The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 14, 1925, Page 2

I SEE i Page Two emcees cement rotate nite FO EO NRO NREL A SIR ORR NORTH DAKOTA FARMERS LIKE DAILY WORKER Admire Its Fighting es Spirit By ALFRED KNUDSON (Specia! to The Daily Worker) BISMARK, N. D., Feb. 12.—The class conscious farmers and workers out here are quite favorably impressed with the DAILY WORKER. The fact that our paper, comes out every day and keeps up a persistent, continuous bombardment against the capitalists and their government and frankly tells the truth about the ¢on- ditions of the workers in the factories and on the farms, is proof to them that the paper has strength and power. Just how it can happen that tne DAILY WORKER is able to keep afloat financially while some “social- ist” and liberal papers go under for lack of funds, is somewhat of a mys- tery to our town and country friends in the west. “Where do they get the money from, to do all the work they are doing?” one farmer asked the other day. He was told that behind the DAILY WORKER and the Com- munist activities in the United States there stands a devoted membership, composed mainly of industrial work- ers, ready to go the limit in backing up both the paper and the organiza- tional efforts of the Workers Party. It is not an easy job, but by hard work it can be accomplished. He was also reminded of Comrade Loeb’s sig- nificant statement: “It can’t be done— except by Communists.” Tho DAILY WORKER is getting more and more necessary for the ifarmers and the workers. It is a ! weapon they must have in fighting banks, food gamblers and industrial and financial capitalists. It is no exaggeration to say that the DAILY WORKER is the only daily paper in the country today that dares to print the truth about American social, pol- itical and economic conditions. It is a’priceless gem and must be supported by party members and sym- pathizers to the limit of their re sources, WILLISTON, N. D., FARMERS ARE WARNED OF DANGER TO THEM IN LAWYER-CONTROLLED PRESS By ANDREW OMHOLT, (Special to The Daily Worker) WILLISTON, N. D.,, Feb. 12,—-The farmers and workers of Williams county, North Dakota, organized, a few years ago, with our hard earned money, a newspaper that we pleased to call the “Farmers’ Press” with high hopes of making it a real farmers’ and workers’ paper. But it has, as is the lot of most of these small town progressive papers, fallen into the hands of a gang of political adventurers headed by a legal THE DAILY WORKER fakir by the name of E. A. Francis, who was elected state’s attorney as a WOMEN’S EIGHT HOUR BILL UP IN LEGISLATURE Cement Companies Hope to Get Large Order SPRINGFIELD, Ill, Feb. 12.—A bill providing for the eight-hour day for women was introduced into the Illinois legislature by Mrs. Lottie O’Neil of Dupage county. The bill provides exemptions for telephone and canning companies. The last session of the legislature voted down a woman’s eight-hour day bill. The house appropriations committee reported favorable recommendation on the Curran bill appropriating $50,- 000 to run the office of Attorney Gen- eral Carlstrom until July 1, 1925. The appropriations committee of the senate introduced a bill sponsored - by Governor Small, making appropria- tions of $146,000,000 to build hard roads during the next two years. $5,000,000 of this money is to be spent for the purchase of cement. The cement companies supported Governor Small’s election campaign with large contributions. Railroad Issues Bonds. WASHINGTON, Feb. 12.—The Chi- cago and Western Indiana railroad was authorized by the interstate com- merce commission today to assume a liability for $27,755,000 of first and refunding mortgage bonds. Get your tickets for Red Revel Ball, February 28. CAL’S BUTLER FIGHTS WORKERS (Continued from page 1) weavers are getting twice as much -+, production, steadier work and a con- siderable increase in wages. . .’ This lying about “increase in wag- es” always in some vague, un-named place—is done in brazen disregard of the fact that wages are being reduced everywhere and in exactly those plac- es where production is doubled per worker or speeded up. The state- ment continues: Half of Workers to be Fired. “In another mill the operatives have doubled up on the work; have had their pay increased as much as 20 per cent per operative; the weavers tend more looms, spinners tend more sides of spinning, card room help tend three frames where they used to tend only two; all extra hands have been done away with, and this 100,000 spin- dle mill with 3,000 looms, which be- fore the war employed 1,200 opera- tives, now runs full with 600 oper- atives, all earning more money, all producing more goods, and all thoroly employed. The operatives have had. steady work and increased wages; the mill has been profitably employed; the stockholders have had dividends, and by a doubling up of the work, everybody has profited. “This doubling up of the production per operative has become very com- mon in New England. We know one Rhode Island mill where the weavers used to operate from twelve to sixteen looms, they now operate forty-eight looms. In a Fall River mill the weav- ers are tending fifty-five automatic looms; a New Hampshire mill they are tending sixty-four automatic looms; in a Maine mill they are tend- ing forty looms; in a Massachusetts mill they are tending seventy-five looms, and in the other departments also, carding, spinning, etc., there has been a similar doubling up, and oper- atives have had full employment and increased wages. Must Fawn to Hold Jobs. “In most instances this increase of production per operative must start with the operatives themselves. Let the operatives talk it over amongst themselves. In mills where they are running twelve looms, let the opera- tives decide that they can tend four- teen or eighteen or twenty looms per weaver. Go to the overseer of weav- ing and tell him that you can do more work and get more production, and earn more money. Let the spinners decide that they can tend two or three more sides of spinning and go to the overseer of spinning and tell him that you can do more work and earn more money. Save money for the mill, and divide the saving with the mill.” Let Boss be your Labor Leader. “Work as if it were your own busi- ness. Handle the whole job as if you were working for yourself, and no oth- er mill can produce cotton goods more economically than can the mills of New England. The surest way in the world to increase wages will be to do more work. Go ahead on the basis that your overseer and your super. intendent are your labor leaders, and ' them be your leaders in fact as hustle to keep up with you in produc- tion; make him hustle to figure out the increase in your weekly pay by the increase in the work that you do. Don’t be misled by any so-called la- bor leader outside of your own mill to believe that it will profit you any- thing to do less work, or to make more jobs for more people. “The operatives of the textile mills of New England are in competition with the operatives of the mills in other countries as well as other sec- tions of this country. If you are in a race you try to win. In a race you run as fast as you can to win. You can beat the life out of the operatives in any other mills if you will make a race of it. . .” The Southern Mills. In the following passage we see the ingenious playing up of the “South- ern mill” bogy, in complete disregard of the fact that the big southern mills are largely if not completely control- led by the same financial interests: i The cotton mills of the south are busy, and hundreds of them are running day and night. This is because the costs of production are lower in the south, wages are lower, hours of operation are longer, so those southern mills are getting business. The New England cotton mill opera- tives can overcome this condition if they want to do so. If they will all double up in their work wherever pos- sible, or do 50 per cent more work where 100 per cent more Is not pos- sible, or do 10 per cent more work where 50 per cent more is not pos- sible, we can get the lowest cost of production of any mills in the world.” Trust the Preachers—They Wouldn't Lie! “We do not ask the operatives in the New England mills to take our word for any of this, we suggest that they talk it over amongst themselves to see if it is not true, Ask your second hands about it. Ask your overseer. Ask any of your old time friends who have succeeded in their businesses and who are now in busi- ness on their own account. Go into the savings bank and ask the presi- dent of the bank, or the cashier if all this isn’t true. Ask the clergyman of your church, “. + We do not know how many looms each weaver can run. We do not know how many sides of spinning each» operative can tend. Some are better workers than others. . .” And the grand ultimatum closes with an insinuating plea for each text- ile worker to pit himself against his fellow workers in a race against his fellow workers in the effort to hold the half of the jobs which will not be abolished by the speeding up pro- cess. ‘The effect of the slave drivers’ de- claration, as far as it can yet be seen, is to stir up the flercest rage among the workers here and a better under- standing of what they are up against. It is expected to give great impetus to the united front conference move- ment, which is looked upon favorably by trade unionists of Bedford and Fall Rives, candidate endorsed by the non-par- tisan league, still holding down the job as editor and professional “red baiter.” This piehound is now using the paper to slander and libel the work- ers’ and peasants’ Soviet government of Russia, the only place in the world ruled by people who work, undictated to by the international bankers, the Morgan interests, Apes Bankers’ Press. In an editorial in the issue of Jan. 29 he is aping the big capitalist press of Morgan and Rockefeller by telling us that “Bill” Haywood, the I. W. W. leader, would prefer to live in Leaven- worth penitentiary than in Soviet Rus- sia, According to the capitalist press, he was found starved and nearly frozen to death in the Armenian mountains beating his way out of Russia to America. In the meantime “Big Bill” was actually living in comfort in the Lux Hotel, Moscow. This echo of the capitalist press is again caught lying, in the interest of grain gamblers and bankers. He would like, he says, to have Haywood come to Williams county and lecture to the 42 Communists that voted for Foster. What English Labor Leader Says. Now let us see what Bén Tillet, one of the English trade union delegates to the Trade Union Congress in Mos- cow, after investigating conditions all over Russia, says: “For Curzon and Churchill the Rus- sian revolution is an outrage. They represent the Bolsheviki as brute beasts. But we found them to be human beings. Instead of nationaliza- tion of women, we find that nowhere is the woman so protected and no- where does she enjoy such rights as in Soviet Russia. The Russian prole- tariat is engaged in such work of re- construction as we have never seen outside of the frontier of Red Rus- sia.” This"jeditor, doublécrosser to the farmerg and workers of Williams county, sets himself up as an authority on Americanism and good citizenship, This is the spokesman for the so- cialist’ party of the Second Interna- tional, the Russian czar, Kornilovs, Wrangels, the kaisers and the Teapot Dome crowd, the whole capitalist class, which is to blame for the mil- lions of farmers’ and workers’ lives lost’ in the last war, and the Russian counter-revolution. You, Mr. Francis, have become part and parcel of that murderous gang. You farmers and workers of Wil- liams county, are you going to stand for this ape of the socialist crowd as editor of your paper? Does he have to be editor in order to hold the job as state’s attorney? Or is he afraid to let anyone else in to find out that the Farmers’ Press is a financial wreck? Let us boot this legal scab out of our press. He should be catisfied with one job, “a real state’s attorney.” In conclusion let me say this: The Workers (Communist) Party of Amer- ica is the only organization today fighting the battle of the farmers and workers, against the capitalist system, and the DAILY WORKER is the only daily paper raising the standard for a workers’ and farmers government in America, Labor Re-organizes in Mississippi MERIDIAN, Miss. Feb. 12.—The Trades and Labor Assembly of Meridi- an which disbanded during the open shop drive is reorganized. The open shop Marty Machine Co., is now known as the Farr Co, and will employ only men with union cards, Vote Against Cigaret Curb. BISMARCK, N. D.,, Feb. 12—The senate has voted to repeal the law against the sale of cigarettes. The sale of cigarettes to minors is restrict- ed in the senate bill. The state so- lons probably expect this to send the farmers’ problems up in smoke. MUSICIANS’ PAY LOOKS GOOD BUT IT DOESN'T LAST SO VERY LONG ‘| (By The Federated Press) NEW YORK, Feb. 12.—Provisions for a ten dollar weekly increase in will be written into the new agreement between Local 802 of the American Federation of Musicians and the management of the Phil- harmonic orchestra. The union originally asked for an increase of twenty-ve dollars. The minimum pay of $60 weekly before the increase meant lehs annual in- come than appears at first sight for the on lasts only 30 weeks, The minimum will now be $70, or $75 with an extra rehearsal. ‘The New York Symphony orches- tra of 100 players is touring Cuba expected to id similar terms on retuth. Agreements will moat. NEW YORK STATE EMPLOYMENT OFF IN MOST LINES Only Steel Sawing Im- portant Gain NEW YORK CITY, Feb. 12—Losses in employment in the factories of New York state in January that are not entirely seasonal are reported by the state industrial commisioner. The general level of employment is slight- ly lower than in December. Something has apparently gone wrong with the employment boom which was supposed .to accompany the election of Coolidge. Employment in New York state is still 7% per cent below January, 1924 and 10 per cent below January, 1923. This means that nearly 120,000 workers who had jobs in January, 1928, are out of a job today. Employment in railroad equipment factories suffered a setback, accord- ing to the report, with a couple of thousand workers laid off. The lay- offs in the building material industry were more severe than usual. Brick- yards with 1,600 workers in January, 1924 were employing only 900 this January. Steel mills alone showed important gains. Other industries showed ir- regularity with some concerns gain- ing while others laid off workers or operated on a part-time basis. The textile industry did not report the usual seasonal gains. Coolidge Sticks to Tool of Trusts For Attorney General WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 12.— President Coolidge has refused to withdraw the name of Charles Beech- er Warren from nomination as at- torney general, after a delegation of senate leaders had pointed out that Warren’s connection with the sugar trust is embarrassing ‘to them. Coolidge advised the senators to keep Warren’s name in the judiciary committee until after March 5, when the next session of congress, which has a safe Coolidge majority, can shove thru the nomination. The democratic senators are trying to force a vote by the judiciary com- mittee and a report to the senate on the Warren nomination. The judiciary committee is said to be'evenly divided at this time. 7 Children in Industry Are Easy Victims of Industrial Accidents (By The Federated Press) NEW YORK, Feb. 12.—John P. Coughlin, secretary of the Central Trades and Labor Council of New York, discussing the proposed child labor amendment urged the need of legislation giving congress the power to regulate the labor of children up ‘to eighteen years. He emphasized the greater percentage of industrial ac- cidents occurring to children because of their playful and feckless spirit, “Almost every mechanic you meet,” said Coughlin, “has lost one, two or hree fingers, and you will find the hances are he lost them when a boy horse-playing’ around dangerous ma- hinery.” If You Dance Sunday Evening, Why Not Dance with Wobblies? The wobblies of Chicago are holding a big smoker and dance next Sunday, Feb. 15th, at Prudential Hall, North avenue and Halsted street. The pro- gram beging with entertainment and speaking at 3:30 in thé afternoon, and er dance starts at 7:30 in the even- ing. Ralph Chaplin, Vern Smith and John Gahan are among the speakers, and the dancing will,be to music of the Black Cat orchestra. All workers are invited to come. shments, it is stated, are free, Admissions help the wobbly press, " —__ Patronize our advertisers. YOUNG WoRKE, LEAGUE ACTIVITIES, ANTE AYRES IO Emancipation Struggle Still on for Oppressed Labor Under ( Capitalism By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL 'ODAY, the dead past gets its overflow of attention from orators upholding present conditions, in the commemora- tion of the birth of Abraham Lincoln. Banks declare a legal holiday, the stock exchanges and chambers of commerce are closed, the offices of capitalist government are locked tight. But in the mills, the mines and the factories, the wheels of industry continue to hum. Business adopts Lin- coln, like Washington, as one of its heroes, but fearing that labor may inject a class angle into the celebration, work- ers are held cautiously aloof. : Everywhere, in the exercises of the Kiwanis Clubs or of military organizations, it is the flag of Wall Street that is carefully wrapped about the Lincoln of America’s Civil War. Wall Street’s chosen agent, Senator Smoot, delivers the eulogy in congress, : * *. * Among Negroes Lincoln is raised to the pinnacle of a “saint” or a “god.” Sixty years after the Civil War we find this idol worship priate. to manifest itself in the Negro custom of voting the republican ticket, while “The Solid South,” white, goes democrat. *-_ * *& & This year much is made of what is alleged to be a hitherto missing copy of a speech by Lincoln in closing his campaign against Stephen A. Douglas for a seat in the U. S. senate in 1858. This was two years before Lincoln was elected president. The speech is important for workers, espeqially Negro workers, in that it shows that Lincoln at this date had abso- lutely no intention of playing the role of “emancipator.” He was not opposed to chattel slavery as an institution if it could be confined to the boundaries that then heid it in the South. Some of the more significant passages are as follows: “The legal right of southern people to reclaim their fugitives | have constantly admitted. The legal right of congress to interfere with their institution in the states | constantly denied. In resisting the spread of slavery to new territory, and with that, what appears to me to a tendency to subvert the first principle of free government itself, my whole effort has consisted.” eee Lincoln thus upheld chattel slavery, even to using the government in returning fugitive slaves to their masters. He only resisted its spread to new territory. It was not until years later, under the pressure of Civil War developments, that Lincoln was forced to resort to the “Emancipation Proclamation” as a war measure. In the early days of the war even using Negroes as soldiers in the armies of the North had been bitterly opposed. It was thought a crime to rob the southerner of his slaves, even as a necessity of war. a * The millions of Negroes were freed from chattel slavery because of pean te economic conditions in the middle of the last century that laid the basis of the peret capitalist system. Instead of the chattel slaves of 60 years ago, the legroes with workers of all colors and nationalities are the wage slaves or today. Worshipping Lincoln as the “eman- cipator” of chattel slavery days will not help Negro workers or white workers win today’s struggle against capitalism. All workers must realize the huge economic forces that drive on to new revolutions and new civil wars, that must result in new victories for the oppressed class of today. Washington was a revolutionist in his day. But he was an aristocrat and a slaveholder. Jefferson, hailed as an ideal democrat by middle class elements and even by some sections of labor, was also a slaveholder. Altho Lincoin lunged the country into civil war he did not originally be- ieve in emancipating the Negroes. It is well to understand this past history and the part that various individuals paren in its making. But it must be understood only in the sense that this understanding helps fight the battles of today. It will be found that those who shout loudest about Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln today, are those who are on the wrong side of the revolutions and civil wars of today. * * * If Negro workers would be liberated from wage slavery they must join in the extermination of the same social sys- tem—capitalism—that freed them from chattel slavery. Vot- ing the republican ticket will not do that. Idol worship of Civil War heroes will not do it. Supporting patriotic and purely race organizations only helps Strengthen the fetters of the exploiters. Instead all Negro workers must unite, in one front, with all workers against their capitalist masters, They will find that the emancipating leadership in this struggle of an oppressed class is the Workers (Communist) Party; that the future belongs to Communism. | ATORANGE, H.J ORANGE, N. J., Feb, 12.—A hat ters’ strike is expected to be declar- ed when the Orange local of the Hat Finishers’ Union meets here to take action on the fallure of the manufacturers to sign an agreement Prostitute Role DOWN EXPENSES Socialists Play Usual ,| Blvd. (basement), Speaker, Barney LOCAL CHICAGO, 2 for a new scale of wages. About 3,000 men and 800 women, hat trimmers, will be involved in the expected strike. The “Big Five” its are the E. B. Conn No Name, W. R. Rutan, Trimble and Charles Berg. The Connett and No Name firms signed the agreement. Y. W. L. Branch Meetings. Tonight, Friday, F 18th. All branches are going to have open educational meetings to which party members and outsiders are invited, The lecture will be on the subject of “What is The Young Workers’ League?” this being the second one of the series on the subject. Follow- Big Six Election Fight ing is the list of meeting places and L lew ork a ai (All meetings start at 8 Now on mn N Y p.m, NEW YORK, Feb, 12.—There is a chance of a fight in the coming elec- tion in Big Six, (International Typo- graphical Union No. 6). Opposition has been aroused against the present administration and candidates may be nominated by a number of the mem- bers who don’t like the way they are carrying on Big Six’s work, The opposition is more especially concentrated against the ‘president of Bib Six, Leon Rouse, so that there may be another head of the union vraass Area Branch No, 1—Sixth floor, 166 W. Washington St. Speaker, Peter Herd. Area Branch No, 83116 8. Hal- sted St. Speaker, Paul Kline. Area Branch No. 48118 W. Roose- velt Road. Speaker, Bill Edwards. Area Branch No, 6—1220 W. Monroe St. (Basement) Speaker, John Har- vey. ‘ Area Branch No, 6—2618 Hirsch - GENEVA, Feb, 12.—The league of nations warned Austria that unless the viennese government turns over a new leaf and adopts the egonomy measures insisted on by the financial committee of the league, it will find itself on a doorstep some cold morn- ing, without any visible wet nurse. It appears that Austria is troubled because it has a large working class population which insists on eating and drinking. This predeliction for nourishment is playing havoc with the government's budget and all attempts to carry out the mandates of the league have met with failure. A tew weeks ago the league offered Austria to the highest bidder but none was found to accept the charge. The ‘so- elal democratic are willing to play the role of prostitutes to the interna- tional bankers and are perfectly happy under the present receivership, ‘The Communists declare that there cannot be any solution of the Austrian question short of a European revolu. tion with Austria becoming a part of & Federated Socialist Soviet Republic. The Good Things The February Issue THE WORKERS MONTHLY 1. The Left Wing in H Trade Elections. by Wm. Z. Foster A birds-eye view of the pro- gress of the Left Wing move- ment in this country. 2. The Sixth Trade Union Congress of the U.S. S.R. by Chas. E. Johnson What happened at the last trade union meet (with photo- graphs). 3. An Old Prison Speaks by Robert Minor The famous cartoonist gives new side-lights on the renewed Communist persecutions. 4. History of The Russian Com- munist Party by Gregory Zinoviev Another generous installment of a Communist classic by the president of the Communist In- ternational, 5. A Conference of Progressive Re- actionaries by A. Bittelman On labor politics by a kean Political observer. 6. A Pan-American Fig Leaf by J. W. Johnstone . A splendid, informative ar- ticle on the trade unions and their leaders in Latin America by an observer at the last Pan- American Labor congress in Mexico City. 7. The Fine Art of Grafting by T. J. O'Flaherty Who tells us in a keen, witty way why “graft is getting mon- otonous.” 8. Anthracite by Joseph Manley A fine picture of the miners and their problems by a Left Wing organizer now in the field. 9. From Anarchism to Communism by Jay Fox By a leader of the Anarchist movement in this country for 30 years. 10. Employers As- sociations in The United States _by Louis Zoobock A store of essential informa- tion for militant -workers on a little known subject. Beside other articles you. will receive Cartoons Photographs Editorials International Review ‘SINGLE COPY 25 CENTS | SUBSORIPTION RATES: $2.00 A Year $1.25 Six Mos. 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