The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 26, 1924, Page 4

— “Eres of the-organizedlabor msvement_has 4 Page Four THE DAILY WORKER seized control of the Red Army, the Soviet government was crumbling, the nation was in chaos and confirmation of these wild stories was hourly expected. The death of Lenin seems to have had a sobering effect upon some of the world’s champion liars; it was more luck than they expected. Now, in the Chicago Journal of Commerce, we discover Francis: McCullaugh of’ Butchkavitch fame, denying in toto the stories of his colleagues. He is in. Warsaw and has evidently been consulting Poles who have some glimmerings of sense. He says: “It is * * * certain that most of the current rumors concerning Trotsky are without foundation in fact. For instance, the report published Jan. 6th, that Trot- sky had been arrested was untrue, The story evidently originated in anti-Bolshe- vik circles in Berlin or Paris, but.telegraph inquiry sent from here by the Polish for- eign office to the Polish embassy in Mos- cow elicited the reply: “Nothing is known here of the re- ported arrest of Trotsky.” Neither is there a word of truth in the report that Budenny is on the side of Trotsky and has sent the Soviet government an ultimatum or in the one that Trotsky’s distrustful colleagues are keeping him confined in his house under strict supervision. The wish for the collapse of the Soviet government is, of course, father to the thought and no evidence of friction is too slight for the capitalist press to take up and magnify, hoping against hope that the workers and peasants government which has resisted the attacks of capitalist enemies within and with- out for seven years may be really crumbling and leaving the field clear for the enslave- ment of the Russian masses by the chop-lick- ing bourgeoise of the world. The hope is vain. Even the death of Lenin has caused nothing but grief and given rise to a new determination. ThE DAILY WORKER. Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1646 N. Halsted St., Chicago, Tl, (Phone: Lincoln 7680.) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail: $6.00 per year $3.50..6 months $2.00..8 months By mail (in Chicago only): $4,50..6 months $2.50. .8 months $8.00 per year By carrier: $10.00 per year $1.00 per month Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER 1640 N. Halsted Street J. LOUIS ENGDAHL,. MORITZ J. LOEB Entered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1923 at the Post- Office at Chicago, Ill., under the act of. March 3, 1879. Chicago, Miincis .Business Manager << > Advertising rates on application. 2 ““Constructive’’ Leaders After reading the report and recommenda- tions of President John ‘L. Lewis to the con- vention of the United Mine Workers, it is not hard to understand why the capitalist. press is loud in its praise of his “moderation” and “constructive” tendency. Brother Lewis dealt neither with the ques- tion of wages or unemployment, but he man- fully recommended an agreement covering a period of years to replace the’ present yearly, contracts. From the capitalist press goes up a howl of approval. Such an agreement, peacefully entered into, would, according to Brother Lewis, convince the national govern- ment and the public that the coal industry “was making a sincere attempt to put its house in order.” The tender care manifested by union offi- cials, such as Lewis, for the dear public that thinks of the miners only when they go on strike, is: symptomatic of labor officialdom’s attitude. it visualizes the wage-earners as partners in industry and believes that all the trouble over wages, hours and conditions of labor is due solely to misunderstanding. They have not the slightest conception of the real state of affairs, which is that workers are, not part- ners in, but slaves of modern industry. They always challenge the corporations, when the rank and file force them to fight, not as workers, but as American citizens who are being deprived of some guaranteed right. They make their fight on this basis, they or- ganize on this basis and on this basis the Casualties of Peace The statistical market is now clogged with shiploads of reports indicating the great pros- perity of the employing class in 1928. To make a perusal of these voluminous reports one has to wade thru billions of dollars of profits on paper. Occasionally the investigator is fortunate enough to come across a report. showin'z the price paid by the workers for producing these fabulous profits for the capitalists. Such a re- port is the one issued by the New York State Industrial Commissioner, Bernard L. Shientag, on the extent of industrial accidents. This report is most instructive. It shows the other side of the ledger in our industrial sys- tem. It shows the casualties of peace suffered by the workers. If the last fiscal year one out of every twelve workingmen inj New York State was injured. Out of every 3,000 work- ers in the Empire State one was killed, while at work, “or died from injury or disease suf- fered or contracted while at work,” in the year ending June 30, 1923: The price paid by the workers for enriching their Hosses is getting bigger and bigger. In the first six months of 1923 the number of casualties suffered by the industrial workers increased 25 per cent over the number. in the corresponding period of 1922. The increase over the same period of 1921 was 30 per cent. In the main these terrible conditions forced on the wage workers arige from the greed of the capitalists for gigantic profits. Many industrial experts agree that two out of every three industrial accidents can be avoid- ed. In recent years the campaigns of speeding up of production and the inadequacy of safety measures taken by the employers in order to maintain their profits have particularly ag- gravated this critical condition. This is typical of the conditions prevailing thruout the country. This ghastly situation re- minds one of the World War in which one out of every 3,000 American workers fighting over there lost his life. Indeed, the casualties of peace under capitalism are more and more ap- proaching the casualties of war. Thhe uscless- ness and inefficiency of capitalism are becom- ing increasingly and painfully evident. steadily “declined. Brother Lewis infers in his remarks about the industry putting its house in order that the coal miners are in some measure responsi- ble for the disturbances. He is tryipg to throw a mantle of respectability around him- self-and his henchmen, place the blame for strikes and so forth on the rank and file, in- sinuate himself into the good graces of the employers and capitalist press and lay a foundation for long term agreements that the employers will violate whenever the possi- bility of so doing appears. There is no question but that the United Mine Workers face a serious situation and that the increased production of non-union coal, the 60,000,000 tons or more in storage at present, together with the thousands of un- employed miners, make a strike a ticklish undertaking. No- labor organization, however, has suc- ceeded in strengthening itself by doing some- thing that the employers dearly desired, and if the press is to be believed, the operators will be quite willing to enter‘into longer agree- ment if no increase is asked. The organization of the coal miners has not been hastened by the attacks upon and expul- sions of the more radical elements and right now there is but one thing that will defeat the plans of the coal operators for the destruction of the union. That one thinz is the extension of the union to unorganized fields, but so much time has been spent in heresy hunting by Brother Lewis and his administration, that this, important matter has been lost sight of. We are afraid that the crusade against the reds will not be taken by the operators as evidence of virtue and that they will be just as hard-boiled with the miners as they were in the good old days when the United Mine Workers of America was known as a rebel organization. Press Swallows Lies The utter unreliability of the capitalist press on important issues has never been better shown than by the flood of outrizht Mes which filled its columns during the recent conference of the Communist Party of Russia and the con- gress of the All-Russian Soviets. At these conferences a discussion of the economic and political situation is carried on with a frankness and disregard of what is called public opinion without precedent in the history of governments. Nothing, bad or good, is concealed and there is no reason for any newspaper correspondent to be uninformed. Based on the slender fact of differences of opinion in these conferences the capitalist press of America had Trotsky staging a revolt, Prosperity For Some There are thousands of unemployed cloth- ing workers in the city of Chicago. An offi- cial of the Amalgamated Clothing ‘Workers declared last week to the DAILY WORKER that the offices of the union have been be- seiged by tailors out of work seeking financial assistance. eure relief. They had the usual hard luck story. They are making no profits. But the Chicago Journal of Commerce in its issue of January 1, published the annual report of the firm of Alfred, Decker and Cohn, Inc. which shows a net profit for the year ending October 31 of $837,899. That is a neat sum. Messers. Alfred, Decker and Cohn can go to the opera and perhaps take a trip to Palm Beach during the cold spell and the unemploy- ment period, to recuperate for the task of ex- ploiting the clothing workers when such cap- italistic activity again begins to pay in the clothing fear Meanwhile the needle slaves can bless their stars that they are living January 24, 1924 What Congress Wants to ‘Do With Foreign-Born Workers}: (Note :—This is the third of a series of articles which the Daily Worker will publish on the laws which are now pending before Con- gress, directed against foreign-born workers who Wish to come to this country and those in this country.) * ” s * By C. E. RUTHENBERG. The Vestal Bill. Representative Vestal, of Indiana, has introduced in the : House of Representatives one of the most far-reaching bills|% directed against foreign-born workers. ~ This bill does not only provide for the usual limitation of |4 immigration, the examination of immigrants before being |3 granted permission to enter the United States but also provides |% the means of taking care of the foreign-born wo®kers who are |$ Fourth Annual Masquerade Ball SATURDAY, JANUARY 26th, 1924 At the WEST END WOMEN CLUB HOUSE Corner of Monroe St. and Ashland Boulevard 2 The proceeds will goto ALBA NUOVA (The New Dawn) The manufacturers were also anxious to se- , in a “free country” and not in “barbarous Rus-|¥ Trotsky in hiding, the Cheka dynamiting his residence, his arrest and execution; the Rus- sian Communist party was split. Budenny had Jem of running industry for the benefit of the workers. ‘ ‘ sla” where the workers are solving the prob- | 4 now in the United States. Section 80 of the Vestal bill reads: |¢# “To facilitate the regulation of immigration, it shall be the duty of all aliens residing in the United States and all aliens sojourning in the United States to register in such United States judicial district before such officer of the Immigra- tion Service as may be designated bd the commissioner general, with the approval of the Secretary, and such registration shall include the full name of the alien, his nation- ality, age, personal description (including height, complexion, color of hair and eyes), date and place of birth, marital status, name and place of residence of spouse and children, if any, name and place of nearest relative in the United States and of nearest relative abroad, date and place of arrival, and, if thru a port, the name of the vessel on which he arrived; and at the time of registration the alien shall also furnish to the of- ficer such photographs as may be required by regulations prescribed under authority of this Act. Every alien so registering shall be issued a certificate of registration with a photograph of the alien perma- nently attached thereto.” Under this section of the Vestal bill every foreign-born worker in the United States will have to carry in his pocket a certificate of registra- tion containing his picture. Should the duplicate of this certificate be lost by the Department of Labor, the bill provides this shall be prima facie evidence that the foreign-born worker failed to register and shall be forthwith deported. Not only does Representative Ves- tal want to put upon every foreign- born worker the duty of registering, but he provides that the foreign-born. worker shall pay for the registration, for a fee of $5 is to be paid to the officer who registers the foreign- born in the United States. In order to get the full significance of this regitsration and photograph- ing provision of the Vestal bill apply- ing to the foreign-born workers who have been in the United States as long as five years, one must consider in connection with it ~another | bill which is pending before: of Representatives. big sis Deportation for “Engendering Il Feeling” This bill is introduced by sen- tative Romjue, who is from Missouri. It provides in Section 5 that “Any person not a citizen of the United States, while within the jurisdiction thereof who shall at- tack or seek to engender ill feeling against the institutions of the - ernment in the United States 1, in addition to being subject to pen- alties provided by law therefore, be immediately deported from the United States either before or after discharge of sentence for the com- mission of said offense’ as in the opinion of the legal authorities of the United States is deemed and the future DAILY WORKER in Italian language of er.” arty. Phat is De ge ill feeling | 4 the Workers P 5 against the institutions of the gov- ernment of the United States”? Al-|% most any kind of discontent voiced by| 4 an alien would come under this provi-| ¥% Certainly, an alien who partici-| 4 pated in a strike, for instance, in al¢ strike of the United Mine Workers! 3 of America or the Amalgamated) ¢ Clothing Workers, and found an in-|% junction issued against his union and]. protested against this injunction,}¥ could be charged with “engendering! % ill feeling against the institutions of|4¢ the government of the United States.” The Vestal bill and the Romjue bill taken together would achieve for the employers of the United States what they desire and wish to achieve—that is, to make it impossible for the foreign-born workers in this country Auspices: 4 Local Italian Branches of W. P..of A. Music by Sol Wagner Orchestra Entree at 7:30 P. M. Admission Ticket for Men 50c Clearing Sale Now : “ . On ie eee Actes ce. Pavesi SUITS with 2 pair Pants $29.45 Boone ae And a threat of, gepertation, should they/2 se OVERCOATS— and 34.45 (Note—The next article of thi ei sarencelll depot in GES ie ot Shoes—Furnishings—Hats Tuesday, Jan. 29th.) LARGE SELECTION OF BOYS’ CLOTHING AT BIG CUT IN PRICE Penal Slaves to Be Sweated By Wage Payments (Special to The Daily Worker) ALBANY, N. Y.—Inmates of New York state prisons are to receive wages, if Governor Smith's recom- mendations to the legislature go thru, but the men in jail will have to work harder and longer. The extension of the working day for penal slaves is recommended in the report of the Adolph Lewisohn committee, which the governor says he is taking as his guide. One and a half cents a day is the ‘wage under existing conditions, but Governor Smith has discovered that this | seal no wage at all, and that it leads to sabotage and ineffi- ciency, Under the new proposal there would be meget seales according to industry and ability. Thirty cents would be deducted for maintenance and the rest would be split, 30 per cent going to the state and the re- mainder to the prisoner, isoner's prospects for parole. would depend on his industrial rec- ord, Governor Smith stated. At pres- ent the state of New York has to buy many supplies from outside con- cerns employing free labor, Under the new system it is believed the prisoners will double production and make these outside purcheser unnecessary, ‘Two Stores TWO STORES: LINCOLN AVE. LINCOLN AVE. AND AND WRIGHTWOOD AVE. IRVING PARK BLVD. Eat Where All Friends Meet Gordon’s High Grade Restaurant and Oriental Kitchen ‘JISIT‘OUR CLUB DINING ROOM We also cater to banquets and parties 1259 S. Halsted St. We are open late at night. CHICAGO. Amalgamation means strength! 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