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Page Six f THE DAILY WORKER THE DAILY WORKER| Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING 00. 1118 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, DL (Phone: Munroe 4712) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail: $6.00 per year $3.50....6 months $2.00...8 months By mail (in Chicago only): $8.00 per year ..8 months $2.50....8 months Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER 1113 W. Washington Bivd. 3. LOUIS ENGDAHL t WILLIAM F. DUNNE MORITZ J. LOEB.. Chicago, Mlineis womesseeee EItOTS mene Business Manager Entered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1923, at the Pos! Office at Chicago, Ill, under the act of March 3, 1879. < 250 Advertising rates on application Who Fights Wage Cuts? Commodity prices are on the upgrade and the dollar now buys but 62 per cent of what it secured in 1918. In the second quarter of last year the dollar reached the high point of 69.1 cents as com-| pared with its purchasing power in 1913 and since then there has been a steady decline. Wage increases reported are few and far be tween with the building and operating trades in railway transportation about the only industries in which raises are shown. Even in these occupa- ions it is pretty well established that the wage in- ereases have been offset by surrender of some of the working conditions hitherto enjoyed. In the coal mining industry unemployment in the union fields has greatly reduced real wages and altho the union scale has been maintained nominally concessions to the coal owners in the matter of long established working conditions in many localities, as in the building and transporta- tion industries, has operated to actually reduce the union wages. Tn textiles a campaign of wage cuts affecting the whole industry has been launched and the average wage increase of seven and eight per cent occurring in the latter half of last year are to be wiped out by reductions of ten per cent and more in the miser- able earnings of the workers. ‘ The rise in living costs causing the steady fall of the purchasing power of the dollar, thé scarcity of wage increases and the actual reductions in many instances of money wages, all indicate that even with industry operating at a fairly rapid pace the standard of living of the American work- ers is being lowered. The official leaders of the unions are doing noth- ing effective to combat this dangerous tendency. Right in the textile industry, where the assault on the workers is the fiercest, the union officialdom is striving harder to preserve its craft lines’ than it is to fight the wage cuts. In the whole labor movement the fight against the reductions of the living standards of the work- ers is being made by the left wing organized around the Workers Party and the Trade Union Educa- tional League. The bankruptcy of the bureaucrats is obvious. They could not fight the bosses even if they had some scraps of honesty and militancy left, because they have accepted too many favors from them. No country in the world, during a period of such _employment as has prevailed for the last two and a half years, has been presented with the spectacle of the labor movement as a whole actually losing members. Our European comrades may have a hard time understanding this, but they do not know fully the caliber of the American trade union bureaucracy which directs its blasts at the Com- munists while urging the workers to love and “understand” the capitalists. Letters from Workers Please do not print my name as it would be used against me in the shop. Most of the letters received by us close with the above sentence, differing a little in wording per- haps, but meaning the same thing—that the cap italists, thru their agents, keep a close watch on the workers on the job and that the workers know it. Superintendents, foremen, timekeepers, “well- fare workers,” etc., in addition to the regular spies, all function as eyes of the big bosses—the coupon elippers who pull the strings that make the pup- pets in the state and national capitols dance. This one sentence with which we began is the coniplete disproval of all the democratic pretensés made by the rulers. It is in the mines, shops and factories that the workers spend most of their hours and there capital rules with an iron hand. This is one of the main reasons why letters from ‘workers published in the Communist press are valuable. It is possible for the workers to be fooled to a considerable extent by the right to vote for this or that agent*of the capitalists every so Police and Pickets We cull from a New York paper a story telling of the appeal of one Raymond McMahon, secretary of a local of the United Textile Workers, which is on strike, to the Brooklyn police for protection for the union pickets from the bosses’ thugs. We have heard of persons trying to put out a | fire with kerosene, of the fish that jumped from the |frying pan into the fire, of drinking carbolic acid }to cure stomach trouble, but these are all achieve- ments of genius compared to the action cited. Why not go to Cal Coolidge and ask him to lead the strike? There would be just as much chance jof getting his consent as there would be to get la police force to protect strikers. That is not what | they | pressive machinery of the government of the bosses, are paid for. Police are part of the sup" but Brother McMahon, like his namesake who is the president of his union, does not want to admit | this. Sheep get the same protection from a pack of wolves that pickets get from a police force. In isolated cases where the police force remains neutral it is speedily reorganized. Someone should take Brother McMahon gently by the hand, lead him away to some quite corner and explain this to him. Perhaps “it will not be necessary. The police themselves, if Brother McMahon gets out on the picket line, will produce arguments so logical that:even his child-like trust in the institutions of capitalism will be badly shaken. More than one naive soul has had the scales drop from his eyes simultaneously with the impact of a policeman’s club on his cranial superstructure. A strikebreaker president and a strikebreaking president—all is ready for a drive on labor unions as soon as industry slows down a little more. In the meantime the department of justice practices on the Communists. The Franc and the Bankers The decline of the franc is another squall descending upon the already troubled waters of in- ternational politics. . The capitalist press dismisses it as an internal squabble between the factions of Herriot and Poin- care, but the incident brings out clearly the posi- tion of France as vassal of the international bankers. It is a keen weapon that the bankers hold over the head of any French premier. French finances are in so chaotic a condition that the franc can be wiped out as medium of exchange by any untoward political event.. France can only function as a great power, in spite of her army, navy, air fleet and her own retainers like Poland and Rouimania, within the circle of, American and British im- perialism, R Knowing this, the bankers have demanded as a price of their support of the frane the exemption of corporation profits from taxation. The loss of this revenue will upset all plans for balancing the budget, but the bankers, like the common loan shark, know that their victim is helpless because \of his pressing immediate needs. 4 | The post-war rulers of the world are the bank- jers. The dynasty now. in power is that of the House of Morgan and the Dawes. plan is not for Germany alone, Philadelphia Rejects Abramovich The strenuous efforts of a large part of the Philadelphia police force, assisted by gangsters and sluggers, were not enough to keep an audience of 1,500 people from showing its indignation when Abramovich made his usual attack on Soviet Rus- sia at a meeting last Saturday night. Forty-three arrests did not prevent an outburst of working class indignation—the fourth ex perienced by the yellow prostitute since his arrival in America. Abramovich must be about ready to conclude that some of his capitalist paymasters have given him the wrong dope about the American workers whom he probably thought ready to shower him with praise and hug him to their bosoms. Yes, even in America, whose capitalist class hold a mortgage on all the world, outside of Soviet Rus- sia, there as enough supporters of Soviet Russia, Communists and class-conscidus workers to drive this “socialist” jackal back to his filthy lair. General Dawes started his boom for the presi- dency in 1928 on Lincoln’s birthday. We predict that by that time the Dawes plan will be very poor campaign material. Light on LaF ollette’ | Writing of the glories of capitalism as usual, “Serutator” of the Chicago Tribune furnishes us with some real information concerning Senator La- [UTICA COTTON MILLS TIED UP FOR FIRST TIME Strikers Refuse to Ac- cept Wage Cut (Continued from page 1) further learned that the frames in the New England mills are smaller than in the Utica mills under consideration. * Claim Urged by a desire claim heard that th Utica mills affectéf, had received since 1916 increases§aggregating 128 per cent, Joseph R: ‘ite represent- ing the United Textile Workers of America was asked if this were true. In reply, Mr. White §miled and said: “For an instance the loomfixers were receiving, in Utica ii" 1916, in the neighborhood of $17.24 per week; they are now receiving $3268. Figure it out for yourself.” This, it is under- stood, is before the j4@ per cent re- duction, stat Meetings Big Every morning several hundred of the striking textile?’ workers meet in the Labor Templé: and in this manner close touch is “maintained be- tween all departments? The meetings are always conducted im a very inter- esting manner, and there is always a good speaker on hand’*to whom the members are glad to listen. The speakers are recruited mostly from officials of the older organizations. The enthusiasm among the workers is always apparent at these meetings and by them matters are constantly kept moving and up-to-date. Woonsocket Textile Workers Unanimous for United Front pe (Continued from: page 1) ject to textile workers,ajl facing the enemy together? If the Workers (Communist) Party is;.so bad, why can't McMahon be stronger for the united, front than the Communists are?” > Minor declared that James P. Reid was president of the Textile Work- ers’ Union before MeMahon had quit wearing diapers, and had been in ev- ery fight, even somefights in which McMahon got sick Whenever there was real trouble. The united front committees, he said, would disrupt no union and would attack no union, but would invite every wnion to particl- pate, in fact, would invite Mr. McMa- hon to participate. and..over McMa- hon’s reluctant headjc would invite the United Textile Workers’ Union and its rank and fileytogether with all other unions. 70K “Make a Rac@oof It.” Minor read extractssfrom recent ul- timatum of a textile tmade paper act- ing for the mill owneng;:which raised the slogans, “Your overseer and your superintendent are.yoyr labor leaders —Don’t be. misled::hy sany so-called labor leaders outside;your own mill,” and “Double your production: Do one hundred per cent more work; make a race of it.” «Minor said this is the program of the mid owners and asked where McMahonogets off on a program like that. oy © “How is he going tormeet it, with less than 5,000 organized in the Unit- ed Textile Workers~in this district? How can the open shop program be met, with anything less than a united front of the 300,000 textile workers of New England?” John J. Ballam, district organizer of the Workers Party, made a short talk for concrete organizational steps. Two local textile workers, E. F. Leach and Joseph C. Larose, spoke of con- ditions in the Woonsocket mills and the past efforts to solve the complex problem of many conflicting unions. James P. Reid was chairman. eo # oe Boston Dress Workers Strike. BOSTON, Mass., Féb. 16.—Over 200 workers on dress go6ds are on strike in Boston shops atthe ‘beginning of an organization drive. «Fifteen shops are involved in the-strikes. i Push War Preparation. OSOODA, Mich,,° Feb. 16.—Eleven planes of the first pursuit group ar- rived here today toggpend a week in military maneuvers.y9 b- They Have Tickets Spike! March 5, 1919, the Com- munist International was founded to give renewed hope to workers the world over. : March 5, 1925, workers the world over celebrate the end of the sixth year of world struggle, the begin- ning of the seventh year of forward marching. Militants in America! How shall we celebrate? What-greeting to the Com- intern, to the workers of the world, shall we offer? The DAILY WORKER! The DAILY WORKER held aloft, defying the ene- my. The DAILY WORKER, saved for its task in the seventh year battles. The DAILY WORKER, insured! “On March 5 will be pub- lished the Comintern Edi- tion. In its columns will be printed the greetings made by America’s workers to the world’s workers, greet- ings made by means of support given the DAILY WORKER. What further support can each reader of the DAILY WORKER give? dust this much,—ONE DOLLAR! Thirty-two thousand dol- lar blows with the hammer will drive the last spikes HOME. ONE DOLLAR! Alone, how insignificant! But with OTHER dollars, — with, America’s Comintern _, Anniversary Greeting: : “The ‘Daily Worker Safe for 1925” Hands to the Hammer! Drive Home the $32,000 Before March 5! Each Reader Hic AS WE NEED IT By T. J, O'FLAHERTY. ig giving affords as much pleas- ure as receiving, the DAILY |. WORKER and its supporters can meet each other on a basis of equality. We always give a full return for every dollar the working class put into this paper. This, we have been as- sured by our readers is truer than the gospel. We simply take their word after being thoroly convinced that this paper is the only working class. daily paper published in the English lan- guage on this continent. This is tall talk, but it is true. Ops of the most disagreeable features of keeping a revo- lutionary paper in the field is the necessity for continually asking for funds. This is some- thing, you will never see the capitalist papers do; that is, in the way we do it. They don’t ask their readers for direct con- tributions. They simply secure new readers by devious means and take their profits in adver- tising. We are after readers, working class readers. We don’t give three hoots in a grave- yard for advertising except in so far as it provides revenue to enable us to get in touch with more readers and reach ever greater masses of workers. Monee! “Filthy thing,” some will say. “Why not abolish it altogether and make the world cleaner and brighter?” Nothing much the matter with money, poor little innocent means of exchange, handier ‘than chunks of granite or wild bulls, which are- hard to carry around in the jeans. The only thing the matter with money is that those who produce the wealth which it conveniently re- presents, have very little of it and thereby hangs a tale. That's why the DAILY WORKER is here and that’s why we are ask- ing those who get very little of the wealth they create to chip in a dollar to our drive so that they or those who succeed them on this world will get as much _ of the product of their toil as is possible under a Communist _-form of society. ‘2 DAILY WORKER unhesi- tatingly calls on its readers to chip in. It is your paper. When we say this, we are not handing you any taffy? Of course the Workers Party is running it, but it is the work- I am with you for insuring the DAILY WORKER TO THE LAST SPIKE. Here is my dollar to HAMMER often; it is possible for certain mild and meaning-| Follette and his activities, * New York, Philadel hia, . ers’ ‘paper, and they are begin- Jess concessions in the form of legislation to main-| Reporting a conversation of a couple of investors Detroit, Seattle, Minne: H ning to realize that fact more fain for a while their faith in the existence of|—small ones—he says: ., Cottons Geen weal ant H * its eititen his mee pation 10 | @e mceraty ani ‘ npitaliam, hh whe n le tt mH tom " He is nor boiling with enthusiasm over Wis: Dansineubirne Duluti aoe i. shen this yéat-éomeste ae oat 5 workers in one industry are read by other workers | consin’s income tax, law, but boosts the state like ' with doll from all $ ill i : fin other lines and a whole chain of first-hand | the rest of them. Great pl f ilities, h cade epee z 3 H Lee olan PSB f B . pat place for uilities, he says. over the United States,— }) ; and so on until the DAILY Mestimony shows that the conditions under which |La¥Follette’s done mighty well for’ such corpora’ \ ] ¥ ) ions wu ‘ , ghty pora: one dollar becomes thous- eo) 8 WORKER becomes the official workers are forced to make their living are the | tions, he thinks,” ands of dollars, ss organ of the United Soe! - jgame—north, south, east and west—capitalist] Just enough regulation to please the cockroach g 4 Thousands of dollars to finish the job! . Each reader, a di each branch, its quo Soviet Republic of America, iy W® will have more to ay } tomorrow about our insur- ance drive. Hundreds of work- ers write in and say, “We don’t know how you manage to keep the daily going, at a time when the corpses of labor and yellow socialist dailies pollute the po- litical graveyards of the United States.” As the sereen does we will let you in on democracy is put on trial before a jury of the whole jcapitalist, but no real interference with thé profit Working class. system—this is the heart 6 the LaFollette pro- One letter written by a worker in rebellion |gram. In Europe such persons are found in the Th ‘ ygeainst oppression in the industry where he works | social-democratie parties. In the United States |Thi @ pr dick disguise March 5, celebrate , is worth dozens of more or less learned editorials. |they are known as liberals. They pe li jugs, but they the Comintacal ee M ai ol | They have sham battles with the big capitalists are wae i Are you with us,—t In Detroit and Chicago the left wing is holding |oceasionally, but are aiveah Palen in to save the Alecks out to wify that big first yor Will” ish the job? Will yo (ts own in the Carpenters’ Union because of rank | capitalist state when it is {n a real mess, rnd be n in West |UP the ‘asin and 1 file support. The Trade Union Educational | tt nd Wo ‘Hall spike HARD? 5 E J gue militants are in the forefront of the fight | Every day get a “sub” for the DAILY WORKER At t Are you with us,—T d. diutcheson is rated a bad second up to date. and a member for the Workers Party. Balt aanihoned Ball, god THE LAST SPIKH? ; secret in our next issue, - '

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