The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 20, 1925, Page 6

‘ guia 2 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, DL (Phone: Monroe 4712) SUBSCRIPTION RATES é By mall: $3.50....6 months : Valine months By mail (in Chicago only): if $4.50....8 months $2.50...3 months $6.00 per year 68.00 per year Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER 1113 W. Washington Bivd. 3. LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F. DUNNE MORITZ J. LOEB.... Chicago, Iinels | nantes EACOFS women Business Manager Qntered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1923, at the Post Office at Chicago, Ill, under the act of March 8, 1879. ee 290 Advertising rates on ‘application Pollyannaism in the Labor Movement We pick an article in The Federation News entitled “Open Shop and American Plan” as a shining example of the muddled thinking indulged in by labor leadership. The article in question is featured and is undoubtédly an expression of a large part of that section of the labor movement called for lack of a better name, “honest trade un- ionists.” Daniel DeLeon called this group “pure and simplers.” Their purity may be legitimately! questioned from time to time but their simplicity never. Here are the subheads under which the writer builds up his indictment of the capitalist class—a pretty fair indictment but weakened by his refer- ence to the capitalists only as “employers :” Workers’ Rights Ignored in Open Shop Idea. Organized Employers Glaringly Inconsistent Towards Employes. ’ Labor’s Harmful Neglect. Intolerant Employers Use Human Buzzards Against Toilers. Blacklist Used as Gag. Big Business Scientifically Controls. How Private Monopoly Controls Government. The writer cites incident after incident showing that the capitalists control industry and govern- ment but when he has to draw a conclusion from these facts he begins to back up. Not being a revolutionist he can only accept capitalism. Here is his solution and why he went to so much trouble to prove the power and tyranny of the capitalist system in order to reach such a childish conclus- ion probably always will remain a mystery. “If the wage system is ever abolished it will be after centuries of effort to evolve a pzaweaéal social order based upon mutuality of responsibility as well as mutual benefit *- * * The building of a new order is not a ciass job. Those in every class thruout the entire social body, who believe in the _.......betterment of humanity, will have to unite for the building of a new order, otherwise it will not be built.” This is the logie of Pollyanna. The capitalist class controls industry and gov- ernment, they are all-powerful and do not fail to use every method, no matter how horrible, to re- tain their control. Therefore we, the workers | whom capitalism oppresses, against whom they use all the machinery of thir state, must unite with the capitalist class to build a new order in which the basic element in capitalist control, the | private property in. community needs, will be missing. Hurray! Workers, worry no more! Just wait, it will take only “centuries of ef- fort!” Give the believers in the “betterment of humanity” a chance and remember: No preaching of hatred of capitalism or talk of revolution because, says this unhurried soul, such things “will retard social development.” Do not revolt because then it might delay things a cen- tury or two. i One thing is certain. Capitalism can look for- ward to centuries of unchallenged power if the working class program is to be framed by leader- ship of this caliber. The Communist program? Well, that is probably why article was published. ¢ the Federation Every day get a “sub” for the DAILY WORKER and a member for the Workers Party. More Miners Murdered Another coal mine blast takes the lives of 33 miners. The accident oecurred in a steel trust property, christened after its parent-——Bethlehem Mines cor poration, plosion terrific force, caused the accident, and in- dicates that the presence of the deadly gas in such large quantities could not have escaped notice by the bosses, An_ open shop drive.is in progress in this fer- ritory.” The union has been greatly ‘weakened by the constant attacks upon it and endeayors to forme a wage cut upon the miners have been made re- cently. It is in West Virginia that the coal and steel trust has been concentrating its efforts in the developments of non-union mines. The coal from ‘ these mines has been used to force union-mined coal out of the markets. The whole state is a prin- cipality of the steel trust and readers are familiar with the horrors of the bitter struggle between the unior, the capitalists, the state authorities and the various city and county governments owned outright by the bosses, ‘To the atrocities committed on workers who were fighting for unionization there has now been added the additional horror of men sent helpless to their déath in dozens, Like in the Dortmund disaster in Germany these workers were sderili¢ed for the ie aia Accumulated gas, which gave the ex-) — res There is only one:answer to such crimes of the rulers: ‘ Unity of the American labor movement—amal- |gamation into gigantic industrial unions. Unity of the world trade union movement against the international robbers. If the deaths of these West Virginia miners stir the American labor movement to action they will jnot have died in vain. Obstacles to Capitalist Unity The United States of Europe, divided into |western and eastern groups, is the solution for |Europe’s politicaland economic)problems, accord- jing to M. Benes, foreign minister of Ozecho- Slovakia. | The resourceful M. Benes proposed to Herriot, |the French premier, that the western group should |include England, France, Belgium and Germany; |the eastern group to include Poland, Roumania, Czecho-Slovakia, Austria and other small countries. | Italy, would be allowed to throw her fortunes with | either group she chose. M. Benes waxed very enthusiastic over the re- sults of such an arrangement. He says, according to a Paris dispatch, that trdde will be assured thru an easement of railway, shipping, and transportation regulations and busi- ness will be boomed thru an amelioration of pass- port and police control difficulties. pr Further— that Europe will save 50 per cent of the present budgets expended on the upkeep of armies, navies, and aviation, and will be able to halve the num- ber of state employes thru cutting and eliminating the huge amount of red tape which will not be necessary when relations are friendly and the na- tions are practically federated. But like all schemes for solving the insoluble ‘contradictions of modern imperialism, the plan of M. Benes, representing as it does the aspirations ‘of the smaller powers as opposed to the supremacy of the great powers, ran into a snag at the very outset. M. Herriot, speaking for French imperial- ism, sunk the Benes scheme with a few well-aimed verbal torpedos. | He said that the plan was “utopian, untimely ‘and impossible of realization.” He assured the |Czech and Polish statesmen that the interests of \their countries lay very close to the throbbing jheant of France, but—he could not see his way \clear to endorse a plan that might deprive French |imperialism of some of its vassals. Meanwhile France and England haggle over the |security pact with France getting a little the worst jof it as this is written. The Benes plan is a good one, but he has neg- jlected a very important historical factor—that of |revolution, . Such. agreements and mutual under- \standing as. Benes. visualizes come only between |; workers’ and peasants’ republics AFTER a revo- lution. : - Even in America such understandings between the separate states were not reached until after the revolutionary war. M. Benes, however, is not trying to start a revo- jlution. He is trying \to stop one. Get a member for the Workers Party and a new subscription for the DAILY WORKER. \ ‘A Rugged Country Lawyer’ The new attorney general, heir to the office after |two of his immediate predecessors haye fallen by the wayside thru a series of cireumstances that do not need to be detailed here, is described in ad- ministration publicity as “a rugged country lawyer with a record of quiet service.” Those familiar with the language of press agents will interpret this correctly if they read: “A nonentity who has never reached a mental level above that’ of the pre-revo- ‘lutionary culture of Vermont.” | The farm of John Sargent,*the new head,of the \department of justice, adjoins that of the Coolidge family. This is probably as-good a reason for his ‘appointment as any other. He has never been heard (of before and the senate coujd therefore have noth- jing against him. We recall a case that is similar in many respects (Continued ‘from page 1.) paper thruout the*at&te, there appear editorials, speciali articles, cooked-up “news stories,” all ténding to convey the idea that Illinbis ‘needs a state po- lice to preserve its’people in peace and security, © # Are workers pedplé? The whole in- spired agitation behind the Dunlap police bill shows that its capitalist sponsors do not think so. What Is the Dunlap Bill? Workers will. want to know just what this Dunlap Dill is. It bears the same stamp as similar bills being urged in Missouri, Rhode Island, Ohio and other states. . It provides for the establishment of a, military police force entirely removed from all local responsibility and with power to swoop down upon and invade any community in the state, even against the protest of local, authorities. The force is to be organized on strictly military lines in from three to seven troops officered by captains, lieutenants, sergeants and corporals. The commanding officer, to be known as “superintendent of the Illinois state police,” is to,be appointed by the governor and may be removed only for certain specific constitutional reasons, Every individual, member of the force is to have full: police authority in all parts of the state. He may make arrests and searches upon war- rants, and also without warrants. He may arrest any person against whom he may have “suspicion.” Large sums of money have mys- teriously accumulated for a system- atic publicity campaign in behalf of “more effective policing of rural high- ways,” and some,farmers have been misled into believing that the purpose of the Dunlap bill is to furnish rural police protection. Even a casual read- ing of the bill shows this to be a shabby pretense, For Armed Force Against Workers The Illinois State Federation of La- bor expoged the falsehood of. their claim some time ago. Instead of pro- viding for a rural: police, spread out in the rural communities and per- manently stationed in these commun- ities, the bill offers::a heavily-armed military force organized for quick mobilization in military units. It is an army for service against the workers. pis ’ Proof that the state constabulary is not an innocent rural -welfare scheme, but something quite different, is. the fact that it: did not originate with farmers, Its)backers are manu- facturers, mining companies, bankers and investment firms. In the fore- front of the campaign.is the Illinois chamber of commerce, which collect- ed $100,000 for prosecution of the miners in Herrin: p.«:- Not a Rural” Police Body. Moreover, the proposed military force, which would:not number more than 455 officers amd men as a maxi- mum, could not under any circum- stances be sufficientizo patrol the ap- proximately 95,000smiles of rural highway in the state. Except in one! paragraph where the subject is men- tioned in four words having little or no specific meaning, the bill does not provide for rural highway patrolling. But there is plenty?tin the bill per- mitting the constabulary to be thrown into industrial communities and min- ing towns when a strike is on. The claim that the state constabu- lary would be a simple rural police for farm and highway. protection is aboslutely false. «The main purpose in establishing any highly centralized State police force anywhere in the world has been to enforce upon the working people of loca) communities conditions to which those people were oppoged. Not Intended to Prevent Crime. The primary motive in the or ization of any such state police sys- tem has never been that of “preyent- ing crime” or apprehending “ordinary criminals.” No single exception to this can be produced anywhere in the world where a highly centralized state police system has existed suf- ficiently. long to leave something of a history. |to this elevation of one from the lower depths of ; mediocrity ‘to the head of the .department of of the stage with its emaciated mail pouch. This local shyster, who was ‘said to be the best | whittler in the hamlet, became the most servile apitalist tool and the most tyrannical governor that the state ever had, He, too, was “a rugged country lawyer with a record of quiet service.” One crush the metal miners’ strike in 1914. He built the game warden service into a*band of thugs un- der direction of the copper trust. and signed the most vicious anti-sedition law ever workers as possible. He sent in troops again in was not told to do. all, the appointment of “tffis rugged country law- yer with a record of quiet service” as-head of the department of justice means that the labor unions and the revolutionary movement are in for a stormy time. # on We had better do a little rugged preparation, TR oH arsllle Send in that new “sub” pear! 0 taal 1917 when the miners struck. THe did everything oi that the copper trust told him to do, but his real] the capitalist police were protecting value lay in the fact that he never did anything he} their enemy— Abramovich. Martin It is The Cossacks. particularly. significant that justice, Years ago the, Anaconda Mining company} the guest of honor at the previously picked for governor. of Montana a livery stable] mentioned x lawyer in Virginia City—a village without a rail-|!uncheon was the superintendent of road where the event of the day was the arrival| ‘he State police of Pennsylvania. The chamber of commerce Pennsylvania constabulary hag been (Continued from page 1) ers’ League, had her clothing torn and | of his first official acts was to send in troops to] was held prisoner, by the socialists. Workers Listen.to Communists. While the workers inside the hall He advocated! Were Protesting against Abramovich’s les, hundreds of workers were listen- ing to the speeches of the Commun- passed by any state. During the war he, as head} ists halt a block away. There were of the draft board, arbitrarily increased the quotas] five times as many workers listening of the mining counties to take out as many militant] to the Communist speaker as there were inside the hall. Ne Comrade Manuel Gomez opened the eeting and told the workers why Abern, Chicago district organizer of If historical analogits are worth anything at] the Workers (Cotttmunist) Party, told the workers present that only the Workers (Commiunist) Party repre- sented their intdrests, William F. Diifine, editor of the DAILY WORKEI! spoke for the col- ‘ection, which Wént to the DAILY WORKER. While» Comrade Dunne aélivver squad” drove rade Dunne to the most notorious of all, . ed as an anti-labor militia | the time of its inception has gone on breaking strikes, clubbing and jail- ing workers, disrupting labor meet- ings, breaking up demonstrations. During the steel strike of 1919, the anti-labor reign of terror of the “American cossacks” was particular- ly bloody,/and was repeated in the 1922 coal strike, In czarist Russia, mothers used to frighten their children into obedience by admonishing: “The cossacks*are coming!” So it is actually today in the industrial and mining regions of Pennsylvania, whére. the children tremble with fear when they hear the word “constabulary” muttered in their presence. Unless the Illinois labor movement succeeds in preventing the establish- ment of an Illinois state police, as it did in 1919 and 1920, the above situ- ation will inevitably be duplicated in Illinois. Want Cossacks to Crush Miners. Miners and other workers in the mining areas will be the first to feel the heavy hand of the cossacks. | These, especially are the “rural com- munities” which big business has in mind. The chamber of commerce, | bankers and mine owners have not forgotten Herrin, nor the great fights which the miners have sustained on behalf of their union and a decent standard of living. 4 What S. Glenn Young and his ku |kluxers failed to do, the Illmois cos- sacks would bend all their energies toward accomplishing: The destruc- tion of the miners’ union. Labor is a unit against the mgn- strots Dunlap bill for a capitalist- owned state police force. That op- position must be made vociferous and immediately effective. Labor defeat- ed similar bills in 1919 and 1920. It must now make ‘the bosses feel once for all that. the workers of this state are determined never to allow any American cossack system to be fast- ened upon them. s * (In the second article of this series, Manue! Gomez will expose the bloody anti-labor‘ record of the famous Pennsylvania state constabulary, which Is the model on which the plutocratic Inter- ests of Illinois are trying to draw up the Illinois state police force.) Another State Goes on Record in Favor of Child Slavery PERE (Continued from Page 1) has just started publication as a week- ly, which enables it to carry on a more active fight than ever before against child labor in Amerieta. Besides carry: ing all the latest news on the progress of the child labor amendment, the weekly Young Worker deals with the problem of child labor realistically, pointing out that the passing of a law | D) regulating child labor will be of no use unless some provision is made for | the maintenance of the children who go to work, not because they want to, but in order to support themselves and add to the low earning of the family. Big Mass Meeting in Chicago. The Young Workers League of Chi- cago is holding a ‘big child labor mass Smeeting and corference in Chicago on Sunday, March 22, at the North- west Hall, North and Western Aves., at 8 p. m. Admission is 16 cents and an effort is being made to have local unions and sympathetic organizations send representatives to the meeting as |, well as urging their members to at- tend in large numbers. . Barney Mass jwill be the Young Workers League Thousands Cheer Soviet Rule 3 to Dunne to ) speaker at the meeting and Earl R. Browder, acting secretary of the Workers (Communist) Party will speak on “Child Labor in the United States,” stressing the need of an or- ganized fight against child labor on the part of the workers that will have a far different effect than the weak, pacifist fight put up by the liberais and reforms in their effort to “regu- late child labor.” Fifty Hurt in Tunis. PARIS, March 18.—Fifty were in- Jured but none killed today when seven tons of dynamite on a truck ex- ploded and did considerable damage ina part of Tunis, North Africa. proceed, and he — refused to stop speaking. Seeing the temper of the crowd, which had swelled to enor- mous proportions, the police drove away, and did not re-appear at the meeting. J. Louis Engdahl, editor of the DAILY WORKER, flayed .the yellow ‘socialists like Benenson, who was chairman of the would-be Abramovich meeting. . William F. Kruse declared that Abramovich was unable to fight the workers of Soviet Russia and had to slink over to America to seek the protection of the capitalist police, in an attempt to get a hearing. Tell of Slugging Tactics. Bill Kuperman, Nat. Kaplan ‘and Rose Wagman, all of whom were’ ejected from the meeting by the gun- men, told of the slugging tactics of the cowardly For'w: socialists, and Morris Chilofsky “how he was blackjacked at the Garrick _demon- stration last Sunday. Karl Reeve, Thurber Lewis and John Edwards were the other spagiprs. -. Robbed As Bosses Pile Up Millions (Continued from Page 1) $5; and 1920, $4.01; 1921, $1.08; 1923, ‘$1.56 on par of $10. It must be borne in mind that the dividendg. on the common stock, at least, go almost entirely to the con- trolling company (British) the Eng- lish Sewing Cotton Co., Ltd., which owns 1,197,500 shares. out of 2,200,000 shares of common stock, represent- ing sole voting power. It means that an average of a mil- lion and a quarter dollars has gone into the pockets of a company with its office in Manchester, England. When the capital stock was increased it meant that the parent company could cry to the American workers, “Produce more; take a cut, we must keep up our dividend rate”—on wa- tered stock. That huge reserves are built up proves the extraordinary exploitation of the mill slaves, immense piling up of surplus value. In 1923, the “de- preciation . fund” carried along $7,625,510; and. $500,000 was put away as a regerye for contingencies (it will be recalled that in 1919, to increase the capitalization $3,000,000 was taken from various reserve funds of which $1,975,142, the largest sum, was transferred from the reserve for con- tingencies). The contingency seems to be danger of loss of profit, and the desire for more. en Huge Reserve Fund. There is now carried along as a “reserve fund” the sum of. $1,797,996. In 1919, this and similar sums were used to increase capital. Why should not money lying idle in’the treasury TROOPS AGAINST RAILWAYWORKERS Militarization of Labor Angers Men a + (Special to the Daily Worker) MEXICO CITY, March 18.—A gener- al strike of railway workers may re- sult from the effort of the Calles gov- ernment’s assistance to the private capitalists of Wall Street to crush the raiilway union before turning over the lines'to private bondholders. Calles° has ordered that all em- ployes must subscribe to an oath bind- ing him practically under military law to support the government upon the same status as if these workers were of the company be used to pay de- cent wages for the workers? Textile Workers Robbed. What are reserves for the mianu- facturers should be reserves for the workers. If all the talk about “har- mony of interest” between workert and bosses is true, bosses take the reserves and divide them among the workers whose labor produced them? , $1,797,996 divided among workers would mean several hundred dollars apiece. But why dream? Capitalists don’t act that way. Instead they divide them up in stock or cash dividends. The crushing process goes on—but the Willimantic workers have shown their colors as fighters. They made a stand—and for the sake of them- selyes, the textile workers of the country, and the entire working class, .|they ‘must win. ~~ Confesses Murder Plot <A. complete statement confessing that he and William D. Shepherd had pired.to kill William Nelson Mc- Giintock, “millionaire orphan” whose $1,500,000 estate Shepherd inherited, and divide his fortune, was. made by r. Charles C. Faiman, head of the ‘National University of Sciences, early today. why don’t the; soldiers. It is actually a militariza. tion of labor. Workers Refuse Military Rule. Railway workers are extremely bit ter and are widely refusing to sign are demanded oath, Machinists in the roundhouse of San Luis Potosi were first to record physical protest when they belabored a master mechanic for accepting the oath to be militar. ized. Calles has been swift to disillusion the Mexican workers who bore him to power. He today issued orders te all military commanders to suppress “disorders, using force if necessary.” ) Calles Threatens. e “Rumors of a proposed railway strike do not intimidate the govern. ment,” the president added. “We will place the railways under just or ders and nothing will stop us. Raf way men must accept the new order, They will not lose their places. They will not remain members of the un- ion, but will be considered federal em ployes. “The government purposes te read. just the railways, running them a short time economically, giving them economic stability, then returning them to the company.” The secretary of communications said if the railway men strike they will lose the good-will of the govern ment for their betterment. The workers cynically want te know what the “good will” of the gov- ernment may look like after it is cooked and ready to serve. They point out that 40,000 are to be fired by this same “good will” and left to starve, Cal Reorgantzes Tariff. WASHINGTON, D. C., March 18.— William Culbertson, for eight years member of the U. S. tariff commis- sion, has been selected as American ambassador to Argentina. is reorganizing the tariff body to big business a freer hand in the fixing of tariff schedules. Does your friend subscribe to the DAILY WORKER? Ask him! - Raise Funds! For the Workers Party Campaign Against Wage Cuts and the ‘Open Shop’ HE capitalist, class is slashing wages in the textile indus- try! Wage cuts are in preparation for the coal miners of America! The “open shop” -is raising its ugly head, threatening the living conditions of every worker! We must distribute a million leaflets, “Strike Again Wage Cuts!” « We must organize shop committees! We must initiate amalgamation of the weak craft unions - into powerful industrial unions! The party must do the work! The party must pay the bills! Make a collection at once in your branch and send it in to the national office. Take a list to your shop and union and make collections there! shop”! ~ All together against wage cuts and against the “open _* CENTRAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, “*WORKERS PARTY OF AMERICA, “08 savesssnsensnsnenssonessssogennee: W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Tl. ADDRESS AMOUNT ~