The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 7, 1924, Page 6

Page Six Published by ‘the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1118 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill. (Phone: Monroe 4712) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail: $3.50....6 months $2.00....3 months mail (in Chicago only): $4.50.,..6 months. $2.50...3 months $6.00 per year By $8.00 per year Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER 1113 W. Washington Bivd. Chicago, Illinois J. LOUIS ENGDAHL ) WILLIAM F, DUNNE) “"" MORITZ J. LOEB...... + Editors Business Manager Entered’as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1923 at the Post- Office at Chicago, Ill, under the act of March 3, 1879. Advertising rates on application. <P 290 Let the Tribune Whine Cowering before the colossal gains of Germany’s Communists, in Sunday’s elections, the Chicago Tribune tries to develop anti-red hysteria among its readers by pointing to the lesson it draws from the raid on the Soviet Trade Delegation in Berlin. The thing that seems to trouble the Tribune most is that monarchists, czarists and other coun- ter-revolutionary emigres from Russia, were not in control of the Soviet Embassy. The hundreds of Ebert-Socialist police, who raided the Soviet offices, found real Communists representing the First Workers’ Republic, and to be sure, there was some Communist literature about. Russian Soviet rule has demanded an apology of the Berlin government, and will no doubt get it, just as the white terror governments of the Baltic states have bowed before Moscow, when they. failed in their anti-Soviet plots. This frantic Chicago Tribune, that skirts the fringe of lunacy every time it considers affairs Bolshevik, made no protest against the open attack of the United States government against Soviet Russia, when this country had declared no war on the Workers’ Republic. Even now it closes its columns to the facts offered by Captain James V. Martin, as’ published in the DAILY WORKER, showing how the American Relief Administration under Herbert Hoover, aided Yudenitch in the west, and the confession of the anti-Soviet State Department, under Secretary Hughes, that th American government delivered 198,833 rifles and 13,594,026 rounds of ammunition to the Kolchakist white armies in the Far East. The Tribune’s propaganda of anti-Soviet hate will not go far when the workers and farmers learn these facts. Russian Communists are going to remain Communists even when placed on Soviet thos ayiesations, or assigned to Soviet diplomatic vical And. Communists do not need to spread R da in foreign lands. The local condi- tien. .1 each nation, developing out of the capi- talist system, provide the lessons that will teach the workers and farmers that they must take over all ‘power. The capitalist class today holds power in all lands except in those nations under the banners of the Union of Soviet Republics. The Chicago Tribune is trying to safeguard that power, that has drenched the world in blood, that is fomenting new wars, that has plotted these past six years for the overthrow of the. Russian Workers’ Republic. The Tribune has not been content to let eondi- ‘tions develop naturally in Soviet Russia. Neither has the capitalist government of the United States allowed the Russian workers and peasants to develop their own rule. Instead Washington has made wwe of every form of yellow propaganda, costing millions of dollars; it has sent its armies on an invasion of Soviet soil, it has furnished arms and ammunition to the white armies of the ‘counter-revolutionaries. The United States government has done all these things, and it has been applauded bythe Tribune and by all the kept sheets of the bosses, because they know that all natural developments in Rus sia‘tend to the strengthening of Soviet Rule. They know that the Workers’ and Farmers’ Republic cannot be overthrown from within, so they must needs crush it from without, if they can. The Tribune confesses that this is also impossible thru its editorial whine over the fact that Communists are in control of, and that perhaps some Com- munist literature was found in the offices of the Russian Trade Delegation in Berlin, Let it whine. South Dakota announces that it will send 100 delegates to the National Farmer-Labor Conven- tion in St. Paul, June 17th. And they’ll all be city and land workers who know why they are xoing to St. Paul. They all want a class party— on anti-capitalist party. “The International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ THE DAILY WORKER | The labor movement in the Latin-American countries is going thru a very interesting and sig- nificant development. Because of, the character of the industrial development achieved by these countries, their labor movement to date has been largely colored by anarcho-syndicalist tendencies. The great extent to-which the industries of these countries are still in the small-scale, in places even in the handicraft stage, has proved fertile soil for individual, instead of mass reaction to the rule of the capitalist exploiters and landlord oppressors in those countries. But recent years, particularly since the. war, have seen an intensification of the tendency to- ward the development of large scale production and giant investments by foreign capitalists. Our American financiers have been especially active in such enterprises. With this development of in- dustry there has come the natural rise of more highly centralized governments. Likewise the con- ditions for a highly political, working class revo- lutionary movement, are developing. This ten- dency has been evidenced in a recent strike wave that has hit practically every country of Latin- America. Of course, the mass unrest is intensified by the fact that the real power behind all the re- actionary governments set up in Central and South America is the strong arm of.a foreign group of capitalists—the Washington junta. The present strike in the Argentine is only a THE DAILY WORKER WHAT CAUSES THE 'HREE of our big unions hold their conventions. In the early part of May, the International, the Amalga- mated, and the Furriers’ Union as- semble in Boston, Philadelphia, and Chicago, respectively. Never in their entire history have these unions faced so grave a situa- ton as at present. The needle trades unions are on the verge of complete bankruptcy—the employer in the in- dustry is all-powerful; the workers suffer miserably; the organizations are demoralized. In their present con- dition the unions are incapable of healing either their own wounds or those of. the workers. Had the present leadership of our movement any real kind of responsi- bility, our unions would now, on the eve of conventions, be seriously con- sidering the causes for their present woeful, chaotic. condition. And were it so desired, a way would be found to lead the organizations out of the swamp into which they have been drawn. Our unions, however, are con- ducted according to traditions, rather than according to present needs. We are accustomed, so to speak, to beating on drums. Hence we talk about insignificant trifles in our unions, instead of analyzing the basic reasons for our condition. We talk about decorating the building when the entire foundation is decayed. We phase of the great general unrest and discontent that is now brewing in South America. The in- dustries of the country are paralyzed.. The work- ers are bent upon preventing the government from forcing upon them a pension bill for which they have to pay 5 per cent of their wages, thru a check- off system, in which their bosses are the collectors for the government. The deadly effectiveness of the general strike is causing the’ government great concern. Already there is talk of yielding to the workers. For the working class of the Argentine, and the other Latin-American countries, this strike~will prove of considerable help in lending a new and firmer tone of class-consciousness to the labor movement. The out-and-out open conflicts with the government should serve to develop the political character of the class conflicts in the country. And we, the workers and poor farmers of, the United States, have the right to welcome the increase of class power in the Latin-American countries as a most effective step in the direction of building a power- ful revolutionary proletarian movement, a Com- munist movement, which alone can end the rule of the American imperialists on the'‘North and South American continents. oye Z Tailing Tammany Hall It was not an accident that resulted in President Morris Sigman, of the International Ladies’ Gar- ment Workers’ Union, presenting Mayor James Curley, of Boston, to the delegates of the union’s convention now in session in that city. And it was not an accident that Mayor Curley urged Governor Al Smith, of New York, upon the delegates as available presidential timber. Curley and Smith are two peas in the Tammany Hall pod that dominates the democratic party. And the Sigman-Hillquit-Forward-Socialist admin- istration that rules by dictatorship in “The Inter- national” has always had longing eyes on Tam- many Hall, in New York, city and state. It was the Sigman-Hillquit-Socialist alliance that tried to form a coalition with the Tammany Hallites in the labor movement, for the creation of the New York American Labor Party, with its boycott against all things Communist. But it will be remembered that, in the affair at Albany, the Tammany Hall machine dumped the Socialists— Hillquit-Sigmanites and all—into the street. The expulsion of militants from “The Interna- tional” is purely a Tammany Hall strong-arm method in politics, introduced into the trade union movement. When Sigman presented the Ts Hallite, Curley, to the convention delégates at Boston, it was inevitable that he should himself|$ attack the left wingers in his own opening re- marks, But the delegates will have something to say later on. It is they who will have to decide whether “The International” is to resume its lost position as a part of labor’s vanguard, or whether the union is to be made a tail to the democratic party Tammany Hall machine. If the delegates are given an opportunity to register their real sentiments, we feel that Tammany Hall, with all its corrupt and destructive methods, will be given the boot by “The International.” ~ The far-flung iron range in Northern Minnesota has gone solid for the June 17th Farmer-Labor Convention at St. Paul. talk about some old grandmother’s medicine when we must cut the can- cer out at the very roots. Let us therefore consider the prob- lems more truly. We shall speak first of the chaos in the industry. On this question various “industrial experts” have already expressed their opinion. But whoever had the op- portunity of following the different explanations offered for the present condition of the needly industry, could easily see that most of them were simply products of the imagination, without any real worth. Several months ago the most talked- of explanation was this: that the chaos was the result of an industrial crisis. But what caused the crisis? On that, too, there were many dif- ferent views, which showed that the analysis was entirely false. So-called experts, for example, actually wrote early in January that unemployment in the men’s clothing trades was due to the fact that the big manufacturers had. stopped producing stock. And the only reason why they already had creased production as far back as No- vember and December of last year was. because they expected to con- clude an agreement with the union in July which would carry a decrease in wages. That this sort of an explanation is not correct, hardly needs to be stated. There have been other opinions as to the causes of the present unem- ployment. Some declared that manu- facturers and jobbers had stopped producing stock because the textile mills would no longer sell goods on long term credit. Others thought that the crisis in the needle industry sprang from the general critical state of labor thruout the country. These latter views, tho they may have a little more justification than the others, are not entirely correct either. It is at least certain that the industrial crisis, insofar as it is even a fact, is not the cause of the un- checked chaos in our trades. The truth is, that the existence of a gen- eral crisis during the last two years has not been of such sigficance to us as many would have us believe. We are of course far from prosperity in the needle industry. Compared with the war-years of 1917-1918, the situa- tion today is quite different. But it is difficult to differentiate the present situation from that of the years im- mediately preceding the war. During last year many big firms made enormous profits. As an exam- ple take the well-known mail order jouse, ‘the National Cloak and Suit ompany. According to the company’s own reports its net profits rose from 790,000 in 1922, to $2,160,000 in 1923. Its sales during the year increased to 7,042,000. A great number of manufacturer: in the needle trades augmented their that the same year many others went bankrupt. This, however, was not due to a cirsis. but also to the general chaos reigning in the industry. It re- sulted from the uncontrolled specula- tion brought into the industry at the expense of the workers because of the greed for more profits; a speculation taking advantage of the lack of con- trol by the unions of the conditions of labor. It resulted from, the fact that manufacturers gambled upon the chaos in our trades, to which many fell victims while others profited hugely. PRESENT CHAOS IN NEEDLE The First of a Series of Articles Relating to the Conventions This Month of the Needle Trades. By PAUL JUDITZ. These tactics had but one purpose in mind — to intensify competition amongst the workers. Attempts were made to increase the opression of the workers by strategic tricks so that inch by inch they themselves would be forced to yield the positions they had so bitterly fought for. The union diplomats had seen and understood the maneuvers of the manufacturers but had never resisted them. They concluded agreements and supplementary agreements; they permitted the employers to interpret the agreements as they pleased. They allowed “impartial” agents of the bosses to act as chairmen and decide questions which often affected the very foundation of the union. They of- fered no opposition when false “re- organizations” were put thru in the regular factories, and workers thrown without cause into the ranks of the unemployed. They always trusted in the promises of the manufacturers to send their work only to union-con- trolled shops. They let the manufac- turers continue their game of decep- tion with their sub-manufacturing business, Jobbers gave their own material to scab contractors and pre- tend the material was sold. Then they take back ready-made ctothes from the same scab contractors and say that these were bought. Masses of workers have been driven to a state of complete hopelessness by these maneuvers of the manufac- turers. The network of corporation and scab shops has widely spread. Every big manufacturer becomes also a jobber. Because of this, competition constantly increases not only in the contracting shops but even in the regular factories. Workers are com- pelled to give up some of their con- ditions in the regular factories so as not to be driven into the army of the unemployed. But owing to the strong pressure of the competition of work- ers in the outside shops, they are none the less forced to leave the regular factories in ever greater numbers, For this reason demoralization steadily grows. Unemployment increases with the result that the number of sweat- shops is multiplied. Union control be- comes constantly weaker. The organ- izations crumble and the great masses of workers struggle helplessly in a ter- rible maze, Because conditions of labor are not fixed and determined, speculation among manufacturers and so-called jobbers continues to advance, In their greed for still greater profits they try to take advantage of the wretched state of the workers. They therefore invest more money in stock now than in former years. All kinds of clothes are being made in scab shops in what is usually a slack period, not when the season is at its height. Hence the seasons in these trades are not what. they once were; which alone makes the condition of the workers more in- tolerable. These jobbers and regular manu- facturers speculate still further. They sell orders to so-called “buyers” with- out a fixed charge. They engage in THE RED FLAG. (To Whom It May Concern) (The writer of these verses is over eighty years old. Her father suffered for his abolitionist activities; she re- members the days of Whittier, Gree- ley, Phillips and Garrison—a period which produced expressions that are applicable today. Ed. note.) Verboten is our banner brave , (You thus our way would bar) No more our gallant flag will fling Its blood-red folds afar. Well, be it so; no outward sign We need to hold us true; ‘Tis you must ever wave a flag To keep your craven crew, For always, when the spirit wanes The symbol waxes great; The soul’that first inspired your flag Has fled your traitor state. “The flag,” whose worship you compel. Is now “a flaunting lie,”* “And despots smile and good men frown When e’er it passes by.”** profits considerably in 1923. It is true Good sirs: Your fears have played you false; And hate has made you blind. Your’ greed has choked the joy that comes From service to mankind. The Red Flag symbols only this: “All nations of one blood,” And still without a flag we'll work For world-wide Brotherhood. —CELIA BALDWIN, *Horace Greeley. _ **John W. Whittier. cut-throat competition amongst them- selves. One market competes with the other. Competition is carried on in the hope of getting the second batch of orders produced at a lower labor cost than the first. Gambling at the expense of working conditions knows no bounds. This naturally leads to what we stated above—one manu- facturer makes enormous profits, while another is driven to bankruptcy. In such a manner a panic has heen created. Some manufacturers may per- haps lose in it, but the sufferings of the workers are limitless. The cancers are far more terrible for them; and the unions, according to their present leadership, are entirely helpless to protect the workers. What causes this helplessness? We shall deal with that in another ar- ticle. OUR BOOK REVIEW SECTION Samuel Adams, By Ralph Volney Har- lowe: Henry Holt & Co., 1923. I have had a desire to know more about Samuel Adams for over a year; that is, ever since an open letter ap- peared in the Outlook,” advising the Communist Party of America to step out into the open and follow the shrewd example of Samuel Adams, “the chief incendiary of the American Revolution.” Harlowe’s volume has satisfied this desire. The author is an Anglophile and Tory, out of sympathy with revolution past or present. Official history writ- ing is rapidly passing into such hands. His bias, however, acts, if any- thing, as a dark background against which stand out more clearly the un- varnished tactics of the revolution. Harlowe’s theses are up-to-the-minute. Adams was an incompetent tax col- lector who became a revolutionist to overcome an inferiority complex. The American Revolution was “material- istic,” merely resolving itself into a fight by the colonists to continue their illicit commerce in molasses which they later distilled into rum for the slave trade. The revolution was not a spontaneous rising of the people, but simply the product of propaganda and agitation carried on by profes- sional trouble-makers. Harlowe fails to prove these shallow propositions. But he unwittingly succeeds in show- ing that the American Revolution— in common with modern mass revolu- tions—required extensive preparation, organization and capable leadership to attain victory. Samuel Adams was referred to by the Tories as “that disreputable leader of congregational and presbyterian republicans.” He was the practical revolutionist, the organizer, the “mani- pulator,” the agitator, the man who above all others prepared the ground for the outbreak of 1776. He made shrewd use of existing governmental machinery for his revolutionary pur- poses. He even turned his master’s thesis at Harvard into a revolutionary instrument. It was he that formed and fostered the commitees of correspond- ence, the soviets, as it were. of the American Revolution. By tactful work he effected a united front of the thir- t2en colonies thru the medium of these committees. He directed the activity of the people step by step from the pasing of “resolves” to street de- monstrations and armed action. He knew when to attack, but he also knew when to retreat, as shown by his evasion of an open conflict in the Gaspee affair. Adams thoroughly un- derstood the need and method of pre- paration. In 1772 he already feared that the contest between the colonies and England “would end in rivers of blood.” On a rumor of war between England and France in 1774, he began intensive preparations for a revolt, probably on the theory that “Eng- land’s difficulty would be America’s opportunity.” It is interesting to note that revolu- tionary tactics have not changed much in the last 150 years. Thus the American revolutionists put up de- mands for the annual election of legis- lators, the election of militia. officers by the people, the boycott of disloy- alist judges, extra-legal control com- mittees to enforce the non-importa- tion decrees. Tory merchants were denied freedom of assembly; disloy- alists were disarmed by the commit- tees of correspondence while the rebels were trained in the “art mili- tary.” Power and victory were the essentials, and our revolutionary fore- fathers were prepared to use all means towards this end. There is an interesting description of the rebellion of bankrupt farmers AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O)FLAHERTY Chancellor Wilhelm Marx of |e so called German republic in “er view to a correspondent of Sh cago Daily News, expressed the grat tude of the Reich plunderbund to the Socialist murderers who drowned {ip blood the efforts of the revolutionary German workers to establish a Sov. iet republic on the ruins of the top pling structure of the Hohenzollerp throne. He thanked “the men who stayed the tide of Bolshevism; those who kept to their posts in the heay. jest seas and helped to steer our wa terlogged craft thru the countless rocks on the passage.” “You refer to such men as Bbert, Von Seecht, Noske?” asked the reporter, “Ye replied the tool of big business, these and many others we owe ¢ tude.” ** @ Here we have this represent, tive enemy of the working class placing the laurel crown on the traitorous brows of German social democracy, which hailed the victories of Kaiser Wilhelm’s armies and after that royal nincompoop scooted to Holland at the first sign of personal danger, his go- cialist subjects kindly took charge of Germany and held it for the capital ists, until such time as the revolution- ary wave would pass away and capi- talist “normalcy” returned. The cap- italists have come back, thanks to their socialist lieutenants. The so- cialist Eberts and Noskes were handy hangmen of the German revolution. They have since received the reward of their treason, but they have not yet stood trial before’ a revolutionary working class jury. When they do, the verdict will not be a compliment, se “Thank God for Gompers” was the slogan at a recent meeting of the Na- tional Civic Federation, as that old labor renegade blinked like an owl on the platform while praise was showered on him by the lieutenant: of capitalism who seek to render la- bor impotent, by purchasing its lead- ers. Gompers was thanked for ‘pre- venting the radicals from getting co trol of the labor unions. The slog’ must be a good one, as we now fj. the politically bankrupt Republidal Party picking it up in Washin; 4 “Thank God for Cal” cry the G. 0./ P, leaders. It seems that God is not doing as well as’ He might by the master class these days. He could have made better selections than Gompers and Coolidge to save the master class from defeat. sss 3 There are too many girls at North- western University, says >, vig. Gen- eral Nathan William Mc President of the alumni ass. . and a trustee of the Evanston inst!- tution. The number of women stu- dents should be held down to 35 or 40 per cent of the undergraduate stu- dent body. ‘whis hag nothing to do with the law of supply and demand but the general feels that the dominating tone of the University must be mas- culine and he holds the numeric: ” strength of thé femule sex responsi” for the growth of pacifism recently ; evidence there. It must be man’ college, said the General, “but witi the added attraction and advan of co-education.” This is in Evam- ston, of course, where Hell-an Marie Dawes, the strikebreaking swivel- chair general comes from. It appears that the function of the university girl students is to “brighten up the corner” of the potential generals in the James Patten robot factory. ss * @ James Patten, the notorious wheat gambler, is one of the owners of Northwestern. It ‘was originally founded by the Methodists by Judg Gary, the steel king, and Patten, th futurist wheat king, stepped in and took control. There is a “Patten” gymnasium attached to the univer- sity. Heralding the annual circus on the campus grounds recently, a par- ade was held. One float bore a tableau in which a pacifist was “ hanged in effigy. Another rep - ed a pacifist guarded by soldiers’ Ba y- onets. The steel kings and kings demand service from their pro- fessors. They @re not paylig their good money to instill advanced and civilized ideas into the heads of the students. They are teaching them to kill the enemies of the capitalists and to consider it “patriotism.” , ‘ a O..8 Cardinals Hayes and Mundelein will be entertained at dinner by the president of the United States Steel Corporation’in honor of their eleya- tion to the highest rank in the Cath- olic Church, excepting pope. The That is, the miners on * Convention is now in session in Boston. It has an opportunity. to write history in the American labor movement by repudiating the expulsion policy of the Sigman administration in the union this past year. under Captain Shay in 1786. These farmers refused to pay taxes, burned the tax lists and dispersed the courts. Though put down, the revolt compell- ed the merchant government of Mas- sachusetts to yield to the farmers a tax in kind, of public land and a temporary paper currency law. Mr. Harlowe is very much put out by the identity in spirit between the American Revolution and the revolu- tionary movement of to-day. The Re- volution, he declares, was inspired not nominal head of the corporation is, James Farrell, presumably a Cath- ‘ 4 olic, but the real boss is Judge Gary # non-Catholic. For centuries mem: bers of the 57 varieties of Christiant- ty have quarrelled with each other over the best way to get to heaven and spilled each other's blood for | the glory of God and the Lo their masters, but today the class, while maintaining efTure! help keep the workers apart, “the range” are for June 17th. The iron mine pest Pg “allege pode owners have their longing eyes on the republican|to preak the power of the workers’ convention in New York City, and the democratic organizations. pow-wow at Cleveland, wondering if any workers ‘ed the revolt of the workers in and farmers will longer be deluded into support: tatine restal eamamree oe tee eden ing these fake punch and judy shows. was firmly established, the manufac- turers realized that they could not conquer the unions in an open, direct struggle with the workers. Hence they decided upon a flank attack. They began to develop a network of con- Workers! Stay away from Pullman! There is a strike on there. Don’t allow yourselves to be nsed as seabs. Better also stay away from every other strike zone. Be careful of the labor agents The labor unions in Chicago are coming across in good shape in contributing to the strike fund of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ The Poor Fish says: The Germans In the so-called union agreements they |must be a lawless peopl made every effort to leave the door v the best of terms with each other Who come promising “good jobs” in distant cities.] Union. But they can do better. And they|tracting si ‘New schemes of: “re- so much thru hatred of England by the}and we find the great slave dri should, % oreniaio’ ware time and again in- common people as by their hatred of| corporation, The Steel Trust, fetter. in | the English creditor class, The spirit of 1776 was basically the levelling, the communistic spirit. What will the There is only one way to civilize the Pullman Company. That way is to establish workers’ and farmers’ rule and take it out of the hands of the open for all kinds of attacks upon the|whom they knew were in bad with |Sons and Daughters of the American|a docile and servile mood, Religion profiteers, along with all other industries, hard-worn positions of the workers. |the government. A Revolution, Inc,, say now?—W, K, has its uses for the boss. * é a »s ¥ a ing the heads of the Catholic Church, principally for the purpose of keeping the Catholic workers in its employ in when they Workers and farmers! Go to St. Paul, Minn., Ast 4,000,000 votes for Communists; on June 17th, or get someone to speak for you there