The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 25, 1925, Page 6

Page Six ene meeentenrenenemeennnatnnonecnaniana neater THE DAILY WORKER. Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO, 1118 W. Washington Blivd., Chicago, DL (Phone: Monroe 4712) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail: $3.50....6 months ROR months | By mail (in Chicago only): | i $4.50....6 months $2.50....8 monthe | 66.00 per year $8.00 per year Aadress all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER 9113 W. Washington Bivd. Chicago, tlinele | o 3. LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F. DUNNEt MORITZ J. LOEB... weve EItOTS | ome Business Manager Entered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1923, at the Post- Office at Chicago, Ill, under the act of March 3, 1879. Ge 290 | Advertising rates op application | The Super-Power Fraud | Super-power, the amalgamation of electric power plants into one huge system, the most recent effort of American capitalism to further strengthen ‘its control of industry by centralizing ownership of this all-important natural resource, has been stamped with the approval of America’s labor fakerdom from the late President Gompers, his suc- cessor William Green down to Farrington, presi- dent of the Illinois district of coal miners. Noonan, president of the Brotherhood of Electrical Work- ns, is also among the loudest ballyhooers for this new and powerful weapon of the bosses. Steam and water-power operated plants are to be linked together and with “cheap” power the mil- lenium is to be ushered in. No more effective disclosure of the incurable cap- italist character of American labor officialdom has been made to date than this unqualified endorse- ment of a scheme that must, long before it is com- plete, throw out of employment hundreds of thou-| sands of workers. Farrington has gone so far as to make super- power the central issue of his platform and in the| capitalist press of Illinois his praises are being sung. It should be remembered in this connection that among the Illinois coal miners particularly, unem-} ployment is rampant. Farrington holds before} their eyes, after years of studied betrayal of their interests, the glittering vision of power plants built at the pit mouth consuming coal which happy miners, secure in the knowledge of permanent em-} ployment, dig in the depths below while chanting praises to Farrington their benefactor. No crueler fraud has ever been foisted upon workers. The mere fact that the great capitalists are in favor of this new development is sufficient) to assure any thinking worker that it will do away with labor now employed. All advances in indus- trial technique are for this purpose. Elimination of coal haulage, the electrification of railroads, the increasing development of water! power electric plants and the wider radius of trans- | mission resulting from improved methods, all dis-| place labor. Cheaper production floods the mar- kets with goods for which there are no buyers— the most obvious and inconsistent of all of capital- ism’s contradictions. We cannot keep silent while workers are fooled | into making asses of themselves by boosting | schemes that will make more profits for the cap-| italists, increase their power over the working class | and add to the misery of the mas | There is something fascinating about the tech-| nique of the production and transmission of electric | a dagger between his teeth,’4’ Thompson machine gun in one hand and a bomb ih the other may have the best intentions in the world, but he will not im- part that feeling of security to those who are not similarly equipped, that is essential to a peaceful atmosphere. The first thing you know there is a scramble for hardware, bigger and better than what the walking arsenal is toting. This is how it works with the capitalist nations. Preparedness for war begets preparedness and god is always on the side of the best poison gas, But here is where we are going to disappoint the pacifists who have been gurgling with joy over the preceding paragraphs. War between nations is | inevitable under capitalism. The burglars cannot agree on the division of the loot. War between elasses is inevitable under capitalism. Therefore the preparedness of capitalist governments has a two-fold object: protection against the enemy abroad and also against the enemy within. The enemy within is the working class. It is folly to expect that governments will disarm as long as there are conflicting classes. They will not. Governments—all governments—are organs of suppression. There will never be peace on earth until classes are abolished and that will not come about until the capitalist class is abolished and the rule of the producing class established on its ruins. This will necessitate a war—a war that will truly end war. The Punishment Fitted the Crime Since the reactionary labor leaders began play- ing with the idea of political action thru the C. P. P. A., the socialists were handy tools in their hands in ferreting out the presence of radicals who might be expected to inject an atmosphere of class struggle into the middle-class talkfests held under the auspices of the conference for progressive polit- ical action. . At the Cleveland convention the anti-Commun- ist stoolpigeon on the credentials committee was the then national secretary of the socialist party. One of the questions he asked the representatives of the Workers Party who presented their creden- tials was: “Do you believé in dictatorship?” They were not admitted, of course. At the most recent and last convention of the C. P. P. A. another yellow socialist was honored with the position of chairman of the credentials committee. But there being no Communists pre- sent, the reactionaries began to transform the deepest yellow into purple and by the time the C. P. P. A. and its invited guests got thru with the socialists the latter found themselves homeless. They crawled until their stomachs were calloused, but it was of no avail. Having played the role of stoolpigeon for the labor fakers, the socialist party was treated as a stoolpigeon is usually treated by his employer when his services are no longer re- quired. Deserted by the brotherhood leaders and swatted by the so-called progressives, the poor socialists al- most excited the pity of the few Communist ob- servers who watched the comedy. It was a case of the punishment fitting the crime. There’s a Difference When Floyd Collins, a cave explorer, was caught in a narrow passageway leading to the cavern and | held there until death released him from his suf- ferings, the capitalist press of the country featured his agony and the attempts made to rescue him for almost three weeks, not for the sake of the captive, but in order to boost circulation. As the DAILY WORKER pointed out, there are power—something little understood by those out-|fhousands of deaths every year in the bowels of side of the industry. It is the cheapest kind of power | the earth and preventablevones. But they are due THE DAILY WORKER <3 I—The R. I. L. Ustand the Steps Towards World Trade Union Unity, , eS: By TOM BELL. PRESS dispatch intimates that the Amsterdam International Fed- eration of Trade Unions at the re- cent session of the executive has agreed to allow the Russian trade un- ions to enter into the industrial sec- retariats affiliated with Amsterdam and also their willipgness to enter into negotiations as fo|the calling of an international ci ngress of trade unions for the forma}ion of a single International of Trag@p| Unions. This shows that the fight for unity by the Red International abor Unions has resulted in rank mt file pressure being brought to be m the Amstef dam officialdom wh forces them to make a pretense of desiring unity. 'HE organs of the national unions affiliated with Amsterdam.and the social-democratic parties of Europe have sabotaged the’ movement for world trade union uhity by devoting themselves to the task’of proving to the working class thatthe slogan of world trade union unity. put forth by the Red International of Labor Un- ions is a “Moscow plot.” T is quite evident that the leaders of the Amsterdam’ International are not agreeing to this. unity of the trade union movement (even tho they are but paying lip service to it in their resolution) with a willing heart, but because of the fact that the British Trade Union Congress, thru its delega- tion to the Sixth All-Russian Trade Union Congress has already agreed to take some practical steps towards the unity of the world trade union move- ment, and since the British trade un- |ions are in reality the backbone of the Amsterdam International, the leaders of the continental European trade un- ions must necessarily go along with this tendency in order to prevent a break between the British trade un- ions and the Amsterdam Interna- tional. > Og INCE its formation, the R. I. L. U. has consistently combatted the treacherous reformistici/leadership of Amsterdam, because ft-is this leader- ship that is responsible for the split in the trade union movement of the world. As long ago as November, 1922, the R. I. L. Us, at its Second | World Congress, expressed its view- point on the necessity of trade union unity in a thesis imswhich the fol- lowing paragraph is contained: “If the workers will, not succeed in attacking capital m by the unit- ed front, they will not, only suffer new defeats, not on) iter mis. ery and slavery wi |, await them, but they will even lose their organ- izations and remain completely dis- armed.” ony ‘HIS serves to prove that the slo- gan of world trade union unity is np mere diabolical plot“on the part of \the R. I. L. U. or the Communist In- ternational, but that this policy and |this slogan flow from the fundamental conception of the R. I. L. U. as to the role of the revolutionaty’trade unions and adherents of therR, I. L. U. in every country. INCE 1914 the leaders of the un- ions affiliated with Amsterdam The Drive For W. have shown that they are in? reality agents of the capitalist class <working within the ranks of labor. The begin- ning of the world war was the, signal |~ for the division of tne trade union movement, because of this treacherous leadership, into national groups ac- cording to the ¢ountries in which they. were organized, for the purpose. of fighting to defend “their” @gpuntry. During the war the trade unfon bu- reatcracies were the most efficient re- cruiting agents for the capitalist classes of all countries. T the conclusion of the war, when the period of the first wave of the revolution started by the seizure of power by the working clags in Russia in November, 1917, the bureau- cracies again devoted their services to capitalism in preventing the vic- tory of the revolution of the working class in Central Europe. In Germany, for instance, the leadership of the Gen- eral Federation of Trade Unions, un- der Legien, made an agreement with the large industrialists by which, in return for the eight-hour day (on pa- per) and the building up. of class col- laboration committees of workers and bosses (Betriebsrate), they agreed’ to sabotage the seizure of power by the German working class by means of dissolving the workers’ and soldiers’ councils and shooting aown revolu- tionary workers in the name of “dem- ocracy.” ITH the growth of the revolu- tionary minorities within the trade unions affiliated with Amster- dam, the bureaucracies proved that they were willling even to smash the trade unions rather than allow them to fall into the hands of revolution- ary leadership. The splitting of the trade union movement by the reform- ists has been carried so far in France and Czetho-Slovakia that the trade union movement was cleft in twain in order that the reformists could maintain their position of leadership. These desperate measures were taken by the social democratic leadership in order to maintain their position of close alliance with the capitalists that they had maintained thruout the period of the world war. The role of these labor leaders has been correctly stated time and again by the R. I. L. U. as that of the last bulwark: of capitalism. | 'HE capitalist offensive upon the standard of living and the organ- izations of the working class begin- ning in 1920 found its greatest allies in the leaders of Amsterdam, sitce they sabotaged every effort of the organized workers to defend them selves against this vicious attack and it was precisely owing to the success .of this attack by the international capitalist class upon the working class that the R. I. L. U. issued the slogan of the unity of the world trade un- ion movement in order to success- fully combat this attack of the capi- talists upon the standard of living and the trade unions of the working class. T the Third World Congress of the R. 1. L. U., July, 1924, the follow- ing appears in a resolution regarding the question of international trade union unity: “Never for a moment stopping its determined fight against all mani- d Trade: Union festations of reformism within the international. labor movement, mer cllessly revealing all its treacher- ous substance, untiringly explain- ing this to all workers who do not understand yet the role of reform- ism aé a brake to the struggle of the proletariat for emancipation, the Third Congress, in the inter of a united leadership in the struggle of the workers against the economic offensive of capital and fascist reac- tion, considers it the most pressing task ofits activity to develop a widespread campaign among the working masses in favor of the un- ity of the-international labor union movement.” { OM that time on, ‘the Ral. L. U. has not. allowed \this *“question merely to be a question of resolu- tions, biit at the Vienna Congress of the Amsterdam! International, when the British delegation led by A. A. Purcell raised the question of admit- tance ‘of the Ruan ete unions into the Amsterdam Titérfiational, the Central Counci] of the Russian Trade Unions telegraphed to Vienna an. offer of negotiation eal the split in the tnlareatiehal toate ‘union move- ment. At the Vienna Congress the usual kind of hypocritical resolution was passsd in order to soothe the British delegation. . This resolution admitted the possibility of'the entry of the Russian trade ‘unions into the Amsterdam International, but had res- ervationg which said that this entry would be “on the basis of the existing statutes of the Amsterdam Interna- tional” and that “the dignity of the Amsterdam International should be observed.” 'O this the Russian trade unions ob- jected that neither side was entitl- ed to put up conditions, since the matter of world trade unity was ot such fundamental importance to the very existence of the working class. 'HE second practical step on this : question came with the sending of a delegation from the Rugsian trade unions to the Hull meeting of the British Trade-Union Congress in September, 1924.. The welcome given at this congresg.to the delegation led by Comrade ‘Tomsky showed that in the ranks of is wh trade unions there was a de , tendency toward the achievement ‘of ‘unity in the trade union. movéiiient. As Zinoviev has put it, while: the MacDonald labor government if 116 °Way served the in- terests of the British working class, the very establighmiént of such a gov- ernment gavesths British workers a “taste. of power!!‘and this has been signalized by thé “gitite definite sweep towards \theé left! on the part of the rank. and file /6f°thé British trade un- ions; This:Teftiten@ency is so definite that the leadership; which is ideolog- ically. linked’ with the leadership of @ Amsterdam? International, has Several steps* towards the left in order to ‘maintain’ their positions as leaders of the British trade un- ion movementicr’ © : 1 All-Russian Trade Un- ion Congress, there was present a r ing the Council of Union Congres: & aan RLS RELERAT: Unity firmed their desire for trade union unity, Negotiations carried on during the congress between the British dele- gation and the Central Council of the Russian trade unions resulted in a resolution being passed at the All-Rus- sian Trade Union Congress calling for the formation of an Anglo-Russian Unity Committee which would work for a closer alliance between thegrade unions of Russia and Great Britain and also take steps for the unity of the world trade union movement. 'HE significance of this latest step lies in the fact that the British trade unions form the basis of ti Amsterdam International and the Rué- sian trade unions form the basis of the R. I. L. U., and as such the traitorous leadership of Amsterdam can only fight against the convoca- tion of a congress for the unifying of the trade union movement at the ex- pense of a split with the British trade unions—in. other ‘words, split with their main support~in’ the European labor movement. ITOUUEUUAVOGAUUOOGOOUEGGOOOUONGERUOGHOUE Have You Given Your Dollar? gress, ‘hese leaders re-at-|THTTTTTUNTEIITNNNGNIIINNN00000 000000000080 bi : PHILADELPHIA, NOTICE! yet discovered when generated by water. Once the | to criminal negligence born of greed and the respon- installation is made the largest power plants oper- |sible ones are the big capitalists. Because of this ate with a force of three or four men for each shift; |fact the pages of the capitalist press are silent. depreciation is extremely low—all generating ap-| One of those tragic incidents occurred a few days paratus today is made foolproof and few repairs |ago in Sullivan county, Ind. Fifty-one miners lost are required. Oiling and control are automatic. | their lives in a mine disaster. The story broke into Electric power is efficient and therefore labor say-|the front pages of the capitalist press for once. ing. | But it was speedily relegated to obscurity by the Let the miners ask themselves how a general re-|latest murder or the most recent development in 500 COMRADES WANTED FOR BIG “FIRST ANNUAL PARIS COMMUNE PAGEANT MARCH 15 Daily Worker Ball The only Revolutionary Working Class Daily Paper in America HE workers of New York saw a wonderful spectacle on Feb. 1, when 15,000 Communists and Communist sympathizers crowded Madison Square Garden in the name of Leninism> On March 15, in celebration of the Paris Commune, the Garden will again be filled with Communists and 7 mona how steam-operated electric plants, as part of a super-power tem, are going to compete with | water power except by cutting the wages of the| coal miners to the starvation level. Let the miners ask themseles how a ‘general re-| duction of labor costs squares with the promise of | more employment under super-power made by their officials. The answer to these two questions is com- | plete proof of the monstrous fallacy of ‘the idea that the progress of capitalist development means progress of the working class except by creating the necessity for and the organization of sociad| revolution, The mners and all workers make progress only. as they organize and exert their power in their own ‘interests and let the capitalists take care of themselves as best they can. Peace But— . There is not a capitalist militarist in the world who is not in favor of peace. There is not a burglar in existence who would not prefer to get away with his loot without the necessity of depositing some lead in the anatomy of his victim. But war is as inseparable from the operation of capitalist society as violence is from the profession a burglary. Calvin Coolidge, president of the United States by the grace of a policemen’s strike, ptomaine poisoning, Wall Street and the immaturity of the political consciousness of the American working class, delivered a speech yesterday before a conven- tion of war-like females, who like their blood thick and hot. The president declared that he did not want war, yet the country must be prepared to pro- tect peace by being ready for war. This is capitalist logic. A man who walks doin the street, with a Smith the Stokes divorce trial. It, is well for the system to feature an incident like the Floyd Collins case. It shows the bour- geoisie in action trying to save one life, the life of a bourgeois on the make. But it is not so good to picture the tragedy of a mine disaster which shows the capitalists in another light, in the light of greedy boodle hounds, who are willing to send their slaves to certain death rather than cut into their profits by installing safety devices. The Elections Today the workers of Chicago are voting for candidates to serve in the city council. With the} exception of four Communists, all the others stand | for the capitalist system which is responsible for the dilapidated condition in which the mpnicipal ; machinery of the second largest city in the United States is in. The Communist candidates go before the voters with a program that appeals to the workers and to the workers alone. While the Communists are anxious for the opportunity to expose the capital- ist class from the tribune of the city council, they nevertheless point out that only thru the mass ac- tion of the workers, thru their economic organiza- tions and thru their determination to get rid of the capitalist system can they free themselves from their present servitude with all its .attendant miseries, The working class voters in the wards in which Comrades Dozenberg, Epstein, Cejka and Brooker are running should cast their ballots for those eandidates who stand for their interests and who will fight for their interests. The shyster lawyers and business men who are ruining on the capital- ist tickets will make rosy promises, but the only & Wesson sticking ont of each one of his pockets, ¢ \ See eS class they will serve is the capitalist class. their followers. In order better to portray the action of the workers of Paris against the bourgeoisie whose assembly was gathered at Versailles, the committee in charge has arranged a pageant, that will excel anything attempted by the Communists, Hiindreds of comrades and sympathizers will participate in one of the finest spectacles that New York has ever witnessed. The pageant will require a good-seized band and above all a large number of comradesito act in the mass scenes. Workers (Communist) Party, the Y. W. L. and the Junior groups, who are willing to devote themselves to the pageant and to participate in it, should report AT ONCE to! Comrade Fralkin, at the district office of the party. Little time can te lost, as there are only three weeks left, Fe F riday Evening, Feb. 27th NEW TRAYMORE HALL : ; Franklin St. and Columbia Ave. * * z ; #: "DANCING TOT A, M. 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