The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 28, 1926, Page 5

4 ' Workers (Communist) Party i, N.Y. WORKERS TO. MEET IN MEMORY OF DZERZHINSKY NEW YORK, July 26. — The re- volutionary and militant workers of New York will gather at Central Opera House, 67th St. and 3rd Ave. on Thursday July 29th to pay their tributé to the memory of Felix Dzerzhinsky, chairman of the Supreme Economic Council of the Soviet Union, and formerly head of the Cheka who died of heart disease aid overwork a few days ago. Close To Lénin. Felix Dzerzhinsky was’ one of the group of the oldest’and tried Bolshe viks, He belonged to the old guard. He was one of the closest followers of Lenin. Drerzhinsky always, tackled the most difficult tasks ofthe. revolution and his friends and also: his enemies had to admit that he carried out his tasks well, When the counter revo- lution was the danger of the hour, Dzerzhinsy, as head, of the Cheka, tackled the job of putting down the counter revolution, When the Soviet Union was finally enabled to pay more attention to the building up of the industries of the country, again he headed that work as the head of the Supreme Economic Council. . Revolutionary Spirit. Felix Dzerzhinsky was the incarna- tion of the real revolutionary. spirit. Even his enemies admit that he was a man of knowledge, strength, and de- yotion to the cause, a man of self: sacrifice. * Prominent Speakers. Every militant worker should come to the Central Opera House on Tues- day July 29th and pay honor to this great revolutionary and builder of the workers’ republic. Wm. F. Dunne, Ben Gitlow and M. J. Olgin are among the speakers. Admission will be. 25 cents to defray the expense of the meeting. oe 8 Bostom To Hold Memorial Celebration For Dzerzhinsky. BOSTON, July 26, On Wednesday evening, July 28th Boston will hold a memorial celebration for Felix E. Daerzhinsky, president of the Supreme Economic Council of the Union of So- elalist Soviet Republics, who dled a few days ago. Spéakers will address the meeting in English, Russian and Polish. All workers are invited to be present. The celebration will be held at the Russian Club, 93 Staniford St., Boston, Mass. A New Booklet The British Strike Its Background Its Lessons By Wm. F. Dunne "40 CENTS. t] READ ALSO: British Labor Bids for Power, By Scott Nearing | 10 Cents. ritish Rule in India. By | Shapurji Saklatvala. t 10 Cents, , li 4 * Whither England? By Leon Trotzky. — | $1.75 } earn ried ON TO A HALF MILLION! Distribute a half million copies of the pamphlet, “The Workers (Communist) Party—What It Stands For, Why Every Worker Should Join” by the end of this year. TELL THE WORKERS WHAT YOUR PARTY STANDS FOR! TELL HALF A MILLION WORKERS! Something for Every Party Member to Do. TO THE MEMBERS OF ALL SHOP AND STREET NUCLEI: Dear Comrades:—The party is organizing the most extensive PROPAGANDA and MEMBERSHIP DRIVE it has so far undertaken. There is SOMETHING FOR EVERY MEMBER TO DO in this drive, and SOMETHING EVERY MEMBER CAN DO, The first stage of this drive Is to TELL A HALF MILLION WORK- ERS WHAT THE WORKERS (COMMUNIST) PARTY STANDS FOR AND WHY WORKERS SHOULD JOIN. F Comrade C. E, Ruthenberg, general secretary of the party, has written, for thi purpose, a simple, direct statement of the fundamental principles of Communism and the immediate program which the party lg supporting In the labor movement. The title of this 16-page pamphlet, Illustrated with five striking cartoons, Is: THE WORKERS (COMMUNIST) PARTY—WHAT IT STANDS FOR— WHY WORKERS SHOULD JOIN Every party member must be mobilized to. help secure a circula- tion of a HALF MILLION of these pamphlets. This is, how It can be done: fi By printing a large quantity of these pamphlets, the national office Is able to furnish them. to the party units at 2/2 cents each. Each nucleus should endeavor to have every member subscribe for 20 of these pamphlets at once, for which he will pay 50 cents. The pamphlet should be sold to the workers. Circulate the enclosed list among your members Immediately and send In the order @ 2c. Sell @ 5c. The nucleus should deliver 20 copies of the pamphlet to each member to sell In his shop, to the members of his trade union, to the members of his fraternal organization, to his friends, and wherever the workers gather. IT WILL BE EASY TO GET A NICKEL FOR THIS ATTRACTIVE, ILLUSTRATED PAMPHLET. When the 20 pamphlets are sold, the member will have back his 50c and 50c addi- tional. The profit should be turned in to the nucleus secretary and more pamphlets ordered, to secure additional circulation. THIS 18 SOMETHING FOR EVERY PARTY MEMBER TO DO, AND-SOMETHING WHICH EVERY MEMBER CAN DO. NO MEMBER SHOULD BE EXCUSED FROM THIS CAMPAIGN. The distribution of a HALF MILLION of these pamphlets will be a big achievement for our party. It will tell the workers who receive them what we are fighting for. It should enable us to draw TEN THOUSAND NEW MEMBERS INTO THE PARTY IN THE MEM- BERSHIP CAMPAIGN WHICH THE PARTY IS CONDUCTING, Comrades! Give the campaign to circulate a HALF MILLION coples of thls pamphlet your energetic support. Mobilize every mem- ber for this work. HELP TO BUILD OUR PARTY INTO A MORE POWER- FUL ORGANIZATION BY TELLING THE WORKERS WHAT IT STANDS.FOR. _ : 4 “ Countersigned: Cc. E, RUTHENBERG, General Secretary. 2 JUNE EMPLOYMENT GAINS OVER : LAST YEAR, SHOW STATISTICS; STILL BELOW FIGURE OF 1923 Gains in employment fn Mlinois factories since June, 1925, have meant jobs to 30,000 more persons, according to the state department of labor: This is a gain of 4.7 per cent, The onset of the customary midsummer dullness at factories, says the report, was so mild that the aggregate of employes ‘was Teduced scarcely at all. In, some lines expansion is going on, altho in Fraternally yours, MAX BEDACHT, Agitprop Director. general the increases are seasonal. The free employment offices report the lowest ration of applicants to jobs in any June since 1923 when there were 100 seekers for every 100 jobs offered. This year there were 138 applicants for every 100 jobs which compared with 148 in June, 1925 and 172 in June, 1924, Clothing Jobs Scarce. The usual seasonal gain in the men’s clothing industry falls consid- erably short of a year ago. The em- ployment gain in June amounted to 5.4 per cent compared with 24.9 per cent in June, 1925. The number em- ployed is ahead of last year but little more than half of 1922. There were gains of 2 per cent in the meat prod- ucts industry, 3.4 per cent in job printing, 9 per cent in glass factories and 4.5 per cent in boot and shoe fac- tories, There were decreases of 2.4 per cent in steel mills, 3 per cent in uto plants, 4.3 per cent in newspaper printing and 3.3 per cent in wood prod- ucts, Average. weekly earnings reached the high level in June of $29.02. In June, 1925, the figure was $28.12, in June, 1924, $27.40 and in June, 1923, $28.33, New York Has 1 Per Cent More Jobs, Factory employment in New York state held its own in June, according to industrial Comissioner Hamilton, The level is 4 per cent below the high point of the year in March but is 1 Der cent above June, 1925, Compared with employment in June, 1923, how- ever, 10 per cant of the workers em- ployed have been forced to look for jobs elsewhere. Layoffs were general in textiles, The iron and steel and auto indus tries also made large reductions in working forces. But these losses were balanced by seasonal gains in the food and men’s clothing indus- tries. The end of a strike in the boot and shoe industry brought a return of about 400 workers, Rall Jobs Mount 2.2 Per Cent, ~ Employment on American railroads is running considerably ahead of a year ago, according to the wage report of the interstate commerce commis- sion covering railroad operation in April, The report shows 1,783,411 railroad employes in that month, a gain of 37,768, or 2.2 per cent over April, 1925. The chief gains compared with a year ago were 24,431 more workers in, the maintenance of way depart- ment and 14,814 in the train and en- gine service group. Shopmen fell off 3.810 compared with April, 1925, In April railroad workers drew $242,934,370 in wages, a gain of $8,136,276 or 3% per cent over April, 1925. This meant average earnings of $136 @ month compared with $134.50 for April, 1925. The difference, ac- cording to the commission, is due in part to slight increases in the num- ber of hours worked and in part to slight gains in wage rates, Section No, 4 Membership Meeting. A membership meeting of all party members who belong to Section No, 4, Workers (Communist) Party of Chicago, will be held on Thursday, July 29, at the Fretheit Hall, 3209 Ww. | Roosevelt Road, at 8 p. m. Get your friends to subscribe to tie American Worker Correspondent. The price is only 50 cents a year. LENIN ON ORGANIZATION '* The most important publication for workers issued in many years. Writings and speeches of a great leader on the fundamental question of organization. No work- er’s library can be complete without this invaluable work. Cloth, $1.50 °°" ane workers, Tho union is picketing the THE DAILY WORKER | scinanteniinnetcae-on---teemaeniaaeteeteabaenrencenetneatra aaa indaaasanemmentenmnaniememmmemet Page Five have previously shown how, if the Industrial Workers of the World were given full charge of a rev- olution in the United States, with the same strength of numbers as has the Communist Party of Soviet Russia to- day, it would have to go absolutely contrary to its present anarchist ad- visers and establish a government of the armed proletariat to suppress by force the remnants of capitalist power. But with this done or in the doing the struggle to establish a communal so- ciety would only have started. Most of the industrial machinery would be destroyed in warfare, whole armies of-technicians would desert production or remain only to sabot- age. A fair-sized part of the popula- tion during such troublesome times would not be charmed by any pretty pictures of the future, but would de- mand regular meals—and serve as counter-revolutionists if they didn't get them. HE I. W. W- would find, in such a case, that there is a transition period between capitalism and Com- munism, It might find, for example, that instead of socializing the agricul- tural industry over night, it would have to make peace with the ten or twelve million farms, so that they would send food and not counter-revo- lutionary armies to the cities, If the city workers could have that ‘assur- ance of, peace, they might have more time and energy for rebuilding ruined factories, railways, mines and mills, which—in the measure they were so- clalized—would represent that much advance away from capitalism and to- ward Communism. Any retrogression would have to be guarded against by the centralized workers’ government, upheld by the armed proletariat. We restate our proposition. If the I. W. W. had such a situation on its hands and wished to succeed, it would have to recognize that the revolution is a process of some duration, only be- gun by forcing the capitalists out of governmental power. It would do all the things, in short, that it allows an- archists within the I. W. W. to at- tack the Russian workers for doing. We see, therefore, that when the anarchists launch an attack they are attacking the I. W. W. also, along with the whole working class. It was quite typical that the anarchist article which appeared in the I. W. W. press deliberately distorted the words of Kamenev, spoken at the 14th con- ference of the: Russian Communist Party. : RGUING against those who said that Soviet Russia was in danger of going back to capitalism, and point- ing out that the direction of develop- ment was consistently toward Com- munism, Kamenev said: “Our. state industries are really en- terprises of the socialist-consistent type, because they represent the own- ership of the ‘working class.” Because Kamenev added that, “we have not yet an industry that is com- pletely socialist,” the anarchist writer in the I. W. W, press clearly distorts Kamenev’s words when he asserts that everything in Soviet production is “in no respect socialistic.” Of course this is done to get the I. W. W. membérs to swallow the propaganda that no transition period is necessary in a rev- olution, and that the Soviet Union has “reverted to the capitalist system.” fHICH way, in truth, is the Soviet economy going? Since the an- archist writer, thought the I. W. W. membership interested, and since he said, “the comrades can give us this information better than anyone else,” why did he publish a few words of Kamenev’s only to distort them? Why did he not publish the resolution adopted by that same 14th conference of the Communist Party of Russia, which, in part, says: Where Is Russia Going? ARTICLE V, By HARRISON GEORGE, “Within the national economy of the Soviet Union, which consists of va- rious economic forms, the importance of socialist industry, of state and co- operative trade, of nationalized cred- its and other positions of power of the proletarian state, is rapidly in- creasing. In this manner there is to be seen the economic advance of the proletariat on the basis of the new | economic policy and the advance of the economic system of the Soviet Union in the direction of socialism,” IAT are the proportions of this relationship of the “rapidly in- creasing” socialist industry to the other, capitalist, forms? Why, if the I. W. W. believes the matter of im- portance, does its press not give eas- ily ascertainable facts, such as the latest available data given in Trotsky’s excellent book, “Whither Russia,” as taken from the cold, hard figures of the state planning commission, Here is what Trotsky says: “It is a falsehood to state that the evolution of the productive forces is proceeding in the direction of capital- ism. We have an industry whose fun- damental capital is socialized to the extent of 89 per cent, and this social- ized industry furnishes more than 79 per cent of the gross raw production of industry. The 11 per cent of non- socialized means of production conse- quently yields more than 20 per cent of the gross production. The share held by the state production is in- creasing. “Railway and marine transportation is 100 per cent in the state’s hands. The commerce of the state and co- operatives today amounts to almost three-quarters of the trade turnover. Foreign trade is carried on 95 per cent by the state.” ROTSKY tells quite frankly of the dangers in the fact that of the total capital in agriculture, only 4 per cent is socialized. And he tells how this is being met, in detail too long to recount here. But how well does he point out that only the bourgeoisie or their lackeys attack the Soviet eco- nomic arrangement. He says: “In the first place, we are told that we are ruining the country by our work of socialist construction; in the second place, we are told that our de- velopment of the productive forces is in reality carrying us into capitalism. Criticism of the first type is character- istic of the mode of thought of the bourgeoisie. The second style of crit- icism is rather that of social-democ- racy, i, e., bourgeois thought in a so- cialist disguise. Frequently the two modes of attack exchange their arse- nal of arguments in a neighborly man- ner, of which they are scarcely aware, so intoxicated are they with the sa- cred’ war against Communist barba- rism.” HE last sentence seems especially written to fit the anarchist writer in the I. W. W. press. We repeat that the anarchist workers who use the I, W. W. press to poison the minds of other workers injure the I. W. W. as much if not more than they do Soviet Russia. We do not believe that the membership of the I. W. W. really de- sire that sort of capitalist propaganda to be spread upon the pages of their official journals. But as long as they permit their of- ficialg to publish attacks on the Soviet Union and to refuse to publish rea- sonable replies by members who differ with such policy they share in the re- sponsibility before the judgment bar of working-class opinion. This is not the way to attract workers into the organization. It is an effective way of letting the I. W. W. be turned into an anarchist church, cut off from the masses and without power or prestige. (To be continued.) British Treasury in Official Statement Hits Back at Mellon LONDON, July 26, — The British treasury has come back at Andrew Mellon, secretary of the U. 8S. treas- ury, for his statement that the British borrowed a large part of its debt to the U. S. for “purely commercial pur- poses, as distinguished from war pur- poses.” The British treasury offici- als issue the following: “Great Britain provided sterlingsand neutral currencies to meet all her own requirements, throughout the war, and, in addition, bore the burden of covering the sterling requirements of her continental allies, “But for the fact that the United States did not feel able on entering the war to relieve her of this addl- tional burden, Great Britain would have been able to meet, from the re- sources she placed at the disposal of her allies, her expenditures in Amer- ica, and in all hitman probability the British debt to the United States would never have been incurred,’ Amalgamated Strikes Fruhauf’s Scab Nest NEW YORK CITY, July 26, — The Amalgamated Clothing Workers’ Union announces that a strike omer has been issued against the shop of Henry Fruhauf, 23 West Bighteenth street, to get the same conditions there which prevail in the shops under the union agreement, Fruhauf was one of the leaders in 1920 of the lockout of the clothing FARMER TRICKED OUT OF LAND BY MONTANA BANKER Land Shark Banker Robs Small Farmer My M, HELANDER, ° (Worker Correspondent) PLENTYWOOD, Mont., July 26,— Another incident showing up the vi- cious intent of our present legal sys- tem has just occurred in Plentywood, Mont. Claude Smith, a small farmer of this vicinity owned a quarter sec- tion of land which he was induced to mortgage by one of the local bankers, Led Him On. Mr, Smith was told that in no time he could pay off the loan, and if not, everything would be let alone until such a time as he could pay, The banker would be lenient with him. Took Land Away. But the shrewd banker knew this was an easy way to get an additional piece of land. And soon it was no longer Smith’s land, but the bankers. That was not all. Mr, Smith has two babies, He had one cow on his farm from which he got milk for his chil- dren, Lawyer's Tricks. Now the banker has that too, Thru the tricks of the legal profession which the bankers and lJandsharks practice, he has been derived of his whole summer's work, and hig chil- dren can get thelr nourishinent from the sago brush or the cactus for all the banker, who hag ngchildren of ANEW NOVEL Gloa Ginclair (Copyright, 1926, by Upton Sinclair) WHAT HAS GONE BEFORE, ___4s Arnold Ross, oi! operator, formerly Jim Ross, teamster, is unsuccessful in signing a lease with property holders at Beach City, Cal., because of intrigues of other operators and quarrels among the holders. While he is at Beach City, Bunny, his thirteen-year-old son, meets Paul Watkins, slightly older. Paul has run away from home. His father is a poor rancher in the San Blido Valley who is a “Holy Roller.” Paul goes away to make his living on the road and Bunny goes about learning the oil business from his Dad who is bringing In a well at Prospect Hill. Dad was working hard and Bunny suggests a quail hunting trip to the San Elido Valley. Dad agrees and shortly they arrive at the Watkins raneh and pitch their camp. in hunting for quail they find oll oozing out of the ground and Dad wheedies the sale of the ranch out of old Watkins and also arranges to secretly purchase adjacent lands. Paul's little sister, Ruth, and Bunny become friends. Bunny starts to high school at Beach City. With plenty of money and social standing he enters into the life of the school. His Dad warns him of dangers, tobacco, drink and women—a little bashfully on the latter. He falls in love with another student, Rose Taintor. In the mean- time Dad’s oil business grows rapidly. He misses Bunny who can go only seldom now on trips with him. A Mr. Bandy, who owns a big tract next to the Watkins ranch, gets suspicious and raises his price per acre. ‘ . e - e tl The greater part of the civilized world had gone to war. The newspapers which Dad and Bunny read turned themselves into posters, with streamer-heads all the way across the page, telling every day of battles and campaigns in which thousands, and perhaps tens of thousands of men had lost their lives. To people in California, so peaceful and prosperous, this was a tale of “old, unhappy far-off things,” impossible to make real to yourself. America had officially declared neutrality; which meant that in the “current events” class, where Bunny learned what was going on in the world, the teacher was expected to deal with the war objectively, and to rebuke any child who expressed a partisanship offensive to any other child. To business men like Dad it meant that they would make money out of both sides; they would sell to the Allies direct, and they would sell to the Central powers by way of agents in Holland and Scandin- avia, and they would raise a howl when the British tried to stop this by the blockade. The price of “gas” of course began to mount immediately. It seemed to Bunny a rather dreadful thing that Dad’s millions should be multiplied out of the collective agony of the rest of the world; but Dad said that was rubbish, it wasn’t his fault that people in Europe insisted on fighting, and if they wanted things he had to sell, they would pay him the market price. When speculators came to him, showing how he, with his big supply of cash, could make a quick turn-over, buying shoes, or ships, or sealing-wax, or other articles of combat, Dad would reply that he knew one business, which was oil, and he had made his way in life by sticking to what he knew. When representatives of the warring powers invited him to sign contracts to deliver oil, he would answer that nothing gave him more pleasure than to sign such contracts; but they must change their European bonds into good American dollars, and pay him with these latter. He would offer to take them to the little roadside restaurant where they could see the sign: “We have an arrangement with our bank; the bank does not sell soup, and we do not cash checks.” + On the basis of his father’s reputation for unlimited re- sources and invincible integrity, Bunny had been chosen treas- urer of the freshman football team, a position of grave respon- sibility, which entitled him to sit on the side-lines and help the cheer-leaders. While on the other side of the world men were staggering about in darkness and mud and snow, blind with fatigue, or With their eyes shot out, or their entrails dragging in the dirt, the sun would be shining in California, and Bunny would be facing a crowd of one or two thousand school children, lined up on benches and shrieking in unison: “Rah, rah, rah, slippery, slam !—wallibazoo, bazim, bazam! Beach City.” He would come home radiant with barely enough voice left to tell the score; and Aunt Emma would sit beaming—he was being like other boys, and the Ross family was taking its position in society. The Christmas holidays came: and Dad was working too hard, everybody declared; and Bunny said, “Let’s go after quail!” It wasn’t so hard to pull him loose now, for they had their own game-preserve—it sounded most magnificent, and it would obvi- ously be a great waste not to use it. So they packed up their camping outfit, and drove to Paradise, and pitched their tent under the live oak tree; and there was the ranch, and the Watkins family, the same as before, except that the row of children was a couple of inches taller, and the girls each had a new dress to to cover their growing brown legs. Things were a whole lot easier with the family, since they had an income of fifteen dollars a month from the bank, instead of an outgo of ten dollars. Well, Dad and Bunny went after the quail and got a bag- ful; and incidentally they examined the streak of oil, now grown dry and hard, and covered with sand and dust. They went back to camp and had a good feed, and then came Ruth, to get their soiled dishes; she was taking Eli’s place, she explained, because Eli had been called to attend Mrs. Puffer, that was ill with pains in her head. Eli had been doing a power of good with his heal- ing, it had made a great stir, and people were coming from all over to have him lay hands on them. Bunny asked if Ruth had heard from Paul, and she answered that he had come to see her a couple of months ago, and was getting along all right. She seemed a little shy, and Bunny thought it might be on account of Dad lying there listening, so he strolled back to the house with her, and on the way Ruth confided to him that Paul had brought her a book to read, to show her she didn’t have to believe the Bible ff she didn’t want to; and Pap had caught her with that book, and he had took it away and threw it in the fire and had whaled her good. Bunny was horrified. “You mean he beat you?” And Ruth nodded; she meant that. “What did he use?” cried Bunny, and she answered that he had used a strap off’n the harness. “And did he hurt you?” She answered that he had hurt right smart, it had been a week.afore she was able to sit down. She was a little surprised at his indignation, for it didn’t seem to her out of the way that a girl almost sixteen years old should be“whaled” by her Pap; he meant it for her good, he thought it was his duty to save her soul from hell-fire. 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