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FurrierS in Contention

The Furrier Union that opened in New York
yesterday mpost the struggle the rank and file to west
control Of organization the reaconay officials
in the hands of representatives of the membership who
will strive organize the industry and defend the interests OF the
employers The policy of the reaconar
by President Morris Kaufman is to crush the mill
every attempt improve the conditions in
the shops
reaconary ohcialdom of the American labor
the petty depos the Furrers Union strive enforce
rules against the demands of the membership by endeaor
those who fight improve conditions When
they officials they raise loud camo that the union
Composites of the a. f. of A. they
visualize themselves as the union
Organized influence of the abOrhang reaconary
Daily FOdrd the socialist clique of labor euenants
capitalism the Furres ohcadom will fight to the last in
continue strategic positions that will enable them etec
lively to the employers.
wing organized upon the principle of fighting for the
elementary the membership program that will
strengthen organization and enable function against the
bosses.
This is the lineup The left ring fighting against the Bosses
challenging power the erenchd right p1ing defending the
interests Of the bosses
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PGwnS of Imperialism

frghtune against the Duse ribesmen that brought
all of Syria into the struggle and reached climax in the sormlng
the orders of General Sarra
supporter the erro radical socialist clique In the
struggle socialists expose still agrany
their role agents of Imperialism.
the chamber deputies the latter part of last
the Communist members severely asaied the governments
policy demanded know the facts regarding the revolt OF the
sonng and the whole of the story
of General Sarral.
BRAND minister of foreign affairs in effort to
the Paeve proposed adjournment of the discussion
until of Sa Tho BRAND depses the socialists and 1t
that his political maneuyerng is toward the creation of
with Poincarei the dpraved socialists
his the chamber thereby enabling the Panee
eminent to remain in power.
The Communists alone fought against continuation Of the
Syrian withdrawal of French and the
Syria while the socialists true to their type turnout
the again the fact that Imperialism always
their support AS betayers Of the working class and the
colonial they play role not less vile than
conduct the actual buichery
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PROVES white
THUGS BEGAN
De TR0IT RIOT
State Witness Admits
Stones Were Thrown

DETROIT. Nov. 9.-Clarence OAR
row Saturday made his first success
full assault on the contention of states
attorneys that the killing or Leon
Breitner during a race riot here in
September was unprovoked.
The state has produced many wit
nesses who declared that while there
were crowds around the home of DR..
Ossian II. Sweet, colored physician
and chief of the eleven colored de-
PENDANTS on trial for murder, there
was no sign of violence and that the
two yolleys of gunshots came from
the house without any move toward
it being made by those outside.
But Saturday Edward Wettlaufer.
state witness, under cross-examina-
ton by Darrow, admitter that he had
seen stones thrown at the Sweet
house.
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comradeA-must of course receive the
help Of the necessary technical aids
and auxiliaries. The work of the
women's secretary or women's secre-
tariat must be complemented by the
cooperation of auxiliary organs; wom-
ems committees, women's agitation
committees, etc. The International
Women's Secretariat has set the ex-
ample of complete incorporation. In
every question it invariably cooper
ates with the corresponding working
departments of the Communist In
ternational. It has done this with ref
erence to the Department for Agita-
ton and Propaganda, the Organiza-
ton Bureau and the Cooperative
Department. It invites representatives
Of the various Sections to take part
in its meetings. 1t co-operates with
the related revolutionary organiza-
tons: the Red International of Labor
Unions, the Peasants International,
Youth International, international Red
Relief and International Workers Aid.
Unfortunately the theological and
organisatory Incorporation of Com
munist work among women is still
exceedingly incomplete in the majority
of the Sections of Che West. Very
few of the Communist Parties possess
the required apparatus.
Guard Against Erroneous Tendencies.
The central incorporation of work
among women has made the GREATEST
progress in Germany But there is
still much left to be desired here in
the districts and centres.
In France the central organ has been
created by the appointment of a
woman secretary, but until quite re-
Gently her activity was confined al
most solely to Paris
In Italy earnest endeavors have been
made towards the organization of
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good apparatus, despite Fascism. Here
there is a national women's secre-
tariat, reinforced by national wom-
ems committee, composed of represen-
tatives of the large provinces. 30 fed
eral women's agitation committees
have already sprung into existence,
but the Party has not yet organized
and developed the work sufficiently in
the various centres.
The apparatus is still exceedingly
imperfect in England The national
woman secretary receives practically
no technical aid, and in the various
districts and centres there is a lack
of organs making it possible to CO.
operate with the Central for the awak-
ening and mobilization Of the masses.
Czecho-Slovakia possesses a well de-
veloped apparatus for work among the
women. Unfortunately, up to the
present we have no definite inform
alton as to the relation between the
various departments, as to the or
ganizatory relations to the party
executive, to the party press, etc.
In the United States the organiza-
ton so it appears to us does not
seem to have been commenced on
right lines of our work.
This has however been the case in
Austria and Holland. In Sweden and
Norway there are still many remains
Of the old social democratic forms Of
organization. We have no definite
data of the state of affairs in Poland,
the party there being obliged to work
Illegally or semi-illegally.
As a general rule we find the two
following erroneous tendencies with
regard to the incorporation Of
women's work into the general work
of the party. Despite the repeated
decisions of the World Congresses
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Clara Zetkin Reports On Work Among Women

was interrupted by the election cam
paign undertaken by the party. This
fact shows the weaknesses of our
general party work in the shops and
factories. The situation should have
been utilized for modelling the women
workers in the factories.
In France the Paris Federation drew
up an excellent program for work
among the women workers in the fac
tories. The International Women's
Secretariat forwarded this to all Sec
tions as information and stimulation.
Up to the present we have received
no report on the rehabilitation Of this
program, nor on the necessary extern
sion of the work to the great indus
trial centres in the provinces: the De-
partment du Nord, Lyons and its en-
virons, upper Alsatia, etc.
Women In Ranks of Fighters.
In England, Party work among the
proletarian masses has been chiefly
confined to the miners, metal workers,
and transport workers, these being the
bearers of the Minority movement.
Practically nothing has been done to-
wards organizing the working. women
in. the factories. The Minority move
ment has been extended too little to
the trade unions in which women are
organized. 1t is not sufficient to or
ganize women merely for the strug-
giles against the employers, they are
to be enlisted in the ranks of the
fighters against trade union bureau
cracy; and among the champions Of
trade union unity.
This must be done in all the coun-
tries of the West. Here the women
organized in trade unions are every
where supporters of trade union bu-
reaucracy, altho this betrays the in
terests of the working women.
Ito Be continued)
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n 1
there are still Independent wotnen's
communist organizations, working side
by side with the party. And on the
other hand there is tendency to
deny the necessity of special system
attic work among the masses Of pro-
letarian women, by means Of special
organs. Both tendencies must be over
come
What has been accomplished towards
carrying out the work itself? The
World Congress and the Women's
conference laid special emphasis upon
the extreme Importance of reaching
the working women in the shops and
factories. This is closely bound up
with the reorganization of the party
with regard to factory nucleus. work,
and with the growing economic strug-
giles of the proletariat. Unfortunately,
work in this direction has not yet
made much progress.
Germany AccompIishes Most
The best work has been done by
The Communist Party in Germany,
though even more it is by no means
perfect. A beginning has been made
with the work of organization among
the working women in large indu-
strial centers, such as Berlin, Saxony,
Thuringia and Wurtemberg. The mi
tiative has been taken by the womens
departments, these entering into COM
munication with party and trade union
functionaries. Special success is re-
ported from the work among the
women textile workers of Thuringia.
In Gera it was possible to convocate
delegates meeting among the
women textile workers, and this ele-
cted a permanent women's committee.
A committee of women home workers
was founded in Berlin. Systematic
work towards organizing the women
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quently, the old undercIothes which
were saturated with blood were
burned
People Move From Village.
1T is difficult to find words to de-
scribe the horrors inflicted on the in
habitants of Belsk. People were kept
awake by the unearthly cries of the
tormented prisoners. Many inhabitants
of Belsk have left the place in order
to escape witnessing this unheard of
terror.
Panic reigns in the whole of
western White Russia. Peaceful in
habitants are living continually in the
fear that the same fate will be melted
out to them. Towns and villages are
full of agents-provocateur who
bring more and more victims to the
hangmen.
AT present about 200 people are
subjected to these tortures.
Socialists Aid Hangmen.
THE Polish bourgeois press and the
pseudo-socialists-the Polish socialist
party-deliberately keep silent about
these prisoners and the horrors per-
petrated on them, just as they keep
silent about the mass arrests and
brutal tortures inflicted on the 5000
Ukrainians and White Russians ar
rested in April, 1925, supplying the
working class of Europe with lying
statements on the position of the
workers, peasants, and national min
critics in Poland.
Send Delegations.
These prisoners have no opportun-
ity to tell anyone about their suffer
lngs. Ill treated and bruised they are
without any help whatever. The ar
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Call On World ProIetariat to Protest Persecution

brot into Belsk from the various parts
of the region. Those subject to arrest
included all prominent trade union
workers, all peasants suspected by the
intelligence department, workers in
receipt of legal opportunist (social
democratic) papers, White Russian
teachers and anyone denounced to
agents of the intelligence department
or by provocateurs. Arrests took place
in Belostok, ZabIudove, Suprasl, Mix
haelovo, and other villages and locali-
ties. On the road to Belsk the ar
rested were beaten and ill-treated in
every possible manner.
among the arrested there were old
men and women and little children,
who were taken in lied of relations
who could not be found and whose ar
rest was intended.
Towards the end of August there
were already ZOO prisoners in Belsk.
AS the prison could not hold them
all some Of them were quartered in
the hospital and in barracks.
How They Were Examined.
"The arrested people were taken to
the hospital where they were stripped
naked. Then they were taken to a
room with drawn blinds where the
higher police officials were awaiting
Them (the chief of the Intelligence de-
partment, Kozlovsky, the .Commissary
Schlussaltchik, and others). Here
the wild orgy began. The first ques-
tion was: Are you a Communist"
and if non-party peasant or worker
answered that he was not Commun-
list, forms of torurte were applied I'M
known during the czarist regime and
during the inquisition; the unfortun-
ate person was gagged, bound and in
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dent wish of these prisoners is that
the international proletariat and peas
antry should send workers and peas
ant delegations to Poland in order that
they should see for themselves TO
what length the Polish bourgeoisie
and intelligence department are go
ing, in order that they might see the
tortured and bruised bodies of their
brother workers and peasants.
Protest Against Terror.
"In fulfllment of the request of the
tortured prisoners, we, who have
escaped from this hell, approach all
workers and peasants organizations
and all workers and peasant parlia-
mentary fractions with the request to
help the workers and peasants linger-
ing in Polish prisons, to protest
against the unheard of brutalities and
insults and to send delegations to
Poland, where having convinced them
selves on the spot, in Belsk, that all
what we had said is only an infini-
tesimal part of the actual horrors,
they will compel the Polish govern
ment to put a stop to the brutalities
and atrocities, which are unprecedent-
ed in the history of the wdrlo.
stephan Savtshuk, Pursuant dis
trict, Sherasheff, village Suikovsti-
sena; David Lushka, Belsk district.
Belovesh, village Kivatshino; Vikenty
Sedon, Belsk district, Belovesh, vii
lage Kivatshino; Vladimir Bartasse-
witch, Belsk district, Belovesh, village
Kivatshino; Vladisslaw Novitsky,
PURSUANT district, Noskov, village
Bartnovitsky; Pavel Komyuk, Prush-
ami district, Noskov district, village
Salesye."
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THE fact that all stages in the tran
sition from primitive hand work to
the most highly developed capitalistic
industry may be found in large areas
in China is evident from a study of
economic conditions as officially re-
ported.
While modern large-scale produc-
ton takes place chiefly in the treaty
ports and large cities Of the coast the
interior places, even those of great
importance and size, may, like Picking,
be characterized by large number of
small establishments in which a few
workers and apprentices work under
the direct supervision of the master.
Indeed in the majority of cases the
owner tolls side by side with his en-
ployes.
Rug Industry of Peking.
OUT of the thousands of workshops
~ in Picking, designated as factories,
there are hardly a score which are of
any consequence. Most of them en-
ploy under. 100 workers and are only
partly modernized. In the rug indus
try, for example, there were in 1920
a total of 354 establishments OF the
nineteen of these which were we'll
known to the public the largest EN-
ployed 200 operatives and s appren-
tees. The use Of very large num-
Der of apprentices as compared to
skilled workers is shown in the fact
that the third in size hired 300 ap-
prentices to 30 trained weavers. An
other place employed five operatives
with apprentices and another had but
one craftsman with 81 apprentices.
The apprentices were from IL to 20
years old and their term ran for three
years. They received their board and
lodging and a meager allowance at
the end of each year. The operatives
were paid 20 cents to 80 cents for
each kung they finished, being requir-
ed to complete 30 kung a month. A
kung is a square foot of rug woven in
. warps and the same number of
woofs.
The simplest rug factory requires
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Before Communist women's Congress


My report will be brief The point
Of greatest Importance is to hear the
reports given by the representatives
of the individual sections.
The task set the International Wom-
ems Secretariat was the execution OF
the decisions of the V. World Con-
gress and of the International Com
munist Women's Conference. This
task consisted of the complete ideolo-
gical and organisatory Incorporation
of Communist work among women in
to the general work of the Party. This
task has nothing to do with the ques-
ton Of the right and duty of women
comrades to cooperate, on terms OF
perfect equality as members of the
Sections, in all work, actions and
struggles in the Communist Parties.
This right and this duty are beyond
question. Our task is to win over the
broad masses of working women for
the principles of Communism, and to
make them so at one with these prin-
ciples that their faith becomes action.
The masses of proletarian women
must be induced to take part in all
the economic, political, and social
struggles of the proletariat and to do
this under the leadership of the Com
-munist Parties and of the Communist
international.
Organization Work Necessary.
The Communist Parties must create
suitable organs for the accomplish
ment of this task. In every leading
body-from the national Central down
to the nucleus-one member is to be
specially entrusted with the duty of
systematically organizing the work
among the masses of the women. This
member-whether a man or a woman
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TINS condition was thrown against the
wall, the legs and arms were tied
with string, a stick was inserted
and the victim was thrown into the
air. This procedure continued as a
rule until the victim tainted. Then
cold water was poured on him or her
and the work began again.
"Hot salt water mixed with urine
was poured down the throat of the
victims. Needles were pushed under
the nails; needles were also made red
hot and stuck into the soles; the soIes
of his feet were then beaten and if
the person under examination had not
yet tainted, fire was applied to the
soIes. of his feet until he lost con-
seriousness and then he was again re-
vived.
Confessions Forced.
But if a peasant or worker. unable
to stand the torture, confessed that
he was a Communist, he was asked
to give the name of the leaders, etc
AS he did not know what answer to
give to these questions, he was again
tortured. He was beaten on the head
with sticks. Water was poured into
the nose until the stomach began to
swell and a policeman sat on the
swollen stomach, then the victims
hair was torn out by the root. Lips
were burned with lighted cigarettes.
commissary SchIussaItchik applied
the burning cigarettes, and the bruis-
ed and haIf-dead victim was thrown
into the hospital until the next dose
of torture.
"The prisoners were not allowed to
see relations nor to receive food 1t
was only permitted to bring under
clothes which had to be changed fire.
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Small Industry i'm China By JAIME. H 1...s
By James II. Dolsen

factory with $50 workers. The rest
are very small family affairs using
hand labor only. The manufacture of
glassware has been known to the Chi
nese for countless centuries yet the
plants are generally small, using the
crudest and most primitive methods.
The largest employs 20 craftsmen
to 10 apprentices. Two hosiery
knitting mills out of the rs were of
any size. At that time the four mod
ern flour mills were closed because
the imported -four from mills in
America was cheaper, an interesting
illustration of the way in which the
more efficient, highly-paid labor of our
own country, scientifically exploited
with capitalist control of huge sources
of supply can drive out of native
market its own home production.
Child Workers Preferred.
THE largest industrial establishment
l. seems to have a branch of the
Tanhua Match company. Here over
1000 were employed. or these one
half were children engaged in the
packing department where It was
stated they were preferred to adults
mot because of the cheapness of their
labor but because of the dizziness of
their hands" However, the. fact Of
their working at less than half what
the adults get very evidently played a
considerable part in their selection.
The Sonhoshin Brewery, the only
Chinese-owned one in northern China,
has 270 operatives and 200 appren-
tees. The Picking Electric Light COM
pany, which employs 800 men, accords
the best working conditions and
wages. It's employees receive from $40
to $40 a month with their meals
There is pension for the injured and
30 per cent of the net profits go to the
workers as yearly bonus.
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1asky Is Optimistic
That Fight on Movie
Trust VIII Be Fizzle

Charges of violation of the Sherman
antitrust law in the moving picture
trust sponsored by the famous Play
ers-Lasky does not phase the vice
president of the company one bit, he
has made known to interviewers at
the Drake Hotel wheer he attended a
conference and feast Of executive
and sales officials of the corporation.
When asked about his guess OF the
outcome of the Nov oath hearing on
charges made by the examiner for the
federal trade commission, Jesse L.
Lasky replied that he was very op-
timistic.'
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Put u copy Of the DAILY.
WORKER in your pocket when
you go to your union meeting.
Send for catalogue of all Com.
munist literature.
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Continued from page u.


Peasants Appeal for Aid.
ITO all workers and peasants or
CARNATIONS.
Help us to defend ourselves and
do not allow the Polish hangmen to
continue making game of the White
Russian peasants. Do not allow the
destruction of the trade union and
other workers organizations of west
ern White Russia.
Comrades, workers and peasants:
1--WE, the undersigned, workers and
peasants of the Belostok region (West-
ern White RUSSIA having escaped
from the cruel Polish inquisition deem
it our proletarian right and duty to
ask you for help. Having been wit
nesses of the brutalities and cruel
mockery of the hangmen of the Polish
capitalists and landowners, and hav-
ing ourselves been inmates of the dun
geons of the defensive polish intelli-
gence Department. from which we
have escaped by sheer luck, we can
not remain silent but must tell you Of
the horrors perpetuated in Poland.
at is almost impossible to describe
what is happening now in Dolsk, in
the Belostok region.
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Campaign Against Workers.

ain August the Polish intelligence
began regular campaign
to destroy the workers and peasants
Of the Belostok region.
Every day tens and hundreds of ar
rested workers and peasants were
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capital of less than 800 and is op-
Grated by the proprietor with few
apprentices in a native shack.
Other industries in Same Stage.
OTHER industries in Picking are in
Othe same intermediate stage. Out
Of over 100 cotton mills only three
have over 100 employees including hte
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Send Delegations.

These prisoners have no opportun
ity to tell anyone about their suffer
lngs. Ill treated and bruised they are
without any help whatever. The ar