de-
feat the least known of the left wing candidates
Among the new administration elected are
number of members of the Workers Communist
Party.
The comrades in Minneapolis are to be congra-
tulated on the good fight they have put up against
the combined efforts of the A. F. Of L. machine
and the capitalist press. The Painters Union is
to be congratulated the fighting workers it has
elected to administer the affairs of the union for
the next year.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-31
THE MEANING OF JANUARY 18th

ing German comrades are lying ii
jail.
Regardless Of the persecution of the
capitalist class with their hirelings
the working class will mobilize It's
forces and avenge the death OF the
thousands of our martyrs-the vic
Tins of capitalist dictatorship.
The Young Communist Information.
al pays tribute to our working class
leaders and especially to Leibknecht
and Nuremberg on this day. The
young Communists of the world call
upon the youth of the world to mobi.
lie their forces and rally around
the slogans of the Communist Youth
movement Of the world
Turnout the world special demon.
STATIONS and meetings will be held
on January Is, to commemorate the
death of our two Observation-Disclosures
and Gutenberg.
In America the Young Workers
League is holding meetings on Sur
day, January IL in every city a.
town. Rally around the slogans
the Y. w. L.
Against capitalist wars and mi
tarism.
Abolition Of child labor.
Maintainence by the state Of
social school children of workers
der sixteen years of age.
Against the enslavement Of Gt
man workers thru the Dawes plan.
For a Workers Republic!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-31
JUDGE GIVES FINK O'DAY HEAVY
COAT OF WHITEWASH IN FAKE ARREST

WASHINGTON
District Columbia had instructed
M
Temple April O. 1928
the
The Jury let him or
plaintiff Rosenbger
the witness his
sudden raid oDa admitted
bringing had run against
Of these
Immediate notice Of motion by sg Brez
counsel for Rosenberger.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-31
Watch for the Special
First Anniversary
Edition of the
DAILY WORKER
January Is,
1925

NOTE:-This is the second of a
series of articles on the Movies" by
Comrade Kruse. The third will deal
with Movies in Church and School,.
Motion pictures are entertainment,
not propaganda -. any medium cap
able of reaching the millions who at
tend the motion picture theatres of
this country, imposes upon those who
regulate it trust that is much too
significant to be given over to political
propaganda"
The speaker is Marcus Lowe, one
Of the biggest magnates in the film in
dustry whose profits in single year
were boosted from sixteen to forty
million dollars, and whose company
projects the second largest item on
the Pacific Coast production program.
when propaganda creeps into en-
tertainment," says Millionaire Lowe,
"a divided audience will react accor-
dinghy, the status Of the entertainment
is bound to suffer in prestige, in dig
nifty, and not the least of all, at the
box office. We cannot afford to have
notion pictures suffer from such a
cause"
This shows where the shoe pinches--
at the box office; the only argument
the theater owner understands. This
squawk indicates that the kind of pro-
paganda which has been filtered in
TO films of late has become so raw
that theatre owners and producers
themselves begin to fear its effect
upon their profits.
Political Pictures
During the election campaign the
lid was wide off on movie politics
Cautious Col did not open his mouth
very often for fear of betraying his
ignorance, but the movie cameras did
their utmost to keen him before the
masses in every pose that could pos
sibly strike favorable chord with
any section. Cal pitched hay lin the
movies)--that was for the farmers
He wep' church with his aged par
snts organ softly played Near
to Thee" he pitched 4
baseball diamond and the
hanged to HAL, Hail the
fere." In all history, Their,
more photographed can
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-31

and praise in due proportion to the Of
advertising contracts, especially when, F
as reported in a trade journal. I'VE T
doubted our space in the four daily dl
papers, and in addition took space in OF
an Italian paper, as well as an inn tt
pressive display ad in Khan paper" al
And when, as in the case of w. r. al
Hearst, the newspaper owner is direct in
ly interested in certain pictures, IF
they packed the house at every show c,
they could not pay out for the cost Ct
of the ads" IL
"Pay-triotie Holidays" o.
No politics in the movies? u
Again quoting 1.-THE Film Daily" 81
Recent holidays were used to good p
advantage around the Paramount f
Circuit. When Macon (Ga.) observed u
the Anniversary of the Battle of the Il
Marine, Manager Coleman arranged al
a very attractive tableux. The aud Sc
fence Joined in the singing of pat
riotic songs and there wire patriotic II
rccitations from the STAGE" te
I'm Atlanta. the Howard played a OF
prominent part in the celebration of II
national defense (goosestep) DIV A 81
new flint car was decorated with di
flags and shields +. ". A younb lady al
representing Miss Columbia ride IN IT
the. car AT the evening pe.form. &C
ance fifty members OF the Colonial m
guard wearing full uniform mi rched VI
to the theatre In body. Upon their VI
arrival the orchestra played 'The Star la
Spangled Banner which was aeknoSa IL
lodged by the entire audience. whose al
applause climaxed in the arrival Of the
guard" Of
The Sense OF Censorship. CO
A directly. political weapon against cl
labor films Is, OF course, the onicial Vi
political censorship. When the first W
International Workers Aid Aim, RUS. c,
STA Thorough the Shadows" was Of. W
fered for censorship, 1t was rejected o
in toto by the Ohio censors. because a
itisharmful propaganda" This decision 4,
was lifted on appeal. The Pennsylvania n
censors at first rejected II and then $
insisted on list OF thirty-fve "elim. a
nations" most Of them distinctly Dol.
itical. They objected to the state.
ment that machinery was bel 4 sent,
From the American Workers to the
Russian Workers" to the name Of tha n
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-31
The French Debt

The French government balances its recent
budget by leaving out the $4,OOO,OOO,OOO owed to
American capitalists and discovers Immediately
that the American fnance-capitalists are not go
ing to lose this sum without struggle.
That the omission of the American debt from
the budget intended to be the first step in en-
tire reputation of the obligation is obvious French
finances are in a shape that can be described best
by the word chaotic and only the fear of the wreck
ing Of French exchange by the American fnanciers
prevents the French government giving itself a
receipt in full for the loans made during the war.
The attitude of the capitalist government of
France is interesting inasmuch as one of the in
dictments hurled by it against the workers and
farmers government of Russia is that it will not
pay the debts contracted by the car.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-31
Carpenters Local
of Martins Ferry
Small But Choice
fspeelaL fo The palIY Workerl

Especial 70 ne Daily WoTKeFJ
MARTINS FERRY, Ohio, Dec. 3d.
The carpenters of Martins Ferry are
not many but they are of good quality.
In the union election they gave old
King Hutcheson the go-by-he didn't
get one vote The faker. Brown. only
got three and Rosen. the left wing
candidate. got IA votes.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-31

Peace lies in the will Of the people, declared
Secretary of State Hughes, but Of course the 'peo
pie" must be properly reinforced by adequate
ornaments whenever one set Of capitalists fails
to agree division Of the spoils with another
group.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-31

The mine operators of West Virginia are rushing
hordes of evangelists into the heart Of the coal
fields in order to instll trust in the coal oper-
ators god into the hearts of the miners instead Of
in the strengthen their unions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-31

The Spanish forces are retreating from Morocco
All the efforts Of Dictator Primo de Rivera to
bolster up the waning power of Spain have proved
abortive Fascist dictators. are drug on the
market nowadays.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-31

President Coolidge was recently presep-
pair of skis. The American workers W
present him and the class he serves
Of skids.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-31

Every day get "sub" for the DAILY WORKER
and a member for the Workers Party
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-31
MINERS PRODUCE
MORE COAL BUT
Get LESS PAY
They Dig Each Other
Out of Jobs
BY LELAND oLDs.
Federated Press Industrial Editor)

If the average coal miner in the
bituminous mines Of the country had
produced no more coal per day than
the average miner in 1905 there would
have been 33 per cent more work
available. In other words, the tens
of thousands of coal diggers who have
been out Of job good part of the
year would have had employment and
a considerable proportion Of the part
time work could have been eliminated.
Latest official figures issued by the
u. S. geological survey show that the
production of coal per mine worker
per day in 1922 was 4.2S tons. In 1905
the corresponding figure was S.24 tons.
Machine Development.
This increase in per capita produc-
tivity appears from the figures to be
due in large measure to the develop
ment of machine mining both in
underground operations and in the
strip pits. It is shown in the follow
ing figures of the per capita daily
production of miners engaged in the
various methods of production:
Method of mining Per man per day
Mined by hand................-... S.6 tons
Shot from the solid-.-....... 81
Mined by machine............ "A
Strip pits ............................ 81
Not classified ........--..-....... 2.6
The census of mines for the year
1919 shows that so per cent of the
bituminous coal produced in that year
was turned out by enterprises using
mining machines. Approximately 81
per cent Of the production came from
enterprises with an annual output of
more than 100000 tons. Such concerns
generally have sufficient capital to
install modern management methods
and machinery. AS matter of fact
921z per cent of their production was
from mines using mining machines.
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