The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 25, 1924, Page 6

Page sah ai THE DAILY WORKER. Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill. (Phone: Monroe 4712) | SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mall: $3.50....6 months $2.00....8 months} By mail (in Chicago only): | » $4.50....6 momths 2,50... months| $6.00 per year ’ $8.00 per year Address all mail and make out checks to | THE DAILY WORKER | 1113 W. Washington Blvd. ——— fntered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1923, at the Post- Office at Chicago, Ill, under the act of March 3, 1879 Chicago, Illnols J. LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F. DUNNE MORITZ J. LOEB... Editors Business Manager 290 Advertising rates on application} (ee The Prince and the Premier It is not often that a rich man’s hired servant breaks into the news unless he runs away with his master’s daughter or connects himself with the family jewelry. But there are exceptions. Colonel House, tho selected for his mouselike qualities, cut quite a figure during the reign of President Wilson, and Calvin Coolidge’s good man, Bascom Slemp, is re reer j ures before congr The Wisconsin political boss was really making an appeal to the Steubenites to vote for him because, on the eve of the declaration of war, he did not \w histle patriotic airs to the same tune that Cool- idge and Davis did. It is the very nadir of hypocrisy for the Wiscon- sin senator to paint himself as an enemy of the last or any other imperialist war in the annats-of American capitalist aggression. LaFollette was an ardent proponent of the McKinley plan to crush |the Philippines. LaFollette was on the same band |wagon with the embalmed beef vendors in the Spanish-American war, The self-styled progressive Messiah voted for fifty-five out of sixty war meas. Now that the war is over and that the fraudulent propaganda spread in its be- half is obvious to all, Mr. LaFollette is attempting to reap a harvest by adopting the hypocritical method of “I told you so.” It is precisely this sort of cant peddled by LaFol- lette and “the honest men” in his camp that con- “progressive” propaganda being so energetically possessed farmers, Another Peace Conference Since the Versailles treaty was signed, have been held no less than seventeen international almost’ as important from the newspaperman’s }peace gatherings. The League of Nations is now view as Silent Cal himself. Likewise Ramsay Mac- Donald, prime minister to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. Ramsay has been getting very much of the limelight because he has performed the imperial chores very faithfully, and in these days of waning royalty even a King’s servant makes good newspaper copy. The British premier also received considerable publicity thru his acceptance of a gift from a wealthy Tory. It was a fat gift—a handsome automobile with $135,000 to keep it in repairs. The prince should feel ashamed of himself. He should not have been forced his best servant to take a leaf out of Mr. Albert B. Fall’s ledger. It is said that Sir Grant, the premier’s generous friend, who was dubbed a knight shortly after he turned over the ear and the money: to Mr. MacDonald, had no more ulterior motive in his generosity than the kindly Mr. Doheny had in “loaning” his old friend Fall $100,000 without security. The New York Nation holds this opinion thru regretting that the premier did not avoid the appearance of evil, which provides chewing material for evil tongues. The Nation which can always see some good mixed | with every evil, hopes that one good result of Mac- Donald’s political blunder will be recognition of | the fact by the British government, that its prime ministers are not sufficiently compensated for their services to the Empire. Tf the Prince of Wales, who is the active head of the House of Windsor, and MacDonald’s boss, went a little easier on the Scotch(whiskey) and “spent less money propagandizing his American cousins, he could afford to insure MacDonald’s bronchial tubes against the dust of the London sub- ways, without driving the premier to the extremity of accepting a gift from a millionaire cracker manufacturer. The prince is now on his way to} Canada, and after reading a description of the} style in which he traveled, we can only say that) planning to convoke the eighteenth in June, 1925. Germany and Soviet Russia will be asked to participate in order to make effective the decisions regarding the various naval and military disarma- ment plans that may be proposed at the conference. One need not be a political prophet to state, al- most a year in advance, that this conference is doomed to failure. The League of Nations has been organized and has served as an instrument of war. Since its birth, the decisions of the League of Na- tions have been mere paper decisions. Insofar as the powers that dominate the League have been directing the politics of Europe, they have been turning them into channels leading towards an- other world carnage. Calling in Soviet. Russia and Germany only in- dicates the total bankruptcy of the League of Na- tions as an effective force in international politics. It is a monument to the collapse of the insidious campaign waged by this same League of imperial- ist plunderers against the Soviet Republic. . The call to Soviet Russia is positive proof that the French, British and Italian capitalists frankly recognize the failure of their policy of setting up puppet, fraudulent republies and militarist cliques in the so-called new nationalities. Of course, Germany is asked to enter the League and lend legal sanction to its decisions. Now that the allied financial ‘overlords are to have a first mortgage on the industries and resources of what sent to its being devoured economically by the em- ploying class interests of the victorious countries. war makers to hesitate venturing an estimate o their real worthlessness in international relations. A Political Pawnbroker if the prince is entitled to the most sumptuously equipped private car ever fashioned, the hard wor ing servant of the British Empire, Ramsay Mac-) Donald, should have a fleet of jeweled Zeppelins| Wheeler, who would have the world believe that to carry him around on his duties. Senator Burton K. Wheeler of Montana has ad- mitted to the DAILY WORKER that he is in a deal} men. with his senior colleague, Thomas J. Walsh. Mr. stitutes a most dangerous phase of the misleading spread in the ranks of the workers and the dis- there THE DAILY WORKER By WILLIAM F. KRUSE. ‘HE passage of the two per cent quota law further restricting im: migration was hailed by certain’ old- line labor leaders as a great boon to the American working class, Here at last they saw @ cure for unemploy- ment. “There: is just so much work to be done,” they argued according to their ‘labor pool theory,’” “and now that we control this reservoir of com- mon labor we can assure a fair day’s wage for a fair day’s work to every honest man who wants a job. Amer- ica for the Americans. Hooray!” They have their immigration law. |Only a very thin stream trickles in \thru Ellis Island and this contains but jfew “common labor” types. Yet the |United States is today in one of the | worst unemployment crises in its his- tory. Among factory workers alone 1,800,000 more are out of work this year than ,a year ago, according to department of labor figures, while in 48 out of 52 industries the workers had to take wage cuts. Thousands of farmers have deserted their land in desperation. At least 200,000 workers are idle in the soft-coal field alone. And this time it cannot be blamed on the “furriner.” That immigration law was not passed or amended in repsonse to the demands of labor. Laws are not made that way in the United States—just yet. With the exception of the steel and textile barons almost our wholé employing class wanted that law, so of course they got it. And organized labor wanted it too? Strange! When- ever labor and capital want the same thing from the same government somebody has hornswoggled labor. Plenty of Native Slaves. Our capitalists realize that‘ even if not a single laborer came from abroad the development of our eco- nomic system is such that our native army of unemployed “common labor” must constantly increase. Every new invention or new application of me: chanical power in industry or agricul- ture increases the productivity of la- bor and throws additional workers into the “slave markets” of the unem- |ployed. For the owner of the indus- ltry every labor-displacing device | means additional profit, for the work- ers additional competition on the al- ready glutted Mibor market. Assured jot plentiful supply of “common la- | bor” in most of our important indus- tries why should our bosses risk swelling our unemployed army by the importation of large “explosive” con- tingents, fresh from the battlefields of Europe, and possibly already tainted, despite the surveillance of was once Germany, it becomes doubly imperative| oy consuls, with all manner of “red to secure the fiction of Germany’s voluntary as-| ideas’? Machines Displace Workers. The real substitute for the stream We have seen too many peace conferences of the} of labor power that heretofore poured ¢|thru Ellis Island is the application of modern power machinery. Since 1880 the amount of steam horsepower used in factories has increased four times faster than the number of human hands employed, and engineers figute roughly that each horsepower dis- places the museular effort of two Electricity has made even faster progress and the newest ar- rival, compressed air, has already nine million horsepower at work and |he is an apostle of pure-plus polities, is the primary | an estimated increase of two million For his journey from Syosset, Long Island, to! agent in one of the most sordid precinct politician’s|per year. his ranch in Alberta, His Royal Highness had a special train, furnished by the Canadian National) deals that-has even been put over. Wheeler is asking the workers and farmers to A single example of the effect of power application on the unemploy- ment problem will suffice for present Railways, and described as the “most sumptuous | vote for him as a progressive. At the same time] purposes. Twenty-five years ago the equippage ever fashioned.” The prince has a reg-/he is doing eyerything in his power to stifle thejair drill was applied to the metal ular bedroom, with private shower, rocking chair,| genuine progressive voice in his own state and to| mining industry; it displaced four to dresser and all. There is 4 radio compartment with | a loud speaker and dancing compartment with! piano and drums and phonograph. There is a formal dining room ‘and a cosy breakfast nook. The prince is also liberally supplied with dancing partners. | maintain in power the rock-ribbed reactionary forces. Mr. Wheeler is in an alliance with Senator Walsh, whom the last convention of the Montana State Federation of Labor flayed mercilessly as an enemy of organized labor and the poor farmers. This is the same Mr. Walsh who did not dare tell five men. At that time its effect was expressed in terms of increased pro- duction and not solely in the decrease of the working force. But today? With the entire industry shut down months: at a time due to the dis- located world market? Yet at this very time, with the in- It is not fair to hold MacDonald up to public|the country the truth about the Washington} dustry at lowest ebb, a new drill is scorn for accepting a gift from a millionaire be-| cause an ungrateful empire compelled him to travel in the subways. It is positively childish if not in- sulting to place him in the same category as Albert B. Fall. Nobody but a vicious unreasonable Com- munist would do that. If the Prince of Wales can travel in luxury hitherto unparalleled, is there any good reason why his loyal and hard working servant should not have an auto, even an “en- dowed” one? Get a member for the Workers Party and a new subscription for the DAILY WORKER. LaF ollette’s Patriotism Amid the din of the “Star Spangled Banner” and the hurrahs of several thousand German-Ameri- cans, LaFollette made his plea for more votes in an obviously inspired political address. The Wisconsin senator lauded the patriotic virtues and the loyalty of the German-Americans by telling the Steuben Society that it is “an Amer- scan society of unimpeachable attachments to the fundamental principles of the constitution.” Many huge flags and a rendition of numerous patriotic airs were constantly called into play in order to assure the superficial observer that this was a patriotic gathering. Stripped of all its verbiage, the LaFollette ad- dress was an unvarnished appeal to the members and followers of the Steuben Society to cast their yotes for the third party ticket because its stand- ardbearer showed, for a brief period, it is true, _ some hesitancy as to the best methods of America’s waging war against the former ‘German émpire. horticulturists in the Teapot Dome scandal. Sen- ator Walsh deliberately kept silence about the real meaning of the apricots, peaches and the principal in the oil inquiry which he headed. , intro@uced that takes the place of five or six old drills—twenty to thirty men according to the old standards. There is no demand for increased production. The men are thrown in- The progressive Wheeler is backing to the ut-,'o the street. The jobless army is most Senator Walsh who was the auther of the notorious criminal syndicalist law of Montana. The senior senator from Wheeler’s state has too long that much bigger. Electro-Chemistry Does Its Bit. There is not a single branch of a single industry that is free from this been in the camp of the copper barons and the] development. Bricklayers once proud- Standard Oil magnates to arouse even the slightest|Jy boasted, “You can never get ma- suspicion of his ever being able to mouth progres-| chines to lay brick.” There are such sive phrases with a straight face. Yet Mr. Wheeler machines, altho they are said to be uneconomical. Yet the development is engaged in a feverish attempt to smash the} o¢ concrete building has erimped the Farmer-Labor Party of Montana in order to as-|pricklayers’ field, and only the pow- sure the return of Walsh to Washington. The whole transaction is irritating to the nostrils. The deal is a most unsavory one. Mr. Wheeler is proving his worth as a rank political pawnbroker. er of building trades union organiza tion has for the time resisted some| of the efforts’ to introduce power ma- chinery and method. An even better example of the ac- an ete bp ASOT APNEA RO PSE AN HR NREL NAC eterna miners of yesterday become the un- employed “common labor” of today. “Superfiuous” Coal Miners. The plute apologists will not have it thus. An official of the “National Industrial Conference,” in discussing the coal miners who are heid in en- forced idleness a large part of the year under the wondrously efficient capitalist system, puts into most beau- tifully preposterous language the claim that workers displaced by this “labor-aiding” machinery get better paid work elsewhere. “When the shoe pinches enough to compel the relocation of labor mar- kets,” says this authority, “the su- perfluous. coal miners will be drawn into other occupations, like buildfng, and instead of working six months in the year and loafing another six months, increasing the price of coal to the consumer, they will be contin- uously employed at better wages and live under better conditions.” The euphonious term, “relocation of the labor market,” will probably rile Brother Gompers, who insists that labor is not a commodity. A storekeeper who moves his shop from one corner to another “relocates” his sauerkraut market, and “Liberty cab- bage,” by whatever name known, is undeniably a commodity. Call in the Magicians, The “superfluous” coal diggers are just to walk off and get steady work the year round as plasterers and steamfitters! And the “superfluous” ’ WoO. Sunvanttie— plasterers, who would think the world a rosy place at the prospect of six months work in two years, what are they to do when the “superfluous” coal miners come up for their jobs? Go down and become “superfluous” miners? We know that jobless miners can- not compete with jobless carpenters for building trades work. They do meet, however, in open competition in the field of “common labor” in the 35e per hour building of roads and other work formerly parcelled out to the convict and to the newest immi- grant. And even here the compressed- air machine displaces hundreds at each application. The pneumatic trench-diggers of the Italian army have been, put to work ripping up American pavement—and in so doing they have displaced an army of Ital- ians who used to do this work. jave Markets Glutted. There is no need to look to Europe for “common labor.” The “superflu- .J}ous” miners and carpenters and ditch- diggers and gold beaters and farmers —all clamor for it. The slave markets are glutted and each train that ar-| rives from the West brings in bank- rupt farmers who have had to aban- don their all to the clutches of the loan sharks. In the course of a re- cent trip I saw hundreds of abandon- ed farm houses, in some cases the rag curtains were left on the windows and the kettle on the stove. And from the South come thou- sands of Negroes and poor white workers. Ggorgia bankers estimate that 80,000 Negroes and 30,000 white workers left during eight months of Thursday, September 25, 1924 © Unemployment and the Immigrant Communists Against Law. The Communists opposed the pres- ent immigration law. We knew that its promises of economic benefits to the workers were false; this coun- try is rich enough in industrial and economic resources to shelter the working population of the whole world. Our prediction of hard times with or without immigration has come true. We opposed particularly those sec- tions which the masters were most anxious to enact, providing govern- mental spy machinery for the weed- ing out of “undesirables” abroad and the hounding and possible deporta- tion of such as manage to slip thru. We know that the very elements branded as “undesirable” by our capi- talist enemy would be of greatest val- ue to the labor movement. We know that there will be upheavals in Eu- rope’s present unstable condition, we are realists enough to acknowledge, that the workers may be defeated in some of them. And we know our own government well enough to realize that when revolutionary fugitives cross the ocean with a white terror price upon their heads, there will be no quota law exceptions on their be- half. The workers of no country can pros- per permanently upon the exploita- tion and degradation of their fellow workers of other lands. It is the es- sence of capitalist economy that the worker must produce more than he UNEMPLOYMENT Drawn Especially consumes plus more than the master class can waste, so that this sur- plus can be marketed in other coun- tries. But our principal European markets are today bankrupt, busted. The rich Russian market is diplo- matically blockaded. ‘While things stay that way our factories are idle, when European capitalism revives, on the other hand, it will produce a sur- plus of its own to compete with ours in the few remaining undeveloped markets. So Dawes plans offer no more solution for our unemployment problems than do immigration laws. Immediate Remedy. The only temporary remedy under capitalism is the shortening of the workday and the distribution of work among all available man - power. Things would be much worse today if the labor movement, thru generations of organized struggle, had not club- bed down the work-day from fourteen to twelve hours, from twelve to ten, from ten to nine, and from nine to eight in many industries. Some prog- ress has been made. It is said that Your Paper Is only as lar, Is only as widel WHERE YOU WORK! “The National as YOUR efforts make it.. ly read as you make it known. Show it to your shop-mate—tell others about it RIGHT A workingman will be glad to subscribe to less than fifteen years ago only one man in twelve had the eight-hour day, today more than half have it and more than a fourth have the 44-hour week. Maybe so. Obviously the six: hour day and five-day week are the next steps. The Real Remedy, But even this is a temporary make shift, It involves a constant struggle between capitalist and worker for re- adjustment, the one fighting for pro- fits and power, the other for his very life. Fundamentally the issue at stake is not the question of who snart work, or how long, or for how much—the real issue concerns) that which gives to one man the power to decide the very conditions of life for thousands of others, His “right to decide this question is based upon his technical “owner- ship” of the machinery of production, machinery that is created and oper-— ated by labor. Hig power to decide the question depends on two factors: first, upon his control of the govern- ment which protects by force of arms his possessions. Second, upon the de- gree of organized power on the part of the workers and upon their con- sciousness of that power and their readiness to use it against both the capitalist and his state in the win- ning of their goal. To end unemployment the workers must end the exploitation of wage la- bor. To do this they mst take over ownership and control of industry. To BS ENS for the Daily Worker by K. A. Suvanto KEEPING COOL WITH COOLIDGE Ree CE PE rn DBRS EE sO do this they must achieve the physi- cal power of the'state which guaran- tees ownership. Unemployment is here today and it will grow worse. Exploded is the lie that the immigrant is to blame. So the workers are that much closer to an understanding of the real fault. Ul- timately unemployment must grow be- yond all power of the present system to cope with when that time comes the American working class, notori- ously virile and violent in action when once aroused, will see the correctness of the Communist analysis and will quickly apply the Communist remedy. Russians Postpone Play. On account of the affair to be given Saturday, Sept. 27, for the benefit of the DAILY WORKER, the Society for Technical Aid to Soviet Russia has postponed its performance to Satur- day, Oct. 4. A Russian play, “The Devil's Kitchen,” in four acts, will be given by the Society at 1902 W. Divi- sion St. mmm! WORKER. | Labor Daily” Pole = ani a ae ae ee Every Montana workingman and expropriated |cessibility of craft skill to the ruth- farmer should point the finger of scorn at Mr.|!ess sweep of invention is the case Wheeler arid“drive him out of polities. No worker] ° the gold-leat beaters. A single grain wes fi ries of gold can be beaten out to cover or farmer who is interested in genuine progressiv-| seventy-five square inches, a thinness ism should aid or abet, overtly or covertly, the po-| that would require nearly 400,000 litical fortunes of Wheeler and his associates. sheets to make a book an irich - Since gold is known to mankind The G. O. P. campaign managers are in a sorry prep priest ihe! Hoge predicament. Their presidential candidate is so|}y hand between layers of fine skin, cautious that he says nothing and their vice-presi-] Attempts to introduce mechanical iat candi H power by means of rollers were laugh-|most meaningless by power machine dential candidate says too much, Both forms of the, heat oxen laeeduction, by the rollers’ friction always spoiled |in America will be “common” enough PT ANY LEER PL AS the job, Along comes an electro-plat-|until the day it shakes off its shack- The newspapers have not yet charged the crim-|ing expert, borrows principles from |les and makes all exploiters “super- half a dozen other industries, and dis- | fluous”. places hundreds of highly skilled arti-|be a badge of honor; labor wil +e campaigning are eminently unsatisfactory. <0 of by: the besa inal tendency among clergymen to Bolshevik propa- ganda. Unless God succeeds in holding down his amorous servants, the cry of “God help us” will go out of favor. sans with one semi-skilled attendar plus electricity and chemistry. ; the skilled gold-beaters and metal: | despised, last year. The old man-and-mule cot- ton farming system has been wiped out by the poll weevil and the scienti- fic plantation so the good Americans of the South come North to seek “common labor.” These are just a few of the sources, to say nothing of the entire younger generation which faces life at an age when the old handicraft skill, once the arti- san's “capital,” hasbeen made 1113 W. WASHINGTON ST. CHICAGO, ILL. Use this blank for convenience THE DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill. For the enclosed §....0000 send the DAILY WORKER for 4. Months to NAME cvvesssesoen Common labor! Labor “common labor” will’ common to all useful members of s0- elety and only the wilful idler will be