The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 31, 1925, Page 3

4 ata if ORAM Nt se me aceon edn near < “ am ae EVEN TANMANY CANNOT STAND MAJOR BERRY Issues Statement Names Confuse (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Oct. 29.—So notori- ous has become the strikebreaking, scabherding record of Major George L. Berry, president of the Internation- al Pressmen and Assistants’ Union of North America, that even the most degraded political machine on earth, Tammany Hall, objects to even the taint of Berryism. Tammany has as one of its lead- ing candidates on the Walker demo- cratic ticket in the municipal elec- tions, an individual unfortunate enuf to be known as Major General Chas. W. Berry, Many people who have heard of the notorious George L, have sonfused the two. This confusion en- dangered whatever chances the Tam- manyite might have had, so he hastens to disassociate himself from the great (?) labor leader. I'm Not the Man Major General Berry wants it known that he is in no way connect- ed with or related to Major Berry. The following letter explaining this fact has been sent to every labor or- ganization and every unit of organ- ized labor in Greater New York, This particular one was received by the chapel (shop) chairman of one of the publishing houses in New York: October 20, 1925, Dear Mr. President:— ~ Frequently during the campaign my mame has become confused with that of Major George L. Berry, whom you know much better than myselt. Healizing that it is not fair to the major for me to. profit by his national reputation | am tak- ing this means of informing you that our families are no way con- nected and that Major Berry and myself are not related in any way. My own record speaks for itself and my sympathetic attitude to- ward organized labor is well known to all. Any support which your chapel feel they can give to me at the coming election will be greatly ap- preciated, Very truly yours, Charles W. Berry, Major General. Although Charles W. does not open- ly attack George L,, one familiar with Tammany politics can read between the lines and recognize the fact that he wants it made plain that he is not the man with a “national reputa- tion.” If the reputation of George L. were such that it would attract votes among the trade uniénists, the Tam- Many candidate would remain dis- cretely silent hoping he would profit by his name being confused with Major George L. It is because he knows the members of his own organ- iaztion have many times repudiated Major Berry overwhelmingly and that no intelligent trade unionist would vote for him that the Tammany can- didate corrects any misunderstand- ing that may prevail. One must be rotten indeed when even Tammany washes its hands of him. And it should not be forgotten that the major himseif is a member of the democratic party. as Labor Delegations Visit Soviets to See for Themselves BERLIN—(FP)—The stream of labor delegations from European countries, whose workers want to see for themselves how Russia fares, continues unabated. Delegations from Czechoslovakia, Norway and Austria are at present in Russia and a Fin- nish trade union delegation is ready to start if it can make the Pinnish government withdraw its veto, Franco- Belgian, Swedish, British and German labor delegations have visited Soviet Russia recently. threa' The A. TWO ARTICLES—PART I, HERE is no need for revolution in America, no need for the class war, no need for the class Struggle. Here every citizen is a sovereign and every sovereign a citizen. (William Green, during the course of his speech on the labor party resolution at Atlantic City.) “NTO need for the class war.” “No need for the class struggle.” “Every citizen is a sovereign.” | ngland’s supremacy — ed? Will there s be war between Eng- With @ special “Preface tor land and the U. S. A.? ‘ oo Uttered by a small town banker a pro- prietor of a corner grocery or by Elb- |ert H. Gary, the fabove sentiments | would be manifest- | ly appropriate—tor \the first two, be- | cause they would x | believe them, and DUNNE for Gary because ye ee they are part of HM | the stock in trade of oné Wiié plays | the role of captain of industry and | leading propagandist for the /ruling class. In such mouths they sarouse only aversion. Ears by William Green,’ presi- dent of the American Federation of Labor and ex-secretary:treasurer of the United Mine Workers of America, whose members have been shot down by the gunmen of coal com- panies and the armed forces of the bosses’ state in a thousand bloody strikes, they become a treasonable protocol Which the masses of workers —organized and unorganized—must repudiate and prepare to fight or’ ac- cept and hold out their wrists for the very real shackles of which Green’s Statements are the verbal expression. Co collaboration was the key- note of the Atlantic City conven- tion as it has been of all recent A. F. of L. conventions. But at Atlantic City class collaboration,.like thé in- ternational policy of the A. 'F. of L., took definite form. The yellow thread of a united front with the bosses to increase produc- tion in return for preferential treat- ment for privileged groups of, the working class, runs thru all of the Proceedings at Atlantic City. In some instances the increased reward ‘for 1a~' bor in the form of higher wages is forgotten completely ih the .mad scramble to be more loyal to Ameri- shoddy shop. RECALL Spencer Miller at the Portland convention. He had not as yet lost all of his honesty and was what might be described as a demi- virgin. But from the status of one who was flirting with the libertines of the A. F, of L. bur racy, he has descended to the level of a common prostitute, openly and willingly flaunt- ing his shame before the multitude. What part the class struggle pla in the education dished up to the union man and woman of America by the W, E. B. can be judged best by cull- ing a few blossoms from the intellec- tual bouquet with which Spencer Mil- ler, Jr., presented the Atlantic City convention. ® The unctuous Mr, Miller, it appear- ed, had been lecturing abroad during the summer at the schools established under the auspices of the Amsterdam a i oes. WORKER F. of L. and the Class Struggle - the third of as he" A. A. F, of LL. and Inter ries of artic’ F. of L. convention, which deal national Relations,” “The A. F. of L. and s on the proceedings with “The the Unorganized Workers,” “The A. F. of L. and the Class Struggle,” “The A. F, of L. and the Left Wing,” “The A. F. of L. and Militarism,” ete. “The A. F. of L. and the ¢ There js additional evidence to sup- | port this conclusion and these quot- ations are entirely germane to the subject of the attitude of the A. F. of L. toward the class struggle. : Miller, Jr, continues: There js a “second observation which | believe will interest you be- cause it means much for the peace of the world, It is the growing spir- it of reconciliation between the peo- ples of Europe—a desire to come to- gether, and live and work together for a better future. The historic This is the first installment of 3s Struggle. workers’ children in the capitalist con- trolled and openly anti-working class public schools? Only that given a dash of labor coloring it is all the more insidi- ous and subversive of every spark of militancy in the minds of its victims. NE of the best ways of determin- ing the combination of eel- and leech-like characteristics possessed by and spurious education to the workers is the liplicking manner, accompanied CLASS COLLABORATION IN ACTION “No Need for Class Struggle in Amer can capitalist institutions—the wage system included—than the capitalists themselves, OWHERE, not even in the fever- “ish 100 per cent patriotic speech- es of Green and Woll, is this tendency more evident than in the report of Spencer Miller, Jr., representing the Workers’ Education Bureau. ‘The Workers’ Education Bureau is the child of the A, F. of L. bureaucracy. It received official recognition at El Paso and since that time 42 national and international unions have affiliat- ed with it. j It specializes in “broad education” that is, it. specializes in debauching the organized labor movement with a doctrine of class collaboration. “The term “class struggle” is sufficient to bring a velvety white froth to the de- licately chiseled lips of Spencer. Mil- International. He was enthusiastic over the reception accorded him and the work of the schools. He had, it seems from his report, chosen “Ameri-, can history and institutions,” and “the ideals and achievements of the Ameri- can labor movement” as his subjects PEAKING of these schools he said: The schools, in a word then, are the symbols of a tolerance in both our domestic and International re- lations, about which PRESIDENT COOLIDGE SPOKE YESTERDAY IN OMAHA WITH SUCH POWER AND GONVICTION.— (Emphasis, Mine—W. F. D.) I do not want to do the enthusiastic Mr. Spencer Miller, Jr., an injustice, but would we be far wrong if we con- cluded from the above that he was ler, Jr, who sole function is similar to that of a well-dressed manikin placed in the show window of a in Europe as a propagandist for the Dawes’ plan? I think not. SCIENCE BLOOMS ONLY UNDER RULE OF PROLETARIAT Science Progresses Un- der Soviet Power LENINGRAD—(FP)—“The | prole- tariat in power, as an organized class, is the natural friend of sciencé and technical progress,” said Soviet educa- tion commissioner Lunacharsky, speaking at the 200th anniversary of the Academy of Sciences in “enin- grad. “In the last two years,” he stat- ed, “the state budget grants for public A SSE ESSE SESE EES SESE SSE EE EEES SEE SEESEEE ESS Nation-wide Publicity for “WHITHER ENGLAND?” America” 12 mo, 192 pp $1.76 Every well - informed reader will want this book. Order it now, Th Some oer ae pas educational purposes steadily increas- ed and the day is not far distant when the increased resources of the country will enable us to prove to the world that nowhere except where the toil- ers have been completely emancipat- ed is it possible to develop such widespread educational activity for the benefit of the masses of the People.” One of the educational grants of the soviet government is an authorized increase for the Academy of Sciences, which makes the estimates for 1926 nearly double 1925. The wage and publishing funds are more than doubled, The academy has 7 research institutes, 4 biological laboratories, 4 bureau of eugenics, 6 large museums and 18 commissions. During its ex- istence it has published over 15,000 volumes, The library contains about 4,000,000 volumes, and the museums and exhibitions are visited by more than 150,000 people annually. Sees! ica,"—William Green, president of the A. F. of L. decision which was ‘taken yester- day by representatives of England, France and Germany at Locarno on the ‘Germany's entrance in- to the leagué of nations marks, | be- lieve, a neW chapter in European re- lations if ‘sustained by the home governmes CCORDING, then, to this bell- wether of the thirsty flock of trade unionists which he is leading to the Pierian spring, it is the represent- atives of capitalists governments and the robber league of nations that will bring peace, to Europe. The Locarno pact, not world trade union unity as proposed by, Purcell, will heal the wounds “of one and prevent new miseries for the workers from another imperialist war. In what way does the education of- fered. the gorkers by an institution guided by this type of mind differ from the ‘pdisonous brew given to by an abnormal flow of saliva, with which they invariably enumerate the various methods by which the savings of the wage-earners can be sequest- rated and auriferous chunks corraled by the fraternity of the itching palm, | in which the liberal intelligentsia with | @ statistical bent and the thick-necked | labor officialdom are full-fledged mem- | bers. Spencer Miller, Jr. qualifies in all respects; we quote again: When it is reported that the Fed- eration Bank of New York has in- creased its capital resources to $12,- 500,000 in a little over two years, we face an economic fact of importance. When we reaiize in the thirty odd labor banks in America there are capital resources of over $150,000,- 000 we face an economic fact of the first significance, When, in addition, we include in REPORT SEAMEN STILL STRIKING IN AUSTRALIA Meeting with Owners Ends in Failure By W. FRANCIS AHERN. SYDNEY, Australia—(FP)—There is no change in the strike of British seamen in Australian ports. A con- ference between the shipowners and the seamen’s strike committee Sept. 23 failed, The seamen on strike refuse to consider any proposal unless the shipowners agree to no victimization, immediate release of imprisoned strik- ers, payment at old rates for the pe- riod of the strike, payment of the old rate prior to the reduction of $5 per month, until their return to home Ports in the United Kingdom, On Sept. 15 nearly 60 vessels were tied up in Australian ports. The idle tonnage totals 481,883, while 5,000 seamen are on strike. Thirteen ves- sels with a tonnage of 102,644 are tied up in New Zealand ports. The Australian agents of the Shipping Combine have had about 1,000 seamen sent to jail for short terms of imprisonment, but in some cases the men have ‘been harshly dealt with, ; The Australian unionists are feed- ing the strikers. In most cases the men have been lodged in the homes of unionists, while the remainder are quartered in union halls, Australian unionists have subséribed large relief funds, ‘ \ Aims to Bréak Speed Record ~ CALCUTTA, Oct. 29.—Commander de Pinedo, Italian aviator who having flown from Rome to Tokio is now Arbitration Proven Failure, New Zealand Labor Builds Unions WELLINGTON, New Zealand— (FP)—Throughout New Zealand there is discontent among the wage work- ers, organized and unorganized. This is due to bad conditions of employ- ment and low wages. The minimum wage, just increased by 2 cents per hour, now is $19.36, $20.24, and $21.12 for a 44, 46, and 48-hour week. Recently the New Zealand Ailiance of Labor demanded a higher basic wage, but the government refused to appoint a commission, contending that a higher basic wage was not workable. Since arbitration seems to have failed them, the New Zealand workers are devoting more attention to organization on industrial lines. | Austrian Workers in Mood for Strikes; Big Vote in Federal Union VIENNA—(FP)—A wave of strikes involving 30,000 workers has hit Austria. Most of the strikers are metal workers, but further strikes or lockouts are anticipated, The ballot of the federal employes, who number 94,000, showed a record vote and a majority of 92.8% in favor of a strike, The hotel workers and the food work- ers generally have started agitation for wage incre: British Imperialism Mobilizes Its Press MBLBOURNE—(FP)—Aristocratic owners of influential tory newspapers in Britain and the dominions are now in Australia to attend the empire press conference at Melbourne. No-+ minally a conference to improve news- gathering, bee Mt press confer- ence is in reality an imperialist pro) ganda stunt > ue actuating the purveyors of | By William F. Dunne “this picture the vast increase in savings by workingmen In the past ten years which amount to over ten billions of dollars distributed among more than 25,000,000 workers, we witness another economic fact of the first importance, And, if we begin to examine the distribution of life insurance poll- cies we discover according to one authority that more than two-thirds of these are held by wage earners, which means that of the total amount of 83 billions of dollars of insurance for more than 60 billions, that two-thirds are held by workers. As a noted economist has pointed out, this amount is greater than the estimated wealth of our country in | 1890, Taken with the increases in |. building and loan associations, and you are facing an economic fact of an importance equalled perhaps on- ly by the vast diffusion in stock ownership which today in this country represents many hundreds of millions of dollars. BSERVERS in attendance at Atlantic City report that as the above juicy figures rolled from the lips of Spencer Miller, Jr. in an ecs- tatic stream, a joyous moan, simil to that heard during the period of the religious orgasm at a methodist camp- meeting, arose from the convention, while the labor officials present, with drooling mouths, followed the words of the speaker, They had a vision of entering the combination of the cave of Monte Cristo and King Solomon's mines which he pictured and which the magic key of class collaboration would open, HAT this is held by Spencer Miller, Jr., avatar of official A. F. of L. policy, to be the key to the solution of the problem of the rela- tionship of capital and labor which has remained unsolved by weaker in- tellects, is shown with convincing {completeness by his quotation from @ recent work on the subject by Prof. Carver, Said the intellectual leader of the | A. F. of L. in speaking of the ad- vances of labor banking, labor insur- ance schemes, the B. & O. plan, etc. Indeed, so significant is this whole economic change that it has been Properly characterized as an econ- omic revolution by students of our economic life. Professor Carver in a recent illuminating discussion of this matter writes: “The only economic revolution now under way is going on in the United States. It is a revolution that Is to wipe out the distinction between laborers and capitalists by making laborers their own capital- ists and by compelling most cap- italists to become laborers of one kind or another, because not many of them will be able to live on re turns from capital alone. This is something new in the history of the world.” This higher strategy of American labor based on the solid ground of capital ownership represents the de- termination of labor in this coun- try. “NOT TO WAGE A CLASS WAR, BUT TO CONQUER THE CIRCUMSTANCES THAT GIVE RISE TO CLASS WARFARE.” (Emphasis Mine—W. F. D.) destroy the circumstances that give rise to class warfare without waging a class war impresses we feebler spirits as a task that most of us would approach with some fear and trembling. But to the giant in- tellects of the A. F. of L. Workers’ | Education Bureau its presents no difficulties at all. And why? Because, stripped of all the balder- dash of the middle class pseudo- economists who cluster around the pay-windows of the A. F. of L. unions, the class struggle is to be liquidated by the surrender of the workers to the bosses. This is their goal, AS Lenin said of Kautsky and his followers: “We” recognize the class war, as it is recognized by the liberais: that is, without the overthrow of the bourgeoise. We have dealt above with what might be termed the A. F. of L. bureaucracy’s theoretical justifica- tion of their class collaboration policy. That it is really a system of thought propagated consciously is shown by the report of the representative of the Workers’ Education Bureau. Its practical application will shown in the next article. (To be concluded) a be Three Something Different in the Line of Labor Banks—Think It Over! PARIS—(FP)—The banks is the Workers and Peasants bank founded in Paris by the French Communist party. It has a capital of 8,000,000 francs (1 franc, 5c.) and is solely for financing labor organizations and enterprises. “The Workers and Peasants bank,” says l'Humanite, official Communist daily, “will render useful service in aiding zations, cooperatives, labor temp! c. to bring about the Communist regime which will put am end to capitalist disorder and anar- chy.” in labor latest to be used labor o says Marcel Cachin, Communist leader, “usually evokes the idea of super-exploitation, speculation, indirect theft; and the use made by cat bankers of the The word ‘bank’,” alis' money et 1 to them thoroughly justifies th evil reputation,” He bases his plea for support of the new labor bank on an exposition of the stranglehold over enterprise which the control of credit gives to the cap- italists. ‘JUST ENOUGH TO BUY PAPER FOR FRIDAY! Lowest Mark Reached in Campaign Scarcely enough to buy print paper for one day, but nevertheless repre senting faithful effort on the part of those militants contributing, Thurs day’s remittances to save The DAILY WORKER totalled only $176.60. This is about the least amount received in a single day since the dange: signal went out. The following comrades and Work- ers Party branches donated, many of, them for the second or third time: Gary, Ind., Shop Nucleus. $11.65 A. Siperstein, Chicago, Ill. 1.00 W. W. Denton, Ann Harbor, Mich. 4.00 English .. Los Angeles, Cal. 9 Jos. Kessler, Suyuamish, Mich. 1.50 John Lee, West Duluth, Minn. 1.00 BE. M. T., Chicago, Il. 1.00 W. B. Landell, Spririgfield, O. 2.00 I. Kettula, Finlayson, Minn 2.00 Steve Vukas, Jeannette, Pa. 3.00 Geé. Gravitt, Bloomville, W 7.00 Russian Br. 2, W. P., Detroit, Mich. ... - 10.00 Russian Br. 3, W. P., Detroit, Mich. .., we» 12.00 A. E. Johnson, Warren, Pa. 2.00 Anthony Korbel, Endicott, N. Y. 2.00 Lettish Br., W. P., ¢ ago, IIL... 22.00 Rose Kuntz, Bronx, N. Y... 10.00 City Central Committee, W. P., Bellaire, O. ec.ccsese. 5.00 E. Karsten, Long Island. Y 1.00 East Side Eng., W. P., Cleve- land, O. 6.00 I. Adis, Newark, J. 5.00 Alameda County, English Br, W. P., Gakiland, Cal... « 14,00 Finnish Br., W. P., Bellevill Ukrainian Br. N. J,’ 5.00 English Br. Wash. 17.50 J. Katchinar, Wateroliet, } 2.00 Alexander Spence, Cleveland, Ohio .... Today’s total . 176.60 Previously reported . 15,948.08 Total to date «$16,124.68 tm To Save THE DAILY WORKER BUY A ROLL OF PRINT PAPER! Mail Donations to the DAILY WORKER RMSCUE FUND, 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill. Name: SEAte: sss HERE ARE FUNDS TO BUY PAPER FOR OUR DAILY AO. eed a ere et nn nner