The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 15, 1925, Page 4

Fe MELLON SLAVES , TOIL IN OPEN SHOP HELL HOLE Aluminum Trast Hates Reds-Smashes Unions By EUGENE GROSS (Worker Correspondent) BRIDGEPORT, Conn., July 13.—The U. 8. Aluminum company, owned by Secretary of the Treasury Mellon, has a small plant in Fairfield, Conn. It employs about 250 workers, most of them foreigners. The pay for the unskilled workers—and about 75. per cent are unskilled—is from thirty- eight to fifty cents per hour. The plant works 44 hours per week, because the work we are doing is so hard that we are hardly able to do it even for eight hours. “This is an Open Shop, and Not a Card Shop” If you look at the shop rules, that hang on every wall, you will see the | above line that says “not a card shop.” ‘his line wants to tell the worker that this is an open shop and not a union shop. And the conditions in the shop prove to you that it is not a ‘card shop.’ They“are afraid of radicalism so much that during the election campaign someone wrote on the walls a few words about radicalism, and when the Manager saw them, he became very frightened and instructed every fore- man to find out who the bolsheviki were, and told him to discharge that | of their work, the other departments | But they were | of the party central (trade unions, co- worker right away. unlucky and they could not find out who it was. Work Faster When the whistle blows in the morn- ing, you have to be at your place, an you can’t stop work before 12 o’clock. Tf you etep a few minutes before, the foreman goes to you and tells you that there isn’t any washing time. They have a “bonus” system. Every afternoon, the timekeeper goes from one worker to the other and writes up how much work he has done, how many pieces, and the num- ber of the work. The report goes up to the production office, where the white-collar slaves figure out how much—or how little— is coming to the worker. Of course the worker is only getting a few per- cent of his over produetion and the big part of it goes into the pocket of the company or into the pocket of Mellon’s fat trust. Another thing the company is doing with its bonus system ts to separate the workers. One is afraid that the other one might take away his good bonus job and so he gets angry at him. And so one worker becomes the enemy of the other; instead of hating thesgompany they hate each other. & “Tolling Like Animals fim. foundry the work is very hatd. Especially during the hot sum- mer days when they work in under- shirts. The shirt gets all wet from the sweat of the slave. I went in their department to get a drink of water and I stood aside and watched how they carried the hot aluminum amd. they were tired and half dead. I was thinking that if this army of slaves are going to wake up to their Present condition, then the Mellons and the rest of the stockholders are not going to suck the workers’ blood any longer. Coolidge Saves at Workers’ Expense. SWAMPSCOTT, Mass., July 13.— President Coolidge has brot the me- chanics from the yacht Mayflower to his summer home to repair his plumb- ing. He stands and watches them ‘work, This is part of Coolidge's “economy program.” Soviet Demands Investigation. MOSCOW, July 13.— The Soviet government has demanded of the Pol- 4sh government the formation of a commission to investigate the burn- ‘Yng of a Soviet border guard station of the German Co By MAX ENGELS (Berlin) | tivity passed without that more being Maja activity of the central agit prop of the German ©. P. has passed thru three epochs since first coming into exisctence each epoch representing a definite stage of de- volopinent. The first epoch comprises the time which the department was founded: Angnast, 1923, till December, 1923; the second epoch extends from January until December, 1924; the third from January, 1925 until now. In August, 1923, form a special agitprop department for the centralization of the whole of our agitational and propagandist work. At the time of the founding of the agitprop no definite working plans had however been made; the limits of the fleld of activity had not yet been drawn. The vaguest ideas circulated as to the extent of work, and especial- ly as to the co-ordination of work with the various departments of the party. Questions of method and _ technics were dealt with solely by means of small discussions on special examples (the organization of a meeting or dem- onstration, debates on the method of educational work in the party). The essential difference between propa- ganda and agitation was not even | clear to the leaders of the party. NE example of the defective organ- ization and deficient knowledge of the essential character of agitprop work may be seen in the fact that al- tho the party publishers were subor- dinate to the agitprop in every branch operatives, land propaganda, etc.,) were not co-ordinated to the agitprop in any way. And it was not until No- vember, 1923, that the whole of the a printing orders received by these agit- prop departments were carried out by the central agitprop. The agitprop was however responsible for the tech- nical side only (make-up, printing, etc.). Material for-agitation was pro- duced in large numbers. Leaflets ran into editons of millions, and pamph- lets such as “Civil War,” “Hooked Cross or Soviet Star” were issued in editions of 100,000 each, almost all of which were sold, as the prices had been réndered exceedingly low by the inflation. A systematic use of the ma- terial did however not take place. In the first epoch of agitprop -work it was not*yet possible to achieve any substantial progress ‘in the centraliza- tion of our whole agitation and propa- ganda. The agitprop was affiliated to the organization bureau; the political bureau issued handbills without prev- ious consultation with the agitprop, published appeals, and carried on every description of this kind of pol- itical work quite independent of the agitprop. HIS lack of system was not changed by the events in October, and the first months of agitprop ac- PHILIPPINES RULED ON“ BEHALF OF AMERICAN CAPITAL, WOOD ADMITS MANILA, P. 1, July 18—In a statement here Maj.-Gen. Leonard Wood, military dictator of the Phil- ippine Islands, declared that the Is- lands should be kept under Ameri- jomination for the U. 8 com- mercial interests. “Our commercial interests demand that we control the gateway to the orient,” Wood Id. “The Philip- pines should be made an advance outpost of American power in the Pacific, which in the future will be the center of the world conflict.” Wood’s statement was suppressed here. N. B. C. Makes Million per Month. NEW YORK, July 13—The National taxes were paid, by Polish soldiers. ended June 30. * ee joks present the or stand them: The Evolution of Man By Wm. Boelsche Cloth, 60 cents The Triumph of Man By Wm, Boelsohe Cloth, 60 cents Savage Survivals In Higher Peoples . By J. Howard Moore Cloth, $1.25 1113 W. Washington Blvd. ifically so that every worker can under- subject clearly, concisely Evolution, Social and Organic By Arthur Morrow Lewis Cloth, 60 cents Ores and Evolution of the Idea of the Soul By Paul Lafargue Cloth, 60 cents The Universal Kinship By J. Howard Moore Prompt shipment made on all these books from THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO, ~ «phe Source of All Communiet Literature” Chicago, Ml. it was decided to | Biscuit company reports a net profit of $3,735,664 after all expenses and for the quarter —_SS__=====— EVOLUTION Cloth, $1.25 HI] done than placards and posters being brought out, and attempts being made | by the agitprop to create for itself an | independent printing apparatus, and to centralize the printing possibilities | already offered by the party printing | offices all over the reicn. In January, 1924, a member of the| central was appointed to lead the agit- prop department. The agitprop was brought into closer contact with the | entire work being done by the party central and its organs. In the course of the epoch lasting | until December, 1924, the agitprop had | three great tasks to accomplish: (a). the electoral campaign for the! | reichstag election on May 4; 1924, \ (b) the international campaign | against war in August, 1924. (c) the electoral campaign for the | recihstag election on December 7, 1924. HESE last two campaigns had to be carried on in the midst of the | struggles of the German Party against | the experts’ report, against the Lon- con conference, and against the| Dawes plan. During this year the! agitprop accomplished the task of| drafting in detail the plans for the| campaign, of transmitting correspond- | ing instructions to the other depart- ments of the party, of producing the whole of the material, and of control- ling the organization and execution of the campaigns in the party organs (distriét and local groups). The pol- jitical slogans and campaigns leaflets | and appeals, were passed on to the | agitprop department py the political | bureau. The agitprop was affiliated | to the organization bureau; the con- tact with the collective work of the party became much closer than dur- ing the first epoch. The best example of more system- atic and concentrated agitation work was furnished by the anti-war cam- pain’in August, 1924. This was thoro- ly prepared for weeks beforehand by the whole party. The central agitprop issued a detailed plan of campaign, containing concrete instructions for every sphere of work (trade unions, co-operatives, parliaments, women’s secretariat, Cultural and_ sporting clubs, etc). This plan of campaign was introducéd by political instruc- | tions given by the political bureau, organizatory instructions from the or- ganization bureau, and special instruc- tions from the central agitprop de- partment. The complete working plan comprised ‘a pamphlet of 32 printed octavo pages,)anid an eliition of 8,000 copies was diStributed gratis among the most important party functionar- jes a few E34 a before the campaign opened. ight the whole of the party func- tionaries were not only informed on the politi¢al slogans of the cam- paign (inclpding the international ones, since the political instructions issued by the executive were included in the pamphlet as appendix), but were enabled to obtain a comprehen- MAINTENANCE OF WAY UNION ASKS SMALL INCREASE’ * B. of R. T. and O. R. C. Demands Forming Submissions have been filed by the maintenance of way employes’ union with the United States Railroad La- bor Board from members of the or- ganization employed on fifteen of the largest railroads asking for an in- creas@ in wages of 5 cents an hour for all classes in the maintenance of way department. The rates paid these men now |range from 27 cents an hour for trackmen in southern states to 40 1 | cents an hour in the northwest. men and the Order of Railroad Con- ductors had previously started a movement for wage mcreases, which, it'is said, will ultimately involve every railroad in the country. Among the railroad whose em- ployes are represented in the submis- sion to the rail board are the Penn- sylvannia, New York Central, Michi- gan Central, Wabash and other roads running out of Chicago. This list will be increased rapidly, it was stated. Doheny Lease Is Revoked. LOS ANGELES, Cal., July 13.—Fi- nal decree confirming revocation of the Elks Hill naval reserve oil leases by the government to E. L, Doheny was handed down in the U. S. district court here by Judge P. J. McCormack, The Pan-American petroleum compa- ny, a Standard Oil subsidiary, is or- dered to pay for oil used, and for court costs, Arraign 3 1 ickwick ¢ Collapse the nine men who have neen indicted in the collapse of the Pickwick Club, where 44 persons were killed, have been arraigned. They are George president of the club, pleaded not guilty. —_ July 1! The Brotherhood of Railroad Train- BOSTON, Mass., July 13—Three of} 2219 THE DAILY WORKER [The Activity of the Central Agitprop Department pipe sive survey of the work falling to their share in their capacity as aia union co-operative, or other functfonary, and of the work which their féllow func- | tionaries were called upon to perform. This coherent formulation of the whole plan of the campaign prepared | the way for the highest possible de- gree of coordination in the co-opera- tion among the different organs of the party. Special instructions were also | given for the most importanc branches | of agitation (press, Meeting cam- paigns, organization of demonstrations ete:) The central agitprop published the /tollowing agitation material for this | campaign: i Copies Circulars to the various, party © organs 19,500 Material for speak 13,000 7 different handbills, ee 5,350,000 1 poster ........ -- 50,000 difterent bills ea » 700,000 8 pamphlets, for sale, totaling 93,000 illustrated papers, totalling 540,000 1 satirical paper 283,000 Total ...:...7,049,250 S a result of this excellent organ- izatory preparation, the cam- paign was exceedingly successful, al- tho we were obliged to state in our | final report to the E. C. C. I. “that a serious defect in the organization of the camnaign consisted of the fact that co-ordination was still insuffi- ciently developed with respect to the work of the different party organs.” We give below a further table show- ing the material provided for the reichstag election on December 7, 1924: Copies Instructive material 122,700 Handbills -14,460,500, Leaflets 1,261,000 Posters . 1,032,500 Pamphlets . 970,000 Miscellaneous .. 14,866,500 82,713,200 d ie agitprop thus emerged in its second epoch from the’embryonic state of its first, established the con- fines of its sphere of activity, secured its influence upon every'’branch of work. Questions relating to the meth- od and technics of agitation and prop- aganda were discussed upon the basis of actual experience. The chief de- fects still hampering thé’ work of the department lay in the’ circumstance | that the subordination ofthe agitprop under the organization bureau forced organizatory and technical questions into the foreground so thét propagan- da (educational. work in? theparty) was accorded toov little attention. THe third period of agitprop work began in January, 1925, «with the re- organization of the agitprop depart- ment. The agitprop becathe the organ of the political bureau,» organizing, carrying out, and controlling the whole of the agitation and porpagan- Your Union Meeting Second Tuesday, July 14, 1925. Name of Locat ane Place of Meetin; 133 om Poe Shoe Workers, 1939 Mil- Ave. calmer” Joint Labor Council, 514 W. 117th Street. High- Carpenters, Witten's Hail, is Park, Ii. Clerks, Grocery, 59 W. Van Buren 's (Locomotive), 5058 Went- ve. (Locomotive), 2647 W. St. Clark St. rs, 62nd anc La Vergne Union, 3046 W. 26th St. Fed 2 Leather Workers, 777 W. Adams St. 17 Leather Workers, 777 W. Adams St. Machin 2548 Ss. H Ave. Diversey and Sheffield. 1023 &, it. Moose Hall, Springfield and 26th. 180, We Washington st. ii 15th Street, hts, 14 Harrison St., rment Workers, 328 W. Buren St. preg ee ot erten Ave. Cutte! 78. We Washington it. Meat Cutters, 9206 Houston ae 17588 Nurse: rune Bet al Oak Chicago b Plum bay *y Plum rs, an . 1198 Rayer Carmen, Moar Michigan 1287 Strect. Rallw y Carmen, 5824 S. Halsted Raliwey, Clerks cago Hi Ristrienepeunell, 220 8. Ai Boulev, iy, hee LS pers, 180 Washington 549 W. Washington ” Fire and Oilers, 357 N. 147 0 Ww. h 180 Pi E. ci ite 184 191 276 621 802 ton 7 Walters,” 234 W. ndolph $. Belgian Capitalists’ Come ‘Here. BRUSSELS, Belgium, July 13.—The Funk, an architect, Timothy J. Barry, Belgium debt funding commission and Hyman | which will visit the United States in Bloomberg, lessee of the building. All August was named ‘By the cabinet. Those who will makéthe trip are former Premier ‘Theunis, Bmil Rush that Sub—Campaign eupanbec wd d)Welician Cattior, ends tall - : } nee da conducted by the party in every department of work. This fundamental definition of the actual sphere of work, and the posi- tion of the agitprop department in the apparatus of the party as a political organ, as an organ of the political bu- reau, was the most important prere- quisite for thoro and systematic agi- tational and propagandist work thru- out the whole party. TiNs form of or- ganization is the only guarantee of a consistent centralization of all agita- tion and propaganda, ensuring their political guidance and bringing the in- dividual tasks of the other depart- ments into correct relations with the plans and principles of the party cen- tral) The work of agitation and prop- aganda within the trade unions, co- operatives, etc., must be subordinated in methods and technics to a central leadership which sees not only the narrow limits of agitprop work. The slogans and aims of this work must be consistently co-ordinated with those of the work of the other depart- ments, in accordance with the prin- ciples laid down by the decisions of the party central. This centralization is the sole guarantee that the whole of the forces in the party, the whole of our means and possibilties of agi- tation, are concentrated and directed under the consistent leadership of the party central towards our ultimate aims, of hare work falling to the share of the agitprop may now be classified under two main headings, these being again subdivided into various minor categories. The chief department of agitation comprises the whole of the general agitation carried on by the party in every sphere, the organizing of inter- national and national campaigns, the organization of elections, etc., it fur- ther comprises the sub-departments for press and publishing work, and a special sub-department for the produc- tion of the whole of the material re- quired for the work of agitation and propaganda. The chief department of propaganda comprises the whole of the education- al work carried on within the party, in related and sympathizing organiz- ations, and in trade unions, co-opera- tives, etc. This department controls the editorship of the theoretical or- gan issued by the party central. It Possesses a sub-department for ar: chives and libraries. It organizes the courses of instruction in Leninism and the educational circles in the whole party. A further sub-depart- ment for statisties has recently been added. This last department not only collects and publishes important pol-’ itical and economic statistical mater ial, but compiles statistics on the re sults of elections, census of the popu: lation, etc. gaa’ factual central agitprop depart- ment organizes and leads, both the whole of the general agitation column. newals, made in this quiet and simple way. Other worke: feel is so DAILY WORKER, should know about, to the “Builde in your suggestions so that other PITTSBURGH, PA. To those who work hard for their *money, | will save 50 per cent on all their dental work, BUILDERS A AT This Column is For Communist Builders Have You Any Ideas? From letters of active workers thruout the country we are able to show the good work they are doing, practical methods in use and valu- able hints for others Communist Builders. That is the purpose of this But some Builders write very seldom—if at all. They are content without an additional word they just send in their batch of subs and re- The truth is that a large percentage of the good work done, is being so want to get the results—they also wish to do their share of promoting Communist activity and THEY DON’T KNOW HOW! So don't be content with simply doing in your way the work that you intial to the movement, se @ & . Write a Letter! Tell other Communist Builders thru this column just how you go about it: what you do in your shop; bers; what is the easiest way that you have found to get subs for the Workers Monthly, Literature foreign language Communist papers; never been tried—and any other matter that™ you feel other workers And don’t worry about how straight your English may be. methods, ways and means to build the Communist movement thru the DAILY WORKER—THAT’S IS WHAT WE WANT! Send in your letter At Work” Column—make it short and snappy and plie Builders will be at work, munist Party and the special campaigns (at pres- ent: for the unity.of the trade unions, factory council elections, election to the presidency). The agitprop draws up the plans for these campaigns, and after these have been approved by the party central they are sent (8,000 copies) to the leading party functionaries, The whole of the ma- terial required for these campaigns, the party material needed by public speakers and debaters, for the press service; and the posters, handbills, etc., required as agitation material, are produced and published on the in- structions and under the control of the central agitprop, in accordance with the established plan of cam- paign. Besides these tasks, the or. ganization of suitable agitprop de- partments in the districts, local groups and factory cells, is an urgent neces- sity, and must be carried out by the centralpagitprop department. The or- ganization plans for the German agit- prop, as also the principles to be pursued in the systematic organiza- tion of international campaigns, are submitted to the international agit- prop conference which will be held in the middle of March. The work of organization must be made to run parallel with the giving of instruction on the method and technics of propa- ganda and agitation within the func- tionary corporations and among the members, by means of instructive pamphlets, conferences, and courses of study. The gigantic apparatus in the hands of our opponents (press, cinema, the- ater, school, family, army) is some- thing with which we cannot in the least compete as far as quantity is concerned. If we are to break the in- fluence of this apparatus, this can only be by enlisting everything and every- body in’ our service; that is, when every functionary in the party, every member and every person in sympa- thy with the party, ceases to carry on the work of agitation in a merely ac- cidental manner, but pursues it in ac- cordance with a definite plan concen- trating all forces under one consistent leadership; when we have learned to make use of, and organize the use of. every technical auxiliary means avail- able for agitation (leaflets, posters, bills, handbills, Dlacgrds, factory nu- clei newspapers, theaters, cinema: wireless) in such a manner that the highest degree of success is ensured. (HE success of these efforts towards increasing and deepening the in- .| fluence of the Communist Party is not so much dependent upon the ma- terial means available, as upon the degree of organization, the utmost acme of centralization in the whole of the work of agitation and propaganda. Accident is but a feeble ally. It is the organiaztion of all available pow- ers, the systematic utilization of all ayailable, forces, and the central lead- ership of agitation, which will enable us to defeat our adversaries. But this is not always the best way. how you approach your union mem- les and subs for all what do you syggest that has Idieas, / Philadelphia, Notice! Weber Printing Co. 850 N. FIFTH STRERT, Philadelphia, oll On a ad — TUNNEL DET Mem LM EC = “past—and j Photographs » Features of the JULY: SPECIAL ANTI-IMPERIALIST ISSUE of the Workers Monthly China snd hi Anti- Imperialist Struggle By MAX SHACHTMAN A birds eye view of China in the the present victim of world A striking pen picture (with photographs) by the editor of the Young Worker. The New America— the American Empire By JAY LOVESTONE “The tenacles’ of the Ameri Imperial Octopus have been fast~ tly every section of the the author . a history of the develops ment of the U, §. into world em- pire. (With. Photographs) The Negroes As An Oppressed People By WM. F. DUNNE Another article on this great American problem from the pen of the editor of the DAILY WORKER, whose past articles on the question are attracting nation- wide attention. Bayonets in War and Peace By WM. F. KRUSE The use of bayonets on the workers in struggle—from the of the war department. An re of documentary evidence s Sotausinttng every charge of violence against workers. (With Photographs of the militia in strike action) Contradictions of Im- perialist Capitalism By N. BUCHARIN An analysis of the development of Imperialist Capitalism—briliiant and the greatest importance to thorough Communist understand- Left Wing Advances in the Needle Trades By EARL R. BROWDER: Revolt of the rank against reaction—strugg) employers and traitorous a picture of a bitter fight wa an important field of battle, Native Sins of the Golden West By MIRIAM ALLEN De FORD Babbits and Babbitry in Califor. nia—"the land of honey, fruit and fairly good wi picture of 100 id file hone Trade Union Fractions By WM. Z. FOSTER A timely contribution on one of the most important phases of present American Communist development. The Longest Pro- cession in History By RUTH KENNELL A Word Picture from Soviet geo sia on a great day—written b: erican and enough to fneilt every worker, Labor and Empire By MANUEL GOMEZ American Imperialism — what, how and why it is and i ffect splendid an American back: New Uses for Strikes By “AUDIFAZ” Recent tendencies in Mex Labor Politics—an interesting hts of the struggle of .the working y class in a neighboring country, Carbon Cakes A Story from ‘the Shop By FRANKLIN R. 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