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

Page Six THE DAILY WORKER THE DAILY WORKER. Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, I. (Phone: Monroe 4712) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail: $3.50....6 months $2.00_.3 months By mall (in Chicago only): $4.50....6 months $2.50....8 montus $6.00 per year $8.00 per year Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER 1113 W. Washington Bivd. Chicago, Hlinols J. LOUIS ENGDAEL WILLIAM F. DUNNE MORITZ J. LOEB... Business Manager ——— Entered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1928 at the Post- Office at Chicago, Ill, under the act of March 3, 1879. <> 20 Advertising rates on application, —=— Nova Scotia Miners Reject O. B. U. The current issue of the Maritime Labor Herald, organ of the Nova Scotia miners, faces the issue squarely that has been raised by the so-called One Big Union of Winnipeg. It declares against the old and discredited policy of secession from the United Mine Workers of America. It sets its face firmly toward the policy worked out by the revo- lutionary experience of the world, the policy of winning the masses for revolutionary struggle, inside of the established unions. Thus have the Nova Scotia miners shown to the whole labor movement that they have become mature revolutionists. The infantile sickness does not infect them. They have learned to look behind surface arguments to the realities of the class struggle; and therefore know that projects of finding a short-cut to the revolution, lead only to the swamps of opportunism and confusion. They see their revolutionary duty clearly, and have shouldered it without flinching. The maturity of the Nova Scotia miners has been brought about mainly thru their own bitter experience. But credit for the solidifying of their ranks, and the clarification of their ideas, goes in a considerable degree to the Communist Party of Canada, on the executive committee of which Jim McLachlan, of the Nova Scotia miners, is a member. It promises well for the future of the Canadian movement. Join the Workers Party and subscribe to the| DAILY WORKER! Getting the Party Into Action That the Workers Party membership is getting into action in the present political campaign is evidenced by the New York comrades’ action in mobilizing the whole party for distribution of the Special Campaign Issue of the DAILY WORKER on August 30. With every member of the party doing his bit, as outlined by the party organiza- tion in that city, the campaign will start off with a spirit and fire that will push it well on the way toward a creditable achievement. New York has shown that it understands the needs of the move- ment at the present time. The Chicago organization, not content with con- centrating only upon the special editions for wide- spread distribution, is taking thousands of copies of the DAILY WORKER each week, reaching as many workers who have hitherto been untouched by the message of Communism. The Special Cam- paign Issue is going across big in Chicago also. Probably there are larger circles of new readers being reached at, this time, by many fold, than ever before in the history of the movement. This is the way it should be, for never was there a greater opportunity. Is your party unit on the job? Get a member for the Workers Party and a new subscription for the DAILY WORKER. Newspaper Lies Capitalist newspapers have reduced lying to a seience. Particularly in dealing with labor and revolutionary subjects, their methods range from the deliberate establishment of lie factories, that manufacture stories out of whole cloth, thru the be remembered that the work-day (in 1913) was then twelve hours long and is now eight.” In spite of the reduction of hoprs of labor by one-third, Russian industry is being so well or- ganized and re-established under the Soviets that production approaches four-fifths of figures. This is accompanied, step by <tep, with a proportional rise in the living standards of the workers. But the capitalist headline writers know how to turn this great news for the workers of the world into a threat and a warning against the revolution—thru the simple expedient of a misleading and lying headline. , Send in that Subscription Today. More About Farm Prosperity Present indications point to a substantial col- lapse of the recent wheat boom, Canadian reports show very much less of a reduction of the wheat erop than was expected a few weeks ago. Corn has also suffered a decline owing to the fact that the hot weather necessary to save the crop in the mid- dle western states has appeared. Thus the farmers will have more corn to sell than it seemed at first. Consequently, they will have to sell it at a lower price. As we have seen, the maximum net advance in wheat and corn prices totalled two hundred million dollars. Most of this sum has gone to bankers, mortgage holders, bond sharks, and machinery owners. Then, within the last three months the wage workers who buy a substantial portion of the farm crop have lost no less than six hundred million dollars in wages and purchasing power. We need not emphasize the point that this gigantic loss of the workers more than counter balance the gains that the farmers might have made from the wheat and corn spurts. And now we have the survey of the United States Department of Agriculture, showing that the American farmer is receiving a totally inadequate return for his personal labor as well as his invest- ments. The findings of the official investigation covering a period of five years indicate that in most cases the farmers make no profit at all and that in those cases where there is a slight profit it is more than eaten up by burdensome interest charges which must be paid to the capitalists. From 1920 to 1922 the interest paid on the total \farm indebtedness consumed all the capital earn- lings of the crops. Today the earnings of farms are estimated at 3.1 per cent on the invested capital jand wages for the average farm operator and his |family. | The gross income of the American farmer has been declining definitely within the last five years! For instance, from 1920 to the present day good plow lands in Iowa, the banner farming state, shrank from two hundred and fifty-seven dollars to one hundred and sixty-nine dollars per acre. We wonder whether the railway magnates, spending February in Palm Beach and July in Europe, could vacation these months in those whereabouts on such dividends. Of course, we do not ask how long they could live on the fat of the land for the remuneration they are worthy of on the basis of working as hard as the average farmer does. . | | Send ii at new “sub” today! Thies Shop Nuclei There are still/some members of the Workers Party who think of the shop nucleus problem as an aeademic subject, interesting to specialists on organization but rather dull matter for the or- dinary rank and.file. How far from the truth this is, may be realized by reading the enthusiastic words of our comrades who are’ actually establish- ing shop nuclei, and who are therefore learning what a broad field of struggle and achievement it opens up for the party. “Here is a resolution endorsing Foster and Git- low,” writes the secretary of a shop nucleus, “adopted by the unanimous vote of the workers of our shop. It is an organized shop, and all the men employed are members of the Machinists Union, and has always been considered “radical.” But it was always very vague radicalism and nothing subtle distortion of actual facts, to the delicate,came from it—until we organized our shop nucleus. manipulation of opinion thru headlines. A prize|Since then we have gained the complete leadership sample is to be found in the New York Times of of the men in the shop, have put new life and spirit August 25, in connection with a story from Russia by. Walter Duranty. into the union members, have taken control of the internal life of the shop, and have crystallized “Speeding up Labor Under Soviet Rule,” reads|the vague radicalism into concrete decisions of the headline in the Times. What a picture this policy on all questions that come up. Thus, on the immediately raises in the mind of the innocent presidential election, our entire shop of 23 workers reader! A sweating system, slave-drivers cracking voted unanimously for Foster and Gitlow. We are the lash over trembling victims at the machine and making progress in every direction. When the rest bench—all the vicious and horrible practices of |of the party wakes up to the possibilities of the American industry under its “speed-up systems,” shop nucleus, our whole movement will forge ahead. plus all the added oriental horrors that come from |Help wake them up the occidental imaginations of a capitalist propa- gandist. Such is the intention of that headline. ” The letter is proudly signed by the “Chairman and secretary of the Shop Nucleus, But what is the story? Duranty starts out one| Factory.” of the most optimistic surveys of Russian industry that has ever appeared in a capitalist paper in acterize State-run enterprises.” While Duranty’s story is filled with all the bour-|only road. to a mass Communist Party. geois prejudices against socialism and against the Communist Party, his facts substantiate those Every day get a “sub” for the DAILY WORKER These comrades have just begun to taste of the shop nucleus and we find them more enthu- America, He says: “The Bolsheviki appear to have siastic about its results than even the most ardent taken a step forward overcoming what are perhaps |nuclei organizer in the party. Truly the Com- the most serious obstacles in the path of the Social- ist state, low productivity of labor, lack of ini- tiative and the bureaucracy which generally char- munist International has demostrated again | the high quality of its leadership when it insisted that every Communist Party in the world must re- organize upon the basis of shop nuclei. It is the / 7 brought back by William Z. Foster from his recent), .4 9 member for the Workers Party. trip to Russia and printed in the DAILY WORKER. And the improvement in the conditions of the Russian workers is brought out in a bright, Many willing hands make the big jobs easy. Get clear light, by one sentence of Duranty’s: “It must |new members for the Workers Party. 4 aah, pre-war |. By JOHN DORSEY. HE election in the Journeyman Tailors Union, for General Secre- tary-Treasurer, is now on. Most of the locals will vote in the early part of September, hence the militants who are backing Max Sillinsky of Cleve- land, must work intensively in the next few weeks. Nothing must be left undone to gather together and regis- ter in the election the progressive ele- ments. Sweeney, the present G. S. T., is continuing to use and misuse every force at his command to stave off the defeat which seems inevitable so great is the surge of rebellion against the further continuance in office of the “old man of the sea” whose bur- den has held back the tailors rather than his strength advancing them. If Sweeney wins, it will be not only be- cause of the dirty tricks he is play- ing, but also because the spirit of re- bellion fails to become crystallized in- to votes for Sillinsky. Max J. Sillinsky is the choice of the left wing for General Secretary of the Journeymens Tailors Union. He is not a Communist, but has the support of the Communists because of his progressive record and platform upon which he is asking endorsement of the rank and file. Sweeney has been touring his self- appointed organizers at the expense of the Union, in order to build up his political fences. He almost monopol- izes the columns of “The Tailor” with Butler’s (Continued from page 1.) | still governor of Massachusetts. Dur- jing a strike of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers in Philadelphia, when an organizer criticised the bru- tality of the Philadelphia police and mentioned that the Boston police had been organized, even if Collidge had broken their strike with troops, the Sherman stool-pigeon who covered the meeting, reported what was said and what was done about it as follows: “Such statements as were made by this individual you can see are extremely radical, particularly in reference to the police strike in Bos- ton. No time has been lost in coun- teracting the effect that might have been made on the minds of the workers, by advising them that Gov- erner Coolidge was again elected for another term after he had thrown the striking police officials out of their jobs. Everything, nos- sible is being done to discredit these radicais.” . ‘The “Open Shop” Gang. The chairman of the Republican party, Mr. Butler, introduced Briga- dier General Charles G. Dawes to the audience which gathered at Evanston, Iilinois, on August 19, to listen to “Open Shop” Charley denounce the (Continued from page 1) little gumption on Bigelow’s part, he must depend upon the fakers in the local unions for his lvelihood. Taylor to Bat. W. J. Taylor of Merna, Jesse Jandy, and others protested against the La- Follette-Wheeler polictes. Taylor, who tried to battle the Communists at St. Paul, stated that “if LaFollette is to be king, then not much support can be expected from the farmers in Nebraska.” Taylor put up a lone fight against the hand-picked “LaFol- lette Convention” for his program of a state ticket, and endorsement of La- Follette’s right-hander, Senator Nor- ris. He was doomed to defeat, since Taylor's ideas would interfere with the LaFollette-Bryan swindle. Fakers After Theirs. It is reliably reported that a “deal” is on between leaders of the Nebraska Conference for Progressive Political Action (alias for railroad brother- hoods) and A. C. Townley, discredited head of the old Nonpartisan League, whereby a slate of candidates Will be endorsed, and thrust upon the workers and farmers of this state as the “ didates favorable to LaFollette and Wheeler.” This scheme, if it goes thru, will mean an enlargement of the La-Fol- lette-Bryan swindle to read: “LaFol- lette-Bryan-Norris,” —a three - way straddle from Republican Party, to Democratic Party, to LaFollette.» The mouths of the local Labor fakers water richly at this thot, for it will mean political pie in heaps if the “deal” goes thru. To Communists, this may seem a dry account, but_remember that the LaFollette moverhent, so-called, has produced such: political trickery and skullduggery thruout the nation. The LaFollette movement is not one of the masses of workers and exploited farm- ers, but simply a feeding ground for political vultures and labor ya of the most discredited type. Into the LaFollette movement are flocking the birds of prey, and when ‘they have picked dry the bones of the suckers— the workers and poor farmers who are deceived by the LaFollette siren song—they will fly away to other fields, leaving only the mangled corpses of the innocent. long editorials, rémbling replies to letters from mbers, articles by his friends which read like a gypsy card- reader, boosting his candidacy. The issue in this election is clear- cut between Sweeney the reactionary, and Sillinsky the progressive. What does Sweeney care ‘if the Union em- braces but a fraction of the worker# eligible to membership, and even loses members it once had, so long as enough members are kept to provide dues for salary and expenses, and keep up a machine for use in the next election. (If the membership decreas- es too much, there is always the pos sibility of getting the dues raised, so why worry.) Tens of thousands of tailors, clean- ers, dyers and pressers ought to be gathered into the J. T. U. of A. Will Sweeney bring them in? He even lost the Chicago Local of the Cleaners and Dyers by neglecting their inter- ests. The conditions of the organized tailors are none too good. Will Swee- ney fight for improvements? He be- lieves in compromise rather than fight. He counseled the Pittsburgh tailors to give up the struggle for week-work and accept a paltry and insignificant increase in the piece rate. Unemployment Widespread. Millions are out of work, and a per- manent army of the unemployed is a certainty. No work, short time, un- certainty, irregularity, confront the tailors. Is Sweeney doing anything to strengthen the power of the work- “radicals.” Back in New Bedford, Massachusetts, Butler was planting finks in the ranks and even in the highest offices of the unions. Dawes assaults labor unions froni the out- side (sometimes) with “open shop” scabs and his “Minute Men of the Constitution.” Coolidge calls out troops against unions. Butler em- ploys stool-pigeons to spy upon the union mebera, to get control of the union and betray its interests. They all denounce “radicals.” A Sherman spy reporting upon union radicals told of his actions as follows: “Conditions prevalent in Europe, due to the soviet form of govern. ment and the activities of the Bol- sheviks, have been emphatically brought to their (the workers’) at- tention for the purpose of convince. ing them that a democratic form of government was the only one which proved successful (for stool-pigeons and republican millionaires, yes.— Editor). That unless they fell in line and endeavored to bring about a normal state of conditions, there would be considerable hardship among the workers in this country. Workers should suspect anyone who gets so infernally “practical” that he urges co-operation with the boss to Yet, if the LaFollette-Bryan swindle succeeds, and “Brother Charley” en- ters the White House as president of the United States, what will the work- ers and exploited farmers of this country gain? They will.gain just as the workers and farmers of Nebraska have gained from Bryanism—an' picketing and criminal syndicalism laws tying the hands of the labor un- ions, and corporation rule bankrupting the farmers. And when the great masses of the exploited rise in pro- test against the rule of this Main Street politician, they will learn that he wears not only his skull cap, so prominently pictured in Wall Street's Democratic press, but thew will learn that behind his cunning pretense to ers, so that they can force the em- ployers: and the government to pay unemployment benefits;- to bring about a general reduction in hours? What is Sweeney doing to further the Amalgamation of the Craft Unions in- to bodies powerful enough to meet Capital on ‘something like its own terms?.. What is he doing to help in the establishment of a Labor Party to provide the workers with a weapon to exert in political affairs the influence which the producers of wealth ought to exert? Sweeney will not do any- thing to help these progressive move- ments; he has had his chance, and failed miserably. The members of the.J..T.,U. of A. should bestiy themselves, This. elec- tion is not merely a personal contest. Vital principles are involved. Sillin- sky has come out unequivocally for a progressive program, for extension of the organization, for a militant fight for improved conditions, for Amalgam- ation, a Labor Party, Recognition of Soviet Russia. His record shows him to be a militant fighter against the bosses. Sweeney Votes With Reactionaries. Sweeney showed where he stands when at the Portland Convention in the A. F. of L., in 1923, he voted to unseat Wm. F. Dunne, the Communist, and at the same convention, he ap- plauded the American Legion whose anti-labor principles and record are well-kndwn to all* militant workers. The El Paso Convention of the A. F. increase output or cut costs, save time and money—for the boss. . This work was carried on right in the New Bedford Textile Council by the ‘stool- pigeons of the Sherman agency who took orders from W. M. Butler as to what they were to do in the union. Besides the Secretary of the Council, Silver, its president, Abraham Binns, was also a Sherman spy, who sat as a delegate from the Weaver’s Union of which he was’ secretary. With them as a member on the Council was a Portuguese named Silva. Butler’s Stools Flood Union. One would think that the Sherman Service would feel satisfied with this delegation on the New Bedford Work- ers’ Textile Council. But Mr. Butler, who was in training for controlling the Cleveland convention and putting over a strike-breaker for president, thought that more finks were needed. So he decided, after conswitation with the Sherman superintendent in Bos- ton, to have the stool-pigeons already in the Textile Council, start a new craft union for the Spinners. so that another fink could get into the Tex- tile Council as a representative from the Spinners’ Union. Mr. Bui you will observe, started this union bythis means. Capitalists are favorable to unions they can control! with stool- progressivism is concealed the black shirt of Fascism, ready to be re- vealed whenever the protests’of an ouutraged working population become too outspoken. For Charley Bryan is the ideal per- sonification of small-town American fascism. Typically middle-class in his ignorance and mode of living, typic- ally arrogant in his narrow condem- nation of those who get in his way, Charley Bryan is nevertheless a poli- ticlan of the type (the result no doubt of his brother's training), who will extend his right hand to organized labor and slap it with a vicious anti- picketing law in his left. Charley Bryan is a politician who preaches “law enforcement” and then AS WE SEE I (Continued from Page 1) or the British will walk in. As soon as the Spanish troops are driven from Morocco King Alfonso will be buying a one way ticket to London, ee AJOR-GENERAL J. G. HARBORD, former Deputy Chief of Staff of the Army, and head of the Radio Cor- poration of America, believes in peace so much that he is willing to fight for it. In his opinion the best guarantee of peace is a military machine so stu- pendous that all other nations would be scared stiff of us. This was also Germany's idea before the world war, but all other nations happened to have a similar idea, On the other hand lack of preparedness does not prevent war. Portugal was so unpre- pared that-its troops went into bat- tle minus stockings, Nothing can pre: vent war under capitalism, *“** P bon lereggit “before the Moscow So- viet, Rakovsky drew a burst of laughter when he informed his audi- ence that Lloyd George, who attacked the Anglo-Soviet.treaty in the House of Commons after it was signed, was ready to attack Ramsay MacDonald for failure to secure a treaty when the prospects of success were very dim. This sample of political trickery in a capitalist country was considered highly amusing. ‘ , APITALIST reporters expressed surprise over the wholehearted approval given to the treaty by the workers. A correspondent makes the following comment: “It is: quite easy for outsiders to say that there is no public opinion in Russia and that the masses blindly obey ‘Bolshevik tyrants.’ “The Moscow Soviet is composed of 85 per cent Bolsheviki and 15 per cent of their close sympathizers. That is they are not the ‘masses’ in the sense outsiders use “the word. But each delegate is in far closer touch with his electorate—and with the grumbles of that electorate—than any American congressman or member of the British parliament. _ ‘ " eee (LJ OW was it that the Moscow elec- torate and its deputies cheered Rakowsky and Tchitcherin? It was becatise from the moment that the Communist Party leaders decided to the British terms, every fac- tory in Moscow became the scene of a series of addresses by Communist speakers arguing that the British agreement would be gooé for Russia.” Unlike the United States the represen- tatives of the Russian workers are close to the masses. Here we have lawyers, brokers in our city counctls, state legislatures and na- yr Thursday, August 28, 1924 Sillinsky Versus Sweeney of L. is coming. Do you want the Portland performance repeated—alli- ance with the enemies of Labor, ex- pulsion of delegates, because they are militant fighters against the capital- ist class? Or do you want to take a stand for a united front of all workers, regardless of political differences against the power of the capitalist pelass? The El Paso Convention will with- out doubt be thoroly reactionary, but the Journeyman Tailors Union, whose members (if not’its official) have long had the reputation of being among the most progressive, can at least save it- self from ‘the disgrace of assenting to reaction by electing progressives as delegates. At the Portland Conven- tion, Sillinsky was’ one of the small handful who voted against the out- rageous unseating of Dunne, He should be sent to El Paso. The Sweeney machine will be work. ing overtime in this election and the militants must neglect nothing to counteract its-influence. An old trick is to‘gather up votes in the shops, for Sweeney of course. No one should be allowed to vote unless he comes to the meeting, and the progressives must get every Sillinsky vote to turn out to the election. Then it is necessary to see that the vote is correctly counted and properly mailed to the headquart- ers. A few hundred votes will decide this election and if Sillinsky loses, any militant who neglects his duty will be responsible. Finks Swarm in Textile Unions pigeons or officials who denounce rad- icals, expel Communists and talk for “more output,” “increased produc- tion” and “co-operation with the com- pany.” William Morgan Butler, president of vast textile corporations, would not, of course, do anything worse against la- bor than plant swarms, of stool-pig- eons in labor unions to betray faith- ful members to discharge and black- list and talk defeatism to workers who wished to struggle against Mr. Butler's wage reductions. But if his bosom friend, McCumber, was using spies to try to tag a political opponent as a conspirator with the suppesedly sedt- tious I. W. W., Butler himself did not hesitate a moment to have his own stool-pigeons join the I. W. W. and become active therein. ‘ In All Unions Impartially, The spy, Edward Valley, who .was brought into the Textile Council was also a ‘very prominent figure in the I, W. W. im the textile district. He covered a great deal of territory and joined several unions, and was active. ly engaged with the Amalgamated Textile Workers. We will. deal with other members of this union who were in Butler’s pay while holding union office, im the next isste of the DAILY WORKER. LaFollette in Autocrat Rule Over Nebraska fires, openly and unscrupulously, any appointee who dares to enforce the state female labor regulations to the dislike of large department stores. Such/ is the character of this Main Street politician whom LaFollette and Wheeler would thrust upon the work- ers and farmers of this country as their “President.” Against the LaFollettes and Wheel- ers and Bryans the Communists alone raise the struggle of revolutionary class struggle. Foster and Gitlow are the only candidates who stand up staunchly for the interest of the work- ers and exploited farmers and refuse to be a party to any of the “deals” such as only middle class politicians so ably manipulate. By T. J. O'Flaherty tional congress. They are far re- moyed from the masses, Yet they have the impudence to say that in Russia where the workers have real represen tation that there is tyranny, ee @ i Dae PRINCE OF WALES is re- pbrted to be Very nervous after a hard year’s work among the pleas- ure resorts and gambling dens of Eu- rope. On board the palatial steam, ship Berengaria, he is the object of solicitude on the part of newspaper- men because he does not eat. much, He only eats grouse. lobster, caviar, rolls, butter and coffee, The girls are also very disappointed because the Prince appeared in the ballroom in hia street clothes. Even a prince cannot satisfy some people, vd o' 0 @ ‘ R. THOMAS JOHNSON, secretary of the Irish Labor Party and Trades Union Congress, delivered a speech at the recent annual confer+ ence of that party. He said he did nog believe in revolution for its own sake, “If revolution is necessary,” he said, “it is only @ means to an end, that end being the’ uplifting of thé common pec pl Mr. Johnson does not revolution either as an end in or as @ theans to an end. He is one of those clever fakers who can use revolutionary phraseology to hide his reactionary actions. ohys