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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-04-10
Summary

The delegation set forth the results
of their enquiries in two reports, one
on General Conditions, and one on
Labor Conditions, each of which is
divided into two parts. There is also
a report on Trans-Caucasia. Part l.
of the report on General Conditions
has the heading Governmental" and
contains chapters on the following
subjects: Politics, Finance, Industry,
Transport and Agriculture, Foreign
Commerce, The Red Army the Judi.
ciary.
Part H., under the heading Social
contains chapters on Social and Reli,
gious Conditions, Education, Press,
Art, ETC., Public Health. Housing etc.
OF the report on Labor Conditions
the first part has chapters in Trade
Unions, Labor Regulation, Wages, Co
operation. The second part deals with
Special Institutions and Industries un-
der fifteen separate heads. This part
contains only a selection of vast
amount of material collected by the
delegation which is now lodged for
inspection at the headquarters Of the
Trade Union Congress at Eccleston
Square.
The report on Trans-Caucasia opens
with a chapter giving a general survey
of that Federated Republic as a whole,
and with its constituent Republics of
Georgia, Azerbaijan and Armenia. The
second chapter deals with the vexed
question of Georgia, and the third
with Armenia, and the fourth with
Baku, There is also a section on
special industries.
Now, manifestly in a report Of this
size amounting to over $50 quarto
pages it is impossible to give any
thing more than series of snippets
from each chapter or else to convey
a false impression of covering the
whole ground by means of a descrip-
ton of the general effect combined
with apt quotations The latter is the
method adopted bX the press. Both
of these methods are unsatisfactory.
and therefore, for the purpose of read
ers of the Monthly Circular, we pro-
pose to select one of the more i'm
portant chapters and to present a sum-
mary of its contents. In further pu-
blications by the department it may
be possible to follow this up by
similar treatment of other chapters.
(To be Continued
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Coal OwnerS Declare War

The coal owners have come out openly in Ohio
and western Pennsylvania against the Jacksonville
agreement with the United Mine Workers. Because
we have been telling the miners for weeks that
new open shop drive in preparation, we have
been accused of spreading alarmist reports by the
of1cialdom.
united front between the coal owners and the Of
fcials of the union for the purpose of driving
900 miners out of the industry could have but
one result-the weakening of the union and en-
cOuragement of the coal owners to declare war
Now if ever the left wing in the United Mine
Workers must get busy. They are the fighters and
upon them is the responsibility of carrying the
struggle that now confronts the union as an
actuality.
The officials of the union have educated the
miners to a worship of the sacred contract" but
here is evidence of just how sacred" the contract
is to the capitalists when they think the time is
ripe to begin hostilities
The United Mine Workers have a terrible strug-
gle ahead of them. They will get nothing but
troops and njunctons from the Coolidge ad-
ministration which John L. Lewis supported.
In Illinois Harrington tries to GUST Freeman
the operators declaration of war was being
written
For two years campaign against the militants
has been carried on by the Lewis machine, the
union has suffered and now the attack comes.
The Communists will be in the front ranks of
this struggle as they have been in the struggle to
strengthen the union, organize the unorganized
and give the union a fighting program.
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Levin ExpeIs Seven Members of the Union

the settled shop, which he actually
did, and deserted his fellow workers
in his own shop on strike. He is not
now 'disloyal' On the contrary, he is
member of your gang and bust
ness agent at that"
That the whole program of expul.
sions was put over by prearranged
conspiracy among the officials, was
clearly shown when, after Aronberg
was disposed Of" the charges were
read against the other six members.
Business Agent Weinstein, alias Scha.
latnick, called at once for the previous
question. Chairman Schneid observed
that the defendants ought to get five
minutes" to state their case.
sehneld Admits Part in Conspiracy to
ExpeI.
But you agreed to go thru with il
tonight" demonstrated Weinstein, let
ting the cat out of the bag.
$50 did," calmly confessed
Schneid, "and we will go thru with
it, but let us give them five minutes
each IN their DEFENSE.
This pious expression was later
ignored, however, and Sam Simonian.
who had had no hearing before the
executive board, got no chance to de-
fend himself on the local floor either,
but was suspended without trial.
Half of Members Afraid to Vote.
When the vote was taken on Aron.
berg's case, in hall with from $50 to
500 members present, his "suspen-
sion" carried by vote Of 100 to 800,
again showing that hundreds of MEM
bers were afraid to vote in his de-
tense for fear of smuggling or losing
their jobs, so abstained from voting.
"The fight of the left wing is Just
beginning" say the militant members
of the Amalgamated.
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been fresh in their minds, and, con-
sequently, we find 1t stated that the
report has a definite object, VIII
The object of this report It to
enable the British electorate, in the
first place to realize that the Rus
sian revolution has no real relation
ship at all to the British evolution,
and in the second place that the
present results of the revolution
are represented by new state, al
ready very powerful and likely to
be very prosperous.
The Writers Of the Report
The actual preparation of the re-
ports has been carried thru by the
advisory delegates, chiefly by Messrs.
Young and Mcdonnell. The preface
is by the members of the delegation
themselves, but all the reports en-
body the unanimous conclusions ar.
rived at by the delegates before leav-
ing Russia. The qualifications of the
advisory delegates are as follows
HAROLD C. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
ed the Navy 1888, retired 1920 with
the rank of captain; Admiralty In
tellIuence department, 19o4o5; Gov
ernor Of Hong Kong Naval Prison,
1eo7-o7; Admiralty War staff, 1910
II; Naval Attache British Embassy,
ST. Petersburg, April, 1912, to Nov.
1917; Head of Naval Mission to Fin
land, December, 1918, to June, 1919.
He joined the independent Labor
Party, 1919. Member of Advisory
Committee on Army, Navy and
Pensions.
A. r. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS at
ST. Pau's School, London; c. 3. {.
(civiD, Resident in Russia, 1902
1919; British Vice-Consul, Baku,
South Russia, 1eo7-16; British mil
ltary forces in Caucasus and North
Russia, 1863 Temporary Major)
Foreign Office temporary list Class
Clerk, 1928.
GEORGE YoUNG.-Edueated at
Eton and foreign Universities; NJ.
V. o. Diplomatic Service (passing
in Russian), 1se6-te15; Admiralty In
teIligence Department, 1858; vol
unteer In ranks, February, 1918, and
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This report, byolthe seven trade
union delegates and ethe three advi-
sorry delegates, on the present condi-
tions in the Union Of Socialist Soviet
Republics is the most remarkable en-
terprise ever undertaken by the Trade
Union Congress, or, for that matter,
by any trade union body in the world.
In size, in completeness, in breadth OF
treatment, combined with attention to
detail, in it's capacity to draw far
reaching concentrations on sure
basis of ascertained fact, and finally
in the vivid and arresting manner OF
presentation, this report is not equal
led by anything previously written in
this country. 1t only requires to be
compared with the several hundreds
of books and brochures that have been
written about the Russian revolution
in the last seven years to make its
prominence clear. No doubt broader
sweep and a deeper insight is dis
played by some of the Russians them
selves, but to say this is not to de-
tract in any way from the peculiar
value that attaches to this report.
The delegates arrived in Moscow on
November IL, and for the first week
were present at the All-Russian Trade
Union Congress, with which the re-
port is not concerned. They journey
ed to Khartov, in the Ukraine, to the
Don Basin, Rostov, the Caucasus, Baku
and Tifiis. They returned via Lenin-
grad and arrived back in London, De-
cember 10, 1924. Turnout every facili-
ty was afforded them for obtaining
information, and this information was
checked both by the presence of the
three advisory delegates-m VINO
had lived long in Russia and who were
specially qualified for this work OF IN
vestigation-and also by the means
they possessed Of getting into touch
with opposition opinion. Each dele
gate, including the advisory delegates,
was furnished with free, pass en-
abling him at any time to enter any
government building, factory, club
hospital, police-court, prison or private
house without any guide and without
any previous notice. 1t is from these
circumstances that the report derives
its peculiar value.
The object Of the Report
1t is not necessary, however, to
imagine the delegation as a party OF
archangels, all-seeing but all-remote
from ordinary preference and appre-
tensions. They had left this country
Immediately after an election in which
lust this question of the Russian revo-
luton had been made use of to defeat
the political party of which they were
members. These events must have
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ton Of Soviet Russia falls fat There has been
change in the foreign policy of the national gov
eminent, a change that has been forced by the
recent developments in world politics, and the
labor bureaucracy has in all probability been told
to discontinue its insane attacks on the revolu
tionary government that is now in the eighth year
and that has compelled recognition from every
great capitalist power except the United States.
Wright and Woll have become too putrid for a
capitalist class that wants results. Their anti
working class propaganda could fool only workers
who are unable to read and write and these they
cannot reach.
The days of the $1OO,OOO,OOO Wilson slush fund
are gone. So is the foulest nest of vutures that
ever fastened themselves on the labor movement.
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taken off their jobs and deprived of
chance to earn their living at their
trade. They are now supposed to
have that right" but no hope of it
being materialized.
Aronberg, in his militant defense
of the issues raised by the leafiet,
pointed out the falsity of this official
promise of being allowed to work,
showing that the leahet itself had
truly stated that officials had juggled
the handing out of Jobs to members
who met with their personal favor
and the business agents had disposed
of jobs privately.
A Defense Upon Issues.
Repeatedly interruption by gang
sters who wanted to cut him off from
stating the left wing issues, Aron-
berg mercilessly exposed the COLA
boration with the bosses by union
officials which had resulted in unem-
ployment and "readjustment" to low
er wage rates and the speed up.
This collaboration and surrender
to the bosses, he pointed out, led the
officialdom into pretending to do
something by devising petty insur-
ance schemes of no value to the I'M
employed.
Against this sort Of policy Aronberg
held up the fighting program Of the
left wing proposed in the leafet of
which he was charged of having
knowledge" a charge which he said
could be laid at the door Of every
member, since all had knowledge" of
it.
Class Struggle or Collaboration.
The issue was one Of class strug-
gle, proposed by the left wing against
class collaboration, he stated. He
agreed with the leaflet in its con-
domination Of the present secret diplo-
macy between officials and bosses, and
its advocacy of direct negotiations by
the workers thru a committee repre-
sentative Of locals.
He upheld week work as against
piece work, the left wing proposal for
forty-hour week, shop committee
control of the union to be recognized
in the new agreement, and he con-
demned the present ofiicialdom for al
lowing bosses to suspend members
and the officials fake Insurance" He
proposed that the unemployed be CIV
en- full maintenance at the expense
Of the bosses.
III this is disloyalty," Aronberg
said. then every member ought to
be disloyall"
Admits Political Persecution.
This was admitted even by Chair
man schneid, who said, III Aronbere
is disloyal, ninety per cent OF the
members are also disloyal. But this
is a purely political case. When you
have power In the union you throw
out your political opponent whsr
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they have power they will throw us
out" gra grs s
This admission together with Aron-
berg's flaying of the yellow socialist
Forward gang exposed the real fight
against the left wing who are looked
upon as Communists and members of
the Workers Party. In fact, Business
Agent Weinstein directly attacked
Aronberg as a Communist of the
Workers Party, which he said sought
to dictate to the union from outside"
Yellow Socialist dictator"
Aronberg said, but | remind you,
the agents of the Hillman-Forward So
cialist party, that we already have die
tation from the outside. That is, the
Jewish daily Forward, organ of social
list counter revolution, insists that
Wolf, Harry Cohen, and the rest of
the petty grafters in New York stay
in control Of the union by force, even
with the mass Of members opposed
to them and their disruption. This
case, here and now, is plainly a case
of political persecution dictated to the
union by the yellow socialist outside
source of Abe Cahan, owner of the
Forward. And, what is more, it bene-
fits the bosses and not the workers"
Another business agent, Isovitch,
tried a new tack, by claiming that in
1915 Aronberg had worked during
strike" This charge was riddled
when Aronberg said that everybody
knew, including Isovitch, that his
shop had, because OF the pressure of
the workers in it, settled before the
rest OF the shops did, and that he
had, of course, been required to work
there under the terms of the settle
ment and by explicit direction of the
union. as all the other members in
the shop. But he had given with the
others, part of his wages as required
by the union and had walked the pick
ct line in the struck shops.
The Levin Family Skeleton.
But" added Aronberg, "the 1916
strike has other recollections. There
was Sam Levin, cousin Of the Sam Lee
win, manager OF the joint board. This
cousin is now business agent. But in
1915 he demanded pay for being on
strike or threatened to go to work in
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(Continued from page y

Continued from page u
Dorfman, Helen Kaplan, T. Reznick'
H. L. Kahn, Clara Shapiro and Sam
Simonian. The trial" was marked
by long and spirited battle by Aror-
berg. in which he took the offensive
upon the issues raised by the left
wing and forced the officials into
falling back into dependence solely
upon their power to intimidate the
necessary number of votes to put
their plan, arranged and agreed upon
in advance, across.
Only Aronberg was allowed a sufh-
Gent time to make defense, of the
other six, four were allowed ive min
utes before the axe fell upon them.
Aronberg and Dorfman were "sus-
pended" under different charges than
the other five members, who were
charged with distributing the leafiet
appeal Of New York Local 5, made to
the A. c. w. membership against the
Hillman- Forward socialist gang rule
and explosions in New York.
The charge against Phil Aronberg
was called "disloyalty." The speci-
fication being that he had knowl-
edge" OF a leaflet issued during the
union election in December, in which
campaign Aronberg was a candidate
for union office against Sam Levin,
local leader Of the yellow socialist
Forward gang and manager Of the
Joint board. 4
Expelled for Asking q Question.
Max Dorfman was victimized on a
charge Of having encouraged the dis
tribution of the Local leafiet." The
specification being that Dorfman has
remarked to another union member,
who was opposed to the Local leaf
let being distributed, but had not
read it-"Why don'tyou read the leaf
let before you oppose it,"
Chairman Schneid announced at
the beginning OF the farce that the
suspensions" recommended by the
executive board provided that the vic
tins be required to pay dues but that
they had no rights'i in the union al
tho they were allowed to work at the
trade. This contemplate hypocrisy
is scoffed at by all the rank and file,
who well know that these members
we're blacklisted and deprived Of their
jobs by the gangster control OF the
union employment Office even when
they still had their full rights"
The Hypocrisy Of "RIsht to Work."
How dishonest the statement is,
may be seen in the fact that altho
Aronberg has conformed to the union
rule OF asking employment thru the
union for months, he has been given
only 10 days workxby the Levin ma
chine since last September. And In
addition, the other members now "sus
pended" were. By tho orders OF Levin
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The Character of the Report

The report is Of a special character
both in it's outlook and in its style.
This special character is due partly
to design and partly to the accident
Of those responsible for it's prepare
ton. The design is stated very clearly
at the end of the introduction:
In presenting these conclusions
the delegation have endeaVored to
discount not only the atmosphere Of
cordiality and confidence which sur
rounded them from their arrival in
Moscow, but also their own attitude
Of sympathy with and solidarity for
their fellow workers in which they
left London. They have earnestly
endeaVored TO present a report
such as any body Of their fellow
countrymen would have made had
il had the same facilities.
The special style of the report
energies most clearly perhaps when
it is compared with the style Of the
preface. The training and previous
political education of the authors
compels style like that of the Man
chester Guardian at its best. Their
phraseology is, in the cool and precise
manner of the civil service; and be-
hind this. phraseology there is to be
discerned a liberal philosophy (Which
need not, and in this case does not,
mean membership of the liberal
party. Thus the report is in no
sense to. be taken as a work of critic
al Marxism, or even as something
written front thelnormal trade union
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-04-10
The Sun Vat Sen Meetings

The meetings held by the Workers Communist
Party jointly with representatives Of Kuoming-
tang the party of Sun Vat Sen, to commemorate
the death of the great Chinese lberator are of the
deepest significance. They mark the beginning Of
close contact of the advance guard of the workers
and farmers of both nations the beginning of
union for action against the common oppressor-
imperialism.
1t is the unity Of the oppressed Of all nations,
regardless Of color, in the class war-the unity
which Lenin urged and whose Importance he was
the first to estimate The Communist parties Of
all countries becoming stronger, the workers
more conscious and the colonial peoples more ag-
gressve in response to the teachings Of Lenin car
ried to the four quarters Of the globe by the Com
munst international. AZ
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commissioned r. M. A. August;
Daily News correspondent through
German Revolution, December, 1918
August, 1919; Professor of Port
uguese, 1892, and examiner in
Ottoman Law, London University.
Joined the Labor Party, 1885, and
accompanied the Delegation to Rus
sia in 1920. Member of Advisory
Council on international Affairs.
Parliamentary candidate for South
Bucks 1928 and 1924. Author Of
numerous works on foreign affairs.
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Departing, Dripping Slime"
--MILTON

The American Federation of Labor has closed
the International Labor News Service bureau in
Washington, d. c.. and the reactionary trade union
press, mostly privately owned organs with some
kind of an endorsement" from labor, will have
to get their red scare stories and their inspired
attacks on Soviet Russia their lies about the Com
munists and their fantastic tales of heavy ship
ments of Bolshevik gold, from some other source.
The International Labor News Service, captained
by Chester NJ Wright and Matthew Woll, was the
bastard offspring of the unnatural alliance be-
tween the labor movement and the House of Nor
ganWilson government.
1t was born in betrayal nursed on the bloody
slime of imperialist war, diapered with the CORY
bandages torn from the bleeding bodies of Ameri-
conscripts, Graded in the of the most dis
gushing band of mental prostitutes that ever cursed
this country.
1t flooded the labor press with sIanderous denun-
Citations of the workers and peasants government
of Russia it yomited vilifcation of the left wing
and the Communists in the labor movement: it
denounced anything and everything that did not
bear the Gompers stamp. 1t was from its inception
far more shameless than even the capitalist press
and in its last days it became the organ of the
counterrevolutionary Russian emigres domiciled
in the United States
The international Labor News Service made war
on the Federated Press, the only bonafde labor
news service in America. 1t procured the black
listing of Federated Press correspondents in Wash
ington thru its governmental connections and cam
paigned for a nationwide boycott by labor unions
against it, The Federated Press however, is still
on the job and it is probably not without some
jnstifable satisfaction that it now chronicles the
demise Of the ]. L. n S.
1t is unquestionable that the heads Of the l. J..
\. s. worked in the closest cooperation with the
department Of justice. 1t their privilege to
use documents seized in raids upon radical and
revolutionary organizations by the spies Of the
secret service On than one occasion they
and these stoopgeons were found to be in
arm. 1t could hardly be otherwise since during the
war the Wilson administration debauched the
whole labor movement and flooded it with spies.
The army intelligence service enlisted the services
of dozens of labor takers and none more
active in proving their loyalty to the House of
Morgan than the Wrights and VOLS.
Why has this adjunct Of American Imperialism
been dropped?
~ Because It's activities have become embarrassing
and show little results. It's Nominations against
the Communists have been published by dozens of
socalled labor papers, but the left wing, organized
around the Trade Union Educational League and
the Workers (Communist) Party, continues to
grow in strength.
More than that the campaign against recOgui-
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outlook. But just for this reason it is
likely to have special appeal to large
sections of middle class readers. With
these explanations we may now pro
coed to summary of the report.
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FOR WORLD TRADE union UNITY

We publish herewith following tho documents the sabc
world union unity by the right Amsterdam
digest report delegation
conditions Russia.
This has accelerated the drive union unity
resulted alliance Of the
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BY Bella KUN.

WOMENS Importance in the Communist movement is
best in the time of acute crisis when women
particularly encouraging by their example and assistance
l am convinced that events in the revolutionary
struggles upon which entering will bear out this
contention anew.
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Worker Killed at Work

Patrick Summons, was killed while
at work falling so feet from a retain
ing wall into an excavation being
made on the site of the old Union
League Club at Federal St., and Jack
son Blvd.
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