The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 20, 1926, Page 6

Page Six i HE DAILY WORKER THE DAILY WORKER Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 1113 W, Washington Blvd., Chicago, I 1, Phone Monroe 4732 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mali (in Chicago only): $8.00 per year $4.50 six months 50 three months By mail (outside of Chicago): $6.00 per vear $3.50 six months { $2.00 three months Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, IlInots J, LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F, DUNNE MORITZ J. LOEB.......... Editors .Business Manager Entered as second-class mail September 21, 1923, at the postoifice at Chi- | cago, Ill, under the act of March 3, 1879. = Advertising rates on application. =” ee ae Pandering in Ignorance NE of the most repulsive features of decadent capitalism is its ef fort to harmonize the prejudices of all the divergent elements of society. In the South, where the small bour- geoisie wage a bigoted fight against the introduction of even the most ele- mentary facts of modern science, 80 essential to heavy industry, the teach- ing of the facts regarding man’s blood relationship to the anthropoid apes is prohibited, in some places by legis- lative enaetment, in others by decree of school authorities, In the state of Texas the state toxt- book commission has a sub-committee on “modification of textbooks on bio- logy.” | This committee has been able to influence in a most disgraceful manner the publishers of books out- side the state. It was recently an- nounced that the publishing house of Henry Holt & Co., of New York, has omitted three chapters from the edi- tion of Moon’s “Biology for Begin- ners,” sent to Texas. Allyn & Bacon of Boston announce that they have not had to change their textbooks to suit the prejudices of the Texas ig- noramuses because their publications are “tactfully written” (meaning per- verted to comply with fundamentalist religion). Even the Macmillan com- pany confesses that it has been forced to make changes in one of its pub- ications dealing with “Healthful Liv- ing” because of a reference to evolu tion. The author, one Jessie Feiren Williams, suppliantly consented to the change. Thus, by their repulsive pandering to ignorance and prejudice, the school children, unfortunate enough to live in Texas, will be taught one thing, while other school children will be taught another, out of what are sup- posedly the same textbooks, Certainly this deplorable condition of affairs cannot go unchecked, The right of bigots to pollute the minds of children must be combated by in- tense agitation and education on the part of the revolutionary’ workers. Popular leaflets dealingewith the fun- damentals of evolution should be dis- tributed among the childrerf living in such backward regions. We have enough morons in this country with- out manufacturing fundamentalists to order. Tammany’s Uniformed Scab Herders ‘ 8 alarm of the New York State Federation of Labor, of the New Yorw City Central Trades and Labor Council, and other so-called labor lead- ers who support Tammany Hall and who boosted Al. Smith’s Broadway butterfly, “Jimmy” Walker, for mayor of the city, can now see the logical outcome of such a policy. as they view the hundreds of uniformed and plain clothes policemen that guard the scabs and try to intimidate the kers and their sympathizers at every subway and elevated station of the Interborough Rapid Transit com- pany. We do not comment upon this shameful spectacle because we hope to convince these labor leaders of the error of their wa They support cap- italist class candidates because they are part and parcel of the Tammany gang of corruptionists. They are the hired tools of Wail eet, taking or- ders from the foul Tammany baliwick Smith and Judge Olvany on h street in New York, Most of the subway strikers are Irish, which indicates that heretofore they have permitted themselves to be herded to the polls in support of Tam- many. This strike ought to teach all of them, and undoubtedly will teach many, that the sleek, hand-shaking, back-slapping, baby-kissing ward heel- ers are their enemies, the agents of the trust. From now on many of these workers can be convinced that their interests will be best served by a labor ticket in New York. New York, under control of a labor administration today, would help as- sure the vietory of the strikers. If extra polite are needed, the workers’ administration could use the strikers themselves for this purpose. A labor government of the city could arrest as criminals and yagrants any imported scabs and could emphatically tell Hedley, Quackenbusch and Connolly that if they cannot run the traction lines and pay decent wages to the workers who are entrusted with the lives of mililons of workers, the city will run them, The Government Agent in Passaic A, Moffatt, a commissioner of conciliation of the United States de- partment of labor, whose utterences gainst the Passaic strikers character- ized the s of that struggle, has ard from. Thi peaks thru the recent. citizen's committee” ity an attempt of the atically to organ- t campaign against the so evidence that organized under 1ence of the notorioous swind- impostor, ‘cheap publicity stool pigeon, Nosovitsky, considerati has promis- 2 strike re not at all surprised p Moffatt d up with this crew nst the strike, It is precisely what expected, and we point it out here only for purpose of emphas: the role of the government as a strike breaker. Moff hatte and who, ed to mmunists th tt, formerly an official of the union, was rewarded for his tre ery as a reactionary labor offi- cial by an appointment to a soft job with the government. He horned in on the Paterson textile strike of two years ago awd soon found himself on the defe Place. His first app nce at Passaic was a fizzle and he remained silent for a time. Now, w ve and forced to leave the professional spies and strikebreakers are organizing the forces of reaction, he again comes for- ward with the customary banal lies to the effect that the leadership of the strike is subsidized by Commun- ists. This charge is so threadbare that it is unworthy of consideration. Communists act because of -convic- tion and not because they are paid by the party, That is something that gov- ernment agents cannot comprehend, as their loyalty to anything is always measured in dollars and cents paid in salary and available as the spoils of office, otherwise known as plain graft. What is noteworthy, tho, is the tatement of Moffatt, thru the citizen’s committee, that the textile strikers are not aided by the United Front Com- mittee unless they become members of the committee, which is a crude ef- fort to convey the notion that there are strikers not in sympathy with the leadership which organized the United Front Committee This charge is not made to influence Passaic strikers, but to distort facts to the supporters of the strike outside Passaic in an effort to alienate them. This attempt, like other similar con- against the strike, will fail ‘ganized labor and other sym- pathizers with the heroic Passaic workers will redouble their support as a rebuke to Moffatt and the ku klux citizens’ committee. LOCAL 22, NEW YORK GARMENT WORKERS, GREET FREDA REICHER New York Local 22 of the Interna sent the following greeting to Freda lar sanitarium in Colorado to serve ou prison for defying Judge Denis BE. Sw dressmakers in 1924; “Freda Reicher “Cook County Jail, “Chicago, ML, Courageous Spirit. “Dear Comrac “The executive board of dressmak- ers union Local 22 congratulates you with your brave and courageous act in facing your prison sentence in such {condition as you are for the great cause of labor. We are proud of you. Your act proves the great devotion ang wonderful spirit we always ad- tional Ladies’ Garment Workefs’ Union Reicher, who returned from a tubercu- t a 30-day jail senténce in Cook County llivan injunction against the striking mired in you and we hope to see you \soon free and well among our ranks again, Rap Capitalist Justice. “Your spirit will help you to over- come the unjust and brutal punish- ment imposed upon you by organized capital, “Julius Portnoy, “Secretary executive board Dress- makers’ Union, Local 24,” WRITE AS YOU FIGHT! | That Strike Would End—‘Honorable Settlement” Refuted by Fact of Strike—‘Avoiding Friction”—Workers Jailed for Criticism of General Council—Council Fears Criticism—Seeks United Front Against Miners—The | Interests of 1,200,000 Miners Threatened—Motive Behind Postponement of Conference of Trade Union Executives—Vain Hope | | | Basis of the New Proposal—What Will the Miners Get Out of It? LOUDS have appeared over the | battlefield on which the British }coal miners are fighting. Negotia- | tions, understandings and mutual con- \cessions with the plainest of motives fare taking place behind the backs of {the strikers, Once again the fight of \these 1,200,000 miners is being \threatened. And not because the | pressure the bourgeoisie are bring- ing to bear is steadily increasing, |nor because Churchill and Birken- head, “slavering ‘furious froth at the mouth,” are hot-headedly intermed- dling with threats to all and sundry. No, not for that reason, but because the General Council has again pub- licly announced that it is going to | etxend its “support” to the miners. It “supported” them once before, but much as the hangman’s noose does his victim. 'T has now once more taken up with the miners, its interest in them having, quite “by chance” coincided up with the conference of trade union executives at which the general coun- cil was to have reported on its dis- graceful action. A funny thing happened to this con- ference, The general council was to have called it immediately after the strike in order to report to those from whom it had received its powers. The general council postponed the confer- ence to June 25 in the hope that be- fore that time the miners’ strike would finish one way or the other and so enable it to report in an at- mosphere of calm, i. e., simply bury unpleasant debates, obtain a full am- nesty and absolution from dt sins. 'N spite of the general council and all its pulling of strings, the min- ers’ strike continued. Well did the council leaders realize that to report on what they had done while the min- lers were still out would be a stiff job; it would have had to explain ex- actly how the strike was called off, what “guarantees” it ‘had got and so on. The fact that the miners are still out is a plain enough refutation of all the big ‘talk of both the Right and the so-called Left Wingers on the general council about their having concluded an honorable settlement. HE miners’ strike thus brought about an unexpected alteration in the plans of the council politi cians. When it turned out that the min- ers’ strike was still being carried on and would be continued during the conference, *the general council be- gan maneuvering, began outflanking and enveloping movements, with an objective obvious to, all. On the eve of the conference of executives the general council hgnded over £10,000 to the Miners’ Federation of Great Britain by way of help; then it be gan to coax and wheedle the Miners executive into agreeing to a postpone ment of the conference of executives, promising in return to support the strike. Its maneuvers were crowned with success. In the general council's statement about the postponement o7 the conference of executives we are told that: “The general council and the Miners’ Federation of Great Britain consider this measure extremely necessary as a common policy will have to be worked out to offer maximum resistance to the govern- ment’s activities. The general council and the M. F, G. B. attach the greatest importance to the rally- ing together of all groupings in the labor movement whose representa- tives must avoid press or platform statements likely to call forth fric- tion and misunderstanding and to distract attention from the main objective.” ‘VERY word in the statement is a gem by itself; It seems the gen- eral council considers it necessary “to work out a common policy. But on what basis? That the miners give in to the coal owners? Seemingly. for the phrase about “resistence to the government’s. activities” contains nothing at all concrete. The main, the crying issue just now is the min ers’ fight, yet there is nothing said about this question, altho they make up for that by particularly emphasiz ing that it is essential “to avoid press or platform statements likely to call forth friction and misunderstanding.” What speeches are meant? Of course those against the policy of the gener- al council. It considers any criticism of its action as extremely harmful as this might tend “to distract atten- tion from the main objective.” OW, what is the general council's “main objective?” To help the miners? If they had wanted to do that then there would have been no reason for calling off the strike, The general council's main objective is to jcover up its own work of betrayal; and it goes without saying that speeches and articles are just the thing to prevent the attainment of this “main objective” of theirs. Thus in return for a vague promise of inde- finite support the general council de- mands complete silence and the let- ting up of all criticism whatsoever. In whose interést?” Tf we had enoug’ information on this seore, it migh The General Council Intrigues Against the British Coal Miners be possible to get an explanation from vaunted British justice: British courts today are sentencing workers to imprisonment for criticiz- ing the general council. So you see the defense of the general council's “chastity and innocence”lis in the, if not particularly chaste istill power- ful enough hands of the ‘“non-class” British courts. } MOST alarming symptom from the viewpoint of the fate of the British strike is that these transpar- ent maneuvers of the géeral council, which are plainly to the ‘detriment of the miners, have, unfortunately, met with support and sympathy in the miners’ executive. In Cook's opinion, the postponement of the conference of executives is to be put down to the ‘desire to throw up a united front of the trade union movement to beat off the attacks on Soviet Russia.’ We do not think so. HE struggle against the attacks on the U. S. S. R. may be fought along with the attacks on the gen- eral council’s betrayal. To defend the U. S. S. R. from attack there is no need whatsoever for an amnesty and exoneration of the traitors and ca- pitulators on the general council. But just let Cook speak for himself and tell us what he thinks is the head and front of the question: “The general council,” he says, “has at last convinced itself of the friendly way in which the working masses are supporting the miners and that it is high time the leaders re-established the united front they broke on May the 12th when they called off the gen- eral strike, instead of wasting time in mutual recriminations at the confer- ence held on June 25th.* HIS lets the light of day in on the whole business. The leaders want to re-establish the united front. Against whom? Against the mine owners? But then why did they ever break it? Maybe they have taken heart of grace and do really want to come to the defense of the miners now? Why don’t they say so then? The general council has given the miners a vague promise about.raising the question of stopping the transport of coal. But what does the council demand from this promise? Accord- ing to Cook’s words, the council asks the Miners’ Federation of Great Brit- ain to let bygones be bygones in face | FE see that the general council de- mands a great deal in return for. its promises pledging it to nothing, To let bygones be bygones means to for- get the betrayal of the 12th of May. Why must the miners forget Yel- low Wednesday? What will they get for such round shriving? Renewal of the general strike? No! ‘The holding up of the movement ;of coal? Again no! All the miners will get is the sight of the general council again inter- fering in their strike. And if these bankrupts and capitulants take a hand in the game what is likely to result? They will seek for compromise, seek for an understanding at any price, there will be a fresh wiping of the feet on the mat at 10 Downing street, more pitiful words, and in the upshot they will slapdash and whitewash, with a deal of new phraseology, their old treachery, HE council’s interference in the miners’ business is already begin- ning to yield its fruit. Herbert Smith, the miners’ president, has already stated that he “prefers a reduction in wages to a lengthening of hours.” of the serious threat to the entire la- bor movement, an all. By a Food Worker. T is well known thgt the most ex- ploited group, st! ‘ling under the worst conditions, are the food work- rs in America today, and especially the Greek food workers working in the Greek resaurants and lunch rooms. They work 12 and 14 hours a day in ite floored dining rooms, and stuffy citchens without a day off. Their pay :mounts to from $12 to. $24 a week on he average and most of them get paid by the month. Most of them are flat-footed from the long hours that they stand on their feet. Others are suffering from kidney trouble which is a common sickness among the restaurant, hotel and cafeteria workers. ONSUMPTION also is one of the foremost diseases that thrives among the weak-bodied food workers thruout the country. It is a written law in the statute books that all food workers carry a health card to be shown to the health inspectors and these’ inspectors are supposed to inspect the public eating places. But the bosses see to it that no place is inspected ‘and if it is in- spected the inspector @oes not work against the interests of the bosses in any way whatsoever. ! The unorganized Gréek food) work- ers are revolting against these hor- rible conditions and @ big fermenta- tion is going on right.wow among the lunch room and cafeteria wrkers thru- out the country. SB) MHE Newark (N. J.) bunch Room and Cafeteria workers‘ are among the first to revolt against tHese conditions. They organized themstlves into what is known as A Greek Workers Restau- rant Club, without any’assistance from any union. ‘This club's membership amounts to 350 workers, members in good standing. Soon after they were organized they were»,forced by the bosses to go on strike. ‘The bosses were ready for the fight and that is why they provoked the strike by firing all workers who were suspected of belonging to the newly formed union. As soon as the union pulled out its men and picketed the places, the bosses obtained injunctions almost as quick as you could get a cup of coffee from the counter, ORE than’ twenty injunctions already have been issued by the judges of Newark against the strik- ing Greek food workers. Notwithstanding these immense dif- ficulties, without any cial support from any source wi ver, the food workers without any uinon ex- perience have fought valiantly for the last four months and their ranks are getting stronger and Atronger every day. They expect, with the new law which goes into effect“this month, and which allows lawful }picketing, to Greek Food Workers Are Long Hours—Lung and Kidney Diseases Prevalent—Low Pay—Seven Days Per Week—Health Inspectors Wor' t ‘with Bosses—The Struggle in Newark—Twenty Injunctions—South Chica- go—The Bosses” Association—Need for Union to Fight Huge Chain Restaurant Companies To say the least of it, a strange con- tession! The strike is being contin- ued and a fight is being made against wage cuts and the lengthening of the working day, so what can be the sense of making such statements smacking so strongly of capitulation? Won't the coab owners take this statement as denoting the begipning of surrender? Of course, they will. These are the first “favorable” results of the “united front” between the leaders of the gen- eral council and the Miners’ Federa- tion of Great Britain. HAT is happening now in connec- tion with the miners’ strike is deserving of the utmost attention, A recapitulation of what both parties are to gain will show at a glance what this agreement between the general council and the miners’ executive is really like. The general council in the person of Thomas & Co, is to get: 1. The oblivion of the past, 2. A stop to polemics. 3. A . consolidation of authority. The miners’ executive. gets: 1, A promise of support, 2. Mediation. 3, Herbert Samuel's memorandum in a new guise, Yes, but what about the millions of workers who were led up the wrong street by the general council—what are they.going to get as the result of this little deal? Nothing, absolutely its own nothing, Save and except a fresh swindle. What, finally, are the 1,200,000 miners who have already been out 8 weeks going to get? Thanks to these maneuvers, all they stand to gain is a fresh Black Friday. That is about the size of the united front between the leaders, entirely directed as it is against the whole working class of Great Britain and not merely the ‘miners alone. again picket and this will mean sure victory for the picketing was very ef- fective because this lunch room and cafeteria is patronized by the’ organ- ized workers of Newark who showed splendid solidarity by boycotting the picketed place. The union issued a call to organ- ized labor for financial aid for they have many pending cases in the courts of Newark and their treasury is very lean. Every worker should help financi- ally these workers for their victory will mean the beginning of organizing the unorganized food industry thru- out New Jersey. . . HE Amalgamated Food Workers have started a campaign to organ- ize lunch room and cafeteria workers “Why, of course not, child. Organizing to the local of South Chicago, A. F. of L.) They started a _ struggle against our brothers on the West Side of our city. This will not stop there, but will reach us sooner or later. Therefore, you are invited to come to discuss and to find ways and means of how to repulse this danger and save ourselves from it, next Friday, May 28, 1926, at 8 p. m, at the Sherman Hotel. Your presence Is very urgent, From the office. ~ P. S. The strike has already be- gun at the reastaurant at 1438 Ra- cine Ave. For the room of the meet- ing see the blackboard of the Sher- man Hotel.’ T this meeting various judges and WITH THE STAFF Being Things From Here and There Which Have Inspired Us to Folly or Frenzy WE'RE FOR A MUSEUM We have received a program put out by our dearly beloved goy- ernment for its “Industrial Acci- dent Prevention Conference” held at Washington. From dispatches it seems that the chief problem discussed was how to get as much profit as possible, without adding to the present number of 23,000 workers killed each year in indus- try, 85 per cent of which are pre- yentable, and the injury of 2,500,- 000 yearly. The discussions pro- ceeded on the same -lines as a company union meeting. Everybody present seemed to have an axe to grind. The insur- ance companies perhaps were the most hopeful ones represented. The Edison Lamp Works had its man there to talk on “Improved Lighting as a Factor in Accident Prevention.” But the funniest lecture was scheduled as follows: —“Should There Be a National Safety Museum ?—By Louis Res- nick, American Museum of Safe- ty.” soe Let Her Bust! At last reports our impregnable financial system guaranteed by the Federal Reserve Bank, ete., reported 200 banks closed in Georgia and Florida alone. New York bankers are refusing to cash any checks on Florida banks. Since we haven't any money in any banks, and in fact have no money at all, we can afford to be funny about it. So we suggest; why not a@ Dawes Plan for Divie? se WHO WANTS THE BIBLE? Tee Jay, not to be bluffed by contributors who do not contrib- ute to the limerick contest for the Gideon bible prize, comes back with another teaser, accompanied by the following O’Flahertarian comment: “T submit the following meritorious if not notorious” contribution to the staff col- umn. T believe the naked Thomas is the most complete exposure of any leader in the history of the trade union movement. We should bring his plight to the attention of the wide masses, as Borisoff would say. Not since Mae- Donald took the biscuit has such a piece of news broke in Britain.” When the waves took his bathrobe away, J. H. Thomas to himself did say— “God knows I’m not lewd, “But I’m bloody well nude, “If he saw me, what'd A. J. say?” Cook Many times,,Mr. Thomas (J. T.) Has been caught po-litic-allee Without anything on, But this time—Hoot Mon! lawyers were present and advised! Not one virtue could anyone see. —Lite. “Is everybody in this country 100% American, mother?” Somebody has to do the work.” in New York and they are Very suc- cessful so far. Hundreds of workers are flocking into the union and they will have a strong organization very soon, The Greek workers in Wilmington, Delaware, are already organized in the A. F, of L, union and are working out schemes’ to organize the candy store workers. The food workers here in the South Chicago district, are already organ- ized almost 100 per cent. The fight- ing local of South Chicago put fear in- to the very heant of the Greek bosses, The following letter was sent out by the Greek bosses’ association which calls itself the American ‘Restaurant Association: " AR BROTHER: | The struggle has t eguh Against certain persons that have no rela- tion whatsoever with the interests of ours or of our _ but their enslavement and ours, js refers the Greek Restaurant owners how to obtain injunctions against the A. F. of L. union before the picketing of the Places began, even tho there is a law on the statute books of Illinois per- mitting lawful and peaceful picket- ing. This was to force their workers to sign a contract repudiating the A, F. of L, or any labor union, that during their employment they would have nothing to do with any labor union, Many of the workers do not want to sign such contracts and are quit- ting their jobs rather than sign them, Wise feeling among the Greek food workers for organization runs high, The local of the Chicago Cooks and Waiters’ Union, A, F. of L., must seize this opportunity and start a campaign to organize not only the Greek food wanes food work- eps thruout Chi They must take up the challenge of the Greek owners who, while they call themselves AMBPRICAN Restaurant Association officially when they write to their own members in Greek, they refer to the labor union as FOREIGN intruders, S the food industry develops and evolves, big capital centralizes the industry into big lunch rooms and cafeterias, companies are formed worth millions of dollars of capital, employing thousands of workers with chain restaurants all over the United States, The exploitation of the work- ers in these big companies hag reach- ed its climax, The workers are clamoring for an organization to protect their interests and fight their battles, What is the A. F. of L. golfig to do in this matter? . North Garolina Labor Meet. SALISBURY, N. C.~(hP)—~The an- nual convention, North Carolina State Federation of Labor, opens in Salis- bury Ana a