The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 17, 1926, Page 3

Dec ee aie ininene the Standard for a°Workers’ The DAILY WORKER Raises and Farmers’ Government gid FY Fy In Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year, Subscription Rates: BiG eer ee By BT veo. WORKERS TO GATHER IN LENIN’S ME FORTY-HOUR GUARANTEE USED AS CLUB BY MEAT PACKERS TO ENFORCE SPEED-UP SYSTEM By VICTOR ZOKAITIS. The workers on the ho, example recently how the killing floor have received a good -hour guarantee that is in operation In the Armour & Company meat packing plant in Chicago, operat to produce more. against the worker in order to force him to speed up and The 40-hour guarantee that is maintained in the “yards” by the packers reminds one of the picture one sees where a mule is drawing a heavy load. Seated on the back of the mule is a fat man. He holds out a handful of hay before the mule. The mule pulls the load eagerly, but it never reaches the hay. Once in a while to keep the mule contented, the fat, rider gives the mule a whisp to chew. That is just the way the 40-hour guarantee works By T. J. O'FLAHERTY HLI-DETERMINATION, to its foremost prophet Woodrow ‘Wilson, meant substantially the right of all people to order their own gov- ernmental institutions in their own fashion and according to their con- ceptions of the kind best suited to according their needs. Some péeoplé were fool- ish enough to think that this country ‘went to war to establish that right among others. What a cry was rais- ed when the gray hordes of the kaiser’ goose-stepped into Belgium! Here ‘was the principle of national sov- ‘ereignty trampled upon most brazen- ly. Of course the fact that all capi- talist powers had treated weaker ones fn similar fashion did not disturb the Bleep of our patriots. eee were always given to under- * stand that the United States was champion of freedom everywhere. fs ? As a matter of fact the States has developed the most fnsatiable imperialist appetite of all the robber powers on earth. It has stretched out its greedy arms to every spot on the globe that is worth ex- Ploiting. It is steadily securing a stranglehold on South America. Now, after a few years of surface péace with Mexico, our southern neighbor, the state department sends a note that no self-respecting nation could eccept without humiliating itself, pro- testing against the enactment by the Mexican legislature of a law which at- fects the interests of the foreign. ex- Ploiters in Mexico, 7. © ul hier law is not satisfactory to the oil kings and other American burg- lars who are looting the soil of Mexi- @o and exploiting Mexican workers. Because it is not the government in ‘Washington threatens Mexico with punishment. What would the aver- ge American think if Mexico protest- ed to Washington against the passage of any particular law by congress? Of course, Mexico is comparatively ‘weak and this country is strong and (Continued on page 5) in the “yards.” Wages in the. “yards” are low. They are lower'than the wages in the other industries. Added to the low wages is the brutal speed-up where one man does the work of nearly two men. On top of all the grievances of the workers in the “yards” is the fact that the meat packing industry does not offer steady work to the workers. At many times of the year production drops off and workers make less than a starvation wage, * To Keep Force Intact, In order to keep a skilled working force intact the packers use the 40- hour guarantee. Last year the work- ers in the hog kill had to work 12 and 13 hours a day, every day in the week, The, workers were forced to come down and work one of the holi- days during the busy season. As soon as the'séason was over the packers laid off all of those that were not needed in order to avoid paying the 40-hour, guarantee, They trimmed down their killing gangs to such an extent as would be able to handle the hogs that were to be killed. _. This , year, the , workers are not working full time. Tho their work- day is supposed to be nine hours, they are working, as a rule, ten hours per day, but do not work the full 54 hours a week. This year the skilled work- ers have, during a number of weeks in this busy. season, received the guar- antee, Lay Off 25 Workers, Last week when the company saw that they would not work forty. hours, they laid off about twenty-five men on the killing floor, These men were mainly unskilled workers. They were the ones ‘who had to do the heavy and the :dirty work on the killing floor... Among these unskilled were al- so a number of the semi-skilled work- ers. Bverytime that the packers see that the workers. will work less than forty hours and that the forty-hour guaran- tee will have to be paid, they lay off those workers, who can be easily re- Placed and also those that are not able to keep up with the speed-up system in force, By paying this guarantee to the skilled workers, an efficient working force of ‘workers, that are able to (Continued on page 5) DAILY WORKER. Entered as Second-class matter Septeniber 21, 1923, at thé Post Office at Chicago, Illinois, under the Act of March 3, 1879. LENIN MEMORIAL EDITION Next Legion Meet to Be Held in Philly INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Jan. 15.—The national executive committee of the American legion, in session here to- day announced the 1926 national con- vention of the legion will be held from October 11 to 15 at Philadelphia. Liebknecht’s Spirit Lives in Our Revolu By NAT KAPLAN. the younger members of the proletarian fighting ranks grew ‘@p and entered the arena of political Mfe since the world war. To us the period of the “peaceful” development Of capitalism is a matter of history. ‘We live and function in the era of live social volcanoes—the epoch of im- and the proletarian revolu- on. It is only natural then, that gen- erally, we have not acquired a hard and fast social democratic ideological strain. We are neither permeated ‘with the pre-war dogmas of the second fnternational, nor with the ideology of fts later betrayals of the proletariat. Hspecially is this true of the Un- ited States. Those of our present young Communists who entered the movement in the days of 1916, 17 and not remain in the socialist par- enough to catch the oppor- syphilis of Mossrs. Hillquit, and Co, In fact many of us the socialist party when there evelopment leading to lied about our ages enter the party and fight the revolutionaries There are other factors involved. The process of the narrowing down of the ranks of the skilled workers which has generated in capitalism since the introduction of machinery forces the young workers of the present genera- tion into the ranks of the unskilled laborers. The young workers do not 377 new subscriptions in the first 4 days of the LENIN DRIVE 5000 New Subs to the DAILY WORKER! RUSH YOUR SUB! Renew! Subscribe! anQ tionary Activities share the special privileges of the labor aristocracy, Hence they are not so easily aligned with the imperialist policies of the bourgeoisie, The young workers of the United States are a factor in the leveling process which is germinating in the depths of the American working class, From such a premise we can begin to conceive of the significance of the role played by our martyred Comrade Karl Liebknecht, His deep interest in the youth movement and his piercing analysis of capitalist militarism and the struggle against it will always be connected with his name, In the broadest sense both of these problems are inseperably bound up. The youth stands the major burden of capitalist militarism and as @ consequence must form the front line battalions in the struggle against it. In his book on mill- tarism and anti-militarism, Liebknecht writes: “There is nothing specifically capitalistic about militarism, More- over, it is proper and essential to all systems of class society of which the capitalist system {is the last, Capital- ism like all other systems of class society, developes its own special va- riety of militari: ‘or militarism, by its very essence, ® means to an end, or to several ends, which vary in accordance with this variance, This 1s brought to ight not only by the ‘ (Continued on page 6) ‘a whe | politicians LEN SMALLS CONFERENCE A ROTTEN FRAUD Crooked Governor Tries New Swindle A gang of bankers, merchants and manufacturers assembled In Chicago yesterday in response to a call from Governor Len Small, the slimy poll- tician convicted of stealing a million dollars from the state of Iilinols while he held the office of state treasures, represented this so-called farm con- ference. In addition to this crew were a few exfarmers, now retired and living in luxury in the citles of the state, while the labor faking henchmen of Small made up the bal- ance, ' This Inglorious crew discussed the various fraudulent panaceas proposed by Secretary of Agriculture Jardine and other republican and democrat trying to make political capital out of the misery of the farm- ers, After talking all day they decided that a delegation of fifty, to be chosen later would be sent to the agricultural conference to be held in Des Moines, Towa, on January 28, Thus endeth Small's great cam- paign to aid the farmers of the state whose treasury he pillaged. “The party is strengthened by puri- fying itself of opportunist elements.” —Lenin, Hear about Lenin's strug: gle against opportunist deviations, at the henin Memorial mains Join the Growing Ranks of Worker of The DAILY-WORKERI Correspondents <<—>»* <M Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Blvd fo) cago, Il, | THOUSANDS TO COMMEMORATE WORK OF LENIN Scores of Meetings on Anniversary Every year thousands and tens of thousands of workers more become acquainted with the name of Lenin and come to know of.the lessons of his {Ife and death. Every year the sanda of workers more rally to the banner of Leninism in the struggle against capitalism and fmperlalism, The Lenin nw orial meetings held all over the world towards the end of January are a nstration of the militant workers of what Lenin and Leninism means to them, of their de termination to con their struggle against the bourge e under the guidance of Lenin. In America too all of the militant workers will dem- onstrate on Lenin memorial day against the attacks of the bosses that are growing more and more bitter every day, against wage-cuts, againat lengthening of hi against wors@n- ing of o against the open shop drive, against the attacks on the foreign-born workers, against all the moves of the bosses against the work ers. This year’s Lenin memorial dem onstrations will mean demonstrations for the protection of the foreign-barn, for the defense and tion of the Soviet Union, for world trade union ity, and for the labor party. Every honest war! every worker that really wants to wage a straight st the bosses, must take LEFT WING METAL WORKERS HIT JOHNSTON MACHINE'S EFFORT TO USE REFERENDUM TO KEEP POWER Concerning the attempt by the Johnston-Davison machine to set aside the decisions of the Detroit convention by a set of trick ques- tions in the January referedum, the left wing has issued the follow- ing statement: The Johnston-Devison machine in-control of the International Association of Machinists thru the fraudulent election when Anderson was counted out in order to keep itself in power as long as possible, is now attempting to foist a new scheme upon the membership which will nullify the decisions of the Detroit convention in regards to referendum and election in the union, Stole Election Want to Keep It, The executive council, which came into power after stealing the last elec- tion from the opposition candidates, and then throwing out the opposition candidate for president, J. F, Ander- son, is compelled, according to the laws adopted at the Detroit conven- tion, to submit to a new election every two years, and a new election would thus take place in January, 1928, The convention also adpoted a breposition for holding a convention every two years instead of a four year period. The Johnston forces by sending out a@ score of so-called organizers were able to defeat this important clause, The members, however, found them- selves confronted with a situation where they would have a chance to vote on the officials every two years and only have a convention every four years. Violate Convention Decisions. The convention also decided that the general secretary-treasurer should keep his crooked fingers off the ballots and that the two tellers for the can- didates for president should super- vise the ballots. Every member of the I. A. of M. now knows how little this law was respected by the adininistration, Davison determining which ballots should be counted and which thrown out, and providing for all emergenc- (Continued on page 4) 39 MINERS KILLED IN SCAB MINE FARMINGTON, W. Va. Jan, 156— Before the dead could be removed from one great nonunion mine wrecked by the fault of the greedy mine operators In Oklahoma, a sec- ond nonunion mine blast here last night at the Jamison Coal and Coke company’s mine No, 8, located in the heart of the nonunion fields, has en- tombed 39 miners most or all of whom are believed dead, many bodies already being recovered, The only hope that exists is that 24 miners, worwknig in an entry about two miles from the one where the bodies were found, will be rescued alive. The company head, George B, Taylor, general manager and E. Cowan, chief engineer have left Greensburg, Pa., for this coal camp, Meanwhile thé company is concealing the cause of the explosion, which miners, however, attribute to ignor- ing of safety regulations by the com- pany, ‘ part in these demonstrations held all over the country in the period be tween Jan. 22 to Feb. 1. The lst of meetings and speakers given below shows what meetings have been @& ranged already in the various parte Gf...%-) r the country. As soon as more mest ings will be arranged they will Be added, Watch this list! MASSACHUSETTS. Quincy—Jan. 24, Malnatis Hall, 4 Liber ty St., 7:30 p. m., Eva Hoffman, Maynard—Jan. ‘24, Waltham St. 35 Walton St., 2:00 p. m. J. P. Relde Lawrence—Jan. 24. ‘Ideal Hall, Essex St., 2:30 p. ma H. J. Cantery Fitchburg—Jan.. 24, Suomi Hall, Man St., 7:30 p. m. local Finnish com= rade. Boston—Ford Hall, Ashburtoh pines, Bert D. Wolfe, Jan. 22, 8 Newton Upper Falls—Ru High St. R. Zelms 7:30 p. m. Lanesville—Finnish Werkingmente A sociation Hall, 1060 Washington, be Marks, Jan. 23, 7:30 p. m. Gardner—Ai Schaap, Jan. 24, 8 Be Brockton—H. §. Bloomfield, Jan, 2% 7:30 64 Belmont p.m. Worcester—Belmont Hall, St, Bert D. Wolfe, Jan. 44, RHODE ISLAND. Providence— Russian Club Randali St., Max Lerner, Jan. 24, 2 p, Me. NEW YORK New York—Central Opera House, 67th St. and Third Ave., New Star Casino, 107th St. and Park Ave., Miller’s Grand Assembly, 318 Grand St., hattan Lyceum, 65 East Lovestone, Ben Gitlow, M. W. Weinstone, Chas. Krumbein, 2p. m. Jamestown—Jan, 31. Local sp: Buffato—J. O. Bentall and Nai Jan, 24, 2 ¥ Rochester ©. Bentall, Jan, 24, 8 p.m. Binghamton—J. ©. Bentall and Nat Kaplan, Jan 25. Endicott—J. O, Bentall and Nat Kap. 26. J. ©. Bentall and Nat Kap- ©. Bentall and Nat Kaplan, p.m. —J. lan, Jan. Jan. 27. Schenectady—J, O, Bentall and Wat Kaplan, Jan. 29. NEW JERESY Trenton—Jan. 24. P: e Hall, S, Broad St., 2:00 p. m., Tallentire. Trenton—N. H. Tallentire, Jan, 2 1 Pm. PENNSYLVANIA Chester—Jan. 22. Sons of Italy Hall, 3rd and Verlin Sts.. 8 p. m. Erie—Local speakers. Philadeiphia—Lulu Temple, Broad and Spring Garden, Jay Lovestone, Ben Gite low, M. J, Olgin, Jan Erie—J. 0. Bentail, Pittsburgh—Iint'l Soci James St., A. Jan. Gi st Lyceum, 805 Jakira and D, &, Barley, 2:30 p. m. sport—Finnish Hall, James Otis, Jan, 23, 8 p,m. Coverdale—A. Jakira, Jan, 23, 8 Avella—Granjis Hall, 'D. E. Bark 23, 8 p.m. Uniontown—Croatian Hall, Geo. Pape cun, C. W. Fuilp, Jan, 24, 2 p. m. Verona—Ferry’s Hall, James Otis, Jan. 24, 8 p.m. Geo. Papoun, m Republic—Croatian Hall, Rural Ridge—James Otis, Jan, 24, & C. W. Fulp, Jan. 24, 8 p p.m. Cannonsburg—-D, &. Earley, Jan, 30, 8 p.m. “Daisytown—Home Theater, Tom Ray, Jan. 31, 2 p.m. New Brighton—O, &. Earley, Jan, 31, 2 p.m, WEST VIRGINIA Triadelphia—Tom Ray, Jan. 24, 2p. im. Pursglove—Tom Ray, Jan. 31, 2 py Ms KENTUCKY Newport—Robert Minor, Jan, 21. OHIo Cleveland—Moose | Auditorium, 1000 Walnut St., Robert Minor and |. Amter, Jan. 17, 2 p.m. Hall, Robert Warren—Hippodrome Minor, Jan. 17, 8 p. m, Youngstown—Ukrainian Mall, w. Rayen 8t., 1. Amter and Robert Klner dan, 17, & p. m. Lima~Robert Minor, Jan. 18, Cincinnati—Doyie’s Academy, | Central Sts., Robert Minor,’ Jan, te 130 p.m, Columbus—Robert Minor, Jan, Peom, Akron—Zigler Hall, Vorie a Han, 1 Pei ticiaien. a ea emene — { a TTS A = a x