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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-01
WAS LENIN A RUSSIAN?
BY ISRAEL AMTER.


ALvN COOLIDGE
- Clemenceau
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and should
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end exploitation.
of Lenn Soviet Russia the
International the fighter world
revolutionary movement OF the capitalist countries
Hence they conducting vicious
but also the Communist
of intemauonalss Lenn The colonies
capitalist countries
the day Solidarity of all
ernauonaist calls to the revolution.
Today February at Madison Square Garden will
the death Lenin the
the world proletara
SLAMS because Russian Let
this Russian Internationally Lenin, and follow
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-01
Disappointed!
Gratis.

Smiling, jovial, back slapping, handshaking, Al
fred Smith, governor of the state of New York. has
disappointed the labor takers of his own state and
even the optimistic and trusting editor of Labor,
official organ of the sixteen standard railway I'M
ions, because GAL" has trimmed on the child labor
amendment.
Smith received the wholehearted support of the
trade unions in the last election even the officials
of the garment workers unions known as social
istic, deserving DIR. Norman Thomas in favor of
Tammany's champion.
One of the labor planks endorsed by Smith prior
to his election was calling for ratification of
the child labor amendment "When the devil was
sick, the devil a saint would be, when the devil was
well the devil saint was he" The prediction
Gap Smith and the "Al" of today are two entirely
different characters. Another "friend of labor"
fallen by the wayside!
When asked to vote for the Workers Party can
didate, many sympathizers say it would be "throw-
ing away vote" But voting for any other can
didate than Communist, is certainly a waste of
votes. Not that we believe the social revolution
can be accomplished by voting. Revolutions don't
happen that way. The most important feature 0.
election campaigns is not the actual voting but thu
propaganda that is put forth during the fight. The
labor leaders will not look upon the desertion OF
Alfred Smith, Gompers' close friend, as an indict
ment of their non-partisan political policy. They
will simply pick on some other "friend Of labor
who is on the make. They will not endorse indie
pendent working class political action regardless
Of how many times their present policy is exposed.
That is up to the masses and they also win learn
that there is only one political party in America,
whose political action is truly working class and
that is the Workers (Communist) Party
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-01
They Want the Cossacks

The Chicago Tribune sees in the recent shoot
ings at Herrin, another argument for a state con-
Gtabulary. The state militia is not enough. 1t gets
on the job only after the shooting is done. What
is needed, declares the esteemed Trib is a mobile
force, of motorized state police, that could rush
hither and thither and hold up the warning hand
of the law before those bent on murder could get
out their guns.
The agitation for the state constabuary is reviv-
ing The chamberce Of commerce and their news
papers will keep at it until they successful in
insttuting the cossack system in this state, which
has been useful to the capitalists of Pennsyl-
vania and oher states in crushing strikes. That is
what the Illinois bosses want the state police for
There are several thousand police here in Chi
cago. They are on foot on horse and in auto
mobiles. Yet they are not able to prohibit crimes
of violence.
The workers Of Illinois must vigorously com
bat the effort to put over the state constabulary
bill during the present session Of the legislature.
The enemy never sleeps. His myriad agents are
constantly on the job, planning to strengthen the
grip Of capitalism on the workers. Eternal vigil
ance is the price Of the little liberty the work
ers have so far succeeded in wrenching from the
ruling class, thru struggle. Only by struggle will
they be able to hold what they have gained make
new gains and finally emancipate themselves from
the thraldom Of wage slavery.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-01
By EARL 3. RRoWpER.

MAYHEM progressive" leaders in the
wv labor movement lose their
nerve. when they get tired of the bat
tie and begin to think longingly Of the
quiet and remunerative life of those
who conform to the ruling powers,
when they finally quit the struggle fol
progressive measures-they always
Guido the old reactionary bureaucratic
in the depths Of their trenchery and
the viciousness of their attacks upon
their erstwhile comrades. They seem
to feel a necessity to prove thir com.
plete severance with the past which
proved Improbable to tn I'M, by glory
ing in the depths of infamy.
William Mahoney OF Minnesota is q
case in point.
One year and q half ago Mahoney
set out to do battle with the enemies
of labor by fighting for the formation
of a national farmer-labor party. Find
ing the Communists the only depend
able fighting element he accepted the
proposition Of (and financial assist
ance FROM the Workers Party for a
Joint effort to this end that resulted
in the June II convention. Before
that gathering occurred. already Ma.
honey had gotten cold feet am tried
to back out, but under pressure and
perhaps with the horrible example of
Fitzpatrick before his mind, he did NOT
break at the cow 9ntion. He found
out something about himself, in the
course Of that fight, that he had not
realized before, namely, that Ma
honey didn't give damn for farm
er-labor party but was interested only
in rolling up votes for LaFolIette and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-01
By T. J. O'FIaherty

around buffoonery, is splendid les
son in the wrong way to fight reac-
tionaries In the trade unions.
IN addition to those colossal blunders
/ Larkin had no program, neither
did he show by word or act that he
was more revolutionary than the Of
fcials in power. AS it was, the work
ers were confronted with choice be-
tween two evils. Whether the Irish
labor movement, which looked so
promising during the dark days when
the trade union movement on the con.
tinent was dragged at the heels Of the
capitalist war chariot, will soon again
play progressive role, in Europe, is
hard to predict. Perhaps the nego-
tiations now taking place between the
Russian and British unions may have
some beneficial effect in Ireland. The
Irish Trade Union Congress is neither
affiliated with the r. l. L. u, or with
Amsterdam. A Trade Union Educa-
tional League is badly needed there.
What is Needed is organization and
discipline and not a Barnum or a
Marcus Garvey.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-01
As WI. SEE. ByTL 0FLherty

Communist Party, so that he could
hold the center Of the stage as the
only "revolutionist" in Ireland. He
does not believe in organization, un-
less it takes orders from him. An in.
durable egomaniac, he refuses to &C
cept advice from anybody. Larkin at
tended the latest congress of the Red
international Of Labor Unions, but
since his return he never mentioned
the Profintern or made any effort to
carry out its decisions.
l ARKIN'S failure, in view of the
E particularly rosy opportunity
that awaited him on his return from
the United States, is an object lesson
In trade union tactics that should be
taken to heart by Communists every.
where. By splitting the union, taking
the officials into a capitalist court on
the sordid charge that they had used
union funds for political purposes
calling strikes Of members of his dual
union against members Of the Trans
port Workers, engaging in business
ventures thus laying himself open to
suspicion, and in general his all
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-01
DA NO-GOOD workman

am ashame' weeth deesa man
For dat he ees italian.
An Just lazy sIob;
We no could max good 'Merican
OF Joe Marelli from Milan
An so he lose hees Job.
Las mont wen he ess iandin' hero,
He feel so strange an look so queer,
I'm sad for heem as I can be
An get heem Job for work weeth me
For deeg da tranch cen deesa street.
At first he's vera glad for eet,
But steel eet ees no vera long
Bayforc he eesa Coma wrong.
At ezra stranJa sight an sound
He drop hees peck an iooka round.
set mebbe so a sparrow hop
Near where he work eet max heenn stop
So, too, he watch eef on ia street
Som choeldran COM weeth dancin' feet;
An sor'tine wen from far away
He hear da banda moosic play,
he stan weeth head on wanna side
An ears an mortha open wide.
Wen time wen breeze dat sweep da
Greet
5reenp Newspaper to bees feet,
He TAX an try for readin' eetl
sui theeno. dat TAX hees Job away
Ees dees dat happen yestaday:
Som LADY drop from passin' car,
Night cen da Streota where we arc,
Bees boncha flower dat's haIfa dead,
sut pretta, yellow, white and red I
You know dees flower weeth bushy head7
chreesanthew'at7 Ali yes, dat's eel
WAL Joe, he see dem cen da street
an run an grab dem uppa queeek.
An den he TAX dem back an stceok
Dem up on top da dirta pile,
An lay dem out cen socha style
Al fceN Gem weeth so INA care,
you theenk for sure dey crowin' dcret
An pretta soon dey catch da eye
~ ezra wan dat's passin' By.
Eh1 Sure.dey looka pretta 90,
Sut secnce Get ees no work, you know,
"a boss raise somtheena aise for Joel
So ! am Shame 'weeth dcesa man
For dat Re oes italian,
An sooch lazy sIob;
we no could maxi good 'Merican
OF Joe Mareili from Milan
An so he lose bees lob.
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to a capitalist court anyhow, but this
action of Larkin's was extremely
stupid. Even If he could get his hands
on the $4,000 which he accused the
officials of Incorporating for poll
teal purposes, putting up labor can.
didates, he would have nevertheless
suffered a moral defeat before the
masses in playing the role of law en-.
forcement agent.
-
LIS expulsion from the union fol
1 / lowed the trial and he then or
ganized a dual union, called the Work
ers' Union of Ireland. He launched E
weekly, paper called the Irish Worker
Those who knew Larkin's methods did
not expect the venture to be anything
more than shortlived, particularly in
face Of the competition of the power
full Transport Union. After several
jurisdictional quarrels between the
two unions, lawsuits instituted by Lar.
kin on Larkin's friends, he was adj
judged bankrupt by the Dublin courts
in November and his examination
showed that his assets amounted to
something like ten dollars, while he
owed five thousand. He should know
by now that capitalist courts are dan
gerous playthings for workers.
IN one Of the latest issues Of his
/ paper to reach here, Larkin threat
ems to quit unless his supporters came
across with money, automobiles, jew
elry or anything else that could sat
isfy a printer. 1t was something like
what Grand Duke Cyril would issue.
Whether his paper has given up the
ghost or not do not know, but there
is no doubt that his experiment in
dual unionism is fizzle.
/ ARKIN has a reputation of being
- revolutionist, but the reputa.
ton is not founded on any basis more
substantial than loud voice. His
FIRST act on returning to Ireland was
to instigate the liquidation of the
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Not only are the trade unions shut
out from representation in the con
vention, but those trade unionists
who happen to get elected from the
county mass conventions are express.
ly forbidden to hold any kind Of eau.
Gus in connection with the conven.
ton.
This il nothing else but treason to
the workers and farmers Of Mime
sofa This is liquidation of the farm.
er-labor federation and the delivering
of the Minnesota farmer-labor party
into the hands of the professional pol
iticians, merchants, and bankers Of
the state.
Workers and working farmers can
only attend conventions IL they have
organizations that send them and pa,
their expenses. This convention cali
which shuts out such representation
forces the farmers to elect the locas
banker, or merchant, or petty elected
official, as their delegate to the con
N0AIiOnS OcCduSS IueS0 are the only
ones who quite generally can afforc
the time and expense Of such gather.
ings.
II Mahoney succeeds with his latest
trick. then the workers and farmers
of Minnesota will have not even thu
shadow of control of the farmer-labor
party. That organization will becom,
a simple duplicate on local scale of
the republican and democratic parties
on a national scale. The trade union
and the farmers organizations will
quickly find themselves begging for
favors from the "farmer-laboT party
as they used to beg at the doors OF
the older capitalist parties.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-01
Social Democratic Grafters

Having sold out the German working class during
and since the 1919 revolution, the German social
democrats decided to get theirs at both ends
Berlin is now convulsed with enc of the biggest
scandals in the history of Germany. 1t exceeds in
magnitude even our own Teapot Dome.
Prominent members of the social democratic
party are involved. The Barmat brothers, entire
preneurs, obtained during the last year. from pub
lie institutions and the Prussian State Bank,
credits amounting to $1OOOOOOO. They made
tremendous profits during and after the war sup
plying Germany with fats. Several members of
the social democratic party were made members of
the company. Thus the social democratic as
sociates of the Barmats had material interest in
seeing that the enterprising businessmen secured
credits.
The Barmat brothers are now in Jail, but some
OF the social democrats are defending them in the
columns of the Vorwarts. Heilman, for instance
prominent socialist politician said that he was
proud of his connection with the grafters. He is
member of their board of directors
Herr Richter, Berlin's police president, former
member of the Metal Workers Union but long.
since expelled from that organization is also in
volved. He is not too rotten however for the social
democratic party. Nobody could be. Richter is a
frequent guest at the palace Of the eldest of the
Barmat brothers or at any of the luxuriously fur
nished habitations Of their official and unofficial
tools. Richter is so crooked that the chief pro-
secutor warned the police against giving him any
information which they might secure in their in
vestigations Of the Barmats
The social democratic minister Of the interior
Severing, is supporting Herr Richter, while among
the other prominent socialists involved in the graft
orgy are former Chancellor Bauer and Herr Wells
both close friends of President Ebert.
Vorwarts, official organ of the social-democracy
excuses Barmat ON the ground that he supported
lockers strike in Rotterdam in 1920, with 10000
guiders under the conditions that the lockers ag-
reed to handle large consignment of American
bacon destined for Germany.
The social democrats are now urging that the
Barmats be released the ground of their patriotic
profatherland attitude during and after the war
This is social democracy in action. The contemp
tble grafters sold out the workers in 1919 and to-
day the Kaiser is getting ready for a comeback
Contrast their conduct with that of the Russian
Communists. The latter could have hundreds of
millions in return for treachery to the working
class but after years of the most severe tests
that any organization ever went thru the banner
of the Communist Party of Russia is stainless and
not efen its worst enemies dares question the hon
esty of its leaders. 1t is a striking contrast to
the general character of the German social demo
Gratis.
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sensation. the professor, as he is
called, tho still a young man, has
been doing magic and tricks of the
east for many years. He began to do
this work when child and came to
this country few years ago to in
terest the American public in the high
magic of which he is capable.
The professor will appear in person
on all four evenings of the bazaar
performing the most unusual tricks
His burning trick is one of the most
astonishing achievements OF modern
magic. This is an original trick Of
the professors which is a great strain
on his Lervous powers.
Feels kinship with Victims.
The professor became interested in
the bazaar owing to the fact that there
are $4,000 revolutionary workers and
peasants in the prisons of India. He
knows that the international Red Aid
sent financial assistance to India to
relieve the sad plight OF these pris.
oners. Many of them have been in
prison for years without receiving any
aid whatever. Conditions in India are
very bad-and the prisons are among
the worst in the world. When the
professor learned that the Interna
tional Workers Aid and the Labor
Defense Council are organizations pcr-
forming work Of relief, he was only
too pleased to offer his cooperation
VIII Be Assisted by Troupe.
He has promised to do some OF his
most original tricks and will be as
sisted by others OF his troupe. The
Joint bazaar committee counts II one
OF its main successes in having pro-
cured the professor. Anybody who
wishes to leave the everyday struggle
for short excursion in TO the helc
OF magic should not fail to attend the
bazaar. At the same time. he will be
helping along the cause for which the
professor donates his services.
Bring the Children.
Tell your friends TO meet you at
the Indiana booth at the bazaar Take
along your children either in the eve.
ming or Saturday afternoon, Feb. IA,
which 10 Junior Day"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-01
Mahoney---Agent of Minnesota Bankers

The Communists of Minnesota wills
call upon every honest worker to de.
nounce and defeat this treason or
William Mahoney.
Every time the enemies Of the In
Dor movement want to put over some
especially dirty piece OF work, they
begin by smoke-screen Of denunciR,
ton of the Communists. Then they
make an attack upon the Commun.
lists by arresting them Tin the case Of
labor takers by expelling them from
the unions) and then, with the best
fighters out of the way, they proceed
to issue injunctions, to cut wages, or
lin this latest case) to destroy a la
Dor party.
Workers of Minnesota should now
begin to understand why such extreme
measures have been taken lately 10
expel the Communists from the cen.
trail labor bodies.
The Communists will rise up and
denounce this surrender to the Min.
nesota bankers.
me communists VIII expose the
treason of William Mahoney.
Therefore the Communists must be
expelled.
But the Mahoneys, the Sinclairs, the
Paul Smiths, the Cramers, ct al, have
overreached themselves. BY this.
their latest blow against the workers
and farmers of Minnesota, they will
expose to tens OF thousands Of toilers
the true nature of all their other acts.
Mahoney and company, acting in the
interests Of the wealthy exploiters Of
Minnesota, are liquidating the farm.
er-labor, party and the farmer labor
federation. That is the big fact for
the workers to begin to understand.
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Continued from page ~
list Party was small. weak and mex
perienced. When Jim -Larkin was re-
leased from Sing Sing in 1928, thru a
pardon, the Irish left wingers were
happy in the thought that they now
had a leader who would organize the
scattered radical forces and give them
a program. On his return to Ireland
he was greeted by thousands Of work
ers. He still had his old place on the
executive committee Of the Transport
Union, the office of general secretary.
1t was powerful, strategic position.
But Larkin as usual muffed the ball.
n S was the case in America he was
"A surrounded by a group Of place
hunters and sycophants who were dis.
credited in both the labor and nation
alist movements. They were not rad
icals. Outside Of the Communist frac.
ton, his cronies were disappointed
leaders who had no principles and no
aims except to gain Office. Instead of
using his position as general secre-
tary to win over the masses to his
views (what they are nobody has yet
been able to learn, he decided to
make a frontal attack on the old ex-
ecutive committee and charged them
with using the funds of the union for
political purposes and for the organ
ization and sustenance Of workers
citizen army. 1t was quite true that
the funds were used for this purpose.
It is also true that such use of union
funds was in violation of English law,
but English law was not always all
powerful in Ireland.
THE charges were threshed out in
4 court and Larkin lost, the execu.
tive committee taking care to appear
in the role of revolutionists, while
Larlzin, who talked revolution brought
the union into court for having vic.
lated an English law. 1t is bad
enough for a trade unionist to resort
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making Mahoney q big frog In the
Minnesota puddle. The Communists
found out early in the game, and
spent many weary hours furnishing
the missing backbone to Mahoney dur.
jing the battles that occurred before
June II.
After LaFollette had knitted the
farmer-labor party, and had publicly
spanked Mahoney, the latter crawIed
abjectly to him and promised to be a
good boy hereafter Mahoney de.
nounced the candidacy Of Foster, al.
tho Foster was UNFOLDING the pro
gram of farmer-labor party, which
LaFollette had betrayed.
In all of this, 1t is possible that
many honest workingmen, themselves,
blinded by the LaFollette illusion
may have thot that Mahoney was cor
rect. But Mahoney's latest perform
ance should open their eyes to the
meaning of the events of the pas
year, and make 1t clear to every
worker, that Mahoney has become the
agent of the forces Of capitalist e&-
ploitation in Minnesota, that Mahoney
is now the agent Of the bankers. For
he is now engaged in completing the
work of destruction Of the farmer-la-
Dor party movement which LaFollette
carried out nationally, by liquidating
the farmer-labor party Of Minnesota.
The facts are clear. Mahoney, al
chairman Of the Farmer-Labor Fedora
ton Organization of the trade union
wing of the farmer-laDor party, has
signed call. jointly with the APP
pointed legal" chairman of the F. L
p, for a convention on March 20, to
which the trade unions arc not In
vited.