The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 28, 1926, Page 4

* Ex Page Four F ae THE DAILY WORKER Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 1113 W, Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ml. Phone Monroe 4712 IPTION RATES By mail (outslde of Chicago): $6.00 per vear $3.50 six months $2.00 three months 1 SUBS By mail (in Chicago only): $8.00 per year $4.50 six months 0 three months ——_— Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, J. LOUIS ENG WILLIAM F. DUNNE { BERT MILLER ditors Business Manager post-office at Chf the Entered as second-c s mail September 21, 192: cago, Ill, under the act of March 1 ‘Advertis tes on application, <> 290 . . Two Opium Joints Thirty-one years ago a child of American wealth was sold to a British duke and the sale age ritual in an episcopalian church. The girl was a Vanderbilt and the duke was a Marlborough. She was rich but titleless. He was poor but honorable. Years passed and ardor cooled. The duke was growing old faster than the Vanderbilt. The latter cast covetous eyes on a person with a name like cough medicine. He was a catholic. She married him after going thru formalities not recognized by the pope, but necessary if one does not care to get pinched. Hankering for vectability, the Vanderbilt girl wanted to have her history fumigated so she sought papal sanction for her burst with Marlborough, and the pope in a fit of generosity did the right thing by the little Vanderbilt. Hence the uproar. Episcopalian bishops are howling. What right has the pope to step in on their territory? In Chicago, when one bootlegger invades another’s preserves the rattle of machine-gun tire fs heard and dead bodies litter the highways. But churchmen are | a little less deadly in their technique. They simply page the devil) and advise him to get his toasting irons ready. An episcopal clergyman married a Vanderbilt to a Marlborough. What a nerve the pope must have to undo it, on the ground that methods not sanctioned by the declaration of independence were used in the transaction? Tt seems to us that the vatican is not acting regularly. Business is business. The pope should have consulted the episcopal church prior to the annullment decision and suggest that whatever commis- sion was drawn out of the proceedings could be shared between the leaders of the two opium joints. as solemnized by a ma It Was a Nice Meal If there is nothing wrong with the digestive organs of the Kuhn, Loeb and company banking firm, the gobbling of the Chicago, Mil- waukee and St. Paul Railroad by this aggregation of money sharks | for one-fifth the value of the road should prove to be the cheapest | meal those boys ever parked in their innards. What a jolly old squeezing the “little fellows” got? Is it sur-| prising that Mr. Kuhn could afford to patronize art when he can} grab a few th several hundre and hardy Americans by the throat, and shake million dollars out of their jeans? Federal Judge Wilkerson approves the steal, the skids will for another killing. New stock will be issued and a new crop of suckers rounded up, only to be cleaned later on when Kuhn takes it into his head to either finance a little war or put a couple of divas on his payroll. It’s a great system, fellow workers, for those who have learned to live on the labor of others and who have learned the knack of robbing those who are vainly trying to live without producing. It is perfectly moral and not wicked or unethical like socialism, under which such highwaymen would be stood up against the nearest wall and turned into a bullet warehouse. Terror in Italy News dispatches from Italy tell us that thousands of antifascists have been arrested and jailed since the last fake attempt on Musso- lini’s life. Others are condemned to live in certain prescribed areas, perhaps because of lack of jail space. This news shows that the fascist government is sitting on a tack. A stable regime would not have to resort to such extreme measures. Tn Russia where the government is based on the interests of the work- ers and peasants there is no necessity for coersion. The masses feel that the government is theirs and that they have the right to in- fluence its policy. In Italy the masses have no such right. They are completely at the mercy of the fascist tyrants and can only express their views at the risk of their lives. The capitalist press has sung the praises of fascism deliberately and with malice aforethought, as the lawyers say. They have told us that Italy was prospering under black shirt rule. The people were contended. Businéss was booming. But the stories of rioting and terrorism do not jibe with the fas- cist propaganda. Happy and contented people do not revolt. It is quite evident that the fascist regime is tottering. Mussolini’s eloquence is a poor substitute for bread, butter and spaghetti. Because the name sounded too much like breakfast food, Mary Landon Baker, much advertised matrimonial impossibility, left Jugo- Slavia and a possible husband by the name of Pouritch, Mary is a nice girl and so are the American wage slaves who get up at six in the morning and toil until five or six in the evening so that Mary ean have the wherewithall to enjoy herself kidding European bachelors. Thanksgiving is over and we are duly thankful that the queen of Roumania is gone. But coming to think it over, the worst is yet upon us. There is the Salvation Army Christmas dinner advertising. SKVIRSKY, OF RUSSIAN INFORMATION BUREAU, EULOGIZES LEONID KRASSIN (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, Nov. 26.—Boris Skvirsky, head of the Russian Informa- tlon Bureau here, has issued the following statement on the death of Leonid Krassin, at London, Nov, 23: “Krassin’s death will be deeply felt, both Personally and In a professiona} sense, by his associates. He served thru the revolution and. was a valuable Personality in the Soviet government from the beginning. He filled various high diplomatic posts with honor and distinction, and invariably won the regard and respect of foreign diplomats with whom he came In contact in various negotiations. “Death has taken a heavy toll of the Soviet leaders who served thru the lean and dangerous years. Krassin, like Djerzhineky, dled after a long Period of Impaired health, Fortunately, as | recently observed In Moscow, a capable younger generation is springing up, Including many young men and women prepared for high administrative and diplomatio posta” | } ELT ARUN A EN , Many Opportunities for Building ¢ By C. E, RUTHENBERG General Secretary, Workers (Communist) Party Hditor’s Note: This is the filst of a series of articles by Comrade Ruthenberg on the resolutions and discussions of the recent meeting of the central committee of the Work ers (Communist) Party, , fe NHE main discussion of the meeting of the central committee of the Workers (Communist) ' Party held November 10th, 11th and 12th was on the question of the opportunities for developing the revolutionary workers’ movement and building the Workers (Communist)” Party in the present period of American imperialist domi- nation of the world, The central committee squarely faced the question whether there was any basis in the existing situation for pessimism in regard to the possibili- ties of progress in drawing the Amer- ican workers into a militant class struggle against the capitalists and in the process of that struggle building the revolutionary movement and our party as the leader of that movement, eee Nerd pessimism has manifested it- self in the ranks of our party, re- flecting a similar state of mind in the ranks of workers, The question which the central committee set itself to answer was, whether there is an j}actual basis for this pessimism in the developments of American capitalism and the reaction of the workers to this development. The answer which the central com- mittee gave to this question in its re- solution was an emphatic “No.” In giving this answer it did not hide from itself or from the party the actual conditions which exist. It frankly acknowledged the fact that the organized labor movement in this country has been steadily moving to the right during the last four yedrs and considered the developments of the capitalist system which is the basis of this movement. American imperialism is today the dominant factor in the capitalist Fs; THE DAILY plexes world, American capitalism has enormously strengthened itself thru the favorable position it won as 4 result of the war. The forces of dis- integration and decay which are at work in the capitalist system in the European countries have left Amer ican capitalism untouched, except in- sofar as the general weakness of world capitalism Is a potential danger to American capitallsm, While the power of production of European capitalism has been weak- ened, American capitalism has greatly increased its productive capacity. The enormous profits which the American capitalists made during the period of the war and since have created a re- servoir of new capital which it is infesting throughout the world thus drawing imperialist profits from every quarter of the globe, The great profits of American im- perialism have enabled the American capitalists to make concessions in the form of higher wages to sections of the working class. The skilled, organ- ized workers have obtained these con- cessions, giving them a higher stand- ard of life. It is these workers who comprise the bulk of the organized labor movement and who furnish the leadership of the organized labor movement in this country. It is be- cawpe these skilled, organized workers are sharing to a degree in the imper- ialist profits of American capitalism that we find a steady movement to the right, toward collaboration with and support of capitalism and away from a militant class struggle among them, : see The Maes of Proletarian Workers LE thus, in its estimate of the situation, the central committee frankly admitted that a section of*the American workers were moving away from the militant class struggle against capitalism, these workers com- prise only a small section of the work- ing class. If we accept the estimate of 25,000,000 workers as composing the workers employed in the indus- tries of this country, we have at best approximately 5,000,000 organized workers, and not all of these even 4 | | have profited thru the crumbs which American imperialism grants them. There remain beside these 5,000,000 workers some 20,000,000 unorganized, semi-skilled and unskilled workers employed in the great machine in- dustry of this country who in place of sharing in the profits of American imperialism, are highly exploited and oppressed by American capitalism, The figures in regard to production, wage movements and the cost of liv- ing in this country paint a graphic picture of the lot of these workers. According to the figures of the Na- | tional Industrial Council the produc- tivity per worker in American indus- tries has increased 43 per cent in the years from 1919 to 1925, On the average the American capitalists are securing 43 per cent more of products from every worker employed in our industries, / For the same period statistics of the department of labor show a decrease of 9 per cent in the wages of the workers ag a whole and a decrease of 11 per cent in fhe cost of living. Thus the workers as 4 whole made a slight gain in their real wages, There {s included in this, however, the gains of the skilled, organized workers, and if this is eliminated this period shows an actual reduction in wages for the great mass, of unorganized workers in the great machine industry of this country. These unorganized workers in the great machine industry are not sharing in the profits of American im- perialism. The levelling process between the wages of the skilled, organized work- ers and the unskilled, unorganized workers, which developed during the war has been reversed. The gulf be- tween these two groups of workers is again widening. The highly exploited unskilled and semi-skilled workers, who are not sharing in the? conces- sions of American imperialism are not content. They are not moving to the right away from the class strug- gle, see ASSAIC stands as a striking ex- ample of the lot of these workers. The fact that the 16,000 Passaic work- Workers (Communist) Party | District No. 4 Organizer Tells How Daily Worker Campaign Is Conducted Following is a letter from Comrade Herbert Benjamin, organizer of Dist. No, 4, who tells how he is conducting he drive to Keep The DAILY WORK- WR. The letter will undoubtedly con- tain suggestions for other districts. The suggestions are valuable for other districts: Dear Comrade:—I -have yours of recent date inquiring as to the man- ner in which we have conducted The DAILY WORKER campaign, in this district. In the first place, we have taken literally the decision of the C. E. C. to regard this as a major campaign until its successful conclusion, There can be no question about the justifica- tion of this decision. Make Every Sacrifice, I have found that the membership is prepared to make every necessary | Sacrifice in order that we may keep The DAILY WORKER. By visiting the membership and showing them that only by substantial contributions that may in many instances represent a sacrifice, can we succeed in the present campaign, our comrades are induced to contribute more liberally than otherwise, Comrades Inspired, Many of the comrades who feared that we might lose members by ap- pealing for substantial contributions, have found that on the contrary all are inspired by the evidence of loyal- ty that has been manifested in the meetings where the «collections for The DAILY WORKER have taken place, So much so, that the comrades not only are induced to contribute more liberally themselves but are also encouraged in their work of collecting from among friends, fellow-workers and members in their trade union lo- cals, Just Beginning, The amount raised in this district thus far represents almost entirely the contributions of party members. But even of these only about 150 have so far contributed. We are therefore just beginning the work of systematic collections among sympathizers, the arrangements of benefit affairs and are continuing at the same time the collection within the party so that by the end of the campaign every mem- ber in the district will have made a contribution representing a real mani- festation of determination to Keep The DAILY WORKER, and will have also sold every worker of his ac- quaintance a certificate, Regular reports are being sent to the various units in the district show- ing their standing to date, Personal | letters accompany these directed to the section organizers who are also he chairmen of the local DAILY WORKER campaign committees, ana- lyzing the results of their work to date and {indicating what further should be done, . Means Hard Work, After all the ‘success of the cam- paign is not dependent upon novel methods or schemes but enly anon the hard work of every member of the party individually and collectively. Hoping this will have answered your question satisfactorily and with best wishes to you in the new work which you have undertaken, I am, Fraternally yours, Herbert Benjamin District Organizer. P, S, — You may’ put it down that the caption of the next report of the Standing of the distriets in the cam- paign will read: FOLLOW THE LEAD OF THE BUFFALO DISs- TRICT, Workers’ School:to - Hold Open Forum in Bronx Every Sunday NEW YORK, Nov. 26—The Work- ers’ School of New York announces the opening of an open forum con- ducted by the Bronx section every Sunday evening at 8 p, m. at the Workers’ Hall, 1347 Boston road. Sunday, Nov. 28, will be the open- ing and Comrade Pat Devine of Eng- land will discuss the last general strike of the English workers and the minority (left) movement in the Brit- ish trade unions. Questions and gen- eral discussion will follow. Admis- sion, 15 cents. All workers are wel- come, esl SEND IN A 8UB TODAY, Pe Workers Invited to Dance of Detroit Y. W. Sport Alliance DETROIT, Mich., Nov. 26. — All workers are invited to the dance of the Young Workers’ Sport Alliance to be given Saturday evening, 8 o’clock, Noy, 27, at Lanstorm Temple, Leland and Moran. Music will be furnished by the Snappy Society Syncopators. This will be a peppy affair ahd a good time is assured, A PIONEERS ENTERTAIN STRIKING BOX MAKERS NEW YORK, Nov. 26, — Twelve hundred striking paper box makers of New York City at a mass meeting in Webster Hall were very enthusiast- ic about the play “Strike” which was staged by the Young Pioneers. One of the Pioneers gave a talk about the Pioneet League pointing out the mecessity for working class chil- dren becoming members of the Pioneer league. He was very well ap- plauded, and it is hoped that the paper box makers will send their children and also influence their friends and fellow strikers’ children to join the Pioneers. ——_——_— WIIl Dance for Our Benefit GLASPORT, Pa. — The Finnish Workingmen’s Association will give a dance on the evening of Saturday, Nov, 27, for the benefit of The DAILY WORKER. Several out of town or- ganizations are expected to be present and preparations are under way for a big time at Finnish Hall, on Vermont Ave., on that night. At a meeting of of Interesting and pi following: Shop Nucleus 8 DAILY WORKER ca) that each member hi IT CAN BE DONE! ILY WORKER agents held In Chicago, a number ible ti ahaa were given as for instance the ion 3 has raised $116.00 already in the Keep The ign. This unit has only 36 members which m: ised over three dollars on the average. How many ual this splendid record? $16-PER MEMBER. ction 4 has only six members, They are all needle workers and they have guoceeded in raising $98.00 which means more i¢ Revolutionary Movement ers have stood firm during a bitter struggle of nearly ten months indi- cates the unbearable conditions which exist among these workers, There are a thousand Passaics in existence in the United States. There are twenty million workers, receiving wages which give them a bear exist- ence, suppressed, oppressed and. ex- plotted under the whip of American capitalists, It is toward these workers that our party must turn its face. It ts these workers to which it must give hope by giving leadership and organization to their struggles. It must do for |gress in its work among these work- them what it hag done for the work-| ers, Its achievement in this field can ers at Passaic—~give them aid in or-/be increased by more work, The in- ganizing their strength, a program for | tensification of the party work among their fights and leadership in their |these workers remains a central point struggles, in its.program, It 1s these proletarian workers in he Forward In the Struggle. the great machine industry who will HH conclusion drawn by the cen- be the backbone of the revolutionary tral committee after a day and a movement. It is among these work-/ halt of discussion in which the situa- ers that the party must intrench itself. | tion in this country was realistically Today, in the heydey of American im-| examined from the standpoint of the perialism, it can mobilize these work-| work of developing the revolutionary ers for action against the capitalist | movement was, that not only is there class, develop the spirit of militant |no pasis for pessimism in regard to class struggle among them, strength-|the growth of the movement, but that en the revolutionary movement of the | the party stands before opportunities, workers and in the process build and | which, if it mobilizes it strength to strengthen the workers (Communist) | take full advantage of them, will en- must be the signal to the party for more careful, developed program and more persistent work to find the issues upon which these workers can be won away from the class collabora- tion programs of their official leaders and drawn into the class struggle -with the mass of unorganized, unskilled workers, As the next article in the discussion and resolutions of the central commit- tee will show, in spite of the conces- sions which the skilled, organized workers have gained from American {mperialism, the party has made pro- Party. able us to make great strides for- No Desertion of the Struggle Among | ward in our work, the Organized. The task before the party is not ‘LH emphasizing the opportuni-|to fnd opportunities for revolutionary ties for revolutionary work among | work thru which we can build the these unorganized workers in the | party, but to mobilize the strength of great machine industries, the central | the party to take full advantage of the committee emphatically warns against | opportunities. abandoning the work among the or-| The central committee! has laid ganized, skilled workers. Not all of }down the policies which must guide these workers even are sharing in the |our work. It has formulated a pro- profits of American imperialism, The|gram of work which, if transformed demand of the anthracite miners and|into life with the strength of the the six month strike to enforce them, |party behind it, will enable it to ex- the movement among the railroad |tend its influence, carry forward® the work of developing a revolutionary movement and build a more powerful Communist Party—the leader in the revolutionary movement against American capitalism. workers for higher wages, show the possibilities in this field of developing fights against the capitalists. The movement toWard the right in the official, organized labor movemient, By Upton Sinclair wvpyrigat, 1920. by Optom Gincimir) xI The matter was handled as Dad ordered; the lawyer’s clerk went to court, and came back and reported that the prisoners had appeared, but Chaim Menzies had not been among them. than sixteen dollars per member. In addition they report that sympathizers have not only contributed to keep The DAILY WORKER but that thru the Propaganda ot the comrades they have been Inspired to read the paper Itself and subscribe for It, One sympathizer who refused to give his name con- tributed twenty-five dollars for the support of the paper. WHY NOT FOL- LOW THE EXAMPLE OF SHOP NUCLEUS 57 $30 PER MEMBER. Shop Nucleus 14 of Section 4 with thirteen members has rai $380 and has donated over $535.00 from other sources, This means that this active unit has raised almost thirty dollare per member In addition to the donations the comrades have made themselves, What do you think about thie record? The Greek comrades of Chicago are running an affair for the benefit of both The DAILY WORKER and The EMPROS, Thia scheme can be tried with other foreign |: papers, u Have you ever tried a Bunco Party for the benefit of The DAILY WORK- RT Watoh thie column for particulars, Wh His case had been taken over by the Federal authorities, because it had been discovered that he was born in Russian Poland, and it was proposed to cancel his naturalization papers and deport him, Chaim had been transferred to the county jail, another con- demned structure, fully as dingy and filthy as the city jail. There was no longer anything you could do about it, because in these deportation cases the courts were refusing to intervene, holding them to be administrative matters. The Democratic attorney- general had failed in his effort to get the nomination for presi- dent by his campaign against the reds, but the machinery he had set going was still grinding out misery for guilty and innocent alike. So here was some real trouble for Bunny! Over at the Men- zies’ home was Rachel, white-faced and pacing the floor, and Mamma Menzies wailing and tearing her clothing. It was im- possible even to get word to poor Chaim—he was “incommuni- cado”; indeed, he might already have been put onto a trdin for the East. After that there would be no chance for him what- ever—he would be dumped onto a steamer for Dantzig, and there turned over to the Polish “white terror.” Bunny insisted that something must be tried, and so Mr. Dolliver called in a couple of still more expensive lawyers—at Dad’s expense—and they debated habeas corpuses and injunc- tions and other mystical formulas, and made out a lot of papers and tried this court and that, all in vain. Meantime, in response to frantic commands from his son, Dad broke the speed-laws from Paradise; and when he arrived, there were Bunny and his Jewish girl-friend waiting on his front porch. They dragged him into his den and made him listen to a disquisition on the difference between the right and left wings of the Socialist movement, with a complete description of the activities of a literature agent of the Socialist party. In the middle of it Rachel burst into tears and sank upon the sofa; and Dad, who was really no more able to stand a woman weeping than was Bunny, went over and patted her on the shoulder, and said, “There, there, little girl, never mind! Yl get him out, even if I have to send a man to New York!” ee So Dad stepped out and sped away in his car. That was about lunch-time—and a little before three o’clock of that same day, who should emerge from a taxi-cab in front of the Menzies’ tenement but Chaim himself, dirty and unshaven, but smiling and sérene, and ready to continue his labors for his “cloding vork- ers!” He hadn’t the least idea how it had happened; the keepers. of the county jail had volunteered no information as they turned him loose, and Chaim had not stopped for questions. He never’ did know, and neither did his daughter, fgr what Dad told Bunny was strictly confidential, a bit of oil men’s secret lore, Skutt.” “Ben Skutt!” Bunny had not thought of their “lease hound” ; for years. A “Yes, Ben is high up in this defense business, and he did it ‘or me,” “What did you tell him?” “Tell him? I told him one grand.” “One what?” “That’s bootlegger’s slang. I gave him five hundred dollars, and said, ‘Ben, go and see the man that's got that old kike in jail and tell him to turn him loose, and then come back to me and I'll give you another five hundred.’ ” “My God!” said Bunny. « And Dad took a couple of puffs at his big cigar. “Now you see why we ofl men have to be in politics!” eee A 4 “What did I do?” I called in an old friend of ours,’ Ben