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

« +) o& ahamnliibiesitick bebe siahicesd beeeslaeapesiemn ts hoo ele — Page Four THE DAILY WORKER Published by the DAILY WORKHR PUBLISHING CO. 1118 W, Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill, Phone Monroe 4712 iE SRN RE SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mall (in Chicago only)! By mall (outside of Chicago): $8.00 per year $4.50 six months $6.00 per year $3.50 six months $2.50 three months $2.00 three months Address all-mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 1113 W.. Washington Bivd., Chleago, Ilinols J, LOUIS BNGDAHL WILLIAM F, DUNNE MORIT2 J, LOBB... tered as second-class mall September 21, 1923, at the post-office at Chi- cago, Ill, under the act of March 8, 1879, sesaveesserarsssrssrreeesssecees ICICOPS: ..Business Manager Advertising rates on application. eo — . . Seventy-Five Per Cent Cancellation When Secretary-of the Treasury Mellon announced on Thursday that the Italian debt agreement was the most liberal that had been granted any debtor nation, his language was too reserved. .The terms of the settlement amount to/a 75% cancellation, counting interest, << 290 aif , of the entire amount due his country. Just as we'predicted, the House of Morgan secures’ domination of Italy and stands back of the Mussolini tyranny. On the field of in- ternational polities it means that Italy, like France, is to be an ally of this country.in its world-wide struggle against Great:Britain. Thru this agréement the taxpayers of the United States make up the difference between what Italy was originally supposed ‘to pay and what she will pay.’'The Italian debt was floated: by ‘money ‘ob- tained from the sale of liberty bonds during the world: war: These bonds are supposed to draw interest of four per cent guafanteed by the United States government. Italy has sixty-two years in which to pay her debt, now reduced to 25% of the original, but during those 62 years the American government will have to pay seventy-five per cont more to the holderg..of liberty bonds than is collected from Italy. That is the theory of the thing. In practice these bonds will be beaten down on the exchanges to such a degree that the small holders will unload them and Morgan will buy them and collect the interest from the government. Hence, altho the terms to Italy seem, In the words of Mellon, “most liberal,” the House of Morgan will lose nothing. It is the taxpayers who will bear-the burden, Thus the debt burden is removed from the Italy of Mussolini and placed upon the United States. A larger part than formerly of the surplus derived from the exploitation of labor will flow into the hands of Morgan. In the last analysis it means that the workers of the United States who fought the war will be compelled to slave still harder in.order that Morgan’s investments in Italy may be sectred and that Mus- solini may obtain the credits necessary to enable him to coritinue crushing the working class of that country. It also means that ere long American industries will face a slowing, down of production as commodities produced by the Morganized industries of Italy enter the world market in huge quantities. Practical results for imperialism are already realized. While the terms are so easy that Italy only needs to pay $5,000,000 per year for the next five years, the House of Morgan, according to Wall Street advices in the capitalist press, is preparing to float a $100,- 900,000 loan to the Italian government, and at least $50,000,000 worth of industrial bonds to shortly follow. So, by paying the mere bagatelle of $5,000,000, Italy gets from Morgan the sum of $150,000,- 000, or thirty times the sum paid. When bank capital penetrates a nation the object is not to realize the principal invested, but to obtain interest and profits forever. Already Wall Street dominates the Italian government and with the debt settlement now realized the complete domination of American finance capital over all Itdlian industry will soon also be realized. The political reflex of the settlement in Italy was instantaneous, No sooner had advices that the settlement was a greed upon reached Rome than the most fierce suppression was resumed and new laws are being enacted that extend the power of Mussolini to the point of absolutism. ; : : The settlement embraces a period of 62 years. To the revolution ist this is ironic, for the working class of both the United States and Italy—and the rest of the world—will write finis to the-rule of the Mussolinis and Morgans long before that time has expired. Berry Heard From George L. Berry, dress parade major, and head of his personally conducted International Printing Pressmen’s and Assistants’ Union, is perfectly at home among the yokels of the fundamentalist belt. From his natiye hearth in Tennessee he delivered a public:harrangue at Morristown, on Armistice Day. This army officer and fascist, who did not fight, paid lip service to those privates who served as cannon fodder and died on soil that he feared to tread. Amidst the piffle with which he regaled the fundamentalists, the major didn’t forget to recite his monolog against the vanguard of the labor movement that has exposed him so thoroly that even Tammany’s candidates issue special letters to disassociate themselves from him. Said Berry: “There is no wealth in the mere accumulation of moneys, Wealth is in one’s ability to contribute to and enlighten a happy civilization. It would (sic)-seem to me this is fundamental and is representative of the real antidote to autocracy and will do much to stiffie the / growth of Communism.” Berry’s- recommendation for dealing with Communists is “to apply the same remedy as it applied to the deserter in time’ of war.” In fact Berry wants the government to treat rebels against its despotism in the same way as he treats opponents of his autocracy i the Pressmen’s Union. The difference being that the government would at one fell stroke murder the Communists, instead of trying to deprive them of a means of livelihood by filling their Places with union scabs as does the major. The statement of Berry that mere accumulation of money is not wealth, can be taken for what it is worth by those who know Berry’s history. The member's of, local unions whose treasuries he has pil- laged are the best judges of Berry’s attitude toward this question. If wealth is in one’s ability to.“contribute to enlighten a happy civili- zation,” Berry would be a bedraggled pauper. His contribution to anything except devising new methods of betraying the working class being absolutely nit. ‘ It is laughable to hear this capitalist lackey talk of antidotes to |) autocracy, He fears Communism because he knows the growing in- fluence of Communists in the American labor movement means the|| end of his regime, when he will have to depend for pay upon the capitalist class that he serves, instead of bludgeoning dues oyt of pressmen who are so unfortunate as to find themselves under his despotism. The graduates of the Ann Arbor naval academy must receive training in plain and faney perjury, if the testimony of Mra. Lands- downe, widow of théJate commander of the wrecked Shenandoah, is correct. <a 0 THE DAILY sWORKER PROGRESSIVE MINERS DEMAND UNEMPLOYMENT RELIEF WITH A SIX-HOUR DAY, FIVE-DAY WEEK The following is the eleventh of a series of twelve articles on the great anthracite strike, now going on for two and a half months, involv- ing 158,000 miners. The present article deals with the program of the Progressive Miners’ Committee, of which Alex Reid, author of the articles, is the secretary. ee e@ e By ALEX REID, (Secretary of the Progressive Miners’ Committee.) ARTICLE XI. } We come now to. the balance of the progressive miners’ pro- gram, every point of which was, at one time or other, one of the major demands of the United Mine Workers of America. At the miners’ conyention in Cleveland in 1919, John L. Lewis said: “Recognizing that unemployment is-a constant threat and menace to the security, happiness and prosperity of the miners of the United States, which unemployment is created by the over-development of the mining industry, we recommend and declare for a six-hour day, five-day week and recommend that the full power and influence of thes+—— ‘aa toaitain tt ena” "| {MEW YORK-BOUND TRAN ee. courention, Peragton,| | ORASHES INTO EXPRESS ON WAY TO WASHINGTON Since the convention, Farrington, president of the Illinois miners has NEW YORK, Nov. 13.—Train No. 6 of the Pennsylvania railroad, alterpately indorsed and repudiated that policy and at Peoria, in the Illi- nois Miners’ convention in 1924, Will- iam Green, now the president of the American Federation of Labor, said,| bound from St. Louis to New York, “I have always felt that our propos:1| crashed into the rear end of the for a shorter work day in the coal] Washington express, during heavy mines of the country offered at least| fog two miles west of Monhouth a partial solution of this unemploy-} Junction, N, J., killing a number of ment problem.” And again Green| passengers and critically injuring stated, “Our proposition for a shorter} More than a dozen. work day is offered in good faith as The heavy locomotive of Train a partial solution of this problem of| No. 6 crashed into the rear sleeper unemployment.” of the Washington express and trap- But this is all changed now, John| ped thi in the car. The Pullman L, Lewis has reached the presidency| ¢am ahead of this was also wrecked. of the United Mine Workers and| Only four of the 19 in the last car Green dines in Wall Street. No thore| ¢S8¢aped injury. A number of cas- do they mention the six-hour day or| Ualties resulted in the car ahead. five-day week, but on the contrary, Rescue parties were jmmediately théir.gang aids im jailing, persecut-| Organized in Newark, Jersey City, Trenton and New Brunswick and the injured that were first taken from the wreck ‘were. rushed to Trenton and New Brunswick, ing, and prosecuting any worker that mentions it. The Farrington gang, and the Cap- pellini fakers are expelling from the union any and all, that fight for those policies, but the progressive miners still have the six-hour day and five- day week high up on their program, and will carry their program to vic- tory in spite of all the Greens, Lewis- es, Farringtons, Cappellinis, and jails in America, It is very interesting to see how the Lewis machine have tried to smother this program and substitute their pet remedy for unemployment. management would eliminate over 75 per cent of lost time with proper efficiency management. Seventy-five per cent of falls would be eliminated if proper material was delivered and used in time. There is no excuse for gas being the cause of unemployment, but as long as the operators have nothing tc pay for this loss of time and the min- er is the only victim, nothing will be Squeeze Out 200,000. They propose regular employment done to remedy it. The miners know what it means to them, it is one of thé greatest men- aces to existence, and the progressive miners will fight on for a minimim wage, in spite of thecoal companies and Lewis’ opposition. Unemployment _ Benefits. The progressive miners demand un- employment benefits. We hold the for fifty per cent of the miners at the expense of total unemployment to the remaining fifty per cent. Lewis states, “There are over two hundred thousand too many miners in the in- dustry.” ' His remedy is to squeeze out this two hundred thousand. He does not State where this two hundred thou- sand will receive’ employment. He does not'state that évery industry in America has its surplus labor supply, that workers from all industries are walking the streef® seeking employ- ment and none to be found. He does not make any mention of too many officers, with their padded expenses, but we know there have been none of the upper strata of la- bor squeezed out, and nothing has been said in that connection. Equalize Work. The progressive miners deny that a squeezing out of coal diggers is nec- essary to the stabilization of the in- dustry. Every miner is a part of the industry. Every miner is entitled to a living from the industry, they have grown up in it, and know no other, and is fitted for no other division of the available labor in the mines, and to receive that, we demand the six- hour day and five-day week. We further demand a minimum wage for the workers in the mine, Why? The mine wérkers many times —as shown by the coal commission's report are prevented from work thru no fault of their own, because of falls of roof, breakdown of machinery, gas in working places, lack of material and cars, etc, and have. # return home many days from the mine with- out earning a penny. No Excuse for Most Lost Time. The miners know that most of this ost time is preventable and proper | “As We See It” Monday, Nov. 16 Beginning next week, “As We See It,” the column edited by T. J, O'Flaherty, will again appear in The DAILY WORKER as one of its regular features, This bright, analytical comment on the events of the day—graced with the keen wit of the well-known writer, is the very best | reason to induce your | friends to SUBSCRIBE! industry can, and must ‘take care of its employes during shut downs, or during the time that men are preyent- ed from work thru the failure of the operators to furnish -us working places, a 2 The coal commission¢ pointed out “Phat the miners’ wageg were reduc- ed thru lack of being furnished an- other working place whén their place was finished,” and every miner knows that he does not average more than fifty per cent time thruout the year. We have the right, to live, and our life is dependent on the right to work, we demand that work, or unemploy- ment benefits be paid us, until work is furnished us, Relief in Many Countries. The official figures that I quoted in my former articles dealing with the enormous profits of the coal owners show that unemployment benefits can be paid by the industry. We are not alone in this demand, Many govern- ments have officially recognized the right to work, to live, and where work was not supplied that unemployment benefits be paid. | Australia, New Zealand, Tasmania, and various countriés of Europe, par- ticularly Great Brit@in, have enacted laws which furnish finemployment re- lef to the workerg,~ The progressive’ fiiners have made a fight to have ungmployment relief measures made a part of the miners’ program, and int juced the subject matter to the tri-@istrict convention of the hard coal fners, but the Lewis-Cappellini meine harkened to the voice of WallStreet and the min- ers’ demand was*t@mporarily shelved. The fight of progressives is hard and meets the combined opposi- tion of Wall Streééand the reaction- ary labor leaders, ‘but their program is becoming understood, and when ex- plained to the miners and a little bet- ter known thruout the anthracite, and bituminous as well, all the Wall Streets and reactionary labor leaders in America, will not be able to pre- vent the incorporation of our de- mands in the official program and a finish fight for their victory. We realize that as long as private ownership of the mining industry pre- vails, we will have the same fi that is going on now, hence our de- sire to eliminate private ownership, Nationalization of the mines was also put forward as part of our program is this in my next et WORKERS’ SCHOOL TO CELEBRATE OPENING OF BROWER LIBRARY NEW YORK, Nov. 18—-The Work- ere Schoo! will celebrate the open- Ing of the Brower Memorial Library with an entertainment and dance on Thanksgiving Eve, Thursday, Nov. 26th, at the school headquart- ers, 108 East 14th Street. An elaborate and Interesting pro- gram has been prepared for the event, which students and friends of the Workers’ School havé been eagerly awaiting. Made possible by the ‘generosity of relatives and friends of Comrade Charles Brower, an active*member of Local Browns- ville who died over a year ago, the Brower Memorial Library has al- ready acquired several hundred books, huhdreds of pamphlets, files of revolutionary papers and maga- zines, and promises to become a reading and study center for, milit- ant workers of New York. None should miss the opening on Thanksgiving Eve. Admission is only 35 cents—and much fun is in store for those who attend. Tickets can be obtained at the office of the school. Get them now! WORKER CORRESPONDENTS’ CLASS TO START FRIDAY WITH ENGDAHL, DUNNE AND CARLSON AS TEACHERS A class for worker correspondents is being organized by the district agitprop in Chicago. The first meeting will be held on Friday, November 20, 1925, 8 p, m., at The DAILY WORKER office, 1113 W. Washington Blvd. This worker correspondents’ class is primarily a practical course which will result in getting the comrades from the shops and factories to write in shop experiences and stories. The course will be conducted in such a fashion that worker correspondents are trained and make contributions while they learn. The members of the class will’ write articles, and stories on conditions.in their shops; these stories will be used in the col- umns of The DAILY WORKER and other party papers. There will be dis- cussion and criticism of these stories by the workers" ‘correspondents and the instructors. The class for workers’ correspond- ents will be conducted, by Comrades Wm. F, Dunne},J- Louis Engdahl, edi- tors of The DATN¥ WORKER; and Oliver Carlson, cireuit lecturer for the Workers’ School in the Chicago district. Comrade=Dunne’s pamphlet on the trainingeand: use of workers’ correspondents will the texts. Special letters .on this class have ne SHOP NUCLEI IN ILLINOIS COAL MINES HAVE BEGUN TO FUNCTION SPRINGFIELD, Il., Nov. 13.—Within a month’s existence on a shop nu- clei basis the party units at Springfield, Ill, have enrdlled six new members and thereby aided materially in increasing the organized militant forces amongst the miners in that locality. Party shop nuclei are functioning in five different mines, the Devroux mine, the Old West mine, the Old North mine, the Woodside mine, the Sanga- mon Mine No, 2. tions function in the local unions en- deavoring to give real organized ex- pression to the fight against the pol- icy of rule or ruin pursued by Frank Farrington and his helpers. During the sharp clashes when the higir handed actions of Farrington re- sulted in the ejection from office to which they were duly elected of Sub- District President Freeman Thomp- son and Secretary J. J. Watt, one of our party members held the office of checkweighman at one of the Spring- field mines. He at several instances had difficulties in finding just Avhere he fitted in and always take 4 stand squarely in the front ranks of the progressive miners. Before the sub- sequent elections the party fraction decided that he could not again run for the office, at least not until he had become clear as to what, party policies imply in the everyday activi- cies amongst organized workers. He did not become a candidate but he is now making good and showing him- self a better fighter. The party frac-+ Milwaukee Notes Wis., District No. Workers 8, Local Milwaukee, (Communist) Party, has made rapid headway in the reor- ganization of the party on the basis of shop nuclei. Section membership meetings have been held with the re- sults that four shop nuclei have been organized; They are: 1. Allis Chalmers nucleus, (auto- mobile. plant) 22 members. 2. Sea- man. Body shop “hucleus (automobile body makers) 8 members. 3. Chi- cago, --Milwaukee, St. Paul Railroad shops, 8 members. 4. International Harvester Co., 8 members. This is an average of 12 members to a shop. The character of the nu- clei and the sizes indicate real possi- bilities for growth and work. Comrade Karl Mikalachky, sub-dis- trict organizer, declares that the party will put fullest energies toward developing the shop nuclei. They have ‘be used as one of | The Miners’ Educational League is}elected the necessary officers and functioning within the Springfield sub-district and there is no intention on their part to give up the fight for the right of progressive elements holding office within the union. The party shop nuclei members are tak- ing the leadership. However, the tendency toward limiting the educa- tional league to delegates from the various locals and local union pro- gressive groups is wrong. The league must be built up as a genuine mass organization in which every adherent becomes an active member. Thruout the Southern Illinois coal fields the party is rapidly becoming reorganized on a shop nuclei basis. West Frankfort when completed, will have six such units, Christopher, two; Zeigler already has two functioning nuclei, while one or two are being or- ganized in several of-the other small coal cities. In the Southern Illinois steel cen- ter, in Granite City and Madison, shop nuclei are being organized, One is being established in eath one of the steel mills and one of the big foundries composed of a number of live party members. With common laborers being paid 38% cents per hour for a ten-hour work day and con- ditions of slave driving almost equal to any steel center there are plenty of activities for these nuclei to engage in. } The party membership being quite Scattered in St. Louis, Mo., the first steps taken towards reorganization have been the division of the city into two sections within which the language branch lines will disappear, There are immediate possibility of or- ganization of a shop nucleus in a large clothing factory. In East St. Louis, Ill, steps are be- ing taken toward the formation of a shop nucleus in the packinghouse. Extend State Reservation, MOSCOW, Nov. 12.—The territory of the Ponza state reservation has been extended by the inclusion of three new sections with a total area of 817 dessiatins consisting of pine forests and marshes, Extremely rare and valuable plants are found in these sections. Thus, in the Arbanev reservation are growing 10 species of the third pre-glacial varieties of vegetation which are rap- idly disappearing. The rarest among these is the Altaian anemona, A scientific expedition is being or- ganized to explore the fisheries of the lakes and rivers of this region. \ Wrap your lunch in a copy of the DAILY WORKER and give it (the DAILY WORKER, not the lunch) to your shop-mate. have gotten down to work. The total membership in Milwau- kee in the former English and lan- guage branches was. only 150. This means” ‘that nearly one-third of the membership is already organized in- to: genuine shop nuclei organizations. There, are good prospects that vir- tually the- total membership -will re- | been sent to nearly 100 workers in the shops and factories of Chicago and Pullman, asking them to join the correspondents’ class. Any com- rade, ‘however, who wishes to join this class may do so by registering at the District Party Office, 19 South Lincoln street, or by coming to the first meeting on Friday,. Nov. 20, at The DAILY WORKER, 1113 West Washington Blvd. TF ~~ HEAVY BLOWS — STRUCK FOR LABOR PRESS Three heavy blows were struck for The DAILY WORKER today with the recelpt of remittances from three far- away citles—$83.30 from San Fran- cisco, Cal.; $71.00 from Buffalo, N. Y., Finnish branch of the Workers Party; job. The total amount, however, is less than $300.00, not one-thirtieth of what must be raised within the next two weeks. Today’s list is as follows: Walter Kraft, Chicago, Ml... Arthur Klainman, Bronx, N. Y. Cleveland, O., and Philadelphia, Pa., W. P. meetings .. San Francisco, Cal., Soviet cele- bration .... eddy, BEND Polish Br., W. P., Neffs, Ohio, (collewted by Mary Hornik and K. Obraska) ... Michael Nahpka, Detroit, Mich. Hanna, Wyo., D. W. stamps and sve 62.25 Soviet celebration... English Br W.-P., Detroit, Mich, 7.00 Grand Rapids, M ich.(Soviet cele- bration) . G. Tuchelski, Detroit, Mic! F. L. V. Blazina, Rankin, P: 7.50 main:in the party either in the shop or streét:nuclei, nearly 70 per cent of members attended the various sec- Lithuanian Br. 15, W. P., Bliza- beth, N, J. Finnish Br., W. ww» 5,00 , Buffalo, N. Y. 71.00 tion ‘meetings: which is a very high! John Kaulta, Detroit, Mich... 2.00 average, ‘- So. Slavic Women’ Workers Club The street nuclei are now being “Svijetlo,” Kansas City, Kan... 10.00 sub-divided into smaller units. Some of the members will be placed per- haps in shop nuclei and efforts will be made to develop street nuclei into shop nuclei organizations. / LAST MINUTE CHECKS HELP Today’s total Previously reporte 18,284.74 and $62.25 from. Hanna, Wyo., where Finnish comrades are always on the Total to date $18,575.69 $ 290.95 TO RESCUE DAILY WORKER Last minute remittances to tide The DAILY WORKER over the present bad crisis brought in $312.85 more, rushed in from WORKERS PARTY branches, ~ A check for $32.00 came from Lithuanian Br. 96 of Helen, W. Va., includ- ing $5.00 from.Street Nucleus 2 of Chicago Section 3. Three other checks contained proceeds from the Soviet celebration meetings, including a partial payment of $150.00 from Cleveland, O.; a partial payment of $95.00 from | Philadelphia, ‘Pa.; and $35.85 from Maynard, Mass. ' With the $18,575.69 received earlier, the total amount to date Is thus brot to $18,888.54, AID THE REVOLUTIONARY CAUSE BY SAVING THE DAILY WORKER! | } 4 | ?