The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 4, 1926, Page 4

Page Four THE DAILY WORKER A3 renee THE DAILY WORKER Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill, Phone Monroe 4712 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mall (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, 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Ilinols J. LOUIS ENGDAHL \. WILLIAM F, DUNNB MORITZ J, LOEB.. Entered as second-class mail September 21, 1923, at the post-office at Chi- cago, Ill, under the act of March 8, 1879. Advertising rates on application, od oonsene Editors ..Business Manager <i 290 Passaic Imports Professional Liar That organization of professional liars known as the National Security League hes sent J. R. O’Brien, one of its soapboxers, to Passaic in an effort to align the middle class elements against the strike. O’Brien announced that his organization was not attempting to act as a strikebreaker. Strikebreaking has become so odious that those who make a business of practicing it all deny their motives. In a cheap, half literate, lying tirade before a meeting of the Rotary, Lions, Kiwanis and Exchange club members and visitors this creature declared that the Passaic strike was the result of a “Com- munist plot,” and that the Communist leader, Ben. Gitlow, was in reality the malignant force behind the whole thing. O’Brien regaled his audience with the fiction of a conference held in New York last August where plans were made to call the strike, “not to increase wages, but to form in the minds of the workers. the belief of a class struggle in America.” In order to offset this nefarious propaganda the valiant patriot and eminent authority upon the newest methods of extorting a living from the petty bourgeoisie by raising red scares is on the ground in Passaic to dispel any illusion of the class struggle that the workers may have had pounded into their heads by policemen’s clubs. ‘Tear bombs and poison gas thrown into the ranks of men, women and children should not be mistaken as the result of class warfare, and workers trampled by horses’ hoofs or run over «by motorcycles manned by drunken butchers should take no ‘more offense than players who might get hit in the eye at a ping-pong game. As everyone knows, Communists participate in the Passaic strike the same as in any other because it is one of their fundamental duties to fight for the elementary demands of the working class. We do not create the class struggle. It existed long before we did. The workers in Passaic who are on strike have shown that they are not afraid of the Communist leaders andspeakers who address them at many of their strike meetings. O’Brien may be able.to paddle his piffle before the small business men and those affiliated with the chamber of commerce, but he dare not attempt to assail the Com- munists before those workers who for nearly eleven weeks. have fought on the, picket line. One of his stripe tried it a couple of weeks ago and pvas not able to finish his foul attack on the strike leadership. “Talk Loudly and at Length!” Unable to remain in Mexico City as the ambassador of Wall Street and openly indulge in subversive propaganda against the government of Mexico, Ambassador Sheffield sent an emissary into this country in the person of one Margaret Semple, mother superior of a den of darkness known as the Cozeacan convent. This priestess has been in Mexico since 1911 endeavoring to impose her particular brand of religion upon the children of the region in which she has been operating. The decree against foreign missionaries and priests affected her job as a parasite upon the people, so this lamb of god is now in Washington bleating before the house foreign affairs com- mittee. Sheffield committed an error in telling the women to “talk loudly and at length.” She was so garrulous that she repeated to the committee his instructions, which are, of course, in plain viola- ion of international customs, if not of international law. This saintly witness testified that on numerous occasions she and other nuns had fought off mauraders. When asked precisely how the nuns had “fought” them she stated that she did not mean that the¥ did it physically, “I mean we did it with the tongue.” After listening to her chatter the committee ought to conclude that exclu- sion from the country—any country—is not a form of aggression, but rather of self-defense, Like all others of her kind she had to admit that her religious institution was closed not because of any. specific Mexican fight against religion as such, but because the directors of the-institution would not obey the laws of the country regarding religious instruction. Certainly no intelligent worker is going to get excited about Mexico insisting upon forcing priests, preachers and nuns to live within the law of the country, As for Ambassador Sheffield, the house committee on foreign affairs ought to recommend that he be immediately withdrawn as an impudent meddler because of his obvious effort to spread false statements against the government of the country he as the rep- resentative of the United States is supposed to deal with. Senator Edwards’ “Investigation” Senator Edwards, who admits that he was recently a stock- holder in one of the struck mills in Passaic, visitéd that city, made what he calls a survey of the situation and is. to present his findings at Washington before the senate committee on manufactures Satur- day. His personal survey consisted in visiting» Mayor McGuire, who after ten weeks hardly knows the facts regarding the strike, and other “city officials (including the head of the police thugs), civic agencies, manufacturers and the strikers themselves,” Edwards, in his statement, emphasized the fact that he would have nothing whatsoever to do with Albert Weisbord, organizer of the strike, and that he would confer only with the workers who were on strike from the mills. Edwards, like others who have in- sisted they will ignore the strike leadership, probably learned during his Passaic visit that the strikers will have nothing to do with sen- ators or anyone else who tries to interfere in the strike situation and starts out by blackguarding the leadership of that strike. The strikers have had suffcient experience in the struggle to recognize the propaganda of the employers when they see it. Edwards, a comparatively new member of the senate, is an old line democrat, one of the faithful of the House of Morgan and one of the ignoble crew that voted for adherence of the United States to the world court, can be depended upon to render a report based upon the material interests of the mill owners on the hope of doom- ing to perpetual unrequited toil the thousands of mill slaves of the state of New Jersey, whose mill towns are a blot upon the face of the earth. But he will have a difficult time contriving to present an effective argument against the array of facts furnished by Frank P. Walsh and his assistants who are presenting the case of the strikers, 4g K EN 4 oo 1000 WORKER CORRESPONDENTS BY JANUARY 13 1927 Fs STRIKE THREAT FORCES COMPANY TO PAY MINERS Pay Hold-Up Test of Union Strength By ROMA © (Worker Correspondent) MOUNDSVILLE, W. V., April 2. — —A threatened walkout of the coal miners employed by the Richland Marshall Coal Co., at Moundsville,.and the Glendale Gas Coal Co., at Glen- dale forced the two companies to change their pay day to March 31st instead of April 26th, as originally intended. The men had last been paid:around March 12th and were then informed that the two companies would not pay them again until the latter part of April, thus leaving them without funds for five or six weeks. However, as one such incident on the part of the Rich- land Marshall Coak Co. some 10 or 12 years ago had resulted in the’ men never receiving their money, this time the proposed delay in paying was met with disapproval by the miners, Test Union Strength, It is the common opinion held by not only the miners but also by the merchants in. this vicinity that the action of the coal operators was an effort to force the miners to deal from the company stores, and also to test the solidarity of the miners to see to what extent the miner owner could abuse the miners without strong resistance on the latter's part. WORKER CORRESPONDENTS, ATTENTION! All. worker correspondents of our foreign language press are urged to send in their names and addresses sta- ting for which paper they |write. It Is very important. UP TO RANK AND FILE TO FIGHT WAGE READJUSTMENTS OF THE AMALGAMATED CLOTHING WORKERS By A Worker Correspondent, e question of wages is a vital problem in the life of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of Chicago, A clause in our union agreement says: “Changes in the general wages can be proposed annually by either party to this agreement,” yet for the last two years the bosses have had the full bene- fit of this clause. Negotiations were reopened each year but they only brot another great reduction in wages tfor¢—————_—________________ the workers. Two Years of Waye Cuts. In 1924 with the reop@ning of agree- ments came the inf: ms wage Tead- justments which: at time was claimed as merely an expediency of the moment. This expetioncy is now a definite policy of ion officials, It has brot two y cuts to the clothing came greater intens and efficiency sch tended to further 1 of living for the The time is here 4 opening of wage Amalgamated Clothing ‘Workers, now is the time to act. . Demand a 15 per wages. Demand an_ mous readjustments, ’ employer be the sol the standard increase in | to the infa- and that the mtributor to the unemployment fund controlled by the union. Instruct our union offict- als that there must be no compromise on these demands. Insist that one price be established for all the mar- kets in the country, Demand rank and file representation on the negotia- tion committee with the bosses, Tailors’ Living Standard Drops. Our industry is the seventh largest in the United States. Our bosses are making huge profits, getting . richer and more powerful each year. But the tailors have to live in the poorest districts in the city, their children are robbed of the right to an education because they must leave school at an early age to help support the family. Fellow Amalgamated Clothing Workers of Chicago now ts the time to fight for a higher standard of liv- ing! SOUTH BEND, IND., WORKERS PROTEST AGAINST ANTI-FOREIGN-BORN BILLS By A Worker Correspondent, SOUTH BEND, Ind., April 2—The South Bend Council for the Protection of Foreign-Born, composed of representatives from eight sick benefit, fra- ternal and welfare societies, held a successful protest meeting in the Hun- garian Hall. The principal speaker, Wiliam Sim- ons, delivered a flery speech denounc- ing the Aswell and other anti-for- eign bills disclosing. ‘gheir true capi- talist character, ‘+e He explained that” The proposed NEW PRIZES For Our Worker Correspondents f For Best Stories Sent in During the Week to Appear in the Issue of Friday, April 9: —KING COAL, a fine working class novel by Upton Sinclair, Cloth-> bound for your library. A year’s subscription to the LABOR DEFENDER—aforize good for 12 months. i the numbers published (8) of the Little Red Library. Win one of these prizes with a short account of wages and conditions in your shop. Make it short—give facts— give your name and address, ey laws were an attack of the capitalists on the weakest section of the work- ing class. Threatened with deporta- tien and imprisonment the workers would be forced to submit to condi- tions. dictated by the bosses, “Bebrits from Chicago explained that this was more to antagonize na- tive and foreign workers by inciting national prejudices. The unorgan- ized ‘state of southern industries, due to race prejudice, he declared was an example of the method used’ by the bosses. The duty of American and foreign-born workers is to fight these bills as they are dangerous to the in- terests of the working class as a whble. Stanley Kolkievicz and Chalminiak! spoke of the need for united action of all foreign-born workers against these bills. As representatives of the Indi- ana section of the National Polish Welfare Council they said that the Polish workers were ready to work side by side with the Hungarian, Lithuanian and other workers against the anti-foreign bills. Workers (Communist) Party Chicago Builders Organize Club; to Boost Daily Worker Despite a snow storm which tied up traffic and made travel extremely. dit- ficult, the most active workers for the Communist press in Chicago from all parts of the city met last night, danced, listened to..speeches and laid the foundation for the Chi- cago DAILY WORKER Builders Club. The Finnish orchestra made, merry, games ‘were played and a. “feed” spread out for the hingry propagan- dists. . - Walt Carmen, chairman at the table, explained why the Chicago DAILY WORKER agent was “giving a party.” It was his wish that so many subs would be secured in the -near future that at the next party of the Builders, they would deserve chicken to replace the good but modest food served. Louis J. Engdahl, editor of. The DAILY WORKER, spoke of the New York banquet recently attended ana the history and activity of the Build- ers of that city. His record of their splendid accomplishments gave the Chicago Builders a mark to snoot ar for the future. Telegrams of con- gratuiation from other cities and their Builders were joyfully received. Fred Ellis, the cartoonist of The DAILY WORKER escaped a speech by making a toast in his usual good humor, Anna Lawrence, Walter Schuth and A. Valentine who were awarded prizes for the best work done in the city since January first, were unani- mously chosen to serve with the city agent as the new executive of the Chicago DAILY WORKER Builders’ Club. os We need more news from the shops and factories, Send it int. SAVE THESE DATES. NEW YORK, Ajitil 2.—Organiza- tions friendly to Thy DAILY WORK- BR aré asked to refrain from arrang- ng gny affairs that would conflict with ‘The DAILY WORKER eticamp- ment; to take place July 8, 4 and 5 near New York »b»O Jattend this mee TRADE UNION 85 OF WORKERS’ SCHOOL IN SEMESTER REVIEW With the Monday, April 5th, ses- sion the present term of the class in Trade Union Organization and Tactics, Chicago Workers’ School will end. The subject for this ses- sion will be a review of preceding lessons. A new term in Trade Union Organization and Tactics will start immediately, Arne Hpeheok is the instructor, Following are review questions for “Monday: 1.—What is the strtictural form of the American trade unions? 2.—What are the s of the trade unions in the dally ‘struggles, and what are their relatiéng to the cap- italist system? f 3.—What are the methods general- ly pursued by the “American trade unions to achieve their alms? 4.—What is the.félationship of present trade union officialdom to- ward the rapidly developing Amer- ican imperialism, iy hag 5.—How is this Imperialist de- velopment being “eee in the policies sponsored by the trade un- jon officialdom? 6.—What are the“various types of unions found in the world labor movement? 7.—What is the fole of the trade unions during the! present period and during the period of proletarian revolution? 8.—What are the essential tasks of Communist activities within the trade unions and how do we proceed to earry out these tasks? Chicago Street Nucleus No. 12 to Hear Maurer Street Nucleus No, 12 of the Work- ers Party of Chicago will hear George Maurer talk on “The Protection of Foreign Born Workers” at its next meeting on April §th at 8:00 p. m,, 1805 S. Racine Avi The meeting witha ‘algo devote time to a thoro discugsfon of trade union work, Every me: ts expected to South Bend Members Plan Activities to Reach Local Workers SOUTH BEND, Ind., April 2.—Last Sunday the South Bend membership meeting considered the efficient func- tioning of the local, brought the com- mittees up to full strength, divided the work of the local among the va- rious comrades, and laid plans for the proper functioning of both nuclei. The local decided to push rapidly the Shop Bulletin for the Studebaker plant, which, it appears now, will be ready by this week. It contains splen- did material prepared by members of the Studebaker nucleus on ‘happenings CAPITALIST SPORTS—AN ADJUNCT OF CAPITALIST MILITARISM ‘), Article Two. By PAUL CLINE. 4 ie us@’of athletics as a means of military training is a direct out- growth of the army methods discov- ered and used by America during the world war. During the process of whipping the raw drafted men into shape the United States military, ex- perts found that games of various kinds could be used to inculcate some of the rudiments of military training. Thus it was found that the motions perfected in playing quoits and base- ball rendered the soldiers more skill- ful and accurate in grenade throwing and that the swaying, footwork and punching learned in boxing made a soldier more adept at the gentle art of sticking a bayonet into a “Hun’s” guts. A general slogan used inthe training camps was, “Bayonetting is in the various departments. Three thousand copies will be distributed. This is the first issue. A poem on Ford workers, taken from the Ford Worker (also a shop paper) will ap pear, Election Plans. Plans were laid for getting on the ballot for the fall elections in In- diana, Comrade Simons spoke on the party campaigns and organization at the beginning of the meeting, The successful Protection of the For- eign-Born meeting the night before has put pep into the comrades and further good work is expected, i When that argument begins at lunch time in your shop tomor- row—shoy them what the DALLY WORKER says about it. Young Workers Cele- brate 4th Anniversary DENVER, Colo.—Despite a snow- storm raging all day and evening, a good crowd of Young Workers and their friends gathered at the Labor Lyceum on Sunday evening, March 28, to celebrate the anniversary of the Young Workers’ League and The Young Worker. The proceeds, about $20, will go to help wipe out the deficit of The Young Worker, This being the first entertainment put on by the Young Workers’ Teens of Denver showed to those 7 that they are real entertainers afd audience showed their apprec hearty applause, ‘ boxing with a bayonet in your hands,” Soccer was encouraged because it habituates the player to running with short strides and sure footing, a knack very useful in traversing the torn areas of No-Man’s-Land. However, athletics was not encour- aged in the American army during the war merely because it assisted in training the soldiers physically. It served another and more ftmportant purpose: that of training and controll- ing the soldiers mentally,. This was openly admitted by General Pershing himself. In a speech dealing with the American forces in France, Pershing said: Pershing Spills Beans, “I am most anxious to encourage in every way the athletic side, both as a means of keeping the personnel wholesomely and enjoyable occupied during the period not needed for other military duties, and as a means of keeping the men in that state of mental and physical fitness which is so necessary to the morale which breeds contentment.” Evidently General Pershing, who was known as a severe disciplinarian, was indulgent with his boys when it came to athletic recreation, He sensed that the sky-pilots and patriotic ora- tors who were delegated to the task of keeping the men in the proper mental and moral condition were not quite able to do it without some as- sistance. Therefore Black Jack deemed it advisable to divert the men with athletics, to occupy their every spare moment so that they could not begin to do a little thinking on their own account, That this was precisely the reason why athletics were encouraged in the army was plainly brought out by an officer in an address at a recent con- vention of the National Collegiate As- sociation. He said: “The value of participation in games in the regt,.camps cannot, b V mated. It prevents a my ing and thinking about his ‘troubles, wondering what: is going’ on at home, and whether the next time’ will be his last time, and .a variety. of pie ot that sort.” What the War 3% Probably under: a ‘vartety of. things of that sort the officer had if mind that the soldier might start to wonder what the war was for anyway, who profited by it, etc. that the officer thinks it a bad state of affairs when the’ soldier begins to think about his: troubles, for it is quite certain that given the time to do that the soldier --will eventually come around to the point of wondering why these trowbles are necessary and how he can relieve himself of them. The next step, of course, would be to con- fide his ruminations and conclusions to his “buddy,” who would then be stimulated to express his own doubts and misgivings on the subject of kill- ing and dying in order to “save the CONCENTRATION GROUP No. 1, SECTION 6, CHIGAGO MEETING called to order at 4:30. Minutes of the previous meeting read and approved. All members were present. Individual reports ‘on activi- ties was first on the order of business, Two comrades reported the sale. of sixteen copies of The Young Worker at a union meeting. Comrade C. re- ported that a section headquarters had been located and would be rented in conjunction with the party.’ Comrade W. reported the sale of 4 tickets to the Paris Commune, A discussion was then held on the issuance. of ‘the next bulletin, as to what it should contain, tlie form in which it should be printed, and when- it should. be distributed. It was’ de- cided to make the bulletin more.edu- cational anil more political than the last one, to explain. the general “role the league briefly, and’ iat Ito the” the meeting was adjourned, in it an young workers ‘who are int put their names and addresses on a special . 8} dl. pose and to. send same in to the-local hegdauarvens of the’ Wdagne.’ § ° tata. OF come Ahead Into:the Young Workers League 4 fessiona] -pugilists, It is not strange | Experiences of Shop Nuclei ~ and Concentration Groups world for démocracy.” And then, if the two should happen to meet up with a class-conscious soldier—a Crouch or a Trumbull, let us say—a little clarification, agitation and or- ganization would result. And were this repeated on a large enough scale then the Russian soldiers might not have been the only ones to turn the “imperialist war into @ revolutionary war against the exploiters.” So we see the major knew whereof he speaks when later on he says: “Athletics and sports helped as much to win the war for America, I might assert, as the movies, the rec- reation huts ‘and the lectures com- bined.” Developing Fighters for Morgan, But’ physical efficiency and mental stultification are not the only require- ments of a good soldier in a capitalist war. He must also be combative, cruel and ruthless, and he must be possessed by an insane hatred of the enemy, coupled with a desire to maim and kill. In order to train the soldiers in this spirit football and boxing were encouraged, as both tend to develop lust for bodily injury, in addition to. passion for victory in combat. Re ferring to the use of boxing in this con- ' nection, Major Woodson, in an article | in the A. E. F., wrote: “The boxing instructor’s place s with the division until we are ready | to occupy the trenches, and, indeed, | afterward, to keep up the men’s spirit and their desire for battle, for his work among the men has aroused | their fighting spirit more than any- thing else.” And further on he writes: “There are over a million men systematically engaged in athletic activity, and the primary purpose of it all is to educate | the men to be better fighting Oneem | isms.” In view of these facts it is under- standable why sports were so exten- | sively developed in the United States army during the war. Both the - training camps at home and in the reserve and rest camps in France ath- | Igtics was.a regular and important fea- ture of the training routine. Millions of dollars were spent in promoting the sports activities of the men in France alone. Enormous amounts of athletic parapharnalia, literally shiploads of it, were sent “over there.” In one in- stance alone an order for over a quar- ter million dollars worth of goods was placed. Inclided in this order were 2,600 sets of boxing gloves and 12,000 soccer and rugby footballs alone. Build the Workers’ Sports Movement, Besides supplying this equipment, a special athletic building was erected in every camp of over a thousand, Special athletic instructors were put in charge of the activities carried on in each camp. supérvised in many instances by pro- : were frequently . and regularly staged. The raw re- cruits. were compelled to participate in these. bouts in order to get their “first taste of war and to have the softness kno¢ked out of them.” In one ‘|large camp @ver two hundred football teams were organized, and the casual- ties from the incessant scrimmaging necessitated the setting up of a min- jature hospital. Thousands of base- ball teams were set up and compett- ton ran rife for company and regiment | championships. So marked were the results achieved by the United States army in the use of athletics ag a means of training the soldiers and keeping them in the proper fighting frame of mind that France and Italy introduced similar methods in their armies. We are far from being pact- fists and can also make good use of the bosses’ fightitig methods. Build . the workers’ sports movement to de- velop hard, strong fighters for the working. class. The advisability ot holding a dance and party especially for the young workers of this factory and distribut- ing outside of the doors a special ap- peal to them to attend was consid- ered, but action was deferred pending the advice of the district organizer, A motion was made to distribute the bulletin Thursday. Motion was unanimously passed, and 4 comrades volunteered for the distribution. A motion was made and passed that 3 comrades each give a 5-minute talk at the next meeting on some subject of interest to the members of the league. One of the comrades volun- teered to speak on the subject, “Why We Reorganized the League.” An- other volunteered to speak on “Why We Have to Have a Young Workers’ League.” After the educational discussion a few minutes were devoted to the set- tlement for dues and tickets and then Why Not Become a_ Worker Correspondent? Boxing tournaments, ©