The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 7, 1926, Page 6

Page Six THE DAILY WORKER THE DAILY WORKER|No Splits! No Dual Unions!” Appeal of Progressives Published by the DAILY WCRKER PUBLISHING CO. 1113 W, Washington Blvd., Chicago, Il, ——_ 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 Phone Monroe 4712 Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Illinois ——_ tha J, LOUIS ENGDAHL 4 F, DUNNE TZ J. LOEB... Editors {mn ...Business Manager Entered 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. = Gee 290 = = Packing House Workers’ Problems It is the function of a Communist paper to take the lead in every fight against the rapacity of the exploiters of labor. It is not suf- ficient merely to furnish news of the struggle, but the experience of the workers in industry must be analyzed, the various grievances confronting the wage slaves under capitalist production must be explained upon the basis of the class struggle and turned into con- scious direction to better the conditions of the workers. The series of articles appearing in TH» Dairy Worker on conditions in the great packing industry emphasize the crying need for organization of the miserably underpaid slaves of this gigantic trust. Surely all workers must bitterly resent the nefarious spy system in the meat packing industry, the snivelling sneaks prying thru the pockets of the clothes of the workers as they hang in the company lockers to detect anything that may suggest a desire for unionization of the plants. This practice is so brazen that even the dullest workers resent it. Then there are the more subtle forms of oppression of the work- ers. A case in point is the system of conference boards such as exist in Chicago, or the “ ”’ committees in Omaha and other places. These _boards and committees exist for the purpose of devising schemes for more intensive exploitation of labor by raising the pro- ductive power of the plants thru intensification of the exploitation of labor. They are simply institutions thru which a more methodical and scientific exploitation of labor takes place. The result is greater production and greater profits for the bosses, with less expense to the capitalist. Increased production means unemployment for the packing house workers. When workers in the industry are deprived of their jobs the employers are able to beat down wages. Workers who participate in such boards help the employer reduce their own wages. Tur Dairy Worker in exposing the real character of this swindle practiced against the workers furnishes them with ammuni- tion that will enable them to combat the bosses, thereby striving to fulfill its mission as the spokesmen for the working class, a news- paper to which the workers can look for leadership in their every- day struggle. Increase Graft Brigade Appropriation The house of congress during its first session after the holiday passed a treasury and postoffice appropriation bill of $867,- $52,451, which carries with it a stipulation that $34,848,825 be used to enforce prohibition. That means that the crew of grafters known as prohibition agents will be permitted to draw pensions in the form of wages from the government while receiving fabulous sums for protecting the old established rum runners and bootleggers from the upstarts that may try to enter the field. Prohibition, as enforced by the thugs ang gunmen that make up the prohibition forces, means elimination of competition against the big bootleggers. The same session of congress also increased the appropriation for coast rum-runing activities by $3,615,305, which will enable the coast guard more effectively to aid the big importers of scotch whiskey and prohibit rivals of the big fellows. On the same day congress turned down a request for an increase of $400,000 to the rural mail appropriation by a vote of 205 to 129. Millions for the prohibition farce, but not one cent for better mail service to the farmtrs. Such is the Coolidge policy of government. Sir Basil Thompson, eminent Scotland Yard sleuth, on trial in London for attacking a girl in Hyde Park, pleads that he was conducting sociological investigations. Such methods of research are common among the nabobs of capitalism, but Sir Basil is the first one that has described it as “sociological investigation.” It is doubtful if this sort of research will be endorsed by sociologists of standing. Cal Coolidge and Lowden of Illinois By H. M. WICKS. ECENT events in the realm of politics in the United States make it increasingly difficult for the repub- lican party press agents to maintain the fiction that Coolidge is a states- man of superlative vision and that massive thoughts roll from his brain at crifical intervals during his long periods of silence. While this down east Yankee remained in seclusion. at the White House and left to the hack writers on the republican press the task of creating the Cooldige myth everything went well, but when the real Coolidge stepped forth and dis- coursed in person upon the problems confronting the natior his insipid character revealed itself. At the farm congress in Chicago his listeners could scarcely conceal their derision after the first utterances of the president, His total incapacity to analyze, to say nothing of solving, the problems that confront the farmers exploded the legend that Coolidge was a great leader or a great politician. What the farmers of the corn belt think of Coolidge was revealed by the reaction of the senators and congress- men at Washington when they re- turned after their short holiday vaca- tions. Staunch supporters of the presi- dent discovered that all explanations regarding the motives of the president were futile with the farmers of the corn and wheat belt, The princtpal occupation of these farmers during the winter montlis is roundly damning Washington. A sojourn 4 atmosphere was suflicient to jo a number of former Coolidge orters to return to Washington for timber to succeed Calvin ‘ i policy of the republican admin- n at With the presidential campaign two years away there will be many as- pirants to succeed Coolidge, and those individuals now prominent will prob- ably be eliminated in one way or an- other. One of the outstanding contenders for standard bearer of the republican party in the 1928 campaign is former Governor Frank O, Lowden of Illinois. Lowden married part of the Pullman millions and is one of the industrialist group. He would have been nominated in 1920 had it not been for the fact that he was exposed for corrupting voters in the state of Missouri. Since that time he has been endeavoring to create a bond of interest between the middle-west industrialists and the farmers, preparatory to launching ‘a campaign. for nomination for presi- dent. He probably thinks that his vote buying is not so reprehensbile as it seemed in 1920, in view of the wild orgies of corruption of the Harding- Hughes-Daugherty-Coolidge outfit. As a scab herder and strikebreaker Lowden could easily qualify as the successor to Harding and Coolidge. The Pullman concern from which he derives his support as the kept man of his wife is hotorious as one of the most ferocious anti-labor concerns in the country. Against the Lowden effort to link up the farmers with the industrialists, the revolutionary workers .of the Jnited States must intensify the drive to erogte a Inbor party that will gain the support of the exploited farmers, thus inerging the two great groups of oppressed Worker's into one gigantic class .party, challenging the govern- ment of the capitalist class, (Continued from page 1) chaos among the miners’ forces in that district. Result of Defeat and Betrayal. The Alberta miners, betrayed by the Lewis machine, their wages reduced, working conditions worsened, spurned and repudiated by the bureaucracy, have turned for aid to a greater foe, the generation old idea of dual union- ism, which has been more responsible than any other one thing within the labor movement for its backward con- dition in this country today. The miners, misled and betrayed, must face this question squarely and examine the dual movements of the past immediately before this poison- ous reptile does any more harm than it has already done, and to this end we cite the following instances of failures of dual unionism: Well Meant, But an Error, In 1905 socialists, anarchists, social- ist laborites, industrialists and pro- gressives, amidst a blare of trumpets gave birth to the union that was to supplant the entire trade union struc- ture and to realign the labor move- ment on a new revolutionary basis— the I. W. W. “rhis organization, supported by and somposed of the most militant mem- yers of the working class at its birth, ived, prospered and gained in mem- bership for a time, but today has de- clined to about 16,000 members. Its trength and influence is practically gone and is a negligible factor as an yrganization of the masses of labor today. The rank and file had fought and {them aside for the new, and the same is true of all the other dual unions formed. The Collapse of the W. F. of M. In 1905, the Western Federation of Miners joined with the I. W. W. and remained with them for two years and then withdrew. The most militant fighters bitterly opposed the #with- drawal, and stayed with the I. W. W. —such fighters as Haywood and St. John with a score of others. Because the Western Federation of Miners refused to stay with the I. W. W. the dualists set out to destroy it, suffered and sacrificed too much to up their old unions to turn build hoping to get its membership in this manner, and finally reduced it to such a state that when the,capitalist forces made their onslaught, they completely wrecked the union, Not even the name of that splendid indiistrial union is left today, and notliing was left in its place of any power or number. It is well, tho, that,we state, had the officials of the Western Federation of Miners met the onslaught of the cap- italists with a solfd|front instead of allowing piece-meal [esto of a district at a time, le organization may still have been to the fore. Or had the militant fighters given to the miners’ union the loyalty and energy that they give to their new union, the I. W. W., and stayed within the federation, the miners’ union would still be the pride. of the Amer- ican labor movement that it was in days gone by. Canadian 0.\B. U. The great moyement in Canada in 1918, known as the Canadian One Big Union, is another classical example of dual unionism. ‘This organization steadily grew to 40,000 membership and today has declined to about 4,000. Abandon 8,000,000 Acres of Farm Land (Continued from page 1), and railroad owners, hence the pres- nt hearings in Kansas City are view- ed with suspicion. Suspect Motives of Congressmen. The bills introduced at Washing- ton by Congressman Dickinson, repub- lican, of Iowa, and Senator William B. MeKinley, republican, of Hlinois, are viewed with suspicion. Both pro- positions request the government to regulate the federal reserve banking system so that the small banks of the agricultural regions may obtain funds to loan to the farmers thereby enabling them to hold their crops until they can get favorable prices. Such methods, as the farmers have learned thru experience, will not solveithe problem. Already that sys- em has been tried and after hold- ng erops many months on which the banks held mortgages obtained by ad- vancing in many cases less that one- halt ofthe anticipated price, the mortgages have been foreclosed be- cause the market price was not suf- THE “UPHEAVAL IN THE WEST” The new union got nowhere, and the old ones were weakened and split by the loss of many thousands of their most militant members, Not only that, but the rising minority opposition that was crystalizing in the old unions was wrecked, and the control passed exclusively into the hands of the re- actionaries, Transport Unions Ruined. Many other dual union ‘and seces- sion movements could be mentioned, Such as the A. R. U., and the seces- sion movement of the switchmen in 1920. During the last two years the longshoremen and seamen have had bitter experience with secession move- ments. Both of these organizations had lost big strikes, and both of them were in need of rebuilding and re- juvenating by the militant progressive element, but just at this critical movement when they were needed most to strengthen the unions, they set about to tear them to pieces, More Unions—Less Unionism. * Five dual unions appeared, and when they finished fighting the old unions and fighting each other, nearly all traces of unionism were wiped out in many seaports. Similar attacks are now being directed against the weakened railroad shopmen’s unions. It is a notable fact that generally the dualists have been of the revolu- tionary or progressive type, who, dis- gusted with the program and tactics of the bureaucracy in the old unions, have unsuccessfully attempted, by lack of left wing organization, to turn the old unions into revolutionary weapons of the working class, Despairing of doing so by working without organization of a left wing, and looking for a short cut, they turned to dual unionism to ac- complish that end. The résult, how- ever, altho unintentional, has been to further weaken the existing unions d the progressive element therein, leaving the bureaucracy more firmly entrenched. Must Fight Inside Unions, Brother miners, your struggle in the union is the same as the struggle of the workers in all the labor unions thruout America today. It is part of the class struggle. The Lewis ma- chine, like the Berrys, B. and 0. Johnstons, Lees, Greens, Farringtons and the whole class collaboration out- fit of the A. F. of L., can never be fought outside the old unions by form- ing new ones, To withdraw from the old unions is but to weaken yourselves and to turn the old unions over exclusively to the fakers. Those amongst you who are advocating a split in the miners’ union are playing into the hands of the coal operators and the bureau- eracy, Good Intentions Not Enough, Should the misguided few succeed in splitting away the discontented ele- ment in the miners’ union, the ele- ment that has been in the vanguard of the struggle against the bureau- cracy, the element that has fought for the miners in all the struggles of the coal diggers, the only real protection and leadership the coal diggers have, would but rob the membership of} every vestige of protection and do the very opposite from what these mil-| itants set out to do in the first place— protect the miners from the treachery of their leaders, The miners will not give up the U. M, W. of A, They have fought and sacrificed for the union as few out- side of it can understand. The plains and hillsides of this country are crimson with the blood of men who died that our union may live. Ludlow and Cabin Creek will never be erased from the memory of the coal diggers, and the contemptible leeches who now are in control of our union—the Lewises, Farringtons, and Cappellinis —will be fought and defeated within our union by the combined effort of an awakened, outraged opposition. Organize Progressive Committees. If we could organize the miners. out- side the union toremove our traitors, we can certainly organize within it more easily, It is our dutiy to organize within the union at this time for the Progressive Miners’ program, and part of that program must be the cleaning out of the class collaboration . officials who are fighting the pro- gressive demands of the coal diggers. So all together, slaves of the picks, organize with the Progressive Miners, for their program, organize for, the next convention, elect progressives to fight for our program, for nationaliza- of the, mines, shorter work day and week, for organization of the unor- ganized, for a labor party of the work- ing class, and clean out the bureau- cracy, Down with all ments! Down-with the splitting! Down with dual unionism! Make the U. M. W. of A. the lead. ing fighting section of the working class in America! Our motto must be: “Not the destruction, but the con- quest of the trade unions.” secession move- Current Events ficient to enable the farmers to pay the ‘banks even tho they sell their entire crop. Other farmers, thru this system, have had their crops taken by ithe bankers and their farms are left»barren of feed for the live stock, with the result that their cattle and hogs are being sold at almost any price that will enable them to buy food.and clothing for themselves. Many farmers are using corn for fuel as they cannot sell their crops for sufficient to buy coal and other fuel for the winter. Attempts to shift the blame from the shoulders of the big profiteers by trying to fool the farmer into believ- ing his condition is due to the wages of workers ‘in the cities no longer have the effect they used to have and on every hand the more thoughtful farmers are talking of joint political action with the working class of the cities. Chicago Stockyard’s ~ Workers Read ‘Daily’ (Continued from page 1) eager to get a copy of The DAILY WORKER. At one of the entrance The DAILY WORKER distributor was told by one, of the company hire- lings, “You can’t distribute that stuff here, Get the hell away from here.” When this hireling saw that -he could not scare the distributor with his display of “authority,” he then argued, “These guys won't read it, All they'll do is throw it away and clutter up the yards with that damned paper. You better cut out giving them away.” As much as this hireling argued that they would throw The DAILY WORKER away, most of the workers would glance at the front page, see the article on the “yards” and care- fully fold the paper and tuck it away in their inside coat pockets so that, as one of them said, “I can read it when I get home and get the real dope on these bird: More Volunteers Needed. This morning the squad of distrib- utors will take an even larger num- ber of The DAILY WORKER and hand it out to the workers as they enter the “yards.” Anyone who is in- terested in this work can volunteer to come down some morning this week or next by calling up The DAILY WORKER, 1113 West Washington Blvd., Monroe 4712, and leaving their names and telephone numbers and the day for which they volunteer their services to do this important work with either Comrade Victor Zokaitis or Nancy Markoff, The DAILY WORKER drive is on! Help is needed: to distribute and sell The DAILY WORKER at the stock, yard gates, Volunteer your services, i The banker has a nightmare after reading about the growing discontent of the middle-west workers and farmers. The Farmer-Labor Party is Here to Stay ED * By A. C. MILLER. would go down with an overwhelming defeat, even tho the farmer-abor party The launching of the farmer-labor|had never been heard of, much less party in North Data on December] being launched, 18 was a political bla plexus blow paign. the Governor Sorie faction up in the’ air, with no solid ground to land on. This faction consists of a very-few who are sitting at the governor's pie counter by way of appointment. They wanted no rocking of the boat and of |course were against the launching of the farmerdabor party; to them, if everybody had been good, it meant ‘another term for the governor, this meant two years more for the ap- pointees, a four year stretch for them at the public trough. With a mum préss and everybody quict, the governot might have made the grade for another term as he is acceptable to all “jbusine: big and small, Yet on th@ dther hand, if a stream of publi should be turned jon them showli these leaguers’ recoru, an the N Dakota ~ leg’ jlature, this lot of politicians A great dex! of credit has been to all those who gdvocate the non-|siven to the lone Communist member partisan idea in the ejection cam-|of the North Dakota legislature for When you took thru the lens| of political wire pulling you can see|{!on on the reef rocks of political de- steering the nonpartisan ship of illus- struction, As the great stragetist of class war, Viadimir Lenin, often said: “The struggle is centered outside the par- Mament; the Communists enter the election only to show the sham of capitalist democracy to its trusting dupes.” The above was carried out to the dot. The nonpartisan pro- gram, by way of bills, was introduced in the legislature by the Communist member, These bills, while they only express the immediate demands of the people of North Dakota, received the support of only a very few of the nonpartisan members of the + house notwithstanding the? fact that the lower house had a majority of non- partisans, Some of these bills were changed and reintroduced by nonpart- isan members who go” down the line for the farm rr and wage . Rei earners yet they only received about halt of the membership vote on rol! call, In passing I might add that had any bill of value to the poor farmers and wage slaves got by the lower house it could not have passed the reaction- aries in the senate... Their failure to do anything in the house where they had a majority has put them on’ the rocks, Aside from this, Governor Sorlie and many of the nonpartisan members have signed a banker's reso- lution favoring the repeal of the fed- eral inheritance tax. By their action they favor putting an annual fund ag- Bregating, $350,000,000 in the purses of the idle rich, Eventually this amount will have to be raised by the 85 per- cent poor farmers and wage earners. With a little publicity showing up these nonpartisan politicians they will not come back again, The working farmers and wage labor ‘must control the farmer-labor purty ‘by ‘keeping the politican in the background. © That worker ne dbor to you may not have anything to do to- night. Hand him this.copy of the DAILY WORKER. (Continued trom page 1) ther that the workers are not worried very much whether-the prince begets children legally or not, but they don’t like the idea of feeding the parasite. Pe a ‘ EMIER Zankov, the bloody butch- er of Bulgaria, has resigned. Since this murdered came into power sey- eral thousands of workers and peas- ants have been executed. He turned the country into a gigantic graveyard, and'ih his foul work he was openly aided by every capitalist government in the world, particularly England. If Zankov does not sever relations with his head before long, I know little about Bulgaria. 1 ‘*# ICTATORSHIPS are becoming fashionable on the shores of the Mediterranean sea. The latest to hoist the black flag of fascism in Greece, A few days before General Pangalos pro- claimed himself dictator, 400 Com- munists were seized and deported. In the» recent elections in Greece the Communists made heavy gains despite the persecutions. The capitalist press is not throwing horrific catfits over this repudiation of democracy. If the workers and peasants of Greece seiz- ed power there would be a different story: ig +e © i taePicteg must be going blue for Coo- lidge when Washington reporters sum up sufficient courage to tell the world that the president’s popularity is rapidly waning. They point out that he has done nothing worth while since he claimed credit for breaking the Boston police strike. They say he is as dumb and colorless as a pond. The politicians who had up until now struggled for positions of vant on his bandwagon are deserting him, It is about time for the House of Mor- gan to look around for another tool, see ener. William T. Manning says that science is not in conflict with the church. The church fought science as long as it could with every weapon it could muster. Modern scientists are lucky they did not live in the days when the church had armies at its command, To doubt one of the church fables exalted as dogmas was equty- alent to inviting an experience with the rack, thumb screw or the iron maiden, ee ¢ U se church is no longer in a post- tion to burn people at the stake for doubting its fallacies but it has yet considerable power which is always thrown in the scales on the side of re- action, Religion and science have nothing in common. One is based on supersition, ignorance and blind faith, The other rests on knowledge, Chicago Civic Opes’ Has Popular Priced Night on Saturday © Saturday night, Jan, 9th, will be a popular price night at the Chicago Civic Opera with a double bill of un- usual interest, Humperdinck’s ever popular opera of fairy tale background, “Hansel and Gretel,” followed by the ballet pro- duction, “La Fata a Robinson,” with Serge Oukrainsky and his ballet. composer, Gabriel Groviez, will duet. On Sunday afternoon, Jan, 10, Flore ence MacBeth, who has been absent ‘rom the cast for weeks thru illness, nd Tito Schipa, the matchless tenor will appear in the only pre ation of “L’Elisir d’Amore,” cixir of Love), Others in the include Shear, Rimini and ' Moranzoni will conduct, The on