The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 4, 1926, Page 6

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MILLER ..Business Manager Eutcred as second-class mail September 21, 1 he post-office at Chi- cago, Ill, under the act of March 3, 1879. ng rates on application, Advert Puncturing Two Babbles—Ford and Prosperity shutdown of many departments of the Ford plants in Detroit, ¢ many thousands of workers is an important development s present period when the capitalist press is yelling prosperity at the top of its voice. li is of particular significance as it comes after the fulsome praise accorded Henry Ford by many sections of the capitalist press and a considerable portion’of the official labor prese. Mord, according to the apologists of American capitalism, had 1 the problem of the conflict of capital and labor. By estab- the five-day week with six days’ p: 1d so raised the pur- chosing power of the workers that industrial crises in the industry, i in that section of it that he controlled, would be of rare oc- rence. y he But here is an industrial crisis in Fordized industry before | | of the eulogies have died away. » is more than one contradiction in the capitalist system. ion to the class struggle there is the struggle between in- apitalists and between combinations of capitalists. by is in conflict with the powerful Wall Street combination General Motors and his method of cheap production com- | 'y h wage payments somewhat above the average rate has in- instead of calming down this conflict. t the present shutdown has a direct connection with the “tive struggle with General Motors, the capitalist press ad will have to improve his product to meet .the low price 1 Motors’ cars which have cut considerably into his will necessitate certain changes in Ford’s methods of veduetion and tend to dislocate, temporarily, at least, his section of ihe industry. There are only three alternatives for Ford. They -are: Absorption by General Motors. Bankruptey. Turning his capital into some other industry. As the last survivor of the big independent capitalists in a is an anachronism in American capitalist society. major 1A cannot fight suecessfully the giant combination of capital sented by General Motors and such stabilization as his methods f production have brought to the industry was in itself a contradic- tion becanse it has produced a counter-force which will destroy it. The contradictions of capitalism, one of them being the anarchy of production and exchange, can be solved only by. the destruction of capitalism and its replacement by a socialist method of produc- Tron. it might be well also to mention here that the steel industry is affording evidence that in another great field of capitalist enter- prise so-called properity is far from being permanent. According to | fatest reports the steel industry is operating at about 70 per cent of | capacity and will soon be reduced to 60 per cent. i The official leadership of the labor movement has ‘been basing” its poliey upon the theory that American capitalism had devised a | method by which serious industrial crises could be eliminated. This | is a pollyanna attitude which means disaster for the labor move- | sent and at the present time the trade unions are in no position to | face severe unemployment. | It is true that both the automobile and steel industries are un- , organized and that unemployment there does not affect the unions | directly or immediately. But unemployment among the unorganized | and the unskilled increase the competition in the labor market as | a whole and makes it much more difficult to maintain the high wage levels enjoyed now by many of the skilled workers. The labor movement of America must take its head out of the sands of prosperity. It must concentrate on the organization of the nnskilled and build on basic industry so that the inevitable crises will not produce a bitter conflict between unskilled and skilled which weakens the labor movement and adds to the intensity of the continual struggles between those workers who have jobs and | those who have none—a conflict which is in progress even in times | of the greatest prosperity and upon which the capitalists depend to_ a large extent to keep the labor movement divided and weak. ] Europe Sitting on a Powder Magazine french military experts are regaling their readers with Jearned disqnisitions on the probable outcome of a Franco-Italian war in the light of the present strained relations between the two countries. Austen Chamberlain is doing his utmost to prevent a conflagra- lion between the two powers. Chamberlain would not object very strenuously to an Italian attaék on some semi-helpless colonial power bnt a war against France might possibly set the political powder magazine ablaze and send the capitalist world up in its own smoke. It is not likely that either France or Italy care to risk a war just now. But governments are not always masters of their destiny French guns are being rushed fo the Italian frontier and Mussolini patched up a truce in the ranks of fascism, so that he could make a bluff of a united front in face of a foreign enemy. The French capitalists as well as the Italian capitalists | hesitate to embark on another military adventure, not so munch for | fear of the other as for fear of their own exploited workers and poor | farmers. The first defeat of the black-shirts at the hands of French | troops would be the signal for revolution in Italy and there would | | vociferous | other districts? | such men not called out immediately? By C. E. RUTHENBERG, General Secretary Workers (Communist) Party [Editor's Note: This is the fifth of the series of articles on the discussions and resolution of the meeting of the central committee of the Workers (Communist) Party held during the month of Noveinber.] s HE meeting of the central commit- tee of the Workers (Communist) Party in November, for the first time, had on its agenda the discussion of the nization problems of the part he question of strengthening the party organization was given at- tention equal to the discussion of the politi situation and the formulation to increase the influence of he party, The central committee em- phasized the importance of crystalliz- ing the influence gained by the party into organization strength at the same time that it carries on its work to extend its influence. The party has not been giving suf- ficient dttention to the organizationai side of its work, It has not under- stood that the party organization is the instrument upon which all its political campaigns depend, and that f this instrument is not in good work- ng order the best results cannot be eved from the work done to re- ionize the American workers. It ructed the leading committees of party that during the next six period at least half of the energies of. the party must go into the work of strengthening the party organization. The Reorganization of the Party HE central committee had before it a year’s experience in relation to the reorganization of the party, It established the fact that the building of a centralized party organization based up upon shop and street nuclei, in place of the language and territorial branches and a party consisting of a federation of language sections was correct, While the party has experien- ced some loss of membership thru the reorganization, the reorganized party with less members is a much stronger instrument for revolutionary work ,than it was before the reorganization. , “No voice was raised in the meeting of the central committee for a back- {ward step in relation to the reorgani- |zation, What is needed in the party | is more attention to training the party nembers and party units in how to ry on their work, not a backward step toward the discarded form of or- anization, What the Reorganization Has Achieved. ‘T is fundamental to the while pro- gram of work to revolutionize the masses that the Communists shall be in close contact with the workers in the factories, in the trade unions the cooperative, the workers’ fraternal or- ganizations and other forms of mass organizations of the “workers, The previous form of organization of the | party did not establish such contact. |The members of the party met in lan- guage branches and territorial branch- es, Segregated from the life and strug- gles of the workers, Such a form of organization could serve as a propaganda society endea- voring from the outside to interest the not as a Communist Party taking part in all the struggles of the workers, formulating programs for these strug- gles and stimulating the workers to action in support of these struggles. The reorganization*bf the party has jchanged all this. Titru the shop nu- clei the party now ‘has direct contact with the workers if ‘hundreds of fac- jtories, They are *in a position to ;make these grievances the starting | point to draw the workers into strug- gles against the eapitalists and to make the experienges of these strug: gles the means of winning the work- ers for support of thé Communist pro- gram and policies, The party.fractiqns organize in the trade unions, the co-operatives, the workers’ fraternal organizations and in every other form of workers’ organiza- tion establish a similar contact, and the basis for the, struggle in these organizations in support of policies to dvance the workers’ interest. While the party ds still young in ex- perience in utilizing the contacts with the workers and; opportunities for Communist work which the new form of organization has created, it already has achievements to its credit which indicate the power which it can ex- ercise thru this new weapon of the revolutionary movement—organization in shop and street nuclei and frac- dions. The party strength in the Passaic strike was primarily the result of the new form of organization. It was thru the party nuclei that the first steps toward the formation of an or- ganization of the workers were car- ried out. It was thtu the party nuclei functioning within the skeleton or- ganization set up in,the mills that the | workers were mobilized in support of ihe strike, x There are scores of factories in | which the party | working along th@ same line and in | which the party iifluence has already | been extehded thru the same form of jwork, There are hundreds of factories \in which, thru proper training of the | nuclei, the samejform of. work can be |developed. The party policies are no |longer thrown -imto the air with the |hope that they will reach some work- ers who will respond to them, They are based upon the conerete experien- ces of the womkers and presented directly to the workers with whom the party members are in contact, The Shop Paper. HE shop papers issued by. the party nuclei are a new weapon in workers in Communist principles, but | the Workers (Communist) Party |the revolutionary struggle which have |sprung from the reorganization of the party, The work of the’Ford nucleus of the party stands out in this field, showing the great possibilities of the NY torm of organization, ‘he Party members in the Ford fac- tortes in Detroit carried on no work directed, toward drawing the great mass of workers in these factories into the class struggle before the re- organization. These workers were part of the mass of workers in Detroit who might, more or less accidentally be reached by the party agitation, jjust as workers in other factories, ;more or less accidentally, might be reached by the party agitation and propaganda work, ganization of the Ford nucleus of party members? The party members speak directly to the workers with whom they are in daily contact, They publish the Ford Worker thru which they speak to from ten to. fifteen thousand workers in the Ford plants each month, raise the grievances of these workers, relate them to the gen- nuclei which are | ja |thru which to win the workers ;the militant class struggle and even- eral class struggle of the workers, and make them the starting point for the organization and mobilization of these workers for the struggle in their interests. They do not speak to these workers only about the questions arising in the Ford factories. These are correctly given an important place in their agi- tation, raises the question of independent political action and calls upon the workers to support the program of the Workere (Communist) Party in the election campaigns, The celebration of the anniversary of the proletarian revolution in Russia is brought to their attention, its meaning in relation to their struggles explaimed and par- ticipation and support of these cele- brations won. What is being done by the Ford Nucleus of the party is being done by from thirty to forty nuclei in other factories. Not yet on the same scale, but yet effectively and with similar results in building the influence of the party. Can anyone doubt with such ex- periences before them that thru the reorganization the party has created more powerful weapon for itself for tually for the revolutionary struggle egainst capitalism? The achievements of the party thru the reorganization are so striking, so outstanding that they must convince the most skeptical. The work before the party is to increase the number of effectively functioning shop nuclei from the two score now in existence to hundreds. Even with its present strength in the party there is the possibility of de- veloping two or three hundred shop A Workers’ Experience During General Strike in Great Britain By PAT DEVINE. T was a revelation to see the ex- pectant look on the sea of faces. Every mention of A, J. Cook met with applause. Even J. H. Thomas was received charitably be- cause they thot that at last he had decided to fight for*his class, What an audience! was abroad! With a honest and correct leadership, those workers could be led to their eman- cipation. The question time was most imter- esting. What are the reports trom Why were such and “| Was it true the government had de- cided to feed the strikers? When was the general council going to is- sue a paper? Why was the Dally Herald, official organ of the organ- ized workers, not allowed to carry on—our duty was to cripple the boss- es, not ourselves. It would.be futile to attempt to de- tail all the questions but they all brot out some new phase of the strug- gle and proved the ‘masses were in- terested. First Day Ends Well. Haier first day of the strike ended with the workers on the crest of the hill. Theoretically they were not class conscious, but economically they were, and they were prepared to do or die in order to win . 80 long as the leadership continued to lead. Tuesday wag a repetition of Mon. day, only the enthusiasm was greater and the workers were becoming more confident, They were seeing for them- selves the migiity power they con- trolled and the sight was awakening The spirit of rebellion | courageous, | not be sufficient lamp posts in Italy to provide resting places for |them to the magnificent dignity of the fascist murderers of the Italian working class. | their class. 5 Psat S i fi Wednesday there was great excite- The capitalist world is sitting on a powder barrel. War is in| ment, The Daily Herald offices had the air. The league of nations, ostensibly organized to preserve | been raided and the workers wanted peace, is as helpless as a toothless dog in a fight. The capitalists do|to know why? Every meeting by this jand angry. Strike” bulletins were issued in our locality by. the Commun- | ist Party in which a lead was given. De- jfense forces were advocated, members |of parliament were urged to return to | their constituencies to lead the figit | because they were doing nothing in |London during the period of the l|emergency powers act, , Role of Communist Party. T this juncture it will be proper to mention that the Communist |Party was playing-a most ignportant |part in the struggle.- When the fight was being conducted as a fight, they were doing more} than their share, | proving the efficacy: of the united front \idea,, Where the tocal labor leaders | were not leading the fight, the Com- | munists were out leading it and point- ‘ing out the failimgs of the official leadership, thus jproving that the united front was net a slavish or dog- matic tactic to be applied per sched. ule. In every locality, the prestige of the C. P. was om the advance; the workers were seeimg that in spite of all the cant about democracy, pa- tience, class collaWeration, etc} etc., the C, P. policy of definite struggle and no compromis# was the correct policy. ac Thursday was like Wednesday, The workers showed g¥eat indignation at the government tittimation that all strikebreakers wot receive govern- ment protection the strike. Very few workers took @dvantage of this offer, One or two men notorious for their reactionary, crawling attitude, had joined the special constabulary and these were given a terrible time of it, being unable latterly to show face without receiving @ most hostile reception, Friday Magriticent. RIDAY passed with the solidarity magnificent, With the passing of each day, the confidence of masses habit of saying, “We'll go round to the Council of Action.” Formerly it had been “We'll ask a policeman; we'll go to the Town Council chamb- ers.” With the changed circum: stances, the C. O. A, was supreme au- thority. Business was conducted with a maximum of efficiency and a mini- mum of energy expended. Every meniy ber looked upon himself as being a spokesman for the workers, The So- viets of Great Britain were perform- ing their function and gaining in- valuable experience for the time when the ultimate crash comes. The Russian Offer of Help. ATURDAY came with the workers still triumphant. It became known that the Russian Trade Unions had offered financial assistance to the gen- eral council, and it had been rejected. The workers were surprised, Had not the Russians successfully carried thru what they at the moment were fighting for, viz., defeat of the bosses? Why should aid from other workers be refused at a time like this? The C. P. came out criticizing the general council of action and urged the acceptance of the Russian offer, Sunday, like Saturday, passed quiet ly, tho many workers were question- ing the C. O. A, regarding something they had been hearing on the radio, The government all during the strike had used the radio to great advantage, The influence of that, however, was successfully counteracted at the vari- ous meetings held in the area daily. Monday the workers were confident of victory but wondered why no really definite news came from headquarters. That was one unfortunate thing dur- ing the general strike: no news came from the G, ©, O, T. U, as to what was being done, Periodically, tele- krams would come saying all was well but nothing more, (Continued tomorrow) What is the situation since the or- Ny There are many question affecting but the Ford Worker also j nuclei to carry on such Communist | work, t The Street Nuclei, HE ‘development “of the -work ‘of the street nuclei has not gone as far as that of the shop nuclei. Most of the street ‘nuclei still function as did the territorial branches of the party. ‘They must become more than mere meeting places of party mem- bers. The street nuclei must become centers of agitation and Communist work in the neighborhood in which they are organized. They ‘must dis- tribute the agitational literature of the party, arrange meetings “into which the workers are drawn, develop the circulation ofthe general party press, ete, 6 see | the life of the workers in the sections in which they are organized which can be made the basis of their agita- tion—housing, transportation, sanitary conditions and the like, These phases | of the work of the street nuclei have so far remained untouched and must be developed ‘together with the strengthening of the work of the shop nuclei, . Work in. Relation to the Reorganized Party. JHE central committee has emphas- ized the many weaknesses: which still exist in relation to the party re- organization’ and has adopted a pro- gram of work to overcome these weak- nesses, The training of officials for the shop and street nuclet, the development of leading committees in the sections and sub-sections which can direct the work of the nuclei, closer contact be- tween the leading committees and the nuclei, agendas for discussion of party problems by both the shop and street nuclei and to make these meetings something more than barren taking up of routine questions, the solution of the difficult language problem which exists in our party made up of eigh- teen language groups, are all prob- lems which must’ be solved by the party. : 5 The party can overcome all these difficultiés which exist in the reorgan- ized party by systematic study. The central committee has, instructed all the leading committees to give close attention to” these questions and on the basis of’ the acual experiences to formulate the measures thru which these problems can be solved. @ What stands out most sharply in relation’ to: ‘the reorganization, -how- ever, is that in spite of all the exist- ing weaktiesses, the reorganization has strengthened the party for its work, The party has. created a new weapon for the révolutionary ‘strug- gle thru use of which it will be able to go forward faster in its work of winning the American workers for the revolutionary struggle against capital- ism, ‘CURRENT EVENTS (Continued from page 1) on the throne as long as the sitee does not take himself too seriously. When John. D. Rockefeller wants to talk of] with Roumania he interviews Bratiano. The queen had ideas of her own about how to live at the expense of the masses but it appears that Bratiano had better ones. Marie is hurrying home to fix up her fences and one of her chief regrets is that she did Rot have more time to spend money in\Paris. In the méantime hun- dreds of thousands of Roumania chil- dren are breadiess. Verily, indeed, capitalism is a wonderful system. . * 8 ¢ URTHER evidence that Mussolini's grip on Italy is loosening is seen in the decision to try the fascists who murdered several member's of the ma- sonic order over a'year ago. It would be too much to expect that the mur- derers will-be convicted. The trial is only a gesture, , But hardboiled tas- cism was not accustomed to gesturing when it felt its oats. Just now it Is 2 en Reso: \. time was being supplied with copies omens “4a pyle running out of spaghetti. _ ni tt ce heads CREB TEDS, comes but once a year but even at that our masters have no reason to kick, A headline in a Chicago newspaper tells us that ono billion dollars in dividends will go in- to the coffers of investors this year end, ennsylvania railroad will cut a juicy melon and so will Stand- ard Oil, The “Pennsy” #will thus be able to afford the luxury of placing pecial train at the disposal of the Next queen that visits America and John D. Rockefeller will be able to stand the expensé of an expedition to investigate the causes of dysentery among the tigers of Burma. There is nothing said about the wage slaves who produced this billion. There will i until the slaves themselves say ee + H liberal elements in Panama ire’ takingpa leat out of\the Mex!- can volume. They have introduced a bill in the legislature which demands Wopyrignt, 1920, by Uptom Sinciairy CHAPTER XV The Vacation, Pe ee this summer and fall, Dad, and Mr, Roscoe had been carry- ing-a heavy burden—they were help- ing to make over the Ahinking of the American people, A presiden- tial campaign was under way; and. the oil men, haying made so bold ag ‘to select the candidate, now had to finish the job by persuading the vot-: ers ‘that he was a great and noble- minded statesman. Also they had to: pay ‘a part of the expense, which would come on to fifty million dol lars, so. Bunny learned trom the con- Vversations at Paradise and at, the Monastery, This was several times as much as would get . recorded, since the money went through local and unofficial agencies. It came from the big protected interests, the corporations, the banks—everyone that had anything to get out of the government, or could be squeezed by politicians; the process was known as “frying out the fat.” The oil men, having grabbed the big: prize, were naturally a shining mark for all campaign committees, county state and national. Dad and. Mrs Roscoe received visits from' Jake. Coffey, and from the bosses of the State machine, and listened to hair- raising stories about the dangers of the situation, Tt was necéssary to persuade the. American people that the Democrat- ie administration for the past eight years had been wasteful and cor- rupt, ignorant and fatuous—and that Was easy enough. But also it was necessary to persuade them that an administration by Senator Harding was likely to be better—and that was not so easy. Naturally, the chairman of the campaign commit- tee wanted to make it appear as difficult as possible, for the more money that passed through their hands, the larger the amount that would: stick; As the campaign drew ta its close, Bunny had the satis- faction of hearing his father swear- ing outrageously, and wishing. he had takenvhis son’s advice and left the destinies of his country to the soap-manufacturer who had put up millions for General Wood. The senator from Ohio was @ Jarge and stately and solemn-faced person, and conducted what was called by the newspapers a “front porch catipiign.’ That. is to say, he did not put himself out to travel om trains and meet people, but re ceived deputations of the Hay and Feed ‘Dealers of Duluth, or the Mor- ticians of Ossawotomie. They would sit in camp-chairs upon his lawn, and the statesman would appear and read an imposing discourse, which had been written by a secretary of Vernon Roscoe's selection, and. giy- en out to all the press assoc! the day before, so that it could ‘ distributed over the wires and pub- lished simultaneously on fifty mfl- lion front pages. That is a colos- sal propaganda machine, and the men who run it have to lose a lot of sleep. . But the majestic candi- date lost-no sleep, he was always fresh and serene and impassive; he had been that way throughout his career, for the able business man who groomed him and paid his way had never failed to tell him what to do, a Banny now dwelt upon an Olym- pian height, looking down as a god upon the affairs of pitiful mortals. Dad and Mr; Roscoe let him hear everything—being sure that com- mon sense would win in the end, and he would accept their point.of view. ‘They had-a philosophy which protected them like a suit of chain- mail against all hesitations and doubts. The affairs of the country had to be run by the men who had money and brains and experience; and since the mass of the people had not sense enough to grant the power freely, the mass of the peo- ple had to be bamboozled, “Slogans” must be invented, and hammered in- to their heads, by millions, yes; bil- lions of repetitions. It was an art, and experts kiiew how to do it, and you paid them—but by Jees, the price made you sweat blood! The tremendous campaign came to an end, and it wags revealed that 16,140,585 Americans had been suc- cessfully bamboozled. Senator Harding had seven million more votes than the Democratic candi- date, the greatest plurality ever polled in American history, So there were shouting mobs on the streets and in the expensive re: rants and clubs where the rich c ed, everybody got hilariously drun! Yes, even Vernon Roscoe got drunk, because Annabelle was too drunk to stop him; Vee Tracy defied her doc- tor ani ad forgot his resolutions, and even Bunny drank enough to make him fear for his idealism. (regarious animal, and it gained and the fight became keener, The mass meetings were being attend- ed by practically every man and wo- man In the locality, Interest wag at BOSTON—(FP)—Wnion street car-|Testriction on religious teaching. The men of the Boston & Worcester | Progressives are of the opinion that Street Railway Co. who threatened to| it is just eas: henious: to permit the strike after a year's effort to get the | Poisoning of the mind with religious not want war, yet they cannot prevent it. It is inherent in the of the Bouttlal Worker knd the new, ; 1 mye si | e news system. ‘This proves the futility of trying to prevent war by clip-| yay just being eaten up, At no time ping the claws of capitalism. he tiger’s nature cannot be changed. | were sufficient copies on hand, At He must be destroyed, This is the historic task of the working elass,|tho moctings quastigns were being |fever heat, Rvery¥fero victory was | road's receiver to ve ‘thelr de- | hokum ouldbe at: ther dopo | - sis oases { led by the Communist Party which has no illusions about capital. *sked as to why the tone of the paper | taken as being © ” mands have finally allowed thelr case | trust od Ap adbaba An, ; f ism, and offers the way and the means by which world labor will“ %° ™ld and’ conciliatory, The| All during this the C. 0. A.|/to go to supreme justice, Ed-| use ; Ty ‘ ns | workers expected a lead from their 5 emancipate itself from wage slavery, poverty, war and the.fear Of own paper butoware not receiving It, ¢ land were accordingly disappointga had been functioning*as the accepted leader of the Workers desire ous of informa acquired the ward T. Pierce ag pany managers ha would break any r, 7 t) | ny BRN ar eo)