The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 4, 1926, Page 4

' dren of the bosses-and the landlords | ‘ Se THE DAILY WORKER (CTT ore — New York and the United Labor Ticket ARTIC Woman and the Labor Party. By ROSE PASTOR STOKES, Soe Bhould the woman work f6ra Labor Jout to picket, when they go out to| Watson-Parker Law to ‘arty? Yes, if she is a working class | get a little more bread for their wives Determine Case roman, Why? Because she is a part | and their children, whose police are f the working class. The working Tass must have a party of its own @cause the worker must challenge he power of the boss and the land- ord. The boss and the landlord have heir own parties—the democratic and epublican parties. Thru these par- fes they control the government. “hru this control they have every- hing their own way. Originally reated to serve their interest, they fake it more and more an instrument or their use. This is why the worker tets the worst of it in every direc- ion, Government Serves Boss. When he strikes for more wages, he government steps in and helps. he boss to win out against him. His vife and children have less to eat, soorer clothes to wear, a poorer home, soorer education, poorer everything— »ecause the boss has the big say in he govérnment. ‘When the worker has a quarrel with the landlord—when he wants ower rents, better dwellings, more ight, more air, more heat in winter, safety against fire, the landlord can ufford to smile at him. He is strong. He has his strong political parties; therefore he has the courts, the po- fee force, the sheriffs, every office in the government is at his service! He zan always go to his politician . . . {t 1s his America. The democratic party, thé“republican party—they are both the same—they belong to him. The worker never gets a square deal when it comes to a conflict between himself and the landiord or the boss. Why should he?—from a.government that BELONGS to the capitalists, was MADE to SERVE the capitalists— from politicians who are not HIS party politicians. Who suffers? The workingman only? No! Working woman, too— and her children. If conditions in the school are bad—if the children are | overcrowded in the classroom till the | landlords. teacher nearly goes crazy trying to/ice with them. teach too many and can’t really teach | landlords first. mon interests. do the mothers get for their children |take care of their interests. any of them well—what satisfaction from the capitalist politicians in the school boards or in city halls? None at all. They are the servants of the bosses and the landlords. The chil- go to private schools, so what do they | eare—the workers’ children can get | along with anything. Anything is ‘age Four neck nd (COMPANY UNION ISSUE AWAITED INR. R, SHOPS LE IV. \ they that beat him over the head with their clubs? The bosses’ police. The landlords’ police. They are always ready to serve the bosses and land- lords who are in political control. Doesn’t it concern the woman of BOSTON, June 2.—The whole shop force of the Boston and Maine rail- road is watchfully waiting what is go- ing to happen to labor unionism ver- 4sus company unionism under the new are politically organized as a_class. class, on a platform and program that will express your interests—and yours only. party of, for, and by the working! inion is class—to the working class? Isn't it plain that if the workers had a party of th®ir own they could begin by putting a big scare in the bosses and landlords, and end by taking all power for them- selves. There are millions of work- ers to a handful of capitalists. These millions, thru their united power, could put it all over the capitalists, A Labor Party. Labor must have a party of its own -support it, keep it clear of ‘boss pol- iticians and fakers. The workers must get together no matter what their differences in Views, in religion, in race, language, color, and, as workers, ereate a political party of their own with a straight out and out class plat- form and program: To challenge the power of the capi- talist class, To roll up power of their own. This power they could use to fur- ther organize themselves for the struggle—in the shop, in the mill, the mine, and factory: in the home against the conditions that the women and the child feel most, in the market against the high ‘prices of everything, against Wall Street and war-makers, against the exploitation that keeps them eternally in slavery and pov- erty—and for POWER —still more POWER — and, ultimately ALL POWER! Workers, men and women—it is up to you to sink all minor differ- ences, to work and agitate for and support every move to create a strong, uncompromising political party of your class in which workers of every shade of political and any other kind of belief can join as work- ers. Learn from your bosses and your Difference don’t cut any They are bosses and They have their com- They know how to They Get together in a party of your Work for a Labor Party. A challenge . the capitalist, power. good enough for the children of work- ers. So say the landlords and the bosses! And what they say goes be- cause they are in control, They are bosses and landlords first. Catholics, Jews, Black, white—born here, born anywhere else in the world—whether | they believe in keeping down the workers by one method or whether they believe in keeping them down by another method—TI ARE CAPI- TALISTS, MEMBERS OF OD CLASS first, last and all the time; they control politics as a class in their own class interests _ Police Serve Bosses. In ‘time of strike, when workers go SEE NOVELS BY UPTON SINCLAIR Samuel, the Seeker, a story of Socialis™........ eee 1.00 Man s—Called by Jack Lon- don “the best Civil War book.” Paper, $1.00 Cloth, $1.50 They Call Me Carpenter— Cloth . . a Jimme Higgins .. The Metropolis— Paper, $1.00 $1.50 | Situation. $1.00 Cloth, $1.50 HOTEL STATLER “JIM CROWS” NEGRO DELEGATE Separate Elevator gates to:the National Conference of Work, which is holding its third annual convention here de- | ciding on programs of “uplift” for the |human race, find themselves barred from most of the hotels. When one head of a Negro welfare | pryst Company, organization entered an elevator with two of her white companions she was told that it was against the rules of | the hotel to permit such a procedure | and forced the Negro woman to ride in an elevator all by herself while her friends rode up in the other elevator. At the convention itself all at- | tempts are made by the charity and welfare workers to avoid all mention of social problems. The open forum idea has gained a number of adherents. Those that seek too establish open forams all over the country are at a loss as to who should speak, and what should be the subjects of these forums. Any worker that happens to attend this convention can easily see the mental bankruptcy of these liberal welfare and charity workers. Fall of Briand Seen as Radicals Menace Cabinet Over Franc PARIS, June 2.—Premier Briand in the next few days faces a crisis in the chamber if he refuses again to con- sent to a discussion of the financial At a meeting of the radical and the radical socialist parties it was decided that if Briand refuses the financial discussion again, and ob- tains a majority by getting the votes King Coal—A novel of the Colo- of the right parties, the radical party rado coal country— will ask those of its members who are Paper, $1.00 Cloth, $1.50| in the Briand cabinet to hand in their 100%—The Story of a Patriot— | resignations, Paper, 25c Cloth, $1.50 If this is done it will be the down- DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 4113 w. Washington Bivd, Chicago, III, fall of Briand’s cabinet, but he has a few days in which to figure out an- other maneuver to retain the support of the so-called radicals, Watson-Parker law when Coolidge gets around to appoint the arbitrators which under the law have practically the last word and have their arbitra- tion award made compulsory by the courts. Company unionism and the piece work system have been grievances of Boston and Maine shop workers for a long time. The company union proved a bitter joke to the workers and failed to take up their compalints, The agents of the; “Mechanical Em- ploye: ociation,” as the company union called, are paid $33 plus by the railroad and only $16 plus by the company union. But the agents didn’t show even that proportion of atten- tion to the workers. Men who couldn’t keep up with the production standards set under piece work were dropped. Finally, the five officers of the independent unionjs lodge were discharged this March. Bosses Try New Law. The workers appealed to the U. S. labor department’ and commisisoners Wood and Brown came. Boston and Maine general manager, B. R. Pollock refused to allow the commissioners to attend the company union hearing of the discharged workers’ case. The fired men then withdrew but later succeeded in having the labor com- missioners attend a hearing with the manager. Decisions went against the men and they are still fighting for re- instatement. Their next move is to try out the new machinery by the Watson-Parker bill which congress passed. There are abdut 1,000 shop workers now employed at Billerica, the main shop of the B. and M. Normally, there are 1,400 at the shop. “There are more stool-pigeons than workers,” one of the discharged work- ers said when asked whether the B. and M. had an industrial espionage system. Any worker discovered be- longing to an A. F, of L. shop craft union or to the independent is quickly fired. Membership in the company practically compulsory to hold pe job, but parmont af duce reowlanhy is not insisted upon. Union Sentiment Reviving. The shop workers are not deluded by the company union, but fear of los- ing their jobs, with the railroad cur- tailing shop staffs, keeps them from open rebellion. Interest in real union organization is reviving, Condon finds, and at the opportune moment will likely stand up to company unionism and throw it back into the face of the Force Woman to Ride in railroad management which slipped it over in the 1922 shop strike. CLEYELAND, June 2.—Negro dele] New Orleans Unions Boycott Open Shop Bank for Lock-Out NEW ORLEANS, June 2—As a means of fighting the Canal Bank and who have locked out union labor in the erection of its new home, C. Fitere has introduced a raso- lution that the council address a com- munication to each affiliated union, advising that the building of the Canal Bank and Trust company is unfair to organized labor and requesting each local union that if it has funds on de- posit in the bank to withdraw same and place the funds in a bank that is fair; also requesting individual mem- bers to do likewise. U. S. Interested in | Nicaraguan Revolt; Passes Ammunition NEW ORLEANS, June 2.-—A ship- ment.of arms valued at approximately $35,000 has been passed by the United States officials here to Nicaragua. It is claimed that the ammunition was for revolutionists who had organized a filibustering expedition in this city. “American Legion Must Fight All Anti-Militarist Movements”—McQuigg DAYTON, 0. June 2. — Brigadier General John R. MecQuigg, national urged the legion to fight all anti- militarist and pacifist propaganda that is now being carried on by va- rious groups in the United States, in his Memorial Day address here, SEND IN A SUB! IN THIS ISSUE— commander of the American Legion, }, What The Daily Worker Is--- What It Must Become FIRST ARTICLE By WILLIAM F, DUNNE. HE DAILY WORKER, the official organ of our party, is well into the third year of its existence. Existence is a good word in this connectfon because The DAILY WORKER does not live and grow, but merely exists, as the chronic financial crisis proves. The publication of The DAILY WORKER in January, 1924, was, in the opinion of the central''committee and the whole party as well, the first step in the establishment of a mass Communist press in the United States. oes The DAILY WORKER is the official organ of our party— and nothing else. P If this is called an extreme state- ment then I submit the, following facts: (1.) The total paid circulation of The DAILY WORKER is around 13,000. This is some Jess than the party membership that if any exaggeration is to siden it must be against the statement that The DAILY WORKER) jg! actually the official organ of our whole party. (2) On the books of the business office of The DAILY WORKER are more than 40,000 names,of persons who were once readers of our paper but who never renewed their sub- scriptions. Similar figures for newstand sales are not available but the proportion must be about the same. HE DAILY WORKER therefore has been.able to retain as readers only 13,000 out of the 43,000 people who have been interested enough in it and dts policies to subscribe at one time or another. Small circulation and a chronic financial crisis are two sides of one problem which arises from the fact that our party has not succeeded after more than two years Of effort in making The DAILY WORKER a mass paper. a Evidences of discouragément at the lack of success of our party in this field are plentiful, more’ plentiful in fact than suggestions @§'to how to remedy the deplorable cotfdition. HE most general impression is one that can be described as a fatal- istic one. It consists in thie categor- ical statement that the ovefwhelming majority of the Ameridan working class will not read a Commuhist paper for the simple reason that they are opposed to Communism and com- pletely under the influence of the cap- italist press, The extension of this attitude is found among those comrades who believe that some great working class upheaval must occur in the United States hefore The DAILY WORKER can secure any considerable circula- tion. But Communists cannot merely await such developments, They must stimulate them and the Communist press does not become a mass press because under the stress of some great crisis the working class sudden- ly realizes that the Communists have been right all the time. HE Communist press becomes a mass press by taking, if not a leading part in the daily struggle of the workers, at least the most clear and active part of any working class press, by establishing itself not only as the organ of a revolutionary party, but as the organ of a revolutionary party that knows héw to fight and maneuver in even the smallest strug- gles of the masses, “Without a mass press a mass party is impossible.” We certainly do not reject the idea of a mass party and we must then of course strive for a mass press—not in some dim and distant future, but now, in the immediate future. HE letter of the Communist Inter- national on the American question states: y The\hegemony of the imperialists of the United States of North Amer- ica thrugyt the world, renders the work of the American Communists a singularly responsible one, The Communist Party of America is call- ed upon to play a tremendous role and in many respects a DECISIVE role. ! “A tremendous role, a decisive role”—without a mass press these phrases become abstractions, rolling grandly from the lips but meaningless so far as the American class struggle is concerned, ‘ Abstractions. will not make The DAILY WORKER a mass paper and in the following articles the writer will deal some concrete measures that must be applied, in his opinion, if The DAILY WORKER is to serve our party and the American working class to the limit of its capacity NOW. (To be continued.) LORD OXFORD: TO |HOUSE TO VOTE. ASK EXPULSION | ON ANTI-ALIEN OF LLOYD GEORGE LAWON JUNE 7 Liberal Pasty Faces a|Holaday Deportation Split in Ranks LONDON, June 2.—Lord Oxford, Asquith and their followers are mak- ing attempts to read Lloyd George out of the liberal party for his stand dur- ing the general strike of ;the British workers. t May Expel Lloyd Géorge. The followers of Lord Oxford are thinking of offering a motion of cen- sure for the attitude taken by Lloyd George. If this resolution passes-it is declared it will virtually’ mean \the expulsion of Lloyd George from the liberal party. Lord Oxford has a majority of the liberal party members of parliament with him and as this meeting will be restricted to members of parliament it can be easily expected that if such a motion is proposed it “will pass. The younger element in the liberal party supporting Lloyd, George de- clare that they will bolt from the lib- eral party and form a Rew organiza- tion. The London Daily News, London Chronicle, and the Manghester Guard- fan have been snppgtting Lloyd George for some time. ,,Two national liberal weeklies, the Nation and the New Statesman have also thrown their support behind Lloyd George. Oil Magnate With Lerd Oxford. The Westminster Gavette, a paper having a small circulation owned by the ofl magnate Lord @owdray, sup- ports Lord Oxford, t The Lloyd George followers declare that if their leader is tead out of the party they will enter: the elections with a platform that wit! be more rad- ical than the present Ifferal platform and will seek to win the agricultural sections. Search Missouri River for Wrecked Plane and Occupan FORT LEAVENWORTH, June 2.— The Missouri River near here is be- ing searched for the bodies of two sol- diers and for a Curtis airplane. Bill to Come Up WASHINGTON, D. C., June 2.—The Holaday anti-alien bill introduced by Representative William B. Holaday of Danville, Ill, will.be presented to the house for a final vote June 7. The house committee on immigration has acted favorably on this bill. This bill is aimed especially at those workers who participate in the strugles of the workers for better con- ditions. The proponents of the meas- ure thru their propaganda channels are attempting to make it appear that the measure is aimed only at booze- runners and keepers of houses of prostitution, Deportation, According to the law any™oreign- born worker can be deported on the following grounds: 1. An alien excluded by law from admission, 2. An alien who obtained entry Jalse representation. 3. An alien who remains in the United States longer than authorized by law. 4. An alien who becomes a public charge from causes not arising subse- quent to lawful entry. 5. An alien who is an,idiot, insane, ete, 6. An alien who has been sentenced to the penitentiary for_one year or more, 7. An wlien whose combined sen- tences for various misdemeanors amount to eighteen months or more. 8. An alien who violates the white slave act or the narcotic act. 9. An alien who is connected with the management or derives profit trom a house of prostitution. 11. An alien who willfully aids any alien unlawfully to enter the United States. Gary Street Nucleus Will Hold Meeting on Sunday Morning GARY, Ind,, June ‘An important meeting of Street Nucleus No. 1 will be held at 215 West 18th avenue Sun- day morning, June 6th, at 10 o'clock. by —READ IT EV One Victory eaten narii newed Struggles in Perth Amboy By IRVING FREEMAN. PERTH AMBOY, N, J.—Ever since the workers in the American Smelting & Refining Co. and Raritan Copper Workers, one of the biggest copper re- fineries in the world, went on strike and succeeded in gaining a 6-cent in- crease in wages the unskilled and semi-skilled workers of Perth Amboy have been restless. Strikes are break- ing out every day in all the terra- cotta, cigar and brick works, where the workers are demanding increases in wages, One thousand workers in the Na- tional Fireproofing Co, have been out on strike since last Wednesday. Their demands, which were refused by the super, Mr. Weaver, are for an in- crease in wages, time and one-half for overtime and holiday work and no di&crimination against any of the workers active in the strike. At the meeting the super offered time and one-half for Sunday work. He in- formed the workers that they were the highest paid workers in the city and that the company could not af- ford to give them their increase. Hard up company? They have so many orders that the men are com- pelled to work overtime daily, and they have refused to take on any more orders because they cannot fill them, due to their inability to turn out greater production. Then these bosses have the gall to tell the strik- ers, that the company cannot afford an increase. These workers are de- termined to stay out until they get their demands and all the workers are taken back to work. The, workers of the Atlantic Terra Cotta Cqmpany, the largest manufac- turers of terra cotta in the world, have gone out on strike. Their de- mands are 10-cent increase in wages per hour of time workers, a 10 per cent increase in wages of the piece workers and no discrimination against any workers active in the strike. At a meeting with their superintendent he told the committee that the com- pany could not afford an increase in wages and that he wanted the firemen to go back to work, otherwise the kilns would get cold and the plant would be tied up and that the office | Workers would act as strikebreakers and firemen, The answer at the strike" meeting. was that no men should go back to work, that the mill gates should be picketed and the workers urged to come out with them. These workers are determined to get the remaining 75 workers in the plant on strike and to picket the plants morning and night until the bosses come across with their demands and more money. Picketing and mass meetings of the strikers will be held every morning in Columbia Hall, on State street. Several hundred women and chil- dren working in the Bayuk Cigar Co. plant, manufacturers of thé Philadel- phia cigar, went out on strike this morning demanding an increase in wages. Discontent has been rampant in the shop ever since the company has assumed the niaking of another cigar. Preparations were being made for a mass meeting where these work- ers could formulate their demands. Boston Pioneers’ Annual Concert Saturday, June 5 BOSTON, June 2.—The Pioneers of Boston are holding their annual con- cert Saturday, June 5, at 7 p. m., at International Hall, 42 Wenonah street, Roxbury, This year in addition to the concert the Pigneers are putting on two plays, “Law x Wins” and “Why.” The successful presentation of the Pa- geant on May Day has brought the demand that it be repeated at the concert. In addition to the musical and danc- ing numbers a boxing skit symbofiz- ing the class struggle will be pre- sented by one of the groups. The first appearance of the Pioneer Or- chestra will take place at this con- cert. Admission, adults, 30 cents; chil- dren, 15 cents; Pioneers free, For a Mass Organ Thra Worker Correspondents E, W. RIECK LUNCH ROOMS Six Places 169 N. Clark 118 66 W. Washington | 167 N. 42 W. Harrison 234 S. Halsted PHONES, HARRISON 8616-7 Bpecialti Rieck Boston Baked Brown Fine Fi Commiseary and Bakery: 1612 Fulton ft. Phone West 2549 i Brings Re- CONFERENCE. AGAINST MILITARISM FOR BOSTON BOSTON, Mass.—The pro committee for the arrangement of the anti-militarist conference has sent out a call to all youth organizations, unions, etc., to attend a conference on Sunday, June 6th, 7:30 p. m., at the Boston Y. M. C. A., 316 Huntington avenue, Mr, Abraham Wirin will pre- side. The program for the conference is as follows: Professor Clarence R. Skinner of Tufts College has been in- vited to speak on the subject “Mili- tarism Today and Its Danger t Youth.” A program for educating thte public against militarism. Pyo- posals for increasing the scope of the conference, The election of officers and an executive committee. The call urges all organizations to be repre- sented. “Golden” Fruit Fields Exploit Child Workers By BILL RAPO. LOS ANGELES.—The exploitation of child labor in the southern Cali- many other sections of the country. Children between 6 and 16 years of age are toiling 10 and 12 hours a day for a few pennies (some 60 to 70 cents avday). ° Piece work, coupled with the speed- up system, prevails. The, govern- mental authorities seem to evade look- ing into the conditions in the fields and orchards of the “golden” state. With the beginning of spring the can- ning season for many of the fruits starts. Workers’ children stop school and enter the industry for the hot summer months. Most of them are the children of the underpaid Mext- can workers and poor farmers. Father: “What! You say Rosie Red is going to Chicago?” Mother: “Why sure! Don’t you know this district is one of the winning dis- tricts in the FIVE. THOUSAND DOL- LAR campaign of the Pioneers?” SEND A PIONEER TO CHICAGO TO EDIT THE SEPTEMBER ISSUE OF THE YOUNG COMRAD#. The three districts raising the high- est amounts over $300 in the Pioneer $5,000 Drive (excepting New York and Chicago which must raise over $500), will choose one Pioneer each to come to Chicago and-serve on as faicecya Board of three to edit a special 8-page issue of the Young Comrade. CONTRIBUTE, TO THE PIONEER CAMPAIGN. Send all contrititions to Pioneer Campaign Committee, 1113 W. Wash- ington Blvd., Chicago, Tl. Moscow or bust! Don't bust before you get a sub—but get 5 subs and you can have your bust. SEND IN A SUBI LOOK FOR THESE FEATURES Saturday, Jane 5 ANOTHER JOYFUL, BITING FULL PAGE OF CARTOONS BY HAY BALES % A Drawing by Fred Ellis A Moving Picture Review of the “VOLGA BOATMAN” by Amy Schechter A Story From the Life of LENIN ~ ye cae You will find these and many other interesting features in next Saturday's issue of the NEW MAGAZINE Supplement of The Daily Worker Subscribe! wrens ERY DAY fornia fruit yards sets the pace for ~