The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 24, 1925, Page 6

Page Six THE DAILY WORKER Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, II, Phone Monroe 4713 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mall (in Chicago only): By mall (outside of Chicago): $8.00 per year $4.50 six monthe $6.00 per year $3.50 six months $3.50 three months $2.00 three months Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, IIlinele J, LOUIS ENGDAHL } WILLIAM F, DUNND MORITZ J. LOEB. ——$—_ Entered ax second-class mail September 21, 1923, at the post-office at Chi- cago, Iil., under the act of March 38, 1879. Advertising rates on application. ST An Alien Bootlicker Threatens Secretary of Labor, Davis, from Wales, one of the most sub- servient lickspittles that ever groveled before the almighty dollar, threatens to deport all aliens who are members of the Workers (Communist) Party of America. There is not the slightest doubt that the alien flunkey, Mr. Davis, would like to see every alien worker who has not debased his manhood by licking his master’s heel, placed on board a ship, bound for foreign parts. Whether Mr. Davis will be successful in earry- ing out his plans is another question. According to the news dispatch from Washington which in- formed the public of Mr. Davis’ intentions, the spur to this action was given by the unfavorable publicity received by the Coolidge administration thru its cancelling of a visa to Comrade Saklatvala, the Hindu Communist and member of the British house’ of commons. Even the capitalist press has diplomatically hinted that the ratio of bone to brain in Mr. Kellogg’s head is entirely out of pro- portion to the intellectual requirements of a competent secretary of state. The press suggests that real statesmen know enuf to gloss over the letter of the law when questions arise that cannot be solved by mechanical methods. Davis and Kellogg are as alike in their mental bankruptcy as two mackerel are in the matter of color. Birds of a feather have a tendency to flock together and what is more reasonable than that dumbells should put up a united front against a barage of intelligence? Therefore, there are two quite obvious reasons why the depart- ment of labor should announce a new offensive against the radical workers, at the same time, that the state department is under a withering fire over its action in barring out a Communist member of the British parliament on orders from the British foreign office. The first is the fundamental hatred combined with fear that the capitalist class entertains towards the Communists. The second -is an effort to block the wave of attack on the administration thru its exclusion of Saklatvala. The theory is the old one, that an offensive is the best defensive. Secretary of Labor Davis, the alien flunkey of capitalism, will not frighten the radicals by threats of deportation. Those who join the Communist movement do not do so under the illusion that they are going to walk into a paradise over a road strewn with roses. They know that the path to the emancipation of the working class is‘a hard and thorny one; that the army of labor will reach its goal after traveling thru a valley of tears. Tho the capitalist system in the United States is strong, yet we can see in the hysterical threats of the government evidence of the international decline of the robber order. Our ruling class sees the handwriting on the wall. They see the mighty British empire shaken to its base by revolution in its colonies and incipient revolu- ton at home. Like the tyrants down thru all the stages of human history they try to ward off the inevitable by persecution. They will fail. They may deport Communists, but they will never kill Communism. - Business Manager Green’s Convention Thunder. Considerable speculation is indulged in as'to what line William Green will take, in making his opening bow to the first convention of the American Federation of Labor he faces in the role of presi- dent, when that organization meets next month in Atlantie City. The speculators need not waste much brain energy in guessing Green’s line. Green will follow the strategy of Sam Gompers. He will make faces at the “unreasonable employers” as Sam did, but will reserve his heavy thunder for the Communists, just as Sam was in the habit of doing. The labor fakers are not afraid of the capitalists, not even of the “unreasonable” ones. There are only a few employers who have not brains enuf to realize that the labor fakers stand between them and a militant trade union movement, that would make constant asaults on their profits. The labor fakers know that their interests are interwoven with those of the capitalists and therefore they will defend the capitalist system as they would defend their very lives. William Green knows this, being one of them. His strategy therefore is not hard to guess at. In order to hold the rank and file, the fakers must make a bluff at fighting the employers. Gompers used to attack Judge Gary. Green will find some convenient capi- talist target for his vocal barbs. He will fight the injunction and child labor, with his mouth, even as Sam did. But he will train his heaviest artillery on the Communists and put the fear of gd into ‘the hearts of the assembled labor fakers. He will try and convince ‘them that he is better able to save them from the Communist danger than by any other labor lieutenant of capitalism in the paddock. He will probably succeed. The left wing in the labor movement is still deplorably weak. It will get strong in time. It will grow in strength as the capitalist system in the United States weakens. And as the capitalist system weakens, so will the power of the labor fakers who are part and parcel of that system. Sadder If Not Wiser The officialdom of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union is sadder if not wiser than it was some weeks back. Its ranks have thinned somewhat. The G. E. B. lost the services of the two stoolpigeons Meyer (Mire) Perlstein and Joseph Breslau. The rank and file of the union loses nothing by this desertion. The Sigman machine sees the handwriting on the wall. Its united front with the employers and the capitalist press did not stand up against the united opposition of the rank and file. Some- thing had to crack and it was the Sigman machine that cracked. Sigman now proposes that the date for the next convention be November 30 instead of next May. The letter accompanying this proposal states that the agreements between the unions and the manufacturers expires” next July and as a new administration is likely to result from the next convention, it’ would not be fair to the next G. E. B. to be obliged to face the problem of new wage negotia tions without having as opportunity to get wrens with th union's machinery, beforehand. “Sigman sees the handwriting on the-wall, ji, pees . fe j | Lo | THE DAILY WORKER BOSSES SPEED UP TAILOR SHOP STRIKEBREAKERS United Garment Work- ers’ Union Aids Boss Despite the fact that the strike Is in its thirteenth week, the Amalga- mated Clothing Workers involved in the strike against the International Tailoring company and the J. L, Tay- lor Co., maintain a continuous picket line from 7 in the morning till 4:30 in the afternoon. The spirit of the strikers is just as strong as it was the day the strike started. But when we look into the camp of the employers we find a sorry sight indeed. Ray Reeder, the secretary of the International Tailoring Co., called the strikebreakers in the plant toget- her and told them that they must produce more in order to meet the de- mands of the trade. “Your production is not enough,” wailed the speaker. In order to increase production Ray Reeder, in behalf of the company, of- fered to pay the strikebreakers a little bonus. Not only did he offer to pay their bonus, but he also undertook to pay their union dues after Oct. 1. The United Garment Workers local in Chicago has assumed the role of strikebreaker and is assisting the bos- ses to crush the Amalgamated Cloth- ing Workers’ Union. The paying of a bonus and the giving of other induce- ments is in line, with the plan of the company to establish the speed-up system in the shop, with the able as- sistance of Green’s beloved, Unit- ed Garment Workers of America. Terrorize Strikers The bosses in their desperation to crush the union are now terrorizing individual members of the union, who are active on the picket line and in the conduct of the strike. Harry Novak, 5740 South Green St., and his brother Oscar were both shot and are now in the hospital. According to prominent officials of the Amalga- mated, this shooting is only one of the. acts of terrorization that have been practised by the bosses. The members of the Amalgamated, who were arrested in the headquarters of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers’ Union are awaiting trial for conspi- raty: The date of their trial has not been fixed as yet. The arrest of the Bickets, the threatening of various mémbers, go well in line with the shooting of Harry and Oscar Novak, it Was pointed out by a prominent union member. *vStrike meetings are being held every ‘morning in Hod Carriers Hall, at-eleven o'clock, where speakers dis- ess the developments of the strike. Six pickets were arrested yesterday. he ® « Taylor Co. Venture Fizzles ROCK ISLAND, Ill—The press agents for the J. L. Haylor & Co. broadcasted the opening of a gigantic clothing factory here for Sept. 15. When Sept. 15 did arrive, the com- pany presented a sorry spectacle. Their attempt to run away from the striking garment workers af Chicago met with a mighty cold reception bere. Some Success! The company agents had leased a factory in Moline and Rock Island for six months and the company started an intensive drive to secure 600 work- ers for the Moline shop and 400 for the Rock Island clothing factory, So tar they have succeeded in getting 15 boys in Rock Island to work for them at the magnificent wage of $15 a week. None of the lads know how to thread a needle, lot alone make clothing. In order to be able to produce clothing, they attempted to import some strike- breakers. All that could be mustered into the shop were ten professional scabs. The company has made reser- vations fdr them at the ¥. M. C. A. In Moline they have not as yet re- cruited one hundred to take the job. The company agents had painted a glorious picture of the future Moline and Rock Island ventures and had made plans to take over the defunct Daniel Boone Woolen Mills. It seems as tho they bit off more than they could chew, Out of the 1,000 workers they intended to hire, they have only 100 inexperienced clothing hands to turn out suits in the busiest season of the year. 6k Hot Air Merchants It seems as tho their talk of ex- pansion made them expand so much with the hot air they generated that they blew up. The workers in this city and in Moline realize what the workers of Chicago are up against and they re- fuse to scab on their fellow workers. AS WE SEE IT (Continued from page :1) workers and lead them,alwng the cor- | rect lines, The Communist tell the | workers that only thru the’ overthrow of capitalism will they able to be- gin the work of changihg conditions so that unemployment and:its attend- ant miseries can be abolished. sew ye? T is significant that the headquar- ters of the second international has been moved from the comparative- ly turbulent atmosphere of London to the more peaceful one of Geneva. The yellow international does not feel comfortable in a revolutionary coun- try. When things looked rather shaky on the continent of Europe ‘the office was moved to London. “If the league of nations blows up, it may ‘be obliged to move to Sleepy Hollow where Rip Van Winkle hibernated for several years according to fegend. The Wandering Jew of Bugene Sue’s novel had nothing on the second“ interna- tional. a ee * x HE Wall Street Jourhal’s London correspondent draws & gloomy pic- ture of the seamen’s trike | from the seamen’s point of view. He cabled a column full of doleful impressions of the strike, hurls a choice collection of curses at the heads of the. “Commun- ists and plants a crown of roses on the brow of Havelock Wilson, the most notorious capitalist stoolpigeon that ever sold out ,a , trade union. Here is a sample of.his.stuff: ‘“‘This victory of a legitimate trade union over a rabble of Communists has made a strong impression upon the wage workers of Great Britain. In fact it was the quickest and most ef- ficient instance of strikebreaking that the British people have ever seen.” + * * HE Wall Street Journal’s corre- spondent counted its victory before it was properly hatched. The strike is not broken nor even badly bent. The government of Australia was obliged to call a special election on ac- count of it and several hundreds of British ships are tied up all ovet the world. The capitalists will’ find out before this battle is over that Have- lock Wilson, like many another ‘dog, has had his ay. * + HE DAILY WORKE is“often ac- cused by its critics, some of them friendly, that it colors its news too much; in other words that it is too partial to the workers’ side of the struggle and particularly to the Com- munist side. We plead guilty to the indictment to a certain extent. We are not concerned with publishing news for the Sake of news any more than cartoonfsts “are concerned with drawing pictures for art’s sake. But we do not Iie, because wé ‘know that lying does Hat serye olr purpose, which is the advancement’ Of the work- ing class movement. ‘The truth is good enuf for us.’ We le ing to the capitalists. 1 their most powerful wé 2. # . Ate how they do Ie! °"“fake the Saklatvala case for instance. For days we were informed that the work- ers of Battersea, England,’ who sent him to the house of commons * were arranging a mass meeting, | ‘at which Saklatvala’s resignation would be de- manded, The meeting “Was held alright but it turned out to be a meet- ing of workers protesting against his exclusion from the United tes and affirming confidence in ‘hi * political views. This is only one imple of capitalist lying. “a Calles Acts as the Humble Servant of Foreign Imperialism MEXICO CITY, Sept, 22. — The Aguila Oil company has asked the Calles government. to give:. “prot tion” against the -strike declar against the company, not only in the oil district, but everyWhere that the company has, stores for sale,of oil and gasoline, Since Calles, under, the, repressive laws he has had passed against strikes to please fopelep,, (capitalists, has reason to proc h, the repres- sion, he will pales 9 seri troops to break the strike and punigh any pick. ets at the company st Mexico. res thruout Foréiga Exchange, NEW YORK, Sept, a epeet Bilt ain, pound sterling, nd 4.84; cable 4.84%. France, tribe, demand 4.7344; cable 4.74, Belgium, franc, de- mand 4.37; cable 4.3744. Italy, lira, demand 4.06%; cable 4:67. Sweden, krone, demand 26.81; cabild 26.84. Nor- way, krone, demand 2113/"éable 21.15, Denmark, krone, demand 24.38; cable 24.35. Germany, mark’““no quote, Shanghia, taels, demand“80°0, lll! The DAILY WORKER sub- scription list is a Communist honor roll. Is your name on it? COOK TELLS BRITISH MINERS TO PREVENT COAL EXPORTS TO U.S. IN AID OF ANTHRACITE STRIKE LONDON, Gept./22—A. J, Cook, secretary of the Miners’ Great Britain, and Te the Baldwin oxported to Amet ider of the recent miners’ strike movem, syn ‘Federation of 1t to which to bow, told the British) miners in a int_ was forced speech at Ca res on Saturday last, that they must prevent coal being since it was the duty of British miner@sto help the Amefican miners in the great anthracite strike now going on in.Ranneylvania. | +) by oe OK: Anthracite Profits - - By EARL R, “R. BROWDER? Nae anthracite coal corpofations claim that to avoid bankruptcy they must cut the miners’ wages. by 10 per cent. Thateis why 158,000 miners are now on strike in Pennsyl- vania. It is interesting, therefore, to exam- ime the books of these companies, and their histories, to see how they came by these great capitalizations upon which they want to increase dividends at the cost of wages. OW much “capital” is invested is the anthracite flelds? According to the estimate of the coal commission, the present valua- tion is slightly under one Dillion dollars, Where did the billion dollars come from? Does it represent the savings of the stockholders, laboriously gathered to- gether by sacrifice and economy from the product of their labors, and “in- vested” in anthracite? Not at all! Most of it is “book valuation,” that is, @ figure established on the basis of expected profits. For instance: The Delaware, Lackawanna & West- ern railroad was in the anthracite coal business. It held properties valued at $6,240,000. HE stockholders of the D.L. & W. joined together in 1921 to form a new corporation, the Glen Alden Coal company. The new corporation pur- chased the coal properties of the old corporation at a price of $72,240,000, paying for it principally with promis- sory. notes. That is, the same stock- holders who in 1920 owned six mil- lions of coal thru the D. L. & W., in 1921 suddenly found themselves the owners of 72 millions of dollars of “coal capital.” The only cost was a promissory note given by themselves to t’em- selves. But the new “capital” must earn dividends!. Then take a look at the Lehigh Coal & Navigation company, with as- sets of 77 million dollars., This corporation began operations over 100 years ago, on lands which it leased for an annual rental of one ear of corn! That ear of corn, plus “valuations,” plus “revaluations,” plus the labor of miners who produced the flood of “black diamonds” from the earth, is now represented by the assets of $77,- 000,000, of which 99 per cent at least is appropriated surplus value from the labor of the miners. Are the corporations so poor that they must cut wages? Look. at the divident record (cash dividends!) of the Pennsylvania Coal Co. It runs like this: 1918—49 pet.; 1917—110, pet.; 1921 —137 pet.; 1922 (strike year) 168 pct. with. the othef years running from 10 Workers’ Theater of Philadelphia to Give Working C1 Class Drama By SAM WE WEINBERG PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Sept, 22. — The Workers’ Theater Alliance has been given official sanction by Dis- trict No, 3 Workers Party Educational Committee, x Because of the bitter need of a true and more, explicit’ means of working class education and propaganda that will bring understanding to many young minds who hunger for the en- tertainment that the stage affords, the Workers’ Theater Alliance has been formed in Philadelphia. Due to the earnest and sincere ef- fort of Comrade Alfred Sobel, we have been able to plant this institution on @ firm foundation, Our real work is but beginning now. As we have laid - {plans for an extensive campaign for the production of proletarian plays, which will be carried out in a large scale. We intend to begin immediately with an initial performance of three one-act plays, These plays are highly educational s they deal éxclusively with the clas sstruggle. We call upon all in- telligent workers in Philadelphia to join the Workers’ Theater Alliance {|and make it what it should be, an educational ‘institution. Send your name, address and occupation to 521 York Ave., Philadelphia, Watch for further announcements in the DAILY WORKER, N. Y. Window Cleaners Make Wage Demands on Bosses’ Organization By H, FEINSTEIN. (Secretary Local 8, Window Cleaners’ Protective Union.) NEW YORK CITY, Sept:: 22.—The membership of the Window Cleaners’ Protective Union, Local 8, has unani- mously adopted the proposal of the Executive Board to demand $2 a week increase in wages and one hour per week. r Every window cleaner shall receive a minimum of $40 and work no more than 44 hours, All are determined to fight for these demands by strike, if need be. The office of the union is lo vat 217 Bast 6th street and wie vleaners are invited to gtd with the organization. eee are raising a large fund’ té break the union and posta nied conditions. patty in one association. — They are completely or- |’ to 88 per cent. Or the Hillside Coal & Iron com- pany. Its cash dividends in 1917 were 105 pet.; in 1921 were 205 pct.; and in 1922 were 190 pet. (and the last figure averaged $6.69 per ton of coal mined by the corporation!) But it is objected, not all the corpo- rations earn such profits. No. The reason their rates are low- er is because their “book values” have been written up so high-that the divi- dends become a “normal” ten to thirty per cent. Some of them are so_poverty- stricken that they don’t even pay dividends! For example, the Phila- delphia and Reading Coal & Iron ¢o. Why? Look at its “assets”. $115- 000,000 dollars! It has “capitalized” its. earnings ahead of time, and the profits are collected by selling “stock” which didn’t cost anything, — And then, if one is going to reinvest these tremendous profits, why should dividends be declared and thus be liable to taxation? It is so such sim- pler to accumulate a “surplus,” which may at convenient» times» be | distri- buted as “stock dividends.” Thus the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Co. (paying no divi- dends) increased its ‘surplus from By Earl R. Browder $1,460,000 in 1912, to $29,074,000 in 1922, ; Surely you will agree that they must cut wages to get out of the poverty- stricken condition and begin to pay dividends! ND there’s the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Co. Its “surplus” increased from $1,655,000 in 1912, to $7,467,000 in 1922. The “net” profits of the so-called “railroad coal companies” were, in 1915, $11,264,000; in 1918 they increas- ed to $22,369,000; in 1920 they were $33,466,000, Such “net profits” do not touch such items as $38,550,000 added to the assets of the Lehigh Valley and Cox Brothers, thru “revaluation,” from 1918 to 1921; or the $27,583,000 added by “revaluation” to the, Hudson Coal Company interests, etc. Yes, a truly poverty-stricken lot of corporations are jn control of anthra- cite. But if the coal miners would take control, burn up the “book values,” and give the consumers cheap coal, instead of monoply prices, as at pre- sent, they could still increase their wages 20 per cent and have a real surplus, instead of decreasing wages. Why not “workers’ control of anthracite?” MANY ORGANIZATIONS GIVE SUBSTANTIAL AID IN DAILY WORKER DRIVE ‘ODAY’S list of DAILY WORKER savers may not be very long but it is nevertheless fairly heavy. For It includes a goodly number of Workers Party units and other workers’ organizations which have col- lected in smail sums from individuals and sent it In large sums. The results were $642.70 which swelled the total so far received to more than $7,500.00 or three-quarters of the emergency fund. signs. These are hopeful It is time'to point out, however, that any slakening of effort to eave the’ DAILY WORKER would have extremely serious results. succeed in our efforts to raise the emergency fund within two w We did not and it is more necessary than ever to press on with all possible speed to reach that goal. Is over, And then we must not let ourselves think that the crisis The DAILY WORKER cannot be made safe with the $10,000 fund. Wedare not again allow the DAILY WORKER to be so endangered that ite very life is momentarily threatened. To make the DAILY WORKER sécure for the coming year some mighty efforts will still have to be exerted: They Marched in Close Formation to Make - nBiy’ © Sympathizer, fnglish Br, W. P Detroit, Mich. lish Br. W, P a L, Steigerwald, Detroit, Mich. English, W. Polish Br., W, Detroit, Mich. 5.00 North Side, English, W. P., Chicago, “All, ~ » 44,05 Douglas Fat English, Ww. Chicago, +» 20,00 Slovenian Beri fit Society, Wau- 37.65 20.50 2.00 3.00 21.50 German Be. W. Ruben Bernstein, Milwauke Pat Cavanaugh, Carlton, Min Ukranian a Chicago, Ill... Finnish Bri Wi P., Brantwood, Wis, 5.00 Y, W. L., Eaat'Side English, Cleveland, ‘0; - 7.50 Joe and Minnie Tript, Chicago.. 3.00 Regina Myroski; Moundsville, W. Va. .. 8. Weinberg, Philadelphi Cari Brodsky, New York... H, Brooker, Chicago ... “0 Wm, Brooks, Calgary, Alberts, Canada .. Lithuanian ‘Citizens’ Donora, Pa. 1.00 1.00 3.00 2.00 2.00 6.00 10.00 9.00 Tuesday Count: Shop Nucleus 6, New York......... Italian Downtown Br.,..W. P. New York . English Lower, Bronx Br,, New York ... we 18,75 English Williamsburg, (New-York 31.76 English Bronx, New. York, 51.50 Shop Nucleus 1, New Yor! 10.00 Shop Nucleus 16, New York... 9.00 Finnish Inwood Br., New. ¥ork,,. 25.00 Y. W. L, 14, New York... wee 10,00 Shop Nucleus 2, New York... 20,00 Bill Carr, New York. we 1,00 Y. Wy. Lb. 12, New York.ug:nrscoe 98,00 Louis Molnar, Oakland, Cal... Frank Moudry, Bedford, 0O.. Gust Ecke, Cleveland, 0. Olaf Weinberg, Brooklyn, N, 10.00 G, Griger and. J. Novak, chen: 10.00 Patton and Talbot, Omaha, Neb. 2.00 Jewish Br. W. P., Winthrop, = 7.00 Finnish ine W. P. Today’s total .... Previously acknowledged Total to date.. But by the Combined Efforts of All Will It Be Possible to Save THE DAILY WORKER Iam sending you my response to your appeal, Ten- Address letters and take ‘chécks and money orders payable to THE DAILY SYORRER, ig w. : ee Bivd., Chicago, Il.