The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 22, 1926, Page 6

Page Six THE DAILY WORKER THE DAILY WORKER Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, I Phone Monroe 4712 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail (In Chicago only): By mall (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 Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 1118 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Ilinole — J, LOUIS ENGDAHL WMitors WILLIAM F, DUNNE [{” MORITZ J. LOEB.. Business Manager —— Entered as second-class matl September 21, 1923, at the post-office at Chi- cago, [il, under the act of March 3, 1879. Advertising rates on application. A Contest in Scabbery <i 390 When company unions were first launched by the employers were recognized instantly as organizations ereated* to scab of these they upon the regular unions. the unions displayed the threats to organized labor. and file that would swept aside. other unions declined just because the leaders the demands of the membership, some of the leaders of labor had a bright idea—to enable them to exist as leeches upon the rank and file of labor. These labor leaders decided they could become better scabs than the regular scabs organized in the company unions. They started But the reactionary officialdom total incapacity to deal with Every suggestion on the part of the rank strengthen the unions was contemptuously first with the B. & O. plan on the railroad that bears that name and they did such a good job of it that.even the most bitter enemies of organized labor are in favor of that system. The Pennsylvania rail- road is ready to aid in the introduction of this plan on its road, because it has learned that the competition of the Baltimore and Ohio road under the plan inaugurated by William H. Johnston of the Machinists is more effective than it ever was under the old condi- tions. So Atterbury and the directors of the Pennsylvania are now ready to ditch their own company unions and permit the traitors to labor to conduct the B. & O. type of company union for them. It is a contest in scabbery, with the trade union officialdom proving that they cah out-scab the regular organizations of company scabs. There is but one way to meet this amazing treachery and that is for the rank and file to drive from their labor organizations these B. & O. plan scoundrels and force them to receive their keep from the bosses they serve instead of from the dues paid by the workers they are betraying. ° . . Lenin Memorial Meetings Meetings are now being held thruout the world to commemorate the life and work of Lenin and to draw inspiration from his achieve- ments in order to enable the working class to advance in ever stronger columns toward the storming of the last ramparts of ‘cap- italism. Here in the United States these meetings, commemorating the second anniversary, are already under way and reports indicate an encouraging revival of interest in the revolutionary movement |“ on the part of the masses. Considering the record of flagrant betrayals of labor confronting the working class in the form of B. & O plans, labor banking, labor insurance, long-term contracts, forcible arbitration, and other devices encouraged by the labor fakers at the head of most American unions there is one principle enunciated by Lenin that deserves particular mention at this time: “The victory ef the working class is impossible unless the opportunist, social-traitor leaders are exposed, disgraced and ex- pelled.” The Workers (Communist) Party of American and its organ, Tue Dairy Worker, ever strive to put into practice in this country ssons of Lenin and Leninism and those masses who attend the meetings should be urged to get behind this, the only daily Leninist paper published on earth in the English language. . . A Crime to Be a Union Man Tho Don Chafin, sheriff of Logan county, West Virginia, is in federal prison for bootlegging, the system of terror intimately connected with his name still prevails in that benighted community. Only a day or so ago a miner was discharged from the Island Creek Coal company and the foreman wrote on his time card that the reason for his discharge was because he was a union man and wrote “news into union paper.” Followit i thrown into j related pais in our news columns, is one of hundreds of: a similar nature. In half the coal fields of the United States it is a crime to be aunion man, The most damning part of yesterday's story was that which referred to the fact that two organizers of the United Mine Workers of America, at thé re- quest of the miner who was afterwards discharged, came into the vicinity to do organization work, but left when they were told by agents of the bosses to do so. Such conditions can be overcome by organization work, but what is required is a battery of militant organizers that will really strive to organize the non-union fields, not merely draw , their salaries while loafing in the best hotels of ae district. the The clownish vice-president of the United States, Charles G. Dawes, delivered a verbal broadside over the radio Tuesday night against senators opposed to the world court. Yesterday morning the senators came back with a “hazing” against Dawes. Under fire from Senators Copeland of New York and Reed of Missouri the vice-president apologized,.claiming that he did not refer to those who had spoken on the senate floor that day. He then showed his contempt for the senate by turning his chair over to Senator LaFollette and leaving the chamber for lunch. However, as far as the workers and farmers are concerned there is little difference between the two, LaFollette claims to be a progressive As the company uniéhs continued to grow and the would not fight for Article Iv, HE rise of “labor” banking and abor” insurance enterprises is coincident with the increasing domin- ation of American imperialism. Beginning in 1920, with the estab- lishment of the Brotherhood of Loco- motive Engineers’ bank, on June 30, there were listed 35 “labor” banks with total resources of over $100,000,000. Most of these banks are organized by the bureaucracies of un- ions composed of decisive sections of the workers—notably among the rail- way organ ions, engineers, firemen, conductors, trainmen, machinists, rail way carmen, clerks and freight hand- lers, coal miners, etc. Side by side with this method of de- bauching ions of the workers wh« occupy strategic positions in Ameri can industry, goes the extension ol the B, & O. plan and other company union schemes. The needle trades unions have also established their own banks. HE most cordial welcome is extend ed to these enterprises by the capi alist press. A typical comment i at of the Chicago Daily News in its ue of August 22, 1925: “The, labor banks. altho claiming a liberal measure of success, urge conservatism upon the unions in connection with such financial enterprises. Since the recent suspension by the federai government of the issue of treasury savings certificates. the la bor bankers, have felt i their duty to encourage thrift anc the: prudent investment of workers’ savings. The policies of the labor banks, therefore, have to be MOST CONSERVATIVE. IT IS SIGNIFI- CANT THAT THE RELATION BE- TWEEN CERTAIN LABOR BANKS AND THE LARGER GENERAL FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS: ARE MOST CORDIAL. THERE.” HAS BEEN CO-OPERATION BETWEEN THEM IN THE MARKETING OF SOUND SECURITIES. In confer- ences of fianciers, representatives of labor banks have shown them- selves level-headed and FAIR-MIND- ED. “Destructive radicals say, sorrow- fully, that the labor banks are mak- ing capitalists of wage workers and seriously interfering with the pro- paganda of Communism, confisca- tion and class struggle. That is, of course, AN EXCELLENT BY-PROD- UCT OF THE ENTERPRISES.” (Emphasis mine—W. F. D.) ABOR” insurance, another effec- tive method of bribing the labor aristocracy, has been urged. upon the labor movement for some time but at the Atlantic City convention of the American Federation of Labor, it re- ceived the endorsement of that body. Speaking to the convention of the International Ladies’ Garment Work- ers’ Union last Novemher, Matthew -| Woll, one of the vice-presidents of the By SYLVAN A. POLLACK, IOR the benefit of those people (if there are any) who honestly believe that the American government has any intentions of giving freedom to the Philippine Islands, even in the far distant future, a persual of a exclu- sive Washington dispatch which ap- peared in the January 13, issue of the ‘New York Herald-Tribune, should act as a curative. This influential capitalist daily, in close contact with the Coolidge admi- nistration, informs us that instead of granting even an iota of freedom to the, Philippine Islands, preparations are now being made to strengthen the hold of American imperialism on that 4. F. of L, urged “the entry of the inion into the ertérprise and stated chat a national insurance company al- ready had been formed by the heads of some fifty unions. American imperialism has corrupt- ed a large section of the organized workers. It has divided the labor movement, It has been urged 6n to this task by the increasing imperialist antagonisms—some of which we have pointed out. We have in America, then, the con- dition described by Lenin: “The drawing of monopolistically high profits by capitalists of one of the many branches of industry, or of one of the many nations, enables them economically to bribe separate strata of the workers, and tempo- rarily even a considerable minority of them, and theraby drawing them into supporting the bourgeoisie of a given branch of industry or a given nation against the bourgeoisie of all other nations. The increased antag- onism between the imperialistic na- tions over the diyigion of the world strengthens this tendency. In this way there is effected a union of im- perialism with opportunism. . .” The division of the labor movement y class collaboration schemes, the rowing arrogance ‘ot the American uperialists producing strained rela- ons with other groups of robbers, the ilitarization of the whole workin ass—these are storm signals which le masses cannot afford not to no- ce and interpret correctly as warn- ogs to extend and consolidate the la- or movement, give it political un- erstanding and direction and drive Danger Ahead for Labor from power the bureaucratic agents of imperialism in the unions. LTHO the imperialists denounce the class struggle and their bu- reaucrats betray it, the exigencies of imperialist policy, at home and abroad force the sharpening of the struggle. In the anthracite coal industry, 150,- 000 miners have been on strike~since September 1. The bureaucracy had kept the maintenance men at work and sabotaged the strike but now the grievance committee of District 1—the {largest and most important district—- has demanded the withdrawal of all maintenance men. This, in the face jot the supine attitude of the official- | dom and its studied attempts to make the strike a mere “withdrawal of la- bor,” is an indication of the basic soundness of this important section , of the organized labor movement. In the railroad industry, particularly | among the shopmen, boilermakers, maintenance of way workers, black- smiths, machinists, car repairers, clerks and freight handlers, electri- clans—there are evidences of a new resentment against the capitalist and concern over the small percentage of organization maintained since the dis- astrous betrayal of the strike of 1922, SURVEY of the industry made by Otto Wangerin, editor of the Rail- way Amalgamationist, by reading the letters from rank and filers in the offi- cial journals and securing answers to a questionaire sent to militants, shows that there is a strong senti- ment for a campaign to organize the unorganized and for a general wage increase. In addition to this broad mass senti- ment for. strengthening the railway unions—so, strong that the bureau- crats have been forced to make some pretense of starting organization cam- paigns—there are a number of anti- administration movements crystaliz- ing in such unions as the Telegraph- ers, Clerks, and Freight-Handlers, Trainmen, etc. As yet these move- ments of the rank and file are form- less and without any concrete direc- tion, expressing themselves either in a tendency toward secession move- ments or organizational resistance to the bureucracy within the union, These movements of the rank and file of the unions must be organized around such basic issues as they will fight for and “the process of build- ing a broad resistance to the labor jagents of imperialism in the unions | begun. “Out of the elementary strug- | gles, energetic and careful work will first. very’ gradually and then “with increasiig speed, organize a power- ful proletarian army which cannot be’ debauched and demoralized. HE < danger of a wide offensive against.the whole American work- ing classis imminent as shown by the increasing-efforts towards the militar- ization 9fsthe: workers and the.grow- jing international imperialist rivalry, | For imperialism the menace of war is | never absent. Said Lenin: “For.under capitalism, no other basic for, the division of spheres. of influence, interests, colonies, . etc, is possible; except the basis. of the relative POWER of the participants in this. division, their respective general economic, financial and By JOHN PEPPER. UNGARY is once more the sub- ject of wide discussion not only by virtue of ‘its imprisonment and torture of Communists but also because of new putsch tendencies. It is interesting to ‘mote that the government and thé bourgeoisie in- evitably charge “the Communists with an attemp’ iputsch” when they themselves eally hatching putsch plans. ® The counter-reyolution in Hung- ary has created a garadoxial situa- tion: Hungary calls, itself a “king- King Carl and he is now revered and recognized as “King” Otto by the Hungarian monarchists. The Hungarian legitimatists are a very influential element in that they are the political representatives of the big landowners and of finance’ cap- ital. The@#opponents of the legitim- atists are the so-called “supporters of the free elective monarchy,” they represent chiefly the urban petty bourgeoisie and the wealthy peas- antry. The struggle between the legitim- atists and the anti-legitimatists, the “Supporters of the free elective monarchy,” hitherto resulted in a certain balance of power. This bal- dom” but it has na@king. At its head victim of “democracy.” I shall quote a part of the dispatch for the informa- tion of DAILY WORKER readers: “A strong bill, radically amending the present organic act for the Philip- pines, and materially strengthening the hands of Governor General Leo- nard Wood, will be introduced in the house within the next month with the co-operation of the war department and the support of the Coolidge ad- ministration. To Protect Investments. “While at present, with the legisla- ture not in session, Governor Wood is not much troubled, reports from the Philippines which committee members have received indicate that his act- ions are so hampered by Filipino poli- ticlans that he has great difficulty in promulgating constructive measures. The bill will in some way do away with the present feature of the organic act under which a great deal of power and patronage are granted the speaker of the house and the president of the senate. “Mention has also been made of al- tering in some respects the provisions of rubber supply» stands Horthy, as;tegent. He pub- licly declares hi if a loyal legit. imatist but this ration did not prevent his sim jshasing out of the country with, ing c and ma- chine guns the late,| when he attempted to ase fi jlegitim- ate” kingly prerogatives, A thirteen yearn gid son survives Body Blows to Filipino Independence instead of decreased, , Preparing the ground for the grétfly”claw of Amer- ican imperialism t@ more and more take away everyy,pretense of any freedom whatsoevey, .and make the question of “ultimate independence” a national joke which can be com- pared in so far as ‘its truthfulness is concerned, to Woodrow Wilson's fa- mous slogan of 1916, “He kept us out of war.” Rubber Cultivation. According to Judge John W. Haus- sermann, vice-president of the Amer- ican Chamber of Commerce of the Philippine Islands, the cultivation of rubber in the Philippines should take place. We know that the American capital- ists are keenly resenting the world monopoly of rubl on the part of Great Britain, to the extent of mak- ing preparations to compete on a large scale. Already the Firestone corporation has ma ié gigantic prep- arations in Liberia, and undoubtedly any day we will hearing of like arrangement being made in the Phil- ippine Islands, which would mean that the rope of bonda around its neck would be drawn 8. little bit tighter than it now is. Wants Government Assistance. A plea for “goygrnment protection in relation to the Philippines,” was made by Harvey §. Firestone, before the committee cat interstate and foreign PA of congress, on January 15. He stated that in, May 1923, he con- ducted an investigation of new sources @nd found that the soil and climate of the Philippine Islands advantageous, “with good labor possibilities,” “Because of the land laws now in ance is now jeopardized by a new factor, The Hungarian fascists have now advanced their own royal can- didates; an archduke of the expel- led Hapsburg dynasty. His name is Albrecht and he is a young advent- urer of great wealth and of still greater ambitions. During the strug- gle between Horthy and King Carl this young Albrecht, altho himself Notes of an Internationalist No. 4—A Fascist King in Hungary? a Hapsburg, supported Horthy. The By William F. Dunne wat powers..\, For that very reason the ‘inte: perialistic’ or ‘ultra- imperialistic’ alliances, in the face of capitalist realities, are of neces sity—regardless of the form in which these alliances would be- formed, whether in the form of one imperialist coalition against another imperialist coalition, or in the form of a general alliance of all the im- perialist powers—only pau be- tween one war and anothe: We have seen that in the United States the labor officials who are sup posed to fight the workers’ battles are leading them Hke sheep into the camp of their imperialist enemies. _Eyen the wage struggles of the workers are sabotaged and in place of an uncom- promising attempt to raise hte 3% tionally the standard of living that such demands as are made are pooam panied by efficiency schemes like the B, and O plan which deliberately, en- courage the speeding up of.the work- ers while killing their class spirit. In addition is the acceptance of the military plans of the imperialsits and a hostile attitude toward all other se, tions of the working class who resist, domination by American impérialism. }O prevent the wholesale enslave: ment and militarization of ,.the labor movement and the unorganized masses it is not only necessary to or- ganize the workers)around their im- mediate demands. It is also necessaty that into the broad movement of the workers against the bosses and the bureaucracy he brought the know- ledge of the whys and wherefores of the joint anti-working class action of the imperialists and their “labor agents. In“this connection the teachings of Lenin are of inestimable value to the labor movement. Knowledge of the strategy and tactics of the capitalists in the imperialist epoch are the first requirement. 1 Pye 2 put this problem ag the first point on the order df business of candidacy of a fascist king in Hung- ary Pi s also an international significance in that the Albrecht monarchy would mean the final se- paration'of Hungary fram Austria, an alilarice with Mussolini, reconci- liation with the Roumanian nation- alists, ‘and the closest co-operation with the Bavarian legitimatis The, Hungarian legitimatists, and also_the social-democra are ex- tremely alarmed over the appear- ance of a fascist royal candidate, The supporters of “King” Otto in- itiated a counter-demonstration, the social-democrats declared that they would fight with all their might against the fascist royal candidate, while, if not exactly supporting, at least comprehending the “legitim- ate” claims, political, juridical and moral, of the “legitimate” heir ap- parent. The Hungarian social-democracy never misses an opportunity to ex- pose | ‘its fundamentally reactionary character. the working class and especially of its most advanced section. He said: “Without understanding the econ- omic cause of this phenomenon and without a proper appraisal of its political and social meaning It Is impossible to make even one step forward in the direction of solving the most important problems of the Communist movement and the _— ing social revolution.” Important as this understanding- is for the British, French and Japanese working class it is a thousand times more important for the American Ja- bor and revolutionary movement—a movement which raises the banner of the social revolution in the country which has at the séme time the most powerful world position and the most backward working class. For the leaders of the struggle in the trade unions against the bureau- cracy, the most detailed knowledge of and ability to apply the teachings .of Lenin on imperidlism are indispens- able. force in the Philippines and the at- titude’ of the native government,” Firestone stated, “our investigators advised against the attempting any larger rubber developments in the Philippines. If the Philippines are to be developed, capital must have assurance that it will be properly pro- tected, which the present political situation does not assure.” Fight Against Imperialism. The American working class have as their duty to aggressively fight for the freedom of the Philippine Islands, as well as for the freedom of every country which is under the subjection of American imperialism. As Karl Marx taught, it is a part of our struggle for working class rule in America to see to it that no other Part of the world is under the bondage of our imperialists. Marx wrote as follows: “The form- ation of a common revolutionary front is possible only if the proletariat of the oppressing countries supports directly and resolutely the movement for national independence of the op- pressed peoples against the imperial- ism of the mother country for a country which oppresses others can never be free,” The All-America Anti-Imperialist League, which has a branch in the United States, as well as in almost all of the countries where America carries out its imperialist policy, should be supported in its work of rallying all workers, peasants, stud- ents as well as revolutionary nation- alists under its banner for an aggress- ive campaign against the greatest enemy of the progress of the working class of the world—American impe- rialism. By, HARRISON GEORGE ‘ASHINGTON dispatches indicate that’ the. “progressives” among the ¢8ngressmen and senators who may’ be" generally tagged as the “! Follette*group” have suddenly had a bucket of ice-cold water.dumped over their fond “hopes of “leading labor's fight.” ~ Ever since 1919 LaFollette and his little band of petty bourgeois politic- ians, have traded upon the backing given them by labor as exemplified by the railway unions particularly. These unions known as the “sixteen stand- ard railroad labor organizations” were the outstanding bulwark of such radi- cal measures’ as government owner- ship. Who does not remember the magic that was going to be worked by the.“Plumb plan.” 'N conventions at Montreal, Denver and Cincinnati the American, Fed- eration of (Labor even endorsed these meagureswhich verge on “‘gocial- ism” inwthe minds of tens of thous- ands: ‘Butcalas, and also alack! Where is the Plumb plan today? Upon »what evil days'and ways are fallén the foot- steps of thestandard railway unions? sito be proposed to the con- gress, the: text: of which is yet secre! rt beingv withheld by its proponents— among whom, strangely appear both the rail union executives and the rail: road com) dny executives, even the stout | Open-shop bosses of the boiled ‘Pennsylvania, But enou, is known of this bill to indicate: that it will forbid the rail way workers the right to strike, and create “boards of adjustment speed up the workers, that it create: a federal commission appointed); Coolidge to supervise negotiations be- tween unions and companies and that, finally, decisions shall be filed in U. 8. courts and have the force of federal b Body us whisper something to these yet you were railing against the munists, and were joined with the re- actionaries in condemning the “ from within” the labor ae same borers, thru the Trade Upion Educational League, were tte workers of the menage. of. class ‘| collaboration schemes. Now such collaboration. is having. its.. political consequences you find that not only “, LaFollette Group Comes to Grief of.the Pennsylvania railroad and Coo- lidge gave way from his usual crab- apple dignity to a sweet air of > proval, ESULT: The bill, and along with it the leadership of the railway labor unions, was given into the hands of reactionaries in both the senate and the house, Jim Watson in the senate and Parker in the house, who are proceeding to use it, as one of the disillusioned \ journalists describe —‘as a reservoir of whitewash and a charter of political respectability” be- fore the eyes of labor for the Coolidge administration. Adding up the sums of results we see that the “LaFollette group” is left standing out in the cold, shivering, in the icy blasts of isolation wondering what the hell has gotten into the rail- road labor unions and petu! manding “clarification of the from the executives of said labor or- ganizations who have turned over pol- itical leadership of railroad labor to Coolidge and his pirate crew of reae- tionaries in congress, disconsolate “progressives.” While e the Communists isolated, but you ‘that/the “wise guys” the .“progress{ are also in the same boat and can. or swim for all the bureaucrats at head of railway unions care. We may draw @ moral: Class collaboration is the most im- portant political development. in the realm of labor's relation to and is deserving of more attention than is being given it, Meanwhile, republican, but is taken into the camp of the reactionaries and as- signed to committee posts denied his father, Dawes and the old guard show by their attitude that they con- law—against which the workers may strike only by violating the order of the government itself. DAILY WORKER BANQUET IN NEW YORK, FEB. 21, IN YORKVILLE CASINO limiting the amount of land any per- son may hold, This point was brought up at the recent hearing on i sider the present LaFollette a joke. It ig about time those who sup-|the alleged British vabber menoeoly bps bar eit ee pookgaenge di teclduealast teehee: tor the , tion t rr te of the bill was Y f port the remnants of the LaFollette thied party aggregation reach pay yt ert pire plantations. Readers of The DAILY WORKER from all the cities in the east are ex-|«progressives” and all their ilk, pub- the same conclusion and proceed to create a party that will speak) rnis change and the increased| pected to attend The DAILY WORKER banquet which will take place in|licists and liberals, crowed over the| Grants Mitchell the Gpettight, ‘ in the interests of the exploited workers. and the impoyerished power to the governor general will,| yorkville Casino, 86th St, and Third Ave., Sunday, Feb. 21, in New York. wonderful new era that was about to ' } farmers. it is hoped, make the Philippines WASHINGTON, Jan. 20—Sceretary No tickets are for sale for this banquet, but from each city those who have performed the greatest service to The DAILY WORKER will be brought to the banquet ‘ae guests of The DAILY WORKER Builders’ Club of New This club consists of all readers in New York who secure ten dollars seem a surer investment for Amer- ican capital,” Talking about “ultimate independ- ence,” while at the same time of War Davis announced he Would grant’ his consent to ‘the! ap- pearance of Col. William Mitchell asa | But suddenly. there was a shock, * A visit by railroad union executives, by ‘their. attorney, Don- The braggart despot of Italy, Mussolini, not content with a forcibly suppressing all customs not strictly Italian, such as burn- accompan! witness before the house’ “military af- ; ald Richberg, and representatives of| fair, . ) York. in ule-log, lighting Christmas trees, etc., now demands that all | stren ing the hold of American 5 8 committee investigating aviation, a od ~ vee territory claimed by Italy change names to| capitalism ; paving $e Susaetions for} worth of sul jons to The DAILY WORKER before F. 15. Every | the end Malar a to re ‘The mete aoe asked Davis’ consent i ‘ , ; future “itivestments, which means that 4 ‘Whit louse. virtues} because Mitchell's court a Italian, under threat of loss of citizenship and exile, i One MOTE) with the passing of time, America’s | “ette" '@ Inv! become a member of this club. For fi rticulars | oe the bill were proclaimed to Coo-| tence of five pear aa group in that distraught nation-has cause to stifle the tyrant. {uteresteim.the Philippines increases,| 4PPly to The bgt WORKER New York Agency, 108 ge 14th wig Mdge by no oan than Mr, Atterbury der review by the war