The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 17, 1924, Page 3

Thursday, July 17, 1924 EUROPE GETTING y READY FOR NEXT / “HIGBLOOD BATH ‘Nations Hoarding Up Death Weapons (Special to the Daily Worker.) LONDON, July 16—That Burope is @ vast arsenal at the present moment with every government on the conti- nent feverishly storing up arms hoard- , ing up armaments in preparation for the next bath of blood, is the conclu- sion drawn by E. D. Morel, M, P. and Chairman of the Union of Democratic Control after a long investigation. | Of course Mr. Morel blames France now as the pacifists blamed Germany before the world war, Ther is always some monster standing out from all the rest, that must be destroyed. Yester- day it was Germany, today it is France. It never oceurs to the befud- dled pacifists that the capitalist system is responsible and that France is no more responsible for the militarization of Burope than any other capitalist country. Mr. Morel is a friend of Ramsay MacDonald and no doubt does not men- tion in his report the facts concerning the part played by MacDonald’s govern- ment in bombing Asiatic villages for refusal to pay taxes. His story is illu- minating and interesting particularly - in view of the fiction sedulously cult- ivated during the late war, that there would be no more war provided we went and killed enough Germans. “At present,” said Mr. Morel, “there is a more extensive output of war materials than at any time since the peace. The chief centers of production are the Skoda‘works in Czecho-Slova- chia and the Austrian state factories. French money and influence are direct- ing both. The Skoda works own their own coal minés’and are manufacturing and exporting huge quéntities of war materials. 4 “The powerful Creusot-Schneider French firm owns 75 per centrof the Skoda shares, and is making enormous profits. This spring French invest- ments in this concern were worth about £2,000,000. The managing di- rector and the chief technical experts are French, and there are influential Frenchmen on the board.” “War material is now being pro- duced in enormous quantities by the Austrian state factories at the Vienna arsenal, Wollersdorf, Steyr, Herten- berg, Enzenfeld and Blumau; also at the Austrian Daimler factories at We- iner Neustadt. Privately owned arm- ament firms in Austria also are work- ing hard. “In the last fifteen months Jugo- ’ Slavia has been supplied by these fac- tories with 1,000,000 Mauser rifles and 100,000,000 rounds of rifle ammunition, and, as these documents prove, with 183 additional freight car loads of in- fantry ammunition. Thirty-six of these were despatched last April and deli- vered at Lyublyana, and with them went two freight cars full of machine guns, twelve cars loaded with motor lorries, twenty-four cars with field kitchens, large numbers of field guns, Frommer revolvers and acetylene re- flectors, with other war materials. “Roumania has placed large orders for shells, Mauser rifles, ammunition, searchlights and mine-throwers, which orders are now in process of execution. Bleven carloads of shells already have been delivered to Roumania. “Poland is also in the market on a large scale, and these factories I have mentioned already have delivered to the Poles 35,000,000 pieces of ammuni- tion (calibre 7.9 mm.) and 34 carlods of infantry ammunition, 14 of which were despatched in February.” Mr. Morel then turned to the meth- ods by which Austria, a bankrupt country financed by interpational loans and controlled by the League of Na- tions, has found it possible to carry out such a huge enterprise as her trade in armaments. a “The means have been found for her,” he said, “by French capital, directly or indirectly. And all these purchases are being effected with the proceeds of French loans. Up to the end of last year Jugo-Slavia had spent 1,740,000,000 | French francs in pur- chasing field guns, rifles and other war material, and 300,000,000 francs more on airplanes, motor lorries and so forth. : More Purchases Planned. “Negotiations are in progress for further purchases. Roumania last year bought field and heavy guns worth 70,000,000 francs, and airplanes and other material to the value of 20,000, 000 francs. “Now, Austria is not an independent nation in regard to ents, Under the treaty she cannot manufacture or export a single gun, rifle or cartridge. Her armament industry is under the “strict control of an Allied Military Mission, which calls itself the organ of Hquidation, and is itself controlled by famous Council of Ambassadors. orders to the Austrial state ‘factories could not even have been placed, let alone exceuted, without the knowledge of the Conference of Am- bassadors.”” Sues Small For Salary SPRINGFEILD, Ill, July 16.—Thom- as D. Masters, Springfield attorney, today filed suit for $12,000 against Gov. Small, claiming that amount to be due him for services in the State interest suits. Masters withdrew from , the, case several weeks ago saying that he had trouble collecting his THE DAILY WORKER WORKER TELLS OF SHUT-DOWN STEEL MILLS OF PITTSBURGH AND JOBLESS ARMY TAKING TO THE ROAD IN VAIN By W. J. (Special to The WHITE Daily Worker) PITTSBURGH, July 16—Unemployment is rampant eyery- where. there is no business. Ask railroaders about business and they will tell you Bessemer steel plants are at the lowest ebb in the history of the steel business in many months. Open hearths are down with no prospects of blowing in their furnaces. while there are only about 13 blast furnaces in blast in the valley out of fifty or more that turn out pig metal when the steel and iron market is at the peak of its production. The puddlers have had to ac- cept a cut of fifty cents on the ton in the face of the hot weather when they cannot make more than two- to three- fifths of a turn because of the ex- cessive heat in these months of the summer. Usual Lake Traffic Dead. What is true of this district is also true of the entire Pittsburgh district. Workers are being laid off by the thousands in the steel and iron mills. The coal mines are down with no prospects of starting, while the coke workers in the trust and independent mines are having their wages cut to the bone by the employers. Very little if any coal is being shipped to the lake over the railroads this sum- mer. Only fifteen puddling furnaces are in operation in the entire city of Fattsburgh. In fact this is the smallest number, of furnaces in action in this district within the memory of the oldest iron workers engaged in \the trade. Old Timers Hit, Road. Old time iron and steel workers who make it a point to go out on road work during the heat of the summer months when it is almost impossible to stand the artificial heat of the sheet mills, open hearth and bessmer fur- naces are scanning in vain the want ads of the Cleveland and Pittsburgh papers. Go out on any high way these days and you will pass them tramp- ing with their pitiful bundles of rags tied up in newspapers, while they munch the doles that they are able to get from the people who live along the roads. They sleep out in the barns and outhouses or in the hay- stacks and straw stacks in the farm- ers’ fields. Every freight train is carrying its loads of these down-and-out workers, who, when mills and factories shut down have not where to lay their heads. Railroad bulls are busy every- where picking up these down-and- outers and sending them to jail at so much per head. Jails in city and coun- ty are filled to overflowing, while the highpowered cars of the parasites who have made their millions out of the blood and bones of them roll past. Bosses Can Wait. Mills equipped with the latest im- proved electric driven machinery that turns iron and steel into profits for the masters in the millions of dollars are down because of no orders. Mills that pay the entire wage of the men eniployed in them in the first ten min- utes of. operation in the morning, while they grind iron and steel into golden harvests for the masters of America during the balance of the day, are silent because there is no market in which to sell the surplus. This is the picture of Pittsburgh ly- ing like a giant scpiker on the hills and rivers of western Pennsylvania, sucking out the life blood of its thou, sands of workers, spewing them out after it is done with them. FOSTER TELLS N. Ye, JULY 21, ABOUT RUSSIA NEW YORK, July 16.—What is hap- pening in Soviet Russia today? Three years ago. in 1921, Russia witpessed the most ciritical period in the history of the revolution. Indus- try was in a state of collapse. The famine was taking its tolll of the life and strength of the Russian workers. The morale of the people was at its lowest—discouragement and pessim- ism prevailed. The capitalist press thruout the world gleefully prophesied the early collapse of the Soviet gov- ernment. Even revolutionists tensely followed developments in Russia, feel- ing that the fate of the revolution was to be decided. Success Today. But today, in 1924, the Soviet repub- lic proves to the world the construc- tive power of the proletarian dictator- ship, which not only carried the work- ers successfully thru the stormy pé- riod of revolution, but is carrying them thru the ‘period of reconstruc- tion. Russia is well on the way to solving all her problems. The last three years have witnessed constant progress in the rebuilding of industry, and improvements in the standard of living of the workers. The currency has been stabilized, the budget is bal- anced, production steadily increases. What has been responsible for the great successes of the Russian revo- lution? How have the terrific prob- lems, which threatened the revolt: in 1921, been met? What is the message of revolutionary achievement which the Russian workers can today send to all the workers of the world? Foster Tells Why? William Z. Foster, recently returned from Russia, will answer these and other questions at a mass meeting to be held under the auspices of the Trade Union Educational League on Monday, July 21, 8 p. m., at Webster hall, 11th St., between 3d and 4th Aves. Comrade Foster is especially well qualified to analyze the Russia of today. He visited Russia in the dark days of 1921, and as a result of his in- vestigations published a book on the Russian revolution which is regarded as one of the best on the workers’ re- public, Recently Comrade Foster made an- other trip to Russia, and at the meet- ing in Webster hall will tell the work- ers of New York city what he saw there. No worker should miss this opportunity of learning what Russia is doing today. Comrade Foster de- clares emphatically that the Russian TO AID {EW GERMAN ART EXHIBIT COMING WORKERS Original Collection Will Be Shown Soon The International Workers’ Aid Committee of Chicago has just re- ceived from its main office at Berlin a shipment of 170 oil paintings, prigi- nal lithographs, etchings, wood cuts and drawings by some of the most famous German artists. This collec- tion will be exhibited in all the large cities, and the proceeds will be used for Germanvrelief. ’ The situation in Germany has not improved, tho the capitalist papers try hard to make us believe so. There are still ONE MILLION workers un- employed and locked out. Thousands are in prison dnd many more are be- ing sent there. How Can She Pay? In order to put the Dawes plan over, the capitalists find it necessary to create the impression in America that Germany is a safe investment. [Ane so our press does its duty by Wall Street and prints the misinfor- mation, However, as late as July 1ith, Charles A. Stangeland, a visit- ing professor of American economics and politics at a Berlin university writes: “Berlin has its slums now, not quite in the New York sense, but in the sense of great blocks of peo- ple being in’ continual want and déspair, freezing in winter, lacking sufficient food chronically. And Ber- lin represents in a large scale what may be found in smaller cities. Suicides due to despair and hunger have multiplied proportionately in these years that have followed the Carthaginian peace of the conquer- ers of 1919.” “Beauty and the Bolshevik.” To help these million needy work- ers of Germany to continue their fight for their rights and the preservation of the eight hour day, groups of American workers are making vari- ous efforts to raise funds with which to help the families of these German victims of the clas swar. In Philadelphia the local committee of the International Workers Aid held a picnic on July 12th. In San Fran- cisco they have arranged for an en- tertainment and dance for July 26th, and a German Relief Day at a near- by beach for August 17th. In. New York they are already getting ready to show the new film, “The Beauty and the Bolsheyik.” And the Nation- al Office is organizing committees for the art exhibit. The proceeds of these activities will go to aid the million German workers in need—they who call to us for help. Metric System Conference MOSCOW, July 16.—The special in- ter-department metric system board has decided to call a conference not later than next September to deal with all the questions of the introduction of the metric system in the Union of Soviet Republics. Biggest Rail Clerk Local. CINCINNATI, July 16.—Metropoli- tan Express Lodge 2125, New York city, is the largest in the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks, with 1,700 mem- revolution is a success. Come to Web-|bers.~ It started with ten in December, ster hall on July 21 and hear why. 1922. Page Thrés aaa PLIGHT OF UNORGANIZED LABOR BARED BY STATISTICS ABOUT WAGES AND JOBS IN AMERICA By LELAND OLDS (Federated Press Industrial Editor) Wages have joined jobs on the toboggan, according to the May employment report of the United States department of labor, which shows for the first time a sharp drop in the average weekly pay envelop compared with a year ago. ings in manufacturing industry *, May as compared with May, 1923; showed a decline of 2.3 per cent. This drop in average wages com- bined with a decrease of 9.3 per cent in workers employed means a serious curtailment in the purchasing power of labor. The total weekly wage dis- bursements of 5,909 establishments employing one-quarters of the factory workers in the country have fallen more than $6,500,000—from $58,878,- 154 in May 1923 to $52,128,000 in May 1924, Taking manufacturing industry as a whole this 11% per cent payroll cut means that labor is spending about $25,000,000 less a week or at the rate of $1,300,000,000 less a year for the products of agriculture and industry. 31.3 Per Cent Cut in Cotton. Compared with May a year ago, decreased payrolls were shown in 40 of the 51 industries. Among the largest cuts were cotton goods 31.3 per cent, men’s clothing 29.7, foundries and machine shops 23,1,.shipbuilding 24.7, rubber boots and shoes 22.6, woolen goods 21.9, boots and shoes 18.7, shirts and collars 18.2 per cent. Per!) capita earnings declined in 22 indus- tries, including all except three of the 15 employing the largest number of workers. The average weekly pay en- velop in May 1924 and a year ago is shown for these 15 largest industries: May May Percent Weekly Earnings 1923 1924 change Slaughter and packing $24.87 $25.10 -|- 0.8 pet. Cotton goods 18,97 15.87 —16.4 Hosiery & knit goods 17.78 Silk goods 21.50 Woolen goods 25.19 Men's clothing 27.00 Iron and steel 30.69 Foundries, machine shops 30.40 Sawmills 20.50 Boots and shoes 22.79 Automobiles 3.71 Car ‘bidg., repair 29.63 Automobile tires 31.67 Electrical apparatus 27.96 All industries 27.00 26.36 — 2.3 Part time employment is largely responsible for the reduction in per capita earnings. The establishments reporting were operating 90 per cent of full-time and ,70 per cent full ca- pacity. In the previous month they were operating 92 per cent full-time and 80 per cent full capacity. In May only 62 per cent, of the establish- ments were running full-time and only 36 per cent had their full com- plement of workers. 3 9.2 Per Cent Cuts, ‘Wage rate decreases during the month averaged 9.2 per cent and af- fected 15,236 workers while increases Percapita earn- Foster Unanimously Endorsed by Local Amalgamated Union Unanimous endorsement of the camp- ign of William Z. Foster, Workers’ Party candidate for president, was given by local 269 of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America. There are more than 1500 members of the local union. A motion \was first made in the meeting of July 11 to endorse the} candidacy of La Follette, but this was lost and the motion endorsing Foster passed unanimously in its place. The Amalgamated as a whole has made no endorsement of any political candidate in the presidential race, but it is expected that the coming meeting of the General Executive Board will make a decision supposed to influence the locals. Lumber Workers Die in Fire. SPOKANE, Wash., July 16.—Thirty- five persons, mostly lumber mill work- ers, are believed today to be the toll of lives taken in the disastrous forest fire which swept over Wheelers Hill, six miles west of Blue Slide. in north- ern Pend D’ Oreille county. Eleven children lost their lives in the seeth- ing flames when they tried to make their way out in automobiles with their parents when it was discovered that the mill was doomed. Miners Dedicate New Home. MONONGAH. W. Va., July 16.—The $20,000,000 new miners’ hall and movie house at Monongah is in full use since its dedication, July 4. It is the prop- erty of Local 1643, United Mine Work- ers, whose members paid assessments equaling $20 per man for it. Besides the hall with movie equipment, seat- ing 550, there are, two storés and of- fices in the building. Want To Make Up. LENINGRAD, July 16—The North Western Chamber of Commerce has received a letter from the German firm “Ost-Export,” in which regret is expressed at the severance by the Chamber of Trade relations with the firm. which averaged 7.1 per cent were re- ported as affecting 4,464 employes. The unemployment problem is indi- cated by the department’s employ- ment index, which shows that manu- facturing industry is employing 22 per cent fewer workers than in May 1920 and 21 per cent fewer than in 1917 and 1918. He Knows It Now! Brigadier General Charles G. Dawes will be formally notified of his nomi- nation for the vice presidency by the republicans on the evening of Aug. 19, at his Evanston home. Brandler Defends His Position Before Comintern (Continued from page 1.) in Saxony and in the Ruhr district. But it would not have been successful in Berlin or in Hamburg, and this the speaker attributes to the unfitness of the left wing. ‘The speaker was no buffoon of Ra- dek’s. Radek supported the leftists on many questions, and for this Radek is responsible. The speaker attempts to prove that he did not wish to re- vise Lenin’s theory of the state and his theory concerning the role of the party; he defends: the party policy during the May strike in the Ruhr dis- trict. Because the bourgeoisie wanted to incite a bloody battle, it was right to avoid fighting. He defends the par- ty policy at the time of anti-Fascist day, on the ground that a defeat had already occurred as early as June. The German bourgeoisie is stronger and more mobile than was the Rus- sian bourgeoisie, and the influence of, social-democratic ideology is stronger than was that of the Russian menshe- viki, and their organizational founda- tions are more deeply rooted. He holds to his interpretation of the role of the workers’ aristocracy as the right one. His Disastrous Mistake. The speaker’s most disastrous mis- take was failure to make a further ad- vance after the Cuno strike, whereby initiative passed to the bourgeoisie. It was a serious mistake to take no action against the state of siege, and not to have destroyed the mistaken idea that the siege was not directed against von Kahr‘s Bavarians. The speaker goes on to review the events in Saxony and to explain that he takes full responsibility for having sounded the retreat of the fight in that particular situation. The speak- er is of the opinion that it was not the October debacle, but the idea of’ fought by proper means. The leftists 'look on the socialdemocrats as a dust oe % me panic that was a disorganizing force, and he expressed the fear he felt that party influence would thereby be less- ened. The idea that the party was obliged to fight in October is crim- inal idiocy. The speaker protests against-the complaints that there are petty bourgeois groups in the party. bbl, 8% Nouen Ai Quack (Indo-China) men- tions the careful attention which the Congress gives to the colonial ques- tion. French imperialism is not only procuring raw materials, but it is algo getting yellow and black soldiers for the purpose of suppressing the revo- lution, o. &: 0 Criticism From Thatheimer. Thalheimer (Communist Party of Germany) emphasizes the necessity discipline, unity and centralization of control, and states that criticism is necessary during increasing difficul- ties. The speaker is of the opinion that the Executive Committee did not foresee the events in Bulgaria and in Germany to a sufficient etxent, and at the right time, dnd did not afterward draw the lessons which these events taught clearly enough. Organizational attacks on the management of the par- try are necessary. Some of the at- tacks were wrong and lef to severe crises. The continuity of the manage. ment cannot be broken except in case of extreme necessity. In the western countries, too, there is an old guard, which forms a connecting link be- tween the Second and Third Interna- tional, The Communist Party of Rus- sia gave birth to the leaders of the Comintern, but other parties must now be devioped to a position of lead- ership and independence. Denies Right Wing Exists. It is an open question whether the wave of democratic pacifism is being 4 j present no danger in the Comunist Party of Russia, but the coalition’ of the leftists with the left wing is dan- gerous. In the Cqmintern there is no right wing—the right wing is omly a ghost. Radek performed great set. ices to the Communist Party of Ger- many and for,this reason the attacks on Radekism are unfair. The speaker is not convinced that the present po- litical, and organizational policy is correct, but he will nevertheless abide by the deciisons and submit to disci- pline. 4 Indecision in Saxony. Kleine states that Brandler is paint- ing the situation incorrectly and that Radek is drawing incorrect conclu- sions from these false reports. The chief tasks are: First, the Bolsheviza- tion of the parties of the west; sec- ond, the creation of organizational union with the sympathetic masses; third, further opposition to the ma- jority. A single political policy was lacking during the evnts in Saxony. The party did not push into battle, but held back. Retreat without battle was wrong. The chief error consisted of underestimating the role of the party. The danger of right wing tendencies exists and must be fought. *e THE EVENING SESSION OF JUNE 23, Schueller (Young Communist Inter- national) takes the floor and declares that the Chief task of the Congress is the battle against righ wing groups. In the speeches, of Radek, Brandler, Thalheimer, ea tn the explanation of Smeral, there the spirit of Leipzig and of Prague. Radek has estimated sovial-democracy incorrectly, for s0- cial-democracy will remain to the very end an ally of the bourgeoisie and will finally develop into the Fascist left wing. Radek, in his- speech, seems to working class party, which is a devia- tioh from Communism. Radek’s attempt again to broach the German question must be stopped. Ris) acral welcomes the appearance ‘0 e minority of the Czech party. The Swedish party must explain its point of view openly. Concerning the discussion on the question of the Com- munist Party of Russia, the entire Comintern must as a unit support the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Russia. Italian Minority Agrees. In the name of the minority of the Italian delegation, Rienzi expresses his unconditional agreement with the report of Zinoviey. Concerning the criticism of the October events and the formulation of the United Front policy the speaker is in complete ac- cord with Trient and Severing. The interpretation of the majority of the Italian delegation of “workers’ gov. ernment” as a synonym Tor “dictator. ship of the proletariat” is philological and not political. After the speeches of Brandler and Thalheimer it is clear why the Communist Party of Germany took its stand with the left. In the Russian Communist party question neutrality is inadmissible; the minor- ity of the Itallan delegation supported the Central Committee of the Com- munist Party of Russia and the Lenin- ist guard. The Italian minority is in favor of CHAINED 10 LLINOIS MINERS AID WORK ON SPY EXPOSE BOOKLET Anyone Who Knows of Labor Spies, Write Local unions,of the United Mine Workers of America are not a healthy field for the activities of finks and stool pigeons, if one is to judge by the prompt respohse of the miners to the Anti-Spy Campaign being waged by the Labor Defense Council. Officials of the local unions in South- ern Illinois, are taking a keen interest in the pamphlet exposing professional labor spies which the Labor Defense Council is preparing«to issue in the Fall. J. W. Hindmarsh, President of Local No, 745, U. M. W. of A., writes that “the work of exposing the perni- cious spy system is entitled to the full co-operation of everyone concerned for, the welfare of the workers.” He adds, “If we can be of any service to you, we shall not hesitate to render you as- sistance.” Valuable information in connection with the pamphlet has been received from Robert W. Dunn of the American Civil Liberties Union, co-author with Sydney Howard in the ‘well-known pamphlet “The Labor Spy,” which had an extensive circulation among labor unions a few years back. Unlike the Dunn-Howard pamphlet, which was general in scope, the one being pre- pared by the Labor Defense Council will list the spies alphabetically, giving all available information as to their past and present activities. An attempt is being made to make it an encyclo- pedia of all known labor spies, and the co-operation of labor organizations throughout the country is solicited. Send in that Subscription Today. Russia Leader In Sanitation. LENINGRAD, July 16.—The con- ference on sanitation and epidemics, closed here today, has proved very successful. Among other reports and papers read at the conference was one by Professor Ressle, who came to Russia on behalf of the League of Na- tion. He stated that what he had seen in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics had actually surpassed all his expectations and that the Western countries would have to take a good deal from the Union as a model for sanitarian construction. Send in that Subscription Today. 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