The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 16, 1926, Page 6

Page Six THE DAILY WORKER Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 1113 W. Washifigton Blvd., Chicago, Ill, SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mal! (In Ohieage onty): 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, IIl, ¥. LOUIS ENGDAHL [ WILLIAM F, DUNNE MORITZ J, LOBE Editors .Business Manager Entered as second-class mail September 21, 1923, at the post-office at Chi- cago, Ill., under, the act of March 3, 1879. beathhaise ie rates on application, American Capitalism’ $ Stinking ; mn The competitive struggle for wealth and power, the prime mov- ing force of capitalist society, is producing in America some of the most obscene developments on record. It suffices to mention only a few of the most recent occur- rences: There have been such inspiring things as the wholesale bribery of the electorate in Pennsylvania and Illinois, the éxposure of the filth and corruption in which the whole state of Indiana wallowed under the rule of kleagles and klaliffs with such trimmings as rape and murder, the open gang warfare in the streets of Chicago, the second largest city in the United States, the neverending ex- posure of bribery and other forms of graft on the part of prohibi- tion officers, high and low, the spectacle of a former attorney-gen- eral shown guilty of corruption on a grand scale—altho the jury disagreed—the exposure of Frank Farrington as a $25,000 servant of the coal operators while holding office in the miners’ union, the nashamed pandering tg representatives of blood-stained royal houses as in the case of Ae queen of Roumania, We have skimmed only the surface of the evil-smelling mess which American capitalism brews, but it is enough to turn the stomach of a Dyak head-hunter, ® All of these noisome happenings are accompanied with paeans ‘ of praise for the great and glorious christian civilization which ac- : cepts as an institution such horrible manifestations of bestiality as the murder by mobs of four Negroes in seven days—sacrificed on the stinking altar of white supremacy. ° “Capitalism,” said Marx, “came into being dripping with blood and dirt from every pore. It will go out the same way.” 5 If in its present “healthy” period, American capitalism reeks ' with such rottenness, what will it become as the American working class begins to seriously challenge its power as decay sets in? i Cleaning the Augean stables was child’s play compared to the task of disinfecting that the workers in this country will havé when the proletarian dictatorship drives the diseased rats of cap- italism into the holes and corners from which they will be chased. Giving the American labor movement the cleansing it needs so badly will be good training for the bigger task. ° . . . . Silence Aids Reaction in Mexico One of the most important developments affecting labor in Bb America, and internationally as well, arousing the deepest interest thruout the world, namely, the controversy between Mexican labor, the government and the catholic church, was not even discussed at the A. F. of L. convention when it came on the floor. It is obvious that tremendous pressure was brought oh the Mexican delegation by A. F. of L. officialdom to agree to this man- ner of disposing of a life and death question of the Mexican labor movement and we can only guess at the role the state department played in these negotiations. No more striking proof of the manner in which the present trade union leadership subordinates fundamental principles to. internal polities has been given. A straight from the shoulder declaration for the separation of state from church in Mexico, unequivocal sup- port of the agrarian program contained in the Mexican constitution and denunciation of all attempts to take advantage of difficulties created by counter-revolutionary activities in Mexico to bring that nation still more under the domination of Wall Street, is the least an honest leadership could have done and preserved its self-respect. The suppression of the entire question is objectively a repudia- tion of the policy of the Mexican labor movément and will be so , construed in imperialist circles. The official colonial policy of the American Federation of La- bor, judged by ‘this action alone, is hostile to the basic needs and demands of all the Latin-American peoples because in one form or another they are grappling with the same conditions which the Mexicani labof movement faces. / Silence on this subject gives consent to the attacks of reaction. COMMITTEE ON CHILD LABOR GIVES SOME POINTERS TO MANUFACTURERS WHO PLAN STUDY OF CONDITIONS NEW YORK, Oct, 14—(FP)—Pertinent reminders regarding short-com- ings of various state laws on child labor are given in The American Child, organ of the National Child Labor Committee, in commenting on the five studies proposed by the National Association of Manutacturers. Howell Cheney of Cheney Bros., silk manufacturers, is chairman of the manufac- turers’ association committee on junior education and employment, which is making the child labor studies, The #————___________ association has not previously been known to show any but a pro-child labor and ant!-legislation attitude. Poor State Protection. manufacturers’ association proposes are: 1, Laws of various states on employment of minors; 2. number of child workers ander 15 and kinds of without showing any evidence of edu-| same basic plan of education should gational attainment whatever, and in} be given to-or required of all chil seven of these states the compulsory} dren, regardless of differences of in- pichool attendance period ends at the} dividual ability or circumstance. nage of 14, may The second reminder ts that in 18 staies the law does not require a cer TAMPA, Fla., Oct. 14D, P. Davis, tifleate of physical fitness signed by] ‘ho rose from a vendor of sandwiches an authorized physician as condition} » Jacksonville shipyards during the of employment for any child under 16.} war to one of the state’s wealthiest -. the ibird reminder {s that in 12] men, was drowned when he fell off #taves 1. is now unlawful to employ} the steamship Majestic in midocean children under 16 more than eight} this morning, according to a cable- a day, gram ,receiyed here today by Arthur ‘Phe fourth reminder issthat in 17] Y Milam, vice-president of Davig Is- tey there are no laws to prohibit} “nd, Ine. -ghildren 14 to 16 from oiling, wiping + oF, cleaning machinery in motion, id 7. five studies on child labor the Sandwich Millionaire Drowns. The size of The DAILY WORK. Phone Monroe 4712) The National Child Labor Commit-} work; 3, number, nature and causes of tee, which hae worked for the protec-| accidents, hazards of trades to chil- tion of American child workers for a]dren under 18; 4. extent to which 167 quarter of a century, reminds the man-| years olds stay in school with com- \ufacture rs’ investigato™ that in nine] parison of promotions and results of "states children of 14 may go to work} child workers under. 16; 5. whether THE DAILY WORKER poh As a sort of reminder of the fact that militarism is not by any means dead in this country, the above pic- tures of new artillery units of the army rather demonstrate that the war-workers are very busy. Open Shoppers Grow Over Defroit ‘Prosperity’ = ROBERT W. DUNN, Fed, Press. EW YORK, Oct. 14.—The city in i which the American Federation of Labor is holding its convention is 97 per cent open shop, only 20,000 out of 700,000 workers being employed in strictly closed shop establishments, according to John Lester Dryden, pres- ident Detroit Employers’ Association, addressing the openshop session of the National Association of Manufactur- ers at its 31st annual meeting in the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York. “Wages are higher, shop conditions are better” than in other cities, Dry- den declared. “Detroit's prosperity is due entirely to the right theory of in- dustrial relations”—meaning the open shop. “We have almost ideal labor conditions, thanks’ to our board of commerce, citizens’ committee, build- ers’ exchange and employers’ associa- tion.” % Cite British Report. OTH Dryden and John Henry Ham- mond of Brown Bros. & Oo., chair- man of Bangor & Aroostook Railway, devoted large*chunks of their prepared speeches to crowing over the report of the so-called labor delegation which visited America at the expense of the London Daily Mail. Dryden quoted the complimentary bouquets attributed to this delegation in reference to the openshop automobile metropolis, Ham- mond, citing Jong passages of the British report, remarked: ‘TT is difficult to believe you are reading a report of a trade union delegation and not that of a delegation of bankers,” The report emphasizes the lack of the class war spirit in the United States, the importance of the sale of corporation stock to employes, and the wealtness of trade unions here, particularly in the metal trades. There is much about “co-operation and fellowship” between capitalist and worker, which Hammond heartily en- dorsed. It is well known that the Brit- ish labor men were generously quoted by American corporations’ publicity departments without the delegates ac- tually making the statements, Edgerton Presides. HE sopenshop session was opened by John E. Edgerton, president N. A. of M., in the Astor gallery deco- rated with placards bearing anti-union slogans such as “closed shop cripples labor supply, ” “closed shop brings in- dustrial decay,” together with appro- priate quotations from Henry Ford, William Howard Taft, Rev. 8. Parkes Cadman and Senator Reed of Mis- souri, 4 Edgerton assured the 270 delegates, over 70 representing employers’ asso- clations, thaf the N. A. M, “ig not an anti-labor organization,” He con tended it “is consistently and “dis tinetly pro-‘labor,” for it is interested in all labor, not only in the 10 per cent organized in trade unions. ITH this “delusion dissipated,” h introduced Dr. George B, Cutten president Colgate University, who de clared that “the power in industry hi beon comin#*Back into the hands o i depends on you. Send a eub.|the employers during the last five years, for labor has abused its op- portunity.” He conceded’ that the unions had beengof some use to the workers, bat that the wide open shop,.w: tion of the troublesomo, a’ He bewailed the “sloth, sabotage and stints system” of the. 5A. F. of. L. unions and lectured the bricklayers (who were not present. at the Wal- dorf) on their failure to lay sufficient bricks to suit the academic (and em- ployers’) taste. He imdisted, contrary to reports of eco! istsand engi- neers, that the last ten years had seen increased wages but lower pro- duction. Call Labor “Morons.” Cae prone to unions’ demand for share in management problems, he asked what the “moron shoveling ashes over the back fence of the fgc- tory yard should haye;to say abd such matters.” He left the impression that trade union card earriers who in- sisted on collective bargaining were morons or worse. He assailed sympathetic strikes and declared that the late Samuel Gom- /pers made labor an “outlaw” when he once asked god to “save labor from the courts.” When Gompers said this, Cutten stated, “he did more harm to labor than anyone else,” ANKER HAMMOND dwelt on “co- operation” and glorified the ten- dency to sell stock to workers and in- troduce group insurance schemes, He : | declared magnanimously that he was . | not opposed to labor organization, but that it should not interfere with in- dustry. He told how the railway he heads broke a strike of Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and how it de- feated the shopmen in 1922. Since then “the slackers have been elimi- nated and the men are faithful and loyal.” He said railroads’ efficiency was not due to the unions, but in spite of them. The banker, in loaning money to railroads, took into consid- eration “the added risks” induced by labor organizations, he said, Praises Detroit Churches. OHN L. BELFORD, Brooklyn cath- olic priest, who once said socialists. it | should be hung, attempted to prove by Pope Leo XIII encyclical letter of 1891 that “there is no such thing as class hatred” and that “the right of private property is absolutely sacred.” Belford provoked the longest outburst of applause when, referring*to Detroit churches’ action against +A. F. of L. speakers, he roared: “I don’t believe a church is a place for labor leaders to talk. If they want to talk let them go and hire a hall.” LETTERS FROM OUR READERS ON O'LEARY AND A. F. of L. W. F. Dunne, Editor: Note en- closed clipping of the World. This O'Leary is a rat, stool pigeon, for Gompers. Green dosn't’ seem to want him, so he is. ing around, hoping to get in the gravy again that he had for years w Gompers, He always raps meh like Ben Gold and you. He lied about Passaic. His record ig full of rat eries about Reds. O'Leary has always ratted his arti- cles. He is a Civic Federation-Ralph Easley-Payroll Fat Bay. So now, you have the Fakers up a tree on 40-hour work week. Web unions had a 40-hour week, and 36- hour night week, untfiLsold out in the Web strike in New ‘k. Now it is 42, 46, and they talkof 48. Electrical workers on newspapers got a wage increas¢»but went back to 48 hours. So now:they claim’ the A. F. of L, policy is shorter work day and have the nerve to point to the auto industry as their work, * L look forward to your story of Port- iand to Detroit, Old Gompers was @ “bunk artist,” but Greén and the oth- ers are just as good, Woll is in the insurance game. They allywant to get a4 game going, as they seem to know they cannot kid the workers much longer. _ A Worker Who Reads Ali Your Writings. Red Cross or “Red Tape.” Dear Comrades: It seems to me it ld be a good hing if someone Id investigate the doings of the Re@ Cross. We are cote .thtition here, For ve week they supported us, but all of ! a sudden we are advised to pay cash for everything. I just heard today that in Cumberland, Maryland, $50,000 was collected for the Red Cross, and millions all over the state. Is that money used to pay officers of the Red Cross? It looks like a shame. We received letters from acquaintances asking if we needed help. We wrote no, the Red Cross and state take care of us. And I suppose thousands have done the same, Now this report is out, money on the strength of such report is collected, we have to pay cash for everything, and if we have no cash what then? Does the salary for Red Cross have to come first. Some graft! Do not tell my name, just say Ft. Lauderdale, as I have to suffer, We slept from the 17th of September to October 4 in bed under two stand ing walls, altho I begged to fix up some way so we be dry at night, but got no relief till the 4th. It is more red tape than Red Cross, Yours truly, A. Reader, Fort Lauderdale, Fla, Many Co-operatives in Australia MELBOURNE-- (FP) --There dre now 180 producer cooperatives with 508 branches throughout Australia, They have a membership of 137,289, aggregate sales totaling $166,427,200 per annum, returning net profits to members of $1,480,080, There are 118 consumer cooperative societies with 105 branches. Those have 86,116 members. The sales for the year were $28,785,726, Send The DAILY WORKER for one month to you shop-mate, { a By ERNEST HAECKEL (Continued trom the previous issue) In view of this broadening tendency in theology and ‘philosophy at the be- ginning of the twentieth century, It is an unfortunate anachronism ‘that thé ministers of public instruction of Prus- sia and Bavaria sail in the wake of the catholic .church, atid seek to instil the spirit of the Jesuifs in both lower and higher education. It is only a few weeks since the Prussian minister of worship made a dangerous attempt to suppress academic. freedom, the palla- dium of mental life in Germany. This increasing reaction fecalls “thé “sad days of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, when thousands of? the fin: est citizens of Germany migrated to North America, in order. to develop their mental powers in a free atmos: phere. This selective process.-formed a blessing to the United States, but it was certainly veryunjurigus to Ger- many. Large numbers of 5 eak and servile characterd were thus favored. The fossilized ideas of many of our leading jurists seems to take us back-sometimes to the Cretaceous and. Jurassic periods, while the. palaeozoic rhetoric of our theologians and. synods even goes hack to the Permifan and Carboni- ferous pert However, we must not take too se- riously the anxiety. that this increas- ing “political. and clefical reaction causes us. We must ‘remember the vast resources of-civilization that are seen today in our enormous interna- tional intercourse, and mtist have con- fidence in the helpful exchange oi ideas between east and ‘west that is being effected daily by our means of transit, Even in Germany the dark nesg that now prevails will at length give place to the dazzling light of the sun. Nothing, in my opinion, will con- tribute more to°that end: than- the unconditional victory of the idea of evolution. Beside the law of evolution, -and closely connected’ with: it). we have that great triumph.of modern science, the law of substahée—the law of the conservation of “matter (Lavoisier, 1789), and of the conservation of en- ergy (Rober Mayer, 1842). ‘These two laws are irreconcilable with the three central dogmas of metaphysics, which so many educated ‘péople’ still regard as the most precious treasures of their spiritual life—the"belief in a personal God, the personal immortality of the soul, and the liberty of the human will, But these great objects of be- lief, so intimately bound up with num- bers of our treasured achievements and institutions, “ate not on that ac- count drivel out‘of-the world. They merely céisé td pos EB truth im the realm of puré’eciénce. As imagina- tive creations théy retain a certain value in the ‘wotld’ of poetry. Here they will not’ only;as they have done hitherto, furnish thotisands: of the fin- est and most lofty’motives for every branch of art—sdulpture, painting, or music—but they® ‘will’ still a-high ethical and sotial'Value”in the educa- tion of the young and°in the organiza- tion of sociéty:: Just as-we derive artistic and ethical inspiration from as the Hercules myth, the Odyssey and the Iliad) ‘and’ the story of Wil- liam Tell, so we Will continue to do in regard to the stories of the christian mythology. But we must do the same with the poetical’ conceptions of other religions, which have given the most varied forms to the transcendental ideas of God, freedom, and seid ity. Thus the noble warmth of art will remain, together with—not in opposi- tion to, but in harmony with-—the splendid light of science, one of. the most precious possessions of the human mind. As Goethe said: » “He who has selence and art has religion.” speakers. to rises Scott _ reek we England and America. wi) Robert D. wah toe M. J. Olgin P “ OED And Others. Tad IE yom are tatarontd eal atthe ote of school, 108 1, 14h Bt ieee nen ne SE eee and sycophants : the legends of élassical antiquity (such |! Is.an Instructor in the Workers’ School. - The coming, year he will give the following courses: Decline « “of the British Empire Three lectures of? British Labor Uvenour Where is Britain Going?; Fee for the course, $1.00. Our Monistic system, the “connecting link ‘between religion and science,” brings ‘god and the world into the unity in the sense that Goethe willed; ‘the’ ‘sense that Spinoza clearly ° expressed long ago and Giordano Bruno had sealed with his martyr- dom. It" hasbeen said repeatedly of late that ‘Goethe was an orthodox christian, A few years ago a young orator quoted him in support of the wonderful dogmas of the christian religion, We may point out that Goethe himself expressly said he was “decided non-christian.” The “great heathen of Weimar” has given the Clearést expression to his Pantheistic views in his noblest poems, “Faust,” “Prometheus,” and. “God and the World.” How could so vigorous a thinker, in whose mind the evolution of ‘ofganic ‘life ran thru millions of years, have shared the narrow belief of, @ Jewish prophet and enthusiast who sought to give up his life for fiumanity 1,900 years ago? Our Monistic God, the all-embracing essence of the world, the Nature-god of Spinzona and Goethe, is identical with the eternal, all-inspiring energy, and ig oné,.in eternal and infinite sub- stance, with space-filling matter. It “lives and moves in all things,” as the gospel days. And as we see that, the law of substance is universal, that. the conversation of matter and of energy is inseparably connected, and that the ceaseless development of this substance follows the same “eternal iron laws,” we find god in natural law itself. The will of god is at work in every falling drop of rain and every growing crystal, in the scent of the rose and the spirit of man. MCNAMARA FLAYS REACTIONARIES IN LETTER TO 1, L. D. What James B. McNamara lifer in San Quentin, thinks of the reaction- aries in the American trade union Movement is pungently stated in the October issue of the Labor Defender, monthly organ of the International La- bor Defense, published at 23 South Lincein street, Chicago. Writing to James P. Cannon, secre tary of the I. L. D., McNamara says: “ET Mave received a check for five dollars, “which is the ‘10th monthly prisoner's relief.’ I feel very grateful for same and if I never receive any more I shall always keep it in mind for it is fer more than the respectably leaders of the trade union movement have done in more than fourteen years. With a very few exceptions what.a slimy bunch they are. I often wonder if they cannot see where their policy, or program, or whatever they call it,-is leading them, or are they too. stupid: to see it? ~~ “New Leadership Wanted. “Tt is an Awful thing to find fault and criticise, but when all the organ- forces of society have, and stand réady to use force against all the workers, and Green, mixing with those forces, condemns the general strike, one és justified in finding fault and criticising. The workers must respond to a new leadership or all the sacri- fices made by the workers in the pabt forty years are lost. #Wishing | the International Labor Defense success in all its undertak- ings, I am, detained— “J. B. McNamara. “P, S—Note number—25314.” Why fot a small bundle of The DAILY WORKER sent to you regular: ly to take to your trade union meeting? The Workers’ School “Training for the Class Struggle” The Workers’ School conducts the following departments: Library, Research Depariment, | Lecture Bureau, Sunday Night Forums, Popular Lecture Courses, Hyening Study Classes. It supplies teachers and Nearing Post-War Europe. Four lectures on: Whither Russia; Germany and the Dawes Plan; Fas- Bofed je ‘Alexander: rer a Wm, W. Weinstone Jack Stachel