The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 14, 1926, Page 3

SEVEN TAX STRIKERS IN BAD FRAME UP Scab’s Perjury May Lead to Prison BULLETIN, BOSTON, Mass., Jan, 12.—The six Checker Taxi strikers who remained on trial after the government rested Its ease, have been discharged by the Jury which out forty min- utes. The strikers are Jubillant, but face a contempt of court case for violation of an injunction today. #8 BOSTON, Mass., Jan. 12.— Seven strikerg of the Checker Taxi company are being tried on a rank frame-up case before the superior court at Cambridge under the accusation of “robbery while armed with intent. to maim or kill.” The penalty may be iMe or any term of years the court may see fit to set. The frame-up arose over some strikers on picket duty accosting a scab by the name of Charles Butts, trying to get him to quit the company, A Company Move. Twenty-four hours later the com- pany reported the affair to the police a secret indictment was returned by the grand jury and bail was demanded of the arrested men in the excessively high sum of $70,000. The case opened on January 8 be- fore Judge Flynn. The scab testified that the men who spoke to him showed him a gun, contradicting his previous statements. The strikers on trial are now afraid thet the frame-up may go thru on ac- count of the perjury of this scab. ‘When the government rested its case, the defendant Wiggins could not be connected with the case at all and was discharged. 1, L. D. Aiding. The trial is being continued today with the International Labor Defense entering the case at a moment’s notice when the attorney who had been handling it quit on the eve of the trial. A big protest meeting is being held on January 19, at the Paine Hall, 9 Ap- pleton street, ‘Boston. The speakers will be Jack McCarthy, Al Schaap and some of the taxi strikers. Morrison Says Relief Coming for Anthracite ‘WASHINGTON, Jan. 12—Secretary Morrison of the American Federation of Labor states that contributions from trade unions and central labor bodies are coming in, in satisfactory number, as a result of the appeal for help for the anthracite strikers’ fam- ilies, issued by the executive coun- cil just before Christmas. Consider- ing the fact that many organizations have held no meetings since the cir- cular was received, the degree of re- sponse thus far is reported to be as good as in the case of appeals made in earlier years, Acute suffering has developed in ome of the anthracite towns, so that thousands of children are being fed soup and bread by public authorities. Discusses Italian Debt. LONDON, Jan. 12—Negotiations for the settlement of the Italian debt to Great britain will open on January 15, it was officially announced today. Current Events (Continued from page 1.) when his trusty cutlass failed him he Would hear a last rattle in his throat, that bore no resemblance to the gurgle of good New England rum, ee 8 (HE Vanderhbilts, Goulds and Astors did not depend for protection on their own sabers. They took good care to have the government behind them. They looted in the name of the law and when their exploited employes demanded a little more of the wealth, they produced, they were put on a diet of powder and ball, unless they had the power to enforce their de- mands. eee 'T may be said that those brigands served a social purpose in helping to develop the raw wéalth stored up in this country’s soil. Capitalism has prepared the way for @ social order where it will be possible to produce wealth in sufficient quantities to sup- ply the wants of the human race on a scale, impossible without the produc- tive efficiency of modern industry. In this process those who engineered the building of railroads and other indus- tries were the instruments of evolu- tion. But this system—like all other preceding social systems—has outliv- ed its usefulness and must go. Its only beneficiaries are the parasites who render no useful service of any kind to society. 4 * * [HE inevitable Boris Brasol has pop- poped up again as “Chairman Asso- ciation Unity of Russia.” Since his employment as master of forgeries for Henry Ford in that ignoramus’ anti- semite campaign, terminatedy Mr. Brasol has modestly tarried behind the scenes. What induced him to venture forth now was a speech de- livered by Captain Paxton Hibben on Soviet policy in China. Brasol’s ten- der heart is rent with anguish over the “sad events” in China and he bares his soul to the readers of the New York Times. er Sar | fF order to prove that Soviet policy in China is not benevolent, for the Chinese, Mr. Brasol being an accom- plished forger has no difficulty in per- verting a speech alleged to have been delivered by the chief of the political department of the Red Army in Mos- cow recently. “The nationalistic move- ment in the Far Hast awakened by us in 1925, reached its climax, ‘The organization of the colonial revo- lution has consequently become the chief task of the Soviet government.” rye (VERYONE with any honesty com- bined with reasonable intelligence knows that the Soviet government is not organizing revolutions in the east or in the west. The Soviet ‘govern- ment did not awaken the sleeping peoples of the Orient into a war against foreign imperialism. The awakening was done by the imperial- ists. It is true that the’ Communist International aided the development of this revolt and helped to give it di- rection. But surely éven such a 100 per cent American as the czarist stool- pigeon Brasol would not object to helping subject peoples win the right of self-determination. Shades of Wood- row Wilson! . f Shot Nine Times in Feud, Henry J. Spingola, 28, ex-serivce man, wealthy politician and brother- in-law of Angelo Genna, is dead, shot nine times by gunmen carrying on the extermination of the Genna gang in bootlegging circles. Three of the Gen- na brothers were slain last year. HELP SAVE THE DAILY WORKER! THE DAILY WORKER lawes Plan in Germany Breeds New Revolution EDITOR'S NOTE:—Today The DAILY WORKER begins the pub- lication of the speech by I. Stalin before the Russian Communist Party congress, He begins by show- ing the contradictions within the capitalist system, all of which, he points out, are insoluble. He shows the role that American dollars are playing in the efforts at post-war Stabilization in Europe. But read for yourself: ae * (international Press Correspondence.) OSCOW, U. S. S. R., Dec. 19.—By Mail)—In a speech lasting five and a half hours, Comrade I. Stalin, secretary of the Communist Party of Russia spoke in the name of the cen- tral committee of the Russian Com- munist Party at its fourteenth con- gress here at the Kremlin in part as follows: “First of all, the following upon the international situation: The most decisive factor in the international situation of the Soviet Union is the creation of a certain provisional bal- ance of power between our country, the country of socialist reconstruc- tion, and the capitalist countries. “The capitalist world is no longer strong enuf to suppress the Soviet Union and this is the reason for the period of, so to speak, the peaceful existence ofthe Soviet Union to- gether with the bourgeois world. This is caused by the internal weak- nesses of world capitalism, by the growth of the revolutionary working class movement in general and by the strengthening of the Soviet Republics in particular. “T\HE weakness of the capitalist world comes from five contradic- tions which are insoluble for capital- ism: (1) From the contradiction between the proletariat and the bour- geoisie in the capitalist countries, (2) From the contradiction between im- perialism and the movement for na- tional freedom in the colonies and in the dependent countries. (3) From the contradiction between the. victorious and the defeated states. (4) From the contradictions among the victorious states themselves, and (5) From the contradiction between our Soviet land and the capitalist countries. “With regard to the first contradic- tion, capitalism is in a state which we characterize as a partial, a pro- visional stabilization, that is to say, in a state where the productive and financial chaos is partly overcome in comparison with the immediate postwar period, and in a state where the political strength of the bour- ne ane is comparatively strengthen- ed.” TALIN presented rich statistical material upon the state of produc- tion in the capitalist countries which have almost reached or which have al- ready reached the prewar level of pro- duction. He said: “Most countries have in one way or the other succeed- ed in balancing their budgets, but at the cost of the working population which has suffered a terrible increase in the load of taxes which it must bear. “After the period when the revolu- tionary tide was at its flood at the time of the post-war crisis, there ex- ists in Europe today an ebb. The question of the conquest of power is not a topical question in Europe, at Present we are experiencing a period in which the proletarian forces are mobilizing. This is a period of great significance in relation to the creation HIS LIGHT WILL 60 OUT of new forms of’the proletarian move- ment thru the! existence and the growth of a mass movement under | the banner of the struggle for trade | union unity. This struggle has adeep revolutionary significance not the least of which is the establishment of a firm connection between the work- ing class movement of the west and the working class movement of the Soviet Union, as seen in the left move of the English working class move- ment, the decay of Amsterdam, etc. “We are experiencing an accumula- tion 6f the proletarian forces which has a gigantic significance for the fu- turé revolutionary actions. We are experiencing a period in which the slogan of the Communist movement is for the conquést’of the proletarian mass organizations, such as the trade unions. TALIN stressed the fact that finan- cial power in, the capitalist world has moved its centers from Europe to America, and that the latter is now the only country with any significant export of capital to show. He said: “The provisional stabilization of European capitalism has chiefly been achieved with the aid of American capital at the cost of a financial sub- ordination of Hurope to America. Burope is seeking salvation by in- creasing the burden of taxation and in worsening the situation of the work- ing class. In conection with ap- proaching payment of debts and in- terest upon debts,’ the load of taxation in most countries‘ will increase, the material situation of the European working class detériorate and the lat- ter become revolutionary. “The symptoms of this are already to be seen in England and in other European countries. Even should the economic level of Europe reach that of the prewar period, ‘and this is not im- possible, nevertheless, capitalism will never achieve the prewar stability, for Europe has purchased its provisional stabilization by financial subordina- tion to America and with an increase of the load of taxation in the countries of Europe. “The number of the most important exploiting countries has been reduced | to a minimum, it is limited to the| United States and partially to the as- Railroad Workers! Fight for Your Right to Strike! (Continued from page 1) president of the United States is empowered to name a board of media- tion of five members who have the power to intervene in any dispute either on the request of one of the parties or of its own volition. The railroad workers should understand that such a board named by the president of the United States will use its power, as the rail- way board has used its power, AGAINST THE WORKERS, What chance of winning a strike would the railroad workers have after a board of mediation had rendered a public declaration in favor of arbitration of a dispute between railroad workers and railroad owners? The proposed law, however, goes still further. If the board of mediators appointed by the president is unable to settle a dispute, then the board of mediation reports to the president and the president is empowered to appoint another board to investigate the dispute and render a report to the president within thirty days. b During all the period in question, first negotiations with the em- ployers; second, investigation and mediators; recommendation by the board of third, investigation and report to the president by the special board of investigators, the workers are bound not to strike. The ‘right to use their organized power Is taken from them. = The railway labor board never tied the hands of the workers as effectively and working conditions does this new legislation, which is to govern the struggle in the railroad industry. The rail- s could ask nothing better, short of actual declaration by law that the railroad workers are slaves of the railroad owners and can- not leave their jobs. What can the railroad workers expect from a board of mediation and a board of investigation appointed by the president who is the agent of the capitalist cla in the White House? The Daugherty injunction, secured against the railroad shopmen, is the best example of the attitude of the government toward the rail- road workers. Attorney-General Daugherty was an appointee of the presivent. . Do the railroad workers expect anything better from a board of ' mediation and a board of investigation appointed by the president than they got from President Harding’s Attorney-General Daugherty in the form of the Daugherty Injunction? The board of mediation and the board of investigation will be methods of stacking the carde against the railroad workers, After these sistant of America, England. The European countries have not yet be- come colonies, they are continuing with the exploitation of their own colonies, but they have fallen into the greatest possible financial dependence upon America, And here is one of the chief reasons for the uncertainty of the present stabilization of Europ ean capitalism, ITH regard to the second catego- ry of the contradictions of capital- ism, the development of industry and of the proletariat in the colonial coun- tries is decisive, and, particularly in the post-war period, the growth of the national revolutionary movement and the general crisis in the world dominance of capitalism. The great powers are faced with the loss of the colonial hinterland. In Morocco, in Syria and in China, the revolutionary movement takes the form of a direct anti-imperialists war and endangers the capitalist stabilization. The bour- geois press flatters the Bolsheviks when it declares that we have caused the colonial crisis. Unfor- tunately, we. are not strong enough to assist directly all colonial countries in their fight for emancipation. The true cause of this crisis lies in the fact that the European countries, in- debted to America are increasing the exploitation of their colonies and this inevitably intensifies the revolution- ary movement in the colonies and in the dependent countries and intensi- fies the general crisis. ITH regard to the first category of the contradictions of capital- ism, European capitalism has partial- ly achieved a stabilization and the conquest of power by the proletariat is not a topical question there, but in the colonies, the crisis has reached its culminating point and the expulsion ot imperialism from various colonies is actually a topical day to day ques- tion. ITH regard to the contradiction between the victorious and the defeated states, this expresses itself in the new method of exploitation of the defeated states thru the Dawes plan, the consequences of which show themselves in a deterioration of the economic situation of Germany in the bankruptcy of various concerns, in the increases of unemployment, etc. For the German people, the Dawes plan means a double pressure: The pressure of the German bourge- oisie upon the German proletariat, and the pressure of foreign capital upon the whole German people. In this connection, the further consequences of the Dawes plan will lead inevitably to a revolutionary explosion in Ger- many. America wishes to ensure the capa- city of Germany to pay by an exploit- ation by Germany of the Russian market. But in this one has not ask- ed the Soviet Union at all, and the latter is not prepared to develop into an agricultural country, not even for |the benefit of Germany. On the con- trary, it wishes to develop into an industrial country. The Dawes plan has feet of clay. Locarno is the continuation of Ver- sailles, Locarno means simply- the maintenance of the status quo ante, the maintenance of the existing fron- tiers of Germany in favor of Poland and France. To believe that the strengthening Germany will remain content with this, is to believe in a wonder. Just as the solution of the question of Alsace and Lorraine after the Franco-Prussian war was one of the chief reasons of the imperialist war, so also will Versailles and its Lo- carno continuation which sanctions the loss of Upper Silesia and the Danzing corridor by Germany, the loss of Ukrainian Galicia and West Volyhinia by West White Russia and the loss of Vilna by Lithuania, etc., that is to say, which create a new complex of contradictions, share the public opinion against them, the possibilities of a strike, particularly the possibility of a successful strike, will be gon There will be-no chance of the railroad workers using their most effective weapon, the strike, in order to enforce their demands. The railroad owners want a no-strike law for the railroads. They are ready to openly advocate such a propo: |, but they are actually secur- ing a no-strike law hidden behind boards of mediation’and boards of investigation in the proposed railroad legislation. The @ailroad workers learned from experience what it was to go up against! the decision of the railway labor board. They made a splendid fight, ‘but they could not win against all the powers of the government direc! ed against them, The new railway legislation is of the railroad owners. In agreeing to it, the railway union officia’ en a stronger weapon in the hands have played into the hands of the railway bosses. Fight the Proposed Legislation! HE new law has not yet become effective. There is still time for the railroad workers to organize against it and carry on a fight for their right to strike, Every railroad worker who wants his union to be a ‘real fighting or- ganization to win a higher standard of life for him from the railroad bosses, will join the fight against the proposed new railway law. Every railway union should pi resolutions opposing this law. _ Let the union officials know that the rank and file railway workers are not ready to lay down and let the bosses walk on them. Let the railroad owners know that the railroad workers are ready to fight for their right to strike, their right to use their or, defend the interests of the railroad workers. nization to Let the government which plays the game of the railroad bosses know that the railroad workers refuse to be bound hand and foot and helple: in their fight igainst their exploiters, The million and a half organized railroad workers must make their voices heard. No company unionism for the railroads! Down with the new proposed law to bind the workers! Preserve the right to strike, the workers’ weapon in the fight against the bosses. CENTRAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, _.. WORKERS (COMMUNIST) PARTY OF AMERICA, - 7 GBs Ruthenberg, General Secretary, | v7] ' their class war fate of the Franco-Prussian treaty. Just as the Dawes plan carries the revolution in Germany within itself, 80 also does Locarno carry the next imperialist war within itself. see EDITOR’S NOTE:—The continua- tion gf Stalin’s speech in tomorrow's issu4 will present proof showing that the peace treaties made after Europe’s wars always carry the ele- ments of future wars. Philadelphia I. L. D. to Spread Itself at Ball Friday Evening PHILADELPHIA, Jan, 12. — All class conscious workers of Phila- delphia are getting ready to enjoy the first annual Labor Defense ball ar- ,|Tanged by the International Labor De- fense for Friday evening, Jan, 15, at the Moose Hall at Master and Broad streets. Excellent union music will play un- til one in the morning for those who enjoy dancing. Several unions and ex- Page Thres “MORE POWER TO THE DAILY WORKER,” HAYWOOD'S GREETING To The DAILY WORKER: REETINGS on this, the second anniversary of the one vital, virile ; dally paper of America, the tribune of the downtrodden, the herald of the exploited and the advocate of the victimized workers behind prison walls. Your commendable efforts for ind ialism will bear fruit, it is the basis, the spirit and form of unionism, thru which Communism will eventually be achieved. More power to The DAILY WORKER! Yours fraternally, WILLIAM D. HAYWOOD. “Yards” Workers Toil Long Hours (Continued from page 1.) on the floor awaiting an oppor- tunity to make life miserable for anyone who cannot follow the chain. As we go into the other depart- ments, we find the same thing is true. Girls weighing bacon, packing sausag- es @ performing other tedious work. Men, girls, women before long endless belts all day long hastily performing one single operation during the entire day. The company has things down to such a point that the worker has little time for anything else than to do the work that is set before him. If he looks around he misses an operation and is fired for not “tending to his work.” On the killing floors where the most strenuous work is done, the chains have been speeded up a number of times. Speed-up Hog Kill. During the past summer a “short” crew of 50 men on a single chain in the hog-kill was speeded up to turn out 450 hogs every hour for nine and ten hours per day. These hogs had to be killed and dressed and made ready for the cooler by these 50 men. This winter they have added 20 more men to the chain, making 70, who now turn out an average of 700 hogs per hour. This summer the speeding up pro- cess forced the workers to turn out one and a quarter hogs per seoond and now this winter they must turn out about two hogs per second. If every worker was to kill, scald, shave, cut, clean and prepare the hog by him- self at. the rate they were working during the hot summer months he would have had to turn out nine hogs by himself. At present it would be ten hogs. The work that these men are doing should really be done by about one hundred men. Recently a new chain was started perts in the food industry will co- operate in preparing a splendid re- freshment bar that will soothe the appetites of all who enjoy eating well. The great feature of the ball will be an opportunity to meet every rad- ijeal progressive and liberal worker of this city. The arrangements committee has met almost unanimous response sale of tickets proves that the workers of Philadelphia stand ready to do every- thing in their power to help defend prisoners, Owe ee. in the hog-kill. Sixty workers were put on, This chain is at present turn- ing out about 400 to 600 hogs less per day than the first chain. The work- ers on the second chain must work much faster than those on the first chain, Evident to All. The speeding up of this chain was evident to all those employed on the floor. First they started with two hogs on the chain and three empty spaces. Then they put on three hogs and had two empty spaces. Then four hogs with one empty space and then they sent thru the chain without any breaks. The same number of work- ers had to do the work as on the day that the chain was started. The chains have been speeded up so that the hog-stickers are not able tc stick every hog that comes by and many hogs are pulled by the chain in to the tub of scalding water without being stuck. Live Hogs in Scalding Water. The hogs are drawn thru the scald ing water in order to loosen the hairs but they go thru so fast now that very few of the bristles are loosened. They go thru @ machine where revolving knives are supposed to clean off all of the bristles. From the machine it goes the length of the chain where men employed as shavers must finish shaving the hog and then the hog is cleaned and worked upon until the two halves are made ready for the cooler, Because of the speeded-up chain the machine is not able to clean the hog as it should be done and the hand shavers, of which three or four have been taken off, are forced to work so much harder in order to shave the hogs. The chain is speeded up to such an extent that every worker on the chain finds it hard to keep up and is forced to work very hard in order to get the work done. The hogs that were not stuck by the sticker then come before these men and they must kill the hogs which have gone thru the scalding water and the shaving thachine alive: The workers in this department find things far from pleasant and after they have been working six or seven hours, things blur before thelr eyes, Work Nerve-wracking. The work is nerve-wracking, Th¢ sharp knife—quickly making the cuts —the blood, bristles and dirt epurt- ing into one’s face, the odors aris- ing from the scalding water are enuf to make even the strongest constitu. tion weaken. Because of the speeding up many workers cut themselves and have to go to the first ald room where a doctor, who must have been shell- shocked in the world war, waits on the patients, _ The worker on this floor as well as in the cutting room is under the con- stant fear of cutting himself, He has to furnish his own knife, boots, apron and other tools that he uses. It is a common sight to see men Played out by the fierce rate, drop onto the blood-smeared and mucky floor. A bucket of water is thrown onto them and they. are left there to recover, Faints on Hot Water Tub, On the tubs with the scalding water, one of the workers, who turned hogs, was overcome by the heat and ex- haustion. He fainted. He wad carried down the steps onto the floor. Placed on some dirty planks; a bucket of water thrown over him and when he recovered, he had to go back to his job. Thruout the entire “yards,” the workers are liable to colds, pneumonia and other pulmonary trubles that oft- en lead to tuberculosis. Rheumatism is a very common ailment in the “yards.” All day long, they must work in soggy clothes and shoes with no chance to change them. In tomorrow’s DAILY WORKER, there will be a special article dealing with the sanitary conditions that pre- vail in the plant and what “conveni- nces” the workers have for their clothes and for eating their lunches. IN PHILADELPHIA! You Are Invited to Attend the First Annual Labor Defense Ball Arranged by International Labor Defense, Local Philadelphia Friday Evening, January 15, 1926 MOOSE HALL, Broad and Master Streets. ADMISSION 40 CENTS. WARDROBE 35 CENTS. Union Orchestra—Dancing Until 1 A. M. Release and Defend Our Class War Prisoners! Join the International Labor Defense! IN LOS ANGELES! Come to Our VETCHERINKA To Be Held SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 16, 1926 in the Co-operative Center, 2706 Brooklyn Ave. Under the Auspices of the Needle Trades Section T. U, BE. L. Admission 35c (Refreshments Included). A GOOD TIME FOR ALL. BROOKLYN, N. Y., ATTENTION! CO-OPERATIVE BAKERY Meat Market Restaurant IN THE SERVICE OF THE CONSUMER, Bakery deliveries made to your home. FINNISH CO-OPERATIVE TRADING ASSOCIATION, Inc, (Workers organized as consumers) 4301 8th Avenue nent eT sty Brooklyn, N. Y, ee