The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 3, 1926, Page 6

| F THE DAILY WORKER Page Six Publish 1113 W, Washi RELY VYORKER WORKER PUBLISHING CO. Phone Monroe 471% ed by the DAILY on Rlvd., Chicago, TL. ‘SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mall (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 th | $2.00 three months WILLIA MORITZ J Entered as second-class mail September 21, 1923, at the postoffice at Chi cago, Ill., under the act of March 3, 1879. Advertising rates on application, Business Manager <—e 290 The American Sovereign We are not referring to the queen of Roumania, to John D. Rockefeller or to Henry Ford. We have in mind the American voter. Today he is king, tho he will punch the clock as usual and experience palpitation of the heart when the boss catches hini grinning over Tillie the Toiler,” while stealing a smoke in the factory rest room. Of course, we make the distinction between the American voter, who mails his election.preference from Biarritz, France, or from his hunting lodge in the Pyrnees and the corrugated toiler who remem- (Continued from page 1° must be prepared to rush to any place in that “tight little isle’ where em- ergency demands. Mussolini, of course, wants to keep the Italian navy ready to crush any revolt against his dictatorship. Every day he has watched developments in the British stri » for he knows full well that a miners’ victory would bring his own defeat by Italy’s out- raged workers nearer. . Using Italian Ships. | The British and Italian navies placed direct contracts with several of the largest coal companies in the United States. Mussolini also arranged for use of Italian ships to carry coa) from these ports to Britain to help deliver a smashing blow to the strik- y the British admiralty placed a contract for 1,000,000 tons of high volatile coal for the British navy and {that order has been repeated at last) once since that time. Early in August the British steamer Minnie de Larringea came to Norfoiis for coal for the British admiralty. It | was the first time that coal was Car-| ried from a foreign country to supply bers when his gas bill was only 25 whereas now it is $1.85. We are talking about the working class voter. : Communists and their political ancestors in the revolutionary movement have been pounding sound adyice into the head of Mr. Wage Slave for several decades. On election day we take out the horn as well as the hammer. With the latter we knock spots out of the capitalists and their political Punch and Judy men, while with the former we call on the workers to go to the polls and mark their ballots for working cl: candidates. The workers are hard of hearing and the capitalists have heads made of solid rubber. So far, we have not made much of ay impression on either. But we are about as pessimistic as a bunch of college students going to a party. “Time and tide wait for no mam,” says the proverb, but we can turn this old-saw over to the efficiencyamagazines. The tide of evolu- tion is always flowing in the direction of revolution and time has plenty of patience. Bone-heads and gold-lined pockets can no more save the capitalist system than King Canute’s broom. Today the American voter is king. He will go to the polls and vote either for the republican highwayman or for the democratic con- fidence man. Comparatively few will vote for the Communist candi- dates, the only candidates in the field that offer the worker a way wat of his industrial slavery and economic misery. It is an axiom that “revolutions never take place until the pains of rebellion are no less than the pains of obedience.” This does not mean to imply that revolutionists will lay low until labor labors in pain and delivers itself of a revolution. On the contrary the very fact that revolu- tionists are certain of the inevitable collapse of capitalism, is the best reason why they should prepare the workers for the taking over This is where we are in favor of “preparedness,” pre- paredn for and by the working class. Today the workers of the United States will cast the overwhelm- ing majority of their votes for the candidates of their masters. But tomorrows will follow, and the struggle for existence under capital- ism will convince the workers of the soundness of the Communist advice that now falls on deaf ears. ‘Phe fate of the capitalist system will not be settled at the ballot box if for no other reason than the certainty that the capitalists will take good care that it will not. Workers! Vote for the Communist candidates today, but to- day and tomorrow preach the gospel of struggle against the cap- italist system, help to organize your fellow workers into trade unions, agitate for a labor party and join the Workers (Communist) Party. Need Revolution in School System jtional problem is that of getting a new mind operative in the adult com- munity; a mind that will not be so hostile to the implications of science; a mind that will welcome rational changes in the basis of facts and honest interpretation of facts, A mind that will permit intelligence to play thru industry, and politics, and morality, (Continued from page 1) dare to face the thought of training teachers who will have their eyes turned to the living world—to the changing, evolving community that is found about children, We have not been as intelligent or as realistic in our dealing with our children as a pro- duction forpgman is in dealing with his]tnru the processes by which education raw materials, either developes real mind in child- “Hence, our real American educa-{instructs.” STRIKE STRATEG By WILLIAM Z, FOSTER : ARTICLE IV, AMERICAN AND Foretcn-Born, 1 unite the many nationalities employed in American industry, with their maze of different languages, relig- ions, national prejudices, etc., into a solid, rebellious prole- tarian mass, constitutes a major problem in strike strategy, The most difficult phase of it is to unite the American-born workers with those who are foreign-born, (For practical purposes we will state the problem thus although, to be more accurate, it is to unite the Americans and the foreign- born workers of the earlier immigrations with those work- ers of the later immigrations), The Americans are mostly skilled workers, They com- monly held the best jobs and are favored in many ways by the employers. ,They are hard to organize, They strike badly and they seah easily, Their role in the struggles in the basic unorganized industries hag been to shamelessly betray the militant foreign-born workers, This is the his- tory of many great strikes in the textile, rubber, si¢el, pack- ing, and other industries, HAE The Americans rationalize their class treason_by a na- tionalistic contempt for the foreign-born, by charges that wing sh the latter are maneuvering to get the Americans’ jobs, ete! The employers do all possible to intensify this nationalistic seabbery, and the ultra-patriotic trade union bureaucrats feed this chauvinistie maw, ‘Yhiy grave problem is a diminishing quantity, The bar- ribrs between the foreign-born and native workers are break- ing down. Immigration is practically shut off and few new foreign-born workers are coming into the industries. Those there now are learning the language and winning their way to the sXilled jobs, In many cases Americans are entering the industries en masse as unskilled workers, Still more important, the children of the immigrants are growing up and going into the industries. Thoroly Americanized, they are a real bridge, between the American and: foreign-born many © ing con order t: must be boldly met and splved. and a@ loyal defense of the economic interests of the various 1 language groups are’ the foundations of a successful policy, While adopting every technical device for meeting the spe- celal needs and difficulties of the respective nationalities among the strikers, such as language speakers and public- ity, nationalistic demogogy must be ruth] and the whole strike shot through with a true spirit the needs of the British Empire's | navy. a | Coal for British Navy. |ernment, however, |service and assigned her to the Co- Feed Royal Navies U. S. Scab Coal a cargo of coal, where she will receive orders to proceed to another port to unload the coal for the British navy.” But the British government neither sought nor favored such publicity. So the word went out for no more mention of the British navy’s humilia- tion because of the refusal of men to go down in the mines and dig coal. Holds Bursting with Coal. Since that time, however, boat after boat, British or Italian, has steamed from Norfolk, Newport News or Bal- timore, with its holds bursting with “scab” coal to help support, British capitalist control of the destinies of one-sixth of "the world’s people, Italy, too, has been vitally affectea by the British minefs’ strike. She de- pends on other«nations for her fuel supply. British miners supplied most of that coal before| the strike. Coal to Italy and Britain. So scores of Italian ships are com- ing to Baltimore and to Hampton Roads to carry ‘coal to Italy and to Britain. Even transports. ara being pressed into use. Only a few days ago the Italian transport Fianono car- Baltimore to Italy. For a year she had remained inactive at the Italian naval station at Gpezia! The gov- pressed her into Norfolk’s. newspapers featured this | striking Situation in both their news| and editorial columns, the “Ledger- | Dispatch,” an afternoon newspaper, | running this news item: / | “The great British navy is coming | to America for its coal, a thing un-| precedented in its glamorous and | glorious past. The British steamer} Minnie de Larringea, cleared yester-| day for Barry Roads, loaded with a} operativa Garialdi, of Genoa, which is supposed to represent the “Federation of Italian Seamen.” This “Federation of Italian Sea- men,” of course, is a federation run by the government and not by the seamen of Italy, © The seamen who brought the Fia- nono here were refused shore leave for the sailors of Italy are now slaves of Mussolini and not free men. Observe the Ninth Birthday of Union of Soviet Republics (Continued from page 1) bly in Brooklyn will be the place of a celebration on November 5 at which Jay Lovestone, Alexander Trachten- berg and others will speak. On Sun- day, November 7, two halls, the Cen- tral Opera House and Hunt’s Point Palace, will listen to Jay Lov@stone, M, Olgin, Ben Gold, William Wein- stone, J. 8. Points, S. Zimmerman and others, At all three meetings musical numbers will also be featured. Cleveland Celebration, In addition to three choruses and a mandolin orchestra, soloists will be part of the program of the Cleveland celebration on the 7th, at which Ber- tram D, Wolfe and I. Amster will speak. At Pittsburgh the meeting will be held the evening of November 7 at Labor Lyceum, 35 Miller street. ‘The Workers’ Party, Workmen’s Circle ar¥ the Progressive Club will jointly spon- sor the Cincinnati celebration at Odd Fellows Temple, with Carl Hacker as speaker, On the same date Stanm- ford, Conn., will observe the anniver- | sary at Workmen’s Circle Hall. | Engdahl Tours. 4 Louis on November 5, Kansas City on November 6, at Musician’s Hall, and Omaha, Neb., 6n November 7, The halls in St. Louis and Omaha are yet to be announced, Ben Gitlow and Juliet Stuart Poyntz will speak in Paterson, N, J., at Car- penter’s Helvetia Hall, on Saturday, J, Louis Engdahi will Speak at pa Philadelphia, Noy. 5, Ben Gitlow. Detroit, Noy. 7, Gitlow, at Armory. Rochester, N. Y., Nov. 5, Bert Wolfe, at Labor Lyceum, Akron, 0., Nov. 5, Wolfe. - Buffalo, N. Y., John Ballam, Work- ers’ Forum Hall, Nov. 5. Erie, Pa., Chas. Krimbein, or- ward Hall; Noy, 6° Toledo, O., Chas, Krimbein. Canton, O., ‘Nov, 8,-"Lovett,Fort Whiteman, a South Bend, Ind., Nov. 7, Wm, J. White, Workers’, Hous St, Paul, Mifin., Max Bedacht, Nov 6, ‘ it Minneapolis, ‘Mihn, Max Dedacht, Finnish Hall, Noy,.7, 1p. m, Duluth, Nov, 7, 8 p. m., Bedacht. Superior, Wis, ‘Noy. 8, 8 p. m., Bedacht, Kenosha, Wis., Noc. 7, 3 p. m., Ger- man American.Home, A, Bittelman. South Chicago, Nov, 7, 8 p, m., 9616 Comm Ave™ Milwaukee, Wis., Noy, 7, 8 p, m., Bittelman, . ,% Springfield, 1, ¥.W. Johnstone. Waukegan, Ill, Nov. 6, Harrison George. “ New Orleans Strike of Boilermakers Still Going; Bosses Weaken NEW ORLEANS, Nov, 1.—(FP)— The boilermakers!, strike is still un- settled and at the present time it looks as if the @mploying- interests are weakening, P.=8, Dubus, repre- senting a dozen or more fron found- November 6. Perth Amboy will hold a celebration on November 7, A partial list of other meetings and speakers from which word has been recelved follows; Sc But the problem is still an exceedingly difficult one, It sleast 50,000 Negroes were brought into the Aducational propaganda | strike, they are only too successful, The Negro intellectuals work hand in hand with the employers in carrying out this policy, So do the reaction- ary trade union leaders, Their policy of excluding Negroes from the unions, of barring their advance to better jobs in and of generally feeding the race prejudices of es, doveiails exactly with the aim of the employers ; of to drive the Negro worker into scabbery, This program of the employers, the strike strategist must‘relentlessly combat, At all costs the Negro workers must be united with the whites to make common cause }against the exploiters, But this can only be acconiplished by complete suppression of race antagonism, and by a loyal defense of the Negro workers’ interests, This is easier said internationalism capable of shattering all national antipa- thies and prejudices and of uniting the strikers into am/ ideological whole so far as the strike aims are concerned, * The splendid international spirit of the Lawrence, Pat. erson, Passaic, and many other strikes conducted by the left ow that the language and nationality difficulties caw be overcome, bl The strike strategist must especially understand the role of the young workers in great struggles in present-day. American industry, As stated above, they are the bridges between the American and foreign-born workers. They are destined to play a continually more important role in mass strikes. In the strikes of the Passaic textile workers and.|®P@ Suspicious of even the most sincere white union lead: the New York furriers they were the deciding factor, Ay successful strike strategy must include the sygtematie de! velopment of the youth as strike leaders, Wurres anp Biacks. The unification of the Negroes and white workers into Common struggles against their employers is an urgent task of our strike strategy, The Negro workers are a grow: ing factor in the industries. In the packing industry they are a decisive element, and they are fast becoming so in ther industries. The policy of the employers is to develop the Negroes ag a great reserve arthy of strikebreakers, give the Negroes employment in many industries and trades unless they come in as strikebreakers, them to accept the lowest wages and the most terrible work- They leave no stone unturned to exploit the decp race antagonism between whites and blacks ditions. force the Negro to seab. And strikes, such as for example the 1919 steel strike, where F \ ties {involved officially attended a meeting of the unfonm and renewed the offer of 80 cents an hour for boiler- makers and 48 cents an hour for helpers. The union turned down tho proposition by a vote of 52 to indus essly eliminated | the rei 7 than done, They refuse to They force in many tied 10,000 tons of “scab” coal from} insuperable ¢bstacle. SLL MORE OPERATORS PAY UNION RATE IN CENTRAL PA. By ART SHIELDS, Federated Press. CLEARFIELD, Pa., Oct. 31.—Defeat of Peabody Coal Co. and the Erie Rail- road by the central Pennsylvania min- ers has put open-shop operators on the defensive. The Shawmut Mining Co., a neighboring concern with 600 work- ers, has: posted notices that the union scale will hereafter be paid—a raise of 331-3 per cent over the 1917 scale. This company, unlike the Peabody, withholds union recognition in favor of a company union, but United Mine Workers’ organizers are pressing on it hard and expect to haye it in the fold soon. One of its four mines has been on strike since it broke its contract months ago, More Operators Hard Pressed. Another company embarrassed by the union drive that'President Brophy has initiated is the Allegh&ny River Mining Co., with a thousand employes. It devoted’ much of the last issue of |its bi-weekly employes’, paper to an attack on the union, But it cannot explain to the men why the Jackson- ville scale—that it has attacked since it broke its contract—is so easily ‘paid by the Delaware, Lackawanna & West- ern, which reopened its mines with 700 employes near by on the river a week ago. And so many of its men have quit recently that it is taking men off im- migrant ships. Forty-two such immi- grants were brought in from Ellis Island in the last few days. Union Stronger. Practically all revival of mining op- erations in the district now aye under the union seale. Five to six thousand men are back at work in reopened mines. This revival has strengthened the union for its drive into non-union territories in the district. As men go off the relief lists and begin paying dues the result is obvious, Regrets Lack of Control. President Brophy realizes that the revival is temporary, and follows the withdrawing of West Virginia compe- tition into the export channels created by the British strike. He regrets that affairs over which his district has no control bring work to the American miner at the expense of his British brother, The fact within his control is. that union wages be paid for all work done in central Pennsylvania and he is having unexpected success at that. Big Bankers and Big Business Celebrate Prosperity Claims Dwight W. Morrow of J.P: Morgan and company’s bank, speaking at the University of Chicago, declared that before the end of next year he ex- pected the restoration of gold stan- dards in both France and Italy, At a ‘banquet in the Palmer Hbuse, George M, Reynolds of the Continental and Commercial National bank, said he used to oppose loans to Europe when he thought they would not be used for “constructive purposes,” He thought there had been a change and how supported loans, Edward 8, Jordan, president of the Jordan Motor company, at the Uni- versity of Chicago meeting, declared: “I think that the most impressive fact in the last year’s experience in business is the fact that the industry shipped over 700,000 automobiles to foreign countries,” i The whites are stubborn in their prejudices, and it is /not surprising that, after innumerable betrayals by reac- tionary trade union leaders and in view of the oppression they suffer from the whites on all sides, the Negro workers ers and slow to hearken to their words. But this is no More, and more the Negroe workers peare realizing the necessity for trade union organization, The formation recently of the Brotherhood of Railway Port. Jers is only one sign of many. Negroes are splendid strikers, as has been demonstrated time and again in the Miners’ and other unions where the whites have given them half a chance to function as unionists. The problem of uniting them firmly with the white workers will never be accomplished until they are admitted freely to,all the unions, until the organized white workers remove every bar against their securing the better grades of work, until they are whole-heartedly ‘received by the white workers as loyal proletarian comrades in the grea) struggle for working class emancipation. tegist must never lose sight of the problem of the Negro’| worker in American industry, "i Unemproyen ann Ih orRp. y The question of the unity of the with the em- BAY STL ee } The strike stra- (Continued from page: 1) contact‘on Mr. Nordby's part with the educational activities of the co-oper- atives all thru the states of Minnesota, V: 8, ALANNE, executive secretary * of the Northern States League (and formerly educational director of the Co-operative Central Wxéhange, later of the Franklin. Co-operative Creamery’ Association) is. the best known co-operator in the North Cen- tral territory. For five or six years he has been constantly in touch with various groups of co-operative so0- cieties, as his work took him from one central organization tg another. A..™ WARINNER, educational * director of the Central States Co-operative League; has a background of co-operative experience as varied: and as interesting as -that-of Alanne, He served as manager of several stores in Missouri, New Mexico and Kansas; then went With the Central States Co-operative Wholesale Society in 1922; arid when the. Central States League finally supplanted the Whole- slae, became the,executive of that/ He will be one of the most active men on the floor of the congress, Albert S. Goss, president. of the Washington State Grange, is one of the very. soundest. practical economists im the agricultural field today. He ad- dresses the congress on “Relation of Consumers’ Co-operation to Co-opera- tive Marketing.” SKEL RONN is (like all of the} men above. mentioned). also a member of the board of directors of the Co-operative League. But he is probably better known to the man- {agers and directors: of .a hundred stores in the North Central territory as the hustling and relentless manager of the Co-operative Central (Whole sale) Exchange of Superior, Wis, Since Mr, Ronn took this ‘manager- ship, annual sales have increased‘from a figure of about $200,000 to ‘approx- imately $1,000,000 in 1926. ‘There is no co-operative store in the northern parts of those three or four “states which has not heard often the voice of Mr. Ronn, urging them to loyalty to the co-operative wholesale.: He speaks at. the congress on the sub- ject of “Credit in the Co-operative Stare Movement. (NOLONBL SMITH W. BROOK- HART, who addresses the dele gates on Co-operative Banking, fs well known thrueut the country, thanks to the press, as the mflitant senator from Iowa. But (and again we can blame the capitalist press) he 1s not 60 well known as a thoro-going co-operator and one who {fs not only one of the country’s first experts on co-operative banking, ‘but equally well versed in the history and theory of othér phases of ‘he co-operative movement, eee of the best known speakers from the labor fleld are John F, MocNameé, editor of the ‘magazine ‘of the “Brotherheod of Locomotive Wn- ginemen and Firemen; A, A, Siegler of the labor movement of Duluth, and George Halonen, now educational director of the Co-operative Central Exchange of Wiscensin, These men will take the lead in the session where the delegates discuss “The Relation of Consumers’ Co-operation to the Gen: eral Tabor Movement.” -V, NURMI and W, W, Regli are * two of thé chief accountants for consumers’ co-operatives, The former has been héad accountant and auditor for the Central Exchange stores’ for eight years, and he is in no small measure responsible for the fact that there are practically no failures: among these stores during the past. two or Fifth Co-operation Congress Meets | i three years. Mr. Regli is the younger! | accountant who has worked’ from the\) national office in New York for the past year, chiefly as auditor for co- Operatives in the Hast. ILO RENO, president, and A. EB. Cotterill, secretary of the Farm- ers’ Union of Iowa, are going to be very, much on the job on Friday the 5th, when Co-operative Insurance is discussed (in the agternoon) and Oo- operative Marketing is presented (in the evenihg). The fact that Iowa has@ most successful farmers’ life insurance mutual gives Mr. Reno the right to speak authoritatively on that subject. OY R, BERGENGREN, who speaks during the session on Co-operative Banking, is the national secretary of the Credit Union Extension Bureau, offices in Boston. Mr, Bergengren, more than any other one man in the field, is responsible for the new credit union laws now on the stacace books of 25 of the states in the Union. Hy office also-maintains a clearing hous: for information in all phases of credit union work. if DRY SENATOR IN ILLINOIS HIT AS CRAFT GATHERER Thy, plea, of Lowell B. Mason, dry, state senator from Oak Park, that the goverment reveal its evidence against him on a charge of conspiracy to violate the prohibition law before his fight for re-election is decided Tuesday, was granted in federal court. Mason and Major Percy Owen, one- time prohibition administrator of the Chicago district, are-on trial together, Taxed $300 Each, Stone testified that his first connec- tion with the alleged conspiracy was made in 1924 when Frank Loveland, a wine dealer whose name has been brought into the trial repeatedly, com- plained to him that dealers were being taxed $300 for each permit on the pre- tense that the money was to be used for . political purposes, Loveland, Stone said, was willing to do that, but had been disturbed by a demand for $5,000 in a lump sum, “T'advised him to quit paying out his money and told him I thought I could get permits for him in a legal way at a cost of not more than 3 cents a gallon,” Stone continued. ‘The Grafters Agree, “Not long after that Senator Mason came to my oflice, asked me what con- nection I had with the prohibition of- fice and what my practice was, Tao upshot of our conversation was an agreement that I should look after the legal end of things while Mason used his political influence to gain entree to the prohibition office,” Stone said that he then interviewed wine dealers he knew and arranged with them to get permits at $300 each, the dealers to get the first shipment before they paid anything, Dividing Up. “The first time I went to Mason's office to divide up I carried $3,000,” the former administrator went on. “Mason had told me that I should not . pay anything out myself, but that we! would divide it ourselves. Pay day was to be every Wednesday, and I was to get $50 as my share of each $300 paid. The latter two are former prohibi- tion agents who also are under indict- ment in the alleged conspiracy, ! a t mills during the | ployed, espectally during periods of deep industrial depres- sion, is a matter of the most vital consequence in the work- employers in this respect te make the unemployed ing out of a successful strike strategy, The policy of the is simple and brutal. They try to drive a wedge between the unemployed and the employed, a hunger-driven mass ready to take the jobs of the employed when they venture to strike in defense of their standards of living. As usual, the reactionary trade union leaders, with their traditional policy of sabandoning the unemployed to unemployed, ft must be identify the interests of number of unemployed, for the unemployed, And and mass unemployment he organized to fight for tions of the unemployed, Raaaonaesat ii their own devices, assist the employers in using them as weapon against the employed wor! been lost from this cause. A task of the strike stra and the employed in a common fight against the employers. But as in the case of so many problems of strike strategy, work on the solution of this task must be started long before | the ontbreak of, a partictilar strike, and even before the development of the industrial crisis, with its vast army of Many a strike has st is to nnite the unemployed a settled policy in the unions to the employed with those of the unemployed, -.There must be a whole series of measures fought for, such as the shorter work-day and work-week, equal division’ of work, ete., which tends to eliminate the The unions must never drop the fight for state relief when the industrial crisis comes develops, the unemployed must relief, Their organization must be saturated with a no-scab ideology, The trade unions must stay in the closest co-gperation with these organiza- ~ joining in their demonstrations and fighting for their demands. _ In Great Britain. it has been demonstrated how, by the se of this policy, the fight of the unemployed can be linked p with that of the employed, the army of unemployed made “blackleg proof,” and the employers. thus robbed of this ‘great weapon’in the class struggle: American strike stra tegisis must not neglect to learn this valuable lesson, Bo iieactigng ‘be continued)” —<