The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 30, 1926, Page 4

Pagé POU?) THE DAILY WORKER WILL WOOD VETO THE PHILIPPINE PLEBISCITE AGT? Governor General Silent on Future Action MANILA, P, I. July 28.—Will Gov- ernor General Wood dare to veto the bill passed by both houses of the Philippine legislature providing for a popular referendum on the {ssue of full, complete and immediate inde- pendence from American rule? This question is on the lips of every- one in the islands—everyone, that is, except the governor general himself, who continues to keep his own coun- cil, not taking a single Filipino leader into his confidence. Wood vetoed a similar measure last year. The re sponse of the Filipinos was to pass the present bill as the very first act of the newly-installed legislature. In view of the campaign now going on in the United tes to make it appear that the Moros do not desire independen: : the Philippines, con. siderable s a is attached to the Moro representa. tives voted in favor of the referen dum measure. he bill was ed unanimously, thus Filipino f of indepe: he supposition is that he is for advice waiting om Washington. Even if he should tempt to block the efforts of the Filipino con- gress, it is undoubted that the bill will be passed over his veto. What the attitude of the United States nent would then be is not so certai: Filipino leaders point out that opposition to the present bill makes a mock of everything American liticians have ever said regarding “self-determination of nations.” The bill does not even provide for self- determination. It merely offers the Filipino people the opportunity to say whether they want independence or not. Colonel Carmi A. Thompson, per” sonal representative of President Coo- lidge in the Philippines, has not been any more communicative than Gen Wood on the question of the referen- dum. As the editor of the Manila Times said this morning, “He pre- tends not to notice it.” Engdahl Will Speak in Milwaukee Aug. 8 MILWAUKEE, Wis., July 28. — J. Louis Engdahl, editor of The DAILY WORKER, will speak at the picnic arranged by the Milwaukee local of the Workers (Communist) Party at Miller’s Grove, 60th Ave, and Beloit Road on Sunday, August 8, gover SEND IN A SUBI MANY SPLENDID OPPORTUNITIES FOR EFFECTIVE WORK IN THE GROWING AMERICAN COOPERATIVE MOVEMENT NOTE.—This is the second arti- cle in a series pointing out the possibilities of developing The DAILY WORKER into, an effective organ of the left wing of the Amer- ican labor movement, It calls for increased activity on the part of militant labor in the co-operative movement, eee By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. ADERS of The DAILY WORKER should be active in the co-opera- tive movement. Among the large number of workers and farmers ac- tively interested in the co-operatives an increased support. for The DAILY WORKER can be found. It must be ed for the building of “Our eee HE fact that a worker or farmer - participates in the activities of 2 co-operative movement is an indi- n that he is consciously trying to break the capitalist shackles that hold him in bondage, Co-operation spreads in many direc- tions. It conducts stores, builds houses, runs mines, goes into banking and insurance, establishes bakeries, laundries, restaurants, dairies, schools, bookstores and even enters. the un- dertaking business. The farmers have shown an especial interest in co-operatives, even more so than the city worker, Eighty-nine delegates: from 180 co- operative associations and wholesale societies in 19 different states took part in the 1924 congress of the Co- operative League of the United States of America, Eight groups of co-operative organi- zations formed a federation for whole- sale buying together, including the Central Exchange of Superior, Wis., an association having 60 stores doing a business of $700,000 annually; the Washington State Grange Co-opera- tive Warehouse, with 47 stores, doing 3500,000 a year; the United Co-opera- tive Societies of Massachusetts, with seven strong stores, doing $1,000,000 a year; the New England Federated Co-operative Bakeries, doing a busi- ness of $268,000; the Central States Co-operative Wholesale, and three wholesaling groups from the Greater New York district, each doing a busi- ness of $350,000 a year. The Co-operative League is now composed of 335 distributive societies, having an aggregate membership. of 50,000 and doing a business of $15, 000,000 yearly. The league is in cor- respondence with 2,500 distributive societies in this country. see OME American co-operative socie- ties are 25 years old, and a few are over 40. There are many success- ful societies among the foreign-born. This hasty glimpse of the movement | Where Is Russia Going? 'N previous articles we have dealt with the issues raised by an article written from the anarchist point -of view which appeared in the I, W. W press as an attack on the Soviet gov- ernment. We have covered the es- sential issues basic to the anarchist argument without reference to the particular illustration used regarding the Lena Goldfields concession. A member of the I. W, W.; upon reading the articles and its introduc- tory note signed by the chairman of the G. E. B. saying that “each and every member has the privilege of ex- pressing his or her ideas in conformity with the aims of the I. W. W.,” thought this included him. He therefore sub- mitted a very mildly-worded answer to the officials of the I. W. W. on June 26, but found that he was mis- taken and his article was refused. HE industrial unionist member of the I. W. W. who disputed the points of his anarchist fellow-worker dealt with the Lena Goldfields con- cession, since the attack on Soviet Russia devoted much space to this concession, without, however, really saying much about it; an art which is the special gift of all who try to at- tack Soviet Russia, To afford him- self some point of departure for roam- ing into the limitless fields of his imagination, however, the anarchist worker did bring out the following concrete issues: (1) The Soviet Metal Workers’ In- dustrial Union had signed an agree- ment with the Lena Goldfields, Ltd., an English concern which is now pre- paring as a concession the properties of which the revolution had dispos- sessed its owner. (2) The agree- ment runs for two years. (3) It is conceded in the article that the de- tails of the agreement “indicates that the workers were getting much the better of the deal.” AT’S wrong about this? The anarchist writer’s chief complaint is that by this agreement the “right to strike has been taken away.” In fact, he contends that the right to strike is abolished generally ia Soviet Russia. This is simply a lie, as the right to strike is guaranteed by the Soviet Labor Code. The enforcement of the other provisions of the labor code makes the strike weapon usually unnecessary, however. Private capl- tal, including the Lena Goldfields, Ltd., has to pledge as one of the terme of getting a concession to obey the labor qode. . It may lose the entire conces: | of the czar and relat —emyphn—--— canada gives some indication of its extent and the interest that is taken in it. There are some co-operatives that seH “Red Star” coffee, for instance. carrying the Soviet Emblem in the homes of workers; while other co- operatives are purely capitalist enter- prises in the hands and under the control of capitalists. ea a An extensive campaign of educa- tion must be carried on among those affiliated with the co-operative movement. This is realized to some extent by some of the co-operatives when they support educational activi- ties, issue publications and other. lit- erature, in leaflet and pamphlet form The DAILY WORKER can also be made a great factor in the education of co-operators, : e908 UT The DAILY WORKER, in order to become an educational force among co-operators, must first win the confidence and then the energetic support of the active, vanguard ele- ments in the co-operative movement. This can be done by giving atten- tion in the columns of The DAILY WORKER to co-operative activities. To be sure, this has been done to some extent in the past. Plans for giving increased attention to this working class activity have already been put into force. In every Mon- day’s issue there appears a special “Co-operative Section;” which takes up the news and the aims of the move- ment. This section will be broadened. It will win the interest of co-opera- tors. They will send in their news, their views, and put down in writing their hopes for the co-operative move- ment, to make it an effective weapon in the class struggle. ee Thus The DAILY WORKER will get a foothold in the co-operative movement. It will get large numbers of co-operators as readers. It will win financial support from co-opera- tors, grown to a realization of the ab- solute necessity of a daily publication for the workers, While the daily capitalist press gets the advertisements of the capitalists, The DAILY WORKER will get the ad- vertisements of the co-operatives tc help sustain it. see fe eciege is an international co-opera- tive day. America’s co-operators did not participate in it when it was last celebrated on June 15. But they will join in future annual celebria ions. Special editions of The DAILY WORKER Will be issued on these an- niversaries. The co-operative move- ment makes its appeal to the left wing of the American labor moye- ment. The DAILY WORKER, as an organ of the left wing of American labor, must speak for the co-opera- tive movement. You can help give strength to its voice, ARTICLE VI. By #HARRISON GEORGE, sion if it violates this term. So much for that sort of protection, The right to strike also exists in the state industries. But against what sort of employer would the strike be directed? No “lily-fingered private stockholders” exist in state industry. It belong to the workers of Soviet Russia and its “prdfits” go either (a) to develop the industry; (b) to in- crease money wages; or, (c) to lower prices—or all three at once. No para- site class draws profits from owner- ship without working. A strike is, therefore, against the. interests of the working class as a whole, and is rarely heard of. The disputes over matters which would otherwise lead to strikes are settled by conference between work- ers and management. Reports show that about 90 per cent of these dis- putes are settled in favor of the work- ers. Of the remaining ones which are appealed to special labor tribunals, a similar high percentage are settled in favor of the workers. Thus there is no reason to strike and consequently strikes are very rare. — is another point about the Soviet wovernment and its atti- tude to strikes, If what the anarch- ists in the I, W. W. say is true the Russian workers are very harshly gup- pressed by their government. But how does it happen, then, that they send thru their unions thousands and even millions of dollars to aid the strikers in other lands, such as the Ruhr miners, thé Chinese strikers, the Norwegian strike, the striking miners of Nova Scotia and the general strike and miners’ strike in England? Perhaps the anarchists would reply: “The Soviet government forces them to contribute to strikes in capitalfst countries.” But what becomes, then, of the argument that the Soviet gov- ornment is a capitalistic affair, op- posed to working-class interests as much as any other government? Will the anarchists please answer this question if they can? UR anarchist friend admits that the V Lena workers are getting “much the better of the deal.” If so, why should they not keep on getting it for two years? Is it a principle with him that the workers have not only a right, but a duty to strike, regardless of | whether reason exists for it? Whether anything is to be gained by it? The poverty of his argumont tn ex. posed when he goes back t6 the time POLICE GUARD HERRICK FROM PROTESTERS OVER SACCO-VANZETTI CASE PARIS, July 28.—Ambassador My- ron T. Herrick, from the United States, reports that he has received two letters threatening his life if Sacco and Vanzetti are executed. A vigorous movement has been go- ing on in France against the frame- up in Massachusetts courts of these two workers, and Ambassador Her- rick has been guarded day and night by uniformed and plain clothes po- lice. Since the receipt of the let- ters additional guards have been es- tablished, —_—— eee the Lena workers were shot down by the czar’s cossacks, trying to draw the absurd conclusion that the same thing would happen under Soviet rule. Does he wish to wager anything more sub- stantial than his reputation as a prophet that the same thing will occur under Soviet rule to the Lena workers as their massacre under the czardom for striking? He takes great risk, and would do well to hold his peace until it happens before complaining about it on conjecture. must be clearly shown in assert- ing the existence of so-called “be- trayals” and “persecutions,” such as the gnarchisi I, W. W. does in offhand generalities, just where the interest of the working class as a whole lies, The Kronstadt revolt was in the inter- est of the capitalist enemies of the workers, and its defeat was in the interests of the working class. No amount of rhetoric and moral indigna- tion can conceal that all-important fact. Yet the anarchists take the side of the capital/sts in.this as in other issues, If the 1. W. W. will not take the evi- dence of the numerous workers’ dele gations which have uniformly reported favorably toward Soviet Russia, it should not permit second-hand capi. talist falsehoods to be spread in its hathe until it accepts the challenge to send a delegation of rank and file workers to go and see for itself that the Soviet Union is not “going back to capitalism.” (Conclusion) WRITE AS YOU FIGHT! Open your eyes! Loox around! There are the stories of the workers’ FAIL TO BREAK STRIKERS’ UNITY Lowell Workers Out to Win Demands LOWELL, Mass., July 28.—Company spies are doing their utmost to de- stroy the solidarity in the ranks of the striking workers of the Lowell silk mills, They have sought to create dissension in strike ranks by spread- ing all kinds of rumors, This action on the part of the company hirelings has caused the strikers to. otganize a relief committee and t6 elect a ser- geant-at-arms to keep company “suck- ers” out of the meetings: Pull Out Scabs. A committee appointed to visit the scabs has succeeded in'convincing 14 out of the 32 imported strikebreakers to leave the shop and join the strike. The scabs are brought to and from work in limousines furmiShed by the bosses and are being paid. twice what was paid to the striking workers. A committee of strikers met with Mr, Gallant, the company agent. After reading the demands of the workers Mr, Gallant put on his bat and walked away. Strike Demands. The strikers are determined to re- main on strike until the following de- mands are won: Return to the four-loom base on pongee silk and to the three-loom base on satin, A 20 per cent flat increase in wages, whether for plece or week workers, Time and a half for all overtime (over 48 hours). Installation of ventilation, rest and wash rooms. Recognition of shop committee or union. No discrimination against strikers. Pay for time lost on the job. “Short Pencil” Artists Aided Brennan Group in April Primaries “Short pencil” methods on a whole- sale scale were disclosed by the re- count ordered by County Judge Ed- mund K. Jarecki of the démocratic votes in the April 13 primaries in the 24th ward. Hundreds of ballots were found that had been marked by “short pencil” artists for the Brennan slate. The Dunne-Harrison-O’Connell fac- tion insists that all of the ballots be thrown out that were cast in this ward, Violent Hurricane Cuts Off Southern Florida from Rest of World JACKSONVILLE, Fla., July 28.— Hurling itself out of the southeastern seas, a near hurricane today had cut off most of the lower-east coast of Florida from communication with the outside world and had wreaked dam- age as yet unestimated, The storm blowing in from the Ba- hama Islands late yesterday fell with terrific force on the lower coast cities from Fort Pierce to just below Miami, a 120-mile strip of seaboard. Beach, Lake Worth, Del Ray, Boca Raton, Fort Lauderdale, Miami Beach, Coral Gables and Florida City on the extreme eastern tip of the Florida peninsula all felt the tropical gales. $1,000,000,000 Is Raised by Germany in Foreign Lands WASHINGTON, D. C., July 28.— Loans totaling close to a $1,000,000,000 have been placed by Germany in for- eign lands since the inauguration of the Dawes plan. German financial experts state that such loans amount to, 3,800,000,000 struggles around you begging to be at length how written up. Do it! Send it int Write rrett-Thompson gang the repub- ag some Mth kia «bbe rv gold marks of which 2,385,000,000 gold marks were issued in the past 18 months ending June 39, Of this sum 1,740,000,000 gold marks or $417,600,000 were placed in the United States, Holland,came second, then England, Switzerland and Swed- en. Spokane Cooks and Waiters Aid Passaic and British Strikers SPOKANE, Wash., July 28—Cooks and Waiters’ Local 400 donated $10 to the Passaic textile strikers and. $10 to the striking British coal miners. “Scarface Al’ Capone Offers to Surrender Al “Scarface” Capone, sought in the machine gun killings last April of Assistant State’s Attorney William H, MeSwiggin and his two bootlegger companions, has offered to surrender, federal building officials announced here. Capone, belleved to be in the east, has advised he will come to Chicago the end of the present week or the first of next. 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