The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 18, 1926, Page 4

Page Four THE DAILY WORKER THE DAILY WORKER Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 1118 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Il. Phone Monroe 4712 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mall (In Chicago only) By mall (outside of Chicago): $8.00 per year $4.50 six months | $6.00 per year $3.50 six months $2.50 three months $2.00 three months | Address all mail and make out checks to 4 THE DAILY WORKER, 1118 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, IIlInols J. LOUIS ENGDAHL \. Editors | Business Manager WILLIAM F. DUNNE MORITZ J, LOEB. —<— ee eeeSeSFS Entered as second-class mail September 21, 1923, at the post-office at Chi- cago, lil, under the act of March 8, 1879. Advertising rates on application. | <a> 230 Amalgamation in the Needle Trades The present situation in the New York clothing industry is one that should bring the question of amalgamation of the unions} sharply to the attention of the membership. fe | We The Furriers’ Union has just concluded a four-months’ strike— fortunately successful. J Hardly had the Furriers’ settlement been made when 40,000 cloakmakers, members of the International Ladies’ Garment Work- ers’ Union, are forced to strike. Then 8,000 members of the Capmakers’ Union begin a similar struggle with the bosses. 10,000 cleaners and dyers strike. And now the Amalgamated Glothing Workers have made de- mands on the employers for wage increases and improved working conditions which it is probable they can obtain only by a strike. Here are four different unions all working towards the same end in the same industry but divided by craft distinctions into separate organizations, each with its separate treasury, its separate circle of officials but each dependent upon the support of ‘the others for success. If such an arrangement were proposed to a sane person who had not been prejudiced by existing institutions he would reject it as childish. There is tremendous rank and file support for amalgamation in the needle trades industry. The series of wage disputes and strikes puts it on the order of business of every union involved. The present situation should be utilized to drive home the need for amalgamation and to begin activity, in those unions where of- cial opposition exists, for the calling ef an amalgamation confer- ence. | King Albert's “Socialists” The Belgian dictatorship could not have been established with- out the endorsement of the social-democrats. They voted for it and for King Albert as dictator. Vandervelde, socialist minister in the Belgian cabinet, has been one of the most unscrupulous critics of the workers’ and peasants’ government of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics because it is the dictatorship of a class—the working class. He and his party, how- ever, have given their public sanction to the dictatorship of the Bel- gian capitalists—concealed somewhat before—but now personified openly in the person of a member of a royal family. a The socialist party of Amreica has always been very fond of “Comrade” Vandervelde. His writings have been circulated exten- sively by them and when he went to Russia in 1923 to defend the counter-revolutionists of the social-revolutionary party before a Soviet court, he was hailed as a hero. We will be glad to peruse the American socialist party explana- tion of this method of waging the class struggle. Many times the| Belgian socialists have refused to enter a united front with the Com- | munists against the Belgian capitalists and they are now in a united | | front with these same capitalists against the Belgian working class. ; One of the first acts of the dictatorship is to be the handing over | of the government-owned railways to private hands. There have been many betrayals of the working class by the | socialists of a flagrant nature, such as the mass murder of the Ger-| man workers by the social-democrat Noske, the entry of the social- democrats into the bloody Zankov government of Bulgaria, the sup- port of the war of the Polish and French capitalists upon the Soviet Union by the Polish socialists, the oppression of the workers and peasants of India by MacDonald, the refusal to struggle against | fascism by the Italian socialists, but the act of the Belgian socialist | party synthesises all of these betrayals and shows to the working | class that the socialist policy is a capitalist policy, that it will, if | it can, lead the working class into monarchial fascism if it be- lieves that this is the best way of keeping capitalism alive, NINETEEN HUNDRED AND NINE By C. E. RUTHENBERG, General Secretary, Workers (Communist) Party. N July 15th there were 1,909 party members who had paid the special assessment for the United Labor Ticket campaign and their pay- ment had been remitted to’ the national office. This leaves more than ten thousand party members whose payment of the assessment has not yet been remitted to the national office. No doubt part of these have paid the assessment. but the settlement has not been made. There are, however, large numbers of party members—probably more than half—who have not yet made their payment of this special assessment. , The date for the settlement of the special assessment is July 31st. Every party member must pay the assessment by that time or be in bad standing by the party. E ery‘shop and street nucleus must remit the amount collected to the national organization. The party is urgently in need of the funds to be collected thru this isment to give its work another forward push and to make bigger achievements for the party. By August ist, every party unit will be advised in regard to the widespread propaganda and organization cam- paign which will bring a clear statement of the party principles and policies before hundreds of thousands of workers and which should result in adding thousands of members to the present membership. The money to be collected thru the special help finance this work. The work of collecting the assessment must be out of the way to clear the road for this propaganda and organization campaign. Every party unit is asked to make an effort during ie balance of this month to complete the special assessment fund. Organize to collect the assessment from every party member. Send in the remittance to reach the national office not later than July 31st, The party shows, by Its action In handling organizational questions as well as the political campaigns, its character as a Communist Party. Special assessment funds collection thus far is not a credit to the party. Every secretary, every nucleus, should exert its full strength to redeem this showing during the balance of the month of July. CURRENT EVENTS By T. J. O'Flaherty. —_—_— (Continued from page 1) are yet some accommodating canni- bals in existence: who would transport Mr, Davis to heavenly bliss by testing the nutritive qualities of his hindquar- ters. Those happy meateaters say | their prayers over a juicy forkful of roast evangelist with as much fervor as an®anti-saloon leaguer thanking the lord and John D. Rockefeller for a fat contribution. O doubt the socialist party of America will protest as vigorously over the establishment of a royal dic- tatorship in Belgium as they did over | the proletarian dictatorship in Russia, They can only do this, however, at the expense of the socialist parliamentary fraction of Belgium, which voted by a substantial majority to grant King Al- bert the necessary dictatorial powers, have always insisted ‘that\ the workers did not have to choose be- tween democracy or dictatorship, but between a dictatorship of their own or one of, by and for the employers. That is what things are rapidly ‘head- ing for in Europe, MONG those present at the conven- tion of the Elks was Mr. Ralph Hasley, head of the National Civic Fed- eration. Easley is many other things besides an Elk. His organization is a valuable weapon in the arsenal of the anti-labor forces. This notorious foe of everything that is good for organ- ized labor visited the headquarters of the Chicago Federation of Labor while in town. A guide chaperoned Mr. Hasley to the federation radio station. If Mr, Easley visits The DAILY WORKER we will show him our nice little fire escape. By WILLIAM F, DUNNE, HE Chicago Tribune for June 14, in an editorial entitled, “Soviet In- trigue in China,” gives expression to the present policy of American impe- rialism in that portion of the globe. Giving first some melodramatic inci- dents occurring in the struggle going on in China between Soviet Russia supporting the national liberation movement, the Chinese liberation movement itself, and, the imperialist powers, the Tribune élafms that there has been a decrease sit’ Soviet influ- ence in China in the six months. It is particularly a with what it calls “a considerable gain in public opinion and some: pj etical organiza- tion for defense from Soviet propa: ganda” in central and morthern China. HIS “practical ganization” con- sists of the armiés of Wu Pei-fu and Chatg Tso-lin, the first a protege. of both Great Britaia and American, imperialism as ‘one Gr the other has the inside track at various times, the other an acknowledged agent of Japan. The wholesale extertions and butch- eries practiced by these two militar- ists are what the Tribune is praising. But more interesting and significant than this praise of two Chinese trait- ors is the view of what to do and what section of the national liberation ‘ America’s Present Policy In China “Soviet Influence”—‘Asiatic Intrigue”—“Practical Organization Against It’”—U. 8. Imperialism’s Allies in China—What America Wants in China—The Basis of Soviet Russia’s Influence—Independence—For Whom? The final result will depend a good deal upon the tact and reasonable- ness of the foreign diplomacy and the good sense of the foreign colo- nies in China, Respect for the Chi- nese amour propre and a sincere sympathy, practically expressed as far as possible, for the LEGITI- MATE aspirations of the Chinese for independence and progress will help materially to support THE BEST ELEMENT OF CHINESE LEADER- SHIP. (Our emphasis.) EGITIMATE aspirations” are those which do not interfere with the ability of imperialists to exploit the Chinese masses. “The best element of Chinese leader- ship” is that which will, in return for a small share in the proceeds of the robbery, aid the imperialist program in China. These are the accepted definitions of these phrases in the imperialist dic- tionaries, Soviet Russia sympathizes with and aids the Chinese national liberation movement as much as it can. It can- not do otherwise, because it is a work- ers’ and peasants’ government carry- ing out the policy of the Communist Party of Russia—the party that is in power. If it followed the same. policy as the imperialist powers do—that of movement to support, expressed by |seeking to divide and weaken China the Tribune. in this connection that Charles Strawn, American representative on the Chi- It should be remembered fand make it easier prey for the flock of international vultures—it would be fought by the Chinese Communist nese international commission, is a|Party and the Kuomintang represent- Chicago man. We quote: “Public Sympathy” and the Traction Strike HE NEW YORK TIMES, foremost Wall Street newspaper, has been the most diligent propagandist against the strike of the traction slaves of the Interboro system, From, the first it proclaimed the strike injudicious, uncalled for and an affront to the public, After the failure of Hedley, Quack- enbusch and Connolly to break the strike by threatening the men that unless they returned last “Monday noon they would lose their precious “seniority” to work for long hours at less than $5 per day and in some cases below $3, The Times, in one of its customarily slimy editorials, as- serts that the strikers “instantly lost public sympathy.” This remark bears analysis. Just who are the public? Certainly any in- telligent estimate of the public ought to take into consideration the 12,000 furriers who have just come thru a long strike and who, from the first, have pledged support, both moral and financial, to the strike, Likewise it is rather ridiculous to exclude the 40,000 striking cloak makers who have also expressed sympathy with and pledged full. support of the strike. Consider- ing the fact that some of the most essential elements of the public. have given organized expression of sympa- thy with the strike and hundreds of thousands of workers are. thoroly in accord with the strikers’ revolt against the company and its fake union it ; Seems that a substantial part of the public are with the strikers. : It is one of thecustomary tricks of the capitalist press, which speaks only for a small section of the ruling class, of the exploiters of labor and the plundérers of the rest of society, to arrogate to thémselves the privilege of speaking for “the public.” Their won- By T. J. O’7FLAHERTY. HOPE it is not yet too late.to call attention of the readers of The DAILY WORKER to the July issite of The Labor Defender, the official organ of the International Labor Defense. Perhaps the issue is all sold out by now—I hope so—but if any of our readers have not secured a copy I urge you ta send a dime and a few cents for postage to International Labor De- fense headquarters, 23 South” Lincoln street, There is usually a few left over for emergencies. Better still, send in a dollar and the postman -will bring a copy to your door twelve times a year, The July number is a Sacco-Vanzgtti issue, tho it does not say so. e cover picture represents millions of workers demonstrating for the two fa- mous victims of class injustice and in the center is a picture of the death chair drawn by Fred Ellis. Leading several splendid articles is an appeal for a united front to save Sacco and Vanzetti by Eugene V. Debs, national chairman of the soeial- ist party. And a united front it is, for Communists, syndicalists, social- ists, anarchists, progressives and lib- erals and trade ‘unionists without any political affiliation are mobilized un- der the banner of the I. L. D. to rescue those two brave working-class fighters from the fate which the capitalists of ‘|New England have marked out for them, The Sacco-Vanzetti case has first call upon the purse strings and heart strings of the American working class at this time, and it is a pleasure to note that only in a few more instances have we witnessed such a cheering spectacle as the unity that is dembpn- strated by all sections of the working class to save the lives of two foremost champions of labor, This is really one ‘ ception of the public is limited to the Interboro bosses, the scabs, the Tam- many police, the pen prostitutes on their papers and thé. other miserable lackeys who fawn ADefore the Wall Street gang. The traction strikers “have the sup- port and sympathy of dll worthwhile public elements. The public, The Times speaks for, can be silenced the moment labor decides to stand to- gether politically and economically. Sudan Cotton and U. S. Intrigue Riles Lord LONDON, July 16.—Lord Lloyd, the British high commissioner to Egypt, is due to make an interesting report to the cabinet when he arrives here from Cairo, Lord Lloyd has an attack to make on the foreign diplomats in Egypt, par- ticularly the American minister, for “unjustified meddling in the inter1f&l affairs of Egypt.” Altho the condomiiiium agreement between England and Egypt says that the British governor of Sudan is de- pendent on Egyptian authority, Lord Lloyd refuses to abide by this treaty. He insists that the Sudan is the future treasure house of the British empire, producing enough ¢otton to make Great Britain independpnt of American cotton. Lord Lloyd is also ‘opposed to the withdrawal of British troops from Egypt, where they stay only by force, since by the treaty Egypt is an inde- pendent nation and has demanded their withdrawal, The Labor Defender for July SEND IN A SUBI of the most hopeful signs oy,the labor horizon in these days a general apathy and inaction. Other outstanding features in the July issue of the Labor Defender are articles by Robert inor on the Mooney and Billings famenp and by Ralph Chaplin, the I. W. W. poet, on the Centralia case. There is also a short, snappy story by Anton J. Jo- hannsen of the carpenters’ union on the conviction of Matthew Schmidt and Dave Caplan, who were sentenced to life and ten years*Tespectively in California, tig But my favorite settion is “Voices from Prison.” Here you read the let- ters of the men who.are behind the prison bars, and I © it that no worker, regardless of political affilia- tion, can fail to be, moved to the depths on reading thoughts of Sacco, Vanzetti, Mc ara, Billings, Schmidt, Danny Fallop, Peter Dirks and the many other elass war. pris- oners who suffer their purgatory with- out a murmur behind the walls of the capitalist dungeons. On the whole, The Labor Defender is a worthy organ of the International Labor Defense, Edited by the promis- ing young proletarian journalist, Max Shachtman, the magazine is attractive and at the same time a valuable record. of the class struggle in America, in the past as well as the present. To boost the circulation of The Labor Defender should be one of the duties of every worker. At least one-third of it is devoted to illustrations, It is sold fora dime. This is a bargain, . T have been informe@ that the next issue of The Labor Deténder is coming. off the press and that it will be a Frank Little number, "As soon as a proof copy is aval The DAILY WORKER will give you the “high sign” on it, ing the class and national interests of CONDUCTED - BY TH, aaa REN the Chinese workers and peasants. CAUSE the workers’ and peasants’ government of Russia looks with sympathy upon. the efforts of the 400,000,000 Chinese toilers to free themselves from both native and for- eign robbers—the phase of the Chi- nese liberation movement which gives it its great power of resistance and militancy—the imperialists are hard pressed to. counteract its wide popw larity in-China, ‘So they speak of “the Asiatic pas- sion for intrigue” and say that “the Russian is really an Oriental,” etc., while trying by all methods to make peace with the trading, manufacturing and landlord elements, UT the Tribune is not optimistic. It says that “the south seems still to be a hotbed of radicalism, and in the industrial district of Shanghai Communism finds good soil.” Moreover, it cites the fact of the recent defeat of Wu Pei-fu’s troops by Cantonese forces and the repulse of Chang Tso-lin’s army by the people’s army north and west.of Pekin. The official American desire for the welfare of the Chinese people and |. their aspirations for independence amounts then to this—complete hos- tility to every section of the Chinese people except the upper class, “the best element,,” which the imperialists believe can be used in aiding its schemes of conquest. We should keep this in mind when we hear and read official expressions of “friendship” for China, OUR SCHOOL IN WISCONSIN By JENNIE SAARI. 'N my first letter about the Young Workers’ Summer School which is being conducted by the Young Work- ers’ League and the Workers (Com- munist) Party with the support of various co-operatives, women’s sec- tions and independent workers’ or- ganizations in the Ninth district, I told about our subjects, instructors, the number of students and where they come from, the locality of the school and how our work progressed in the first two weeks. Now I wish to tell about events and activities of the past week. No Holiday on Fourth, We did not declare Fourth of July (that is, Monday) a holiday, but con- tinued our work and studies. One hundred and fifty years ago that day promised to the people of this coun- try freedom, equality and justice. As far as the working class is concerned, the fruits of the American Revolution today are everything else but that— the worker today is faced with politi- cal.oppression and economic slavery. The exploiting class reaped the ben- efits of that revolution. But there is another revolution on the way, and in that the working class will come into its own, “Our Boys” Lose Ball Game. On the Fourth some of the students attended the workers’ picnic at Su- perior; a few living nearby spent the day at home. As you know, the Fourth came on Sunday, and on that day we have no classes. The greater part of the stu- dents attended the second baseball game between our own team and a team of local youths. The rain ended the game in the seventh inning and our boys lost, 10 to 9. The week be- fore our team won. The game was very interesting and a good spirit was shown by both teams, as well as the onlookers, After the game we had a “weiner roast” near our swim- ming place, instead of the regular supper, but a sudden. shower forced us finally to go into one of the larger camps that have been provided for the boys and we finished our meal there. Several of us got wet, but everyone agreed it was fun, and no serious after effects for anybody. Comrade Foster visited the school on the 3rd and spoke to us. We had looked forward to his visit and the fact that he went to all the inconve- nience of a tiresome drive when he had several urgent things to attend to really gave us added understand- ing of the importance of educating working youth, Comrade George Halonen, who is the educational director of the Go- operative Central Exchange located in Superior, Wis., lectured to us on thé co-operative movement on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. On Friday Comrade Eskel Ronn, manager of the Exchange, spoke to us on the his- tory of the establishment. Both of them lectured two periods in the aft- ernoon of the days they were here. Getting Acquainted. By this time all the students are thoroly acquainted with the work they. have undertaken, the purpose of the school, etc. In addition, they know each other better and work together. All the comrades are doing good, not only in their studies by other activi- ties also. ‘Their slogan is: Work hard and play hard. Every Wednesday evening we have a program and dance, to which out- siders are also invited. We are con- ducting a very interesting wall-paper twice a week. Certain evenings and periods of the day are given over to circle discussions, model nuclei meet- ings, meetings of the various commit- tees and the student body as a whole. Our whole group has been divided into seven model nuclei, according to the work we are engaged in, and thru this model organization we learn con- cretely the lessons of organization. And when, in addition, we have the formal lectures on various subjects, you can see we are kept quite busy. Discover New Talent. But through this work we are dis- covering among ourselves really ca- pable speakers, writers, poets, artists, actors, secretaries and functionaries of all kinds, among them both the girls and boys. It does happen tho, even here, that some of the most capable comrades are being loaded with more work than the others, but thru organization, we are managing to give everyone an opportunity to do something and dividing the tasks among all in the group. Bosses Use Factory as School for Slavery By Young Worker Correspondent. _- Mostly in every big factory where hundreds of young workers are em- ployed, the bosses use various means of agitation to keep the young work- ers in darkness and satisfaction of their miserable conditions. It is not enough for the bosses to pay us a $10 wage and to compel us to work 10 hours, a day, they also want us to be satisfied with those favors. In every big factory the bosses are issuing slogans similar to our wall pa- pers, with various stories, pictures tell- ing all the favors which the company does to the workers, Last week on the walls of our fac- was a big poster, which described a boss surrounded with beam lights like the picture of Jesus Ghrist, hold- ing a telephone receiver asking: “What are you here for?” and various type of workers answering, “We important members of this organiza tion,” and the boss replies to It, | “Every good worker who works in harmony with the management is an important member of our organization. It is a fifty-fifty proposition.” The average American young worker receiving the education in tte public schools and believing in the opportu- nities in this country still believes that in the concern in which he works a fifty-fifty proposition exists. Those slogans issued by the bosses in com- parison with the real conditions in the shops serves a good mean for agita- tion, Our comrades must make use of those posters or in many cases bulle- tins issued by the firms to agitate the young workers and to bring them nearer to the Class struggle. Qik today on page 3, Pi ma: \ WITH THE STAFF Being Things From Here and There Which Have Inspired Us to Folly or Frenzy What Has Become Of the old-fashioned cinnamon rolls?) Maw used to feed Paw and the kids with these luscious pas tries, Even the bakeries used to make;’em purty fair, At least they had oinnamon in ’em. Then, about the time. capitalist imperialism be- gan the cinnamon started to disap pear. As the age of monopoly ad- vances the cinnamon roll becomes a thing that is not what it used to be, As Wall Street spreads its tentacles ‘over all the earth and closes its fangs upon the lives of nations, the cinnamon in the ‘einnamon roll has darn near disappeared. We're for a Labor Party that will, raise the slo- gan: “Cinnamon rolls with cin- namon.” se WHY, OH WHY? One little editor _ (Hope he isn't dead) Then there came a heat wave And he lost his head. yo @ Long Live the Daily (Of its staff there is no sign) It's the wonder of the ages It's always out on time, e * Long Live the Daily (Without a staff, by Gum) The wonder of the ages That it’s not on the bum, ee Democracy’s Sideshows “What would happen if English tourists would arrange a burlesque de- bate in the capitol at Washington?” queries the London Evening Standard, regarding the scene staged by Lady Astor when she showed a party of Americans from Chicago an imitation of parliamentary proceedings in the hduse of commons, We tremble to think, yet we would bet the audience would” be amused even more than at Earl Carroll’s bath- tub party. Incidentally, the speaker of the house of commons, uttered the follow- ing decree: “Henceforth, members will strietly observe the rule prohibiting visitors from sitting on the floor of the house.” Who wants to sit on the floor? oe. © bes MIGHTY POWERS FEAR A MOUSE. GENEVA, July Everyone in the League of Nations at the information t nor Bulgari border battle Nation’s councel| But there are reasons. Roumania wants no trouble with the league because she wants the league to give her part of the territory of Transylvania. igaria we to loan her jue of Nations from either or Bulgaria, because it hi ‘4 enough trouble elsewhere, with 86: resigning and Spain threatening to qa if not given Tangier. ‘An old: lady Who lived in Geneva Had troubles enough for to peeva, For the bad Bolsheviks With their infernal tricks Taught the world that it couldn't believa, no But with heart quite courageous, the Jami Started out on the pathway to fame; Yet all she could say When she fell by the way, Was—"'Tchitcherin, the Red, is to blame.” WINDMILL OR GIN MILL? A newly elected senator was making his maiden speech, dur- ing which he frequently pounded his desk and waved his arms as if in frantic appeals to his col- leagues. “What do you think of him?” whispéred Senator Watson of Georgia to Senator Reed of Mis- souri, “Oh, he can’t help it,” answered Reed: “It’s a birthmark.” “A what?” “A birthmark,” repeated Reed. “His mother .was sc! windmill.’ —From The Bookbin * ee MORE STABILIZATION OF, CAPITAL. Hundreds of gold mines in ti are now idle because wa i have put them out of business. costs an ounce to mine 0G, no gold mine can operate, use it can sel this ounce of id” for only $20.67 in an: market.—The Mining Congress Journal. — -|Whined a weepy, weary Willie © As he mooched us on the streets, When we asked him how he got that way 4 And shared the price of eats— “Once T had a wife and children; Once the sun on me did shine; * But T lost my home and fortune _ When I struck gold in a mine” — -s 8 @ * OW BEARING FRUIT. Our estimable contemporary (we al: ways like to be polite to the Chicage yaa bgt the ‘Rocketel 8 pushin: in the, “backward” pee juts a headline on it th iy rs War On Malaria the i t agai H 4 the use of ate iat Imosgulte, larva im seunee ene, Cit: guy Pes in the ties soa"ang a tale ba that the rule” th ate ing from Be the variety plume - Cid