The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 30, 1926, Page 6

THE DALLY WORKER ‘Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, II. Phone Monroe 473 SUBSCRIPTION RATES r By mali (in Chicago only): By mail (outs/de of Chicago): $8.00 per year $4.50 six months $6.00 per vear $8.50 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., Chleago, IIlinols J, LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F, DUNNE { MORITZ J. LOEB. Entered as second-class mail September 21, 1923, at the post-office at Ch: cago, lil, under the act of March 3, 1879. Editors .Business Manager Where Do Union Slush Funds Come From? a huge slush funds dispensed in the republican and democrat pr maries should realize that their support of the candidates of the cap- italist parties makes such incidents inevitable. The debauchery of upper strata of the trade union movement by ‘the republican and democrat parties is notorious. It is one of the outstanding facts of American life, and labor officials who, year after year, act as the spokesmen of one wing or another of the cap- fy italist parties will have a hard time proving that alone, of all groups sharing the rich spoils, they virtuously refused reward. other section of the capitalist’ class. The labor movement should clean house itself. italist politicians who are supported by union officials. In the United Mine Workers of America—of which both Joh § Walker, president of the Illinois State Federation of Labor, and ‘ Frank Farrington, president of the Illinois district of the U. M. W. of A., are members—large sums are spent in both district and na- tional elections by the administration forces. Big squads of “organizers” always are sent into doubtful dis- tricts to swing them for the machine and the payrolls in machine strongholds are increased to keep them favorable. THE DAILY WORKER Advertising rates on application. — Labor union officials who resent the fact that their names are dragged into investigations of the amount and disposition of the It is unfortunate that the rank and.file of the labor unions have euch matters brought to their attention by men outside the labor movement, by senators who are using the investigations to dis- eredit their rivals and ‘boost into power representatives of some ies It might begin by conducting an investigation of its own to -__ establish the connection between the tremendous expenditures of candidates for offices in the union and the slush funds of the cap- H The Lewis machine in the U. M. W. of A. conducts campaigns 34 with an organization and a liberal expenditure of money which, t when the number of voters involved is considered, rivals the cam- : : paigns in Pennsylvania and Illinois conducted by the capitalist HY do we not hear anything about them? Why is not their life brought to fight by having narratives and books written about it? Why not? Preferably a romance is written, for example, about Mary and Matt, in which Matt makes promises |to Mary which he never fulfills, and again Mary promises Matt happiness, such happiness which is seldom |spoiled by age. The young people read it and are thrilled by it; the older people, likewise, read it and feel a thrill go thru them. The feel- ing of love and romance infatuates just like alcohol affects, and it is true—as much truth as can be found in it—only in books. But by writing about the life of the woodsmen, the “lumberjacks,” real life in actuality cdh be pictured. But why does not anybody write about them? Only then when someone of the crew has been lodged in the city prison, has committed murder, robbery or some other such crime, only then do the newspapers mention these people. But why not at other times? A person who is not one of them cannot do it, tho he might want to. The lumberman himself fs unfamiliar with writing. He cannot voice his suf- ferings enough to be able to describe them on paper; he cannot understand them. And as a whole they do not want to Jet the world know about their life at all. They are simple, unde- manding children of labor and they are many. They live almost outside of the rest of the world, abandoned and forgotten. The redwoods and fir of the west, the large cleared tracts of land in Min- nesota, Michigan and Wisconsin, the 1 i- 2 the east, are a part of these men. In these places they have left an auto- graph, the brand of work. Here they Rave met the virgin forest and have destroyed the pride of the woods. And all this for whose good? For their own? parties. No! Here they have increased the Dy Is there a connection between the fact that the Lewis machine] golden wand of the capitalists. That ‘_ supports the republican party and the fact that it expends tho’ sands of dollars to keep itself in office? y- | Portion which they received for their work alone has not satisfied them, nor benefited them. This has gone to the Here is a matter of grave concern to the members of the United | moonshiners, the keepers of the houses Mine Workers of America and the whole labor movement, and ii the light of recent disclosures of the methods used to subsidize great section of the voting population by the capitalist parties an ~~~. -the undeniable fact that officials of the United Mine Workers an the Chicago and state i ; candidates—republican party candidates at present—it seems movement, could prove more fruitful. anita oe ments which develop in the unions, Let's turn on the light. 14 ” i Still Lying About Russia labor movement do support capitalist. party | have lived and resided. RP P : to trudged the wooded path, and do so iis that no investigation, which could be undertaken by the labor n}| of prostitution, and their slaves who a| bave fallen by the wayside—the street girls, who suffer from lack of money a and as a result fall into this life of d} vice. In the realms. of nature they They have yet. Their solitude is broken occa- sionally by the call of the hungry wolf and other dangers of the wilds. But It might, for instance, establish the fact that labor official-| they are not scared by such trites, for dom, in opposing a united labor ticket and the formation of a labor party, are doing so not because they believe independent political action by the trade unions and farmers is bad for the labor moye- ment, but because they are in the pay of capitalist party politicians who furnish them with a war chest to use against oppsition moye- they are already used to them. They go onward along the same end- less path. By HIRNY. On the 31st of March last there took place a bloody event in Stryj (Polish “ : : : sone an ye | Galicia).. The Polish police fired upon i Now that certain mighty industr jaliats of (the inited Pipes - a peaceful demonstration of unem- come to realize the fact that it is to their interests to recognize the) pi.yeq wood workers, mostly Ukra- Li Soviet Union, a veritable torrent of propaganda pours thru the cap-|nians, killing ten workers, among “foreign policy association. Rockefeller interests and their National City Bank are engaged it ee - trust may be able more effectively to combat the British Royal Dutc! ; om ‘Shell in the Caucasus. Both great combines desire concessions ani the desires of the American oil trust. » From _ the lowest productivity as compared with pre-war years. ‘the truth of the matter. away from eapital whose economic life is on the up-grade. , 1% Russia. Pd ? now than a year ago and a year hence there will be still fewer, unt - the time will soon arrive when the possibili industry in Russia will be gone forever. As Mr. Louis Fischer relates in his book, Oil Imperialism, the Re ‘propaganda for recognition of Russia in order that the American oil the short-sighted attitude of the administration stands in the way of the capitalists now try to make it appear that the Soviet governmen has capitulated to capitalism. Zimand publishes spurious’ statistics | ,joveq and receive unemployment ben- in an effort to prove that those industries that are nationalized show | efit. The remainder-are not registered As everyone familiar with Russia knows, the very opposite is It is precisely those industries that are na- . dionalized—the heavy industries—where production hag outstripped the pre-war figures. Every competent statistical report from Russia a confirms this fact and Trotsky’s recent book, Whither ; Russia, ue eloquently sets forth the triumph of state enterprise over private en- ~ terprise and proves that the trend is decisively toward socialism and m, and that Russia is the only country in Europe It is this fact that causes intensive agitation for recognition of The Soviet government has succeeded in overcoming the There are fewer possibilities of obtaining capitalist concessions es of profits for private a member for the Workers Party and a new subscription ©. % italist press to the effect that the Bolsheviks are swinging back to|them being a working woman, and the capitalist system and discarding all tendencies toward socialism. The latest attempt of this sort is the report of Savel Zimand, an} ¢,ecno-slovakian frontier. The neigh- alleged economic expert, for a Wall Street organization known as the} porhood is rich in forests’ and is a cen- wounding about twenty Others, Stryj lies not far from the Carpatho- ter of the Galician lumber industry, with numerous sawmills which em- Ploy a considerable number of Ukra- nian workers. The disastrous situation of Poland’s ‘h | economic life, which has resulted in q| enormous unemployment ‘thruout the country, also extends to Stryj. The largest sawmills are standing idle and some thousands of workers, mostly uty absurd propaganda of banditry in Russia the agents of | Ukranians, wander about for weeks +; Without employment. Of these only 750 are on the register of the unem- and receive no benefit. The position of the latter is really terrible, They are actually starving, their children are dying of tuberculosis and they .themselves are driven by misery and privation to suicide. * Dissolve Trade Unions. The council of the free trade-unions in Stryj, which has done everything possible in order to help the starving vnemployed and established an unem- ployed committee, which on several occasions approached authorities in order to obtain support for the unem- ployed, has been dissolved by the dis: ts of war and revolution” to such an extent that the capitalists | trict authorities, ow realize that unless they obtain what concessiong still are avail- ; The aioe prevelant barred vi ve m4 Ry |; the coalition government, including able they will soon be shut out altogether, the P. P..8:.(Polish, Secial Homose racy), is in this way depriving the unemployed, aswell as the entire working class in Stryj, of their organi- zation. They intend by this means to destroy the forces of the unemployed, as well as of the employed workers, and to render them incapable of strug: gle. The dissolved trade union council telegraphed to the social democratic “labor minister,” Schomjenzki, and also to the central trade union com- mission demanding help. ‘They re- ceived no reply either from the “social democratic” minister for labor or ftom the central union commission, The indignation of the ae: il valleys of Canada, and the lands of, “LUMBERJACKS” | (Translated from Tyomies by Aili Hautaluoma.) N this path we see them singly, in couples, in small and large groups, with heads cast down, making their way with lagging steps. A number of: them carry on their back a sack in which they keep belongings, whicli consist of underwear, a couple of dirty and wrinkled “dress” shirts, a couple of photographs of the nearest rela- tives, and some other worthless arti- cles. Their personal property is not large, and it is all they have after years of constant toil. They can carry it all easily in a bag on the back. MONG these wanderers we see young men who have just left home and who have fresh in their minds the picture of home, father, mother, brothers and sisters, but who were forced to leave’ them all and sep- arate from them forever, to become wanderers of the woods. Here we see men of middle age with dragging footsteps, aching bodies tor- tured with rheumatism, downcast, without life, in whose looks are lodged the brand of early old age at the time when the body and soul should still be healthy, full of strength and ambition. Here we see gray-Haired, shaky old men going onward painfully with their worn-out bodies. Old men in whose faces are pictured the tale of existing cruel conditions, tears which have not been shed, sorrows which have not been brought out to the world, These are old men with whom fate has played. Their little strength is not needed by the capitalists any longer. They must drag themselves from one camp to the other, so from pity they are taken to work for their food as a chore boy whose work is to keep the camp clean and heated. ANY of these lumbérmen have had wives whom they ‘have promised happiness, a home whith they have loved and children whom they have fondled. But they haye been left by them somewheres—fap off. Forgot- ten? No! Such rei brances can never be forgotten! world which is harsh in its criticisms, cruel in its judgment, can easily say that. It can say that so and so has destroyed his home, left his wife dm, poverty and need and his childremyto suffer from hunger, Trt But the one on whom the judgment is passed thinks differently and knows differently. | ark ‘HEN*the ax cuts the side of a tree or the saw finds its way to the heart of the treeggsomething un- describable penetrates;the heart of the woodsman. This feeling continues to stow—it causes a painy Again, when the wanderer is walling along the wooded path, coming: home after a trip to the city, whéreshe has spent a “BLOODY WEDNESDAY” } and also of the employed workers on account of the unlawftl dissolution of the trade union counéil was tremen- dous. The workers perceived the '‘ob- ject of the Polish coalition authorities and continued the work.of organizing the unemployed in spite of the fact that the trade union council was dis- solved. On Wednesday, March 31, imme- diately before Easter, a delegation of unemployed went to tle district gov- ernor and demanded payment of the unemployment benefit that. had long been promised them, The governor refused to receive the delegation, and is deputy, who received the delega- tion, behaved in a very rude and inso- lent manner. At the same time the local magistrates also refused to re- ceive the delegation and to take a note of their request. Th@ delegation re- turned empty handed,. fi Shoot Unarmed Jobless The desperate unemployed workers and their wives, who,had waited for days for the un yed dole for Easter, were roused to,the greatest in- dignation on account, of this criminal and contemptuous { ing of their minimum demands onthe part of the well-fed officials of the coalition goy- ernment; they formed.a procession of over 1,500 unemployed and marched to the office of thé governor and de- manded work or maintenance, A por- tion of the unemployed forced their way into the premises of the governor and demanded payment out of the un- employed dole, The’ crowd waited calmly outside, In the meantime a body of police (30 men) appeared on the scene, The crowd greeted the police with hoots, but otherwise, remained quite calm, Suddenly, without any reason and without any warning, there was given the command; “fire.” Shots were fired into the crowd. The blood of the workers who were shot down splashed the walls of the governor's house. The surprise and terror of the demonstrators was tremendous, They dispersed as quick ag lightning. The Polist police achieved a victory over unarmed, demonstrators, Four. dead aud 12 severely wounded, of whom six died later, are tobe recorded to their account. _ ble About This ‘horrible m demonstrators who “bread and wi reckless time, this same feeling comes on and will not down. It is the heart that is disappointed at the harsh and pitiless treatment it is being given. Then he sits on a stone, digs from his dirty knapsack a faded photograph of his wife and chil- dren, and as he looks at the one who in her youth put all confidence in him, tears come into his eyes, only to be held back for fear that someone may see. “I should,” he thinks, “send them money, but I can't. “T cannot do so as a father and husband; probably as a stranger I could do so better. Such a long time has elapsed since I last provided for their welfare that I feel ashamed. No, not the way that I am mow. I am a forsaken man. Those at home think Tam dead. Well, it is better that they think so than knowing me as I am. I would only bring shame to them. “And I am bringing shame to my- self!” UCH thoughts flash thru their minds as they go onward. It seems as tho some hungry beast were chasing them ready to grab them at any min- ute. They are fleeing from their own thoughts. Can they flee? No! The same thoughts follow them steadfastly like a shadow. But still the wanderer struggles onward with a_ restless mind. Some have worked at camps; they have already worked a month, two or three. Then they quit. They go. out to travel—to the city. A mass of moneyless men have just returned bringing with them the odor of liquor. They secure a job only after an open- ing is made for them by the men who left. Otherwise they would not be able to get the job. They, in turn, again, after having labored for some time, leave as haye done the others and start to roam, leaving the place open to someone else. And so this ceaseless grind continues, And what is the final result of it all? Death... PRE death seems to be busy more than in any other group. Here it has®learned to pick its prey more readily. It is easy for it to win over the man with no resisting power, whose body has been poisoned by drinking anything containing alcohol. A man who with only thin clothing, one who has slept drunkenly in the snowdrifts or been exposed to*a drenching rain and has thus contract- ed-a bad cold which has led to an incurable sickness, They fall by the wayside and the rest look calmly at their struggle with death. Others pass away in the dirty bunks of the camps with all kinds of vermin ready to take a last bite to get their stomachs full before their -food is taken away from them. Even bourgeois newspapers expressed their indignation on account of this bloody deed of the Polish police. The victims of “bloody Wednesday” are Ukrannian workers. Galicia is occu- pied territory, in’ which the Polish “Schlachta” are ruling by means of provocation and bullets. When provo- cation does not suffice, bullets are em- ployed, The rage of the working class is enormous. The Polish bourgeoisie are attempting to defend the bloody deed of the police, and are trying to make out that the police were actually at- tacked. That is a base lie. This is best proved by the fact that none of the police were wounded, The Socialist(?) Party. The bloody coalition government wants to cast the blame for “bloody Wednesday” on to the “Commissar” Lazarevitch, the bloodhound of the bourgeoisie, who gave the order to fire. They will not succeed in this. Responsibility for “bloody Wednes- day” not only lies with Lazarevitch but in the first place with the coalition government and the P, P. S. (social democratic) ministers. The ‘blood bath in Stryj 1s not a mere accident. ‘After Kalisz there came, Stryj. This is a cruel system of the coalition gov- ernment and of the leaders of the Polish Socialist Party (a party of the second international) which consists in the physical extermination of the working class of Poland. The strug- gle of the unemployment for mainte- nance is to be sifled by means of bul- lets. The workers are to be subjected to a persistent terror in order that they shall loose all desire to struggle and abandon their achievements to the bourgeoisie. The leaders of the Polish Socialist Party have gunk a step lower. From b.trayers of the working class of Po- iand, from confederates of the bour- geoisie, they have now become the murderers of the working class, The blood of the workers of Stryj clings to them just as it does to the bourgeoisie. Retribution for the blood of the work- ing class will be demanded from both of them, The time is approaching. eS aD SEND IN A SUB! The Life of the Lumber Worker—Migratory and Unorganized—A Social Outcast—On the Trail —Their Sorry Pleasures—Toll Taken by Disease and Accident. Others fall prey to the accidental death which follows them at their work lik a hungry wolf. The com- panies do not. have to pay compensa- tion for the death of these roamers. They merely send them out to be buried—somewheres, But where? No- body asks such questions. They have no relatives or friends at their funeral, Their grave is not decorated with flow- ers or wreaths, nor is it looked upon any more. Who cares for them... . this group so utterly low and downcast? No! Is the labor of those who work in the forests so unworthy? No, this it certainly cannot be. The lumbermen*are part of a ma- chine which, to do its wonk satisfac- torily, and to be in the best working condition, requires each part in its place. Even if one part stops work, is: put. out of condition, the entire ma- chine stops working and becomes worthless, ‘OU people. in industry, men with trades, _ carpenters, plasterers, painters and numerous others, . you who get $10.a day-for a wage and even more, you. who dress up in better clothes when-you go out in the even- ing toa moyie, have you ever stopped to think. that. your efforts. would. be useless: unless it were for the lumber- |, men who first supplied the market with that raw material from which you build your homes?. Have you ever thought that a .book+ which you are reading and by the aid of which you are educating yourself, and the news- papers which bring the daily news to you and tell of the struggles of other workers thruout the world, that these are possible only because the lumber- man has secured that raw material from which the paper is made and books and newspapers are’ printed. Uf Meme che this gtoup is not use- less!» Their work is beneficial to the nation, ‘The woods need workers and thefr strength before they will surrendéf their many valuable prod- ucts. The woods would need workers even tho the nation were a Commu- nist commonwealth. HEN a lumberman learns to know his own worth, of how mich use he is inthis oommonwealth and what an important cog he is in the machin- ery of industry, né also begins to de- mand that his conditions be such that they can he called bearable. It is only then that this roamer of the for- ests and the slave of industry can un- derstand.each other as people who are creating the welfare and happiness of the nation, And that all those great national resources that have been this far owned bya few will now be taken over by the many to whom they be- long. ~~ . DOMINION IRON AND STEEL 10 BE REORGANIZED Unable to Pay Interest on Its Bonds By C. McKAY, Federated Press. MONTREAL. — (FP) — After. four years of labor-baiting the British Em- pire Steel Corp. announces that its important subsidiary, the Dominion Tron & Steel Co,, must default interest on its bonds and will probably have to be reorganized. Financial papers think. preferred shareholders have a good chance>to lose their equity, Do- minion..common ‘shares, which regu- larly paid: dividends .before passing under Besco’s control, were mostly converted into preferred at the amal- gamation, Besco's common shares of a par value of $100 now have a sou- venir value only, Besco’s announcement that it may close down the Sydney steel works and allow the bondholders to take over the property may induce the gov- ernment to “grant higher tariffs on iron and steel. Besides important mineral proper- ties in Nova Scotia, Dominion fron & Steel tah 4 the*immense iron ore deposits in Newfoundland, which, in- side 30 years, will become one of the world’s prizes. National interest: cen- ters in the possibility of Besco’s ma- neuvers allowing American steel in- terests to get control of these vast ore reserves. The steel and iron pro- moters have gouged the Canadian in- vestor so often that they may not be able to put over another refinancing scheme on a patriotic plea. A Mon- treal paper suggests that if Ameri- cang secure control of the Dominion properties Canada may as well aban- don hope of economic independence. Ask More Than $150 a Month. SAN FRANCISCO.—(FP)—The tem- porary clerks in San Francisco munic- ipal offices, 850 strong, who are em- ployed in rush seasons and as substi- tutes, have org: “th Clerks Assn. and over the scale of $150 a month Celebrate the Ath of July -Q with the 12 Page Special Issue “of the Daily Worker. 6 Pages of News Instead of Four and the NEW MAGAZINE Supplement of the Daily Worker will be increased to a 12 Page Special Issue Containing: - THE FATHERS Who were the early fathers of the United States? 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