The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 5, 1926, Page 6

THE DAILY WORKER Published by “theD AILY WORKBDR PUBLISHING CO. 1113 W. Washing ton Blvd., Chic ml Phone Monroe 4712 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail (in Chicago only): | __ By mail (outside of Chicago): $8.00 per y $4.50 six months | $6.00 per year $3.50 six months 1 $2.00 three months idress all mail and make out chi THE DAILY WORKER, ks to 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill. | He soeete Etors: - Business Manager Wi TL L TAM | MORITA a 3 . at the post-office at Chi- , under the act of March 3, 1879. _ Advertising rates on application, President Ged. the Five- Day Week and the Furriers’ Union President William Green hails the five-day week announcement of Henry Ford as a victory for organized labor. We have already dealt with the real meaning of the Ford scheme and will deal with it again in a special issue of Tus Datty Worker devoted to this one question. But what interests us is the statement of President, Green to the effect that the Printers’ Union and the Furriers’ Union are pioneers in the establishment of the five-day week, Does President Green recall that he, in company with Hugh Frayne, A. F. of L. organizer, moved heaven and earth to get the; Furriers’ Union to abandon their struggle for a forty-hour, five day week? Has President Green forgotten that it was necessary for the New York Joint Board of the Furriers’ Union to call a meeting of shop chairmen to combat the efforts of Hugh Frayne to end the strike on the bosses’ terms? Has President Green forgotten that he has ordered an investiga- tion of the Furriers’ Union and that in correspondence which’ has | issue of Ke ‘Gutitiis.etecttioal:con- been published he makes serious charges without any basis in fact? labia of Siemens & Halske A. G. and If the Furriers’ Union has not only upheld the best traditions of the trade union moyement but bas shown the way to the rest of the labor movement in securing the five-day week, why is President Green making war on the Furriers’ Union? Why has he appointed an investigation committee. one of whose members is Hugh Frayne, while at the same time refusing to give representation on the committee to the New York. Joint Board of the Furriers’ Union which led the strike and registered the achieve; victories of labor? These are questions which demand an answer, Hither the latest statement of President Green is wholly. in-| sincere and made for public consumption only or the investigation of the Furriers’ Union, without precedent in the A .F. of L. annals, is an attempt to discredit without reason a leadership whose ability and militancy afford a striking contrast to that of other interna- tional unions which subscribe to the “worker-employer co-operation” theory which the Furriers’ Union correctly rejects. Miami and Louisville Two recent instances bring sharply to our attention the ever present danger the Negroes in America face. In Miami great numbers of Negro’ workers have been con- scripted at the point of the bayonet and altho news from there on this subject is very meager it is evident that the Florida capitalists and their hangers-on are trying to reduce wage costs in reconstruc- tion work following the’storm to a minimum, by. establishing vir- tual slavery for the Negro population. The Negroes have resisted and every worker in the United States should rejoice at the fact. Slavery for white workers as well as Negroes still prevails in the turpentine camps of the south and in Florida the enslavement of the Negro workers would mean the slave conditions for white workers as well. In Lonisyille, Kentucky, two Negro editors have been jailed for protesting against racial discrimination in the courts. which produces such results as a white ravisher of a Negro girl being declared insane and given a chance to “recover” his sanity im. an asylum, while a Negro alleged to have attacked a white woman is sentenced to death. The prosecuting attorney, first charged the two editors with “creating race friction and hatred,” but this was a little too ob- viously sinister so the grand jury has indicted them for criminal libel. ‘4 The Negroes need organization more than any. other section of the population. Composed overwhelmingly of workers and. work- ing farmers the Negroes are easily victimized. An organization which can and will bring forward a practical program for con- solidating the strength of the Negro race in the United States, uniting with the most conscious elements of the white working class for struggle in industry and on the political field will attain to leadership of the Negro masses. LY WORKER FIFTH ARTICLE By WILLIAM F. DUNNE. HE list of the methods by which corporations are endeavoring to make unionization of their plants im- possible is a long one but all of them have the same motive—to tie the worker to the company by conyinc- ing him that no union is necessary to protect his interests, that his in- terests are the same as those of the capitalist and that American indus- try is Tun by “one big family.” Actu- ally the capitalists oppose the one big family idea to that of one big union. YECENTLY the United States Steel company, on the occasion of ‘its twenty-fifth anniversary, published a magnificent example of the art of the printer and engraver, whose cost must have been far up in the thous- ands, devoted to picturizing the “wel- fare” activities ‘of the company. An examination of this work shows that thees activities range from stick selling schemes to the workers: to the orgamization of athletic associa- tions and housing programs. HE American Telegraph and Tele- phone company, enjoying what is practically. exclusive control of the It is estimated that the total num- ber of workers covered by this form of insurance amounted to 3,500,000 in gether with the Western Union, pur- sues the same line altho it does not go in for housing due to obvious rea- sons. electric communication industry | crease since that time. Old age penisons come in for a} good deal of attention. They repre- sent an appeal to that fear of pov- erty and dependence in old age which obsesses every worker, There can be no question but that the fear of los- ing old age pensions and the’ bene- fits of insurance for illness and acci- The increase in group insurance— the policy of insuring blocs of work- ers by corporations—against loss of wages during illness and injury, and the extension of this to provide in- surance for dependents, is another method of drawing the workers closer to the capitalists, Old age pension systems show a rapid increase as well. BRAHAM EPSTEIN (from whose article on thé industrial welfare movement I have ‘fioted before) says in connection “— €orporation enter- prises: Only 16 years “ago group life In- surance. (by corperations) . was. in preventing the development of or- ganization and strikes. QUOTH again: In the establishment of old age pensions also, a study just com- pleted by the writer of 210 formal pension schemes discloses the fact that, tho before 1900 there were but FOUR such systems, and only 126 hardly known. Im, 1912 the total | additional. plans were started up amount of insurance written under | to 1915, 180 NEW systems have these policies amounted to $13,172, | been added since... Moreover, 198. In 1917 the total group insur 200 concerns reported that, tho ance in force wag. $346,525,472 . they had adopted no formal At the end of 1924, 61 IAsurance companies had written $3,264,638 of group insurance, nearly DOUBLING in TWO years the, amount Issued in the FIRST ELEVEN YEARS. rules, they did provide pensions. . « It will be noticed that the period .ency appears in both the health and life ineuratiog and alas schemes 1925 and there has been a rapid in-| dent acts at present as a strong brake | la which the decided upward tend- | coincides. with She appearance America ag the dominant tse: nation of the world after the world war. That the capitalists regard cost of these schemes as @ real investment which pays good diyivenas, there can be no doubt. IPSTRIN quotes from a. survey made of a large number of em- ployers: ‘The opinions of employers, .with but few Isolated exceptions, are sol- Idly In favor of welfare plans)... | ‘no doubt as :to. the: benefit derived . «+ thea. having, healthier, better. satisfied workmen.and families’ ... « Numerous establishments.feel ‘that our labor: turnover is:less and that the big: family”, feeling Is much more ‘evident. .’ Most corporations | which have adopted these activities | find that they ‘result In a decidedly | different attitude on the part of em- | ployers. who. heretofore belleved | they received but very little consid- | eration;" that .they,‘polnt a way -for real personal respect and under- | standing and-as.a beginning of in- dustria{. harmony, happiness and success both for the employes and the company.’. They arte convinced | that welfare plans act as a check The By MAX SHACHTMAN ESPECTABLE American newspa- pers are carrying large adivertise- ments for the flotation of a $24,000,000 Siemens-Schuckertwerke G. m. b. H., in the form of ‘twenty-five year 6% per cent sinking fund debentures with warrants for contingent additional in- terest. Another 6,500,000 dollars of the issue are being offered in Hu- rope and in Germany itself approxi- |mately another $6,000,000 in debent- ures are on the market. The total |Sum of the issue amounting to some ment which President Green now characterizes as one of the great|147 million Reichsmark, is jmainly raised in the United States lover the name of Dillon, Read & Co. being HE inducements for purchase are very attractive. The combined earnings of the two companies for the fiscal year ended Sept. 30, 1926 “amounted to over $8,600,000, or more than three times ~esttmated maximum annual payments under the Dawes |plan and maximum annual interest re- |quirements on the entire present, is- sué of these debentures, on the Reichsmark debentures being offered in“ Germany, and on the combined funded debt to be outstanding after présent financing.” In addition, warrants are given to Sach debenture for contingent inter- est, additional to the 6% per cent: trom 1927 to 1986 inclusive, holders Will be entitled to $3.38 1-3 for each 1 per cent additional dividend that is declared over the prospective mini- mum 7 per cent for the preceding fis- cal year. HAT are these two concerns and why are they making this loan on their industry? The Siemens-Schuckertwerke is controlled by the Siemens & Halske By N. BUCHARIN, (Continued from previous issue) 'T is to be observed that oppositional circles seem to like to dally with the idea of two paries. This same Ossovsky prophesies that we shall have two parties ingthe immediate fu- ture, both which will call themselves Communist at first? One party which Instances like these in Louisville and Miami must be used. to arouse the whole American working class to action against the constant menace which 10,000,000 Negroes face daily. Protest Forces State Department to Grant Vacirca U. S. Refuge WASHINGTON, Oct. 3.—Vincenzo Vacira, former socialist deputy in the Italian parliament, whose Italian citi- zenship has been cancelled and prop- erty confiscated by royal decree at the order of Mussolini, has been grant- ed refuge in the United States, after a nationwide protest. He will not be deported, altho he did not come here under the immigrant quota law and altho his permit to come as a tem- porary visitor has thrice expired. The board of review in the federal bureau of immigration notified Vicir- ca’s counsel, Leo Russell, on Sept. 27 that the ex-<leputy’s appeal based on fhis being a victim of fascist persecu- tion had been successful. The depart- ment of labor had decided that it could not cause the deportation of an alien who had committed no offense in this country and who could not safely re- turn to his own country, Just what would be the language of the formal decision was not disclosed, but its effect was that Vacirea was free to remain in New York, where he is con- nected with the anti-fascist newspaper Nuovo Munda Monroe Doctrine Hid / Behind Welfare Work of U. S. and Latins WASHINGTON, Oct. 3. — Health directors of North and’ South Ameri- ca, in final session here today, laid the ground-work for making the Pan- American sanitary conference in Lima, Peru, next year the most im- portant health conference in many years. Committees were designated to work out various phases of public health work. President and Mrs, Coolidge will receive the delegates at the White House late today and thé final event of the gathering will be a reception tonight, tendered by Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg. This is an example of the penetration of U. S. imperialism by indirect means in La- tin America, Motion Picture Operators Get Raise. NEW YORK—(FP)—Motion picture Operators of New York gained 10% wage Jncreases from the Vauderitio Matiagers Assn, Local 306 threatens strikes against the smaller houses if they do not sign the same agreement, | article against Medvedyev's [lt has rejected arbitration: will be in favor of withdrawal from the Anglo-Russian committee and will stand for a very “international stand- point,” and another party which im- agines that socialism can be built up in our country ne, a sort of “na tlonal-Communist” party. This enter. taining of the idea of two parties has already become extremely popular in oppositfonal circles, ‘Tlie standpoint taken by the opposition on the free- dom to form groups and fractions is one step on the road to this idea, which in its actual essence is the idea of the Justification of a split in the Darty. This is in our Opinion the fourth fundamental problem dealt with at the plenum of the C. C., and I believe that the opposition has here too wan- dered completely from the path of the ABC of Leninism with respect to the importance and the character of the party in our country, and from the ABC of Lenin's teaching on the organ- izatory character of our united and sole party, Resulte and Conclusions, IOMRADES, | now come to the question which must have oc- curred to every one of you: In what direction is the ideology of the opposition developing, what is Its ideological marching foute, where it it going? point, but shall not repe: lines, as these are known to you. + T was not for nothing that the cen tral organ of our party entitled its stand: point:..sebe Right Danger in Its out- already well The C. P. S. | Opposition Block jcurrently quoted on the Berlin Foerse FROM PORTLAND TO DETROIT — upon labor turnover, materially re duce industrial troubles and that at- tempts to organize their workers invariably. fail. ROM the foregoing it is clear that “welfare” schemes are directed against the labor movement, that they are used consciously and delib- erately by the capitalists to under- Ine the existing trade union move- ment, discourage anything smacking of “radicalism” and to produce a race of capitalist-minded workers whose first. thought will be for industry rather than for himself and his class. ~The American Federation of Labor has not ‘answered this challenge in the only way It can be answered Le. stressing the complete difference in interest between the abstraction khown as American industry, but which is in reality the capitalist class, and the American workingclass, There are plenty of instances show- ing that this failure plays into the ‘hands of the capitalists with telling force... It will be necessary to give only one‘or: two illustrations of the Ingenious: manner in which the capi- talists, thru: their employe journals, take advantage of this basic weak- ness of the labor leadership. (To Be Continued) Siemen-Halske-Schuckert Loan which owns more than 50 per cent of plications will be read with conster- the stock of the former. Together with |nation by the American industrial the powerful Allgemeine Dlektrische | barons who are buying up German de- Gesellschaft, with which’ it has had a|bentures in millions of dollars, working -agreement, for many years, For Germany to exist as an indus- it had control, before the war, of al-|trial power, especially after the war, most the entire European and Levan-|it had to confront, more than ever be- tine field, by secret understanding |fore, a rather well-established monop- with the General Blectric company of joly of the field. It had not, like the United States which took. for | French, British or American industry, itself the American, continent under |a state power which commanded re- the commercial pirates’ word of mu-jspect and could open or close a mar- tual non-competition: ket for its industrialists and finan- HE fortunes of war dealt a heavy |ciers. blow to all German industries. EFORE the war German industry The electrical industry did not escape. could exist and thrive even But the turn of the wheel caused by | against such odds as this: in 1910, the internal and international contra-|for example, the American, General | dictions of world capitalism has now|Blectric company with 32,000 em- given German big “industry a new/|ployes made a clear profit of 45,600,- lease of life. And the reincarnated }000-marks on an annual turnover on baby is a very lusty*one, for it has not | products of 298,000,000 marks; mone only inherited the=tethnico-commere-|the Getman Allgemeine Elektri ial skill and rich reSources of its pre-|Gesellschaft, with 60,800 work war German parents, but it has adopt- | made a cles profit of 14,500,000 pied ed the industrial ! methods of its|on an annual gurnover of products of Dawes-godfather, Amrica. 80 that | 362,000,000 marks. With all the tout- today Siemens is again one of the|ed German efficiency, the American greatest electrical manufacturing con-iindustry was able to extract more cerns of the world,“swiftly approach-| profit per worker than the German. ing annual sales of dlmost a quarter|Unlike the Americans, the German of a billion dollars,'exporting one-|magnates’ profits were held\down by third of Its manufactures, operating at |the existence of strong trade unions 100. per cent capacity. for one. section |and the relative absence of a carefully (Halske) and 75° pet (cent for the jorganized speed-up system, or such other (Cchnuckertwerke), its stocks|a highly preferential tariff as existed in the United Stgtes. HE desperation of post-war German capitalism has changed much of this. The heavy burden of taxation has been shifted from the shoulders of big industry onto those of the work- ers and the petty-bourgeoisie, Tariff levels are being adjusted to a nicety #o suit the needs of the heavy indus- trialists. ‘The strength of the trade unions wanes and that of the capi- talist waxes; for, in “the interests of the Fatherland and its industries” at 195 of par, and planning a huge expansion program with the aid of 147 million gold marks ‘most of which is to be raised in the "Wnited States. EHIND the dazzling picture of this recrowned and © -jewel-bedecked prince of industry ‘is’’a murky back- ground of desolation’and misery for the slaves in the industry. The story of the reestablishmett’of the glory of Germany which must be read by American workers now. “Later, its im- U. and the THE present controversy within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union is neither « sigqn—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 elear 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 a report made by Comrade Bucharin at the function- aries’ meeting,.of the Leningrad organization of the Commu- nist Party. report speaks for itself and needs no further elucidation. Tt is clear and convincing and answers the lies Party.” Nobody with ordinary com- mon sense can deny, that the extreme right is represented in our party by a group of the one ie Workers’ Op- position, for it is | lata to imag- ine @ more ext: right in the sphere of internat! revolutionary politics than a int in favor of the lMquidation of the Comintern, a | standpoint which the West Bu- ropean Conan pri a “rabble of petty bourgeois ys” living “on Russian gold,” which demands the liquidation of the "Hed International of Labor Unions, thé abandonment of our socialist industfy to foreign cap- ital, ete. This staxidpoint inclines fur- ther to the right, any other in our party, strictly s) 1g, it 1s ideo- logically already quite outside of our party. And we must never forget that the present opposition, which repre- sents a block comprising various op- positional currents, includes as one constituent the group around Com- rade Medvedyev, The opposition has given us no sensible reply to our re- peated requests to turn aside from the Medvedyev standpoint, at least at the plenum of the C, C., and join hands with us for a determined attack upon write an articl which Mi viewpoint, ‘mae ote it about the retreat of the Russian Revolution. ticle In the names of a number of comrades, Comrade Zinoviev did not execute this commission. When he was ed at the C, C. plenum why he did not fulfill this duty, he replied literally: “Since you are directing your fire against the left, 1 did not think it sultable to attack the left comrade Medvedyev.” Thus Comrade Zinoviev regards the standpoint of Comrade Medvedyev as a “left” standpoint. Thus it would appear that, if Medvedyev is of the “left,” then Comrade Zino- viev stands to the right of him. 1 do not know what is to be thought of this logical conclusion. In real- ity Comrade Zinoviey is of course not right of Comrade Medvedyev. This is happily not yet the case, but if we regard the ideological position of the various oppositional groups, objectively and without considera- tlon of persons, we can find an ideological bridge connecting the components of the opposition block. (To be continued) 6,600 Widows Draw Pensions, SYDNEY—(FP)—Over 5,600 pon- sions are being paid to widows in New South Wales utider the widow pension act. The average is $10 per week, The act was put in operation by the labor wove: Get a copy of tne <i... Worker Correspondent. it’s only. § cents, (ie, profits), the . soctal-democratic trade union’ leaders, like Barkis, “are willing.” And the industrial might of |Germany is being reconstructed with ‘the ald of the Dawes plan and of the \“rattonalization of industry.” HAT is meant by “rationalization of industry,” against which the |social-democratic trade union leaders are doing precisely nothing? “Ra tionalism signifies nothing else than the securing, with fewer workers, of the same results,as were previously achieved with many workers.” These are the words of Dr, Carl F, Von Siemens, chairman of the board of | Gneceers of Siemens & Halske at a meeting of his employes. For the German workers this signi- |fies the introduction of the most dia- bolical features of Fordism, the highly intensified speed-up system, the end- less! belt conveyer, the minutest de- s | YetUpitient of the division of labor, thé growth of the hungry army-<of un- employed; and, by the pressure of the very existence of the latter, lower wages for those who are at workand who wonder every day how they are to meet the constantly rising cost of living. A German, working in the Siemenes-Schuckertwerke, writes in the Berlin Rote Fahne (May 1, 1926) of the inexorable demands of the end- jless belt system. The amount of ap- ‘paratuses packed daily were then 300 pieces; the central office had ordered that in the future 600 pieces were to be packed every day. Neither the wages at Siemens nor the working force is to be doubled for this in- creased output; but the intensity of labor must be increased 100 per cent. And ‘there’ are upward of 3,000,000 unemployed workers waiting to take your place ff you quit! HE debenture issue of 147 million gold marks now being floated in this country by Siemens wil easily To The DAILY WORKER: I have been tn the revolutionary movement for 30 years and of all my other ‘comrades with putting out-the years in the different branches of the -|movement I must credit you and the best and. most class-conscious paper the workers have ever had in this country. Sincerely reogret that I cannot do more for it, but I am nearing 60 and with the best part of my western life spent as°an agitator in labor and .po- litical movements such -as, the West- ern Federation of Miners, I. W. W., Red, and now while not in physical or financial condition to belong to the Communist movement, I donate to the best. of my. ability to the Workers’ Monthly,I. L. D., and the I, W. A., and almost forgot the Hay Heff of Hell as the “Cousin Jack” would say. Later I am going to send in a couple of suggestions of. friendly nature for the press make-up and am also going to send in some. articles from the job and also about the article that ap- peared in a recent issue regarding the “virtues” of the open shop which the Commie - Advertiser claims the workers not appreciate. We in Los Angeles can speak authoritatively of the open shop., 1 personally work for an outfit that-is govemed by the Los Angeles chamber of commerce, Am personally: acquainted with Bill Dunne for many. years in Butte, and felt very much grieved over the loss of their little rebel, and you will. kindly extend to Comrade Dunne and his wife my sincerest regrets for their great loss. . With revolutionary regards, A. Wilbur Lord, _ Cor, Isabe] and Future Sts, Managing Editor,‘ DAILY WORKER, Dear Sir and Comrade:. Some friend has paid for my sub- scription and I assure: you 1 appre: pre Sha the splendid work it is doing. pened ttecongas x Pay are pean the kept peaghy sd is ake care of be subscribed to. With this in mind, leading financial and industrial Ger- man journals are forecasting the final amalgamation of Siemens with’ the A. G, E. into a monopolistic Blec- trical Trust, which will take its place along the side of the other monopo- list trusts which have been formed recently in Germany. The new stock issue will give mew and stronger sinews to Siemens. With American fi nancial aid on the one side and high- ly pitched “rationalization” at home, not all the tariff walls in the world wil hold back the rise of a competitor ; of ability and strength to challenge the hegemony of the American Gen-” eyal Hlectric company. 'N addition, there is a profound sig- nificance. . to American workers in | the “rationalization” of German in-/ dustry, It does not take a very keen | foresight to see that decisive attempts must soon be made to force American | workers, in the electrical industry. for | example, to work at the same pace, under ‘the same rotten conditions, and | Socialist Party while it was actually for the same wages as the German workers are. being made to work to , day. -That.is the manner in which | American capitalism will meet the | competition .of a reconstructed Ger man industry. In this respect the ex ample of thg textile industry is al Teady well Known. In the meantime there are fufcy pickings in loans to Germany now and American bankers are gobbling them up as quickly as they are floated. A guaranteed 6% per cent, with war- rants for.even more, is a tempting morsel. “When the American capital- ist sees this:prospect he leaps for it. What: he may not be taking into ac count is still:another prospect; a po- tent. rival whom he is helping to re- establish, and whom he’ will have to face on more equal terms of combat in the very near future, | __ LETTERS FROM OUR READERS others to read and find out the truth. Misfortune and deflation has handed over my $30,000 farm to the plutes of mammon and I leave that home in November after it took me 38 years to hew it out of the forests. I am past the 42nd milestone. Tho finan- cially broke, I am not broke in mind or body. I am in this fight to the bitter end,’ There is not over half a crop in our section. There is no pros- pect for prosperity until the people take possession of the government and run it in’the interest of the people in place of bankers, coupon clippers, plutes and legalized thieves, The farmers ’and labor produce the wealth of the world and don't get it.. We have the numbers—the big ma- jority—and if the farmers and labor only had the brains that god gave lit- tle-geese how quick would we have a different social system. The farmers and workers are to blame for their own bondage. It’s think or surrender. We have pothing to lose but our chains. Sincerely yours, Sam G. Wallace, Perham, Minn, wer——$_—— A CORRECTION ‘ Permit mé to ask space in your. columns fora correction of a misprint fn the title of an article of mine pub- lished on Thursday, September 23. The article as printed was entitled “The Socialist Party Furnishes tts Insurgents.” It should have read: “The Socialist Party PUNISHES its Insurgents.” I would not trouble you to pkint this correction were it not for ithe fact that the change of title ‘changes the political meaning of the article, Fraternally, Bertram D, Wolfe, "Railroad ‘Clerks Get Wage Inorease, NEW Pipers AL om pia ry 200 clerks’ of the Louisville & Nashville railroad in New Orleans will share in Wage incredses totaling $400,000 an- nually over the entire system, The new agreement provides a minimum fe of $4.29 for a clerk in- 4.07 in the past. in a sub today! \ il