The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 29, 1926, Page 3

— FACTION STRIFE RAGES IN ITALY; FASCISTI SPLIT Farinacci Leads Army Against Mussolini (Special to The Daily Worker) BERLIN, April 27.—Reporte from the Swiss-Italian frontier, claimed to be absolutely reliable, tell of severe factional strife In the fascist ranks In the: provinces of Venice, Trent and Udine. The report says that Signor Farinaccl, recently resigned as secre- tary of the fascist party has led an army against other fascist divisions supporting Mussolinl. -_-* * LONDON,'« April. .27.—The. corres- pondent of the London Daily Herald, stationed at Chiazzo, , Switzerland, claims to be able authoritatively to report: that the Italian war office is making extensive preparations for a Jung: mobilization of the army, He reports particularly intense activity among the army divisions on the Adriatic cbast. Internal Trouble. The same correspondent has, during the past several weeks, sent various dispatcher to his paper telling of sev- ere internal conflicts within the fascist party. It is known that Mussolini has been very much discredited. Signor Farinacci's resignation as secretary of the fascist party was closely bound up with Mussolini’s unpopularity pre- ceding his trip to Tripoli. The Nationalists. The. resignation of Farinacci and the whole party cabinet with him was taken as a protest against the growing influence of Federzoni, minister of the interior and leader of the nationalists. Farinacci is the head of the “pure” fascisti. These resent the growth of the nationalists and broke with Mus- solini when he attempted to smooth out the quarrels between the two while at the same time preserving his own power and standing. The Chiazzo correspondent has been predicting open fighting in the fascist ranks when these contestants in the party are no longer able to restrain themselves for the sake of “party unity” as they have been doing so far. 7 * * Tyrol Still Problem. BASEL; “Switzerland, April 27—The problem of the Southern Tyrol, habita- tion of a large German minority un- der Italian rule, remaing a very delicate political problem to test Mus- solini’s patience. The German resi- dents, resisting the efforts of the fascisti to completely Italianize them by refusing German to be taught in the schools, are very resentful of Italian rule. The population of 150,000 Germans in Upper Adige, which they themselves call Southern Tyrol, really dominate the region. British Cotton Mills Idle. LONDON, April 27.—Fifty thousand cotton spinners are idle to allow the bosses organized in the Master Cot- ton Spinners’ Federation to ‘rehabili- tate” the trade: of those spinning American cotton, WRITE AS YOU FIGHT! Bs, Worker BALTIMORE STORE WHERE RICH BUY FLEECES WORKERS Hutzler Seothers Pays Misery Wage of $11 (By a Worker Correspondent.) BALTIMORE, Md., April 27—Hutz- ler Brothers, an “exclusive” depart- ment store catering to the wealthiest people in Baltimore, employ a retinue of officials from the highest to the most petty, to watch the girls and re- port any discourteous act to the “pa- trons.” For all this service to the “patrons” the girls’ wages range from $11 to $16 a week. So subservient are the girls kept in this store that there are some who have slaved for five years at $11 a week not daring to ask for a raise in fear of losing their jobs. Girls who have tolled for Hutzler for nine years have reached the dizzy height of $16 a week. This concern is not without its speed-up system, To keep the girls hustling a bonus of one-half of one per cent is promised. This is paid monthly and brings the enormous re- ward of from $2 to $3 a month to those who have made the mark. The hours are supposedly from nine in the morning to 5:30 in the evening. But the girls must punch time before 8:50 in the morning and very seldom leave earlier than 5:45. All this ex- tra time is not paid for. The working force was cut greatly immediately after Christmas, many of the “old” girls being put off as well as the “new” who were hired only over the holidays. A standing list of these former employes is kept and they are called at a moments notice when the store has a special sale, usually for the hours of 11 a. m. to 4 p. m.,, the busiest hours. They receive $2 for this, The calls are sent about once a week, sometimes even less. Bosses Are Organized. Two weeks prior to the Christmas hoildays the girls’ lunch hour was cut a quarter of an hour each day and the store was open until 6 o’clock every night. There was no pay for the ex- tra time. Christmas coming on Fri- day, Dec. 25th, the girls felt they had earned the extra day, Saturday. But Hutzlers belong to an employers’ as- sociation of reatil sellers which looks after the employers’ interests. In their interest they have a law which says stores must be open on Satur- days for profit. And the store was kept open. Tho Hutzlers believe in organization for employers, organization of em- ployers, organization of employes is systematically guarded against. For instance: as a means to keep the workers separated there is a rule for- bidding the girls to talk to each other about their wages The girls should learn a lesson from this. What couldn’t they do to better their condiitions if they were organized? Chicago May Day—Good speakers: Foster, Cannon, Lovestone, Bishop Brown. THE DAILY WORKER I 1000 WORKER. CORRES: PONDENTS BY JANUARY 13 5 1927 FIRST CHICAGO DISTRICT CON- FERENCE OF WORKER CORRESPONDENTS. The first conference of worker correspondents in the United States will be held next Saturday, May 1, at 1p. m., at the Workers’ House, 1902 W. Division 8t., Chicago. All worker correspondents of the Chicago district must be present at this conference which will play a big role In the history of the work- @r correspondent movement of the United States. We'll meet you there on May ‘st! COAL OPERATORS IN OHIO READY TO SMASH UNION Brazenly Violate Mine Agreement By a Worker Correspondent BELLAIRE, 0O., April 27.—A confer- ence was held yesterday between rep- resentatives of the coal owners of Bel- mont county and mine union officials to settle the question of division of work in the mines after local unions had protested against a new practice of the companies in refusing to work new territories in the mines and forc- ing the miners to double up. Violate Agreement. In refusing to work certain entries in the mines a company, in one in- stance, threw 150 men out of work. The company gave the men the alter- native of doubling up in the mine rooms with the 250 workers left in the mine. The miners have pointed out that this is in violation of the agreement, which calls for one miner to each room. Try to Provoke Trouble. But the company feels that it can afford to be obstinate since the coal owners are trying to provoke trouble to give them the opportunity of re- voking the Jacksonville agreement now'in force. The mine union officials express their helplessness in the pres- ent situation, although many local unions have vigorously protested the action of the operators. Two Days a Week. Mines in Belmont county are shut- ting down right along. A miner con- siders himself lucky if he is able to work two or'three days a week. That the mine owners will shortly begin a drive against the present agreement and for open-shop mines such as has been already done in Pennsylvania is a certainty. TO WORKER CORRESPONDENTS! When you send in news be brief. Tell what, who, when, where and why! 250 words but not more than 500, Always use double-space, ink or typewriter, and write on one side of the paper only, Tell complete story in as few words as possible, You are NEWS correspondents—don’t philosophize, Did you subscribe to The American Worker Correspondent? Page Three BIBLE BABBLERS USED BY BOSSES COAL SUBSIDY IS ASSAILE BY CHURCHILL AGAINST WORKERS Would Cut | Budget at Told to Look to Jesus While They Are Robbed By a Wérker Correspondent. ‘WHPELING, West Va,, April 27— In the state of West Virginia, several campaigns aré-going on at the present time, Lieut.D, L. Andrews of Fort Benjamin ig ttouring the schools of Wheeling district speaking to young boys and carhpaigning for C. M. T. C. promising to give the boys a fine holi- day at government expense and make them fine soldiers so that when the boss calls on?them to sacrifice their lives for his profits, they will be ready. Hand in hand with this campaign is the religious}campaign of Rev. Sproul, a hellfire bible babbler who promises to heal the sick if they accept Christ in their hearts, He is supposed to have been gassed in the last war and returned with a wretched body and thru faith in, Jesus Christ he is now able to stand up and deliver fine ser- mons of bunk and take big collections. Of course no one has ever met anyone whom he has cured except a few old ladies with imaginary sicknesses who now claim imaginary cures. Those whom he fails to cure he blames for not taking Christ into their hearts. This raving faker holds forth in the “Glory Barn” that was erected in the Wheeling Island. The Glory Barn, built specially for him, holds at least 7,500 people. The Wheeling Traction company runs special cars and grants special passes to the Glory Barn and carries signs on the street cars ‘bring the sick” and. thousands of workers attend these-meetings and get pumped up with this dope that will keep West Virginia an open shop state. Mr. Sproul.foes his duty to the master class by doping workers minds and telling them to look to Jesus. When they get another cut in their wages they ape to look to Jesus and forget the hellish conditions they live under. Compare the, privileges given to Rey. Sproul, a_Jesus jumper, and the treatment given J. Buksa, a worker who is now behind the bars of the Ohio county jail, Wheeling. This work- er's crime is.that he gave out Work- ers Party programs on the street cars in Wheeling. ;For this he is now in jail three months, At the present time any worker daring to organize members of his class, to put up a fight for a little more bread for, their wives and child- ren or to better their conditions of labor in West Virginia are immediate- ly put in jail, Only lately a Polish worker Krausky, in Logan county, tried to distribute literature and point out to the workers that the only way they could better their conditions of labor is by organizing, For this he was thrown into jail, But the day is coming when the workers will be able to distinguish between a bible babbler and an earnest worker who is damned by the bourgeoisie for fighting for better conditions and better wage and when that time comes West Virginia will no longer be known to the work- ers as “Little Siberia.” Workers’ Expense (Special to The Daily Worker) LONDON, April 27—With a pros- peotive deficit of $39,500,000, Winston Churchill, chancellor of the exchequer, attacked the coal subsidy today and presented to the ho of commons a budget for the year 1926-27 calling for expenditures of $4,063,000,000, as com- pared with expenditues of $4,130,000,- 000 during the current year. Churchill announced that govern- ment revenues to meet these expendi- tures are estimated at $4,023,500,000, as compared with $4,900,000,000 dur- ing the present year. Assails Coal Subsidy. The chancellor bitterly criticized the government subsidy to the coal industry which has been in operation during the past year. This subsidy he declared has “overwhelmed” the gov- ernment finances, The chancellor proposes a tax of five per cent be levied upon all legal debts, which would involve taxing ap- proximately nine-tenths of the betting upon horse-races. The chancellor estimated expendi- tures in English currency as 812,641, 000 pounds and revenue as 804,700,000 pounds. Great Britain’s deadweight debt has been reduced to 7,616,000,000 pounds as compared with 7,646,000,000 last year, he stated, The floating debt stands at 704,296,- 000 pounds. During the fiscal year, ended March 3, Great Britain received 10,260,000 pounds or approximately $62,000,000 in German reparations, A new tariff upon commercial motor cars, effective May 1, will be levied at the rate of thirty-three and a third per cent. It is estimated that the new five per ‘cent tax upon betting will net the gov- ernment $30,000,000 a year. ~~ Se France to Discuss Debt. PARIS, April 27.—Finance minister Peret will go to London next week to conclude negotiations for the funding of the French debt to Great Britain, he announced in the chamber of depu- ties tonight. M. Peret said he hoped that by next week the American debt negotiations will have been completed, Socialists in Polish Parliament Fight Cut in Their Salaries WASHINGTON, D. C., April 27.—It was not fear of a fascist seizure of the reigns of government, as reported by the capitalist press in Poland that caused the socialists to threaten to leave the cabinet and thus force a cri- sis but a refusal to have their salar- ies reduced. The president seems to have agreed with them so the resig- nations have been withdrawn. The president has insisted that the cabinet stick to its job and do what it can to stabilize the currency. SEND IN A SUBI Miners’ Official Writes of the British Coal Crisis (This is the last of two articles by A. J. Cook, secretary of the Miners’ Federation of Great Britain, on the approaching coal indus' crisis.) * © ea) whole world coal industry is suffering from the present crisis. ‘The permanent causes of this crisis are to be found in the development of coal mininig in countries: like India, Canada, Australia and Africa, in the technical advances leading to economy in the use of coal and in the substi- tution of other forms of fuel oil-hydro- electric power) for coal. But the real difficulty has arisen trom the evil of private ownership in production. These difficulties have been augment- ed by the policy of successive capital- ist governments—and even of the la- QNe PRIZE—Exposure of the America. The Little Red Library, For the best story written by a Worker Correspondent this week about wages, conditions, ete, (make it short!), the following prizes will be awarded in the isgue of Friday, April 30: ST PRIZE—A new novel, “December The Fourteenth,” Merezhkoveky; eloth bound, an absorbing story of the historic | Russian rebellion of December 1825, eapitalist press, “The Brass Check,” by Upton Sinclair, the well-known book on the capitalist press in bor government—by their insistence on reparation in coal, the Dawes scheme, etc., which have done untold harm to the coal industry of every country. Capitalism Has No Solution, (APITALISM has no solution to offer but the maintenance of the present pitiful picture of social injustice, chaos and waste at the expense ofghe min- ers’ standard of life, Despite the fact, now undisputed, that the miner is un- derpaid, underfed, and badly housed, the coal owners demand lower wages and longer hours, The following table shows the aver- age earnings per day which would be payable in the industry on the basis of the level of prices indicated by the owners and of present conditions of by Dimitri RD PRIZE—8 Booklets, all the splendid little books Issued to date in working, together with the resulting reduction from present earnings: Per cent Increase ® proposed or Decrease Re- District maraings Bad 1914 ay Se 8. d. Scot 64%‘ 8 40 nema we 6 4 2 210% Durham 665 2 8 6% South Wales 70 4 389 Eastern Divi: 76 iL 3 6 Lanse. & C 511 1¢ 4 0% North Wal 56 oe Ot Cumberland 6 8 s 5 0 Forest of Dean 5 0 6* 311% Somerset .. 6 swe a7 34 * ‘Decreas It will be observed that the actual money amounts received by the min- ers would in several districts be less than those received by them in 1914, notwithstanding that the value of money, as measured by the increase in’ cost of living, has depreciated enor- mously. Low Wages Cannot Continue. Tt is quite certain that with wages at this level the industry would in- evitably collapse, as the mine work- ers could not sustain the necessary physical energy to perform their work. Such, however, are the mine owners’ proposals. The owners aver that such a posi- tion would be mitigated if the men consented to a return to the eight- hour day. In the present condition of the international coal market it is cer- tain that such a change would not help the economic position. The miners are bitterly opposed to any sugges- tion of longer hours and would fight it to the utmost, on social grounds alone. It must be remembered that the present seven-hour day excludes one winding time. That means that the average time spent below ground is really hours 387 minutes, while in many cases the men are now below ground more than eight hours. When it is realized that in many cases they have to ey long distances to and from the 8, that each day they have to cleanse themselves in their own homes, and prepare for the follow- ing day, the bitter opposition to a longer working day will be appre ciated. Attempt to Destroy Unions. |APITALISM in each country has no way out, Byerywhere it preaches the old formula: “Longer hours and lower wages,” titterly disregarding the known economic condition. In Great Britain it believes that the present moment is fayorable to destroy trade unionism, hence its. desire to first break up the Miners’ Federation. It is an ominous sign that the con- servative government has utilized the period of trucé ‘since last August in perfecting machinery to meet an in- dustrial upheaval. It is an ominous sign that it has appeared to give offi- cial encouragement to agencies for the destruction of both trade unions and political organizations. Attack on Whole Working Class, S in 1921, the mine owners’ attack is directed not merely against the miners alone, but against the whole working class. Indeed, it will be re- membered that at the coal commission the owners actually proposed that a re- duction in railway and dock charges should be obtained thru drastic reduc- tions in the wages of railwaymen and dock workers. The mine owners’ blunt demand for the practical destruction of the National Miners’ Federation, for lower wages and longer hours, is the same demand, only put in the crud- est and cruelest terms, that capital- ism is making to the workers.of every industry, The only difference is that in the mining industry the situation is such that the direct issue of the con- tinuance of capitalism has imme- diately to be faced, The mining in- dustry has become the cock-pit of' the | gt first great conflict between labor and @ question of worse or slightly better conditions, it is a question of the fate of the industry itself. There is né alternative to ruin both for the work- ers and for the industry but the re- moval of the stranglehold of para- sitism that is squeezing the life out of both, Miners Confident of World Support. HE miners do not want a strike or a lock-out. They want peace and a settlement which will prevent the re currence of such attacks at the pres ent. They are preparing to defend their already low standard of living They have not even put in an applica tion for an increase of wages, tho heaven knows they would be justifiec in doing so. In defending their stand ards and their national organization they are confident of the support, not only of the whole British working class, but of the workers of the world. Abolish Private Ownership, UNITED defense of the workers to the challenge of capitalism must and will be given. But for a so lution of the problems of the industry a bold plan is needed and not mere tinkering. Such a plan has been put forward by the miners, and, indeed, it has been widely remarked that the sole constructive proposals for the re- storation of the industry have come from the miners. The mine owners have nothing to put forward except the demand for starvation conditions. It is not by these means that the coal industry, which is still the basis for British industry as a whole, can be placed on @ secure foundation, For this, only the abolition of private own- ership will suffice, Open your eyes! Look arounar There are the lee of the workers’ les around you begging to be up. Do it! Sond it inl Write capital in this country, It ts no longer as! you fightl ‘ NT . p | WHI THE Y UCTED = BY TH WORKERS NG WORKERS LEAGUE Preparing the Youth for the Slaughter (For a United Front Against Militarism) Hi Anite struggle against the danger of new wars should be the Alpha and Omega of the work of the Communist International,” wrote. Gregory Zino- viev in a recent article. If this is true for the Comintern, then it is doubly true for the Young Communist International and triply true for its American section, the Young Workers (Communist) League. Undoubtedly the struggle against militarism and the danger of war is among the most important taske of the league. American imperialism to- day constitutes the opposite pole of Communism as expressed in the exist- ence and role of the Soviet Union. And just as the international policies of the Soviet Union make for the per- manent establishment of peace thru the lberation of the oppressed work- ers, peasants and colonial peoples from the yoke of capitalism, so the international policies of American em- Perialism, thru its insatiable lust for profit and expansion, is laying the basis for a new war. Preparations for this war are today proceeding on three fronts: the ideological, the tech- nical, and the man-power. Ideological Preparation for War. In regards to the first front, the ideological, the bourgeoisie press has for the past few years been hammer- ing into the minds of the workers the vicious and false belief that the only kind of war that the United States has ever waged has been a war of self- defense. Of course history gives the Me to this propaganda! The Mexican War, the Spanish-American War, and the World War were all wars of in- vestment protection, commercial ri- valry and territorial expansion. It suffices that in each instance the in- vading and attacking was done by the American forces. Nevertheless, in the now current agitation for prepared- ness, peaceful Uncle Sam is pictured as the unarmed, unsuspecting indi- vidual, about to be attacked by the brutal enemy, armed to the teeth. And it 1s significant that in articles, edito- rials and cartoons the aggressive power is nearly always represented to be either Japan or England. Ameri- can imperialism has its future foes already picked out. Every now and then the smouldering fire breaks out in the form of an article (reminiscent of the days of the Hun and the Kaiser, the Beast of Berlin) playing up the yellow peril, or the encroachments of John Bull. Particularly in the last year the papers have come to treat of the imminence of war as a matter of course. Technical and Industrial Preparation For War. Modern war is based on industry. In this respect America far outstrips any other power in the world. It has the necessary natural resources and industrial system to produce the means of war greatly in excess of any of its rivals. And this it is proceed- ing to do. An elaborate survey by military and industrial experts look- ing toward the rapid and efficient transformation of factories and mills into plants for the production of arms and munitions has been made, and the findings and conclusions, minutely worked out, are now reposing in the pigeonholes of the war department. Congress has been lavish in its appro- Priations for the war department dur- ing the post-war years, and as a result the naval stations, forts, military posts, and armories are crammed with military equipment, But the Ameri- can ruling class will need more than machine guns, field artillery, poison gas, tanks, rifles, destroyers and aero- Planes to stage the coming war. It will need soldiers and sailors to op erate its machines of destruction. It will need millions of men, young, strong, obedient and trained to think and act mechanically, Unfortunately for the capitalists, its industry is net yet perfected to the poitit where ft can produce these military Robots. It must, therefore, take human material, it must take the youth of the nation and train it into as near a likeness of military Robots as it can. That is the object of military training. That is the most important part of the prep- arations for war. Preparing the Youth for War, It is in the direction of providing the man-power for the coming war that the capitalists are putting for- ward their greatest efforts. The youth, in addition to being subjected to the nation-wide propaganda for prepared- ness, is also subjected to a propa- ganda of intensified patriotism and militarism. In the schools, in the sports clubs, military service is laud- ed, and in the latter a certain amount of training is actually imparted. It is scarcely necessary to mention that the agitation for the R. O, T. C, the Cc. M. T. C. and the national guard are an important part of this glorifica- tion of militarism. In addition to the fact that these institutions serve to train the young workers physically for the battlefield. There are two important phases to making a young worker into a good soldier for a capitalist war: one is to make him willing to fight, and the other is to teach him how to fight. The former must be developed thru many years of systematic capitalist education and propaganda. It is this that the ruling class is concentrating on at present. It is out to militarize the youth mentally; to permeate them with patriotic and preparedness dope. Against this the Young Workers (Communist) League must take the lead in rallying all youth organize- tions. The Young Workers League must reach the masses of young work- ers with its message of anti-militar ism. In contradistinction to the pacifist organizations, the league must clearly point out the economic basis of war, the role of imperialism, and the only effective way to fight against and finally destroy war. The anti-militarist activity of the league can only be effective to the extent that it spreads Communist ideology and the influence of the league. Against capitalist agitation for preparedness and military training we must rally the working-class youth for a united struggle against capitalist militarism on a program of partial demands, P. Cline, WORKER CORRESPONDENTS, 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. The American Worker Correspondent 1113 W. Washington Bivd. Chicago, Ill. GIVE US YOUR EARS! LISTEN YOUNG WORKERS! 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