The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 1, 1925, Page 6

Page Six THE DAILY WORKER THE DAILY WORKER Some Revelations of Mr. Hoover Published by: the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 1113 W. Washington Blvd, Chicago, Il Phone Monroe 4712} SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail (in Chicago only): By mail (outside of Chicago): $8.00 per year $4.50 six months | $6.00 per voar $3.50 six months $2.50 three months $2.00 three months Address all mail and make out checks to THE BAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Illinois 3 ENGDAHL ) . Editors ger at the post-office at Chi- 3, 1879. ss mail September 2 under the act of Entered as second-cl cago, Ill, A Socialist Tammanyite Thruout the whole world the name Tammany Hall is synonymous with polifieal corruption. One skilled in all the low arts of political | swindling is called a Tammanyite not only in New York and Chi ‘ago, but in London, Paris, Pekin, Bombay and in the remotest corners of the earth. But Tammany, since 1910, has extended its in fluence. Its activities formerly confined to New York alone, where it plundered in the most brazen fashion, now extend thruout the whole nation. Finance capital in 1910-12 stamped it for its own and broadened the power of Tammany. With its rise to national influence it becomes necessary to white wash it, so that its past reputation will not thwart its present pur po: That is a job that requires extraordinary skill in the blac magic of political fakerism. Only those so hardened’ to the practic of public deception that they can with straight faces call Tamman a beneficent institution can do the job. Two types of creature are useful for this purpose. One of them is the type of the mayor-elect of New York, Mr. Walker, who is s ignorant that he is not aware of the nature of the machine that made The other is one whose principles are for sale to the highesi Walter Lippman, chief editorial writer of the New York World, who, while speaking in Pittsburgh the other day, extravagently eulogized Tammany Hall. Mr. Lippman, talking to the national municipal league, said the Tammany politicians are not the old type of boodle bandits, but “a typical group of city men— uecessful businessmen, and I might add constant He doesn’t say they are just dressed-up him. bidder. Such a one is Mr. successful lawyers, but successful golf play crooks and thugs. Who, you may ask, is this man Lippman? He is a former socialist, who came into prominence as the secfe- tary of Mr. George R. Lunn, socialist mayor of Schenectady, N in 1912-13; he was a leading light of the intercollegiate sociali society. When his political mentor, Mr. Lunn, became a renegade socialist and joined the democratic party, Mr. Lippman soon fol- lowed. When Lunn supported Morgan’s war, Lippman became editor of the New Republie, a pseudo-liberal sheet and supported Woodrow Wilson’s policy. Former Mayor Lunn eventually became a congressman; then lieutenant governor of New York under the Tammanyite, Al. Smith. When Lunn became identified with the Tammany branch of the| democrat party, Mr. Lippman followed him. Now Lunn holds an appointive job in the state, because he was defeated ‘in the recent | election, and his former office boy, Mr. Lippman, deferids Tammany | in the columns of the World and before Kiwanis club audiences in the hinterland. This is the inevitable road travelled by the egotistical products of bourgeois universities, who in their immeasurable’ arrogance imagine they have something to contribute to the revolutionary move- ment. They think their professional training fits them to lead the movement out of the wilderness of Marxism in which they say we helplessly flounder. ‘3 Not one of that vile crew ever contributed anythitig but confu- sion to the ranks of the movement in the United States. And the history of all of them is identically the same. After vitiating the movement with the accumulated rubbish of bourgeois univer- sities they learn that the slow tempo of the movement does not in- sure them the dazzling careers they crave, so they drift into the ranks of the capitalist class where they become the most/ecringing, servile mercenaries in the service of capitalist class corruption. Their former alleged radicalism and liberalism makes them better prostitutes. yers.”” The Northwestern “Riot” The other nightt a mob of students at Northwestern University went on a wild rampage, overran the business section of Evanston, a suburb of Chicago, indulged in violent assaults upon individuals and policemen, attempted to burn down a stadium used to seat crowds at athletic events, and in general conducted themselves in a most obnoxious manner. The disorders occurred because certain judges awarded the “big ten” football championship to the University of Michigan. Work especially those who have been assailed by police thugs and gangsters, while conducting “peaceful picketing, cannot avoid drawing comparisons between the very mild and considerate manner in which the police treated the rioting students and the un- ristricted savagery and frightfulness with whieh workers’ demonstra- tions are crushed by force of arms. For workers the police have riot guns, clubs, tanks, tear gas, bombs and all the equipment of modern warfare. For the students attending a methodist college, rioting be- cause their moron football team ranked lower in the averages than another group of half-wits from another bourgeois university, the police have the utmost consideration, even ‘taking beatings them selves rather than disperse the ranks with bullets. Evanston’s riots are a good lesson in class distinctions. The reason the workers are shot, slugged and jailed is because ‘they are fighting for decent conditions to defend th¢ capitalist exploiters, It is the job of the police force to defend the capitalist class in its endeavors to make beasts of burden of the workers. The Evanston students are spawn of the ruling class, who attend college to learn how to utilize the information they receive to enable the ruling class more effective- ly to exploit the workers. Furthermore, university students are always on the side of the police in strike disorders and with great gusto join the forces of terrorism in order to crush strikes, as was the case of the Harvard students during the great Lawrence strike of 1912. The class to which one belongs determines the attitude of the police. tiheyiaaanrmentiiattestiatinmmtamas Mussolini now has complete control over all parts of the goverti- ment and even directly controls the municipalities in the unfortun- ate nation over which his insane despotism holds sway. He is the state, Another character in history whose name is synomous with tyranny uttered similar sentiments at the close of the 18th century. “Advertising rates on application. i hot commerce, released for publication | |this morning, is a document that will | | comm | lea: | provement in methods of manage- ment, and prohibition. Thanks to elimination of waste and these other contributing factoys,,we Can as a nation show one of the most aston- ishing transformations in economic The annual, report of the secretary | prove useful to those loyal mercenar- | the labor | history.” of| Here is the table presented by at | Hoover to prove his contention: Movement of Wages and Prices, Jies of the capitalist class, Mr. Hoover, the secretar e is unique in one way He is the only statesman on} akirs. earth who qualified for his position | 1920-1925 | by operating soup kitchens requiring (1913 equals 100) | the same degree of economic under: | Wage standing as the manager of a salva- Year rates Prices* |tion army doughnut factory. } 1920 199 226 This eminent “soup kitchen” states- 1921 205-147 man in the first part of his report; 1922 193 149 1s with the elimination of waste. 1923 211 154 a rather crude juggling of statis- 1924 ee B28 150 $ p chat would disgrace a high school Figures Won't Lie, But— _| of the working and peasant youth in Hoover endeavors to prove that | Liars will figure Note that Mr. he real wage has increased during | Hoover uses the statistics of the year he past five years and comes to the | |1913 as the starting ‘point for all his onclusion that today we have the investigations. Evefy''person living in lighest real wage in our history. |the United States ‘at that time knows Hoover says this result was brot|that the fall and ‘winter of 1913 was. bout thru increased efficiency and ja period of widesprédt unemployment vaste elimination, jand that wages saiik'‘to the lowest “What the country as a whole |level since the panid df1907. has accomplished during the past The winter of 1918-14 saw unemploy- five years in increased nationaleffi- |ed hordes tramping the highways of ciency in those directions is impos- | this nation ekeing out an existence sible of measurement. Nor does jin any way they cotld and willing to he Department of Commerce lay | accept’ the merest pittance as a wage laim to credit for the great prog- | to tide them over;the period of de- ress that has been made saye as we | pression. The “soupkitchen” may have helped to organize a defi- | man very carefully :avoids recalling nite-public movement. That move- | that situation in presenting his “as- ment is the result of a realization | tonishing” pictures :of unexampled ery group—business men, in- | prosperity. at ial leaders, engineers, and Then there is assecond deception workers—of the fundamental import | practiced in the statistical table of ance of this business of waste elim- | Mr. Hoover and one that is used in ination, most tables of govérfiment ‘statistics “tf addition to climination of | Which renders them useless, tho they waste we have had the benefit of | commodities. notable advances in science, im- *Average wholesale prices of all (Continued from page 1) plea for the unionization of the young states: | tion until the eighteenth year, four weeks’ Vacation a year on full pay, application of the labor laws under the control of the workers, the Red Army—the revolutionary school in the service of all the workers and the op- pressed peoples!” “The dividends of the shareholders are coined-of the blood of young work- ers!” (Marx). “The proletarian youth must learn to use arms not to shoot their own brothers but to overthrow their bour- geois and to seize power;” Opening of the Congress. The congress opened amidst scenes of indescribably enthusiasm. Follew- ing a series of sixty district confer- ences of young workers, over six hun- dred delegates had been elected to the national congress. The majority of these delegates were not members of the Communist Youth League; most of the young workers there had not even heretofore taken any prominent part in the activities of the militant left wing workers of France. For the first time now, as the spokesmen of their exploited and oppressed young comrades in the shops, factories, mines, and fields, they came forward to consider the position of the toiling youth of France and to cement a united front of labor in the struggle against capitalism. Toiling Youth and Its Demand. After the greetings of the French? Communist Party, of the French League of Communist Youth, of the c. G. TT. U. (revolutionary. labor unions), and of other French and for- eign labor organizations had been en- thusiastically received, Barbe, a young worker, reported on the condi- tions of the young workers and peas- ants of France. His report, based upon a painstaking collection of facts, placed the conditions of the French young workers in a very clear light and the discussion that followed showed that the young French work- ers were at last awakening to their conditions and were determined to wage a militant struggle against cap- italism. Situation of Youth in Army. Military service, the~imperialist ad- ventures of France, capitalist milifar- ism—this was another point that de- manded the attention of the congress, Chasseigne opened the discussion on anti-militarism and the situation the army. “What awaits the youth in the barracks?” he asked. “No trade unions to protect them, no right workers. “They must enter the unions and fight for their demands side by side with the adult workers. In this way and in’this only can be realized the united front of the young and the adult. workers...” World Trade Union Unity. “But the working cclass—old and young—cannot really be strong,” Croizat showed, “unless it is united internationally for the struggle of the working class. Alongewith the strug- gle for national unity, the worker must carry on the struggle for world trade union unity,cBhe youth must stand in the front same.. of this strug: ms eirsts Tt was im this spinit of militant struggle and unity Conlon, of the Cc. G. T. (reformist unions) of Bour- deaux, proposed to sémd a delegation to the national council) of the C. G. T. then in session, apis “The C. G, T. U.,"uhe said, “has lis- tened to us and hastadopted our de- mands. The C. G. Tyhas done nothing for us. Let us bringwur demands be- fore them!” aye A delegation of seven members was immediately chosen apd dispatched on its mission. Need of Politi Struggle. Upon Comrade Fetrat fell the task ‘jof pointing out the Recessity for the political struggle of the youth and the proof that the Young Communist League was the only organization that could lead this struggle.” Citing the experiences of the strug- gles of the French 1 the world pro- letariat, Ferrat showed that only the Communist nucleus could draw out, organize, and direet the struggles of the youth on all fronts: in the factory, on the land, in the army .. . Petroff and Nawla Speak. On the last dayepft the congress there stepped forward two Russian workers, the representatives of the emancipated proletarian and peasant youth of Russia—avyoung worker by the name of Petroff and a-young work- ing girl called Natia The enthus- jasm with which were received cannot be descril With broad stroke, Petroff painted the situation of the Russian youth un- der the czar. Long Hours—10 to 14a day—the most misétable wages, bru- tal tyranny and Pipers ignor- ance... Came rt ‘Then f years of interventi civil war, blo ade,... but ‘revolution was maintained! And%dH the time be to vote, the working class press ban- ned, silence in the ranks... You have heard complaints of the oppres- sive disciplime of the shops. But how can that compare to the bullying dis- cipline found in the ranks of the arm¢ —to the oppression of the petty offic- ers and officers?” War in Syria and Morocco, “But how can they make good their ‘promises’ of lowering the service period to one year—this government that sends thousands of young men to destruction in Morocco and Syria at the word of the bankers?” In reply the French Communist Youth League issued and the Youth Congress took up with enthusiasm, the militant slogans: “Down with the capitalist wars in Syria and Morocco! Mass fraternization!” Into\the Trade Unions! The young workers must enter the The regime he personified fell before the avalanche of the revolution. Mussolini is treading the path of his 8 gale and his degttnation will be as dismal. t ‘ F 4 ‘ conditions of the"toiling youth w the first care of orkers’ g ment. The working*day had been re. duced to 4 to 6 hours, the wages are CASUAL By HENRY GEORGE WEISS. There is an art! in the Novem- ber Century Mag: . It is called the “Bitter Bread of .” It is by Mar- guerite B, Harris: doubtless, who I of the subtle art as lying. No, no! imagination to the book. The article is interesting. Not the muddled thin) and of the class writes, n to) resistance, the well written. It could illustrate of the author, awhich the mainly her piece de stranger of trade unions! Croizat, member of the| the lonely yurt, “We had Executi\ mission of the C, G.| meant to institu dictatorship of T. BG ‘tionary unions), made aj the proletariat, — are taken as Authoritative. by the la- bor leaders who carry on wage nego- tiations with the capitalist clasé. It is the trick of computing alongside the index number for wages the fig- ures for the wholesale price of ALL commodities, Real wages of labor are not deter- mined in any such a manner as that. The only way to compute real wages is to compare the income of the work- ers with the price of the necessaries of life. The total wholesale prices of commodities includes the millions upon millions of dollars’ worth of lux- uries that are consumed by the ruling class, which can fall in price without affecting the economic condition or the real wages of the working class at all, Such figures include also the mil lions spent for gasoline, the price of which has fallen because of the fierce price-cutting campaign in many parts of the country in the war of Standard Oil against the independent produc- ers. This benefits the owners of mo- tor cars and trucks, but does not af- fect the majority of workers in the least. Hundreds of such examples can be presented. Furthermore Mr. Hoover's figures are based upon the wage RATES when workers are employed, and not upon the actual wage received during the year, which makes a considerable | difference. Another contemptible trick is a sec- ond table purporting to show the fig- ures covering the same period in Great Britain: | Index Numbers of Wages and Prices, | Great Britain, 1920-1925, (1913 equals 100) Year Wages Prices* 1920 230 283 1921 230 283 1922 260 181 on the same scale as adult workers, social insurance functioning as no- where else, young workers in the trade unions and occupying privileged posi- tion in them, a long vacation on full pay (one month a year), summer re- sorts for the youth, the factory the center of social life and the factory committee the real “boss” in the fac- tory... As Petroff, in simple words, gage a rough sketch of the conditions of the young workers in Russia, the workers sat up amazed, hardly believ- at last the malicious lies and slan- ders that the capitalist press had been spreading about Soviet Russia in order to befuddle the minds of the workers, Nadia then spoke and she touched more on the life of the young girls. She concluded with an enthusiastic description of how the red army car- ries on its tremendous educational and political functions in helping to raise the new generation of young workers and peasants in the spirit of Com- munism. French Delegation Appointed. Questions followed thick and fast which were all answered to the greatest satisfaction. Finally Nadia said: “You should hurry up and choose your delegation to go to Rus- sia to verify what you have been told today. You trust us. But you will have more confidence in your delegation.” The question of a French young workers’ and peasants’ delegation to Russia then came up for discussion and finally a delegation of fifteen was chosen. These young workers are to go to the Soviet Union and, in the freest possible manner, investigate and examine anything they may find) of interest there, stressing, of course, the conditions of the young workers. Then they will come back to France and tell the French young workers just what they saw, what they learned, and what their conclusions are. There can be no question that the report of | this delegation will help tremendous- ly to open the eyes of the widest masses of young workers in France and outsile to the truth about the Soviet Union and the work of the revolution. Significance of the Congress. Thus the congress ended after two solid days of work, The great success of this congress, its wide basis of rep- resentation, the militant spirit mani- fested in its deliberations and activi- ties—these proved that important revolutionary changes were and are taking place in the ranks of the French toiling youth, The revolution- ization of the masses is progressing }, apace; the objective situation and the REVIEWS substituted a new class dictatorship.” What a gem! And to have been utter: ed by a revolutionist, a member of the C. BE. C, As if any distinction lay be- tween the two phrases. Here, you little eight-year old Junior, what do we mean by the dictatorship of the proletariat? “Working class control of the government in the interests of the workingclass.” Oh, Margeurite, | Margeurite! if you must take a slam at the terrible Bolsheviks, be more careful in the future what you have your dream characters say, It may get by with your gan right, all night; but now and then’ such things get read by an honest to ‘worker who might be guilty fan hes “foe: = oo 1922 200 159 1923 170162 1924 iy 174 s2 8 The little joker here is easily de- tected. The British table does not in- dicate the wage rates, but the wages actually received, With this sort of deliberate falsifica- tion Mr. Hoover builds up a case for American prosperity. No wonder American statesmen are held im-contempt by other public ser vants of the bourgeois thruout the world. They richly deserve their odi- ous’ reputations! Watch for These Figures. American wage workers should watch for this argument, based upon the “authority” of gavernmental sta- tistics, to be sprung on’ ‘them in the first wage. controversy in Which they are engaged: With this ‘information you will know how to Meet the fake government statistics. It is certain that they will be util- ized by B, &'O, Bill Johnson, William Green, head of the A. F. of L, and all the other ‘class cbllaborationists, to prove that their betrayal’ ‘of the work- ers into schemes, for {néreasing the efficiency of the a machinery | of production will be “the work- ers. Unquestionably, lt “astonishing” figures will be used in those cesspools of intellectual staghation called labor colleges where the doctrine of class collaboration is the ‘alpha and omega of their “educational” system. The workers who are deluded by such sophistry as the notion that they must increase production before they can hope to receive increases in wages have yet to learn the most elementary principles of economics. *Average wholesale prices of all By H. M. Wicks Matiidm teaches the working class the irrefutable fact that to the extent machinery of production develops, to the extent that efficiency devices en- able the capitalists to gét more out of the working class for the same expen- diture of labor-time, to that extent will the demand for labor-power df minish, with the result that the work- ers will find themselves in ever-in- creasing numbers out on the streets in the army of unemployed. Any worker knows, thru his own experi- ente, that when there is an army of unemployed in the country wages are always beaten down to the-very low- est level. So in the last analysis the increased efficiency propaganda of the labor leaders and their apologists in the labor colleges is simply anew form of belly-crawling before the cap- italist class, a new betrayal ot the working class in an effort to fool the workers into aiding the capitalist class reduce wages. This sort of thing is to be expected from Mr. Hoover, one of the time serv- ers of the Coolidge strike-breaking, scab-herding, open shop government. The government exists fer the one purpose of coercing the working class in the interest of the capitalist class. It is interesting to find Hoover's ly- ing statistics predicated upon the propaganda of the labor lieutenants of the capitalist class and the intellec- tual eunuchs in the labor colleges. Neither Mr, Hoover, Mr. Green, Mr. Johnson or any of the frail sisterhood of the profe8sional crew dare defend their theories against a Marxist before a working class audience, Such theories could only originate in the minds of those whose mental development is compatible with the conduct of soup kitechens—or the commodities. nursery, e Voice of French Young Workers Is Heard ’ internal class relations in France are; the French league into a mass young especially favorable for energetic and | Communist league of the workers has determined activity of the Communist | already begun. And the real Bolshevik vanguard—the Comfiiinist Party and |spirit, the Leninist understanding and the Young Communist League. activity, that the mass work of the representatives of the French young |- ing such things possible, and seeing |’ And the Young’Conimunist League of France has not*beén ‘found lacking. The rooting of thé''young Communist | vanguard in the mii¥Ses of the young workers, the form&tion of the widest mass contacts, thé ‘triinsformation of From Mudpool By MARTIN N the.-beginning. there was a cell which lived imaommdpool. The sun kept it warm. Jt felt. happy, grew fat and strong until it by its own weight was divided into two cells. And mid was the eines of the first cell The new esti inherited good appetites and in many generations grew into tadpoles which in turn in a few mililons of'}elrs developed gills. But the mudpool_in which the illus- trous ancestral cell had lived and loved, had driedtp and our famous foreparents with gills found them- selves on a dry“Tand. Never did a ‘Sailor cuss the land with such vehemence-as these unfor- tunate kinsmen of ‘otir's, finding the water all gone and"ho use for the fins, and that is how it happened that the air, instead of water, began to flow thru their gill-openings. Always rebellious against conditions like good revolutionists, they began to flap their fins as if to find out whether or not they could rise still higher; and indeed they were successful flap- pers. For they, or at least their descend- ote: with shrieks of joy flew into a Tee. . HERE were delicious ‘hacia in the tree; but with stiff bills they “wings indeed Ny ,than for use in ‘That is why out fore: athers Tip and foremother Sip plucked the feathers oft their wings And always ground their bills against the bark of the tree. Such foolishness of cotfrse could not lead anywhere but to death. But before they died they had the bless- ing of many beautiful ¢hi ‘a tainted with this plucking In fact the children o} ad their par- ents and plucked the bgt ig off their entire body ineludi e head. All naked they felt cold and sought ref- uge in the hollow of the tree, or they had found new trees ‘by this time, In “hollow they found beard-moss hich they. tried to wrap around their ivering bodies. They paid the pen- 'y of folly and succumbed to rheum- atism, not before | "Arce given lives to short-billed and almost featherless offspring,’ which continued the bril- Nant traditions of the species. One of them, called Ha, looked at his garb of beard-moss, scratched his neck and thot how he’ could make such a beard grow. on “his head, for the head ‘suffered most from the cold. As if for answer to the constant scratch- ing, hair indeed began to grow on his zenith. Mrs. Ed, made the discovery on her’ mate's head and that night could not sleep an eyeful. Trying to solve’ the mystery she, too, scratched her head and with far more excellent results, In hair-pulling contests and helping each other to tree from hair, this personal adc ent grew thick strong. It reached the back of one conveniently perth etic it In moving tone new sueetery i Di we SOT ABET aie SRS i ot ie league manifests, give fair promise for the future. Long live the Young Communist League of France! Long live the Young Communist In- ternational! ~ to Communism MATTILA. UT the back was still cold, some- times and the seratching,-,was ex- tended over all the body. Father Ed. summarily rubbed even his face, which Mrs. Ed. was careful not to touch for aesthetic reasons; there was water in the mudpool andthe lady liked to watch her face. in its glim- mering surface. Father Ed. was at first horrified in finding the growth on his face, but as he could not prevent it, he declared, “Beard is a man’s natural adornment, pacify yourself,” with which solemn judgment Lady Ed, had to content herself. The Eds lived to a very old age and left be-whiskered and hairy children. One couple, particularly sensitive to cold, moved south where the sun shone much more warmly. There they discovered that whereas hair was all- right for the north, one could live more comfortably without it in the south; consequently they had a hair-pulling madness similar to the featheg-pluck- ing .madness which their ancestors had had. The hot sun helped them and behold, they were naked! They had not taken any account of horseflies and wasps which bit and stung them like the very enemies. Without losing his resourcefulness the Ed. of this generation captured a bear with his bare hands and snatched its hide. It was a retreat to hair but not to one’s own hair! Mrs. Ed. said that she wanted a nice fur, the like she had seen the leopard wear; and with utmost patience, cunning, and strength Mr. Ed. succeeded in wrenching the pelt from this swiftly-moving animal, gk even these Eds went the way of the world, for the great joy of their children who inherited thelr tare, stone-axes and caves. The race of the Eds flourished and grew in number inasmuch as it was saved from plagues, wild animals, cold and hunger and above all, the wars between different tribes of Eds, © For many, many generations later we find again an Ed. seated in his workshhop, He has on a neat suit hair, woven of sheep-wool; but chin is shaved with a sharp weapon, He is thinking, measuring, and cal- culating. He calls himself Edison and tries to-invent an electric Hat And he invents it. One other of the Eds, Darwin, forces his tools of research into the history of Ed’s and excavates whole history. trom the mudpool the master of the world, Thus the progress conitnues. At one time the Eds were able to fly; now they have regained that knowl- edge, Earlier yet they swam — the seas; they now swim again ‘ powerful machines, spe The next step or them ts to over throw the capitalist society which has grown inadequate for their welfare, and to establish in its place a munistic commonwealth. When is done there will be great joys | store for they bs oe A wie ry ~” o 1 s