The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 26, 1924, Page 2

O} PROFINTERN T.ULEL MEET lls of Progress in Union Movement he Red International of Libor Unions with headquarters injMoscow is no longer a mere pihpaganda organization, but a p@werful factor in the, labor un- igh movement of Europe and the leader of great masses in tle revolutionary struggles of tke workers against capitalism, William F, Dunne, agd Communist candidate for gpvernor of Illinois, speaking fore a meeting of the Trade Union Educational League here of Wednesday evening. Pomrade Dunne has recently re- tupned from Moscow. where he attend- eq the 3rd Congress of the Profintern aga representative of the Trade Un- i Educational Leagnue. He was elBeted members of the Executive Committee of the R, I. L. U. Dunne giess of the Communist International, frpm the Workeys Party. : In British Trade Unions. 'rhere is a powerful minority move- ment growing up thruout Europe said Comrade Dunné, and even in the Brit- ish trade union movement, the liar of conservatism, since the Labor gov erhment came into office, a sweepin; great shift to the left has taken place. « The old leaders who secured com- fortable berths in the MacDonald gov- ernment heve been replaced by men who are more suceptible to the heavy pressure which the slowly disillusion- ed masses are bringing to bear on them. The speaker told of the election of A. J. Cook, left wing trade unionist, to the secretaryship of the. miners’ union of Britain, one of the most for- midable armies of labor in the world. Cook ran for office on an R. I. L. U. program. Germany and France. In Germany millions of workers fol- low the leadership of the Profintern, and in France the division of forces in the trade union movement is about even between Amsterdam and Mos- "cow. There fs nd country in Hurope where the Red International of Labor Unions is not a powerful minority as in actual leadership of the organized massss. Dunne pictured the bankruptcy of the Amsterdam leaders and the strong left wing growing up inside. So vigor- ous has this become that at the Vienna congress a resolution was put thru instructing the Amsterdam officials to begin negotiations with a view to bringing about a united front of the world trade union movement in one international. Comrade Dunne ex- pressed doubt that ‘this would be ac- complished in the near future owing to the sabotage of the reactionary leaders who are hand and glove with the capitalist class and supporters of the capitalist system. But the desire for unity among the masses is so keen that the splitting conspiracy of the yellow socialists will prove their own undoing and will revert to the advantage of the Red International which has already given ample proof 4 that it places the unity of the workers for the struggle against the capitalist as the first item on its agenda. Storm Gathering. That the temper of the left wing inside the Amsterdam, while yet some- what vague, is growing in intensity, ‘was demonstrated, said the speaker, ‘when at the Vienna congress, the Eng- lish delegates threw consternation in- to the ranks of the social traitors of Germany by asking, “What about Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxem- burg?” This question exploded with the force of a giant bomb and had a shattering effect on the nerves of the reactionaries. Dunne in reporting on the Third Congress of the Red Internatiohal of Labor Unions said that taken as a whole, the R. I. L. U. has acqired the leadership of the workers of the world wince the second congress. “This,” said, “has not come because of tation, but because,of leadership ed by the International. \"The three most important issues taken up by the Third Congress of the RIL. U. were: (1.) the question of unity in the world trade union move- ment; (2.) the fight against Fascism, and (3.) the shop committee idea. Trade Union Unity. “The proposal of the R. I. L. U. in .Tegard to the Amsterdam Internation. al was for unity, unity not from above but from below. The leaders of the Amsterdam International are in a dif ficult position, most of its members being members of the capitalist gov- efnments as in France and Germany. ‘Carry on propaganda inside the Am- sterdam International for unity of the ‘Trade wnion Movement,” was the in- struction to delegates. “Under the“heading of fighting Fas- cism biggest issue was unemploy- ment.) The unorganized workers, the pm Workers and the army of (Continued from page 1) ing or working conditions, start a campaign which yields the company millions of dollars worth of advertising at a small outlay, and at the same time strengthens the grip of the cor- poration on the lives of the workers and increases the use- fulness of the employes to the company. The Gary School Plan. Such a plan was followed in the ballyhooing given the Gary school idea, whereby the workers’ children were taught semi-skilled trades which would increase their value to the com- pany, when they should have been studying scientific and cultural cours- es to broaden their intellect. The Gary plan was based on the false cap- italist psychology of such psycholo- gists as Professor William McDougall, whose theory of rigid grades of intel- lect out of which it is hopeless for the average workers to climb, has been discredited. But that did not matter. Gary needed a system which would give him some advertisement and at the same time give him docile slaves, well-trained at an early age {to be his vassals in the steel mills. |So the campaign for the caste sys: tem in the schools was inaugurated A Saftey First Drive. The latest campaign of the United Steel corporation has been a “Safety First” drive, which makes the pre- “|tense of having the interests of the workers at heart. Following the spreading of red lettered signs thru- out the plant pleading with the men not to get hurt, and the printing of numerous elaborate pamphlets prais- ing themselves for printing these pam- phiets, the capitalist newspapers thru- out the country began to commend |Gary for his beneficience to his em- | ployes. But again in the safety campaign. Gary was doing something which gave his coropration a larger margin of profit, and which cost him little, and which was of no value to his em- ployes. Gary admits that his paternalism toward his employes and his safety campaign is a business proposition, designed to keep down the class con- scious and revolting spirit of the working class. “I want to tell you gentlemen that in my opinion one of the greatest questions for considera- tion by the capitalists of America to- day is the question of the treatment of their employes,” Gary said in a speech to the iron and steel manufac. turers of the country as far back as 1911. “SO AS TO MAKE IT CER- WILL NEVER BE ANY EXCUSE FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE IDEAS OF THE ANARCHIST OR SO- CIALIST. IF THOSE WHO REPRE- SENT CAPITAL, THOSE WHO REP. unemployed are the recruiting grounds | of the Fascisti elements because there |they reach the discouraged and hun- |sry worker who will easily fall prey |to anything that offers immediate re- | lief. Real concentrated work should |be done among the unemployed and | unorganized workers in every coun- | try. | Building Shop Committees. | “The third big task of the R. I. L. U. ‘was the immediate inauguration of the |shop committee plan, The shop com- mittee it was agreed at the congress, | offers the most efficient opportunity for propaganda in the trade unions. Here in the United States there is a splendid field for the shop committee idea and it will, if properly conducted, t saive the many serious problems con- fronting the trade unions. The R. I. L, U. expects us to throw ourselves into the work of shop committees.” Dunne declared that we in America have no reason to be ashamed of the American section of the R. I. L. U. as represented by the Trade Union Edu- cational League. Foster’s Leadership. “The leadership of the American sec- tion of the Red International of La- bor Unions—and I am now speaking of Comrade William Z, Foster—com- pares favorably with that of any other affiliated section, and I have no doubt that if the members of the Trade Un- ion Educational League give the same hearty support to the movement in the future that they have done in the past, the results will be gratifying.” Several questions were asked the speaker at the conclusion of his ad- dress. Arne Swabeck, district organizer, addressed the meeting on the import: ance of securing signatures to place the state ticket on the ballot. Subscribe for “Your Daily,” the DAILY WORKER, RESENT POWER, WILL MAKBE IT ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN THAT NO EXCUSE IS OFFERED FOR ATTACK ON THE PART OF THE MEN WHO ARE EMPLOYED THEY WILL BE DOING SOMETHING FOR THEIR COUNTRY WORTH WHILE.” Later, when Gary’s paternalism was in full swing and when he was reap- ing millions of dollars ‘out of his slaves in war time profits, Gary said, at a meeting of the presidents of the subsidiary companies of the Unite States Steel corporation in 1919: “Above everything else satisfy your men if you can that your treatment of them is fair and reasonable and generous. Make the steel corporation good place for them to work and live. Give them playgrounds and parks and schools and churches, pure water to drink, oportunity to keep clean, places of recreation, enjoyment, rest, TREATING ‘THE WHOLE THING AS A BUSINESS PROPOSI- TION, DRAWING THE LINE SO THAT YOU ARE JUST AND GEN- EROUS AND AT THE SAME TIME| promises of further financial POSITION ANDjaid as soon as the campaign HERS TO KEEP|organization is perfected. KEEPING de PERMITTING THEIRS, AND RETAINING CONTROL MANAGEMENT OF YOUR OWN AFFAIRS, keeping the wholet;), thing in your own hands.” Purely Business, Gary thus reveals that the paternal- ism of the United States Steel corpor- ation is a purely business proposition, designed to give the employes just enough consideration to prevent them from demanding a. living wage, but giving them consideration only in those things which increase the prof- its of the company and at the same time buy the steel trust some cheap and valuable advertising. Gary is- sued orders that money wanted for added safety devices would gladly be advanced by the company to its yari- ous branches, P But the large number of accidents in the Gary plant continue in spite of the much-heralded safety campaign. The steel corporation is forced to ad- mit these accidents in its own pam- phlets. It is worthy of note that sta- tistics on accidents and violent deaths within the Gary mills are not reveal- ed in the safety pamphlets of the com- pany. They do, however, declare that, “Hand labor causes nearly one half of all accidents.” In this way they THE DAILY WORKER CHICAGO JEWISH WORKERS RALLY TO COMMUNISTS Pledge Aid to Foster- Gitlow Campaign Five hundred Jewish working men and women answered the call of the Foster-Gitlow Jewish conference of Chicago for a mass meeting of Jewish work- ers at Workers Lyceum to per- fect plans for the Communist campaign. A ringing call to action by Comrades M. Schuchter, Wil- liam F, Dunne and Alexander Bittelman brought a campaign contribution of $100.25, with Militants Attend. Campaign work will be ‘carried on ru the Workmen’s Circle, and thru he REE SE ee RE LER a Ee a ter el ESO OR TE A Bin SA ee PER SS shops. Thé unions represented were: Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, International Ladies’ Gar- ment Workers’ Union, unions in the building trades, unions in the metal trades, Cap and Millinery Workers, Butcher Workmen, Barbers. Comrade M. Schuchter, who acted as chairman of the meting, told his audience that any hopes for economic improvemtnt, placed in men like Rob- ert LaFollette, are utterly groundless. LaFollette Like Ramsay. “The LaFollette movement in this country may be compared to the move- ment in England of which MacDonald is the head. Both are based on the support of the petty bourgeoisie. Neither believes in changing the pres- ent order. war, “It is a serious mistake to imagine that the big capitalists do not be- lieve in class war. On the contrary, they are always waging the class Neither believes in class try to place the blame for their ac- cident and death rate upon “hand la- war.” Comrade William Dunne, who has bor,” and attempt to shift the respon-|Just returned from Moscow, was sibility from their shoulders, where it] Steeted with thunderous applause, rightfully belongs.’ They further ad- “The workers of the, whole world mit that they have not decreased ac-} re watching the workers of America cidents to any appreciable extent in|im their first Communist campaign, the left wings of trade unions. Union members who attended the meeting were divided into groups for work among their fellow-militants in the (TAIN IN..THIS COUNTRY . THERE} spite of -all their. “safety” blustering,| We have a. wonderful opnortnnity this, and try to excuse themselves for the| fall to disseminate Communist prop- accidents by declaring in Saftey Bul|@sanda. Our best efforts will be re- letin No. 10: “A majority of these ac-| Wired to put our candidates across, cidents cannot be controlled by safe-|for in America there are more re- ty devices and appliances.” MILITANTS? CONFAB FOR FOSTER, GITLOW TO BE BIG SUCCESS Reports received today at the Foster campaign headquarters in- dicate that there will be an enthu- siastic attendance and response at strictions on the voting privilege than in any other ‘democratic’ country. “The straw vote, taken in the shops last week, shows an , encouraging growth of militant sentiment among the workingmen and women.” S. P. Betrayer. Comrade Bittelman, speaking in Yiddish, went into further detail on the subject of the LaFollette illusion, explaining the part which the social- ist party is playing in the betrayal of the working class. Hundreds of copies of the DAILY the conference of militants called | WORKER, the Young Worker and the for Sunday, Sept. 28, at 2 p. m., at the Labor Lyceum, 243 E. 84th St. This conference is a part of Foster's local campaign in New York. In- quiries and credentials are pouring in daily from trade unions, fraternal organizations of every kind, Work- ers Party and Young Workers League branches, and other left wing organizations. Sunday confer- ence is taking on more and more of a proletarian character. It is mark- ed by the utter absence of any mid- die class or non-worker elements. This Is typical of the kind of bup- port Foster and Gitlow are getting thruout the country. That the Workers Party candi- dates are making an appreciable dent in the LaFollette campaign is indicated clearly by the repeated and urgent calls for funds which the LaFollette forces have been forced to issue recently. These appeals have been issued by Sam Gompers, Herman Ekern, Abe Tuvin, the Cen- tral Trades and Labor Council and a host of others who have their ; fingers in the LaFollette pie. it is rumored howe: th to these many appeals is both slug- gish and weak. The slogan every- where seems to be, “Not a cent, not a vote for LaFollette. Forward with the Workers Party. Forward with Foster and Gitlow.” Join the Workers Party! GOOSE-STEPPER WANTS SYSTEM OF * TITLES HERE; DEMOCRATS OUGHT TO GET VERY ANGRY ABOUT THIS (Special to The Daily Worker) BERKELEY, Calif., it. 25.—Col. Dr, David P. Barrows, once president ° University of California, and before that active in the anti-Russian war of the United States in Siberia, has discovered something wrong with America ea at last. What we need, he says, is a reward for faithful service to the country.” system of titles to be conferred “as a Undoubtedly one of the first to be 80 rewarded would be Barrows, who in addition to services against the workers’ government of Russia, opposed every liberal move in the university during his incumbenoy, and seoured the dismissal of several members of the faculty who had signed @ petition for release of political prisoners. pa the response |other inactive branches hi Freiheit were sold at the door of the hall. “Cal” Dodges Again. WASHINGTON, Sept. 25.—Presi- dent Coolidge is not disposed to take any action in the case of General Smedley Butler in Philadelphia, it was stated officially at the White House today. Primarily, it was said at the White House, the Butler case is one of local Philadelphia polities in which Cool- idge does not care to become involved. Join the Workers Party! PHILADELPHIA Party Activities Philadelphia party activities show great headway during September. Our Foster meeting, at which over 2,000 workers were present, wi ‘demonstra - tion of what our party can do when it gets on the job. The campaign for new members has reached the mark of 40 for this month including a new Italian branch, Two and are functloniny th 30,000 em oy. platforms hay; Fi ad ve te and ner per are yee eWay. © campaign committe: set 100,000 for Philadelphia and is “make ing detailed arrangement. fo: 000 issue of the Philadelphia Edition of ‘the DAILY WORKER for the Gitlow meeting for October 24, ir open air meetin and number and the ture sales be been Saprine: a Ww . The fol- lowing open air meetings are arri for this week: - cama Friday, Sept. 26. Marshall and Girard Ave. 30th St, and Huntington Ave, Saturday, Sept. 27. 42nd St. and pale AS growing in och and Poplar Sts, 7th and Ritner Sts. The enlarged industrial committee has outlined the policies and activities for and Winter with all hey will be carried o1 new 0) and ‘es for som ‘work, committee making jnoerd to conduct a sehool and an Open for Wednesday, October 1, for th my (pn meet will ‘orum, A general membership meeting is called 6 pure se of discuss! th t and a cinton ¥ ane ot Congress o tae Corn pen Ini lace at 521 Yor! » Distributh of pacty platforms will the ‘mecting. . British Coal Miners to Give MacDonald Their Views on Dawes Plan ‘By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL, Topay: the rank and file of British labor is discussing the problems to come before the annual conference of the Labor Party, to be held in London, Oct. 7. This is the first national Labor Party gathering since J. Ramsay MacDonald became premier. It will give a large number of rank and?file delegates, from the trade unions and from the branches of the Labor Party and the Independent Labor Party, an op- portunity to say what they think of MacDonald’s government. What many of them will say, according to reports, will not be very complimentary to MacDonald. In the United States the big political parties gather once every four years, to frame a platform and nominate a candi- date for president. The platform is made so that the party can ride successfully into office. It is not even intended that the platform promises should be carried out. The candidate is usually a compromise to secure party harmony and keep capitalism’s political forces intact. After the convention is over the delegates are sent home to wait for another four years to roll by. Coolidge did. not report to the Cleveland republican convention any more than did LaFollette to his own gathering in the same city. They dictated their desires to the assembled delegates and expected to be obeyed without question. - * * * % MacDonald would like to do the same in England. But ‘the British Labor Party affords a little expression of opinion. It is at least the semblance of a forum for the discussion of British labor’s problems, MacDonald, like a lot of other “labor” representatives, when they get power, adopt the Coolidge attitude. Instead of carrying out working class policies, in the interests of the workers who had put him in power, he held to the capitalist democratic fraud that he “represents all the people.” This attiude gets a “labor” politician into many tight laces, especially when he is responsible to an organization ike the British Labor Party. * * * % Thus we find the “labor” premier, MacDonald, refusing to meet with a deputation of coal miners, to discuss the situa- tion caused by the Morgan-Dawes plan. MacDonald turned down the coal miners in the best style of Lloyd George and Asquith, the capitalist premiers before him With the Labor Party Conference looming big, however, MacDonald changed his mind, and decided ona hearing with the miners Oct. 1. * These British coal miners feel that the'slave owner's whip that is laid across the backs of the German working class is going to hit them, too. The 10 and the 12-hour day in Ger- many, ‘at low wages, under the Dawes plan, turning out cheap “coal, that can be bought and sold in the British market by” British profiteers, at great profit to themselves, means in- creasing unemployment among the British miners. These miners want to tell Premier MacDonald that there are 26,000 unemployed coal diggers in the Northumberland and Durham fields alone. MacDonald helped Morgan, Mellon, Hughes and Lamont put over the Dawes plan. The British workers are opposed to it. M. Tomsky, head of the Russian Trade Unions, told the British Trade Union Congress recent- ly, what the Russian workers thought about it. There doesn’t seem to be so very mugh difference of opinion between the Russian and the British workers about this Wall Street plot against all European labor, That should be an interesting conference between the delegation of the coal miners and Premier MacDonald, Oct. 1, less than a week before the opening of the Labor Party Conference. ; : * * * * The coal diggers demand the nationalization of the mines. That is the first big issue on the agenda of the Oct. 7th gathering. The miners will want to know why Mac- Donald, the “labor” premier has not moved in this direction. It is also demanded that the government take over the electric power supply. Then there is the resolution that the British Labor Party - affiliate with the Communist International. ‘ : * * * There are “labor” politicians in the British Labor Party, just as there are hordes of political careerists attached to the LaFollette movement, in this country, that make war upon the Communists. These politicians have so far prevent- ed the British Communist Party from winning affiliation with the Labor Party. But the war upon the Communists within the British labor movement, has not solved the problems of the British workers, any more than the attack of Gompers and LaFol- lette on Communists in the United States has presented the workers and farmers of this country with a solution of their problems. The struggle under capitalism against the em- loyers’ dictatorship continues ey the same. It will continue ust as long as that dictatorship continues; until it is dis- placed with the rule of, the workers. MacDonald may think that the Dawes plan is a big step towards world peace. But that only shows that his mind as well as his services has been captured by the British rulin class. Perhaps it never needed capturing. But MacDonal has paraded as a socialist for years, as a»believer in'the class struggle of the workers against capitalism, as an enemy of capitalist wars. And it was for this reason that he, rather than Arthur Henderson, open collaborator with capitalism, ex- minister in the King’s war government, became the premier. Millions of British workers still harbor the illusion that the MacDonald “labor” government will get them something; pe jome American workers indulge in the nightmare that ther egal is going to find an oasis for them in the capitalist lesert. peg act of the MacDonald eyes of British workers, wider an When MacDonald at first \efused to receive the del: tion of coal miners, he added thousands of workers to t Communist ranks. His defense of his “labor” government at the forth-coming Labor Party Conference will still further disgust new thousands in Great Britain, just as the regime of the “socialist,” Ebert, in Germany, has added millions to the German Communist army. The British Communist Party need not worry so much about affiliation with the British Labor Party, if it can win the masses of the British workers to affiliate with it. That is the drift at the present time within the ranks of British i ‘overnment is opening the wider. Friday, September 26, 1924 EXPOSE UNITED FRONT AGAINST STEEL WORKERS Gary Organizes to Halli Unionization The organization of the Chamber of Commerce, the newspapers, and city officials of Gary, Indiana, in the interests of the United States Steel cor- poration to keep the steel work- ers from organizing, was told at an open air meeting Wednes- day night, at the corner of 32nd and Halsted Street by Karl Reeve, reporter for the DAILY WORKER. Reeve told of the latest ef- fort of the steel workers in Gary to organize at their mass meeting last night in Turner Hall, and declared that the workers must unite with their class politically under the ban- ner of Communism, and become active workers for amalgama- ‘tion in their union as the only effective means of fighting the organized forces of capitalism. Gary Bait. “The workers of Gary do not know that the Chamber of Commerce of that town has issued a pamphlet to attract manufacturers to settle in Gary, offer- ing as an inducement that ‘there is a plentiful supply of high grade female labor available, whose average wage is 25 cents an hour,’” Reeve told the crowd. He told how the mayor had refused to investigate the recent explosion of a blast furnace in Gary which killed several men, and how the Gary Post- Tribune, forming a united front’ with’ the United States Steel corporation, is daily coming out with lies about prosperity and plenty of employment when-hundreds of workers are looking for jobs every day in the steel mills. Reeve denounced the Gary school plan, re-named the platoon school sys- tem, because it trains the children to be good steel trust slaves when they should be getting a scientific and cultural education. He declared that the profits of the United States Steel corporation in 1928 were $108,707,064 and the average wage of the employes at that time was only $5.83, showing ithat the workers produce all wealth and the employers of labor reap all the profits. Hits Defense Day. « Victor Zokaitis took up a good col- lection at this meeting, and many DAILY WORKERS and books were sold, including “Russia in 1924,” by William Z. Foster and “The LaFoltette Illusion,” by Jay Lovestone. Comrade Zokaitis told the crowd the real mean- ing of the recent national defense day, which was not, he declared, to honor General Pershing, but a stunt of the capitalists to prepare the workers for the next war. He pleaded for the establishment in this country of a workers’ and farmers’ government such as has been established in Soviet Russia. A large and successful street meet- ing was also held at the corner of Roosevelt and Marshfield, with George Maurer as the principal speaker. Com- rade Maurer took up a collection of several dollars, sold many books and over 30 DAILY WORKERS. The following street meetings will Lawrence and er—A of ving Park branches, Workers ry Y¥..W. L. Speakers: Pete Herd and oor it rere 1 it—Auspii of North m an elmont Side ¥. Ww, Branch. Speakers: D. E. Darley and Reeve. North Ave. and Fairfield—Auspices North West Bnglish Branch W. B Speaie ers: rthan ga Rey gal Ida vr ces Fi Jewish Branch, Douglas Park, W. P. Speakers: Al Schaap and Bill Kruse. Saturday, Sept. 27. Halsted—Auspices of Lithu- jpeakers: John 34th and anian W. P. Branch. Harvey and Pete Herd. and juckley others. 30th and State Sts.—South Side ‘W. P. Speakers: Spivision and Washtenaw—Auspices of vision al ena’ of North West Jewish Branch, we P. Speakers: A. Wi ers: Gordon Owei ns and D. Milwaukee lish Branch, lish and Poll Chi Sperry and Patrick duty, they are said to h their automobile into another the driver of which started to with them, In answer to have leaped out with volvers just as patrolman and Edward Tyrell appeared scene. The detectives started away and opened fire When trolmen ordered them to halt. volver battle followed. Both ives, police say, were intoxionted. — fi, ong halal: | ib § a3 3é tive itil