The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 30, 1926, Page 6

Page Six y THE DAILY WORKER ‘THE DAILY WORKER Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Il. Phone Monroe 4712 "SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail (in Chicago only): | By mail (outside of Chicago): $8.00 per year 50 six months | $6.00 per year _§$3.50 six months 2.50 thr months $2.00 three months Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Ill. J. LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F, DUNNE f" MORI seeeEditors, at the post-office at Chi- 3, 1879, Entered as second-class mail September 21, 1923, cago, Ill, under the act of Mare 290 A ertising rates on < Brophy’s Open Letter The Lewis machine in the United Mine Workers faces, the big- gest fight of its career. The issues in the campaign to make the U. M. Wi of A. a fight- ing instrument of coal miners—organized and unorganized—instead of a tool in the hands of a corrupt officialdom, have been set forth by John Brophy, opposing John L. Lewis for the presidency, in, his open letter to the officers and members of the union, The Brophy letter raises sharply a number of issues about which the miners have been thinking for a long time. ‘The union is in danger. That cannot be denied. On all sides it is attacked by the coal capitalists. ‘ In the unionized fields there have been systematic and constant violations of the Jacksonville agreement which began the day after it was signed. The coal capitalists considered correctly that “the gentlemen’s agreement” made with Lewis at Jacksonville to the effect that 200,000 miners were to be driven from the industry and small mines frozen out, gave them a license to close their mines From Portland HAT Samuel Gompers always referred to ag “that great parliament of American labor’—the convention of the American Federation of Labor—opens its forty-siwth an- nual session on October 4 in Detroit. i : Tt will be dominated by the most reactionary officialdom of the most reactionary labor niovement in the world, The con- vention will reflect only in a distorted form the needs of the American workingclass. Tt will make its own review of its own activities, its own estimate of the status of the American labor movement, draw its own conclusions, put forward its own program as the pro- | gram of American labor, [x the last year large sections of the officialdom Of the Ameri- can Federation of Labor have made a long step towards agree- ment with American capitalism. The official movement has abandoned even purely trade union struggles almost entirely. “Worker-employer co-operation” has been ever,on its lips. Mase opposition to this policy is developing slowly but surely. There has been a certain continuity in the policy of A. F. of L. officialdom for the last four years. Its causes and its ef- fects on the mass of the American workingclass mtét be deter- mined in order that they may be counteracted effectively. HESE articles are an attempt to describe the American la- bor movement as it is under the leadership of A. F. of L. officialdom, to determine the strength of the two currents— to the right jrom above, to the left from below—and. to estimate the possibilities for our party and the left wing in the neat immediate period. —— ss 8 cue Morgan's millions is too well- known to need description here. But there followed a period in which the militancy of American labor reached a high level and which culminated in the great steel, coal and railway strikes of 1919-22, with substantial be- ginning of a farmerlabor /party as their political expression, These strikes were defeated, a pe- ARTICLE I. By WILLIAM F. DUNNE, HAT is the present status of the American labor movement? In what direction is the American Federation of Labor, as a whole, tray- eling? Is it going to the right or to the left? Is it moving as a solid bloc or are to Detroit Then followed in rapid succession a Series of events which even taken separately are of tremendous signifi- cance but of which the cumulative ef- fect upon the labor movement has been paralyzing. They cover a pe riod of three years and fit into gen- eral pattern with all the nicety of an ancient mosaic: The unseating of William F. * Dunne at the Portland conven- tion for membership in the Commu- nist Party of the American Federa- tion of Labor and the nationwide at- tack on our party thruout the trade union movement. This was accom- panied by an organized attack on the Soviet Union. (a) This was followed by the expul- sion campaign of Communists and left wingers in the International Ladies’ Garment Workers, the Amalgamated Clothing Workers and the United Mine Workers—the three most pro- gressive unions in the trade union movement and for this reason indica- tive of the wide sweep of the reac- tionary drive. (b) Expulsion campaigns against Communists and left wingers in vari- ous central labor councils (Minneapo- lis and Seattle) and disciplinary meas- ures and threats of disciplinary meas- ures against central labor councils and state federations of labor “har- boring” left wing elements, By MIRIAM GERBERT, ESIDES the vacation value and the importance to the health of the worker's child who is brought to the camp from the slums and ténements, the camp affords us an opportunity to develop the class. consciousness of the children and to draw theny closer to the Pioneer organization. It also gives us an opportunity to train the Pioneers to work among workers’ chil- dren and give them a clear. under- standing of their functions’ as Pion- eers, a Soi Forms of Activity.’ Eyery phase of camp ‘life can be utilized to teach the children the les- sons which we want to bring home to them, Thus we can utilize discus- sions, readings of books and newspa- pers, lectures, dramatics, slogans, cor- respondence to the Young Comrade and labor press, cartoons, living news- papers, camp bulletins; clippings and news bulletins, wall papers, games, songs, excursions and even camp dis- cipline, F What to Teach. and use the weapon of starvation against the union miners. After this pdlicy was followed for a period which the operators believed long enough to starve the miners into submission, announce- ments were posted that the mines would reopen at the 1917 scale or even lower in some cases. The Lewis machine has had no counter policy. Likewise it _. has permitted violations of the wage and working agreements until the operators have established standards as precedents far below the agreement provisions. ‘ Hand in hand with this policy in the union fields the coal operators’ association has encouraged the opening. of new mines in . West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, and in other non-union fields as well as stimylating production in mines already operating there. This coal has been shipped into the union territories: in huge quantities, has been sold at a lower price than union-mined coal and the union fields gradually strangled. The solution for the union lies in the organization of the non- union territories—the raising of the wages in these districts to the level of the union fields. ? This obviously necessary program has been neglected almost entirely by the Lewis machine. It wasted a million dollars in an abortive campaign in Alabama, which does not compete with the union fields, when West Virginia and Kentucky fields. were the logical places to concentrate all efforts. 4 Its so-called organization campaigns in West Virginia have beén devoted to getting votes for the machine thag to organizing there divergent tendencies to be seen? Are the present tendencies in the labor movement of recent develop ment or can the process be traced riod of industrial depression already had set in and when the labor move- ment began to emerge from it mili- 9 The El Paso convention and its '* declaration of the “Monroe Doc- trine of American Labor”’—announce- ment of the hegemony of the A, F. of L. leadership over the labor move- ments in American colonies in op- position to the idea of international labor solidarity—the extension of the fight on our party and left wing to the Mexican labor movement. We must teach the children certain fundamental lessons which they need to know ‘as children Of the -workers. We must teach them-about the capi- talist system, about the class struggle, the role of the government, the role of the Schools, of the press, movies, etc. * ING WORKERS LEAGUE Education in Workers’ Children’s Camps drawn from these experiences should then “be discussed by the children. The talks should be of such a nature that one or two of the lessons men- tioned above be made clear to the children. The leaders at camp should help in the preparation of these talks, as otherwise they may be rambling, abstract and boring for the listeners. Reading Material. Reading material can be utilized with great advantage. Workers’ fairy tales, Jack London stories, Upon Sin- clair, ete, If the story is too long to be read in one sitting it is advisable to form reading groups to read the book thru. “We must discuss and } point out the lessons to be drawn as we go along, Take, for example, the “Apostate,” ‘by Jack London. The: boy miner there renounces the faith of toil and decides never to work again. Certainly this is not the so- lution for thé emancipation of the working class and this sfory should be utilized to explain just this point Many similar examples can be found where we may have to use negative examples to teach our lessons, 7 Newspaper Corner, There should be a special news- paper corner at camp, where the chil- dren»can seome and read the dally newspapers. Here, too, we should have the party, press, strike bulletins and The DAILY WORKER, and soien- tific. and educational magazines (geo- The children must Also learn about graphical magazines, science and in- working class’ solidarity, the persecu- vention, mechanics, ete.). We might ‘hi tancy was replaced by reaction, (a) The united front set up with |over a long period? | In what sections of the: labor move- ment are the dominant tendencies most marked—where is the clearest division between left and right? What issues -and demands are raised by the official labor leadership? What are the possibilities for the crystallization of a substantial oppo- sitional bloc in the trade union move- ment? What demands will bring the maxi- mum response from the trade unions? of aaa are questions raised sharp- ly by certain recent developments in the trade union movement and they jare being asked by every worker jalarmed by " tanifestations which point to reactiow in official labor cir- cles and apathy in the ranks of labor. The endorsement of Citizens’ Mill- lige came the boom period when records for industrial activity wére broken (especially in Duilding and transportation) but with the sole ex- ception of the anthracite strike (end- ing in a disgraceful boss-dictated set- tlement) and needle trades strikes (outside the main current of the American trade union movement) there is no struggle “altho there are signs of desire to struggle. LONG series of statements indi- cating policy, and applications of policy, are to be noted since 1923 be- ginning with the attack on our party by the Lewis bureaucracy which was endorsed by Samuel Gomipers and which, explained by labor. officialdom as the begining of a campaign “to purge the trade union movement” was an infallible indication that the lead- tary Training Camps by the leading|ership of the Americ trade union members of the executive council of |movement was shaping its policy to the American Federation of LAbOf, the| bring it more in line, with that of arbitrary dentineiation of the Passaic| American imperialist vernment, strike, the open warfare waged on the proposed trade union delegation to the Soviet Union, the attitude of la- A Nav. had been thé break with the trade union wing of, the farmer-la- bor party movement, in. the Chicago miners. The expulsion of militant members of the union who insisted on a well-organized fight to build the union and organize the non- union fields has been a deliberate plan, consistently carried out by the Lewis machine. It has fought the rank and file and those who| wanted the union to prepare for struggle far harder than it ever fought the operators. The anthracite agreement was a disgrace. Signed for five years it surrenders the closed shop and replaces it with arbitration. Al- ready the Hudson Coal company, one of the largest operators in the anthracite field, has challenged the right of the union to or- bor officialdom in'the Mexican crisis, a close approach to purely capitalist policies and méthods by labor lead- ers, all these ate matters of grave convention of July 3and this had shown the tremendous pressure which the Dawes plan unions of Germany— the warm greeting to Grassman (the first fraternal delegate from the Ger- man social-democratic unions since the war). (b) Official endorsement of the “Baltimore and Ohio” plan. ‘ (c) Endorsement of “labor” bank- ing. (a) Liquidation of the movement towards a break with the two old cap- italist parties shown in the -endorse- men of LaFollette and the return to the support of old capitalist party candidates, % (e) Endorsement of C, M.". C. 3 The Atlantic City convention and * its insult to the left wing of the British trade union movement as’ rep- resented at that time by Purcell—its reiterated denunciation of thé: Soviet | Union. nig (a) The credentials given to the soclal-democratic Dawes plaw*!Ger: man union officials for their tour to study American industrial ’ éfficieri¢y methods. 4 § (b) Theorizing and elaboration of “worker-employer co-operation,” i.’ e., the necessity of higher wages’ because of increased productivity of thé‘work- ers. ttons of the workers, about ‘working class heroes, the importance of organ- izations such as unions, labor party the Communist Party and the Young Communist League to the » working class. In this connection our Pioneers’ will be able to’ approach the more ad- vanced children and teach them the role of the Pioneers and the Commu- nists. At this point especially will our Pioneers get their most valuable train- ing. is ii “i n a The diseussion of teligion mist: be approached ‘with great care. The problem ‘can be bést handled’ in ‘small groups or fi “fhidividwal’ discussions. It will be easy to explain the ‘class character of religion if the leader is armed with specific facts, such as the attitude of a whole section of the clergy in thé Passaic trike, the role of the church in Mexico, ete. In ad- dition we must give the children a scientific approach *to all problems, a scientific attitudé. We must explain to them the natural phenomena that sufround them, give. them the natu- ralistie explanation of religion and teach them the lessons of evolution. Then, too, we must teach them the bulletin board with clippings and car- toons from the daily newspapers on important items or we might mark special articles to draw the attention of\the children to them. We must not be afraid to use the capitalist press and even pictorial newspapers for this. We can make marginal notes or comments for the bulletin board on certain news items to counteract thé influence of the capitalist press and to help clarify the children. Leaders Must Be Awake. In closing, too much emphasis can- not be laid upon the need for alert- ness and resourcefulness of the lead- ers. This article is not meant to be an exhaustive ‘study of the subject, but simply to offer a few suggestions as to the work at the camps. The leaders at the camps should discuss these suggestions on’ the basis of their own experiences and exchange their experiences with the comrades at other Gamps. Only thru the ex- change of experiences can we build up a strong workers’ children’s camp movement. elemental lessons of sex ‘and sanita- tion, : Youth Fellowship ‘the A. F. of L. machine was exerting on the lower strata of labor official- dom and had our party been skilled enuf at the time we might have mini- mized the bad results’ which accrued not only to our party but to the whole labor movement, pes concern to the workingclass, HE manner in which the labor of- ficialdom chained the labor move- {ment to the imperialist machine when | America entered the world war to res- | The C. P. S. U. (c) Extension of the B. and O. plan to other railways (Northwestern and Canadian National), i (d) Endorsement of “labo?” {nsur- ance companies. r (To be continued) and the Current Events. In the discussion we ntust utilize current events to illustrate the points we wish to develop. ' Discussions-must not always be fowmal, ‘but ‘should ‘be encouragédeat any and“all timés when the children are talking about ‘their experiences or telling stories, or pre- paring to do something. The leader must be alert and must be able to make use of these discussions and ,connection with this work have a Demands Remove President Coolidge was asked to re- move American military occupation from Haiti by the Fellowship of Réconciliation and the Fellowship of Youth for Peace, which held » joint conference at Watch Hill, R. I., Sept. 11, The latter organization has be- WORKERS | * ‘ Hea : . give them a definite turn. Our Pion- | come the youth section of the Fellow- 4 ganize miners working in and around its properties. os eers also inust’ be° taught todo’ this. |'snip of Reconciliation. The Haitian t The exposure of President Farrington of District 12, Illinois, aga ve When discussions are prepared forin | occupation was designated a “griev- &s a $25,000 per year tool of the operators in the union has merely OSs | q oO n oc babe A Bote Reactor - ous wrong fo ne canis a people confirmed statements made as long as three years ago by the militant have a Pionéer preparé a ‘lot a republic almost as old as our i troduce the given topic. “We must own” and an impetus to the “growing members of the union. 4 rove ithi é make sure to draw lessons from Rus-|fear of American power among all That this corruption runs straight thru the whole officialdom By N, BUCHARIN. THE present controversy within |the Communist Party of sia and the’lives of the workers there. | southern republics.” : is shown by the fact that Lewis has now made a united front with! (Continued trom previous Issue) the Soviet Union is.neither a sigh—nor will it be the ener Lectures as ‘such should not beheld : the Farrington machine against the membership in Illinois |The Results of the Election Campaign. —of a retreat of the revolution. Quite the contrary. It 8. frequently. “We should make special M . Organizati f th ; - field tionalizati % ft the | TN this connection I must say'a few] clear indication of its-victorious onward march. a efforts, however, to have workers re-_ apogee penal rae dacrpaippany xan seaman tat Pan Ray I words on the recent Soviet election To give a clear understanding as well of the present prob- late their experiencés in the ‘shops, ; mines with workers control, democratization of the union, destruc: | | mpaign, lems of the Russian Revolution as also of the controversy the struggles they actually went thru, | tion of the coal capitalist influence in the union, no wage cuts when | The last election campaign is the over the solution of these problems, we are publishing here- These eect ‘not be ee fit the bituminous agreement expires next year, anthracite and bitu-|frst which we have carried out with- with a report made by Comrade Bucharin at the function- idee te it tei phali Gwe arent Make it a weekly habit. minous agreements to expire on the same date, preparation of the |out recourse to administrative pres- aries’ meeting of the Leningrad organization of the Commu- waparienaee atid’ the “lessons to ‘be ‘ONE DOLLAR A YEAR. ; union for a struggle to save it, build it and strengthen it, the forma-|°""¢- We have applied new methods nist Party. The report speaks for itself and needs no further fre poy ‘ t ee 8 a! for the first time, and have transfer- :, ‘ vi Seiad, A | tion of a labor party based on the trade unions, these are the high xed Our’ rUWDORUPREL’ atleatiba’ to elucidation. It is clear and convincing and answers the lies a” Ree SAE , Spots touched by Brophy in his statement. gaining the convictions of the voters about the retreat of the Russian Revolution. vA Chicago. Attention! The beginning of the struggle for a fighting miners’ nnion|and to exercising an ideological influ- ing: ihe: total balgnaliiel me boaviads sibcP wie’? . : sone een (ie gor }, i 4 i i ence over them, and thus the various|!De the total balancq, of our about this. Our ranks now rearrang- tat st : which Brophy’s statement brings into the open is of tremendous strata to whom our constitution ac-; elections, we may eonfidently state| ed, we are now beginning to Influence Everyoneis invited to attend ‘the YOUNG WOR! importance for the whole American labor movement. _ cords the suffrage, amfayed a greater| tbat even where onjs Megmall propor-| fresh masyee hitherto ure cake'tin, CONFERENCE Tonight, Wednesday, Séptember 29th, 8 j Tt is the most clear-cut: challenge on basic issues in the trade|amount of freedom at this election,| tion of Communists have been elected | our reach, P. M., at 1902.W. "Division Street. ~~ f ‘ ‘union movement ever thrown down to a powerful. bureaucracy by | What was the result of the elections?| to the lower stories ‘of our soviet At one time Comrade Zinoviey pro- The problem of securing a large subscription list in 5 a still more powerful opposition in a decisive union affiliated with |The result was that in the villages the pisces “ does a ef Posed that non-party conferences Chicago and of a, wider distribution. of the YOUNG ny the American Federation of Labor, Proportion of Communists elected was) Weakening of our growth, but 1s rath-) shoulda be held, and a newspaper pub- WORKER will bé taken up. A interesting discussion on ri ; : per x ‘ lessened, and that elements have thus|¢r @0 expression of-Sur growth, the! ished tor the nonfparty peasants’ fac- the work will. follow the reports. be ; very honest worker will welcome it and every-sincere and in- been admitted to the village Soviets,| Proof that we are biising our leader- tion, whilst Conirade Sokolnikov de- py ; i telligent miner will support the program and the slate, and in part t0 the elty soviets, which | shiP upon emia aces manded the legalization of the -Men- of cuegenapan poor ya a bigger and better paper have hithesto been practically sup-| Communist backed up whole shevists and of the 8. R, They made , z , prossed. This circumstance has given| Village is worth ten Communists stand-) these proposals when they felt the Everybody is welcome, admission free. | Conflicting Policies in France The clash of conflicting policies in France is seen in the struggle between Briand and Poincare, our opposition the opportunity to maintain that this is evidence of our becoming submerged in the petty bourgeoisie, and that the pressure put ing alone. at VERY great maneuver, and every considerable change of course, in- ground somewhat insecure _ beneath their feet. They were prepared to abandon any position because the vil- | Auspices, District No, 8.. _ urig Workers (Communist) League, ? A ; i : . (pon us by the petty bourgeoisie is ia ene ate “Wei caste psiyedeing Mia AN ot gga “lL Tp: : } Briand is for a Franco erman bloe, the chief economic basis here expressed by the machino of pr ‘eur Perty Co! hte that re-| When we make a carefully calculated Are You Like This Young Henry Dubb? i} of which is the pact between French and German coal and steel in-|state slipping from the proletarian| grouping had become necessary, some) evolution, calmly and collectively, ss shar Macrame mila ‘ *terests. | rails, ~ of our comrades lost their heads, They | Without fearing anything, and strictly og Going to'work with a lunch box—tfood for | Poincare, whose policy previously has been that of French hege-|'T'2 ts the following may: be obs gid not know what todo, Some aban-|caloulating the proportions, then they " your tummy and none for your brain, Take | mony in Burope, is forced by his struggle with Briand to orient| °°T¥e4: 1 the first place very doned thelr own party ‘opinions ‘and| shriek that we are slipping down. We the YOUNG WORKER with you next time himself more towards Great Britain, Great Britain is faced by a menace to her iron and steel trade -and to her political supremacy in Europe far more dangerous and, potentially more powerful, than the preawar Germany. If the alli- ance between France and Germany is perfected (it ix still in the forative stage and is meeting the opposition of the German jMonarchisis) the English channel becomes Britain’s first line of defense, The German who broke the world’s record in swimming the channel recently may be a symbol of the new grouping on the, P) tinent. « aS a A Os ee fy SUBSCRIBE TO THE DAILY WORKER! many comrades have observed the fol- lowing in the provinces: If thefe have been fewer Communists elerted to the village soviets than at the last elec tion (and in many places this is doubt- less the case), those Communists who have been elected this time, are sup- ported by the whole village, whilst yielded to the pressure exercised by others, Others again completely lost their bearings and did not know which way to turn, The real regrouping did not begin until after a considerable time. It is true that we have admit- ted a great number of peasants’ into the peasants’ #oviets without bring hitherto they have only been nomin-} Ing them everywhere, sufficiently un- ally elected, and in actual fact they were simply appointed, and possessed no authority among the village It is true that ere more Commn- “wi nists last time; i these Communists to take the first had no cont the masses did not lead the masses, But at the present moment=when we are draw- 4, ‘der our influence at the same time. ; This has been our We have not been able to rearrange our ranks with sufficient 9; still we had direction, in order we bad to change to advance more path. There is are not slipping down, we are estab- lishing the proletarian dictatorship more firmly, and tomorrow we shall estiblish it more firmly still, if we do not deviate from the line which we are now following, but pursue a cor rect policy, In concluding my remarks on the problem of our power, I repeat and emphasize that even if the opposition had no doubts on the class character of our power at the time of the XIV Party Congress, there and read it with your lunch, In order to be sure of having it— SUBSCRIBE—$1 a year, 50 cents 6 months. THE YOUNG WORKER, ; 1113 W, Washington Blvd. Hnclosed find §. Send the Young Worker ‘Chicago, Ht.