The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 4, 1924, Page 6

Page Six THE DAILY WORKER. Where Are the LaFolletteites? a Published by the DAILY. WORKER PUBLISHING, CO. | 1118 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill. (Phone; Monroe 4712) SUBSCRIPTION: RATES By mali: $3.50....6 months $2.00...3 months By mail (in Chicago only): $4.50....8 months $2.50....3 months $6.00 per year $8.00 per year ABdress all mati and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER 1118 W. Washington Bivd. J. LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F. DUNNE MORITZ J. LOEB... Chicago, Hitnoie comececonssveneesensssnesoss MILORS. Business Manager ———— $$$ Entered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1928, at the’ Post- Office at Chicago, Ill, under the act of March 3, 1879. > The Left Wing and Hutcheson The Hutcheson machine of the Carpenters’. Union upheld its reputation for warfare on the militants by expelling five of the most active members on Monday. The workers who were expelled were members of the Workers (Communist) party and led. the fight in Chicago against the Landis award open shoppers. Everyone of them has a long record of service to the union to his credit. They were, ex- pelled because they fought. the Hutcheson machine and because at the recent convention of the union they aided in exposing the fact that Hutcheson, after the members.in Chicago had won the fight, has signed an agreement with the bosses for less than the Landis award scale. To put it plainly, they have been expelled in order to cow other members into keeping their mouth shut about other well-known acts of. treach- ery pulled off by the: machine. There is a campaign on in the Carpenters’ Union and Hutcheson is up for re-election. He is opposed by Morris Rosen who is supported by the left wing and the Workers Party members. Rosen . has already carried ...Detroit. , Here is another reason for the expulsions. Hutcheson wants to show that it is dangerous for the members of the union to differ with him on any policy—even that of selling out, to. the bosses. The campaign of the left. wing might have gath- ered less impetus if Hutcheson had not resorted to these tactics. As it is, every sincere member of the union will be able to understand exactly what the issue is, the left wing slate will get more publicity than it could have got without these expulsions and the Hutcheson machine will be badly shaken as a result of the wide exposure of its methods. The fight for the reinstatement of the expelled militants began the moment their expulsions were ratified and it will go on until the left wing wins. Mooney and the Molders’ Strike History is repeating itself in San Francisco. The Molders’. Union has pulled its members, out of all “open shops,” an explosion has oceurred.in one of them, two scabs have been injured and the employers’ association has offered a reward of $2,500 for those responsible for what is at once called a “bomb.eutrage.” . Tom Mooney.is:a member ofthe Molders’ Union and it was because of his. activity in strikes and organization. work that he incurred the hatred of the open shoppers. It will be surprising if the $2,500 reward. isnot, claimed soon by some vulture who. has been; able to frame, with the co- operation of .the police department,. sufficient evidence to hold some union man for the alleged crime. There will be many more Mooneys among the workers of San Francisco before labor there sweeps out the treacherous gang of union misleaders that deserted Tom Mooney, It may even be that out of this little strike of molders there may come an awakening that will free both Tom Mooney and the San Francisco.labor movement. Hail the Esthonian Comrades! No class conscious worker but will be thrilled by the story of the heroic. struggle waged against, that lackey of the British imperialism—the Esthonian fascist government. To members of the Workers (Communist) Party of America the braye attempt of our comrades in Esthonia to break the grip of the Esthonian militarists upon the masses of that nation is another glorious page in the history of the world revolution. iy That it seems to have met with temporary Advertising rates on application de- feat matters nothing, The workers of the world] bers have been made to know that the Esthonian Gom- munist workers are not afraid to die, and which is more important, that they know how to die—with faces to the capitalist enemy, with smoking weapons in their hands that dealt death a thou- sand times deserved to the murderers’ of the Esthonian working class. ‘ Good news, too, is it that the delegation.of the British trades unions in Moscow have voiced their protest against the terrorism of the Esthonian government, that precipitated the revolt, after they had pledged solidarity with the trade unionists of Boviet Russia in the name of the British labor movement. ({ .. This amounts to a direct challenge to British imperialism because without its financial aid the Esthonian government could not last twenty-four hours. When a revolt in tiny Esthonia has repercussions in London, there is good evidence of the Gordian knot in which world capitalism has tied itself.’ ‘i the Esthonian comrades! ees cr siees o iad In the appropriation bill called up in the senate there are some stupendous sums that need ex- }planation and would get an airing if the so-called “progressive” bloc were more progressive and less block, Two items in particular stand out as the meas- ures of capitalist government against the interests of the, workers, The first is an. attempt to get docile foreign labor which will scab instead of joining a union or going on strike. The second provides funds for spying upon and trying to over- throw the, workers’ and peasants’? government. of Russia. The state department of Charley Hughes wants no. less than $500,000 to begin its “inspection. of jimmigrants..abroad.” . This. means. that American {detectives will. be given positions in all. foreign |ports of embarkation and under the guise of “in- spection” of workers wishing to come to the United States, these workers will be made to prove that they. never belonged to a union, engaged in a strike and have no “Bolshevik ideas” before they are allowed eyen to get aboard ship. This is done to assure the American. employing class a stream of workers who will be “strike- proof.” When the unions in the steel mills or coal mines call a strike, these “inspected and passed” workers are supposed to be immune to such agita- tion. In spite of this viciou~ anti-labor provision, no sign has been made of opposition to it by either the Gompers labor bureaucracy or the so-called “progressive bloc” of LaFollette. The second anti-labor provision of the appropria- tion bill is the sum of $450,000 for the state de- partment’s “foreign service.” This money is used in posting spies inside the borders of Soviet Russia to provoke uprisings if possible and commit crimes against the Soviet government. The “progressive bloc” of LaFollette is just as silent*on this as on the first anti-labor provision for “inspecting” immigrants. LaFollette himself sits silent and lets these thipgs go, so far, without protest. Wheeler openly says. he will “go along” with the old gang on appropriations. New York Speaks Again All readers of the DAILY WORKER will be greatly encouraged by the news from New York City that the comrades of the nation’s metropolis has pledged themselves for the sum of $10,000.00 to “Insure the DAILY WORKER for 1925.” This splendid showing was made at agathering of delegates’ of the local Workers Party branches addressed by Moritz J. Loeb, business manager of the DAILY WORKER. It is only another indica- tion that the New York comrades are determined to build our Communist daily press so strong that there will soon be a special New York edition of “Our Daily.” The pledge of $10,000.00 to insure the DAILY WORKER for 1925 comes on the heels of the campaign that brought in 1,200 new “subs” for the Daily in New York City, followed by the placing: of “Our Daily” on the news stands, so that New York’s workers may purchase their paper on the streets as easily as the workers in Chicago. New York City has again set the pace for DAILY WORKER supporters thruout the entire: country. It is a fast pace. But workers in every city of the land, in proportion, can keep up with it. In the words of the manager of the campaign drive, Alfred Wagenknecht, “Let’s Go!” The Centralia Prisoners New efforts are being made to free the eight members of the I. W. W. now in the Walla Walla penitentiary, Washington, because they killed four members of the American Legion while defending themselves and their hall from attack organized by the Centralia chamber of commerce, following an armistice day parade November 11, 1919. Two. overseas veterans have made. affidavits recently giving further details of the plot, proving that it was a deliberately planned affair and ex- onerating the I. W. W. Seven jurors who, intim- idated by the terrorism of the legionnaires, signed the verdict of murder in the second degree, have also made affidavits detailing the methods used to influence them and have asked freedom for the men they helped conyict. The raid on the Centralia hall,. the torture and lynching of Wesley Everest, one of the defenders, the conviction of the other eight workers, consti- tutes one of the most dastardly crimes chargeable to. the capitalists and their hangers-on. The mem- sof the I, W.-W. who faced the maddened and wellarmed, white-collared mob, and did deadly execution, rendered a noble service to every labor organization in the United States. They, stopped for a long time the raiding of halls and assaults upon the militant workers, ; Now is the time to show the appreciation due these comrades. Every workers’ or, tion should not only contribute to the campaign, but should send strongly worded demands for a com- plete pardon to Governor Hart of Washington. », This is the very least that should be done. , _ Get a member for the Workers Party and a new ; THE DAILY WORKER ELECTIONS TAKE PLACE IN REICH NEXT SUNDAY Communist LeadersAre Thrown Into Jail (Special to The Dally Worker) BERLIN, Dec. 3.—The Reich elec- tions take place next Sunday with practically the entire parliamentary group of the Communist Party in jai) or “on the run,” In addition hundreds of local Communist Party functionar- ies are imprisoned and wanted by the police, The large vote polled by the Com- munists in the last national elections and recently in Hamburg has fright- ened the social.democrats and the the government. They do not want a repetition of that vote. Not that they fear the overthrow of the capitalist dictatorship by Communist deputies in side the reichstag, but Germany's credit among the international bank- ers would be materially weakened by a heavy Communist vote. The socialists, who are the strong- est supporters of the Dawes plan, are not following the customary methods of appealing to the masses in this campaign. ‘They are using the yellow trade union machinery to scare the Thursday, December 4, 1924 The Other Day The other day the collapse of Soviet Russia was again predicted. Every time the collapse of Soviet Russia is predicted the counter-revolutionary Russians in Reval, Riga; Paris, Berlin, London, Shanghai hens quite a nest of them in the United States, too) form cabinets for the New Russia of their dreams. At one time two or three such complete cabinets, from prime minister down to the king's fool were organized among the whites in Reval alone, ‘ Generals without an army, today. «But any day the ae may provide the forces for ah attack upon Soviet ussia. TOS eet Htad We will then need a POWERFUL DAILY to warn the masses, to arouse them against the whites and ual yellows, to’secure their support for the reds. 5 If we are to have the DAILY’ WORKER’ when this moment arrives we will have to INSURE IT’ NOW. It is for this reason we are asking you to make it your policy to buy a policy in the big campaign to of America used in the elections there. Twenty-nine million votes were cast in the national elections. It is not expected that this election will bring out as many voters. New York Workers’ School. Register Now—208 E. 12th St. workers into voting for them, the same policy that the republican party The Chicago Tribune of Sunday, Nov. 16, contained an article on wages in Soviet Russia. In a secareline it stated that the maximum salary of doctors is $42. There was also along list of wages paid to various categor- ies of workers. The purpose of this “article was clear. The Chicago Tribune, sympa- thizing with the viewpoint of Emma Goldman, the “arch-revolutionist,” tried to depict horrible conditions, in Soviet Russia, in which even such es- sential parts of a social organization as physicians are supposedly suffering physical misery. Confronted with Mighty Tasks. The salaries of physicians have been low since the revolution. The Soviet government had several mighty tasks upon taking power. ~ The: first one was to resist the attatks of the capitalist governments, including that of the “arch-democrat” and advocate of “self-determination of peoples,” Mr. Wilson. The second one was to fight the counter-revolutic the country, fostered and financed by the United States, British, and French governments, as admitted by Savin- kov, one of the main conspirators, who was captured and in Moscow sen- tenced to prison in the ‘nonth 6f “Au- gust; and as declared by Nitti, the Italian statesman in a work entitled “The Tragedy of Europe—and Amer- ica?” The third one was to rebuild the industries destroyed by the war and counter-revolution. The fourth one was to secure the position of the working class. The fifth one was to adjust the relations between the work- ing class and the peasants. The editors of the Chicago Tribune might do well to study the history of the United States. Let them find out how the American colonies looked after the revolution in 1776; let them delve a little into the history of the reconstruction period after the civil war. Then let them begin to talk about conditions in Soviet Russia. Enemies on All Sides. Soviet Russia undertook the solu- tion of the above tasks almost im the order given above. The Soviet gov- ernment, beset on all sides by ene- mies, had to perform the most neces- sary tasks first. The defense of the revolution was the supreme task— and the workers and peasants sacri- ficed themselves as no other people have fought to preserve the fruits of the revolution. And what is more they saved them. Only one who has been in Soviet Russia and has talked with the workers would realize what they think about the revolution. They hate the bourgeoisie with all the hate that workers who have lived thru gen- erations of oppression can feel. Per- haps the best indicator would be their attitude to American agricultural communes made up of American workers and farmers who have settled in Soviet Russia. The American workers were better dressed, they had a full equipment of ery. The Russian peasants thot they were the bourgeoisie returning to the country Hence they eyed them with suspic- fon, until convinced of their real na- ture. y Attack Domestic Problems with Zeal. Having saved the y the Soviet Soverhulastuniines the government, the Russian Communist Party which is res for the ac- tivities of the <vveceieaiibanieea to domestic problems with increased zeal, The situation of the proletariat was the first considerati There was unemployment, tions were poor owing té tion of the war period ar deterioration of dwellin not be combatted | and time. Muni | 80 these two problems, 1923-4. » industries | able to install new to lack of capita, ery had to be 1 As the READ THE DAILY WORKER. shape. The relation of the proletariat to the peagant had to be adjusted. The peasants, the overwhelming ma- jority of the population, could not buy industrial products owing to the high cost of production. The new eco- nomic policy, the brilliant achieye- ment of Comrade Lenin, a stroke that only a genius could dictate, took things along the right path. It was the strategy of the real revolutionary, who recognizes the forces at play not in his own country alone, but the world over. New Economic Policy Was Correct. The new economic policy was cor- rect, a thousand times correct, and has made Soviet Russia a more powerful factor in the world revolution than be- fore. Faétories increased their production. The light industry not needing such a large investment of capital pro- gressed more rapidly. The textile in- dustry, the cigarette and preserve in- dustries moved with giant steps. Dur- ‘ing the last year, the workers in the two latter industries increased their wages. The essential element, how- ever, is the heavy industry. The vio-| lent discussion in the Russian Com- munist Party from last November to January, revolved in part about that point. Can the heavy industries be developed, or is Soviet Russia in no position at this time to strengthen them and therefore must purchase all such products abroad? The decision was made that even at a great ex- pense to the Soviet government, the heavy industries must be developed. A Natural Outcome. The decision of the central execu- tive committee of the Russian Com- munist Party was correct. And as a consequence, the textile workers are earning 82 per cent, workers in the printing industry 73 per cent, food 113 per cent, leather 92 per cent, paper 100 per cent, wood industry 80 per cent. The average in Moscow is 93 per cent of pre-war wages It was obvious, therefore, that cate- gories of workers such as physicians and teachers would suffer. A working class at war with foreign and domestic enemies cannot pay its major atten- tion to these matters. yen the schools suffered, at one time, just be fore the new economic policy was adopted, they had to be taken over in main by the trade unions and the fac- tories. But today, things are on the upgrade. Wages in Soviet Russia should ‘not be interpreted in American ternis. First of all, it must always be remém- bered that Soviet Russia inherited th Russia of the tsars—its corruption, disorganization and misery. Out of the chaos has come order—and out of or- der has come continuous progress and consolidation. ¥ Buying Power Is What Counts. States. stance, by similar categories of Ger- man workers. A skilled. worker gets, on the average, leas $30.a month; an in len as low as $15. But even this is not the sole criterion of wages. The real terion is their buying power. worker get as much for his’ Soviet Russia, as, for instan many? He gets far more. United States and has to pay one-fourth or his wages for rent. viet Russia with a either no rent at all, three rubles ($1.00 to this including light and h factory has a club, This cl cultural center for all the workers It is the center for theatrical, work. i $ AD BE £ i A wo low or i 2 i i g q 8 ay H = es = ¢ classes, lectures; it contains a library | _ PATRONIZE:OUR ADVERTISERS GET AN “AD” FOR THE DAILY WORKER WAGES IN SOVIET RUSSIA Each worker contributes a few kopeks & month for its.maintenance. Lectur- ers on all subjects visit the clubs in the cities, smaller towns and villages alike, Movies ‘circulate thruout the workers’. clubs, Workers Trade at Co-operatives. The Russian worker gets his food | thru the co-operatives, one of which is’ attached to practically every fac- tory. The campaign for taking the re- tail trade out of private hands (the nepmen) has resulted in an immense drive of the co-operatives, which now have their shops in the smallest vil- lage and sell at far lower prices than the nepmen. It ‘is utterly untrue, that an ordinary suit of clothes costs $100 and a pair of shoes $20 in Soviet , Russia as the Chicago Tribune claims. Shoes are*stil deat, bit could be ob- tained for 12 rubles ($6); @ suit of clothes cost ‘trom 40 rubles ($20) up- wards. .The Soviet government was not satigfled with these prices, for it prevented the -workers and, above all, the peasants from purchasing manufactured goods. Hence prices dropped in 1923, and recently were again reduced 10 per cent. The con- sequence is that the textile and shoe factories ‘catinot. ‘supply’ the demand. The introduction of fhe co-operat- ives in the villages has had -an elec- tric effect. The peasants are able to get a far larger selection of merchan- dise than ‘ever before, for the co-op- eratives have a full stock, something that the private dealers could never Meals at Cost Price. Finally, the workers get their noon- day meal at the communal factory din- ing room; practically at cost price Every factory has a nursery, where the ‘working women leave their ‘chil. dren; there is a kindergarten at- tached to every factory. There is a dispensary, a hospital, a recreation home inthe mountains or country, a dentist's office. ©” . jitor’s Note.—Every day until Publication has been completed, the DAILY WORKER will publish a new chapter from the book, “Len- in: The. Great . Strategist. of the Class War,” by A. Losovsky, secre- tary of the Red International of ‘Labor Unions. The sixteenth chap- direct the atten- ‘ 4 to itself, how to concentrate fighting energies of far higher than those earned, for In-| sniva ‘of the mechanism of the social struggle. . reaches a POWER OF CONCENTRATION FRANCE STIRRED BY POLITIGAL Compared with Teapot ' Dome, It’s Innocent (Special to The Daily Worker) =: PARIS, Dec. 3,—There is lively po. Itical scandal running loose. here, the compared to the Teapot Dome affair it is but puny. Nothing worse than accepting money from a capitalist coh- cern for political purposes is charged against Herriot’s minister of com: merce, M. Raynaldy. The minister first acknowledges re: cieving the money as a subsidy for paper he was running. Tt appears that Raynaldy has an elastic political conscience and any scruples he may |have can be salved by francs. bitter opposition against. the Herriot government, owing to the premier’s stand on the religious question, Ns By Israel Amter The situation of the teachers and physicians—practically of al) intellee- tuals—has been given the close atten- tion of the Soviet government, which i settling it. : Won't Tolerate Bourgeoisie, The correspondent of the Chicago Tribune might ask the physicians and teachers—and the workers and peas- ants—if they would like the bour- geoisie to return—if they would like |@ restoration of the beautiful capitalist system that the workers, farmers, teachers of the United States must ei- dure and at the same time smile. Ask them as I have asked them, and the answer will be an emphatic not The question the workers and peas- ants and the intellectuals of Soviet Russia constantly asked me wast When are the workers and poor farm- ers of the United States going to wake up and put an end to their capital government? : The question of wages must be con- sidered economically, It must be weighed in its actual and rela' terms. Wages are constantly a ing in Soviet Russia; Soviet. Bi is getting back to normal times. ‘It will not ‘be long before she has touched the figure of pre-war times. Then she will go on to Communist economy. In the meantime, wages and conditions for the working class in every part of the capitalist world are deteriorating, because capitalism no longer forms a basis for world economy. The workers and poor peasants of Italy, Poland, Roumania, Mexico, the near and far east might answer this question. The textile and farm workers, and the millions of unskilled workers, the clerks and’ partment store slaves in the United States, might answer this question best of all. The poor farmers have had a long taste of capitalist “prosper- ity.” The working class as a whole will soon get another one, 4 enemy. In moments of decision the least failure to adopt energetic méa- sures results in the working class ing with thousands of lives. Such in- decision enables the enemy to collect its forces and to assume the offensive, In the whole of Lenin’s activities the following passes like a red thread: Initiative, determination, ruthlessness, the pursuit of the enemy until hes destroyed, quick action and the con- centration of the proletarian forces-et the weakest spot of the enemy’s front. At the same time Lenin under how to diagnose the weaks spots « the armor of his own class. He wou fight and exclude from the midst ‘of the proletariat many elements and whole social groups that were stee ing against the course of the p tarian movement. He had a very. sense of perception for all the processes that are going on the masses, he sensed very qui all the subterranean forces and unsound tendencies’ working class. that the working class find; within the capitalist order of and that as a result of this, ism is exerting a great the proletarian masses. class soil, Lenin wag in_ a of an iron will to fight. He ney. mitted himself to be in defeats. He always tronched self in the positions to ing class would be compelted to treat and from there again assume | offensive, ®: ee Tomorrow—"An jasses.” The catholic church is organising # i PELE GRAFT SCANDAL: Sect ee ee RTL a