The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 20, 1925, Page 6

SS ‘for the DAILY WORKER, Page Six THE DAILY WORKER Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING .CO. in 1118 W, Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill. Phone Monroe, 4712 SUBSCRIPTION "RATES 4 By mail (in Chicago only): By mail (outside of Chleags): $8.00 per year $4.50 six months $6.00 per vear $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 Blvd:, Chicago, Mlinois J. LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F, DUNNE { MORITZ J. LOEB — Entered as second-class mail September 21, 1923, at the post-office at Chi- cago, Ill, under the act of March 3, 1879, Editors Business Manager Advertising rates on application. <a 200 Furriers for a Labor Party. The adoption of a resolution for a labor party by the Boston convention of the Furriers’ Union is truly an expression of the grow- ing demand for a political party of labor separate from the old party entanglements within which the labor movement of this country has vegetated in impotency. This resolution must be made the basis for a Psi effort on the part of organized labor to energetically proceed tothe creation of such a party. It is far more significant that it comes:from an international union than from the various delegate bodies, central labor bodies and state federations. These delegate bodies. are com- posed of local unions, owing allegiance to international-unions first, and only secondarily and in a remote manner to the delegate: bodies. A labor party resolution in an international union commits the entire union to that policy. Thé basis is here laid for the calling oi a conference of international union representatives for the purpose of issuing a call for a national labor party conference.» To prepare for this step every class conscious worker should «strive to commit his own international union to the policy. The starting point to influence the internationals must be the local unions. Widespread endorsement of the Furriers’ resolution by local unions and central labor bodies will aid materially in driving the international unions to action. Every progressive trade unionist should introduce a resolution of endorsement in his local union. The Furrers’ resolution, which appears on the first page today, also assures the question coming up in the next convention of the American Federation of Labor; where an effort must be made to blast the petrified leadership of that organization out. of the path to the development of effective class political action on the part of labor. In the last convention of the A. F, of L. the most bitter op: ponents of a labor party had to admit that the time will come when such a move will be necessary. Being experienced machine politicians with their ears to the ground, the A. F. of-L. officials catch the rumblings that indicate the rank and file of labor is striking out on new lines. With a number of the international unions: taking» aggressive action in a labor party conferénce the old machine would be:forced te yield to the demand or face extinction. The creation of a labor party based upon the: unions will be the greatest advance the labor movement’ ean possibly take at this time, It will more effectively than anything else destroy the direct connection between the trade union leaders and the capitalist class. Every militant worker must strive toward-that end. Ignance Jan Paderewski, gymnastie piano thumper, and one time scullion for a gang of thieving Polish ‘priests in the service of France, when he tied to function as prime ‘minister;of Poland, a gov- ernment created to assail Soviet Russia, is in trouble over a little mat- ter of $4,000 income tax due the U. 8. treasury. The enormous sum upon which this tax is based was obtained thru American audiences | listening to him perform on the piano. ‘Incidentally many of ‘these “music lovers” were radicals. Very poor ones, tho, when they patron- ize such specimen as Paderewski. Down with Gangster Rule! Gangsters and gunmen known to be backed by business agents’ and other officials of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers’ Union are conducting a reign of terror against the membership .of that union in order to beat them into submission so they will not resist impending wage cuts that are being prepared for them by the of- ficialdom. ‘ On Friday night of last week members who tried to get the ‘floor in the union meeting to discuss the proposed $25 assessment were assaulted after they left the union hall: On Sunday, armed thugs with revolvers in their hands invaded a meeting of rank and file members who were assembled to discuss means of resisting wage cuts. Among these invading gunmen were business agents of the union. Their names are known, as are also the names of those who aided them in their thuggery. Loyal union members were severely beaten. These dastardly attacks must be stopped. Within the laws of the union there should be sufficient means to dispose of this.menace. The gangsters should be expelled from the organization. Hfhey are not dealt with in such a way as forever to stop this sort of thing, the rank and file must adopt means of defense against these attacks. When a hall is secured by members they have a perfect right to protect it from invaders. Unless action is summarily taken against these sluggers the rank and file should inform the Amalgamated officials that the next assault will be met with such fierce resist- anee, using the weapons that are used against them, so that there will be no question of identifying the gangsters. The scars of battle placed upon them will mark them as long as they live as paid slug- gers of the labor fakers and employers. _ After all the years of the existence of this republic the United States senate has still to decide the question of whether its member: represent the government or the state from which they come. By the time we kick these fozzil inhabitants of the old men’s home in Washington into the garbage can of history they may discover just what function they perform. While we have no objections to seeing a dragon of the ku klux klan go to jail, we extend condolences to the intelligent victims of capitalist justice who are compelled to assoeiate with him. It adds new emphasis to, the term durance vile. While the warfare between the police bootleggers and the in- dependent bootleggers in Chicago was going merrily on, Mayor Dever was explaining to a Bostonian audience that the"Chicago police de- partmenet had reached a high degree of efficiency. Efficiency in what? dice Get a member for the Workers Pay THE DAILY WORKER When Will ‘Cotton Goods Be Cheap and a half acres of land they must work 148 days with hand work. Of coursé if they have horses and ma- chinery, evyep the simplest, such as ploughs, iron harrows, cultivators,— they can work three or four times as much. And if they have tractors,—it is especially to Turkestan that we must send tractors, for they pay for themselves on cotton three times as fast as on wheat, because the cotton crop is worth so much more per acre, Hard Times Hit Turkestan. Vase follow pages of fascinating description of the life of cotton growers, all desighed@..to bring the Russian peasant closer to his mid- Asian brother. But" we must pass swiftly tothe effect of the revolution Own Peasants. (Continued from Iast issue.) Cotton grows only in very hot countries, whether there is also much only in Caucasus. water. With us it grows Turkestan and Southern Since thesé lands are very. dry, it needs flooded regions, where the water can be turned into the cotton fields from time to time. Altogether Turkestaw has 440 million acres. But of these, only six and a half million are arable, and only about four and a half million of these -are irrigated. Forty ofr fifty years ago the Rus- sians conquered Turkestan. They con- quered. it for the sake of cotton, for our cotton, industry was beginning to grow. First they made alliances with the Turkestan khans to oppress the peasants,):but at last the Russian robbers grabbed the land completely, in order to,have all the profits them- selves.. There began an orgy of cot- ton speculation. Officers, adventurers got fortunes’ over-night on cotton lands. But actually the production of cotton fell sharply by about three the 850,000 acres in 1917, to 125,000 in 1922. bis This cotton catastrophe was caused first, by the flight of big cotton grow- ers and buyers froth*the revolution, then by the civil war that raged in Turkestan itself tearing up irrigation ditches, then by the,,long years of separation from their market in Rus- sia, when cotton ecotild’ not be sold at any price. Last of/‘all came the famine and men died like flies in Turkestan and turned from the grow- ing of cotton to the growing of bread. Organizing for ‘Victory, UT already, in #922, when the acreage under cotton had fallen to its lowest ebb, tq;.one-tenth the orewar, the organization began which was to lead on the victory. A central quarters, the very year after onquest.” FTER' ‘this came cotton manu- facturers, buying. up huge estates ind.importing, American seed which oroduces a better cotton. They gave his out to the peasants and cotton Soviet Primers No, 6. The Sort of “Soviet Propaganda” that the Government is Telling Its oroduction increased. But the bigjcotton committee was organized, astates did not prosper; cotton de-| which encouraged the Turkestan mands careful attention, and the cot-| peasants to form cooperatives, and ‘on manufacturers soon found it more profitable not to grow cotton them- selves with careless, hired labor, but che rent lands to the peasants and buy cotton from them at low. prices. These peasants work harder, longer hours by far than even the Russian peasant. More than half of them have less than 5 acres of land, but this is all they ean. work. For they are often without.horses but must do all the work by hand like a garden, Al- gave out advance payments on cot- ton crops to those whom cooperatives indicated as horfest and reliable. Taxes on cotton land were tempora- rily removed,and as an added in- ducement,for every acre planted to cotton, one acre of the growers grain land was also exempt ‘from tax. These measures began in the spring of 1922, too late to affect the number of acres planted, but in time to en- courage extra care of the crop. The ready in February they begin to weed | result was a crop of 400 pounds to out the old‘plants; they keep working | the acre, in place of the 250 pounds till the second or third harvest in omg the year before. The follow- October or, November, On. every twojing year cotton Planting surpassed - Chicago—Grand and fas. (|The GWew Wheoinc. ‘Till upon that inland sea, « Stands Chicago grand and free, Turning all the world to Spat Illinois, Mlinois. This stanza from the state anthem of Illinois “symbolizes the illusion the association of commerce is endeavoring to create regard- v6 ing the incomparable grandeur of Chicago.’ The five: celebration of the 21st birthday of the association was heralded to be an invoice of Chicago’s resources and prospects. The first two days were filled with perfervid eulogy of the exploiters of labor; the bankers, the in- dustrialists, the merchants and their religious apologists in the churches. 2 ay Beneath all the stilted palaver one fact stands out clearly. That is the efforts of the LaSalle street banking group to bring industry and the outlying banks of the Mississippi valley “under their domina- tion. Combination leading to monopoly is the keynote. With the banks dominating, coordinated drives can be launched against or- ganized labor:in this city. It is a enallengy to orgapened labor to prepare to ‘fight. + From the tone of the advocates of a lake: to-ocean waterway, Chicago is not free, tho is may be grand. The “easgern interests” are in a reprehensible conspiracy against the meat paékers and the butter-and-egg (not yegg) men in order to stifle the development of this majestic metropolis. Instead of turning in this direction, all the world is against Chicago. The valiant crusaders of the associa- tion of commerce will push it back to Chicago. Wavé after wave of calamity may roll over them, but still they will stand with unbowed heads. Babbits and he-men, all, they defy the world. There is one achievement of Chieago that is overlooked by the boosters. It is the only city of its class in the world that is so provingial. It has certain’ characteristics all its own. Its citizens rise to eminence over night and occupy the headlines of the press for weeks ata time. A trusty gun and a few well+ ‘spent bullets and a Chicago luminary bursts upon us. All gunmen are super-criminals. The minutest details of their affairs of the heart, theif: ‘melodramatic devotion to their poor old mothers who are sure boys are all right; every act, expression and thought are rgcordeg, in the columns of the ‘world’s greatest newpaper,” the Chicago Tribune. Just as the gunmen are super-criminals, the bootleg booze is all high power stuff. The bankers are super, the Mai 1all Fields are high power merchants. Everything is superlative; nothing is done on a small scale: wage That, is the business conception of Chicago, “Stupid, vicious, blatant, tHe so-called “Chicago spirit” is a true reflex of the indus- trialist group struggling against the menacing poser of finance- | capital, and losing its struggle. In spite of the 7Tribune’s unabashed espousaliof babbitry, be- cause its support is derived from Krag in spite of the ambitious schemes ‘of the LaSalle street bankers, Chicago, will yield to the domination of Wall Street. Its Waterway from lakes to the oeean*may eventually be realized, but this inland«eity will never become the port of the United States, That is only the rarebit dream of Chicago babbits when they fall into the night's stupor after partaking of the water of everlasting life supplied by the super- bootleggers of the city. In one thing only is Chicago, like the rest of the country, de- fective. That is in labor organization to combat the provincial bandits of Chicago industrialism and the power of Wall Street. Morris Kaufman, deposed president of the Purtlers’ Union, used gangsters to.maintain power and so aroused the membership of his organizationthat he dared not run for reelection. This should be a warning to’Sidney Hillman of the Amalgamated. ‘So, well mh is King Victor Emanuel’ of It achievers nt of selling Ifaly to Morgan’ that dams worthy the Annunziata knighthood, with Count Vol wn conferred Nya ah on cotton growing,‘ Which fell from |* the plan set down, and in 1924, + it went td 700,000 acres, Of these 625,- 000 acres were organized under the control of cooperatives, which now unite 260,023 Turkestan households, in 910 organizations. HE irrigation works began to im- prove slowly, in spite.oflack of money. The acres under water had been cut in half by the destruction of war, but now the local inhabitants themselves contributed four million roubles worth of labor; and raised by local collections 700,000 roubles in cash for materials, to which the cen- tral government added six ‘million roubles. The amount of land under irrigation increased thirty per cent the first year. A fight also began with the, locusts. Here it was necessary to make trea- ties with neighboring goyernments, Persia, Alganistan. For locusts, .b- serve no boundary lines; they, fly right over them. For sixty year the czar’s government made war treaties against “internal and foreign. foes” but never against these locusts’ hich are a very bad foe, These suc? ceeded in destroying on 206,000' acres. Our plan for the next five’ Yéard calls first for restoring old irrigation works and building new onés to’ tea¢h seven and a half million acres, con: siderably more than prewar: ‘Fér' this 92 million rubles are needed; ft this the local government gives 4 ‘million in cash and 14 million in labor, and the rest is given by the central gov: ernment, unless we can get some con- cessionaire to give part of it. When enough money is available, there are 15 million acres in Turkestan that can be irrigated for cotton and 3 million for other crops. The Turkestan peasants also need horses, Before the war they imported 30,000 head per year from ‘China, Mongolia and Afganistan. We are importing this year for them 50,000 to make good the great losses, New Great Works for Turkestan. E must give Turkestan Shain sc that she may produce for,us cot: ton, Before the war she imported a million poods of grain. —. Sinee, th< famine year it is hard to. transport this grain from the Volga regions But now we are beginning a cbse from Turkestan to. the grain region of Semirechenck. And when this rail road at last reaches into Siberia, to exchange Siberian grain for the cot ton and fruits and rice and wine o. Turkestan, then the problem of _Tur- kestan food will be solved. We are planning textile factories in Turkestan. The czar’s govérnment though only. to exploit the people there, and take their raw materials to the center. But to the Soviet Union the interests of the Turkestan peas- anis and workers are as important a8 any other workers and peasants. The present project is a factory of 300 looms and” 10,000 ‘spinules. Al- ready one of thé factoties nedr Mos- cow has been given’ to the Turcoman republic, and Turcoman: workers are there now as apprentices, learning the business so tifdtthey may estab- lish it in theit‘own country. Then it will not be nedéssary on our oné-track railroads to brifig‘raw cotton to\Mos- cow and také™manufactured cotton back to Turkéstan} but-the Turkestan factory will‘(produce; goods for’ its pwn people, And a@dew thousand fac- tory workers iq Turkestan. will havea deep effect, not.only:on that republic, but on the nbighboring related coun- tries of central Asia. Besides this we are taking tractors to Turkestan, Alteaty a few hundred have gone there, and tractors pay for themselves;jquickly of -tHis valu- able cotton land. ;By 1928. we shall aave several thousand. Even the poor peasants themeselves are organizing to buy tractors. From one district they collected 10,000 roubles, and this made the first payment on 30 “actors, by the terms which we grant n Moscow. Bo the most important change of all for the future life of Turkestan ‘s the new governmental districting. Formerly there were three republics ere, each with its language, customs and laws. When the czar mixed them all in one, gréat disturbance of work resulted. But now the Soviet power has given to the Usbeks their re- public, to the Kirghiz theirs, and to the Turcomen theirs, besides three aore little ‘autonomous d¥Stricts of ‘ifferent tribes. This means that each people, a a TOR ORD YoUte nti enekt eth each other like 1 , family, understand each of Moscow, and also of their o publics, and 26 have been sent ajroad to Berlin—to learn how bett five or ten years you will not nize the land any more. goods. Already a change has In 1924 we had to buy 8 million joods gf raw cotton in America. In 19% this was already reduced to 800,000 joods. And already in 1926 we exp a surplus 500,000 poods of raw dotton’ and in’ 1927 of 2,200,000 poods} For our’ factories cannot expand ay fast as our cotton growing. Unless we should get money from conckssio- naires for textile factories; we, shall begin to export some raw cottoh and buy back cotton goods from’ Earope, OWEVER, even our factories have their program for expansion. By 1927 they will double the production of 1924., Then we may expect con- flitions to be nearer prewar condi- tions, in the cost of cotton goods as compared to wheat. But now some peasant asks: “Why have we learned all this? » Does ‘it make our taxes less? Or our life easier?’ Or are we to wait till. 1928 for a shirt?” But it is very useful for the peasant to know the facts, and not to be turned this way and that by the words of the kulaks! They must know the life ofthese Turkestan cotton-growers, who live much worse * than our Russian peasants. They must know that the city workers, however they may wish, cannot at once change entirely the price of cotton goods. And they must know, above all, their. oneness with the millions of Turkestan and Caucasian peasants, the cotton growers who give them clothes and to whom they give bread. They must understand the mutual in- terests of the whole great army of workers, and the role and problems of each separate group in. the building of our common socialist society, The Sham of “American Education Week” By JOHN WILLIAMSON Not content with the general: form of capitalist propaganda; .conduct- ed in the everyday form,. we »now witness ¢ach year a special week termed, “American Education Week” under the auspices of a triumvirate, well known individually as-labor-hat- ing and scheming organizations, name- ly the Bureau of Education (a depart- ment of the government): the Na- tional Association of Education (an organized department of the vested interests who subsidize “ ee educa- tional institutions and thi that those who are entrusted with teaching the children of the. 2_working ‘take care class, must not think for themselves but only give a sterotyped . version as handed out by the N. E. A.). and last but not least, we find. the American Legion—a combination of ‘officers of the army—a co-partner in this scheme of concentrated Propaganda. Commissioner Tigert, writing in one of the many propaganda sheets issued for this occasion, sums up the situation a follows, “Every week should be Educational Week; but at least one week in the year should be set aside to emphasize certain phases of education, to discuss ways in which state and local conditions may be improved, and to acquaint the public with progressive educa- tional movements.” And what are these “certain phases” which must be “stressed.” It is concentrated Propaganda in favor of the boss class, against the workers,’ the building up of faith in institutions in which the workers have no voice, the conjuring up of false illusions for the workers child, the future toiler of tomorrow. Educational “Week is divided ‘into seven separate days, each with a dif- ferent name and program. “These in- clude such names as “cdristitiition day,” “patriotism day,” “for "god and country day” and such otiief’ trap. What a sham to speak of. 6 stitution guaranteeing. oil che! Year after year we find the, ‘so-called rights of the workers being trampled under the foot and the gun of the United States government... What rights have. the striking anthracite miners today? When they, att to meet to discuss their problei a time when the bosses are , to reduce their wages and their union, the result is that thelr meetings are broken up and the lead- ing workers, active in the strike are thrown into jail without any pretense | “rights” or “constitution.” Fake Freedom, ‘E hear such sweet sounding as “Our constitution these rights” meaning liberty, freedom, etc. Ask the hun- dreds of workers in the jails of Cali- fornia, Washington, Pennsylvania or Maine what guarantee of freedom they enjoyed? Without the pretense of justice or fairness at find pees workers railroaded they fought for th working class again| am boss ‘class, the Se ada: »whiom are to- a i SB sae day speaking such sweet sounding phrases. To the workers of Panama who re- cently found themselves confronted by the bayonets and guns of the U.S. marines the slogan of “Ballots, bullets ‘not will be received with right- When the millions’ of ex- native workers of the Philip- pines, Porto Rico, Haiti or the many other Central American countries where American capital has been rul- ing with the gun and bayonet, de- manded the right to determine their own form of government. the answer was a blood bath for: the workers, and natives concerned. Share Factories. The schools of America are not the “foundations of democracy” as| proclaimed in this literature but are the training schools for the future working class of America where the children ate taught mere phrases without meaning and only given enough technical education to enable them to be efficient slaves in the in- terests of the boss. Day after day their plastic minds are conformed to the standard ‘teachings which are stereotyped by the leading “educ- ation Week.” They are taught to Pay reverence to a flag which sym- bolizes—not freedom—but a dollar- ocracy which drips with the blood of the workers of America, Europe, Asia and South America. They are taught to believe that they must :be obedient slaves in industry so that they may some day emulate the Rocke- fellers and Morgans, altho it is well known that the vast majority of the school children must enter industry and there work for, meagre wages under thé most vicious conditions, The millions of young workers en- gaged inf the industries of America— the ‘millions of child laborers toiling in the cotton mills of the South, spell hypocricy and deceit, to every line of “American Eudaction Week.” E The workers of America, young and old, must mobilize their forces against this attempt to further intensify the propaganda and lies of the bosses of America. We must counter their slogans and propaganda with our working class slogans and demands, and intensify our efforts to organize the workers, adult, youth or child into labor unions of America and into their respective political organiza- ators” such as are supervising “Educ-| tions, What Price Glory. A REVIEW. If you are in tragic-comic mood, and your ertical senses are not too acutely attuned, an entertaining evening can’ be spent at the Studebaker, seotag “What Price Glory.” We have-heard-and read of the hor- rors of war in terms of mass butchery, but here we:having. portrayed, in vivid fashion, thesphysical:and psychic reac: tions of the dndivinual under: the ter; tific strain of firey It: is a distinct triumph for the ‘social psychologists, this re-creatifg ofthe individual by the inexorable ‘force’ of circumstance, |, While Messrs; ‘Anderson and ‘Sta)- lings must bé/atcrédited with a great deal of courdgé ‘in so honestly. por- traying phases of war that we have been vaguely’ aWére of, but do ‘not care to disciiéi}’ they might “have probed more deéply in the souls of those vague, - Ynknowing victims, massed for dést#iction, who don't quite know * it all about. Louis Wolhéin is Superb. His por- trayal of the hard boiled, courageous drunken captain, with an acute sense of fair play, is a masterpiece. Vividly portraying, yet not overplaying, Wol- heim at all moments dominates the stage, William Boyd, as the equally hard- boiled top sergeant, living hard and clean in terms of his own morality, supports Wolheim ably. The only feminine character, Char- maine, the innkeepers daughter, por- trayed by Jeannette Fox-Lee, ing bit of flesh who ig in life, will not be forgotten. Roumanian Boyars Murder Max Goldstein BUCHAREST, Nov. 18~The bour- geois paper, Dimineata which one can certainly not accuse of having any- ‘thing in common with Max Goldstein ‘who died in the Doftan prison writes that he. broke off the 40-day hunger strike. on the urgent request of his sister. The prison director agreed that theyprisoner would be fed acoomalng sto medical instructions, ~Ten days afterwards, however, “the ily. of the prisoner received the ibto formation that the guards did not give Goldstein any food on the order ‘of the ‘prison director, ‘The’ |dottor Floru was informed of this’ thet and undertook an examination of the Conipletly-weakened Goldstein “in: presence of his sister, The ‘s! ‘stated that Goldstein told, during this éxamination, that he had not teceived ‘any food for the last ten days, ‘a faot Which was also proved by the medie- al examination. ‘ Immediately after the vial ot. doctor, the agony of Goldstein’ and he died still on the same day Dimineata demands the strictest in. vestigation of the case and declares q that nobody has the right to pass a “ death sentence against Goldstein ‘in this fashion after the court had sen- tenced him only to prison for life, Navy Yard Draftsmen — Demand Wage Increase WASHINGTON, Nov, ie ay yards of the country face a ‘hie of wholesale laying off of presen 9 unless, draftsmen are given eg navy wage board “S told by representatives of rE erectsmen, af i } or or