The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 19, 1924, Page 6

Page Six THE DAILY WORKER THE DAILY WORKER. Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING 0O. 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, TL (Phone: Monroe 4712) ee ——— SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail: $6.00 per year $3.50...6 months $2.00....8 months By mai Chicago only): $8.00 per year $4.50...6 months $2.50....3 months Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER #113 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago, Ilinole J. LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F. DUNNB MORITZ J. LOEB.... {nuannnnntimn OFS enon Business Manager ——————— Entered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1923, at the Post Office at Chicago, IL, under the act of March 8, 1879 ip 290 Advertising rates on application (2 Abolish Race Discrimination! The news from the 44th convention of the Amer- ican Federation of Labor that the secretary of the Texas State Federation of Labor, in greeting the delegates, insisted that the immigration of Mexican workers into this country should be stopped, is typical of the stupid policy of race discrimination permeating the unions of the American Federation of Labor. Evidently the Texas labor unions do not think of organizing these workers and fighting to- gether with them against the employers. The most disgraceful indifference, however, is that toward the organization\of the Negro work- ers, The great bulk of the 12,000,000 Negroes in the United States.are workers. They need organ- ization even more than do, their white fellow work- ers. Do they get it? Not.from Gompers. Yet, as an “inferior race” the employers organize them against the white workers. By first paying them atrociously low wages for the hardest and most menial work, they make them in their un- organized state, a possible reservoir of strike- breaking labor. The caste system in American labor must be broken. We have heard too much of workers scorning each other as “Hunkies,” “Wops” and “Jews.” The whole system is an aid direct and unmistakable to the interests of the employers in dividing the workers. the better to exploit. them. It inspires prejudices among the workers which require much time and teaching in order to counter. act and lay the fraternal basis of class solidarity in the unions. The continued migration of Negroes to the cities of the north only accents the problem. The case with them is the same as with the Mexicans in the southwest. The policy of stupid and shortsighted selfishness, of craft privilege and organized monop- oly prevails, at the expense of both blacks and whites. Necessity, stern and inevitable, demands its complete eradication. The T. U. E. L. has endorsed a resolution that will be offered at the A. F. of L. convention which is intended to set that body on record one way or the other as to its stand on racial discrimination, The resolution calls upon the A. F. of L. to de- clare itself unalterably opposed to any discrimina- tion in any form whatsoever against workers be- cause of race or color, and in favor of equality of such workers. The resolution not only ‘asserts these principles, but instructs the executive council of the A. F. of L. to start an immediate campaign to organize Negro wage workers and demands that these workers shall be organized in the same unions as the whites in order that the stupid prejudices now existing thru past misteaching shall be wiped out by fraternal contact as brothers in toil and strug- gle against common exploiters. With the increasing pressure upon the’ workers by the capitalist class, and the danger of great wage struggles, the persistence of racial discrim- ination is a knife labor is turning against its own vitals. If the A. F. of L. convention does not act favorably upon ths resolution, it will have proved itself recreant to its own members and indifference to the interest of the working class. The Grange Meeting x Let no one mistake the present sessions of the National Grange in Atlantic City for sessions e where the grievances of the exploited farming is Masses are aired. The National Grange is not now and has not been an organization speaking for the great number of poor farmers. The National Grange , has been serving the interests only of the wealthy farmers and has been seriously hampering the struggles of the suffering, bankrupt farming class. 4 One need but consider the keynote struck at the 4 gathering to brand it as a foe of the farmers who ‘ are hard hit by the exploiters. All the talk of the grange about more liberal loan terms to needy farmers is calculated only to play into the hands of the bankers and rich farmers. The opposition of the grange to even limited child labor regula- tion throws it into one camp with the blackest reactionaries, where it rightfully belongs. The best example of the grange at its worst is to be seen in the plans afoot “to effect friendly un- derstanding and co-operation between industry and agriculture, eliminating long standing antagon- ism.” There is as much chance of harmonizing the interests of the exploited farmer with those of the capitalist exploiter, the railway magnate, the ma- chinery king, the grain elevator owner, the mar- keting trust, the banking shark, as there is of % harmonizing the interests of the exploited worker ? with the interests of his boss. In the imperialist stage of capitalism agriculture affords a very fer- tile soil of exploitation for the capitalist monopol- ists. Consequently the talk of Louis J. Tabor, of Ohio, master of the National Grange, to the effect that kof | ES A ses a i eS SE a RS Se, ernment having taken away trade from Germany, after the latter had broken into the Soviet Berlin “the meeting was the first active step towards the vitally necessary establishment of co-operative re lationship between business and the farmer,” is as impossible as unfounded. Only the mass or- ganizations of exploited farmers, working in closest unity with the exploited industrial masses, can bring an end to the chaos in agriculture and end the hardships now overwhelming the poor farmers. Father and Son While William Morgan Butler was putting on the senatorial toga death took away from Henry Cabot Lodge, his son Morgan Butler’was delivering an address of blood and thunder to the National Association of Cotton Manufacturers whose presi- dent he had just been elected. Every one knows that the textile barons have been amongst the greatest beneficiaries of the robber Fordney-McCumber tariff law. Everyone knows as well that after congress raised the tariff schedules, at the plea of the mill barons, the wages of the textile workers were slashed 23 per cent. At this time Morgan Butler is making another plea for an increased tariff schedule. He feels cer- tain that, with his father being the spokesman of the administration in the senate, the National Cot- ton Manufacturers’ Association has direct connec tions with the rear entrance to the White House and can put over, with little difficulty, a backstairs tariff revision. Running true to form, the cotton kings are slashing wages to the marrow, while they are whining about more tariff loot. The Amoskeag has just forced another ten per cent cut on the mill hands. Of course, no one will take young Butler serious ly when he talks of the glowing conditions of the textile workers in New England and elsewhere. In plain English, Mr. Butler is a plain liar. He knows he is talking for space in the well-kept press. It is an indisputable fact that the Butlers rule the textile operatives with an iron hand. Their spy system is notorious for its viciousness. Their hold on the legislatures is appalling. The condi- tions of the workers defy description. We recall a picture of the deplorable state of affairs in New England made recently by a competent observer when he said: “There is no collection of garbage or rubbish. The windows are without screens, and wells ad- join hideous outhouses and stables. Oil lamps light these houses, the only change since 1810 being from whale oil to kerosene.” This is the condition that Morgan Butler, the son, and William Morgan Butler, the senatorial father, want to protect and perpetuate. A Useless Attempt The latest sign of the disappointment of. the House of Morgan at the economic and political progress of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics is to be found in a statement just issued by Mr. Kent, chairman of the American Bankers’ Associa- tion. Mr. Kent, who is the vice-president of the Bankers’ Trust company of New York, a Morgan bank, is the author of a declaration admonishing those trading with Soviet Russia to be careful. The warning against entering economic relations with the Soviet government is put in a real bogey form by giving it a religious basis. The threadbare arguments form the fabric of Mr. Kent’s outburst. The Morgan lackey rants against the Soviet gov- office, and giving it to Holland and Czecho- Slovakia. In the eyes of Mr. Kent this is a crime. His memory seems to lapse at strategic moments. He does not find cause to utter a word of protest about the system of “favorite nations” and special treaties in vogue amongst the capitalist nations. But when the Soviet government attempts to’ fol- low what Mr. Kent would ordinarily call good business methods in dealing with a business gov- ernment, the New York banker moans. This talk cannot stay the tide of Soviet Russian political and economie advance. The department of commerce files afford a superabundance of proof that Soviet Russia has not only turned the econ- omic corner but has forced her opponents to con- fess the failure of their hostile campaigns. Amer- ican business with the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics has increased phenomenally during the last fiscal year. At the very moment that Mr. Kent was uttering his last prayer, Mr. Hoover was boast- ing of having worked overtime to help American capitalists get a slice of the Soviet business. Mr. Kent need have no concern about Soviet Russia. The Workers’ and Farmers’ Republic has vanquished the poisonous campaigns and military expeditions led by the agents of Morgan in Europe. The Soviet Republic will sooner rather than Jater overwhelm the opposition of the House of Morgan in the United States. The Chicago Tribune was quite furious over the disrespect for “law and order” shown by the gun- men, but its only remedy is to have’the Bar Asso- ciation endorse “honest” law ‘yers for the judiciary and that the voters should follow the lawyers’ recommendation. Most people would rather take the advice of the gunmen than that of the Bar Association. Samuel Gompers declared that “labor” won a big vietory in the recent elections, Gompers. is very easily satisfied, but then he is not troubled with the prospect of looking for a job no matter how the elections go. ti Every day get a “sub” for the Dam WORKER and a member for the Workers Party. 7 pi ) ae) ea ppeenee November 19, 1924 Very Proud of Being Traitors! By HARRISON. GEORGE. ‘HE report of the executive council of the American Federation of La- bor just made to the 44th annual con- vention at El Paso, takes up officially the formation of the so-called “labor banks” and recommends their devel- opment, with due precaution, of course that such banks be “incorporated un- der and subject to banking laws.” This represents a new departure in the American labor movement, a cer- tification by the labor bureaucracy of the growth of financial class collabora- tion within the labor unions. We must analyze this official action if we would understand where the current is tak- ing the organized workers of Ameri- ca. What Is Class Collaboration? It is an inherent quality of the la- bor union bureaucracy that it tends to class collaboration whenever the shift: ing relation of forces between the cap- italist class and the working class makes struggle against the capitalist class necessary to forward or even to defend the interests of the workers, In the epoch of history now opening, when the era of an ascending capital ism, able to sustain its wage earners as its own forces were progressing, has ended, and decadence of capitalist economy. forces capital to make as- PAVEMENT PICTURES BY JOSEF KALAR. The procession, The procession, Is coming by. Polite necks crane out of high crazy windows, Polite necks bent in a pious prayer For Coolidge and eggs forty cents a dozen. Like mosquitoes with long spindly legs Black shadows dot the tops of the low buildings. The procession, “| The procession, Is coming by. “Why what the hell is up? What the hell is up? These men that tramp the street With working-shoes on their feet Are from the mines, Are from -the factories, Are from the mills. Hey, there, you noisy. fellows, Get off our nice new pavement, What th’ hell do you think this is? This is?” With heads held high and buoyant feet, They are marching.to the,dying echo Of the slave man’s. are the. whistle's scream, The burning dream. They are smiling in the face of a thundering “No!” ;., They are marching to the tune of fu- ture years of peace, They are marching—They are march- ing! awent, the murdered O Eagle sitting on the flag, O Constitution flaunted in our face, O God slapping our souls, They see their daughters, in hunger, ; Turn to the prostitute dream, Their sons swimming in the bubbling steel, Their prayer, their hymn, the sullen screeching : Of the whistle summoning them from hard beds. With grey smoke for their pall, With cinders for their beds, They have been dying. . . O God slapping our souls, O Constitution flaunted in our face, O Eagle sitting on the flag, See them march, see them march. . They are marching! marching! By ALFRED V. FRANKENSTEIN. Another good. violinist, Socrate Barozzi by name, played a recital at Orchestra Hall, to a regrettably small audience. His program was made up of the conventional violin stuff, ‘a Grieg sonata, and small pieces by Kreisler, Pugnani,.and other violin composers. He played a violin ar- rangement of Percy Grainger’s “Molly on the Shore,” which is about as well suited to violin solo at mnotenis fifth symphony. Barozzi has a fine tone and good clean technic, altho his intonation is not always perfect. Unfortunately he has started in at the wrong end, There are so many good violinists that the only way for a new one to’make any success hereabouts is to be lucky enough to get an engagement with the Symphony orchestra, _ The Opera Schedule. Wednesday, Il Trovatore, with Claudio Muzio, Louise Homer (last appearance until January), Forrest Lamont, Giacomo Rimini, Virgilio Lagzari. Conductor: Cimini. Thursday, Lucia di Lammermoor, with Toti Dal Monti (last appearance), Antonio Bortis, Jose Mojica, Virgilio Lazzeri and ballet. Conductor: Polacco. Saturday afternoon, Mj fly, with Edith Mason, Garlo Charles Hackett, Giacomo Rimini. Condnetor: Polacco, They are saults upon the-standards of the work- ers if it would prolong its own lifc and rule, the millions of organized workers who were pacified and. re- strained by union officials from de manding more in the previous period, now find these officials unable and un willing to lead any sort of militant struggle against the forces of capital. Leaders Give Up Class Struggle. Instead, the union bureaucrats are found to take refuge in every sort of humbuggery and fraud as a.substitute for struggle. Class collaboration be comes “the easiest way,” and they try to delude the organization they head into accepting this as a substitute which is “just as good,” and often claimed to be “much better” than class struggle. There are many forms oj class collaboration, some political and some industrial and some financial. The recent campaign is a shining ex- ample of political class collaboration. The infamous “B. & O. plan” of Wm H. Johnston, of the Machinists’ Union, is an illustration par excellence of in- dustrial class collaboration. An ar. ticle in the capitalist press by Fred eric J. Haskin, a bourgeois journalist coucerning “labor banks” should be a revelation to union labor of what fin ancial class collaboration is. A por tion of the article is such an excellent tho unconscious exposition of class collaboration, that we give it as fol- lows: “One of the first predictions was if labor pooled its resources and or- ganized banks, it would use its pow- er to fight capital as represented by the employers of labor. “Persons said the labor banks would be used to finance strikes and other industrial controversies. “The fundamental error of those who: made these ‘predictions was in not taking into consideration the fact that a strike is a bad business Proposition from a strictly financial standpoint. “Banks do not finance bad busi- ness undertakings or those that are essentially gambles. That is, banks that are soundly conducted do not, “And when organized labor went into the banking field, it had to be doubly sure that its institutions were absolutely sound: and conserv- atively managed. “Failure, with resultant losses to stockholders and depositors, would be more. widely. criticised and more bitterly condemned than the failure of an ordinary bank. Hence there has been no.financing of strikes. “On the contrary, it is claimed that labor’s banking ventures have done much already toward reconcil- ing the differences of employer and employe or bringing’ about their speedy adjustment ‘with a minimum use of economic force and e nity mum economic loss. “They have demonstrated that ‘the Interests of capital and labor are identical.”—(Boldface mine.—H. @:) Different for Workers. We need hardly add that the fadt | of the growth of “labor banks” indi- cates a retreat from the class struggle. In this respect there are at least 30 | such banks formed and 60 more are in process of formation. The retreat from the struggle, it must be remem. bered, altho led by the union bureau \,¢racy, has its limitations for the rank jjand file of the workers. The class struggle becomes ever more a neces: | sity, a life and death struggle for them, Beyond the Life Line—Revolution! Beyond the lifeline there can bé no further retreat, Tho the union official- dom may feel perfectly comfortable and secure as they sit in. the bank or in the union Office or a combination of the two, the workers in the shops and factories are attacked and must fight. All power then, to the workers in the shops! All efforts then to build in the shops the organs of’strug: gle for the rank and file! Down with class collaboration, political, industri- al and financial! Up with the banner of revolutionary class struggle! Build the shop committees! Build the Com: munist factory nuclei! | NOW FOR THE G. 0. P. THANKSGIVING | Frog pyre WG AS WE SEE IT (Continued from Page 1.) ‘HERE is a tendency even among American radicals to ape the half: wits of the burlesque stage in ridicul- .|ing the customs and dialects of work- ers of various nationalities. This may be a small matter, but aside from: be- ing an indication of ignorance on the part of the offending person, it alsc helps to maintain the imaginary line that keeps the workers of all lands apart. The battle against the well- trained, and sophisticated capitalists is difficult enough without those who should know better, making’ it still harder. N Esthonian Communist was ex- ecuted by drum head court mar- tial for possessing a few rifles and some ammunition. This is on the tes- timony of the police. But in Germany the Fascisti have carried on a cam: paign against the republican govern ment, have marched thru the streets. killed workers and committed other crimes while boldly admitting their NY, HERALD -TRIBUNE IS FINALLY FORGED 10 ADMIT IT'S LENINGRAD , (Special to the Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Nov. 18.—The Her- ald-Tribune here has again printed the name of Leningrad to mark the great Soviet Russian city on its maps. At first the paper owned by Ogden Reid, steel trust and railroad stockholder, insisted on printing the name Petrograd on the maps appear- ‘ing in the Herald-Tribune. Now “however, due to the protests of many Russians, the city is rightfully” SC al Drawn by Wilfred Canan for the Federated Press. “ object to be the overthrow of the gov- ernment, yet not a thing happened to them. This under a socialist presi- dent. They were for the capitalist system, and that like charity covers a multitude of sins, The Esthonian gov- ernment is a puppet of the imperialist powers and is carrying out their or- ders. Esthonia is one of the little hand-made republics that act as a cordon sanitaire between the rest of Europe and Soyiet Russia. But the red tide will some day burst thru this dam. * . . HERE are several thousand czarist emigres in New York, and horrors upon horrors; they are working for a Editor’s ‘Note—Every day until publication has been completed, the DAILY WORKER, will publish | a, new cliapter from the ‘book, “Len- in: The Great Strat ‘of the a, bi, A: “A. Losovsky, secre- Red International of i catia Pog . he Ke eto “a ism,” i siti 4 we _ ENIN would’ ‘reach out after, the substance of retormism, no matter er what masks it would make its appearance, ai ‘any effor’ his part tear off’ the covering. In the attempt that’ was made before the first revolution to revise Marx, to connect him with Kant and other ae rs, Lenin immediately rec- the intention to reject the perarnehi and a tendency to surren- _ THE ENEMY OF REFORMISM By T. J. O'Flaherty } living. According to an inspired story in last Sunday’s New York Times, many of those “workers” cook or act as chaffeurs during the day, and in the evening may be honored guests at some Fifth avenue party. “Surely we must have known each other,” gushed a New York hostess to a distinguished guest, “your face seems so famillar,” She was talking to the Prince G. Z., formerly of Leningrad — pardon, Petersburg—and Paris. “Madame has an excellent memory,” replied the Polite prince. “On Tuesday your huys- band engaged me as chauffeur and this afternoon I drove you thru the shops.” These should be great days ie wise chauffeurs! » ~ dey within the labor movement and there- fore more dangerous to it than bd ‘an outside enemies. Because of this attitude g he has been charged with 6 id intolerance, But he pursue his line of action the Breatest tenacity for details, proving that reformism is one of the : enemies of the labor movement, that our theoretical struggle win) Mensheviks will eventually to the sharpest conflicts with» The Russian revolution has \ ‘Lenin correct, thereby showing extraordinary far-sightedness . sound instinct. In recent years | ‘formism: became the most: weapon in the hands of the ‘geoisie. Due to reformism, the ing class movement hag