The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 6, 1926, Page 4

Page Four hi wf E DAILY WORKER “~~ THE DAILY WORKER Published by the DAILY WCRKER PUBLISHING OO, | 1113 W, Washington Bivd., Chicago, Il, Phone Monroe 4712 | SUBSCRIPTION RATES | By mali (in Chieago only): By mall (outslde of Chicago): $8.00 per year $4.50 six months 36.00 per vear $3.60 six months $2.50 three months $2.00 three months | Address all matl and make out checks to ‘THE DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, IIlinole ————— J, LOUIS ENGDAHL \ WILLIAM F. DUNNE MORITZ J. LOEB... CS Entered as second-class mail September 21, 1923, at the post-office at Chi-| cago, IL, under the act of March 3, 1879. Editors yevesesnens Business Manager Advertising rates on application. The Die Is Cast! Midnight Monday was zero hour for British labor. Four million | workers in the basic industries of the United Kingdom joined the| million miners that laid down their tools on May Day as a challenge to a ruling class desperately striving to regain its former place as the «mightiest empire the world had ever seen by beating down the standard of living of its own workers, so it could undersell in the world market the products of the lowest paid workers of other countries. The aim of the tory government was to utterly destroy the power of organized labor so that the workers would be helpless} béfore the greed of their masters. It is to the eternal credit of the | British workers that they perceived the menace contained to ALL LABOR in the drive against the miners. The game was to mobilize the power of the government and its hoodlum blackleg auxiliaries, the fascists, organized as the “order for the maintenance of sup- plies,” and smash the great miners’ organization and then, in rapid succession, break the other unions. It was the realization of this threat to the very existence of organized labor that provoked the general strike. The leaders of the trade unions had shown a willingness to| yield to any reasonable compromise. But the powers that be were} unyielding. They had carefully prepared for the decisive struggle. | The puppet premier of British imperialism, Stanley Baldwin, had, with the most sardonic effrontery, contemptuously demanded that} the Trade Union Congress call off the order for the general strike! before the government would discuss the coal situation. | To have yielded to this demand would have been an immeasur-| able act of treachery to the millions of workers whose organiza-| tions were threatened with annihilation. It was only with the greatest reluctance that J. H. Thomas) tearfully left a last minute conference with Baldwin and admitted | that the strike could not be prevented. J. Ramsey MacDonald, former premier, pleaded for peace in the house of commons, but the arrogant attitude of the government made it impossible even for that time-server of the bourgeoisie to avert the test of strength. The work- ers accept gladly the support of these men, but not their leadership. | Cook and men of his calibre, not the Thomases, are the present lead- ers of British labor. The die is cast! The tory government is carrying out warlike activities. Bat- talions of soldiers, fully equipped with infantry and field artillery, have been rushed to the important strike centers. Battleships have been recalled from service in the Atlantic fleet and anchored in the river at Liverpool. Gunboats threaten the industrial city of Hull. Bombing planes drone thru the air ‘accompanying motor lorries full of soldiers. Hyde Park is closed to workers. The government is endeavoring to establish a veritible dictatorship and has pro- claimed a state of siege. The first belligerent move has been made against the Communists and Saklatvala has been arrested, and rumors are current that other prominent Communists are being sought. As the most determined,fighters, the vanguard of the work- ‘ing class, the Communist Party meets the first impact of the con- flict: Against the preparations of the government the strikers are taking decisive action. The printers, on Monday, struck the news- papers that were preparing to issue provocative and_ scurrilous literature against the threatened general strike. News dispatches reveal disturbances in the army and the government was forced to make a public denial that five hundred had been executed for mutiny. There was no denial that there is mutiny among some of the forces. The strike of the workers at the Woolwich arsenal is a blow at the government, as it partially cripples military supplies. Bitter conflicts rage thruout the kingdom. Unquestionably the strikers will appeal to the soldiers to refuse to obey the command to try to crush the strike by military might. The fascist hordes will try to provoke outbreaks that will be met with fierce resistance. The political character of. the struggle is plain to everyone, The strike to preserve organized labor is a,struggle against the govern- fiént itself and should be recognized as such by the workers, In the present situation in the United Kingdom it is not aufricient merely ‘#o*eonfine the struggle to an industrial conflict nor can it now be Held within such narrow limits. The strike should be made the starting point for revolutionary political action against not merely the Baldwin government, but against the capitalist government and ite figurehead, King George. To refuse or neglect to drive forward on the road to revolution is to court defeat and to pave the way for a period of fascism in Britain, which will entail a long, bloody struggle to regain the power that ‘is today in the hands of British labor. The only reply to the ruling class of England and its govern- ment that has provoked the upheaval in an effort to force the work- ~ing- class into complete subjection is—the proletarian revolution. =m Further News from New Jersey New Jersey is living up to its reputation as a blot upon the face of the carth, On top of the terror against the strikers in Pas-| saic comes news of a bestial outbreak of race warfare in the forlorn | non-union industrial town of Carteret, where Negroes and whites slave long hours and live in shacks unfit for human habitation. Word received here is to the effect that the Passaic spirit had affected the working class there and agents of the employers succeeded in stir- ring up racial hatred in order to keep the workers divided into hostile camps of whites and blacks. We are not familiar with the full details of the case, It is re- ported that two white men were killed in some sort of street brawl. ‘With the By VICTOR VAKSOV, Canton, the Capital of the Revolutionary South, if Dek have bid us their farewell. The imperialist press of Shanghat 8.58. R. 1. told their readers that the U. pleted their work in Shanghai, leaving for Canton “with the same end” in view. What end? That is understood—to deliver to Canton “sev- eral tens of millions of gold rubles for the purpose of extending the Hong- kong-Shameen strike and also for the | purpose of overthrowing civilization, in the spread of which his majesty’s colony so snugly situated at the mouth {of the Canton river has labored so | long and #0 hard. Thus we left. On the fifth day the Soviet steamer “Lenin's Memory,” with the Trade Union delegation on board, reached Hongkong, bending around its south- ern coast at a distance of th fourths of a mile. It was just at daybreak. The mountainous island was lighted by hundreds of fires. The observation station flashed out in Morse, “Who are you; where are you going?” “We are ‘Lenin's Memory,’ on our way to Can- ton.” “Who? Lenin’s—Lenin’s what? WIN THE Y CONDUCTED - BY TH |We don’t understand.” “Memory; | Lenin’s Memory.” And on we passed. | Barly in the morning we dropped | anchor at Green Points Cape, 15 miles |from Macao, a Portuguese island used A British Sea-Dog Greets Us. | Trade Union delegation, having com- pres for picnics, and as many miles | was from Hongkong. Here you need a {pilot to proceed further, and there |wasn’t any in sight. Pilots can be | found in Hongkong and in Macao; but it is also possible to get a native Chi- |nese pilot on the nearby coast. We | dropped anchor to think things over. | We sent a radiogram to Canton, fifty |miles off. In the daytime while we | were taking our lunch the first mate suddenly entered the wardroom and told us that a British warship was coming towards us af full speed. In- deed, Within a few ‘minutes, almost side by side with us, a British gun- boat steamed by, reducing speed and scrutinizing us closely: Well, we are |a polite people, and the British are a | friendly nations, so we dipped our flag and they returned our salute, Apparently the suspicious Hongkong [sotnorn sent the gunboat in order to get a closer view of the vessel and the contents of the vessel bearing WORKERS ING WORKERS LEAGUE IRVING PARK 1. L. D, HOLDS MAY PARTY AND DANCE The first call to Chicago workers to attend our May party and dance for a corking good time, is hereby issued. The big affair will come off on Satur- day evening, May 15, at 4021 N. Drake avenue, under the auspices of Irving Park Branch of International Labor Defense. A good reputation often brings in big money. Those readers of this invitation who have attended so- cial functions given at 4021 N. Drake Ave., don’t need any further urging. We know they will be there. we are interested in is to acquaint those who have never had the op portunity to enjoy parties and dances at 4021 N. Drake Ave., to attend our May party and dance on the 15th and take their places with the big crowd that never misses an affair given at the above place. What Many features of the May 15 affair assure a fine time to those who at- tend. There will be a good orchestra for those who dance. And those who can dance folk or national dances will be especially favored with attractive prizes. A young man and woman have already announced that they will dance the Russian “Kosotsky.” Many other means of enjoyment are being arranged for by the live committee in charge, In the line of refreshments there will be served Hungarina goulash as only Mrs. Stiska can make it. Good drinks to wash it down with will be on hand in plenty. Admission is only 25 cents. Tickets may be bought at the’ door the night of the affair or in The DAILY WORK- ER office, 1113 W. Washington Blvd. OUR FRACTIONS IN THE UNIONS By MORRIS YUSEM ARTICLE I. The Youth and the Labor Aristocracy. It is a well known fact that there is a skilled labor aristocracy. The skilled labor aristocracy is the backbone of reaction. Even in the more progres- sive unions that is clearly evident. In the needle trades it is well illustrated. The cutters and pressers for instance are the chief support for the Sigman and Hillman machines; they com- promise the skilled aristocracy in that industry, The transportation industry offers an excellent example. The four big railroad brotherhoods composed of highly skilled workers are a big block of reaction in the American trade union movement. It is among the un- skilled maintenance of way workers that the left wing is able to make in- roads. The-youth of course is almost en- tirely in the ranks of the unskilled mostly being apprentices (learners). The young worker has no craft to boast of and therefore has no craft ideology. It does not conceive of the union ag a means of protecting the craft from learners, but as a means for fighting the boss, The young work- er developes an enmity to the labor aristocracy who ignore him, give him little protection and in every possible discourage him from learning the trade. The young worker by the very nature of his position is led to sup- port the left wing. However, it is this very position that is responsible for a fact that is evident quite generally, that is he fails to consider the union as his.own, he considers himself a union member by the grace of the adults who control it and therefore takes less interest in it. It could readily be seen how advantageous this fs to the reaction- ary officials who never worry abqut the fact that only a very small portion of the membership attend union meet- ings. On the contrary, they rejoice particularly when they notice the ab- sence of the young “troublemakers,” One of the very important tasks for the youth fraction is to bring the young workers to union meetings and develop among them a greater interest ih the union, This is not only im- portant for the youth movement, it is important for the left wing movement generally, We must be careful, however, not to appear as sponsors of an anti-adult movement. On the contrary in our agitation we must lay enphasizes on Deport Chin Sailor. NEW ORLEANS—(FP)—The first Someone blamed the Negroes and the result was the burning of a Kegro church, the sacking of the residences in the Negro section and the running of these workers and their families out of town. Governor Moore, Senator Edwards and their political hench- men are discreetly silent regarding this deplorable outbreak in their notorious open shop state he Vo ANU! —, ' deportation order issued by the U. 8. marshal in several months has sent Wong Sang, a Chinese ‘sailor, back to China. Wong says W8"1s glad to re- turn to his native country where there is more opportunity to make a bette: living. the unity of the adults and the youth. In our agitation we should particularly | point out that it Is to the interest of |the adults to pay attention to the youth. | \ ee —— ee such an unexpected name. Prior to our appearance here another Ruesian vessel passed Hongkong, about which the entire imperialist press wrote that it carried aboard sand bags and many Russian men and women. An ob- viously iniquitous cargo. We had aboard a great number ‘of bales of cotton; but we never learned just what the colonial scribes of the im- perialists filled these bales with. Another night passed and a pilot was found. In the morning, when weighing anchor, we again sighted @ warship. This time it was a Canton government gunboat, specially sent out to meet us, with a pilot on board. We got under way and, convoyed by the gunboat, began to move up the river. After lunch we dropped an- chor at Wampu, about 15 miles from town, This was as far as we could go with our draught in a boat of our size. | The Wampu Military School. ‘Wampu is a famous place. The im- perialist press writes an awful lot about it. In Wampu there is a mili- tary school which aims at training in- telligent commanders for the Canton army. This school graduates con- scious Chinese nationalists, and this is CHICAGO INTERNATIONAL LABOR DEFENSE HOLDS MANY MEETINGS THIS WEEK HUNGARIAN BRANCH, The Hungarian Branch meets Wednesday night at 453 West North Ave., second floor, at 8 o’clock, & 2.2 ITALIAN 19th WARD BRANCH. Italian 19th Ward Branch will meet at 1910 West Roosevelt Road, Thursday, May 6, at 8 o'clock. ee a SOUTH SLAVIC BRANCH, The South Slavic Branch will | mect at 1806 South Racine Ave, Saturday, May 8, at 8 o'clock. se All of these meetings are public and are open to all workers, Every member is urged to bring along a friend, Mothers’ League Will Aid Passaic Strikers on Sunday, May 16 A concert and entertainment is|tion and cheapening of processes, high _— and employer. the reason why it has aroused in a comparatively short space of time the tre of all the imperialists. Wo, on the contrary, thought that this was pre- cisely the kind of school that the Chi- nese people wanted in order once and for all to put an end to the mercenary militarists who d@emoralize the na- tional emancipation movement. How- over, this is a topic with which we shall deal later on. We must first get to Camton, observe everything care- fully, study things and then discuss them, In Wampu, both ashore and on ship, the flags are at half mast. Mourning. What's the matter? Our first infor- mation was supplied by the Chinese custom officials, On the day before some unknown persons had killed Lao- Jung-Kai, a prominent labor leader and one of Sun-Yat-Sen’s foremost comrades-in-arms, hind a corner while entering the head- quarters of the Kuomintang central executive committees. Why was he killed? Who killed him? Because he led the fight in the cause inherited from the old doctor, Who are the assassins? It is rumored that some By LELAND OLDS, Federated Pre: British captains of industry, en- gineers, economists, trade unionists make quick personally conducted tours of American industry and go back with the glad tidings that industrial salva- tion for England hangs on mass pro- duction and high wages, Want American Speed-Up, President Riley of the British manu- facturers association returns to Lon- jdon as an apostle of the new capital- jism exuding the familiar phrases elim- lination of waste, industrial consolida- \tion, higher wages, payment by results, standardization, efficiency and diffu- sion of ownership. He says: “The |prosperity of the United States is the \greatest vindication of the capitalist system.” Messrs, Austin and Lioyd, techni- \cians, return and write The Secret of |High Wages, referred to by editor farvin of the Observer as “perhaps |the most valuable little book upon Britain's industrial crisis which has appeared since the war.” They ex- plain America’s prosperity on the basis of promotion by merit, small profit margins on rapid turnover, simplifica- —— Russian Trade Union Delegation to Chin clues lead to Hongkong. ad There is in Canton a treacherous group that has seceded from Kuomin- tang. This group is doing its direst to break up the fight of the Canton people, particularly of the Canton and Hongkong workers, against imperial- ism. This group advocates peace with Hongkong, and Hongkong stands for peace with this group of counter-revo- lutionists. Lao was opposed to such a compromise, Lao worked hard and honestly in the name of the emanal- pation of the Chinese people. Lao was | killed. But the great movement was {not killed. We saw this with our own eyes when a few hours later we ar- rived at Canton, Canton, the one with- out which Hongkong cannot liye, but whom Hongkong does not let live amd develop, over whom Hongkong is sus- pended ke Damocles’ sword. The people are in mourning. Ail wear crepe on their arms. The streets, especially the maritime band, breathe with life. Accompanied by represen- tatives of the Hongkong and Shameen strike committee, the Chinese Federa- tion of Trade Unions, the seamen’s union and several other organizations who came aboard to meet the delega- tion, we started out directly to inspect the buildings and dining rooms of the strikers, (Continued Tomorrow) BRITISH BOSSES WILL TRY TO USE THE AMERICAN SPEED-UP SYSTEM . | mechanical aid to efficiency must be used to the utmost. The organization of cheaper production on American lines must be accepted and restrictions on individual output must be swept away.” “Mission of Treason.” Last of all we hear that the so- called British labor delegation, paid and sent to America by the reaction- jary London Daily Mail, has completed jits short tour of American openshop |industrial centers and sailed for home | with the immortal words of Pres. Coo- |lidge ringing in its eats: “Well, Amer- |ican workers earn high wages because | they work.” Of course, even the Daily | Mail representative was forced to ad- mit that British workers also knew how to work. But he said for the dele- gation that they believed high wages jim America were due to high produc- tion and, high consumption, and that the high standards of living among American workers were due to those conditions. “They have been greatly impressed,” he said, “by the harmony they saw everywhere existing between working- They have been being arranged by the Mothers League | wages, elimination of waste, welfare |#!80 much struck by the perfect or- of Chicago for the benefit of the Pas- saic strikers on Sunday, May 16, at the Folkets Hus, 2733 Hirsh Blvd. Beginning at 4 p.m, Tickets 35 cents. All friendly organizations are quested not to arrange any other af- fairs on that day, j SMACK ’IM AGAIN! work and research. 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