The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 12, 1926, Page 2

Page Two THE DAILY WORKER ARBITRATION IS BETRAYAL OF STRIKERS Progressives Demand Action by Locals By ALEX REID. Secretary Progressive Miners’ mittee. According to reports from the New York conference of miners and oper- Com- ators a scheme is under consideration | for settling the anthracite strike, that | if adopted will be a repudiation of the | miners’ position on arbitration. The scheme is reported to be as fol- | lows: A mediation board of five to be elected by ballot—the report does not gay who shall be the electors—to take up the disputed questions and attempt a settlement of same, ng to arrive at an agreement, the mediation board shall elect, or appoint trators to decide the point they fail to settle. Betrayal of Miners. The reported proposal is a flat re- pudiation of the miners’ stand against arbitration and must not be accepted To turn over our demands to a media- tion or arbitration board is equal to a surrender and betrayal of the coal diggers. itration is a snare and has at all in the past resulted in a betray Notably the 1922 time al of workers. by virtue of the Pinctot arbit- strike ration board. Our demands are terribly inade- quate, the miners with their wives and families are starving and their living—even when they are working— is but a miserable existence, and to arbitrate their meager demands now is to “surrender the very life and hap- piness of the miners, their future place in society, and to say what kind of men and women they shall be,” as stated by Lewis in a speech a short time ago in Pennsylvania. No Right to Strike. No agreement is made on the ece nomic demands, or length of contract or check-off. It seems the immediatc fight is on arbitration. A victory for arbitration a defeat for the miners and would settle the present dispute but would deny the miners the righ to strike in future disputes for th demands. It is a treacherous vipe that must be fought and repudiated b; the coal diggers. The fact that the miners’ represent atives are—as reported—discussin this proposition with the operator shows a weakening and perhaps contemplated surrender to the op ators on arbitration. The miners m act at once in their local unio’ ar have telegrams sent to Lewis in Ne York repudiating arbitration and d manding an extension of the struggl Lewis has already mishandled thi strike by permitting the maintena men to scab on the miners, and t proposed method of settlement, would if acceptad, be a total betrayal of thc anthracite slaves. Down with arbitration. Bring out the maintenance men for a 100 per cent strike! We demand that no surrender shall be made of any demand of the tri-district convention by Lewis or his class collaboration machine. “Why not? Ask your neighbor to subscribe! GOT A CAR? Anything from a Ford to a Rolls-Royce? If you have— will you drive it yourself for one day for the party? Autos are needed to adver- tise the LENIN MEMORIAL MEETING at the Coliseum on Jan. 24. Call at 19 So. Lincoln St. or call up Seeley 3563. WILLIAM GREEN IN CHICAGO TO TALK OF EFFICIENCY AND HIGH WAGES; SPEECHES UNCONVINCING | By HARRISON GEORGE. William -Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, is in Chicago on a speaking tour and was banqueted by 300 local trade union officials Saturday evening at the Palmer House where the glorified prole- tarian appeared in boiled shirt and all the aristocratic fixings. Sunday afternoon he was to address the Chicago Forum Council (the “open” is left out before the word forum), conducted by the Chicago church federation, Interviewed by reporters, Green said he was a baptist, and despite his laborious toil of being a labor union official he has devoted considerable Se time to church work, of his contact with god in the line of better salaries for anyone but him- self is not revealed. Don’t Hold Water. | At the banquet Green declared that h wages mean increased efficiency. added that since 1900 the effi- ney of American wage earners has ase of 50 per cent in ines. The contradiction in these two statements was not explained, as the real wages, or what money wages | will buy, have décreased precisely as | efficiency has increased, particularly | in the era of greatest mechanization | of industry and terrifi¢ application of speed-up systems since 1913, have the real wages of America’s workers steadily declined. Neither did Green reveal any com- prehension of the fact that the pro- portionate increase of wages to the increased rate of profits, is the only Way wages can be judged as “high” or “low,” thus showing again that| the increased efficiency has not re- sulted in higher wages but in higher profits. Not a Step Toward the Left. Green’s “scientific” notion of wages and profits is cut close to the “wage principle” resolution adopted by the last convention of the A. F. of L. which some simple people thought at first was a revolutionary proposal. Among these naive persons, mixed with some renegade radicals such as Ludwig Lore, the wage resolution of the A. F. of L. was thought to be a step toward the left. But the “principle” that high wages produces efficiency, combined with the/| false premise that American workers now get “high wages” is being ap- lied by Green in openly offering to apital a collaboration of the unions ind “mutual co-operation to lower cost What has come+ the workers now have. In addition, as this “efficiency” is put into effect by collaboration between unions and bosses, the required production is fur- nished by fewer workers and even if a few are higher paid the rest have been put on the streets without a job. How About Umemployment? How long the “high wages” of the remaining few employed would stay) “high” when unemployment follows “efficiency” was not explained by Green to his fellow officials. What ideas he has on this problem was con- cealed behind a bland but untruthful claim that there are 5,000,000 mem- bers affiliated with the A. F. of L. Unfortunatey the report of the exe- cutive council ot the Atlantic City con- vention shows the A. F. of L, member- ship as 2,878,297, including the pad- ding for representation from affiliated bodies, “Since its organization the labor movement of the country has shorten- ed the hours of workers,” Green claimed, with some truth. But he used an unfortuniate example when he cited the United States Steel corpora- tion as being compelled by “moral force” of the A. F. of L. to reduce the hours from 12 to 8 in the steel mills, Unions Better Than Moral Force. The tens of thousands of steel work- ers still working twelve hours will be glad to hear of the “moral force” which accomplishes miracles, but they would be happier to see a sign of militant unionism in the steel mills instead of so much moral force and Mike Tighe’s littlé union of not more than five per cent of the workers em- ployed, The tour of William Green is a cam- n increasing efficiency—speed up—) paign for class peace and colaboration —which is invariably in the interests (Continued from page 1) ers” idea are they réally .partners a the “yards”? Are they allowed to iange policies of the company? Are sy allowed to determine what con- tions will prevail in a certain de- rtment? Are they allowed to attend setings of the stockholders and ct the board of directors? These e but some of the rights of real artners in any business enterprise. But the packinghouse workers who ave bought the preferred bonds of 1e company have not these rights. sll they can do is to hold the com- any paper, “break their necks” day a and day out, and at the end of the year after the “big fish” of the com- pany, who hold the stock that entitles them toe do these things divide up the spoils of the year; of the half-year or the quarter. The “big fish” divide up big sums and make large percents on their investments, while the pack- inghouse worker who has put his hard-earned money into the venture gets a few measly scraps, Blind Workers to Speed Up. It is for the workers in the “yards” to realize that this partnership idea is nothing more than throwing dust into the eyes of the workers, blinding them and then getting them to vol- | untarily speed-up. The dividends the workers earn on their shares hardly |ever amounts to more than 6 or 7%. | During the year by speeding-up every day, the workers produce many hun- | dred times that amount for the bosses. | Under the illusion of the partner- | ship idea the packipg-house worker | turns out more of the meat products | every day. If this could be computed in dollars and cents, the worker would see that he produces many times more Workers Why a Labor Party?....... Do Workers Pay Taves?. Build for the Third Year. 1113 W. Washington Blvd. Among the Splendid Features in the January Issue of the Company Unionism and Trade Unionism....By Wa. Z. Foster Economics of Class Collaboration. BEGINNING A series of articles on “Political Parties in America”—the first The Democratic Party... esnesonsodvoosnvecnovessecsveeen By H. M. Wicks Good Reason to Subscribe! THE WORKERS MONTHLY Monthly overseeven wwebBy JOUN Pepper By Max Bepacur By J. Lours Encpaun By Berrram D. Wotrn $2.00 a Year $1.25 Six Months production”’—to keep the wages|of the employing class. “We Are Partners,” Packers Kid Workers in a week than he receives from the company in dividends for a year. Need Industrial Unions, The workers in the “yards” should realize the purpose of this plan. They should band together. Organize into HEARST THUG TRIES TO STOP DAILY WORKER Herald and Examiner Threatens Violence By RUFUS P. HEATH. (Worker Correspondent) The DAILY WORKER newsies who were selling the paper to the stock yard workers Saturday at the three main entrances, found that the work- ers were anxious to get The DAILY WORKER, because it now carries a series of arslictameroraarnlita the stock yard workers. { The stock yard workers are begin- ning to realizeathat The DAILY WORKER is really fighting their bat- tles, therefore théy would rather have it, than to have th® daily capitalist papers. The work get off of the street cars and say to the newsies who are selling the capitalist papers on the news stands,“What have you got?” The newsbey says, “Herald and Examiner and The Tribune.” The worker says, “I don’t want that.” Then he comes over toTHe DAILY WORK- ER newsie and says; “What have you got?” Newsie says, “The DAILY WORKER.” The worker says, “Good, give me two.” Examiner Threatens Violence. The Herald and Examiner sent a truck driver around to the corner of 47th St. and Racine Ave, to run us out, because we sold a hundred copies of The DAILY WORKER, while the boy selling the Herald and Examiner sold about a dozen. It made the Herald and Examiner sore to see The DAILY WORKER compete with them. The driver tried to be tough and or- dered us to get away from the news stand and stay away. Then he ordered one of our newsies to go into the yards and stay there with our paper. He ‘said: “Stay there with your lousy old paper.” Of course, we couldn't do that, for if we did it would give the pdcking companies a chance to have ué arrested for tres- Passing ‘on their’ ‘private property. Then he threatened to punch us in the nose, But he never tried it. He argued for a while and “then drove away, while we stayed there and sold all of The DAILY WORE S that we had with us and could\‘have sold a few more if we had ‘ém with us. This man didn’t know we were going to build up a trait} for The DAILY WORKER on the ¢orner and then turn them over to:'the news stands industrial unions and fight the pack- ers. They should not take whatever scraps the bosses may want to throw them, but they should as workers fight for larger wages, shorter hours, more sanitary and better conditions in the “yards.” How can the workers be partners with the owners of the “yards,” when they must work them- selves to a frazzle while their master --their big boss—is enjoying himself at Melody farm, far away from the melody of squealing pigs, and the noises of the cattle and sheep as they are led to the slaughter. The company is now having a drive to sell its shares to the workers in the “yards.” The workers shoud re- fuse to buy these shares as the in- tention of the company is to sell you those shares in order to have you forget your interests as workers and look upon yourself as shareholders, as coupon-clippers, to always think as the boss thinks. The buying of one or two shares will not put you on easy street. The conditions in the “yards” will not become better. What is more, when the packing-house work- er who bought those shares is no longer able, because of his destroyed health or old age to keep up with the pace that is set and that he helped to set in his better days, he will find himself thrown out of the plant and forced to walk the streets begging for the next day’s meal, He will be forced to take whatever he can get to make a living himself. Bos: Boards Trick Workers. There is but one way to avoid a || future of that type and that is thru strong union organization, The boss- es know that conditions are rotten. They know the pace is fast, they know the grievances of the workers are mounting higher and higher. They know these things and because they know it, they have formed conference boards to cajole the workers into believing that they can have their grievances handled thru the company created board and thus keep them from organizing unions of their own. That is why they throw “hush” money in the forms of bonuses, which were shown up in yesterday's DAILY WORKER into their hands to make them submit to the speed-up system and that is also why the packers sell their shares and carry on such ex- tensive campaigns to sell their shares on the installment plan to get the mind of the workers away from the real conditions in the plant and to keep them from forming organiza- tions of their own, In the next article that is to appear in The DAILY WORKER the police and spy system with its auxiliary of stool-pigeons will be dealt with show- Chicago, Miinois ing what they do in the “yards” and how workers who are asked to buy shares and to embrace the “we are partners” idea are mistreated by the packers, and news boys and’let them sell them. ig ¢ urrent Events (Continued ftom page 1) Sweden, it is reported on the author- ity of usually well-informed sources. John Steele, the London correspondent of the Chicago Tribune, let the feline out of the bag ien he intimated that a physical defect may prevent the prince from provi i an heir to the throne. This sad news should cause Mrs, Philip Snowden’s socialist lach- rinical ducts to shed a few tears, * ao bh reactionary leaders of the rail- road brotherhoods and the rail magnates quietly disposed of the class struggle in a peace agreement reached a few days ago. But, alas! it is not to be thus. This is not the first time the little lamb laid down with the lion, when the beast was slumbering in satiation, But who has not heard of the poor little lamb giving his tail a last despairing wiggle as he went head first down the lion’s gullet? * * ch generosity of Julius Rosenwald loaning $3,000,000 worth of stock to the firm of Sears, Roebuck and‘Co., of which he is chairman, during the post-war depression, was widely com- mented on by the/eapitalist press of the country, It was a big thing, and a noble deed, chirped the literary flunkies of the capitalists, It was a big thing for Julius alright, as he learned to his satisfaction, when the stock which soldfor $60 when he made the generous gift went up to $237, How can an honest man keep from getting rich in the United States? 4 Local No. 144 of the Amalgamated Holds an Election Tuesday (Continued from page 1.) pledge themselves definitely to fight readjustments, expulsions, slugging and in general stand for progressive policy in our organization? The iett wing has endorsed the following candidates for the Joint board: N, Stachnack, Jennie Walcowits, W. Jaffe, Grace Rubinstein, Ida Golub, Rose Mogel, Florence Rubinstein, L. Bordman, Phil. Steinfleld, Ida Mos- lowitz, A vote for these candidates is a vote in protest against the reaction- ary policy pursued by our present officialdom and a vote for more pro- gressive and militant policy in future. ri the Tf you want to thorough un- derstand it. “Eat Corn!” and Swell the Profits of Those Who Plunder Farmers By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. aT OPAY: the kept press of Chicago and adjacent points is pleading with the world to eat corn. It doesn’t matter in what form, just, “Eat corn!” This is hailed as the latest panacea for the ills of the corn belt farmers. The capitalist press can always be depended on to urge some such fraudu- lent solution of a fundamental social problem. The Chicago Tribune, for instance, spreads thru the corn states of Illinois and lowa. It is propagating a demand for corn sugar. It says: ; “The farmérs hope to promote the substitution of corn sugar for cane sugar in many uses.” It is not urged, therefore, that valuable food, in the form of corn products, whether as corn bread, corn meal, hominy or something else, be added to the present restricted diet of wide masses of underpaid sections of the American working class. It is only urged to substitute the corn sugar for cane sugar or beet sugar. This means, of course, that any shift= ing from one form of sugar to another, means the shifting likewise of the crisis from, the corn states to the cane and beet states. * e . ° But that isn’t all! It is certain that any temporary in- crease in demand for corn products, that will quickly adjust itself, will be of no benefit to corn growers. Even the Tribune does not promise any flow of gold into the pockets of the farmers. Instead it sees the big profiteers in corn products the real gainers when it declares that: “The corn: products manufacturers find themselves in a most ad- vantageous position, it was pointed out, WITH CORN PLENTIFUL AND AT A VERY LOW PRICE. and with the nation being spread over with Propaganda urging the greater use of corn. SEVERAL MANUFAC- TURERS HAVE SEEN BOOM SALES IN THE OFFING AND ARE PREPARING FOR IT.” And again: “While the Argo, Ill, plant of the Corn Products Refining Co. (a Standard Oil concern) is operating day and night, its full output is not reached.” * * * * Thus the propaganda is shown to be an immediate aid to the big profiteers and not to the farmers, whose products will be manipulated according to the established rule, that when the farmers must sell the prices will be low, but when the grain profiteers have the crops well tn hand the prices will rise. It may be expected that the prices on all corn products will be boosted in the days ahead, “because of the increasing demand.” It can thus be seen that the propagandists who yell the loudest thru their press are those who will coin the FRAMEAP TO BE APPEALED THIS MONTH Sacco - Vanzetti Case Before High Court NEW YORK, Jan. 10—(FP)—Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti—ital- lan labor men arrested during the Palmer red raids—have their appeal for a new trial from the 1921 murder conviction before the Massachusetts supreme court this month. Bills of exception from trial judge Webster Thayer’s opinion denying a new trial are being argued by William Thompson, their attorney, while the men remain in the prisons they have occupied for years—Sacco in Dedham jail and Vanzetti in Charleston pen- itentiary. “Gone on Record.” New York Italians and the progres- sive labor movement in general dre awaiting the outcome. Two conven- tions of the American Federation of Labor and many international union conventions and central bodies have gone on record for the new trial. The El Paso A. F. of L, convention went so far as to call their conviction a “ghastly miscarriage of justice.” European labor movements have add- ed their voices to the chorus, Case of Frame Up Sacco and Vanzetti were seized May 5, 1920 while they were organ- izing a meeting of protest against the department of justice, following the death of their friend Andrea Salsedo, a printer who pitched to his death from a department of justice window on Park Row, New York, after he had been illegally detained incommunica- do and tortured for two months. Later a charge of murdering a pay- roll guard at South Braintree, Mass. was brought against them. They were convicted in Dedham court the follow- ing year. Since then two of the pro- secution’s eye witnesses signed affi- davits confessing perjury; a third was shown to have testified under an as- sumed name and to have served two convictions for larceny, Additional Proof convinced the labor movement of a frame-up, greatest profits. * * * * Another self-proclaimed philanthropist in the present crisis is the International Harvester Co., manufacturers of farm implements. It has declared that it will accept corn as payment on purchases made from it. But this will benefit little the farmer, now staggering under unpaid instalments on purchases already made. He cannot feed, clothe and house himself and his family with an oversupply of farm machinery. Only food, clothing and shelter will do that. * * * * _, The more the farmers study their own problem, with the aid of many and increasingly bitter experiences, the more they must realize that their agony grows directly out of the capitalist social system that is Oppressing them. Capitalist economy is organized to plunder the farmer, putting the stolen wealth—profits—into the pockets of the parasite few. That condition will continue as long as capitalism lasts. = il baht = = — city workers to end that cial system, then they will be on the highr solution of their ptoblerie one en ee aS Car nate SE ae ae Se eS Telephone Strikers ‘ Greeting from P. Get Approval from ting spper Harrisburg Unions (Continued trom page 1) ive propagandist, the collective agita- HARRISBURG, Ill, Jan. 8—Joint| tor and the collective organizer of efforts of the Lions’ Club, Rotarians i ee, br eae Ser ce The and Kiwanis Club, were under way ibe tT ee ee ee behalf of our daily paper is that it today in an effort to force a cessation of the strike of operators for the Illinois Southern Telephone company which has interrupted business here and in nearby towns for three days. Each club has named committees of three to confer with the operators and company officials, The Harrisburg trades council at a meeting in which 22 local unions of different crafts were represented, unanimously endorsed the action of the striking operators, Union Miners on the March Close Down the Non-Union Ind. Mines EVANSVILLE, Ind., Jan. 10—March- ing miners have succeeded in forcing the non-union mines to close down by invading the non-union properties in force and inducing all the workers there to join the union, The cam- paign has been going on for five days. A local open shop operator, James Moore, agreed yesterday to arbitrate returning to the union shop basis if the miners came back to work. But the men remained away and the ar-| bitration trick failed to work. The non-union mines in Gibson and War- rick counties have been all forced to suspend by the marching miners. Ford Hires 50,000 More Slaves in 1925; Now Working 191,948 DETROIT—(FP)—Employes of the Ford Motor Co, in all activities in the United States ineréased from 1, Year's Day, 1926, according to a Ford statement, newer 4 has already made the first steps in all three directions and that it pos- sesses every assurance of going for- ward in the future not only with the tiny baby steps of the beginner, but with the seven-league strides of the fully grown giant, Wednesday, Jan. 13 at 8 P. M. SUT TTMLUML MMO IN CHICAGO! “will be part of a Daily Worker Birthday Party Admission 50 Cents. Dance and Enjoy Yourself, Cal Coolidge Shields Andy Mellon’s Trust (Continued from page 1.) asked Senator Walsh, democrat, of Montana, “No, not of that instance.” Walsh reproduced the resolution of the federal trade commission re- fusing to turn over to the department of justice any information obtained from the Aluminum company, It led to a sharp clash, Wanted to Control! Investigation. “Didn't you know,” asked Walsh, “that the commission was at your command to make this investigation?” “We preferred to make our own in- vestigation,” said Sargent, ‘Walsh then brot the name of Secre- tary of the Treasury Andrew W. Mel- lon into the hearing. “Haven't you learned that Secretary Mellon is interested in the ownership of the Aluminum company?” asked | Walsh. Strange Ignorance. “Yes, I learned that thru the public Press,” the attorney general replied. “Had you no information about the |fact before you read it in the news- Papers,” “No,” said Sargent, expressing an amazing ignorance of a fact known by every politician for years, After that talk with your shop- mate—hand him a of The DAILY WORKER. It will help convince him, OT a) recep A Crest of 30 People. Costumes and Scenery, by Lydia Gibson, Directed by Emma Blechschmidt A gay novel entertainment. Something So New— Something So Different— | IMPERIAL HALL, 2409 N. Halsted Street,