The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 1, 1924, Page 6

a is _-— Page Six THE DAILY WORKER. Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO, 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, IL (Phone: Monroe 4712) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail: $3.50....6 months $2.00....8 months By mall (In Chicago only): $4.50....6 months $2.50...3 monts $6.00 per year $8.00 per year Address all mail and make out checks to THE: DAILY WORKER 1113 W. Washington Bivd. Chicago, Illinois The I. W. W. and Politics “Tt will never be necessary for the I. W. W. to indorse any political party. Neither will the I. W. W. carry on propaganda against political action. To do so would be as useless as to carry on a campaign for it.” So says the current issue Me Industrial Solidarity, official paper of the wob- lies. But, strangely enough, these words occur near the end of a long three-column article, which is thruout a polemic against politics. A very weak, stupid polemic, it is true. It might have been, THE DAILY WORKER The Inside HAT the revolution may mean to the inner life of the workers in a great soviet factory, is graphical- ly told by an article written by a worker in Treogolnik, the famous rubber factory of Leningrad, former- ly private-owned, now a state indus- try. I quote largely word for word with a few condensations. It need not, of course, be supposed that all Rus- of a Russian Factory - - lages are great friends; you can’t use any other word. The factory repaired an old, ruined baron’s villa, and made a central school for the district. They also built a People’s House, with a peasants’ club, reading room and the- ater. The members of the Women’s Guardianship Committee go out near- ly every Sunday and take copy books and pencils to the schools, and books for the reading room, and chocolate dinary primary and secondary school, but it is run at the factory, where the women’s committee keep an eye on its pseneral atmosphere. It’s a fine school. Besides the usual school equipment, we have added special art instruction. “The higher course in our techni- cal school runs three years. They learn physics, chemistry, higher ma- thematics, and all the, understanding of the wares of our factory, technical Tuesday, July 1, 1824 By ANISE somol school. Then the technical courses. After eighteen years he ir an educated well-rounded person, a member of the union, perhaps a skill- ful mechanic at Treogolnik. All Sorts of Workers, “All sorts of folks are in our little republic, Here is Ivanova Shura, a peasant’s daughter, full of life, alwaya dancing her way thru existence. Here is Ekaterina from a different world. a : ‘ jan factories have yet attained this |for the child Si the W 's | inte ti trad joni and probably was, written ten years ago. It shows. . : Data aotonl “wilh He dese an ce ote lle en Coane: | Ob a lint fAttihy; (Bra TG are J. LOUIS ENGDAHL Editors however, the utter confusion ith a f th Pee gc che tinelenh ered beer nic m aieriacdbas fe tieoht ugePeaeahe ptaramr ena Mirae. decd Sk WILLIAM F. DUNNE ? € minds of those| Russian press as a good type to be|aeroplane—(you read, of course, that Doesn’t Want to go Home. job, she came by the road of unem- MORITZ J. LOEB. Business Manager Entered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1923 at the Post- Office at Chicago, Ill, under the act,of March 3, 1879. <> 290 Advertieing rates on application. ‘ An International Crisis! Young men, get ready to go to war! The honor of your country is at stake! A deadly affront has been given to the grand and glorious flag of the grandest and most glorious country on God’s green who speak for that organization. These muddle-heads who would warn the work- ing class against all politics are really playing the game of the middle class and capitalist poli- ticians, the game of the bourgeoisie, which is al- ways anxious that the workers shall avoid politics. An appearance of ultra-revolutionism is created by denouncing the traitor politicians of the Socialist movement. But for every political trai- tor of the working class, we can find at least. one traitor in the labor unions. The working class must fight against treachery everywhere, even in followed. But many factories‘of my knowledge have reached it; and the ideal itself, expressed in the tone of the worker’s own’ article, is worth knowing. “There's a great difference between the old Treogolnik, and the new Red Treogolnik. Oh, a colossal difference! Manufacture “Social Culture.” “Treogolnik was simply a factory. A factory and nothing more. An in- dustrial establishment. A place where people came to work. Only to work, and nothing further. But Red Treo- golnik is not a mere factory but big- Treogolnik has contributed its own aeroplane to the Air Fleet), and will show it to the peasants, and fly thru tne whole township, and bring back the peasants’ commission thru the air! “Well, there are still some more committees, one for the homeless chil- dren, for the invalids, for the help of the German workers’ children... . Then there are clubs and circles for our own culture ahd entertainment. You know this new craze for folk mu- sic,—we have a club for,it. Harpists “Do you see now how you can spend a whole day and a whole life at our factory? Elizaveta, one of the. Com- somolists, says she would like never to go home at all. She finshes work at five o’clock, and has a civics les- son at 5:15. The meeting of the Com- somol Bureau comes at 7, a rehearsal in the theater at 8, and after that she either drops into a sports or literary circle or goes to the reading room to write letters to her folks in the village. “A whole day—and a whole life ployment to the rubber factory. She adjusted herself and now she is also one of the bunch, happy with the rest. of them. “There are old women, heroines of labor, the oldest rubber makers in Russia. Thirty, thirty-five and forty years they have made rubber. They havé seen all manner of hardships, they have seen revolution and change. “But all of these together build not only a factory, not only a mass of workers, but a living, breathing or- ganism, acting and growing. Our fac- footstool! No:hing can wipe out this insult but|the I. W. W., and the moment that fact is recog-|ger than a factory: not a mere indus. [nt babs gad guitar layers come liso, A child of two months may start| tory is a world in itself. A govern- blo-0-0-0-d! — the old argument against politics falls to|trial establishment, but a social pro-|—‘put this we have with the men to. Be ana ee A ghia dig ig ied ae vee Sopereent: One ous 9 * the ‘ wre a = : joneers. en | federated Republics in the great Un- What has happened? Mary Pickford and ground. ductive organization. At-Red Treogol-|gether. Literature circles; we don’t Gis tucthry, Watt ashout Liat the oak Douglas Fairbanks went into a Parisian restau- rant without any dough, and were refused credit. Get that, they were refused credit! Almost any- thing might be forgiven but this, to refuse credit to such outstanding representatives of the Ameri- can democracy, to refuse to trust Pickford and Fairbanks for their breakfast. French and American workers are in the common predicament of ‘going without breakfast, and with no chance of remedying this condition with cash or credit. Maybe they will also get excited about the Against the conquest of power, thru the over- throw of the capitalist state and the establishment of the workers’ government of soviets (which can be accomplished only under the leadership of a Communist party), the I. W. W. theoreticians offer no means whatever by which the working class can break the bonds of capitalism. Instead of. such a means, it contents itself with a Christ-like faith that somewhere, some time, something will happen to change things. In the meantime, with truly Christian martyrdom, it will nik they organize not only work, but leisure. They manufacture not only rubber and tires, and sanitary appli- ances, but they manufacture also a social culture. “In old Treogolnik it was boresome; in Red Treogolnik it is merry. In Red Treogolnik you can spend a whole day and a whole life. “There are about 7,000 workers in Red Treogolnik, of whom 4,000 are women and girls. Therefore, most of. the social life turns about the wo- men’s and young peoples’ organiza- miss anything. Growth From Ground. “Every woman has to be busy with something. One reads up on Lenin; another on Dostoyevsky. This one learns the alphabet, that one the ‘al- phabet of Communism.’ Some have a chess circle, others busy themselves with music or children. And the best of it is that this culture does not come down from above, but grows from below; it is not a culture that is given, but that grows organically. AS WE ion of Soviet Republics.” SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHERTY. Wilson’s League of Nations was killed on the floor of the Democratic convention, but Owen D, Young of the House of Morgan was busy on the’ platform committee. Wall Street cares more for the substance than News and the Chicago Evening Jour- nal, express the hope that Mussolini and his Fascisti will survive in some form or other to protect Italy from Communism. But several millions of Italian workers will have something astounding news which the Chicago Tribune thinks turn the other cheek to capitalist persecution.|tions. There are 431 Communists “Well,—then we have the Comso-|the shadow. Conventions are only|to say about that, after the Italian is important enough to send by cable from Paris. | “Persecution,” says the article in Solidarity, “al-|among the women, of whom 359|mol. (Young People’s Communist | held every four years but Morgan is | millionaire socialists have made their ways results in the growth of the principle repre-|joined after Lenin’s death. But in|League). It numbers 462 members,| 0" the job while the conventions are |dignified protest. Gompers for Old System Samuel Gompers told the resolutions commit- tee of the Democratic convention that his prefer- ence was for the continuation of the old two-cap- italist-party system of government. At this late date the whole world should be aware that Gompers stands for the old system in all of its essentials. He is against independent political action by the labor movement as he has been against it for 40 years. All he asks of the “oil parties” is that they shall give him a few fake planks to flourish before the eyes of his followers as eoncessions to labor. Gompers stands for the old system of dividing the workers on the political field, just as he stands for division on. the industrial field. He is against amalgamation of the unions, and he is against 4. the Labor party. The movement for the liberation of the working class must go forward over the bitterest opposition from Gompers and all his tribe. e Pardons from Ebert President Ebert of the Imperial German Repub- sented by that organization—if its members are men and women of courage. If they are not, there is no substitute that will insure victory.” All of which may be a good religion, but it is very poor thinking. In fact, to call it stupid is charitable, for it is worse than that. It is the abdi- cation .of intelligence. The long warfare carried on in the I. W. W. against “leaders,” under the slogan, “The I. W. W. has no leaders; every mem- ber is a leader,” seems to have been successful. At least there are no signs of leadership in that organization now. Oil, Oil Everywhere There’s oil in the White House and there’s oil in the laws; there’s oil on Calvin Coolidge and there’s oil on Charlie Dawes. There is oil in the Navy posts, and in the Army too; while Whiskers Hughes pumps oil abroad with little else to do. In Harding’s tomb the oil is smeared, and Jess Smith’s ghost is walking in ghastly grandeur, hop- ing to stop Roxie from her talking; the Daugh- ertys, both Hal and Mel, are oily as can be, which does not keep them from conventions of the G. O. P. In fact, there’s oil everywhere, on men both the women’s organization are not, only Communists, but everyone, even the illiterate ones do their share. And what kind of women’s work have +=? It is hard to answer quickly; there are so many. Nursery In Factory. “First of all, there is the work with the children. We have a day nursery in the factory,—140 children, from 2 months to four years old. And after that comes a children’s home, one of the best in Leningrad. Médel equip- ment in both of them. A women’s committee looks after them. “Then comes the women’s work among themselves. We must admit that many, many of them are dark people, illiterate or only a little liter- ate. We have classes for reading. and writing; at present 160 are attending it. And for the more educated ones there are circles in elementary civics and polities—38 different groups learning simple facts about their goy- ernment. “Women’s committees — there are lots of these. Committee on safe- guarding women’s work. Committee on safeguarding work of girls. Com- mittee on the nursery, and on the chil- of whom 262 joined on Lenin’s death. ‘smree hundred are girls. Its main job is collective learning. ‘To learn and to teach’ ‘is our slogan. It runs a primary school, and a trade union school, and a civics school, and a Lenin school and a Marxist school’— every Comsomolist has to go thru all of them, one after the other. Only then is he considered a real Comso- molist. And they do serious work, with iron discipline, with stiff examin- ations between the schools. And be- sides the schools we have a Lenin circle, a Liebknecht circle and a circle which studies western lands. And a special reading room of our own. “Still more circles in the Comsomol. A literary circle, siudying the history of Russian and Western European li- terature. A dramatic circle, several of them, playing in our two theatres, in adjournment. Wilson’s League of Nations got under the skin of the American voting king because certain capitalist politicans not all too happy, under the domination of Wall Street, prodded their superstition’s ribs with Washington’s farewell address. Before the voters cooled down, Wilson was Politically’ dead and so was _ his League. But the Dawes’ plan smells just as sweet and the “common pee- pul” are not getting so excited over it. After all, Dawes is human. He swears and wears a pipe upside down. ** 8 The Cofiference for Progressive Political Action may have started out with good intentions but it is now a political Wlackmailing machine. It threatens both capitalist parties with retribution unless it gets what it wants when it wants it. Like a gang a big one holding 700 people and a small one holding 350 people. In the dramatic circles the Comsomol works together with women’s organizations and the adult men’s clubs. Athletic Circles, . “Athletic circles also with 99 mem- bers, carrying on all kinds of sports. Musical circles. A stringed orchestra, of burglars, the C. P. P. A. is not in agreement on what it wants. Thieves fall out. Some of its leading mem- bers are for LaFollette. Others are equally enthusiastic for McAdoo. Oth- ers are for Al Smith. None of them are for the workingclass. The capi- talists are not terribly frightened over the spectre of the threatened July 4th conference. They know its lead- According to a Federated Press cor- respondent, while the scarlet-lipped females and well-hipped males from Tammany Hall were making serious inroads on the sampulsorily virtuous delegates of McAdoo with wine, wo- men and words, a beautiful Califor- nia girl rose equal to the occasion, un- dressed, (Mr. Denny did not specify where) and appearing adorned in the American flag, (at least sufficiently so to appease the hunger of Mr. Summer, rode triumphantly on the shoulders of two McAdoo delegates thru the convention. Her demonstra- tion was more effective than several seconding speeches, even the painfully moral leaders of the Ku Klux Klan saw stars as the representative of virtuous womanhood threw purity in- to the scales against the painted wick- edness of the Tammany propaganda. It was all for McAdoo, the darling of American progressive democracy. Haé- the young lady performed the feat ac a more critical moment and used less patriotism in her make-up, who knows but she might have’ made a president. eee The Socialist Labor Party has a can- a hose Germans impris-| great and small, in the re- dren’s homes. Committee for home-|/a fine one, which takes part in all our .|didate for president. His name is «tart me Baca aaanetion of the Ruhr : pub- less children. A school committee. A | workers’ concerts. ‘The i bed be GHisad or tha: uaalletacaean Johns and from his revolutionary ban- 5 : i : theater committee. Oh, yes, we have jorchestra in Leningrad. And a circle La-|@er there blazons forth only one slo- They were guilty of “treason.” But it was the li- two thegters. And many, many more |of practical housekeeping—but that’s ions x fy pss lh cai ody Sad gan, the abolition of the capitalist em * * Salle or Party, the composition of that “ kind of treason that is easily and quickly par- can . committees. only girls. conference will be nat one whit more |8¥stem. Since the Workers Interna- ‘ t by capitalists of| party of McLean and Albert Fall. Factory Guardian of Town. “Of course, we have a factory night- tional Industrial Union issued a ref- doned, not alone by Ebert but by cap party progressive than the donkey circus 4 ‘3 Th > 0, i * > “Our factory has taken the guard-|school; with 94 students. And a V erendum on the problem of burying e donkey, too, is oily but he hasn’t had a all nations, because it was treason in the interests of the real rulers of the world, the biggest capital- ists. Thousands of workers are in prison thruout Ger- many, convicted of “treast” of various sorts, but none of them the sort that assisted in the armed occupation by capitalist troops. They were the fighters for working class rule, for the overthrow of the rule of German capitalism, for the breaking of the intolerable bonds of the Versailles Treaty. They were “treasonable” to the pact that made chance to show his really finest form; but he will also prance into the oil game if the democratic ticket wins, The donkey counts upon forgetful- ness of his past sins. The democrats made mil- lionaires by thousands in the war, and grafted on the ships and vets, as none had done before. The war is over for a time but oil is always here, and Democrats will be on hand, eléction funds will cheer them on to beat the record, which they cer- tainly will do, for the demo- ianship of the township of Kaporsk, in Trotsky County, (formerly Ga- tchina). Forty villages, with 8,000 population. The factory and the vil- Young Pioneers’ Organization, with 140 children of the workers, from ten to fourteen years old. We have a special school for them, just the or- Wall Street's By THOMAS J. O'FLAHERTY. ENATOR David I. Walsh, of Mas- Two Parties have a man in the White House who will take orders, In New York, at the democratic convention, prominent at the head of now in session in Madison Square Garden. 7.8: # Now that Mussolini has had time to wash the blood of the Socialist de- puty Matteotti off his hands, a la Pon- tius Pilate, the American capitalist papers which were too premature in pouncing on a man they thot was down, hav. regained courage and now damn him with faint criticism. Per- haps the editorial writers on the spur of the moment gave expression to itself, the S. L. P., its cold-blooded parent, is reeking in vulgar prosperi- ty. The Weekly. People waxes sensa- tional in announcing that a collection of $5.87 was taken up at one of its monster mass meetings and in addi- tion $4.50 in subs for the Week- ly People. But Arnold Peterson and Mrs. Olive Johnson will never com- fortably fill Daniel De Leon’s chair on such scanty financial enthusiasm. They must have money, real money. Therefore all those who desire a so- i Y "| . sachusetts, shortly after his elec- ” ; Germany a nation of slaves. They fought for a crat: : tion to the millionaire’s club in Wash. (tHe table is Owen D. Young, the other iti pee ae ue reer cial revolution, bearing the “harm ana free and proletarian Germany. Their “treason” ic ington, delivered a speech in Boston, |°UtStanding member of the Wall y ‘ammer of the fightin’ S. L. P.,” are was to capitalism. i Ebert has not pardoned these latter prisoners. And he will not do so. The reason for this is, that Ebert and the Social-Democratic party are the lickspittles of capitalism, German and Entente, and the one unforgivable crime in their eyes is to fight against capitalism. The working class pris- oners in German will only be released by the Ger man revolution. They Have the Votes A group of so-called labor leaders, bureaucrats in control of office in the railroad unions, boasted in public that they “have the necessary votes to prevent the successful launching of an independent movement” for working-class political action. They wanted McAdoo on the democratic ticket, and claimed that they have the labor movement hog tied and ready to deliver to the highest bidder. They have the votes, so they claim, to do with as “sey please. But how have they got the votes? They have the votes in the Cleveland Conference for Progressive Action, where rank and file dele- gates are excluded, where union officials hold great party boasts of Oily McAdoo. Progress Thru Constitutions News of the progress of the constitutional amendment on child labor will be followed with interest. Two states have acted upon it, both in the South where child labor is at its worst, and the seore is 50-50. Louisiana voted against the amendment, while Arkansas voted for it. What this amendment, if carried (and it can be blocked by any small group of states) will achieve, is merely to put the issue of child labor upon the same parliamentary status in the United States that already exists in every other capitalist country. The amendment provides that Congress shall have power to legislate. Such powers exist in the legislatures of every country but the U. S.; only in our “land of the free” has an appointed court that holds power for life the right to declare that such legislation is void. ' Progress by constitutional amendment is thus shown to be even more of a joke in this land of pure “democracy” than it is, even, in the mon- arehies of Europe. Child labor, in common with in the course of which he said that the republican and democratic parties were both supported by the capital- ists, and he gave facts to prove his statement. While the masses fought over the alleged differences between the two parties, Wall Street controlled them both and won out whichever party lost in the elections. Wall Street knows that it wants and takes the necessary steps to get what it wants. Wall Street rules this country thru its control of the nation’s wealth and governmental machinery, back of which is the soldier's ,kit. Wall Street not alone rules this country, but it is spreading out all over the world, When it holds up its hand even a great power like France changes its plans. On Soviet recog- nition for instance. Wall Street sent a commission to Europe to shackle the limbs of Ger- many and compel the workers of that country to speed up and pay the rep- arations which the winning capitalist Street reparations mission. He is there to do his master’s bidding. If the democratic party wins, many republican politicians may be obliged to take up some other line of graft for a living, but Wall Street will win as usual. Both capitalist parties are the prop- erty of the ruling class of this coun- try. The only thing the workers and exploited farmers have to do with them is to cast their votes for them. It is more than time to make a change. The workers have in’ the Farmer-Labor Party, organized at St. Paul, a party that is the-bitter and unplacable foe of Wall Street; a par- ty that stands for the interests of the workers and the workers alone, and is pledged to bring about the over- throw of Wall. Street and all that it means. Wall Street’ means exploita- tion, robbery, unemployment, hunger and war for the workers and luxury for the parasites. ‘The workers must repudiate the Wall Street twins, the democratic and republican parties and nations insist on getting from the conquered. Wall Street would lend the money to start the work, but’ it get behind the Farmer-Labor Party. UNITE! ers. Whatever is the explanation, Fascism came in for hard knocks when the news first broke that Matte- ctti was murdered. Now, uowever, the tune is changed. The capitalist pa- pers, Democratic and Republican, join in saying that the Italian people can- not forget that the Fascisti saved Italy from Communism, ** 6 That was the real peril for the capi- talists. What of it if several thou- sand workers were murdered by the fiendish brutes under the direction of Mussolini? The robber system was temporarily saved. Mussolini's wild men, however, shoutd be punished for dragging the “great man’s” repu- tation in the gutter. Capitalism must have Gods. The wild men must not be allowed to go around killing re- spectable millionaire socialists who are perfectly innocuous and are only bleating for the return of bourgeois lawrnorder after the fashion of our own LaFollettes and Bergers, Fascism must be careful if not good. But even when naughty, it is better than Communism, which is worse than the devil in the eyés of the capitalist robbers. requested to send in $50,000 at once or sooner. Unless this is done, Arnold, the unknown soldier of the bloodless revolution, might quit selling De Leon . busts and go to work. «© ¥ The Portuguese cabinet resigned, but the event got very little pub! A A thief who stole $20,000 wo. of gems from the Edgewater Beach ho- tel was given ten inches of space, while the resignation of a wabinet only got three-quarters of an inch. About the only thing Portugal is fa- mous for nowadays 1s its changing cabinets and bloodless revolutions. That is the reason, I suppose, why revolutions by force and violence ar¢ not illegal in that country. Why should they as long as they hurt no body? must have guarantee: ‘Wall Street telephoned to its Re- publican agent in the White House. Charles G. wes, Republican, and Owen D. Young, Democrat, with an- other to keep them company, were sent over to Europe to do the job for Wall Street. missionaries had government sanction, ‘Wall Street is always in power in Washington whether the administra- tion ‘be democratic or republican, It McDonald, so the OIL THIEVES sa: Is a RED BOLSHEVIK!” . They know not when they talk that way, how much TRUTH, they speak! army | signifies blocks of votes that overwhelm any stray delegates|every other vital problem of the working class, i that might come in with a real working-class pro-| will only be settled finally thru the power of the gram. They control the votes in the Conference]government of workers’ councils, which will put where they made the rules and gave themselves the | aside the flub-dubbery of constitutions that permit votes. the privileged class to rule. It is interesting to note that LaFollette did his best to throw all the power of his own followers} LaFollette complains, according to his friends, to the Cleveland Conference, where the men who] that the Democrats stole his oil investigation. The “control the votes” offer to sell them to McAdoo |issue really belongs to him, they say, not to the 2.0) When the capitalists denounce the Communists for accepting the inevita- bility of the use of force in revolution, they demonstrate their hypocrisy. It is as inevitable that violence should accompany the birth of a new order of society as it is that a movie villian should attempt to sell fake stock to the widowed mother of an unknown Socialists are so anxious for The Poor Fish Says: | was neve) and the Democrats. Who said LaFollette is a “practical politician”? It is the men who control in the sense of getting the cash. Send in that Subsoription Today. Democrats. Why not pick up a few issues that they don’t want, Bob? Public ownership of all the votes, and put them up for sale, that are prac-| monopolized industries, land to the users, abolish | Wall Street agents, Charle) American imperialism, workers’ and farmers’ goy- ernment—the democrats wouldn’t steal those issues! takes precautions, At Cl d after considerable sham battling, one of the . Dawes, was named as Coolidge’s running mate on the Republican ticket, In Jesus said. the Cross was RED Hlow streak ‘ LET wor e In INDUSTRY McDONALD 1 soldier, peaceful revolutions that they kill those who insist on having them at any cost. Capitalists applauded the violence of the Fascist! even tho it was illegal. But it was good for capi- 80 fearful of American institution: as | am now. A respecte: g cannot come to a convention with out having a bottle of whiskey thrust in his face. | like my dr on the quiet but when pads case of accid poisoned crabs or talism and necessity knows no law. Daily flaunting it in the f. order Ideaw the lines