The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 20, 1925, Page 5

i a CAPITAL, NORTH AND SOUTH, IN UNITED FRONT}: Labor Must | Approach Problems on Big Scale (Continued from page 1) 1920—during which 50 per cent cash dividends and 100 per cent stock div- idends were the routine of life of New Bngland textile stockholders—that it was these golden floods which sat- urated the south with capital and made cotton mills grow there like Mushrooms. The very name of the “New England southern mills,” tho this one was not itself a successful venture, illustrates the trend. New England newspapers boast to- day that “Atlanta is a Northern city.” They might add that Virginia, the Carolinas, Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia are today “New England states"—as far as the cotton textile industry is concerned. No Labor Unions In South The power that this gives to the monster textile combine is immeasur- able. And the combine is using every ounce of that power. A peculiar feat- ure of its is seen in the fact that in the south the textile industry finds Practically a virgin fleld in regard to labor. In the southern villages where the mills are set up, or small, old mills re-equipped, labor unionism has virt- ually never been heard of. The tra- ditions of slavery and the ideology of mountaineer agriculture, of potato- patches and one-mule farms, are still to be found—and valued by the north- | @rn capitalists who have had their ex- periences of Lawrence and ‘Paterson and Fall River, Result: THERE IS AN ABSOLUTE EMBARGO AGAINST THE MIGRATION OF ANY MILL WORKERS FROM THE NORTH TO THE SOUTH! For example, the Standard Daily Trade Service said last December: “Resistance to wage reductions in the south is not expected to be strong, inasmuch as THIS IS A NONUNION SECTION, but in New England the workers will in all probability unite to oppose them.... Probably the big- gest advantage the southern mills hold over the northern companies (the publication here ignores that the southern and the northern mills are the right and the left hands of the same capital) is lower-cost labor. ‘Wages are considerably lower in the south, to the extent apparently of 25 to 80 per cent. In addition, the work- ing week is longer than in the north, Whereas the week in the southern mills ranges from 55 to 60 hours, the 48 hour week is more or less general in the northern factories. Here we have the picture: The mountaineer-farmer, accustomed with wite and children to hoeing his corn patch from sun-up to sun-down in the clean air of the hills, and living, half- starved, on sow-belly and corn-pone, is lured down to the trap of the big new mill with offer of money wages, | Our Daily Pattern | A COMFORTABLE MORNING OR DAY DRESS | SMALL STICKS FINGER '} IN TRACTION LINE PIE SPRINGFIELD, Ill, Feb. 18— jovernor Lén Small took a hand In the traction situatlon today, serv- ing notice on Mayor Dever that the traction ordinance will be Investl- gated by the Iilinols Commerce Commission before the end of the week, Small.is anxious to boost the poll- tical prestige of William Hale Thompson, who wants to be elect- ed);mayor in 1927. Small plans to conduct a state Investigation, dis- credit Dever’s traction plan, and then ring in one of his own, Into’the mill he eagerly brings him- self, his wife and his children—(these cotton manufacturers have been fero- cious in their opposition to the child- labor amendement)—ready to work as a matter of course from sun-up to suniown in the lint-laden air for just a little more sow-belly and corn-pone. Labor unions?—Some strange, exotic words akin to the dread word, Bol- shevism. Put Up Own “Leaders.” “Furthermore,” continues the pub- lication, “the southern mills have been remarkably free from labor troubles, owing to the fact that unionism has made practically no headway in that section.” A study of the recent utterances of various textile barons leaves no room for doubt that it is their concerted plan to hold the south by means of “welfare” frauds, trickery, force and violence, or any other means against the introduction of labor unions; and to use any and all of the same means in the present wage-cutting, open-shop drive to reduce the New England tex- tile workers to the same basis of coolie-labor which they are establish- ing in the south, A singular and almost incredibly open evidence of this is found in the present slogan of the mill owners, re- cently launched thruout New England: “Let your mill superintendent be your labor-leader! Listen to fio so-called labor leaders from outside your own mill” ‘ In the face of these facts it is noth- ing less than pitiful to, hear trade- union officials speak of each one of a hundred mill quarrels separately as a problem of “getting an adjustment” for this or that handful of .workers— usually the skilled workers.only con- sidered—in a fragmentary way and nearly always on thé “basis “of ¢ present ten per cent wage-cut and a future promise. 3 Sees 25 Per Cent Cut» “s It we judge the problem as a whole Bu This | Spike! «The: last spike to insure the we cannot escape the conclusion that} DAILY WORKER for 1925 has the objective of the New England| Bly its point in the ground. A drive is at least a 25 per cent cut and | capitalist an iron-clad open shop. Textile man- ufacturers’ references to } sity to “compete with ibeth oon southern mills which have -ad- vantage of newer mi ery” give even some basis for the suspicion that they hope to have New England wages cut more than the 25 or 30 per cent. And why do we hear from the mouths of these textile kings constant allusions to “the Dawes plan” and “foreign slavery” of the German work- ers with an equal slavery of the New England workers? Already we see the rapid disappear- ance of many of the differences bet- ween the skilled and unskilled work- ers which until recently were very im- portant features here. Skilled crafts there still are, of course; and trade- unionism at present often depends upon organizing only the skilled tex- tile crafts and depending upon the spontaneous loyalty of the unorgan- ized unskilled and semi-skilled work- ers in case of disputes. But the ad- vantageous position of skilled labor in boot could kick it downhill without any trouble at all—it wouldn’t hurt even a capitalist’s big, bare toe. It must be DRIVEN TO THE HILT! It must become part of the huge Workers Party structure of propaganda that nothing short of an earthquake can dislodge. Bury the Spike, or Bury the DAILY WORKER! The issue is plain. As the spike goes down, the DAILY WORKER'S prospects for 1925 GO UP! In Friday’s paper will be a record of how many dollar blows have fallen, How much nearer the ground will it be—This last spike? Use this spike just as the DAILY WORKER uses capital- ism—KNOCK IT. Hit it square- ly on the head. It is builet- headed, too—like capitalism, It THE DAILY ‘WORKER ee ete America’s Comintern Anniversary Greeting: “The Daily: Worker Safe for 1925” Hands to’the Hammer! Drive Home the Spike! $32,000 Before March 5! Each Reader His Page Five secs | | THIRTY THOUSAND IN i PROCESSION T0 BURY. VICTIMS OF DAWES DORTMUND, Germany, Feb. 17.— A throng estimated at 30,000 wit- nessed the final obsequies today of the 136 workers who lost their lives in the Stein mine explosion here last week. Crowds lined the streets and the bells in all the churches of the city were tolled as the funeral proces- sion passed to the cemetery. Dele- gations of foreign miners’ unions followed the hearses, which were covered with flower: The public business offices of the city and most of the private homes displayed signs of mourning. SCAB COLLEGE Is BIG MONEY MAKER DIVIDENDS SHOW Exploits Eager Desire for Capitalist “Success” By CARL HAESSLER, ; (Federated Press Staff Correspondent) The open shop college of business success, the La Salle Extension uni- versity, is making a soft thing out of its eager customers who seek by mail to become financiers and executives and experts in getting something for nothing. It is declaring a 100 per cent dividend on its closely guarded share which: have regularly paid 10 per cent a year besides piling up a big surplus, Uses Non-Union Printing. The La Salle, whose textbooks on commercial uplift or the trick of ele- yating pennies into dollars are printed By Fo de OPLAERTY. in nonunion shops, finds that educa- HEN the DAILY WORKER was/ tion of the kind it s peddling by cor- AS WE NEED IT O'FLA cad organized, skeptical people kept | respondence is exceedingly remunera- saying: “Oh, it will come and go like| tive. “Our surplus, represented by a comet.” The socialist daily in New! substantial ‘assets, is more than five York had just kicked the bucket. This| times our capitalization,” asserts J. G. was a bad omen, some radicals|Chapline, president of the uniquely thought. If a yellow, reformist daily profitable college, that reduced the class struggle to] The 100: per cent stock dividend, zero, went down, what chances did 2] which is part of a scheme to increase fighting Communist daily have? The} the present $1,000,000 capital to $1,- skeptics forgot that a fighting daily | 500,000, is‘being managed for this edu- would succeed just because it fought | cation factory by its open shop crony, for the interests of theworkers. A‘ Hell’n Maria Dawes, president Cen- labor paper that does not fight has no| tral Trust Co., and vice-president of excuse for existence. It is only com-| the United States beginning March 4. peting with the capitalist press and |The Central Trust Co. and Dawes cannot exist except by blackmailing | were the fragrant defendants found business men into supporting it thru | guilty of Juggling figures’ to deceive advertising. the state’ bank examiners in thefam- ous Lorimer bank case. CAUSE we have not appealed for Inspiration Exploited. funds until the recent insurance. Among the favorite inspirational drive, many of our readers may be} commodities vended in the La Salle justified in thinking that we get our] sales literature are “vision” and “suc- tunds from heaven or from some other) cess,” The Dawes- La Salle-open shop place. We don't. We are now making} combination seems to have the inside @ serious appeal for support. We/| track but whether the secret is com- want to make a real united front with| municated to the uniyersity’s mail or- our readers by asking them to join} der patrons is another question. “Our with us in driving the big spike on sales now are about five times what this page down, until its head disap-| they were 10 years ago,” says Pres. pears. Just imagine you are driving | Chapline. a nail in coffin of the capitalist that comes oace ina life ume, | Soviet Mining Experts Observe Mine Methods; May Buy Machinery ‘VERY reader of this paper is in- vited to send in a dollar. One dollar will not make the spike sink very much but “constant dropping |is entertaining a number of distin- wears away a stone.” I can see dol-| guished labor visitors. Chief among lars coming from all directions, trom | them is a delegation from Soviet Rus. over the United States, as if they had] sia, consisting of representatives of wings, coming as fast as letters trom | various industrial bodies who are vis- vegetarians when the DAILY WORK- | iting mining and dredging operations ER says a kind word for roast beef. ! in California with a view of buying We expect to publish some very in- machinery, teresting letters in a few days from! ‘They include Alexis SAN FRANCISCO.—San Francisco LOEB TO TELL STORY OF THE DAILY WORKER Public Invited to Look Behind the Screen Would you like to be initiated into the mysteries of putting a labor daily to bed? No doubt you would. Please understand that “going to bed” is shop talk for going to press. Before the writer penetrated into the mysterious cavern of newspaper- dom, he was as interested in the stairway leading to an editorial room as a stage Johnny is in the part of the theatre that is behind the footlighta, particularly when the asbestos screen is down. When you pay three cents for a@ copy of the DAILY WORKER on the news stand, or when you get it thru the mails (as I hope you do), you know very little of the myriad move- ments that go into producing it. Daily Manager to Speak. Moritz Loeb, business manager of the DAILY WORKER will speak next Sunday at the Workers Party Open Forum on “How a Labor Daily Goes to Press.” Comrade Loeb was the chief revolutionary midwife who of- ficiated at the birth of the DAILY WORKER. As an organizer he has few superiors, and the continued growth of our daily is in a great meas- ure due to his capable management. Before he undertook his present task, he was secretary of the Friends of Soviet Russia in Chicago, and organ- ized one of the most successful tag days ever held in the city. Later on, he was appointed secretary of the Labor Defense Council and started the campaign that raised $100,000 for the defense of the Communists in Mich- igan. The Open Forum is held every Sun- day evening at 8:00 p. m., in the Lodge room of the Ashland Auditor- ium, corner of Ashland Blvd, and Van Buren Street. Amalgamated Renews Agreement NEW YORK CITY, Feb. 18.—The Amalgamated Colthing Workers’ ex- ecutives report a renewal of the an- nual agreement between the Shirt- makers’ Joint Board of New York and the United Shirt Manufacturers As- THE WHITE TERRORISTS CRY FOR our dollar brigade. And their names will appear in the Roll of Honor in Smolnikoff, Peter Drozgiloff, Serge! Podiakvonoff, MERCY By MAX BEDACHT Is a new pamphlet just off the press, Nikola! Kousmin, Alexander Strekh- Contrasting the treat- 4672. Linen, repp, gingham, serge or chambrey would be good for this model. The closing is reversible, so that the dress may be worn buttoned from right to left or left to right side. The Pattern is cut in 7 Sizes: 34, 36, 38, 40, 42, 44 and 46 inches bust measure. A 88 inch size requires 4% yards of 36 inch material. The width at the foot is 1% yard. Pattern mailed to any address on recetIpt of 12c in silver or stamps, DAILY WORKER, 1118) wh temngten. eve. Chicago, A NOTICH TO PATTERN BI oye Workin pattern de) the cotton mills tends to disappear. Spinners, for instance, are being so drastically pushed into speeding-up systems that they complain of prac- tically having lost the status of a skilled craft. In “Life-and-Death” Crisis A half-blind man could see that labor unionism in the textile indus- try is now in a life-and-death crisis. The half-dozen fragments and mem- berless memories of labor organiza: tions here, tend to jog along in dreams of past conditions until suddenly jolt ed into a sudden fight, a petty “ad- justment,” then to sink into phleg- matic, sodden routine, while the world about them is ablaze. Again I will say there are except fons,to be found. Some of the unions are ready—eVen their officials are ready—to listen to the call for a wide effort at unification. The work of the united front movement instigated by the Workers Party is being felt, and many groups and organizations of wot rs here and there have promised and are giving co-operation, - But it will be necessary to get unity on @ vast scale, All of New England textile labor will stand or fall to- gether. And it can not make any ef- fective headway unless out of this campaign comes an organizational m, big enough to reach thruout all tea. There must be textile union needs firm blows. It needs to be BURIED—not just to be bruised. And like capitalism, it calls for CLASS ACTION. An army of blows to bury the spike! How many blows can each branch of the Workers Party give? Take the Yukon, Pa. Eng- lish branch, for instance. On Dec. 26 there came $3.00 to the DAILY WORKER from its form- er secretary, Mike Grajdich. He wrote as follows: “The mine where the rest of our comrades worked shut down 9 months ago, and now our branch doesn’t ex- ist any more. But I send you all I can for myself; but I don’t live in Yukon any more, tho my family does, I had to get a job in East Pittsburgh. “Please take note of this, be- cause it's not fair for us from that branch that used to be so active to be called ‘slackers’ now.” ‘ The name of this branch will g0 on the COMMUNIST ROLL- CALL of the special Comintern edition of the DAILY WORK- ER, March 5, the same as that of the English branch of Detroit, Mich., that has MORE THAN DOUBLED ATS Quora! “To aah secorting to its ttern department are need." much does the aed sauein ldecs ale Te Ph manufacturers ate uni |DALUY WORKER need? This 1 Ian every ay ts TOE satnn to the amoreele lp 061 © tyhard to answer negate molten ost from Maine to ui iD A 3 ead the customer. . ‘The textile workers must be The 6 often been told pad f ove ge me, or must enter a period Of}. sa. . » . to get safe- fern ora urily will take at Joust 10 dave; gotlation” and doubly intensified |ly thru year 1925... the ot the order, D avery of which their past experience | $5 ARRY ON THE o- furnishes no example. FIGHT: not a farthing less, CP ce ee enema n arn apap = Sp donc sti 4 i Here is my dollar te HAMMER I am with you for insuring the DAILY WORKER seennehen'y soahetneeehoneedaettnredereseersees TO THE LAST SPIKE. ! B 1) Street. Name....... ad ere en een OL ARCO STR « o\Qur March 5th edition. ) 14,1 and help push down fhis apike. nin and John G. Ohsol. Many of them are prominent in Russian government T is only a few short years since a | ffairs, as well as in their respective group of Communists found them- | industries, selves in Berrien county jail, in the| state of Michigan. There was no| When you buy, get an “Ad” DAILY WORKER at that time. But to break the monotony of their incar- for the DAILY WORKER. ceration the prisoners got together and issued the first Communist daily PITTSBURGH, PA, in the English language on the Amer-| 4, ¢h hi ican continent, called, like this, The Teness (wih teat os boaiy pi - Basu 4 DAILY WORKER. The copy was ~ their dental work. smuggled out and published in the * Weekly Worker, in New York and in DR. RASNICK DENTIST 645 Smithfield Street. the Voice of Labor, Chicago. It creat- ed such a sensation that the municipal judge, who was also secretary of the chamber of commerce in St. Joseph, upbraided the sheriff for allowing his prisoners to issue a paper in the jail. The post office took it so seriously that it prohibited the Voice of Labor from reproducing it on the ground that the DAILY WORKER did not en- Joy second class mailing ‘privileges. eee MORE THAN 307% of the total population in Ameri- ca is foreign born. “The American For- eign-Born Worker” By Clarissa S. Ware. is a most valuable little arse nal of facts on a large body of the American working class, Most useful information tn a pamphlet that sells for only 5 CENTS Order from THE DAILY. WORKER Literature Department 1118 W, Washington Bivd., Chicago, HI. HAT was then only a dream is today a reality. The copy for the DAILY WORKER is no longer sneaked out to the printer. It lives in its own building, is edited, set up, composed, printed and mailed in its own castle. It costs money to do that. The dollars of the revolutionary workers of the United States» estab- Mshed it; their dollars will/also keep it going. 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