The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 11, 1924, Page 4

patewcaucnspe ees Page Four THE DRILY WORKER.| Our Program for the Teachers wr Published by the DAILY WORKHR PUBLISHING CO. 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Il (Phone: Monroe 4712) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mall: $3.50....6 months ; a .00...8 months By mail (in Chicago only . $4.50....6 momths $2.50....8 months $6.00 per year $8.00 per year Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY, WORKER 1113 W. Washington Bivd. J. LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F. DUNNE MORITZ J. LOEB. Chicago, IMInols {renner EAItOFS ere Business Manager — Entered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1923, at the Post Office at Chicago, Ill, under the act of March 3, 1879, <> 290 Advertising rates on application a Communist Issues in Britain The MacDonald government has fallen on an issue raised by the Communist Party of Great Britain—an issue that is close to the life of the labor movement and every British worker, an issue growing out of the Communist campaign against imperialist war—quashing of an indictment of sedition against the editor of the Workers’ Weekly, official organ of the Communist Party. Closely linked up with this issue is the question of the recognition of and treaty with Soviet Rus- sia—another matter brought forward by the Com- munists which the great mass of organized British workers supported. Harold J. Laski, writing in The Nation of Octo- ber 1, on the British Trades Union Congress says: “The hostility of the Congress to the Communists was marked. All their resolutions were voted down. . . .” We published yesterday an article on the British Trades Union Congress by Harry Pollitt—one of the acknowledged leaders of the boilermakers’ union—which does not coincide with the liberal Laski’s statements, but more of this later. The fact remains that the British labor move- ment, which is not Communist, and the British labor party, which is not Communist, must now fight British-capitaliam on clear cut demands which the Communists ‘have made the center of the struggle. The social-democratic idea that a party must have a parliamentary bloc to achieve leadership in the struggles of the workers has been badly shat- tered by the recent events in Britain and the Com- munist policy of a correct revolutionary theory, immediate demands that fit the needs of the work- ers coupled with constant activity in the daily struggles of the workers, has been vindicated again. Another result of Communist activity in the trade unions was the granting of extended powers to the Trade Union Council making it possible for this central directing agency of the labor move- ment to call the unions into action without delay when it becomes necessary. The immediate aims that the Communist Party of Great Britain has achieved then are to give a clear working class character to the coming elet- tion campaign and to place the Trade Union Council in a position to solidify the entire labor movement in the fight against British imperialism. All this has been done-altho, as Mr. Laski says, “the hostility of the congress to the Communists was marked.” May we be allowed to say that when the congress greets the Communist delegates with marked cor- diality the revolution will not be very far away but—the liberals will. Speeding Up Textile Workers The Lawrence textile capitalists are installing a new system which forces each weaver to attend to 72 looms instead of 18. He is given three un- skilled helpers and the companies get a neat in- crease in profits. Three-quarters of the weavers become unskilled laborers or join the ranks of the unemployed. Here is a perfectly plain and easily understood example of standardization and specialization in Superintendent McAndrew came here from New York behind a barrage of newspaper publicity in which the “strong, silent man” note was plainly discernible. His attitude since his arrival has been one neither of strength nor silence. A vociferous and peev- ish autocrat who takes his orders from the silk stocking element (we pause here. Do teachers wear silk stockings?) he has from his first day in office tried his feeble best to break up the teachers’ union, reduce the teachers to the status of a kitchen girl in an aristocratic English family and conduct the public school system as a private business institu- tion owned by the Chicago Tribune and the packing trust. The teachers are in fighting mood and in line with the best procedure of allaying open discon- tent in use by all to-getter business concerns the school board gets behind McAndrew by considering a plan to reduce the teaching staff by 1500. It is expected that this will cause some hesitancy on the THE DAILY WORKER Germany By JAY LOVESTONE. (Eighth Article.) TRIPPED of all its technical verbi- age and over-advertised “altru- ism,” the Dawes’ plan means that Ger- many is to be “the sick man of Eu- rope” for an indefinite number of years. The Bismarcks of German finance, in league with and under the guidance of the overlords of American and En- tente imperialism, will bind the Ger- man working masses hand and foot. Unless the working class rises in re- volt or presently unforeseen circum- stances intervene, the dawn of the Dawes’ day in Germany will mark the loss of the country’s economic freedom for a least half a century. Dawes’ Plan Enslaves Germany. The Dawes’ plan is hailed by the American capitalist class as a pro- part of more militant advocates of teachers’ coun-| gram of liberation, In fact, it is the cils and other evidences of the vestigial remains of | most gigantic program of enslavement freedom to which McAndrew is opposed. The teachers have displayed some considerable willingness to fight and it is likely that on an issue of this kind they can get the support of organized labors. We suggest that they perfect their organiza- | tion and make McAndrew and the lay-off major issues in an ultimatum to the school board or what- ever body is responsible for McAndrew. They should demand the ousting of McAndrew and no reduction of forces. The alternative should be a strike of the 11,000 Chicago teachers. This is our program for the teachers. It is simple but like most simple measures it requires something more than speeches of protest to become effective. It requires organization and intelligent action—the only two things that will win for the teachers or any other section of the working class. Waltham Watch Workers Revolt The strike of 3,000 employes of the Waltham Watch Company in the Massachusetts city named after and owned by this concern is an encouraging incident in the American struggle. These work- ers have been out for eight weeks against a reduc- tion in wages, they have organizéd in the Jewelry Workers’ International Union and are maintain- ing a picket line in which men, women and girls have equal rights in preventing scabs going to work. This is the first experience of these workers with a labor organization and it is more evidence that even where company welfare systems are in operation, these do not do away away with wage cuts, the need for unions and the possibility of or- ganization when the unions are on the job. It is noticeable, in the stories of the strike, however, that the organization which has been formed is the result of the activity of local militants. It is very probable that the officialdom of the union to which the workers now belong considered organ- ization work impossible. Many of these strikers have been employed in the Waltham factory since it was established. They are typical American workers yet they have organized and challenged the right of their bosses to control their destinies. ‘The organization of the Workers (Communist) Party in Boston, near which Waldham is located should be active in this strike. If they are not they are remiss in their Communist duty. The DAILY WORKER stands ready to give what support it can to the Waltham strikers and it wishes them every success in their splendid fight. Of Interest to Steel Workers One of the most important campaigns conducted by the militants in the trade union movement is now under way in the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers. This union is small, its officialdom is hopelessly reactionary but it occupies a strategic position in the steel indus- try. Its membership, i in strikes like those which took place in Newport and Yorkville has demonstrated its will and its ability to fight. It is this union industry th&t is typical of a whole process by which individual skill becomes a drug on the market. The textile industry can be made to pay its workers a good wage and abandon its man-killing speed-up system by an industrial union taking in every man and woman in its employ. The weavers may cling to their craft union but what good will it do them when three-fourths of them cannot get jobs as weavers? The situation today is that, far from haying an industrial union the workers are split up in any number of small and ineffective unions with less than ten per cent of the workers in the industry organized. . The employers have taken advantage of this to organize company unions which they promptly present with wage cuts, reckoning rightly that not much resistance is to be expected from workers who have not enough spirit to own their own union. The textile industry presents perhaps the finest specimen of the fate of workers who continue to believe that the capitalists invest their money in industry for charitable reasons. Its immense profits are in direct proportion to the helplessness of the workers and its open terrorism in the strikes into which the workers are forced has so far gone unpunished. The €pirit displayed by the more militant work- ers in these strikes shows that they want organiza- tion and will fight for it if given the proper lead. There should be started in the textile industry a «system of shop committees linking up the workers in the various centers that will give a basis for in- dustrial unionism and that will end for all time the suicidal policy of dual unionism with its warring that should be made the center of organization in the steel industry and if the militants get power it will be made a rallying ground for the steel work- ers. For these reasons the campaign of the militants in the A. A. I. 8. T. W. is of primary importance. Their program is a document of genuine interest to every steel worker, organized or unorganized, because it breathes in every line the new spirit of revolt against reformism and reaction and in ad- dition proposes a concrete, workable plan of action for the steel industry. Curing Communism Foodstuffs, cereals, meat and dairy products) have advanced in price about 12% per cent since April 1 according to the latest reports. On /the theory that this advance has gone into the pockets of the farmers the capitalist press posits a return to rural prosperity and the routing of the reds to whom the farmer listened when he was in the throes of deflation, Without in any way deprecating the influence upon farmers of higher prices we wish to point out that a rise in the price of foodstuffs is about the poorest way we know of to counteract Com- munism. The high price of bread has been a major factor in all the revolutionary uprisings in Europe beginning with the French revolution and down to the Russian revolution and it is the industrial population, affected chiefly by the rise of foodstuff prices, that makes revolutions, We will not be at all displeased if American cap- italism continues to have faith in raising the price of foodstuffs as a cure for Communist propaganda, thathas yet been framed. Sixty mil- lion people have been sentenced to the fate of a vassal nation, a colony of in- ternational high finance. ‘When we say a colony we do not mean merely that the American or any other group of capitalists will have undisputed control of the German market or trade. When we speak of Germany becoming a colony of inter- national capitalism under the leader- ship of American imperialism, we mean that the German industries, the German resources, the German cus- toms, the German taxes, the German ourrency, the whole German economic life in its widest ramifications will be dominated by a foreign imperialist junta. When we speak of the aim of the Dawes’ plan to turn Germany into a colony of international capitalism whose mainspring today is the Ameri- can employing class, we speak of a program aiming to reduce Germany to the politico-economic, status of Haiti, Santo Domingo, or any other crushed colonial peoples subject to the dictates of an American receivership. Thus the railroads, the banks, the currency, the customs revenues, the taxes, will be controlled by and the basic industries mortgaged to a group of international financial pirates whose plundersome ventures will be piloted by the Wall Street band Thirty per cent of Germany’s national income is to be surrendered annually to bulge the coffers of the American and Allied capitalists, RON Saturday, October 11, 1924 Is “The Sick Man of Europe” This is the most notorious pawn- broking affair in the history of the world. Sixty million people have been condemned to be pawns. The very export surplus on which the whole vicious scheme rests translates itself, in practice, only into long hours, low wages and degrading standards of life and employment for the working masses of Germany. The only stabil- ity the American and other capitalist interests are seeking in Germany is the stability of harrowing poverty— the stability of fodder wages to per- petuate the rule of the employing class. Workers*to Pay for War. The steel rod of the opposition by the German capitalists to the-allied imperialists being paid for the costs of the last war has been the desire of the Stinneses, the Thyssens, and the Schachts to make the German -working masses pay all of the money as well as all of the blood cost of the infernal carnage. Consequently, it is clear that the success of the Dawes program rests on the decisive defeat and subjugation of the German work- ing class: In this light it is not dif- ficult to understand why the German capitalist class has, on the whole, found the Dawes plan so acceptable. We cite the fact that at the last joint session of the industrialists’ and employers’ federations of Germany, held in Berlin on March 27, 1294, two weeks before the details of the Dawes scheme were made public, the follow: ing opinion of its chairman, Dr. Kurt Sorge of the Krupp corporation, pre- vailed: : “Ia principle the fulfilment policy of Wirth was correct. But Wirth’s home policy was wrong. We, too, must stand for the fulfilment policy, but only under certain conditions. These conditions are the following: The political influence of the work- ers’ trade unions must disappear en- tirely. The federal government must under no condition deal henceforth with the unions. The eight-hour day must be struck off the statute books. Collective bargaining on the part of different unions must be prevented and the government’s right to arbi- trate in labor disputes diminished. “All undertakings of the state, es- pecially the federal railways, must be turned over to private capital. German industry is ready to make sacrifices only then, if these condi- tions are absolutely accepted. It can turn its attention to foreign questions FARRINGTON FAMILY RAIDS TREASURY WHILE JOBLESS . MINERS (Special to The the miners’ union of Illinois are and June shows the treasury to ever been for many years. of what was once the médst militant labor organization in America. While members who have paid in the money have been out of work all summer and some of them all last winter, starve and get put out of their miserable homes for failure to pay rent, Farrington chatges up an aver- age of over seven dollars a day for hotel bills including the time he stays at home. He charged up for hotels for the three months’ period $642.00 and for train fare $901.70, and for livery (he rides in the Yellow taxis) $105.00 in addition to charging up $414.91 for alleged “telegrams while travelling.” Expensive Bric-a-Brac. This latter item is smaller than he sometimes charges up as during the Btrike of 1922, when he was supposed to be working without salary, he charged. up over $1,500 for alleged telegrams while travelling, but nobody got the telegrams nor does the West- ern Union have any record of their being sent. This was an average of over five hundred dollars a month in addition to the amount charged up to the office for telegrams. Farrington is the most expensive ornament the miners have ever had in the position of president. It is common talk that jhe makes more out of his expense ac- jcount than his salary which is almost jfive hundred a month.. Treasury Thins—Farrington Fattens. For many years the miners carried a strike balance amounting to from one to two million on hand all the time. This has now. been reduced to less than five hundred thousand dol- lars or less than five dollars apiece for the hundred thousand members, while the expense account has mount- ed until it is four hundred per cent higher than it was before Farrington got at the pie counter in this state and began to accumulate wealth. It is generally said now that as the miners’ treasury began to fade Far- rington’s wealth began to increase and if this is so, as seems likely, there has simply been a transfer of the funds supplemented by what the oper- ators contributed to the worthy cause of helping out a very capable agent in return for favors The report shows that the income. FACE STARVATION Daily Worker) Springfield, Mlinois, October 10, 1924. While bank burglars are busy making rich hauls in the various banks thruout the state, certain of the official family in seeing to it that nothing of this sort is going to happen to the miners’ treasury. They are busy beating the burglars to it by getting there first. quarterly report just issued covering the period for April, May The latest be in the worst condition it has Some Swindle Sheet. It is apparently the purpose of those in charge to loot the treasury so that in the event of their failure to get re-elected they will leave nothing but a wrecked organization and a bad memory for the three-month period’ was $255,699.09 and the expenditure $345,- 074.19 or aloss for the three months of $89,375.10. At this rate the treasury will be empty soon and, no doubt, assessments will be put on to keep up the official family if the present rate continues. Of the alleged amount of $869,993.85 on hand more than half of this is not available and much of it will never be collected. Among the items listed as assets we find $275,- 00.00 for the building in which the headuarters are located, $56,310.12 as invested in the defunct Central States Co-operative Society, in which they have sunk a million or more dollars and of which John H. Walker was president. " $50,000.00 was loaned to District 10 only if it is certain that the domesic policy is absoluely clear.” Certainly the Dawes’ plan suits the German employing class interests. Intolerably Long Hours Planned. Because of the close alliance be- tween the saffron social democratic party and the Stinnes class in Ger- many, the eight-hour day which was won by the workers thru the blood of the first’ post-war revolutionary strug- gle is fast disappearing. According to a survey made by the German Fed- eration of Trade’ Unions more than one-third of the undertakings in Germany are already working on a longer basis than the forty-eight hour week, More than eighty per cent of the textile workers, 63 per cent of the metal workers, and 44 per cent of the chemical workers are, as a re- sult of this treachery, operating today more than forty-eight hours a week. Let us call upon the National City Bank Bulletin of September, 1924 to tell us how the American capitalist receivers view the future of the Ger- man working day under the Dawes regime. We read: “Considering first the ability of Ger- many to pay, it is evident that this will depend upon high production by the German industries coupled with low consumption by the German peo- ple, thus enabling a great industrial product to be exported. Following the analysis farther, it probably means long hours in the industries, or at least the working day which will yield the largest product. The late Hugo Stinnes insisted that Germany must go back to the ten-hour day in order to pay reparations. The ten- hour day was the rule in Germany be- fore the war; and thé country had no excess of merchandise exports over imports then. Its problem now is to create a very large excess, hence it must, produce more and consume less. In order to produce more and begin at once, longer hours would seem to be the only sure resort.” Wages Slashed to Bone. The well-known Buropean corre- spondent, Robert Dell, has recently described the condition of the Ger- man working class in this fashion in one of his dispatches to the Baltimore Sun: the German workmen, when they have work, are little better, as a rule, than those of Chinese coolies.” But the Dawes plan will tend to lower even this despicable condition. Hugo Stinnes, Jr., the weathiest man (state of Washington) and it is well known this will never be collected but was loaned at a time when it was supposed ‘to help beat Lewis in the fight with Farrington. Walker et al: $46,000.00 is a loan to The Oklahoma Leader in addition to $20,393.10 paid the same publication for printing the “Tllinois Miner” for three months, and $3,537.55 paid to the same paper for job printing. “Family” Expense. To pay the official family for three months and keep them in expense money, padded hotel bills, trips made on paper, family expenses, lawyers, stool pigeons, fiunkeys, dollar tips, and graft it took $104,114.05. Far- rington takes trips to the Patific coast occasionally and these trips cost money. His honeymoon trip alone is said to have taken $932.65 out of the treasury to say nothing of the num- erous other trips to California and elsewhere to recuperate froni his strenuous ‘labors. “My God, How Money Rolls In.” Then new cars are required every once in a while. Scab painters must be employed to paint the homes of of- ficials. Members of the family are em- ployed and listed under “stenographic work” usually running from $80.00 to $150.00 per quarter depending on the amount of pin money needed for household expense. The miners’ treas- ury must aiso take care of the son of the secretary-treasurer and while a rubber stamp has supplanted the sec- retary-treasurer it comes in handy to “Meanwhile the conditions of} in Germany, plainly told the Berlin Associated Press correspondent on August 31, 1924; in speaking of the Dawes plan: “Applied to the life of this nation, this means that the standard of living for every German must be lowered to a degree fixed by the assessment exacted from us un- der the treaty of peace.” Let no one have any misgivings as to the demo- cratic notions of Stinnes when he talks of the question of every Ger- man’s standard of living. Herr Stinnes means every German work- ingman’s standard. Standard of Living Lowered. Turning once more to the frank view of the whole Dawes matter by the Rockefeller-Morgan National City Bank, America’s biggest bank, we are treated to a more specific dose of the truth about the case. We are told: “In order to hold down consumption it will be necessary that wages shall be low as compared with the cost of living, which may be, accomplished either by means of low money-wages or by. taxation which raises the prices of everything the people have to buy. Taxation {s the method by which the government takes over the share of production which must go for repara tions.” Benjamin M. Anderson, economis' of the Chase National Bank, also ad. mits that “the standard of living in Germany during the earlier years, at least while reparations payments are being made, must necessarily be lower than it was before the war. . .” “That this lowered standard of lv: ing will tend to drive the German workingman out of the country” is the opinion of Rufus 8, Tucker of the United States department of” com- merce. Says Mr. Tucker: “The low wages and high costs of living that must result from the imposition of taxes high enuf not only to run the government but also to pay repara- tions will make Germans all the more anxious to migrate, or at least to ob- tain temporary employment outside of Germany.” Worse Than Versailles. Truly, then, who can question the estimate of the Dawes plan made by Comrade Karl Radek when he de- clared: “The experts’ report is a more definite and a more correct. instru- ment for crushing the German people than the Versailles treaty, because it subjugates the whole economic life of Germany to allied capital.” ip et ate cede be able to put the family on the pay- roll. Aid Non-Union Power Plant. Again it requires quite a lot ot money to pay for light, heat and gas for the non-union light and power com- pany while the city of Springfield has a city owned plant that employs union men and has forced a reduction in rates to the city of Springfield amount- ing to fifty per cent, but the miners’ officials still patronize the non-union unfair concern like they do the yel- low cabs. If ever a proper check up is made it may be possible that the treasury could be built up out of the money re- funded and taken illegally in padded expense accounts. It is apparent now that the organization is on the down- ward trend and when the treasury is gone the flies that have been attracted like those attacking’a molasses bar- rel will be leaving for other pastures. “After me, the deluge” seéms to be the motto now. Res. 1632 S, Trumbull Ave. Phone Rockwell 5050 MORDECAI SHULMAN ATTORNEY-AT-LAW 701 Association Building 19 S. 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