The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 10, 1924, Page 6

Page Six THE DAILY WORKER. | Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO, 1118 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill. (Phone: Monroe 4712) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mall: $6.00 per year $3.50....6 months $2.00...8 months By mai! (In Chicago only): $8.00 per year $4.50....6 months $2.50....8 months Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER 1913 W. Washington Blvd. $n | J. LOUIS ENGDAHL scasseusmersssve EDGItOre WILLIAM F. L VE MORITZ J. LOE jusiness Manager Entered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1923, at the Post- Office at Chicago, Ill, under the act of March 3, 1879. <p 290 Chicago, lllnols | Advertising rates on application British Imperialism Plays Trumps Austen Chamberlain, new minister of foreign| affairs in the tory cabinet of Britain, has arrived at Rome to attend the thirty-second session of the league of nations council. He heralds a new and aggressively imperialist control over the league of nations, a control which corresponds to the end of the period of “democratic pacifism” and the rise of militant imperialism under the Dawes plan. Mr. Chamberlain has in adyance of his arrival at Rome succeeded in the major part of the business to be transacted there. By an artful bit of double dealing he obtained while stopping off in Paris, the hearty co-operation of Premier Herriot in his own retirement on an anti-Bolshevik issue, and at the same time he obtained the—at least tempo- rary—approval of France for a “gentleman’s agree- ment” whereby no question of England’s bloody repression of Egypt should come before the league of nations. He even got an agreement that France would let Britain have a “free hand” in Africa in exchange for a like attitude for the French colonies on that indeed “dark continent.” This “free hand” is meant to make England in- dependent of American cotton, a fact which may interest our own cotton trust to some degree, but which we hope will interest more the wage work- ers in cotton production who must now compete with labor of Africa which will be, if it is not al- ready, completely enslaved. Mr. Chamberlain is now in Rome and he is going to reverse the old maxim, and make the Romans do as he does. He is going to ask Mussolini to come in on the “gentleman’s agreement” to repress in one imperialist united front the black populations of Africa. The situation is that the great imperialist na- tions of Europe, in artful calculation of their lease on life before the capitalist decline takes them into oblivion, are striving to add to the stabilization of the Dawes plan, which is made at the cost of the lives of the European masses, an “Austen Chamber- lain plan” for more intensive exploitation of the colonial peoples. But this has its penalties, as the concurrent rise of militant revolutionary symptoms show in the colonial countries from the Near East to the Far East. “Only Eleven Murders—” According to the figures submitted to a meeting of the Landis award committee held yesterday, this body spent $2,053,654 in three years breaking strikes—“enforcing the Landis award,” is the euphonious term used to describe the reign of ter- ror against the unions launched by this committee of open shoppers. The greater portion of this huge sum was spent in 1922—the year of the open shop drive. That the activities of the committee had as their chief objective the disruption and smashing of unions and that enforcing the award proper was a small part of their task, is more than hinted at by the report given Monday which shows that but one-sixth of the building contracts let in the last twelve months went to Landis award concerns. “Since its existence only eleven deaths or mur- ders are traceable to the Landis award,” says the report of the committee and this smug reference to the atrocities of its army of thugs and the cover- ing of the clues to most of their crimes against unions and union men is quite in line with the hypocrisy of the chamber of commerce crowd that | raised $50,000 dollars to hang the miners of Herrin | who defended themselves against a private army of gunmen recruited from the Landis award mercen- aries here in Chicago. $2,053,654 will buy a lot of thugs, guns, black- jacks, judges and police protection. There is con- siderable, resistance left in the American labor movement when, divided into feeble crafts as it is, rent and torn by jurisdictional disputes, sold out by its officials, it can fight a powerful and well- financed group of bosses backed by the state, as well as it has here in Chicago. With the amalgamation of the unions and a recognition of the class struggle the building trades could wage a struggle that would make the bosses thing twice before starting another war on labor. When, however, such incidents as the signing ofa Landis award agreement by Hutcheson, presi- dent of the Carpenters’ Union, without the consent of the membership, is followed by an attempt to expell the most militant members of the union because of their exposure of his treachery, it is no wonder that the bosses feel encouraged and confident of their ability to break a union that tolerates as its head a man who could easily quali- fy as a member of the Landis award committee. If the Mexican workers read the American capi- talist press more, their appreciation of President Calles would be a bit shaken by the chorus of ap- proval, tion” method of settling wage questions. Streetcarmen in Action The impartial nature of wage arbitration boards is an illusion that is being rapidly shattered even here in the United States where the “identity of interest between employer and employe” theory {has been foisted upon the workers to “an extent unknown anywhere else. The members of the Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Employes, working for the Illinois Power and Light company, are the latest group of workers to repudiate the “arbitra- They were handed a reduction several months ago by one of these “impartial” boards, but today the workers on. the McKinley traction lines are on strike and a general strike in sympathy with them is in preparation in Peoria, Galesburg, Blooming- ton, Decatur, Champaign and Danville. The .streetcarmen have demanded an_ increase of 10 per cent as against the reduction recom- mended by the arbitration board. This strike has all the appearances of having re- sulted from the mass dissatisfaction among the street railway workers and the officials of the union have had to move. The workers are holding closed meetings and the proposal for a general strike shows that they are insisting on immediate action. It is one of the anomalies of American life that a strike of streetcarmen while it makes for great inconvenience of the travelling public, almost in- variably evokes mass sympathy for the strikers. This is a great advantage enjoyed by the streetcar- men’s union and one that in this instance they have not discounted by allowing the traction capi- talists months in which to get ready to break the strike. The DAILY WORKER hopes that the streetcar- men give the traction compahy a sound trouncing. A Few Encouraging Signs Company unions are losing their popularity with the workers in spite of all efforts of the cor- porations to perpetuate these tools of capitalist reaction. Following the defeat of the shop crafts in 1922 there was a movement of the workers away from the unions, inspired largely by the weak and spine- less policy of union officialdom expressed in separate settlements with railway companies and which ends logically in the acceptance of class collaboration illustrated by the B. and O. plan. But the Trade Union Educational League, the only organized left wing movement in the United States, has carried on an energetic campaign against the desertion of the unions and this cam- paign now shows real results. There is a revival of militancy among both organized and unorgan- ized workers, especially in the transportation in- dustry. Votes taken under the auspices of that government agency of the railways—the railway labor board—now invariably show big majorities against company unions. In addition to this the news of a big majority for a strike in the referendum among the engineers and firemen on the Southern Pacific lines is further evidence that even among the highly paid aris- tocracy of labor there is much discontent. ‘We look for some big accomplishments for the Trade Union Educational League during the com- ing year. There is no other leadership for the left wing movement that is developing and the pro- gram of the Red International of Labor Unions will attract ever larger masses as the workers are forced to fight the Coolidge-Morgan-Dawes dicta- torship, whose first blows will be at the living standards of the workers. Farmers Who Fight In the correspondence of Comrade J. W. John- stone from Mexico, he tells of the intensity: of feel- ing among the peasants who, from all over Mexico, but especially from the state of Vera Cruz, gathered at Jalapa for their second peasant congress. It is particularly to be noted that in the great upsurging of the Mexican people, the peasants are organizing under the direct leadership of the Communist Party of Mexico. The Jalapa congress denounced the fake labor varty of Calles and rallied enthusiastically around the slogan of the Communists for a workers’ and farmers’ government, and endorsed the Commun- ist Party of Mexico, choosing its leaders and their leaders. These are farmers who really fight. The failure of the French police to find a single Russian among the three hundred. Communists arrested yesterday must be a severe disappoint- ment to the French capitalist press. The stereotyped formula for the explanation of revolutionary movements is “foreign agitators” and it is/consequently embarrassing to have to ad- mit that the native working class is capable, with- out inspiration from abroad, of resenting and fighting the oppressions of capitalism which, in France particularly, lives principally on the doles granted by billionaire foreign agitators like J. PB. Morgan. Bolshevism and atheism cannot be blamed for the famine in Ireland, The opposite might be much nearer the truth. As in 1847 there is enough food in Ireland today to feed ten times the population, but under capitalism food, like all other com- modities, is produced for profit and not for con- sumption. ‘ The Russian method may not be the most pleasant in the world for the ezar, but it has proved less painful for the Russian workers and peasants than that followed by the German social- democrata, THE DALGY WORKER WORKERS SCHOOL STARTS OLGIN'S CLASS TUESDAY “The Russian Revolu- tion” Given in Lectures NEW YORK CITY, Dec. 9. Moissaye J. Olgin, noted Com- munist lecturer and writer, wil give a course of lectures on the Russian. Revolution at the Workers’ School of New York beginning Tuesday, Dec. 16. The course will consist of ten lectures dealing with the pro- blems of the Russian peasantry, the controversies within the Russian Communist Party, the cultural aspects of the Russian Reyolution, the theatre in Soviet Russia, modern Russian literature, etc. Comrade Olgin, who. needs no intro- duction to New York militants, is especially well-qualified to give such a course. While a delegate from the Workers Party to the Fifth Congress of the Communist International, he spent several months in Russia study- ing the problems and constructive achievements of the Workers Repub- lic. His lectures will treat of vital aspects of the revolution which it is essential to. know in order to under- stand the full significance of the new life that is being built in Russia. Lore on Current. Events. Ludwig Lore, editor of the Volkszei- tung and member of the Central Executive Committee of the Workers Party, will conduct a class in current events at the Worekrs’ School of New York every Friday night, beginning Dec. 12, To carry on effective agitational and organizational activity in the la bor movement, militants must be well informed on the happenings of the day. They must be able to analyze present struggles and achievements in this and other countries with a revolu- tionary understanding of the forces at work thruout the world. The course ih current events given aut the Workers’ School does not aim nerely to supply information, but to teach militants how to interpret such events from the Communist viewpoint. Workers are urged to enroll now The classes will meet at the headquar- ters of the school, 208 east 12th street. The fee for the courses is $2 each, single admissions, 24 cents. For reg- istration and information inquire at the office of the Workers’ School. . MUSIC. By ALFRED V. FRANKENSTEIN. ACOB SCHAEFFER covered him- self with glory Sunday night, when the Freiheit Singing Society gave a concert at the Eighth Street theater. For most of the program was made up of his compositions, he is the director of the chorus, and musical organizations stand or fall by the work of their directors. After a pulse quickening perform- ance of “The International,” the Frei- heit mandolin orchestra, under Harry Dolman, took the stage. They played Grieg’s “Norwegian Wedding Proces- sion” rather nervously, but gained composure and followed it up with the Schubert first mflitary march and ‘| Register Now—208° Gillet’s “Invitation to the’ Ball” done in fine shape. There is a most un- usual effect produced by this group of twenty-five or more mandolins. It sounds something like the effect of a heavy fall of rain tuned to a scale and controlled so that melodies can be pro- duced. The orchestra is wise in add- ing a flute, oboe and cello for con- trast of quality. The singing society came on again to sing Schaeffer’s song. Unfortu- nately I cannot review this part of the concert in detail, since the pro gram was printed and the songs were sung in a language with which I am unfamiliar. There is a fine virility in the conductor's compositions, and an astounding precision and spirit in the work of the chorus. The Friheit group sings with all the perfection of a professional choral society, (and bet- ter than some), and yet they are all workers, some of them unable to read notes, I am told, For amateurs to sing without accompaniment in per fect intonation and rhythm is a real achievement. An account of the concert would not be complete without some men tion of Schaeffer's orchestral compo sitions played by a band of Chicago Symphony men under his direction. Especially good was a series of vari tions on what is known in English as a “Marching Song of the Red Army?” (The English text begins: “Whirl winds of danger are circling’ around us, O’erwhelming forces of darkness assail—") the tune was worked, out with considerable knowledge of its possibilities, and of the resources of the orchestra, The program closed with Mendels- sohn’s setting of Goethe's first Wal- purgis night. { New York Work aes Pie tine ee Kets AR RNG Sa EGS REE de th Us. Ee Priadhalpa Ps SONG lel ll DESO 2S RE A Aa Id Br EN he did the damage: Dear Comrades: lowing: and as an encouragement. to Does he cent in total earnings, and a de- crease of 2.8 per cent in per capita earnings,” the department of labor re- ports. The greatest losses, according to the report, in employment and em- ployes’ earnings in the 12 months were in the shipbuilding foundry, ma- chine tool, rubber boot and shoe, steam railroad car building. and re- pairing, shirt, automobile, structural iron, agricultural implement, hosiery, iron and steel, cotton goods, and men’s clothing industries. The number reported on the pay- rolls in identical establishments was 2,331,087 in October 1923 as com- pared to 2,079,046, or a decrease in the number of employed since last year of 10.8 per cent. The amount of the payroll in Oc- tober 1923 was $63,093,250 while the amount of the payroll had gone down to $54,709,847 in October 1924, a de- crease of 13.3 per cent for the year. The amount of the payroll on the class 1 railroads of the entire country decreased 11.7 per cent since last year. Unemployment in Illinois increased over 12 per cent over unemployment for October 1923, according to reports of the Illinois department of labor. “Last month our survey showed that there were fewer people at work in the factories of Illinois than there were on the average in 1922, when we were just shaking off the harrowing effects of the depression of 1920-21,” says the November report of the Illinois department of labor. “The survey shows that the fac- tories of Illinois Had fewer workers than they had in any October in the THE NAME MLE LG = > & THE NEW Requiescat In Pace N plain English it means “The baby was knocked cold.” And this is exactly what an energetic DAILY WORKER Bullder did. Harris of New York “swings a wicked wallop” and he tells us how David Enclosed herewith please find P. O. M. ©. for twenty dollars and fifty cents ($20.50) for the fol- 1—A ten dollar ($10.00) insurance policy—to help insure the American Federation of Labor against the class struggle. 2—One year’s subscription to the DAILY WORKER in advance of expiration of the old one—in memary of oun, grand: r. mother, the late S. P. of the U. S. Ai whe so ‘nalerabiy perished on the road to Wisconsin. 3—One year’s subscription to the WORKERS MONTHLY in advance’ of expiration of theold: one—this merely out of sympathy for brother Mussolini, who needs it so badly. 4—One year’s subscription to the, COMMUNIST INTER- NATIONAL in advance of the old one--this*in, recognition of our humble servant of King George V.,—Ramsay MacDonald. Yours for the DAILY WORKER, D. HARRIS. “swing a wicked wallop”?——You tell. tem! UNEMPLOYMENT HAS INCREASED 10 PER CENT SINCE 1923, DECLARES DEPARTMENT OF LABOR FIGURES Unemployment on November 1 showed a considerable..increase over unemployment at the same time in 1923, according to figures for October 1924, given out by the United States department of labor. “Reports from 6,607. identical establishments in the two years, show a decerase in 1924 of 10.8 per cent in employment, a decrease of 13.3 per REVERE COMRADES T0 GIVE COSTUME BALL FOR DAILY WORKER REVERE, Mass:, Dec. 9.—Revere branch in addition to taking DAILY WORKER policies will give a cos- tume ‘ball Dec. 24, part of the pro- ceeds to go to the DAILY WORK- ER. The ball will-be held at Eagle’s Hall, Revere. Tickets are 50c. Re- vere comrades will p! je set this date aside: and get ready to work for the success of this affair. .. past four years. The percipitate de- clines of early 1924 with only slight swells in August ‘and September and a renewed. decline! in October ‘leave the factories with 13 per cent fewer persons than were at work at the peak of operations in 1923 and 12 per cent fewer than one year ago at this time.” ‘One hundred and thirty-nine per- sons were registered for each 100 jobs as compared to 117 seeking 100 jobs in 1923 and 97 seeking 100 jobs in 1922, 4 : i I By Hard Labor! By constant effort, and even sacrifice some- times— brother— ; only in this and similar built— OIL UNIVERSITY | ADMITS RUSSI BACKS SOVIETS. Poor Professor Thinks Russians Are Different John, .D. Rockefeller’s Uni- versity of Chicago seems to have decided that the Bolshe~ viki are accepted by the Rus- sian people, in theory and as @ party, and that the Communist government ‘ ‘seems secure.” 4 Even more than that, “The Bolsheviki are the party in power in Russia, and if you want to deal with Russia, you will have to deal with them,” Discuss Other Revolutions. These statements were made in the class in history III (European history: The later modern period, 1789-1920), by the instructor of that class, Walter Louis Dorn, Mon., Dec. 8. The discussion of the Russian revo: lution comes as a sort of culmination to the discussion of the great Fren¢h revolution, the revolution of 1848 and the imperialistic wars. The class- mates of Loeb and Leopold were led up to the instructor's appraisal ef Lenin by way of the same individual's judgment of Napoleon the Little, Bis- marck, and Garibaldi. According to Dorn, Lenin made the Russian revolution. Lenin seems to have assumed some of the qualities’ of anti-Christ, in the mind of Dorn (the University of Chicago was originally a theological seminary, and does still preserve some of the aspects of meth- odism.) 4 Blames All on Lenin. t Dorn says that Lenin “created the Communist Party,” “created the So: viets,” “created the Red Army,” “cre ated the dictatorship of the proletar iat”—all by means of his “‘diabolically logical mind,” and “unreasoning faith in his essentially wrong and twisted economic theories.” In fact, accord: ing to Dorn, “Lenin was the Bolshevik revolution,” and, “until he died, Lenin was dictator of Russia.” Dorn’s theory is that the Soviet sys- tem of government is on trial, and is accepted by the Russian people be- cause they are different from all om peoples. A Carnegie Lackey. WASHINGTON, Dec. 9—Sen. Phipps . of Colorado, the new chairman.of the / | ' senate committee on education and la*:"” i bor, was formerly treasurer of the Carnegie Steel Co., and is known as one of the bitterest foes of union la bor who ever has sat in congress. Thé new senator from Rhode Island, Met- calfe, has been chosen to this commit. tee to lend his aid to Phipps against Borah and Brookhart. Dale of Ver- mont, has withdrawn from the com mittee. Borah surrendered the chairmanal of the committee on education and bor in order to become chairman of the foreign relations committee. by talking to your shop-mate and your union ways is a Labor paper BY HARD LABOR! THE DAILY WORKER 1113 W. Washington Boulevard | ———— RATES —— Goo a year 6 3.506 months 200 2 montis Ke mon aes ry FAS 6 montis § Z5e SUBSCRIPTION TO BUILD DAILY ‘WORKER ‘If you want to see YOUR paper grow—build it with subscription bricks as thousands of work- "ers are doing thruout the country. “Send them to Chicago, Illinois S months