The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 12, 1926, Page 1

| A STRUT UNE wean reaME Bz : The DAILY WORKER Raises | the Standard for a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government Vol. I No. 308. 'S son Rates: En G Oy i) WEAREPARTNERS,’ SAY MEAT PACKERS AS THEY SELL SHARES, THENMAKE WORKERS SPEED UP | The profit-sharing, or the “we are partners” idea, which is| played up to the utmost degree by Armour & Co., one of the arms| of the “Big Four’? meat packers, is but another: method that is! used by that company to get the wofker to speed-up and to allow himself to be exploited to a greater degree voluntarily, The company is now carrying on an intensive ane urging its employes to buy shares and become “partners” in the company. ‘ The company is offering to the workers the preferred stock of the Delaware and the Illinois companies. This stock is to be} z i? ~~ sold to the worker at the aver- { age market price for the week that the worker applies to buy stock. | The company thru its propaganda } | — | a sheet urges the workers to become} By T. J. O’FLAHERTY “partners,” tellimg them they can do | | so by having the company take out. of | their measly wages $1 per week to} pay for the share, | Why Do They Do It? Why is the company so eager to sell its stock to the workers? It may use the money that is brought in by the workers to further extend HERE is considerable skepticism floating around in diplomatic) quarters concerning the reliability of the reports emanating from Peking regarding the intended retirement of General Feng from public life. The first announcement was received with In Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year, Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per. year. joy, but a later report which said that ihe general was going to Russia to study Soviet institutions nipped the, rejoicing in the bud. Is this more} proof-of the “inscrutability” of the| Oriental mind? | * mys HATEVER Feng may do in the} near future the old days in China are gone for ever. The Chinese) masses have made a rapid advance-| ment towards national consolidation} during the past few years. The ot cisive factor in this deveopment was | the growifig pressure of the exactions | of international imperialism, but it is| very likely that but for the aid of] Soviet Russia, China would be “today “ertshed “under” ‘ myriad foes and. doomed to a long and painful struggle to gain the vantage paint she occupies today. ee | HE Chicago Daily News believes, or professes to believe that Britain is primarily interested in Irak be-| | and believing this their holdings and their business, but that is not the big reason. The main reason why the company is eager to sell its. preferred stock .to the em- ployes is to make them believe that they are “partners” in the company monstrous joke they will speed-up to produce more meat and its products so that larger | profits can be pocketed by the “big fish” and that the worker will also “see to it” that their fellow-workers also speed up. “If you want dividends this year, boys, you've got to work harder than that” is one of the most common re- marks to the workers employed in the “yards.” iy -up and drive their félloW-Workers to speed-up but the company also knows that if it is successfite in getting that idea of partnership ‘into the heads of its slaves’ they will not ask for higher wages or ‘stiorter hours or better conditions in the’ plant as they cause the natives of that oily region) would fear that the company would be prefer British to Turkish rule. It is| unable to pay out the insignificant 6% “wrue, sniffles this methodist hypo-| or 7%dividends to them: critical sheet that England gets a} Not only will they not ask for little more oil than the other powers} higher wages and better conditions out of Mosul, but it would be a skep-| but it is also an insufance against tical soul that would adduce this fact/ strikes and against any attempt on as the reason for British interest in| the part of the workers to organize Mesopotamia. The only reply to an! into real fighting industrial unions argument of this kind is an internal| that will make the bosses “come upheaval. | across” with better conditions. ciple Rion Doesn’t Change Policy. HE prince of Wales may not-marry| But, when the workers buy this “hootifeol” Princess Astrid of| stock and fall for the “we are part- (Continued on paye 2) | (Continued on page 3) WHAT OMAHA, CHICAGO AND KANSAS CITY HAVE DONE SO CAN YOU, GET ON THE JOB? The DAILY WORKER received the folowing telegram from Omaha on the distribution that is being carried on of the special DAILY WORKER issues there: t “DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, III. “Distribution goin over big. Workers delighted, Office much worried. Send thousand of Friday issue. Also three hundred more of Wednesday issue. Ellis cartoon big hit here.” The workers in Omaha, Chicago, and Kansas City have written in articles, have ordered bundles and are carry on real work. What these workers are doing can easily be duplicated by those in New York, Milwaukee, St. Paul, South St, Paul, Fort Worth, Denver, and many other packing centers, Workers, on the job! Send in your stories! Order that bundle! Get it into the hands of the packing house workers! t CHINESE PRESIDENT RESIGNS HIS POST; ~— GABINET WILL RULE LONDON, Janfi 10 — President Tuan Chi Jui of China has announ- ced his retirement from office, ¢' fective Jan. 15, according to reports reaching here from Peking, It is ex- pected that the cabinet will take up the duties of the chief executive. With the retirement of Tuan Chi Jui and General Feng, and the re- ported retirement of Chang Tso lin, the future of China is extremely » problematical. No one can say which way events will turn but if the announced re- tirements are made effective it is probable that China is in tor a period of even more unsettled con- ditions than she has suffered in the past months, with various leaders vieing for supreme power and prob- ably none of them having sufficient strength to dominate. . EDITOR'S NOTE.—Here is the opening report of the proceedings of the fourteenth congress of the Russian Communist. Party recently held in Moscow. Owing to the great expense, The DAILY WORKER wi unable to publish cabled reports of this important congress, It warned its readers to ignore the reports in the capitalist press and to wait for the reports by mail, These reports have now been received from the International Press Correspondence. From day to day The DAILY WORKER will publish copious ex- tracts from the debates during the congress, The first report consists of an editorial from Pravda, the official organ of the Russian Com- munist Party, and is as follows: (By Internationa’ pondence.) oscow, U. &. &, R,, —(By Mail)—Today’s leading in the Pravda, official organ of the The Pravda Greets 0) Entered as Second-class mattir September 21, 1928, at the TUESDAY, J Office at Chicago, Illinois, under the Act of March 3, 1879. ARY 12, 1926 SS” ip ORKER- PUBLISHING CO., 1118 W. NEW YORK EDITION Published Dally except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER Washington Blvd., Chicago, LL T —+ Anniversary Greetings from John Pepper EDITOR'S NOTE—Numerious an- Miversary greetings have been re- ceived during the last 24 hours from the Communist parties of other countries, and from prominent Com- munist spokesmen of many lands. These came too late to be inserted in our special anniversary edition. But they will be published from day to day during the week. One of these greetings has been received from Moscow, from John Pepper, one of the comrades foremost in the struggle to establish The DAILY WORKER. It is as follows: ee 8 By JOHN PEPPER. JHE DAILY WORKER already two years old! How fast time flies. The appearance -of the first issue I was able to great in Chicago, to the second anniversary I extend my greet- ings from Moscow. How much has changed in this short period of two years, How quickly, how interesting- ly, how wildly uncontrollable galloped the steeds of world revolution. Everything changes. The world is so overfilled with new facts and phen- omena that we can hardly grasp it systematically, but I must tell The DAILY WORKER that—whether in Chicago or Moscow—my love and de- votion to it have not changed. For ‘a long time my articles could not ap- Russian Communist Party, wel- comes the fourteenth conference of the Communist Party.of Russia and characterizes the situation in which it is meeting as follows: “On the one hand there is an un- deniable general economic growth, a strengthening of socialist indus- try, an increase in the ¢ budget, ete, on the other hand, however, |. there are at the present moment specific difficulties, in particular in connection with the calculation in connection with the harv “On the b: of the present econ- omic development there are taking place realignments of the class for- ces and it is natural that the party should strike the balance of the completed work and the drawing of the perspectives for the imme- diate future not without a certain internal friction, “In connection. with the speedy not to say /stonmy development of {pear in The DAILY WORKER but) party. For once 1 must state that in | nevertheless I always felt myself a/ no single question did I feel this basic | member of the editorial staff. For a| contentment, this deepest satisfaction long time my mame might not even| as at the time when the first great | be mentioned inThe DAILY WORK- | collection of 75,000 dollars was gather- ER—or when mentioned, only to be|ed for the founding of The DAILY cursed—yet every new issue of the; WORKER, And I must confess my | birth of The DAILY WORKER, then paper I took up with the same un- changed love, with the same feeling | of responsibility that an active mem- | ber of a Communist editorial staff | must feel. I hope that the comrades will for- give me if I feel just a bit sentiment- al \toward The DAILY WORKER. How can | help it? If anyone in our party is personally responsible for the it is I. Like every healthy child The DAILY WORKER, was born in pain. I shall never forget the sessions of the central executive committee of the Workers Partyt Three times I made the motion.fdr the founding of an English daily spaper—three times | I was voted down!' The struggle for | the soul of everyaindividual C. E. C. | member lasted formonths, Certain comrades were utterly unable to con- ceive of how the young, weak Com- munist movement! in America could keep an English daity alive. They did not have enouglvoconfidence in the American workingclass readiness for sacrifice, and in ‘the wonderful self- sacrificing spirittoof the American the Russian Party Congress the Soviet economy; the question of the relation of theeworking class to intry haw taken on new two discussions “The Trotskyism were actually discus- sions upon the correct policy to be against pursued towards the p “in thi discussions the party jantry. unanimously adopted the Leninist attitude, and, for instance, deter- mined exactly the correct solu- tion of the price policy of indus- trial products and thus ensured a successful economic development, of which has now presented the party with new tasks in the solution of the same Pi nt problem, “Despite the speedy development of industry, the increased demand cannot be satisfied. And in con- sequence of the economic strength- ening of the country, the activity weakness, that I alarmed half of Moscow when I read of the miracul- 7,500 dollars within five days to meet the latest crisis of The DAILY WORKER, Of course we all realize that The DAILY WORKER would recurrently pass thru new crises. How else can a poor labor paper of a poor party remain alive? The life of a labor paper in America consists and will always consist of one crisis after an- other, It is born not merely once but it lives thru a whole series of births and with each of them there is illus- trated the biblical words: “Birth in travail.” 4 The DAILY WORKER already lives two years! This is in itself a great, a heroic accomplishment. And it must live! It is the most important organ of the Communist movement in Am- erica for integrating itself and for reaching the working masses, Lenin once coined the classic words: “The Communist press must be the collect. (Continued on page 2.) of all classes has increased, from antry “Inthe ranks of the peasantry the differentiation is ripening and the struggle between the large peasant and the small peasant for the mid- die peasant. On the one hand the further developmen of commodity economy and the « *vening of the activity in the villages was neces- sary and on the other hand on the basis of this commodity economy the problem of class differentiation in the village has come forward. “The party had to create a firm alliance with the middle peasant, to support the village poor in a new fashion and oppose the exploitative tendencies of the comparatively strengthened large peasant. “In consequence of the growth of industry the m. of the town proletariat has altered, it has taken | which nothing was apparently done. | either side, but all seemed cheerful | \Left Wing Proposes Its| | ous self-sacrificing spirit of our Am-! erican party ‘membership in raising | NOTHING HAPPENS IN MINE STRIKE TRADING BUT ANOTHER SESSION NEW YORK CITY, Jan. 10—Con- | ferences at the Union League Club | between the anthracite operators and officials of the United Mine Workers ended for the week end by a session Saturday afternoon at | | | No one would make a statement on as they well might since none of | = — SS pe | onramast, cy be oa ae A.C. W. HOLDS AN ELECTION Price 3 Cents RUST SARGENT HALTS PROSECUTION OF BIG MONOPOLY When Quizzed, Says He ‘Forgot About It’ (Special to The Daily Worker) the negotiators has the suffering | and miseries confronting him as | WASHINGTON, Jan. 10—A series have thousands of miners on strike |of mild sensatione, topped by the since Sept. 1, in the hills of Penn- | «fauity memory” of Call Coooldge’s “oo ig ca EEE | attorney general, John G. Sargent, has featured the senate judiciary committee’s investigation of the de- partment of justice’s aciay In bringing |an anti-trust prosecution against the Mellon-owned Aluminum company of America. Couldn’t Remember. The developments included an an- announcement from Assistant Attor- ney General William J. Donovan that a new anti-trust “investigation” was being launched against the Aluminum Goods company, a subsidiary of the | Mellon concern; a demand by Senator |Neely, democrat, of West Virginia, | for abolition of the federal trade com- By A. Worker Correspondent | mission and Sargent’s admisison that In Local 144 of the Amalgamated |e didn’t “remember” ordering an in- Clothing -Workers there will be | vestigation of the Aluminum company held local elections on Tuesday even. | last March ing, Jan. 12, at Wicker Park Hall,| The agents, however, Donovan said, 2040 North Ave. The most important | did find sufficient evidence to war- officers to be elected are the delegates |T@0% an investigation of the subsid- to the joint board, for in the joint | irary Aiuminum Goods company, of board the policies of the union are which the Mellon company owned one- laid out, and there is where the most third. Probably Mellon wants prose important questions are decided upon. cution threatened this company in or- It is therefore the duty of the mem-|der to force it to yield more control bers”of Local 144 to analize the way | to his interests. our delegates to the joint board have “Forgotten All About It.” reacted on all important questions 50 or toad: Wick iupdiraeban ana oan. intelligently decide who}. shall be our.representatives in. the | ™&-the-order-of-operation-to- carry om this work on March 25,” said Sargent. future. |-m first week after I got into offi e r e got into office, No Gangsteriem—But No Protest | 1144 forgotten all about it.” It must be said to the credit of the!” ,, gt Sry ta of our local that} That memorandum made so faint gangsterism pas failed as yet to get|4" impression on your mind, that you the upper, hand in our local. It is had no recollection of the matter?” possible as yet. for a member to come Candidates (Continued on page 2) to a meeting. of Local 144 without) having a gun in pocket to protect him-/| self against gangsters. But Local 144 is not a union by it-|! self, it is part of the Chicago join board, and our delegates to the joint} board have failed to raise their voice in protest against the slugging of our members, conducted by officials of} our union. Our delegates have lined up with! all other reactionaries on the question of expelling members because of dif- ference of opinion. In fact our local administration fell in line by expel-| ling Brothers Savonowsky end Rud-| man, for no other reason but that| they have sided with Local 5 of New York in the controversy with the G E. B, No Kids at Wage Cuts. Our delegates to the joint board have failed to raise their voice against the wage cuts, and generally against the class collaboration Dolicy | pursued by our officialdom. | Altho some of the delegates went) around grumbling’ about some of the} policies pursued, yet when it came to/| action they have always acted toge-| ther with all reactionaries in the ad-| ministration... What To Do | Now the question is, are we going| to give a vote of confidence to those delegates that hdve misrepresented | us? Or are we going to register our| |vote for sueh candidates that will} | (Continued on page 2) WILL SPEAK AT NEW YORK MEET To Protest Against All Labor Persecutions NEW YORK CITY, Jan. 10—Oppor- tunity is furnished to the workers of New York and the sympathizers with the cause of the defense of labor to hear the distinguished and now famous bishop who styled himselt “Bishop in partibus Bolshevikium et infidelium” and who was recently con- demned as a heretic and expelled from his bishopric by the protestant- episcopal church after a sensational heresy trial for having written the book, “Communism and Christianism” which has as its motto and purpose to “banish gods from skies’ and capital- ists from earth.” Speaks for I. L, D. Bishop William Montgomery Brown comes to New York on Tuesday, Jan. 12th, to speak at the Star Casino, 107 St. and Park Ave, at 8 p.m. He comes on behalf of the International Labor Defense in order to carry on and help in the fight for the defense up new sections for whom a number ofthe I. W. W. leader, Ford, of the of questions are unclear. Under |!ramed-up United Mine Workers’ these circum: it is natural | Union members and officers of Zei- that internal differences of opinion | gler, Illinois, and the Communists on should show themselves, in the dis- | ‘vial for sedition in the feudal-barony cussions upon state capitalism, the of the steel trust in Pittsburgh, Pa, co-operatives, the middie peasantry, Many Cases. the pe: “The party has grown to such an extent in the last year, it has so in- creased in strength, Leninism has taken such deep root in it that no liquidatory tendency will be able to capture it, no demagogy intimidate it, The party conference will give both friends and foes in ali coun- tries another example of unshake- able unity.” large peasantry and the poor intry, NOTE.—Tomorrow The DAILY WORKER will publish the report of the opening session of the con- gress in the Kremlin, The Zeigler frame-up the shadow of the gallow 80 involves on a false charge against Frank Corbishley and other members of the United Mine Workers, The Pittsburgh case involves the whole question of freedom of speech in the state that has become famous for “steel trust terrorism” and the “Cossack state constabulary.” In addition to Bishop Brown, Ben- jamin Gitlow, a member of the na- tional cominittee of the International Labor Defense, and recently released from prison largely as a result of the activities of that body and Elizabeth jurley Flynn will speak. Robert Dunn will function as chairman, ‘ ~