The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 18, 1926, Page 7

Lc — Sunline c+ THE DAILY WORKER. ALEX. BITTELMAN, Editor. Second Section: This Magazine Section Appears Every Saturday In The DAILY WORKER. ——— aot SATURDAY, Y, SEPTEMBER 18, 1926 American Capital Conquering Poland By B. K. GEBERT. E Seba won a victory in Poland against France, when Pilsudski thru a bloody upris ing abolished the government of Wojciechowski- Wites. Pilsudski is England’s man. Pilsudski fs proving to be worthy of England’s support and its faith in him. Pilsudski is busy preparing for war against the Union of Socialist Soviet Repab- lics and for this Pilsudski is getting further sup port from England. England is ordering coal from Poland, In this month, 200,000 tons of coal will be shipped from Poland to England to help break the strike of the British miners and help Pilsudski to stabilize the country to some extent. Thanks to big orders from England, the Polish miners are working overtime. The bosses are forcing the miners to work 16 and 20 hours a day. Every attempt of the workers te stop this exploitation and to organise relief for the British miners is met |Money badly for war preparations, But this is not the whole American with an iron fist. All literature con- cerning the British strike is confis- capital cated. The workers delegates’ con- Giesche Zinc Works in Polish Silesia Lately Taken Over by American Capital. italists, And when we consider thig it will-not surprise us that there is in Poland now a éonmimigsion of “finance experts” headed by Prof. Kammerer, re- forming Polish finances so that American capital will control the affairs of Poland. This is the Dawes pian of Poland in its worst form. The en slavement of Poland by American capital means a@ much harder struggle of the workers and peas- ants of Poland for their emancipation. Together with American capital Poland is alse getting Americanization. Independence day was celebrated in Poland in every large town. The capitalist press was praying to American capital as to the saviour of the country. Five million signatures were secured, mostly from school ‘chi dren, as proof of the loyalty of the Polish {boar geoisie to: American capital. To the- signa was attached “a message of the people of Poland to the citizens of the great American union.” It ends with the slogans: “Long live the United States of America!” “Long Live Liberty, Equality and money to be loaned by American cap- Dillon, Read & Co., banking firm of | Justice!” invested tm Poland. The | New York, loaned the Polish govern- ference in the Zaglembie Dombrow- skie coal region, which met to dis- cuss the problem of how to help their British brothers, was broken up by the armed forces of Pilsudski’s gov- ernment. It: is not necessary to men- tion that the yellow socialists are working in this matter hand in hand with the government; and somé of their papers are saying openly that the British strike 1s permitting Pol- Vacuum Oil Co. invested. some $6,- 000,000 in oil industries in Galicia. The ‘Radio Corporation of America has built in Warsaw a powerful radio station, The International Match _Co., for. granting the govertiment a. “Joan. of: $5,000,000 gets a monopoly on matches. Ulen & Co. of New York are making a contract for municipal improvements ment $35,000,000. Baldwin Locomotive. Works are also doing good business with Poland. Yes, “the republic of Poland” is for sale, The buyers are English and American capitalists and others. The. ruling: Glads is selling its eco- nomic independence. It is selling the workers and peasants to international What a joke. Liberty and justice in Poland. Strange words to hear ia Poland, where there are more than 6,000 political prisoners in jails for crimes No other than participation in workers’ organizations — thelfight for freedom. wh Liberty and justice, where workers are shot on the streets when they dare - selling the country cheaper than the} ish industry to gain its place under the sun. But Poland is not a colony of Eng- land today. American capital is busy there getting what is worth getting. .Poland is only second to America in the production of zinc. By agreement with Pilsudski’s government W. A. Harriman &/ Co. got absolute control! [ ofthe Gieshé mines in Upper Silesia. || The Geishe establishment was valued before the war at $100,000,000. There are about 30,000 workers working nor- mally in thig establishment. After the war part'of the establishment was |: left in Germany, part was given to Poland. Today it is united under the American dollar. For this huge concession Harriman paid the Polish government $10,000,- 000. As the Communist deputy, Var- ski, said once in the Sejm (partia- ment), “Poland is for salé& but the price is high yet. So international capital “will wait patiently ‘till it can bay “Poland cheaper.” © Pilsudski: is senee government. -Pilsafskt needs dorganixé’ thie unorganized is the need -and the demand of the hour. “Why should the steel =. con tinue to be Bee Recent when it been proven convincingly and lon the shadow of a doubt that successful organization is possible? ‘Remember the experiences of the great steel strike. Why should the automobile woah remain organized when in every place where they make automobiles the workers demand organization? Or is it better for the American labor movement that these workers remain helpless slaves of the “enlightened” Henry Ford and his like? Up par down the ladder Swinging a brush All day long. The bess shouts faster. capital, seeing clearly that their rule |to come to demonstrate their demanda, in four towns for $10,000,000, the lis coming to an end. where many are executed for their loyalty to their class, even without a triaL Liberty and justice, where over 40 per cent of national minorities have not even the right to have school im their own language, Equality in Poland, where millions of workers and peasants “Ate @ctifally starving, the ruling ¢lass robbing them of the last possession for taxes so. that the government can keep a huge army ready to make a war on the workers and peasants or on Poland’s neigh bors, Yes, Pilsudski’s Poland is worthy of American support from the capitalist point of view. It is up to American labor to show that it is with the Po land of the workers and peasants in their dark days of Pilsudski’s os ag terror government, against who: rising a new wave of struggle bs “ae saawiea ee e “ is achieved. ee Phe Real 1 Need of fas Hoar ia And while we are in the process. of asking questions, we will ask a i a _ more— Why are the textile workers utior- ganized? On the basis of what mysterious reasoning does the American Federa- tion of Labor boycott the organization of the rubber industry? Why shoulé Firestone and the other rubber barons be helped by the labor movement to ex- ploit and oppress the workers? Organize the unorganized—this must be the message of the trade unionists of America to the + epee conven- tion of the A. F. of Ly Alex Bittelman.