The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 8, 1926, Page 6

Yage Six ’ Psa eye vu THE DAILY WORKER WME Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 1113 W. We n Bivd., Chicago, Ill. Phone Monroe 4712 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail (in Chicago only): | __- By mall (outside of Chicago): + $8.00 per year $4.50 six months | $6.00 per year $3.50 six months $2.50 three months $2.00 three months Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Blvd Chicago, IM, : OUIS ENGDAHL } ..Editors ‘Business Manager ‘Advertising rates on application, Rin’ and the A. F. of L. Ford, the five-day week factory owner, hailed by liberals and labor leaders alike as “a good employer,” is backed by the most vicious labor-hating elements in Detroit. The opening of the sessions of the forty-sixth annual conven- tion of the American Federation of Labor, following the welcome extended to Ford’s five-day week announcement by President Green and ather prominent union officials, has been the scene of a well- planned and energetic attack on the American labor movement. The open shop capitalists of Detroit, whose leader is Henry Ford, have denounced the conservative trade union movement of America in unmeasured terms and dared it to attempt the organ- jration of’ the workers in the auto industry—the basis of Detfoit eapitalists, the expansion of which has created a huge army of hangers-on ranging from real estate sharks to proprietors of brothels, e Probably no one is more surprised at this attack than the lead- ership of the American Federation of Labor. These labor officials exerted every effort to make themselves and the trade union move- ment respectable. They have denied all belief in the class struggle, they have pleaded for workeremployer co-operation and they have streased the yellow theory of the identity of interest of worker and capitalist. They have tried and they are still trying to companyize the trade unions with the hope and belief that if unions are castrated they will be accepted by the bosses in place of company unions. But Henry Ford and his retainers will have none of this. They are ‘against any form of labor organization which they do not con- , trol as directly as they do their factories. The consequence has been that the lamb-tike labor leaders have had to try to roar like lions. They have been forced to make militanbsounding speeches. But A action will come only thru pressure of the left wing when loss of power begins to loom as the result of rank and file discontent with worker-employer co-operation. ‘ The reason why the American Federation of Labor officialdom generally picks such places as El Paso end Atlantic City for their conventions is now plain. It is to avoid such disturbing occurrences je that which the mistake they made of holding a Convention in an |Smdnstrial center has confronted them with. 4 ‘We aro glad that such resolutions as that introduced by Presi- dent ©’Connell of the metal trades department, calling for a con- . of ali unions involved to lay out a plan for organization of unto industry, have found their way to the convention floor. Quite evidently this resolution is a reply to the attack of the ‘ Petrolt open shoppers. It is a good reply, its effect on’ the labor ‘movement will be good and it is now up to the left wing in the trade untons to see that the resolution does not remain on paper. Organize the unorganized workers, put the whole strength of . thedabor movement into the campaign and the trade unions will take on new life. ‘The open shoppers of Detroit have rendered the labor move- ment a great service. FREIHEIT CHICAGO EDITION TO. BE CELEBRATED AT BIG RALLY Guturday, October 9, there will be held a great revolutionary demonstra- tion of the Chicago workers in Ashiand Anditorium, corner Ashland Ave. and Ven Buren St, to celebrate the first Chicago edition of the Jewish Com- munist paper, Fretheit, The first edition will be sold at the meeting. . ‘The Frethelt is well known among the great masses of Jewish, as well fg nonJewish workers, for its participation in the everyday struggles of the working class. The appearance of the Chicago edition will mark @ new chapter in the history of the Jewish workers of thts city. The daily Fretheit edition will reflect the struggles of the Jewish work: ers here and will help to mobilize them against the bosses. The celebration ‘will create interest in the working class of Chicago. The speakers will include: C. EH. Ruthenberg, general secretary of the Workers (Communist) Party, who will speak in English; B, Gold, manager ot the Joint Board of the Furriers’ Union of New York, who comes especially for the celebration, who will also speak in English; and Melech Epstein, editor of the Fretheit, will speak in Jewish. A musica] program, with the assistance of the Fretheit Singing Society, Fretheit Mandolin Orchestra, and a play by the Freiheit, will be made & part of the celebration, Chicago Labor’s Air Program to Include Music and Education By JOE CARROLL, Federated Press. Tune in on WCFL and hear the Bar- ton $25,000 pipe organ which has been Placed at the free disposal of organ- ized labor's broadcasting station. An- nouncing this latest achievement in the Chicago Federation of Labor regu- jar meeting Oct. 3, Secretary Ed Nock- els also said that WCFL is now op- erating on 600 watt power instead of only 250 watt, as heretofore, and that t this will be gradually increased up to possibly 3,000 watts. « The most important function of WCFL is, the broadcast of talks of direct and educational interest to la- bor union members and incidentally the general ptiflic. These speeches are put on the air between 6 and 7 o'clock every evening except Sunday and Monday. WCFL also broadcasts musical entertainment, both classical . and popplar, every evening except f Monday trom 7 o’clock until midnight. Delegate Herstein, reporting for the women’s high school teachers’ organf » fation; announced that the fall term, 1 “Auettion courses of the Trade Union , Mege will begin on Tuesday, Oct. 6, 74 continue for 10 weake Former Scabs Taken in By Sioux City By a Worker Correspondent. SIOUX CITY, Ia., Oct, 6.—On Sept. 27 the Machinists’ Local 444. of Sioux City “demonstrated its “class con- sciousness” by electing two foremen to resume membership who had acted’ as strikebreakers in the 1922 railroad strike. This action, which is urged and en- dorced by the grand lodge, is supposed to benefit the rank and file by lining up every former “outlaw,” get him back in the fold, collect his dues, and ag the editor of the March journal quaintly remarks, “get him to assert his manhood,” Charlie Chaplin To Retire, LONDON, Oct, 6.—Charlie Chaplin, whose antics on the flickering film have made millions all over the world laugh, is planning to retire from pic- tures shortly, according to Arthur Kelly, vice president of the United Artists corporation, who is now. vis! ing In London, # According to Kelly, Chaplin's jap- ‘owrvancs in “Napoleon,’ which Ta cing filmed, will be his final appear ance on the allver screen, | more of their life, in 40 hours of intense | Mellon, wreat ENRY Ford did not build fiivvers. Neither did he write books, Both jobs were done for him. And done so well that he made profit out of the one and built a reputation for wisdom out of the other, A man who oan’ collect one ‘hundred million dollars a year from the sale of shaky pieces of gasolene-animated junk is a man to be reckoned with even tho he believes history !s bunk, A man who employs over two hundred thousand workers, without ever hay- ing a strike on his hands, is a clever manipulator of human beings. Think of a man who smells the breath of his employes for garlic and onions and gets away with it! N hig book “My Life and Work,” written for him by Samuel Crow, ther, Ford’s introduction deals with the philosophy of his business and he takes the position that he is success- ful becaifse his first aim is service, This ts good rotarianism. But Crow- ther avoids the hall-mark of rotarian- ism, He uses the English language. “HH economie fundamental is labor. Labor is the human ele- ment which makes the fruitful sea- sons of the earth useful to men.” This is an excerpt from Ford’s in- troduction to his: “My Life and Work.” But down thru the ages those who applled their labor to the raw material that mother nature provided, have been robbed of their product by those who had the most effective artillery, spears, catapults of stone clubs. To- day those who» have succeeded in commanding the heaviest dough bags need not carry a jack knife to keep their slaves in submission, Whe gov- ernment, city, state and nation’ will do the trick, We are grateful to Henry for his appreciation of labor’s invaluableness but we would be still ‘more grateful if he took his hands out of labor's pocket, High Spots. On high spots in Ford’s book are: “There is no redson why a man who is willing to“work should not be able to work anil receive the full value of his work." “There is equally no reason why, a man who can but will not work should not receive the fill value of his ser- vices to the community .... If he contributes nothing he should take away nothing. He should have the freedom of starvation.” This sounds like St. Paul speaking. But it is not, Word, like the devil, can quote scripture to confound the angels, rind Hired for Profit Only. O one knows better than Ford that a worker applying for his job at any of his plants will not be hired because he is entitled to a job, thru the very fact'that he is a human be- ing and willing to labor. Ford knows that his employment is determined by the consideration of that man’s abili- ty to put more money in Ford's DIMLY WORKER|How Ford Works His Workers - - Rar pocket. Ford has the machine. The potential worker has nothing but his labor power which he offers for sale. If Ford does not hire him, or if the Packards, or other concerns do not hire him, that willing worker returns home jobless to his wife and family. What value is Ford’s philosophy in face of a situation like this? And what about the fellow who ren- ders no useful service? Ford says he should starve. His War on the Jews, HERE are hundreds of thousands of people thruout the United States who are not rendering any use- ful service to society, yet they live on the fat of the land, In fact Ford employed many of. those useless people to make war on the Jews. And Ford supports the Coolidge adminis- tration whioh is par excellence the protector of the parasite class. If Ford gave his employes the full value of their labor, he would not be today Mr. Ford Hunts Reds, Aliens By ROBERT DUNN. OMEONE) remarked recently that the writings of Henry Ford are read with great interest in Soviet Russia, This is true, All books deal- ing with the organization of industry, scientific management and kindred topics are devoured by the stydents in the workers faculties and” the universities there. Taylor, Gannt and others are read with the greatest in- terest. And what Ford says and does is studied by the workers in the Soviet Union, Pays Black Hundred Head. recognizing this fact one must not forget that had Mr. Ford had his way there would be no Soviet Union. Mr. Ford contributed long and gen- erously, to ¢he overthrow of the Soviet government. On his payroll, for example, worked the notorious Boris L, Brazol, fermer leader of the Russian Black Hundred, and the lead- ing spirit in the monarehist restora- tion movement in America, While he was working for Mr. Ford for $1,000 a@ month ($200 extra for expenses), Mr, Brazol, pal of Admiral Kolchak, boasted that he had written two books that would da the Jéws—par- ticularly Russian Jews—more injury than ten pogroms. Anti-Jew Crusade. R, FORD'S excursions into the field of Jew-baiting are familiar to the American workers. In the minds of Mr. Ford a Jew and a rad- ical were synonyms, Hence the fam- ous Spider Web Chart published in the Dearborn Independent—a chart STATEMENT BY THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE WORKERS (COMMUNIST) PARTY, The capitalists and their press are hailing as a great achievement the policies of the Ford factories. They are endeavoring to make the work- ers believe that the forty-hour, five- day week, as established by Ford, proves that capitalism voluntarily im- Proves the conditions and lessens the exploitation of the workers. Actually the Ford factories are proving the correctness of what Karl Marx, the founder of the Communist movement, contended would be the development of capitalism. Marx wrote more than fifty years ago that the development of capital- ism would bring about the use of a greater amount of machinery in the work of production and that the in- Machinist Local creased use of machinery (fixed capi- tal) would at the same time result in intense exploitation of the workers. The profits of the capital- {sts from the labor of the workers in- crease with the increased use of ma- chinery, and at the same time the labor required of the workers grows. That is what Is happening In the Ford plant. The workers employed by Ford pro- duce greater profits for him because the use of machinery hdg been developed to a high point. , Each worker turns over to Ford greater’ profits as a re- sult of the worker's labor because of this development of the machinery ot production, The worker must keep pace with the machinery which he uses in production, which means more intense labor for the worker. Already Ford ‘is forecasting that production in the 40-hour five-day week will be as great as previously. The capitalists generally and their press agents gloat over the fact that the workers can be. compelled to give as much of their strength and energy, work as they have been giving in the longer day and longer woek's. work, the representative of FORD A this militant labor "throng stands prepared in the office of the Chemical Service of the Department at- tempting to show, Moscow control over every American society to pro- mote peace, disar ent and chris- tian fellowship! ice the republica- tion by the ith Press Inc, of New York, a Foi Protocols of Zion! The Beckwith forecasts the general acceptance of the 40-hour week im the industries of this country, The workers gain nothing by_the granting of a 40-hour five-day week, which requires of them more intense labor so that they produce as much ag in the longer hours of work. They give as much labor to the capitalists and as great profits as in the longer hours of work, The workers must fight, not only for a reduction in their hours, but for reduction in the amount of labor they give to the, capitalists who ex- ploit them. More intense labor in shorter hours drains the worker's life even more than the same work in longer hours. — The only way the Ford workers will secure a real reduction of the labor they give to thelr exploiter is by or- ganizing their strength so they can force this and other improvements in thetr wages anf working conditions from Ford. They must organize a union which oan speak and act in their name and thake demands, which can be enforced thru their organized strength. is A labor uriion including every worker in the Ford plants will have the power to ‘secure real improve- ments. Ford fs opposed to such a union because ‘He knows that the workers Will no longer be his slaves when they are organized in such a Employe Sues Senatorial Candidate, DANVILLE, Tl, Oct. 6—Col. Frank L, Smith, republican candidate for United States senator from Illl- nois, has been served with a summons as defendant in a suit for two months wages and office expenses by Bdgar C. Ashley, of this city, it was learned today, hy Ashley claims he was paid for the first three months, but was never able ta collect for Services after that, ‘9 article VIIL, | to Detroit,” Is left Here Is An Example For Ford Workers i “Here We Come, 10,000 Strong.” With the banner reading as above, a tribute to the spirit of the Passaic textile strikers, now, organized into the United Textile Workers of America, a great example of what the power of worker solidarity will do. The auto workers, unorganized and at the mercy of the bosses, can profit by this example, enterprise, of the | propaganda “The Reds in America” by the late R. M. Whitney and other literature inciting folks against all reds and Progressives from Captain Paxton Hibben and John Haynes Holmes to Father Ryan and Senator Robert M. LaFollette. In fact Mr. Ford and ‘his organization literally swallowed all the pretty tales that ‘also published | were invented ard sold to them for MARX union. Ford’s new scheme of more intense battles, workers cannot expect the benefits life thru the increase in the wealth s are in private hands. Ford is: proving that the workers organize a political struggle to se- cure control of the government and nationalize the factories, Organize an industrial union of automobile workers. Organize for the political struggle to secure control of the government and na- tionalize industry. That is the road the Ford workers, and all other workers must follow. It is the one road that will bring ment of the wealth they produce thru their labor power. Centnal Committee, Workers (Com- munist) Party, C. E. Ruthenberg, General Secretary. | GUNMAN MISSED VICTIM AND ALMOST DIED FROM ATTACK OF HILARITY CHICAGO, Oct. 6—When some- body shoots at somebody else in Chicago, and misses—it’s a good Joke, i William Anderson was waiting for a stypetcar on the near north si when an unidentified man fifed | shots at him, Anderson duc! bullets missed him. exploitation of the workers should be the signal to them to’start a move ment to organize a union to fight their The lession which Ford is teaching the workers shows further that the of improvements in the machinery of production and a higher standard of they produce so long as the indus- who produce wealth collectively must organize their power to take over the control of the machinery of produc- tion, That can only be done if they them to real improvement of their working conditions and to the enjoy- t the richest man in the world and @ Ford employe could not be , picked out of a crowd because\-of his ab- normally drawn features and luster- less eyes. z His “Philanthropy.” FEW paragraphs from Ford's book will help: throw. light on his “philanthropy.” Inthe early part of 1920’ there aere indications that-.the. wartime inflation bubble was going to be punctured by industrial depres- sion. Ford saw the storm coming and got ready. . He cut the price. of his cars, and kept up his sales. “He made arrange- ments for another cut. He was plan- ning to close down his plant for a time and he worked to turn every bit of raw material in his possession into finished product, * i ‘When he .was ready. he. shut, shop and send ‘his employes about their business, rhe Henry Has Floor... \]JOW Henry has: the. floor;,,. “During the latter part.of Janu- ary (1921) we called ina skeleton organization of about. ten, thousand men, mostly, foremen, sub-foremen, and straw bosses, and we started Highland Park into production,’ We collected. our foreign accoynts. and sold our by-products. “Then wo were ready..for produc- tion. And gradually into full produc- tion we went—on a profitable basis ++. Before we had employed fifteen men per car per day... Afterward we employed nine per car.per day, This By T. J. O’Flaherty did not mean that six out of fifteen men lost thelr jobs, They only Ceased being unproductive. We made that cut by applying the rule that everything and everybody must pro- duce or get out, “We took ‘out 60 per cent of our telephone extensions. Only a com- paratively few men in any organiza- tion need telephones. We formerly jhad_a foreman for every five men; |now we have a foreman for every twenty men.” Men Like Machines, HIS ‘is the benevolent Ford in action. He uses men as he uses his machines, They produce a cer- tain profit or out they go. This policy for the humans. If the machines don’t work they are scrapped. You see, there is no law against killing machines, The scrapped employes are a little luckier perhaps. at a beautiful world it will be when industry is completely Ford- ized? An eight-hour day and a five- day week sounds good but what does a fatigue-poisoned wage slave want with leisure? Henry might add to his income by building an hospital where his slaves could recuperate over the weekend— for a consideration, Beware of Gifts. ORD WORKERS! Beware of a master who comes bearing gifts. What about organizing politically and industrially to take over this industry aged have created? You are running it now. Why should Ford run you? and Trade Unions fancy figures by the Brazols and Spi- ridovitches and Dr. Houghtons and Dr. Rodinoffs and the others who deal in red menaces and old world polit- ical scandal, Henry, it is admitted even by his. friends, fell for the most lurid of their tales. Had these plot- ters succeeded in their schemes Hen- ry might have been crowned king of the restored Russian monarchy, On Fingerprinting and Registering Aliens. ORD is hot for the bill to register all the aliens in our midst so that all’ the “radicals” may be properly segregated and deported. He sub- scribes wholeheartedly to the alien fingerprinting bills proposed by Sec- retary of Labor Davis and opposed by the American Federation of, Labor, the American Civil Liberties Union and other progressive organizations. Ford lines up with the chamber of commerce of the United States, the American Defense Society and other tory organizations in furthering legislation to crush agitation for bet- ter working conditions among the foreign-born workers. Both the Dear- born Independent and Ford person- ally have boosted the anti-alien legis- lation which organized labor succeed- ed in defeating in the last congress. On Industrial Democracy. (ORD was not the first employer to discover that the well-paid work- er, under certain conditions, like the well-fed horse. may prove the most rofitable in the end, particularly un- der a body-wrecking speed-up system. Ford, however, will have nothing to do with unions of any kind. Even company unions with their illusory “participation” in “consultation and conference” with management, make Henry tired. He prefers to be the sole father and despot to his work- ers. What right have they to express themselves collectively about the con- ditions of their work? What right have they to butt in on management? Ford can see but one answer to this question. The workers are to be re- garded an individual unit in the pro- ductive machine. They have no prob- lems of work concerning which their co-operative action would do them any good. Beats Forstmann, if apd Ford displays hfmself as a century or two more feudal in his human relations than is Mr. Julius Forstmann, textile tyrant of Passaic, N. J., who at least makes the pretense of believing in “employe representa- tion” thru company unions. Ford is thoroly hard-boiled and cynical when it comes to matters touching on the employe-employer relationship. “It is not necesary for people to love each other in order to work together” is one of his typical remarks on the \subject. He contends that he gives his workers the best wages and the best conditions, so there is nothing jleft to bargain about! Hence there {is no necessity for a union or even a company-fixed “shop committee.” He thus constitutes himself the sole judge and dictator of what is good for ‘his workers. And'‘he spies upon them and fires them instanter if he catches them talking about trade un- ions or labor organizations, NEGRO RESENTMENT IN By LOVETT FORT-WHITMAN National Organizer of the American Negro Labor Congress. HE sudden revolt two days ago of a section of the Negro working class at Miami, Florida, against the high-handed methods on the part of the authorities to compel Negroes wherever found to do gang work in the clearing away of the debris as a result of the disaster in that city, can- not at all be surprising and is only another one of the instances indicat- ing the new. spirit,of courage and self-respect. which ig. taking hold of the Negro fm America. It.further in- dicates the fact that, the, Negro peo- ple are without def in this coun- try save only insofar as they are able to create thru their own. organization and self-reliance. 7 ME i bye Negro. worker is.of the most exploited, oppressed and. brutallz- ed group in America.and inspite of his loyality; the government does. not protect him from the. ravages of his exploiters, from the brutalities of his oppressors. On the contrary, as it is clearly demonstrated, the, government military: forces are not, only, withhold- ing protection from the Negro peo- ple against the white-civil,population, but from newspaper . accounts, have even taken sides with those whites of Miami who would compel the Ne- groes to do gang work for the city. HE clash between the Negro peo- ple and the soldiers resulting in injuries on both sides was simply the outtome of an attempt on the part of the authorities to conscript Negro la- bor for the city,, Any Negro found in the streets regardless of any excuse was forced into a truck and carried off to do work in cleaning up the city. “ HIS is something of the Negroes’ evoryxlay experience of American democracy, Down with thig sort of thing! Any form of resistance that the Negro: puts up against being im- MIAMI in the matter at once. Federal troops are at Miami, but they are there to Protect all citizens alike regardless of color, But the American Negro Tabor Congress has all along preach- ed that the most formidable enemy, that the Negro people has in this country is the government itself and that little at any time is to be ex- pected in the way of protection from it. Events from day to day are im- Pelling Negroes to the view point that organization alone counts and that the Negro people must rely more upon the principles of mutual wel- fare and organizational self-defense. Dinner Pail Epic By BILL LLOYD, Federated Press I see, down Oklahoma way, they’s sneaking from each workers’ pay*a checkoff for Salvation Army—a piece of news that suré does jar me. It makes a fellow wanta know how far the e8’ gall will flow, Sum ladies shake the “bosses fist list, on which they ask that he shall note the names of each poor sufferin goat, and then set down how much ‘he can wring out of each hard workin man. On payday each must grin with glee at being pumped for charity. If he speaks up and sez he’s sore, they Just point out the exit door. Now if yous fellows would get back and end such systems with a smack, Just gather round my ragged knoe id get the fortythird degree. Just organize to beat the band, get lots of spunk and piles of sand, and when you're organized plum thropgh and ‘feel prepared to turn the screw, write And if he gives you sass, just place a ig upon his neck, - areca Wir Arn, and leave with him a long blank ‘ = pressed into a condition of servitude iy desirable and praise-worthy, Fur- ther outbreaks are expected in Miam! between the Negro working class and res ogyes.