The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 16, 1925, Page 6

| } i] = Page Six THE DAILY WORKER THE DAILY WORKER BRITISH GIVE ublished by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. | 4212 W. Washington Blyd., Chicago, Mr, Phone Monroe 4712 | WOMEN MINERS SR aca aia Ra SUBSCRIPTION RATES | NO PROTECTION | By mail (in Chicago only): By mail (outeide of Chicago): $8.00 per year $4.50 six montha $6.00 per vear $3.50 six months |Not Even Sympathy for Colonial Slaves $2.50 three months $2.00 three months Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Bivd,, Chicago, IIlinols J. LOUIS ENGDAHL seemneceenneve see nnees . JONDON—(FP)—Women still toil ofeoaracorat he pet ver tn the nt mines of India, On the tea SST eames aloe loa eactceeaesoaceee ec 3 Manager plantations a system of indentured Entered ay second-class mail September 21, 1923, at the post-office at Chi- | abor exists, which practically am- }ounts to slave labor. Flourishing cago, Iu, under the act of March 3, 1879, hi ~~, — | Bombay cotton factories, paying div- R li . ‘ P ik Q pease capital, pay their workers far beiow the minimum living wage de- id igton m 0 tics | termined by government experts and There was a time in Ireland when a protestant member of the | 7 now trying to cut these starvation iti i . 5 wages 25 per cent in some cases. British ruling class coveted a horse belonging to a catholic peasant lfhese are a few facts about the ex- of the subject class, the only thing he had to do was to offer the | ploitation of Hindu labor with which poor catholic a five pound note for the steed and the animal changed the Workers Welfare League of India, the agents in Britain of the All-India hands, If the catholic refused the offer, he lost his horse, the. five | Trades Union congress, are seeking to pound note and very likely his catholic head. jacquaint the British labor movement. This was correct in the eyes of the lord who. was worshipped | ete scorer ae Pa baad after a fashion by the British ruling class. That same ruling ¢lass | Sas Wie ge alaenaees a once owed fealty to the catholic god, but owing to a difference of | men miners, who are driven to back- opinion between themselves and god’s agent in Rome, there was/| breaking toil underground—but with a rupture of relations and they made a god of their own, who came | the employers who are demanding {that the use of women shall not be in very handy when they wanted t b s is wordly * 4 ' 5 . ed to rob somebody of his wordly interfered with. The Indian Mining goods. The task was easier when that person worshipped a dif-| Feqeration (the employer organiza- ferent god. tion) has protested to N. B. Mitra, In the days of the Inquisition anybody suspected of harboring | sovernment member of industries and ideas on religion not in conformity with those prevailing in official | #0" against the bill contemplated circles, was liable to find himself entertained by many instruments Medinah Sah tees Hp tote oo od Pj K 4 . “|ing the employment of women labor of torture, wielded by men who were either too lazy to argue with} underground in the coal mines. In the recalcitrant one, or else thought that their god was a lie-man| reply, Mitra assured the em,.>yers who did not relish converts who came to him by appeal to reason, | that the government sympatwzea with emotion or self-interest. | their view, and that it would recon- There usually was a nickel somewhere under the heel. ness and ruling class politics. founder of christianity did not know the game is amply proven by his crucification, which we might as well accept as authentic for the sake of argument. In the days of the Inquisition it often happened that one eath- olic who coveted another catholic’s wife, his property or both felt it to be his bounden duty to question the integrity of his neighbor’s religious fervor. An application of red hot iron slippers, a quart of molten lead, a little stretch on a rack and the questionable catholic either gave up the ghost or gave up ‘the things his co-religion- ist coveted. Tt is a long cry from the days of the Inquisition until today. Yet we see the same old methods applied tho in a modified form. ~Al Smith, governor of New York, is waging a life and death struggle against William Randolph Hearst. Smith, is backing Jimmy Walker as mayor of New York. Hearst is backing Hylan. Smith is a catholic; so is Hylan. So is Jimmy Walker. Hearst is not. When Al Smith and McAdoo were battling for the democratic nomination for the presidency, Al branded McAdoo as a kluxer and stopped him short in his tracks. Perhaps McAdoo was no more a kluxer than Smith, but it worked. William Jennings Bryan prayed to god—ostensibly the same deity that serves both Al and Mac—to drive out the K. K. K. issue, but the rank and file were.too set in their ways and god had to remain neutral in order to retain his following. Finally Smith, the catholic, and Mac, the kluxer, met in the Belmont hotel and agreed on the banker Davis, who was neither. He was just J. P. Morgan’s attorney. Now, Hylan, backed by Hearst and Walker, backed by Smith, are battling for New York City and all the graft thereof. It is a prize worthy of great fighters. It is a noble city to loot. The haryest is great and the harvesters are many. In this struggle allfules of civilized warfare are ditched.. The combatants are hitting below the belt, but those who have the votes are led to believe that the struggle is one between right and wrong, between democracy and autocracy or between the “interests” and the “peepul.” Hylan got the jump on Smith, because Hylan has a monopoly on all anti-traction baron stuff and the traction barons are as popular in New York as the pope of Rome is in Copenhagen. Smith looked around. for something to fasten on to Hylan and he saw the klux brick he belabored McAdoo with, laying idle in the corner. The governor hurled it at Mike Hylan’s red head. Here was catholic versus catholic. It was to weep. But the "klux charge changed many votes. How many, today’s primaries will tell. The working class of New York, many of them, will worry their heads off over Hylan’s alleged desertion to the K. K. K. and for- get all about the employing class which is served so well by Hylan, Smith, Hearst and Jimmy Walker. Thus religion is used by Al Smith today for the same purpose it was used by some other Al Smith several centuries ago. The workers should not be fooled by this fake issue, but they will never- theless fora while, We must keep on telling them that not. Hylan or Hearst, Walker or Smith, or any other collection of capitalist lackeys will or ean give them. the lead in solving their problems, but the Communists who have consigned the gods to the limbo. of dead superstitions and who intend to consign capitalism to.the limbo of history. Amid all this welter of confusion created by the tools of. cap- italism in their mad scramble for power aryl loot, there stands out one party that has a program, free from cant and humbug, . ‘The Workers, (Communist) Party, with its candidate Benjamin Gitlow, calls on the workers to rally for the task of freeing themselves from the economic chains that bind them. Those who would free them. selves must first strike the blow. The Communists are disrupting the unions, says William Green. After saying this, Green sits down and writes a letter sanctioning the seabbery of the United Garment. Workers’ Union on the Amal- gamated strikers in Chicago. “Tf I had loved my class half as well as I have loved my king, they might not have turned me down at the Scarborough ‘confer: ence,” is what Ramsay MacDonald may not have mused when the resolution denouncing imperialism was rammed thru. John H. Walker, president of the Illinois State Federation of Labor, fears that the wet question will supersede all others at the coming convention of that body.” Let us hope John does not get sloppy over the issue and turn on his lachrymal spigots. ‘Two strikes are on in Chicago at the present time and two unions affiliated to the American Federation of Labor scabbing on both. Isn’t graft unionism grand? oO) Religion has always been the handmaiden of busi-| — der. ° Action by the British cooperative The three are inseparable. That the| movement to assist Hindu labor is urged by the Workers Welfare League. It is calling on the gigantic Cooperative Wholesale society to re- fuse to allow on its tea plantations— or on plantations which, as buyers on an enormous scale, jt influences—the system of indentured labor or the em- ployment of women and children. The league is also asking for a minimum wage amounting to about $35 a month, and for assistance to be granted to the Indian Trades Union congress by the enforcement of a “trade unionists only” employment policy by the coop- erative. : SOVIET UNION ALLOTS LARGE SUM TO BUILD AGRICULTURE, BUYS MORE. TRACTORS, CONDUCTS EXHIBITIONS MOSCOW—The»council of the people's commissars Of the R, 8. F. 8. R. has allotted 75 milliqn rubles to improve the agricultural conditions of the central-blacksoil regien which conists of the provinces of Kursk, Orlov, Voro- nish, and Tamboy: According to the plans the reconstruction will take five years, In 1925-26, 28,000,000 rubl@s will be spent, out of which six million Accortine to the Narkomsem (ae-| | “WA BOYKOM MIESTE” TO BE PRESENTED SAT. AT WORKERS’ HOUSE partment of agriculture) the Union of The Russian theater season will be S, 8S. R. has now about 7,500 tractors. Five hundred of them are from pre- opéned formally this Saturday, Sept. 19, at 8 p. m., at the Workers’ war times. One thousand tractors have been manufactured in U. S, R. during the last few years. thousand have been: imported. jyear the Markomsem will , import) Six | This 4,500 tractors, part .of which are now on the way to Russia. In 1926 the | Soviet factories will manufacture 500 tractors. y« Exhibition of Agricultural Literature. | In October, 1925,ap exhibition will be opened in Mosgow. of popular ag- ricultural literature issued during the | last few years in many tens of mil- lions copies, In_pre-revolutionary times Russia had a few agricultural | periodicals and not one daily paper. | Now there are hundreds of periodicals | and daily papers, The circulation of the most popular daily agricultural) paper Bednota is about half a million | daily, | Export of Grain. | The ports of the Black and Asov) seas are full of steamers which are exporting grain from Soviet Russia. From all over the:U. S. S, R. thous-| ands of carloads of grain are coming | into the ports. Harvester Trust Re-enters. The main concession committee has decided to allow the International Harvester Co. to resume commercial operations in U. S. S. R. This well known firm will furnish for them harvesting machinery and spare parts. The Narkomsem has worked out a plan by which 2,595,000 rubles. in various sums will be distributed among the peasants to improve their methods of agriculture. In the month of July in the newly opened house of the peasants 1,698 representatives visited’ the institu- tion, notwithstanding that this month was a very busy one for field work. In July the lectures’ on agriculture were attended by 3,400'persons. SEATTLE, “Wath., Sept. 1— This graphic story told in simple language ‘was written by a master mariner and vouched for by every seaman aboard just returned who went, saw and were convinced. Every one of these sturdy and brave meriners are now the staunchest friends of the Workers’ Soviet Republics they declare. It is the most memorable fishing voyage made they say. It is full of interest— Aaron Fisherman. tae By H. J. R. (Master Mariner.) Log of schooner “Apollo” on a voy- age from Seattle to Petropavlovsk and Ust. Kamchatka, Siberia, Red Russia, as we as members of the ship’s crew found it while there. We left Seattle, Wash, on April 20, 1925, and after a stormy passage of 37 days, we steered our little vessel of 269 tons into Avachee Bay. We anchored in the harbor of Petropav- loysk, about 7 a. m., and it struck us all, that it was a beautifully laid out little town. Sloping down the foot of high hills into a valley. It was our first look at Red Russia, the land we had read so much about in American newspapers. After breakfast six port officials, ‘courteous young men, came on board, shook hands all around, and proceed- ed to examine the ship's papers, Af- ter they got thru they granted us pratique, shook hands all around again and left. A while later the pilot came on board and took us along: side the dock. Given Warm Welcome, When the ship was docked, we all washed up and went on shore, as we all were anxious to take a look at the people and conditions there. We only hada short walk to the town and as we got there we were aston- ished at the weicome we got from the people. It seems everywhere we looked or went, we were. invited in. It sure was different from what we expected, after reading so much about the cruel Bolsheviks in Soviet Rus- sia. But anyway we all made up our minds soon, that there was nothing cruel about these people, because they were kindliness themselves. So we said to each other that some of the press in America must have made a mistake about these people. which we will try to correct for the benefit of the American worker, First of all we will say, as old sea- farers, with among us, all thé way from ten to forty years of experience on the high seas, that most of us had visited Russia in czarist days, in the Baltic and Black Sea ports, There- fore we soon noticed the difference in the atmosphere and conditions about. The people were not the same as they wera@20 y ago, They look- ed entirely dierent tom those days. They all havea , healthy look of satisfaction faces. Dress- ed neat and’ cles © young women . 4, A Voyage to Soviet mostly with hair bobWed and the men neat and clean shaven. Meet Young Communists. We. were kind of handicaped on ac- count of the language, bat soon found one or two that could speak English and German so we were soon fixed in ‘that respect. Several young men“from the town invited us with them'to a restaurant where we were introduced to several young men and women. After we-were seated they explained to us that this was the Young Com jist Restaurant and during our stay in port we were welcome. We were brot tea, cigar- ettes and mineral water, and were en- tertained until about 8 p. m. Then the young men bade us to come along, so we got up and wanted to settle the bill, for what-we had eaten and drank, but they only laughed good naturedly and said, “Put your money in your pocket, it is of no ‘use to us. You are our guests as long as you are here.” So we thanked them, bade them good night and went with the young men. Visit Soldiers’ Culb. Next they took up to a large build- ing where we passed a sentry, a red soldier, who greeted us. We were taken inside and soon learned that we were in the soldiers’ club. There Were about 30 young soldiers there. We were introduced to all, a jolly lot of young fellows. They soon made at home, showed us around and finally took us) into their game and recreational rooms, there we had all kinds of fun, gymnasium and dif- ferent games. Then-they fetched their stringed instrumentgrand played and sang the Internationale. After that they danced, all thenstep dances and their own Russian dances which we enjoyed wonderful. ,They sure were happy and contented. . Some of them spoke German. They told us how they had fought on the different fronts during the revolution, Some of them had seen service from the Archangel frontpelean across Vla- diyostock and Kafnehatka, Bering Sea. About midnight we bade them all good night. They, @ll told us not to forget to come back again. We told them we would, if, we had time, as we were only going, to stay in port about two days, 5, So we started | for the ship, all thoroly convi they were the friendliest people we had met in our travels. Real people and friends, workers like ourselves, Different from any other part of the world where crimps and sharks usually lay in wait for their easy prey to come on shore. We sat. up late on board that night, discussing with each other about the hospitality and welcome we got from those people. Wanted to Stay. ~ Next day, was a busy day, as we had a lot of work t@ do and get ready for the fishin, 8. All day long we had a lot visitors, some of them young © unists, whom we had invited down to our Mttle ship for a visit, Thef| invited us to the movie theater evening and to tins. The respective areas are as fol- |lows: Azerzajdjan—10i,665 dessia- tins; Armenia—16,705; the province House, 1902 W. Di¥ision St. Under the leadership of the Russian actor L. Luganov, and with the participa- tion of the Russian actresses Aza Namgova, Moiseyenko and others, the play “Na Boykom Mieste” by | Ostrowski will be presented. It is expected that the play will draw a big crowd. The library of the Workers’ House is now receiving magazines from Soviet Russia, also books pub- lished recently in Russia, The Gosplan of the R. S. F. S. R. will purchase from the crop of this year 1,500,000 poods of the best seeds in order to establish a seed fund. The cotton seeding campaign in Transcaucasia has been completed. According to the original plan the area seeded was to be 106,200 dessia- of Nachichevan—9,705 dessiatins; Georgia—5,827 dessiatins, If the con- ditions should be favorable, a crop of 5,570,000 poods will be expected, or 87 per cent more than the preced- ing harvest. ’ The Narkomsem has received from all parts of R. S, F. S. R. requisitions | for one million plows, 390,000 _har- | rows, 6,000,000 threshing machines ‘and about 250,000 other machines. A large amount of dairy machinery, | binding, spare parts, etc. is also re- | quired. The sum of 130,000,000 rub- les is on hand for these purposes. + DETROIT RUNS LABOR SPYING | DEPARTMENT Streetcar Men Made Vic- tims of Finks (Special to The. Daily. Worker) DETROIT—(FP)—The iotelligence division of the Detroit department of street railways stands discredited as a system for spying and intimidation on the employes. The Detroit rail- ways aré municipally owned and op- erated. A board of arbitration has just awarded Benedict Robin, a conductor, $509.09 back puy for the time lost be- tween Aug. 7, 1924, when he was dis- charged, and Dec, 14, whe he was re- employed. Representatives of the Amalgamated Assn. of Street & Elec* tric Railway Employes of America convinced the. tMal board that’ Robin was discharged by the department's trial board because of his leadership “in opposing the formation of a com- pany union, or,,in this case, a depart- ment union, and in strengthening the streetcar.men’s union. The inspect. ors who made the charges against Robin were undercover agents known in department records by number only. He was not allowed to con- front chis, accusers at the department- al hearing. ‘He was accused of knock- ing down fares, using profanity against car r.ders, keeping car doors open, being late to work and various other offenses. The arbitration board held the charges were not proved. The “intelligence division” is a relic of a previous city administration, notoriously anti-union, but it .contin- ued under the present administration which was supported by organized la- bor, Why Not Talk About a Labor Party in the Connecticut Unions? NEW HAVEN, Conn.—(FP)—The third ‘party movement or regulation nonpaftisan politics are issues before .the Connecticut Federation of Labor |The export will be about 60 million rubles. *F: convening in New Britain’this month. NEGRO IS ARRESTED IN PITTSBURGH, PA., FOR CARRYING DAILY WORKER EARNEST CAREATHERS Member of Pittsburgh Branch of the American Negro Labor Congress. He was arrested last week for carry- ing a bundle of the DAILY WORKER, If You Want a Wage Raise, You’ll Have to Go to Sing Sing (Special to The Daily Worker) OSSINING, N. Y.—(FP)—The new wage scale in Sing Sing prison shéps is 3% to 7c a day, an increase over the 1%c scale that prevailed for 40 years. Four hundred and fifty prisoners are employed in the Sing Sing industries, Three Years Steating MaR BUFFALO, N, Y. Sept. 1: more men are under arrest i connection with the roundup of the gigantic parcel post theft band acous- ed of operating for yearg or more at the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Rajlroad Terminal, Russia by American Mariners different places of amusement which [ we gladly accepted. Otir cabin boy, a fine young lad of sixteén years, from Seattle, was on shore the night before and and it could be seen that the young people in the lub took all kinds of interest in him. So the next morning, young Kenneth wandered off by himself and soon found himself back with his friends of the night before. A while later one of us went on shore to get some cigarettes and there was young Kenneth playing with the boys and girls. The ship apparently the dar- thest away from his thoughts. About 3 o’clock in the afternoon, he came back to the ship looking for his grand dad who was the engineer on board. He found him and we were surprised to hear that he wanted to leave the ship and stay in Siberia. His grand dad asked him what he wanted to stay there for. He said that the young people wanted him to stay there and that he had grown so fond of these young people that he did not want to come back on the ship. He further asked his grand dad te come on shore with him to the club, which he did. When they got there, the young fellow who spoke English was there and several of the other young peo- ple. Soon they got around him and fairly begged him to leave young Kenneth there; that they had taken such a liking to him and that in about one month they were going to the university at Moscow and they want- ed young Kenneth with them. Then they took the old man with them to their parents and they also assured him that Kenneth would be taken care of and would get a good educa- tion at the university of Moscow. Education Best in World. Well, Mr. Bennett, his grand: dad, was taken back at all this that he told them he would give his,word in the morning, that he would think it over, so he came back to the ship. Late in the afternoon we washed up and went on shore. It was the lager as as the previous evening with any invitations. But we told them it was early yet, and we wanted to see the town. Whereupon they came with us and showed us all around. After our walk we had some refresh- ments in the club and then they took us to the movie. There we spent a pleasant evening, with good music and fine pictures. After the show we had some more refreshments and smokes, then we bid them good night and went on board. The next morning the professor of one high school, Mr, Noblegrabblenoff, came on a visit to our ship and wi soon made him at home on board. He spoke good English. We had quite: an interesting talk with him. We spoke with him mostly on the econo- | mical and political questions of Sov- jet Russia. And he soon answered us that he himself was not a member of the Communist Party of Russia. But that he had all kinds of respect for the Communist government. that Ri was coming to the front We trially and! Just ahont that afternoon as wo that.h6 was more than contented with the government and conditions. He also saidthat as far as the education- al system was concerned in Russia, well, that could not be beaten in any part of the world. Education in Rus- sia was the order of the day. Mr. Bennett, the boy’s grand dad, opened the: subject with him about young Kenneth staying there. And he also-assured Mr. Bennett, that he did fot Iftve to be alarmed to leave the boy there. And that he could be assured that the boy would be well taken café #f and be given a good education at Moscow. We gave the professor some English books and he in turn invited us all to comé and visit the school if we had time, ’So we told him that we would like to, so he bade us come along now which’ we did, as the school was only a sHort distance away. Visit to Soviet School. Upon our arrival at the school he introdaiced us to all the teachers and took all thru the different classes while the pupils were there at their study. He explained everything to us. They had the Dalton system of schooling. The pupils were all bright, healthy looking children and seemed all to be very ‘interested in their studies. I asked him if there was any religion taught in the school, and he said none whatever. I asked him if any of the children attended church, Whereupon he answered in the whole school of several hundred, just three girls attended. So I said “the church is not doing a flourishing business here.” So we thanked him for his kindness and said goodbye to him. Mr. Ben- nett and myself took a walk up the street and there was young Kenneth with the boys. We went in the club and they soon got around him and wanted to know now if Kenneth could stay, as, they all knew that we were’ to sail, that, day. So the old man said to one, “I think I will leave him here. .He is. with good kind people. And if he gets back to Seattle, his moth: anyway. I think he is better oft here.” So he gave his co sent je young. people went wil with joy shook the-old man's hand and.told him not to worry any more over Kenneth. . Kenneth Goes to Moscow. So ng Kenneth went on board} with he ends and packed his clothes and deserted the ship. He is | at.the university of Moscow, now. I have “often thought since, how many of those kind hearted American capitalists in America would take a workingman’s son and send him six thousand miles by land and water to get a good education. ) Yet those “cruel” Communists did thet with a glad heart, to a strange boy at that. f When Mr. Bennett spoke to some of the older people before we left, as to how he was and where to send the money for the boy, they again as: sured him»that the bey would be tak: en good @ dt, and that the money part was absloutely ont of the ques: tion and was not wanted. ! fy t were ready to leave, three and the town goes in, hig ee garb, came down to 4 ged us for a passage to bac yy hd ka, 250 miles north, the place we Were bound. One of them spoke German and I asked him what they were go- ing to do up there.\ Fie answered they wanted to go fishing up theré and that the Russian steamer wotld not be there to take them for six weeks and then it would be too late in the season. The priest was in ie boat as they, he algo was to fish, he said. There was nothing else for him to do. % He said the church business had gone to pieces. So being, they were all good. proletarians including the priest, who had to be one, we gave them a passage. That afternoon about. 3 o'clock, we cast off.. There were a lot of people at the dock to say good bye to us including our young cabin boy. Our trip up the coast we made un- eventful and arrived at Ust Kam- chatka June 1. We were boarded on arrival there by the officials and pratique was granted us. So that night we sailed down the coast 18 miles to our destination where we were to receive our load of fish. We anchored there off a Japanese can- nery about half mile from shore. There we go a Soviet Russian cus- tom official on board for the purpose of counting the fish. He was a happy, jolly, old fellow. He could not speak. English, but we got along fine with him. As we did not understand his name, we immediately named him the Proletarian, The days passed slowly there as we were 18 miles away from the village. So we often strolled off in the moun- tains for a few hours to pass the monotony. tarian and he danced Russian in the cabin. He was a man of about 60 years, but full of of 15. F 3; _ On about June 25, came Swedish explorers on board our for a visit. They were sent out Sweden in 1920, on a scientific dition to Kamchatka fot educational system, n The youngest of the two sald that he was seriously thinking about ing his services to the Moscow g ment. They stayed with us and that evening when they shore we told them to come they were working in that They said they would and they our guests bgt 4 times after, (To be continued.) ] Se ci ARN