The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 24, 1926, Page 6

cAObB 8° eee Six THE DAILY WORKER | Published by the DAILY, WORKER | PUBLISHING CO. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Ill Phone Monroe 471 1113 W, THE DAILY WORKER . Karl Marx on Fordism Marx Proves with Cold Logic ne, thousands of workers in the Ford plant CURRENT EVENTS By T. J. O'Flaherty. i Re (Continued from page 1) | By THURBER LEWIS own little more than the labor power théy Hi By mail (in Chi Suh ian Ach (outside of Chicago): ARTICLE FOUR How the Worker Is Robbed— bring with them to work every morning and leave PRBCENTEE the grand counsil'et the 7 mail (in Chicago : y Chi : pease dc ug york. Ww! r ; " : Knights of Columbus held @ ses- \ Ber Pe goer SEne eae tin’ | 9600 pet year, 080 tix monte, | RUT whaf about the workenty Bes ne sobbing?” (Pies Mets Fact of OWNER. Cisne sot ok sansa of tuk came Oar lem Clings to Corny wae $2.50 three months 2,00 three months ay about this robbery of his vitality, his : % by 5° i ie + weiandhusiilec | $2.00 ‘three to say a Maines: creat work ae ee cRermits. Henry Ford very great consequences in view of the terrific |means of expending the $1,000,000 Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, III, J, LOUIS ENGDAHL Editors | arx refers to this. Speaking thru the mouth of a worker who he means to and Other Capitalists to Control the Destinies of strain they work under and in view of the fact that six dollars is blamed little anyhow, compared with the cost of living. They are auotmatons. |ftund collected for “educational” pur {poses in Mexico. | Sood authority that the knights have It is reported on rot ea as We Ford does with them as he pleases, been smuggling arms into Mexico and 4 9 J; E : y rking- Lee ave ae ae Business Manager | pepe Mle teeta bt) Millions ‘There Is Only Why should a single individual, and that one j|there is no doubt but the Jesuits are oa s nee } “The commodity wea One Answer the Work- not a very great individual, rule the destinies of |active in Nicaragua. Those who have Entered as second-class mai] September 21, 1923, at the post~ -office at Chi- rn ais u differs ‘ the thousands of workers slaving indirectly or |read Eugene Sue’s famous novel, “The cago, Ill., under the act of March 3, 1879. ave’, gold. to yo! ers Can Give to Henry ing rates on application, Adv ert Thanksgiving in Jail The president of the United States of Morgan and company, | the governors of the various states and the mayors of all American | cities are exuding hymns of joy over the prosperity of the country | and the alleged beneficiaries of this prosperity to thank “providence” for it. ‘Needless to y the lion’s share of this coun- try’s prosperity goes to capitalism and the workers who odmprise the overwhelming majérity of the population get very little. urging from the crowd of other com- KARL MARX modities in that its use cre- ates value and a value greater than its own. J That is why you bought it. That which on your t side appears spontaneous expansion of capital, is on mine, extra expenditure of labor power. You and | know on the market only one law, that of the exchange of commodities. And the consumption of the commodity belongs not to the seller who parts with it but to the buyer who acquires it. To you therefore belongs the use of my daily labor power. But by means of the price you" pay for it each day, | must be able to reproduce it daily and sell it again. and His Pals. dependent on the Ford industries? The Ford in- dustries, like other great industries, have ceased long since to become Ford’s. They have become part of society. Their management is only in a small way directed by Henry Ford or his son, the two owners, It is far too large and complicated. The Ford plants are run by a system adminis- tered by a huge body of bosses and flinctionaries that are but cogs in a machine like the six dollar a day worker, Every one of the thousands of workers in the Ford plant are indispensable to the machine. Henry and his son could die or be gone for many years and the plants would go on just the same. But if a‘ plague struck Detroit | Wandering Jew,” idea of the way in which the political | section of the Roman church works. will have a good a ok o® HE United States is out frankly to gobble up South America, Mexico is trying to organize a Latin American | nationalist bloc | Therefore our | termined that Mexico must be crushed against Wall Street. imperialists have de- and it is only a question of time when bayonets will take the place of notes. Excuses can be manufactured with ease and a series of minor “out- | “Apart from natural exhaustion thru age, and decimated the workers, there would be a dif- | rages” will precede what will be called Now, it has come to pass that in the town of Belleville, Illinois, etc., | must on the morrdw, be able to work ferent story to tell. |the “last straw.” i rni re f ri Snamelling& Ste ing com- The Same With All Industry. se © twenty-nine employes of the Belleville Enamelling*& Stamping com with the same normal amount of force, health eS) : : 2 ie i the as sch Enamel Range company will drink their sugar-| and freshness as today. You preach to me con- T is the same with all the great industries of HHRU the influence of the catholic seer ane MOE aca —* ss EP Day. because they refused to! stantly the gospel of “Saving” and “Abstin- ae Le this land and other lands in which this system “Militia of Christ” in the Ameriean less coffiee in jail on Thanksgiving Day, because eee ‘ompanv’s| eneer” Good! 1 will, like a sensible Saving Wy..,erd arc tom) by Kare pronegandiets that it was Works. The meye OWNERSHIP and the outland- | Federation of Labor ang the fealty of recognize a court ukase against legal picketing, So the company’s! Qwner, husband my sole wealth, labor power, due to Henry's unusual ability and his, great fore: ish RIGHT to extract surplus value, both absolute {the officialdom, protestant, , catholie j 2 > yrkers.in jail while the bosses are free to gobble and abstain from all foolish waste of it. 1 will sight that made this tumbled down shack grow into and relative, gives these few industrial barons ‘and atheist to Wall Street, the A, F. judge put the worker j their gobblers and perhaps wash down the delicacy with the cup | that cheers. | Another instance of class government. By the way, do you remember a case of an employer being sent | to jail during a strike? If you do, send in the fable and we w ill pub- lish it. } A tale without a pe would be moral so we call our reader®’ | attention to the folly of the working class electing capitalist officials, | whether they be judges, mayors, governors or presidents, while they | refuse to organize a labor party, under their control whose elected | representatives would be pledged to serve the interests of labor and not those of the gapitalists? the great auto plants at Highland Park and Fordson. each day spend, set in motion, put into action, only as much of it as is compatible with Its normal duration and healthy development . What you gain in labor, | lose in substance. “The use of my labor power and spoliation of it are quite different things. If the average time that (doing a reasonable amount of work) an average laborer can live is thirty years, the value of my labor power which you pay me from day to day is one 365 times 30 or one 10950 thousandths of its total value. But if you consume it in ten years, you pay me daily one 10950 thousandths Instead of one 3650 thousandths of its total value, that is, only one- third of its daily value and you rob me, there- For them the important thing is that Ford is the OWNER of these great industrial institutions. They entirely overlook the fact that billions of hours of exhaustive labor has gone into the building of the huge Ford machine. But workers who think about it easily see that from these billions of hours of labor time that they put into production came not only the gigantic auto industry but the millions of dollars of profit that Henry now is sole master of. By what right? longer hours. When Marx made his worker speak the above lines to the capitalist he vizualized this worker as, not a slave, but a man, who, banded to- gether with other workers, puts the case up to the capitalist in cold logic and enforces his logic by the power of organization, by reason of being a and the bankers that control their finances, the privilege to amass fortunes of untold wealth, while the thousands and millions of wealth pro- ducing workers have to be satisfied with the mere necessaries of life or a little better, with no word in the direction of their destinies. They are pawns that are pushed here and there as the capitalist wills it. Henry can make them work a six day week and produce a certain amount of surplus value for Henry, or he can, if his interests require it, make the workers toil a five-day week and produce as much, or more, as they did in six. The Essence of Marxism. OW that we have drawn, with special refer- of L.-has changed its policy towards |Mexico from one of friendship to a policy of neutrality at its worst. Just as-soon as Wall Street thinks the time is ripe, it will! make Green and Woll and its other puppets in the higher counciJs of the A, F. of L. dance to the imperialist tune. s 2 8 IGHT years after the last shot was fired in the “war to end war’— the slogan of the mountebank Wood- row Wilson—the world is sitting on a voleano with war a certainty and a : 4 possibility of the near future. What a Why not make a start fore, every day of two-thirds of the value of my ™ember of a union which ied enous te ence to the Ford industries and their opera- bloody farce that crusade was? Al! % * * commodity. You pay me for one day’s labor pra conserve the lives and happiness Of tion some of the lessons that Marx taught, we ‘the imperialist powers have spent Patriotism and Religion All Yhe well-to-do and respectable religions walk arm in arm with patriotism. God and government are synonymous terms with organized superstitution. But some of the lessor and weaker cults do | not seem to be able to conform to the requirements of the capitalist | state and get into trouble. .This was the case with a group ot Jehovites in Denver, Colorado. Fifty Jehovite children. in, the public schools of Denver refused | to salute the American flag. It was against their religion, they | The school board, while believing that religion is one of the; nevertheless has little use for any brand that So it ‘nnd said. bulwarks of society, does not serve the purpose of American capitalism. things tough for the -Jehovites, The Jehovites stressed their patriotism, but insisted they could not recognize a symbol of temporal power. Because their children would not recognize the flag,the young Jehovites were barred from} whilst you use that of three days. That is against our contract andthe law of exchanges. You may be a model citizen, perhaps a member of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, and in the order of sanctity to boot; but the thing that you represent face to face with me has no heart in its breast. That which seems to throb there, is my own heart beating. 1 demand the normal working day because I, like every other seller, demand the value of my commodity.” This Applies to Ford Only Too Well, O might the Ford worker speak to Henry Ford, Insofar as Ford extracts as much and more in five days as other employers do in six, the above accusation applies every whit as much to him as it does to the “hard-boiled” boss who makes his surplus value, his profits, by working his slaves Robbing Value of the Workers. HAT’S the way that Karl Marx figured it out in 1878 ‘and earlier. It is the way that not only Ford, but; to an increasing extent, other big em- ployers of labor are getting richer and more pow- erful evety day. It is the only logical way in which the amassing of the huge Ford fortune can be explained. It is the only basis upon which the ROBBERY of the working-class can be ex- plained. For what else is it but ROBBERY? All Ford and his, family have done is to START the in- dustry and, by virtue of the nature of our society afid the, Jaws governing it, TO OWN IT and all the huge ramifications of it that have developed as thegresult of the growth and development of ‘soci at large. can conclude in no better way than by repeating the very essence of all Marx’s teachings: | “Workers of the world unite, you have’ noth- ing to lose but your chgins—you have a world to gain.” Which, in the case of the workers in the Ford industries means, unite with your fellow toilers in all the other industries in this and every other capitalist land and relieve the Fords of the burden of building up a great fortune and arbitrarily direct- ing your destinies. The Ford plants belong, not to Ford, but to society, the workers. The workers should*therefore make: it their business to rule their own destinies, set the work day and work week time for themselves, turn the rewards of surplus value to. the common good and direct their own destinies on the path of progress. “(The End.) New York Scskans | billions since 1918, slaughtering “small peoples” and robbing them of their \territory, They are now snarling at each other. Italy at France. France at England. Japan at the United States jand the United States is shaking the ‘mailed fist at the whole pack. The next war is going to be a whopper. Fatten up, patriots! Bullets like them jnice and soft. Storms Hit Spain, | MADRID, Nov. 4. — Two deaths ‘and heavy property damage were re- ported today as furious storms raged ;thruout Spain. Mahy districts were cut off from communications as tele- graph and telephone wires were blown down, The river Seguara in middie- eastern Spain had risen to twenty feet above normal, 3 Du Bois Visits the Soviet Union The following editorial by Dr. W. E. B. DuBois appeared in “The Crisis,” November, 1926. Dr, Du- Bois is head of the research department of the Na- tional Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and editor of the Crisis, its official organ. Moscow, U. S. S. R., 1926. By Dr. W. E. D. DuBois, AM writing this in Russia. I am sitting in Revo- lution Square opposite the Second House of the | Moscow Soviets, and in a hotel run by the Soviet Government. Yonder the sun pours into my window school by the school board, Hl Then the Ciyil Liberties.Union decided to make a test case of | the school board ruling. And the board gracefully surrendered. So, far the fight is a draw, But if the Jehovites refused to salute the) flag on the ground that it was a symbol of imperialism, we hate to think what would happen to them. + Religion is a splendid institution so long as it serves capitalism but when a few freaks take it seriously and owe allegiance only to some heavenly spook, there is trouble and sometimes jail for the divine worshippers. | Buy Crown Gems of Ex-Russian Royalty interpreters. They were born in Russia and speak Rnglish, French and German. This, with my Eng- lish, German and French, has helped the language difficulty, but did not, of course, solve it. ee he HAVE not done my sight seeing and investiga- ‘tion in gangs and crowds nor according to the program of the official Foreign Bureau; but have im nearly all cases gone alone with one Russian- Speaking friend. In this way I have seen schools, Nniversities, factories, stores, printing establish- ments, government offices, palaces, museums, sum- Letters from Our Readers MOSCOW, Noy. 21. — A collection of the jewels of the banished royalty has bee purchased by the New York diamond merchant, Norman Weiss, from the Soviet government, and are now on their way to New York. The amount involved in the purchase has not been made public. The money from the sales is to be “Catzofanesti” in New York, Dear Editor:—Saturday’s DAILY WORKER has just received and I read very carefully the Marie story “Cotzo- fanesti,” which reminds me of some- thing very similiar, if not worse, that took place in one of the “good places” in New York where I used to work ‘ s } . . over the domes and eagles and pointed towers of \mer colonies of children, libraries, churches, moon- used by the Soviet government to} 8 4 waiter. ‘ Paper Box Workers Fight Valiantly the Kremlin. Here is the old Chinese wall of the qsteries; boyar houses, theaters, moving-pictuil® purchase tractors, ploughs, loco-| When that happened T didn’t ia ” \ : iad “ “sz. inner city; there is the gilded glory of the Cathedral houses, day nurseries and co-operatives. I have motives, and other practical needs of | much about the “distinguished people’ The valiant struggle of the paper box workers in New York City | 2 of Christ, the Savior. Thru yonder gate on the vast Red Square, Lenin sleeps his last sleep, with long lines of people peering each day into his dead and speaking face. Around me roars a city of two mil- lions—Holy Moscow, * of our society and didn’t get them names to be able, like with “Cotzo- fanesti” to convince and prove to the readers of The DAILY WORKER, with facts, | What was presented to my eyes then is happening to other waiters’ eyes today, who, if they reveal the real story of what is taking place in these “high class places” by those distinguished guests,” surely the work- ing people would declare a revolution. And then kings, queens, Carrols with wine tubs and all the parasites will ° have to find something else to do and somewhere else to go. As long as the facts remain seeret sagen. some celebrations—self-governing children in the Russian people. a school house of an evening and 200,000 children and youths marching on Youth Day. I have talked with peasants and laborers, Commissars of the Re- public, teachers and children, offers a lesson in unionism. For years, the New York workers were bound to an organization that paraded as a union and was in fact, thru the instrument of officials who were bought off, a mere appendage of the paper box manufacturers’ associations. Tiring of Brindell- abs oe. cn eee ism, the members of the union threw out the officials who were in HAVE been in Russia something less than two LONE and unaccompanied I have walked the the pay of the companies and reorganized as.a genuine union pre- months. I did not see the Russia of war and ‘miles of streets in Leningrad, Moscow, Nijni | pared to ask for and demand concessions from the bosses. blood and rapine. I know nothing of political pris- Novgorod and Kiev at morning, noon and night; I | After the change in leadership, the bosses suddenly decided that oners, ny gine = bioy ivan paced adr bgeosa on the curb and in the stores; I Bary My knowledge of the Russian language is sketchy wate! crowds and audiences and groups. I have they could get along without a union, They declared war because a of this vast land, the largest single country on fathered some documents and Stites piled officials they could no longer dictate the policies of the workers’ organization | earth, I haye traveled ‘over two thousand miles and and teachers with questions,.sat and gazed at this thru the medium of tools within. | visited four of its largest clttes, many of its towns, Russia, that the spirit of its fe and people might é When the workers fought back, thugs were employed against : the Neva, the Dnieper, Moscow and Volga of its enter my veins, them, police violence was the order of the day and scabs were im-| rivers, and stretches of land and village. I have Tr: STAND in astonishment and wondey at the Teve- | WOFL Radio Program Chicago Federation of Labor radio broadcasting station WCFL is on the air with regular programs. It is/ broadcasting on a 491.5 wave length from the Municipal Pier. i ' TONIGHT. 6:00 p. m.—Chicago Federation of La- bor Hour; Herbert Batt State Super- visor of Vi onal Rehabilitation, Sub- ating the Civilians’ Handi- § és Page _|, looked into the faces of‘ilts races—Jews, Tartars, lation of Russia that has.come to me. I may be Vall Brovoort | concert | Trios | the wealth of the working people will Ported in large numbers. The Lage = ponagigho ss Pe ies bar| Gypsies, Caucasians, Armenians and Chinese. To partially deceived and half-informed. But if what Sia oreiealne, mae. Winite, mait: be spent by this bloody oligarchy who ers are putting up a stiff fight not only for better conditions bu | help my lack of language I have had personal ‘Ihave seen with my eyes and heard with my ears Solucio, Harry Dr Davis. | nose as “pretty” and “good” people. qi $00-cAlgto. Cate Gance Grenerieae | t for their union. | 11:30—Alamo Entertainers. friends, whom I knew before I came to Russia, as in Russia is Bolshevism, I am a Bolshevik, —G, E. K, an ex-waiter, New York. 7 ¥ YY unions. Such precipitate, disgraceful retreats the left wing yhungry. Legal and other assistance must be extended to ; saved in such disastrous situations, including remnants of STRI STR A must avoid. Tt must, when compelled to retire before su- | the militants who have been arrested during the fight; ef- | the trade unions, and of Such other bodies, political, T, U. ey WILLIAM Z FOSTER perior forces, strive to make its retreat systematic and must be made to find work for the strikers left jobless | E. L., defense, etc., that were built up before or during the y ; * organized. Thus it will be possible the sooner to renew the ‘anse of their loyalty to the strike; relief must be con- | strike, it is fundamental, in organizing the retreat, to ; ricun Xxn offensive against the employers. ued to the most needy cases. To do these things is not | maintain organized ideological contact with the defeated i ¢ $ a a | Cauuine Orr Lost Strikes ond the power of a trade union movement with 3,000,000 | strikers, : Aw Oncanizep Rerrrat | A common mistake of reactionaries, in case of a lost mbers. It was to organize our retreat that we elaborated an Military strategy would be a futile thing if it took into strike, is not to officially call off the strike. They usually For example, when the steel strike of 1919 had been enormous propaganda ‘organization after the ill-fated steel strike to keep in touch with and influence the ex-strikers. The plan was to publish ‘a weekly bulletin and distribute 150,000 copies of each issue, for which a crew of a dozen organizers were to be kept in the field stationed in the important steel centers. Money sufficient to finance the campaign for at least three years was in hand, left over from the strike fund. The plan was adopted and the campaign started. ‘But the reactionaries killed it by deliberately breaking up the committee in charge, With such a gigantie propaganda campaign in effect the steel workers would have realized that the unions had not abandoned the struggle, the fighting spark among “them would have been kept burning and, at the end of a year or two of systematic effort, eventually fanned into a great flame of revolt. (To be conitnued) Pa tgme-fretevecinientnensii insistent ACUTED WT CS STRUGLE, 3 H Vay let it drag along ‘interminably, long after it has ceased to exert real pressure against the employers. ‘The consequence is that many loyal workers, who have fought valiantly while there was even a slight ehance to win the strike, are forced back to work with the odium of seab upon them. They then are largely lost to the trade union movement. A far more intelligent course is to call off the strike officially when it is not manifestly lost, and let the frag- ments of the defeated army go back to work with honor. This was the course pursued at the end of the 1919 Steel Strike. It facilitates greatly the reorganization of the workers, It is an important detail in developing an organ- ized retreat. cially called off we kept the great commissary system going for. another three weeks to take care of the thousands of workers left hungry and workless after the strike. This simple act of solidarity (which was sneered at and opposed by conservatives) did more to endear the uniong to the immigrant workers than almost anything that had occurred in the whole strike. Another thing deeply appreciated by the defeated and vietimized strikers of the steel strike was the distribution of “Honor Cards” to all those who had remained on strike from the beginning to the end of the bitter struggle. The distribution of these cards after the strike was made thé occasion of great, enthnsiastic mass meetings, which were held in spite of the Steel Trust’s terrorism, MAINTAINING A Base Besides saving whatever organization there is to be REVOLUTIONARY SHANGHAI”! GET cane - cM fi consideration only the factor of vietory. It must also con- template the policies tu be followed if defeat occurs. And so it is with strike strategy. Lenin said? “You must know how to retreat. It is necessary to understand, and the revolutionary class learns to understand through its own bitter experience, that we rannot have victory without knowing how to advance and how to retreat carefully.” i } { 4 i i When the unions are heavily defeated and broken up by the employers in an industry as often happens, the con- servative labor leaders commonly abandon the field to a hopeless rout. They leave to their fate the workers who have loyally supported thé strike, with the ultimate disas- trous effect of alienating ‘these workera completely from the t ’ Carine For tue Wounpep , In cases of lost strikes a first duty is to take care of the wounded, that is, the jailed, the blacklisted, and the Ls Seana - Ah /