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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-30

national Ladies' Garment Workers
Union and che Furriers' Union. He
attributed it to the rise of the Trade
Union Educational League, and stated
his belief that the only difference be-
tween the rights and let's was the
question of whether an outside body
should control the union. He felt the
matter would be settled by the mem
bers themselves, but he did not ex-
plain how. He definitely opposed the
efficacy Of an election. He even had
no faith in an election supervised by
an impartial body, like the American
Civil Liberties Union.
II myself suspect that body. Two
or three people do the active work
for the others. For instance there
was a meeting called to discuss
problems Of our union and | deliber-
ately did not interfere, just to see
what would happen. But the Civil
Liberties appointed a committee to
visit that meeting without even ask
ing me whetheT I wanted it. They
have lost whatever usefulness they
had"
Fired For Attending Meeting.
One of the students asked about
the Kulok shop, where a worker was
taken off the job for attending a left
wing meeting, and the whole shop
came out on strike. Beckerman re-
membered that the man had been
fined by the Executive Board for
some infringement of union rules, but
he could not remember what it was.
He was taken off the job for failing
to pay the fine.
According to Beckerman, members
of the Amalgamated can be members
Of the T. U. f. l.. but such members
cannot run for office.
"But as a member OF the union is
he not entitled to all privileges of the
union," someone asked.
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CURRENT EVENTS
Continued from Page Ote)

Continued from Page Ote)
news item that told of certain Feo-
dor Volkov, who was recently sem
fenced to death by the Soviet Govern
ment for numbering 800 peas
ants to avenge himself for the con-
fiscation of his property by the state.
lie was a big landholder under the
Gar. "Fine. I'd kill a million of you
dogs if you tried to take my property"
comments this gentle soul, whose
property in all probability is confined
to whatever livestock manages to exc
out precarious existence on the in
side Of his rags.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-30

OF better stuff is our Cleveland
~ correspondent who forwarded a
clipping from local paper which re-
corded the death Of a prohibition
stool-pigeon. The fink is alleged to be
a former radical who became an agent
of the department of justice and was
responsible for the arrest and impris-
onment of many workers. There is a
suspicion that the bootleggers got him.
But the informer could not claim that
they did not give him a fair warn
ing. Some of them recently hung him
by the heels out of an eight-story
window with the hint that the next
time he became over-zealous in the
line of duty, he would hit the side
walk. Those soft-hearted people who
sympathize with stool-pigeons may
now shed tear over Dan Kuts.
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-30

Three elections have been held in
the local during the last month where
two cliques have been struggling for
the two paid jobs that are available.
Last Tuesday Beckermsn had more
than 200 ballots stuffed in the ballot
box and elected" his two men.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-30
Give Beckerman the Air.

NEWARK, N. j., April 29. -
Abraham Beckerman, manager of the
New York Joint Board of the Anal
gamated Clothing Workers Union
was chased out Of a meeting Of Local
"a that was held in this city last
Tuesday evening, when the installa-
ton of new officers of the local was
to be the order of business.
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-27
REACHES SOUTH IN ROwBOAT

SiXty-seven year old Charles Seilitz
who left Far Rockaway two months
ago in a rowboat headed for Florida,
has reached Beaufort, N. c., accord
ing to information received by his
wife.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-27
START
HUNT FOR DAWN

When the Army and Navy de-
partments declined to cooperate in the
search for the missing aeroplane,
Dawn, in which Mrs. Frances Gray
son and her crew hoped to reach Grace
Harbor. N. F.. Mrs. Brice Goldsbor-
ough, who received q $500 check from
her husband, the navigator of the
plane. used the money to hire a plane
to search for him.
Later in the day, forced by public
opinion, several aeroplanes and YES
sells were pressed into service. It
was the opinion Of many involved in
the search, that the government re-
scented the woman's flight, for, if a
woman could accomplish as much, it
might depreeiate Lindbergh's feat,
thus lassening his value as a "hero"
in such propaganda flights as the
Mexico trip.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-27
Labor Defense Gives
Money to Colo. Miners

Continued from Page Onel
conduct the defense fight jointly with
the 1. w. W. Defense Committee in
Colorado and appeals to all members
and friends of the International Labor
Defense to help in the carrying out of
this obligation.
First New Dangers.
"The Rockefeller and allied mining
interests in Colorado which have al
ready taken the lives of a number of
strikers and which are undertaking
to deprive the miners and their lead
ers of the last semblance of legal
right, will not hesitate to go further
if they are permitted to move in the
dark, without any effective resistance.
The atmosphere in Colorado is charg-
ed with the danger of new repres-
sions and frame-ups against which
the organized and conscious workers
must be on their guard and organize
their resistance in advance"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-27
AMBITIOUS PLAN
TO train LEADERS

The New National Training School
course planned by the Workers Party,
to be held in New York under the
auspices of the Workers School, will
be the most ambitious effort ever
made in the direction of training lead
ing party functionaries.
Every district is sending one of its
outstanding comrades for further de-
velopment. 1t is hoped that out of
the courses will come new district or
ganizers, agitprop directors, and
other leading party officials.
The courses present a theoretical
and practical development for these
comrades and show a marked en-
phasis upon the special meeting of
American problems by the methods
of MarXism-Leninism.
Best Instructors
The instructors are the best that
the Workers School affords for the
various special subjects that are be-
ing announced.
The list of courses and instructors
is as follows:
l. Marxism-Leninism. Thre e
times week for three months. In
structor, Bertram D. Wolfe.
2. History of the United States and
American Political Problems. Twice a
week for three months. Instructor,
Jay Lovestone.
Course in Union.sm.
8. Theory and practice of Trade
Unionism and Special Trade Union
Problems. Twice a week for three
months. VIM. Z. Foster.
A. Party Organization, Theory and
Practice. Three times a week for
three months. Jack Stachel.
5. History of the International
Labor Movement. Three times week
for one month. Alexander Bittelman.
6. History of the American Labor
Movement and of the Party. Three
time a week for two months. Max
Bedacht.
Z. MARKHAM Economics and Ad-
vanced MARKHAM Economics. Twice a
week for three months. H. M. Wicks.
Research Methods.
8. Methods of Research. Six hours
only. Alexander Trachtenberg.
8. Methods of teaching in workers
classes. Six hours only. D. Benjamin
assistant director of the Workers
5chooD.
10. Public Speaking. One night a
week for three months. Carl Brodsly
II. Workers Correspondence. One
night week for three months. Art
Shields director Of the New York
Branch of the Federated Press).
In addition to the above courses
here will be few special lectures
On outstanding problems before the
Party, and it is hoped that all stu,
dents will be given the opportunity
attend the Plenum of the C. E. C.
If the Party, which will be held few
lays before the opening of the course
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-27
National Young Workers
Committee Hits Opposition

(Statement Issued by National Com
nittee of the Young Workers League
Of America)
The National Executive Committee
Las repeatedly condemned the OPP
position to the feminist Central Com
inittee of the Communist Party of the
Soviet Union from the time when in
1924 Trotsky attempted the revision
Of Leninsm along the lines of
1t condemned specifically
the Zinoviev opposition group at the
time of its official appearance at the
XIV Party Congress Of the C. P. S. U.
and noted the development of the OPP
position Bloc made up of all anti
feminist elements in the C. P. S. u.
under the hegemony Of Trotsky and
Trotslyism.
Rejects TrOtskyism.
The N. Z. C. has repeatedly re-
jected the anti-Bolshevik line of
Trotsl1yism in it's old and newer
forms, declaring it to be Menshevist
deviation from Leninism, dangerous
to the ideology Of the proletarian
vanguard and to the maintenance Of
The proletarian dictatorship.
The development of the Opposition
and the extension Of the Trotskyist,
anti-Leninist program to cover the
whole range Of international and
domestic-Soviet pro BILE m s have
brought out more clearly than ever
the dangerous essentially Menshevik
nature of the theology and platform
of the Opposition.
Welcome Reputation.
The N. E. C. is therefore glad to
see that the program of Trotshyism
has been most decisively rejected by
the overwhelming majority of the
Bolshevik workers of the Soviet Union
and with practical unanimity by the
whole Communist International.
The complete bankruptcy of the OPP
position is all the more evident when
we consider that in not single Com
munist Youth organization through
out the world has it received any sup
port. This in spite Of the fact that
Trotsky has always made special eff
forts to win the youth, setting up
false doctrines of young versus old''
to accomplish this purpose, and in
spite of the fact that Vuyovitch, who
is now the right hand of Trotsky, was
Secretary of the Y. c. l. for mum
Der Of years.
Desperate Facti0nalism.
In the last period Of time the fac
tjonal extremities to which the OPP
position Understanding themselves
generals without an army---have gone
in their attack on the Party have be-
come most unbearable. Besides at
tempting deliberately to undermine
the authority Of the Party among the
non-Party masses, the Opposition has
begun to create a second Party in the
soviet Union, have set up an Illegal
apparatus and illegal publishing cen
Iers and have enlisted in this struggle
against the Party, non-Party bour-
geois intellectuals who, in turn, were
connected with active White Guard
conspirators.
The Opposition, moreover, has built
up and still maintains international
connections with renegade and ex~
PEELED groups in other countries, which
have assumed a viciously anti-Com-
munist and anti-Soviet character. In
this way the Opposition is attempting
70 destroy the Conintern and weaken
the whole international revolutionary
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-27
movement.
Danger to Communism.

Danger to Communism.
The activities of the Opposition at
the present time, when the Soviet
Union is again attacked by all the i'm
perialist powers on so many fronts,
constitutes objective support to these
attacks and increases the danger of a
war against the Soviet Union. The
Young Workers League has set for
itself as one of the main tasks i'll the
immediate period the struggle against
the war danger thru rallying the
masses of the American young work
ers to the defense of the Soviet Union,
and this task it will carry on against
the distractions OF the opposition.
The anti-Party actions Of the OPP
position leaders reached their climax
upon the occasion of the celebration
of the tenth anniversary of the Soviet
Revolution, when Trotsky, Zinoviev,
Radek and the rest, instead Of joining
in the official Soviet and Party
demonstrations, attempted to utilize
the occasion for staging anti-Party
demonstrations and for arousing non
Party workers against the Party, with
the result that these demonstrations
of the Opposition soon assumed a
directly anti-Soviet character.
Condemn Vuyovich.
The N. E. c. unanimously approved
the disciplinary measures a n
against Vuyovich at the time when
he enjleavored to make use of his POI
siticn as Secretary of the Y. C. I. to
organize the Opposition within the Y.
c. |. and to convert the Y. c. l. into
an instrument for fighting the Com
intern. N. e. c. now supports whole
heartedly the steps taken to discipline,
by expulsion from the Party, those
leaders of the Opposition who have
engaged not only in anti-Party, but
also in anti-Soviet activities. The N.
E. C. calls for the expulsion from the
Party of all elements following in the
footsteps of these disrupters.
The Opposition IsOlates.
The policy of the opposition would
result in isolating the Communist
Youth organizations from the masses
of the young workers at a time when
it is especially necessary, and when
all the Leagues are endeavoring, to
establish the closest contact with the
young workers in the shops and fac
tories and to mobilize them in the
fight for the Soviet Union.
: For the revolutionary youth, it is
especially important to learn the
principles and traditions of the Len
mist Party and of proletarian dis
ciplino. The N. E. C. calls upon the
wh0e League to defend the line of the
c. +. S. U. and the Connintern against
the Opposition among the masses OF
the young workers, to study and dis
cuss the issues involved in order to
strengthen the feminist ideology OF
its own ranks and confirm its under
standing of the basic principles O.
Bolshevism.
Rally to the Defense of the Sovie:
Union!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-27
Bosses Boast Thew Can
Evict Miners by Jan. |

(Continwri fyc.,, Pare One
stnrs. backed hv federal court de-.
cisions. nv Governor Fiehor ard HE
coal ard iron roiico. ard with what
ttev claim onrnlv is the SUPPORT If
iha COOLIDGE administration. are liter
allv STARVING ? quarter If million
working men, women and children to
dealt.
"Tf they DON'T Ike they can leave.
This is free country" IS the way
ore Of the onerators' publicity men
put It to thn writer.
The Worst IN History.
Probably Of no time ard pIarn IN
American lohor Fietorv has +horo
been such deliberate p1arrirc - fo~co
trrr surrender, tho storvati1r or the
evcars Of Tire workers IN whole IN
dnstrv.
Pelicf dribblrs IN rorniae. Clothir~
eorres IN ra~ccIs. Food comoe II
pounds. r. there is not m be enacted
~ no pennevlvaria va'leva. etill
heoutiful IN spitc If +ho roninr tur-
nels and the gaunt gallows frames Of
Athe mines. and still moro N snito of
the huge piles of slack f~or1 which a
r-i-or NAV pick n lump Of coal only
~ tho price IF a iail sentence, an
Airaricon tragedy Of terrible import
to the labor movement, money must
core IN thoueards. clothing by the
ton and food by the carload.
Counting ChiIdren's Ribs.
Some of these families have been
FIGHTING the open shop for three
wears They arc worn and hungry.
The coal operators know that if re-
lief does not come soon and on huge
scale, that victory is theirs.
Counting the ribs of ragged, starv-
ing miners children as they show
more plainly the lack of food, and
calculating the length Of time the
fathers can stand thee sights without
asking for work at slave wages, is
the principle occupation and pleasure
Of the coal operators in Pennsylvania
these days.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-27
BY WINIFRED r. MOOERS

DENVER, COLO, Dec. 26.-The
State Executive Committee of the
striking miners, in line with their
policy OF always standing ready to
settle, offered terms to the industrial
commission on which men of the
northern field will return to work
Monday.
The terms are: First-no discrim-
nation against strikers. Second
men to be paid the scale in effect at
the time of strike, final settlement to
be retroactive to the time the men re-
turn to work. Third-operators to
recognize the pit committee elected by
the miners to act in cases involving
complaints against violation Of the
state mining laws and working condi-
tons, such committee not to be elected
until at least five days after the
strikers return to work Fourth
operators to use Influence to secure
the release of all men jailed for par
ticiPation in the strike.
The presentation of the miners case
will probably be concluded today and
the hearing adjourned over the holt
days until Tuesday.
The operators announce that they
are not parties to the hearing and will
not answer the strikers, except to de-
tend specific charges.
The blind attorney Henderson for
the !. W. W. who recently filed mo-
ton to quash indictments against &C
men in the Southern field announces
today that the motion has been sus-
5ained in the Walsenburg and Trini-
dad courts and the district attorney
is ordered to draft new indictments.
Some Of these men are out on bail.
Others will be held pending outcome.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-27
Poor Workers Mucted to Provide Funds SQuandered
SHIPSTEAD, BY
VOTE, DESERTS
LABOR PARTY
Senate Ma.
chine on Organization

WASHINGTON. D, c., Dec. 20
Henrik Shipstead, farmer-labor SEN
ator from Minnesota, is reported by
the press to have voted with the re-
publican regulars in the senate on the
question of organizing the senate for
this session. In doing so, Senator
Shipstead has taken another step
away from the farmer-labor move
ment which he is supposed to repre-
sent, but does not represent, and is
moving in the direction of the re-
publican party.
WASHINGTON, D. c., Dec. 26.-
The recent injunctions against sew
eral trade unions, particularly the in
functions against the coal miners in
Pennsylvania, is the subject of an edi-
torial in Labor" of Dec. 3.
Labor" attacks the courts of Penn
sylvania as "a product of the gang
rule OF Pennsylvania" Labor" char
acterizes the political machine which
dominates the courts and the govern
ment of Pennsylvania, as gangs which
are financed by the big business of
that state, by the coal barons and the
steel barons and the banks and the
Pennsylvania Railroad and above all
the Mellon family.
Labor" also states that it is in the
power OF the workers to change this
present situation. The editorial pro-
ceeds to say: Pennsylvania is one of
the most highly industrialized states
of the union. Probably three-fourths
OF its voters are either wage earners
or intimately dependent on wage
earners. If they will organize to use
their political power, no machine can
stand against them"
After such a clear-cut statement
that the workers must organize to
use their political power, one would
expect just as clear-cut a proposal or
an appeal to the workers to proceed
to organize labor parties in their To-
cailtles, and national labor party
to oppose the political machines of
the employing class. But the editorial
never reached that conclusion, which
is the only possible one from the
given situation. The remedy vaguely
suggested by Labor" is the old dis
credited game Of capturing the pri-
maries of the capitalist parties.
Even in the days of the Conference
for Progressive Political Action
(CPPA) this idea of the workers try
ing to capture the primaries of the
capitalist parties proved to be futile
and ineffective. This is particularly
the case today, when there is no la
Dor organization in the field to or
ganize such capture of the pri-
marieS.
The feeling is steadily penetrating
the ranks of labor, that the next step
in the political progress of the Amer
lean working class is independent
working class political action. Trade
unionists and workers generally are
beginning to realize that the only
way for the workers to use political
power is to organize it into a party
OF their own, which is labor party.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-27
RIGHTEOUS COP.
PLANS ATTACK
ON TAMMANY
mo uiry May Doom
Small Job Holders

Hundreds of small Tammany job
holders will be the first to fall by
the political wayside when the in
curry into the now notorious S16,-
900 900 sewer graft begins to get I'M
der way in Queens soon.
This is now generally recognized
on all sides as one Of the inevitable
consequences Of the official "house-
cleaning" which will take place as a
prelude TO the investigation into the
huge swindle, of which Maurice f.
Connolly, borough president of
Queens, was the principal beneficiary
Steuer Camoflages
Max D. Steuer, one of the highest
priced and slickest lawyers in New
York City will attempt to find legal
justification for the "indiscretions" of
Connolly. Former District Attorney
Emory r. Buckner, who has been ap-
pointed by Judge Scudder to dig up
the actual details Of the gigantic steal,
win represent the republican party
IN its campaign of self-righteousness
against their erring Tammany breth-
rem.
AS plans for the hearing in the
Long Island Court House are per-
fected, those in the greatest danger
Of being pointed out as the chief ac-
tors in the municipal robbery arc
hunting for goats upon which to fast
en- the blame for the present embar-
RAISING situation.
Realty Grab.
Queens realtors, VINO have beer SELL
ing tiny building lots to small-salaried
sUburbanites, are being verbally
stoned for Encouraging" the present
eruption, in which they have been aid
ed and abetted by the republican lead
ers who see in the present situation
an excellent opportunity to dislodee
Taanmany which for SO long has
reigned supreme in the borough of
Queens.
Homes Go Down Sewer
Pitiable instances are being point
ed out how workers who built homes
I'm Queens have been mulcted of their
savings by the progressively increas-
ing system Of sewer taxes and other
assessments which Connolly and his
loyal lieutenants had perfected to an
exact science. Another recent reve-
lation is the fact that many individ-
uals have not received notices Of as
sessments for many years. This was
done. it is declared, to conceal the
enormous cost Of sewage improve
ments after the Tammany politicians
had "fixed" their contracts with the
few concerns which had a virtual
monopoly on the piping used there.
AIS Cleverness Fails.
Despite the political acuteness said
to have been shown by Gov. A Smith
in appointing as chief investigator,
Judge Scudder, democrat who re-
ceived the approval Of the Citizens
Union, the revelations concerning the
graft scandal are expected to be so
sensational that much spade-worll
done in anticipation Of Smiths presi-
Dental nomination will be lost, it is
mournfully admitted by loyal Tam
manyites.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-27
Aged Worker Killed

Francis J. Neville, former gateman
of the Long Island Railroad, was
found dead at the crossing at Fourth
St., Bayside, Queens, killed by train
owned by the company for whom he
worked many years. He was 70 years
old.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-27
TEST MARRIAGE FITNESS.

PARIS, Dec. 26.-All French men
and women contemplating marriage
will first have to undergo medical
examination, if the proposal just laid
before the Chamber of Deputies is
passed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-27
DONATIONS TO THE DAILY.

The Workers Party units in Pater-
son, New Jersey, have contributed
3.8T to The DAILY WORKER, part
If the proceeds of the Tenth Ami
versary Celebration.
The Ladies auxiliary of Superior,
Wise, has donated $33.75 to The
DAILY WORKER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-27
RIOT GUNS FROWN
Ar COLO. MINERS

(Ccnr1aued from Page One)
the raid on the hall is taken to mean
that this Rockefeller concern intends
to make no concessions to the strik-
ers and will disregard any finding of
the industrial commission with which
It's disagrees.
Strike leaders declare that the Col
orado Fuel and Iron Company issued
instructions for the raid.