The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 9, 1926, Page 6

“ Page Six THE DAILY WORKER Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 1118 W. Washington Biyd., Chicago, I. Phone Monroe 4713 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mall (In Chicago only): By mall (outelde of Chicage): $8.00 per year $4.50 six monthe $6.00 per year $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, Iilinols eka — 3. LOUIS BNGDAHL @titors WILLIAM F, DUNN®. f” MORITZ J. LOEB. ‘Business Manager —<——— TFT Batered as second-class matl September 21, 1923, at the post-office at Chi- cago, Ii, under the act of March 3, 1879. Advertising rates on application. <a 390 The Reptile Press in the Passaic Strike Contrary to the usual practice of the capitalist press, a portion of the daily newspapers of the metropolitan area seems to be taking the side of the strikers in Passaic. Sympathetic articles accom- panied by photographs of the cossack brutality inflicted upon the strikers by the police appear in the tabloid paper, the’ Mirror, pub- lished by the Hearst concern; another shéet published by Banaar McFadden, the “physical culture” capitalist, called the Graphic, also publishes similar material. These papers compete for circulation. Cheap in appearance and content, they try to appeal to the mass of workers who have but little time to read. Their columns, under ordinary conditions, reek with the most vile capitalist propaganda; all the most poisonous superstitions are popularized in order to make their readers sub- servient. to the exploiters. The role of Hearst and his publications is familiar. He ob- tained his start as a publisher by pretending to appeal to labor, but as soon as his papers were established he stabbed labor in the back. His lockout of his employ in Seattle recently is an example of his great friendship for organized labor. In Passaic his papers ex- but in the pressmen’s strike in New York and gunmen, reinforced by police cossacks, used practices jus savage as the police now use in Passaic against his own striking workmen. Last year there was another strike in the press rooms of his sheets in New York and the office of the Mirror presented the appearance of an arsenal with police and thugs swarming the neighborhood and beating back the strikers who even dared appear in the vicinity. Tn face of this very meager record of Hearst’s anti-labor activity no Passaic striker should be fooled into believing that these papers are friendly to organized labor. They simply use this strike to get circulation so that their poisonous propaganda may more easily be instilled into the mill workers after the strike. : The strikers should remembe pose the police terror, in 1922 his own thu T this moment, when the Party is engaged in bringing its entire membership into the unions, it is op- portune to raise the slogan “Into the Labor Councils.” 4 In New York, for example, where over 50 per cent of the Party mem- bership already belong to unions, and where, within the next few weeks, it is expected to raise that percentage to well over 90 by the intensive cam paign that has now been started by the Organization Department, the In- dustrial Department and the Agitprop Department, the question of the Cen tral Trades and Labor Council is a sorely neglected one. Time was when the New York Cen- tral Trades and Labor Council was a standard bearer of militancy for the American Labor movement and when it was a definitely “socialist” council under the ideological influence of the socialist labor party, But times have changed and our left wing unions for years have neglected the Central Trades and Labor Council; have, sometimes. by accident and }sometimes by the design of yellow socialist bureaucrats, made their meeting nights conflict with the nights on which the Council meets and have permitted it to become a jtool in the hands of the Tammany ureaucracy in the labor unions of the City of New York. Thus, in place of being, as it should be, the co-ordi- nating body which unites all the New York local unions into a combined force for the defending of those com- mon interests of the city’s workers which transcend the narrow interests THE DAILY WORKER of each particular craft and local union, it has become an instrument of ham-stringing the workers of New York City and tying them to the po- litical chariot of Tammany Hall. This has become all the more a menace to New York City’s workers since Smith has gotten control of the New York City “democracy” and thus delivered the Democratic Party directly into the hands of the House of Morgan and with it the New York trade union bureaucracy. Smith himself is the direction of the Blectric Transport Co., which thru interlocking directo- rates is tied up with the Interboro Rapid Transit Co., the New York Cen- tral and most of the other leading railroads of this country, the United | States Steel, the Intettiational Har- vester, the Bankers’ Trust, the Guar- antee Trust Co., anf the House of J. P. Morgan & Co. © In ‘these days of injunetions, of gov- ernor’s “impartial arbitration com- missions” and governmental interfer- ence at every turn on ‘behalf of big business against the workers, only the centralization of all ofvlabor's forces thru the central labor council and thru the development sof a political party of their own+«xan enable the workers to resist the» centralized big business of our day and the govern- mental machinery which is used against the workers, ~ HE members of the, local unions in general and many” bers of our Party are inclined t nderestimate the importance of cenbrht labor coun- cils because of the fae¢t, that the con- stitution of the Amegjean Federation of Labor definitely limits their powers Bombay Textile By AN INDIAN WORKER. OWARDS the end of last July the Bombay millowners put up notices at their mills that the wages of the | workers would be reduced 11% per cent on the Ist of September. The | reason for the reduction, as given by | the .millowners, was the general de- | pression of the industry, the cotton |excise duty, undue, Japanese compe- | tition and a defective exchange policy. that there is only one labor daily | qye workers at once raised their pro- published in the English language in.America and that is TH | test to the millowners, to the Gov- Darry Worker. We fight for the Passaic strikers because they belong to the working class. It is a part of the CLASS STRUGGLE that we re- Jentlessly wage at all times on all fronts against the capitalist class; whether ij be a strike against the mill barons of Passaic or against the Hearst publications in New York or against the anthra- cite trust in Pennsylvania or anywhere else. To the extent that these enemy papers, for their own sordid in- terests, publish pictures and stories of the assaults upon strikers, we can utilize them against the immediate enemy; we can take ad- vantage of the antagonisms within the capitalist class itself, but never, for one moment, must we forget that they were on the other side in the anthracite strike, in the newspaper strike, and that if vhey ever have interests of their own to defend in the: wollen mills they will be against the workers there also. Professional Vote Peddlers The gangsters, thugs and gunmen and other denizens of the un- derworld who prey upon the foreign-born workers of Chicago and who are protected by the authorities because of their skill in stealing élections thru vote repeating, stuffing and stealing ballot boxes, con- stitute but one of many groups engaged in the business of delivering votes for a consideration. At the other end of the social scale there is a group of corrup- tionists known as the Better Government Association. This gang professes to be able to deliver the votes of thé uplifters of fhe city to the highest bidder., While the Crowe-Barrett-Thompson-Deneen republican outfit were performing rites as godfathers to the spawn of “Diamond Joe” Esposito, Mr. George E. Brennan, democratic can- didate for United, States senator and boss of Chicago’s Tammany outfit, was donating $23,000 in cash—“checks not acceptable’—to E. J. Davis of the Better Government Association, of which Dean \ Edward T. Lee of the John Marshall law school is the chief, on the promise that this holier than thou 100% American association could deliver a greater number of votes than the terrorists who try to rule the foreign-born voters of the city. There are all sorts of cliques of hungry adventurers who claim they can deliver votes of various elements of the citizenry. For years Hlinky Dink and Bath House John in their heyday had their heneli- men who delivered the votes of the cheap lodging houses—or at least’ counted their votes in elections. Then there are the labor fakers, the “reward your friends and punish your enemy” gangsters who regularly obtain bribes from the politicians on the promise of deliver- ing the labor vote. * It seems the eminent better governmenter, Davis, failed to deliver the promised number, with the result that Mr, Brennan now repudi- ates his organization. It is safe to presume that the other profes- sional vote peddlers fail to deliver their quota; nevertheless the prae- tice goes on, Lt is one of the traditious of parliamentary democracy 4s practiced in, this exalted land of liberty and will only be stopped when the vast majority of the voters become politically conscious and repudiate those who presume to guarantee to deliver their votes en masse to the spoils politicians. For the workers that implies a class consciousness that will result in the creation of a labor party that will take the field against /the corrupt parties of capitalism. The Mellon-Coolidge gevernment not only strives to aid the big capitalists monopolize everything on the earth, but Mr. Herbert Hoover, secretary of commerce, claims jurisdiction over the air and is new trying to monopolize its use for favored radio concerns. 4 Get # member of the Workers Party and a new subscription for The DAILY WORKER. | ernor of Bombay and to the Viceroy, | showing them the inevitability of a | general strike in the event of a Wage cut, | The millowners refused to listen and the cut went into operation. on the specified date. A general strike was declared. In ten days’ time the whole. industry” was paralyzed—only four out of eighty mills working. The first thing the labor leaders did after the strike started was to send to their villages as many men and women as: they could, About 40,000 workers left Bombay. The struggle then began in earnest. Relief Body Needed. After striking for three weeks a large number of workers—about 60,000 began to feel the pinch of starva- tion, The All-India Trade Union Con- gress with the &id of local unions took, steps to form a Committee of Assistance to the Textile Workers. The funds at their disposal were so poor that they could not start any measure of relief. The President of | | 4s to make real progress, Resolutions Summarized. The resolution, briefly summarized, is as follows: 1. 90 per cent of the Chinese populatino are peasants, Con- sequently, the Chinese National Rev- olution can be accomplished only with the co-operation of the toiling classes. 2. The party is a party to fight for the interest of the oppressed classes | against the imperialists and militar- | ists. “Oppressed classes” means the really exploited masses, but not the privileged class. And the exploited masses are composed of workingmen Therefore, the party members must have the proletarian spirit, and must fight for the proletariat. | meaning of the National Revolution. | 3. Knowing the above facts, the proletarian movement js therefore very important for the Party, Con- Congress, and the decision of the C. E. C., the Party has made much progress in organizing the peasants and the workers. But, owing to the lack of organ- izers as well as of financial means, | the party work amongst the peasants and the workers has not yet got a solid foundation amongst the masses, To accelerate the emancipation of the pomp Costs England Ov Billion Dollars to ecial to The Daily Worker) ~->. and) peasants who suffer the most.) That is the| | forming to the declaration of the First | LONDON, March 7,—The total paid! budget must cover and makes them very largely advisory bodies. This, however, has* not pre- vented the central labor councils from playing a tremendous role in the his- tory of American labor struggles and a role which is bound to increase in importance as {he workers try to de- velop new forms of struggle to meet the new conditions of trustification and governmental interference. Without the labor council of Seat- tle, the Seattle general strike would have been an impossibility. Without the, manifold endorsements of labor councils, the labor party movement of 1922-23 would have been immeasur- ably weakened. Without the utiliza- tion of central labor councils, the for- mation of a labor party will be in- definitely postponed. Every active unionist, who hag ever been a labor council delegate, can testify to the manifold uses of ac- tivity in the central labor body. In Chicago, for example, the Central Labor Council was used as a lever for the initiation of the big organizing campaign in the steel industry which led to the steel strike, and the organ- izing campaign in the packing house industry which led to the packing house strike and the forming of Pack- ing House Councils. In San Francisco, where I was a delegate to the Central Labor Coun- cil, our fraction was able to utilize the council as a weapon in the fight against the “American plan” open shop drive; to bring the labor move- ment of San Francisco to the verge of a general (strike which was only prevented thru a mistaken secession- ist policy, on the part of some of the Strike--A Lesson in Solidarity the Trade Union Congress issued an appeal for funds to help the strikers. The response to the appeal in India was very poor. Donations and contri- butions hardly amounted to 4,000 rupees. Western Workers Aid East. The situation was becoming des- perate and apprehensions were enter- tained as to an early collapse of the strike. Then happeged, the most unique thing in the history of labor. The cry of oppressed Indian laborers had reached their comrades in other countries, and there was.a prompt re- sponse to their appeal,for help. Money began to come from Huse, England and Soviet Russia. The Committee of Assistance started, relief work. More people were able fo go to their homes in the countryside. Centers for distributing rice an¢@ other articles of food were ppened. .,.The workers were overjoyed at the, generous help from their fellow-worké@s abroad. They became more. lute to carry on the struggle. The exstwhile timid, ignorant, disorganized workers under- went a phenomenal .ghange. They became charged with mew hope, new courage and new life. , They felt their oneness with the workers of the world. . The Bombay municipal corporation sanctioned one lakh of,rupees for re- lief work for the strikegs. This is the first time in India that,such a thing happened and this sty thened the determination of the strikers. The exodus of workers to the vil lages, the financial help from abroad and the grant of one lakh ripees by the Bombay Corporation completely turned the tables in favor of the work- ers. The millowners then invited the workers’ representatives for negotia- tions, but the attempt was a failure. The Municipal Corporation then tried to bring both parties to some sort of agreement. The effort proved fruit- less. The millowners refused to with- draw their decision to cut wages. Strikers Return Victorious. This tug-of-war continued for, two months ahd a half. Then suddenly on December 1, 1925, the Viceroy an- nounced the suspension of-the collec- tion of excise duty for the rest of the year. This gave the millowners what they wanted. They forthwith restored the wage cut and asked the workers to resume work, As soon as the re- sult of the strike was sufficiently known workmen began to return to the city and a week after the end ot the strike almost all the mills had re- opened. Thus ended the first great strike of the textile workers in Bombay. There Was very great jubilation among the | workers, but it was not a real vie- | tory for the workers. The victory would have been real and fully due to labor if it had been won without the situation created by the suspen- sion of the cotton excise duty. The real importance of the strike lies in the fact that this was the first time in history that the workers of the West showed such sympathy. for workers of the East. TT KUOMINTANG RESOLUTION ON PEASANT QUESTION SHOWS PARTY IS USING REALISTIC METHODS (Special to The Daily Worker) CANTON, (By -Mail.)—The resolution of the 2nd Kuomintang national congress on the peasant question illustrates the increasing clarity of the | organization upon the problems which confront it. \The great mass of the | Chinese are peagants and "the party must be able to satisfy their needs if it PE PEA SERRE Na RES DECLINE IU, $: BABY OUTPUT LESSENS THE DEMAND FOR BUGGIES NEW HAVEN, Conn. March 7— The baby buggy industry is in the dumps, according toxFrank Adams, president of the IdealyBaby Carr age | company. The widespread use of | the auto and the inereasing knowl- edge of birth control are the causes, he declaresit) Ada states that baby buggy manufacturers havé©’serlously cur- | talled their schedul# of product on | for the current year™because a large proportion of the carr! main over from laét ; The falling off oF to work- ing people, Adams ‘believes, is due to their practice of birth control.’ 8 to them now are in the same ratio as to the wealthy class, he ays. Seeger tolling masses, the 2nd Congress Ue- cided: A--Organization—for the time be ing—of Peasant schools in Canton, Shanghai and Peking. The party sec- tions will send students to be trained for work among masses, The teaching programme and financial support of these schools must be un- Keep Jobless Alive |e" the direction of, Cc. B.C. The the workers, Peasant and budget, The per cent of the same must be di B--Fixation of - Workers’ movem out in unem mt benefits since | total expenditure section. the pass Jaw in 1913 is - is $1,119,1 ing to Sir Arthur} The ns a ae beitas Steel-Maitiand, minister of labor, , you'll like it, LABORERS AND PAINTERS TIE UP BUILDING. WORK CLEVELAND, March 7.—Four thou- sand painters and 3,000 building labor- ers have gone on strike tying up all! building operations. 35,000 men are off the job and the outlook is that the strike will be won, despite the declarations of the chamber of com- merce that it will not consider the demand of the building laborers for a raise of wages from 87% cts. to $1 an hour, The men declare that they work only 200 days a year, and are enti- tled to a decent wage while they are working. The bosses threatened they could get all the unskilled labor they wanted at far lower prices than 874, cts. an hour. The laborers answered by going on strike. Seek Police Aid. The master builders have dconty appealed to the police for aid in break- ing the strike. Altho a big part of the independent employers have sign- ed up, the association refuses to con- sider the demands of the laborers. The ‘existence in this city of two building trades councils is a menace in the situation to the workers, In- stead of all the building trades being consolidated in one council, they are divided. One of the main questions before the building trades workers in this city is the amalgamation of the two building trades councils, This is necessary, since the building boom is over, and the ill play the workers in one trade) against the other, The other disadvantage is that the carpenters and bricklayers have contracts expiring at different times from those-of the painters and labor ers, This must be remedied. The work- ers must give up théir petty squab- bles and get toge one council. One council and hent for al) workers in oe a 1 of Cleveland must z leaders in the building trade unions of the city; to develop a campaign of great intensity for the recognition of and trade with Soviet Russia; to build up a local left wing newspaper, and a powerful sentiment for a labor party; the fraction has other achieve- ments to show for its activity there. All this in spite of the fact that the Central Labor Bodies of San Fran- cisco, Seattle and Chidago, like all others, haye constitutions which defi- nitely limit their powers to an “ad- visory” capacity, ‘HILE it is true that the voting power of the central labor bod- ies in national A. F. of L. conventions is insignificant, and while it is. also true that the constitutional limitations described above prevail, nevertheless the central labor bodies remain the natural instrument for the uniting of the yarious craft local unions on a class scale for the undertaking of or ganization campaigns in basic indus- tries, for the co-ordination and con- ducting of local general strikes, for the building up of a local militant labor press and a-labor party move- ment, and for the carrying out of all general. working class. campaigns among the organized workers of the American Federation of Labor, even in locals whose national and interna- tional, unions are not under the con- trol of. the ‘left wing. In view of these simple elementary tacts that every trade unionist should know, the attitude of the Party com- rades in the left wing unions in New York is little short of criminal. It has, repeatedly been our experience that..whole locals, which are under Ft By Bertram D. Wolfe our ideological control, have refused to send delegates to the, Central Trades and Labor Council, and that Party and left wing comrades, when nominated as delegates, have refused to “waste their time.” Thus we have abandoned the ‘central labor body of New York City to the “labor lieuten- ants” of the capitalist class and they have shown that these bodies are very useful by using them as instruments of class collaboration and of capitalist politics. It is time that every union fraction and every TUEL unit set on the order of the day the question of affil- jation or re-affiliation with the Cen- tral Trades and Labor Council and of election of militant left wing dele- gates to that body. If we do that, almost overnight we. will find our- selves with a delegation comprising from one-third to one-half of the pres- ent attendance at the Central Trades and Labor Council and with a little persistent work we can make that Council once more a center of mili- taney, the base for a labro party, a means for terminating the unholy al- liance of New York’s labor bureau- cracy with Tammany and the House of Morgan, and a fighting instrument for co-ordinating the forces of the New York organized workers for any campaign that concerns them as a whole, whether it be such as the pro- tection of the foreign-born workers or such as the building of a labor party. Therefore, at this time when the Party is raising: the slogan, “Every member into the unions,” I add the sigan, “Every tnion into the Labor ' Council.” WORKERS’ SCHOOL PREPARES FIGHTERS FOR WORKING CLASS By PAULINE ROGERS, Instructor in the New York Workers’ School. NEW YORK, March 7.—In a land where the schools are in- struments of propaganda used by interlocking directorates of big combines, where the moss-covered curriculum is outlined by the board of trustees, and where there is no freedom of expression for the;teacher or student, the Workers’ School is like an oasis in the desert.. The Workers’ School of New York is still a small seed fighting its way thru the ground, but already it sees the light and has made such strides, that ist. influence before long will be very far-reaching. This school differs from the usual |) capitalist school both in the subjects taught, and in the methods of teach- ing... The professional lecture method’ hasbeen relegated tothe background. The lecture methed gives the teacher an opportunity to make a fine speech —if_he is a good orator—but it rarely stimulates the student to any ‘mental process other than day-dreaming. The Workers’ School lias departed entirely from the lecture system. It has sub+ stituted the question method. The teacher. presents the lesson in the form. of a few carefully worked-out questions. The students do the re- class, experience, and then answer and: discuss the questions in class. ‘The function of the teacher is to ask questions in order to bring out the salient points of the lesson, and to guide the discussion in the proper direction, This method not only. makes for real democra¢y in the class room, but helps the students to.do their own thinking and clarify their ideas. ‘ The aims of the Workers’ School. are to teach working men and women LONDON CHILDREN T0 LOSE TONY AND JOCKO BY MUSSOLINI ORDER , LONDON, March 7.—One of the colorful features of the rather drab life’ of this city is threatened with extinction due to Mussolini’s latest efforts to uphold the dignity of Italy. The italian foreign office has issued an order to all passport au- thorities to refuse passports to “all ambulant musicians intending to live abroad by the exhibition of imonkeys, thereby lowering the pres- tige of the Italian nation,” The itinerant Italian organ grinder swith his. gaily dressed monkey has slong been a delight to the children of London. He returns to spend “\the winter in Italy and comes back in. spring to pick up stray coins i@ the busy streets of the metrop- 9! facts of interest in their every day industrial environment. Such a well rounded institution is Workers’ School of New York—the only real workers’ school in the east. to see conditions as they really exist, and to train the more capable work- ers to take up the cudgels in behalf of the exploited working class. All the courses which are given at the school have these aims in view. ~The courses in economics and politics deal directly with the origins and aspects of Marxism and Leninism.. The trade union courses present the growth and structure of the Amer! trade union moyement and corre! past prob- lems with the present ones in the unions. American history is studied not from the doctored and -mythical capitalist text-books, but from a real workthg-class standpoint. The strug: gles and role of the workers during the various eras of American history 2re,portrayed with startling devia- tions, from the usual history lessons of the usual school. There are many other interesting courses dealing with ‘he vital problems of past and present ‘ife,,.and in addition to these a well organized English department which helps foreign workers to overcome the difficulties of our language in a live and vital manner, dd Bagast The Workers’ School does not con- cern itself merely with the theory of learning; it also believes in. making its education practical. This has been) accomplished in many ways. First it has a research course, where the| students get the facts for public ‘speakers, unions, labor campaigns. strikes, and any other organizations which may call upon it for this mate- rial, Then the School offers a public speaking course, which trains stu-| dents, to alk to large numbers of workers. It sends these speakers into strike areas, such ag the anthracite field and Passaic, to point out to work- Finally, there is the workers’ corre- ee aca This course gives © students, fe names of good working-class chat they.can write articles al ged ditions in the factories. Students are ‘ent out to areas of industrial agita- on to get stories, or they become self-constituted reporters to gataer ig a9 datas Let us hope it will not be long before all the present so-called institutions of learning will be supplanted by schools such as these. Only then can the people of’ America hope to attain a real education! Cut Wages of Street Carmen to Guarantee Traction Co. Profits PHILADELPHIA, March 7—Wages of the 10,000 motormen and condue- ters on the Philadelphia - Rapid Transit company are 8% cents under the 1925 hourly rate because of the mew “market basket” method of regu- lating pay according to cost of cer- tain picked commodities. “The com- pany announces that the change is Rot done to reduce wages but to make part of the workers’ pay “dependent pon the continued. efficiencies and economies of the men, thus reestab- lishing the principle that increased wages should reward increased pro- ductive effort.” ; Ee as STEUBENVILLE, 0., March 7, — When the Wheeling Steel company, ’ which operates the non-union La Belle mine, heard that the miners had com- missioned a deputation to demand higher wages and. better living condi- tioris from the company, the bosses posted a notice stating that the mine was closing down and that the men would receive their dollar back if they turned in their check numbers that afternoon, tu Nt This move of the company. threw many workers out of a job. ‘Tho the | mine was run in conjunction with the plant and the plant is still operating, no coal is being mined in the mine, Coal needed to operate the t =————