The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 4, 1926, Page 6

Page Six : THE DAILY WORKER THE DAILY WORKER Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 1118 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Il. Phone Monroe 4713 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mall (in Chicago only): By mail (eutelde of Chicago): 98.00 per year $4.50 six monthe | $6.00 per year $3.50 six months $2.50 three monthe $2.00 three months Address all mai! and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Ilinole nats — J, LOUIS ENGDAHL ditors WILLIAM F, DUNNE {* MORITZ J. LOEB......1cssssosonseroseee en Batered as second-class mail September 21, 1923, at the postoffice at Chi- cago, [il., under the act of March 3, 1879. ED 196 Advertising rates on application. a The Bimba Decision Business Manager Acquitted of blasphemy and convicted of sedition is the verdict | in the now famous Bimba case at Brockton. If the law were fol- lowed the verdict would have been just the reverse—Bimba was beyond dispute guilty of blasphemy and under any blaspehmy law would have been convicted for his utterances. He not only denied the existence of the christian god, but of all gods, all purposive forces in nature, all first causes; in fact everything behind which any semblance of any religion may be concealed. Communism exposes the swindle of religion to-ridicule and con- tempt, we wantonly and maliciously revile god and. religion and everything connected with them. If that is not blasphemy, what, may we ask, is blasphemy? By marshalling incontrovertible facts of science-we prove that every tenet of religion is baseless; there can be no god, there is no | future existence. By proving to the workers that this existence is the all in all we blast their hope for compensation in realms beyond the clouds for their earthly misery. We urge them to get what they are entitled to while they are here jnstead of gazing toward a mythical after-life. Can anything be more blasphemous than not only denying the existence of a god, but proving that no god can possibly exist anywhere in the universe? Because of the march of scientific knowledge and the fact that | no intelligent person longer believes in the existence of a god— despite the ravings of such mental vacuums as the Brockton shoe manufacturer’s prosecuting attorneys—the petty judge of the shoe barons’ domains was forced to throw the blasphemy charge out of court. But the scab shop apostles of Brockton would not permit their puppet judge to release Bimba, so he was found guilty of “slightly overstepping” the sedition statute. Of course, the case will be appealed to a higher court. Mean- while Communists will insist upon criticising the United States | government and the government of Massachusetts. and the city of Brockton, in order to arouse the mai the rule of the capitalist lackeys. to revile the mythical master in the skies, we will fight to establish a the right to criticize the real masters upon earth and their executive | committee, the government. Communists do not advocate force and violence and other means of terrorism to overthrow the government of the country. We simply point to the historical fact that no ruling class surrenders without a struggle even after it is rebuked and despised by the overwhelming masses of society and only exists thru terror as a fetter upon further development of social forces. ‘There is a vast difference between inciting to violence and pre- dicting the outcome of the class struggle upon the basis of the lessons of history. ® “Old Doc” Evans Administers the Dope That every department of the capitalist press reeks with poison for the working class is proved by a recent screed appearing in “Old Doc” Evans’ column in the Chicago Tribune, purporting to deal with the death rate as compared with the birth rate in the Soviet Union. ceeded in reducing the death rate from 33.4 to 22.7; and: increasing the birth rate from 33: to 45.7, the scribbling quack eontends that the unfavorable statistics relate to the early “nearly pure Marxian” years of the revolution, while the latter statistics apply to the years | after Lenin “proved the impracticability of Marxian doctrines!” Even a dopester ought to know better than to utter such inane twaddle: It is indeed grotesque to read the assertion that Lenin proved Marxism to be impractical, when it was Lenin who rescued Marxism from the hands of the social-democratie agents of the bour- geoisie who tried to warp his revolutionary teachings so they would serve to conceal imperialist designs. Instead of abandoning Marx- ism the Bolshevik leaders of the revolution were able to weather every storm just because they were Marxians. The Soviet state to- day thrives and is moving in the direction of socialism in spite of all obstacles because Marxism, or Leninism, (which is the applica- from.” This is what every f How much hypocrisy there is skilled labor. By |. AMTER. “TF you don’t like this country, go back to the country you came whenever he complains about conditions in this country. too often from the mouths of capitalists, who themselves depend to a large extent upon the foreign-born workers for cheap, un- The Campaign Agai 7100 nst the “Keep: Your Mouth Shut or Get Out of the Country” oreign-born worker has to face in this statement! It emanates These are the same capitalists who are not in favor of re- stricted immigration, but prefer that the silent man of the White House (who is doing a lot of empty talking these days) should have the power to admit foreign-born workers above the quota, “provided industry needs them.” Industry in the United States does not NEED them, but the capitalist does. He wants cheap labor that he can treat.as he pleases—at wages and under condi- tions that are below the so-called American minimum of existence. against the despotism “of | We have established the right | Forced to admit that the Soviet government. has suc-4 Need Class Consciousness. 5 ik) Ieee same capitalists bring in hundreds of thousands of Mexi- | cans, who are accustomed to a meager living and will not rebel so readily. But one also hears these words from the mouths of lackeys of the capitalist class, Native-born Ameri- can workers who regard everything foreign as below the American stand-| ard, assail the foreign-born workers as if they were parasites on the life of the native workers. The American-born worker has not learned class-consciousness as yet. Just as he despises the Negro work- er and keeps him out of the trade unions, thereby incurring the hatred of the Negro worker, so too he despis- es the foreign-born worker and con- siders him a class apart. HE Hawaiian Communist League was formed on or about Feb. 14, 1925. The executive committee was chosen and plans for the work of the different branches were drawn up and instructions given to the members. These branches, were established in practically every regiment in Scho- field Barracks. Much of the work was left undone for reasons that will be explained later. The members of the executive com- mittee of the Hawaiian Communist League were: Walter M. Trumbull, chairman, Paul Crouch, propaganda director ang Roderick P. Nadeau, sec- retary. We three after making plans for the work that “needed immediate attention discussed the advisability of affiliation with the Third Interna- tional. Knowing that we would meet with strong opposition we decided that affiliation would be’ wise and acting on this plan we drew up a letterhead form and presented it to the adjutant of the 27th U. S. infantry who was in charge of the printing. press of that regiment. The adjutant approved of the order and the proofs were handed us for approval shortly after. After correcting some few mistakes the printing was. ordered and on the 17th of the month we were given the first dozen sheets with a promise of the rest within the next two days, ’ Fisher, the Spy. N Feb. 18, 1925 the letter to the Third International was drafted MAKE $4,300 ON A profit more than one and-a third times the entire value’ of the com- tion of Marcism to this stage of capitalism, known as imperialism) is always the guide to action of the leaders of that state. If “Old Doe” Evans’ opinions on matters pertaining to health are as faulty and unscientific as his deductions regarding contem- porary history and his readers follow his advice the death rate among Tribune readers must be appalling. Fortunately few who read this space-filler take him seriously as one who is a really good physician doesn’t need to devote him- self to such questionable literary (?) tasks as conducting a “health column” for a capitalist sheet. Some of the Tribune reporters who visit quack advertising doctors to engage in a “muckraking” cam- paign and seem amazed that these fakers do not properly diagnose their diseases onght to apply a few tests to their medical editorial colleague and they would probably discover results equally as sen- sational as the diagnoses of the other “Old Does” of the city. The imperialist war to subdue Morocco and force the popula- tion to become subservient to French imperialism has been resumed with the close of the rainy season. It is to be hoped that the Riff tribesmen have been able to mine the earth with high explosives so they can blast the invaders’ carcasses back across the Mediter- ranean. Secretary of Labor Davis is to run for governor of the state of Pensylvania, which will leave a vacancy in the strikebreaker presi- dent’s cabinet. Perhaps John L. Lewis will now realize his reward for his long grovelling before the rapitalist class and his wecent shameless betrayal of the cause of the anthracite miners by securing the long-coveted job as secretary of labor. Every red-blooded Chicagoan should turn out and welcome Trumbull, who defied American imperialism in the army of oceupa- tion in Hawaii,,when he arrives here next Thursday evening at plant used during that period, T The capitalists and ,the capitalist government know not onjy, how to ex- ploit this lack of class,cousciousness, but at the same time they employ means of intensifying t They pit one nationality against the other—not merely the American against the for- eign-born, but the foreign-born work- ers of different nationalities against one another. By dividing the work- ers, the capitalists manage to keep control, ‘ x The capitalists furthefnlore, are as well aware of the national and inter- national situation as the Communists and advanced workers ofthis country are, They know that the situation of several countries,in Europe is pre- carious. They know that the national movement in Asia and Africa is grow- ing. The danger of revolution in Eu- and typed. The three members of the executive committee signed it and Nadeau and I took it to the postoffice and mailed it. We had already made a mistake, however. © ‘Eugene V. Fisher, the hired spy of Lt. Col. John B. Murphy, the assistant chief of staff of the Hawaiian ‘division, had seen the letter written and. signed. | Since he had been told by-the Lt. Col. to “get those d——n Bolsheviks” and not care “how it was done” he con- | sidered this an excellent opportunity | to get us. He therefore went with} Nadeau and me to the'‘postoffice and | watched us mail the letter. Not until the evening of this same-day did we suspect him definitety. Wishing to wait for the answer from Moscow before Ymaking any more elaborate plans;*we decided to do only the work alréady planned. I drew plans for a membership card which met with the approval of the committee but these were never printed as we were jailed the next day. 4 On Feb. 19 the enlisted men and officers of the 21st U.S} Regt. of In- fantry were given an ‘unusual order. The order.was to the effect that they were to assemble in front of their re- spective companies at One o’clock in field uniform. No officer or enlisted man was excused. Cooks, ‘kitchen men and even stable men weré-required to attend. At the prescribed hour we formed in company front at the ap- pointed place and waited develop- ments. They were not long in com- HUDSON MOTOR COMPANY OWNERS EACH $10 INVESTED By LELAND OLDS, Federated Press. pany’s extensive plants is the record made by the Hudson Motor Car Co. thru the high-speed exploitation of its employes in 1925. The total profits of the 3 years from 1923 to 1925 were more than 3 times the average, value of the The 1925 profit amounted to 21,378,000, an increase of 165% over 1924, This profit is reckoned at about $16.2 ho-par common stock. But this isn’t: half the story, which tells of such magnificent profits on the original investment that automotive indus- tries, the leading journal of the in- dustry, is inspired to carry a long article dealing with Hudson's finan- cial history. Net Worth $3,000,000. Starting in 1909 with an investment of about $100,000 represented by 10,- 000 shares of $10 par value stock, the “company has grown to a net worth of over $43,000,000 almost entirely thru the re-investment,of excess pro- .its made during the period, The new cash paid for stock in the interim amounted to less than $500,000. , This growth out of profits has been accompanied by a serles of stock divi- dends, 900 per cent in 1910, about 90 per cent in 1913, 500 per cent in 1922 and 10 per cent in 1924, In 1922 there were also issued 200,000 shares in ex- change for the Essex company which was absorbed and im 1925 10,000 shares were sold to the factory man- ager, Says A. Motelle in automotive industries: . “Allowing tor the shares iss#ed for the Essex business and for the small issue of shares to employes, the orl- ginal investor has now approximately 100 shares for every share in 1909.” $4,300 on $10 Investment. As each share has today a value of more than $30 this means that an orl- ginal investment of $10 has grown in " rn ST ae as, _ Get a member of the Workers Party and a new subscription _ tor/fhe DAILY WORKER. ~~ ~ il eight ofelock. a SE ET 17 years to.over $3,000, addition the company has paid ci ividends ranging from 10 per cei 75 per cent, a total of $16,613,000.” Altogeth- ver the original investoresae-thug ¢ os 0 a share on the 1,320,050 shares of ceived approximately $1,300 in cash on each $10 invested in addition to the $3,000 gain in the val ment, a total gain of The possibility of s: saving of $10 should inly encour- age Wage earners to ft. The pro- paganda might read mething like this: Invest $10 out of each month’s pay for 12 months and, at the end of 17 years your year's ings will have increased your wealth,,by over $50,- 000, That is the kindof return that a nation of capitalists,jas a right to expect, 71g Small Holder Gets. mall End. But of course, whenyjJabor is asked to join the investing, is the best that it is offered is a 7,per cent pre- ferred stock, And at end of 17 years each $120 (12 months at $10) so invested would increase to about $3,- 300 if all dividends were re-invested, an amount somewhat short of the $50,- 000 which would result from $120 in- vested by the owners of industry, : profits on a without reinvesting their enormous cash dividends, Hudson's current dividend rate is $3 a year on each share of stock, But as each original $10 share has blos- somed into 100 shares this means a regular annual return of $300 in cash on each $10 invested in 1909. A regu- lar 300 per cent cash dividend is rath- er better than the 7 cent which wage earners draw holdings in preferred | rope—in a few states—and altogether the unstable state of things will re- flect on America. Economic condi- tions in the United States may not be serious at the present time, but the decline of European industry will im- mediately have a reaction on the United States. The apex.of prosper- ity is probably past; the building in- dustry will not have another boom; the steel industry is not looking for a prosperous year. The decline of in- dustry will. mean struggles for the workers, The workers in the basic industries are foreign-born workers. The steel industry employs 17% Negro workers, because it requires just 17% of the working force to keep the plants go- ing. Hence the capitalists have launched a campaign against the for- eign-born and Negro workers, hoping to intimidate them. Bills Against Foreign-Born, HIS campaign is bound to become more intense, as conditions get worse. The capitalists therefore have introduced thru their representatives in the government bills to coerce the foreign-born workers. “Keep your mouth shut or get out of the coun- try,” is their slogan. In order to be able to track down the offender—one who fights for the interests of his class—the capitalist government of this country intends to register the foreign-born workers. According to another bill, the foreign-born workers will be registered, photographed and fingerprinted. The foreign-born work- ers will not be able to move from one part of the country’ without the Wau veo as Wemumed at tne Chicago Depot at 7:30 o'clock Thursday: =e ing. A group of about twelyé. o Ss including the Lt. Col. before; iiention- ed came into the quadrangle and pro- ceeded to question each company com- mander, When they reached the sér- vice company they called Crouch from the supply section and Nadeau and I from the band section, ordered us up to the orderly room‘ and placed a guard of about seven or eight: military police: over us. We were afterwards sent, still under heavy guard; to the lith Field Artillery guardhouse. HILE in the guardhousey Crouch was so mistreated that he had to be sent to the hospital. He was ATLANTA SCHOOL HEADS FEAR TEACHING OF EVOLUTION THEORY {Special to The Daily Worker? NEW YORK, March 2.—(FP)— Atlanta, Georgia public schools are being investigated to find whether any teacher is trying to put over evolution theories to students. The investigating committee of the boara of education has been appointed but what action will be taken against offending teachers, if any found, is not yet known. The Atlanta board of education resolu- tions state that “It is not the intent or purpose of this body to allow taught or disseminated in the public schools of Atlanta any doctrine or theory, either officially or unofficially, by any teacher in any public school in the city of Atlanta which would lead to the acceptance by the youth of this city of the doctrine of evolu- tion or any theory that would take from the majesty of god as the creator of the universe and of hav- ing created man in his own like- ness and image, separate and dis- tinct from any other of his crea- tions, or that would in any way reflect upon the bible as the divinely inspired word of god.” Pennsylvania Miners Help Zeigler Defense (Special to The Daily Worker) AVELLA, Pa,, Mar. 2.— Local No, 2881 of the United Mine Workers of America at its last meeting adopted a strong resolution expressing soll- darity with the Zeigler miners whom the government is ‘trying to railroad to jail on a frame-up charge of con- spiracy and attempt to murder, Hach member of the is contributing 25 cents for the , of thesd vic- tims of the coal o; » ‘This will bring in about $100, a a hid knowledge of the authorities. At any time, at any place, an officer of the law will be allowed to stop a man and ask for his registration card. This is terrorization of the brazen- est kind. Why do the capitalists introduce such legislation at this time? Because of the approaching economic.and po- litical conditions in Europe, Asia’ and this country—and because the labor ‘oreign Born: the challenge of Coolidge and the capitalist’ attempts to terrorize the foreign-born. The Negroes must be brot into these councils, for they suf- fer from the same malicious, danger- ous forces that the foreign-born: do. Even tho they may not be deported, the attacks, discrimination and gen- eral levelling of the Negro to a status below that of the foreign-born, make it imperative that the Negro workers movement is weak and demoralized.| become a powerful factor in these To attack the weakest section of the | councils. working class—the foreign-born work- Support Councils! ers—means an attack on the working The Communists must support class as.a whole. If the foreign-born] these councils in every way. The workers—rand.the Negro workers— are intimidated, they may be used to force down the general condition of the working class. The lowered eco- members of the. party must recognize that the impending mass menace are the bills that will be introduced in congress during the present term. nomic status of the foreign-born will be a threat to the native workers— and the whole level will sink. The foreign-born therefore, must or- ganize to protect themselves. Organ- ization is the only weapon ofthe working class. Mass strength is the hope of the workers. Once the for- eign-born are organized—which means that they themselves have realized the danger that confronts them—-the native workers will begin to’ under- stand the menace of the legislation will and must unite with the -foreign- born workers in” protection first of the interests of the foreign-born workers and of their own interests. Organize to Protect Selves, OUNCILS for the Protection of the Foreign-Born Workers must be the answer of the working class to Why We Formed the Hawaiian Communist League WALTER ™. TRUMBULL. forced to work under a blazing sup while he was so sick that he was scarcely able to support his own weight. Twice I half carried him to the guardhouse and each time the provost sergeant, Moss, laughed at the plight in which Crouch was and swore that he would knock. his block off.if he came back to the guardhouse before he was told to do so. . Other than this trouble we had smooth sail- ing because we were sent to another guardhouse after Crouch came back from the hospital. Autocratic Officers. Tae for forming the Ha- wailah Communist League. were many. Two reasons above all others stand out. One is the attitude of the officers toward the enlisted men. Au- tocracy is a mild word to use for a descriptive adjective. The situation is being more and more felt by ‘the men themselves and the only reason. that they do not desert to a man is because the island is so hard to get off from without being caught. Werea mili- tary post in the United States to be conducted upon the same basis there would be complete desertion in twen- ty-four hours, 4 Another reason for the formation of the league was the labor situation on the plantations. Such things as the following facts were common knowl- edge: As a general rule the plan- tation owners employ Filipino labor- ers. The new arrival from the Philip- pines get the magnificent wage of one dollar and ten cents per day. After erative societies—these are the three the London Herald. Tom Johnston, against the foreign-born worker, They | But whether these bills pass or not, the foreign-born must remain organ- ized in order to protect their inter- ests. The capitalists do not depend upon law. They have sufficient extra- legal organizations, fascist organiza- tions, such ds the ku klux klan, Ame- rican legion, American Defense So- ciety, National Security League, Min- ute Men of the Constitution, ete., which demonstrate that they will spit upon their own laws, when their {n+ terests are endangered, Local and national councils for the Protection of the Foreign-Born Work- ers are the demand of the hour, Every foreign-born worker, all trade unions, and especially those containing a per- centage of foreign-born workers—but in reality all organized labor must recognize the danger of the present situation. working for three months or there- abouts in the fields at the hardest kind of work (called “Hohana Gang”) he gets a wonderful raise of five cents per day. The next job that he gets is mule driver at the rate of one dollar and twenty cents per day. Then there is the tractor driver who is the high- est paid Filipino on the plantation. He is paid the princely sum of one dol- lar and fifty cents. This is not for a paltry eight hours either. The Fil- ipino works ten-hours. The object of the Hawaiian Commu- nist League was to alleviate such con- ditions and to awaken the workers 6f the islands to their situation. There were other reasons for the league, too many to mention. One oustanding reason was the fear in which the Fil- ipinos held anything pertaining to the military forces. We sought to bring the two branches of labor to- gether and as it was easier to start in the army we organized there first. For us to try to organize in the ranks of the Filipinos would have been use- less unless we were able to show more than our own attitude, and again there was the difficulty of obtaining definite information from them while we wore the uniform. The field is still open and civilians will find an excellent opportunity here for organ- izing a self-supporting Communist League “that will be a credit to the working class movement. My only re- gret is that we didn’t have sufficient time to get well organized before we were arrested. . BRITISH TRADE UNION DELEGATION REPORTS CONDITIONS UNDER WHICH . INDIAN JUTE WORKERS MUST TOIL NEW YORK, March 2—Strong trade unions; primary education; co-op- essentials for improving the Jot of In- dian workers, the Dundee jute workers’ union delegation to India reports in M. P., and John F. Sime, secretary Dundee Union of Jute and Flax Workers, composed the British delegation. Bosses Make Enormous Profit. Indian jute workers make a little over $60 a year, while their employ- ers make about $500 a year profit on each worker—eight times the work- er’s cost in wages. Dividends of three Indian jute mills were over 130 per cent in 1924 and the Kinanison mill made 160 per cent. This mill made over 400 per cent in 1920, and all of the Indian jute mills made fab- ulous war profits. During the last 10 years the;average dividend for all companies has been 90 per cent. English capital holds stock in these Indian mills, the Dundee investigators found,..In the Gourerpore sharehold- ers list,the item 3,465 shares held “for Mackay and company, Ltd., account Lord, Inchape” proved illuminating. Most of, the British shares are held by banks or brokers. Conditions ‘Appalling. Indian jute workers suffer all the abuses which led Bombay cotton mill workers to strike last September: all sorts of wage deductions ror fines, get- ting a job, advancing, keeping the foreman friendly, ete. The workers are constantly in debt to money lend- ers who charge up to 300/per cent | yearly interest. The British unionists ‘report their amazement at seeing “that the authorities had planted cheap alcohol and opium shops all over the mill area.” Housing is hor- rible: “two-thirds of the workers liv- ing in mud and plaster huts, With the exception of a few “toy mill ize white schools” is of edu- cation tor era ei Johnston to organ: | | in the mill but their meeting time was altered with- out their knowledge by the hall owner after consulting a prominent mill owner. The Bengal Jute Workers Association is the only organization of workers. Indian unions are generally weak, Defend Right to _ Teach Evolution (Special to The Dally Worker) WASHINGTON, March 2.—(FP)— Defense of the right of educators to teach evojution was veiced by. the National ication Association, in the final session of its convention in Washington, Fifteen thousand mem- bers had attended, “We rely confidently,” their resolu- tion said, “in any conflict between truth apr error, upon that divine wisdom that has endowed the human brain with the power to think and reason. Only that education can be free which provides, under conditions appropriate to the age of the student, complete liberty to seek the answer to any honest question, . “We would respectfully remind our fellow-citizens that while legislation seeking to control the subject-matter of the curriculum may impede educa- tional progress, it has not the power to alter, modify or set asid y im- mutable law of nature, of science or of god.” now for the Inter.