The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 3, 1926, Page 6

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The Drug Clerks’ Union Like the fellow reading a message from home, who did not know whether to laugh or to ery because of a blurred letter which could alter the meaning of a word, we are at loss whether to giggle or growl over the following comment on the organization of the Chicago Drug Clerks’ Union that appeared in the official organ of the Chicago Retail Druggists Association. Our sophisticated readers will probably say: “Some union!” and let it go at that: “One of the most significant stands this board has taken is the one in regard to the drug cle union. After numerous conferences with the officers of the Chicago Drug Clerk’s Union, and after having received the promise of their officers:to confer with the C. R. D. A. on all questions of policy of the union, your board withont a dissenting vote decided to work along with them for the betterment of conditions in the drug busi- ness. This is the age of organization, and we as members of the Cc. R. D. A., who are thoroughly convinced of its value cannot msistently oppose the organization of ethers. Futhermore we believe that much good will come from this step we have taken, provided the union lives up to its promise and confers with the C. R. D. A. on all problems, so that an equitable solution may be reached. The Drug Clerks’ Union realizes that they can accomp- lish little without the moral support of the C. R. D. A. and it is hardly probable that they will do anything to incur our disap- proval. The C. R..D. A. should keep in close touch with the union, and I woyld recommend that from time to.time we send a representative to their meetings to address them on various topics. I believe that it would be advisable to have men address them on subjects of pharmaceutical interest, salesmanship, win- dow dressing, advertising, accounting, profits, ete. If this can- not be done without cost, an appropriation by the C. R. D. A. should be made for that purpose. We all know that a good clerk is more valuable than a poor one, and any money we spend in improving our clerks is well spent. The clerk today realizes that if he wants to make his position more lucrative that it is largely up to him to do so. A proprietor of one of the chain stores has this slogan for his clerks, ‘If you want more money get it, from the customer, not from the boss.’ ” Another Visit from Abroad The federal government of Australia is sending to the United States a delegation of industrialists, “representing” employers and employes to investigate the reasons for the industrial prosperity of the United States. The government will pay all the expenses. This delegation could very well save the time and money spent on the trip as well ag the printers’ ink and white paper that will be ruined by the written report of what they will surely learn. It is an Australian edition of the Daily Mail investigation which also represented “capital and labor” tho the labor side of it was so watery that even J. H. Thomas did not sponsor it. As was expected the Daily Mail delegation report, attributed the prosperity of the United States to the better, feeling existing be- tween employers and employes in this country. The workers work harder here than in England, produce more, and the employes know how to secure their co-operation. The reasonableness of the Amer- ican labor leaders was also favorably commented on in contrast to the hostility of the majority of the British leaders. While the Daily Mail delegation was in the United States it received invitations to dine with members of the executive com- inittee of the A. F. of L. and with some of the nation’s leading bank- ers. The attitude of both was reported to be sane and conservative. Also safe. The Australian delegation will meet with similar treatment. It will make a similar report. Its object is to lay the foundations for a great campaign against trade unionism in Austrialia. Needless to say no bonafide members of Australian trade unions will be in this fake delegation. This is a good one. When the Deneen group wanted a clean honorable and honest primary they appealed to their U. 8. Marshal Anderson to supply a sufficient number of deputies to insure the inviolability of the sacred ballot against the guns of the Crowe- Barrett-Capone-Thompson-Klondyke O’Donnel gangsters. And what do you think Anderson did? He called up McQueeny’s detective agency on West Madison street and authorized that gentleman to supply the help. Post office automobiles are in for a jolly old winter if Federal Judge Adam J. Cliffe, continues to play the role of Santa Claus un- til further notice. The judge (O wise and noble judge!) authorized the use of $250,000 of seized bootleg alcohol for use in mail truck radiators during the cold weather. Hijacking should become a popular outdoor sport next winter. Fitzpatrick and Nockels advised Judge John MeGoorty that they would/like to have a hand in the running of the county jail. Alalf a dozen members of the I. L. G. W. U. are still there for violat ing the injyfiction. Now, we see the strategy. If McGoorty appoints John or Ed to the committee said Johy or Ed will blow a little hole in the wall and let the girls crawl out. This is a better method than asking Len Small for a pardon, or fighting the injinction, News of a victory for union bakers in Shenandoah, Pennsyl- vania, is encouraging in those days.of injunctions. The bakers won recognition of the ‘union, reduction of hours from 72 to 50 a week and time and a half for overtime. Congratulations. Whether Kenneth Ormiston was or was not with Aimee Me- ‘Pherson in the little cottage by the sea reading the old testament, may. not be known for some,time. Kenneth disappeared, apparently never having heard the warning: “Woe to the vanished.” Siiet of Detectives William Shoemaker ig taking @ vacation. So%'the man who “killed MeSwiggin,” we fear. jout leaving our places. |innovation which is very convenient. SOVIET WORKERS REPLY TO THE INQUIRIES FROM UNITED STATES TOLERS The following letters are from Russian workers in reply to inquir- ies from their comrades in the Unit- ed States who are interested in learning how things are going inthe Soviet Union. The writers are on the job, in the factories, mines or on the farms. They are all taking a conscious part in building up the economy of their own country. How- ever hard their task is they are con- fident of success and hopeful that the day is not far distant when the workers of every country will join with them in making this world a heaven for the toilers, ae oe Dear Comrade Rank: I will try to clear up the questions you do not understand. Firstly you ask whether we have piece work. Yes, Piece work does exist and at the pres- ent time we cannot get on without it. You evidently misunderstood me. I wrote the British comrades an ar- ticle concerning the economic ques- tion and the life of the Russian work- ers in the metal industry. I also wrote about direct piece work. And you speak of some kind of additional pay to my wages. Further, there are many things I get besides my wages: one pair of sapogs (leather top boots), and a working coat and even trousers for a year, I also get 1% pounds of soap a month and a towel which is\ changed once a week, Under czarism we used to come out of the factories looking like so many devils. The iron founders could pride themselves specially about this. You ask whether the workers are entitled to free tools supplied by the enterprise. Yes, they are. And if I work with my own tools I get 12 roubles a year for them. A moulder probably gets much more for his tools than a founder. You ask in what form we receive wages. We get them twice a month. We get the money in- dividually in a little envelope with- This is a new We have no deductions from our wages. a month, from which I make payments to the trade union, and one or two other organizations, which altogether takes up about 8 roubles. We pay our dues here on a percentage basis: the less one receives, the less he pays for membership dues, for rent, and municipal services, Nothing more is taken into account and the workers’ pay equally for such things as bread, boots, clothes, for instance, There is one question I would like © ask you. How much do you earn and what are your expenses. And. how is the insurance of workers arranged. With Communist greetings to you, Ivan Ivanov. Address: Moscow, Gavrikova Ulitsa, Lesnoriadsky pereulok, No, 6, Ky. 6. 2.19 ¢ From a Peasant Woman, Dear Comrades: We send our warm greetings from the masses of village correspondents from the most distant corners, Now, comrades of foreign lands, we are all equal; now we have no longer any bloody hangmen—we are rid of them. When we attend general meet- ings, farm laborers, shepherds, middle peasants or poor peasants are all equal with us; there is place for all and all equally listen to us and equal- ly put our words into action. At every one of our meetings we sympathize with you in your state of suppression. We know how difficult it is to live under the bourgeois yoke, Dear comrades, get stronger. Rid your- self of the bourgeois oppression, Before the Soviet regime we also lived under the oppression of the bloody land-owning vampires. They oppressed me and dulled my mind, not allowing me to gain knowledge. When I tried to learn the German or French languages they taught me such nonsense that I had to leave off learning. Now under the Soviet sys- tem we are able to learn whatever we are capable of, I am a woman farm worker and work for the president of the Peas- ant Mutual Aid committee in our ru- ral district; in the autumn I am go- ing to take part in higher educational courses, Well, dear comrades such are our great achievements during the last eight or nine years. Under czarism T could not even think of going to higher courses, FS Claudia Rikhomirova, I earn from 100 to 150 roubles | France and Spain Divide the Spoils of Moroccan War France and Spain have just signed what is politely known as a treaty for co-ordination of the activities of By ERNEST HAECKEL,. PREFACE, Did a deity make the untverse in six days? Did he produce the “first man” by laying a magician’s hand on a piece of mud? Did he then extract a rib from the man and magnify it into a woman? This is the explanation of life given by the supernaturalists, Their gods do everything but what they ought to do. But no matter what they do, the supernaturalists can always tell you there is a good rea- son for it. During the eucharistic congress held recently in Chicago the priests changed little bits of cracker and wine into the “body and blood of Christ.” Hundreds of thousands of people swallowed the wafers with- out feeling that they were guilty of cannibalism. Yet those man- eating catholics would feel highly offended if told they were not made by a god out of a chunk of mud,‘but ascended from a lower form of life and actually were part of the ani- mal kingdom, 4 Superstition is one of the most effective weapons used against the workers. Superstition is another name for religion. Every worker should be acquainted with the the- ory of evolution and be in a posi- tion to meet the muddled argu- ments of the supernaturalists. Ernest Haeckel, the great Ger- man scholar, was one of the world’s greatest authorities on the subject of evolution. His book, “Last Words on Evo- lution,” a popular summary of the doctrine of evolution, will be run serially in The DAILY WORKER. You cannot afford to miss this op- portunity to get acquainted or re- new your acquaintance with the greatest scientist.—Editor, whe ca N the beginning of April, 1905, I re- * ceivetl from Berlin a very unex- pected invitation to deliver a popular scientific lecture at the Academy of Music in that city. I at first declined this flattering invitation, with thanks, sending them a copy of a printed dec- laration, dated July 17, 1901, which I had made frequent use of, to the effect that “I could not deliver any more public lectures, on account of the state of my health, my_advanced age, and the many labors that were still ,incum- bent on me.” I was persuaded to make one de- parture from this fixed resolution, first, by the pressing entreaties of many intimate friends at Berlin. They represented to mé how important it was to give an account myself to the educated Berlin public of the chief evolutionary conclusions I had advo- cated for forty They pointed out emphatically #hat the increasing reaction in higher @ircles, the growing audacity of into! it orthodoxy, the preponderance Ultramontanism, and the dangers Wat this involved for freedom of thou; in Germany, for the university an e school, made it ‘mperative to ta) igorous action. It U. S. Navy to Build Big Dirigible Three Times Larger Than Fated Shenandoah Here is a comparison of the “Shenandoah,” below, the two countries for the “Economic and physical reconstruction of Morocco.” This actually means dividing up the mines and resources of the conquered country between big French capital and big Spanish capital. Photo shows, seated, left to right, Aristide Briand, of France, Primo de Rivera, Spanish dictator, and Marshall Petain of France. happened that I had just been follow- ing the interesting efforts that the church has lately made to enter into a peaceful compromise with its deadly enemy, Monistic science, It has de- cided to accept to a certain extent, and to accommodate to its creed (in a dis- torted and mutilated form) the doc- trine of evolution, which it has ve- hemently oppdsed for thirty years. This remarkable change of front on the part of the church militant seemed to me so interesting and im- portant, and at the same time so mis- leading and mischievous, that I chose it as the subject of a popular lecture, and accepted the invitation to Berlin. After a few days, when I had writ- ten my discourse, I was advised from Berlin that the applications for ad- mission were so numerous that the lecture must either be repeated or di- vided into two. I chose the latter course, as the material was very abun- dant. In compliance with an urgent request, I repeated the two lectures (April 17 and 18); and as demands for fresh lectures continued to reach me, I was persuaded to add a “fare- well lecture” (on April 19), in which I dealt with a number of important questions that had not been adequately treated. F The noble gift of effective oratory has been denied me by nature. Tho { have taught for eighty-eight terms at the little University of Jena, I have never been able to overcome a cer- tain nervousness about appearing in public, and have never acquired the art of expressing my thoughts in burn- ing language and with appropriate ges- ture. For these and other reasons I have rarely consented to take part in scientific and other congresses; the few speeches that I have delivered on such occasions, and are issued in col- lected form, were drawn from me by my deep interest in the great struggle for the triumph of truth. However, in the three Berlin lectures—my last pub- lic addresses—I had no design of win- ning my hearers to my opinions by means of oratory. It was rather my intention to put before them, in con- nected form, the great groups of bio- Last Words on Evolution logical facts, by which they could, on impartial . consideration, convince themselves of the truth and impor- tance ef the theory of evolution; Readers who are interested in the evolution Controversy, as I here de- scribe it, will find in my earlier works (“The History of Creation,” “The Evo- lution of Man,” “The Riddle of the Universe” and “The Wonders of Life”) a thoro treatment of the views I have summarily presented. I do not be- long to the amiable group of “men of compromise,” but am in the habit of giving candid and straightforward ex- pression to the convictions which a half-century of serious and laborious study has led me to form, If I seem to be a tactless and inconsiderate “fighter,” I pray you to remember that conflict is the father of all things,” and that the victory of pure reason over current superstition will not be achieved without a tremendous struggle. But I regard ideas only in my struggles; to the persons of my opponents I am indifferent, bitterly as they have attacked.and slandered my wn person, Altho I have lived in Berlin for many years as student and teacher, and have always been in communica- tion with scientific circles there, I have only once before delivered a pub- lic lecture in that city, That was on “The Division of Labor in Nature and Human Life” (December 17, 1868). I was, therefore, somewhat gratified to be able to speak there again (and for the last time), after thirty-six years, especially as it was in the very spot, the hall of the Academy of Music, in which I had heard the leaders of the Berlin University speak fifty years ago. It is with great pleasure that I ex- press my cordial thanks to those who invited me to deliver these lectures, and who did so much to make my stay in the capital pleasant; and also to my hearers for their amiable and sym- pathetic attention. Ernst Haeckel. Jena, May 9, 1905. (To be continued) $500,000,000 OF AMERICAN CAPITAL USED TO EXPLOIT GERMAN WORKERS More than $500,000,000 of American capital has been poured into Germany in the last 30 months, according to a survey of foreign securities offered in the United States issued by the U. S. department of commerce. In the same period the total of all foreign securi- ties offered in this country was §3,- 063,620,000, averaging more than $100,- 000,000 a month, ‘ These figures, says the department, “show the relative activity of the United States as an underwriting na- tion and are indispensable in estimat- ing our total growth as a creditor nation. The rapid increase in the number of foreign issues floated here during the past 30 months indicates sound growth in our ability as a lena-/ ing nation,” In the first half-of 1926 American capitalists invested $578,853,500 in for- and the projected giant ship that has we cs coe by President Coolidge to become part of the navy force. It ig for navy publicity ng to cost $6,000,000 and will doubtiess be used. as much for defense. The Shenandoah, at any rate, was doing @ press-agent stunt for the navy when it got caught in a storm and crashed DO to earth with its few. \jinto Europe. -turnished German corporations, eign lands. was loaned to repay loans previously made by bankers in this country so that the net value of new capital sent About $149,195,000 of this abroad was $429,658,000. The total included 16 issues of $10,000,000 or more, the five largest loans being $40,- 100,000 to Canada, $38,000,000 to Bra- sil, $37,000,000 to ‘the Duke-Price Power Co. of Canada, $30,000,000 to the United Steel Works of Germany, and $27,500,000 to Uruguay, In the first 6 montns of 1926 more than 87% of the new capital furnished foreign countries by Americans went into Germany. And nearly 50% went Compared with Ger- many's $159,720,500 share, Latin Amer- ica, supposed to be the special empire of Américan capital, received only $114,970,000, Germany’s lead as a field for Ameri- can investment in 1926 is especially noteworthy in the realm of corporate finance. American capitalists pro- vided German industry with $107,420,- 500 in the 6 months. This is over 46% of all the new capital which Ameri- cans provided for foreign corporations in the period, Europe as a whole got nearly 86% of America’s investment in foreign corporations. Since Jan, 1 1924 $242,090,000 new capital from this country has been Ger- man governmental, provincial and mu- nicipal issues have been floated in this country to the extent of $266,- 450,000,. The combined total of capi- tal furnished Germany by the Amert- can investing class, is $508,540,000, The world war opened Germany to the inroads of American capitalist im- perialism, American capital Js to an increasing extent exploiting the highly eh ttsA Common nepletariot in compe: tition with the workers at home, ~~ 4 PR 8 Ste Be BO ERE Se el ec eteereunrner rpmneone) gaunnas rTM ena ee RNA MRT SA WITH THE STAFi\ Being Things From Here and There Which Have Inspired .Us to Folly or Frenzy Weigh Boss No. 2 Life is short and art is fleeting, s¢ Art Shields gives us another story on the weigh boss. Here it is: All cars were alike to .the Weigh Boss at No. 2 Mine, Win- ber, Pennsylvania. Some of them piled high with coal like a hay wagon piled with hay. He weighed them all alike: 1,900 pounds. , One day a 12-ton mine loc b- motive got stuck on the sca %s by mistake. “What does that weigh?” a miner jeered. “Nineteen hundred!” shouted the Weigh Boss impatiently, without looking up. “Rush it over, you Bugger!” ee 8 A CLEAN SWEEP, WE HOPE, I called attention to my presence with a question, “Where are . you staying?” “At the Mitre.” “But thats hardly any distance!” The dis may in my voice stirred her humor. “If I'd known we were to meet this morning, I might have chosen a more distant hotel.” She swept me with a mischievous glance—From a -maga zine romance, +e PARTY HARMONY. (And it came to pass, that when Mr. Wright, Negro Repubilcan bose of UNicago’s Second ward came before Senator Reed, the party dis- cipline of the G. O. P, came into view. Let the republican Tribune tell it): Mr. Wright said that he “ap- pointed and removed” the mem- bers of his organization; and “they all act in harmony with me, or they don’t stay long.” “You have an understanding with them on getting the vote out to the polls?” “No, I don’t have any under- standing with them; I instruct them what to do.” eee 100 PER CENTERS. Two years ago George Washington was declared to have been the first of Amer- ican realtors. A year later a learned graduate of Amherst College proclaimed Jesus Christ the firet of Rotarians. Not to be outdone, a committee of true patriots has Just elected god to be an American citizen.—From The Nation, AN HONORABLE CONCLUSION _ AC- CORDING TO THE NATION The June session of the Coun- cil saw two vast League under- takings brought to an honorable conclusion—the financial con- struction of Hungary and of Austria. . . Before the money was made availablé Austria had to agree to a financial dictator- ship comparable to Mussolini's. The Parliament was, indeed, al- lowed to sit, but not to act. . . That the “sanitation” has been accomplished at the cost of much unemployment and some social reform is true, and Aus- tria’s fundamental difficulty. . . continues.—From ‘The Nation of July 21. ees WHO SAYS THERE’S NO JuSs- TICE FOR THE DISIN- : HERITED! LONDON—Baby Geoffrey Russell, four and a half y old, won his right to the British peerage by a de- cision of Justice Swift in a case that dragged since 1922 and h cost $200,000. The decision establishes his right to the Lord Ampthill barony, —News item. Justice is Blind It happened in Evanston, The report is as follows: “City Attorney Irving Stole (no pun) took the top from one of the bottles seized by the police. Foam spattered into his eyes.” SEQUEL. “Policeman Tony Schultz went to his rescue by clamping his jaws over the neck of the bottle. After a few swallows the rescue was affected.” “Neither I nor anyone else in Poland want war. We maintain ow army for defensive purposes only.” — Marshall Pit. sudski,