The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 27, 1926, Page 6

Page Six THE DAILY WORKER THE DAILY WORKER|Stalin Reviews Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLASHING CO. 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill. Phone Monroe 4712 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mali (in Chicago only): By mail (outside of Chicags): $8.00 per year $4.50 six months $6.00 per vear $3.60 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 «Editors Business Manager Entered as second-class mail September 21, 1923, at the post-office at Chi- cago, Iil., under the act of March 3, 1879. Advertising rates on application. <B> 290 ie : cation. The Injunction Marches On Officers and members of the International Ladies’) Garment Workers’ Union, New York, are prohibited by injunction from “in any manner impeding, obstructing, hampering or interfering with the continuance of the plaintiff organization, and: with interfering with the contracts had by the members of the association with their respective emplo¥es .... and from the use of coercion, force and violence.” Thus the arm of the law is again stretched out to help the em- ployers defeat the efforts of the workers to secure more of the profits of their labor for their own use and enjoyment. If the cloakmakers obey the injunction, the employers have a valuable weapon in their hands. Wherever the injunction has been used by the bosses and obeyed by the workers a lost strike has been | the result. The fighting history of the New York cloakmakers is a guarantee that they will not allow the declaration of a capitalist judge deter them from using the collective power of their membership to shut up the struck shops and keep them shut. Nevertheless this Jegal weapon money out of the union’s treasury for the defense of the hundreds of pickets who are sure to be arrested. The injunction used in the strike of the Chicago cloakmakers helped to nullify the splendid stand they made. They defied the injunction and went to jail. The “good friends” of the leaders of the enables the bosses to drain) It is a dangerous weapon. | THE CAUSES OF THE BRITISH STRIKE, 4 HE first question is what were the reasons for the Britsh strike. How was it possible that England, that land of capitalist power and unequal- led compromise, was transformed re- cently into an arena of great social conflicts? How was it possible that “Great England,” the “mistress of the seas” was transformed into a land of a “Bolshevist” general strike? I would like to mention a number of circumstances determining the un- avoidability of the general strike in England. The time has not yet come when an exhaustive reply can be given to that question. But We can and we must mention a few decisive factors determining the unavoidabil- ity of the strike. Of these circum- stances we can note the following {four as the most important: 1 Formerly England occupied a * monopoly position among the cap- italist states. As possessor of a num- ber of large colonies, and with a model industry, she was able to play the role of the “workshop of the world” and draw tremendous super- profits on the side. That was the period of “peace and prosperity” in | England. Capital drew the super- | profits, crumbs from these super-prof- |its fell to the lot of the upper strata |of the British labor movement, the \leadérs of the British labor movement were gradually won over by capital, and the conflicts between labor and |capital are usually settled by means | |of compromise, But the further de- velopment of world capitalism, spec- jally the development of Germany, | America and in part Japan, appearing |as competitors of England on the in- ternational market, undermined the the British General Strike HE speech’ of Comrade Stalin on “The British, Strike’ strike. Comrade Stalin relative to the workingclass, the Communist a whole. began to change into the land of con- flicts, lock-outs and strikes. The British worker began to tend toward the left, oftener and oftener taking recourse to the Bolshevist method of direct struggle with capital. It is not difficult .to understand that in such a state of things the gross threat of a lock-out by the mine owners in England could not pass without reply on the part of the min- ers, The second circumstance con- * sists in the rehabilitation of the international market relations and, along with it, the intensification of the struggle of the,capitalist groups for markets. The post-war crisis is characterized by the snapping of jnearly all the bonds between the cap- italist states on the international market, resulting in chaos. At pres- jent this chaos, in view of the tem- | porary stabilization of capital, is giv- ling way to the former state and the old international market relations are |gradually becoming re-established. If ja few years ago the question was one of rehabilitating the workshops and |factories and inducing the workers to |labor for capital, then today the ques- | tion is to secure markets and raw ma- |terlals for rehabilitating the work- |shops and factories. In this connec- |tion the struggle for markets is in- ‘hi of att is li ing with fresh force, and in this Chicago Federation of Labor, namely Len Small and his lieutenants, Pee 1 ition of England. | easing ; : trae toe at pbs ipass crisis struck | StTusele that group of capitalists and|cause the miners have always been who ran a pardon mill for gangsters, let them stay there. The injunction issued against the I. R. T. strikers at the request of the traction magnates helped to smash the strike, President Ryan of the New York Central Trades and Labor Council, deplored the use of the injunction and went to sleep. The story of labor struggles during the past years is a history of strikes, defeated by the use of government forces, whose activi- ties were given a semblance of legality by the injunction. The reac- tionary labor officialdom, always looking for an excuse to stay out of a struggle, regarded the injunction as a godsend. If they would do any fighting it would be gesticulating thru lawyers in front of a judge’s bench. } The only way to make the injunction unworkable is to treat it as Alex Howat, the Kansas mine leader, treated the Industrial Court Law of that state which, for a while promised to send Gov- ernor Allen, its author, to the White House. But Howat and his miners sent him to the bushes instead. Howat and his lieutenants had to go to jail. The sacrifice was not in vain. To fight the injunction is the duty of all workers in support of the New York cloakmakers. While it is true that injunctions cannot make cloaks, they can put cloakmakers in jail and help break strikes. The cloakmakers might do worse in this instance than para- phrase the Farragut slogan: “Damn your injunctions: We'll go right ahead.” A Dawes Plan for France? Judging from Washington news dispatches, apparently in- spired—if anything inspiring can come from a capitalist source— the international banking interests, dominated by Wall Street, feel that the time to slap a Dawes plan on France is not far distant. The return of Poincare to power, even tho it may be temporary, has raised high hopes in the breasts of the financial overlords of the world. Poincare does not mouth any radical nonsense about a levy on capital as a method of solving the financial crisis. His solu- tions will be at the expense of the workers. Poincare is a fascist sympathizer. mit—and if he survives his first appearance before the chamber— he may essay a minor Mnesolini role in France. There is no doubt that the House of Morgan will welcome his comeback. Morgan saved his political neck once before with a million dollar loan,’ just as he saved Mussolini in the chaos that followed when Benito had the socialist Matteotti murdered. In all probability Wall Street will soon step in and stabilize | the franc. The bankers cannot afford to allow things to go com- pletely to smash in France. The shadow of the powerful Soviet Union looms ominously over the intrigues of the ruling classes and despite their hatred of each other, their clashing interests and mutual jealousies they prefer to crawl to the moloch of Wall Street rather than be trampled in the dust under the boots of their own working classes. Welcome to the New Jesus! An enterprising newspaper has induced a writer to sit down at his trusty typewriter and turn out a life of Jesus that will make the Anti-Saloon League gnash its teeth and draw on the smelling salts fur succor. The same story will produce healthy chuckles in the headquar- ters of the association for the modification, nullification or abroga- tion of the prohibition amendment to the constitution. Hitherto the general opinion of Jesus would almost fit an honest member of the Womens’ Temperance Union, provided there is an honest person in that brood. The new Jesus, dixeovered by the Hearst press, took hia drink like a little man, cracked jokes and went out with the boys. Where he went with them, the writer is discreet enough to leave a dark sec- ret. Perhaps he felt that any wideawake Elk or Moose did not have to be told. | The reformed savior is away ahead of the old one. He is a/ good fellow and a 100 per cent American, when on the golf links or at the Follies with his steno, Perhaps, as our “With The Staif Col- umn” hints he was mixed up in Aimee McPherson’s hegira to Mexico. | If his physical qualities per- | | still another serious blow at the mo- | nopoly position of Bngland. The |super-profits began to dwindle, the crumbs falling to the lot of the labor |leaders of England began to be ex- jhausted. The voices for lowering the standard of living of the working class in England grew louder and loude: The land of “peace and prosperity’ ‘UNE 18, 1926—On ‘the ‘above date there was an excursion from the International Seamen’s club to visit the workers’ tést homes. The excur- sion party ‘wds composed of British seamen from the ships in the port. The rest homes are run by the Trade Union council for the benefit of the workers. The workers have these homes ‘to go to when their holiday comes around, so that they can recuperate their lost vitality. They get a fort- night, a month or six weeks holiday a year on full pay, according to the nature of their work. HE first place that we visited was | + rest home No. 1, set in ‘spacious |grounds. This was a palace’ which formerly belonged to the Sha of Per- sta and in which he kept his harem. | The buildings are of oriental design, |with domes and marble stairways. |The gardens were wonderful, flower | beds, fruit trees, and tinkling foun- tains all over the grounds. Inside, the buildings were beauti- fully decorated, on the walls were some splendid oil paintings and valu- able tapestries, The workers here received us with ;enthusiasm, the only passport one needs ,to the Russian worker's heart, |is a union card. Most of them en- |joying the rest here were workers |from the different unions. Naturally they were greatly interested in the failure of the general strike, and the present miners’ lockout. These are the workers who are donating a quar- ter of a day’s wages to help their | British comrades. | International sol- idarity functions with them, even if national solidarity does not function | with the General Council of the Trade Union Congress, We sat down to lunch with the resters finding the food fresh and of a good quality, and plentifully supplied. | One rester weighed out with a 22 pound gain after two weeks, | EAVING No. 1, we got on the street car and rode along Prole- tarian boulevard. This long is lined with workers’ rest homes, chil- dren's homes, sanatoriums, all former palaces of the former bourgeoisie, now _used for the benefit of the class who bullt them, {. e. the working class, We got off the tram at No, 2, and were received with the same enthusi- _astic reception by the resters, We janswered innumerable questions while on our tour of inspection. It is sur- | prising how well informed the Rus- sian workers are on all political and industrial matters, After our tour of inspection we sat down under the trees and had a good sing-song, finish- ing up with the International, and de- parting for Number 5, pe i rrcbaggrbs in the middle of a beau- tiful park this mansion was the former home of “General Martinoy,” now used by the “Donbasse Miners” J |that capitalist state will win out, | which hag the cheapest wares and the | highest technique, iBot new forces are appearing on | the market—America, France, Ja- | pan, Germany, the British Dominions, | | and the British colonies, having suc- cessfully developed their industries uring the war, are now struggling for will be piblished in three installments, urally in''three parts—1. The causes of the British 2. The reasons for the collapse of the general strike and 3. The lessons of the strike. The latter section contains some inferences drawn by It divides nat- important tasks of the British Party and the workingclass as markets. It is natural that after all this, the easy squeezing of profits from foreign markets, to which Eng- land had recourse of old, is now be- coming impossible. The old colonial method of a monopoly in plundering markets and sources of’raw material, had to give way to the new method of capturing markets by means of cheap wares. Hence the endeavors of Brit- ish capital to cut down production, or in any case not to extend it too much. Hence the tremendous army of unemployed in England as a perm- anent phenomenon during the last few years. Hence the threat of un- employment, holding the workers of England in suspense, and arousing in them a militant temper. Hence that lightning reaction which the threat of the lock-out aroused in the workers in | general and in the miners in particu- lar, The third circumstance is the * endeavor of British capital to de- crease tha cost of production in Brit- ish industry for itself, and to cheapen its wares at the cost of the interests of the British workingclass. It is no mere accident that the object of this fundamental blow was the miners in this case. British capital attacked the miners not only because the coal {n- dustry is in a bad state of affairs as far as technique is concerned and needs “rationalization,” but mainly be- and still remain the vanguard of ie British proletariat. To bridle th vanguard, cut their wages and length- en their working day, thus settling with that vanguard and then continue the job in the other ranks of the working class—therein lies the strat- egy of British capital. Hence the heroism with which the British min- | ers are conducting their strike. Hence that unexampled reainess which the British workers revealed in support- ing the miners by the general strike. The fourth circumstance {fs the * domination of the ‘conservative party in England, the most evil en- emy of the working class. Of course | any other bourgeois government! would {n principle have proceeded the same way in crushing the working class. But beyond a doubt only such sworn enemies of the working class as the conservatives could have so light- ly and cynically challenged the whole | WITH THE STAFF Being Things From Here and There Which Have Inspired. Us to Folly or Frenzy SCRIPTURES MADE EASY FOR SCISSORBILLS Chapter Vi Invited Himself to Supper) “There was a rich man named Zac- business ability that he got himself generally disliked. Being curtous to sce the distinguished visitor, he had British working class, when they threatened the lockout. It is today | accepted as an absolute fact that the | British conservative party not only | wanted the lock-out and strike, but| that ft had prepared for it for nearly | a year. It postponed the attack on} the miners last July because it con-| sidered the moment as “unsuitable.” But it prepared for the whole of that | period, gathering supplies of coal, or- ganizing strikebreakers, cultivating the proper public opinion, in order to | strike at the miners in April. Only the | conservative party could have taken | such a “governmental” step. | HE! conservative party wriggled in-| to power on the basis of forged | documents and provocation. The very! first day after coming to power, it) used all its means of provocation to attack Egypt. For a whole year it, has been conducting a direct war; with the Chinese, people, having re-} course to all the tried methods of col-| onial plunder and oppression. o | | spares no Means to prevent the rap- proachment between the people of the Soviet Uniion ‘and the peoples of Great Britain, gradually preparing for a Dos~| sible intervention. Now it is attack- ing the working class of its own coun-| try, preparing this attack for a year) with a zeal worthy of a better aim.! The conservative party cannot exist | without conflicts at home and abroad. Can one wonder, after this, that the British workers answered blow for blow? | Such are the essential circum-, stances determining the unavoidabil- ity of the strike in England, (To Be Continued.) for their holidays, (some change). We had dinner here at 3 p.m. The only thing that spoiled it was think- ing of the dear old general, in com- pany with other ex-soldiers, selling matches or playing‘sorgans on the streets of London, From here we went across to No. 4, receiving the same wonderful good- will and comradeship from the rest- ers, leaving after one hour's pleasure for No, 2 rest home. ‘0. 2 is situated on the cliffs facing the sea. Below us are dozens of houses in ruins, which was caused by the bombardment of the British fleet | im 1920, after they had ben chased out of Odessa by the Red Army. | “The sons of the Paris Commune” on that occasion, led by Andre Marty, refused to fire on the workers. It made me ashamed of my nationality to see the trade mark of British im- perialism, and to have these workers whom the shells were fired at, falling over each other in their anxiety to make us feel at home. S Working next to me in the shop on a drill press at forty-five cents an hour, is a big fellow. I knew by his actions that he was not used to work- ing in a factory and, the surroundings were new to him. So I asked him where he hails from. He told me he came from Herrin,,IIl, and that he has worked in a Herrin mine for over 16 years, and now the mine has been shut down for over seven months and no jobs were obtainable in the coal mines around there except to go into the nonunion fields, and he would far ‘ather work in a factory at 45 cents per hour than go into the scab miné . ». Why is ft that men lke that, who have spent most of their lives in the coal mines are fotced+to go into the factory to work for low wages and damned hard work? And this is not the only case... If one were to investigate the shops in Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, etc., one would find thousands of miners who were driven from the mines by tho latest drive of the operators to lower wages and worsen fhe condi- tions in the mines. And in order to lower wages they have to smash the union, or build company unions, As soon as the hard coal strike was over, the coal operators started a drive on the soft coal miners’ union, They did mot come out and say that they were out to smash the union, or build puppet company unions, but they did ft more skillfully, They started to shut down most of the union mines and opened up their scab mines in West Virginia, Kentucky, Virginia and AlabiMia, and today we find that more thah two-thirds of the soft coal produced~comes from the {] A Day in the Rest Homes of Odessa What Seamen Do While Ashore Has Been the Subject of Many Ribald Song and Story—But This is a Different Tale—It is the Simple Description Written by a British Tar of a Day in Soviet Institutions Where Russian Workers Spend Vacations. There is also @ nursery in the homes where the women workers can leave their babies under the care of trained nurses, while _ enjoying themselves. This nursery. we in- spected, 60 you can imagine lumber- ing flat-footed sailors gingerly step- ping between the cots and grinning at the small babies. (Or was it the nurses?) FTER supper we played numerous games with our Russian comrades and listened to an excellent concert in the open-air theaters. The per- formance finished at 17 p. m. and we were escorted to the gates by the workers, holding up the tram while we sang the International. It was a great day and a wonder- ful experience. It proved to us what the workers can do for themselves when they overthrow their masters and control their own destiny. Long live the Union of Socialist So- viet Republics, v. 4. Morris, Cardiff, England. Conditions in Union Coal Fields Grow Worse; Young Miners Work for Low Wages in Cities! scab fields, and with the help of the Coolidge rail rate fixing commission it is possible for coal to come from the Southern scab fields and success- fully compete with coal produced in the Northern union fields on the Great Lakes and other northern markets. With a situation like this facing the United Mine Workers’ Union, what is to be done? How can we save the union ?—For {t finally evolyes down to this—that the union inthe soft coal regions is in danger, and*what we can do to save the union is a question that we will take up in future articles, -—H. M. French Communists at Dunkirk Rile Police by Appeal to Soldiers PARIS, July 25, — The lockout by port authorities at Dunkirk, France, of the longshoremen, has been follow- ed in its fortieth day by the importa- tion of soldiers which have practically placed the water front under martial law, The 600 police which have been guarding the docks and warehouses are continued, As the soldiers spread about the district they were met on all sides by posters signed by the Communist Par- ty, urging the soldiers as workers to fraternize with the strikers and Prevent scabbing. The police wore called on and spent @ busy day tear- ing down the posters, Next morning the posters were ba place, . LETTERS FROM OUR READERS | The Scab Sheets Slur. | Recently a local sheet puvlished a| slur against the “down and outs” on Trent Ave. commonly spoken of as the “skidway” where the employment sharks hold out and fleece honest} workers by charging them for jobs at | low wages and hard work with way food and bad working conditions. The write-up in question dwelt on | the unreasonable yarns the unemploy- | ed would spin as one would sit on the ia the mae running board of a parked auto. Reporter’s Foolish Tate. His fantastic brain had it appear as | if he had heard one of the unemploy- ed tell a foolish tale of how he saved || a ship from sinking after a big hole | had been jammed thra the bottom of the ship by taking beef down to the) hole, thus causing a whale to Jam itself into the hole after the beef,| then the wind-jammer crawls down outside and cut the whale in two, leaves its head in the hole of the ship while the rest of the whale floats away. Many times I had been on Trent Ave the past few years but never once have I heard any such spewing off by lumberjacks or others. This morning as I walked down the “skid- way” I looked closely for wind-jam- mers on the running boards of park- | ed automobiles. The first. man I saw | sitting on a running board of a car was reading “Solidarity,” an I. W. W. papeg. The next man was reading The DAILY WORKER, and the next one was not reading at all; neither did he have a mob of gaping hicks listening to a string of bull, but was sitting quietly taking no notice what- ever of the throng as it passed to and fro. Businessmen Lose Out. Up town on Main and Riverside Aves. are many vacant business places, and more to be vacant soon from the appearance of the “selling out” and “getting out” signs. A little farther on I saw the owner of a corner grocery and soft drink store sittmg in his place of business playing soll- taire; not a customer in his place. Down at the city employment office | there were many men but very few} poor jobs marked up on the boards. | ‘The chamber of commerce was cal- ling for $40,000 for a campaign | fund to boost Spokane, Spokane busi- | ness is dead. Spokane jobs are almost | impossible to get. Spokane’s streets | and Spokane's homes are filled with many idle men’ and women and tne capitalist sheets and the champer of commerce is poking fun at the idle | workers and trying to get thousands |of more workers here to starve and be sneered at by Spokane scab sheets, Workers everywhere, when you see Spokane being boosted you should re- member that Spokane is a good place to STAY AWAY FROM. Government Cost High. | WASHINGTON, D. C., July 25. — | The actual cost of the government | last fiscal year ended June 30 in-) creased $56,344,427 over the previous year, totalling $3,584,987,873, {t was shown in the itemized list of expendi- tures made public by the treasury, climbed ap into a tree. “Imagine his surprise when Jesus (How Jesus Played Davy Crockett and “ chaeus in the, town, with euch keen ° stopped under the tree and commanded * him to come down, saying, ‘Today I intend to eat at your house.’ “The crowd was stunned. Some took it upon themselves to tell Jesus of his social blunder. Their protests were. without avail. He saw in him a men of unusual generosity and a fine sense of justice, who needed only to have those qualities revealed by one whe” understood.” ” (Continued tomorrow) see THE WEBK’S WORST\SHELER The day he was bounced out-of the back door of the French parliament, : Joseph Caillaue's book, in which he elaborated what he would do as di¢- tator of France, came off the press. It is called “The Rubicon.” After he crossed it, he invited Herriot to trite @ sequel. . His Eminence Annoyed, ue While accepting with reserve everys. thing that comes over the cables, we are compelled to admit that. ther Probably a degree of truth In thi: Patch: “Growing opposition to Mr. Cook asa representative leader of the miners, ow- ing to his flery and unbridled utterances, was expressed anew today by—the noted coal owner, Lord Londenderry.” The house of lords, a Whole, gave us all a laugh about the same time when they were so annoyed at having to spend four hours on the bill to lengthen min- ers’ hours to eight underground that they applied closure to the debate. —J. S. Wallace in The Worker, Toronto, se 8 From Little Essays on How to Make Government Unpopuiar. The old hickory switch, and old- fashioned discipline, is suggested by John J. Tigaert. United States com- missioner of education. The email boys of America, remarks, Johnny Red, will ali vote for Mr. Tiggert when they grow up—not before, * 6 It, Arriv’ Well, if ‘something like 100 in the shade is the millennium pro miscd by the Old Dock who said. he could prove it by the hierog- lyphics on the great pyramid, then July 20 was the date of its begin- ning. But if it ain’t gonna rain no mo’ and the heat continues all thru the said millennium, the Old Dock can make. his millennium oe as a first rate substitute for hell, Now You| Tell One “It is my common prac- tice to rehearse lines after retiring,”—Marjorie Ram- beau actress named as co- respondent by Mra. Man- ton; Mr. Manton having been caught “coaching her” in her room, MUNCIE EDITOR CHARGES KLAN. RULES INDIANA Appeals Contempt :Case to Supreme Court ~ (Special to The Dally Worker) MUNICE, Ind., July 25.—George R. Dale, editor of the Post Democrat of Munice, who is appealing a contempt case to the United States supreme court following an adverse ruling by the state supreme judiciary, reiterated his charge that the ku klux Klan | Indiana. Dale charges that the klan dominates the state by {ts control over sheriffs, prosecutors, police, | Mayors and even the courts, ¢ Contempt Case. * With three others, Dale was tn- dicted for violation of the state Nquor jaw, He published an article in his paper in which he said the court was controlled by the klan. Judge Clar- ence Dearth of the Delaware county court then cited Dale for contempt, fined him $1,000 and sentenced bim to six months, Dale offered to prove the charges he had published but the court déclared that truth had nothing to do with the matter, Dale then appealed. He clatma his life has been threatened by the klan many times. seni : —_—_ESEEREEEwEwws SEND IN A 8UB TODAY To-THS DAILY WORKER, | Dua |