The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 10, 1926, Page 5

TORY PAPERS SEEK TO BRIBE BRITISH POLICE “Bobbies” Aid Strikers in Many Towns By BILL ROSS, Federated Press. . LONDON—(FP)—aAlthough the anti- labor groups in Britain have done much since the general strike to win the goodwill of the police, their efforts have not been entirely successful. The conservative Times led by collecting over $1,000,000 for police pensions’ “in Tecognition of their services during the general strike.” The police were generally impartial during the struggle, while there were many instances of sympathy with the union men. Unlike his American col- league, the British copper ts not eager to club strikers and is not a reliable tool of employers. The Liverpool police strike of 1919 is still remem- bered. Although the strike was lost the leader, Jack Hayes, ran for par- Mament on the issue and has :held his seat ever since. In several other towns police unions are in existence. Jack Hayes challenged in parlia- ment the subscription raised by the Times. “In the list. of Times. sub- scribers, one finds an overwhelming Perponderance of business interests represented,” he stated. ‘If police opinion were sought, it would be to the effect that the money should be given to the relief of miners’ children. The mayor of Nottingham,” Hayes pointed out, “made an appeal for a police fund. But at the request of the Nottingham force the fund was closed and the money, about $12,000, was given to local charities.” In several instances where the La- bor party has majorities on local gov- ernment bodies, it was possible to re- move police chiefs who showed an antilabor attitude. The atest in- stance was the dismissal of the chief of police by a county council:in South Wales for “trying to break the peace.” Filipinos Fear for Liberty MANILA—(FP)—‘“Unless we are sadly mistaken,” editorializes the Philippines Herald on the Carmi Thompson mission from the United States, “the American people will be greatly enlightened on how many thou- sands of tons of rubber could be grown in the Philippines. The effect on American public opinion is’ not hard to imagine: that it will become necessary to revise America’s avowed policy concerning the political future of the islands.” Send Five! ar, FIVE DOLLARS will re- new your subscription—or FIVE DOLLARS will be good for a whole. year’s NEW subscription— you subscribe before AUGUST 15. The offer holds good only until then and all subs at this rate will be accepted if mailed before midnight on this date. Renew Your Own Sub Now Before It Expires’ You Can Also Use This 1 Blank for “Red Cartoons,” THE DAILY WORKER 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chlieago, Ill, Enclose §.. for 1 year sub to the Dy Were tor autographed book of * RED CARTONS. CINY cesnrenannsmaseinie nnn toreneonn BEMEO ssscsrsseecsseroorrvsnsssoorrsssssnnsvonssssssesnnensosescanes This department will appear In every Monday’s issue of the The Co-operative Movement CHAPTER I!.—SOCIAL CONDITIONS IN PRE-CO-OPERATIVE DAYS, ™ must commence with a brief historical summary of the Industrial Revolution, as the Co-operative Movement is a direct consequence of the change then brought about in social relations. The Industrial Revolution. The Industrial Revolution is the phrase used to describe the tremendous @conomic changes of the 18th and early part of the 19th century. Like other revolutions, it was the product of a long period of evolution. It neither com- menced nor ceased at the dates usually given, e. g., 1760-1830, There had been inventions of an epoch-making character long before 1760—many of the most: outstanding in the infancy of the human race—and inventive genius ‘has flourished ever since. But it was in those momentous years, however, that machinery and science created large-scale industry. In that short period the inventions of Hargreaves, Arkwright, Crompton, Watt, Cart- wright, and Whitney, with all the subsidiary ones, had been completed, and the face of industrial Britain completely changed. The production of wealth was increased tenfold, and only very much later in the 19th century did in- dustrial development follow to any great extent in other nations. These changes brot about the mod-+ Co-operative Section | ern wage-earning proletariat, and the destruction of the peasantry. It is clearly to be seen that so long as capitalist production was dependent on handicraft its expansion- was ne- cessarily limited. The commercial wars of the 18th century stimulated demand; they were wars waged for the mastery of world markets. The problem to be solved, therefore, was “how to make industry adequate to meet commercial requirements,” This was the stimulus for the Industrial Revolution. The Essential Social Conditions for Capitalism. There are two essential social con- ditions for capitalist production: (1) A propertyless proletariat. (2) Capi- tal accumulated in few hands (always bearing in mind that “Labor made capital before capital employed la- The widespread “enclosure” move- ment provided the necessary “hands” for the factories, the “lands” being expropriated first, and the theft le- galized afterwards. “Why prosecute the man or woman, Who steals a goose from off the common, And let the greater felon loose, Who. steal the common from the goose?” The Expropriation of the Peasantry. In thirty years alone, 1801 to 1831, no less than three and a half million acres were stolen from the common people. This was justified by the plea of social mecessity; note what one capitalist apologist has to.say:, “That, as a whole, enclosure was inevitable, the indispensable condition and the result of more scientific and economic agriculture; that in the long run it added enormously to the productive resources of the nation; that without it the new population could not have been fed; the industrial revolution stimulated, and the strain of the great war endured, is generally accepted.” The Workers’ Share of Social Wealth, But how did the common people fare in the enormously increased “pro- ductive resources of the nation?” The chief factor of capitalism is compe- tition, and this results in wages be- ing depressed to the mere level of sub- sistence. This competition was great- ly intensified when machinery was universally introduced. This compe- tition was greatly intensified when machinery was universally introduced. A further factor in depressing wages— by providing a steady source of cheap labor—was the general emigration of the Irish at the rate of 50,000 per year, the result of Britain’s repressive pol- icy in Ireland. The depreciation of the value of hand-made goods by the advent of the machine-made product brought about the utter ruin of the hand-loom weaver. Adam Smith has told how the brutalizing influences of the division of labor operates un- der capitalism: “The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects, too, are perhaps always the same ... has no occasion to exert his understanding. .... He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become.:.. . His dexterity at his own particular trade seems to be acquired at the ex- pense of his intellectual, social, and martial virtues. But in every improved and civilized society, this is the state into which the laboring poor, that is, the great body of the people, must necessarily fall.” How comforting this latter paragraph to the souls of the Henry Fords! (To be continued.) |NORTHERN STATES CO-OPERATIVE CONVENTION CHARACTERIZED BY CONSTRUCTIVE CLASS POLICY The convention of the Northern States Co-operative League held in Du- luth, Minn, July 18 and 19, was attended by 51 delegates and score of fra- ternal delegates, The Northern States Co-operative trict league of the Co-operative League of America. The secretary reported that the membership of the league was 51,945. Many new societies affiliated with the league during last year. + The convention was a live one. Most important questions were de- cided only after long and sometimes heated discussion and debate. This clarified the issues. Important Decisions, After hearing the budget for the en- suing year and getting all facts per- taining to the question, the conven- tion decided to have for the coming fiscal year a fulltime secretary, Until now, the secretary has divided his time with the Franklin Cooperative Creamery’s Educational Committee, It decided to continue the publica- tion of the Year Book and to empower the executive committee to change the bi-monthly magazine to a monthly, if the financial condition permits it. New constitution and by-laws were adopted, Future Policy Outlined, A resolution, declaring that the N. S. C. Ju. should be “neutral.in politics” was unanimously voted.down by the resolution committee and the follow- ing substitute resolution presented: Co-operative Movement a Working- ‘ "Class Movement, “Whereas the co-operative move- ment in its nature is primarily a work- ing class movement against the pres- ent based on profit, and “Whereas a change in the present economic system of society can be ac- complished only thru the united action of the whole working class, “Be it resolved, that The Northern States Co-operative League declares’ the co-operative movement.to be a part of the general labor movement, and therefore the cooperative move- ment should seek tha co-operation of GINSBERG’S Vegetarian Restaurant 2324-26 Brooklyn Avenue, LOS ANGELES, CAL. League is the biggest and oldest dis- all workers’ movements for the benefit of the exploited toilers.” Working Class Policy Adopted, After a thoro discussion, the con- vention adopted the above mentioned tion on “neutrality” was withdrawn. declaration of policy and the resolu- International fascism was condemn- ed by the convention, the following resolution being adopted unanimous-|_ ly: We heartily endorse the proposal made by the Red International Labor Union, that the International Co-op- erative Alliance take the ‘Iiniative to call a conference of the Amsterdam International of Trade Unions, the Red International Labor Union and International Co-operative Alliance, to formulate measures to fight interna- tional fascism.” Elections. After few other resolutions were adopted, the convention elected a new board of directors, The following were elected: H. Norby, Minneapolis; F. Burdant, Minneapolis; E. H,. Ander- son, Minneapolis; V. S. Alanne, Min- neapolis; E, H, Branch, Grand Rapids, Mich.; H. V. Nurmi, Virginia; 0, Cor- gan, Hancock, Mich.; A, A, Siegler, Duluth; S. F. Emme, St. Paul; EE. Ronn, Superior; George Halonen, Su- perior, Federal Judge Baldzell Branded Strikebreaker AKRON, 0.—(FP)—Federal judge Baldzell of Indianapolis is held in contempt byethe Ohio Federation of Labor, Baldzell recently threw two streetcar union organizers into jail without bail for eriminal contempt of court, jn “Judge Baldzell is a strikebreaker,” thundered Pres, John P. Frey of the Obio Federations while the 43rd_con- vention roared approval, WRITH AS YOU FIGHTI ¢ THE DAIL*®=WORKER NEWS AND COMMENT The DAILY WORKER. SEEK AUSTRALIAN AID H. W. Wood of Calgary Is sailing for Australla on the “Empress of China” where he seeks to enlist the co-operation of Australlan wheat growers. Wood is the founder of the Canadian co-operative wheat pools. He is also active in the Can- adian Farmers’ Party. Page Five SENATE SLUSH PROBERS FOLD TENT AND 60 Reed Hints Prison for Insull; Sam May Smile The senate committee, investigating the use of slush funds in the late Illi- nois primaries has departed after showing that over one million dollars was spent in the battle to win the nomination for Frank L, Smith, in the senatorial race next fall. Were Not Available. Two millionaires for whom supoenas were issued did not appear. It was said that warrants could not be served on them, because of their absence. They are: James Simpson, millionaire head of Marshall Field and Co., and Clement Studebaker, Jr., multi-million- aire utility man. The committee promised to return here in the fall and clean up on the investigation, Threatened with Jail. Senator Reed intimated that those cited to appear before the senate for contempt may see the inside of a jail. But millionaires and their servants are not used to jails. They are Samue Insull, utility magnate? Robert E. Crowe, state’s attorney for Cook county; Daniel J. Schuyler, Insull’s at- torney; Edward H. Wright, colored po- litical boss of the south side and Thomas Cunningham, wealthy repud- lican politician of Philadelphia. The labor leaders who supported Frank L, Smith, millionaire, ana friend of Insull, have not yet repudl- ated him. AMERICAN DIVIDEND AND INTEREST PAYMENTS FOR FIRST HALF OF 1926 REACH TOTAL OF $2,166,262,000 By LELAND OLDS, Federated Press. American dividend and interest pay- ments the first half of 1926 were suf- ficient for a 25% wage increase for more than 12,000,000 wage earners. But this huge total was paid instead to the investing class. It sets a new record in the amount of tribute col- lected by the gountry’s financial oli- garchy. Profits Increase. The total for the 6 months is $2,166,- 262,000. In the same period of 1925 the investing..class received $2,049,- 120,000. The increase this year is about 6%. If continued the 1926 divi- dend and interest.payments will reach $4,360,000,000.5, This will mark a gain of 28% since1920 and 144% since 1914. ; Last year's cash payments to the owners of stocks and bonds crossed the 4 billion mark for the first time in history. This year’s will be well on to 4% billions.» Dividend and interest payments for July more than; maintained this rate of increase, bringing the 7-month total to $2,166,262,000. For the first 7 months of 1925 the total was $2,049,- 120,000. The month to month record for each year reported by the depart- ment of commerce is: Dividends and Interest. 1926 1925 January 509,250,000 $458,625,000 February . , 201,000,000 March 333,350,000 April 404,820,000 May 328,225,000 June 323,100,000 July 437,900,000 More than 2-3 of this steady flow of cash into the pockets of the well-to-do is interest on, bonds. It represents Nearing to Speak on British Trade Union Congress September 19 NEW YORK, Aug. 8. — Scott Near- ing, who is leaving in a short time to attend the British Trade Union Congress, will deliver a lecture under the auspices of the New York Work- ers’ School, on September 19, imme- diately after .returning from Great Britain. His subject will be, “The Trade Union Congress and the Dev- elopments in the British Labor Move- ment.” The lecture will take place at the Central Opera House Sunday even- ing, Sept. 19, just two days after Near- ing has arrived in the United States on his return from the congress, It will be the opening gun in the fall term activities of the Workers’ School. Nearing is one of the many instruc- tors that the school is adding to its staff for the coming-year, He will give two short courses during the winter in addition to yarious special lectures. GLASS WAR VICTIMS GRANADA, Minn,-— (FP) — Birth- days in September of political and class-war prisoners in American pen- itentiaries are announced as follows: At San Quentin, Cal.: Sept, 10, G. J, Terrill, Box 38132; Sept. 15, James LaLonde, Box 38122; Sept, 22, Roy Carter, Box 38533; Sept. 24, R. W. Minton, Box 37492; Sept, 28, W. H. Wright, Box 385375 Sept, 30, Albin Bratland, Box 38,36, At. Sioux Falls, & D.: Frank Godlasky, Rex 911, None of these are allowed packages at this time of the year, but cards and letters and money are permitted, Sept. 17, the fixed charges the people must meet before iticome can be distributed as wages, salaries or profits. The 7 months dividends amounted to $695,- 877,000 compared with $663,350,000 in the same period of 1925. Cutting Mellons. This year dividend payments to date were distributed to owners of the ma- jor divisions of industry as follows: Railroad dividends $119,115,000; street railway dividends $64,310,00; indus- trial and miscellaneous corporation dividends $432,452,000. In the first 7 months of 1925 railroad owners got $190,535,000; street railway owners $59,135,000, and the owners of other corporations $413,680,000, Satting Down Profits, In addition to these record payments to investors the corporations are salt- ing away surpluses. The Chicago Journal of Commerce says: “In the comfortable feeling generated by the dividend statements of the numerous large corporations another feature has been lost sight of and that is the large surplus accounts which are being ac- cumulated. In other words, not only are business concerns able to pay their stockholders well for the year’s business but they are putting aside large reserves against the rainy day and to assist in the inevitable era of expansion which lies ahead.” Grant Mergers. The journal points out that the huge accumulations of surplus profits are also serving the financiers in their plans to effect giant mergers. It says: “These great surplus accounts must be invested and thus holdings have been acquired in those concerns slated for absorption.” “No Neutrality in Politics,’ Declares Co-operative Meet DULUTH, Minn.—(FP)—Participa- tion in all worker movements for the benefit of labor is to be the rule of the Northern States Cooperative league, according to the convention resolution adopted at Duluth in July. The 51 delegates representing 50,000 co-} operators unanimously decided against neutrality in politics, and tha - IS WHAT YOU CAN WIN with a story of WORKER CORRESPONDENCE sent in this week to appear in the issue of Friday, Aug. 13. —Literature and Revolution, by Leon Trotsky. A fearless dis: cussion of the relation of art to life—brilliantly written and bound in cloth for your library. Pome year's subscription to the Workers Monthly—12 issues of real pleasure, —Government Strikebreaker, by Jay Lovestone, A book showing up the government as an enemy of the workers. Cloth-bound. * SUBSCRIBE to the American Worker Correspondent..(50 cents a year) to learnwhat and how to write. By Upton Sinclair (Copyright, 1926, by Upton Sinciair) WHAT HAS GONE BEFORE, J. Arnold Ross, oll operator, formerly Jim Ross, teamster, Is unsuccessful in signing a lease with property holders at Beach City, Cal., ause 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 Elido 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 ranch and pitch their camp. in hunting for quail they find oil oozing out of the ground and Darl wheedles 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. He falis in love with another student, Rose Taintor. In the meantime Dad's oil business grows rapidly. The World War begins and Dad, along with anther capitalists, benefits by selling oi! to both belligerents. Bunny arranges for Paul to come and live with Ruth on a nearby ranch. Paul had been living with a lawyer who took a liking to him. and bequeathed his library to Paul when he died, Paul “has it out” with his “holy roller’ father who scorns him as unfaithful. His brother Eli is a hopeless religious fanatic, subject to fits, Eli is now going around the country acting a prophet and “healing” people. Bunny, anxious to get back to the ranch, suggests to Dad that the two go there and build a shack near the house that Paul and Ruth stop in, e e ~ . And Mr. Coffey puffed several more clouds of smoke and studied them, and said he felt friendly to Dad; but he thought it would be better if Dad would contribute two thousand dollars to the campaign fund, and carry five thousand for Mr. Coffey per- sonally. And Dad, looking him in the eye, inquired, “Can you deliver the goods?” Mr. Coffey said yes, he could deliver them all right, Dad needn’t have any worries. So it was a bargain, and Dad took out his check book and wrote out two thousand dol- lars to the order of the treasurer of the county campaign com- mittee of the Republican party. Then he asked Mr. Coffey whether he held any public office, and the latter replied no, he was just a plain business man; so Dad said all right then, the agreement could be in Mr. Coffey’s name; and he wrote a memorandum to the effect that he had received the sum of one dollar and other good and valuable considerations, in return for which Mr. Coffey, was owner of five per cent interest in the net profits of a well to be drilled on the Abel Watkins ranch near Paradise, to be known as the Ross Junior-Paradise No. 1. But it was understood and agreed that the said well was not to be drilled until there was a good hard road completed from the main street of Paradise to the entrance of the Abel Watkins ranch, and if the said road were not completed within sixty days the said J. Arnold Ross was un- der no obligation to drill the said well, nor to return to the said Jacob Coffey the said one dollar and other good and valuable considerations. And Dad handed that to the said Jacob Coffey, and smiled, and remarked that he hoped it wouldn’t fall into the hands of the “Watch-Dog.” Mr. Coffey smiled, and laid his hand on Bunny’s shoulder, and said he hoped this little man wouldn't make any mistake and talk about it; and Dad said Bunny was learning the oil business, and the first lesson he had learned was never to talk about his father’s affairs. So then they shook hands all around, arid the two got into ‘their car, and Bunny exclaimed, “But Dad, I thought you were a Democrat!” And Dad laughed and said that he wasn’t deciding the tariff on hyperchlorides, nor the independence of the Philip- pine Islands, he was jist gettin’ a road to the Watkins ranch. Bunny said, “There’s one thing I don’t understand, how can Mr. Coffey do all that, if he hasn’t any office?” To which Dad an- swered that the big fellows as a rule avoided holding office for that very reason, so they were free to do business. Mr. Carey could be sent to prison if it were proven that he had taken money. from Dad, but nothing could be done to Coffey, he was jist the “boss.” The office-holder, said Dad, was either a poor devil who needed a fifth rate salary, or else he was a man actuated by, vanity, he liked to make speeches, and be applauded by the crowd, and see his picture in the papers. You would never see pictures of Jake Coffey in the papers, he done his work in his back office, and never in the lime-light. Bunny, of course, remembered what he had been taught in the “civics” class, and asked if that was the way the business of government was always run. Dad said it was practically the Same everywhere, from the county up to the state, and on to the national government. It wasn’t really as bad as’it seemed, it was jist a natural consequence of the inefficiency of great masses of people. It was all right to niake spread-eagle speeches about. “democracy,” but what about the facts?. Who were the voters here in San Elido county? Why, the very boobs that Bunny had seen “jumping” and “rolling” and “talking in tongues” at Eli’s church; and could anybody pretend that these people could run a government? They were supposed to decide whether or not Dad should have a road and drill a well! It was a sure thing they, couldn’t do it; and Jake Coffey was the feller that done the de- ciding for them—he provided that promptness and efficiency that business men had to have, and that couldn't be got under our American system. (To be continued.) 4 CUT TTL LLU LULL LLL OO New York Left Wing Needle Workers’ Excursion Saturday, August 14th, 1926 _ To SUNSET PARK on the Hudson Steamer “Cleremont”. Boat starts 2 p. m. sharp from Battery Park Pler A. Music, Refreshments, Etc. Tickets $1.10, at the pier $1.25. Tickets for sale at 108 East 14th St. 3 ALU LLL LLL LLL CT THE JEWISH DAILY FREIHEIT CHICAGO OFFICE: Roosevelt Road and Kedzie, Room 14 Telephone Rockwell 2306 Manager: A. Ravitch All information about “Daily Freiheit’ and “The Hammer,” advertising, subscriptions, etc., on application. ar? Co —__: