The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 23, 1926, Page 6

~ Page Six THE DAILY WORKER THE DAILY WORKER Published by the DAILY WCRKER PUBLISHING CO. 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill. Phone Monroe 4713 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mall (In Chicago only): By mail (outside of Chicago): $8.00 per year $4.50 six months | $6.00 per vear $3.50 six months $2.50 three months $2.00 three months Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, IIlInols J, LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F, DUNNE MORITZ J. LOEB... a Entered as second-class mail September 21, 1923, at the post-office at Chi- cago, Ill., under the act of March 3, 1879. Editors ..Business Manager <i 290 More Mellon Plunder The career of Andrew W. Mellon as secretary of the treasury of the United States government and the mentor of the Coolidge administration has been one long orgy of plundering that benefited Mellon personally. In every conceivable way the United States government under his domination has been used to further the in- terests of Big Business against all the rest of the population and he is one of the most powerful monopolists on earth. The great combinations have been granted carte blanc and have made full use of it in their predatory campaign. Mellon, himself, is personally interested in almost every con- ceivable industry. His collossal aluminum trust is merely the start- ing point of his ramifications. Its “owned or affiliated” companies include railroads, mining properties, oil companies, power and pub- lic utilities and various sales concerns, all of which are protected to the limit from competition and shielded from public exposure by the iron hand of the government that he dominates. In his latest venture in peculation he connived with the million- aire congressman of New York, Ogden L. Mills, to have a bill in- troduced in congress known as the “treasury alien property and German claims Dill,” which enables. those interested in the indus- tries affected to obtain immediate payment from a bond issue of the United States for their claims on such property, instead of wait- ing for payment from Germany. This is merely another underhanded trick to relieve the German industries, in which American bank capitalists under the Dawes plan have heavy investments, and shoulder the American taxpayers with the burden, just as the Italian debt cancellation was handled. The Mellon concerns that would benefit by such a bill are the notorious trust, the Aluminum Company of America; the Crucible Steel company, the Pittsburgh Plate Glass company, the Mellon National Bank of Pittsburgh and the Carborundum company. Advertising rates on application. | ED | 1 | Mr.) vition. The Old Party UNITED ON.A COMMON PLATFORM AGAINST THE WORKER Politician Unemployment in the Soviet Union A icemieg has been a great deal of fuss about unemployment in the Soviet Not only are the bourgeoisie Ogden L. Mills, the Wall street congressman, will also benefit thru} busy telling the workers that even in his interest in the United States, Trust company and the Mergen- thaler Linotype company. This is a case of the billionaires ruling directly, instead of thru} delegated representatives. Not merely do they contrive to crush the workers but thru increasing the burden of taxation and monopolistic control of prices of commodities they reduce to pauperization count- Jess thousands of the middle class of the country. Against this mighty power nothing emanating from the vascil- lating and insecure middle class can prevail. Only the working class has sufficient vitality to challenge this power and the other classes, to the extent that they become politically audible, must eventually align themselves with the politicalymovement of labor against the parties of Wall Street. Manufacturing a War Scare John Steele, London correspondent of the Chicago Tribune, writing in yesterday’s edition, depicts Italy as forming an alliance with Greece for the purpose of dismembering Turkey. This opinion is based upon an alleged “secret agreement” between the two powers. This piece of ingenuity is a bit far fetched. Desirable as it may be for the fascist braggart, Mussolini, to extend his power to Asia Minor, there are insurmountable barriers in his path. In the first place Great Britain has not been fighting to wrest hegemony 6f Europe from France in order to surrender it without a struggle into the hands of Italy. France, on the other hand, will have something to say about belligerent moves against Turkey. The United States is also not unfriendly to the Turks because they are useful in the struggle for oil against Britain. ’ A war of Italy against Turkey would be the spark that would inflame the whole world. The other nations know this and since they are not prepared for the struggle Italy will not dare launch such a venture. It requires money and credits to wage war and Italy could get neither for a crusade in Asia Minor at this bs We strongly suspect the 7'ribune’s war scare was merely a piece of cheap propaganda in behalf of the middle west group in the re- publican party that opposes the ratification by the senate of the shameful Italian debt settlement. Long a recognized spokesman of the republican party, recent developments have placed the Tribune, whether it likes it or not, in the position of a somewhat bewildered and impotent insurgent. We extend our condolences to it in its plight, but remind this * modest publication that victory over such flagrant betrayals of the rnc - American people as the Italian debt will not be achieved by con- juring up bogey yarns. Belaboring the Klan Tuesday was a rough day for the knights of the ku klux klan. The voters of Herrin rebuked the hooded hoodlums in the municipal election and gave the anti-klan forces a majority of five to two in ihe city council. This event was foreshadowed by one of the chiefs, whose garage had beer a rendezvous for the klan, leaving for parts unknown after the bloody eyents that marked the primary election of a week ago Tuesday. While the klan forees went down in defeat at Herrin, in Tlinois, the super-patriotic gang received another blow in Indiana. One Ira A. Kessler, former superintendent of the Cass county schools and a klansman, who was closely associated with the ex-grand goblin, D. W. Stevenson, who is supposed to be now doing time in the peni- tentiary for the heinous crime that resulted in the death of Madge Oberholtzer last fall, is in bad. The eminent klan school superin- tendent who boasted that he was inculeating Americanism into the school children has been indicted at Logansport for statutory crimes against small school boys on testimony of the children themselves. The Herrin murders and the debasing perversions of the lead- ers of the Indiana klan are sufficient to convince anyone of the neces- sity of crushing that outfit, not merély for the welfare of labor, but in to protect women and children from the degenerates who im they can commit their, ‘grimes with impunity in regions on the klan is in the saddle. a Get a member of the Workers esol and a new 7 Yor The DAILY WORKEB the land of socialism there is unem- ployiment but the socialists and “Wob- bifés ‘are also ironical about the ad- mitted unemployment in Russia, Now here is something for these apdldgists -of capitalism to notice. First, that Russia does not pretend to be @ socialist country in the sense that socialism is realized there. Not at‘@ll. As good Marxians the Bolshe- viks'“knew from the very beginning that building up socialism will take deéades. Socialism- means. an. organ- izéd @Gonomy and where small pro-} dticers make up the overwhelming ma- jority of the population, organized echdmy can come only as a result of @ thoroly developed co-operation, That takes time, as everyone under- statids. But there are socialist ele- ments in Russia, and they are ever growing. This is a fact. And here dies the key to the solution of the tinemployment question. Different in Russia. Second: The Russia differs from the unemployment in capitalist countries in an essen- tial point. Unemployment in Russia has grown along with the development of industry. Country hfe is backward in Russia. As the inheritance of cen- turies of feudal suppression and men- tal oppression by the church, country economy was devastated by imperial- ist and interventionist wars. The fam- ine continued because of bureaucratic negligence to teach the peasants dry farming and irrigation. Now the new) cultural life in the Soviet cities at- tracts the peasants. And so we see the following curious thing. There were in 7,684 leading industrial enter- prises in 1921. Manual Workers, Jan. 1 July 1 Increase 1,770,089 2,086,044 15% Clerks Jan. 1 duly 1 Increase 197,537 204,983 4% ND in spite of this there were un- employed on January 1, 1925, 900,- 000, July 1, 1,100,000; December 1, 1,050,000. Among those unemployed the number of skilled workers de- creased constantly. The unemployed were streaming in from the country or they were of the younger genera- tion. The percentage of the unskilled rose from 23 per cent on January 1 to 36% on August 1, and of the youth from 8 to 12%. The one million out of seven million industrial workers were mostly those who had never worked in industry before. What are the Soviets doing for the unemployed? First, there is to be taken into industry 433,000 new work- ers during the fiscal year 1925-6. But the problem is that there are 184,000 skilled workers and 117,000 semi- skilled workers needed. The employ- ment office knows that there can be obtained only 80,000 skilled, and not very skilled, workers among the un- employed. So trade schools have been opened for the youth and organized courses for adults. The former will produce 100,000 skilled workers. MEASURE which promises to give much relief is the organization of co-operatives of the unemployed, They are furnished with tools and machines, and with starting capital. In 1924, there were 1,440 such co-operatives with 58,429 members. Last year there were already 2,155 organizations with 79,325 members. And now there are over 110,000. Then there are government works. And it must be noted that there ig, n0) the movement. Get the point? unemployment in| fwork or “relief allst countries) in normal union hint of compul: work” (as in cap’ that. The wages} dfe wages. The task: re improvement of the cities, constru@tion of parks and roads, the drying up of morasses, clearing off of destroyed buildings. The tendency is ‘to organize these workers more and more in the coun- try, to help to improve agriculture and raise the level of Country life. It must be unlférstood that the threat of, occasiofial unemployment will cease only to the extent of a thoroly organzied $0¢ial economy, the growth of the socidf-elements of eco- | nomy;. cbnscious trol of all econ- omy (The Suprenié Economic Coun- cil), socialist induStry (State trusts) jand the co-operatiéh of the consum- ers (trade) and ot producers (peas- ants and home hafidicraft). And the fact is that these Blements are grow- ing. That is the fain guarantee for | | the extinction of uémployment. FARRINGTON IN LETTER DEMANDS RED EXPULSION ‘Alex Reid A: Answers in Name of Left Wing SPRINGFIELD, lL, —(FP)—Expul- sion of ‘all Illinois miners who are members of the Workers Party and punishment of all wha-distribute The DAILY WORKER and other Commun- ist literature is ordered by Pres. Frank Farrington in a cireular letter ‘to the officers and members, Dist. 10, United Mine Workers of America.” “Expel Them.” Farrington quot the unanimous decision of the bm international executiye board that “it be the ruling of the ‘board that the Communist Party and all itsgaffliated organiza- tions be declare@ydual to the U. M. W. A. and that Membership in such organizations 1 member of the Mine Workers’ UWion liable to expul- sion.” \ He dire¢§p that members of the Workers (Cgmmunist) Party be given a trial an @ pelled. To “loyal; Members” “The time is ire,” he concludes, “when the int ity of the United Mine Workers . America requires that it shall be Purged of those who defame the good/name of its officers and who are antly trying*to dis- credit its polici@g’and it is earnestly hoped that all members will be guided accordingly. Yours truly, F. Farrington, pre: jt.” Alex Reid Answers “Miners interested in restoring the rule of justice and progress in the United Mine Workers of America will not be affected by this new form of machine despotism,” was the comment of Sec, Alex Reid, of the International Progresstve Miners Committee of the United Mine Workers of America, when jpformed that Pres, Farrington of the Illinois Mine Workers had or- dered the trial and expulsion of Com- munists, pursuant to international board resolution, “The struggle ‘to make the miners’ union a militant fighting organization will go on within the union with-every prospect of suc- cess,” Reid ad If you send sub you will build The DAILY WORKER, and The DAILY WORKER will help to build The Banker j} struggle now deveolping in Britain. “The Dope Peddler sp naman The Gangster The British aieare Prepare for Struggle Ye following is the last 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 madé a special study of the English crisis. s* Ill. Clearing the Decks for. Action. pte By EARL BROWDER. A General Struggle Impends. f& have noted only a few ‘high spots in the whole complex {of Dozens of minor situations could be cited. In the dispatches of one day were noted the lockout of 6,000 weay- ers at Barnoldswick; lockout of all painters engaged in the shipbuilding industry in London district; struggle in the railroad industry over wage-' cuts; the fight to prevent the under- mining of builders’ wages thru the Weir housing scheme; strike ballot of agricultural workers in Norfolk and Suffolk counties; strike of dockers in London and Newhaven; strike “of clothing workers at Congleton; strike at army repair depot at Feltham} etc, While the capitalist class prepares a general offensive, the entire labor movement is stirring with the prep- arations for effective resistance. The situation was characterized by A. J. Cook of the miners, in his speech on March 13, when he said: “There may be a political and eco- nomic upheaval. We are indeed at the crossroads.” The first’clear judgment of the whole situation with a comprehensive program to meet it, is that which was put forth in a statement of the execu- tive of the Communist Party of Great Britain, on the occasion of the commission report. In part this stats ment says: “Ever since the tremendous and magnificent display of solidarity by the workers on Red Friday, 1925, the employing class have used every device to split the working class into isolated sections. They were\ particularly successful in creating friction between the engineers and the building trades over the ques- tion of steel houses. They attempt- ed the separation of the railwaymen by the award of the national wages board. Their ultimatum to the en- gineering trades over the question of Hoe’s is yet another incident re- vealing the strategy of the capitalist class. “In each of these partial conflicts the workers have lost ground. . « And now the miners are faced defi- nitely with reductions of wage- scales which are already much be- low the subsistence evel... “The second danger comes from the existence of a number of labor leaders who are so obessed with the idea of uniting all classes and speaking of the interests of ‘the community as a whole’ that they fail to defend the workers they rep- present. Around them will be gath- ered all the doctrinaire intellectu- als, with their Utopian theories, who have been attracted to the labor movement. With them, too, will be all the weak vacillating elements on the fringe of the working clags movement. All these will make their appeals and address their lit- tle questions and votes of censure to the capitalist clase and bid the workers be reasonable. © ing class can expect every hin- darnce and little or no help. “The question which has to be faced iby the working class can only ni reprint ‘by the working class. It“s the question of power, “That there is power in the hands of the working class if they care to take it was demonstrated last July. Today the need of a united front of the whole working class under the direction of the general council of the T, U. C. is apparent. For six years the labor movement talked about united support of the miners. Only one day, Red Friday, July 31, has that unity been translated into unity of action, and then in a few hours “it compelled the government to retreat. “Today we need not phrases about unity, but united action. The Com- munist Party calls on all organized workers, miners, engineers, railway- men, and others to use the weapon of their fighting strength, the gen- eral council of the Trade Union Congress, and thru the united front of all workers press forward the minimum claims of all workers, as a direct counter-challenge to this latest move in the capitalist offens- ive.” HIS line is also the general orien- tation of the National Minority Movement, which rallied almost a million directly organized followers at the extraordinary conference of ac- tion. The Program of the Minority Movement, The great conference of action at Battersea, London, on March 21, met the crisis before the British working class with a real action program, which provides the means for win- ning victory in the coming struggle, In the principal resolution, on the jefense and maintenance of trade union rights, the practical measures Jaid down were: 1, To organize the workers on the job into factory and pit commit- tees. The workshop committees to be the inftital nuclei of the trade unions and be linked up with the local trades and labor councils. 2. To form workers’ defense corps thrn and under the supervision of the trades councils, _ 8. To abolish the law relating to ‘mutiny’ and other laws directed against the workers. 4. To oppose the attempts of the New York Will Hold Dry Act Modification ALBANY, N. Y., April 21—The as- sembly passed a bill providing for ti® submission of a referendum to the voters at this fall's election on wheth- er congress should be asked to modl- fy the Volstead Law. The vote was 87 to 62, The measure, having been previous- ly adopted by the senate, now goes to Governor Al Smith, who is expected to approve it at an early date. The debate was marked by a sensa- tional charge by Assemblyman Jenks, republican and chief spokesman for the dry forces, that Blihu Root, vener- able republican statesman, was. “tn his dotage.” The drys charged the Yetefendum proposal was unconstitutional and the wets countered with the assertion that Root had declared it constitutional, local authorities to restrict the freedom of the unions and rights of assembly. 5. To give the soldiers and sailors the right to refuse to act as strike breakers. (HE resolution on the capitalist at- tack, demands that the trade coun- ceils be transformed into councils of action by mobilizing all organizations ofthe labor movement (trade unions, od-operatives, political bodies and un- eniployment organizations), and mak- ing use of all means to get all men and women workers, organized ard | unorganized, to take part in vou th gle. The resolution points out th. need of securing the co-operation the Co-operative movement and ala" that of the Labor Party, which it de- clares should place themselves at the disposal of the trade union general council, which in turn should secure the support of the entire international trade union movement for the strug- gle of the British workers, The conference was one-sidedly con- sidering only the situation in Britain. The international character of the capitalist offensive was emphasized in a resolution for a united trade union international, which also pointed out the war danger, and greets the Anglo- Russian unity committee as the first step towards a united international. The resolution spiritedly rejects the. demands of the reformists that the Rusisan unions al ion their brother organizations affiliated to the R. I. L. U. and surrender Amsterdam, and: declares unqualifiédly for the line of the Scarborough Congress ,the forma- tion of a united which a world conference must be called, participated in by Amsterdam, the R. I. L. U., and trade unions out- side of both. This, declared the dele- gates who spoke for 950,000 British trade unionists, remains the only prac- tical method of achieving trade union unity. All the resolutions were adopt- ed unanimously. ‘ - Thus are the British workers “} pre- paring for the struggle, in which the, indications point to development of world importance. .In spite of the weakness of official leadership, in spite of the cunning and still strong enemy of British capitalism, the workers of England are consolidating their forces, clarifying their program, and preparing to~take another step forward along their historically deter- mined path. French Senate Vote Referendum in Fall on | Approval of Budget . After Long Struggle (Special to The Daily Worker) iI PARIS, April 21—The senate today finally voted the 1926 budget, by by’ 278), to 12. The chamber of deputies aa discuss senate revisions on Final agreement by both houses is cA pected before the end of the month, avoiding the necessity of voting pro: visional credits for the month of May. As approved the budget is ostens- ibly balanced. In reality, however, it is not for since the time when the calculations were made the franc hag declined’ a tenth in its gold value. Mostly For Interest. Of the total budget of 36,117,000,000 francs expenses provided for, prac+ tically two-thirds (23,558,000,000 francs) goes to pay interest on nav tional bonds held by the French peoe ple themselves. Nothing is provided in payment on foreign loans. interhational, for | h \ | .