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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-09
Fifth Congress of Communist International
Considers the Subject of Trade Union Unity

movement? No, but solely for the
reason, because we regarded the trade
unions as centre around which the
mass Of the proletariat, the whole
working class gathered.
Not long ago in the German party
it was: Enough Of the trade un-
ions, we want new form" for the
labor movement, and these comrades
really thought that their good will was
enough to find a new form with ease.
That is all they wanted-only no boil
shvism! The trade unions were not
discovered by Grassmann, D'Arragona
or Legien, they are the historic form
of the mass organization of the pro-
letariat under capitalism. You can't
suck new form Of the labor move
ment out of your fingers. We have a
new form of mass organization of the
workers (beside the trade unions) and
that is the Soviets. But that is such
a form as cannot be called into life at
any moment. At the second world
congress we had a special resolution
on the conditions for the creation of
Soviets. Read them through again.
There you will find information as to
when it is possible to proceed to the
formation of Soviets. This is on the
eve of the revolution that is, when
they constitute the germ Of workers
government in the form of a pro
letarian dictatorship. In the Soviets
we have therefore really new form
Of the labor movement. But they can
not be formed at any time, only on the
eve Of revolution. There is no other
form Of the proletarian mass move
ment.
The factory councils are gradually
becoming a new form of the labor
movement within the trade union
movement. But the trade union re
mains, remember, also after the vic
tory Of the proletariat, after the wrest
ing of power by the proletariat, an ex
tremely important organization. That
at any rate, has been proved by the
until now, sole victorious revolution
the Russian revolution.
1t would therefore be extreme frivol
ity to talk as if we could, at will
just because we wanted, create a new
form of the labor movement, and neg
lect the old form, up to now the sole
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sible, however, in that highly stimu-
lated war environment, and eight men
were convicted and sentenced to serve
25 to 40 years in prison.
"Since then six of the jurors have
confessed in affidavits that they were
terrorized into convicting the accused
men, and that they believe that the
eight defendants were innocent of
murder having acted in self-defense
against a premeditated raid upon
their property"
Much indignation has been ex.
pressed here by working people who
learned from Miss Gilman that Gov
ernor Louis Hart of Washington had
ignored affidavits from three newly
discovered eye-witnesses Of the Cen.
Itralia tragedy, who have taken oath
that the parading ex-service men at
tackled the l. w. W. hall before any
shots were fired from inside.
Miss Gilman has numerous friends
lin London. She is the daughter OF
the late president of John Hopkins
University in Baltimore.
Thru the efforts of the Glass Pris
ioners' Release Committee, great deal
of publicity has been given in England
to the Centrala case and to the frame
ups which for several years have kept
Sacco and vanzetti in prison in Massa
chusetts and Mooney and Billings
walled up in California. Secretary
Colyer is the author of a book entitled
"Americanism. World Menace,
which details comprehensively the
many onslaughts against outspoker
workingmen in the United States ant
lays bare the workings of reactionary
interests behind those prosecutions.
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the trade unions. They think: If the
organizations of the working classes
are already falling into the hands of
the Communists, we must see to it
that they only get fragments and
splinters of the trade unions, not the
unions as such, which would welcome
irreplacable weapons in their hands.
When we look at the English and
German trade union movements,
which are still in the hands of social
democracy, it is difficult to believe
that the unions can ever again be Of
service to the proletarian revolution.
Nevertheless, they will be of service.
The Russian unions were not one jot
better when they were still in the
hands of the Mensheviki. The discip-
line, the love of organization, all the
good, which for decades had been pill
ing up in the trades unions, all this
became in the hands of the Commun-
lists, an irreplacable weapon of the
Russian revolution.
Therefore no one who thinks ser
ousIy Of the proIetarian revolution,
of the winning Of the majority of the
working class, can lightly handle the
question Of the unity Of the trade
unions. The bolsheyising Of the party
is the policy of an honest fight for
the unity of the trade union move
ment, and the incessant struggle for
Communism within the unions. The
more the social democrats provoke,
the stronger we must manoeuvre, the
more we must close up our ranks in
the unions, the stronger must we work
within the unions. Why? Because
our class comrades are to be found in
the unions.
A frivolous comparison has been
made here: AS the bourgeois state
can only be won by violence, so the
trade unions can only be won by VOL
ence. There is no sense in this anal
ogy. The bourgeois state is distin-
guished from the trade unions in this,
that the unions consists of our class
comrades, that is of workers, who in
spite of their alteration, in spite Of
their sometimes objective anti-rev
dictionary effect, can and will, at the
decisive moment, take the right turn
ing.
(To be continued
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lives and property against a mob
which attacked the Centralia
|. w. w. hall in 1919.
Several open air meetings are
to be arranged for Miss Gilman
by the Glass War Prisoners Re-
lease Committee, the secretary
of which is William T. Colyer, who
was deported from Boston in 1921 for
his political beliefs. 1t is expected
that at least one of these meetings
will be held in Hyde Park. where
thousands of working people congre-
gate of an evening to hear the human
struggle discussed.
Lately the London Daily Herald
published an interview with Miss
Gilman on the Centralia case. To
that newspaper she said: "At this
time when London is welcoming Am.
orleans, the American Bar Associa.
ton, the advertisers and innumerable
tourists, there are others from across
the sea who are anxious that their
English cousins should help work for
the release of eight industrial union
lists who are buried alive in Walla
Walla prison in the state Of Wash
ington.
"They we're lumberiacks, and when
on Armistice Day, 1919, their hall was
attacked by marching veterans of the
world war, they fired guns, and four
of the attacking party were killed
Others broke into the hall and in the
most brutal fashion lynched one OF
the I. W. WIS, himself an ex.soldier
Wesley Everest.
"Everest's murderers were never
brot to trial, but eleven /. w. w. mem
bers were tried. No justice was pos
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truei") This must give us cause to
think. Our trade unions even after the
revolution were still, to a considerable
extent, in the hands Of the mensheviki
and in spite of this we have done
everything in order to avoid a split
Later on when the mensheviki re-
presented a very important fraction
in the trade unions, the Party did
everything possible to capture the
trade unions from within without
splitting them.
If therefore you wish to understand
the Bolshevik tactics you must not
forget this fundamental fact: During
the course of rs years whilst there
were a number of splits in the politi
cal organizations (the mensheviki cal
led us professional splitters) there
was not single split in the trade
unions, neither when we were in the
minority nor when we had the major
ity Therein lies one Of the fundamen
tai facts of the history of the Russian
Revolution and of the history Of Rus
sian Bolshevism.
Whoever calls himself a feminist
whoever desires to bolshevise the
Party Git seems to me that Schuhma
cher claims to desire this-God pre-
serve us from such Bolshevization)
will not split the trade unions. This
would on the contrary mean support
ing the mensheviks, although Schulz
macher may regard himself a "left
ist". We have already seen many sucE
"leftists". II / am not mistaken
Schumacher was here three years
ago as a representative of the Indepen
dent Socialist Party. Now howevel
he acts as if the International wal
not left enough for him. (InterjectioI
of Radek: THAT is often the easel"
II you wish to speak seriously o
bolshevising the parties you mus
take note once and for all: the strug
gle for the unity of the trade unioi
movement is one of the characteristic
features of Bolshevism; that is shown
by the practice of Russian Bolshevisn
over a period of rs years. We have
not split single trade union. Why
Perchance because we were so fonC
of the mensheviH or perhaps because
we regarded the trade unions as ;
sacred and untouchable form of tn,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-09
los ANGELES TO
SEE PICTURESQUE
DAY OF DEFENSE
Communists Planning
Huge Demonstration
Especial to The Daily Worker,

especial to The Daily Worker)
LOS ANGELES, Cal, Sept. SAC
cording to the local press the decks
are clear for the National Defense
Day. demonstration that will be
staged by the paytriots Sept. IL.
In an editorial Sept. 3, the Los
Angeles Times is reprimanding the
misguided citizens" for opposing de
Tense Day." it says in behalf of it
among other things that:
Must Make 1t Picturesque.
There is another source of good
in Defense Day. Never has there been
a time in the history of America when
patriotic zeal and devotion were more
sorely needed. American institutions
and ideals are being heavily ham,
mered from within and without. 1t
is necessary for the average person
that the emotion of patriotism be, in
some way, crystalized and made pic
turesque; that it be focused and con-
centrated. This defense test will ac-
complish the purpose"
In order to show the workers of
Los Angeles what this preparedness
means to them. In order to explain
to them the purpose of the capitalists
in staging this military display, and
why it is necessary at the present
time to "crystalize," focus" and
concentrate" the emotions of patri-
otism, the Workers Party Of Los
Angeles and the Young Workers
League will hold mass meeting on
National Defense Day. Sept. II, at
Symphony Hall, 232 So. Hill Street,
at D. m.
Comrades Rose Rubin, William
Shneiderman, Emanuel Levin and a
representative of the Juniors of the
Young Workers League will be the
speakers. Also mass singing by the
entire group of the Junior Young
Workers League.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-09
MOVIE OPERATORS
WIN HANDS DOWN
BEFORE A STRIKE
Ninety-hve Per Cent of
Men Already Back
tHy The Federated Press)

NEW YORK, Sept S.-Ninety-five
of Greater New York are signed up
with the Moving Picture Operators
union on the new terms, the execu-
tive board Of the union announces.
The day after the threatened strike in
all New York's movie theaters not
more than 2 houses in the whole city
were tied up for failure to give the
per cent of the moving picture houses
moving picture operators the two-shift
day and FIVE per cent wage increase
which had been demanded.
Ignore Boss Gang.
The so-called chamber of commerce
of the Theater Owners Assn. is no
longer recognized by the moving pic
ture operators union because of its
failure to sign the new agreement
with the workers. Members of the
Theater Owners Assn. have been Gag.
erly besieging the union office, how.
ever, TO sign up for their houses indi.
vidually. The Vaudeville Managers
Assn. signed a two-year agreement
with the union at the first threat of a
strike.
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time, is the only marine union
which was entirely destroyed in
the great 1921 strike. Other
marine unions, such as the In
ternational Seamen's Union and
the organizations for engineers, mas
tiers, mates, ETC., we're badly shaken
up but the radio operators movement
was put out Of business. Recently
some of the boys have been trying to
get a union going again to recover
the wage ground lost in the last three
years. They have found their efforts
combatted by the stoolpigeons Of the
shipping board, other steamship con-
Germs and the big radio corporations
Difficulties In Way.
Difficulties in organizing the wire
less operators are far greater than
those facing other workers on a ship,
say wireless men who have put their
case before The Federated Press.
Where seamen and firemen have only
one boss to fight, the radio operator
is under two sets of masters. the
steamship line and the radio corpora
tion that has the contract with the
company.
Leading all the other radio corpora
tons in wealth and in strikebrealxing
efficiency is the Radio Corporation Of
America, owned by General Electric
Co. This big aggregation OF capital
has shrewd employment arrange
ment calculated to keep its wireless
posts openshop. II turns out its own
operators thru its own schools, with
4-month terms, and taboos the regu-
lar line radio operators who have
been knocking about the seas under
many auspices and are possibly affect.
ed by union ideas.
Interiooklna Anti-unlonlsts.
Many of the shipping board vessels
have contracts with the Radio Cor.
poration of America tho the policy
still prevails of dividing the contracts
Iup among all the leading companies
These include the Independent Wire
less Telegraph Co. and the Ship Own.
ers' Radio service, which are equally
opposed to unionism tho lacking the
super-strikebreaking resources OF the
octopus. The United Fruit Co. has
its own radio outfit.
Radio operators behind the union
movement say that n Coolidge is re-
elected, with his anti-labor shipping
board policies, their prospects for
union are slim.
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10000 Out of Work.

MILWAUKEE,. Sept 8. = Twenty
thousand unemployed men in Milwau.
kee is the estimate Of Frank ]. Weber,
secretary of the Federated Trades
council
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-09
RADIO TELEGRAPHERS FEAR THAT
COOLIDGE'S ELECTION WILL KILL
CHANCES TO ORGANIZE A UNION
BY ART SHIELDS
Federated Press Staff Correspondent

NEW YORK. Sept. 8.-Whle T. V. OConnor, chairman of
u Shipping board former president of the
ona Longshoremen Association roofing for Coolidge among
his union colleagues he attempting the revival
labor union the marine radio operators under his
jurisdiction.
The United Radio Photographers Association born in war
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-09
Fear Communists In Portugal.

LONDON, Sept. S.--A Lisbon dis
patch to the Morning Post today, said
serious Communist demonstrations
are threatened in Portugal
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-09
BRITISH WORKERS TOLD STORY
OF FRAME-UP AGAINST MEMBERS
OIL w. w. IN CENTRALIA CASE
(sy Defense News servIeel

LONDON, England Sept 8-Workng class groups here
being informed of the facts in connection with the Amsce Day
tragedy at Centraa Washington by Elisabeth Gilman of the
Christian Social Justice Fund of Baltimore From the beginning
Miss Gilman has actively participated in the fight berate the
eight ndusras who serving long terms for defending their
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$4,000 Bucks Gone to He'll.

To date Cook County has spent
$4,000 in it's efforts to send Nathan
Leopold and Richard Loeb to the
gallow's for the Staying Of Robert
Franks.
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this design. II has straight lines, but
added fulness is supplied by plat sec
tons at each side on the fronts.
The Pattern is cut in Sizes: 80,
3s, 40. AZ, a, 46 and 4s inches bust
measure. A SS inch size requires 5%
yards of 40 inch material. For collar,
vestee and cuffs of contrasting mater.
ial " yard is required The width at
the foot with plaits extended is az
yards.
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de las mas famosas atadas a su cola que
c%ualquiera otra DANA de su condicion. I
nunca olvida Inglaterra, que probable
mente INK de los mas asiduos admirable
res de la famosa e~strella era ell Duque de
Westminster.
Elegante, un perfecto "sportman" gran
f~ayorito de, los altos cffculos de la nobleza
britannica .hasta que SUI primer divorcio
manchara sacramento su prestigio, ell Du-
que bien pudiera ser una figura sobresa-
liente en- cualquier cfrculo social. Sus RI
quezas lie habrfan granjeado ell respeto Y
la fama. Ell Duque hered0 sus vastos pa
trimonios que ocupan medic LOndres, a la
edad de veinte anos. Alguien ha calcula-
do que sus rentas ascienden a la respeta-
BILE suma de $4,000, 900, mientras que
otros mas modestos aseguran que solo al
canaan a $3, diarios.
Pero a pesar de todas estas vastas RI
duezas. ell Duque no goza de la fama de
Creso brit;nico. Son sus amores los one
lie han dado renombre. Sus lances galantes
han proporcionado mas motives de murmu-
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r~aciones en- los corrillos de la sociedad l0n-
dinense que todos los de cualquiera otro
noble en- ell Imperio.
FL Duque Gle Westminster apenas era un
hermoso muchacho de veinte amos cuando
Sheila Cornwallis-West con sus hermosos
ojos castanos v su gloriosa cabellera. eau
two ell coraz0n del joven. Sheila estaba
considerable como una de las mas bellas
mujeres de Inglaterra, y no tard0 mucho
,el joven Duque EN- requerirla de amores.
Pero aun en- la florescencia de estos amo-
res de muchachos romanticos, ell espfritu
inconstante del joven Duque comenzo a
manifestarse. Cuando quedaron compro-
metidos los novios, rompi6 la guerra con
los beers, Y ell Duque de Westminster sa-
Ito para ell Sur de Africa con un regimen
to de primera.
Por un tempo Ell recuerdo de la hermo-
sa muchacha que lie esperaba en- Londres
s~atisfizo su coraz6n; pero de repente TODD
ell mundo en- los cfrculos militares empez0
a comentar ell ~imprudente y temerario ca
pricho que manifestaba Ell Duque por Ma
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bel Louise Atherton, esposa de Thomas
Atherton, coronel de un regimiento de Lam
ceros del Rey, V una belleza de sirena que
va goZaba de la reputation de hechizar con
sus encantos a todos c~uantos. en- ella fila
ban sus ojos.
Estaba tan trastornado de amor ell Jo-
ven par que al regresar a Inglaterra, via
jando, por cierto, en- ell mismo buque que
la sonora de Anterior, pidi6 a Sheila que
lie relevara de su compromise para casar-
Sc con la esposa del Coronel. Ell Rey Eduar
do VII en- persona acudio en- socorro del
intrepido Y joven amante para sacarle
de su primera intriga g%alante, y en- febre-
TO de 1910, la hija de los Cornwallis-W West
Sc ~convirti6 en- la Duquesa de Westminster
La felicidad de SUI dfa de bodas fu6 echa-
da a perder por la entrega al novio de un
en- que Sc lie mencionaba a ell
como complete de la demandada en- ell liti-
gio de divOrcio seguido por ell Coronel
Anterior contra su esposa. Otra vez ell
Rey sc vic en- la necesidad de intervenir
V la demanda fu3 retirada. Nunca mas sc
oy6 hablar de esta primera Lorelay del
Duque de Westminster hasta cuando la
sonora Arthur Elliot Sc suicide en- SUI re-
sidencia de Mayfair.
Tres nihos y~inieron a hermosear la
union de la pareja ducal. Lady Ursula,
de quien Sc recordara' que no hace mucho
~escandaliz6 tambi6n la sociedad londinen-
Sc .anunciando su enlace matrimonial con
Jack Anthony, famoso Jockey; Lady
Marie, Y I'm nino que muri0 apenas en- la
adolescencia.
Los nihos que por 10 regular constitu-
yen los benditos lazos de amor que sostie-
men un hogar cuando esta amenazado de
ruina, no lograron ~eiercer su divina in
fluencia N ell case de los Westminster.
Pocos amos habfan pasado desde que Ell
Duque c~olocara Ell anillo nupcial en- Ell de-
do del coraz6n de su hermosa desposada
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su nombre con tales bellezas como Violeta
Lorraine, la famosa actriz, y muchas otras;
pero sobresaliendo entire la brillante reu-
Mon de favoritas de la escena que gOzan
Gle la reputation de haber conquistado ell
coraz0n del galante Duque, desde ell pri-
mer momentO, ha estado la famosfsima
Gertie Millar. Gertie Millar como TODD ell
mundo sabe es una estrelfa del teatro in
giles que surgiendo de un principle humildf-
simo ha llegado a ser ell motive de todos
los brindis de la nobleza britannica. Ger
tie Millar ha sido ell motive de mas en-
c-aprichamientos por parte de los pares in
gleses que todas las demas favoritas de
que una favorita. Sc lie ha llamado ia
mas perfecta "%flapper'' del mundo. Al prin-
cipios de este aho enviud6 por la muerte
de SUI esposo Lionel Monckton, compositor
de comedias musicales populares de quien
estuvo separada por algunos anos. Y hoy
es la novia Official del Condo de Dudley,
quien posee una fortuna Gle $4,000, 900,
v ell cual fu6 una vez Gobernador General
de Australia Y Lord Lieutenant de IT.
landa. Cftase este como un verdadero com
promise de amor que cerrara con broche
de ORC la brilIante carrera artfstica de la
danzarina, de Quien Sc dice que ha tenido
ell mayor ndmero Gle personals con titulo