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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-21
The Growth Of theoLeft Wing in the Trade
Unions and Our Problems WithiRIt

sections of the movement may con.
tain political slogans. These are
but of secondary importance to
the workers. This is shown by
the fact that while the trade union
slogans and programs of the Workers
Party find support of the broad
masses Of organized workers, the dis
tinctly political campaigns of the par
ty do not meet with such a broad
support. Such condition is natural
for the present stage of political con-
sciousness OF the American workers.
The Workers Party must, however,
strive to overcome It.
The organlzatlonal and theological
unlfeation Of the left wing will slim
uIate the growth Of political conscious
ness among the workers and will
strengthen the political leadership of
the party in their ranks.
\ The National Conference Of the Left
Wing will formulate program of &C.
ton, slogans of struggle United
Front program for the labor move.
ment Of America.
With the organizational and ideo-
logical unifcation of the left wing
the United Front campaign of the
Workers Party will for the first time
have a firm basis.
The preparation OF the National
Conference of the Left Wing of the
trade union movement signifies the
intensification of our work locally, our
getting in contact with broader masses
of advanced workers and the perform
ance of a great work of their class
education. Local conferences will have
to be prepared and called. This will
result In the creation of real local
centers of the left wing movement,
the rallying of wider masses of work
ers around them.
The National Conference of the Left
Wing. of the trade union movement
will be milestone in the develop
ment of the American labor move
ment. 1t will be the test of the in
fuence of the Workers Party, without
making which it is difficult to advance.
1t will facilitate the drawing into the
party of the most revolutionary ele-
ments of the labor movement.
To delay the agitation for such
conference would be an error. The
ever growing offensive of the capital
list class demands the unification of
all the live forces of the labor move
ment. 1lafx
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-21
w II "?

Because under capitalism, there two great classes
the working class and the capitalist class The capitalist
class takes profit from the labor of the industrial wage
workers and poor farmers of half the values such
labor produces. This robbery is Iegazed by capitalist
law, explained natural and right by capitalist press
and preachers and enforced by stkebreakng police and
soldiers under the capitalist dictatorship
Their profits pile higher into the hands Of few
big monopolies like the Morgan banks 1t is large it
all be invested at the highest returns in this
try But it lies idle brings in profit at all. So the
capitalists invest in China and other foreign lands"
The above from leaflet: Hands Off China! Stand by
Soviet Russia" published by the national Office, Workers
Party Order supply for free distribution at Let
tell the American workers and poor what
taking place in China, etc. Price, $500 per 1000. Send
order for to- Workers Party National Office, lib
w. Washington Blvd, Chicago III.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-21
COSTA RIGA LABOR
JOINS FIGHT ON
IMPERIALISM
AMIiates with Anti
Imperial Body

The Federation of Labor Of Costa
RIGA and the Sugar Cane Workers
Union Of Costa Rica, an Independent
organization, have affiliated with the
All-America Anti-Imperialist League,
the secretary Of the league, Manuel
Gomez, announced today.
Both organizations will send dele
gates to the anti-imperialist conven-
ton which is tentatively scheduled to
meet early next year The affiliation
of the Costa Rican organizations is
hailed as significant of the aroused
interest OF the Latin-American toilers
in the question OF imperialism.
The idea of the league is spreading
turnout Latin America, according to
Gomez The action Of the Gales gov
eminent in refusing the league per-
mission to meet in Mexico City has
only served to further advertise the
league and its purposes
In addition to the two Costa Ricsn
organizations which have joined up
with the league. Gomez announced
that the Cuban workers who recently
affiliated have now organized a regu-
lar section of the league with a dues
paying membership. The Cuban sec
ton has been holding large mass
meetings thruout the country and has
been carrying the league message to
the workers in the trade unions An
active part of the Cuban section OF the
league is the student groups which
have lent their publication, Juventud,
as the unofficial organ of the league.
The Cuban activities are under the
direction of Julio Antonio Mella, who
is acting as secretary of the Cuban
section.
The American Council for the Lib
GRAFTON Of Santo Domingo, made up
of Santo Domingoans in the United
States, is also actively interested in
the work OF the league, altho it is
not afiliated with it yet
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-21
GET THE HABIT!

This letter from worker who knows the value of developing
propagandists may give you an idea two Read it:
Dear comrades
The other day you a a Ford factory
who told how he subs for the DAILY
asked them to buy pamphlet
This eomrade has the right idea. A thousand more
propagandists like these be a much
bigger force in this country
have developed habit Of carrying little
with at all times This that more
often than not could sell pamphlet When
worker could not afford a sub to the DAILY WORKER
found that the Little Red Library books thing
propagandist needs. They sell all
all ask is for the sake Of Communism
numbers only be careful good
Yours for bigger army propasandlsts
JACK LNKoWsKI.
We print this comrades letter show workers are
doing for Communism These simple ngbut they the
kind of things that to build the Communist
And the most promising sight is the increasing number
tiers land orders for books pamphs that growing
army of real Communist Builders.
II you have also ideas propaganda-if you
bring the Communist message other thru medium
of the DAILY WORKER and books and pamphlets-tel the
DAILY WORKER about it, Write letter to this column
about the do it.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-21
Lake County, Indiana,
Workers to Celebrate
at Picnic Next Sunday

HAMMOND, Ind, August 1S-
Workers Party branches &C. C. g.
Of Lake county, Indiana, will hold a
big outing and picnic, on Sunday,
August %, 1925, at Wicker Park
grounds on Ridge road, Hammond,
bid. Speakers in English, s. Slavik,
Hungarian and Roumanian. Good
music and dancing. Refreshments and
al sorts of amusement. Everybody
welcome.
oireeticn:-Take any street car to
z. Hammond, Colombia and Morton
Ave. Walk three blocks south to
Kenwood Ave, where bus will be
awaiting to take you to the picnic
ground. Buses leave at IL a. m, IL
and l o'clock.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-21


shamelessly that only the most back.
ward workers fail to perceive 1t. Such
are the objective conditions causing
the growth of the left wing movement
/ in the trade unions at the present
time, and these conditions will be
still more accumulated in the near
future.
The American bourgeoisie, striving
to reduce the American worker to the
level of the cheap labor of Europe and
of the colonies, will inevitably inten-
sify its attack. AS the class struggle
will sharpen the betrayal of the trade
union bureaucracy will become ap-
parent to even greater number Of
workers. A further growth of the
left wing movement is therefore to be
expected. &
NThe growth Of this movement, the
Strengthening of Communist influence
in the trade unions places before the
Workers Party new and important
problems. First of all in respect of
organization. Up till now the left
wing movement was not actually unit
ed on national scale. 1t was devel-
oping within the frames of separate
trade, industry, city or district. But
even within these comparatively mar
row frames, the organization is weak
and loose.
1t does not embrace any considera-
Bile numbers of advanced workers, but
only the Communists and their closest
sympathizers. The left wing move
ment has, however, outgrown this
Stage; it has become a mass move
ment and furnishes a basis not only
for the strengthening of the local
trade and industrial organizations of
the left wing and for the rallying
around the slogans of the Workers
Party Of the wide masses of advanced
workers, but also for the organiza-
tionaI capitalization of the movement
ON A NATIONAL SCALE. A means
of accomplishing this is the calling
of a NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF
THE LEFT WING of the American
trade union movement, similar to the
conferences Of the European move
ments.
The Conference Of the Left Wing
will also be a step towards the attain
ment Of the theological unity of the
left wing movement of the trade
unions, without which there can be
no organizational unity.
The left wing movement is perme-
ated as yet by a. craft theology. The
miners, the metal workers. the build
ing trades workers, and others, while
fighting separately against the betray-
al of their respective trade union
bureaucracy, do not understand yet
the. community of interests of all the
advanced workers in various indus
tries in such struggle. They do not
understand yet sufficiently the role of
the entire trade union bureaucracy.
its role as the labor lieutenants" of
the capitalist class who help to per-
petuate its domination. There is but
a weak and vague understanding of
the necessity to struggle for the pos
session Of political power as the only
means for the complete Liberation of
the working class.
The struggle of the left wing Is yet
almost purely trade-union struggle.
While the programs of the various
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-21
Empress of Russia"
Passengers Tell Hard
Luck Story Of China

VICTORIA, B. c., Aug. 19.-In spite
of fourteen Canadian Pacific railway
police and instructions given the crew,
a Communist visited the c. P. R. liner
Empress of Russia and gathered a
little news.
The vessel left Hong Kong with a
skeleton crew and took on Japanese
crew at Kobe. They did not call at
Shanghai wharves as usual, bat laid
in the offing and waited for the mail
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-21
No Chance to Criticize.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 1s.-Disciplin-
ing of Henry H. Currans immigration
commissioner at Ellis island. for criti.
cizing publicly the policy of the de-
partment of labor in handling immi-
grafton problems, is being considered
by department officials, it was learned
today. Curran will be asked if he
made certain statements rejecting on
labor department officials
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-21
Leave Worker. stranded.

LAQUIN. Pa, Aug 19.-(FP)--The
population Of Laquin are wondering
where to go since the Central Penn.
sylvania Lumber Co. has closed it's
sowmill and announced completion OF
its numbering operations in this dis
trict. Railroad tracks are being ripped
up by the company and the mill is
being razed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-21
By 3. soRIsoFF.

The article printed below was first
presented to the DAILY WORKER
some time in April, 1925. :. saG ~
The article is true to the line of
the Comintern. 1t deals with the prob
lem of broadening the basis Of the
left wing movement in the trade
unions, Of unifying ideologically and
organizationally the struggles of the
advanced workers in the trade unions
against their reactionary bureaucracy.
This is a key to. the successful appli.
cation of the United Front tactics.
The article proposes a method of ap-
proach to the solution of the prob
lem-the preparation Of local confer
ences and finally of national confer
ence Of the left wing.
This problem must be clarified. 1t
deserves a thoro discussion and not
suppression. Today august IA, 1925
we read in the DAILY WORKER in
the Letter from the Comintern and
Profntern to our Workers (Commun-
ist) Party on the Trade Union Work;
THE party must strive to convert
the League (the Trade Union Educa-
tional League-B) into an extensive
left block organization, lining up all
the revolutionary and progressive ele-
ments in the labor unions against the
reactionary bureaucracy"
How to do it is the question which
the party must strive to solve.-Bori-
soff.
The left wing of the trade union
movement has manifested rapid and
considerable growth during the past
six months. To prove this it is suffi-
cient to recall that over $4,000 unions
voted for Vosey-the Communist can
didate-for the office of the president
of the United Mine Workers of Amer
lea; that the progressive slate in the
elections Of the machinists' union ap-
parently received a majority sof the
votes; that in Seattle, Chicago. and
other places, where expulsions Of
Communists from trade unions TOOK
place the rank and file members of the
unions gave their most energetic sup
port to the expelled, compelling, in
some instances, the trade union bu-
reaucracy to retreat. f19i
We are faced therefore, with a re-
volt of the rank and file of. some of
the largest unions against their bu-
reaucracy, and everywhere the Com
munists furnish the ideologic leader
ship of this movement.
What causes this mass insurgency
against the trade union bureaucracy?
1t is explained by the newly organized
attack Of the capitalists against the
workers: by their attempt to break
the trade unions, to cut the wages and
to lengthen the hours of labor of the
workers. 1t is explained by the fact
that the trade union bureaucracy not
only fails to offer any resistance
against this attack, but, on ethepcon-
|trary, forms an alliance with, the ex-
ploiters against the workers, formu-
lates plans for class collaboration,
consents to the intensificationS OF ex-
ploitation, and to the lowering of the
working conditions.
This betrayal of the interests of the
workers by the trade union, bureau
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-21

this boss rule and rid ourselves
of it forever. We, the children of
the working class of America, will
not rest until we change this gov,
renment and replace it with a
workers and farmers government
just as the workers and peasants
have done in Soviet Russia.
Long live the Workers and
Peasants Government of the
U. s. s. r.! u
Long live the Communist In
ternational!
BENNIE herman,
John Reed Junior Group.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-21
steck Makes Gains.

WASHINGTON. Aug. 19.-Register
ing heavy gains in Lynn and Lee coun.
ties, Daniel F. Steck. democrat. has a
lead OF AGO votes over Senator Smith
W. Brookhart, in the recount of un.
contested ballots in 46 Iowa counties,
the senate elections committee an.
aounced today.
The total vote was: steck. 1884,
isrookhart 1885 In Lynn county
steck led Brcokhart hy 8 ~
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-21
Subscriptions for
Negro Champion Are
Taken by Congress

The national Office Of the American
Negro Labor Congress at 10 s. Lin
coin St., Chicago, is in receipt Of s1.0O
from VIM. Scarville of Pittsburgh. Va,
to pay for subscription for the Negro
Champion to be sent to one of the
Negro prisoners in Leavenworth. They
recently made an appeal for such
funds, and this is the first response.
We hope there wilribe many more.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-21
Ironworkers Out with erieklayers.

NEWARK. N. j., Aug. 1s.-(FP)-
Ironworkers and building laborers are
out with union bricklayers striking on
the new wing of the Prudential build
ing, for which Thompson-Starrett is
contractor. The strike is part of the
jurisdictional fight between the plas-
terers' international union and the
bricklayers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-21

5057. Linen, poplin, lchambrey or
pongee could be used for the Dress,
and crepe, lawn. batiste or linen for
the Guimpe. The Dress is sleeveless.
The sleeve of the Guimpe may be
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length as shown In the small guimpe
view. segSBt
The Pattern is cut In 4 Sizes: 9,
8, 10 and IL years. To make the
Dress for 10 year size in 36 inch
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Guimpe will require 1% yard If made
with long sleeves. With short sleeves
1s yard is required. The belt of
contrasting material requires X yard
Pattern mailed to any address on
receipt of 12c in silver or stamps.
NOTICE TO PATTERN BUYERs--rh.
patterns being sold thru the DAILY
WORKER pattern department are fur
nished by New York firm OF pattern
manufacturers. orders are forwarded by
the DAILY WORKER every day as re-
ceived. and they are mailed by the man
ufacturer. direct TO the customer The
DAILY WORKER does not keep a stock
OF patterns on hand. Delivery of pat
terms ordinarily win take az least 10 days
from the date OF mailing tho order DO
not becoDse. impatient II your pattern IL
delayed
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-21
Denies KiIIino Professor.

SEDALIA Mo, Aug. 19.-Everett
Adams. II year old Ohio school boy,
pleaded not guilty to the murder of
Professor Alden R. Clawson, of Lodi,
\. Y, and was held to the October
Term OF district court without bond.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-21
Persians Protest

CoNsTANTINoPBE,--The Persian
government protested to the Turkish
government at Angera today against
Turkish occupation OF Persian terri
tory near the Persian Turkish frontier.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-21
Feared An Explosion

ATHENS,-Thef Greek government
was considering today the complete
evacuation of the opopulation of the
Island of Santorini, in the Mediterra-
moan, following scientists reports Of
threatened volcanic eruptions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-21
Advance Notice!

For the attention of this Builder and others who have
the Little Red Library such great little propaganda medium
we are glad to that within the
weeks number five of the Little Red Library will appear Again
there will be something in this
before issued by the movement 1t will be collection
ing class poeryrea working inspiration
in the struggle POEMS FOR WORKERS-An Anthology
edited by Manuel Gomez will be ready
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-21

I717. Plaid suiting in tan and
brown tones is here portrayed. The
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uep.. This style Is good also for
Lpaca. pongee and linen-
The Pattern is out in 7 Sizes: 36,
IN, 40, AZ, A, 46 and 4S inches bust
measure. A 3s inch size will require
Iis yards of 81 inch material For
.ollar and vest Of contrasting ma
!erial u yard of "a inches wide is
required. The width at the foot is
IL yard.
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rakinn, also some points for the needle
i,liustra ting 30 OF the various simple
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lessmaker.
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FOURTH IN
 UNION IN PER CENT GAIN

WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 2. (P) While there was a net decrease of 75,735 farms in the United States from 1920 to 1925, or 1.2 per cent, the state of Washington in the same period showed a net increase of 6,973 or 1O.5 per cent. Prelimi- nary announcement of the depart ment of commerce, made public day, showed.
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THE COUNTRY NEWSPAPER

Up through my window came the
 city's ceaseless din, I just had paused a moment when
 the evening mail came in A pile of business letters and the pa
 pers with the news Of wars and murders, fires, wrecks
 most anything I'd choose. cast them one by one aside and
 found beneath them all A homely country paper, blurred with
 ink and somewhat small, That drew by full attention to it's columns up and down The little weekly paper that they
 print in my home town. This country paper always tells oi
 things in quiet tone; It deals not with the outside world
 but topics all it's own; It tells about the folks who visit in and out of town; l That meat is soaring upward or that eggs are going down; That some old chum is married, or 2 lifelong friend has died; The stork has paid visit and two hearts are swelled with pride. This paper strikes a tender chord
 when far away you roam, For one is always glad to hear what's
 going on at home.
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INDIAN GFRL MAY
 NOT MARRY AT 12
 YEARS, NEW RULING

SIMLA, India, Dec. 2. (P)-A par tial but much needed reform in re- gard to young Indian girls has just passed the legislative assembly by 84 votes to II. It raises the age of consent from twelve to thirteen in the case of marital relations, and to fourteen in non-marital
 It was oly after a very bitter debate that the bill was passed. On the one side of the orthodox opposi- tion attacked the measure on the into Indian ideas, while the reform- ground of bringing western influence CTS argued that the limit should be icreased.
 AS a result the bill is a con- promise, but it represents a step in the direction of progress.
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HUGE CAMELS ROAMED
 IN OREGON YEARS AGO

BEND, Ore, Dec. l. P)-Buried ages ago in the soft sands of the great pleistocene lakes which spread over considerable part of the south central Oregon country, fossilized bones of huge camels which lived in this part of the world thousands of years ago, have been found by Dr. L. Packard, of the University of Oregon geological faculty.
 It is the belief of Dr. Packard, who passed through Bend today with the mineralized bones of the pre-his- toric camels on his way to Eugene, that the newly found fossil locality is rich in remnants of faunal life which rauged on the shores of the ancient lake. It is his opinion that fossils of mammoth strang birds and many creatures now extinct, will be found in this locality in the Lakeyiew country.
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FULLY GEE!

Illiteracy does not exist in Ameri- can Samoa. The official government languages of American Samoa ave English and Samoan. Every adult Samoan can read and write in one of those anguages.--William w. Edel, Supt. of Education.
 "Hully Gee!" says the native New Yorker, in his pride of ancestry "Whadya tink of dat-an' dem lot of bum savages"
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TWENTY YEARS CAN BE ADDED TO THE AVERAGE
 LIFE, SPEAKERS CLAIM

ST. LOUIS, Dec. 2. (P-Twenty years can be added to the average life through practice of Hygiene, it was intimated at the American Public Health associations 54th an- nual convention here. Begun yes terday, the sessions will continue thru Thursday.
 This mornings meeting dealt largely with means of improving health educational work. One means to this end was said to be the train ing of more efficient speakers.
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An.ERICAN POET WINS
 $2OO PRIZE IN PARIS

CHICAGO, Dec. 2. (P-Ralph c. Cunning, an American poet now re- siding in Paris, has won the twelfth annual Helen Haire Levinson $200 prize for the best poem by citizen of the United States The award was made public by Poetry, publish
 The prize was awarded for a group of poems entitled "The Four Winds"
 The publication announced the award of a second prize of $100 to Mrs. Edgar Speyer of New York for Ballad of a Lost House."
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CHESS EXPERTS MEET

MOSCOW, Dec. 2 (P)-Jose R. Casa blanca, worlds champion, will face his old adversary, Dr. Emmanuel Lasker, in the first game of their international chess tournament which opened to- day.
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