The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 14, 1925, Page 6

Page Six Taon THE DAILY WORKER. (8 Oe eect alana ER al lease ecamesateras se Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 1118 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, IL (Phone: Monroe 4712) THE DAILY WORKER WARREN'S RECORD AS SUGAR TRUST AGENT REVEALED} Acted As Michigan Tool of Havemeyer Interests hood, moved a point of order’and the world has to be saved all over again. The Shipstead scheme was simple, but points of order are also simple in a capitalist parliament— simple as people who believe that capitalism can abolish war. SOLON’S PEACE. PLAN IMPALED ON POINT OF ORDER ’T was Sad Fate for Such a Worthy Measure Ammunition ‘for the Workers’ Arsenal By MANUEL GOMEZ. Insecurity—the Workers’ Constant Attendant. MERICAN industry Is the greatest In the world. In output, In technical equipment in organization, in character of workmanship, the United States presents the finest example of Industrial efficlency that has ever been known. When we speak of American industry we mean American workers— for It Is the workers whose brain and brawn have made Industry what it Is. Yet the workers, who give life to this wonderful system of factories, mines, milis, rallroads, have no hold whatever upon It, They can be separated from thelr jobs In half an hour by a boss who does nothing but “own.” Great numbers of workers are thrown out of work regularly, thru no incapacity of their own, thru no flaw In the technical process,:but simply as a result of private ownership of industry and production for profit Instead of for use, Perlodic large-scale unemployment Is no “accident” under capital. ment appropriation measure, calling ism; It Is part and parcel of the capitalist system of. ¢ommodity production. upon President Coolidge to propose-to In this country there have been unemployment crises amounting to panics,| all the nations of the world the mak- in 1837, 1847, 1857, 1873, 1884, 1890, 1893, 1896, 1903-4, 1907; cd 1913-14 and| ing of a convention binding all of 1920-21. ‘} them to “terminate all compulsory There are at least 2,500,000 workers unemployed In the United States| Military, naval and related service,” today. This number will be multiplied when the present bubble of credit within. three: years from rattfication inflation bursts. During the terrible crisis of 1920-21 the number of unemployed Ste eaten ee exceeded 7,000,000. 4 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mall: $3.50....6 months i .00....8 months By mail (In Chicago only e $4.50....6 months $2.50...8 months ° oye pete pee rer Exposing Imperialism The actual condition of slavery in the colonies of the great powers is exposed every once in a while by some bourgeois writer who happens to be more truthful than cautious. Such a one is F. R. Eldridge, quoted by “Scrutator,” of the Chicago Tribune, who specializes in diatribes against every manifestation of discontent and glorification of \capitalism-in all its phases, India under British imperialism is the illustra- tion picked by this defender of things as they are. Says Eldridge: - “Under the economic conditions which neces- sarily must exist in India, It is little wonder that the per capita purchasing power is placed at a little over $10 per annum and the per capita Im- ports at only $2.30. $8.00 per year Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER 1118 W. Washington Bivd. J, LOUIS ENGDAHL t eon BAItOrS WILLIAM F, DUNNE % MORITZ J. LOEB.....omnnn Business Manager (Federated Press Staff Correspondent) WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb, 12.— President Coolidge’s selection of At- torney General Stone to be a member of the federal supreme court struck a snag which was a mére trifle in com- parison with the roék of opposition into which -his nomifation of Charles Beecher Warren to héad the depart- ment of justice has Puli, full-til€. On the very day that the senate committee on the judi¢iary fought for two hours over the noncommittal re- port of its sub-committee on Warren’s selection, the federal trade commis- sion announced that’ the Michigan (By Federated Press.) WASHINGTON, Feb. 12.— Aboiish conscription, both of men and matert- als, directly and indirectly, and you can have no more wars, says Sen, Shipstead, farmer-labor, He offered an amendment to the state depart- Chicago, Iilnels —_——$————— Ontered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1923, at the Post- Office at Chicago, Ill, under the act of March 8, 1879. ee 290 Advertising rates op application EEE Communists, Capitalists and ‘ Children The agitation for the adoption of the child labor as he had. to be necessarily implied in amendment has certainly stirred up the animals. “To grasp the real meaning, however, we must |Sugar Co, and the Toledo Sugar Co., What such a crisis means In terms of the uncertainty of @ worker’s con-| construction of human service. It The rabid hostility ‘to this very mild reform, com-| take into consideration the per capita exports. ber lave Be has rg connected a8| tact with his job is graphically shown In the following figures giving the de-| did, however, bind all the nations to ‘ : 3 2 js : These amount to $3.60, or over 50 per cent more President for mai Crowne ur anibieia! in th ber of wage. earners between toro and 921 In.a selected | refrain from compelling their nation- ing from all sections of the country and almost charged’ with’ consainaoy, with sixteen crease in the number ge. a selected rd than the imports. This mea that every man, woman, and child of the 319,000,000 inhabitants of all of the RET * f ti tr als to do any military service, either organs of capitalist and middle-class group of Industries: other concerns, to restrain interstate ty mn 3 5 in peace or war, and it pledged them thought, is striking proof of the brutal nature of| | Agia annually is sending out of the country half |C°™merce in beet pulp. This brings] DECREASE IN NUMBER OF WAGE EARNERS IN SELECTED GROUP | not to make war for the collection of ‘ oa % Cae se up the whole story of Warren as a OF INDUSTRIES. any public or private debt. highly developed industry. as much again as he or she brings in, sugar trust agent ; Underlying all the objections to the child labor Roy, the leader of the Communist Party of In-| It is shown that Warren was spect- ee ee eer ee na ae amendment is a plainly perverse and reactionary | gia, has written nothing more damning than this| ically made one of the defendants in sick ey ae te: Pte Lucie Pee balag relevant to, an. approgit, idea—that children of 18 and under have no right exposure of the degradation that is the lot of the} the suit of the government in 1910 to Sad ae be staid ahil atch kt oa4e pega ation for the state department, but ink for themsely ir minds, like their ; whi ‘ati dissolve the sugar trust; that the oe f 5 : ‘i to think for eaeeinokags tere hicgrhgpewe Sergsome Indian masses under the rule of white, christian, Aniricas Suge aEMgie Occ wnicl ERiRtnp and Gubllehing 287,278 268,081 paces nsnen get ak bodies, are property os can y . Sp ; a Anglo-Saxon saviors of civilization.” - was the trust, at that time entered| Rubber goods .... 188,549 103,273| snipstead told the senate, “ig the will by the owners thereof as long as the elastic! Gf the total exports, about 60 cents comes back|into a consent decree {n settlement Leather and products. 349,362 280,071 | toremost weakness of all our modern code of bourgeois morality is not violated. to the Indian working class and peasantry. The/of this suit; that it was shown that] Wearing Apparel ...... 975,780 884,035| political development. It turns’ the The proposal to deprive employers of the power remaining 70 cents per capita, totaling $233,000,-| im 1902 Warren was maployed by the] Clay, glass, cement product 219,298 188,541 | entire population, at @ moment’s no. te rob and kill children for profit appears not to 000, goes to the bankers and. industrial capitalists, pa genes Refining Co. and os Textile .. 942,610 899,969| tice, and upon the decision of a few arouse such hysterical denunciation as does the|i) the British imperial government, as a reward é nha fe eS: fail ry Slaughtering and meat packin| 160,996 ~ 177,042| Men, into slaves who may be slaugh- fear that freedom of body will mean freedom of | ¢o) «prog, perity” they have brought to India. Part d that he f a ed ichi Smelting and refining (non-ferrous 39,620 19,014 tered or starved; or have a colossal prosp y pone gan, and that he formed the Michigan pes indemnity wrung out of their unhappy mind. of this enormous sum, the minted blood and sweat| Sugar Co. for this purpose, conceal- ~~~ | children for 50 years. This country A thinking child is hated like the scarlet woman | of the Indian masses, is used to pay for airplanes, |i under his own name the owner- 647,636 4,393,558] is big and strong enough to lead the by the protestant bourgeois press and like a heretic |,ombs, machine guns and soldiery that give chris- ship of 55 per cent of the preferred Thus the unemployment decline in these industries reached the un-| way. Lead the world to national e i m Both unite i r on Con f A Salict — ienetinns > and 35 per cent of the common stock] precedented figure of 22.2 per cent. This was the average. In some of the| freedom and peace thru a treaty that by the catholic organs. Both unite in war on Com: jtian atmosphere to imperialist enterprise; the}py the trust ; ticks > ldre 1 rt to th ‘ iin y the trust. Warren's own stock! industries the decline was much greater. In the slaughtering and meat pack-| Will strike the chains of militarism munist activity among children and point to he) Kalance is clear velvet tho part of it again is used| was worth $455,000, when the Hard- ing group it was 27.3 per cent; in the rubber goods industry it ' from the hands of an enslaved hu- young workers who have been influenced by them|t9 pribe the labor aristocracy of Britain into ac-| wick investigation “of the sugar com- ee sas ke re Rg Ne 9 re justry it was almost manity.” as horrible examples of what the passage of a child | .9q with the schemes for colonial robbery. bine took place im 1912. nates 39.1 per wh re in erates aehnoe: ie i Maga ¥ labor law providing leisure for workers’ children| 4 ig Jittle wonder that the rulers of Great terete ch Wee “nthe hg a i m jctaered ceattia abie Call Conference to F A u would ajar ‘ ae: Britain fear the influence of the Communist Inter-} courts until the consent decree was foment Trust, P. rt Discuss the Use of We quote from the Grand Rapids (Michigan).| national and the example set to the suffering! signed in New York on May 9, 1922. i) A rust, ra Machinery on Land Press of February 5 an editorial, headed “Young) masses of India by the workers and peasants of| Recently attempt was made to modi- Of Steel Trust, to dd Workers” : Russia. fy this decree, so that the National While child labor is on our minds let us consider the case of 14-year-old Morris Spector. Morris is a public school pupil in New York. His spare time has been employed in gobbling up all the Red literature obtainable and peddling it to his school friends whom he has helped to organize into a Young Workers’ League junior section. The other night he got up in front of a Commun- ist crowd of 12,000 in Madison Square Garden theater and set them wildly cheering with a 14 year-old speech about Nicolai Lenin and the high duty of young Americans like himself to “mobilize the children to fight against the capitalistic sys- tem” and “extend our arms across to the Young Pioneers of Russia, to the young Leninists.” As between honest child labor in indugtry for boys of 14, giving them a sense of the meaning of saving and the value of work, and the enforced spare time idleness after school hours which turns out Morris Spectors, America will not waste much time in making a choice. Child labor for the dollar may have its objections. Child labor for sedition and Soviet government in the United States seems to us to provoke more of them. A 14-year-old boy speaking to an audience that jammed Madison Square Garden holding 15,000 persons is in itself a news story of great interest. It could be used to show the intellectual capacity of children when given leisure and properly trained. The incident itself is the best possible proof that the Communist child labor program, accompanied by the intensive educational work of the Communists, disproves the bourgeois proverb: “Children should be seen and not heard.” But the thinking workers’ children are not wanted any more than are thinking adults by cap- italism. Its spokesmen believe—and correctly—that to robotize both working class children and parents is the best method of maintaining the rule of the rich. “Full government maintenance of the children India has been daacrinid by a British orator as “the brightest gem in the imperial diadem,” but out of the misery of the Indian workers and peasants, out of the activity of the Communists applying the teachings of Lenin to the colonial problem, is coming a, great revolutionary move- ment that will wrest this gem from the clutches of the imperialist bandits and make it the possession of a Soviet government of India. “The bear that walks like a man,” Kipling wrote, now carries the red banner of Com- munism and speaks in the name of the Indian working class and the toiling millions of all the world. Every day get a “sub” for the DAILY WORKER and a member for the Workers Party. A Real Capitalist Hero General Nelson A. Miles is in Chicago this week as the guest of the lions club—one of those organ- izations of 100 per cent American ignoramuses that are springing up like mushrooms and which repre- of whom Sugar Refining Co: of New Jersey might be absorbed. Attorney Gen- eral Stone denied this request. If it is renewed, Warren as defendant would face Warren as attorney gen- eral. Moreover, the complaint made ey the federal trade commission may show violation of the consent decree by the Michigan Sugar Co. of which Warren was presideht until Jan. 24, 1925, and by the Toledo Sugar Co., of which he seems t0 be stil: the chief executive. Seattle Machinists’ Union Contributes to The Labor Defense First among the Tétters this week, |came the encouraging one from the | Machinists Lodge, No.79, of Seattle, Wash., pledging support for the de- fense of the Michigan defendants and against the criminal s¥ndicalist laws. With the pledge came'$10.00 showing that the machinists in ‘Seattle are not only alive to the necessity of moral support but the absolute need of Eee sent in social life the kind of culture that made the f ancial support as well. iron deer on the front lawn the symbol of American art in an earlier period. geld, to break the great railway strike of 1894. The fame of Miles is based largely on the fact that he headed the military force that Grover Cleveland sent, over the protest of Governor Alt- To Miles is attributed an utterance that is much Another encouraging letter comes from St. Paul where some $225.60 was left over from a defense fund collected to defend Joe Ungar, taken in the red raids and whose case has been since dismissed. This money comes in extremely handy at this time as every cent available must be got- more typical of American military history than Farragut’s “Damn the torpedoes, go ahéad,” or Grant’s “I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer.” The statements of our gold- braided heroes that really arouse the lions, kiwanis and rotary clubs to feverish enthusiasm and voci- ferous approval are such as those of General Miles, when he told the civil authorities of Chicago on week are: Collection on six lists by Mike Stanovich, Albert Chianipers of school age of workers and working farmers—| abolition of labor of children under 18 years,” is) not a very revolutionary-sounding slogan, but raised by the Workers (Communist) Party of} America, it has brought upon the party the vicious) attack of all sections of the courtesan press. War Is Abolished—Almost Senator Shipstead, in private life a dentist, but now sojourning in Washington as a farmer-labor solon, had a beautiful scheme to stop war. It-was sweetly simple and the senator loved his brain child with a great and holy passion, The other day he allowed his mental offspring to appear in the senate chamber, decked with olive leaves and carrying a white dove. Shipstead stood proudly erect, except for a slight stoop acquired sch for molar cavities, and spoke with re- July 3, 1894: 3 “lam here to see that order is preserved, that violence ceases and that the United States mails are run without interference on the roads centering in Chicago..... | will give you five hours to get this situation under control. If at the end of that ‘time it is not in hand | will take military contro! and see that disorder is reduced.” The dispatch of federal troops to break the 1894 strike marked the advent of the power of the cen- tral government into strikes on the side of the capitalists as an accepted policy, coincident with the centralization of American industry. Since that time much progress has been made—the wholesale use of the state power against the work- ers—a policy that has now made the state militia part of the armed forces of the central government“ and their use in strikes’ a commonplace. The end is not yet. The use of troops in the gen- eral strike of coal miners in 1919 and the blanket Greek Branch, Teélio. Lucas, Des Moines . F. Freeman, Col le, 1 Jewish Branch, Pittsburgh. tee Finnish Branch, @feen, Mich. Scandinavian Bratieh, Detroit Keep the pot boiling’ The wtrained pride. “This,” he said, pointing to the smiling infant, “is mine, War need no longer scourge the human race if you, my colleagues, will share with me the delight of parenthood. Adopt this bright-haired baby and all will be well.” “His name,” said Shipstead, “is ‘Abolition of Conscription of both Men and Materials.’ Give him a home in these hallowed halls and mankind will mourn no more.” But Senator Wesley Jones of Washington, a patriot of patriots who is there to see that the munition makers are not deprived of their liveli- ERP ORE LT ———————-- Anjonetion issued against the striking shopmen in 1922 are steps in this development that only the Communists understand—a development that is part and parcel of capitalism in its final stage of imperialism and that to try to:check by any other than revolutionary methods is comparable to bat- tering down Gibraltar witha’ pea shooter. ism” persecution, The truth was not buriedavith Glenn Young. The real story of the ku klux,klan’s alliance with the mine owners in Williamson county is coming out fe Let Gud. wane” ten to continue the fight. Among the others who have contributed this Philadelphia C. C. C; W. P. $100.00 and Elix Joy ..%...... 76.20 Lettish Branch, Chicago. 60.00 Bulgarian Branch, °- Portland, Oregon ..... Cee 28.50 25.00 25.00 18.00 16.35 13.05 Troy Branch, W.-B, ........ » 11.00 Revere Branch, Mads. W. P. 10.75 Denver, Colo. C. GC. W. P. 10.00 Machinists Lodge 79, of 1 Seatle, Wash. , 10.00 Belden Branch, Beldon, N. D. 10.00 Youngstown, Ohio,/Giabor Def. 10.00 Greek Branch, DewWer, Colo... 9.25 Spanish Branch, Ofileago...... 7.30 Finnish Branch, 1Waco, Wagh. 7.00 Finnish Feder., Clil@ago....... 5.00 pe nati Br. Blizabeth, N. J. 6.00 .L. DL, D, Brazich No, 121 Braddock, PA. siebeseccicces 5.00 8. N. P. J. No, 240, Bentley. Ville, Pa. ....)UUeeceees see 5,00 more Support for the Michigan cases and many other cases “finder the jurisdic- tion of the Labor Defense Council, the more fight againsteriminal syndical- AVERAGE WAGE IN |: BOB'S PARADISE Scab Wages the Rule In Wisconsin __; MADISON, Wis., Feb. 12—Wages in Wisconsins manufacturing establish- ments $25.10 a week, according to the indus- trial commission. The peak of wages in this state was reached in October, 1920, when the average factory worker received $29.45 a week. t No High Wage. vj Weekly wages in important indus- tries during December were foundries. and machine shops $27.61; railroad re-}! pair shops $29.49; automobile $28.77; sawmills $20.45; furniture $22.73; boots and shoes $23.48; paper and pulp mills $25.27; light and power $26.61; printing and publishing $34.13 and electric railways $26.04. Women 16 Cents an Hour. The hiring rate for male common labor on Jan. 15, 1925, ran as low as 80c an hour in Ashland and Wausau and as high as 65¢ and hour in Racine with the most usual rates 40c to 45c. Women were hired as low as 16c an hour in Wausau with the usual rates thru the state 30c,to 40c. The aver- age common labor rate in Milwaukee is 44c for men and 27¢ for women, Claim Automobile Czar Picked Up $2,500,000 On the Stock Exchange MUNCIE, Ind, Feb. 12—wW. C. Durant, millionaire automobile manu- facturer who is reported to have made $2,500,000 in the stock market on the spectacular rise of cast iron pipe, left here for New York today, probably to steal a few more millions. MANY ALIENS DEPORTED, IMMIGRATION CUT IN HALF, FIGURES SHOW WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 12— Twice as many “undesirable aliens” were deported from the United States during the present fiscal fiscal year, representative Albert Johnson of Washington told the house of representatives yesterday. Johnson based his esti department of labor figure: The number of immigrants has been reduced 50 pet., Johnson said, adding that the net increase in population due to immigration is only 100,000 for the past six months, “The figures from the department of labor show that Mexican immi- gration has been reduced 60 per cent and Canadian immigration 28 per cent, “Germany and the Irish Free State furnis! _more Immi- grants in the past six months than any other nations, hnson de- clared, on the re eee ’ in December, 1924, averaged 1 ‘to Ame! Build Big Huckide (Special to The Daily Worker) HAMMOND, Ind. Feb. 12—The Universal Portland Cement company, a subsidiary to the U. S. Steel corpo- ration, has announced a great con- Struction program at its Buffington plant, hear Gary. Plans are being drawn for the con- striction of a harbor and dock on the lake at the cement plant for the hand- ling and storage of limestone, slag, coal and cement, Additons to the present plant are planned and de- velopment of large proportions be- sides the present construction is in- dicated. The machinery alone in the present plans will cost approximately $3,000,000, Red Revel Masquerade Ball, 37 South Ashland Avenue a Corner of Monroe and Ashland Blvd., February 28. WASHINGTON, Feb. 12.—If Ameri- can farm lands, pasture lands and forests can be suitably adapted to the needs of the future, this country can support a population of 300,000,000 persons. We shall see a population of 150,000,000 here by the year 1952. So says the special commission of scientists from the bureau of agricul- tural economics and the forest serv- ice, reporting to the department of agriculture on the utilization of land. But, the scientists add, the soil must be used more carefully, and greater effort must be employed both in production and handling of the food supply, to’ avoid waste. German standards of cultivation, before the war, enabled that nation to maintain one person for each 1.75 acres of land. America has 998,000,000 acres, good and poor, on which in the future there may be fed one person for each 3.383 acres. Meanwhile her farm pop- ulation is being depleted by economic forces. Mal SSE Siaen By THURBER LEWIS The Reformers, No. 2—Co-operation and Individualism. HILE the labor movement was arising, step by step, out of the struggles of the working class in the form of trade unions coming into ex- istence in greater numbers as grow- ing industry pushed the frontier far- ther from the Atlantic sea-board—the thought of the movement continued to be dominated by intellectual reformers and humanitarians, Labor itself found no compentent spokesmen until after the civil war, and these first spokes- men were Marxists. Albert Brisbane, a reformer of bourgeois origin, brought Fourierism rica in the middle thirties. Fourlerism taught that social ills were do to the pernicious effects of free competition. The remedy consisted in reforming the capitalists and perfect- ing more effective. methods of produc- tion, It denied, the class struggle. The hope of, the world Jay in convine- ing the capitalist to improve industry to the end of greater profits and then share the increased profits with the workers. — ? Brisbane and his followers began by trying to erect new and model civil- izations in the -wildernesses to the west. But the workingmen failed to see the connection between utopias in the woods and cut wages in Phila- delphia and New York. Fourierism was a total failure. Brisbane and Four- ferism brought Horace Greely’s thoughts to turn to social problems, Greely’s. early years were spent in poverty. His proletarian origin led him to see things that Fourierism overlooked. For Brivbane’s “beney- olent association”, he substituted, “Let each individual receive the full pro- duct of his’ toil.” oe The abolition of the wage system was Greely’s leading hope. -Co-opera tion and profit-sharing attracted his attention for many years, as substan- tial possibilities. But with the failue of his efforts in these directions he lost. heart and deplored the working: men’s “lack of faith in each other.” The class struggle seemed to be a closed book to him also. When'the abolitionist movement began he throw himself into it and became a leading champion of Negro liberation. Apart from the followers of Owen and Fourier who advocated associa: tion and cooperation and whose con- nection with the labor movement was, often intimate, there were individuals: in the pre-civil war period whose, radical systems of thought must cer- tainly have made an impression on the. young labor movemnt. There wag the’ anarchist Thoreau, whose book “Wal- den”, was called the last word of democratic individualism. There was the intellectual individualist Emerson: The co-operative individualism of Wile liam H, Channing served as an inspir; |! ation to the movement for associations And there was the negative philosophy, of Orestes A. Brownson, the result of whose early religious training led him to suprisingly vicious attacks on = the church and the state for neglect of the masses. Those were the days of schemes il panaceas, Utopian colonies and died by the hundreds, Now | now another social philosophy # sensation, Through it all the movement itself, was forced by expanding economle life, It is until we come to W. H. Sylvis thaj we find @ proletarian who is able speak competently for the nl in terms of the worker's struggles.