The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 31, 1926, Page 6

3 Sie reactionary-meesene: ol Page Six THE DAILY WORKER THE DAILY WORKER Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Ill, etc lett leone. seems Phone Monroe 4713 SUBSCRIPTION RATES B8y maii (in Chicago only): $8.00 per year $4.50 six months $2.50 three months — $6.00 per voar By mail (outs'de of Chicago): $3.50 stx months $2.00 three months Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, IIlInols J, LOUIS ENGDAHL | WILLIAM F. DUNNE {*™ MORITZ J, LOED..... .. Dditors ..Business Manager esidenrpeiceseeeeieestnnciscnpesvnesesiaesactiaesisn-o-heioo-esuregiosioespereneennecmennae er —encerstnananees Entered as second-class mail September 21, 1923, at the post-office at Chi cago, lil, under the act of March 3, 1879. S- 0 Advertising rates on application. Farrington is Caught With the Goods The story published on the front page of this issue which ex- poses Frank: Patington, president of the Illinois Miners’ Union, in contractual relations with the Peabody Coal company. at a salary of shook the $25,000 a year, is one of the most sensational explosions that ever American trade union movement. That Farrington was a servant of the Illinois coal operators has Jong since been proven by his own actions. pointed the accusative finger at him. His open alliance with the Circumstantial evidence reactionary republican machine, his war on the progressive elements in the union, his expulsion of active members who tried to make the operators live up to the terms of their contracts with the union— all those things have proved, to the satisfaction of the more intel- ligent and progres e elements in the union that Farrington; was Dut a tool of the bosses the while he was drawing a salary of $5,000 a year, in addition to a large expense account as president of the district organization. Nevertheless Farrington could hitherto deny the charge: that he was the coal operators’ man. on his honesty to radicals and Communists. ht with the goods and all avenues of retreat have been cut off. 1 his own cronies, his closest partners in treachery rrington’s sinking ship. cal E are forced to quit Fe But now he has been and betrayal They stayed with him , | ambitious, Grow— By THURBER LEWIS. (Concluding Article) N the six articles we have devoted to the question of civilian military training in the United States our op- position to this method of extending militarism has not been based on a t attitude. We have opposed n military training on the fol- lowing grounds: if It is part and parcel of the *military machine being erected in the United States as the instrument of growing American imperialism. The program of military train- '* ing of which the Citizens’ Military Training Camps and the Reserve Of- ficers’ Training Corps are vehicles is The War Department makes no secret of its intention to ex- tend military training to include the greatest possible number of American youth. The logical outcome of a con- tinuation of this policy will be to turn very school and workshop into a veri- able barracks. 3 Aside from its strictly martial purpose, military training is en- irely to the advantage of the em- loying class and calculated to con- ribute to the weakness and disor- He could attribute the reflections | xanization of the workers as a class. lt fosters and develops a spirit of dis- ripline of a kind valued greatly by mine superintendents and factory fore- men. Discipline and obedience exact- od for the benefit of the master class while he was serenely riding the waves, but now that the sea cocks Jis not only not a help to but a distinct are opened those labor rats are scurrying for the life boats, In a series of articles published in Tur Darty Worker two years ego, Farrington’s exposed. him. particularly since Farrington had a way of opening the heads of members whose eyes were opened to his perfidy. With his gangsters, patronage from the official machine and from Len Small, and the assistance of John L. Lewis, International president, Farrington, bas been able to hold office regardless of how the members voted. “Vote as you damn please, I'll be your president anyhow ! s defy to the members of District pe) during the @his was Farrington’s Diennial election two years ago. ” The admitted treachery of Farrington is net a matter that af- #ects the Illinois miners alone. It is a problém for the entire mem- bership of the international union, in thefanthracite’ regions as well jas in the bituminous fields. a Farrington’s treachery must, flot be considered as something that affects Farrington alon © It is indissolubly intertwined with the international union, with John L. Lewis in particular and with Lewis’ aids and abettors thruout the Jength and breadth of the organization. No labor leader could be more venal than Farrington. Farrington has repeatedly betrayed .the has nothing on Lewis. But he miiners of Illinois, but Lewis has betrayed the coal diggers in every state in the union. than Lewis. Farrington does his dirty work more crudely The latter is a greater menace to the mine workers’ union because he is more subtle in his methods. Farrington is thru as president of the Illinois Miners’ Union. He cannot surviv operators’ paid hireling. for this work. this exposure. He will now function openly as the He will no longer be drawing two salaries To waste time fighting Farrington except insofar as it is necessary to expose his duplicity for the enlightenment of the rank and file would be like throwing water on a drowned rat. The miners must make use of the Farrington expose. to get rid of the arch-traitor John L. Lewis and his corrupt machine. Lewis wants William Sneed, a reactionary, to succeed Farring- ton as district president. not one whit better than Farrington. vp their own progressive ticket and clear out all the corrupt brood that is now sucking the life-blood out of the union and systematic- ally wrecking it. The Illinois miners know that Sneed is The Illinois miners must put Like Farrington they see $25,000 a year jobs with the coal companies as their reward for reducing the coal diggers to slavery thru the open shop or the company union. The Illinois miners must not be fooled by Lewis’ exposure of | Farrington. neck in the coming elections. Lewis is doing this as a campaign dodge. to save his) He knows that the candidacy of John | Brophy of Pennsylvania will sweep the union and sweep him out ef office unless he succeeds in drawing a red herring across the trail. The members of the United Mine Workers of America will be better served by forcing Lewis to take‘his place on a coal company’s ‘ Ai. ote et } allowiug him to payroll with F the organization. rrington and other-renegade mine leaders, than by continue in office to complete the task of wrecking I bo growth of state owned indus- More Slugging in Passaic Tho no intelligent worker ever gave eredence to the stories by \he Passaic mill owners and their kept police and judiciary that their opposition to the strikers was purely and simply on the basis that Communists were engaged in the strike and in leading posi- tions 6f direction, and that it was not a bona fide American Federa- , tion of Labor strike, such a notion is now absolutely and completely liquidated by the refusal of the mill owners and their Tegal tools to give any more consideration than before to the strikers even tho the , textile union of the American Federation of Labor has practically ‘taken over the control and direction of the strike. Not only do the mill barons refuse to deal with the A. F. of L. in fn attempt to come to a settlement of the walkout but the bestial cos- The continued slugging of pickets, the regular stream of arrests, the beatings of women who came to the strike scene from liberal and 4vespectable’ organizations in New York, is proof enough that opposi- we , tion to the strike did not originate primarily because Communists engaged in it, but because fifteen thousand workers had enough of the spirit of solidarity and militaney to go out on strike for the jnost elementary demands necessary for even a half-decent living. Only continued solidarity will win for the strikers even the modicum of standing and consideration that ha# been won by workers else- ‘ ‘where. in the past, by similar bitter aad hard fought battles. SF OWNNOR LAI a SANUS RSE ALAS lisadvantage for the workers, The creation of a gigantic mili- * tary reserve such as military relations with the Peabody Coal company were training will in time result in catas- No fresh evidence was necessary to prove the case against But it takes a good deal to open the eyes of the workers, trophe for the labor movement. Re- serves may be called upon not only to shoot down strikers in time of in- dustrial: conflict, but are liable to mobilization for industrial duty for the purpose of crippling the economic resistance of the workers, Are Made Attractive, NE of the worst features of mill- tary training in both the schools jand summer camps is the fact that it is made-attractive. To a certain extent there are physical benefits to be gained by the recruits and how- ever much routine and propaganda is connected with the business, the fresh air of a country place, the regular hours and the physical exertion make ‘or health and are no doubt a decided relief especially to young workers cramped up in stuffy, smelly shops the year round. ing-Class Opposes Military Training. DDED to this is the lurid and de ceptive nature of the War Depart- nent publicity that gets the lads to he camps or in the campus barracks y hook or crook. We have dealt with samples of this and also the fact that the monetary advantages to be gained KARL LIEBKNECHT No one has distinguished himself in the struggle against capitalist milita- rism as the great martyr, Karl Lieb- knecht, whose name will always be re- membered by the World’s youth. by poor students in the schools are a factor in swelling the ranks of the RO. TC, Congressional xbi>prlations. HE only thing that prevents the camps from adding to the annual ng total in larger numbers is the limitation imposed by the fact that the congressional appropriation grows much more slowly than the jingoes lesire. For them this) is a sad fact and they use every possible influence to make it otherwise. There is a large body of public sentiment that must ye taken into account especially by congressmen would ieel that another erm would do them yno harm. Con- Life and 5. How Russia Js Bullding Soclalism. By ANISE. ULY 25.—tt’s a fairly dry and long little booklet—the Soviet primer on “How we are building socialism in our land.” Most of what it tells is known already to anyone who has followed Soviet building for the past five years, Yet it contains in such good compact form the entire policy of the Commu- nist Party in the organization of the nation’s life, as expressed again at the" last congress, that it is worth not only reading again but keeping on file. The author disposes rather brusque- ly, of all who say that workers’ and peasants interests are opposed. For the average peasant, he says, state socialism is betfer than capitalism, since it is only the rich peasant who | expands under capitalism, while the poor and middle peasant is helped more by co-operation. The worker thru state industry and ‘he peasant thru co-operation, are | nand in hand building the socialism of the future. This is the chief theme of the little book. State Industry Grows. try in a worker-controlled state, 8 itself a grawth towards socialism, tates the booklet. “And since 1921, ur state industry has grown much taster than private industry. From ‘921-22, the total production of state ndustry was only 850 million roubles. 1924-25 it reached 2 billion 600 mil- ‘on. This year it was hoped to reach ur billion, and while it will fall omeWwhat ‘below this, due to grain ex- ort falling below expectation, yet it vill be very far in advance of the srevious year. “Private industry hag also been in- reasing, but in steadily less propor- fon. Two years ago state industry nade wp 63% per cent of all produc- ion, co-operative industry 3%, handi- rafts 29% and private capitalist pro- packs, who conducted a veritable reign of terror in the strike zone from | inction 8%, Now state production has } the inception of the strike, are not one wit less brutal or incon- ,fiderate today. ‘isen to 71 per cent,, cowperative pro- duction to 5% per cent, while private aplitalist production has dropped to “% per cent of all production, “State industry has now reached he stage of building new factories or the old ones are no longer enough, “his year we are building 117 new itories and mills, and epending over 00 million roubles on these now con- iucilons. together with ‘capital re- alts to old factories, Our chief pres- ont alms in industry are two: To ex- end new construction and to raise Work in the Soviet Union sequently the military appropriation can be boosted only gradually, But the point is that it 1s being boosted. Every year it jumps several million and always more and more young lads to. become wards of the war depart- ment for thirty days of the year in the campus, or if in school, to wear uni- forms each semester, Not Interested Except in Soldiers. UT we have taken pains to make clear that the chief interest of the War Department is NOT the physical or mental well-being of its recruits— except insofar as it is necessary for a good soldier to be strong and fit physically and of a certain mold men- tally. So that the physical training in the camps serves two purposes: It is necessary for soldiers to be fit; and the promise of this fitness is a strong urge to the lads and a big help to the War Department press agents. “Building Men” Is Twaddle. HE War Department is far too wise and ancient a political institution to spend its hard earned appropria- tions on anything except preparation for the blood baths it has been created to prepare for, All the twaddle spoken by the great men of the country from President Coolidge to President Green about military training “building men” cannot confront this fact and face it out. An Anomaly. NE of the anomalies of the situa- ‘tion, however, is this: While the chief supporters, as we have very well shown, of military training in this country are the biggest financial and industrial combines of capital in the land—the American Federation of La- bor is also on record in favor of Citizens’ Military Training Camps. At the El Paso convention of 1923 a reso- lution to this effect was passed. In April 1924 Samuel Gompers submitted a resolution in the annual meeting of the National Civic Federation of which he was a member, urging “all citizens to continuous co-operation with the Military Training Camps Association and the civilian aides to the secretary of war in encouraging young men to volunteer for the Citizens’ Military Training Camps.” Readers of these ar- ticles will recall the identity of the association referred to by Gompers. That organization of war profiteers and jingoes was able to say, on the strength of Gompers’ resolution: “The above resolution has extreme weight, since the National Civic Fed- eration has a most distinguished mem- The Case Against Military Training Summed Up Part and Parcel of Military Program—Strike-Breaking Institution—-Congressional Appropriations “Building Men” is Twaddle—The Perfidy of the Labor Officialdom —the Work- bership in its executive council and upon its executive committee eminent publicists, jurists and educators to- gether with the heads of great busi- ness corporations and an equal rep- resentation from the presidents of the largest associations, brotherhoods ‘and unions of wage earners.” President Green’s Visit. HEN, only a féw-days ago, Presi- dent Green, Gompers" successor, ac- cepts an invitation extended by the secretary of war to become the guests of General Summerail at the Platts- burg Military Training Camp. He and members of the executive council of the A, F. of Li ‘stayed five days anda issued statements conipletely endors- ing the military training camps. What does this mean? It can mean only one thing. ‘That the officialdom of the organized labor movement. in this country, consciously or’ unconsciously as the case may be, are in league with the worst militarists-and jingoes in building a vast military system. The result of thi8 process, if it is allowed to continue, will be the making of the organized labor movement into a will- ing auxiliary of Wall Street. Working Class Opposes War. UT in the ranks of the working class one does not find this over- whelming enthusiasm for military training and preparation for war, And it is precisely here, in the ranks of the workers, that the greatest opposi- tion to militarism is to be found. And why not? Their strikes are broken by soldiers. It is they that must feed the cannon when the masters declare war. It is they that are called upon to supply’ the recruits for armies that go to Nicaragua, Haiti or China to “protect American lives and property” --which,- translated, means American investments. The only genuine and effective opposition to war and militar- ism must come from the working class, Oppose Military Training. ILITARY training camps and ‘mili- tary drill in schools and colleges are part of a well-layed scheme to militarize the youth of thé country. One does not have to be very. class- conscious to realize that the best in- terests of the working class ‘are served by opposing them. The wori- ing youth of the country. must be taught ‘to see thru the deceptions of the War Department, the paternal en- couragement of their employers and the perfidious actions of capitalism's lieutenants in the ranks of the work- ers. EREWITH is published the fifth of a series of stories being sent | specially to The DAILY WORKER by Anne Louise Strong, who is at this time in the Soviet Union making a thoro study of conditions there. on the Soviet Union having spent Miss Strong, whose pen-name Is “Ani: ”" is a credited authority the better part of the past five years in that country. She is the author of a book, “First Time in History” and numerous magazine and newspaper storles on the Soviet Union, ‘We must now consider the proper line for our industrial develop- ment, The capitalist world, for in- stance, would like to sell us cotton goods. But we say: Not so much -otton goods, but machinery for mak- ing cotton goods. Not so much auto- mobiles and tractors, but’ machinery for making these things. The capi- talist world wants to make us depen- dent on it. But we wish to be inde- pendent. This is very important to us; otherwise some day the capital- ist world will suddenly demand the old czar’s debt from us, the interest on which alone fs a billion roubles a year, and we should have to come under their power or be strangled for want of goods, Policy of Industrial Development, T the past party congress there were two theories about the kind of imports we should encourage. The minority wished to admit frankly bat Russia is an agricultural coun- ry, export grain and import manufac- -ured goods. But the majority de- cided that this would play into the hands of capitalist mgtions and place us in subjection to them, and that we must in every way strive to de- velop our industry to meet the needs of the country, 4 “In this our metal’ important. For a long time this in- dustry lagged far by all others, But in 1924 suddenly, industry, tran- sport and agricul all began to need n¥chines, rails, ploughs, reap- ers. So the metal industry more than loubled in « single year, but even then did not reach more than had pre-war. This year we expect to bring ft to 83 per ewnt of pre-war. Some branches are far above pre-war, as for instance, fafm machinery and im- plements, if is 120 per cent of pre-war, Imports Below Exports. “Tt 1s also ‘policy to keep our imports below our exports, This has been argued by Ynany, who think it unimportant, the majority de- ‘ided that it is very,important. For if we sell 100 rouble worth and buy 125 roubles worth, Bhen clearly we dustry is most the teehwique of old factories. | A must pay for the 2 bles with gold. And that means w ust send gold out of the injure the soundness of our chervonetz. All of us remember how sick we got of those paper roubles. It is necessary to have enough sound money in cir- culation than to import more foreign wares. “Some people think that it is use- less to speak to peasants about state industry, But industry is very im- portant to the peasant. First, be- cause its growth lowers his own taxes; last year the farm tax went down from 322 millions to 235 mil- lions while the tax on industry went up from 804 millions to 1,341 millions. And second, because improvement in state industry means improvement of peasant technique thru better and cheaper ploughs, implements, wares of all kinds, Co-operation—the Peasants’ Road to Socialism. “While the worker is building so- clalism in the state industry, the peas- ant ds no less building it in the vil- lage thru co-operation, which, under a Soviet state, is also the road to social. ism, Under czarist Russia, co-opera- tion dealt with capitalist trusts and thus expanded capitalism, but under our union, it deals with state factories and thus expands state industry, while it also serves as the channel whereby state goods can reach the people without middleman’s profiteer- ing. “In October, 1924, there were two million members of co-operatives in the U. S. S. R. outside the Ukraine. In June, 1925, only eight months later, the number had doubled to four mil- Hon, This was the result of the party policy of strengthening co-op- eration, We still must bring the quality of co-operatives up to the quantity. There is still graft, waste, even profiteering practices which are unworthy the name of co-operation. With these we must fight, knowing that in building co-operation in the village and making it efficient, we budld the road to socialism, = | “Co-operation is of three kinds: in trade, In production, and in credit. Kach of these, as it develops, leads also to the other. The commune 14 the complete form of co-operation and all co-operatives . should keep it in mind, trying to draw their members é [into all forms of co-operation, not only in buying, but also in crédit and in production. “State credit plays a great role thru the co-operative credit union. The government gives tractors’ and ma- chinery on credit, but it gives’ these chiefly to collectives, both because the money serves more people in this way, and because this is building the road to socialism, Lacks of the Present Day. “TN planning for the future, we must not forget the chief lacks of the present which are (1) unemployment; (2) high. retail prices; (3) goods fam- ine. But in fighting all these the chief weapon is increase in our state in- dustry, both the big central industry amd the smaller local municipal in- dustries. The number employed in heavy state industry has increased from 1924 when it was 1,520,000 work- ers, till now it is 2,300,000 workers. In all our industry, large and small, we have now over seven million work- ers. At the same time the number of unemployed has sunk only slightly trom 760,000 to 715,000, as many peas- ants kept coming from the’ country. in search of workin the expanding: industry. “One reason why there is not enuf goods for the demand is that the peas- ant no longer pays’ so-much money to}. tandlords and government. His tax: es in 1913 were over ten roubles per person, but in 1925, only 3% roubles. Also he has no rent to pay to land- lords. This money paid to landlords and czar, went abroad in large amounts. Today, the peasant wants io buy wares with it. So that, even when our industry passes pre-war pro: duction, that will not be nearly enuf for the peasant. Meiintime we must fight high retail prices, which comes from this goods seareity, by means of our co-operatives, Party Congress Decisions, “The Fourteenth Congress of the party decided: {o strengthen the mon- opoly of foreign trade and the growth of state industry; to build the Sov- jet Union in the direction of escno- mic independence; to enforcé econo- my and rapid tumover in state and co-operative trade; to emphasize im- proved technique in our industry; to} assist the spread of small local Soviet industry and local initiative; to as- sist farming thru spreading improved methods, industrializing farming and strengthening 5 Hrongretings and col- lective groups, © 4 “In all these matters the workers u state Industry and the. ts in | heir co-operatives, ‘are ding 80. vtallsm,” ts Total gains Misc. reserves, increase Net gains “|Krishnamurti, Hindu “Messiah,” Denies He [ALMOST BILLION . FORU.S.STEEL INTT YEARS Gold Sweated Out of Unorganized Labor The earnings of the United States" Steel Corporation for the past eleven years have been in the vicinity of. a billion dollars, according to a tabula- tion recently made by Dow, Jones and: Company. octopus has squeezed this fabulous. sum out of the sweat and blood of its slaves, in addition to princely salaries to figurehead officials and a large se- eret fund for spies and antilabor act tivities in general. Stockholders Get Theirs, The exact sum earned by the corpo- ration jn the years from 1915 to 1925, inclusive, is $978,837,250. It has paid to holders of.the stock ia this time $415,537,294, or less: than 42% per cent, so that the surplus in that period. has been increased by $563,299,456, Funded. Debt. Reduced. Working capital has been increased. by more than. $311,000,000 and funded consequence of the reduction in fund- ed debt annual charges have been re- duced by $7,315,641—from $33,321,990 to $26,006,349—a saving equivalent to $1.44 a share annually on the common stock, Added to Surplus. In the eleven years a recent tabula- tion by Dow, Jones & Co,, shows United States Steel has added to sur- plus a total of $571,658,637, of which $185,000,000 was appropriated for plant expenditures and the remainder, $386,658,637, held in profit and loss surplus. The difference of slightly more than $8,000,000 between surplus earnings and total additions to sur- plus is due to adjustments made from time to time. This gigantic open-shop “abalous) oo How the corporation has used this ' debt reduced by $124,000,000—a total for these two items of $435,000,000, In $571,658,637 is shown in the following table: Property acct., increased..,.$234,348,775. Working capital, increased 311,182,653 Funded debt, reduced. Advanced mining royalties, etc., net; increased.......... Invests. in real estate, inc. Deferred charges, inc.. “0 Subsid, stock not owned by U. S. Steel Corp., dec..... + 701,497,712 - 124,057,750 18,017,086. 17,769,758 1,111,367 15,823 Performed Miracles—Yet NEW YORK, Aug. 29. Krishnamurti, the “new messiah,” arrived today on the Majestic with Mrs. Annie Besant, theosophist lead- er, for his widely heralded appearance before the international congress of theosophists in Chicago. The thirty-year-old Hindoo, hafled ‘by 100,000 followers as “the vehicle thru which the world teacher, head of. all faiths and inspirer of all religi- ous progress, speaks as he spoke thru the body of the disciple Jesus 2,000 years ago,” ‘was extremely averse to doing any speaking whatsoever to day. He was aloof, and regarded ft as an imposition that he should be questioned by ‘reporters. However, he went so far as to ‘duag. that he had ever performed miracles. “IT haven't performed any yet,” he said, “but I may be called on to do so at any time.” This was in slight op- position to a statement by Mrs, Be- sant that “at times he does speak with the voice of the great teacher.” E. P. A, Continued by Decree. EDINBURGH, Scotland, Aug. 29.-— The privy council met with King George at Balmeral Castle today for the purpose of renewing the proclam: ation declaring a state of national emergency existent as a result of the continuance of the coal. strike. K. C. Payroll Robbery, . - ‘KANSAS GITY, Mo, Aug. 28— Shooting as they approached, four bandits today held up Morris Rosen- berg, owner of a store at Cement City, near here, and escaped with a payroll of $3,500 in cash. ‘ Nee By BILL LLOYD, Federated The Church of England, doesn’t like the British mine: strike. It isnt prayin m to give the diggers any ‘The sacred reason you run down the lets profane inqy alties on coaldo go. “The church's scrip is wholly ample to hold a large and generous sample of filthy lucre what won't rust, yet puts the miners on the bust, for England’s soul, the good church, pleads; in graft of royalties it leads, They put the dukesses in t) and incomes of the nobles tadb: sehr Wngiish churchdom takes its toll of unearned income bled fromr The Nazarene, ‘tis offen sa’ down pillow for his head. ‘8 know where roy- — Jiddu of ¥