The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 11, 1926, Page 4

Page THE DAILY WORKER Published by the DAILY WCRKER PUBLISHING CO. 1118 W.Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill, Phone Monroe 4712 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mali (in Chicago only): By mail (outside of Chicago): $8.00 per year $4.50 six months | $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, 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Ilinols J, LOUIS ENGDAHL {. .Editors Business Manager WILLIAM F. DUNNE MORITZ J, LOEB... Entered as second-class mail September 21, 1923, at the post-office Chi- cago, Ill, under the act of March 3, 1879, Advertising rates on application. oo SH “Medical” Missionaries in China Missionaries are the advance agents of imperialism. More than that they are spies and tricksters who resort to every low device in order to gain the confidence of the inhabitants of the lands their cap- italist masters desire to exploit. The history of American mission- aries in China is a long history of repulsive intrigue and the most de- based infamy. Since most of the Chinese forms of religion are far superior to the christian superstition, the holy advance guard en- countered great difficulties in their work.” The regular preacher with spiritual salvation as his sole stock in trade did not appeal to the natives of China, as the church hit upon the idea of introducing medicine in the form of religion. Hence missionaries who had en- joyed some training as medical doctors were’sent’into China with bushels of pills and serums. They wormed their way into the con- fidence of families of victims of disease and told them that it was the power of the christian god that cured them. ~ Unable to build churches and enter into competition with Confucianism, these. crea- tures created religious institutions called hospitals and the directors and staff of such institutions called themselves “medical mission- aries.” With the rapid penetration of. imperialism into China during the past few years, these missionaries exposed their hand more and more as the agents of the enemies of the Chinese people. With money placed at their disposal by agents of American imperialism they could bribe some of the lowest Chinese elements to act as spies. The so-called hospitals became foul nests of espionage against -all native Chinese who sympathized with nationalists and anti-imper- ialist movements. That the labor unions of China recognize these American hospi- tals for what they really are is evidenced by the fact that after fail- ing to bring the native “attendants” (spies) out on strike in their drive against foreign institutions they established a-blockade and cut off food supplies as well as light and power. Now the reptile press of the United States is raising a hue and ery over the suppression of these delightful christian institutions. Intelligent American workers will refuse to get excited over any- thing that has happened or may happen to these missionaries who use the most insidious methods to establish themselves in China in order to pave the way for the mailed fist to descend with all its frightfulness upon their land. As Communists we should let the Chinese masses know. that they have friends in America who sympathize with them in their struggles against the advance guard of imperialism and who will aid them to the best of our ability. If the Chinese people want a pic- ture of their fate in case the hirelings of the imperialists of the United States have their way they can get it by taking a look at the Philippine Islands under the ferocious despotism of Major General Leonard H. Wood. * ° e Denies His Ancestry That distinguished methodist layman, Mr. Edward Young Clarke of Atlanta, Georgia, former imperial hell-roarer and exalted poo-bah of the ku klux klan, is now seeking other fields of endeavor. Since the graft formerly obtained from the white, nordic, American- born, protestant, 100 per cent Americans now flows in diminished streams into the headquarters of that organization, Mr. Clark,’being an energetic go-getter, is now devoting his peculiar talents to*creat- ing a new organization to be known as “The Supreme Kingdom.” The title of the new venture has a certain’ flaré ‘reminiscent of the religious pathology of Atlanta. Everything in that region is always described in superlative terms. All the discontented grand goblins, imperial wizards, all the pre-eminent, may now*rally to the loud bassoon of the all-highest—Mr. Edward Young Clarke, himself —into “The Supreme Kingdom” and do battle with those who dare to insinuate that man did not spring full-blown upon the earth on ihe sixth day of Jehovah’s hereulean labors as described in Genesis, after which, as Paul LaF argue says, he established the seventh as a day of rest and has been resting ever since. The new organizatior is to fight evolution and, unlike the kin: it accepts catholics and Jews and all others who swear their allegi- ance to the christian bible and accept god as the’creator of the uni- verse. Evolution is to be combatted in the schools and colleges and the supreme kingdom is to strive to remove all teachers and others who uphold the theories or who are known to believe in evolution. Politically the organization will oppose every politician who opposes its “principles.” There are always enuf semi-imbeciles to ‘gain support for such a venture as Mr. Clarke’s latest and we presume sutvh creatures may as well spend their time quarreling with their anestors as anything else. We question whether it will prove to be.as fertile a field for graft as was the koo-koos. As to its pretenses to combat evolution, it it has in its ranks any person of even a modicum of intelligence or ability worthy the steel of a revolutionist we would be glad to: publicly debate the rela- tive merits of evolution and the genesis story of the bible. In such a discussion we would not merely explode again the ridiculous tale of creation, which no intelligent person can” possibly accept, but would explain the morbid, petéy-bourgeots social environment which -gives rise to such abstyd organizations. JAPANESE MAGIC n gold that wae captured by the Japa y inv: ed Win the Latest Book by Trotsky! for the best Worker Correspondent story sent In during the week, to appear in the Issue of Friday, April 16, will win “WHITHER RUSSIA?” “TOWARDS CAPITALISM OR SOCIALISM?” By the Author of “Whither England”, 2nd Prize: 3rd Prize: jyou like it or not.” By a Worker Correspondent, } : PITTSBURGH, Pa,, April 9—The first principle of upidnism is to try to{the mill as we will then be organized prevent the bosses from firing workers whenever they'| please. United Garment Workers’ Union pf Pittsburgh live up to this ptinciple? No! of all the other unions now organized. The bosses fire girls whenever they want to and the reactionary leadership, with the business agent as their spokesman, justify this action. a few facts that will prove the cor4+——___________________ rectness of this statement. Forelady is Union Official. A girl was fired from Bennet’s Shop a few months ago. The shop chair- lady who is the recorémg secretary of the local and also happens to be fore- lady in that shop did*not take any ac- tion to reinstate that girl. When this question came up befare the local meeting, the shop chairlady, who is supposed to protect the workers against the bosses, said, “You are too sassy! If the boss tells you to do something you have to obey whether No action was taken by the local and the girl was not reinstated. Another case happened last Detem- ber. Officers in this local are elected once a year. They are nominated in November and elected in December. A rank and file girl member from Goldbloom’s shop was nominated for business agent (the only paid office in that local). This met with the oppo- sition of the bosses and the reaction- ary leadership of the local. Both sides —the bosses and the executive board of the local, united and carried on an energetic campaign against the op- ponent of the old business agent. Bosses Fight Militant, One thing must be clear to us work- ers: that the interests of the bosses and those of the workers; are opposed to each other. If a thing is good for the bosses it must be bad for the workers. For example, small wages and long hours are good for the bosses and bad for the workers. High wages and short hours are good for the workers and bad for the bosses. Now why were the bosses so anx- ious-to elect the old bfisiness agent? If you ‘think of how she settles the disputes between the working girls and the. bosses, it will be clear to you, why the employers do not want a new business-agent who would fight for the workers. In spite of the fact that the girls were threatened to be fired if they would vote against the old business agent, about 20 per cent cast their votes for the opponent. To have in their shops workers who are protesting against the bad‘ condi- tions semed to be tod dangerous to the bosses. They have one way of solving this problem: “fire the trouble makers.” ‘The very next day after the election the girl who was nominated for business agent, and another girl were fired. The case was appealed to the exe- cutive board whichis empowered to act between the meetings of the lo- cal union. Mr. Burkson, a representa- tive of the general office was-at that time in Pittsburgh. Did he try to have the girls reinstated? Did the executive board do anything about it? No! They tried to find some-excuse to justify the action of the bosses. Cook Up Flimsy Charge. Here is the trick that they played yon the girl who had the nerve to run for a business agent in opposition to the reactionary machine, which is supported by the bosses, The worker was suspended from the union on the flimsy charges that she attended a mass meeting which was arranged by the “local Amalgamated Clothing Workers Union and the Journeymen Tailors’ local, where amalgamation was discussed. This meeting was held some time in August. A few other present, Not a word was said about that meeting until the bosses fired this worker, If it is a crime, for a member of the U. G. W. to attend a mass meet- ing, why was she not suspended in August, right after that meeting? Why did they wait until December? It is clear, Taking away the right from the membership. (The worker was not permitted to fight her case on the > hoor ee ee rene “THE AWAKENING OF CHINA/* by Jas, H. Dolsen. Another new and unusual book which will be off the press just about In time for the winner. Six months subscription to The We 80 good a prize that it matches bot! members of the U. G. W. local were! the worker to attend union meetings} Name. 7 also took away her right to appeal to] Nucleus No. “Textile Barons are the Real Crooks” By J. T. Young Striker, PASSAIC, N, J.—The conditions in our home are very bad. There are five children and my mother in the family, but no one is working now as we are all on strike. We have to pay three months rent now already and no heat in the winter. The wages are so low in these mills that all the working people have to live in rat holes and have very little to eat and no clothes to wear, My shoes are so worn out that on a rainy day my feet and stockings get all wet. If we had decent wages and sanitary conditions in the mills my mother would not have to go and slave in the mills and come home at night sick so that she could hardly stand on her feet. Because of these conditions we went on strike so that we could have a bet- ter living and better wages, and also that we could organize not only in Passaic and vicinity but in every other textile center in this country as well. If we win this strike it will mean a victory for the rest of the working class in the country because then we will have contro] over the bosseg in Ist Prize rs Monthly— others, Does the|424 also have behind us the backing That is the reason why the bosses want to get rid of Weisbord. They Here are} call him a crook and bolshevik but who are the biggest crooks but the the local union), In this the execu-|bosses who rob the people of their tive board worked jointly with the| wages and of their right to earn a liv- bosses, giving them the free hand to|ing? fire whomever they consider undesir- able. Havi en rid r le ’ 2 pane they ut tate, A heteotin Women $s Club Raises on pants of smaller size was intro- Funds for Labor Lyceum duced before the agreement expired. The union wyuoe gad approved the By a Worker Correspondent DENVER, Colo., April 9—The La- dies’ Educational Club, composed of radical women of Denver, realized a action of the boss: Members of the United Garment Workers, how long will you allow your officials, who are a to Tepre-| -ood sum of money from-an entertain- sent you, betray y How long will! ment and concert given to raise funds you allow your offifials to take the|tor the new labor lyceum building part of the bosses'instead of taking | which will be erected soon to house your part. It is abgut high time that) many Denver radical organizations. you, the rank and filers unite, become| One of the special features of the active in the local upion, fight for bet-|evening was a two-act play, “Trial ter sanitary conditions, higher wages,|Marriage.” The play was spoken in shorter hours, and against discrimina-|Jewish. A number of young folks tion. gave a ballet. Worker Correspondents! This Is For You! By a Worker Correspondent. We, the worker correspondents are sentinels of the proletariat in his struggle with capitalism. Let’s justify it, All that’s of in- terest to the workers must be reported immediately. We cannot afford to permit ourselves to consider little things unimportant— everything that.happens to a worker is of importance to the work- ing class. Let us suppose in your shop, A was docked half a day’s wages for leaving work at 2 o'clock last Wednesday. He had a fierce headache. Your shopmate’ to the left said it was a shame to dock him for he got that headache working all day in a dimly lighted room without windows and very bad alr. That would make a good worker corre- spondence story. Suppose you learned that the bosses are planning to cut wages by speeding upithe workers and throwing some of them out of work? The reactionary union officials know all about this, but are doing nothing. Then=it is your duty to write about it and see to it that the paper it appears in gets into the hands of every worker in that shop and every member of your union. Suppose X was fired for refusing to work overtime. All the work- ers were indignant about it and said the boss cannot force any worker to work overtime. You should have-written about it at once and sent it to the Worker Correspondents’ page for The DAILY WORKER. Perhaps you say you have tried to write but it was not good. Don’t give up. Write again. You'll be surprised how soon you'll learn to express yourself on paper. Other Worker Correspondents have thought like you but now they know different. They know that they can write, § A valual little friend of every Worker Correspondent is The American Worker Correspondent, which is published monthly to help you in your job of writing for the workers’ press. It costs only the small sum of {60 cents a year for twelve coples—one each month. The April issue is now out. 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Capital, Continuation Class. Trade Union Problems (Swabeck). Tuesday—Elements of Communism, 2nd term (Dolsen). April 13, .Wednesday—Party Organization and Functioning (Abern). April 14 Thursday—Elements of Communism, ist term (Simons). April 18. Friday—American Imperialism (Gomez). Begins April 16. Tuesday and Thursday—English North Sid ns April 13, ary 1A, M-—English South Side, gins April 11. theck here Begins April 12. Medes Resid esidtoncidvania AAA ODB a. pssrsserssssesesirnnersenssnnenionsnne oe Send to 1 jyouth problems, also naturally turn Young Workers and Foreign-Born Workers By JACK STACHEL. F the 22 million industrial wage workers in the United States, over Very often they elect Negroes for the Same reason. In the Passaic strike a, great proportion of the strike commit eleven million are unskilled; over six| tee are young workers for the same million are semi-skilled and only less|"@a80n. The young workers in Pas- than five million are skilled. salc as in every other strike of this ‘The great bulk of the unskilled and bhi are the most militant because Y are not corrupted like the skill: semi-skilled are. composed of foreign- ed workers, and because they have no born workers, Negro wérkers, women responsibility of family, i . workers and young workers, The Young Workers (Communist) In the basic industries of the coun-| Teague is out to educate and organ: try, steel, coal mining, metal mining,| iz¢ the young workers and to tle up rubber, automobiles, oil, packing! their struggles for the specific needs houses, and textile mills the num-| of the young workers in industry with ber of foreign-born alone is about 60) the general struggles of the entire to 65 per cent. If we add to this| working class. The Young Workers number the Negroes and the young] (Communist) League is not a union. workers who are native we would| The Young Workers’ League 1s a po- have at least 85 per-gent of the work-| iitical and educational organization of ers in the industry. the militant youth, It carries on agi- The young workers belong mostly| tation and propaganda, among the to the unskilled. The young workers| young workers. It is an educational enter industry without any training,| organization. But it does not educate with the possibility of entering a/ the workers merely thru books, that skilled trade closed to him in most] is, it is not a cultural organization, cases, with the union doors barred and/ but a political educational organiza- he is compelled to become an unskill-| tion. The Young Workers’ League ré- ed worker, In the few crafts where| jects the formula of the social-demo- it is still possible for the young work-| crats who say that political action be- er to get in he is compelled to serve] longs to the party, the economic strug: an apprenticeship of from 3 to 5 years.| gle to the unions and education to the The young workers are therefore| youth. The Young Workers’ League potentially a revolutionary force in| is' educating the young workers by industry. They are not in any way a, their participation in all the struggles part of the aristocracy of labor in this] of the workers. The young workers country, organized in the American|can receive their necessary training Federation of Labor. They are part|only by participating in the political of the unorganized and the most ex-| struggles of the entire working class, ploited section of the workingclass in| by their active participation in the un- this country, The young workers are ions supplemented by the study of exploited doubly, first as workers and | Marxism and Leninism, then as young workers. They together HE Young Workers (Communist) with the Negroes, and the great army League carries on a fight to or- of foreign-born workers are the un- ganize the young workers of the coun- skilled, unorganized workers, that are |try into the unions. Thru the left wing exploited not only by the capitalists, in the existing unions the Workers but at whose expense the small sec-|Party and the Young Workers League tion of the workers of the country,| carry on a campaign for the organizd- the aristocracy of labor is receiving | tion of the Negro workers, the foreign- high wages. The aristocracy of labor} born workers and the young workers.: is being bribed by the capitalists out] The Young Workers’ League like of the excess profits made thru the|the Workers Party is out to bring the exploitation of the unorganized work- millions of unorganized into the Ame- ers. rican Federation of Labor and thru bya young workers, the foreign-|these large _masses of “uncorrupted born and the Negro workers are,| workers to convert the American Fed- therefore, the natural allies. They all|cration of Labor from an organization feel the lash of double exploitation.|of class collaboration into an organ- They are called upon to do the hard-| ization for the class struggle, so that est work and receive the smallest }the American workers advancing thru wages, In the shops the young work-|the organization of a labor party and ers and the Negroes who speak Eng-|ever perfecting their economic organ- lish are therefore, the leaders of the| izations into strong industrial unions struggles of the unskilled workers. This| capable of struggling against capital- can ‘be seen from the fact that in the | ism will inevitably come to adopt Len- industrial section, compased of for-|inism as their weapon of struggle and eign-born and young workers the for-|learn to free themselves from the vign-born who are the overwhelming | present system of exploitation by the majority very often elect young work-| establishment of a Communist order ers as their delegates and officers sim- of society, thru the dictatorship of the ply because they can speak English. | proletariat. THE YOUNG WORKERS AND THE UNION “The workers learned their lesson now as every one can see The wotkers know the bosses are their greatest enemy.” HE wrote learn the above usu- ally thru fighting against the mis- erable exploitation of the bosses as did the textile: workers of Passaic. With this they also learn that the best way of fighting the bosses is thru a union. For all their bread and butter problems the union is the best agency, The union is a strong weapon against the bosses in the hands of the work- ers, This the workers easily learn and understand, for the union’is the first and most elementary form of. or- ganization of the workers. The young worker, who besides fighting for the demands of all the workers, also fought their special man beings with self respect. During the struggle they learn of newer and better ways of fighting. Many de- velop into advanced fighters for the workers—into leaders, Trumbull Meet _ : Start N. Y. Anti. = Militarist Work By J, PERILLA. {Deeded release of Comrade Trumbull, soldier in the army of imperialism, ndw a soldier in the ranks of the revolutionary movement is of great import to the young workers of the entire country. The pioneer work of Comrades Crouch and Trumbull in un masking our benevolent imperialists (despots in Hawali) shows the need for the pushing of anti-militarist work and the necessity of awak these oppresséd colonial peoples South America, Hawaii, Samoa, etc, i Under the pretence of civilizing educating these “ignorant barbaria our good samaritans (the plunderre: of America) have ground und these colonial peoples by the w kind of exploitation imaginable, first to the union, as to the organiza- tion that fights for their interests, and rightly so. The union is the organ- ization of the workers in certain in- dustries, irrespective of age of the worker or of ‘their craft. Unfortu- nately not all the: unions live up to this, * The young worké union have more to, than the ad- ult worker. In many instances they also do more for the union than the adult workers. ‘Théy add enthusiasm, pep, and youthful vitality to the union, They give ita spirit of growth, the lack of which ig feltin so many |recent. exposure of the activities of the old “establi " organizations. |the U. S. navy in Samoa reveals The young workers are mostly »a- clsively the high-handed meth tive born, Most of them attended | used. Ostensibly of no economic American schools. In this country|portance Samoa and Hawaii made where the workers aré ‘divided into|cellent bases for the coming war in different nationalities: and dif-|the Pacific, x ferent customs the young workers in] Large appropiations by the finion act as a connecting link|and the great energy being put bond amongst these workers. filling of the Citizens Military The union on the other hand bet-|ing Camps this summer should bo ters the lot of the young workers. It}a warning to the young workers (the improves their conditions in the home | cannon fodder of the next war) to or: and in the mill, The union gives|ganize and. struggle against militar: them leisure time in which to learn|ism. The Young Workers League of and develop. It provides them with |New York will make the reception t Schools and with working class teach-| Walter Trumbull as a starting poin ‘s. It supplies them with sports and {for an anti-militarist campaign recreation that does not distract their | which large masses of Young Wo minds from their omic struggle. | will be dra Bane the ie 1 hehting ore aion the young ception will t joining “the workers