The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 30, 1924, Page 6

Page Six THE DAILY WORKER THE DAILY WORKER. Hee eee eee se ee ee aT Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill. (Phone: Monroe 4712) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail: $3.50....6 months $2.00....3 months By mail (in Chicago only): $4.50....6 mozths $2.50....3 months $6.00 per year *°.00 per year Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER 1113 W.. Washington Bivd. J. LOUIS NGG f ns WILLIAM F. DU: MORITZ J. LOEB. Chicago, Iinols Editors Business Manager | Ce EES Entered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1923, at the Post- Office at Chicago, Ill, under the act of March 3, 1879, 20 Advertising rates on application (emer Make It a Red Day On Sunday, October 12, the members of the Workers Party thruout the country will gather to reform their lines for the final drive in the cam- paign. This should; and will prove»a. historic day in the development of amass Communist movement. From many points of view the present election campaign is more than an ordinary election cam- paign. The process of disintegration in the biggest parties of capitalism has proceeded too far to prevent sharp class realignments in the near future. The agricultural crisis has been too deep-going; the present industrial crisis too broad and intense to blow over as soon and with as little damage as the officially beknighted propagandists of the em- ploying class would have us believe. Finally, the political radicalization of the working and farming masses have advanced considerably in the last few years, despite the. present chaos and confusion brought into their ranks by the LaFollette drive. Under these circumstances it becomes the press- ing task of the Communists to intensify their drive for the development of class-consciousness, for the development of a working class political movement that will fight back and go forward consciously and deliberately. In the special branch meétings to be held on October 12, the Workers Party will, for the first time, be considering Communist participa- tion in parliamentary campaigns on a practical and national campaign. Today, with our paucity of connections witli the numerous ramifications of the mass organizations and the masses of the work- ers, the parliamentary campaign offers a most ef- fective channel for the’ Communists putting their case before the workingmen and farmers on the broadest possible basis—the class basis. The distribution of three million piecesof literature by the Communists is an important but not a bur- densome task. Before we win a majority of the working class to our cause, to their own cause of establishing working class rule in the United States, we will have many arduous and dangerous tasks to perform. Now that the American Com- munist movement is still to a large extent in the propaganda stage, the spreading of our literature, the winning of converts to international Commun- ism, the organizational development of our party, even in its simplest form, are duties that no mem- ber can or should shirk. Let us make October 12 a red day in the annals of Communism in the United States. The Politics of Stock-Brokers Sometime ago there were rumors in Washington tu the effect that the biggest business interests were planning to invest about two hundred and fifty million dollars in the campaign to re-elect Cool- idge. No one presumed that such a huge fund would be transmitted in the open, legal fashion. Blunt- ness of this sort would be a bit too coarse even for the moss-backed standpatter. The ways of big business and its politics are devious and circuitous enough to prevent to disclosure of the receipt and expenditure of funds many times the bulk afore- mentioned. Our overworked financiers have had years of experience in juggling figures, hiding profits and plundering the country. They can very well handle so comparatively small a slush and classdefense fund. Now, some of these labyrinthian tricks and some of the evidence of the raising and expending of this quarter of a billion dollars for Coolidge are coming to light. Many powerful industrial concerns and giant stock brokers are spending funds lavishly to help. sell their silent servant Coolidge. Of course, not a cent of the hundreds of thousands of dollars spent in this and similar fashions will ever be recorded on the campaign books of the republican party. Nor will the senate committee on campaign honesty and purity ever learn about the wily ways of those enjoying the back-door confidence of our financial overlords. Numerous Wall Street stock-brokers are waging an energetic and costly propaganda campaign in behalf of Coolidge. They are promising “higher prices” with his election. One of these letters reads: “The prospects seem to be very good for a repub- lican vietory at the November election, and if Presi- dent Coolidge is elected, we believe we will have higher prices for stocks, His election will mean that the same conservative and constructive policy of his past administration will. be carried out. This should stimulate business, as all of the busi- ness men of the country have great confidence i: him and his policies.” : We cite the above as typical of the countless covered and uncovered ways in which the purest of the capitalist democracies work for the bosses and against the workers. The Toll of Child Labor American industry is notorious for thé reckless- ness with which it mangles and kills its workers. The youth of the country is not exempt from the heavy casualties of industrial accidents. The children’s bureau of the department of labor has just announced the results of its survey of in- dustrial accidents among children in three states. The states chosen were among the so-called most progressive states of the Union, Wisconsin, Massa- chuset.s, and New Jersey. We are told that in one year there were in these states 7,478° decidents among workers under 21 years of age. Thirty-eight of these accidents brought death and 920 partial disablement for life. f The actual toll taken from the ranks of the children employed in the industries was mygh larger. These figur e only for cases in which compensation’ was paid. In Wisconsin they in- clude cases where the accidents brought about dis- ability of more than seven days’ duration and in Massachusetts and New Jersey disability of more than ten days’ duration. For children sixteen to seventeen years of age the rate was 13.4 per cent killed or partially disabled. These figures tell a gruesome, tale. They show the innermost workings of a system that is organ- ized to coin the blood and healfh of the masses into fabulous profits, into gigantic dividends. se: sae atest ye SMS September 30, 1924 Socialist Defends British Empire Against Bolsheviks ; By TOM BELL. HARLES Lester, one time member of the Communist Party of Great Britain, now organizer and propagand- ist for the socialist party of Canada, has contributed an article to a recent issue of the One Big Union Bulletin, organ of the “O. B. U.” of Winnipeg. In this article this renegade attacks Soviet Russia and the Communist In- ternational, Lester is one of the handful of Kautskyian socialists who refused‘ to join the Communists to build a Com- munist Party in Canada. His stock in trade consists of windy denuncia- tions @f the Communists as “reform- ists” and slanderous — statements against Soviet Russia. But this Brit- ish “patriot” rushes to the defense of the British Empire in his article, and “exposes” the plots of the Communist International against the Empire. The One Big Union poses as being a very revolutionary organization. In fact, it attempts to prove that the Communists are hopelessly reaction- ary because they refuse to run away from Gompers and Co. by leaving the Children are not only denied an education, denied denied even the most elementary protection their life and limbs when they are compelled to work. in which the youth and the adults are slaughtered to guarantee. the profits of the capitalists. In the expenditure of money for the welfare of the youth of the country, the same government always. pleads poverty. \The ghastly toll of child labor is only another monument to the class brutality of our strikebreaking government that is posing as an umpire in the’class conflicts, but invariab)y lining up with the bosses. The Berger Surrender “Berger Speaks For Bob” runs a headline in Chicago’s leading employing class daily. The story} is the tale of a confession in bankruptcy by Victor Berger to a Chicago audience. It is the report of an address by Berger, in which he told why he is now supporting the Wisconsin senator for the presidency. Mr. Berger resorted to all the fallacious conten- tions of the employers, to all the pleas of the apostles of the indestructibility and eternity of capitalism in the’ United States to expl@in and apologize for the collapse of the socialist party A. F. of L. unions. That the O, B. the opportunity to play and develop, but they are)U. should give Lester space in its offi- to| cialorgantoattack Soviet Russia shows who it is that lines up with Gompers. Both Gompers, the member of the Civ- ic Federation and the henchmen of Our government has billions to spend for wars] secretary of state Hughes, and the terrible revolutionary One Big Union which wants to split Gompers’ unions, unite in attacking Soviet Russia and the Communists! Lester attempts to prove many things in his article. First, that Sov- iet Russia is simply a capitalist coun- jtry and that the Russian workers are slavishly exploited to pay profits to the concessionaires (Nepmen). Sec> ond, that that Communist Internation- al is dominated by Soviet Russia, and that the former is used by the Soviet Republic to advance the old imperial- istic czarist designs in the east. Third, | that the Communist Parties only exist | in British countries as tools in the | hands of the wicked Bolsheviks for | the destruction of the British Empire | so that Russia can expand in the east. | Fourth, and here Lester's, patriotic | chest fairly swells with indignation, he warns the workers of Canada that the Canadian Communist Party is merely a tool in the hands of the un- scrupulous capitalists of the United States being used by them to further their scheme of dominating that Brit- ish country. Of course, he also de- nounces the use of force by the work- ers against the capitalists in their battles for emancipation. Secretary of state Hughes never scratched his whiskers and got a bet- ter “red scare” story than this off his chest. If Gompers ever hears of it, he will immediately add Lester to his staff of ex-socialists\who do his writ- ing for him. For a workers’ paper to print stuff like this is the last stage in degradation. It takes the yellow socialists to show the capitalist pen- prostitutes how to slander the revolu- tionary workers and the Soviet Re- public. . It is strange that if Soviet Russia is a capitalist country, as Lester says, the capitalists of the world are bitter- ly opposed to the very existence of the Russian Workers’ Republic. At the Hague, and Genoa conferences the capitalist representatives demand- ed as the price of recognition of Sov- jet Russia that all the property con- fiscated from the capitalists and land- lords be returned to them, and they were told to go to the devil by the Soviet representatives. If the Rus- sian workers are being exploited to pay fat dividends to “Nepmen” why is it that the capitalists are not rush- ing to invest their money in Russia? The fact of the matter is that the basic industries (land, mines, -metal, oil, railroads, textiles) banks and for- eign trade, are safely in the hands of the Soviet power protected by the Red Army. Concessions have been given to “Nepmen” in internal trade, and in certain industries that the Sov- iet government cannot exploit, and which can be leased to private capital- ists as concessions without endanger- ing the dominance of the working class. The new economic policy was a con- cession necessary owing to the eco- nomic backwardness of Russia. It soothed the peasantry by allowing them free trade, and gave concessions principally in the sphere commerce to Gary Schools Turn (Continued from page 1.) cational value when they enter cer-|had tain of the industries on which the under his leadership. We are told that “we have prosperity of the city is based.” { very few native American workers who are com- pelled to stay workers all their lives. There is al- ways a chance for them to get ahead on the shoulders of the immigrant, the newcomer.” This is a revised edition, a camouflaged form of the hackneyed doctrine of “from the overalls to the presidency.” The fact-of the matter is that recent years have seen a decreasing immigration, a steady trend towards the development of a homogeneous working class, a marked proletarianization of the masses—rural and urban. The days of free land are over. The days of the small shopkeeper and the opportunity of the individual worker rising from his bench to the corporation president’s chair are rapidly saying farewell to us. Yet it is in these days, when the opportunity for the development of a revolutionary working class political movement is greatest, when the need for such a crystallization is most pressing that Berger and his lieutenants are doing least, are actually preventing in every conceivable way the organiza- tion of thesé masses politically, on class lines. It is at such a time that the Bergers and Hillquits have gone over boot and baggage to the LaFollette forces, which even Mr. Berger admits do not seek the abolition of capitalism. The truth of the mat- ter is that Mr. Berger, Mr. Hillquit and some of their rubber-stamps were more interested in build- ing up a working class political movement of action and substance inthe days of free land and better industrial opportunity, in the days when his pres- ent argument had for mofe potency. But such apologies are the usual retreat of those who leave the ranks of the working class strug- gling against a presently more powerful enemny. It is an axiom of the international class struggle that those who surrender to the enemies of the workers always accept and mouth the reasoning of these enemies as apologies for their flying to cover. ¢ The labor fakers of New York waited on the democratic convention with a load of lumber, called planks, which they wanted inserted in the democratic platform. One of then sounds like a voice from the grave. It is a passage from the Clayton Act which declares that labor is not a commodity. It shouldn’t be, but it is and will be so long as the capitalist system exists. labor leaders are so hopeful! : very nice sitting on a heap of old tin cans on the anatomy, which is hinted at rather than mention in polite society, prefers the cushion seats in so he simply obeys orders. | ibseription for the DAILY WORKER, But] and oral questions showed, however, Hearst and Hylan think Al Smith would look | related industries. Report Is Lengthy. This report is published in eight vol- umes, dealing with every phase of the Gary platoon school system. Of course it is to be expected that the board of education, so close as it is to the United States Steel corpora- tion, and dependent as it is upon the steel industries of the town for fin- ancfal upkeep, is expected to favor the Gary plan. However, glaring defects are pointed out even in this prejudiced report. In spite of protests that “The shop work in Gary is not primarily a prep- aration for earning a livelihood as a mechanic or artisan,” the investiga- tors are forced to conclude that, “The Gary scheme springs from a thoro analysis of the existing social situa- tion. The truth of this statement be- ing particularly evidenced by the pro- visions made for industrial work for boys, household arts for girls, and re- creation for all.” In plainer language, the Gary system aims to fill the need for an adequate supply of trained steel mill slaves for the steel trust mills, The training given the pupils in the platoon schools however, is only broad enough in scope to enable them to do the mechanical tasks required of them -in the U. S. Steel corpora-| tion’s mills. ‘It is admitted in the re- port that fundamental principles are} sacrificed to superficial industrial processes. Do Not Develdp Minds. “Somewhat elaborate practical and written tests were given in order to provide an objective basis for judg- ment as to what is achieved by the system of industrial instruction,” says the board of education report. “In general, it is fair to say that while dis- playing considerable practical compe- tence, pupils had not been led to re- flect and had, in consequence, extract- ed little of intellectual value from their shop work. “To boys working in the foundry a test in the use of patterns was given. On the whole their work was well done; they attacked the task with readiness and confidence, and they carried it thru in a business-like way, with little loss of time thru mistakes or hesitation. A written examination that only limited attempts had been made to form a background of ideas and knowledge drawn from this and “In order to test the work ins the ° . heap. tion of Al’s| machine shop of the Emerson school, political serap heap. But that portion o! st the seven high scilaly Metals had the longest experience in this shop were provided with a piece of Albany to the uneomforable resting place that his] soft rolled steel, which they were re friends on lower Manhattan would wish for him.|quired to manipulate in accordance Besides, Al is very useful to Tammany this year,| With the outline of @ blue print fur] nished them, Subsequently the boys took a written test designed to as- certain how tar they comprehended >= > Get a member for the Workers Party and a new/the reasons for what they had done| ‘and also whether they had been led to! see the wider uses and implications of the machines and processes that they een employing. The boys dis- played confidence and a fair degree of skill in dealing with common machine operations, but oral as well as written questions showed that their grasp did not penetrate below the surface.” Turn Out Docile Slaves. The Gary school system, which the employers are attempting to saddle on the children of cities thruout the country, thus brands itself as super- private capitalists. But so long as the Soviet power has a firm basis in the heavy industries, and prohibits any political concessions to capital, and the Red Army is willing to repeat its glorious exploits of the past years against the enemies of the Soviet Re- public, capitalism will be unable to destroy the Workers’ Republic. An organ grinder’s monkey is free to roam so long as its master does not jerk the string—so also are the “Nepmen” in Russia, and the Bolshe- vik party has demonstrated that it knows when to pull the string as soon as the capitalists try to infringe upon the Soviet power. After the introduction of “Nep,” says this yellow traitor, the Soviet Republic used the Third International to establish favorable trade relations with the capitalist countries. Wide- awake workers know that the capital- ist nations of the world use the exist- ence of the Third International as an excuse against the recognition of Rus- sia. Hughes of the United States is a past master at this. He is even now coaching the republican campaigners with arguments of this nature. But Lester sees as an obstacle to this Bolshevik plot the control by Great Britain of many portions of the Near jand Far East which prevents the ex- pansion of Russia. “The imperial de- signs of old Russia begin to take root again and Soviet Russia finds Britain in the way of many of her projects.” But the wily Communists seek to overcome this by demanding the de- struction of the British Empire. This jils terrible to the British Mr. Lester | who exposes the vile plot by point- jing out that the Communists say: “The way to the Social Revolution is ‘Down with the British Empire’ and all yell accordingly.” Thus the British imperialist with the thin socialist disguise has done his duty by the Empire and given the warning against Bolshevik plots. To further prove his contention Les- ter quotes from an imperialist paper its denunciation of the Canadian Pre- mier over his objection to the signing of the Lausanne Treaty by Curzon without the consent of Canada, and adds: “. . | . It may seem a strange coincidence that American diplomats secretly working in the British Em- pire are working for the same ends as Soviet Russia thru the Third Interna- * tional.” Thus this fool has discover- ed that the Third International and American imperialism are both work. ing in harmony for the destruction of the British Empire! The Communist International is cer- tainly working .to organize the exploit- ed colonial peoples of the Hast to de- stroy British imperialism; the British C. P, demands independence for the colonies; and these things are neces- sary for the success of the world revo- lution. When Lester opposes this he is saying exactly.the same as the im- perialist labor leaders who form the British “Labor” government.*All trait- ors to the working class want to see the Empire preserved. To accomplish this Ramsay MacDonald is building more cruisers and airplanes, and shooting down Hindu textile workers, and haying bombs dropped on Mace- donian villages. Imperialism is the enemy of the working class whether it be British, American or French. The Communist International alone is carrying on the work of mobilizing the workers against capitalist imperialism. Any- one who opposes this is a friend of the imperialists and an enemy of the workihg class. Even tho Lester cdn spread socialist phrases over his pa- triotic vomiting he exposes himself as a defender of British imperialism. He is opposed to any attacks on the Brit- ish Empire. To discredit the Commun- ists who are fighting imperialism he slanderously states that’ the Comin tern is in league with American im- -berialism in attacking the British Em- pire. Belly-crawling to chauvinism could not be plainer. Lester has join- ed the camp of the social-traitors who support “their” imperialisms but de- nounce the imperialism of its rivals. The workers of Winnipeg and Van- couver who fought against the last imperialist war will have something to say to Lester on this subject, and the gang of phrase-mongering bureau- crats who live off the gambling pro- ceeds of the One Big Union Bulletin will heartily regret that they exposed themselves so completely by printing this “patriotic” attack of Lester's up- on the Communist International and Soviet Russia, Out Docile Slaves ficial. The platoon schools teach the children to be docile slaves in the steel mills, who know the processes of blacksmithing, forge and foundry work, but who do not have their minds developed. “The shop men are doubt- less under the impression that they are constatitly giving instruction,” says the report, “but the truth is that in a large sense instruction has not been a part of the serious business of the department.” The investigators, as was to be ex- Twice every week—this column uncovers te your view the motive power behind the DAILY and inspiration of every re: der—and WORKER. Here for the interest claily the DAILY WORKER agents and committees—are tried and proven sugges- tions and accomplishments to drive the DAILY WORKER to further conquests, si Here is POWER—the power of brain and effort of men and ‘women of the working class who not only believe—but ACT! WE never saw Carl Necker before one day about two weeks ago. And we know most live wires in the local Labor movement. He simply walked into the office and asked to be given a bundle of ten copies of the DAILY WORKER for sale in his shop. Carl is a young, quiet chap. We wanted to get acquainted. So we learned he is—or rather was—not in the union of his trade. (He joined last week). He got a stray copy of the DAILY WORKER some- since he had the will, it was called the evenin off the press.” as many as Carl Necker sells says someday he ma! some of the Workers _ during the day, DAILY WORKER—RIGHT _ writers. It’s no difficult task for the DAILY WORKER. : At union meeti workers Labor Daily.” a living a workingelass r In your sho RIGHT WHERE fe) one left in the shop during lunch hour and he became inter- ested. And he wanted a bundle to sell every day asking us to send it to him. But the DAILY WORKER has no delivery ~ system—yet—and Carl Necker wanted to sell the same morning's issue at work during lunch hour. So he decided easy to find the way and he before to get the DAILY WORKER “hot hat was two weeks ago. Last Saturday Carl Necker brought in eight 6 month subscriptions of his shopmates. An factory gates is selling the DAILY WORKER—in fact twice the newsboy at the inside. Carl Necker is not a‘member of the Workers Party. He learn enough to join. ‘arty members could learn what he al- ready knows to build up a Labor movement! How we wish This stoy is almost too good to be true. Sometimes, we even doubt that such a person exists— until he walks in early in the evening in his quiet unassum- ing way. Few people know him as yet. Here is POWER. Real, driving power that builds and sends “The National Labor Daily” on to ward. There is no better sg Rete that little bundle of the ‘ter strides for- ERE YOU WORK! Your shopmate needs no further convincing when he has before him a paper with your ideas written by Labor's leading to sell a man who works for iving workingclass news, WORK—is the place it other’ large meetings where o—that is the rightful place of “The National Thruout the country Carl Necker and his kind of work- only a unite trae ‘ buyers’ subseri We An ons. ers believe in building the Labor mo’ ressive, fighting workingclass wine” om ng ha not content with this t! y building the ey get their can’t add anything to self-evident facts, Carl . Necker’s work speaks for itself. i pected, term the Gary plan of develop- ing industrial slaves, “A large and generous conception.” But even they are forced to admit that this concep- tion “falls too far short of execution,” because it does not develop the mind of the child. They evidently did not realize that Elbert H. Gary is not in- terested in “the mind of the child,” but is interested in developing “hands” for his steel mflli who know the processes required about funda- mental principles. This inquisitive stge of mind, which is bound up with all true education, would be danger- ous to Gary's profit system and would endanger the millions of dollars profits extracted from thé Gary steel trust slaves, f Good Thing for Gary. “After making every possible allow- ance, it remains to be admitted that in respect to administration and instruc- tion; Gary might fairly have been ex- pected to make a better showing,” the report concludes. The platoon system fails when the educational welfare of the children is the criterion. When the needs of the Gary steel mills for physically strong, docile, and contented steel mill slaves is the test, the Gary platoon system is a howling success, Tomorrow I will write about an- other phase of the platoon school sys- tem, the steel trust’s brain child. 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