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

Se aieen, Se Page Four THE DAILY WORKER BILLY SUNDAY PRESENTS CAL WITH A TURKEY Stormy Bill and Silent Cal Make Fine Team (Special to the Dally Worker) NASHVILLE, Tenn., Nov. 10. —Billy Sunday, manager of a three-ring religious circus in the interests of the Lord and his own pocketbook, and campaign manager for Jesus and the saints, who some time ago blas- | phemed his way into the graces of Calvin Coolidge, will send | what Sunday claims is the fat- | test turkey from his private ranch in Oregon to Coolidge for the White House Thanksgiving dinner. Cal Enjoys Bill’s Gift of Gab. The friendship between Silent Cal and Babbling Billy began a year ago | in Charleston, S. C., where Sunday was thumping the ground in honor of the Father, breaking up furniture to the glory of the Son, and cursing vo- lubly to show his respect for the Holy Virgin. “Why didn’t I think of such words when I was handling the Boston po- lice strike?” Cal is reported to have murmured to his wife. So, with a view to improving his vocabulary, Cal invited Billy Sunday to lunch. For which Billy swore undying allegiance to Cal. And when Billy swears, he can make you believe him. Cal did. They Even Have Same Wishes. The wish-bone of the Thanksgiving turkey sent by Sunday will be split between Cal and Charley Hughes. ‘They will wish, then—and how they will wish—for the eternal damnation of the Communists. NOTICE! All Party and League Branches and the Foster-Gitlow Conference please turn in all money col- lected for the election campaign. Werkers Party, Looal Chicago Post Cards in Colors Something New and Different. Use them for your regular cor- Jespondence. Have a set for your album. No. 1—Lenin, directing the revolution No. 2—Lenin, when 16 years old No. 3—The Red Flag of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republice No. 4—The Rusalan state seal and emblem No. B—Trotsky, commander of the Soviet Red Army ONE CARD 5 CENTS Tn lots of 10 or more, 2c per card. 1% in lots of 100 or more. Send money order, check or post- age to Literature Department WORKERS PARTY OF AMERIC 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Ill. Scere srr THE MARK OF Coc, in Elementary Marxian Hco- | nomics. Questions for Wednes- jday, November 12, at 2613 Hirsch Blvd., Chicago. Earl R. Browder, in- structor. Read this week, “Value, Price and Profit,” chaps 8, 9, 10, and “Wage-Labor and Capital.” 1. What determine the value of 10 hours of labor? 2. What determines the value of the labor-power expended in 16 hours of labor? 8. What determines the amount of surplus value available to the capi- talist from the labor of the worker? 4, Why do we say that a wage is the price of labor-power, not,the price of labor? 5. What point of similarity is there in economics between slave-labor and wage-labor? | 6. Are profits regularly made under capitalism by selling commodities above their value? How can profits be made by selling commodities at their value? | 7. Why do the capitalists always |want to increase the hours of labor, Jeven tho they pay an hourly rate, | while the workers will generally want |to decrease the hours? 8. Can the capitalist make - more profit out of long hours, while paying time-and-a-half rates for overtime, than he would paying regular rates for short hours? 9. When a capitalist buys raw ma- terial and labor-power, and apulies the labor power to the raw material to produce a new commodity, what de- termines the value of the new com- modity? 10. How does the capitalist realize the surplus value crystallized in the commodity? ee € Collateral reading: “Value, Price & Profit,” Marx, chaps 5, 6, and 7, “Shop Talks on Economics,” Marcy. Answers to last week’s qaestions. 1. “Labor time” is tke primary measure of value. It ean therefore have no value itself, except in terms of itself, and when cranslated into money or price simply takes another form of measure for “labor time.” The “value of labor-power,” on the con- trary, is not a measure or determin- ant of the value of the products of labor, but is itself determined by the “labor time” necessary to produce the “labor-power.” 2. A general increase of purchasing power by the workers would result in an incerased demand for those things which workers ordinarily buy, the necessaries of life, but would not in- crease the demand for luxuries*except the most ordinary, nor of machinery and other means of production. 3. A general increase of wages would temporarily increase the price of the necessaries of life by increasing the demand above the supply estab- lished by the previous demand. 4. Such a general increase in price would be but temporary, because the increased price would raise profits, at- tract capital from other industries paying a lower rate of profit, and thru competition between capitalists reduce the prices to the former level by in- creasing the supply to equal the de- mand. 5. The re-establishment of supply to demand indicated in question number four would change the distribution of capital among the various branches of industry, because it would require more capital for the production of ecessaries of life than heretofore, and less capital would be available for the production of other commodities. In other words, more workers would A LENINIST This bronze, art medallion button of Nicolai Lenin—one inch in size—and of beautif yourself and as a gift-for y ‘ul design—you will want for our friends. If you don’t already own one of these life-lasting medal- lion buttons—by all means BUY IT FROM THE DAILY, WORKER AGENT IN YOUR CNY! 50 Cents Each Add 5 cents for postage if ~ you wish to have it by mail ee yy ed THE DAILY WORKER 1113 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago, Illinois Enclosed find $........... f0F «0.00... Lenin Buttons, Name: Street: MIC ssscohsbandsanacorpibassspspidpeonosssrddnocssoceceneve: MOORES: » 5 sre ’ mae roman ake nae ge me mE Nana ELEMENTARY MARXIAN ECONOMICS be engaged in producing those things that workers consume. 6. A decrease in working hours is of more benefit to the workers than an increase in wages, other things be- ing equal, because it lessens the press- ure of competition between workers and tends to bring. the raise in wages after it. The increase in wages does not carry with it a tendency to shorten hours. 7. A decrease in the length of the working day is a direct reduction of the rate of exploitation and at the same time an increase in the rate of wages. It further provides the worker with more leisure for study, organization, and political activity, al) of which increases his relative social power and his ability to increase the value of his labor-power. 4 8. A general increase in the hours of labor for all workers would result in-an immediate decrease in the total amount of wages paid to all workers, because fewer workers would be re- quired to do the same amount of labor. At the same time it would start a general reduction in the rate of wages of those employed by increasing many- fold the competition between workers. 9. “Labor” is that which gives value to its.products, measured by its durajion in time; “labor-power” is the energy stored up in the worker, which he sells as a commodity to the capi- talist, and which the capitalist uses to produce values greater than its value (price or wage), which is done by ex- tending the “labor” time beyond that necessary for its reproduction. 10, The value of a commodity is not determined by the value of the com- modity labor-power used in its pro- duction, but by the duration of labor, or by the labor time, socially neces- sary for its production. It is the dif- ference between the time which Iabor is actually expended for the capitalist, as against that time necessary to re- produce the value of the labor-power, that is the source of surplus value. November 16, Red Day for the Young Communists of N. Y. (Special to the Daity Worker) NEW YORK, N. Y., Nov. 10.—For a long time the revolutionary move- |ment of New York has not seen such @ day as the Young Workers League has in store for it. Nov. 16 will be a doubly Red Day. It is the official opening of the membership drive of the Young Workers League, and also the day on which the Young Com- munists will welcome Comrade Olgin, recently returned from Soviet Russia, back home. Appropriate arrangements have been made to fittingly celebrate such an occasion. T large halls have been obtained, at the Harlem Casino. An elaborate program has been ar- ranged which will be continuous from 2p. m. to 2 a. m. At 3 p. m., Comrade Olgin will de- liver.a lecture on The Young Com- munist Movement in Russia and in Other European Countries. After the lecture there will be an entertain- ment and a bazaar. In the evening there will be a ball with a grand march at 10 p. m. Those who remember the Junior Play presented at the International Youth Day celebration will surely come to see the new and better Junior play. Fun, color, life, all day long, Nov. 16, at the Harlem Casino, 116th St. and Lenox Ave. Get your tickets now sold at 50 cents in advance. On sale at the headquarters of the Young Workers League, 208 E. 12th St., at all branch- es of the Y. W. L., and at the Jimmy Higgins Book Store, 127 University Place, Sanitarium Patients and Employes Send Funds to Strikers DUARTE, Calif., Nov. 10.—The pa- tients and employes of the Jewish Consumptive Relief Association San- itarium of Duarte, Calif. got together and toook up a collection among them- selves for the striking silk workers of Paterson, New Jersey, and sent a check for $21.60 the amount collected. The following is the list of those who have contributed to the fund: Patients: Mr. Bitman $1; Mrs. Aron- off 50c,; Mrs. Gertz 50c.; and two more who have not given their names each $1, Employees: Mr. Joe Carrol, $1; Sam Epstein $1; Mr. King $1; Mr. Rheingold $1; Benny Rheingold 20c.; Joe Schwartz $1; Jack O’Hallo- ran $1; Moris Sopher 50c.; Gus Kruze $1.40; Mr. Unke 50c,; Mr. Myers 50c.; Hans Herman $1; Michael Stein 50c.; Edward Carl $1 and annonymous in the following amounts $1; $1; $1; $2. RUBBER STAMPS AND SEALS IN ENGLISH AND IN ALL FOREIGN LANGUAG! INK, PADS, DATERS, RUBBER TYPE,Erc, NOBLER STAMP & SEAL CO, 524 So. Dearborn Street Phone Wabash 6680 CHICAGO MAIL ORDERS PROMPTLY rs aba ——si 4 PROPHET’S DOPE IS PUNCTURED Todd’s Tales Topple As Bob’s Bubble Bursts Communist writers are often times accused of possessing more zeal than judgment. They are” charged with painting the revolutionary picture in too bright ‘colors, and allowing their natural optimism to becloud their sense of actuality. Their severest cri- tics are liberal journalists whose asso- ciation with the working class move- ment is usually the somewhat ghostly connection between it and Greenwich Village. Hf Our liberal critics cannot be accused of exaggerating the virtues of the re- volutionary movement or of beating the tomtom for its leaders. .But when they get hired to sing the praises of the petty bourgeois radicals and capi- talist reformers, there is no limit to their imaginations. Doping the Dope, One of the most willing of LaFol- lette’s press agents in Washington was Lawrence Todd, Federated Press Staff correspondent. His pre-election dope makes interesting reading in the light of the thirteen electoral votes that Fightin’ Bob managed to squeeze out of Wisconsin.. We have been keep- ing tab on Todd’s predictions. Here they are: July 16—While anticipating the cap- ture of most of the western states and half of the middle states, the LaFol- lette managers are not going to offer any detailed figures until the real cam- paign has been launched along in September. - LaFollette as mat. ters stand, has a chance of election he is sure of defeating Coolidge; he stands an excellent chance of defeat- ing Davis. Probably Bryan leads in the race with LaFollette second. (Signed by Todd.) Wall Street Was Kidding. Aug. 21—Wall Street has passed the word down the lines: it is for Coolidge and Dawes. It expects LaFollette and Wheeler to run second in the popular vote—if they don’t run first—and it conceded to Davis and Bryan nothing outside the solid south. Wall Street belfeves it can elect Coolidge, but it concedes that LaFollette will be his only dangerous opponent. (Signed by Todd.) Sept. 10—“Thruout the country there is a rising tide of disgust with the ancient political buncombe,” says AT THE POLLS, ODESSA, Nov. 10.—A bloody insur- rection, in which many peasants were killed, took place in Tatarbunary, Bes- sarabia, which ‘is occupied by Rou- mania. Many ofgthe Roumanian “Si- guriza” (political secret service) have also been killed. In the village Bernia, six peasants have been killed by the gendarmes. At the congress of the peasant party held in Beiltzi, Bessa- rabia, resolutions of protest were pass- ed against the mass murders and ar- rests. Bratiano, the Roumanian pre- miler, blames the left wing of the pea- sant party for the bloody massacres in southern Bessarabia. 13 Villagers Slaughtered. A peasant deputy from Alba, named Cetatea, protested to the cham- ber of deputies against the execution of thirteen villagers who were accused of plotting against the government. He said the gendarmes conducted the peasants to the outskirts of the village, shot them down, and then summoned a doctor to examine the corpses. The physician discovered that two peas- ants were still living, although badly wounded, whereupon they were: dis- patched. The doctor was then slain so he could not be a witness. After many armed conflicts between the political police and the armed pea- sant detachments in southern Bessa- rabia, the Roumanian government be- gan to cleanse the ranks of the gen- darmes, the military organizations and the clerical help of the government in Bessarabia. The government does not trust any more its own servants. Out of the ten newspapers published in Bessarabia in the Russian language, nine have been closed by the govern- ment. Only one paper, “Bessarabskaya Mysl” published in Kishinev, has not been closed. “PEOPLE'S COURT” IN GERMANY USED AGAINST WORKERS Prisons Are Filled with Political Prisoners By I. W. A. Press Service Justice is running wild in Germany. Armed with the powers of state, drun ken with rage and prejudice, it runs amuck.-#Its victims are exclusively workers. German justice has made itself the Henry L. Mencken, author and editor of The American Mercury, in a state- ment issued at LaFollette headqua: ters. (Quoted by Todd.) ¥ Sept. 18—The favorite theme of the G. O. P. press agents is an interview with a standpat senator or national committeeman, who is called in from a distant state to confess that Cool- idge will carry his state by a majori- ty just as big as Harding secured in 1920. Nothing is too wild for these intimates. For instance, Minnesota is claimed about three tmes a week for Coolidge while Dawes is reported as arousing the enthusiasm of the Ger- mans in St. Louis. (Unsigned dis- patch.) / But Thomas Was Bent. Sept. 25—Indeed, Norman Thomas, the socialist nominee for governor, is expected to make a dent in the re- publican vote before Nov. 4. (Signed by Todd.) Sept. 30—Hoover is deeply worried by the enthusiasm with which La- Follette’s support of public ownership of giant power has been received all thru the campaign. He looks past the November election to the time when a congress in which the progressives will hold an absolute balance of legis- lative power, will be able to block any pro-corporation moves by either a Davis or a Coolidge—if either of those corporation servants should get into the White House on March 4. (Signed by Todd.) Cal a Live Corpse. Oct. 3—Virtual acknowledgement that the republican organization is on the defensive, fighting with its back to the wall, and that it has lost all confidence of victory in November, is seen by press correspondents here in the statement made to them by Chairman Butler on the democratic progressive combination in the West. Coolidge, meantime, looks as dead as the Mellon plan. (Unsigned dispatch.) Oct. 4—One thing is certain—the solar plexus blows dealt Coolidge and Dawes by Sen. Brookhart at the open- ing of his campaign in Iowa have been damaging to the G. 0; P. machine in many states east of the Mississippi. (Signed by Todd.) Even Magnus Is Dumb. Oct. 11—So effective has been the fight against individual tories {n the house and senate that the chances overwhelmingly favor the appearanci in the new congress of a farmer: labor progressive group twice or three times as numerous as in the present / one, The new congress will not take orders from Coolidge, should he win. (Signed by Todd.) Oct. 11—Of course, the bourbon democrats laugh derisively at this claim that Lal tte and Wheeier will run ahead of Davis and Bryan in the electoral college and thereby qualify for the finals in the deadlock in congr (Signed by Todd.) What actually happened is history, out not the kind LaPollette expected to make. accomplice of all monarchist conspir- ators against the republic. Some of the old imperial generals, each of them guilty a hundred times of high treason against the republican form of government, has never been taken up by justice. The “people’s court,” formed by the new republic against the old monarchist plotters, are man- ned by those very plotters and used against the working-class defenders of the republic. This travesty on justice has filled the German prisons with politicals out of the ranks of the workers. In the first four months of the year 1924, 8,980 indictments. were returned in Germany for alleged political crimes. The perpetrators of the Kapp putsch in Germany in 1920, which, if success: ful, would have reinstated the run away Wilhelm as German’ emperor, are all free while of the workers who organized for the defense of the re- public against the Kappists, there are still forty-one in prison. Ludendorff, the arch-conspirator against the republican form of gov- ernment, is feted thruout Germany as a national hero while the workers who organized a counter movement against the contemplated monarchist coup, were persecuted and more than two thousand years of imprisonment was pronounced against them. Sentences Bring Much Misery Between June and September, 1924 2,233 workers were sentenced to 1, 360 years of imprisonment for alleged political offenses. The victims of these judicial crimes are either languish- ing in prison where they are cruelly mistreated, and sometimes murdere¢ outright, or they are the families of the victims—innocent women and children, starved and harrassed by the police as the friends of the hatec politicals. They appeal for help. The Committee for Internationa! Workers’ Aid is organizing relief for them, to be distributed thru the Red Aid International. Send contributions to 19 South Lincoln Street, Chicago, INinois. Git CHICAGO -; NAME _. STREET. BOYS AND GIRLS SEIZED AND SOLD AT $25 A-HEAD Slave Trading Helped by Australian Govt. By W. FRANCIS AHERN (Federated Press Staff Correspondent.) RABAUL, New Guinea, Nov. 10.— While the Australian federal govern- ment was busy assuring the league of nations that there was no truth in the statements that the natives in New Guinea (new mandated to Australia) were being shot down and murdered, one of the government's own magis- trates was. inquiring into the indis- criminate slaughter of 4 native men, 6 native women, and-5 native chil- dren, one a babe at breast. The evidence at the inquiry at Rabaul Sept. 10 and 11 was so revolt- ing that the Austfalian government has been forced into a searching in- vestigation of the expedition respon- sible for the crime. Slave Recruiters Arrive. Last February a recruiter named James O'Dowd was operating in the Postdamhafen district. Recruiting is the respectable name for securing in- dentured labor. It is slave-running. ‘The natives are secured for work on the, plantations, the recruiters being paid $35 per head for each adult slave, and $25 for each boy slave. O'Dowd roped in three sons of a native chief named Yasdouri. The boys escaped and returned to their village, protesting against their seizure. O’Dowd proceeded to secure them again, and a fight ensued. Natives» Revolt. ' The natives of the village sought to protect the sons of their chief. O'Dowd was speared and killed. An expedi- tion proceeded to the village and wiped it out. Only two native males and one native female escaped. Sixteen natives, men and women and chil- dren, were slaughtered, including the three wives of chief Yassouri. “The evidence was of such a cold- blooded nature that magistrate Wan- liss said “If this ferocious treatment was meted out to these people it has an important, bearing on the relations of the natives to the administration. A searching inquiry must be made info the conduct of the expedition.” BERLIN, Nov. 10.—In spite of, the fact that each new born baby in Ber- lin ig entitled to receive three marks (75c) from the government, the birth rate has fallen from 47.2 per 1,000 in 1876, and 21 per. 1,000 in 1914 to 10.4 S800 a year FISo THE NEW SUBSCRIPTION TO BUILD THE DAILY WORKER per 1,000 in 1923, in the German cap- ‘ital. : RATES PCO a year §2.50-6 montis $2.00 9 montis 6 montis f Tuesday, November 11, 1924 PIFFLE FLOWED: - FREELY FROM SILENT CALVIN Morgan’s Atty. Sends His Greetings (Special to the Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 10.—A fairly long string of presidential piffle was issued from the White House yesterday morning formally thanking the American’ boobery for falling for republican propaganda and making the hard choice between Coolidge and chaos. “Me and God’ Laying aside the little matter et terrorizing the workers by threaten- ing closed factories, and the other little matter of several millions spent in making them believe it, . Calvin raised his eyes fervently to the top of Teapot Dome and announced: “I can only plainly acknowledge that this result has been brought to pass thru the work of a divine providence of which I am but one instrument.” Inasmuch as the “divine providence" of capitalism elected him, Coolidge an- nounces that he is “rededicating America to the service of-God and man,” in a Thanksgiving proclamation he issued at once. In it he modestly claimed that “we” have “financially assisted” other nations, quite forget- ting to add that “we” expect both the interest and the capital back. Gold Dust Twins Perform. After promising to serve “all the people,” capitalist and working class alike, Coolidge answered the slightly ironic telegram of congratulations from the democrat also-ran, John Wall- street Davis, in which Davis expressed a “hope” that the new administration would “insure to the welfare of the country,” Silent Cal assured him that it would and thanked Davis for his “patriotic sentiments.” The Flivver King’s Jokes. To the DAILY WORKER: Henry Ford once said he is againét charity. As an employe of the Ford flivver fac- tory I would like to know how he ac- counts for the fact that we are forced at the threat of losing our jobs to con- tribute $1 and $2 every year to the Community Fund which comprises the Y. M. C. A., American Legion, Salva- tion Army and every other antti-labor organization. a Another one of Henry Ford’s wheer- es is his prosperity boast. On the 28th of October, 25 per cent of the men were dropped in each department, some even more. There are rumors that this will soon be followed by an- other wholesale laying off 6f workers. Yours, G. EB. betrayed Their first conversation betrayed the fact that she was not fastidious Ta “ae she had appeared unus neat, immaculate. But upon! pi eee facototess meeting he discovered that her teeth were not clean, And he soon lost interest. So many oo overlook this one matter of fastidiousness. And do so in ae of the a face ae in conversa- tion the tee! tl - noticeable thing Shout a wat t Re or she i talking. Ifthe tetch are well kept become may ty Rh bay nde keder ln oad hat ral S months