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Evening star., 1925-09-06
FREE STATE DELEGATES
TO PARLEY HERE NAMED
Gen. Richard Mulcahy to Head
Group Coming for Interpar-
namentary Congress.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
DUBLIN, September 5. = Gen.
Richard Mulcahy. comrade in-ar1ns of
Michael Collins. one of those sought
by the British authorities in the hue
and cry of pre-F'ree State days, and
the first commander of the Irish ma
tional army. will be one of the Irish
Free States delegates to the inter
parliamentary congress which meets
this month at Washington, ID. c. He
recently retired as minister of defense
in the Dublin government as a result
of an army crisis.
His colleagues will be p. MacGil-
ligan. minister of industry and com.
merce. who is in his early thirties:
the Hon. Gordon Campbell son of the
Sir James Campbell, who was one of
Lord Carson's lieutenants in the fight
against home rule, and Thomas John
son, leader of the Irish Labor party.
They will be the first officially chosen
representatives of the Free State to
visit the United States.
An international touring club exposi
tioO will he held in Argentina NEXT
Evening star., 1925-09-06
In the Mountains
of virginia

You will never Enow the value Of vaca-
ton until you have visited Bryce's Hillside
sept and Oct The Great Aliesheniss the
Swiss Alps of America" and see the beauti-
full coloring of the leaves blended with ever
green: The gathering of the apple crop. sweet
cider. delicious pumpkin pie. new nuts, fresh
vegetables, chicken. country ham. milk and
cream; all of the country's best things to
eat.
Come by rail or motor down the lovely
Shenandoah Valley: turn west at Mt. Jack
son and come 10 miles to our cottages.
Cottages with inclosed sleeping porches
roof garden rooms bungalows and camping
grounds mineral baths. Fairgrounds, garages.
wonderful mountain scenery: superior table.
home cooking. white service. Rates. So SO
per day: SIS per week.
Mr.. and Mrs William r. Bryce. owners,
P. o.. Macanie. Va
p. S.-Horses. automobiles and guides fur
nished to visit the proposed National Park,
the beautiful Shenandoah Valley and all
historical nlaPes
Evening star., 1925-09-06

To square up the edge of a panel
or any other piece of bakelite, use
a common wood plane that has been
set finely.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1925-09-04

- nbase Of the matter. What
~ - or wealth? Factories?
: .-5 Automobiles? Hotels?
-, Bonds? The money you
:, the bank? The money IN
nocket. What would be con
I'D as capital? Where would
line be drawn, and why?
Complications are diseernible.
r.sn about labor. There would
little difficulty in knowing
~ TO draw the line there but
sme, however
Rat this is sure. Under con-
s,.;op trade union standards
..ald get about as much considera-
"a, in the shops as in the trenches.
Wage standards would be shot
"a nieees Military discipline would
...l,es the usual industrial rela-
- There can be no doubt about
aai.
Now while war lasted we might
az We could agree to all chuck
4 together and give up everything
:. ain the war. That's how We felt
IN the World War.
But sometimes giving up things
defeats a purpose. 1t might not
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1925-09-04

even help to win the war.
Surely the military organization
thus far has not consulted labor Is
TO its ideas about CONSUMPTION in
the next war, T and when there 5
one.
But the important thing to con
slider is this: What sort of confus-
ion would we have AFTER the
war?
With trade union standards gone,
trade union membership either de-
stroyed or lapsed-for it would
drop like a plummet and never
fear-what would be the position
Of labor AFTER the war?
Property would be pretty much
intact. But humanity and property
are not at all alike. Humanity
would be compelled to start at
scratch, with its bare hands and
little else.
Before wage earners get enthus-
iasiic about universal CONSUMPTION
of capital and labor in time of war,
let them think about what that
would mean ON the mex Armistice
day. Labor has also to think about
peace time after the guns are
silent
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1925-09-04
CHAMPAIGN, ILLINOIS

V. w. JOHNSTON, President
EDWIN FlLS0N. Vice President
II. +. MeNENIN, Cashier
III. {. AUGUSTUS, MAJ
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-22
Toffs Tribe

Chief Justice Taft of the United States supreme
court dedicated the other day the national head
quarters of the chamber of commerce in Washing
ton, d. G. The building was erected by scab labor
turnout and the role of Bill the Fat otherwise
known as "God Knows" Taft at its opening is
symbolical of his solidarity with the open shop
ployers who gathered there for the festivities
High dignitaries of the existing order hold up
their hands in holy horror when Communists tell
the workers that there are two classes in America
and that between these two classes state of war
exists. The protests rise to a shrill shrek when
the statement is made that the courts are class
instruments that Taft, servant of the ruling
class, will not pass impartially on the merits of
in which workers and capitalists confront one
another.
Yet here is the Chief Justice of the highest court
in the land surrounded by his masters, dedicating
a structure within whose walls campaigns to
reduce wages, lengthen the hours and take more
toll of workers sweat and blood will be planned.
The building itself is monument to the mastery
of the capitalist class and it stands in the capital
of the nation of whose most powerful judicial body
Taft is a member.
No class struggle? No classes?
Tell it to the marines whose bayonets enforce
the decisions of the tribe of Taft.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-22
Trying 10 SUPPRESS the Comintern

A London dispatch says that the Daily Herald
an organ Of the British labor movement, accuses
the British government Of engineering a con
spiracy among all the allied powers to bring a
concerted demand upon the Soviet Union that it
suppress the Communist international.
The penalty for failure to agree to this depriva-
ton of the liberty of the proletariat to organize
and maintain its headquarters in the first work
ers republic is according to the dispatch, to be
the breaking off of diplomatic relations with the
tSoviet Union Of those nations which have recog-
nized Soviet Russia.
We have no doubt but that some such con-
spiracy has been afoot The existence of the Com
munist international is a standing challenge to
the capitalist class of all the world and it is
luesdonably annoying to the capitalist nations,
that the Soviet government grants the working
class every liberty which is denied and sup
pressed by the capitalist powers.
But we also imagine that the plot will not get
very far from the stage Of talk altho there is al
ways the danger that the imperialist world will
find some excuse for open warfare against Soviet
Russia. But it will not be a popular war if it is
waged for the suppression of the Communist In
Iternational. Hence the present underhand and I'M
foreground move threatening breaking off of rela-
lions.
The reason that the plot viii not get far in this
respect is that in place of Soviet Russia being in
deadly necessity Of the recognition Of capitalist
nations, it can make shift without extreme priva-
ton, while the capitalist nations have each re-
CURED Russian trade as a first essential of con-
tinued existence.
The plot Of half measures such as that reported
lis doomed to failure last but not least, because
Soviet Russia will maintain the rights of organ
ization of the workers denied by capitalist ma
tons.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-22
BY R. BISHOP.

THH conference of the British In
4 dependent Labor Party was use
full in so far as It provided key to
what likelihood there was Of any lead
being given to the working class from
any source outside Of the Communist
International.
Since the demise of the Labor Gov
eminent there had been strenuous at
tempts made by the proletarian ele-
ments Of the l. L, P. to try and re
capture the spirit of socialism" which
to a certain extent at any rate had
inspired them before the war. Conse-
Quently, much curiosity was manifest
ed as to what the precise strength Of
this left wing element actually was.
Some thought 1t would sweep the
conference of its feet and be able
to give a clarion call to the workers
to which the latter would respond.
Others, among them Macdonald him
self, felt that they were a negligible
influence and would count for nothing.
AS matter Of fact the truth lay
somewhere between the two extremes.
The Left certainly made its presence
felt, but the petty bourgeois influences
to which the Party had succumbed in
the past were too strong to allow of
them achieving anything tangible.
Sooner or later these Left elements
will have to realize that there is no
room for their activities in the cir
cumscribed limits Of the I. L. P, and
that in the Communist International
only lies the hope Of the realization
Of their aspiration
The opening Of the conference by
Clifford Allen supplied the key to the
whole of the later proceedings. In
the same breath as he criticized the
actions Of the labor government he
pleaded for the conference to treat it
lenientIy. Incidentally this is the
same Clifford Allen who prior to the
formation Of the labor government
had advocated that minority govern
ment chould go forward with the full
socialist program and when defeat
ed on it go to the country at once
asking for fresh mandate.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-22
The Example of Paterson

Paterson textile workers have secured wage in
creases of 81 and s. per week recently. In the
rest of the textile industry the workers have
received wage cuts.
Attempts will be made to explain this by talking
of the special conditions of the silk industry in
Paterson that made the raises possible while the
cotton and wooden goods workers took reductions,
but this is mostly tommyrot. The Paterson work
ers resisted wage cuts and got increases because
they organized, struck and fought the issue thru.
Had the other textile workers been able to over
come the divisions and discussions that weakened
them, had they been able to organize, had they
struck as miitantly as the Paterson workers they
would at least have prevented reductions
The textile workers have been victimized by the
fake labor leaders, they have been fooled by the
belief that a dozen or more different unions can
get results, they have had peace and sweet
abeness in the face of the onslaught of the bosses
preached to them until their will to fight has al
most been destroyed.
In Paterson is the hard cold fact that fighting
unions win. Even tho they do not achieve all they
set out to do the workers are certainly not worse
off than when they give in without a struggle.
The story of Paterson should be broadcasted
turnout the textile industry together with the
slogan of amalgamation-one union for textile
workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-22
The Khan in North Dakota

The peaceful plains of North Dakota have been
invaded by the ku klux khan. They are burning
fiery crosses and exploding bombs, conducting
their moral campaigns and in general preparing
the ground for the orgies Of whippings tarring and
terrorizing for which the khan is infamous.
In North Dakota the farmers are not half jump
ahead Of the collector for the harvester trust the
collector for the loan shark and the collector for
the local robbers who call themselves businessmen.
The farmers work for this trio and the railroad
companies. From year to year they slave for some
one else.
Into this situation comes the khan with its doc
trine Of racial and religious hatred its weird cere.
monies and its threats of violence eliminating al
ways in some cowardly outrage on helpless in.
dividual objects of its wrath.
II is all very well to brand the khan an organ
ization of degenerates but il a very valuable
purpose for the big and little robbers 1t dverts
attention from the class issues involved creates
dissension in the local organizations of the ex.
plotted and enables the local rulers TO prosecute
those more militant workers and farmers who re
fuse to be fooled while being robbed
lin North Dakota as elsewhere the khan must
be treated as an enemy of the workers and farmers
and an ally Of the robber clique.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-22
Physical Examination in Toronto

The physical examination system introduced in
cloak and suit shops of Toronto, and agreed to by
officials of the International Ladies' Garment
Workers Union, is one more example Of the con
stantly increasing restrictions with which work
ers confronted in the unending search for job.
The pretext Of the bosses is that they wish to
protect their customers from contagious disease,
but the workers will soon discover that the only
protection that will result from this rule will be
the protection of the boss from the activities of
militant workers
All physical examination systems have the pro
fessed love of sanitation for their excuse but it is
notable in this instance that before the rise of
unionism in the garment industry the bosses cared
neither for the health of their customers or that
of their employees. Sweat shops were the centers
of the clothing industry and sanitation was con-
spicuous by its absence.
good rule to go by is that whatever the boss
wants is a bad thing for the workers. A sanitary
shop from the standpoint of the capitalist is in
which the workers are devoid of all class conscious
ness even tho they might have every foul disease
in the calendar of the medical profession.
The Toronto workers will-have to fight this
physical examination system one of these days
and they may as well begin right now by not sub
hitting to it,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-22

By P. sEMARp.

TT will be remembered that short
L time ago the Confederation Gener-
ale du Travail Upitaire &C. G. T. u,
General Unitarian Federation of La
bor) proposed to- the reformist Con-
federation Generate du Travail &C. G..
T., General Federation of Labor to
hold mixed conference between the
two declarations in. order to discuss
the question of rarriving at trade
union unity. 1t was proposed that a
congress Of both declarations should
be held in September, the montn In
the course of which the congress of
each federation was to take place. At
the same time it was pointed out that
a congress thus held in common
might be decisive for the creation of
united General Labor Federation
through the Immediate amalgamation
Of the revolutionary and reformist
trade unions. -
At the end of March, the national
council of the reformist c. G. T. met,
anu dlJtI lulo piOHOodls
rejected it and declared that the ques-
ton of unity must be discussed at the
reformist conference which was to
take place in August, and that in any
case it could only be realized by the
return of the wage workers to the
organizations which officially belong
to the C. G. T. and are affiliated to
the Amsterdam International.
THIS was a brusque refusal as a
l. reply TO the proposal of the C. G.
T. U. With indefatigable zeal the
latter again approached the reformist
c. G. T. with another more precise
proposal; that of calling mixed con-
ference of the executive committees
of both organizations at short notice,
in order to DISCUSS the following
agenda:
1. That congress Of both associa-
tions be held in August after the con.
clusion of the congress Of each sepa-
rate association.
2. That the way should be pre-.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-22
The English Independent Labor Party Conference

! When the National Administrative
Councils IN. A. CO. report came up
for discussion two items we've Of par
amount interest; the Dawes report
and MacDonald's action on the forged
Zinoviev letter.
Here Macdonald got the shock Of
the conference; he had imagined that
everyone had completely forgotten his
action in this matter but when South
all of Birmingham, who for years past
has fought the pundits of the N. A.
c., demanded that the l. L. P. itself
should refer the matter back and it.
self set up committee of enquiry,
the motion was carried by 2S6 to 261.
The reference back of the section
dealing with the Dawes report was
moved by Marcus, young I. L. Per
from st. Pancras who for some time
has been showing signs Of dissatis-
faction with the official I. L. P.
But here the proletarian spirit failed
to manifest itself, and the reference
back was defeated by large majority.
The first resolution was on a mini
mum wage for all workers, and it
called on ''the government to set up
a national commission to decide on a
living wage and to arrange for the i'm
mediate naturalization of all indus
tries that did not pay such wage"
It was ironical to see the ]. L. p.
contemplating the possibility of Tory
government Matchmaking industries
Immediately after they themselves
had endorsed the Dawes report and
the consequent standardization, Of
important German Industries.
Realizing that the hope of a govern
ment commission in the dim and dis
tant future was not a prospect to en-
thral the workers, David Kirkwood
moved an emergency resolution, full
Of fine phrases about encouraging a
militant spirit amongst the workers
and asking for better industrial organ
izatiOn.
This left wing" resolution offered
nothing tangible, it offered no alterna-
tive to the program of the minority
movement which e. E. Hunter and
other l. L. Pers had attacked so viru-
lently of late.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-22
Sheppard Enters the List

Another rather fabby but willing defender of
American capitalist institutions against the in
roads of Communism has made his appearance in
the person Of L. E. Sheppard president of the
Order of Railway Conductors Speaking in Min
neapolis, where his union-the word "his" is used
advsedly-is In convention, this high-salaried la
Dor aristocrat pleaded with businessmen for the
support of his kind in their war on the reds.
This incident is interesting and important If
hny labor union in America should be deaf to Com
munist agitation it is the Order of Railway Con
ductors with their substantial incomes white collar
jobs and the general atmosphere of small town
responsibility with which they have surrounded
themselves Almost without exception the mem
bers of the union belong to the two powerful
fraternal orders-the Order Of the Mystic Shrine
and the Knights of Columbus. The conductors are
accepted as equals by the business element and one
would be inclined to say that they are so much of
the privileged strata of labor which Imperialism
subsidises that the class struggle is beneath their
attention.
But Sheppard's speech is an indication that this
conclusion is incorrect. The speech would not have
been made if somewhere and somehow the class
struggle which has produced the left wing move
ment in America had not made itself felt in the or
the officials of the hitherto complacent Order OF
Railway Conductors and that pressure can come
only from below.
We promise Brother Sheppard to investigate
with Communist thoroness the causes of his ex
pressed fears and make the proper recommends
tons. s.*
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-22
SHAKING A KINGS HAND

Is to say, to bleed the workers. The
United States may be changed into
monarchy, as far as they are con-
cerned provided II allows them to fur
Their their income.
The workers Of the United States
do not want these bosses of theirs TO
shake the workers hand. What the
workers of the United States need is
to give the capitalists such shake
that they will throw them off their
the workers'-backs. Hindenburg,
George, Coolidge-what is the differ
ence? TO the American capitalists It
ls all the same-as their actions
prove. Mussolini OF Italy and Horthy
OF Hungary are all the same to them.
The capitalist republic Of the United
States is not yet endangered. What
the workers of the United States need
is workers republic, where there
viii he no kings, no capitalist presi-
dents, hut a republic whore the work
ers and poor farmers will rule. II is
up to tho American workers TO do the
shaking.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-22
TRADE UNION UNITY IN FRANCE

prices, the breaking down of the
eight-hour day and the Unemployment
which would result
At the very moment when the G..
G. T. U. was making these proposals
and once more placing before the
working class the question or TRACE
union unity and the realization of a
completely united front, the leaders
of the c. G. T., side by side with the
socialist leaders, were involved in the
lowest political intrigues in their eff
forts to solve the ministerial crisis
which was taking place, ana 10 con-
tinue the policy of supporting the new
government.
TNHE negotiations with the represen-
L tatives of the bourgeoisie have
shown the working class how far they
have already been guilty of treachery.
When the renegade BRAND was called
upon to form a ministry, the socialist
leaders called the national council
Of their party in order to discuss
whether they should accept the pro-
posal made to them by BRAND, that
they should take part in the gov
eminent. 1t was no longer merely a
question of supporting the govern
ment but of actually taking part in
the ministry, side by side with one of
the worst opponents of the working
class. The majority of the active So
cial democrats of the national council
expressed themselves in favor of this
participation, but they postponed it
to later date as they feared, in view
of the fact that the municipal cleo
tions were about to take place, that
immediate acceptance might have UNI
pleasant consequences for their party.
The resolution passed by this so
cialist national council commissions
the party to examine into the future
possibilities Of participating in the
ministry, and declares that this must
be done in agreement with the re-
formist C. G. T.
Attention should be called to the
fact that, at the same moment when
the socialist national council came to
] this decision, Jouhaux in the name of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-22

has been rendered familiar by genera
tons of liberal and tory street corner
tub-thumpers. We were referred to
the hard lot Of the half million capt
talists" in the co-operatives. In order
not to antagonist the workers with
small savings we must compensate the
capitalist. In other words, we must
forego the very object of our exist
ance, the establishment of socialism
On the other hand Maxton, while
making a good destructive speech,
failed entirely to face up the problem
of how to conf1scate If reliance is to be
placed solely on the parliamentary
democracy that the l. L. p processes.
This item was eventually referred
back to the branches for discussion
This fact alone is proof enough that
MacDonaId's influence with the work
ing class is on the wane, otherwise
the mere suggestion would have been
secuted.
Apart from these main items hur-
ried resolutions were discussed deal
ing with the reform of parliament, on
the lines of the ordinary British bour-
geois municipal council, on India, adj
vocating Dominion Home Rule, sup
port Of the league of nations etc.
| If one surveys the work of the con-
ference, one finds that the l. L. p is
still facing both ways, still unable to
make up its collective mind on any
working class problem, still largely
under the influence of liberals, who
have Joined the l. L. P. not because
they love and admire socialism, but
because they hope to make the social
lists love and admire liberalism.
Still one CLEAN of hope arises from
this conference: Macdonald, who last
year was greeted with the most serv-
lie adulation. who in the past was I'M
disputed tyrant Of the 1. L. p, now
finds not only criticism of his action
supported by one third of the confer
ence, but that some elements are
striving for militant policy.
That policy they will not find in
the l. L. P, and in the near future
the Communist Party should begin to
recruit the best of the proletarian l.
L. Pers into its ranks.