The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 16, 1926, Page 6

‘ ec OS Page Six THE DAILY WORKER Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 1113 W. Washington Blyd., Chicago, Il Phone Monroe 4712 »SUBSCRIPTION RATES By maii (in Chicago only): By mail (outside of Chicago): $8.00 per year $4.50 six months $6.00 per vear $3.50 six months $2.50 three months $2.00 three months Address all mail and make out checks to * THE DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, IIInols J. LOUIS ENGDAHL ik Ray cae i WILLIAM F. DUNNE MORITZ J. LOEB... Entered as second-class mail September 21, 1923, at the post-office at Chi- cago, lil, under the act of March 3, 1879, Editors ...Business Manager Advertising rates on application. a Will Coolidge Run?—He Will! The prediction of Senator Cummins that Coolidge will not run again is more of an indication of the demoralization in the ranks of the Coolidge supporters than an accurate forecast. Undoubtedly Cummins is still somewhat groggy from the drub- bing administered by Brookhart with the aid of thousands of im- poverished farmers, but as one who “knows his goulash,” as the slang of the day so forcibly puts it, his opinion is entitled to some consideration. The frantic denials coming from the Coolidge camp, where 50 marines slumber when the flies will let them, are enough to arouse suspicion. If there is one thing certain about Coolidge it is that he varely means what he says in public statements. Our experience does ‘not include his private life but we are willing to hazard the opinion that Cummins, the Coolidge standard bearer on the Iowa battlefield, knows the president’s mind just a little better than he does himself. : No more disastrous public statement concerning an American president has been made since the collapse of the Wilsonian myth moved some of his former followers to emit high shrieks giving the low down on the erstwhile savior of a wicked world. Interesting things are brought out by the official denial which some of the Coolidge retainers made the mistake of amplifying. We are told, for instance, that. “Coolidge will run if the country con- tinues prosperous.” We have our own opinion of the present pros- perity and so have several million farmers, but the statement in- dicates a weakening of the belief that Coolidge and prosperity are synonimous. p We think that Coolidge will run whether prosperity continues or not. But the direction he takes is the important thing. Coolidge is on the run right now. That much at least may be gathered from the frank statement of Cummins. But with a slack- ening of the activity in industrial centers and a curtailment of in- stallment buying, which the banks are already beginning to urge, he will begin to gallop, not towards but away from the White House, and as the rumble of resentment in the middle west and west rolls eastward, it will take a panting posse and a detachment of the trail-hardened Haitian marines to find him. There is no haven for Coolidge out where the tall corn grows. Be 290 British Apologists Discover Ford Norman Angell, noted British publicist, has rushed in where angels (no pan intended) fear to tread and tried to reply to Trotsky’s book “Whither England?” according to a London dispatch to the New York Times. The extent to which Angell has succeeded may be judged from a statement made by J. L. Garvin, in a review of the book in The Observer, that Marx has been refuted by Henry Ford. The learned Mr. Garvin states: When Henry Ford had the idea of a minimum wage of $5 per day for his workers, with profit-sharing on a large scale, he knocked the bottom out of abstract Marxism deduced from studies in the British Museum. 2 Angell’s book is entitled, “Must Britain Travel the Moscow Road?” and he does not agree with Comrade Trotsky that Britain is in decline. But the Angell argument is destroyed by the one statement we quote and for the reason that he found it necessary to go outside his own country to find a Henry Ford. Henry Fords are possible only in countries where capitalism is still on the wpgrade—America but not Britain. Such enterprises, which no more constitute a refutation of Marxism than does the smaller profit-sharing of the British soap manufacturer, Lord Leyerhulme, are possible only in countries with enormous natural resources, occupying a superior place in world economy, with great colonial fields of exploitation where no revolts are in pr ress and no serious competition has to be faced from other nations. ‘ In a word, in a country whose imperialistic enterprises have not as yet reached their maximum development. If Henry Fords were to be found in England, Comrade Trotsky would have had no basis for his book, there. would have been no general strike, England would not have lest. her steel and coal trade. ‘ But not because Henry Fords create a stable capitalism, but hecause a stable capitalism creates Henry. Fords. Sad News for Patriots Only 600 deluded individuals have registered for the Citizens’ Military Training Camp at Fort Sheridan, altho the war depart- mant very kindly made p ations to take care of 900, according to the Chieago Tribune, 1 consequence there is great disappoint- ment in militarist cireles by the failure to get the expected number of other people to prepare to die for Morgan’s country. There is not much we can say for our home town as a rule, but we gladly record the fact that the military training camp idea has not been “sold” to any great extent. THE DAthY WORKER jm The “Monroe Doctrine of American Industry The Third in the Series—All Slogans of American Imperialism—vVice-President Woll’s New Announcement—Is Official Attitude of American Federation of Labor—*Constructive” Organization of Industry—Salaams to Herbert Hoover—Fascist Dictatorship in a New Guise—New York Times Speaks Approvingly—Passaic and A. F. of L. Official- dom—aA Concrete Example of “Co-operation’—Saving Industry from the Workers. By WILLIAM F, DUNNE, have the Monroe doctrine—to be taken straight as the slogan under which American imperialism carries out its penetration and con- quest of Latin America, We have the “Monroe Doctrine of Labor” formulated at the El Paso con- vention of the American Federation of Labor—the slogan under which the of- ficialdom and labor aristocracy of the A. F. of L. war on revolutionary ten- dencies in the Latin-American labor movements and carries on the work of Wall Street in» the ranks of labor in those nations. where American finance- capital has been invested. TOW we have the “Monroe Doctrine of American Industry,” enunciated by no less a personage than Matthew Woll, vice-president of the A. F. of L., in the latest number organ of the Photo Engravers’ Union, of which he is president. Under the last slogan, if, as we be- lieve, Woll is voicing the official atti- tude of the executive council of the A. F..of L,, and the heads of the inter- national and national unions, is to be carried out those multifarious schemes ranging from the B, & 0. plan to of the official | law BUT ITS MAIN TENDENCY IS CONSTRUCTIVE AND PROGRES- SIVE. It is industrial law made by men who know their field and their subject. Political law, when it touches industry, FOR THE MOST PART FUMBLES AND FAILS. trom Wall Street.’ ! i Just what does Woll mean? E means exactly what the indus- triai lords and ‘their newspapers and lobbyists mean when they de- nounce “governmegtal interference in industry.” What he is proposing is the most sinister ting ever uttered by a labor union official—not that it has not been mentioned by other fas- cist-minded labor officials but because Woll is proposing in detail and in cold blood a fascist dictatorship for Amer- ica with the labor aristocrats, the well-to-do farmers: and the middle class professional and trading ele- ments in the role of the Italian black- shirts, I DO not say that Wall has bought himself a black shirt and is pre- paring to lead the fascist hosts to glory or the grave. I do not believe so principally because Woll is a sure “labor” banking and insurance com- panies. Woll bases his argument on the pro- posal ratified at the Atlantic City con- vention of the A. F. of’ L, calling for “a conference of organized labor, or- ganized farmers and trade associa- tions under the direction of Secretary of Commerce Hoover. The purpose of the conference is to consider the elimi- nation of difficulties preventing the constructive organization of industry.” (Emphasis mine.) R the inclusion of organized farmers in such a conference some |argument could be made but the in- clusion of trade associations and the presence of Herbert Hoover, the petted darling of Wall Street in the post of secretary of commerce in the Coolidge cabinet, stamps this proposal |for what it is—a council of war which | will elect a general staff to make war upon the living standards of masses | of unorganized and unskilled workers with the labor aristocrats receiving some of the loot in return for their services to American capitalism. That this arrangement is already in force without the formality of a con- ference is proved by the denunciation of the Paggaic strike—a strike of low- paid and mostly unskilled workers—in conjunction with the textile barons and the citizens’ committee organized by the Passaic chamber of commerce. Woll continues; re American industry is working out for itself. a great body of construc- tive law. Not all of this is wise By NORMAN BURSLER. hyp the flaming sun of the Southland, from Texas to Vir- ginia, thousands of frail little child- ren, black and white, toil long hours hoeing cotton or doing other work in the fields, Whole families are busy at this work and the tots yet too small to handle a hoe toddle along behind their mothers. The wages for adults at this kind of work range from $1.25 to $2.00 a day. EST of the Mississippi, thousands of people live the life of the Cro- Magnon men of thousands of years ago. Large families are crowded into one and two-room mud huts. Espe- cially is this true of the Worder towns. The progress American imperialism is making in subjugating Mexico is quite noticeable. American slushy moving pictures and jazz are doing their work-far more effectively than anything the. army could do. The children, like the American children are early forced into the business of creating profits for those who control their country by controlling the means by which the people make their liv- ing. . b Sparen of the Mississippi, conditions could hardly be said to be bet- Instead of mud huts, frame huts ter. ‘By LELAND OLDs, Federated Press Correspondent, Since 1918 inore efficient use of coal in industry has cost tens of thousands of miners their jobs, according to the U. 8. bureau of mines. But for that, the market for bituminous coal would have been 60,000,000 tons a year great- er than it is today. Class I railroads have reduced con- sumption of coad per 1,000 gross ton- miles from 176 Ibs. in 1917 to 140 Ibs. in 1925, a decrease of 20 per cent, Consumption of coal per passenger train car-mile has been reduced from 19.4 Ibs. to 16.1 lbs., or 17 per cent. The iron and steel industry has re- duced the coking coal used in pro- dueing a-ton of pig iron from 3,577 Ibs, to 3,248 Ibs., or 9 per cent. Electric Power Big Factor, The growing use of electrical power makes the efficient use of coal in cen- tral power plants of particular im- portance to coal diggers. Thé bureau Will it come to this in the British coal strike? | figures show that where in 1919 about | | tom of coal was consumed in the in-’ » —————————————— thing player and such a project con- tains a certain element of risk. Ob- jectively, however, this is where his proposal leads altho he probably has not thot it out any further than to the pleasant moment when he can, as a “constructive” labor leader, snuggle warmly into the same couch with El- bert Gary and have his picture in all the company magazines, Woll has made a good start. The New York Times publishes his state- | ments with favorable comment: E finds that the American work- | ers are wholly at variance in the philosophy and~ procedure fol- lowed by European ‘workers, IN- STEAD OF DENOUNCING CAP- TAINS OF INDUSTRY, OF PUT- TING EMPLOYERS AGAINST EM- PLOYES, OR DIVIDING AMER- ICAN FARMERS AND BUSINESS- MEN, he calls uponvall elements in our productive life td join in a con- ference for the purpose of having these groups work out their respec- tive problems with one another and with the state acting. merely in an advisory and guiding) spirit. (Times, July 11.) Will Vice-President,,Woll now in-| form us if he is also ,in favor of the state “acting merely in an advisory and guiding spirit’ in the strike of the Passaic textile workers.which he has joined in denouncing, in the face of its support by hundredg.of A. F. of L. local unions and central bodies? Ao CrEEs question,. for this is a serious matter and we untutored Communist workers want to be clear about it: Has Vice-President Woll given his theory of the “guiding and advisory” role of the state a practical test by calling to the attention of a very minor branch of the American state, to One can almost hear the cheers | wit—the Passaic police force—the fact that their actions in clubbing, shoot- ing, bombing and arresting the Pas- saic.textile workers is in.direct viola- tion of his idea of the function°of the state? Py B these age rhetorical questions and we do not expect an answer. As a matter of fact we do not need it because we have our answer in both the American Federationist, official or- gan of the A. F. of L. to which Vice- President Woll is a frequent con- tributor, and the Textile Worker, of- ficial organ of the United Textile Workers, in the form. of advertise- ments of the Forstmann & Huffmann, Botany and Gera-textile mills against which the Passaic strike was declared. HIS smelly sample of the goods Woll has for sale, “working out their respective problems in co-opera- tion with one another,” in our opinion will not stimulate the demand for his commodity altho it may enable Woll and his fellow-bureaucrats to stipulate thirty-one instead of thirty pieces of silver, But the above is only what lawyers call “corroborative evidence.” 'OLL himself furnishes the proof of what his purposes are and it may be remarked in this connection that his type of labor official appears to worry much more about the sub- jective factor of European working class developments influencing the American masses than do the spokes- men of the ruling class. More closely in touch with the masses, even. tho fearing them, having risen from the ranks of the workers, these labor offi- cials sense much quicker than their masters the response, of American workers, feeble tho it may be as: yet, to the rapid development of the ¢lass struggle in Europe and the growing power of the workers and peasants of Soviet Russia. O we find Vice-President Woll giv- ing a solemn warning to the éne- mies of conscious labor: American leaders of modern thot | believe that either State ownership or State regulation must eventually develop a political bureaucracy lead- ing straight to State socialism, strangling to death the finest and fullest possibilities of our’ aliiost MIRACULOUS industrial plant.”» THEY VIEW WITH GREAT AP- PREHENSION, AND RIGHTLY SO, DEVELOPMENTS IN FOREIGN LANDS, (Emphasis Mine.) Few workers, especially those in such basic industries as coal and metal mining, steel and railroads, ‘will agree with Woll's characterization of American industry as “miraculous,” knowing as they do by what arduous toil of millions of workers: hands these industries have been established. Nor will the thousands of workers’ widows and orphaned children whose + hus- bands and fathers have been killed at their tasks see anything “miraculous” | in the rise-of American industry. They are. much more liable to: call | it hellish, UT if one is concerned about in- dustry in the abstract: one will care, as does Woll, much more about saving it from. the toil-hardened; pro- | letarians and leaving it:im its present | hands, This is what Woll proposes. Not quite so crudely but plain enough for the hired men-of the bosses: to, under- stand: Organized labor believes that it has worked a philosophy ,which is democratic—a philosophy that re- moves the necessity for State con- trol or overlordship of .industry... It believes too that THIS. PHILOSO- PHY WILL CAST, ASIDE FOR- EVER THE CHIMERA OF COM- MUNISM, SOCIALISM AND THE ‘BURDENSOMENESS OF STATE REGULATIONS WITH THEIR BLUNDERS’ AND RESTRICTIONS. ERE we have it: There is to be no government control of any- thing, least of all of industry. But whatare you going to do with the state, Vict-President Woll? It is noW organizedby and for the lords of industry and finance. ‘It is ‘THEIR state, . What if, in spite of all your fine pretensions, the state: of Morgan, Rockefeller and Co., insists on robbing great masses of the: workers? is evident that you do not care about this at all). What you are trying to do is to make:a® deal with this state and the great trusts and banks whose instrument. it is and leave the great majority of the work- ing class to shift for itself. You and your kind dre trying to be- come part of the ‘apparatus of Amer- ican capitalism. Rather, you are try- ing to become ‘a more important part of the ‘capitalist apparatus and this bid for the favor of the bosses you have called the “Monroe Doctrine of Industry.” It 1s a good name. It labels your scheme for What it is so plainly that every intelligent worker can understand that it is the application at’ home of the imperialist policy which Wall Street follows in Latin-America—a policy of peonage with labor aristocrats ag slave drivers. The Children of the Southland make their appearante. At firsi sight they appear to be a cross between a pig pen and a chicken-coop. huts the workers ‘6f tomor! bred and are soon out in the fields trotting behind their” mothers and sisters who push the plows thru the furrows of southern plantations, From’ dawn to dusk, we see the lit- tle ones slaving in the fields. Now and then the sight is broken by a prison camp and a slave driver, whip mands. Publicity and the British General July issue of The Labor Maga- the I zine, official organ of the Trades In these | Union Congress and labor party of Tow are | Great Britain, W. Mellor, assistant edi- tor of the Daily Herald, tells the story of the difficulties encountered in the production of The British Worker, of- ficial strike bulletin of the T. U. C. during the period of the general stop- page, Not only does Mellor’s story reveal in hand ready to enforce his com-|the difficulty of securing unity of ac- tion in a trade union movement di- E distinguish between prison vided on craft lines and with such camps and fields of wage labor: |C°Servative bodies as the British ELECTRIC POWER BIG FACTOR IN - REDUCING COAL TONNAGE FIGURES ers only by having autoists explain |"%ions of the skilled trades, but it to us which is which. The sight of |S#0ws the lack of plan or determina- frail-faced little boys and girls who |tion of the general council while in wave to us occasionally, stopping an |the throes of a struggle that had for instant in their work, makes us choke }!ts aim on the side of the government with tears and the little poem from | the complete annihilation ofthe trade the Young Communist International | Unions. Bulletin is forcibly brought to our] Not until the British Gazette, the minds that: government strikebreaking sheet, was jon the streets for fifteen hours, did the general council decide to issue a paper. It was printed by the Victoria House Printing company, which turns out the Daily Herald.. On the first appearance 350,000 copies were dis- posed of and when the strike was call- ed off one million copies were .rolling off the presses daily, z This remarkable circulation was se- cured despite all kinds of obstacles, due to government interference and also to craft jealousies, Pshould say that the principal obstacle in the way dustry for every '1,000,000 kilowatt: {of the British Worker was the:'T. U. hours of current, bY 1925 consumption |©- which edited or censored the paper had fallen to aboutwo-third ton, a re-{thtu its representatives. duction of nearly 34 per cent, Two of the most outstanding pieces The electrical output of the country | of stupidity committed by the T! U. C. expressed in millions of kilowatt |@uting the strike was the calling out hours, the total produced by fuels, and |of the workers on the labor press and the coal consumed by the industry are |the employes of the co-operatives. shown year by year since 1919 in the | They justified this procedure on the following: , ground of “fairness” to the enemy. Electrical Millions of Kw-hrs, “No fledgling feeds the father bird No chicken feeds |the hen No kitten mouses for the cat These glories are for men. We are the wisest, strongest race Long may our praise be sung. The only animal alive That lives upon its young.” eae 4 Tons of When the unions connected with outeut, Total fuel Coal used | the printing trades agreed to co-oper- ie ried wae vi retry ate in getting out the British Worker, 1921 40,976 25,863 36,240,000 |"#tes of waxes were fixed with the 1922 47,659 30,240 38,000,000 |"Blons, excepting the National Union 1923 55,674 36,092 48,822,000 |! Journalists, which is not affiliated 1924 69,014 38,808. .43,130,000 |t® the T. U. C, and was not officially 1925 65,801 43,233 44,700, on strike. The Paper Workers’ Union while the total tae Yes. supplied the distribution torce, per cent and the | The printing and distwbytjonof a fuels increased |P4Per on such short not a antity of fuel in- |COlossal task, and the su ined creased only 15 cent, If consump: | {8 another testimonial to onuree- tion of coal in 1925 had been at the |fulness of the working class, 1919 rate the i#@mtry would have} While the editorial directors ofthe used over 65,000,000 tons, British’ Worker were tied daily Thus duced increased amount produces 79 per cent, the tish | Strike apologies for the strike.and declaring that it was net a political struggle, the printers were. notified by the sta- tionary office that the government had commandeered. all paper the size of the Herald wherever it might be. Evidently the governmént did not agree that the strike had no political aspect. In fact the government was nothing else’ during the struggle ex- cept a strikebreaking organization. The embargo on paper was not lifted until after the T, U. C. called off the strike. The experience with the British Worker will be remembered ‘the next time the workers are engaged in life and death struggle with the employers and their government, There must be no jurisdiction squabbles over who is to do this or that and no nonsense about “fair play” tg’ the lying ca) italist press, DINNER PAIL EPIC By BILL LLOYD, Federated Press. To write my pome, I must not fail, tho I am shut. inside a jail. I ain't done nothin’ half so rude as this here moral turpitude, that thing what is the bugaboo of them who. think for me and you—like when at Hillis Island's door they let some in, but stop some more, All citizens should go to jail, for wunst to get upon the trail of thoughts and fears;and pain and doubt of them what's inside lookin’ out, and, know the beds, the board, the pail, and»such like fixins found in jail. Their views is ‘awful thumpin’ thin, when got from outside lookin’ in, Oh, gracious no, you needn't sin, to join the ranks of them what's in. This getting jugged is no more feat than walking on a quiet street. The sheep and goats ain't spaced so far as them on either side this bar. Now I have turned penologist, 1 rise, my friends, to sure insist that when to save from sin we fail, we might try burning down the jail, and push much nearer to our goal by let- ting turnkeys shovel coal, Ole Read it today and everyday in’ DAILY WORKER, | Without | following story could be shaped to WITH THE STAFF Being Things From Here and. There Which Have Inspired Us to Folly or Frenzy “BING!” SAYS BYNG. much whittling the fit Byng and King: The president of the corpora- tion blamed an employe for a mistake. The latter retorted in kind, showing up thé way the president spoiled things. The lat- ter’s dignity couldn’t stand it. “Are you the president of this | corporation?” “No, Sir.” “Well, in that. case,” he. thun- dered, “don’t talk like a fool.” eee For weeks to come the “issue” before the electors of Canada will be whether the governor general did right in reSasing King what he granted Meighen. As a matter of fact it doesn’t matter much whether he was right or wrong. The subject is only interesting in that it shows nine million people are subject to the irresponsible will of the representative of an- other nation—and still kid them- selves that they enjoy democracy. —J. S. Wallace in Canadian ‘Worker.” : “et © Beer a Necessityy Water Not. “MUNICH, July 5. —-After a long deliberation the city fathers have de- cided it was improper to levy a tax on beer as a means of acquiring funds for carrying out a building program to relieve the house shortage, on the grounds that necessities of life should not be taxed. “Then the magistrates appointed a committee whose business it was to find ways of bringing the necessary funds into the city coffers? After a long search trying to find a taxable article, the committee returned with a plan which was accepted. “Henceforth water will be taxed; The city will be richer by $600,000 yearly and the housing committee will | be able to use the funds thus required |for relief of the house shortage with- | out taxing necessities.” ia e@ DIVINE DISPLEASURE LOS ANGELES, July 14.—Police were at loss to identify the man who took a shot at John J. Kershner late last night. Kershner is the author of “The warned to remove his brochure from a culation.—News Item. If the truth you are seeking. of Aimee, And doing your dead level best To avoid speaking ill of a lady, You should put on a bullet-proof vest. For Jesus is there to reprove you, |And it won’t be a scriptural lark About women and stone-casting sinners, But it may be a shot in the dark. If you don’t think that Jesus is with her, And anxiety won’t let you rest; You may visit him soon and dis- cover, : If you,don’t wear a bullet-proof vest. see WHAT SAYETH THE DELPHIAN ORACLE? Throneless, jobless, hopeless, help- less and ‘worse than alone, King Geoxge of Greece intends to emigrate from his Roumanian refuge to’ the United States and hunt for a job, pro- vided somebody pays his passage, George's only visible means of sup- port (or alimony as the case may soon be unless the king connects with a Payroll), is a wife of considerable pulchritude. Unfortunately there are thousands of Russian duchesses will- ing to wash dishes for a pittance that would make even the king of Portu- gal go on strike, So low have the king and queen of Greece sunk in the social scale that even the monarch of all the Rouman- ians not yet murdered or in jail, will not eat with them. George was of- fered a $40,000 a year “honorarium” by a Worida real estate company but before he had tima to snap it up Ponzi waded in and 4, up the bub- ble. Now there is nothing left for George except a look-out job on Blue Island Avenue, But that only pays in hard knocks—usually lead, if one Biank For Remarks, A track supervisor got the fol- lowing note from a foreman: “Buclosed is the accident report concerning Pat Casey's hitting hiss foot with a spike maul. You will: note that I left blank the apace, provided for “remarks? I didnt. know if you wanted mine or Casey's.” ¥ : ae ' Get your friends to subscribe to the: merican Worker Correspondent, The price is only 50 cents a year, t “eng, SUNG atte tata