The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 28, 1924, Page 6

Page Six THE DAILY WORKER. Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1640 N. Halsted St., Chicago, Ill. (Phone: Lincoln 7680.) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail: $6.00 per year $3.50..6 months $2.00..8 months By mail (in Chicago only): $8.00 per year $4.50..6 months $2.50. .8 months 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 d-class mail Sept. 21, 1923 at the Post- renee Fr tiiger the act of March 8, 1879. Chicago, Illinois cabs ceigie-e mailers Editor ... Business Manager Entered as Office at Chicago, Ill., <a 1% The Cabinet Banditry The more the Teapot Dome matter is stirred by the senate investigating egmmittee the more noigome is the smell that arises. The noxious fumes seem to take a malicious delight in curl- ing about the head of practically every prom- inent member of the administration from the president down—and when one starts to go down from Coolidge into the personnel of his cabinet one can sink to very low depths indeed. President Coolidge, as vice-president, was a member of the cabinet that decided to peddle the naval oil reserves; Secretary of. the Navy Denby approved the leases and Assistant Sec- retary of the Navy Roosevelt signed them for him. Secretary of the Interior Fall conducted the negotiations and received a $135,000 hono- rarium for his services from Doheny and Sin- clair. Attorney-General Daugherty, that staunch defender of the constitution, consulted in his official capacity as to the legality of the transaction, let the good work go on. Secretary of the Treasury Mellon, engaged in lowering the taxes of himself and other multi-millionaires, made no protest., Secretary of Agriculture Wallace was too busy staging milking contests with Magnus Johnson to pay any attention to the deal. Secretary of Labor Davis, the boot- black of the administration, in arranging for the finger-printing of all foreign-born working- men for the convenience of the corporations, overlooked the fact that gathered around the present administration is a gang of 100 per cent Americans whom the evidence shows are at all times ready and able to purloin anything ‘exeept a red-hot stove or a cellar full of water. It seems fairly certain, from the testimony given before the senate investigating commit- tee, that since the advent of the forces of sweetness and light personified in the Harding and now in the Coolidge administration, every- thing in Washington with two ends to it and of any value has been in howrly danger of mysteriously disappearing. To us this occasions no surprise except that some of the thieves have been caught with the loot concealed about their persons; this is rather unusual and constitutes the real sensa- tion. The theft of rich natural resources has been going on for many years and most of those who have grown wealthy and powerful from the proceeds of such robbery are held up to the American youth as examples of American thrift and entterprise- If any of ¢he Coolidge-Fall-Daugherty-Roose- velt-Sinclair-Doheny outfit are stripped of their loot and sent to jail—a possibility that arouses enormous skepticism in us—it will not be as punishment for their crimes against the nation. It will be solely and simply for being careless; so careless that the official agencies of Amer- ican capitalist enterprise are held up to the ridicule of the mob. They have committed the unpardonable sin against the capitalist system—not against its moral code. ~ They have been found out. Impotent Officialdom Meyer Perlstein, Vice-President of the La- jies’ Garment Workers’ Union, must be given eredit for originality if nothing else in arrang- ing an alibi for the deplorable conditions in that section of the Chicago garment trades over which that union has jurisdiction. According to interviews with Meyer, fea- tured by the capitalist press, the loss in union membership in this territory is due, not to the campaign of persecution, slugging and expul- sion that he has carried on against the left wingers in the union—members of the Trade Union Educational League and the Workers Party included—but solely to the fact that girl members of the union are too susceptible to the advances of dance-hall sheiks and lounge-lizards hired by the employers to wean the girls away from the union. Meyer says that the activity of these person- able under-cover men reduced the membership of the union something like 40 per cent and speaks sadly of the attraction that a patent- leather shoed and haired individual in bell- bottomed trousers has for his female followers. Being in the ladies’ clothing trade, Meyer does not know that bell-bottomed pants have gone out and are no longer worn by the nifty dresser but that is ngither here nor there. What we are interested in is the utter asin- inity of a responsible union official who gives such slush to the enemy press. Perlstein and Sigman, international president to whom Perlstein says he, has sent an SOS for Advertising rates on application. THE DAILY WOKKE R aid in’ this critical situation, are the type of trade union leaders who lay the blame on the rank and file for their own failures; Perlstein’s interview is sufficient proof of this statement. They have deliberately, with the backing of the Daily Forward, set out to drive from the Ladies’ Garment Workers Union the best fight- ing blood of the organization and without which it will degenerate into a mutual admiration society presided over by mentalities who whine over such trivial occurences as those mentioned by Perlstein and who, if not checked, will make of the organization a laughing stock of the employers, the capitalist press and militant workers. When labor officials begin telling their troubles to unsympathetic capitalist papers and ridiculing the material out of which unions must be built they confess a mental bankruptcy more complete than even the most bitter critic would have charged. Renegades--American : and British Remorseful renegades are not welcomed back to the fold in England with any great display of warmth if we can rely upon comments in the Daily Herald on the decision of Robert Blatchford to forsake the capitalist press, into whose service he went at the outbreak of the war, and return to the Labor Party. “I’m tired of all this dirty business of. lying about the Labor Party and similar tactics,” says the unctuous Mr. Blatchford now that the Labor Party is in power. Letters to the Daily Herald, in discussing this striking change of heart, display a lack of sympathy with the mental agonies long endured of Mr. Blatchford that might be em-) ulated with profit to the workers in the United} States. Says one correspondent: “I believe and hope that all true socialists will view the return of the prodigal Robert Blatchford to the Labor fold with distrust and apprehension. | Blatchford (himself not innocent of those tactics which now disgust him when practiced by his late paymasters) has been too long in the opposing camp for us to regard his volte face as a change of heart.” Another says: a “The war came as a blow to Labor. It killed the DAILY HERALD as a daily. Many: Labor publica- tions ceased; others dragged on a hand-to-mouth existence. Robert Blatchford deserted the apparently sinking ship and went to the Yellow Press, whose masters reviled bitterly the Labor Party and its aspirations. “Now Labor is getting powerful. The circulation of the Daily Herald is rising ¢very day. To it have been added Labor weeklies and monthlies. Propa- anda is strong; also, there is going to be a Labor ernment. Now, after seven years with the Yellow Press, Mr. Robert Blatchford says: ‘I am tired of all this dirty business of lying about the Labor Party and sim‘lar tactics,’ and resigns. “Sever. years! It took a long time. I hope I'm of a fergiving nature, but seven years!” Inthe United States the Blatchford type is represented by the Wallings, Wrights, Spargos and Russells. Two of these safety first gentlemen who ral- lied to the Wilson-Gompers standard are now cosily ensconced in jobs with the American Federation of Labor; their main task .is to slander those who did not sell out to the Amer- ican imperialists in 1917 and warn both the labor movement and the dear public of the approach of the red menace. We must confess that some things are done better in Great Britain. Approving Brother Lewis Additional evidence comes to hand daily to By LELAND OLDS (Federated Press Industriat Editor) The tendency toward industrial feudalism is advancing steadily, if year end reports concerning profit 8 » employes’ stock ownership, fer cae employment and group insurance plans are any indication. ‘Employers are bidding heavily against the unions for the allegiance of wage earners. A limited sense of security is being offered them as a substitute for the real struggle to obtain a fair share of the product and industrial democracy. As the country enters the brutal fight for markets employers want above all else contented employes, “An efficient and contented em- ploye,” says William R. Dudley, group insurance specialist operating around Chicago, “has a positive value. to any employer.” Sounds wather Hke the contented cows that are supposed to give the best milk. Dudley points out that it is worth the employer’s while to keep such an employe and to keep him effi- cient, He says: “Investigation has proved that poverty ig due, not primarily to in- temperance, laziness and general accidents, sickness and the death of the family breadwinner. The great- est anxiety a worker has ig his lack of a dependable income, an income continuous through sickness as well as health. To the better class of employes with families the steady job with the fair wage is the first consideration. | It appeals to them more strongly than the intermittent employment at higher wages. What- ever reduces hazard, discemfort, loss of time and the cost of living for employes adds value to their wages and is a means of influencing their attitude and the attitude’ of their families toward the company.” That is a good summary of the employer’s philosophy underlying these various benefit plans. Industry is being forced into recognizing some sort of responsibility for its human machines.’ The alternative feared by employers is a rapid rise in militant unionism. The Southern Pacfic railroad has recently topped the list of group insurance policies taken out by cor- porations in the interest of main- taining contented working forces with one. for . $100,000,000. With this enormous policy the company pro- been with the company for six months or more. The Illinois Power Co. and the Consumers Power Co. of Michigan are also among recent additions to the list of companies insuring their employes on the group basis. Among the numerous companies which have adopted sprofit sharing or employes’ stock ownership plans are the U. S. Steel Corp., Standard Oil of N. J., New York Central rail- road, General Motors, American Woolen Co., Endicott Johnson Corp., Ford, Eastman Kodak Co., Philadel- phia Rapid Transit, Guaranty Trust Co., New York Title and Mortgage Co., Park and Tilford and many of the Standard Oil Companies. The growing tendency to guaran- tee a minimum number of days work a year is shown in the Proctor and ‘Gamble plan, which couples profit sharing dividends of from 10 to 20 per cent with a guarantee of full pay for full time work for not less than 48 weeks in each calendar year to all who cooperate in the stock pur- chase plan, The. development of this attempt to attach employes to a corporation twill bear as careful watching as| Ch vides life insurance for every one worthlessness as we used to think, but in 96 cases out of a hundred to of its 90,000 employes who has the progress of the company union or employe representation idea. A large number of Pennsylvania locomotives in the Indiania regions have been condemned by inspectors representing the Interstate Com- merce Commission. Fifty were taken out of service at Fort Wayne alone. The Pennsy is one of the loudest braggarts of the superiority of pri- vate over government management. One of the big reasons for increased cost of operation under government Private Management Reduces control was that the workers had a good deal more to say about risking their necks on defective engines and ears, hence repair bills were larger. A worker holding a highly responsible position on the road said that the government took over the roads only because of absolute nececssity if war freight was to be quickly moved. At that time, he claimed, there was not a locomotive capable of making a thru run, and that the first step in MENTIONING THE MOVIES By PROJECTOR. More About “The Eternal City.” The persevering press agent for the Fascist propaganda film, “The Eternal City,” gives away one rea- son for the prostitution of ‘Hall Caine’s story, The reason is “PROFIT.” One press release fol- lows another to bear this out. First there is a story about the envy of Hollywood producers, accustomed to paying “extras” five to eight dollars a day for “mob scenes” while in this Fitzmaurice production they had ten thousand or more always at bec! and call—the only trouble with these seab extras was that they were at times too arduous in their work. The second “give-away” is equally interesting. The P, A. claims that it took orders from Mussolini, the King, and the Mayor of Rome, in addition to 1,000 troops to make available the Coliseum as a movie set. The claim is made that it Was necessary to shut off all avenues of traffic around the great ruin and to interrupt, at midday, the normal life of the entire city. Mussolini issued sweeping orders to the police and military to assist in every pos- sible way. The-king’s own regirient of cavalry, “The House of Savoy Lancers,” took part in the picture, dispersing the mob. Had the book been filmed under similar conditions in Moscow it would probably have been pro-Bolshevik. Sut would the American movie trust have permitted its showing in first 1un_houses? The importance of anti-labor prop- prove that Brother John L. Lewis is playing | aganda in the movies can best be just the kind of game the coal operators and| guaged by the admission of the other employers like to see him play. The Chicago Tribune is a canny sheet that movie men themselves that theirs is the workers theatre. J. R. Denni- son, representing the Motion Picture can scent danger for the class it represents for| Theatre Owners’ Association, recent- a considerable distance. | petent in discerning the waning of a menace. Speaking in an approving manner of the It is equally com-| ly stated that 80 per cent of the movie patrons were either poor or only moderately well off! He claimed that 1,400 movies had been forced recommendations of Brother Lewis to the con-|to close on account of the admis- vention in Indianapolis, the Tribune says: As president of this organization, John L. Lewis has naturally acquired a reputa- tion as a stormy petrel. Yet in fact he has been a competent and reasonable leader***of late ail labor has been show- ing a tendency to reason***Not long ago the union read communist agitators out of its ranks. It has printed an expose of radicals. It has taken a flatfooted stand in favor of Americanism and against Bol- shevik influence.***It was generally con- ceded that the miners’ convention would demand shorter days, shorter weeks, a wage increase of 10 to 20 per cent and speedy nationalization of the mines. These expectations are now pleasantly disappointed. The convention has unani- mously adopted Mr. Lewis’ report, which displays commendable moderation. There is little that we can add to this proof of the admiration of the employers and their press for Brother Lewis except to say that they know whereof they speak. When the capitalist press expresses satisfac- tion with the policies advocated by the presi- dent of the largest union in America, a union that operates in a basic industry, it can be con- sidered fairly certain that someone is getting the worst of the bargain and that it is not the employers. Crude accusations of “selling out’? and “‘be-| from an oil operator. trayal” have weak sound beside such state- ments by the enemies of the miners’ union and the rest of the American working-class. Second Week of Miners’ Meet Beg Be Sure to Subscribe for the Daily Worker. It Will Enable You to Follow this History-Making Gathering from sions tax, of those remaining 7,901 charge from 10 to 24 cents admis- sion, 4,080 from 25 to 49 cents, 500 from 60 to 99 cents, and only 100 over a dollar. “Our patrons keep asking us if we don’t know the war ‘s over,” he complained. The Poor Vish says that he is against bribery but that he sees no reason why such a fuss is made over Senator Fall borrowing $100,000 Don’t be a “Yes, But,” supporter of | machinery, OUR BOOK REVIEWS The Foundations of Imperialist Policy. By Michael Pavlovich. A course of lectures de- livered in 1918-1919. (The Labour Publish- ing Company, Ltd., London.) This splendid book clears up many erroneous conceptions regarding im- perialism. Before one has read twenty pages the bourgeois liberalist conception of imperialism is shatter- ed by irrefutable logic. Pavlovich, one of the teachers in the workers’ and soldiers’ schools in Soviet Russia and a revolutionist of wide exper- ience, takes to task those bourgeois sentimentalists who see in every form of aggression known to mankind the germs of imperialism and exposes their puny mentality and their total inability to deal with facts of history. This part of the work is particularly valuable as well as timely in the United States where we have been sorely afflicted with myriads of ex- preachers and bourgeois liberal pro- fessors writing twaddle about impe- rialism without taking the pains to understand the modus operandi of history. Pavlovich shows that there was no sueh thing as imperialism in ancient Greece, that there was no such thing as an “imperialist democ- racy” in Sparta, that neither Caesar, Alexander nor any of the other heroic figures of the past were imperialists, for the simple reason that imperial- ism never existed until this era of capitalist production. n this criticism of bourgeois and yellow socialist professors Pavlovich Roads to Junk government ‘operation in Chicago was to throw fifty engines from west bound roads into the moving of freight toward the Atlantic coast. So dangerous have the roads be- come recently that the ICC has. is- sued an order to the roads controlling 90% of the mileage in the United States, to increase the length of track protected by automatic safety devices, Youth Views By HARRY GANNES Lenin’s death brings to mind the telegram he sent to the Third Con- gress of the Young Communist In- ternational. Jt was very short, and the main point>was: “Youth! Study and learn.” The Congress of the Russian Com- munist Party, just concluded, passed a resolution making it obligatory for all young communists to study the works of Lenin. This is not as a mark of respect to Lenin. The tendency of the youth of all the rev- olutionary parties in the struggle| and strife engendered by the rapid decay of capitalism has been to over- look, as Karl Radek puts it, “the heavy armor of Marxism and Len- inism.” Imagine a trade union leadership of our present working class youth versed in Marxian economics, his- tory and the class struggle and in Communist tactics as advanced by Lenin from_his intimate experience with the Russian revolution. Of course, Gompers makes such possi- bilities the substance of his dreams; for it would be horrifying to the enemies of the working class. Capitalism would be short lived under such conditions. The strength of the working class now dormant, is on solid ground and quotes as his authority the foremost leader of the world revolution, both as to theory and practice, N. Lenin. He shows imperialism to ‘be a definite economic phenomenon arising from a definite stage of economic development, then he quotes Lenin: “Imperialism is the last stage in the development of capitalism.” The book is also valuable because, while it adds nothing new to the Marxian conception of imperialism so well known to all advanced revo- lutionists, it comprehensively presents the fundamen of the muddled ideas of Kautsky and Hilferding re- garding imperialism and then blasts them with the work of Lenin on the same subject, While the book is valuable for students and for student classes there is one chapter that contains a grave error that is positively astounding, considering the high standing of the author as a teacher of economics, and one that must be emphasized so that students will not fall into the same On page 124, while discussing the or- te composition of capital, Pavlo- says: “Capital consists of two parts—of the so-called parts of constant and of variable capital. Constant capital is that bre of capital which has been invested in the factory building, in machines, benches, instruments and other implements of production—in one word, of all that which bears a constant character. Variable capital is that part which has been invested in that which is quickly used up in the process of production, in raw wool, and so on. Wages also belon; to the category of variable capital.” (Emphasis mine.—H, M. W.) Now every Marxist knows that con- stant capital consists of all ea ches, raw material, and every auxiliary except labor power. It is called “constant” be- cause in the process of production its value remains constant, that is, it is not increased, but simply. transferred to the completed commodity. Labor jower is the one and only value-creat- ng element in production. When ap- plied to production labor- not vonly transfers its own finished product but creates an addi- tional value greater than itself, hence wages, that part of capital used to error in fundamental economics. The Daily Worker. Send in your sub- scription at once. \ chase labor-power, is the only va- Fable capital, a 4 would be directed to the logical end --the overthrow of the capitalist system of society. The educational slogan ,of the Young Communist International is: “Education thru active participation in the class struggle,” which means that the youth should-not be treated as objects solely of workers’ educa- tion under capitalism, but should be brought into conflict with the capitalist class, and in that fashion learn how to use its experience gained thru the actual struggle. But theoretical education and the study of the works of Marx and Lenin can never be brushed aside by those young workers who want to put their best into the workers’ 2hegad on the side of the working class, Industrial Feudalism Advances | Here and There There is a bill before Congress to study the habits of a grasshopper, That’s out of our line, But we have lived in Chicago rooming houses and if Congress ever comes to study- ing the cockroach or bed-bug—we have a lot of inside dope on it, ~ BRICK LAYER. fe thi “If there was no Adam or Eve, as the scientists now assert, who wag it began raising Cain?”—Scripps-Paine Service, Probably whoever was Abel, One Be sure you're right!—It’s on Feb- ruary 16. 0 4 Not Without a Suspicion of Your Morals! The Daily Worker reports: “A Swiss lady burglar came to prey and remained to take a bath—.” She was caught at it. Could one say this is another case where investigation prevented a clean get-away? VERA REDD. om “Religion Helped By Conflict In, urch”—announces the Daily News. Quite logically they consider it “elevating” to raise hell. pi Fee CURRENT FICTION. (The Week’s Best Smelier, “The League of Nations is en by organized labor because it is the only international body in existence or seriously proposed that serves as a continuous open forum for the nations, because it is the only ap- proach to democracy among govern- ments.” ~—Samuel Gompers. ae Send in your contributions, eka THE EVILS OF DRINK, Agitator: I had been out late ag night for two weeks. Last night got in after midnight. Now, Com- rade, I know you won't believe it but my wife met me at the door with kisses. There was hot coffee on the stove—and she baked a cakel And then after she tucked’ the covers under my chin, I swear I heard say—“I just love to see my hubby working so hard for the movement.” OFFICE BEANE. saatiedy During last December ‘the Tltiois Free Employment agency 205 ees eae for every 100 a jobs, j 95 good reasons why you get @ eub/ in wages, -_0— | aa you're right—its-on- February | —— When Thieves Fall The Chicago Tribune one of Governor Small: “He is the worst governor the state ever had. We believe he is the worst governor any best — had. : His political record is all of one piece, years ago, when he was Kan- kakee insane asylum there fen, Wood rible scandals. He has cont everything with which We has come in politics. Maybe his record is a help to Sometimes we think it is a Vo! ter for him. It is so bad it is un- believable.” pines Now Brother, Is That Nice? Could one say, in the oil scandal, that the reason so many crazy state- ments are made, is because there was. a dirty Fall on the Teapot Dome? G. A. B, —O~ We'll wager, that when the win- ner of the Bok peace prize and his wife start doping out how the money should be spent— He will have learned his peaca plan had only started another war. —O— Join the WORKERS PARTY and OWN the world! 5 alae: ila ) st a plan shes ; ‘amily. insure peace in your We su that will Let your wife get your subscription and you go to the news stand for THE DAILY WORKER! AGITATOR, BED TIME STORY By ROLAND QUILLAN, Once upon a time, dear children, there lived in the city of Chicago, @ ferocious capitalist by the name of Dubbs Dawsnot. He knew two languages but ible de my _ hearers, he preffered the ‘ane. Sometimes dear children, for a change from changing money at his bank, he would lecture and shock and frighten his hearers on the sub; “The ad- yancing wave of Bolshevism.” on our government’s white house, Boor Speaking. BZZZZ. But then, my children, to make the story short, the beans alas, pork and all was spilt. Our most honor- able diplomat in Washington, who hitherto, my dear children, had con- cealed most of his folly behind an abundant beard, managed to let his folly come out in the open. It had split with the beans—yes, Boston tattnie ‘hithertesalmest ai s, erto almost ‘lon, tn his Now the ti hild: lomat, revealed to the when he tho’ ht he ey the aren wn way that. the “Re in this to save the whole nation. Ah, what| Country are reds because Bi oer a noble man, doncha think, my dear tions here and not as listeners. WZTKI. Without much more “mcadooing” he proceeded to organize the minute men of Evestii and. other burgs. Now, dear chi , don’t think for two seconds or less that because minute men are from Evestington that they aré real he-men. — With over five hundred men thus organized and all efficient poker players, General Dubbs Dawsnot and his men waited patiently for the day when the naughty Reds were going to try and plant the red flag pe Page because of instructions ‘om ‘far away Moscow. This dear , (uoted was the sad finish of all “societies for the pre- vention of placing the Red Flag on our lily-white white house.” + And thus, dear children, our na- tion, flag and all was saved. The country is now safe for Child Labor, for starvation, and future wars. But best of all no more will be heard of General Dubbs Dawsnot’s 4 minutes men—until the next Plot is hatched in the capitalist newspaper offices, 4 ins! Our Correspondent Is On the Job! to Day. Something You Can’t Afford to Kae v } Siamese RRA Te — ”