The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 13, 1925, Page 6

Page Six THE DAILY WORKER THE DAILY WORKER Published by the 1113 W, Washington Blvd., SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail (in Chicago only): $8.00 per year $2.50 three months THE DAILY WORKE J. LOUIS WILLIAM F. D MORITZ J. $4.50 six months DAIL Y WORKER PUBLISHING CO Chicago, ml Phone Monroe 4712 | By mail (outside of Chicago): | $6.00 per vear $3.50 six months } $2.00 three mouths Address all mail and make out checks to 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Ilinois LOE Business Manager Entered as secondcl: cago, IIL, 3s mail September under the act of March 38, 21, ‘1923, at the post-oflice at Chi- 1879. Gia 290 sing rates on ‘ed.dcaniaabadiocs which any neath him. Another Recruit pm Morgan Is there no depth of depravity to which the officialdom of the American Federation of Labor cannot sink? Just when-we reconcile ourselves to accepting some nauseating event as the lowest level in human being can grovel, some other offieial crawls be- The latest belly-crawling stunt is that of Matthew Woll, vice- president of the Ameri n Federation of Labor, who horned in on the Italian debt controversy with the stupid declaration that Amerita furnished money to the allies in place of men who should have gone to the front, but were not yet ready. He argues for a modification or cancellation of debts, thus enabling the fascist’ tyranny of Mus- solini to re-establish its credit stem. He states that Italy and France should not be deprived of the ability to pay international obligations in the future, thru injury now to their productive power and their currency. Borah, stating that He engages in an ignorant attack upon Senator that representative of industrial capital is responsible for enmity against European peoples by demanding pay- ment of debts. We have had occasion before to stigmatize the role of Borah as the spokesman of the isolation policy of the small industrialists, a| class that is doomed to failure. That is neither here nor there in the consideration of the new role of Matt Woll. argument is the open and brazen formulation of the identical policy of Secretary of the Treasury Mellon, Secretary of Commerce Hoover, President Coolidge, and the House of Morgan. The Italian debt is based upon liberty bonds sold to the public Woll’s in this country. stand the loss. The bonds can be deflated and their holders will But the Italy of Mussolini must be given an op- portunity to re-establish its credit so that the plethora of gold flow- ing into the hands of the imperialist despots of this country can be reinvested in that country to a little longer stem the rising tide of the proletarian revolution. This is the same Woll who berates the Communists with the legend that they are subsidized by Russia. His scope.of action has now been broadened. Long a betrayer of the organized and unorgan- ized workers of this country he now tries to serve his masters as a new recruit to their foreign propaganda department. the International Tailoring company. the strikers go back in a united bloc as victors. The Amalgamated Victory The determined rank and file of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers’ Union is to be congratulated for its notable triumph over After a 19-week struggle The strike was provoked by the efforts of the International concern to destroy the union. This large company refused to consider the demands of the tailors or recognize their union. There was but one weapon available against such an attempt—the strike. Always ready to play the debasing role of scabs in order to crush the Amalgamated, the United Garment Workers, affiliated with the A. F. of L. and a mere travesty on unionism, tried to fill the places of the strikers. The usual injunction was issued against the strikers, but the injunction was ignored and the picketing of the plant continued. In the early days of the strike the Chicago Federation of Labor went on record supporting it and protesting against the action of the United Garment Workers. William Green, president of the A. F. of L., informed Fitz secpetary of the Chic go Feder: rick and Nockels, respectively president and ation, that the Amalgamated was con- sidered a dual union and it was the duty of the Chicago Federation to support the United. Instead of exposing the vile role of Green, the president of the Chicago Federation, following his usual policy of truckling to every reactionary whim of the labor lieutenants of came out with a statement upholding the Green policy. Even this repudiation did not dampen the ardor of the strikers. It only made them more determined than ever. With the support of other Amalgamated locals and of the left elements in the trade unions the workers continued the struggle and their triumph is a deserved rebuke to the labor fakers as well as to the International capitalism, Tailoring éompany. DatLy Wor THe congratulates them on their victory as an achievement that vindicates their claim to serve the interests of the workers in the men’s tailoring industry in Chicago, Politics in the I. W. W. Reports of the Industrial Workers of the World convention reyeal that in a subordinate industrial union convention a proposal was made that the I. W. W. should declare that it is “primarily a revolutionary organization and only secondarily a labor union.” A resolutions committee, on which Harrison George chanced to be elected, proposed the substitute that “there is Posi conflict between proletarian revolution and industrial unionism.” The substitute was, adopted. But the general convention turned thumbs down on this measure which contains the essence of a wise correction of a glaring mistake in I. W. W. theory—the idea that there is some rigid dividing line between “polities”. and “economics” and the consequent leaning to one side or another of the individual wobbly and sétting off of two functions and forms of organization as necessarily hostile. informed workers. The one who proposed that the I. W. W. was “primarily” a revolutionary organization actually wants it to be a political party, for what is it if it isn’t a labor union? It seems queer, but true, that the T. W. W. is turning away from industrial unionism. A reso- lution before the convention provides for abolishing the small in- dustrial unions for a “recruiting union”—which is a political or- ganization in reality. Dialectics is evidently foreign to these otherwise This should be killed. We hope the conven- tion will kill it, even tho they have to agree with Harrison George, who sharply opposed it in the lower body. The I. W. W. preamble says the industrial unions must be organ- ized “not only for the everyday struggle... . but also to carry on production when capitalism shall have been overthrown.” Who's go- ing to do the overthrowing? The worker who wants the I. W. W. to be a political party says “the economic organization,” but tries 10 do away ) industrial unions. The ~ 1s oo 8 why there is “no sai galone) Our Bourgeois Labor Leaders T ig a favorite form of attack upon the Communists, that we are guilty of “slander” against the trade union officials. But no “slander” can be such complete proof of the unfitness of these officials to direct the labor movement as is the information which these officials furnish about them- selves. For out of the financial re- ports of the labor bureaucrats comes the irrefutable proof that these men have been completely divorced from the working class. They live like-cap- italists, they eat like capitalists, they act like capitalists, they draw in- comes that compare very favorably with the capitalists. Im fact they have become capitalists, of a lower. and servile order, and they become. more so each day. One of the worst features of this situation is that these officials have. convinced the labor movement that it is a “normal” and correct order-of af- fairs. So much so, that the unions regularly and as a matter of course pay salaries to these officials which alone would make them bourgeois. The official salaries in the labor move- Coolidge’s cabinet. Tie annual pay- checks of Andrew Mellon, sécretary of the treasury, and Herbert, Hoover, sec- retary of commerce, combined woyld still fall short by $1,000 of that of Mr. Prenter. The salary of the governor of South Dakota, for eight years, would still be less than Prenter’s sal- ary for one year. Prenter’s salary is two-and-one-half times that of the gov- ernors of Massachusetts, of New York, of Pennsylvania, and of Ohio, and more than twice as much as that of the governor of Illinois. These are | ba road dquipwent nanafacturing con- cern, he draws8’a salary from the union of $14,000 per annum. ‘This puts him in a salary-class above the presi- dential cabinet members of the U. S. government, higher than all the state governors, and 40 per cent more than the highest officers of the U. S. army and nayy. Numerous of the national labor leaders are in the $10,000 per year category. Among the most prominent are the presidents of the railway clerks, the railroad conductors, the the greatest and richest states in America, It would require a capital of more than half a million dollars, invested in government bonds to pro- duce the income that Pre’ br receives from the union. ND how about the other big-bugs of the Igbor movement? There is William Green. He in- herited from Samuel Gompers not only the title of president of the American Federation of Labor. He also took over an annual salary of $12,000. This is the same amount that is paid by the U. S. government fo the ment compete successfully with the of-| members of the president’s cabinet. It ficial salaries of the capitalist. govern-| is the same as that of the governor of ment, national as well as state. | et us examine the comparative fi- nancial incomes of the labor lead-| ers and cabinet members, governors, | army Officers, etc.: | There-is, for example, hood of Locomotive Engineers. The} president of this organization, William | B. Prenter, receives a salary of] $25,000 per year. | This is more than the combined sal- aries of two members of President | Illinois. the Brother- | It is greater than the salary of any of the other governors of the 48 states in the United States. It is four times the salary of the governor of South Dakota. It is 20 per cent more than the salaries of admirals in the U. S. navy and of generals in the U. S. army. Then there is William G. Lee, head of the Brotherhood of Railroad Train- men. Not content with his private position as president of a great rail- bricklayers, the street railway em- ployes, and the secretaries of the A. ©. of L., the locomotive engineers, and the trainmen, Only a small handful of the most select capitalist govern- ment officials ‘are ina salary-class above these prosperous labor leaders. ‘AGES of workers in industry are being steadily reduced. Not so the salaries of our labor union offici- als. There is the case, for example, of Daniel Tobin, president of the Teamster’s Union. Up until Septem- ber this year Tobin received a nig- gardly $9,000 per year. But at the Seattle convention, this salary was raised, in appreciation» that Tobin was “just as good,’ as His colleagues, to $15,000. This little “appreciation” placed Tobin ahead of all the heads of the U. S, government except Coo- lidge, considerably ahead of the highest-paid state governors, and 50 per cent higher than the leading offic- ers of the U. S. army and navy, Many local officials receive even higher rewards than the national leaders. We are not, of course, re- ferring to illicit and secret rewards for service rendered that come from a xe he camp of the class enemy. That .s another question entirely, Beside he point of this discussion, also, is che matter of investments in real es- tate and industrial, securities, which often make millionaires of even the most “respectable” leaders (such as the. deceased John Mitchell of the miners’ union). But such a man as Brindell, of the New York building trades, in addition to his illegal activ- ities, drew a strictly legal salary of $18,000 per annum. It may be imagined by some that this, repeated for a number of other examples, would exhaust the story, But no. Salary is only the beginning. in addition, each of these aristocrats received a nice fat expense account.” This account ranges im» size from a tew thousand per year, to tens and even hundreds of thotsands. An example, taken at random ja one of the smaller unions: ‘In thé re- vort of the Sheet Metal Workers’ Union to ythe 1924 convention, it is shown, that President,Hynes received during the year, in addition to salary of $17,875, expense money to the amoumt of $24,070.74, or a total of more than fifty thousand dollars. Byven thé minor officials do not fare so badly in the matter of expense ac. counts, When they are “on the road” they receive from $8 to $25 per day extra. It is common law that a-trav- eling official must have the best there is to be purchased without having to dig into his “regular” income. And the “best,” in these post-Volstead days, costs a lot of money. EHIND these “millionaire in- comes” paid to these “labor lead- ers” out of the dues of the member- By Earl R. Browder ship, there is quite a definite theory. Briefly stated, it is that the unions must pay thé officialy enough money to keep them “loyal” so that the gen-' erous offers of the capitalists may not tempt them. This theory found class- ic expression in the words of John L. Lewis of the Miners’ Union, when he pleaded for an increase in salary be- fore the Indianapolis convention of 1921. Lewis said. “Mine superintendents are paid thruout the central competitive field and other substantial mining districts amounts nearly equal that paid your International ‘vice-president and your secretary. Your officers have to deal with these men. they are ex- pected to compete with them in the industrial field, and surely if you are going to regard efficiency and loyalty, diligence and energy, you will at least accord them the treatment they ‘would receive if they worked for a Sage! company.” In short, the labor unions are told chat they must bid against the capi- talists for the services of their “lead- ers.” And inasmuch as the American capitalists are so rick, and have such a keen appetite for “labor leaders,” it has followed that the salaries of the officials have reached phenomenal heights. These are the conditions and the ideology which have created of .the labor officialdom of America .a very definite bourgeois sub-class, divorced from the working class in almost every respect, and functioning by its, very nature as the ideal “labor NMeu- tenants of the capitalist. class.” HELP SAVE THE DAILY WORKER! Workers Party and Young Workers League to Combat “Education” Week (Continued from page 1) Monday, Nov. 16, “Constitutional Day” The constitution is the bulwark of capitalist rule and of the oppression of the workers. 1. The constitution protects and maintains the bosses in their exploit- ation and oppression of the workers. 2. The constitution suppresses every attempt of the workers to get better conditions and to free them- selves. (Class war prisoners in Amer- ica, ete.) 3. The workers must overthrow the rule of the capitalist maintained by the constitution and establish a workers’ and farmers’ government as in Russia. Slogans. Free the class war prisoners! Down with the fake justice and equality of the capitalists! - Against the rule of the bosses! Long live Soviet Russia where the workers rule! Defend the Soviet Union from the attacks of the imperialists! For the rule of the workers—a workers’ and farmers’ government in America! Join the Workers Party! Join the Young Workers’ (Commun- ist) League! Join the Young Pioneers of Amer- ica! Tuesday, Nov. 17, “Patriotism Day” Patriotism means slavery and obe- dience to the bosses; internationa! solidarity of the workers is the road to freedom. 1. Patriotism is loyalty to the bosses who are the workers’ worst enemies. 2. Patriotism means fighting for the bosses and against your brothers and fellow-workers of other countries all for greater profits for the bosses. Patriotism means war, death, destruc- tion, poverty and starvation for the workers; wealth, luxury, and power for the bosses. 3. The American legion (which is helping to promote American Educa- tion Week) is a tool of’ the bosses to (Communist) spread patriotism and militarism and to be mobilized against the workers in their struggle. 4. The boy scouts are organized by and for the bosses. They poison the minds of the workers’ children and make them into obedient wage-slaves and patriotic citizens; they are used against the workers in their strug- gles; they are used to draw workers’ children into the capitalist armies to fight for the bosses. 5. International solidarity is. the union of all workers and oppressed masses of the earth for the struggle against capitalism and imperialism. In this struggle lies the road to the emancipation of the workers. 6. International solidarity means the common struggle of all toilers, for their common interests. The toilers of all lands must unite to defend the Soviet Union, the republic of the, Rus- sian workers and peasants. 7. The duty of every worker, young worker, and working class child is to stand shoulder to shoulder with their fellow workers in. the struggle against the bosses, Slogans. A united front of labor! the world trade For a labor party! War against capitalist wars! ae with capitalist militarism! n with the American legion! All workers’ children out of the boy scouts—into the Young Pioneers! For the defense and recognition of the Soviet Union! Join Unity of union movement! Party! i) tone Ooo Workers’ tt” Join the Young Pioneers of Amer- ica! Wed., Nov. 18, “School and Teachers’ Day.” Schools are the instruments of the bosses to poison the minds of the working class children. 1. Schools are used by the capital- ists to turn the children into good wage slaves and patriots. Workers must fight against the capitalist, con- trol of the schools. 2. Soviet Russia, the schools are in the hands of the workers and are used in the interests of the working class to bring up the children in the spirit of the workers revolution. 3. Children of the rieh: have the best of school conditions; the work- ers’ children go to school under the worst of conditions, t 4. Millions of. children in America cannot get any, education at all be- cause they have to work their lives away to grind out prefits for the bosses. tf 5. Millions of children. in ‘America cannot get any, education under prop- er conditions because their worker parents are too poor to, clothe and feed them properly. Dog 6. Teachers are workers exploited and oppressed by the ¢apitalists; teachers must not let themselves be used to poison the minds of ka work- ers’ children. 7. The workers must see to it that their children grow up into militant and conscious fighters for: the or ariat. Slogans. v Out with the capitalist .anti-labor doison propaganda from the schools! | f; Proletarian parents councils to fight capitalist domination of the schools! Defend the Soviet Union! ‘The organization of the teacherg to fight the bosses! Against rotten school conditions for workers’ children! Abolish child labor! State maintenance of school chil- dren under workers’ control and su- pervision! Every worker a member of the Workers (Communist) Party! Every young worker a member of the Young Workers’ (Communist) League! Every working class child a mem- ber of the Young Poineers of Amer- ica! Thursday, Nov. 19, “Conservation and Thrift Day.” The natural resources of this coun- tgy should belong to the toilers; they have been stolen by the capitalists. +.The conservation of workers’ demands the abolition of child labor and better conditions for young workérs. It demands the abolition of capital- ist militarism and war. Thrift is a delusion and mockery. for the workers. They have nothing to save. 1. The “conservation of natural re- sources” means the conservation of the property of the capitalists—stol- en from the toilers. The workers must seize their stolen resources back from the capitalists. 2. The workers must see that their power is conserved. Children must lives of the) not be crippled and stunted mentally and physically to the profit of the bosses. Young workers must not be destroyed thru the intolerable condi- tions of life and work. The flower of the-working class must not be de- stroyed in capitalist wars to the in, Jj terest of the bosses. 8. Under capitalism children and young workers always suffer worst rom any attack of the bosses. They always have to endure the lowest con- ditions and the worst of treatment. 4. Under workers’ rule in Russia children and young workers have the best there is. All improvement in the lot of the workers brings them the most immediate and the greatest benefits. No child labor exists in Russia. The 5-day week and the 6-hour day for young workers exists in Rus- sia. The young workers have the greatest opportunities for cultural and political development. 5. “Work and save” is a mockery for the workers, The harder the work- ers toil the less they get and the more the bosses get. The toil of the workers means the wealth of the bosses. 6. “Vhrift spells prosperity” is a delusion for the workers. It makes them believe that they can be saved from their miserable conditions thru thrift. Only thru overthrowing the bosses thru the proletarian revolu- tion, can the workers free themselves. Slogans. The natural resources belong to the toilers—away with the thieves, the capitalists! Abolish child labor! A 5-day week and a 6-hour day for the young workers! Long: live Soviet Russia—the work- ers’ republic! Defend the Soviet Union against the attacks of imper- ialism! Down with capitalist militarism and war! The products of the workers’ toil to the workers! Away with the para- sites! Down with capitalism! Join the Workers (Communist) Party! Join the Young Workers’ (Commun- ist) League! Join the Young Pioneers of .Amer- ica! Friday, Nov. 19, “Know Your School Day,” The American schools are the strongholds of reaction. - .1. The American schools are fac- tories for turning out blind, obedient slaves of the bosses. 2, The platoon system (Gary sys- tem, etc.) is a scheme for producing machine-like unthinking and uncom- plaining workers at a lower cost to the masters. It is a reactionary The New Defender of Germany British Foreign, Minister Chamberlain, “The Protecting Angel,” defending Stresemann, Ger- the Workers (Communist) | man minister of fofeign affairs, from the evil influence of Chicherin, the Soviet commissar of foreign affairs. All the gaa aim are nervously discomforted by il visit Chichetin paid to Germany. ae ih . move Yin educational methods and°is a danger to the workers. 3. The schools are centers for the propagation of reactionary supersti- tion and religious dope (religious in- struction in the schools, anti-evolu- tion teachings, etc.) J 4. In Soviet Russia, the schools are used for scientific and political en- lightment of the’ masses. . 5. The workers must fight against the public schools being centers of reaction. Slogans. Out with the capitalist anti-labor propaganda from.the schools! Out with the religious dope from the schools! Down with the reactionary platoon system (Gary system)! Better schools and school conditions for . working class children! Schools under super- vision of proletarian parents’ councils. Defend the Soviet Union! Prolet- arian parents’ councils to fight capi- talist domination of the schools! Join the Workers (Communist) Party! Join the Young Workers’ (Commun- ist) League! Join the Young Pioneers of Amér- ica! Saturday, Nov. 20, “Community and Health Day.” Service to the working class ig the highest duty of every worker, Brutal capitalist oppression and ex- ploitation destroys the health and life of the working masses. 1, Equality of opportunity is im- possible when there are rich and poor, bosses and workers, masters and slaves. The rule of the bas ease must be destroyed. 2. “Health” talk to workers’ chil- dren is a mockery when capitalism condemns the whole working class, especially the children, to the most miserable and unhealthful conditions. 3. In workers’ Russia the first re- gard is for the health and develop- . ment of the workers’ children and young workers. Slogans, Away with the capitalist. parasites! Only thru the struggle of the work- ers to overthrow capitalism can toler: able conditions be obtained for the workers’ children and the young workers! Abolish child laber! Long live Soviet Russia, the _work. ers’ republic! Defend the Soviet Union against the imperialists! dew The poor farmer youth must stand side by side with the young industrial workers in the ranks of the Young Workers (Communist) League!» Join the Young Workers (Commun- ist) League! f ype the ‘Young Plousere of Amer. ical Sunday, Nov. 21, “For esd and Country Day.” © Pip te Religion, capitalist morality,® and capitalist education are mainstays of capitalist rule. » bith 1. Religion is opium for the masses —the church and priests are tools. of the bosses! phys 2, Capitalist morality and. capital- ist education help to make the work- ers obedient slaves! ist rely on their 3. The workers mi own strength—on the strength of heed working class! Slogans, Down with religion—opium for the masses! Out with the religious dope. from the schools! A class conscious and inititane wails ing class must be victorious! Down with capitalism! Long live the workers’ and fi government in America! £ ve Join the Workers. (Communist) Party! Ast) League! —oin Dasa Ploneate of Join the Young ‘Workers — ( \