The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 26, 1924, Page 6

Pe an Page Six THE DAILY WORKER. Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING. CO, 1118 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill. (Phone: Monroe 4712) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By ‘mail? $3.50....6 months $2.00....3. months By mail (in Chicago only): $4.50....6 months $2.50....3 months $6.00 per year $8.00 per year A@dress all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER 1118 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago, Mlinois J. LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F. DUNNE MORITZ J. LOEB. ... Editors fisiness Manager fntered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1923, at the Post- Office at Chicago, Ill, under the.act of March 3, 1879. <a 290 The Men Who Make Bread Bread! Everyone eats it, but only bakers make it. The work is done in a hot and unhealthy atmosphere and the wages of unorganized bakers are unbelieve- Advertising rates on application ably low. Unrest in Egypt It appears extremely likely that the smoldering revolt in Egypt will soon burst into a flame that will threaten the whole British colonial empire. British imperialism, at the cheap cost of. the life of one “sirdar,” repudiates its agreement to the “in- dependence” of Egypt, a promise which of course was never intended to be kept, and openly throws the hangman’s noose again around the’ neck of Egypt. And Egypt flames into rebellion. * Most persons are too naive to believe that Brit- ain’s agents instigated the assassination of: this fellow whose ordinary carcass is covered with the awe-inspiring title of “Major General Sir Lee Stack,”—but it is strange that always at. the pre- cise moment when an excuse is needed to seize an empire, a convenient agent is “assassinated” and the assassination always results in the seizure of what‘is wanted. In China an immense field’ was coveted’ by world-capital—and the necessary mis- sionaries were conveniently violated, and the ar- mies entered and conquered in the “Boxer war” economic advantages for those who had .sent the missionaries to China. American oil companies found’ “Christian Armenians” suffering precisely along the line of the Batum-to-Baku petroleum pipe- The profits of the industry are extremely high | line: “More recently Persian oil became tempting, : : | because bread is a necessity, the market is. in-| exhaustible and labor is cheap. There has just} been organized a continental bread trust that con-| trols production in 32 of the largest cities, but the Bakers’ Union is. extremely weak and_ its, or- ganization campaigns haye not been successful al- tho it is a semi-industrial. organization taking in all workers in the. bakery and confectionary trades. Once it was a militant organizatilon but of late years it has succumbed to Gompersism and. lost most of its fighting spirit. The fighting spirit of the bosses is on the in- crease and their power, is ifhmensely greater than it was a few years ago so that organization is more than ever necessary. What is wrong with. the bakers? In a light in- dustry of this-kind, producing a necessity whose searcity is felt at once, why is, there so little organ- ization? Because the Bakers’ Union by entering upon a pol- iey of “getting along with the boss,” killed off the initiative of the membership, corrupted the leader- ship and ruinedythe organization. It is only one example of the fate that overtakes any section of the workers that listen to the siren song of identity of interest between. robber and robbed. The bakers will discover, as the trustification of the industry proceeds, that instead of class col- laboration they must ,adopt.the Communist policy and tactics—constant struggle and industrial unionism based on shop committees. Little But Important A window cleaners’ strike probably seems more like something for the forge of the funnysmiths than a part of the class struggle. Maybe it was at one time. att teks Sek But in New: York City, where the great structures that house toiling milJions.tower skyward and con- stitute one of. the world’s wonders, the window cleaners are on strike. In, miniature this strike duplicates the whole struggle of the American working class. The employers who once competed are now organized. in an association. They have their private detectives and: their gunmen. In the strike the city police take the side of the employers. The offices of the union are raided and its active workers arrested. The union gets little support because it is separ- ated from the rest of the workers as are most of the American unions. It fights its own battle well, its members exhibiting the courage that is shown in every strike, but it faces not only its own bosses but the whole employing class. This is one of the unfailing symptoms of the growing intensity of the class struggle—that every strike, no matter how small, becomes a struggle, not only with the individual capitalist but first with associations of capitalists and then with the physical force instruments of the capitalist state whose role is that of a savior of capitalism as against the working class which is forced to fight it. We hope the window cleaners clean the bosses and that they learn the real lessons of the struggle. Strikes in which these lessons are neglected, are never won no. matter what the immediate. conces- sions to the workers are. The Hopeful Hoover Herbert Hoover, the archangel of the American babbittry, has just sent out a report compiled by his personally conducted department of + saab The report is rather optimistic and might even be described as a glowing forecast of the opportunities for plundering the workers of this nation. It is not this phase of the report that interests us just now altho we take issue with Herbert on _ his estimate of the chances ‘for increasing pros- perity. His figures point out an important fact altho he does not mention it. It is that in 1924 there was a 15 per cent greater production in all lines of industry than in 1919 altho THERE WAS A REDUCTION IN. WORKING FORCES OF 12 In other words, due to increased efficiency thru speeding up the workers and the introduction of i machinery unemployment increased in the greatest boom period this country has ever wit- nessed r Here is some food for thought by those deluded beings who . nd. that the salvation of the working class: deper onthe stabilization of and the. American diplomatic agent Imbrie was killed; strangely in company with an agent of Standard Oil. Again China becomes the center of capitalist covetousness, and “disorder” -calls for battleships. And now it is Egypt. One is inclined to wonder whether the recent change.in the British government had auything to do by way of preparation for the immediately. fol- lowing assassination of Stack, so completely co- incident with the growing need of an excuse to take Egypt into a stronger strangulation. Surely the MacDonald “labor” government would have. been willing humbly to serve in the strangling of Egypt, as it was in the case of India. Maybe its doing so would have spoiled MacDonald’s demo- cratic pose—thus injuring a mask that British eap- italism will need more urgently at a future time. But the murderous assault upon a nation which is now about to begin in Egypt will not be a simple affair. Remember Turkey! Her strangulation was not a success. Remember the present-day up-surg- ing in China! Remember India—oh, British im- perialists! Light the match in Egypt, then watch the results. Far more than half the population of the world is in Asia and Africa—‘“inferior” peoples suffering under the iron heel of European and American capitalist imperialism. And everywhere they have a new hope, and some tendency to arm themselves. You must have many armies, imperialist Eng- land! Are yot sure you can afford several wars at once that may involve more than a half billion of “inferior” peoples”—such as the Turks were? Communists should watch closely the events in the colonies. Many are inclined to underrate the importance of these affairs as a major factor in re- lation to the world proletarian revolution. But the Communist International does not. Did Britain’s re-diseovered irritation with the Communist Inter- national’s activities have anything to do with the impending assault on Egypt? Where is the “stabilization of capitalism”? Is the proletarian revolution so far away, after all? Will its development be unaffected by these fast- déveloping colonial upheavals? No. Cossacks Against Girl Strikers State constabulary, the skillfully trained spe- cialists in the murder of workers, have been or- dered out to break the strike of girl textile work- ers in Williamstown, Pennsylvania. This is the state in which the labor bureaucrats aided Gifford Pinchot to become governor and in the campaign which elected him the state con- stabulary and their strikebreaking role, was a major issue. Pinchot is still there, so are the cos- sacks, and so are the labor fakirs. The class struggle is also present in a more in- tense form as shown by the callous brutality of a state power that mobilizes its degenerates to pre- vent underpaid girls obtaining a slight advance in wages, What price liberalism in an era of imperialism? Several years have passed since Len Small, gov- ernor of this sovereign state got away. with between one and two million dollars of state funds, The courts have now politely requested him to give an aeeounting of the funds in his charge while he was state treasurer. Len may be entitled to an old age pension by the time this case gets to the supreme court. ‘ Lots of exitment at the opium conference in Geneva, Switzerland. There is profit. in. manufac- turing and selling the drug. But the business has a bad name so the christian powers are trying to get around it, without eliminating the Britain forced the drug curse on India at the point of the sword. Yet England is a virtuous nation, Mr. Gompers, sad to relate, had to leave the con- vention hall at El Paso temporarily, in order to at- tend a banquet in his honor by the Chamber of Commerce, at which he delivered a speech: This is an old habit with Sam, he will leave the union and its interests, too, behind, to banquet with the British government threatens reprisals. This may provide a good excuse to take back whatever con- cession the empire was obliged to make to Egyptians, A British officer is killed in Egypt and the ‘th THE CAILY WORKER ff A new era of prosperity that prom- ises to surpass anything that this country has ever seen is actually dawning,” cries the Chicago “Invest- ment News” across the prairies of the West. And the Chicago Tribune prints headlines of $110,000,000° Profit for John D. Jr, in Wall Street Boom.” The Chicago “Economist” raises its Western heman voice to say that “Whatever degree of dissatisfaction there may be in the existing business situation: “Possibly not in the last twenty-five years has the horizon appeared so free of even the suggestion of dark clouds, especially of a political or financial tint, as at the present mo- ment.” Brokers of the big financial breed are adding tens and scores of millions to the rewards of their labor at the work of owning stocks. The “Golden Geyser,” it is being called by the Wall Street denizens. The Golden Geyser spouts warm, yellow, molten gold. It began to spout at the moment of the announcement of the election of Coolidge. Business confidence, they say, caused it to be- gin—confidence in the safeguarding of profits at home and the stabilization of European capitalism with the gold- en fist of Morgan clothed in the silken glove of Dawes. “We are out of dan- ger!” shout the average men of Wall Street. . ‘i But geysers are of volcanic nature. Hot, burning lava is in the bowels of that volcano. From the depths of Wall Street it- self, to which Chicago’s State Street is as the main thorofare of Gopher Prairie—sounds the dignified and aw- ful voice of the “Annalist.” “In attempting to judge the pros- pect for business in the near future, it is necessary to a just appraisal of the situation to choose soundly between the obvious and superficial ‘hurrah boys’ attitude which is just now large- ly prevalent, and the less exciting and spectacular alternative of consulting things as they are.” The Annalist re- fers sarcastically to “the confidence party.” The Magazine of Wall Street says: “The fact that these interests (large operators) have been unloading in a wholesale way indicates to us that the stock market outlook is not as favor- able as the public is leading itself to believe.” It also says: “Since President Coolidge’s election there has been a widespread attempt to make it appear that a business boom is in prospect. As much as this is to be desired, it is nevertheless true that examina’ current conditions with an eye towd?l a reasonable view of the future indicates that no such thing as a boom is in sight. It is well for business men and investors to take a calm view of the situation, lest in Five Years of By M. A. SKROMNY. The Chicago So- _ ciety for Techni- eal Aid to Soviet fy. Russia was or- _ ganized in No- _ vember, 1919, at the suggestion of Comrade L. M. Martens, re pre- sentative of the Soviet government to this country. Russia at that time was isolated, blockaded and invaded by almost ev- ery “civilized” country that claimed they were fighting “to make the world safé for democracy.” The press of these “civilized” countries, including the United States, kept up and to a great extent is still keeping up a bar- rage of lies about the revolution and Russia, By this time most of the readers have learned the truth and are not so easy fooled by such yarns as the “nationalization of women and children” etc. . In the meantime within the borders of Russia a death and life struggle was going on between the Communists on one side and the ezarists, white guards, social-démocrats, social-revo- lutionists, anarchists and plain band- its on the other. The enemies of the revolution sabotaged all attempts tc revive production. There wasn’t much time to do it any way as all the en- zy ie TEE ise & The Golden Geyser - being unduly influenced by the extra- vagent optimism ‘of the hour they for gest that many pruoslems haye yet to be solved betore # period of general prosperity can set in.” The optimistic school of thought. says the Annalist, believes “that the present level of stock prices reflects an industrial condition which does not, in fact, exist. This school points to the high operating costs in industry at present, to the irregularities of the general situation, to the measure of unemployment now evident in this country and to the fact that forward buying, at least in the immediate past, has not been of the sustained char- acter calculated greatly to improve the ratios of operation.” Railroad Stocks, It seems to be agreed that the boom | got its start among railroad stocks. The Annalist gave a political account of this in its issue of Nov. 17: “Trading in railroad stocks in the last eight days has represented about 40 per cent of the business transacted on the ‘New York stock exchange; un- der ordinary circumstances this per- centage is less than 20 per cent ” Continuing later “in other words Wall Street believes that the social- ists, the ‘Reds’ and the ‘Pinks,’ as well as the obstructionists, have been dealt a blow by the conservative land- slide here and in England from which they will not recover for many years. This has been the main incentive to big markets, and particularly to big railroad markets. The opinion is widely expressed in our financial dis- tricts and in railroad circles that now the railroads will be left entirely alone to work out their own salvation without being obliged to defend them- selves from drastic and sometimes detrimental legislation.” Steel a Basis? The almost illiterate “Investment News” of Chicago, which likes to op- pose what it calls “nationalism of the railroads” (meaning nationalization), as not least of the indications of the “new era of prosperity” mentions “the larger output in the steel industry,” ete., naming also copper and construc- tion and “general optimistic senti- ment.” But the Annalist remarks that the increase in the unfilled orders of the steel corporation “was distinctly not a boom element. It was not merely only half of the increase in September, but it was the smallest upward movement since September, 1921. If the Iron Age is to be credited, this comparatively small gain reflects thé failure of steel buying to perform the post-election leap which had been expected of it.” And the magazine of, Wall Street re- marks: “Conditions in the steel trade are extremely erratic, with an entire series of mixed conditions thruout the country,” Cheap Money—“Unemployed Capital.” Another basis of the cry of capitalist “our country,” but because. it was the country of the social revolution. The second revolution since the Paris Commune which attempted to destroy the system of exploitation, which took away the land from the “pomieschik,” the rich land owner and turned it over to the peasants, which took over the factories and turned them over to the workers for the benefit of the nation. Besides that the country, the revolu- tion was being attacked from all sides by recognized and “civilized” robbers and murderers, as no war was declar- ed against it by the so-called civilized countries. Members of different factions and parties joined the society, as it has been and still is a non-party organ- ization. The aims of the organization as stated in the by-laws, are: Aims of the Organization. a. Registration and organization of all technical, industrial and profes-. sional forces in America who are will- ing to go to Soviet Russia for the pur- pose of helping the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic in the work of reconstruction on the basis of Com- munist Socialism. b. Preparation of the forces with the aim of utilizing them to the best advantage in Soviet Russia. . Anyone engaged in industrial, technical or professional work who recognizes the constitution of the Rus- sian Socialist Federal Republic and is willing to go to Soviet Ru sia may be- come a member of the society. d. Persons who have been active in the counter-revolutionary movement, or are at present opposed to the Sov- let government, cannot become mem- bers of the 8, T. A. 8. R. of U. S. and Canada. As soon as the organization was per- fected a school was organized where the Russian language, mechanical drawing, auto and tractor classes, gen- eral school subjects in the Russian language were taught. Another school which was started shortly before by the local “intelligentsia” with the backing of the representative of the non-existing Kerensky government was forced to close up for Jack of students, altho they had a fund of over $11,000 according to their printed report. The students in a body de- cided to join the Soviet School, as the school of the society is known. By that time, in the end of Decem- ber, 1920, the United States govern- ment decided to bestow upon the so- clety the blessing of its democracy. the Ad trol backed optimism is “cheap money.” The New York Journal of Commerce says in a warning spirit that “There is a large surplus of unused gold in the coun- try and money rates are very low.” In Barron’s. Financial Weekly of New York, “the Trader” writes that “There is hardly an important voice in the Street that dares. to contradict the universal view of a new and magical era... . The first and most im- portant factor that has been at work ‘since last spring is cheap money. Put- ting it another way, it is low-cost cap- Wale ogc.” money” optimism with the staggering suggestion that the existence of abun- dant low rate funds which made specu- lation profitable was somehow relat- ed to “the absence of large opportuni- tles for profitable employment of more funds in trade and industry.” “The sounder view,” it says, “of the busi- ness significance of active and ris- ing stock markets is pretty certainly not that they are forecasters of bet- ter business but that they are the evi- dence of preceding declines in busi- ness.” Capitalist Restoration. And when it all boils down, we find at the bottom a fundamental tenet of the faith of ecapitalism—that World Capitalism can be restored. . Every- where and all.times, any estimate of coming American conditions is an es- timated of world conditions. For in- stance, Barron's Weekly says: “The second fundamental factor is the real financial ,habilitation of Eu- tope. The reparations problem has been solved, the English debt funded and the remaining big step to be ac- complished was the adjustment of the inter-allied war debt . or The Annalist emphasises that: “Another factor of importance, not unconsidered by the stock market, is the fact that the Dawes’ plan has gone into effect abroad; that a $200,000,000 loan to Germany has been successfully floated, and that Europe appears on its way to political pacification.” Later it refers to the optimists’ theory being based partly on the belief “that our international trade will increase rapidly with the next year or so, thus taking up the surplus of goods not needed at home.” The “Financial World” of New York, claiming to feel “that there is a real basis for general business improve- ment,” adds that “there is the feeling that at last we are about to emerge from the conditions traceable to the world war and its effects. The tide has turned in the affairs of Hurope. The Dawes’ plan is functioning, and the recent triumphs of the conserva- tive party in England tends to encour- age confidence.” _ Any theory to the effect that the rise in stocks forecasts a reaching of “normalcy”—a period of development of capitalism of the pre-war type—is time located on Robey street, and about 150 students and teachers were taken away to jail where they were treated rough, according to the gener- al rule of that time. In New York after the school of the society was raided there, even the ceiling was covered with blood . In Chicago only one’ member (Hfim Shyed) had his nose broken, but that did not happen in the building of the school but while he was in. safe keeping in Cook county jail. Many others were beaten up, but not so seri- ously. For the first few days most of the members were held at the Chicago avenue police station, In a cell where two could sleep or six could sit on the two benches there were twenty- four. The other cells were similarly crowded or even. worse. Up till that time no politics or even political economy were taught in the school for the simple ‘reason that there were too many political factions among the members and the society wanted to avoid friction. But this lesson in bourgeois democracy that was given to the members, mostly half-illiterate peasants and workers, by the United States government did more than any Communist Party could ever expect to do in such a short per- fod. Not only were they not scared away from the school, but they rallied to it. and a great many of them joined the Communist Party at the first op- portunity, altho the party was driven underground after that. The members was $1,000 and some were put under as high a sum as $10,000, as the writ- er of this, for instance, Besides that | oq the government refused to accept its own currency and forced us to buy Liberty bonds ins' raids the aE EEi The Annalist cuts into the “cheap | \ \ Wednesday, November 26, 1 a theory of international restoration capitalism. It is a theory basic social-democratic parties of Hi who have united for the first ti hesively in what might be calle “Dawes’ International’—a _verital socialist salvation army of faith in restoration of world capitalism th: the plan of Mr. Morgan’s Mr. Daw: The faith is faith in capitalism { and where it is not hypocrisy hid{ treason, it is idiocy. The best possib! face is being put onto the situat: by the organs of Wall Street. T! estimates of these organs can ‘to 801 extent be taken seriously when the make confessions and deem it nece: sary to issue warnings. The mo! “responsible” of these organs make ni further claim than that, as the Ann: ist says: “The course of trade. ati industry is upward, but with a slo and very uneven progress,” and very uneven progress” ig the fevered fluctuation of a gene! process of decline. The “many problems + + yet te be solved,” mentioned by the Maga. zine of Wall Street—well, that means that between us and the will-o’-the. wisp of “normalcy” lies the war with) China—the real world war—and revo- lution. The Annalist says: “It ought to ‘be well-known to every business man, and is known to many, that our in: dustrial producing plant is in nearly every direction very much larger than is needed for the steady supply of our domestic needs . . . With every allowance for confidence and optim- ism, the hard fact remains that we cannot absorb our own maximum out- put, and cannot market abroad the surplus over home consumption that spells real prosperity.” The New York Journal of Commeree is quoted: ter the world war and culminated in the panic and depression of 1920-1921, At the present moment we have abun- dant material for bringing on a like state of affairs.” lusion know that the contradictions fo capitalism have not been solved but tremendously sharpened by the world war—that the breakdown of ism was not repaired but its hopeless- ness was made doubly sure by the “peace” treaty, and that the invasion -|("Amo”) near Moscow. of Burope with the Dawes’ plan fy but the preparation for a vaster war with a final, blood-letting drive of imperialism to solve a problem which cannot be solved talist-impe- rialism. Be 3 Gather your stock Wall Street! In fact a ee lating In the purely gambling phase for the very reason that industrial in- vestment does not promise am attrae- tive return. > Underneath the Golden Geyser Hes the searing, burning lava of the vel- cano. Chicago Society for Tech. Aid to Soviet Russia lar free lectures on Sundays on ait- ferent subjects including political. In 1921, the society sent over to the economic front of Russia the first sroup of automobile and tractor me- chanics who are at present working in the Russian-American Auto factory In 1922, a taflors’ group and some more mechan- ies were sent. In 1923, went the first sroups of the agricultural commune, Red Ray, which has its commune in the Odessa district. More groups fol- lowed in 1924. Another group of the same commune will leave in about a month. Since the activities of the organiza tion started the Russian colony has been thoroly awakened to self con- sciousness. There are now in Chica- go and vicinity nine Russian children’s schools including the one of the so- ciety, which are united into an inde- pendent federation. This federation has started classes also for adults, where besides the Russian lang- uage English is taught. The classes ot the Soviet School were merged with the classes of this federation, which is using the building of the society free of charge. There are also two co-operative restaurants, organized. by the members of the society. The mechanical classes were discontinued as the most active ones left for Rus- sia, and the others have learned the English language sufficiently to attend the regular schools in the city. ; The popular lectures are still con- ‘inued with free admission, There was added also popular plays, " members of the society built a little stage in the assembly hall popular plays in Russian are membership | , GET AN “AD” ie So: “Such a condition existed shortly af- | Those who are not doped with {l- |