The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 22, 1925, Page 4

mmpen Ht il Page Four THE DAILY WORKER. Cn ne Sasa cealiiaas ieee Na SRE RIE NE TE <A Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING 00. 1118 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, DL (Phone: Monroe 4712) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mall: $8.50....6 months $2.00....8 months By mail (in Chicago only): $4.50....6 months $6.00 per year $8.00 per year Address all mail and make*out checks to | THE DAILY WORKER 9118 W. Washington Bivd. | J. LOUIS ENGDAHL | WILLIAM F. DUNNE Editors | MORITZ J. LOEB.....crrecnen- Business Manager | Chicago, Minele | —_—— ®ntered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1923, at the Post: Office at Chicago, Ill, under the act of March 3, 1879, <> 290 | Advertising rates om application | Conciliators and Garment Strikers | Two developments in the strike of garment work- era in New York City: | First, federal conciliators are on the job trying | to arrange a “settlement”—the usual accompani- | ment of strikes of any size. | Second, pickets are slugged and arrested. Here are the two chief methods of the boss-owned | government, Federal conciliators with their palaver of peace and concessions by both sides—|} attempts to break the morale of the strikers by}; filling them with false hopes. Violence against the strikers in an effort to eow those who cannot be fooled by the smooth- tongued agents of the employers. No honest and intelligent worker can fail to see the way in which these two methods dovetail to-| gether and work in the interest of the enemies of | the working class. The left wing, led by the Communists, can do} effective work in such cases. In addition to being | the most active fighters on the picket line, the most untiring organizers of the offensive against the} bosses, they also show to the workers the intimate | connection between government and boss. They | have in these instances concrete evidence to bring | forward against any so-called leader who takes part in the attempt of the agents of the employers to fool the strikers into believing that they can gain anything by other means than their organized and conscious strength. Any efforts on the part of government or any other brand of conciliators to get the workers back to their machines pending a settlement must be fought mercilessly. The time to negotiate is when the industry is crippled by a strike of the workers and the bosses are whining over vanishing profits. 10,000 Murders Ten thousand murders per year in the United States is the lowest possible estimate given by Frederick Hoffman, expert criminal statistician. He says: “My own record of homicides is based on death certificates in which deaths from crim- inal violence are certified either medically or by a coroner’s inquest. The record of 10,000 murders a year is probably an, underestimate of the actual facts. Death certificates in cases of accident leave much to be desired and there are substantial reasons for believing that many cases are recorded as accidents which should be certified as homicides.” This is quite a record for a nation that prides itself on having the highest civilization on the globe. When the satirists of Soviet Russia run short of material for sarcastic eulogies of western capitalism they can do quite a bit with this one! fact. It ‘would never do, of course, to recognize a| workers’ and peasants’ government that makes its | principal cities entirely free from crimes of | violence. Ten thousand murders per year—well, Americans are an efficient people. We Tremble The Federation News, organ of Chicago labor fakerdom, at last has us worried. It parrots in its issue of the 2ist inst., the Chi- cago Tribune’s story of $340,000 sent from Russia | for Communist propaganda in the United States. We repnat, we are worried. We are afraid that the only readers of the Federation News, the few hundred pie-card artists who run the Chicago labor unions for the money there is in it, will believe this story. Tf they do, there is going to be a lot of these second-story artists who suddenly will develop a great sympathy for the Communist program and love for the Communists. $340,000! One-tenth of this amount would buy this whole flock 6f birds for capitalism, Communism or any- thing else—for a few minutes. We fear that in the next few days we are going to have to talk to a lot of “labor leaders” whose prehensile fingers will be opening and closing in the nervous manner with which so many bosses and politicians are familiar. Three of a Kind We publish today, coincident with the ©. P. P. A. convention, two news stories of the greatest im- portance to the labor and revolutionary movement —they are exclusive stories dug out of the jungle of the labor movement by the DAILY WORKER staff and they are damning evidence of ‘the double- crossing and betrayal that are inevitable aecom- paniments of the schemes for “lass peace” and “capitalizing” labor put forward by high officials ot the labor movement like Warren Stone of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, “B, and 0” . RAFI AIE $2.50....8 months | Bill Johnston of the Machinists’ Union and Wil- liam Green, head of the American Federation of Labor. These. officials are supposed by superficial ob- servers to represent three different tendencies in the labor movement. Actually all three stand for the same thing—the handing over of the unions, bound. hand and foot, to the capitalists and the capitalist state. In West Virginia, Warren Stone, ag head of a stock company composed of members of his union, rans a scab coal mine. In Delaware, against the policy of the other rail- way unions expressed in their official organ, Labor, he supports Coleman DuPont—the war-monging munition maker and labor hater and officer of the Morris Plan Bank—the biggest loan shark concern in America. “B. and O.” Bill Johnston, president of the In- ternational Association of Machinists, is the sponsor of the Baltimore and Ohio company union scheme that has turned the railway shop crafts on that system over to the tender mercies of the rail- | way company. More than that, we publish today the first-hand information of the extension of this scheme to all other unions on the B. and O., including the Broth- erhood of Locomotive Engineers. Johnston has done a good job—for the bosses. He and Stone can chuckle togeher in their luxurious offices over the way they have put it over on the men who pay their huge salaries. William Green, at the last meeting of the exec- utive council of the American Federation of Labor, held in Miami, Florida; announced that he stood for “conciliation and understanding” and against all “radical” tendencies. He wants labor to. “un- derstand” capital in the same way that Warren Stone and Johnston do—by trying to play the “brace” game of becoming capitalists, Read, the stories dealing with the studied at- tempts to turn the labor movement over to the robber clique of capitalists that we carry today on the front page. Read the program of the C. P. P. A., which Stone and Johnston formed to further additional be- trayals. Read them again and again until the full measure of the treachery of these labor Jeeches is understood. \ Then read the program of the Workers (Com- munist) Party of America. The Child Labor Law—Its Lessons The Michigan state legislature has defeated the child labor amendment by passing the Culver reso- lution for its rejection. Michigan, with its beet sugar industry, is a noisome hotbed of child slavery. Charles Warren, the Coolidge choice for attorney general, is also an attorney for and a director of & tiumber of large sugar companies. Michigan jails Communists. With the exception of some women’s organiza- tions who were attracted to the child labor_amend- ment because of its humanitarian character, the class lines were clearly drawn in the fight for it in Michigan. Exploiters of labor and their retainers were against the measure, labor organizations for it. The stubborn opposition to this bill, which would deprive the capitalists of the service of some million and a half children, cannot be explained by this fact alone. Ta eh The demand of the Communists for full govern- ment maintenance of the children of workers and working farmers while they are of school age, a provision without which a child labor law is an empty gesture, is not the sole reason for the panic among the child robbers, Both of these things are contributing factors, but underlying the million-dollar campaign of the opponents of the amendment is the intention to stop at all costs interference with and weakening of the power of American capital to rob whom and how it pleases. The textile barons, premier enslavers of chil- dren, white and black, the tobacco trust and other l6w wage enterprises, are powerful by themselves. In this fight they have rallied almost every other section of the capitalist class to their aid. The fight is not over and will not be over until there is no a single child of school age in industry. In the meantime, while the workers rally theis,| forces for new efforts, it would be well for the ee ae THE DAILY WORKER Building, the By EARL R. BROWDER. T has proved to be one of the most difficult things to build the left wing in the Amalgamated Clothing Workers, because of the lip-service paid by the Hillman administration to some progressive issues, such as sup- port to Soviet Russia, amalgamation, and the labor party. But in the past year the masked reactionaries who rule the A. C, W. have exposed them- selves so that all may see them in their true nature—as bureaucrats of the same class-collaborationist stripe as the Gompers’ bureaucracy. There can be no militant members of the A. C. W. of A. who can longer doubt the burning necessity of a definite left wing program and organization in or- der to fight to bring the union back to the class struggle. This has been de- monstrated to the most“backward by the past year’s development. ‘UPPORT of the labor party was one of the Hill administration masks. They drop} 4h completely, after having sabotaged every move for a labor party by attending con- ferences as “observers” and refusing to lift a finger or say @ word. Sup- port of Soviet Russiaiiwas another mask, but the pie “million dol- lar fund” for Rus: clothing fac- tories dwindled to 4 miserly ten per cent of that amount and was forgot- ten. A stand for amalgamation was another mask, but the issue has been ignored and laid aside, not a single move being made to realize this vi- tally necessary measure. Class strug- gle was formerly at least recognized, but today the president of the union boasts of the abandonment of strug- gle in favor of compromise and colla- boration with the employers. 'HUS has the objective situation been cleared "the foundation prepared for a left wing, clear in pro- gram and strong inenumbers, in the A.C. W. of A. a8 ‘HERE is still one obstacle to be overcome before @ strong left wing can grow in the A.C. W. That is the remnant of confusion within our own ranks still reriaining from the days when the Hillthahites paid lip- Left Wing service to progressive measures. There are still workers who claim to belong to the left wing, who yet take up the arguments of Hillman with all their hollow mockery, and indirectly fight for them within the left wing movement itself. These remaining Hillmanites within the left wing do everything in their power to distract the movement away from its construc- tive task of building the revolution- ary movement and clarifying its pro- gran They have been forced to aban- don open support of the administra- tion, and so they fall back upon se- cret and indirect support, and the use of tricks against the left wing. UCH a “trick” was the use made of a statement which several members of the left wing allowed themselves, thru their inexperience, to be fooled into signing. The sign- ing of the statement, which meant to hand a political weapon over to a political enemy, was an inexcusable blunder on the part of these mem- bers. It was a demonstration of that confusion of mind which is the prin- cipal remaining obstacle before the left wing. ‘HE Trade Union Educational League branded the signing of this statement as a crime against the left wing and against the true interests of the labor movement. This was the first step toward correcting the mistakes of the left wing, toward eilminating the last obstacles to its growth and development. The Work- ers Party took even more drastic ac- tion toward those who were mem- bers of the party, demanding that the action be repudiated as a serious blunder by those who committed it. Those who undertook to defend the stab in the back that had been given to the left wing, who refused to admit that it was a mistake, were expelled from the Workers Party. The. party of the revolutionary working class cannot retain in its ranks those who bring in with them and defend such. indefensible actions. It is reliably reported that another ex-member of our party, Salutsky, greeted one of the expelled before a joint board’ meeting with the words: “Here is an- N international their respective lands will be given Auditorium. mandolin and balalaika orchestras, sketch. A real proletarian program made up of things dear to the workeps. of all the many lands of the world, and performed by the most proficient for the entertainment of their class. Behefit Irish Relief. The affair will be fun under the | joint auspices of the Babor Defense Council, the Workers (Party, and the Irish Workers’ and Pdésants’ Famine Relief Committee of fhe Internation- al Workers’ Aid. Thus the Irish Re- lief and the Labor Defense will share in the financial benefits to be derived from the work of those who furnish the entertainment and the work of those who sell the tickets to bring out the crowd. Admission will be 50c, children 10c to comply with a city ordinance which compels every child to have a ticket. Speakers Too. Of course there will be the best speakers available. William =F. Dunne, of the DAILY WORKER, pro- vided. he. is still out of jail, and Rob- ert’ Minor, world-famed, labor cartoon- pacifists and parliamentarians to ponder the lessons of the fight for the child workers—to ask them- selves if American capitalism mobilizes so strong- ly for protection of one of its small groups, what the prospects are for a peaceful adjustment of the major confliet between a robber class and the work- ing class. War—the Constant Danger Those who remember the months preceding the outbreak of the world war in August, 1914, will recall that the air of the capitals of the great powers was filled with news of scandals in their army and navy departments, with charges and counter-charges of inefficiency, graft, “anprepared- ness,” ete. Hand in hand with these bickerings among the militarists went the talk of disarmament just as today there are rumors of more international con- ferences on auxiliary armaments. One more straw. In Chicago day before yester- day the department heads of the Illinois Central railroad gathered in uniform as officers of the na- tional army. reserve and discussed the problem of supplying armed forces with the necessary sup- plies.. All over the nation similar gatherings are being held. . : Militarism, the righthand of imperialism, is al- ways at work. We live always on the verge of war. Imperialism is prepared, the workers are not. Let the nearby danger of another bloody strug: ist whose trial in thigan comes next. & Contributions: §nvited. The affair will be ie oeos of the same committee that, made out so well at the recent ‘movie showing. This committee will t again next Saturday at 722 Blue Island Ave., at 3:30 p. m. Any group which ean contribute any talent to this wonderful program, or any individual who might care to co-operate should gef in touch at once with the sec! , Thomas O'Flaherty, 166 West Washington St. Frisco Runs |. Wa A. Movie. The “big affair’ of San Francisco during “Fight the Jailors” week Mar. 15-22, will be the showing of the “Beauty and the Bolsjevik” on Mar, 21. This is under dirgct auspices of the committee for International Workers’ Aid and maty: workers’ or- ganizations are co-operating to make it a success. For information and tickets get in touch with C. J. Read, 225 Valencia St. Defense-Relief Bazaar in Philadelphia The “Fight the Jailers” “week, Mar. 15-22, will be celebrated in Philadel- phia by a big bazaar in which defense and relief committees are giving full- est co-operation, oy gle be on the order of business of every working class meeting, mot | INTERNATIONAL DEMONSTRATION] | ™=t#y,2ermeo For Ivish Workers’ Famine Relief and Class War Prisoners olidarity demonstration in which workers of more than fifteen languages will contribute the best entertainment features of in Chicago, on March 29, at Ashland There will be Finnish athletics, Jewish music, a chorus of 300 Lithuanian children, a dance pageant by Young Workers League members and juniors, solos and ensembles and a dramatic tetanic HERRIOT CALLS — ON MORGAN FOR UNITED FRONT PARIS, France, Feb. 20.—Premier Herriot, the “socialist,” is calling frantically for J. P. Morgan to bol- ster the tottering Herriot regime with a loan of $200,000,000. When M. Clementel, the finance minister, was shown an official de- nial by the United States treasury de- partment, that the American govern- ment was contemplating a loan to France, Clementel said, “By the Unit- ed States I meant American bankers, not the American government.” Cle- mentel had said that the United States would aid France to bolster the falling French franc with a large loan. Clementel, however, meant Morgan, whom he recognized as the real power‘in America. Interest to Morgan, Louis Loucheur, one of France's big capitalists, speaking in the chamber of deputies, declared that, France is paying regularly one and one-half bil- lion francs for the settlement of her }commercial debt to America, The bulk of this money find its way into Morgan's pockets. “The great trouble of the govern- ment is that it never has any cash on hand,” said Loucher. “I recommend the immediate efforts to float a loan of $200,000,000. The money from the recent Morgan loan should be kept in- tact to protect (he franc.” On. the New York exchange the Herriot government bought French francs heavily, as a result the francs gaining four points during the day. The French government bought thru the ally of the Bank of France, J. P. Morgan and company. George E. Pashas COZY LUNCH 2426 Lincoln Avenue One-half ne a Imperial CHICAGO © af in “The Amalgamated” other one who does not mourn his ex- pulsion.”. When such a greeting is not repudiated, when expulsion can be treated as a joke, we can be ten, times assured that it was justified. ‘HE incident was not a pleasant one, and it injured the left wing movement considerably. But every such bad thing has certain good by- products. In this case it was the oc- casion for a sharp jerking up of our comrades and a stock-taking of those bad tendencies in our movement which hinder the growth of the left wing. The result has been an ideolo- gical house cleaning which, when it is completed, will mark the real be- ginning of the left wing in the A. C. W.A. ‘HERD is stilla trace of Hillmanism in our party and in the left wing, which will have to be overcome. Its last remaining strength comes, in- terestingly enough, from an alliance with an entirely different tendency in our movement—with the “left sick” and syndicalistic elements. This spec- tacle of the right wing uniting with the infantile left, is a familiar one in the international revolutionary tmovement, It is due either to the muddle . headedness of the left-sick ones, or to the fact that their left phrases conceal a fundamentally op- portunist attitude to the problems of the movement. As to the real oppor- tunists, they are, of course, always eager to grasp at any kind of alliances which can help them create confusion. 'HE way in which the revolution- ary movement fights against er- rors withip its ranks is to expose them and show their falsity to the entire movement. ITHIN the clothing industry the last obstacles to progress in the building of a miiltant left wing are just such errors as these. They are our weaknesses, and to cure-them we must expose them. We must point out to the entire movement the false- ness and dangerousness of the oppor- tunistic right wing element which is afraid to denounce and fight against the policies of class collaboration in the union a fear which leads to such actions as the signing of statements BETTER DRUGS ight Luncheon Served 1154 Madison Street, Corner Ann OPEN DAY AND NIGHT Four Phones Chicago Easy to learn on the Its ease of operation and beautiful work ure. Price, with case, *60 Easy payment terms can be arranged when you Order from | The Daily Worker 1113 W. Washington Bivd., CHICAGO, ILL. FINNISH BRANCH, read after you have enjoyed it. 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If it becomes necessary, of course, it can easily be pointed out in what persons these errors find their champions. What we are concerned with, however, is to clarify the minds of the large numbers of rank and file members who follow the left wing, who believe in it and will fight for it, but who are dismayed by the shout- ing of opportunists and wailing of the infantile left. To these honest and sincere comrades we point out that this confusion is but,a passing sur- face event, caused by the movement of those deep, underlying forces of historical progress which are making a left wing not only necessary but al so inevitable. The temporary confu- sion is only the floundering about of those who haven’t caught step with the march of the revolutionary work- ers—some thru error and others: be- cause they don’t belong with the re- volutionary workers. The first we will save and bring back into our army as disciplined soldiers of the re- volution; the second we will part with as painlessly as possible. © & ie (In another article | will deal with the opportunist argument that be- trayal of the left wing can be ex- cused as “loyalty to the union,” an argument which is the fig-leaf every weakling or renegade tries to use with which to cover the naked- ness of surrender to reaction.) Don’t Lay Down Your Hammer Till You ‘Finish This Job! Streets crcseen City: .... States ose JULIN'S SHOE STORE AND REPAIR SHOP 3224 W. North Avenue Phone Belmont 2713 Chicago WORKERS PARTY THE STORY OF A PATRIOT By Upton Sinclair. A most interesting stery by a master-propagandist, built a- round a red-blooded “he-man,” a hundred-per cent American who turns out to be a spy of Paper, 26 Cents | |