The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 21, 1925, Page 6

Page Six THE DAILY WORKER Fated THE DAILY WORKER. | Aaa eet anllialeataa ali eh coe aaeealinatadas Published by the DAILY: WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 1118 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ml. (Phone: Monroe 4712) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mall: $3.50....6 months $2.00...8 monthe By mail (in Chicago only): $4.50...6 months $2.50...8 months $6.00 per year $8.00 per year Address all mail and make out-checks to THE DAILY WORKER 1113 W. Washington Bivd. ~ J. LOUIS ENGDAHL \ WILLIAM F, DUNNE MORITZ J. LOEB... Chicago, Ilinels verene Business Manager Entered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1923, at the Post- Office at Chicago, Ill., under the act of March 3, 1879. <r 290 White Goods Workers Strike Twenty-five thousand white goods workers are on strike in New York City. The strike is for the purpose of enforcing an agreement for an advance Advertising rates op application in wages, improvement of working conditions and unized. as low for the unionization of shops now unor; The wages of some of these workers are as $12 per week and the average is only about $18 or $20. In this industry there are dozens of small cap italists and for the most part the competition is of the cutthroat kind altho reduced somewhat of late years by the organization of trade associations which attempt to standardize prices, but whose chief business is fighting the union. Three local unions of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers have pooled their efforts in this strike and with the bosses admitting a revival in trade, there are good prospects of some concessions being secured. The bitter opposition to organized labor in Amer- ica is shown by the history of this indystry that, compared to the giant combinations in steel, coal, metal mining, transportation and lumber, can be classified as decentralized. In spite of the competi- tion that still exists and the possibility of the or- ganized workers using one boss against another, With few exceptions the workers have been forced to strike every year about this time. For America, the industry is well organized. What becomes then of the policy of “concilia- tion,” “arbitration,” and “friendly understanding” urged by the reactionary trade union officials in completely centralized industries where the work ers are only partially organized? The very weak ness of the unions in other basic industries shows the need for militant policies. Constant retreat and surrender serve only to strengthen the posi- tions of the capitalists. As for the Ladies’ Garment Workers’ officials, they too have failed to learn the lessons of the numerous strikes forced on the organization. Amal- gamation does not consist of the mobilizing of local unions of the same union. This should be a matter of course. Amalgamation is the’unity of all the unions in the industry—the ‘needle industry in this case— against all the bosses. The success of a policy can only be judged by its effect on the organization adopting it and in considering the International Ladies’ Garment Workers, we must’ask these questions: Is the union stronger now than it was five or ten years ago? Has it more job control? Is it keeping pace with the development of class organization among the bosses ? Every member of the union knows that these questions must be answered in the negative and that the present militant action of three locals of the union is only the result of the left wing activi ties and not a policy having the wholehearted en dorsement and support of the officialdom. Even in the still decentralized needle industry the capitalists are doing more amalgamating than the unions. This is a dangerous condition that can be corrected only by the adoption of the program of the Workers (Communist) Party and the Trade Union Educational League. The present strike will furnish new lessons that can be brought to the attention of the rank and file by the Commun- ist-led left wing. ° . A Composite Biography News from Seattle is that Martin Flyzik, prest- dent of District 10, United Mine Workers of Amer- ica, has resigned to become supervisor of safety in the labor department of the state of Washington. Martin was once a breaker-boy in the Pennsyl- Yania coal fields, A ready tongue and a pleasing personality, combined with what passed for revo- lutionary leanings inthe pre-war period of the labor movement, won him official positions in the union. Martin swam with the radical tide, When the war put the clamp on social-pacifism Martin became a patriot. In the state of Washington Martin soon was ac- cepted, after evidence of loyalty to American ideals, as labor trimming for the capitalist parties, His present lucrative position has been won by sterling service to fakerdom and reaction. No one can tell what it cost the miners to train and educate Martin, but it took a lot of money, He had the best the coal diggers could give. Now he becomes a puller-in for the Washington side- show of the capitalist circus. Substitute for the name of Flyzik the name. of any one of the couple hundred “labor leaders” in the United States and we have the description of their careers. It is time the labor movement stopped training officials for capitalism to use. > er sasneem es e-escuaian nm Meee ERE The “Backward Nation” Myth Smashing blows are being delivered from the most unexpected sources these’ days at the theory of the inherent inability for modern industrial or- ganization on the part of “backward nations” over whom the western nations have thrown a canopy of lies and misrepersentation. Writing for the Weekly Westminster, London, Paul Scott Mowrer, who is also a correspondent of the Chicago Daily News, gives some facts con- cerning the Riffians and their war for independence from which some very important conclusions“can be drawn. We quote: F The Riffians have taken up all the old Spanish field telephone wires and installed six or seven main lines connecting the military frontiers with the cap- ital. They are like children with a new toy. They telephone interminably. Their telephonists sit at tables, like Europeans, and keep a record in a book, like Europeans! The sultan has two motor cars! He is building a road straight across the country! He. has a motor boat, in which he goes along the coast at night, under the very noses of the Spanish! All these things are the talk of the tents and villages thruout North Africa. The pregnant deduction is made that modern progress does not, after all, de- } pend upon Europeans. “When you come back after the war,” | was told in Ajdir, “it will not be like this. You will see a fine, modern city, with a harbor and tramways and hand- some buildings—like Paris or London.” All of the above means that brought into con- tact with modern methods of communication and transportation, the Riffians, whom the western world classifies as barbarians, have within a very short space of time made themselves masters of several very intricate industrial processes. The capitalist nations have another test by which they determine the degree of “civilization” reached by the races and language groups—success in warfare. The Riffians, once they came into pos- sessions of quantities of up-to-date instruments of FOES OF THIRD PARTY GATHER TO MURDER IT Victor Berger Visiting the Panama Canal Prophets are busy prognosticating the fate of the conference for progres- sive political action after its conven- tion here tomorrow. Nobody seems to have any definite idea what it is going to do. The show will open on Satur- day morning at the Lexington Hotel. The conference has a mandate from the Cleveland convention at which La- warfare, demonstrated an aptitude which has routed the representatives of one of the oldest cultures in Europe—that of Spain. It was not so long ago that the Japanese also were termed bar- barians. The truth of the matter is that there are no races or nations so devoid of intellectual capacity that they cannot become modern in the sense in which the word is generally used. Backward races, so-called, races without an advanced industrial system based on machinery with its accompanying phenomena of universal literacy and complex so- cial organization, are not “naturally” incapable of progress in this direction, but have preserved their primitive cultures because of geographical and climatic conditions, lack of contact with advanced industrial nations, ete. In short, nations and races are “backward,” not for biological but for historical reasons. It is becoming more and more obvious as the revolt of colonial peoples, brown, black and yellow, against the imperialist nations grows, that once contact withan industrial civilization has been established,’ no’racial or national group but will adopt modern methods and adjust itself to the new social organization necessitated thereby. Imperialism! is digging its own grave by forcing the colonial peoples into the world arena where they quickly ledrn the mysteries of the machine gun and gas engine, of the hand granade and the telephone, of heavy artillery and the locomotive. Get a member for the Workers Party and a new subscription for the DAILY WORKER. Capitalist Conflicts The reported demotion of Brigadier-General Mitchéll for his advocacy of aircraft as against battleships and exposure of the inefficiency in the navy department indicates that even in the armed agencies of capitalism there is a great. con- servatism that balks at change. It is quite easy to take for granted that the aggressions of imperialism are always well- planned and equipped, but occasional facts show otherwise. There are many shades and gradations in the ranks of the staunchest of capitalism’s sup- porters and capitalism persists only at the éx- pense of infinite painful adjustments. The capitalist class is not a unit. It does not reach its decisions by any easy route, its competi- tive character creates automatically the conflicts within and the workers are permitted to glimpse every once in a while because the intensity of the struggles make concealment impossible. Once the working class is united by revolution- ary leadership, capitalism and the capitalist class will be found to be not so formidable a foe after all. Every day get a “sub” for the DAILY WORKER and a member for the Workers Party. The Switch Must Not Be Thrown Cal Coolidge rides an electric horse for exercise, but Sacco and Vanzetti are to go to the electric chair unless the working class‘of America ad- ministers such a shock to the rulers that the cur- rent cannot be switched on, Let’s make the leading lights of capitalism un- derstand that all currents of working class thought are directed now towards March 1—Sacco and Van- zetti day—when the power of the workers, will be at its peak. ———— The motto of the Coolidge administration for the proposed disarmament conference is very prob- ably: “Take away the arms from’ the nations that owe the House of Morgan money. It is always easier to collect adebt if the debtor has no gun. " Send in that new “sub” today! Follette nominated himself to “‘con- sider” the formation of a third party. That a third party ortamy other kind of a party will emerge from to- morrow’s convention is,a slim hope. For this promise Debs and other soc- ialist party leaders gave their sup- port to the LaFollette campaign and wrote glowing articles about the re- volutionary ardor of LaFollette and his side kick Wheeler, who has now gone back to his democratic vomit, To Hang Third Party To make things a little bit more gloomy for the C. P, P. A, Warren} S, Stone, one of its founders has call- ed his faithful labor fakers together today for the purpose of making a noose with whfch to:hang the third party idea at the convention. The only saving feature of the si- tuation will be the absence of the bu- foon Victor Berger who has gone to Panama on a junketing trip investi- gating something or other for Calvin Coolidge. The last congressional junk. eting trip to Panama was the cause of a good deal of unenviable notoriety, in whigh women and wine figured heavily. The Brotherhood of Locomotive En- gineers and allied unions passed a motion that “this body is not in favor of the establishment of a third politic- al party.” It is not expected that they will change that decision. Yellows and Anarchists. Debs, Hillquit and Bertha Hale White are the national delegates of the socialist party to |the convention. Outside of the needié»trades unions which are controlled by the yellow socialists and the anar@hists, it is not likely that any oth@r international union will be represguited. No doubt socialists will get themselves elected from fake organizations if they can raise the carfare. The Workers’ (Communist) Party has denounced the C.’P. P. A. as an organization inimical to’ the interests of the working class afid has issued a statement urging the workers to boy- cott it. ‘ WHITE WINGS TO MEET WITH CITY THIS AFTERNOON City Hall Conference May End Sirike A meeting of the two thousand striking street cleaners and garbage collectors employed by the city of Chicago will be held tonight or to- morrow morning, Michael Corrozzo, head of the Street Cleaners’ Union announced. This meeting will dis- cuss the results of the conference be- tween the representatives of —the strikers, and the commissioner of public works, scheduled to take place at three o’clock this afternoon. “I do not know what will be the outcome of the conference” Michael Carrozzo told the DAILY WORKER. “But the men will not go back to work until they get their increase in wages.” It is rumored that the city will of- fer the strikers a compromise settle- ment, t P. s Buck to Weeks WASHINGTON, D, ©.,Feb, 19.— Attorney General Harlan F. Stone has decided that Secretary of War Weeks has full authority to regulate the amount of water which may be with- drawn from Lake Michigan for drain- age purposes in Chigago, under the recent supreme court, decision, MORE THAN 30% 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 inf tion In a pamphlet that for only 5 CEN Order THE DAILY RKER Literature ent 1113 W. Washi in Bivd., pea mS a aR EAR eS | Red Revel Guests Getting Their Costumes These are not delegates to the C. P. P. A Or still continue to be a joke. Mie Ree -_ * e ® 37 So. Ashland Ave., corner Monroe. Party office, 166 W. Washington St., Room 303. Demanding admittance to have their say On the question of whether the “Con” should croak It is not for nothing that these youths yell, It’s not for LaFollette they’re raising hell, They're trying to squeeze into a costumer’s hall To get their rigs for the Red Revel Ball. P. S.—Now is the time for all good men and women, boys and gi¢is to get their costumes for the famous Red Revel Masquerade Ball, which will be held on Saturday evening, February 28, in West End Women’s Club Hall, Get your tickets early at Workers UNION ORGANIZER PREVENTS STRIKE AT UTICA MILLS Tho Vote Is Taken, He Forces Work UTICA, N. Y., Feb. 15. (By Mail)— The New York mills workers held a meeting today at 2 P. M. at the union hall, The committee reported they had conferred with the employers last Thursday and no settlement had been reached about the 10 per cent cut. After the report was given, the chairman said to send a communica- tion to the headquarters of the United uTextile Workers’ Union in New York City, asking an endorsement on the strike, Bouzan Demands Action James J, Bouzan, member of the U. T. W. of A. Local 753 in the New York mills, spoke. He explained how the workers of Utica must go on strike. No communications to New York City was needed when the workers had al- ready decided by a 100 per cent vote, that if, they did not reach a_settle- BROWDER AND JOHNSTON 10 SPEAK FOR T.ULEL, Jack Johnstone, secretary of the national committee of the Trade Un- ion Educational League, will be the principal speaker at the regular monthly meeting of local Chicago of the league on Wednesday evening, February 25, in North West Hall, cor- ner Western and North avenues. Earl Browder, acting secretary of the Workers Party, will give his re- view of the international situation. In view of the tense situation in Eu- rope, Browder’s summary of world conditions should prove unusually in- teresting. Battle in Unions. Comrade Johnstone will tell of the present situation in the trade unions, and will have a very interesting story to tell particularly of the United Mine Workers’ Union and Carpen- ters’ Union. The Communist candi- dates in the United Mine Workers’ eelctions polled the enormous total of 66,000 votes or half as many as the fakers counted. Hutcheson of the Car- penters’ Union is leading a campaign of expulsions in Detroit, Philadelphia, Chicago and Los Angeles. Readers of the DAILY WORKER as well as all trade unionists and members of the Workers Party are invited to attend. Italian Paper Seized. LONDON, Feb. 19.—The Milan Cor- riere was seized today for saying Sig- nori Farinacci’s speech at Cromona did not justify the hope that the Ital- ian elections would be carried out in an atmosphere of liberty, according to dispatches received from Milan by the Times. r Quota } | | This is the mark on the cover of every book of The Little Red Library. Ready February 15: No. 1—TRADE UNIONS IN AMERICA, by Wm. Z. Foster, Jas. P. Cannon and arl-R. Browder, is a brief statement of the trade union movement in America and the history of the development of the Left Wing, with an explanation of the struc- ture and program of the Trade Union Educational League. No. 2—CLASS STRUGGLE vs. CLASS COLLABORATION, by Earl R. Browder, is a study of labor banks, the “B..& O. Plan,” insurance schemes, and workers’ education. This ‘little book throws the spot-light on the methods used by the labor bureaucracy to divert the working bo from militant struggle against cap- m. | Rat mo Me Drive Home The Last Spike! hyReader, His Each Branch, Its Before March 5th. + f Sout! Get a “sub” for the DAILY WORKER CTTUOUERSEGUEROUAUUNENEGATUTEESEOAUHIUNY fle judge. - The Little Red Library . . country is the publication of THE LITTLE ment with the mill owners, then to go on strike. Organizer Joseph White of the U. T. W. took the floor and opposed Bou- zan, saying, “When it is time for you to go on strike, we will tell you, but don’t listen to anyone else.” White Helps the Bosses In his speechs before the strike, White said that if there was going to be a strike in Utica, it was going to be a general strike. Now he op- poses the going out of the New York mills workers and claims that he “still has hopes of a settlement.” This in spite of the mill owners tell- ing the workers at the conference that the mill was running at a loss and flatly refusing to rescind the cut. White persists in helping the bosses to keep thé workers in the mills. We know from ‘the. past that we cannot fight the mill owners one by one. White says—“We have to organ- ize the workers, then fight the em- ployers.” But the New York mills are organized, now, ready and anxious to strike. White, the “union” organizer keeps them at work, playing the game of th’. bosses. Klansmen Quarrel - in Indiana Courts INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Feb. 19.—Suit for $500,000 damages and a petition for an injunction preventing further use of the name “klan” was filed in federal court here today by the knights of the K. K, K. naming as defendant the independent klan of America. The independent klan was incor: porated in Indiana by former mem- bers of the K. K. K. Slick’s Job Hold Up INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. 19.—Fatlure of his commission to arrive from - Washington today held up the form- ality of swearing in Thomas W, Slick h Bend, as Indiana's second NE of the first steps of the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. since becoming the central distributing agency for the Communist press in this RED LIBRARY—an innovation in work- ing class publications. This little library will consist of uniform volumes, pocket size, including reprints of revolutionary classics and new works of the best writers in the American and International movement. It will cover all phases of social and in- dustrial problems, history, philosophy, fic- tion, poetry and art. _Price 10 Cents Each 12 for: $1.00 They can be secured from your local DAILY WORKER agent about Feb. 15 or you can order directly from The Daily Worker . Literature Department 1113 W. 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