The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 3, 1926, Page 4

ey (CME eA oe Pagh Four THE DAILY WORKER THE DAILY WORKER |WiSE FOOLS IN <P. Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. co. 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Il), Phone Monroe an SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail (in Chicago only): By mail (outside of Chicago): $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 matl and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Blivd., Chicago, Iilinols J, LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F, DUNNE {mane snenentmenineiseeren HAIOTB MORITZ J. LOEB... Business Manager cae as second-class mail September 21, 1923, at the post-office at Chi- cago, Ill, under the act of March 3, 1879, Advertising rates on application. Se 290 z Centennary of Council of Nicea In the hall of the benediction in the vatican at Rome the pope, in the presence of 23 cardinals, on Monday celebrated the sixteenth eentennary of the council of Nicea. The council of Nieea was. held in the year 325 and marked the emrgence of christianity into a full- blown state religion; From an impotent sect practicing the black art of the magicians of the East, christianity became the slave religion par excellence of ancient Rome. When the Emperor. Con- stantine was sorély beset by his enemies he professd to be converted to that religion when, in the midst of a terrific battle, he claimed he saw a cross flaming in the sky bearing the legend, “By this sign ye conquer.” A clever politician, he knew the abysmal ignorance of the christian hordes in the'rat holes of Rome, and’so concocted his weird tale of a miracle. A few years later the council of Nicea was convened for the: pur- pose of formulating the dogma of a state.rgligion: Otier Renian emperors disdained ‘to. Stultify themselves hysembtacing any of the myriad religions that thrived. in Rome. As’ the histerian*Gibbon in his “Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire” said, the emperors con- sidered all religions equally false and equally useful. Before the time of Constantine the “Greek, the Roman and ‘the Barbarian knelt before their respective alters and were easily persuaded that, under | different names, they worshipped the same god.” The:other emperors tolerated all beliefs and embraced none. Constantine adopted! christianity as a war measure. It is this’ fact that is celebrated today in Rome. Nicea is the starting point of that ghastly dogma that has served for sixteen centuries as a slave religion—under chattel slavery, feudalism and capitalism. It was Frederick Nietzsche who stigmatized christianity as “the greatest calamity that ever befell the human race.” And, tho we cannot accept this opinion as sound, | it is not difficult to understand historical justification for Nietzsche’s estimation. In the sixteen hundred years of christianity there is a period of one thousand years, during which that religion held sway over mankind in feudal Europe, that will ever be known to history as the dark ages. During those ages intelligence. was a crime and ignorance a virtue. And even today we see priests of the church still standing with their black cloaks raised, like flocks of vultures, trying to keep the world in darkness. But the light of modern science, in ie hands of proletarian revolutionists, penetrates ever deeper into the crevices of supersti- tion and reveals the church as the hideous instrument of slavery endeavoring to perpetuate the most frightful system of oppression | the world has ever seen. Let the pope and his cardinals make the most of their celebra-| tion of the sixfeenth centenpary of the birth of christianity as an organized religion; no pope“will ever celebrate the seventeenth cen- tennary, for ere that time comes the festering system that today fur- nishes soil upon which religion thrives will have vanished before! the revolution. Instead of people living in misery on this ‘earth| sustained by the hope of happiness in a future life, they will ander: | stand ‘that this life is the all in all and they will see to it that they get what they are entitled to on this earth. Setting the Trap in Syria Serrail, the butcher, having failed thru terror forcibly to crush the Druses and Syrians, his successor, M. de-Jouvenal, proposes to the rebels in Syria and Lebanon that they surrender their arnis and deposit them with the French general, Andreas, in. Damascus. Jouve the new high commissioner administering the league | of nations m: te held by France over Syria, proposes disarma-| ment of the yalliant native forces who heroically resisted the maraud- ing bands of French soldiers, who met and defeated’the best of the French colonial army. According to the Manchester Guardian De Jouvenal denies that he proposed an armistice to the rebels, be- cause such a proposal would be tantamount to recognizing the rebel forces as equals in warfare. He merely proposes. complete sur- render. It is to be hoped that the leaders of the rebels will not fall into the trap set for them by the new high commissioner. Once these native for surrender their arms they are at the mercy of the French ‘butchers. And those familiar with the history of French frightfulness know. what will be the aftermath. Such a capitulation would be followed by the methodical assassination of the unarmed population of Syria over a period of weeks or possibly months until every vestige of rebellion would be crushed. The only adequate reply of the Syrians and Druse to ‘the in- sulting and ‘impudent demand of the French high commissioner is intensification of the struggle, hurling thunderbolts into the ranks of the Wrench brigands: until the invader is scourged from the country. nT The American Federation of Labor has taken up the “fight against fascism.” But it is only Italian fascism that the fight is directed against. The labor bureaucracy, one of the foundations of fascism in America, doesn’t like the cheap, imported article to compete against. “Majah” Berry’s Omaha speech threatening the “reds” with violence and death is one symptom among many. One day. there is a billion dollar bank. merger in Wall Street, Its power will sway world industry and politics. The next day there is a two hundred million dollar oil merger, Railroad mergers, bakery mergers, power mergers, mergers and guper-trusts on every hand—yet the A..F, of L. opposes amalgamation Of craft unions into single powerful unions by*industry. Nothing like being an optimist. Secretary Mellon says that because the treasury of the U. 8. shows a surplus and taxes here “ure going to be reduced—for the wealthy—*the belief is justified that the year abead will be continued progress towards world stabiliza- tion.” Have you Kad your wages “stabilized” yet? + Get a membeér for the Workers Party aud a new eubseripitiy for the DAILY WORE I, 7 Be Se a Mh DISCUSSION ON WAGE QUESTION Increasing V Wages Is Difficult Problem NEW YORK CITY, Dec. 31,—There is now going on in New York a dis- cussion of social problems by a mot- ley collection of brokers, manufactur- ers, “labor leaders,” liberals, and 80 on, conducted by the American econ- omic association. One Mr, Catchings who represented the brokers, Goldman, Sachs, and company, set forth his ideas of wage increases, saying that one way was impossible and the only alternative was doubtful. “Real wages,” said Mr. Catchings, “can be increased by increasing total production, or, by increasing labor's share in what is now produced. Some Trouble, “So far as. increasing total produc- tion is concerned, we cannot today consume what we can produce—part- ial operation is necessary in almost every line of business. In almost every direction the fear of overpro- duction retards production. “We have assumed heretofore that Lif we had a properly balanced produc- tion seme one “vould have the money “Income to buy..the goods. We have assumed that the total money income available for consumption was enough and that the problem was to get a larger part of this for, labor. This | fundamental assumption regarding consumer purchasiig power has now been questioned. It is stated that as a matter of fact the total amount dis- tributed to all consumers in the pro- duction of goods ig not as great as the necessary sales price of the goods. Wage. earners, profit makers, receiy- ers of rent and of Interest, etc. do not altogether receive ‘enough to en- able them, as consumers, to. pay for these goods the price which must be paid if, as producers, they ‘are to con- tinue to make use of the facilities of production.” If this statement were true; Mr. Catchings said, it should become the basis of immediate study and discus- sion because of its far-reaching sign- ificance to our modern industry and life, Frey—Also Spoke. John P. Frey, president of the Ohio Federation of Labor, said that indus- trial production had increased 600 per cent in recent years, while wages had increased 100 per cent. Professor Herbert Feis of the Uni- | versity of Cincinnati said an economic weakness in the wage structure was | the individual bargaining between em- | ployer and employ as to what the lat- ter should receive. This bargaining, he said, was governed by the supply of labor available, whereas it should be considered with respect to the dusi- | Ness. ty cle+-the: course and fluctua- | tions of business. -.— | Tries Bucking the: * . Company Union with - - : oe Court Injunctions SAN FRANCISCO—(FP)—P. J. Mays, recently reelectéd general ¢hair- man, Shopcraft Protective leagué, has asked for an injunetion to prevent the Southern Pacifie railroad-from ealling | a> -ther election. Mays’ claims that | the railroad is trying to control the Shoperaft, and wants him ousted be- cause of his having obeyed the 1922 strike order. German Unions Form Alliance at Halle BERLIN—(FP)—Following the ex- ample of Frankfort-on-Main, where a trade’ inion alMance was formed, the unions of the railwaymen, municipal functionaries, machinists and. fire- men, transport workers, and . state and municipal workers at Halle de- cided on a similar alliance, on the ground that “only by working hand in hand, confronted as we are by a common employer, have we any guarantee of obtaining good wages, salaries and working conditions,” Why Not Let Women Serve on Mo. Juries? ST. -—LOUIS—(FP)—The Missouri women's legislative-committee. wants the law amended to render women eligible for jury service. The present law restricts jury service to’ male voters. The women's organization claims, “While women would not re- volutionize the administration of jus- tice, they would ‘bring to the court- room a viewpoint which it does not now have.” Seattle Unions to Build Big Temple SEATTLE-(FP)—The Central La- bor Temple Assn. announces the erec- tion in 1926 of a 6-story combined business block and labor headquarters to cost $600,000, There will be 60 busi- ness offices for local union officials, ‘| several small meeting rooms, an audi- torium with capacity for 2,000 people and lounge and recreation rooms. The structure is being financed by a bond issue, Workers Write About the Workers’ Life! CHICAGO CLASS LEARNS HOW THE TRYBUNA ROBOTNICZA DEVELOPED ITS WORKER CORRESPONDENTS Every member of the Chicago worker correspondence class was given an opportunity to learn his and her weak and strong points in writing, for each one had a contribution to hand in which was actively criticized by the class and by the instructor, J. Louis Engdahl, editor of The DAILY WORKER. The most interesting note in the session, however, was struck when the students told of the discussion that their articles inspire in the shops Contractor’s Profits Enormous from Sweat of Automobile Workers By A Worker Correspondent DETROIT, Mich., Dec. 31.—Briggs Manufacturing company, contractor for making bodies, who sweats work- ers so hard that it can produce them even cheaper than Henry Ford’s own sweatshop, made $12,000,000 in profits out of its workers in 1924, Total liabil- ities beginning in 1924 were $68,000,- 000, added to this $12,000,000, the company’s property has increased to $80,000,000. The company owRs. bix ee plants in Detroit, the er, Harper, Mt. Eliot, Mack Ae Waterloo and the Meldrum. Th last four plants jnths ago. The Mack Ave. plant hours each. loyes, 50 per Out of its 68,800 c% cent are boys and In the sum- mer they even worl ob Sundays. The Briggs co Ing concern makes bodies for Ford, Hudson In my next arti conditions existing in an article on Tuesday, formation chat inery workers | have been A typographical appearing on this Dec. 29, conveyed there are only 1,40 in Chicago, This, 14,000.\, ; and factories when The DAILY WORK-4————-—______________ ER is displayed or passed around to the workers, Bosses’ favorites do not approve but the workers cherish the article and become’ the lifelong friend of The DAILY WORKER. Comrade K. Gebert, editor of the Polish Communist paper, Trybuna Robotnicza, sat in at the class and was invited to tell about the worker correspondents on his paper, Comrade Gebert said when they first began publishing they had only an occasional article here and there by workers, but now, tho they have set aside a whole page for worker correspondents, that is not enough for, material sent by worker correspond- ents fills up half the paper. The Pol- ish paper has worker correspondents in the steel mills, in the mines and in the needle trades. At first many articles were sent on general subjects but gradually they learned to send mre straight from the job news, the tiews which interests workers, He told how the circulation has grown by leaps since the worker correspondents | ents’ class will have begun writing for the paper and said if it were not for the worker correspondents there would be no Polish Communist paper. Each worker correspondent sends in his article and orders a bundle, ‘This bundle is cir- culated until every worker sees, reads and discusses the article, The next session of the class will be held on Thursday, Jan, 7th, the regul- ar class night, in the editorial room of The DAILY WORKKER, at 8 p. m. sharp. Students -are urged to be on time as the class aims to close at 10 o'clock sharp, There is no tuition fee for the worker correspondents’ class. We make this announcement, because often new students come pre- pare to pay for instruction. This class requires its students to write—there is no other requirement and no charge, ‘ et o> -@. The New Yor ae worker correspond- be held on Monday evening Jan, 4th at 8 p. m. at the Workers’ School, 108 Hast 14th St. Workers (Communist) Party PHILADELPHIA PARTY MEMBERS MUST _ ATTEND REORGANIZATION MEETINGS PHILADELPHIA, Dec, 31—The following meetings have been called by the district office to reorganize the Workers i peemurist) Party in Phila- ‘DELEGATES MUST ATTEND SECTION CONFERENCES | WHICH START SUNDAY Election of delegates to the as tion conferences bythe shop and street nuclei of tle iWorkers (Com- munist) Party, Locat Chicago have in most instance ‘Jalready taken place. Beginning Sunday, Jan. 3, the first of the section conferences will start. The dates and places of the section conferences are as fol- lows: Section No, 2. Sunday, Jan. 3, {private home); 10 a. m. Section No. 1. Monday, Jan. 4, at Community Center, 3201 South Wabash avenue. Section No. 3. jay, Jan. 4, at Vilnis, 3116 South d street. Section No. 4. Tuesday, Jan. 5, at Freiheit, 3118 W. Rooseve:t Rd. Section No. 5. Wednesday, Jan. 6, at W. Carmon, 2406 North Clark street, Mig Section No. 6. Thursday, Jan. 7, at Biltmore Theater, 3rd floor, 2046 w. Division street. ; Agenda. Among the points on the agenda are the following: 1. Attendance at nuclei meetings. 2. DAILY WORKER Sub-drive, | distribution at factories, étc. 8. Sale and distribution of litera- ture. 4. Lenin memorial meeting. 5. Agitprop activity— educational work, 6. Industrial work, 7. Work in the language fraternal | organizations and workers’ clubs. 8. Workers’ Correspondents and shop bulletins, 9. Work among Negroes. 10, Miscellaneous, 11. Election of section commit- tees. New York Members Pay Dues in ‘Nuclei After January First NEW YORK, Dec, 31—After Jan. 1, all dues are to be paid in the new units, shop and street nuclei, The district executive committee has decided upon the liquidation of the old territorial branches after Jan. 1 and that all party members are to pay their dues in the new units, the shop and street nuclei, Members can- not pay dues in the sub-section meet- ings as these are only general meet- ings of a group of nuclei and are not the basic unit of the party, All members to be in good standing must attend their meeting of shop and street nuclei and those not attached to lower units (street nuclej and inter- national branches) must attach them- selves without fail. If there are any difficulties in this respect you are to take them up immediately with the district executive committee, All lower units of the party, shop and street nuclei jn factory districts, or street nuclei in residential sections are to meet and organize themselves without delay. No matter what the number of members present at the and trade union delphia on the shop nuclei basis: January 5—Section 2, at 521 York Ave., Market to Columbia, Front to River. January 7—Section 3, at 4035 Girard Ave., West Philadelphia, January 8—Section 1, at 431 Pine St., South of Market. Front to River. January 12—Section 4, at Park and Susquehanna Ave. Above Columbia between Front and River. Also Strawberry Mansion, Prankford and Ken- sington, Every member of\the party in Philadelphia being circularized thru the district office’and also thru the existing branches, and definite instructions/ are given to what section the comrade belongs. low the instructions of the letter, Comrades are urged to fol- Those comrades who have received no: letters should attend the meeting in the section in which they work. EVERY MEMBER OF THE PARTY WHO INTENDS TO REMAIN IN THE PARTY MUST ATTEND HIS SECTION MEETING, New York Will Have Four Lenin Memorial Meetings, January 24 NEW YORK, Dec. 31—Four Lenin memorial meetings have been arrang- ed in New York for January 24 in the following halls at 2 o'clock in the afternoon: New Star Casino, 107th street and Park avenue. Central Opera House, and Third avenue. Millers’ Grand Assembly, 318 Grand street, Brooklyn. Manhattan Lyceum, 66 East Fourth street. Sympathetic organizations are re- quested not to arrange anything for that date. Workers are invited to attend and bring their friends. C, E, Ruthen- berg, Ben Gitlow, and M, J. Olgin will speak at all those meetings, and there will be an impressive musical pro- gram. Wicks’ Lecture Boosts Philly’s Open Forum PHILADELPHIA, Dec,. 31.—The talk delivered by Comrade H. M. Wicks here on Locarno “peace” pact and Soviet Russia has revived the interest of the Philadelphians in the open forum. He gave a very instruc- tive and interesting talk exposing the role that is now played by British and French imperialism and (their con- flict with the capitalists of Wall Street and the house of Morgan, A number of questions were asked as the role of the “peace” pact which were explained to the great satisfac- tion of the audience, Previous\ meetings of the open forum had suffered a decline in at- tenance and in financial support, but the spirit that our Philadelphia insti- tution is getting its second breath of the season, see a Speaker in Cleveland Sunday. CLEVELAND, Ohio, Dec, 30.—H. M. Wicks, well known lecturer and labor journalist, will deliver a lec ture on “World Peace and the Lo- carno Pact,” on Sunday afternoon, 67th street Jan, 3, at 2 o'gJock at the Insurance Center Bidg., 1783 E. 11th St. * The capitalist pre has been hail- of the world’s problems, They real- ize that they must settle their dif- first meeting of the unit, they must or- ganize themselves and mobilize for getting other members to attend, Many difficulties in this respect are inevitable at the beginning, but if all comrades will energetically set them- selves to the task of organizing the lower units, the new organization will soon be functioning smoothly, ferences’ if they are to guccessfully combat the workers, FREE LITERATURE SUPPLIED, MILWAUKEE, Wis.-+Free copies of the YOUNG WORKER, Tribuna}, Robotnicza, Pravda, and Honor and Truth, can be secured from Frank Milder, 821 Clylesurn St., Milwaukee, WORKERS PARTY AND SOCIALIST LABOR PARTY DEBATE IN MILWAUKEE MILWAUKEE,’ Dec, 30—Milwau- kee workers will be able to hear an excellent debate between the repre- sentative of the Workers (Commun- ist) Party, William F. Dunne, and of the socialist-labor party, R. Koep- pel at the Freie Gemeinde Hall, cor- ner of Eight and Walnut Sts., Sun- day afternoon, Jan. 3, at. 2:20. clock. The subject for the debate will be: “Resolved that the prin- ciples and tactics of the Workers (Communist) Party offer the cor- rect solution for the victory of the working class,” All werkers are invited to attend this instructive debate. A small ad- mission of 15 cents will be charged. The debate has been arranged under the joint auspices of the Workers (Communist) Party and the social- ist-labor party. Bronx Section Starts Its Educational Work NEW YORK, Dec. 31--The educa- tjonal activities of the Bronx Section No. 8, have started, and comrades are urged to register for the courses being given. On Thursday evenings, Comrade Sophie Mesnil is instructor in English, English courses are par- ticularly important now, since the re- organization. A course in Fundamentals of Com- munism will begin on Wednesday, Jan, 6, at 8:30, with Comrade A, Mark- off as instructor, Both these cours- es are open to all workers, To Construct Carline. WASHINGTON, Dec. 31—The Low- ell and Southern railroad asked the interstate commerce commissioner for authority to construct a four-mile line from Lowell, IL, to a connection th the Chicago, Burlington and uincy at Leonore, Ill. PACKING HOUSE WORKER! DAILY WORKER DRIVE STARTS MONDAY! HAVE YOU ORDERED YOUR BUNDLE? SE NR ERE NO CHANCE FOR A STRIKER TO ATTEND MEETING Effectively Barred by Distance and Doors (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK CITY, Dec. 31.—As the old year dies there seems to be little expectation that the conference be- tween the anthracite coal operators and the striking miners’ representa- tives, headed by John L, Lewls, will do anything before the new year has ! become well started. + Miners Barred Out. The conference is/meeting not only at the Union League Club, the home of reactionary wealth, but behind ‘closed doors at that—and there is little danger that any of the 158,000 anthracite strikers, ragged and hungry and getting a little desperate, may get a chance to give a demonstration of their insistence on, the tridistrict demands which Lewis has seemingly thrown in the waste basket. At the close of the first day’s con- fab, both sides agreed on entering the following statement im the record: “The various plans heretofore sub- mitted were made part of the record. It was agreed that all plans could be brought before the conference. Among the plans offered were the following: “Plan of\Governor Pinchot; the le gislators’ plan; the engineers’ plan and the answer of the miners thereto. The letters and correspondence of priests for and against arbitration were made part of the record. Letters 4] from the Panther Creek Business- men’s association and Scranton min- isters also entered in the record. “Chairman Alvan Markle submitted a plan for the settlement of the strike. The plan was discussed at length. The miners voiced opposition to certain parts of the Markle plan, claiming it was arbitration, The chairman said ‘the plan did. snot amount to arbitra- tion. There jwas discussion of the Pinchot plan “he miners argued that | the Pinchot “plan offered a construet- ive plan for settlement, while the operators claimed that the Pinchot plan was destructive and finworkable. “The miners stated that they were as much opposed to arbitration today as they were four months ago and will continue in their opposition. “The attitude of the operators was that an acceptable plan should pro- vide for a long term agreement, pro- ns vision for wage adjustments if econ- — omic conditions require, and some \ means of avoiding deadlocks in case aa) of sasiaeninsponsiiesl | FARMERS AND HEALTH HEADS = AGREE ON PLAN At a meeting called at the Breyoort Hotel here, the representatives of the ‘ city. health department, state health i department, the farmers having tu- berctilin tested herds and those that have not tuberculin tested herds met and decided on a plan by means of which” Chicago will be able to get milk from tuberculin tested cows, | «& The Gonference decided that all ef- % forts will he made to get the state to appropriate $2,000,000 and that the United States government appropriate $2,000,000. During the discussions that took place—many of them quite heated—it was shown that the,farmers who have the diseased herds are willing to allow their herds tobe tested for tubercul- osis provided that the state and fed- eral governments pay the farmers for - their losses. The plans laid down at this gathering if carried thru will satisfy the ‘farmers and will mot force them into bankruptcy, During one of the heated debates, E. C. Rockwell, business manager of the Milk Producers’ Association, many dt whose members have diseased herds, declared that it was peculiar that milk from a diseased cow was | unhealthy, but that when that cow ~~ was brought to the “yards,” it was sold as high-grade meat, “If the milk from these cows {8 unhealthy, so) is the meat,” declared the milk Pro: ducers’ head, Bundesen, who has carried on this fight to bolster up his political prest- ige in the eyes of Chicagoans dram- A atically, said that such meat was dnd that if anyone would | unfit present evidence that Rockwell's stateméne was true he bh close that slaughtering-house, farmers laughed when they heard an .as they know. whose willing tool Bun- desen is and what liis dramatic dig- play was meant to accomplish, X| ‘ Packing house worker! “The first special articles, which The DAILY iy WORKER worker should see to it that a bund under. Send them in immediatelys prepared on the conditions, in the packing house industry appear in Monday's issue of The DAILY WORKER. Every packing hous if The DAILY WORKER is at the ‘and distributed to the workers as they enter on Monday morning. Order bundle! The DAILY WORKER wants stories basi the conditions you