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

ei Page Six Published by the DAILY WCRKER PUBLISHING CO. 1118 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Il : SUBSCRIPTION RATES ¥ ,» By mail (in Chicago only): By mail ‘(outside of Chicago): $8.00 per year $4.50 six months { $6.00 per vear $3.50 six months $2.60 three months | $2.00 three months _ ‘THE DAILY WORKER jiija{ American Labor Thinks) Phone Monroe 4712 Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, I!linols eee en a pec ciegeamernenyeraimennanepieeeteempete J, LOUIS ENGDAHL ; Business Manager WILLIAM F, DUNNE MORITZ J. LOEB. ess Entered as second-class mail September 21, 1923, at the post-office at Chi- cago, Ill., under the act of March 3, 1879. <B> 290 Advertising rates on application. —= The Dictatorship in Jersey “! don’t care for the right or wrong in this matter. This man must be kept in jail and away from. the strikers,” This was the tribute paid to Albert Weisbord, organizer and Jeader of the Passaic strikers, by a textile hireling known as Judge Baker. At first this creature had set bail at $25,000 and when the bail was forthcoming the chagrined judge refused to accept it. It was in explanation of this act that he blurted out his contempt for all such frail concepts as abstract right and’ wrong. For the time being he was the personifiaction of the capitalist state as the agent of the.capitalist class. His duty to his masters was plain and, tho more intelligent servants might have achieved the same end with more subtlety, this petty judge openly proclaimed the fact that cap- italism rules directly thru force, that might alone is right, that he has the power and intends to use it without stint. Marx, Engels, Lenin and other theoretical leaders of the revo- Jationary movement have written in detail about the ramifications of the capitalist state power and exposed it as the dictatorship of the ruling class minority imposed by force against the majority of the population, but nothing ever written has done more to convince the working class of the nature of the judicial branch of the capitalist state than this arbitrary action of this puppet judge. The striking textile workers will long remember the fierce ex- hibition of force and terror used against them by the capitalist state and will, be far more susceptible to our appeals to them to organize class parties of labor and challenge the government of the capitalist class. ~ Ballot Printing Political Boodle Mr. James T. Igoe, head of the printing concern of that name, j is indignant because another printing concern underbid him and e secured election printing, and has sought an injunction restraining : the election board from paying for the printing. Mr. Igoe is one of the bright and shining lights of the George Brennan democratic machine and is a candidate 6n that ticket for congress. For a long time Mr. James T. Igoe was city clerk of Chi- cago, at the same time operating his printing concern. The law eS prohibits an official giving work to a concern in which he is in- 5 terested, but the resourceful Mr. Igoe wanted the spoils to be ob- tained from the rich printing® contracts. So he created another printing concern that existed on paper only, known as the La Salle Printing company, for the purpose of obtaining city printing thru his office in the city hall. The La Salle concern “sub-let” its city printing contracts to the Igoe concern. In addition to that hoax there was further juggling that would prove exceedingly interesting to the Chicago voters who will be asked to send Igoe to congress. We know nothing of the merits of the present case against his competitor, but we do know the record of Igoe, which places him alongside the other boodle politicians. It is about time the organ- ized labor movement of Chicago enters the political field on its own ticket and gives the “bum’s rush” to the two old capitalist par- ties that, in addition to being the open enemies of labor, reek with corruption. Henry Ford’s “Greater Tomorrow” A series of articles is appearing in the Hearst publications un- der the name of Henry Ford, written by some penny-liner who calls himself Samuel Crowther. These articles, played up in the flam- ,boyant Hearst style, containing nothing but the most banal plati- tudes about service that can be heard at any rotary or kiwanis club, are crude attempts to belittle and discredit organized labor and all the. class theories of the labor movement and supplant them with Ford’s regimental parternalism, whereby workers will be reduced to dumb automatons, mechanically chanting the litanies concocted * for them by Ford’s mental prostitutes. That is his vision of a “greater tomorrow.” i, - “ Such propaganda ‘will be published in increasing volume as! the workers.in the great unorgahized industries become more restléss under the galling slavery they must endure and the Communist drive to organize the unorganized gains greater momentum and enlists other elements of the labor movement in united front cdmpaigns against such notorious open shop concerns as the Ford “Motor com- _Pany.. . before the realities of the Class struggle. Moscow or bust OR A BOOK OF CARTOONS ' or maybe all three! eae Get the Point! “Sl THE DAILY WORKER of the Passaic Mill Strike The Machinists’ Monthly Journal, official organ of the International As- *|sociation of Machinists, in its April issue points out the treatment that President Coolidge accords preachers, lawyers and their ilk and how he ig- nored the Passaic strikers who sought to present their grievances to him. The editorial points out that tho the Passaic strikers are not in the Textile tion of Labor, the organized workers must support the strikers and help them force an investigation into the textile industry. Machinists. Aid Strikers. The attitude of the Machinsts’ Union differs fundamentally from that of William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, and McMahon, president of the United Textile Workers of America. These two have refused to organize or to aid the 16,000 textile workers. In this column The DAILY WORK- ER will print the attitude of many of the larger unions towards the Passaic strike. The editorial in Journal follows: RAPS COOLIDGE. “One can scarcely pick up a news- paper now-a-days without finding in the pictures published thereing Presi- dent Coolidge with a group of some the Machinists’ sort. You will see him photographed with preachers, teachers, lawyers, bankers, actors, hikers, movie stars, chambers of commerce; in fact, with people from all walks of life, Did we say ‘all’—well, all but one. We with a group of workers that is a group of workers commonly referred to as ‘the horny handed sons (or daughters) of toil.’ Strikers Seek Investigation. “The other day such a group jour- neyed from Passaic, N. J., to the na- tional capital for the purpose of lay- ing their grievances before congress in the hope that that body would be sufficiently impressed with their story how 16,000 men, women and children revolting against inhuman treatment and starvation wages imposed upon them by the mill owners of Passaic and vicinity had been clubbed, attacked with gas bombs, fire hose, and ridden over by mounted police, to order an have yet to see him photographéd| be revealed, and the searchilght of publicity thrown on the almost unbe- levable conditions to eke out an ex- istence, “While in Washington this repre- sentative group of downtrodden hu- manity called on President Coolidge, not for the purpose of being photo- graphed with him but to tell him of the wrongs they were compelled to en- Union, a part of the American Federa-| dure, hoping to receive a sympathetic ear, at least, But they were given the ‘gate’ The president declined to grant them an ‘audience, instructing his secretary to‘refer them to the de- partment of labor where they finally, but reluctantly, Agreed to go, hoping to receive some‘assurance that their case would be givén the consideration merited, ‘s Would Receive Mill Owners. “No one who jg acquainted with the attitude of the Coolidge administra- tion was surprised at the president’s refusal to meet the Passaic strikers, Past performances prove that he has little use for strikers, but it’s dollars House, not only would they have been received but in -all probability they would have been invited to be photo- graphed with the chief executive, “The situation: in Passaic could hardly be worse, altho the strikers are not membérs of the Textile Union, the struggle they are making for decent wages and working conditions should so appeal to trade unionists at least and to the general public to, cause them to render these every assistance, “The outcome of this strike depends largely upon what action the United States senate takes upon a resolution introduced by Senator LaFollette au- thorizing the committe to investigate forthwith the conditions in connection with this strike, etc., and report its findings to the senate, “We are confident. that, if the in- vestigaton is Ordered and hearings are held, a story will be:unfolded that will shock the nation,.and perhaps result in establishing nog only in the mills in Passaic, but in-the entire industry, conditions that willvin a larger meas- ure conform to theshighest American standards, together with a recognition and preservation ofsthe rights of all poor people investigation so that the truth might concerned.” “a A Bust of Len 'N years to come, the reproduction of the likeness of the great work- ing class leader, Lenin, will surpass, in both artistic content and numerity, the millions of re-creations that haye been made of the heroes of other classes and societies—Jesus, Napole- on, Lincoln, Caesar and the thousands of’other lesser leaders that have been glorified by the present bourgeois and previous regimes. These others are representative of cultures and classes that are dead or dying; Lenin is rep- resentative of a culture and a class only recently born and embarked upon a large full life which future generajjons will maka yet fuller. Nor does superstition or idolarity attach to the appreciation of Lenin’s life work, an appreciation that finds expression in part by the presence of his likeness in millions of workers’ homes. No, this profound admiration is marked as much by a deep devotion to the struggle of a great class and implicit confidence in the future hege- mony of this class, as by a great res- pect for and gratefulness to the man whose leadership made the beginning of this hegemony possible. When a worker looks at a bust or a picture of Lenin, he does not abase himself before individual greatness or stand awed by super-human achievement. He says rather to himself, “There is a man who was close to us, who was real and human in every way. He it bust “of Lenin from life, was who led the first contingent of the workers’ army to victory. He it ; Ford's vision of a “great tomorrow” is doomed ‘to disappear] Was who has shown us the way. We are convinced he was right. He start- ed the job. We will finish it.” In such a spirit too, do the artists of the proletariat form and mold the figure of Lenin. It is their purpose not to glorify him as Christ has been glorified until no one now knows how he looked, They make Lenin as he was, There is in this country a sculptor, Girolamo Piccoli, whose thots and heart are as much at home in the revolutionary workers’ movement as his hands are at home in clay. He is a very young man of twenty-three summers, The severe struggle of his earlier youth drove him, rebellions and sincere, into the ranks of the fighting workers. As long as he can remember, his hands have itched for clay. He loves to mold clay as much as he hates capitalism, The stagnation, the tinsel, the tawdriness and debasement of he “art” of the bourgeoisie nauseates im, When Lenin died, Piccoli wept. He aad hoped to fashion in clay the liv- ing head and ghoulders of the leader of the (Russians workers. Never has y ‘been so frankly jealous as this Pah 5 til was of the Dnglish dil- etant, Clare Sheridan—she made a And never }. 4 has anyone been # intensely angry as he was when he-saw the creation. “That is not Lenin,” is all he said. But benin was @ead. Piccoli care- fully collected all the photographs he could get of Leniny Most of them were bad. Light jpnd shade ran to- gether in them agcif purposely to hide the subtle confours from the. anx- ious eyes of the sculptor. He collect- ed more. For days and days he studied them carefully. Lenin's death mask would hayewhelped him as no photograph could but he could not get it. He set to work.: Carefully he built his armature, cautiously he mounted the first rough bulk of clay. Week after week he labored in his studio, swearing at the bid pictures, building slowly, layer by layer, the image. As Lenin’s face grew out of the clay he became more cautious still. It was to doughnuts that,.if a committee of mill owners had called at the White The United States senate and congress care little for the American Negro worker. They are more interested in the Morgan policy of getting the United States into the world court in order to protect the millions of dollars Wall Street bankers have invested in workers from being lynched is laid on the shelf. foreign lands. The antl-lynch law which If enforced might protect Negro Its sponsors are not very active in forcing It onto the floor of the law-making bodies. They are merely using the bill as a means of getting the vote and support of the Negro worker in their campaigns for re-election. Negro workers should unite with the white workers to fight against the capitalist system which fosters race prejudice, The British Workers Prepare for Struggle By EARL BROWDER. The following is the second of three articles on the impending in- dustrial crisis in Great Britain writ- ten by Earl Browder. The writer is at present abroad and has made a special study of the English crisis. ee & ll. The Engineering Crisis. Threatened Lockout in Engineering Trades. Thedong-brewing struggle in the en- gineering industry was brot to a head by an unofficial strike of 900 workers in the R. Hoe & Company printing machinery works, London, The metal workers have for long been suffering wages far below even the British level; long-continued negotiations with the employers, who are highly organ- ized in an engineering employers as- sociation, had been fruitless, Appar- ently no progress was being made to redress the grievances of the 600,000 workers in the trade. ( The dispute in the Hoe works began on November 1, when the. 900 workers, of whom 700 are members of the Amalgamated Engineering Union while the others are distributed among the six other unions in the trade, present- ed demands for (1) employment of only trade unionists in the works, and (2) a substantial increase in wages. No progress was made in negotiations, but on January 11, the company hired seven nonunion men to replace union members who had been discharged on a pretext of lack of work, The union members replied by a “stay in” strike, whereupon the company locked out the entire working force, On Febru- ary 25, the employers’ association gave necessary to preserve the very tex- ture, the very color of Lenin’s fine, broad brow, the frankne’s of his small eyes, the playful, bumorous curve of the eyebrow. It was done. None but a few had known, Here was Lenin, Despite the hardships under which Piccoli Worked he has re-created the likness, the real- ity, the very spirit»of Lenin, We have had busts of Lenin in this country before. Several, at least. Compared to Piccoli's they, are very bad. Now the revolutionary, workers in Amer- ica can have in their homes and in their halls a,rgproduction of their leader that theyycan look upon with the feeling that ij is a faithful presen- tation as he wage Casts have beep made. The DAILY WORKER has seen to that. They are attractive in finish, stand nine inches high and do jifgtice to the original model which Ha¥ been given_by the seulptor and Tite DAILY WORKER management t0°the Workers’ Art Mu- seum of Moscow. It was a happ¥ thot that this bust should not be sbld. As a premium ‘for securing subséMptions for The DAILY WORKER and"the English Commu nist Press, the work’ of \ proletarian genius is a fitting reward {8 prole- tarian class effort, i chat Anti-Fascist Workers Set Free of Charges NEWARK, N, J, April 20 — (FP)— The cases of 17 Ital workers, who were arrested when fascisti attempted to break up @ meeting of Vincenzo Vacirca, former ‘socialist deputy, in Newark, have been dismissed and bail eturned to those involved. Vacirca, iow editor ofjIl Nuovo Mondo-—datly New York Italian anti-fascist and la bor paper—wis cleared of charges soon after the event several months 1g0, . Ir notice that: “In the event of any action being taken by the unions, or a. union, to enforce an advance in wages either nationally, locally, or sectionally, it would be resisted to the fullest extent.” This was followed by the definite an- nouncement of a national lockout of 600,000 engineering workers to take place on March 18, if the unions did not force the Hoe workers to return to their jobs, i HE position of the left wing in this situation was stated by the Sunday Worker as follows: te “Messages are pouring in from districts all over the country urging: a policy of ‘fo surrender’ and a united front of federated and non- federated unions in the fight for 20 shillings increase in wages, “The dispute of the Hoe workers must not be made a batty-ground | for a national struggle. This must be fought purely on the demand for a 20 shillings increase, Even if the Hoe men returned to work (which werdo. not advise), this would not prevent the necessity of a struggle for the wage demand, “The bosses have come out with a challenge which is part of the long- heralded general attack on the wages and conditions of the workers ot Britain, The challenge must be met by a united front of all the trade unions, Attack is the best method of defense. A ballot should be taken with all possible speed on the ques- tion of national strike action to se- cure the 20 shillings, The general council of the Trades Union Con- gress should be immediately ap- proached with a view to securing the support of the whole trade union movement,” But the officials of the engineering unions seemed to be unable to give a clear lead, Almost in.a panic it seem. ed, they tried to force the Hoe work- ers back to the shops without any steps being taken to assure effective action either on a national or local scale to meet the employers’ offensive. On March 14, they called a meeting of the national committee, composed of representatives from various districts, and secured the. passing of a resolu- tion calling for “an immediate resump- tion of work, thus averting a national lockout.” The London district com- mittee continued to support the strik- ers; who refused to go back to work. Finally, on March 17, a joint meeting of the executives of the seven unions involved adopted a resolution looking towards some form of action. It said: “This conference approves of local ap- Dlications for wage advances being made, and that the joint conference of union executives meet again to con- sider any situation that may arise from the local applications.” The Hoe workers thereupon withdrew their wage demands in favor of general un- jon action, and agreed to return to work upon the question of non-union- ists in the shop being settled, When it Was announced that the nonunion- ists were ready to join the union, the workers returned on March 21 to their posts. While this incident threw a bright light upon the vacillating character of the dominant leadership, yet on the whole the outcome was good, for the struggle of the 900 Hoe workers had a tremendops effect in stirring the fighting blood of the British unionists, and finally forced the officials into some sort of preparations for strug- gle. The crucial issue.is now post- poned, with the left wing pressing forward stronger than ever for a fight- Hing policy, . Vacillation and Treachery in, Lead- ership, TS the midst of all these preperations for battle, with the British working masses swinging rapidly to the left, it would not be revolutionary wisdom to ignore ‘the threatening dangers within the labor movement as. well as outside of it, Like a thief in the night, vacilla- tiom and treachery among the official leaders may steal from the British workers the victory which ‘they are preparing to Win by their struggle. Signs .multiply, in these last months| tat the right wing is not by any means confined to the Labor Party in: its exercise of power, but that it is still a terrible force making towards defeat"In the economic struggle, de- spite the trouncing given it at Scar- borough.» ~ ' Olitstanding of these disqueting signs, which show that all is not well for the workers within the higher coun- cils of the Trade Union Congress, as the recent decision of ‘the. general council not to carry out the decision of the Scarborongh Congress - whieh. in- ‘structed them to cali a conference for ‘he purpose of drawing up proposalr for more powers to the general coun- cil, including the power to levy on all affiliated members, to call a stoppage of work by any affiliated organization to assist a union defending vital trade union princples, and to arrange with the Co-operative Wholesale Society for distribution of food in time of strike. A left wing worker writing in the Sunday Worker, explains this backward movement of the general council by declaring: “It is well-known that since the fall of the labor government and the return to the general council of a the T, U. C. has been greatly ham- pered, By various methods these elements have contrived to stop or to alow down some of the work be- gun at Scarborough, tho in several respects they have failed.” T the same time, the proposal of the Communist Party to the exe- cutive of the Labor Party, for a united © front campaign in support of (1), Na- tionalization of the Mines, (2) a Liv- — ing Wage for the Miners; (3) 100 per cent trade unionism, and (4) Workers Defense against the O. M. S. and fas- cisti, was curtly turned down in a let- ter which betrayes not the slightest dea that the labor movement is facing — a critical situation which requires ac- tion beyond the ordinary routine of parliamentary debate to mobilize the fighting forces of the orking class. There is every indication that the leaders of the Labor Party will be found, when the fight comes, eagerly looking for any and every change to negotiate a surrender of the workers. Arthur Henderson, at a time when the Miners’ Federation was still consider- ing the coal report, made a speech in- dicating that he would be prepared to help put it into effect, providing wages were not cut too much, Frank Hodges was publicly rebuked by A, J. Cook, secretary of the Miners’ Federation, in a speech in Rhondda Valley, March 13, for his public pronouncements on the report. On the question of the Hoe dispute, J. R. Clynes said in a public speech on March 12: “We say noth- ing whatever to excuse the men at Hoe’s works.” In such spirit are the official leaders of the Labor Party at work, (Another article tomorrow) U. S. Refuses League Invitation to Talk Over Court Provisos (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, April 20. — The United States will not attend a con- ference of the league of nations to dis- cuss America’s entrance into the world court because the senate spe- cifically provided that American reser- vations should become effective only thru direct acceptance by each of the 48 nations in the tribunal. “"Phis was the reasons assigned by Secretary of State Kellogg in his note declining the league’s invitation to meet in Geneva in Septembet to con- }sider the senate reservations. * ‘The text of the note was made pub- lie today, ' : Views of Our Readers The Tribune tries to play the con- “fidence game of “Hi 1 win; tails you lose.” “* Editor, The DAILY WORKER:—In a recent issue of The DAILY. WORK- ER, J. “Louis Engdahl exposed The Tribune as a cheap liar in regards to conditions in Russia, The editor of the Tribune seeing himself caught in a trap tried to get out of it by declar- ing, “that if there is prosperity in Russia it is due to a return of cap italism.” In other words he tried to play the game of “Heads I win, tails you lose.” That is, if Russia would suffer from famine and diesase it would declare that it was caused by Communism, and if Russia was pros perous it would declare it was due to a return to capitalism, In other words if the editor of the Tribune bet on.« horse to come in first he also want to win if it came in last. Un+ fortunately for the Tribune they don’t play those games any more, _ The Tribune editor in trying to get out of Mr, Engdahl's trap proved him self a cheap hypocrite.—A Reader, i die : a ws