The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 13, 1924, Page 6

; } Pi Se ne cere enone nS Pase Six THE DAILY WORKER. era | ee | Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO | 1118 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, IL | (Phone: Monroe 4712) | SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail: $3.60,..68 months $2.00...8 montha By mail (in Chicago only)? ‘ $4.50....6 momths $2.50...3 months $6.00 per year $8.00 per year Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER 113 W. Washington Bivd. Chicago, Mlnele ———— re J. LOUIS PP OUNNDt a Aes Editors VILLIAM F. DU Montz J, LOEB. nme Business (Manager ——— 3 Post @ntered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1923, at the | Office at Chicago, Ill, under the act of March 8, 1879, | A ae reve es_ennccATSS Advertising rates on application | That Coroner’s Jury The whitewash brush has been generously used in fixing the blame for the wreck of a street car by a Milwaukee Railroad company freight train at North avenue two weeks ago and the resulting death of ten people. The railroad company hires for altogether too little wages men to do its switching. It requires | successfully tried on the national plutocrats. }on lunches for the children and that the bill for} McAndrew’s Schools Policy The superintendent of Chicago’s public schools is trying the same economy stunt on the wealthy tax dodgers of Chicago that Calvin Coolidge so In this city of millionaires and multi-million- aires, teachers are overworked and underpaid and} the classes are already so large that the children would be better off by staying at, home and getting “educated” by radio or attending a mass meeting. There cannot be any effort made to give individual attention to the pupils under those conditions. — The superintendent has a plan for reducing ex- penses that would be quite laughable but for the fact that the welfare of the workers’ children is involved. Hegfinds that too much money is spent pencils must be reduced. Yet this same economy hound is backing up a scheme to build $170,000,000 worth of schools in ten years, on a seventeen million a year schedule. If the city cannot afford to raise enough money to provide pencils for school work; if it must retrench on the cost of lunches for the children, how or where can it find the money for this big building scheme? The answer is that McAndrew was imported from New York by the business interests to put them to perform much work at top speed. It com- pels them, if they want to hold their jobs, to ae robots will be turned out, trained to pro- a chance with their own lives and the lives oy others. Why, then, is it surprising that the risk some of them took caused the wreck and the loss of human lives? In holding a poor switchman and a pair of petty elerks who were unfortunate in being in direct charge of the freight train, for manslaughter, the coroner’s jury is shielding and whitewashing the real criminals, the higher officers of the Milwaukee railroad company admitted by the jury itself to be responsible for the wreck. Why not hold the higher officials, the directors of the railroad for manslaughter ? The question is easily answered. The directors of the Milwaukee railroad are among the leading capitalist parasites of the nation. It is enough to mention one, J. Ogden Armour, emperor of the beef and pork business. Others are Mortimer N. Buckner, a financier with international connec- tions, Donald G. Geddes, of the Western Union Telegraph, the Edison company and other corpora- tions, W. E. 8. Griswold, of a half dozen corpora- tions, including the Remington Arms Co. Then there are Ed. Harkness of many other railroad di- :ectorships, Sam McRoberts of the sugar trust, and many others. Why not hold these multi-million- ‘res for manslaughter? The reason is clear. The jury is a jury of cap- italists. Therefore let capitalists, directors of the -filwaukee, responsible for the death of ten people, wo scot free. But hold some obscure slave who is driven to break rules in order to hold his job. Such is the whitewash. It would end if the railroad men in this country had one fighting industrial union and when they are asked to violate rules vf safety to hold their jobs, strike solidly. Or if workers are victimized while directors are white- washed to tie up the railroads until working class justice were done. The First Assault It appears as if the first assault of the reaction in the next congressional sessions will be on the tax question. There is still some doubt in the minds of political observers whether the Coolidge clique will attempt an immediate frontal attack on the tax problem in behalf of those interests that invested so heavily in bringing about the re- publican victory. Some believe that the adminis- tration will delay this effort until the new con- gress meets and then steam-roller a revitalized Mel- lon tax scheme thru a special session. It is apparently certain, however, that the big- gest employing class interests will brook no delay in getting rid of the limited publicity measure attached to the last tax bill passed by the demo- cratic-LaFollette coalition. We may definitely look for a strong effort being made to repeal this section of the present income tax law. We can safely look forward to an abject democratic-LaFollette sur- render to the black old guard of the Coolidge ad- ministration on this.matter. There is considerable truth in the statement that the democrats and the so-called progressives have been substantially “sob- ered” by the stinging defeat administered them in the last elections. In plain English, this means that they have been driven back into helplessness before the advocates of unadulterated normalcy. At no time have we looked upon the very limited publicity of the income tax law as being at all adequate or of positive help to the working masses. Yet it is interesting to note the tremendous hos- tility that the employing class always manages to wenerate to any legislative enaction which is not grossly conducive to the enhancement of their class interests. It would be useless for any one to expect thorough and complete tax publicity from “a government and a press owned and controlled by the very class of exploiters that is seeking to shirk taxation. To us the whole question of repealing the tax publicity law serves only as a barometer of the ex- tent toewhich and the readiness with which the strongest section of our employing class is ready to launch its offensive against the working class. The swiftness with which the capitalists are acting to cash in on their victory ought to be a lesson to the workers in preparing to throw back their mor- tal enemies, the open-shoppers and bosses. Get a membev for the Workers Party and a new subscription for the DAILY WORKER. over the junior high school system. Under. this luce surplus values for the bosses. For this func- tion im life a higher education is not only useless but dangerous to the bosses. The capitalists - are willing to spend money on robot factories, but not on real educational institutions. It is regrettable that the leaders of the Teachers’ Federation do not make a real fight against Mc- Andrew and his backers on the main issues and| not make the interests of the teachers and the work- ers’ children the football of capitalist polities. Mar- garet Haley, business agent of the Teachers’ Feder-| ation, is an old and well disciplined politician. | Under the tutelage of such arch reactionaries as! Victor Olander and Oscar Nelson, she has evaded a fight on issues that would arouse class feeling, | but made of the fight with the school board a per-| sonal matter between herself and McAndrew, who! is but a tool of the big business interests. Under ‘such reactionary and fossilized leader-| ship, neither the interests of the teachers nor the) interests of the school children will be served. | The fight must be waged as part of the struggle of | the workers against the bosses. Only in this way! can McAndrew and his starvation plan for the} teachers and the children of the working class be defeated. The ‘present policy of riding with the hounds and running with the hare, followed by Margaret Haley, can only lead to defeat. Internationalism and habe Unions Recent dispatches from eastern financial cen- ters tell that a group of international figures com- prising financial and industrial experts of capital- its economy are invited by the International Cham- ber of Commerce to meet soon and attempt to write another plan to make-the Dawes plan workable. There are many significant things to say about this move, but the one outstanding fact is that capital is closely organized on an international scale. i While the American Chamber of Commerce is affiliated solidly with the International Chamber of Commerce, taking a leading and militant part, the American labor movement as a whole is com- pletely isolated from world labor. The A. F. of L. even withdrew its previous weak connections with the timid reformist International Federation of Trade Unions of Amsterdam on the astonishing excuse that it was “too revolutionary.” Today, with American labor faced with the threat of the competitive struggle between low cost commodities produced by enslaved German labor under the Dawes plan and commodities produced by American workers, the A. F. of L, faces the problem of international connections to fight the wage cuts the bosses are planning. It is well known that the employers are awaiting with glee the be- ginning of another “open shop” drive. Only the militant left wing in the A. F. of L. have any program to offset this danger. The Trade Union Educational League has sponsored a resolu- tion which will come before the El Paso conven- tion of the A. F. of L. when it meets next week. This resolution points out that the need of inter- national affiliation is increasingly vital if the A. F. of L. expects to survive the attacks against it. The T. U. E. L., however, does not stop with merely pointing out the need of affiliation. It shows that the only international of action, the only world body of unionists which leads the strug- gle of the workers against capitalism in all. its forms is the Red International of Labor Unions, and it advocates the affiliation of the A. F. of L. to the Red International. It is further pointed out by the T. U. EB. L. re- solution, that the A. F. of L. should not only affil- iate with the R. I. L. U., but should aid thru its executive council the negotiations now going on between the Amsterdam International and the Red International of Labor Unions in order that com- plete and all-embracing unity of all labor unions.in the world into one.international of class struggle should be evolved. The A. F. of L. convention has this task before it. How will it discharge this duty to labor? One of the local labor hating papers wise-eracks that: “The only thing turning Red these days are the October leaves.” Not so good. The DAILY WORKER is very much RED and the increasing circulation roves, it IS read. THE OAILY WORKER That “Straight” Socialist Vote in New York | By ALEXANDER TRACHTENBERG. HE socialist party headquarters In East Harlem bore the following legend during the campaign: Vote a straight socialist ticket—Vote for La- Follette. for president; Wheeler for vice-president, LaGuardia for con- gressman. The voters of Harlem, an old so- cialist stronghold, were invited to vote straight socialist by voting for an in- dependent republican for president, for an independent democrat for vice- president, for another independent re- publican for congressman. “As you will sow, so will you reap,” says an ancient proverb, which still holds good in politics. On Wednesday the S. P. leaders read the following re- turns: Total vote for LaFollette in New York on progressive and socialist tickets—186,957. Total votes for LaFollette on the socialist ticket—149,333. Total vote for Thomas, S. P. can- didate for governor, on same ticket 48,137. The big question is: What happen- ed to the that “straight” 100,000 so- cialist votes? The answer is: They went straight to Al Smith, who needed them badly to beat his rival, Roosevelt. The New York Evening Post char- acterized the wholesale socialist de fetions to the candidate in the fol- lowing fashion; “The Rey, Norman Thomas, socijalist-progressive candi- date who was expected to cut into the democratic total, made no more> dif- ference in the result than if he had been running, in Alaska.” Having said A, the S. P. leaders should have known that their loosely held voters will follow by saying B. The socialist leaders asked their vot- ers to support a “progressive” repub- lican for president, and the voters im- proved upon their leaders by voting also for a “progressive” democrat for governor. This may be following in- structions with a vengeance, but the fault lies with the leaders and not with their followers. The latter, at least, were consistent, even if they failed to vote intelligently. It ‘was expected that LaFollette would run ahead of the socialist can- didate for governor. But those who selected to vote for LaFollette on the socialist ticket in preference of the progressive, represent the normal so. cialist voters and they were expectec to vote for the S. P. candidates. The garment workers who were Jed to be lieve by their leaders, all good S. P. members, that they may expect some favors from Governor Smith, and the East Side pusheart peddlers also hab- itual socialist voters who really de- pend on favors from Tammany poli- ticians whenever they come-in conflici with the law (licenses, etc.) are re sponsible for that difference of 100,- 000 votes. The “straight” socialist vote looks not only crooked when the LaFollett« and Thomas’ votes on the S. P. ticket are compared. Thomas ran behind every other candidate on his own state iticket.. The following is a comparison between .the votes received by Thomas as candidate for governor and Waldman as candidate for attor- ney. N. Y. Counties Thomas Waldman New York 15,897 31,206 Kings . 18,002 31,987 Bronx 11,593 21,863 Queens 2,386 4,20f Richmond 259 5 ae 48,137 89,712 Thursday, November 13, 1924 a Why should Waldman receive al- most twice as many “socialist” votes than his running-mate Thomas? Eyil minds might suggest tlat a very in-* teresting statement published promi- nently in ‘the socialist weekly, “New Leader” helped Waldman to outdis. tance’ ‘the head (sic) of the ticket Replying to an invitation of a lawyers’ committee to vote for Davis, and par- ticularly against LaFollette who was attacking the courts, Waldman wrote among other things:. “In my judg- ment, far from attacking the courts, ~ or being dangerous to the country, the program of the third party move- ment, led by LaFollette and Wheeler would strengthen popular confidence in the courts.” It seems that the San Francisco millionaire banker and su- gar king and the socialist Waldman have agreed, that, to preserve the ex- isting order, LaFollette and his party must be put in control of this coun: try. Shades of Ben Hanford! Verily the lawyers and the preacliers’ haye managed to strip the S. P. of every. thing socialist and anti-capitalist it ever espoused. Next Sunday Night and Every Sun day Night, the Open Forum. Will You Send The Daily Worker to Jail? ‘HE DAILY WORKER follows our comrades to jail. Every known political prisoner in the United States and in many parts of | the world is on the subscription list of the DAILY WORKER. If there is one that’ isn’t—we want to know about it. Sometime ago the DAILY WORK- ER was paid for these subscrip- tions—or filled them free of charge. Today the subscriptions are begin- ning to expire. And we wonder if you who read this will help pay for them. The DAILY WORKER has a difficult task to sustain itself—and an even more difficult one to grow. All labor papers have this to contend with and a Communist paper gets an ex- tra dose. You can aid—you will want to when you read this letter of the sacrfices the men behind the bars make to receive the DAILY WORKER. For obvious reasons we omit names and place: “Your card notifying me of the expiration date of the DAILY WORKER duly received. In reply to this, here are the facts. I am employed in the ‘Duck Mill’ turn- ing out cloth for mail bags and earn on an average of 33 cents a day. The rules regarding this widow’s mite is that one quarter of the month’s earnings can be spent for tobacco and a few other articles of special sanction. It further stipulates that the Yemaining three quarters can be sent to certain relatives or else deposited. Here is where the rub comes in. I planned on sending a check to my mother and instruct- OW would. you like to get full- time pay with a bonus thrown in when you only put in half your nor- mal work? You'd tell them to qui( kidding, that sort of luck don’t come to workers. But that is just what the last quartely profits of U. S. Steel mean to the wealthy owners. Those profits of $30,718,415 piled up during 3 months when operations were about 50 per cent of capacity show, as clearly ag figures can, that capital and labor have little in common in a system or- ganized for the profiiteer. Following a period in which unemployment and part-time severely reduced the wages of steel workers, Gary and his direc: tors voted not only the regular div- ident but also a continuation of the extra dividend begun in 1923. Profits made by the owners of the corporation in the first 9 months oi the year reached a total of $122,174, Steel Trust Loafers Cash In 899 which financial papers refer to as eminently satisfactory. It means $10.19 a share for the owners of common stock. A glance at the following list shows how certain stockholders must smack their lips: Profits for 9 months to leading owners of U. S. Steel George F. Baker $696,500 L. C. Phipps 359,000 M. S. Milligan .. Cc. S. Mott 116,000 163,000 Frank R. Bacon . 105,000 L. H. Cutter .. 176,000 G. H. Singer . 101,600 E. A. Rohifs .. 127,000 J. A. Roebling $1,300 Cc. D. Barney .. 91,400 G. Duryea ... 76,200 W. H. Crocker 61,200 A. M. Anderson 61,900 L. F. Bader ...... 50,950 The 9 month profits on large blocks of ing her to forward the same to your office for a year’s subscription of the DAILY WORKER, the WORK- ERS MONTHLY and the COM- MUNIST INTERNATIONAL. But the dear old lady is incurably re- ligious and attributes my irreligion to just such journals as the DAILY WORKER, She. will sanction any- thing in the reading line from Genesis to Revelations, but nix on the red. stuff. I. am _ twenty-eight years, old, by the way, but it is a trivial factor to her. It is next to impossible to compromise this situa- tion, so 1 am forced to depend on another relative who can qualify on the official rule. This arrungement will interfere with a prompt renewal of the sub on the ninth, but I as- sure you it will reach your office at the earliest date possible. “Fraternally, —_—_———_—” ’ Every week we receive afew such requests. We want,to.make them all happy. Send in your .con- tribution and you will help, in, sueh cases as this one in another. prison which was visited by comrade. Mas- sey of Kansas City who writes us in part: “He says that the DAILY WORK: ER gets an awful reading, as twen-, ty or more read it,...° « “We'll take the matter up with comrades and see if I can’t get en- ough nickles and dimes to insure that -- —- — gets the papar for some time.” These men should have the. DAILY WORKER. We would like~ to send it to them and will have to if you don’t sent in their subscription, We ‘need the money—maybe you don’t as badly. Will you—or wilt wet firms must have been about as follows. ] Harriman & Co. $311,000, J. W. Davis & Co. $542,000; Post & Flagg $474,000; Harris, Winthrop & Co. $281,000; C I, Hudson & Co. $348,000. Calvin Coolidge’s modest 50 shares brought him $596 or fully half the amount considered necessary to sup- port the family of a laborer in the steel mills and over twice the $250 fee he demanded from the war vet: erans for a speech at the dedication of a war memorial’ in Bridgeport. Conn. These profits piling up for persons who never turn a hand in the produc. tion of iron and steel tend to increase the precariousness of the real work ers chance to earn a living. A large part of the profits goes into machinery which under private capitalism tends to displace labor, making possible sat- |isfaetory profits with 50 per cent steel stock held by leading brokerage ' operation. Se % ty Bee, rae MOM BAI New Pamphlet on Lenin. By all workers whose eyes look toward Moscow as the capitol and headquarters of the world revolution, it is admitted that of all the men, living or dead, who have stood at the head of the proletarian struggle, Lenin Facts For Workers By JAY LOVESTONE. A OOKAPE RYN is the one who is by far the greatest. There is now available in a brief{by the Trade [ 3 be 9 brn t CRRA. TET 4 . By CELAND OLps - (Federated Press Industrial Editor) ig iE aS ee a ere The Wall Street Journal says, “Ten years ago a showing like this on60 per cent operations would have beén en impossibility. Steel at that ‘time could not have gone through a quarter without showing a deficit of many afil q lions. Its ability at the present’ time to show a surplus of over $15,000,000 for dividents is due entirely to “en- larged production, increased working capital and increased efficiency in gén eral over the last decade.” get Thus the profits of the last 10 years have freed the owners from anxiety about whether the plants operate part time or full-time. Although furnish ing only half the employment- they could afford te labor they find profits “eminently satisfactory.” The gur- plus produced by workers under the private profit system is apparently turned directly against labor's welfare instead of going to shorter hours’ and a higher standard of living. j | by Alexander Bittelman, and printed Union Educational | pamphlet, entitled “Lenin—The Great | League in an attractive red stiff paper Strategist of Class War,” standing features of his life and teachings. This is a new pamphlet, but recently translated from Russian Recognizing the Union of Socialist babes Republics: ite Country a 1. Esthonia February 2, 1920 2. Lithuania July 12, 1920 3. Latvia ugust 11, 1920 4. Finland . October 14, 1920 5. February 26, 1921 6. ebruary 28, 1921 7%. March 16, 1921 8. March 18, 1921 9. Germany .. April 16, 1922 1. Italy. 12. Norway 13. Austria . 14. Greece 15. Sweden . ..... 16. China 17. 18. 19. In additio: Russia on July 5, 1922. Negotiations are now which will undoubtedly terminate in the Soviet ding es negotiations with the Soviet republ also conclu n lations with the Soviet republics y oP evtaiiching full diplomatic relations. ment bai + with a view (Treaty signed) Eebreary” 1, 1924 ebruary 7, February 13, we 20, March 8, ‘March 15, May 31, June 18, to the above, Mongolia established full diplomatic relations with Soviet Russia on Nov. 5, 1921. Czécho-Slovakia signed a temporary treaty with Soviet going on vern- an is ‘ fed '|1922, thus showing an increase of 90 the out-jcover with an excellent drawing of literature, more than 41 per cent ofall Lenin speaking. | . The author is known around the world as an intimate associate of Lenin in all the struggles of the old Bolsheviks. This is A. Losovsky, now general secretary of the Red Interna- tional of Labor Unions, and of his work Comrade Bittelman, in his intro- duction, says if asked to tell in a few words the most pronounced feature of the pamphlet, he would say: “It is a desire to extract from the ex- periences of Lenin’s life as many les- sons as is humanly possible for the advancement of the class struggle and for the promotion of the prole- tarian victory thruout the world.” It is this experience of Lenin, then, which is available in a 48-page pamphlet that sells for only l5c. It is expected that every worker who looks toward Communism, will provide himself at the great meetings cele- brating the birth of the Russian Revolution on November 7, with a copy of this important work on the greatest, working class leader of all. history, 2 MOSCOW.—There were in all 18,608 different publications issued thruout the Union of Soviet Socialist Repub- les in 1928, including books and the periodical press (reviews, newspapers ~counting, naturally, each journal, daily or other, as but one publication for the entire year under review). This figure compares most favorably with the 10,127 publications issued on per cent over the previous year. It is interesting to note that the corresponding figure for 1917 was but 18,174 publications, so that in the cul- tural development Soviet Russia sur: [It the comparison be drawn still fur- passed the last pre-revolutionary year, altho the latter was richer materially ther and the year 1921 be taken, the increase will be, seen to be 500 per |cent, as the number of publications in that year was but 4,529. As regards the contents of the 1923 last year’s publications was devoted tc - social science, fine literature (fiction, arts, etc.), accounted for about 16 ‘per cent, aplied sciences, 15 per cent, pre- cise sciences over 9 per cent, ete. «+ Moscow is, naturally, the largest publishing center, 5,040 publications (slightly less than 30 per cent of. all the Union), having appeared there in 1923. Leningrad follows with 2,29: publications. % + Next Sunday Night and: Every Sun. day Night, the Open Forum. ‘ ‘MAMMON ART’ BY UPTON SINCLAIR TAKES SHOT AT. ARTISTS FOR THE DOLLAR PASADENA, Cal.—Having mide raked religion, journalism and/e cation in recent studies, U, clair now pays his respects to the poets, dramatists, novelists, s¢ulp- tors, painters and composers in his newest book, Mammonart, The manuscript is finished and goes to press for publication in January... “lam calling it Mammenart,” says Sinclair, “meaning art is subsidized and paid for by ruling classes. 1 turn th ¢ of our artists and writers out, beginning with Homer Bible writers, asking them “ae they got it and what they did for their paymasters. | believe this” the most important task of all, cause cultural ideas lie at the base. of all other activities.” oF The book is published i thor at $2 cloth or $1 Be ‘ee lag address is Pasadena, Gal, - hate!