The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 12, 1924, Page 5

Wednesday, March 12, 1924 THE DAILY WORKER KANSAS SLAVE COURT IS DEAD AS A DOOR NAIL But Judges Still Draw $5,000 a Year By TOM TIPPETT. Staff Correspondent of the Federated Press PITTSBURGH, Kans, Mar. 11.— The Kansas court of industrial rela- tions as a novel experiment that did not receive a fair chance to operate, according to a report of the National Industrial Conference board, received here, The board is the research or- ganization of a large number of em- ployers’ associations. It has been studying the Kansas industrial court for more than a year. The report says the court idea wes the product of a special industrial sit- uation, partly national and partly local in Kansas, It was designed to meet the local aspect of these prob- lems but it was also offered as a con- tribution to the general problem of adjusting the group interests of pub- lic,, employers, and workers. The “special industrial situation” was the national unrest in labor cir- cles under the nationwide open shop campaign after the war, The Local Aspect in Kansas was Alexander Ho- wat who for 20 years had led the coal miners of the state to victory after victory via the strike route. Howat Strike Killed Court. The court is dead in Kansas. It was completely wrecked by direct ac- tion by Howat and his Kansas coal diggers. When Howat called his first strike in violation of what he called the slave court he was put in Jail. | The moment he was locked up every | mine in the state was shut down by a protest strike which ruined the court that had been designed to prevent strikes, The industrial court was an issue in the 1922 election, Jonathan M. Davis was elected by a 21,000 major- ity over Wm. Morgan in the race for governor. Davis ran as an anti-court candidate while Morgan was backed by all the forces in the state favoring the court act. The industrial court was created four years ago by Henry T. Allen, then governor of Kansas. Allen’s first official anti-labor performance was in 1919 when he brought college stu- dents into the coal fields as strike- breakers during the coal strike. One Carload Seab Coal, Allen, got his picture in the movie with the first—and only—carload of seab coal that his ‘educated punks” —as the miners called them—were Zinoviev’s Speech to Leningrad Communists (NOTE—The DAILY WORKER today publishes the third install- ment of the great speech delivered by Gregory Zinoviev to the party conference of the Leningrad Dis- trict. Those of our readers who have read lurid reports of war be- tween Communist leaders should follow this discussion closely. It is true that Trotsky had a difference of opinion over questions of party organization with Zinoviev and others. But the enemies of the Soviet Republic may rest assured that a discussion on tactics will not give them the opening to rush in their war dogs and lap up the blood of the emancipated Russian work- ers. A further installment will be published tomorrow). * * * - ZINOVIEV CONTINUES: DURING that period, when czarist absolutism still existed, we were unable ‘to hold to the principle of election. We were obliged to have a strictly furtherance of the revolution de- mands that our organization is strictly conspirative and concentrat- ed. When the situation changes, | then we shall raise the question of | the workers’ democracy within the | Party. | And in actual fact, after czarism was overthrown we raised for the | first time the question of inner Party |democracy, in another form. | The whole of the periods between | 1905-1907 were a variegated inter- jmingling of the legal with the il- legal, and thus also a combination of | the beginnings of inner Party democ- | racy, in accordance with the exig- lencies of the changing situation, The years .of counter-revolution began. The Party was plunged into illegality. The legal element dimin- ished until the year 1911, when the |“Swesda” and later on the “Pravda” |appeared. The element of legality |vanished almost completely, and the elements of conspiracy and central- lization took the upper hand. | During the period 1907-1912 we |lived in complete illegality, Nothing conspiratory ‘and centralized Party | was heard of inner Party democracy. organization, “as‘ Comrade’ Lenin} The leaders of the Party were ap- demonstrated. He stated that adher- |pointed from above. Two or three ence’ to the principle of election!comrades were chosen, and had the would only have been to the advan-! right of co-option, tage of’ the police, . Then came the war. The Party of now and again electing an organ- | izer who may prove useless for hisi position, and may have to be re- | placed by another, It goes without | saying that where a nucleus is un-! jfound, it must be cured. | In. our Petrograd organization | there is also room for improvement. | We have 30,000 new metal workers in Petrograd. Has this fact been ap- | parent in the Party organization? No! But this great event—30,000 new metal workers, among whom there is a considerable base of the “hereditary” proletariat—should be noticeable in our organization, There should be a supply of fresh blood. But this is not the case, It is im- perative that this be changed. Limitations of Workers’ Democracy. Reference must be made to those limitations which we have conscious-~ ly placed upon the workers’ democ- | racy. A number of limitations have arisen spontaneously, and a number | of others have been deliberately it-, posed by us. } We undertook the purging of the , Party, which means that the most! proletarian section of the Party held } it to be necessary, in the interests of the revolution, to review and expel | from the Party the least reliable | section of those members who had obtained entry into the Party with- of the Party, selects the delegates, curtails the suffrage of the Party members just before the Congress at which it is to be criticized and re- elected. Viewed from the stand- point of an abstract workers’ democ- racy, this is a travesty of all “democracy.” But we did this from the view- point of the furtherance of the revo- lution. We could only permit those to vote who really represented the Party guard. We also rhake long membership of ‘the Party a condition for the ap- pointment of the secretaries of the leading Pa.rty organizations of the gouvernements, and of the district or- ganizations and of the chairmen of the gouvernement trade union Sov- iets. And this is not pure democracy either. In a democracy we elect whom we will, Is this limitation necessary or not? It is necessary! The furtherance of the revolution, that is the highest law. The third limitation consists of the confirmation of the appointment of the secretaries by the superior organizations, This, too, is not pure democracy, and still we do it. Red Army Discipline. The fourth limitation is the Red Those revolutionary workers who are capable of taking leading Party positions will be appointed by us, and will be appointed without any fuss. organizations dwindled away; a part jwas driven into illegality, and the | conspirative element increased. It neefi not be said that after the out really understanding what the Army. For a time there were more Communist Party is, The purging of the Party has nothing in common with the “pure” principle of “com- than 100,000 Party members in the Red Army. In the Red Army we need the But to preach consistent democracy | fall of ezarism, in the year 1917, we within the Party under an absolutist | began to rebuild the Party, But then regime, at a moment when we re- the civil war began, and this meant quire the concentration of conspiracy | that every muscle had to be strained and centralism, would signify that|to its utmost tension, and it meant we succumb to demagogy and place | that the principle of democracy had prehensive” workers’ democracy in ®pirit of comrade-like discipline, but the actual sense of the words. What We cannot accomplish pure democ- kind of democracy is this, when we acy there, nor the principle of elec- appoint some few persons from|tion. Here we carry on political above, and say to them that they joan on the lines of the Political y visions, eee at et ene It is impossible to do otherwise. ; democracy? the revolution in danger. It was no easy task to defend this | official standpoint of Bolshevism, The | Mensheviki earned. cheap laurels just as any “democrat” can earn them now, by singing the praises of democracy, without any regard for the situation as a whole. In January, 1905, Bolshevism de- clared that a broad adherence to the principle of election within the Party is impossible. But if the principle of election is not possible, where is Thus a broad democ- racy was equally impossible for the Party. Furtherance of Revolution. For us the highest law is the fur- therance of the revolution, but we do not follow the letter, the dogma. The \to be confined to certain limits. | Defects of Our Organization. Have we had, or have we still, | faulty sides to our organization? | Undoubtedly we have! Far too large ;a number of circulars are issued, jand these substitute living energy. | Even in such a splendid and uni- | versally beloved organization as the RCYU. | Almost all the organizers of the collectives are appointed from above, by the gouvernement leaders. We know such gouvernements, We have followed the rule of appointing the organizers for the collectives. But now this rule can and must be altered, We must give the nuclei the op- portunity of even falling into error, necessary And they have done the work thoroly, More than 100,000 members were excluded from our ranks. many who say that this number of expulsions wag not sufficient; others say it was too many. Comrades, in some gouvernements one was true, and in other gouvernements the other. In general the operation was well performed. Curtailment of Suffrage. We once passed a resulution that | at a Party Congress—I believe it! was at the Tenth Congress—not | every Party member had a right to vote, but only those who had been members ef the Party for a certain ume (two years). : It might be said that the Central And yet there was a time when the functionaries of the Red Army form- There are ed the fourth or third part of the| whole Party. Can we give this up in the period of the dictatorship? fo! This question must be put as fol- lows; Either Red Army or broad workers’ democracy. And every revolutionist will say: To the devil with the sacred principles of “pure democracy” so. long as. we have a real Red Army, really able to defend the interests of the revolution, There are thus quite a number of limitations necessarily imposed by the dictatorship of the proletariat. These we must consciously accept. {To Be Continued Thursday.) MORGAN COMES TO FRENCH AID able to load. That was at a strip mine, not underground. That started Allen in the direction of the presi- dent’s chair at Washington. He could not break the miners’ strike so he cooked up a‘law to make strikes “il- legal and produced his -industrial court to keep workers on the job. The court was made up of three men appointed by the governor. It was to determine hours of labor, ‘wages, con- tracts and all other questions affect- ing industry, With such a tribunal a union could not function. The miners steadfastly refused to recognize the court. Ho- wat was in prison 16 months for vio- lating it but that is all the court ever accomplished. Governor Davis’ first official act was a pardon for Howat. When the court attempted to fix Wages in a packing house, the Wolff | Packing Co. appealed to the U. §, | supreme court and that body refused the Kansas industrial court the right to fix wages, The miners have a test | e ‘se up now as” matter of form to} permit the supreme court to pass on, the right’to interfere in strikes. Strikes Go On, But strikes go on here as always, No one in the state pays any ntion to the industrial court except the three judges who still receive $5,000 each per year and practice Jaw on the side, The governor recently asked | the industrial court to investigate the prices charged for coal in Kansas, It refused on the ground that it was no business of the court, saying that was not in the public’s interest. Davis then deronded the resignation of the three judges, charging them with be- ing a useless burden on the state, They did not resign. The coming legiictens is expected to oust them and repeal the Allen court act. Meanwhile Henry T, Al- len is back ‘in Topeka running his newspaper. Calvin Coolidge beat him is to Washington on a stri record, Jobless, Penniless—Suicide, SAN FRANCISCO, March 11.— Alone in a strange city, and unable to find work after weeks of search- ing, Katherine Fleener, a waitress, took poison in a suicide attempt. At the Central Emergency ~ hospital, where it was said she recover, Mrs, Fleener told that she was literally penniless, hav- ing spent her last money for the poison probably | from officials| Poincare to frighten the Chamber WITH MILLIONS Gustave Herve Shrieks For a Mussolini PARIS, March 11.—The French cabinet is in desperation as a result of the rapid. decline of the fsanc, de- spite all efforts made to stabilize it. Dollars were quoted at 27 francs, 30 centimes and pounds sterling at 116 franes 40 centimes, The governors and director of the Bank of France have met with the cabinet to consider what extraor- dinary measures should be taken to stop its downward dive. Among the proposals made were to abolish the eight hour day and to turn over the government monop- oly on railroads, topaccv, matches, telegraphs and telephones to private ownership, and to organize’ a new cabinet composed entirely of busi- ness experts. Herve for Fascism. Gustave Herve, former socialist dent Millerand, once a member of the French socialist party, is de- manding that a Fascisti dictatorship be established. He is supported in this by the Comite de Forges, , the great French stéel trust. ‘ Herve demands the restoration of wartime regulations. He wants the issuance of bread cards, the suppres- sion of sweets, cakes and candy, a head tax in gold franes on foreign- ers living in France, and the prohibi- tion under penalty of a long jail term of any Frenchman from pur- chasing foreign moneys or securities, except thru a government bank. The reduction of newspapers to two pages as during the war and a ban on the purchase of wood pulp abroad. Another proposition made ig that no more bonds for national defense should be issued, allowing the so- called devastated regions to take care of themselves and the floating of a final loan of $1,000,000,000, French spies continue to bring dis- concerting news of war scone Germany. This is used by of Deputies into granting his de- mands but it is felt now that he has reached the end of his rope—in par- UNCLE WIGGILY’S TRICKS— liament. A dictatorship is a very likely possibility, Morgan’s $50,000,000. The Petit Parisien confirms 4 Te- port that the Bank of France has obtained “important aid” to stabil- ize the france in England and the United States. (This presumably would refer to a report that France has obtained a credit of $50,000,000 for three months from a syndicate of American banks headed by J. P. Morgan .and Co.) a The Petit Journal said the discount rate may be raised to prevent ex- cessive rediscounting and consequent use of the money for purchasing foreign materials, Finance Minister Lasteyrie an- nounced: last night the government plans operations for consolidation of the floating debt, Alleged Pro-Kaiser Publisher May Be Pardoned by “Cal” WASHINGTON, Mar. 11,—Presi- dent Coolidge has rejected an appli- cation for pardon on the part of Dr. Edward Rumely, former publisher of the New York Evening Mail, alleged to have been purchased by the Ger- ‘man government during the war, it | was said at the White House today. | There has ince been a suggestion ‘the sentence be commuted and it was jand close personal friend of Presi- indicated that some executive action towards clemency in this direction may be taken soon. Canitalists May Buy News Agency. | BERLIN, March 11.—There are persistent rumors in journalistic , circles that the Wolfsches Telegrafen Bureau, the semi-official news bureau ‘which stands in the same relation to the German government as the Agence Havas does to the French or Reuter’s to the British, is to be brought up by the big German in- dustrialists. It is said that a mem- ber of parliament, Dr. Cremer, who belongs to the People’s (Stinnes) party and is also on close terms with |the German “Nationalist party, is to | become. the head director. Entertains His Prisoners. Federal officials here are making an investigation to determine whether | sheriff Edwin Ahlstrom in charge of | the county jail at Waukegan exceeded | his hostly duties in the case of two | girl prisoners, Reports to the mar- |shal's office were that Ahlstrom sought to relieve the mono’ of jail life for Marjorie Mober and Mar- garet Davling, held as witnesses in a white slavery case, b: to Chicago to a cabare taking them|from the peak in August, PAUPER WAGES — PAID TO MANY RAIL WORKERS And 179,726 Are Laid Off «Since. August By LELAND OLDS (Federated Press Industrial Editor) Pauper wages and insecurity of job stand out as characteristics of railroad employment in the United States as pictured in the December wage report of the U. S. Interstate Commerce Commission. Over 30 per cent of the 1,670,192 hourly paid workers employed during the month received less than $100 for their work, which included a considerable amount of overtime. While more than 25 per cent of them earned less than $90 for the month. Unemployment was shown to be spreading rapidly, Between Novem- ber and December the total number of railroad workers wns reduced from 1,899,545 to 1,793,779 cr by 5.6 per cent. This meant that 105,766 employes were laid off within the month. At the same time the total compensation paid railroad workers fell $15,024,016, a decrease of 6 per cent, 179,726 Lose Jobs. The reduction in the number on railroad payrolls since August when 1,973,505 were employed has amount- | ed to 179,726. This represents the addition of the railroads to the al- ready flooded job market. But the full extent of the decreasé| in employment is evident only when we investigate the figures showing the number of full time jobs avail- able for workers paid on an hourly basis. These figures together with the average monthly pay, are shown for the last six months of the year as follows: Fulltime Aver. pay jobs per month July +1,711,379 $128.60 August +1,718,099 131.80 September .....1,697,851 125,60 October .. + 1,690,581 135.00 November .....1,631,843 128.10 December .....1,524,700 124.60 11 Per Cent Loss Since August, This shows a decline, of 11 per cent in the number of full time jobs available in railroad employment than $10 lower than those paid in October. Low paid labor suffered most se- verely in the layoffs. In the mainte- nance of way department where 350,962 workers worked a full month for only $86 the reduction in force since August has brought unemploy- ment to 115,387 persons or approxi- mately 25 per cent of those employ- ed in the summer, Practically all of the men laid off in this depart- ment were section men and track laborers with wages which ayeraged only $69 during December. 46,456 Shopmen Laid Off. Shop forces were also heavily re- duced during the last months of the year. Layoffs rose to a total of 46,- 456 or approximately 8 per cent of the force employed in August. One- eighth of the freight car men em- ployed during the summer are now unemployed while the skilled trade helpers have suffered a similar re- duction. The coming of spring will mean the gradual re-employment of a con- siderable number altho the majority of railroads are planning material reductions in their maintenance ex- penditures for the coming year. But the outstanding fact is that this major industry recognizes no re- sponsibility for giving tens of thous- ands of its low ‘paid workers a chance to earn a living during the cold months of the year. And this is not exceptional but a regular fea- ture of railroad employment. Supreme Court Takes Rest. WASHINGTON, March 11.—The Supreme Court today announced it would recess from March 17 to April 7. It also shows average monthly wares more A LAUGH FOR THE CHILDREN I SUBSCRIPTION RATES : BY MAIL— 3 months....$2.00 IN CHICAGO | | | Be Represented at Amalgamated Meet (Special to The Daily Worker) WARREN, Pa., March 11.—The militant element in the rank and file of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers, which has most of the Warren steel work- ers in its ranks, is preparing to send a real rank and file representative to the April 1 convention of the union in Pittsburgh. The militants have been studying the inner workings of the organiza- tion and find too many superfluous officers eating up funds. The resolu- tion from our lodges here concern- ing this : “That said convention shall dete ne the number of super- fluous officers in the national offices and initiate a move to remove same.” The lodge meeting also called for the ending of the 1 per cent assess ment. The question of organizing unorganized steel workers will cdne up also in the coming convention. 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