The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 19, 1926, Page 4

"Board of { ? Page Four THE DAILY WORKER Published by the DAILY WCRKER PUBLISHING CO. 3118 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill, pesca nc a Phone Monroe 4712 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mali (in Chicago only): $8.00 per year $4.50 six months $2.50 three months Address all mail and By mall (outside ef Chicago): $6.00 per year $3.50 six months $2.00 three months make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 1118 -W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Illinois J, LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F. DUNNE MORITZ J, LOBB..... }. one Editors Business Manager Watered as second-class mail September 21, 1923, at the post-office at Chi cago, Ill, under the act of March 3, 1879. Advertising rates on application. Straddling in Streator The Walker-Olander leadership of the Illinois Federation of Labor never displayed its lack of cleracter to better advantage than im its refusal to take a stand for its favorite candidate for the United States senate at the Streator convention, lest the apple of discord be hurled into the gathering. The candidate Smith. of the Walker-Olander machine is Frank L. Another section of the officialdem favors the other gold dust twin of Samuel Insull, George E. Brennan. The Brennan sup- porters wield considerable influence and pay considerable per capita so Walker and Olander play mum and the happy family party of labor fakers remains unruffled by an unseemly scrap. The third senatorial candidate, Parley Parker Christensen, has a small group of supperters in the eonvention. It is likely that the Walker-Olander machine would not hesttate to endorse Frank L. Smith, if they only had the Christensen supporters to‘ consider. Bat Simon O'Donnell got the flat janitors to back Brennan, perhaps with the promise that Brennan’s election would relieve the janitors ofthe duty of producing home brew for the tenants. The policy of supporting capitalist candidates for office on the ground that they are friendly to labor works out very well—for the leaders. But for the rank and file it is utter folly. It should not be hard to convince the most simple-minded worker that there is something radically wreng with a policy that can ‘find. common ground on which to stand, with Samuel Insull or any other cap- Htalist or group of capitatists. At the same time the werkers must not fall into the error of expecting any worth while results from a campaign in favor of a candidate who does not base his message ona program of class struggle. A candidate without a working class program and with. out the support of a working class organization of which he is the servant and not the master may be a choice of evils, but if the work- img ¢lass have one lesson to learn above all others it is that they must accomplish their own salvation thru their owa organized efforts. They must learn to act collectively. They must learn that deviows diplomacy of the kind favered by the get-elected-quick poli- tieign will never get them anywhere. They must quit depending on “good” men to gather their harvests. ‘Bun Darrx Worxnr is committed to the policy of a Labor Party for the workers in alliance with the farmers. This is a necessary wy tae dhe workers te take in the march to freedom from the toils of capitalist system. The workers of Illinois never ~-—presewted to them in the coming had a better opportunity than is congressional elgctions to expose the puppets of the democrat and republican parties and their sponsors in the ranks of labor officialdom. The workers and farmers must raise the farmer-labor banner in the elections and lay the base for a farmer-labor organization that will outlive the campaign and thru which the workers and farmers can function during elections and in between. Marder on the Rails An article with this title from the pen of George Harvey ap- pears in the current number of The North American Review and severely castigates the executives of American railroads-for their refusal to install an automatic train-control system that would save the lives of thousands who are killed yearly on the railroads in preventable accidents. On last Labor Day several passengers were killed in a rail- road accident within the city limits of Chicago. As usual the rail- road fastened the blame on the engineer. But an investigation into the accident proved that had the cars been made of steel instead of wood, the loss of life would be avoided. The railroads will take a chance on getting their passengers killed rather than introduce safety devices, or eubstitute steel for wood in car construction because those improvements cost money and investors must have their dividends. This is one of the greatest indictments that could be drawn against the private ownership of what is essential to the life of the people at large. Profits must be had even at the cost of human life. THE FREIHEIT ISSUES CALL TO ALL CHICAGO JEWISH WORKERS After 5 years of bitter struggle and strenuous efforts, we are on the verge of putting into life our beautiful dream of enlarging the Fretheit in size and secondly, of having a DAILY, CHICAGO EDITION—thus fulfilling the desire of all the progressive Jewish workers in Chicago, The glorious day for the Jewish Saturday, Oct. 9, when the appearance working masses in Chicago will be of the first Chicago Daily dition will be celebrated by a huge mass meeting and concert arranged for that occasion by the Chicago Fretheit management, where such speakers as Charles E. ee Ruthenberg, national secretary..of the Workers (Communist) Party, M. Ep- stein, editor of the Freiheit, and Ben Gold, manager of the New York Joint the Furiers’ Union, will address the audfence, at the Ashland Auditorium, Ashland and Van Buren streets, We do not doubt for a moment that the comrades fully appreciate the tremendous significance of the Chica- go Daily Buition of the Freiheit for the Chicago labor movement, the fact that the Freiheit will be able to re- flect on its pages the struggles, and achievements in the unions, Work- men’s Circle branches, clubs, etc. We urge every progressive Jewish worker to rally to the Freiheit, help us conduct the campaign successfully, in spite of our enemies of various colors: yellow, black and many others. You must come to the, Freiheit of- fice immediately, get tickets and certi- flcates and spread the campaign among your fellow, workers in the shops, workmen’s circle, clubs, and in general wherever you can find Jewish CHICAGO WORKERS’ SHOOL CONCERT AND DANCE SUNDAY The Chicago Workers’ School has sent out an attractive plugger an- nouncing its first “get-together” af- fair for Sunday, Sept, 19, at the Workers’ Lyceum, 2733 Hirsch Blvd, The dance will be preceded by a very good concert which is arranged by Comrade Hambro. One of the un- usual features of the evening will be a shop bulletin di: Shop bul- letins from all parts of the country will be exhibited in an attractively arranged booth, The admission is 50 cents at the door and every worker is invited to attend, Send us the name and address of a progressive worker to whom we can send a ple copy of The DAILY WORKER, a has private capital established itself in our country, and what are the com- parative proportions of state economic The C. P. S. U. arid the Opposi By N. BUCHARIN. (Continued from previous issue.) HE second question which we must ask ourselves is: To what degree development and private capital. Here I must anticipate a little, and insert a small observation: We must dif ferentiate strictly between private economics in our country and private capitalist economics, a point upon which many comrades—especially those of the opposition, as we shall see later,—are by no means clear. Not all private economics are private capi- taHst economics. The agricultural un- dertakings of the poor peasantry, and of the medium farmer employing no outside labor, are private economical enterprises, but do not represent pri- vate capitalist economics. But when we speak of our competition and our class warfare with private capital, we must inquire into the comparative powers of our stata economics in all their forms on the one hand, and pri- vate capitalist economics, that is, eco- nomic undertakings employing paid labor, on the other. It is unfortunate that precisely in this point we are short of statistics, which should be compiled with special cara on this point tm our state. data at our disposal. on the movement of private capital, its en- jargement or diminuition, cannot lay any claim to accuracy. We must de- vote particular attention to this. as- pect ef this question. A functionary of the people's com- missariat for finance, Kutler, recently >a a THE DAILY OSI THE present controversy within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union is neither a sign—nor will it be the cause —of a retreat of the revolution. Quite the contrary. It is clear indication of its victorious onward march. To give a clear understanding as well of the present prob- lems of the Russian Revolution as also of the controversy over the solution of these problems, we are publishing here- with @ report made by Comrade Bucharin at the function- aries’ meeting of the Leningrad organization of the Commu- nist Party. The report speaks for itself and needs no further elucidation. It is clear and convincing and answers the lies about the retreat of the Russian Revolution. made an attempt at calculating the extent of private capital and the an- nual accumulation within the private capitalist undertakings, An enquete was held among the private under- takings, but was extended to only about ten per cent of the private capi- talist undertakings classed under the clearing tax, This last;fact shows in itself how difficult it 4s to find firm ground in Kutler’s conclusions. How- ever this may be, Kulter’s investiga- tions into the role played by private capital are more favorable for private, capital than any other inquiries which | have been made, CCORDING to his calculations, the technical side of ‘which I shall not discuss here, as involving an indi- rect and complicated method, the gross proceeds of the 328,855 private capitalist undertakings existing in our country ate expressed in a very con- siderable sum, according. to Kutler somewhere between 819 and 585 mil- lion roubles. At the C. C. plenum one of the most respected members of the opposition, and one of our highest economic func- tionaries, Comrade Pyatakov, calcu- lated the net gains of private capital at 400 to 500 million roubles, arriving at this result by another method, a method in which: Comrade Dzerzhinsky and other comrades have observed a number of errors. I need not deal with these errors here, I need only mention that Comrade Pyatakoy made his calculation in the following man- ner: 11 per cent of industrial produc- tion is placed in the hends of private dealers. In reality, however, the private dealer trades in a very much larger proportion of industrial produc- tion; his share has been calculated at 40 per cent and even more. Comrade Pyatakov based his sum total of pri- vate capitalist accumulation on these figures. ERE he committed a number of errors, the chief of these being the following: If we place 11 percent in the hands of the private dealer by legal methods, and he receives in reality mora than this 11 percent, then this is done by means of repeated re-sales, Let us say that the co-op- erafives, or our subordinate state or- | Workers (Communist) Party | 108 1312 2722 4330 4726 5027 PAST FIVE THOUSAND! June 1 Jaly It: August 1 _ September 1 September 8 September 15 < m About half of the party members have now paid the United Labor Ticket Assessment. During the mont! h of August, 1,608 members paid the assessment and their payments were remitted to the National Office. During the first fifteen days of Septe: have been received. mber the payments of 697 members While the collection of the assessment is taking more time than It should, the tota? beging to look better. : There are stiii several hundred nucle! which have not responded to the numercus appe: and tetters wh secretaries of these nucle! will wake in thelr remittance, it will still be creditable showing In the collection of this party work. ich have been sent to them. If the up, collect the assessment. and send possible for the party to make a ssment for support of the The burden of supporting the party activities should not be placed on the shoulders of only part of the membership. Every member jof the party who Is employed should consider it a matter of party duty'to place the United Labor Ticket Assessment In his dues book. With @ little In- creased activity the total at the end of September can be driven up to the 7,000 mark. That will mean a big boost to the party activities, WE ASK THOSE MEMBERS Ai ND NUCLEI SECRETARIES WHO ARE STILL DELINQUENT TO ACT. Toledo Will Form Worker Correspondent Circle in Near Future TOLEDO, Ohio., Sept. 17.—J. Louis Engdahl, editor of The DAILY WORK- ER, following the campaign meeting here, spoke to about 50 workers on the need of forming a worker cor- respondents’ group. About 100 copies of the “American Worker Correspondent” were given to those present to hand out to other workers that may be interested in this movement and were not present. In his talk Engdahl pointed out the need of a strong workers’ correspond- ent corps and stressed the fact that as many non-Party workers as pos- sible should be drawn into these circles, y The actual date for the organization of the Toledo worker correspondents’ group will be announced at the next election campaign meeting to be held in two weeks. A subscription to The DAILY WORKER for one month to the | members of your union is a good way. Try it. Jewish Workers of . Chicago Invited to Saturday’s Meeting Jewish workers of Chicago are in- vited to spend their holiday, Saturday, Sept. 18, at the mans meeting pre- pared for them that afternoon to meet at 2:30 in the Freihelt Singing So- clety Hall, 3837 West Roosevelt Rd. An intellectual treat is arranged on the subject “The Questions of Today,” A committee of three, two elected from the floor together with chairman Z. Broches, will lead the discussion and answer all] questions. An inter- esting forum of. the nature is thus promised all who attend, Chicago Members Meet Sunday for Election Every party member in Chicago is expected to turn out for the collection of signatures on the election petitions at the following places, Sunday, Sep- tember 19, at 10 a, m.: Section 1—Nominee, Elizabeth Grit- fin, for congress. Meet at Negro La- bor Congress headquarters, 3451 8. Michigan Ave. Section 3—Same ‘inee, at Vilnis office, 3116 S. Halsted St. Section 4—Nomineé, Mathilda Ka- lousek, for congress. ‘Méet at Freiheit Hall, 3209 W. Roosevelt Road. Section 5 and 6— Nominee, Sam Hammersmark, for congress. Meet at Workers’ Lyceum, 2788 Hirsch Blvd. In addition to th titions for the respective congressional nominees, all comrades are to work on the petitions for J, Louis Engdahl, senatorial nominee, x ' SECTION TH MEMBE POST. BERTRAM WOLFE IS NOW ON HIS WESTERN TOUR The election campaign is on! Com- rade BERTRAM D. WOLFE, well- known thruout the country as the director of the New York Workers’ School, has just begun his BIG WEST- ERN ELECTION CAMPAIGN TOUR to cover some of the biggest cities in the western part of this country to speak on the platform of the Workers (Communist) Party of America. Com- rade Wolfe’s dates are given below. Every reader of The DAILY WORKER should note when Comrade Wolfe will be in his city and watch The DAILY ti gans, which buy goods. from our state organizations at wholesale prices, re: sell these to private capital. But where such things happen—and they do happen—we need not imagine that the private trader pockets the whole difference between the factory and the retail price. When he thus buys the goods at the third step of their sale, then the second link of the chain, the state trade .organ or the co-operative from which he buys, has already se- cured its profit, so that the private trader does not receive the whole dif- ference between factory and retail prices. Ex us even assume the gross pro- ceeds of the private capitalists to actually attain the 400 million roubles of Kutler’s favorable ‘estimate, (I take the mean ‘between 319 and 585 million roubles), This figure is calculated to alarm us all, for either 300 or 400 mil- lion roubles is a very nice sum. If the gross proceeds of private capital are really expressed! in such a sum, then this represents; a very real so- cial danger to our class. It would sig- nify that private capital has intruded too far in its contest with us. in my opinion this calculation neglects: a fact of decisive importance. This sum does not represent net profits, ex- Pressing the amount of private capi- talist accumulation, and therefore this sum cannot by any means be com: pared with the net profits of our state undertakings, our trade organs, and our state industry. Such a compart- son is made the more impossible by the fact that the proceeds thus calou- lated include the whole gross profits of the capitalist trader, including that part of the profits which he consumes. (Continued Tomorrow) Demand Release of Rakosi at I. L. D. Meeting Saturday To demand the release of M. Rakosi and other leaders and workers in the Communist “and labor movement in Hungary, who have recently been sen- tenced to prison by the white terror government of that country, the Inter- national Labor Defense is holding a Protest meeting on Saturday night, 8 PD. m., Sept. 18, at 453 W. North Ave. (Hall, 3nd floor). The Chicago Hungarian branch of IL, D. 18 co-operating with other or- ganizations in the holding of this pro- test gathering, The speakers will be Paul Petras and Paul Pika in Hungarian, while Charles Cline, well-known as one of the Texas class-war prisoners and who has just gained his freedom after 13 years confinement, will also speak, on special invitation, WORKER for further announcements.| Bloomington Traction ST. LOUIS, MO, September 17. KANSAS CITY, MO. September 18. OMAHA, NEBRASKA September 19. DENVER, COL. September 21, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH. September 23, LOS ANGELES, CAL. Cooperative Hall, 2706 Brooklyn Ave. © September 25, SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. September 26. PORTLAND, ORE. September 29. ASTORIA, ORE, September 30. TACOMA, WASH, October 1. MT. VERNON, WASH. October 2, SEATTLE, WASH, Oct. 3. SPOKANE, WASH, October 5. MINNEAPOLIS, MINN, October 8, ST. PAUL, MINN, October 9, Engdahl Will Speak in Cleveland Monday CLEVELAND, Sept. 17. — J. Louis Engdahl, editor of The DAILY WORKER, will be the main speaker at two meetings in Cleveland, Mon- day, Sept, 20. He will speak at the Birkow Hall, 6006 St, Clair, and at the Carpentina Hall, 1305 W. 58th St. The meeting at Birkow Hall will start at 7:30 p. m., at Carpentina Hall at 8 P. M. His subject will be “The Workers and the Old Parties,” E, CHICAGO, HIP MEETING IS NOW NED TO TUESDAY, SEPT. 21 Section Three, Chicago, Workers (Communist) Party Section Executive Committee at its last meeting decided to postpone the general membership meeting called for Sunday morning, Sept. 19, to Tuesday night, Sept. 21. This change was made necessary as many language comrades have important meetings and conferences of non-party organizations on that morning, Tuesday night the meeting will be held in Vilnis Hall. The reorganiza- tion of the section will be the main point under discussion and all members of Street Nuclei 5, 6, 7 and and of the two Shop Nuclei in that section are urged to be present. The meeting will open at 8 o'clock sharp. All former party members living in this section and who wish to rejoin, the party will come to this meeting. All comrades h signatures to place &! column, & a few hours to spare Sunday morning to collect beth Griffin on the attend the meeting of Section 1 and Section 3 that is ani Hot for cony ae are urged tc } In another & s AY aay a prem menonmen mee « *) Employes Given Small Raise in Settlement BLOOMINGTON, IIL, Sept. 17. — | Employes of the Bloomington Street Railway’ company today voted to ac- cept an increase of two and one-half cents an hour, instead of the five cents which they demanded ag the new wage scale. The new scale, which is retroactive to July 1, will be effec- tive two years. But, Blockit IES 10 RUN D. W. DEALER OUT OF TOWN Pittsfield Chief of Police: Gets Tough (Special Cable to The Daily Worker) PITTSFIELD, Mass., Sept. 17.— A instance of Massachusetts police te: ‘ rorization of the foreign-born and ilq legal interference with their rights, is* shown in the persecution of a news4 dealer who sells The DAILY WORK ER at 238 Columbus avenue, Pitts field, by the chief of police, J, L, Sule livan. The neéws-dealer, a Turk named) Hagop.Samuelian, tells the following story of the police chief's visit to bia! little store: Police Chief Runs Amuck, Chief: “What is your name?” ‘When told, the chief asked: “Where: you come from?” Samiuelian: “From. New. York City.” ' Chief: “Are you a citizen?” Samuelian;: “Not yet, sir.” Chief: “Why not? You red: you dirty —— -—-; you-—- —— trouble maker! If you don't like this coun- try, who don’t you go back? ‘Why do you sell that paper?” (pointing to The DAILY WORKER). The chief of police slapped Samuel« fan in the face and added: Threatens More Persecution, “You —— ——, we don’t want you here. Pack up your things and leave the town at once. If you stay here you will be in trouble all the time, Now get the hell out of town!” A few days later, finding that Sam- uelian was still doing business, he wag hailed to the chief's office, where the chief threatened to take away his icecream license. Again he ordered Samuelian he “must leave town.” Since then, tho Samuelian has stuck: in |Pittsfield, various frame-ups ara{ being tried on him, with strangers coming in trying to “leave a pack-, age”—probably with the idea of have; ing the store raided and Mquor found) by the police. Complatina to Consul, Samuelian has complained of this persecution to the Turkish consul gen-, eral in New York, Djelal Bey. In his complaint he says in part: “Tt is true that T, a foreigner, not being an Indian or an Americanized 100 per center, thru my experiences of years in the United States—practic- tically thrown from one gutter to an- other, sympathize with the laboring class instead of with the democrats or republicans, And as this case has centered on my selling The DAILY WORKR, I am mailing a copy of to day’s issue. “Your excellency will find the same publication sold in New York and thruout the U. 8S, A.” Sere eneniensie Report Obregon Killed, MEXICO CITY, Sept. 17. — Reports circulated in The United States that General Obregon has met death at the hands of the Yaqui Indians are without confirmation here. These re- ports it is believed are based upon the fact that General Obregon was besieged for nearly a day in Sonora but was released last Monday by federal: troops, Newark Youth Day Boston Youth} Meeting September 19 BOSTON, Mass., To the hundreds of lively young boys and girls who will attend the 1st YOUTH BALL of the season, Friday, Oct. 15, 1926 will be a day of joy and happiness, The famous Chateau Dansant (next to the. Boston Opera House) is one of the most aristocratic. dance halls’ in Boston and will be packed to the doors, 5 Get your tickets now! Make it sure that you get in and-have a good time! Arranged by the Young Workers League of Boston, Young Workers at i LOS. ANGELES, Cal., — The United | Workers’ Press Picnic will be held Oct, 10, at Rose Hill Park, Young Workers of Los Angeles, please, re- serve this Sunday for that occasion. Tickets only fifty cents. Good speak- ers, sports, and games. Leave your lunches at home, We will serve a plate lunch and refreshments, This will be the greatest outdoor celebra- tion.of the year, for fourteen different organizations are participating to put this affair across. Remember the date, October 10th, Your patronage of this affair will mean the success of your most prized agitator, the Young Worker, r “Boche” And. “Frog” Dine In Secret. GENEVA, Sept: 17..— Foreign - ister Briand of France and Foreign Minister Stresemann of Germany stole out of Geneva by separate routes today and motored to Versoiz, 25 miles trom where they unehed,: ce ggnansen ene ane NEWARK, N. J. — On Sunday Sept. 19, at 2.p. m, the Young Workers League will celebrate International Youth Day at Newark Labor Lyceum, 704 §. 14th Street. Mirian Gerbert will be the principal speaker. There will also be Workers Party and Young Pioneer speakers. Admission will be freé and ‘all are invited, THE YOUNG WORKER is a paper primarily for the youth but even adults enjoy the special features in every issue. SUBSCRIBE! $1 a year ,50c 6 months THE YOUNG WORKER 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Il, Enclosed fINd Gene LOF ssntenm months, Send the Young Worker to; Name semana BIBS eientgicinpncciesohctie alum ee ety