The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 11, 1926, Page 6

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LOUIS ENGDAHL | “wattors WILLIAM F, DUNNE MORITZ J, LOEB... -setemeeeee Business Manager PoE ER este cee ees esa aL Wntered as second-class mail September 21, 1923, at the post-office at Chi cago, Ili., under the act of March’3, 1879. <p> 290 Advertising rates on application, - cn ° . ° pe ° The Critical Situation in the British Coal Strike The struggle of the British miners has entered a critical phase. | So critical is the situation that the miners’ executive ‘has had to postpone the scheduled meeting of the Anglo-Russian miners’ union meeting in Berlin and remain in Britain to take up the negotiations with the mine owners and their government. The struggle now, in the light of the basis‘for the*negotiations laid down by the government, appears directly as’a fight for life of the miners” union. The government is pressing for district settlement. thinly camouflaged as a national settlement with provisions for district | agreements. Acceptance of ‘these proposals by the miners” officials means practically complete surrender and a terrible blow to the whole labor movement. ; Time and again the striking miners, in spite of moresthan six months of semi-starvation and the intimidaton practiced by all gov- ernment agencies, in spite of the desertion of the miners by the leadership of the Trades Union Congress, the failure of the labor movement to support the strike by an embargo on , coal and the scanty relief coming from all quarters except the trade unions of Soviet Russia whose generous donations have alleviated the misery in the coal fields, have voted against district settlements. Will the miners’ executive disregard the emphatic mandate from the membership and yield to the government proposals? Will the leadership of the Miners’ Federation of Great Britain pay more attention to the pressure for an immediate settlement on almost any terms from the officialdom of the Trades Union Congress than they will to the splendidly indomitable spirit of the rank and file of the strikers? These are the questions which every militant worker will be asking as the negotiations proceed. We have the greatest hope that the miners’ leaders, now that British industry is at a standstill as a resulut of the great fight of the miners, will not take the backward step of district settlements no matter in what smooth guise they are put forward. One thing is certain: It.is that British labor as a whole a a most drastic test. The leaders have failed already, but from below is coming a great movement which will be steeled in the new strug- gles of whith the settlement of the miners’ strike marks the begin- ning and not the end. Victory for the miners, the victory which is possible if there is no further defection from above, will give a great impetus to the new labor movement which is in the making in Great Britain. Letters From Our Readers of .the fact. It is confused, and brought to confession. “All the oil concessions have been granted by the chief executive, and therefore are ille- gal under the laws of Venezuela, and will necessarily be subject to future revision.” Indeed, they will be, Mr. Bruce. And other things will be sub- | ject to revision, so ‘drastic a change | that afterwards no hogs and no mess will remain. And on that purgative day Simon Bolivar will return to Cara- cas, to a new birth! Fraternally, Martin Feinstein, | . On Venezuela, Editor, The DAILY WORKER, Dear Comrade: In an interview se- cured recently by the New York Even- ing Enquirer, W. P. Bruce, a geologist of Boston, spills the beans. Mr, Bruce has been seeing the world, or rather that part of it which is permitted to be located in Venezuela, and what he has seen puts Mr. Bruce fearfully in the dumps. What do you suppose briags the brine to his dear eyes? Is it the sight of a martyred proletariat? Has his heart been touched by some recalcitrant ery from the shambles of | their | Mfberty, where ghosts rattle : English Secretary, | chains? Has he been moved by the The Venezuelan Labor Union. | sardonic mischief-making of those who put up innumerable monuments to Simon Bolivar and put down with iron heels the consequences of Boli- var’s passion? Was he stirred by the realization that Venezuela, thru all the days of Gomez's dictatorship, has been suffering an unending Santa Marta? No, not at all. Those things, some- how, didn’t occur to Mr. Bruce, What then? Well, it is oil that afflicts Mr. Bruce so profoundly—oil and fhe bad state of health of that humanitarian, Juan Vicente Gomez. Incredible? But here are Mr. Bruce’s own words for it: “Yes, General Gomez is failing in health, and I fear is failing fast. It is said that he has Bright’s disease, or nephritis, and you know what that ‘means. However, due credit must be given to him for the way he has de- veloped Venezuela's natural resources, especially her oil fields. What will happen. down there if he should hap- pen to pass out the future only knows. 1 rather dread to think about it, be- cause there is no one qualified at the Present time to step into hig shoes, Just how capital views the situation I am really at a Joss to understand, be- cause all the oil concessions have been granted by the chief executive him- self, and therefore are illegal under the laws of Venezuela, and will neces- sarily be subject to future revision. Here is a real problem confronting not only American capital invested there, but British as well. I really see nogh- ing but chaos ahead.” It is perhaps bad manners on our part, but what makes Mr, Bruce sad gives us uncommon joy, “The ghouls of high finance and the ofl hogs are distressed, their putrid play is under the spotlight,«and they squirm and squeal at the unwonted interruption. “Why can’t those damned scoundrels mind their own business?” they want to know. Well, we simply can't. The stench of their gluttony is too power- ful in our nostrils, Imperialistic capital in Venezuela is coming to an impasse, and it is aware , For The Children. To the Editor:—There is no doubt } that money is essential to The DAILY | WORKER at the present time. But | there is another essential which The DAILY WORKER and all other revo- | lutionist newspapers need, and that is a children’s column. Those who will fight in the coming American workers’ revolution are probably the present stock of children. It is this growing generation which must be taught. If they do not take the lead in the struggle #gainst cap- italism, it will be the fault: of the Present adult workers and Commun- ists, The best way to teach the children of the workers is thru a medium with which» they will come into ‘contact every day, and which will serve as a reaction to the rotten capitalistic teachings that aye handed out to the children in the first few grades. The present media for this work is in- adequate. Allow me to suggest for The DAILY WORKER a Children’s column in which stories that stress worker's conditions and the coming revolution will be written in such a vein as to be understood by the child ten or twelve years of age. It. would not be a bad idea to have the children themselves contribute to this column. Hoping that you react to this sugges- tion favorably, I remain, William Albertson, Pittsburgh, A Comic Strip? Dear Editor:—We read The DAILY WORKER and find it very interesting, but we think that it would be more interesting to us and others if there would be a weekly comic in The DAILY WORKER. For example: a poor little girl whose father is_a worker in a factory and how he strikes, ete, We hope you publish this with sue. cess and without fail, ‘ From two Young Pioneers of Amer ica, Bernard Epstein, Ethel Jatfe— Chileago, tellectuals* whose ole | rare, did not at once come over to the side of the Soviet regime after the Oc- ober revolution, Those groups of in- wor® was more ely bound up with the working and peasant masses, specially the village intelligentsia, adhered sooner to the |mew order; those groups, however, who stood nearer the old ozarist re- gime or the order established by the bourgeois provisional government, resisted the Soviet regime during al- most a whole year, either actively (by means of boycott and sabotage), or ssively (striking on the fob). The particularly irreconcilable section »of the intellectuals—the active woP?kers of the anti-Soviet parties—emigrated abroad. Now Support Socialist State. T can now ‘be quite definitely as- serted that not a single intellectual profession has remained, the workers of which have not recognized the So- viet regime, exception being extremely Not a single congr of pro- fessional workers takes place (teach- ers, doctors, engineers, agronomists, ete.) at ‘which there are not resolu-| tions in which the participants express | | their+readiness to devote all th strength and knowledge to the cause of the new socialist construction. The difficult years experienced by our country during the period of war, blockade and famine was naturally re- flected in the position of the intel- lectuals. During those times the life of the rural intelligentsia was rela- tively easier, as the village workers (doctors, teachers, agronomists) were nearer to the food stocks than the town workers.’ Therefore in those days the task of the Soviet regime was to give main support to the town workers and specially the most highly qualified scientific forces. In the towns special rations were instituted, 1 little more nutritive than those of the ordinary population, for doctors, engineers and technicians and for {those serving in Soviet institutions. But particular care was taken to im- prove the position of scientific work- ers. i 1921, on the initiative of V. I. Lenin, a commission was formed for improving the life of scientists. The members of this contmission were: M. Gorky,,Khalakoy (Food Commis- sariat), Semashko (Commissar of health), Pokrovsky (education com- missariat) and the late Prof. Karpov (supreme economic council), At the time of formation the tasks of this sommission included: alleviating the material position of scientists (supply Intellectual Commission, HE DAILY WORKER AT FIRST OPPOSED THE REVOLUTION—THE LENIN COMMISSION TO CAR PROVED—THE SCIENTIFIC accommodation (right to supplemen- tary floor space, reductions in rent, prohibition of evictions, etc.). The commission has a free legal consulta- tion for scientists, The central commission has paid special attention to the position of in- valid and aged sdientists. For in- valids, beside the sual institutions, special-rest “homes*have been organ- ized near Moscow, Leningrad and in certain other places, and also sana- toria in the Crimea (the former Gas- pra) and in the Caucasus. A total number of 5,000 -scientists undergo jcures every year im the rest homes and sanatoria of the commission. Two hostels have been instituted for aged scientists—one -in Moscow and the other in Leningrad,” For scientists arriving in Moscow jon scientific missions a special ho8tel has been organized where they may get complete board for a modest price. Scientists’ Houses. 0’, extreme interest are the “scien- 1 tists’ houses” in Moscow, Lenin- grad, Kharkoff and many other uni- versity towns. In these houses \clubs are organized and there are extensive libraries and reading rooms. At the yearly meetings reports are given on | | —THEIR MATERIAL CONDITIONS . General view of the Academy of Science of the U. E FOR INTELLECTUALS IM- MOBILIZATION OF RESOURCES By N. SEMASHKO, Commissar of Health in the Soviet Union. various scientific themes, and con- certs, readings of compositions, eve ings, etc. given, The scientis houses are centers where the scientific workers of ‘various specialties come into contact with those of other pro- fessions and thus diminish the one- sidedness of their own specialty. These scientists’ houses conduct ex- tensive cultural-educational work amongst the toiling population: the scientists give lectures in workers’ clubs, and broadcast lectures by radio, ete, i Thus up to the present the Soviet regime is continuing to display spe- cial care towards the scientific work- ers in the U. S. S. R., alleviating their material and spiritial position. | | Wages Rise. [AA ONG with the economic and cul | tural revival of the country an improvement in the position-of the in- |tellectuals is also to be noticed. Wages in all professions, without ex- ception, are rising. There is a rapid growth in the cultural demands of the population and consequently also in labor. the * demand for intellectual There are very few countrie; where else in the world where S. S, R, at Leningrad. R' The Intellectuals and the mevic! Union | ‘course, the conditions of lite and work tific work has proceeded so inten- sively in all fields as in the U; S$. S. R. During the last few years the Soviet regime has been paying special atten- tion to rural workers, Their position, both in a cultural and material re- spect, is, of course, worse than that of,the towns. The economic’and cul- tural revival of the countryside has demanded that particular attention be paid to the rural intelligentsia. A number of measures have been taken in this direction, First of all, the salaries of” village doctors, agronomists and teachers have been raised. Further, in order to keep these salaries from dropping below a certain minimum, a system of state subsidiaries to the local budget has been established, i. e., the state has participated in the expendi- ture on salaries for those workers on condition that the remaining part was paid by the local budget, not below a minimum established by the state. Material Conditions Improve, ATERIAL conditions of service are assured by special decrees (supply of accommodation with light- ing and heating, traveling expenses) ; privileges .arey given for the children of these workers (for entering schools md higher “scholastic institutions), wile periodical rises are given for ‘ong service; there is also periodical sranting of leave for these intellectual vorkers to perfect their knowledge; nally’ social ingurance in case of loss of labor capacity, ete. Thanks “to these measures, the vil- ages are afforded greater possibilities xt obtaining the development of in- tellectual forces they need. ft hes Soviet intellectuals are growing up in closer and closer unity with the toiling masses of the U. S. S. R. This process of unity is proceeding all the more rapidly as new cadres of in- tellectuals are coming from the ranks of the workers and peasants them- selves. The workers and peasants of the U. 8. S. R. are flooding more and more not only into the. schools but also into the higher colleges. Of of the Soviet intelligentsia are still far from being ideal. But they know that the improvement of these conditions depends ‘upon the successes of fur- ther construction. Therefore they have bound up their cause with that of the workers and peasants of the U. SS. R. The Soviet intellectuals are becoming more and more flesh of the flesh and blood of the blood of the workers and peasants. In the U. S. S. R. the great dream of Lassalle of the unification of science and labor is being realized. of clothing, footwear, and also in- creased rations, fairly high for those days), as well as improving the living -onditions of the scientists (defense of their housing rights, reductions ang privileges in accommodation, supply of articles for scientific work, ete.). Besides this the central commission for improving the life of scientists gave every scientist a supplementary monetary grant in addition to his sal- ary; the dimensions of this monetary grant depended upon the qualifications of the scientists, It is generally recognized that this commission rendered invaluable ser- vices to the scientists during those difficult years. It will remain a his- toric fact that the workers’ and: peas- ants’ regime, at a moment when the population was starving, displayed ex- ceptional solicitude in respect to the scientists; the workers and peasants, tho themselves starving, paid special attention to the material and spiritual needs of scientific workers. After Civil War, HEN the civil war came to an end and the economic and cultural life of the country began to revive, the central commission for improving the position of scientists was not dis- solved. It still functions ’to this very day, having changed, of course, the methods of its work in accordance with the changed conditions. The direct supply of food and cloth- ing naturally stopped; but activity in erving the material and mental needs of the scientists were brought to the forefront, Mobilize Mental Resource: A hess this purpose the commission had, above all, to commence inves- ligating the existing scientific forces in the U. S. 8. R. A special qualifica- tion commission was formed from among the most prominent specialists in various branches of learning, which examined the personal qualifications ot every scientific worker and dis- tributed them according to categories; first two categories, scientific begin- ners; third category, professors and teachers of the usual kind; fourth cat- egory, scientific specialists and teach- ers who have already formed their own School and become prominent by their scientific work; and finally, the fifth’ category, scientists having world fame, The central commission has performed tremendous services in that it has made known and established an accurate list of the qualifications of all scientific forces of which the U. 8. S. R, disposes. In accordance ;with the qualification, scientists continued © receive supplementary monetary ‘rants, The commission also grants lief for illnesses, accidents, ete., oth to the scientists themselves and » the members of their families, Pi Helpful Lawe, pee commission has got a number of law® paged tending to improve 1 positionfwlentists In respect to + ‘ Aivntintete New Translation of 18th Brumaire By ALEXANDER TRACHTENBERG A new translation of the great clas- sic The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, which willheatten all Eng- lish speaking Marxisig, has just been issued by the Interfigtjonal Publish- ers, New York. ad has long been wanted a new and careful translation of this famous cS saw first light in the United St in. 1852. Joseph Weydeme; a personal friend of Karl Marx, Who participated in the German revol in of 1848 and emigrated to Ameri later, published th’ historical writing azine “Die Revolutionf®, It wasn’t un- til 1869 that the book Was republished in Germany, and since then it has original language and has been trans- lated in many other languages. the translations, including previously available English translations, were made from the published German edi- tions, and Cedar Paul, hag been compared with the original text of the 1852 American edition of The Eighteenth Brumaire, which is available at the Marx-Engels Institut In fact, the Institute is in possession of photo- ‘stats of a copy of the manuscript of “The Eighteenth Brimaire,” which is now in. the Sorge collection at the New York library, and from which Weydemeyer published the original edition of the book ip German. Introduetionsby Marx. Besides the text of The Eighteenth Brumaire,” the edition just brought out by the ,International Publishers contains Karl Marx's introduction to the first German edition of 1869 and Engels’ preface to the Third German edition in 1885. Following the text Eden and Cedar Pail have appended a chronological tabléof events of the important periods of'the French revo- lutionary history from the great French Revolution of'1789 down to the Paris Commune of 1871. A tremen- dously valuable addition is a Glossary of terms, events, ete, used by Max in his book, Eden and Cedar Paul explain every important item which is uot generally known thereby help- ing the reader to thoroughly appreci- ate Marx’s argument, The Glossary also.includés biographical and other notes about important characters men- tioned by Marx. He Revised it, The appendix to the book gives sev: eral paragrabhs which were omitted by Marx’from the first European edi- “ion of the book, arx re-read the book as it was hed in America, before the Ham blishers put | gone through several editions in the | All | The present translation, made [# by the well-known translators, Eden, into print, and found that some of the statements made were not applicable any longer. The present edition has therefore. these portions of a book which are not available in any of the later editions of the book. The book also contains an index. i “The Eighteenth Brumaire,” consid- ered one of the most brilliant mono- graphs penned by Marx, and which Engels declared to be “the work of a genius,” should be in the library of every Marxian student. Tho written seventy-five years ago, the observa+ lions and deductions contained in the book are as true today as they were then, Only after reading Marx's an- alysis of the coup d’etat of Napoleon the Little one can understand the early background and the meaning of revolu- tions and counter-revolutions, How It Came. Eden and Cedar Paul give the fol- lowing account of how “The Bight- centh Brumaire” came to be/ published in America: “This magnificent work was com- posed under the most.amazing condi- Uons, The least of Marx’s troubles was that Weydemeyer'’s. scheme for a weekly issue of ‘Revolution’ fell thru for lack of funds, A more serious mat- ter was that Marx ws far from well, Worst of all, he was suffering trom the direst poverty, Writing on Febru- ary 27, 1852, he said: ‘For a week I have been unable to leaye the house because my coat is in pawn; and we can no longer get any meat, for the butcher has refused further credit.’ Nevertheless, he was vble to send off the last pages of the MS, on March 25, But even now, there seemed little lMkelhood that ‘The “ighteenth Brumaire’ would even be "blished, and news effect reached Marx when one had» just died, and when he was ex- tremely anxious about his wife’s health. Black, indeed, was the horizon! A few days ater, however, better news was to come from Weydemeyer, who‘ had been able to write from New York, under date of April 9, 1852: ‘Un- expected @id has at length removed the obstaclés in the way of printing your booklet. Just after I last wrote to you, I ¢hanced to meet one of our Frankfort Workers, a tailor by trade, who, like myself, crossed the Atlantic last summer. When I told him of my straits, ié! promptly placed all his sav- ings, a‘#um of $40, at my disposal.’ To this ‘unknown man (for Weyde- meyer does not even mention his name!) we owe it that “The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte” saw the light. Truly a class-conscious worker.” First in America. A great deal of original writing by Marx was first published in America. Those, however, were in the main con- tributions to the New York Tribune during the 60's, dealing with current political events in Erope. The Amer- ican revolutionary movement should take particular pride in the fact that so great a work as “The Eighteenth Srumaire,’” which’ will live as long as workers will st¥uggle for their com- plete emancipation, saw first light in America and’ that it was an Amer- can worker who gave his last savings to see it published. The Other Side— of the Question By VERA BLACKER. i Moar the bosses and the workers do have something in common hag been manifested thruout the shops and factories in Los Angeles on the day the Dempsey-Tunney bout tobk place. Pee The “haves” and the “have-nots” joined hands together and all partici- pated On equal basis in the “pots,” in some instances the workers winning from the bosses. Such a strong “good will towards all mankind” pre- vailed that the bosses actually tol- erated workers’ slacking on the job and full freedom was given to talk and diseuss the fight. Now, if the workers would only not talk “organ- izing the unorganized” and advocat. ing “independent political actio: there would be no need for revolution Read the most daring exposure of Queen Marie The bloody queen , of Roumania in Saturday’s November 13th ISSUE of = The DAILY WORKER amo” CO PS ae a SI CS Mm! =| Gc Cc: is a remarkable ment just reaching us and presenting thé queen in her true character. | a A Distribute this issue far and wide in your neighborhood, shop and trade union.: RUSH your‘ order TODAY! Bundles 310 a copy. ‘Including the M Supplement with its featur ‘THE DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Blvd., CHICAGO, ILL. Enclosed §.,.. ove LOT seven ‘copies of the Nov. 13th issue, docu-,