The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 16, 1924, Page 6

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Chicago, Iitinols woe ....Hditors usiness Manager Entered as second-cl mati Sept. 21, 1923, at the Post- Office at Chicago, Ill, under the act of March 3, 1879. << 290 Advertising rates on application SRS The Coming British Elections Ideyd George, who once played a role in Brit- igh politics similar to that now played by Robert Marion LaFollette in the United States, has an- nownced with a fanfare of trumpests that the Léberals will march into the opposition lobby with the Teries on the question of the Anglo-Soviet treaty when the British parliament opens next month. The.sincerity of Lloyd George’s opposition to the treaty can be measured in the light of his readiness to enter the fray against the MacDonald govern- ment, in the event of the Anglo-Russian conference anyway, in a great social struggle, and even if these fake “Labor” men wanted to be “neutral,” they would find it impossible. But actually they have no interest in neutrality, They are interested only in continuing the traditions of government handed down to them by the other capitalist gov- ernments that preceded them. They are “little brothers to the rich,” anxiously waiting to be drafted into the ranks of the capitalists, into the ruling class, into the circles of fancy-dress court receptions, of dividends, of imperialist banquets. They have but one use for the “Labor” government, and that is, as a means to serve their ambitions. They are but another brand of servants of capi- talism, A Modern Taylor System The approval given to the “B. & O. Plan” by a speaker before the Taylor Society of efficiency en- gineers, reported yesterday in the DAILY WORK- ER, is but another warning signal to the conven- tion of the International Association of Machinists now in session in Detroit. Organized labor knows from bitter experience what the Taylor System means. It is a scientific system of slave-driving. It pits the fastest workers ainst the slowest, sets the standard by the highest possible production, and then, step by step, not only forces all the workers to speed up to that high notch, but even drives the speeders them- selves to new frenzies of haste. The result upon the workers is exhaustion, break-down, and speedy scrapping to be replaced by new machine-fodder. Robert G. Valentine, the speaker before the breaking up without reaching an agreement. He had a long speech written, denouncing MacDonald for failure to negotiate a treaty. The Welsh wizard js the champion political crook of this generation. The Labor Party is willing to risk a general elec- tion. on the Russian treaty issue. Besides the treaty, the Tories have another bone to pick with the La- ber government: the Irish boundary question. The Teries will rally to the aid of the hard pressed Orange reactionaries, strongest bulwark of British rule in Jreland. Hawe the British capitalist class decided that they have gotten as much out of the Labor Party government as possible for the moment? Have they reached the conclusion that MacDonald has now pulled their most desirable chestnuts out of the fire and that the time has arrived to hand over the management of the Empire to their older and more trusted, the perhaps not more loyal servants? Or is it because the old politicians in the Tory and Liberal parties are tired playing the role of audi- ence and desire to be the actors on the stage? It would appear that the Labor Party has been serv- ing the master class well and outside of trivial concessions to the latent spirit of revolt among the masses, they have not rocked the imperialist boat even gently. But after all it must be a distressing sight for the capitalist descendants of the bold pirates of the Elizabethan reign, who laid the foundations of the modern Empire to see a party, no matter how con- servative, with the hated name of “Labor” at the Empire’s throttle. It gives the workers a sense of power. They begin to believe they are “it.” And when MacDonald’s “Christian socialist” tactics prove more futile, they will try sterner methods. It is not likely that whatever British government succeeds the present one, will refuse to negotiate a treaty with Soviet Russia. While the bankers and business elements of Britain may not like some features of the present treaty, they certainly de- sired one, for the sake of business. It is possible they do not object to the treaty so much as they de to the manner in which the agreement was reached after all hope was lost and negotiations broken off. The appearance ‘of the leaders of the British left wing—which is not so very left at that ~—in the private study of Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, carrying a club representing the entire British trade movement and ‘their ultimatum that the British Labor government must sign the treaty with the Workers’ Republic, is a dangerous prece- dent and no doubt sent a shiver of dread down the spines of the British capitalists. The British capitalists fear the rising left wing sentiment in the British trade union movement. They fear that the workers may get tired of fooling with the capitalist parliamentary machine which only exists for the purpose of keeping them in swbjection, and will build their own government organ as their comrades in Russia did. Some day the British workers will follow the example of their Russian brothers. They Cannot Take Sides Another little incident appears in the news from Great Britain that shows what a farce the so-called Labor government of that country is proving it- self to be, and how little it deserves the name of “Labor.” J. R. Clynes, who has long been a trade union leader, and who is now Lord Privy Seal, Member of Parliament, and a few other things in the “Labor” government (all of which carry sal- aries, by the way), was invited by a group of building trades workers to confer with them about the fight which was on a few weeks ago. Mr. Clynes declined to interest himself in the matter. But the interesting point is not that Mr. Clynes would not confer with strikers, but rather the reasons which he gave for this attitude. “An un- derstanding has been arrived at,” said Mr. Clynes, “by the members of the government that its trade union members will keep to polities only, and not take sides in industrial disputes.” The “Labor” ‘government has, in short, withdrawn itself from the labor movement. It is neutral in the struggles between the workers and the employers (officially, that is), just the same as Lloyd George and Stanley Baldwin kept their governments neutral. Every worker knows just what such neutrality is worth. There is no such thing as neutrality, Taylor Society, said that Wm. H. Johnstone’s scheme of collaboration with the employers, gener- ally known as the “B, & O. Plan,” is for the em- ployers an improvement on the Taylor System. the place of the foremen, hired by the boss, to drive the workers to continuously higher speed, the “B. & O. Plan” places the union of the workers itself in the position of slave-driver over its members. The “B. & O. Plan” even goes so far, that it makes the union a machinery for weeding out and black- listing workers who do not come up to the efficiency standard. It destroys the very basis of unionism, sets worker against worker, and concerns itself al- most entirely with increasing the profits of the boss—without so much as the slightest guarantee that even a little percentage of the gains should accrue to the workers. The machinists are facing a crisis in their or- ganization on this question of the “B. & O. Plan.” If they allow their designing and ambitious “lead- ers” to put this disguised Taylor System over on them, then the machinists are in for a black period in the future. If the union is to be saved as an or- ganization of struggle for the interests of its mem- bers, then the “B. & O. Plan” must be defeated. The Comedy of War Guilt The former allies have been engaged in fixing the blame for the late war for the last seven years. They thought they had it fastened on Germany, but somehow it did not stick. It was like the pro- verbial “bomb” in the movies, each side throwing the thing into the other fellow’s camp, but it never explodes and does no one any harm. It has been comedy, pure and simple, for which, however, the toiling masses of the world have been compelled to pay a heavy price. We are still pay- ing, and will continue to pay (the Dawes plan makes sure that we do) so long as capitalism re- mains in the saddle. Something happened just the other day to add hilarity to the imperialist game, and some ten million dollars to be extracted additionally from the workers of Germany, France, England and America. A cable from Berlin, dated September 14, says in effect: “Bankers offer Germany ten million dollars to withhold note denying war blame.” You know what it means. Germany was about to throw the blame-bomb back into the yard of the allied imperialists. So the papers were saying. The German government has been preparing a note to that effect, apparently under pressure from the Nationalists. We surmise that this guilt-denying note was to be sent by the Marx-Stresemann cabinet in part payment for the Nationalists’ support to the Dawes plan in the German Reichstag. Here stepped in the bankers. The bankers, you know, are quite anxious about the success of their world-enslaving scheme called the Dawes plan, particularly the American bankers. They have figured the thing out, and quite correctly, that a German note denying war-guilt, coming at ‘this time, would act as a monkey wrench in the newly set up machinery of that plan. That would not do, of course. It has got to be prevented. So here is what the bankers did. They told Germany in very plain language, we under- stand, that they will concede to her one-half of one per cent in the interest rate on the forthcoming $200,000,000 loan, which will mean a present of about $10,000,000 to Germany if she consents to withhold the threatened note. We are not familiar yet with Germany’s reac- tion to this offer by the bankers. She may accept it and she may not. The thing, however, that we are most concerned with is, who is going to pay the bill? More groans from Oswald Garrison Villard! United States troops are shooting Filipino laborers in the Hawaii islands. “This will not happen when LaFollette is in the White House,” Mr. Villard may manage*to say between groans. Perhaps not and perhaps he may go one better by taking Ram- say MacDonald’s example and dropping bombs on them. Robert was never half the pacifist that Ram- say is—was. Send in that new “sub” today! In : THE DAILY WORKER AS WE SEE IT (Continued from Page 1) touch. You are a credit to the British Empire, but honestly I don’t know how long you can stand it, as I hear you have to ride in the subway coming to and from work. I have not been told that you carry a dinner pail and take your lunch to work with you in the morning wrapped up in somebody else’s copy of the Daily Herald, but if I were in’your place and:trying to live on four miserable salaries that is what I would have to do. It is terrible, how negligent the country is; how it ne- glects its best servants. eo eNe ff OW take my own position dear Ramsay. During the war, I purchased war bonds, produced crack- ers for the army and navy and for- feited my right to go tO the front be- cause I was of more service at the rear. I gave a valuable library to Scotland and the only thing I wish for is a wee little title, yet there isn’t a thing to my name that would disting- | But} uish it from that a dog catcher. of course, that has nothing to do with the case and what I intend doing for you Ramsay—if I can break down your resistance—stands on its own feet as a friendly act and nothing else. Whether you speak to the king or not in behalf of what I suggested by way of a title—other premiers have done it—will not make the slightest differ- ence to me. I'll love you just the same, “* * 'HEREFORE to come to the point, this is my suggestion. You are not in very good health. The subway air is bad for you. You are a thrifty soul and the thot of not being in a, position to save a pound would eat you like cancer. I propose to give you a handsome automobile — please don’t strike me, my intentions are good—.” We feel that at this mo ment Alexander was in danger of los- ‘ing his life, but he managed to con- vince the premier that his object was not seduction. So MacDonald with- drew the theatened blow, but debated the question of keeping a® handsome limousine on his miserable four sal- aries. The biscuit millionaire saw the point and after considerable difficulty broke down MacDonahd’s opposition to keep the auto in fuel and manpower, in other words he would pay for the gas and the chauffeur. This looked like bribery to MacDonald, who re- membered’ what happened to Lloyd George over the Marconi scandal, but when his friend Alexander Grant in- formed him that it required only an investment of $150,000 in his cracker factory to keep the automobile in run- ning condition, and that Alexander himself and none other would make the necessary investment, MacDon- ald’s opposition broke down and he submitted, assuring his frined that he was one of the three men in existence at whose hands he would allow him- self to be treated with such generos- ity. t * 2 @ ‘HIS little thing happened in March and in the following June Brit- ishers read in the papers that His Majesty King George of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Emperor of In- dia and Heir Pretender to the Throne of Long Island, New York, knighted \the biscuit king. We do not know | whether he became a Knight of the Bath or a Knight of the Garter, but this much we know now, that we did not know then, and that is, that Sir | Alexander Grant, in annexing a title to himself at approximately the same |historical moment disconnected him- |self from thirty thousand pound ster- |ling or in the American language, $150,000. S we stated in the start of this charitable and nonpartisan col- umn, there is no good reason to cast any reflections on the worthy Mr. Mac- Donald for accepting a gift given in such good faith. Even Lloyd George has no feeling in the matter except one of envy, Albert B. Fall, almost gagged when he heard the news. “Shucks” says he, “that’s a country fit for heroes to live in. I had to turn over a lot of oil to get one hundred thousand in a satchel and a couple of steaks on the hoof, but in England they get the dough for nawthin’.” Our readers are warned not to deal too harshly with poor Mac. He was tempted and even tho he was a Christian he fell. Cae ee OST of you, I hope, remember the story of the devil and Jesus. This one in particularly is good. The devil took Jesus up on the pinnacle of the highest mountain in the world, or at least all of the world that the devil and God were then acquainted with, and promised him everything his heart desired, provided he fell for the devil's stuff. But Jesus was ada- mant. “Go to hell!” was his reply. to the devil and the funny thing is, the devil did as he was told. Mac- Donald unfortunately did not follow to that extent in the footsteps of the Lord. Mac knows the bible well and will swear a blue streak if a Com- munist suggests that the churches are opium joints that help to keep the workers in the toils of their masters, but when it comes to the, money ques- tion he is not in Jesus’ caucus. On that issue he lines up with Judas, “* * 'HE fact that Ramsay MacDonald is a socialist and a leader of the second international now called by some other name, that he is against |the hat. Tuesday, September 16, 1924 | By T. J. O’Flaherty the Communists, that he carried or} plots with the Georgian plotters to overthrow the Soviet government— these and other facts may be consid- ered as mitigating circumstances among the class conscious in pro- nouncing sentence on him. They will say: “Well, what the devil can you expect of a yellow socialist?” * * # HE editorial staff of the DAILY WORKER and other Commun. ist editors, took the correct position in our opinion, when they took up a collection amounting to sixty cents which will help Mr. MacDonald to keep gas in his auto, in case his Georgian friends do not get the Baku oil fields and in case the British work- ing class may chase him to the Ork- ney Islands. He will need a lot of gasoline so that he can “step on it.” Besides being a token of international |sympathy for a pauperized socialist faker, we also feel toward MacDonald much as the Irishman did to the Brit- ish soldier who was reduced to beg- ging in the London streets after help- ing the Empire subject the Boers to her rule. The soldier was in bad con- dition and as the Hibernian was pass- ing, he dropped a penny in the beg- gar’s hat. On seeing. the condition the soldier was in however, the Irish- man returned and dropped a guinea in The soldier, amazed at such generosity particularly from an Irish- man, expressed his astonishment. The Irishman replied: “This is the first time I ever saw an Englishman wounded to my satisfaction. It is worth money to me.” Rae itera IXTY CENTS is not $150,000, but is will buy a few crackers, perhaps enuf to feed the premier’s parrot. But perhaps Mr. Ramsay would not keep the bird unless it was “endowed.” New Jersey Labor Fails Silk Strikers (Continued from page 1) the present silk workers’ organization in Paterson is an off-shoot of the I. W. W., and that the leaders of the strike had been expelled from the A. F. of L. Immediately one of the dele- gates from Perth Amboy was on his feet denouncing the statement of Young. There was a general clamor from the floor. Both supporters and opponents of the; silk strike endeavored to secure recognition of the chair. At this point, Henry F. Hilfers, of Newark, secretary of the federation, arose on a point of order to the affect that the constitution of the state federation of labor prohibited any recognition of seceding or dual organizations. Entire Matter Is Dropped. The president, Arthur A. Quinn, of Perth Amboy, declared the point of order well taken and proceeded to the next order of business which was the election of officers. This election proved to be a farce. The machine simply re-elected the former officers, including Quinn and Hilfers. This action by the New Jersey Fed- eration of Labor officialdom proves conclusively that like all other reac- tionary labor fakers they have no in- tention of waging a serious struggle against the capitalist exploiters for even the elementary demands of the working class. Two days before this same convention had made a gesture against injunctions in labor disputes. In the report from the United Tex- tile Workers, the delegates were told of the effects of an injunction secured by the Henry M. Dougherty company against the warpers of the United Textile Workers that resulted in the business agent of that organization being sent to jail for 15 days for con- tempt of court on a charge of violating the injunction. After hearing this re- port, the convention declared it would fight to the limit against any injunc- tions in labor disputes. The very next day after this resolution was adopted, four of the mills of Paterson secured a sweeping injunction against the silk strikers. If the federation leaders had been sincere in their opposition to the use of the injunction, they would have immediately offered their co-operation with the Associated Silk Workers’ or- ganization which is conducting the present strike, instead of presenting the degraded spectacle of the official machine lining up with the employers against the striking silk workers, The United Textile Workers, the largest union in the textile industry generally, has tried on many occasions to gain the support of the workers in the silk industry. But just so often as they have gained any influence, so often have the leaders betrayed the workers to the employers, The result has been that the silk workers have refused to join it. Then when another organization comes into existence and does organize the silk workers, the United Textile Workers raise the cry of secessionism and dual unionism. As a matter of fact, the organization conducting the present strike is neith- er a dual or secessionist organization, having come into the fleld when there was practically no organization in the industry and built their organization from the ground up because of its fight for the workers and has suc- ceeded in organizing them to their present strength which has enabled them to conduct the most effective strike ever called in the history of the silk industry in Paterson. Strikers Expected Turndown. The‘refusal of the professional la- bor leaders of New Jersey to aid in the fight against the injunction was expected by the leaders of the Asso- ciated Silk Workers. But this agt on deter the strike leaders in their ef- forts to secure the suport of the rank | and file of the American Federation | of Labor. to appeal over the heads of the lead- “Poor White and Black.” To the DAILY WORKER—The conditions of, a system whose motto has always been and must necessarily be, “Git all you kin while the gittin’ is good,” flourishes in this section of that great and glorious common- wealth, the State of Pennsylvania, Sometimes it takes the form of cleaning up some of the bootleggers, who are alleged to have grown fat on the failure of the eighteenth amend ment. Colored houses of prostitution also reecive their due from the “spir- itually minded,” who are marching up- ward to Zion, while officials of the various towns warn Negroes to move out of town who, it is said, will not work. That is to say, work or “git.’ There is but one thing to do, and that is “to git,” because the labor market “is easy around here.” There was a time when we of the “effete Wast” talked of saving the souls of the Negroes of the south when they harkened to the voice of the siren, said siren being the agent of Big Biz, and left their happy cabins of the south to create surplus value in the north for certain “God-fearing” citizens. But gone are the golden dreams of yesterday, and today finds them just “hangin’ ‘round.” Equality on the Labor Market. There is one fact, however, that stands out clear and distinct, altho we often cover it up with prayer and patriotism, and that is “po’ whites” and “po’ blacks” are equal on the la- bor market, a fact that certain organ- izations object to, but which cannot be Ku Kluxed awa: The “great -kleagle” some time ago, at a meeting here, stated that his or. ganization was going after the capi talists who brought the Negro from the south afd then turned him loose upon a “patriotic” community when they were done with him. This brought forth thunderous applause from the “po’ whites,” who seem ob- sessed with the idea that they are something set apart from the “po’ blacks.” It is true that the working class is ignorant, but the capitalist class is a close second. It is fortunate that that ‘Is so, otherwise they would not pur. sue the course they are pursuing. Every prop they put under this rick- ety old structure of theirs but guar- antees its early demise. Here and there is one who seems to sense the rotten condition of things but for the most part they go heedlessly forward, covering today’s hard times and un- employment with prophecies of future t strikers. |Carpenter’s Hall, in the City of Pater- the part of the labor fakers will not | |Jersey Federation held its convention The strike leaders intend day night, Sept..18., endeavor to enlist their support in a {concerted drive against the use of the injunction. Two important mass meetings are to be held next week under the leaders of the’ Paterson The first is to be held in son, the same hall where the New and denounced the injunction. The second meeting is to be held on Thurs- in Webster Hall. New York City, where H. M. Hicks ers to the men and women who pay|and Adolph Lessing, leaders of the dues to suport the labor parasites and | present strike, and Robert W. Dunn, THE VIEWS OF OUR READERS ON LIFE, LABOR, INDUSTRY, POLITICS have on tap, but which they yet do not care to bring to the scratch. It is a safe bet that 45 per cent of the petty bourgeoisie are headed to- ward bankruptcy. Both Classes Ignorant. The working class are ignorant due to the capitalist idealisms they have absorbed, and their actions are the hopeless, helpless grasping after straws to bolster up their courage and create mirages to stead them in the crumbling capitalist society. When they shall come out of their mirages that have been created for fem by pulpiteers and goose-stepping instruc tors can only be imagined, and gauged by the economic suffering they have undergone and of the amount they must still undergo under that system, whose motto is and must be “get all you can, while you can.” —By Brass Check 701, Wheatland, Pennsylvania, Exploiters Always For War. To The DAILY WORKER:—History shows that exploiters never desired to protect future generations from war and suffering. They stole the black man from his native land and used re- ligion to justify it. Abraham Lincoln, to prevent (un- consciously) future racial disputes, fa- vored buying the slaves and return- ing them to Africa. He was not list- ened to, and of course, the Negro was disfranchised, but when the Russian exploiters and aristocracy were shut out as a menace to the new Russian government, that was all wrong. _ Radicals are denounced for trying to prevent cruelties to future generations by present and past conditions and acts of society. They are denounced as traitors because they are so whole- heartedly loyal to insuring humanity rights to happiness—G. E. Shoema- ker, Freedom, Pa. Washington Reports Progress. To the DAILY WORKER.—A well attended meeting of the English Branch was held in Washington, D, C. Everybody Who has been in the move- ment here agrees that there has been a steady growth in the Workers’ Party in the nation’s capital. The following speak for themselve: A non-party worker who is organ! ing the unorganized restaurant work- ers in the District has solicited the leadership of the Workers Party of Washington, Tenant farmers just across the Po- tomac in the “state of the presidents Virginia)” are now reading and prais- ing the DAILY WORKER, They are prosperity, and mutually congratulate] joining uup for work in the Party,— other on the prosperity they|®, J. Ervine, Washington, D. 0. of the Civil Liberties Union, and other speakers prominent in the labor move- ment will endeavor to rally the mili- tant workers of New York City to the support of the strike. At this meeting, also a number of striking men, women and children will also be present so that the New York City laborers may hear every angle of the great struggle that is now taking place in the Silk City of New Jersey. Convention Winds Up In Turmoil. The convention of the New Jersey Federation of Labor closed amid scenes of wildest disorder precipitated by the Tammany politicians who con- trolled by a large majority as the elec- tion of officers question and of the in- dorsement of presidential candidates came up. Resolutions were introduced in favor of Coolidge and Dawes on the republican ticket. Davis and Bryan on the democratic ticket, and the in- dependent candidates, LaFollette and Wheeler. The Coolidge and Dawes resolution was derisively hooted down amid cries of “Scab herders” and “Ku Klux Klan supporter.” The fight for the indorsement of LaFollette develop- ed to such proportions that the Davis and Bryan supporters withdrew the names of the, democratic candidates and united with the republicans in a concerted effort to defeat the LaFol- letteants. The resolutions committee then had before it only the LaFollette resolution. Chairman Poinsett, of the committe on resolutions, informed the delegates that the committee did not concur in the LaFollette-Wheeler res- olution, Immediately an uproar start- ed, led by some of the LaFollette sup- porters who realized themselves in a minority. A whole series of points of order, objections, demands for the floor, and louds protests were made while the chairman, utterly confused, banged his gavel upon the table. Quinn, ‘the president, who had ruled the convention with an iron fist, was so confused that he upheld points of order and repudiated them in quick succession, adding to the confusion ex- isting on the floor. As it was the last day, many of the delegates had been celebrating and were well filled with bootleg hootch. A number of brawls broke in various parts of the hall, culminating in two, instances in fist fights. Pandemonium reigned su- preme for over 40 minutes while the battered and bleeding combatants were removed from the hall. Finally order was restored, and Quinn an- nounced that a rising vote would be taken on report of the resolutions committee. Objections were madé to this and a roll call was finally held, sustaining the committee report against the LaFollette resolution by a vote of 205 to 95. Then the announcement of the elec- tion of officers was made and the coh- vention adjourned while the frowsy | delegates staggered to the street won- dering where and when in hell they were going to get their next drink, The convention ended as it began, with the delegates more concerned about securing a supply of hard liquor to keep themselves stupified, than they were about serving the interest of the people who paid dues forstheir junketing trips where they indulged in prolonged debautches, called state conventions, Meanwhile, the real labor fight in the city of Paterson is being carried on by the determined and militant workers under the 1} silk W 1 Seeacotdirg