The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 5, 1925, Page 6

Page Six THE DAILY WORKER. NN ahi Hae oe tet eat ec ae Et Et a Wa Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING co. | 1118 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, ML (Phone: Munroe 4712) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mall: $3.50....6 months $2.00...8 months | By mail (in Chicago only): | $4.50....6 months $2.50...8 months 66.00 per year $8.00 per year Adress all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER 1218 W. Washington Bivd. 3. LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F, DUNNE oon AICOFS MORITZ J. LOEB ...conereenneee Business Manager Chicago, tlinele | ——— Qntered as second-class mat! Sept. 21, 1923, at the Post- Office at Chicago, Ill, under the act of March 3, 1879. Peet AC Ep 290 Advertising rates op application The Miners’ Pay Semi-starvation is a chronic condition for some 20,000 men, women and children in the mining regions of West Virginia—one of the richest states in the union. For three years these miners have been locked out. by the coal companies and have suffered untold hardships. Lately there has been renewed activity on their behalf and food and clothing is being col- lected. In this district the strikebreakers are work- ing for $2.50 to $4 per day while the union scale is $6.90. The complete collapse of union organiza- tions in this territory is seen.in the fact that since the desertion of the miners by the officialdom of the United Mine Workers of America but 10 per cent of the coal companies are paying the union scale. It is largely from the non-union mines of West Virginia that coal comes which displaces union mined coal in other markets and it is this non- union territory that furnishes the ammunition with which the coal operators’ association bombards the United Mine Workers of America. The commonsense policy would be to put the whole strength of the union behind an organization drive in this state, but the reactionary Lewis ad- ministration prefers to revoke charters in union territory and disrupt the once splendidly organized United Mine Workers of America. Persecuting and expelling Communists has replaced organiza- tion work and West Virginia affords a fine example of ‘the result of this policy. It is doubtful if the misery of the West Virginia miners would have been brought to the attention of the labor movement at this time at all if it were not for the fact that non-union mines owned by the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers are located in this district and the Lewis administration can find plenty of time to fight this gang of cockroach capitalists with whom it has a personal feud. Ac- cording to reports the Brotherhood mines, managed by Warren Stone, one of the original LaFollette boosters, has just evicted 86 miners’ families in the best steel trust style. Hence the new publicity campaign of the Lewis administration. Here is a eross section of the American labor movement as it is in the hands of the crooks, cockroach capital- ists and politicians. One section of it owns mines and uses the most infamous methods of the bigger capitalists. Another section of it supports Cool- idge and the blackest group of capitalists and tries to discredit the smaller fry. Meanwhile the rank and file with whose lives both groups play, exists in tents in the bitter win- ter weather and starves. This is one of the conditions that makes for the growth of the revolutionary left wing movement. It is a condition that will vanish only when both sets of betrayers have been kicked out neck and crop, and the American labor movement rallied to the program of the Trade Union Educational League. Poincare Speaks Thru Herriot The French chamber of deputies by a vote of 541 to 32 approved the posting of Premier Herriot’s reactionary speech in relation to Germany. The socialists at first announced that they would vote against the posting on.the ground that the speech was too reactionary, Herriot threatened to resign and the socialists promptly changed their minds, The burden of Herriot’s speech was that Ger- many was not disarmed, that France’s allies and associates had not kept faith and that France had made all the concessions she could afford ‘to Ger- cyraa “Landlords, Courts and Tenants Former patriots who could «see..no» connection t yaitieed landlords and agencies of ‘the capitalist state power like the courts, for instance, are having their eyes opened in New York. A federation of rentpayers’ associations who have been battling the landlords for some time have4 been advised, thru the conviction and ‘sentencing of one of its officers to a year in the penitentiary, that courts and judges are institutions and indi- viduals functioning for the protection of landlords and other thieves whose profession is legalized, Captain Harry Allen Ely, president of a tenants’ association, called a certain judge a “numbskull” in an article in the official organ of the association and the association of landlords took care to see that the article was brought to the attention of this ornament of the New York bench with the result above set forth. The courts, of course, are not im- mune to criticism we are told, but we notice that! most of those who indulge in searching criticism of the judiciary land in the hoosegow as did the captain whose long record of service in war time which he naively reasoned would save him, failed to keep him out of the Tombs—the first stop on the way to Sing Sing. It is to be hoped that this experience will have the effect of convincing the members of the tenants’ association, in spite of their middle-class character and leadership, that-anyfight against landlordism and kindred evils is useless unless it recognizes that all the legal appéndages of capitalism, legis- latures, courts, judges, police and military, are back of the landlords and the private property in- terests they personify. The frenzied fear that even the mildest form of protest against landlordism and its kept courts arouses in the parasitic element is shown by the severe sentence handed out to the worthy captain who in,all probability looks upon American capi- talist government as the supreme achievement of the human race. When the captain gets out of jail he should take a walk to the New York headquarters of the Workers (Communist) Party and find out the real reason why he was incarcerated. The Austrian Debacle Austria, the little countity that has been used as a laboratory by the league of nations and whose working class has been forced into the role of guinea pigs by the impe¥falist experimenters, has collapsed. Even the injections of gold serum and the cow- ardly submission of the social-democrats to Zim- merman, the receiver appointed by the league, lias failed to do the impossible—tepair the damages of war, rebuild industry and feed the population in a country stripped of its Bes urces and partitioned among the allied nations. ” The working class of Alsthia has gone thru hell while the experiment was’ in progress and today stands as a living—barely li ‘Tiving—example of the hopelessness of a working ¢lass that allows itself to have faith in capitalism. — The Austrian breakdowh creates another serious problem for the imperiali its and this problem cries for solution at a time whi political crises hold the stage in almost every important European nation. Three avenues of escapey all of them of a tem- porary nature, are‘open to the allied powers. First, Austria can become part of a Danube federation that would strengthen the little nations and in all probability upset’French*‘plans in that sector. Second, Austria can become'again a part of the German nation with a resultant strenghtening of the working class forces which neither the German or allied capitalists view with anything but fear. Third, Austria can become an Italian protectorate and thus arouse an implacable enmity in the Balkan states that might mean a new war. The Communists alone can look at the new situa- tion created by the Austrian debacle with equani- mity, confident that it is additional proof that cap- italism cannot solve its post-war problems and that with the growing strength of the Communist jpar- ties in all European nations, that continent steps closer and, closer to the path blazed by the revolu- tionary workers and’ peaikints of Soviet Russia. Get a member for the Workers Party and a new subscription for the DAILY WORKER, More Trouble for Fascist Spain Raisuli, the Spanish “government's only conse- quential friend in Morogco, has surrendered to many and in the future must consider the question of her own security against a German attack. He intimated that France would not withdraw her troops from the Rhine unless satisfactory guaran- dees were forthcoming. Only the Communists and a few other deputies voted against Herriot. Some of the socialists outdid the nationalists in jingoism. The Poin- eareists declared that Herriot was a convert to their side, so they voted unanimously to support him. The advent of Herriot to office was hailed by pacifists as a victory for peace and liberalism. But as the Communists pointed out, even a man with the best of intentions cannot bring about peace under the capitalist system. It is impossible. “As far as labor is concerned,” declared Mrs. Philip Snow den, wife of the chancellor of the ex: chequer in Ramsay MacDonald’s government, “the throne is established forever.” It is only ni to say that Mrs. Snowden is a leading British so- cialist and is dead set against the Communists. She dearly loves her king. Spain’s most redoubtable enemy, Abd-el-Krim, who has inflicted defeat after defeat on the Spanish forces. His latest conquest renders the position of Spain in Morocco untenable. The chieftain Raisulj was purchased by Spain last October for a large-sum of money. He took to the hills with his treasure and remained there ever since, feigning illness. Krim, however, was more than a match for the forces of Dictator Primo de Rivera. The Spanish directorate allocated 1,000,000 pesetas for the purpose of “demoralizing and cor- rupting the enemy.” This means bribing the native chieftains. Thru his, victory over Raisuli, Abd-el- Krim bas access to whatever part of this million is still untouched by the recipient. Spain’s treasure turned out to be a her foes. ‘The prospects for Spain retaining her precarious hold tnwch longer on Morocco is not bright. But as soo ds Spain quits the otherxand more pow- erful capitalist nations will step in, continued robbery and exploitation of the le of Morocco and other undeveloped parts of eae can only be prevented by the working class, THE DAILY WORKER RETA big mgr] By JOSEPH _MANLEY ‘HE return to work of the 12,000 anthracite strikers employed by the Pennsylvania coal company, marks a new point in the struggle of the rank and file of the miners union against John L. Lewig, and his policy of class-collaboration rulership. This two month old strike was a spontaneous affair, caused by the fail- ure of the regular union machinery to secure redress for the many egriev- ances of the men, The bulk of the leaders of the strike were men whose idea of the struggle between labor and capital is very ‘similar to those held by Lewis himself. The strike could have no other ending but the present one—a return to work with | the promise of the’ Lewis strike com- | mission, that the ?arious grievances |of the men would be ‘taken up by the conciliation board.*) Abolish Fake Conciliation This is the same Conciliation board developed out of thé’ commission ap- pointed by Roosevelt to settle the 1902 strike.’ This concifldtion board, con- sisting of three repfésentatives of the operators and three of the miners and an umpire paid byboth sides, has little power to settle anything. Its chief function has Béen to create the illusion among some of the miners that thru it they cotild-get redress for their grievances. But there is a grow- ing conviction amongst the rank and file that the conciliation board is but one of the cogs in the wheels of the giant machine that is destroying their hard won gains of:other days. A de- mand is arising for its abolition. Had a militant leadership been at head of this strike it would have taken an entirely different turn, Such a militant leadership would have rallied the strikers in mass meetings; it would have understood the power, both economic and political of the anthracite trust. To fight this power it would have organized a general strike of ALL the s,companies. a such methods the stfu iggle would have gained real concessiofis in less than half the time consuifréd by the “Penn- sylvania” strike. » + By its lack of militancy and its tacit acceptance of Lewis’, class-collabora- tion policies, the leadership of. the recent strike doomed the strike to its present inevitable ending. This lead- ership is not the kind that will enable ented delegates, trofn.the variois party branches"and 4he Trade Union the anthracite miners to escape from | Educational League in the region. This the iron grip of the anthracite mon- opoly. A Policy of Struggle Wanted conference was unanimous in adopt- ing platis'‘and policies to carry on and intensify Communist propaganda, This anthracite monopoly, headed | However, its immediate task was to by the world banker Morgan, can only | formulate practical plans that will en- be successfully opposed by the type }able every Communist and sympath- of leadership that accepts a policy of jizer ‘to take the lead in the daily class struggle rather than one of class | struggle for the redress of the miners collaboration. The class struggle type | grievances. To ‘this end it adopted of leadership has not come to the} the following: front in the anthracite region. There are many reasons for this, some: of which are: The sharp racial divisions existing especially since 1902, the overwhelming population is foreign born; the tremendous influence of the church upon both the native and foreign population. And the sobject- ive economic conditions have not yet become sharp enough to have had a leavening effect upon the old fashion. ed ideas of property rights of. the native population. Wages have in the past been just enough to foster the illusion of, own-. ing one’s own home. In addition, the many textile mills scattered al] thru the anthracite region, have provided. jobs for the miners’ daughters while, their sons worked in the coal break- ers. All this is changing. The thiners | are now rebelling against, not alone their own miserable working cordi- tions, but against this system of child labor exploitation. They are insisting upon a better education for their chil- dren than they themselves received. With this change will also come that other product of American capital- ism—the modern American militant revolutionist. In the anthracite region the Work+ ers Party and the T. U. B.:L. and their policies are the only hope of the miners for the future. Their analysis of both the objective and subjective factors in the only one that rings true to the existing situa: tion. The call of the Communists and left wingers in the anthracite for militant policies and militant leadership is the outstanding feature of the present situation in the aoe cite region. The Party and T. U. E. L. Contererice To more effectively carry’*on’this struggle an important conferenéé has just been held at which was repres- ge By EARL R. BROWDER. ‘HE reason that “co-operation” (in the sense of thepnsumers’ co-op- erative movement) **not: enough to solve the problemi of the working class; is that we alfe® living under capitalism, which, un@er the forms of parliamentary demogracy, imposes a dictatorship of the Bapitalist class upon the toiling masses. Until this dictatorship of the bourgeoisie is broken, and the powér of the working class made supreme, the working class must concentrate itg main attention upon crystallizing itggclass leadership and mobilizing its class forces, for the struggle against capitalism. Co-operation Can Help in Class Strugtfe. The co-operative “faovement can be used to the advantage of the workers in their struggle, ided it is or- ganized and led on, the basis of the fundamental class struggle. Co-opera- tion between the workers—struggle between the workers and the bour. geoisie; this is the formula for a suc- *\cessful co-operative movement. Unfortunately the co-operative movement is largely dominated by middle-class ideas. These exercise a confusing and pernicious influence over the workers. They set up the false goal, the reformist Utopia of “co. operation” between; the workers on the one hand and séetions of the bour- oisie on the other hand. This co- operation of classe#iis the very worst poison for the labo? movement in all its phases. It must be combatted everywhere by all mieans, and particu: larly in the co-operative movement is it strongest. é The co-operatival® can become in- struments of worlting class emanci pation only to the extent that the Philosophy of c! collaboration is driven out and destroyed, and the co- operative movement drawn into the whole class struggle. Task of Revolutionary Workers. What should retblutionary workerr do when they face-a workers’ co-op- erative movement Which is dominated by these harmful of class collab. oration which poison the minds of the workers? Show! jey refuse to par- ticipate, or sho ey enter the co- operative movement! The answer is, that revolutionary workers should always take part in every activity which engages large numbers of workers. And it is pre. cisely there where the bourgeois idear are the strongest ¢hat the revolution. ary workers will find the most fruit ful work to be @done—in combatting these wrong ideasy All revolutionary workers shoul¢ join the workers!,co-operative move- ment, engage e; in its work and energetically_advocate the follow: ing program: (L) The o ive must alwayr consider itself organ of the work- ing class in its le against cap- italism. * (2) Draw the co-operatives inte elose contact andeunited actions with the trade unions, WHY CO-OPERATION IS NOT ENOUGH. tet (3.) The co-operatives ¢anttot’'be neutral in the political struggle, but must always support the working’ ‘olass Political struggles against’ thé ‘dour. gobiaie. BORE Bs (4.) The co-operatives should as- sist in mobilizing the masses iff direct struggle for control of markets; prides, pray LHERIO (5.) The co-operatives tise’ sup Port the political and industrial strug gles of the workers morally, nan cially, and must take an* ially active part in relief of class-war-vic tims. Be Leds 1’. (6.) Tlie co-operatives mist’ ¢ontin. uously renew their. controling**bodies FROM THE RANKS OF THR’ WORK ERS IN THE SHOPS AND FACTOR TES and prevent at all costs ‘the® dé velopment of a controlling tiireau. cyacy. Fight “Business Morality.” (7.) A continual ideological strug- gle must be carried on against thc current “business morality” of the bourgeoisie which constantly. comes ir with the technical experts who serve the co-operatives. The co-operative while they must use the technique of capitalist business, must reject at al’ costs capitalist ideas, becoming’ al- ‘Ways more and more united with ‘th: working class struggles against capi. talism and its instruments of sup pression and exploitation. t Co-operation is therefore not enougt and its current philosophy is positivels harmful. But when it is imbued witt the ideas of the class struggle, “and when it accepts the Communist recon: struction of society as the. common goal of all workers, then it nay. be- come a valuable and powerful ment in the arsenal of the his class. It is the task of revoluti ers to enter earnestly into. the e erative movement with this program conciliation board, substituting. for it regular democratic union machin- ery dealing directly with the em- ployers. 2. Actively” 'participae in the } coming elections for district offici- als. j 3. Regularly" attend all "imeetlags of the. local unions. 4 Fight for’ the ‘retention’ ofthe’ general grievances committees and link-them ‘up, with agitation. for,the | shop committee system. 6. “In future’strikes demandipians: meetings under auspices of hae grievance committees. ' #% 6." Call for “joimt méetings “éf’ i> 1, Demand the ‘be of the aT ta ta ‘| Seneral “grievatice ‘committees. Workers Parly and T.U.EL Anthracite Meet union officials. 8. No united front with fake progressives. i 9, Fight for “the \ nationalization of the anthracite industry. 10. Increase the. circulation of our general party press and espec- ially that of the DAILY WORKER. More Work Needed. These are but a few of the itemg ot the general program adopted. . The conference was, on the whole, Produc. tive of much good, The exchange of ideas between. the miner delegel ‘was extremely beneficial. It. ts only by such collaboration that theory can be joined to practice. Tt. was pointed gut by several deje- gates that in the past this section of Pennsylvania had not received suf- ficient attention. All were unanimous in the opinion that with perhaps the {single exception of-.the,, Pittsburgh district, the anthracite northeast, cor: ner of Pennsylvania was the: most int ‘| portant industrial: section. in the, state, It was agreed that the district ‘or- ganizer would’ devote: more. time: to this section.’ Altogether this ‘conter. ‘lence, if closely’ followed ‘up with fur: ther activity, will be e turning. point in the life of the party in the anthra. Ye ‘Expose class collaboration: of “cite region. A ‘PANORAMIC view of the present struggles of the left wing milit- ants fn the Ameriean trade unions, is the ‘article by Wm. Z. Foster in the February issue ofthe Workers Month- ly. Just such ” ‘articles as this, have ‘established the combined journal and } made dt the moat successful this coun- try has seen.. Comrade Foster gives an interesting birds-eye view ‘taking the reader thru the récent elections of the miners, carpenters and the metal and needle trades. Ono) feels the growing strength in the left ‘wing of this country in the cold figures of THE WORKERS MONTHLY liable and not, as many in the ‘pant, clothed with gobs of imagination, is “The Pan American Fig Leaf” by. a W. Johnstone. Written by an ol er at the recent pan-American Tab convention, it is the kind of article that has established the Workers Monthly as the source of the in valuable information. 5 Thousands are already acquainted with that classic of Communist liter- ature and are closely following “The History of the Russian Communist Party” by Gregory Zinoviev. The generous installment in this. issue alone gives value to the Workers “No Monkey Business Rosie. 1 Will Not Have Vampires In My. shop? _ fos tha 3 many tes Secrets: are included ‘it’ is’ difficult ‘to ‘do justice in few words. )Charles EB, Johnson's article “The Sixth Trade’ ee Congress of the U. S. 8. R.” from the title alone Gives hint of its-value. It is an inter- esting “pieture™of labor in the first world's'-workers’ government. Robert Minor’s “An .Old Prison Speaks” is not.only a timely one in these days of renewed persecution—it Will hold your’ interest with angles he prevents. many new the article "A: Conference: of Progres- always before them as the guide | te ties. their practical activities, aur Pinioned Under Rock In Ken’ One hundred and fifty deet-telow : the entrance te Land Cave, in darkness and. mud, lies Floyd »Col- lins who for more than 80 hours hag:|: watched the engineering skill of state pit its craft against the bow which holds him pinioned in the caye.} save. way |, Today for the first time he and made a plea for death. ya should Collins be rescued w! a few hours, and this appeared unlikely, physicians will not survive the sh Klan Senator Gets His ‘Seat WASHINGTON, Feb. 3.—Thie senat today contested Earle B, Ma; rm Temes” whole action in seating Sen. Mayfield, was taken by the senate in loss than two minutes,.There was not ayer, a record ‘vote. ‘ demand for a r A rar 9 ly Pitegoive ent "| a oa) POMC AM HT. wpe —In the February issue of the Workers Monthly Monthly that makes it a neat u receive, And then an interesting feature, ‘the article “From Anarchism to. munism” by Jay Fox, a statement. bi a leader of the anarchist mot at in America for thirty year, and in labor movement since 1886 hewered joined the Knights of Labor. Twelve interesting articles in “all y . erty, Wi and satire seen daily in the hr | | See Tt” columm inthe DAILY » ‘(by such artists as Beckers’ work. |isive Reactionaries” bar Alexander Bit- | per; “Hay Bales: and Jide ing ont pe iin Else But The ©. F the February issue of the }