The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 7, 1924, Page 6

Rage Six ‘THE DAILY WORKER. ° ——<—<— << Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill. (Phone: Monroe 4712) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail $3.60... % Sruths $2.00....8 months By mail (in Chicago only): $8.00 per year % $4.50....6 momths ‘$2.50... months Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER 1113 W. Washington Bivd. $6.00 per year J. LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F. DUNNE MORITZ J. LOEB. {enamine .Business Manager —— Entered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1923, at the Post. Office at Chicago, Ill, under the act of March 3, 1879, <p 290 Advertising rates on application (Ee Solving the Class Struggle Chicago, Mlinola| * T to speak on any subject having connection with} patriotism. Mr. Hurley rises to the defense of the American consular service and says: “It Is a wonderful thought that, through his gov- ernment, the American businessman virtually has foreign representatives In every important trade cen- ter in the world. They are there to serve him, and he gets prompt, courteous and efficient service whenever and wherever he requests it. This is certainly a wonderful thought for the American businessman and it is also a matter that is worthy of considerable thought by the workers who are exploited at home by these same business interests. A worker who went abroad for employ- ment and who asked an American counsul to assist him in getting more than the prevailing wage would be considered insane. At least he would be told to get back to “God’s country” and upbraided for ever leaving it. How different with the business- man! He is commended for extending American commercial enterprise and, if the country in which Warren Stone, head of the Locomotive Engineers’ Union, is to be congratulated. He has proved, without any wish to do so, that a union which conducts a capitalist enterprise is no different from any other capitalist concern. He has refused to sign an agreement with the United Mine Workers of America governing the mines in which members of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers are the sole stockholders and in giving thereasons for his refusalrepeats the same accusations against the United Mine Workers voiced by the other coal operators of West Virginia. He denounces the check-off and the no discrimination clauses and announces the intention of his com- pany to hire and fire whom it pleases. In the correspondence that has taken place between Stone and the United Mine Workers’ of- ficials the latter have had all the best of it because they have stuck to the plain facts of unionism. They have placed Stone in the position of the steel trust property heads on the matter of a reduction of miners wages and he even raises the old familiar issue “undesirable agitators” among the miners which his company locked out and which the union has been forced to support. No one can accuse us of undue affection for the Lewis machine that has largely wrecked the once militant and powerful U. M. of A. but in this par- ticular controversy they should have the sympathy of every section of the labor movement.’ It may be possible that the Lewis machine is being used by the steel trust operators to check unwelcome com- petition from the mines of the brotherhood but competition is one of the fetishes of Stone and his followers and one of the risks that all capitalists must take. The labor movement is interested only in seeing that the Brotherhood properties operate on a union basis. Stone is the petted darling of the so-called liber- al element. His financial achievements have been the subject of many long and enthusiastic articles written in the best Brookwood College—Nation —-Labor Age style. The entry of unions into bank- ing and other enterprises has been hailed as the long-waited solution of the labor-capital problem| and it has been held by most of the enthusiasts that here is complete refutation of the theory of the class struggle and the necessity for the dictator- ship of the working class advanced by the Com- munists. We are willing to let the case for the class strug gle in the coal mines owned by the Locomotive Engineers be presented by Messrs. Lewis, Murray | and Green of the United Mine workers. As is well known, their love for the Communists is not suf-} ficiently ardent to prejudice them in this matter. The only evidence’ they néed to present is the fact that Stone closed his union-owned mine rather than sign a union agreement. The Chicago Tribune is in high spirits over the controversy between Stone and the United’ Mine Workers and not the least important of the indict- thents that can be brought against Stone and his followers is the opportunity they have given the capitalist sheets to ridicule the labor movement. In this the guilt is shared by all the tribeof trade union bankers, B. and O. planners, class collaborationists | and capitalist tools generally who have made of the labor movement a timid, confused and ineffective thing that the bosses neither fear nor respect. Get a member for the Workers Party and a new subscription for the DAILY WORKER. Concerning Consuls “Too much government in business” is the stereo- typed complaint of the babbitts who parrot the in- anities of the Mellons and Hoovers. Yet without the government the businessman in foreign’ trade would be helpless. It is of interest to note that no complaint is ever raised against the activities of governmental agencies abroad whose task is to smooth the road of the investor in foreign enter- prices. No one yells more loudly or continuously for aid than the American businessmen when his | greed arouses protest from the people or govern- ment of some backward nation, He is only too glad to have plenty of government in business on | these occasions—preferably government represen- ted by fully equipped marines or a cruiser cleared for action. | The above remarks are inspired by the perusal | of an article on “our Foreign Service,” by Edward | N. Hurley, published in the “Manufac ays News.) Mr. Hurley is the former head of the U. shipping board and is distinguished chiefly for ap rather open attempts to give the properties under his control to the private shipping interests find pay them liberally for taking them. It is evident he operates is weak, is encouraged to violate its regulations and exploit its people to the utmost. The armed forces of the United States government stand ready to protect him. This is a form of government in business that the imperialists do not object to but demand. Just as at home the power of government is used against the native workers so abroad it is used against the workers of other nations. ‘ It is over the slaughter of workers in the Phil- lipines, Honduras, Porto Rico, Haiti, Santo Domin- go and China as a result of conflict between them and American exploiters that American workers are supposed to cheer, throw their hats in the air, and swell with pride. It is for the business inter- ests that the expensive consular machinery is main- tained and it is because the’imperialists of Amer- ica are about to launch a new crusade for profits abroad thdt such articles as Hurley’s are published. Speeding Up the War Game Defense day has come and gone and now the American masses are asked to get ready for Navy Day on October 27. Then will come Armistice day, patriotism is expected. After the first of the year Lincoln’s birthday, followed shortly by Washing- ton’s birthday, will give the spread-eagle orators opportunity to discharge some urgent appeals for more and better armies. Then comes Decoration day and the Fourth of July with “constitution weeks” and other 100 per cent enterprises sprinkled in. With the agitation against the Japanese given color and pungency by the British attitude at Geneva, we are of the opinion that the paytriots will be able to keep fairly busy. The above short list of occasions on which the advocates of bigger and better wars find excuse for giving tongue is informative in that it shows that much organized effort is needed to keep the American masses in the proper mood for slaughter and that artificial means are necessary to con- vince the average plug that the best proof of his love for his country is his willingness to get himself killed in a particularly horrible manner for some- thing he does not understand but which someone has told him is an “American ideal.” The organization of these military agitations for which more excuses are being found daily is ample proof that our imperialists are preparing for a war, The agitation serves two purposes. It creates the proper atmosphere for a war of ag- gression abroad and it mobilizes the fascist ele- ments for war on the discontented masses at home whenever such a course appears to be necessary. Every one of these militarist- holidays must be utilized for propaganda against war by the revolu- tionary workers and a clear distinction between the revolutionary opposition to imperialist war and the pacifist objections, which in the final analysis are pure humbug, miust be drawn. Another Bad Smell in Omaha J. A. Lochray, editor of the Mid-West Labor News, Omaha, one of the privately-owned pnblica- tions that presume to speak for labor, after tenta- tively supporting the farmer-labor movement, swung to the LaFollette ticket, and has now come out for Cal Coolidge. There was a time when Lochray was quite a red. Tt was when there was no particular opposition in the labor unions to certain radical policies, before the reactionaries organized to preserve the status quo and their jobs. Then he suddenly became ortho- dox. He abandoned the struggling farmer-labor party and threw in with the middle ¢lass which dominates the LaFollette movement. Apparently the Coolidge forces have come thru with some- thing real in the line of cash or other good and valuable considerations and Lochray now has a |new view of the political situation. We mention this matter not because anything |that Lochray does is of any importance, but simply |to point put the real benefit to the working class [movement of such periods as the present which are wonderful in the way that they show up the traitors and weaklings in the movement. Elements that are ready and willing to denounce, at the orders of fakerdom, the Communists and the Com- munist position, as Lochray was, are found to be a good recruiting ground for the worst reactionary movements. The chances are that Lochray will next be heard - from as the Omaha organizer of the Minute Men of the Constitution headed by Dawes. This is about the only work that could be more treacherously slimy than his present occupation. That offensive smell in Omaha does not come from this fact alone that he is eminently qualified { ae from the stockyards alone, R———“qc“ November 11, when another geyser-like eruption of |: HE DAILY WORKER By KID BU BURNS. {STRICT 18, United Mine Work- ers of America had a special convention that was called for the purpose of considering the situation brot about by the strike in the dis- trict. The convention lasted four full days and a couple of night sessions closing sine die without doing any- thing toward solving the problem as to how the miners of District 18 could carry the strike to a successful con- clusion. The pitiful state of the min- ers of District 18 and their families was laid before the convention by every delegate sent by the rank and file: it was pointed out by the rank and file delegates that we have lived up to the laws and policies of the United Mine Workers of America in every respect and now we demand that we get financial support to help us win this strike, John L. had his flunkies there in the persons of Andrew Steel and Dave Watkins. On the question of support from the In- ternational, those two duffers drew the gloomiest picture of the miners of the United States that could be expected from such well-fed buffers of capitalism. They covered every district in the United Mine Workers of America where the three-year agreement was signed; one by one they pointed out the thousands of miners out of work since the 15th of April, they told us of 400,000 miners who were out of work ‘and that sufficient coal was on hand to last six months and that the-min- ers of the United States are worse off |than the miners of this district. Even tho they have a three-year agreement they had no work and could not help the miners of District 18 they said the figures given out in the International report was not money that could be }got hold of. It was tied up one way or another and therefore nothing fur- ther could be promised to the miners of District 18 from the International in the way of relief. They said that nothing less than the Jacksonville agreement would do in District 18, that the International would not sanction any agreement that would not carry with it the 1923 wages and conditions; they had no suggestion to offer as to how to get it, only to sit tight, live up to the laws and policies of the United Mine Workers of America, and refuse to go to work till the boss gives you what you ask for; but if you get bad and refuse to live up to the laws and policies of the United Mine Workers of America “you will find yourself in the same position as others who tried to break the laws and policies of the International.” This stuff was con- tinually before the delegates: the laws and policies of the International. One of the policies of the Interna- tional is separate agreements in-a dis- trict that is on strike. We have many union mines working all around us and the majority of the delegates came to the convention to vote the mines closed, but when they were told what would happen if they did they went opposite to the wish of their locals, and their own wish was supplanted by the fear of the Inter- national power to revoke charters. Some delegates came to the conven- tion with mandates from their locals to vote against the policy of separate agreements but after hearing the lickspitles of Lewis tell the conven: tion what would happen if the laws and policies of the Lewis gang were not lived up to, they did not,have the courage to make Lewis and his gang do it. I claim that if we are going to jump every time Lewis cracks his whip, and do as he orders us to do, we will be doing all the dirty work and he will go scot free. Let us have the guts to make him do his own dirty work; he has enough flunkies now doing his bidding, many of them do- ing it thru fear of their job. They know it is wrong but they are job- conscious not class conscious. Lewis and his gang get us bound hand and foot with fear of policies and then tell us we have to win or there will be no settlement of the present strike; it is like a manager of a wrestler telling his man he must wrestle fair while the other fellow has a stranglehold on his man, and has him about’ dead from suffocation. How much longer are the miners of District 18 going to stand; for this treachery of Lewis, Sherman, and company?. Steel told us in the con- vention, in a roundabout way, that the three year agreement could not live if the districts outside of the Central competitive field did not sign up.on the Jacksonville agreement. If that is so what is the International doing toward protecting that three year agreement? They are trying to break it, not save it, because of the fact that they won't let the miners of the districts that are holding out for the three year agreement take action such as would bring those operators to their knees, but the miners will have to take such action as they see fit regardless of what Lewis or the policy says. With Backs Against Wall. We are fighting with our backs against the wall, the master having used his most effective weapon against us to put us in the position, namely, hunger. The help of the officials of the union to tie our hands till the master beats us into submission, has been obtained. I ask you comrades how much longer are you going to allow these traitors to bluff you into keeping still while the master takes your living away from you. Rise up from your sleep, fellow workers, take such action as you see fit against the boss to bring this strike to a successful conclusion, if you are not prepared to fight, then you\are going to go down to defeat in this (Continued from page 1.) |tion that overthrew the kaiser? |Nothing. The socialists continue to sing the praises of the American dol- lar and paint Dawes as a Santa Claus. Ebert quits his post when he has ful- filled the task assigned to him by the bourgeoisie. ae ‘HE United States has declared war ‘on the Leagtie of Nations. It was originally an American scheme but a section of the American capitalists looked on it with suspicion, They were afraid they could not control it. Mor- gan was in favor of it. He owns Am- erica only a little more than he owns other capitalist countries, and is a real internationalist and above fac: tions. But even Morgan -is not all powerful, in his own country. The other big capitalists have something to say in the management of the af- fairs of the world. **¢ * ‘HE prophet Woodrow Wilson did his best to put the League across. The job killed him and Hard. ing became his heir. Harding slammed. the League every chance he got and put up a proposition that re- sembled it as much as two peas. Coolidge followed up the good work by having unofficial observers at every League conference. The unof- ficial observer saw to it that the League did nothing detrimental to the interests of the American capialists. It looked as if there was a charice America could control the League and use it as a weapon in its scheme for world hegemony. But suddenly some- thing burst. Japan threw a bomb into the assembly and showed the United States imperialists that it was not so easy as they thot. Now the eagle is screaming angrily for battle. World court plans and peace protocols are thrown into the discard and Gen- eral Pershing is going to Europe to E. SEe. visit, his son, whoiis at school in Switzernad and incidentally to learn the jay of the land in Europe. * & 8 'HE latest editor of a so-celled la- bor paper to switch his alleged influence to Coolidge is J. A. Lochray, IT of the Mid-West News of Omaha, Ne- braska. Some weeks ago we com- mented on that gentleman's flop to La- Follette and his clean break with all the principles that he had hithero given lip service to. But it appears that the expected cash did not roll in, even GOMPERS FEARS FOR HIS JOB E FOLLOW HIS EXAMPLE / Drawn Especially for the Daily Worker by Walter Carlson Tuesday, October 7, 1924 THE MINERS’ STRUGGLE strike, no militant in the ranks wants to see the workers defeated just for the sake of saying I told you so, just to prove that a great organization like the United Mine Workers of America, in the hands of Lewis and his filunkies is to go down to defeat because of their treachery No, that is not what the militants want, they want to bring the workers out victor. ious in every battle they engage in because victories give courage to the workers, and defeats give discourage: ment and makes it almost impossible to rally the workers quickly for an- other battle, therefore we are not in- terested personally‘in John L Lewis. Sherman, or any of the rest of that type. If Lewis or Sherman ‘is will. ing to lead the workers in the direc- tion of victory for the workers, and defeat for the boss then we will back them to the limit, but when they lead the workers to sure defeat as they are doing today we will fight them fearlessly, show up their acts to the rank and file and allow the rank and file to take the action that is neces- sary to remove them from the posi- tions which they now hold. The miners of this organization now have a chance to free themselves from such’ leadership. Elections for these offices will be held in Decem. ber, miners what will your answer be to such traitors? Will you remember the Edmonton strike, the Nova Scotia strikes, the telegrams from Lewis and Sherman in that strike of 1923? The three year agreement and no work, the revoking of charters by Lewis in many districts, the revoking of the Drumheller charters by Sher- man and many other sins too numer- ous to mention? Miners, you were short, of money and memory in the past, will you allow it to be again said that you are still short of mem. ory? Vote for your progressive ticket te lead the miners to victory—or vote for the old slate and take the defeats that are coming to youl By T. J. O’Flaherty tho there was a noticeable increase in the advertising carried in his paper. ee OCHRAY visited Chicago re cently, last week if I remember rightly, and toured the headquarters of the various political parties in quest of funds. His paper would be turned over to any party for cash. He was out to sell it to the highest bidder. Evidently he struck oil in the Wrigley building, where Coolidge has his na- tional headquarters, as the Mid-West News has declared for Coolidge. .As usual Brother Lochray has not given @ convincing excuse for his treachery. He simply came to the conclusion that LaFollette would not be elected and that a job from the republican party, even as prohibition agent looked better phan Tunning a so-called labor paper, s see ia an interview to the press, sent out by the Coolidge campaign man: agers the honorable Lochray declares that he made a trip to the labor cen- ters in search of wisdom. He made a trip to the labor center of Chicago in quest of dough. He did not care where it came from. He would not turn it down, not even, we venture to | Say if it came from Moscow. Exit Lochray. see NOTHER gentleman from Chi cago, a labor editor, that is, he edits a paper that holds: up business men for blackmail advertising, re- fused to use a matrix sent out by a political party because it was made in Germany. The faker’s name is Peter Cuniff. His paper was Gomper's mouthpiece in Chicago, before that worthy made peace with John Fitz- patrick and the New Majority changed its name to the Federation News. Now that the latter is licking Sam's boots there is no necessity for relying on the gas pipe bridage’s hold-up rag. This election campaign is some show. Views of Our Readers on Many Subjects THE MISTAKEN PROLETARIANS. To the DAILY WORKER,—In an ed- itorial in the September Proletarian, the official organ of the Proletarian Party, the editor charges the Workers Party of Detroit with having support: ed, last fall, candidates for public of- fice running on the old party tickets, He based this charge on an article of mine in The Worker of Dec, 1, 1923, reporting a decision of the Party in Detroit to suppor} candidates indorsed by the Detroit Federation of Labor. Not only is the charge false, but it is made at this time for the purpose of covering up a sin of the Proletarian Party, the sin of omission to publicly announce the expulsion of Batt from the Proletarian Party last December. The profound silence of his expulsion was discarded for an attack upon the Workers Party when the DAILY WORKER recently published the story of Batt’s candidacy in the recent prim- aries for republican nomination for state legislator, Every one who is at all familiar with Detroit municipal politics knows that the Gity elections are non-par- tisan, no party names appearing on the ballot. The election last fall was a city election. The Detroit Federa- tion of Labor supported 5 cundidates out of 9 which comprise the City Coun- cil, The Workers Party of Detroit in- dorses these candidates, Why? Every- body in Detroit knows that since the acquisition of tlie street car system by the city the issue in all the elections has been whether or not the adminig- tration would deal with the unions. The trade unionists are immensely in- terestd in the city elections for this reason, For this reason and also be- cause the Detroit Federation in that election decided to challenge a major- ity of the Council, the Workers Party of Detroit correctly applied the united front policy by endorsing the can- didates. of the Detroit Federation of Labor, Of course, if the election had been partisan and these candidates ‘were running on the old party tickets, the W. P. of Detroit would not have indorsed them. The motion for in- dorsement passed by the City Cen- tral Committee was made by me, and in addition to a statement bai he, soeiyate of the ba iat tion the provision that UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES would. the W. P. indorse candidates oarern on old par- ty tickets. There is‘ample trobe that the editor of the Proletarian did not make the charge in good faith. In‘the first place if the charge is true why did not the Proletarian make this charge earlier? The indorsement of, the candidates took place just about a year ago. In the second place the editor makes the statement twice that the can- didates indorsed ran on old party tickets, whereas he knows that the Kity elections are non-partisan. In the ‘third place he makes the statement in the same editorial that the candidates indorsed by the Fed- eration and by the Party were so reactionary that the conservative Building Trades group opposed their election. The fact of the matter is that the most reactionary of the can- didates was the representatives of the Buildings Trade group, Robert Ewald, who on the floor of the Detroit Fed- eration made the statement that the reason he and his group were opposed to indorsing five ibvesattelie cP salamat in his opinion two representatives in the City Council was the correct pro- portion of labor representation; that {9 challenge a majority of the Coun. ‘d would. antagonize and arouse the employers and exert them to efforts to defeat the entire labor slate, The article from which the editor of the Proletraian quoted the endorsement contained this. information, Why did the editor print the false information that the candidates were too reaction. ary for the conservative Building ‘Trades Council? What will the reply of the editor of bai! Proletarian be to this challenge? Cyril Lambkin. + ___ Smugglers Seize Light Kee, MANILA, P. I, Oct. 6.—A o Moro smugglérs has taken possegs- ion of Noga Island and captured the lighthouse keeper according to word receiver here today. Con: and soldiers were immediately dis: patched to free the keeper, pra ae