The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 29, 1924, Page 6

—— Page Six ‘THE DAILY WORKER. epee eens SS Published by the DAILY. WORKER PUBLISHING co. 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ml. (Phone: Monroe 4712) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail: $6.00 per year $3.50....6 months j Mi .00....3 months By mail (in Chicago only): $8.00 per year < $4.50....6 momths $2.50....3 months Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY, WORKER 1118 W. Washington Bivd. Chicago, Iinels J. LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F. DUNNE" MORITZ J. LOEB. soneessenneeesers- EGItORS jusiness Manager —— Entered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1923, at the Post Office at Chicago, Ill, under the act of March 3, 1879. <i 290 Advertising rates on application mec Strikebreakers All The republican party is a nest of strikebreakers and enemies of the working class. The last secre- tary of the republican national committee was chased out of office because of his being in an odious deal with Attorney General Daugherty. The new secretary of the republican party is of the same stripe. Mr. Roy West, the present secretary of the re- publican national committee, is rapidly winning his reputation as a successful injunction lawyer against the workers. This Coolidge apostle has just secured an injunction from the infamous Judge Wilkerson against the electrical workers, plas- terers, bricklayers, plumbers, elevator constructors and bridge and structural iron workers employed on the Western Union Telegraph building. This is the love that the republican machine has for the workers. Now and then the republican lead- ers in their mad drive for labor votes, may dabble in meaningless abstractions regarding their in- terest in the welfare of the workingman. Every fact, every deed, belies the real character and the enmity of these agents of the employing class to the wage-earning masses. - But the democratic party is fundamentally of the same kidney. We have before us a sample of the specious but anti-labor propaganda being cir- culated by the national office of the democratic party. The gem consists of an attack on Coolidge on account “of his hesitancy and halting during the police strike until after Mayor Peters had sup- pressed the rioting and disorder on his own in- itiative.” Here we have it. The democratic leaders believe that Coolidge does not deserve the “credit” for the smashing of the policemen’s union and strike in Boston. To the democrats, Coolidge is a failure because he was not enough of a strikebreaker in the Boston controversy. Yet, these democrats would have the workers vote for their ticket. These same democrats worfld have the workingmen and poor farmers believe that they are genuinely concerned with the conditions, with the hardships and suf- fering of the great masses of the population. The republicans and democrats are strikebreak- ers all. At best, they differ only in the degree of the zeal with which they are engaged in under- mining the organizations of the workers. When Traitors Fall Out Messrs. Spdrgo and Walling, two of the blackest betrayers of American socialism, are now engaged in a duel which is enlightening to the workers. It will be remembered that these gentlemen joined hands with Mitchell A. Palmer, Woodrow Wilson, Hilbert H. Gary and Charles M. Schwab in denoune- ing and persecuting every workingman who dared raise his voice against the imperialist war. Mr. Spargo, after shaking hands with Coolidge, has come out for the election of the present in- cumbent in the White House. Mr. Spargo, who once called himself a socialist, is now a heavenly- anointed republican. Coolidge has succeeded Wilson as his savior. But his foremost partner in infamy, the multi- millionaire William English Walling, is behind the candidacy of LaFollette. Walling is one of the cogs in the Gompers machine and must therefore fall in line with the “grand old man’s” policies. Mr. Walling takes exception to Spargo’s criticism of LaFollette’s trust-busting panaceas. He assures Spargo that LaFollette is not seeking public owner- ship, but only the repeal of the labor clauses of the Esch-Cummins Act. In the opinion of Mr. Gompers’ most voluble lickspittle, LaFollette is safe and sane in every sense. Messrs. Walling and Spargo might quarrel them- selves blue in the face. The petty squabbles of petty individuals are of no concern to the working class. However, this falling ont of two of the blackest traitors in the progressive movement is instructive. Mr. Spargo once boasted of being a Marxian scholar. Every publication bearing the name of the “Marxian philosopher,” so ably sup- ported by Hillquit, shows very decisively that in the realm of Marxian science,Mr. Spargo was a enltured ignoramus. His “Life of Marx” is a _ piece of monumental ignorance and skillful mis- representation. s And the indomitable enemy of the workers, Mr. Walling, who has spilléd oceans of ink against the Soviet Republic, once posed as a left-winger in the socialist party. To him, the doctrines of Marxism were not revolutionary enough and, in despair, he turned to syndicalism. The evolution of these worthies is complete, .Mr. Spargo is now at home. Mr. Walling is at his best. This falling out is only a temporary one, Messrs. Spargo and Walling have come into their own as full-fledged opponents of every effort made by the workers of every country for freedom from em ploying class domination. Campaign Candor Coolidge could not have chosen a more fitting occasion to make his declaration of loyalty to the employing class than his address at the commem- oration of the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the First Continental Congress. The president showed his extremé outspoken- ness in behalf of the biggest bosses of the country in his characterization of the Continental Congress and in his estimate of the key. problem now facing the country. Mr. Coolidge lauded the congress for its moderation and put an especially favorable light on its consideration for the royal House of Hanover, He went on to cite the plea of the con- gress to George, following in part: “As Your Majesty enjoys the signal distinction of reigning over free men, we apprehend the language of free men cannot be displeasing.” These significant re- marks shed further welcome light on the why and wherefore of the Continental Congress laying the basis for a government serving the minority against the majority—the present United States govern- ment, Then the republican standard bearer tutned to a consideration of the railway problem. Mr. Cool- idge told the country nothing new when he put himself on record as squarely oppose@ to taking the railroads away from the small group of capi- talists..Mr. Coolidge is a frank defender of the class interests pergonified by the four great financial institutions in New York which hold close to one hundred directorships in trust companies and banks, and dominate the railways of the country. The president’s dabbling in purple adjectives in defense of the Esch-Cummins railway law does not arouse any mystery in us. We know that this law which was framed by the bankers, railroad lawyers, and other ‘lobbyists, has brought into the coffers of the financial oligarchy hundreds of mil- lions of ‘dollars. Section 209 alone has netted nearly one billion dollars to the rail kings. When Coolidge brought forward the argument of a top-heavy bureaucracy being an inherent feature of government ownership of railways, he was right. Capitalist government ownership of rail-! ways offers no solution to the difficult problem. The genuine socialization of the railways, which is the) only solution, and other public utilities can come} only thru the establishment of a workers’ and/| farmers’ republic. Of this, Ccolidge is a sworn! enemy. Yet, it must noted that the Philadelphia speech delivered by Mr. Coolidge is by far the frankest index and the most outstanding example of po- litical candor shown by any of the employing class candidates in the present campaign. Poisonous Propaganda Whenever a worker dares think out loud, the horde of well-kept press agents of the employing class yell “propaganda.” When workingmen revolt against unspeakable conditions of employment, the defenders of the faith of the exploiters raise a howl to the heavens against the ravages of “propa- ganda.” Usually the hue and cry of “foreigners” follow. The Communists have never been dismayed by the dishonest talk of the bosses and their cham- pions. We have always pointed out that propaganda has its proper place in all wars, the class war not excepted. We have repeatedly emphasized to the workers and dispossessed farmers that the sooner they learn to put their case as effectively and be- fore as large a number of the laboring masses as the employing class, the sooner will they achieve their freedom from exploitation. The crux of capitalist morality, the essence of capitalist right and wrong, the criterion of capi- talist virtue is this: will it help our class in- terests? Of course, this question is not always put forward so pointedly and consciously in the field of actual class conflicts. But, in effect, the trend in this direction is very marked. We have in mind the American Education Week which has, been set aside by the government for the period of November 17 to 23. The topics that are to be discussed in the schools thruout the country run.as follows: “The Constitution—the THE DAILY WORKER Monday, September 29, 1924 ‘Complete Mobilization of Party Membership Ordered Action Will Involve Every Party Branch—C onstitates an Unprecedented Event in Party Annals—Obedience to Decision Expected Without Single Exception By ALFRED WAGENKNECHT . . (Continued from page 1) of this action is easy to comprehend and to cerry out. Nothing will be left undone by the national office of the party to facilitate each step in the undertaking. Postal cards, one for the each branch member, will be mailed the branch secretaries which he is to use to call the special October 12 meeting. The entire party press will carry the details of this mobiliza- tion. Every federation secretary will assist in making all language branches understand. The request that every party member give fifty cents for the literature he is to distribute, is the very least that can be asked of a Communist. There is not one member but who will understand that a Communist is not one who immerses himself in picture. shows, the sporting page, the routine of daily existence. A Communist is one who gives every dollar he can spare-and every hour away from the bosses’ machine to the move- ment. Our movement has proportions, It’s to be a world revolution, And that is not at all like getting a shave or revitalizing a Ford. The Absolute Minimum. Nothing will be placed in the way of every member distributing as many pieces of literature as he desires. That isa big point in this dis- tribution campaign. There is no maximum. There is no limit in how much every party member cares to do. But an absolute mfhimum has been decided upon. Below this not a single party member shall go. Every party member shall distribute: 10 Daily Workers... 137 PIECES, TOTALLING This 137-piece literature unit to every party member means a total distribution during the week of October 26 to November 2 of — 2,200,000 Campaign Leaflets 550,000 Campaign Stickers 44,000 Campaign Pamphlets 220,000 Daily Workers 3,014,000 Three million pieces of party literature in one final onslaught is a task which our party can carry out. It must carry out this task because a survey of the election campaign activities so far carried on have proven that the workers and farmers are surprisingly more interested in our Communist ompaign than the most optimistic of us at first thought. The io cae dication. This welcome interest in our candidates and principles must be developed to a peak, must be taken advantage ‘of in a way that will make our propaganda the talk in every shop, mine and mill. 9 OP Ae It Should Be An “On the Job” Distribution. We are fully aware of the fact that an “on the job” distribution has its dangers. But Communists face dangers. More than this, they face them in a judicious manner. We aim to win. And just as superior strategy is necessary to come out victors in the class struggle, so also are well- planned maneuvers necessary to beat the boss in the shop to it. It can be done. The leaflets and stickers can be placed at advantageous points where the workers will see them and read them, should open distribution be impossible. The pamphlets and the DAILY WORKERS should be given or sold to those who in conversation show most interest in our movement. The names and addresses of interested workers should be secured. Subscrip- tions for the Daily should be asked for. Where shop distribution cannot take place, there the members are to distribute from house to house. No matter what language you speak, you must take part in this event. Even if you are deaf and dumb, The minimum energy required in this undertaking is to hand out the literature. Any one who has hands can hand out. Sympathizers, non-readers of the Communist pre: are prohibited from enlisting. A remittance of fifty cents for each 137-piece literature unit desired, will bring you your weapons for the fray by return mail. * * * * “All Together!"—Is the Slogan. As stated, it is a decision! There shall be no refusals. There shall not even be hesitation. A willing and anxious spirit in this immense mobilization must obtain. Like one mighty machine the 22,000 Workers Party campaigners will meet upon the same day, October 12, in every one of our 1,297 branches. Like-a well-disciplined and umconquerable force, the 22,000 members will go forth during the week of October 26 to November 2 and place three millon pieces of literature into the hands and heads of three million workers and farmers. We are an invincible vanguard. But only. then when we do lead the masses. Therefore this complete mobilization of our membership and branches. We shall go out to get supporters, recruits, converts, so that the Workers Party will grow and its might following will increase. Every comrade on the job! JOSEPH MANLEY, Campaign Manager. Bulwark of Demioeracy and Happiness,” “The United States’ Flag is the Living Symbol of the Ideals and Institutions of Our Republic.” Then there are set aside “Constitution Day,” “Patriot- ism Day” and “For God and Country Day.” Talk about propaganda! Talk about. poisonous propaganda masking behind the name of educa- tion! Will the editors and the liberal truth-seekers of the country organize a crusade against the dangerous toxin that will be instilled in the minds of the youth of the country in that week? Even to pose this question is the acme of foolhardiness. We warn the workers, the poor farmers and the youth of the country not to allow themselves to be misled by these poisonous propagandists. The Chicago Tribune believes there is cause for a furrowing of 100 per cent brows in the fact that the ‘gigantic sum of one billon dollars is stolen every year from American business by those charged with its operation, employes, officers, ete. Thi#does not include the toll exacted by highway- mef and outside operators. What about it? This is only a drop in the bucket compared to the loot taken from the workers of America by the capi- talists every year. The Trib participates in this loot and is therefore silent. Now that the Prince of Wales has become a member of the Pressmen’s Union, what about giv- ing Andrew J. Volstead a card in the Bartender’s Union? But the bootleggers might protest. He made them what they are today, Bend in that new “sub” today! straw vote taken in,the Chicago shops and factories is an irrefutable in- (Continued from Page 1.) two capitalist parties, like his peer in reaction, John lL, Lewis. \ Tired of Hutchenson. The carpenters are sick and tired of Hutchenson, but he has straddled himself around ‘their necks like the Old Man of the Sea and it will take a herculean effort on their part to get rid of him. An example of the man- ner in which he directs the Brother- hood can be seen by his invitation to a manufacturer of metal trim to speak at the convention, in behalf of his quarrel with the officials of the Sheet Metal Workers as to which organiza- tion should have jurisdiction over the erection of metal trim. The speaker Mr. Edward Zahner, .genéral manager of the MacFarkan Metal Products company at LaPorte, Indiana, told the delegates that he was a sheet metal worker before he became a manufac: | turer and was strongly in favor of | the carpenters being given jurisdic: tion of metal trim. Bosses Give Advice. But other manufacturers attend con- ventions of Sheet Metal Workers who support the latter's contention that metal trim is within their jurisdiction. Thus the workers are kept fighting each other by two sets of labor fakers while the. manufacturers profit by their disunion. The amalgamation resolution which would put an end to this civil war within the building trades and the only solution for juris- dictional quarrels was even refused consideration by the ukase of the Brotherhood czar. In describing the unfitness of Hutchenson to hold any office in a labor union, on the basis of his past record, words are inadequate. Suffice it to say, that a more useful tool of the bosses does not hold office MERGE LIBERATOR, AND SOVIET PICTORIAL IN WORKERS MONTHLY TO APPEAR NOVEMBER Ist le Rosen in Fight in any uhion affiliated with ‘..< Ameri- can Federation of Labor and this is saying a good deal considering the competition. Willis K. Brown, another candidate is neither “fish, fowl, nor good red herring.” As a militant he would make an admirable secretary for a Young Men’s Christian Association branch. The only purpose his can- didacy serves is to split the opposition against -Hutchenson. Rosen Only Progressive. The only progressive candidate in the election contest against Hutchen- son is Delegate Morris Rosen of New York. Delegate Rosen stands for pro- gressive policies in the union and be! sides being an active worker in New York to strengthen the organization and fight the bosses, he has taken a decided stand at this convention against Mahatma Hutchenson, thus in- curring the enmity of that autocrat. Delegate Rosen deserves the sup- port of all the progressive elements at the convention. He stands for amalgamation, job control and work- ing class independent political action. To vote for any other candidate would be simply playing into Hutchenson’s hands, Two hours of the convention’s time was taken up last Thursday distribut- ing souvenirs to the delegates—a pair of cuff links, a pencil and a ticket to a show. They also listened to the ‘advice” of the metal trim manufac- turer. The general president has learned one piece of parliamentary strategy from Samuel Gompers and that is to make a great show of democracy on little things but to use the iron hand on issues that would be liable to af- fect his power. Conventions Too Few. The first fight on the supplementary report on the committee on constitu- LABOR HERALD “The Workers Monthly” is the title of the new consolidated organ of the Workers Party, to appear for the first time on November 1. The magazine is the result of the fusion of the Liberator, monthly scientific organ of the party, the Labor Herald, official organ of the Trade Cc. E. RUTHENBERG, Executive Secretary. on Hutchenson tion occurred on amendement No. 6, dealing with appeals. Delegate Rosen, candidate for general president, was the first ‘speaker and pointed out that conventions were held too infrequent- ly, that as the organization grows in size so do its problems, requiring more frequent action by delegates from the rank and file. The officers would be brot more in touch with the desires of the rank and file by more frequent conventions. Delegate Mulcahy, of Providence, R. L, candidate for general executive board who was beaten up by Hutchen- son’s thugs, because of his opposition to the Old Age Home, declared him- self in favor of more frequent con- Anamendment made to Hutchenson’s recommendation that all reports not published in- the official journal be sent to all local unions, Delegate Fred W. Burgess of Philadelphia, in sup- port of the amendment declared that if the business of the union is proper- ly conducted there is nothing to fear from publicity, either from the public or from the membership. He be- lieved everything should be published in the journal that affects the union and only supported the amendment as a compromise. * Hutchenson followed with a speech, saying that the Brotherhood and its officers were assailed by enemies from without and within and this was his ventions even tho he might be safer} justification for secrecy. at home, no doubt in ironic reference to his treatement by the thugs. He followed the general lead given by Delegate Rosen. Delegate Tom Ryan, of New York, and others also spoke for the amendment. Conventions Too Expensive. The principal argument against the motion was made by general sercre- tary Duffy, who opposed it on the grounds of expense. A vive voce vote appeared to be about even and a sec- ond aye and nay vote was called for. This did not show any more decisive result than the previous one, but Hutchenson fearing defeat, refusedra vote by show of hands. and declared the amendment lost. The New York delegates put up a fight for a resolution calling for the election of all officers of a district council by a referendum. This was defeated by the machine steamroller, claiming that the constitution could not be changed by locals. Delegate Ryan declared that it was impossible to change the constitution as the of- ficers never send out any question for referendum to the rank and file. For More Information. also unite our own organizations and institutions, whenever we can strengthen them by so doing, and bet- ter serve the interests of the revolu- tionary movement.” Features of the Workers Monthly will be: the political struggle of the working class against the capitalist dictatorship, the industrial struggle of the working class against capitalist exploitation, the inspiring and con- Union Educational League, and the Soviet Russia Pictorial, organ of the Inter-| tinued victories of Soviet Russia, the national Workers’ Aid. « , Browder Is Editor, struggle against refornfism, the strug- gle against the reactionary officialdom The Workers Monthly will be under the editorial direction of Barl R.|of the trade unions. Browder, member of the Central Executive Committee of the Workers Party. A committee of seven. members will: assist Comrade Browder in getting out the magazine. The, statement of the Central Ex- ecut Committee, announcing the antalgamation of the three organs into one, reads in part; Statement on Consolidation, “The Workers Monthly meang the amalgamation of three great magazines into one, Hach of these magazines performed @ necessary service; each one specialized for-one particular field. All the essential features of each, how- ever, it was found could be performed even better by one big, combined magazine than by three narrower ones, which, because of their Organizational separateness, could not help one an- other, And just as we have the task of breaking down the artificial bar- rlers between craft unions, 80 must we All of the subscribers to the Labor Delegate Rosen, Hutchenson’s oppon- ent for the presidency, said that re- gardless of whether all reports should be published in a semi-public maga- zine or not, the members of the union - were entitled to all information con- cerning the management of their or- ganization. All members are entitled to know what is going on, whether they are supporters or opponents of Hutchenson. The union is the prop- erty of all the members declared Del- egate Rosen. Frank Duffy spoke last and as usual supported the machine. Task Is Difficult, =” This convention proves again that the task of the militapts’in trade un- ion movement is no light one and calls for energetic action on the part of those trade unionists who want to take the direction of the organizations out of the hands of reactionary tools of the bosses. That the progressives are at last realizing that only thru organized effort on the inside can they succeed in making of the unions in- struments to help the working class bring about their emancipation from wage slavery, is an»encouraging sign of the times. —S— EE es Herald, the Liberator and the Soviet Russia Pictorial will be placed on the list of the new magazine for the term of their unexpired subscription; if they are upon one or both of the other lists, they may extend their subserip- tion or transfer it to a friend. The new magazine will sell at twenty-five cents, and the subscription rate will be $2.00 per year. ARE YOU OBTAINING YOUR BUN. DLE OF THE DAILY WORKER and CAMPAIGN LEAFLETS to distribute when you are out getting signatures to petitions? Johnston Puts Over “B. & O.” Plan — (Continued from Page 1.) 0.’ plan has been tried and the mem- bership is decreasing.” Speed-up System. “The men in the shops, whom I rep- resent, are all opposed to the ‘B. & O.' plan,” John Otis declared. “It is really a speed-up system and is very little different from the speed-up sys- tem used by the ‘open shop’ anti- unionists. The Baltimore and Ohio railroad made more profits under the class collaboration plan fostered by Johnston than at any other time in its history, but the men got none of these profits and their condition is as wretched as it has ever been. The fine thing for the employers, but it is harmful to the workers.” Delegate Otis declared the “B, & 0.” plan borders on the company union system and cited the co-operative sys- tem used in the Westinghouse com- pany which tends to prevent organ- ization of strong unions. Men Opposed to Plan. Delegate Van Meter of Cincinnati, reported that under the “B. & O.” plan the men cannot stand up against the speeding up which it involves and de- clared the men are quitting their jobs in increasing numbers-under the plan. He declared it significant that the Gleunwood shops, where the “B, & 0.” ‘B, & O,’ plan thus proves to be a Plan is in effect, were not represented in the convention, Johnston, in his weak defense of his. brain child which corresponds to Frank Farrington’s water power pro-/— ject pipe-dream, and his class col boration program, made his ysual)de- nuneiation of the “reds.” “There is a class struggle,” Johnston declared, “that can’t be denied. But there ought not to be. It is better to sit down around a table and try to convince and persuade the employers,” Progressive delegates to the conven: tion said the “B, & 0." plan would not have been crowged thru the con- vention had it not been brot up late at night when the delegates eee and wanted to get away, \ » \