The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 9, 1927, Page 4

Page Four ft THE DAILY WORKER THE DAILY WORKER Published by the DAILY WORKDR PUBLISHING CO. 1118 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Ml. Phone Monroe 4712 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mali (in Chicago only): By mall (outalde of Chicago)! $8.00 per year $4.50 six months 96,00 per year $3.50 six months $2.50 three months $2.00 three months Address all ma{l and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chioago, tll, J. LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F, DUD t BERT MILLER .. SS ln 0 AE REEDS SPE Wotered as second-class mail September 21, 1923, at the post-office at Ohh cago, IL, under the act of March 3, 1879. <i 290 Advertising rates on application, MIRE SE es) a ane eee ee Hands Off China! Withdraw the 52 Gunboats in Chinese Waters! The New Drive on Militant Trade Unionism Article X11 (Conclusion). By WILLIAM F. DUNNE, F we listen to the typical American labor leader we dicover that he harps long and loud upon his services to the movement. Rarely, if ever, does he mention the matter of re- ward. As a matter of fact, it is con- sidered bad taste in official labor. cir oles to speak of salaries and expense accounts except in those moments of confidence when, liberally supplied with pre-war liquor, American labor leaders gather around the poker table and “kid” one another about the un- complaining manner {n which the rank and file foots their bills. ALARIEDS in the American trade union movement run from $5,000 per year up. The “up” is twice the The United States had 52 warships of various kinds in Chinese ealary of @ congressman, senator or waters, according to a report made on October 10 last. cabinet officer. Warren Stone, late There is little likelihood that this number has been decreased | head of the locomotive engineers, held since that time, so the news that a concentration of American naval stad Mia Pint ite. ieee forces is taking place in the Yangtze river between Hankow and ant get gathclte euich er pall’ buak: Shanghai and that an American fleet is in the East China sea off | ness man envies. Shanghai has especial significance. itzpatrick and Nockels, chairman Great Britain has withdrawn from Hankow and the peoples |and secretary respectively of the Chi- . Their commander-in-chief, Chang armies are advancing on Shang Kai-shek, has announced that Shanghai will be taken by the Peoples Armies about Feb. 1. As usual, it is announced that American naval forces are simply protecting American lives and property but the peaceful manner in which the C e workers of Hankow took over the British con- cession, with the memory fresh in their minds of their 3,000 fellow- workers massacred recently at Wahsien by British gunfire, shows that the Peoples government is nvi eigners. There has been no single incident in all the fighting of the last five months where Americans or Englishmen have been injured or even attacked by the National forces. trary are part of the monstrous fakery which always accompanies imperialist campaigns—both in victory and defeat, as is the case in China today. With 52 gwnboats in Chinese waters American imperialism appears, next to Japan, as the most formidable armed force in the Far East. If the United States intends to pursue a policy of friendliness and commercial relationship with the victorious Peoples government, why has it been building up this enormous war-fleet in the Chinese waters? This is a question of immediate and fundamental importance for the American masses. The conflicts between the imperialist powers in the Far East are so intense, the stakes so big and the situation created by the onward march of the Peoples Armies which will culminate in the fall of Shanghai, the largest port in China and the third largest im the world, so acute, that -war may be pre- cipitated between sunset and dawn. The demand of “Hands Off Chjna” and the immediate with- drawal of all naval and military forces must not be allowed to die down. It must continue to be made in the most emphatic manner nnfil.the Peoples government of China is established so firmly that the combined strength of world imperialism cannot prevail against it. A Sample of Capitalist Cant The mayor of the city of Garfield, New Jersey, wrote a letter to the head of the Forstmann-Huffmann textile firm suggesting that in the interest of “peace and good will” the firm should come to terms with its employes who have been striking for the right to or- ganize for eleven months. In the typically canting manner of the bourgeois slave-driver, Julius Forstmann replied, saying that he was in hearty accord with the desire for industrial peace expressed by the mayor and then went on to show he was practicing what he preached. This was by way of the company union route. The industrial baron would do as he pleased with his slaves or he would know the reason why. His employes can have peace any time they want it— by surrendering to Forstmann. This is the language of the autocrat who has not yet been sufficiently impressed with the power of organ- ized labor, directed by militant leadership. Forstmann demands the right to exploit his employes to the limit of his ability and their capacity. He does not want to have any union around. He prefers to deal individually with his help or thru a “union” officered by company officials, Judging by the temper of the textile strikers Forstmann will be obliged to change his tune. Mill owners, just as hard-boiled as he is, have given way under the impact of the collective clenched fist of the textile workers. The employes of the Forstmann-Huffmann company have voted not to return to work until their union is recog- nized. By the time Forstmann is thru groping around for a “ehristian” way out of the difficulty he may have reached the con- clusion that that kind of “christianity” does not always pay. China Keeps Going; So Do the British The Cantonese revolutionary armies are continuing to con- solidate their positions and giving the bum’s rush to whatever Brit- ish soldiers they find knocking around where they should not be. It looks now as if the British would not have to shoulder the “white jpan’s byrden” in China much longer. The British blame their unpopularity in China on the Russians, as Secretary of State Kellogg blames American imperialism’s dif- ficulties in Nicaragua on Moscow via Mexico. Those boys are never hard up for excuses as long as Moscow exists. And that looks like a permanent excuse for them, The socialists could solve this problem by having Moscow jump into the lake. Then the capitalists wonld not have so many good excuses, but perhaps they would not have so much trouble -either. The invincifility of the imperialist powers has been given a black eye by the Chinese. It must be a sight for the gods to see a group of Chinese workers tossing British marines into the river while dignified British officials play angrily with their monocles, Imperialism, not merely the British brand, is finding the sledding a little hard. It will be harder before it melts into historical ob- livion. Sikococte/ fighting against individual for- The statements to the con- cago Federation of Labor, get $5,200 per year, Walker and Olander, holding sim- ilar positions in the Illinois State Fed- eration of Labor, get $6,500 a year, Petrillo, head of the musicians’ union in Chicago, gets $13,000 per year, Jewell, head of the railway depart- ment of the A. F. of L., gets $7,500 Daniel Tobin, president of the team- sters’ union, one of the lowest paid group of workers in the country, gets $15,000 per year. Mahon, head of the Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Employes’ Union, gets $14,000 per year, President Green of the A. F. of L. gets $12,000. HESE salaries in most instances are accompanied by expense ac- counts ranging from $10 per day to $20, and labor leaders without a con- tinual expense account are as scarce as Indian rajahs without harems. When Farrington was president of District 12 (Illinois) RUTHENBERG TO GIVE SECOND OF LECTURE SERIES Speaks Again Next Sun- day Here On Sunday, Jan. 2, the lectures given by the Chicago Workers’ School commenced with C, E. Ruthenberg giving the first of a series of three lectures on the “History of the Com- munist Movement in the United States.” Early History. Comrade Ruthenberg's first lecture took in the conditions of the early development of the Communist Party. The immense and rapid growth of the socialist party as a result of its stand against war expressed in the St. Louis resolution, its membership growing to about 125,000. The failure to carry out this resolution, however, coupled with the failure to support the Rus- sian revolution and the general re- formist attitude becoming more pro- nounced within the socialist party causing the development of a left wing. “Red Raids.” United Mind Workers of America, he had his home in Indianapolis and had a perpetual expense account because he had to be in Springfleld. John L, Lewis lives in Springfleld and charges a con- tinual expense account because he has to be in Indianapolis, the head- quarters of the union. The two cities are a few hours apart. A witty coal miner once suggested that Farrington and Lewis exchange wives and save the union about $10,000 per year, HE needle trades unions are not stingy with their officials—espe- cially those with some intellectual at- tainments. J. B, Salutsky (Hard- man), on the staff of Advance, of- ficial organ of the Amalgamated Cloth- ing Workers, was drawing $110 per week a few years ago, and probably gets around $12@) per week now. Charles Erwin, s0Cialist and former editor of the Call, gets less than Salutsky, but about twice the wages of the average member of the A.C. W. A book can and should be written on the methods by which labor of- ficials add to their incomes, but their salaries and expensa accounts alone place them a long ;way above the needle workers whom they “serve.” HE needle trades unions, beginning as unions of sweated workers, have rapidly developed an aristocracy which differs little, except in social- democratic cleverness, from the typi- cal A, F, of L. bureaucracy. There has also-devyeloped im other unions of Jewish Workers an aristoc- racy which shares its plunder in some small degree at least with the social- ist party leadership, With their economic status far su- perior to that of the masses of work- ers, the elements Ieted above, with the aid of the bosses and the govern- ment, make war upon the section of the membership which insists thet union officials should belong to the working class, ‘T must not be thought that these elements do not have some mass support. They do. It consists of workers who, for one reason or an- other, enjoy better wages and working conditions than the majority of the working class, who are more back- ward politically for historical reasons than the rest of the union member- ship, AID Lenin: This upper strata of workers or “workers’ aristocracy,” which is whojly petty bourgeols with regard to their manner of living and the size of their earnings, as well as In regard to their entire world view point, constitutes one of the main props of the Second International, and at present the main peace-time SOCIAL PROP FOR THE BOUR- GEOISIE. For the truest AGENTS OF THE BOURGEOISIE IN THE LABOR MOVEMENT are the labor lieutenants of the capitalist class, who are the truest aposties of re- formism and chauvinism. (Dmpha- sig in translation.) Ww: have here the explanation for the united front of socialist bureaucracy and trade union official- dom. They live the same way, they are joint participants in the distribu- tion of the enormous surplus which American imperialism accumulates from all quarters of the globe, and their task is to crush out all tenden- cies towards militant struggle for’eco- nomic demands and development of mass political consciousness as work- ers and trade unionists. ROM our survey of the forces or- ganized against the left wing, their public statements, the state- ments of the capitalist press in sup- port of the right wing, the twin-like character of the capitalist program for the unions and the program of of- ficialdom-worker-employer co-opera- tion, the joint demand of labor official- dom and capitalist spokesmen for definite increase in production in re- turn for slight wage increases, the assertions of both trade union official- dom and socialist party leaders that the unions are and must remain only economic organizations, from the fact that the attack on the left wing cen- ters now in unions which have fought and won strikes after rejecting the worker-employer co-operation policy, from the extension of the fight into all broad mass movements of a militant working class character we can say that the premises laid down in the Cantonese Victory in China Inevitable, Says Chinese Editor Here; Shanghai Will Be Captured Soon by Southern Government Recent developments in China point to an inevitable victory of the Canton revolutionary government over the north Chinese warlords and ultimate control of all China by the southern- ers, in the opinion of L, P. Jin, editor of the Chicago’ Chinese daily news paper, Kung Shong Yat Po, who keeps in close touch with the great struggle taking place in his native land. The anti-Canton government of Pe- king is losing strength rapidly, being repudiated by virtually all of the peo- ple in north China, who are over- whelmingly sympathetic with the rev- olutionary government, and the hold that the foreign “powers had is so weakened now that they have little control, Jin declared. The reception accorded Great Brit- ain’s recent memorandum on Chinese policy by the other powers reveals how the powers are no longer united, but are fighting singe themselves, he pointed out. Control Half China. Control of more than half of the territory of China and of a great deal more than half of the people of China is in the hands of the Canton govern- ment, he said. The bulk of China’s How the left wing originally count- {population is in the southern prov- ing some 65,000 supporters at its earliest stage of independent exist- ence developed in different directions and into separate divisions, was brot out in the course of the lecture. The persecution of the Palmer “red raids,” however, sifting the weaker elements and the various processes of the at that time existing Communist Party into its final unification into the Workers (Communist) Party, formed the conclusion of this first part of the series. It is not the purpose here to give a complete description of the lecture. That can only be gained by attending the meetin; Altho the first lecture is over, there are still two more of the same series of three to be given, after which follows a series of three lectures by Wm. Z. Foster on “Prob- lems of the American Labor Move- ment,” and three lectures by James P. Cannon and others, Northwest Hall. The Chicago workers are invited to attend these lectures. The next will be given Sunday, January 9, 1927, at the Northwest Hall, corner North and Western avenues at 8 p. m, Admis- sion is twenty-five cents. There will be no collection. Negro Editor Will Speak. Irving Dungee, editor of the Negro Champion, will speak on “The Negro and American Labor” at a meeting of the open forum of the Young Workers League, Section 4, Sunday afternoon at three o’clock, at 1239 South San- gamon Avenue, ’ Detroit to Hear About Myths. DETROIT.—Prof. 0. 0. Morris will speak on “the Origin of Myths” be- fore the Detroit Labor Forum, Sun- day afternoon at three o’clock in the auditorium of the Cass Technical High School, IL, D, inces, which Canton controls, To Take Shanghai, Cantonese troops will be in the city of Shanghai in not less than two months, Jin predicted, basing his statements on information he gete from China, The southerners are already within 100 miles of the city. Shanghai is the most important city of China, being the main port. Cap ture of Shanghai tonese control of river basin, Shan, ntire Yangtze will probably cities. Chekiang province was re- cently with the Peking government, but withdrew last week and is now a part of the revolutionary territory. Workers in Lead, The workers are still taking the lead in support of the revolution and are unyielding, Jin said. A “boycott” has been declared by the workers against foreigners and very little work is being done for them, Jin said, the Chinese workers declaring they will work only for their own people, A cable received by Jin this week told of 10,000 workers taking charge of the British concession district at Hankow, when they took possession of the custom houses. Little resist- ance was made, the cable said, and order was maintained, British Makes Approach. That the strength of the Canton government is appreciated by the for- eign powers is apparent, Jin said. Several weeks ago the new British ambassador called on the Canton for- eign minister, Chen, he said, and of- tered the Canton government British ‘support” and financial assistance, Chen refused this unconditionally, declaring against forming any sort of alliance with Great Britain, he re- ported, Americans Aid. Chinese in America are demonstrat- ing their solidarity with their broth- ers in the revolution, Jin said. Much financial assistance is being given the Canton government by the Chinese in America. More than a half million dollars has already been sent, he said. Chicago Canton sympathizers have give the Can-j|sent $25,000. “The pen te mightier than thé be reached thru Hangchow, capital of | sword,” provided you know how to use Chekiang province, Jin said. An im-| it. Come down and learn now in the portant railroad line connects the two | worker correspondent’s classes Aid to Class-War Prisoners at Big NEW YORK, Jan. 7.—The annual bazaar of the New the International scheduled for M: ed bor Defense is 10-13, inclusive. The defense o} ion hopes to raise $10,000 for to labor prison- ers, The first conf ice of the ba- zaar committee inVites representa- tives from unions and sympathetic la- bor organizations, Boston Workers to Protest Against White Terror and Fascism In Lithuania, BOSTON.—Workergs of Boston and vicinity will record their protest at the rule of fascist terrorism in Lithua- nia at a mass meeting arranged by the Lithuanian branch of the Interna- tional Labor Defense at Lithuanian hall, corner E and) Silver streets, South Boston, Mass. Sunday, Jan. 9, at 7 p,m. There willbe a number of well-known speak among them Leon Pruseika of New York and Rob- ert Zels, district of the Cannon Is Speaker at | Boston Lenin Memorial Y. Bazaar|Meeting on January 20 BOSTON, Mass., January 7. — This ork sections of | year the Lenin Memorial meeting will be held here Thursday, Jan, 20, at Ford hall, at 8 o'clock, The principal speaker will be James P. Cannon of Chicago, nationally known labor leader and sorator and prominent in the organization of the miners and member of the central ex- ecutive committee of the Workers (Communist) Party, There will also be a very interesting musical program. The committee ex- pects a record crowd, Painters and Electric Workers Confer. WASHINGTON—(FP)— Executives of the Brotherhood of Painters met those of the Brotherhood of Electrical Workers in conference on jurisdic- tion over painting of light poles, cable boxes and other electrical carrying equipment at American Federation of Labor headquarters on Jan, 2, The conference was urged by the Detroy convention of the A. F. of L, after con- sideration of the dispute, introduction to these articles have been proven. They have been proven by the statements of labor officialdom, capitalist apologists, socialist party leaders and government officials, front of reaction the Communist and left wing workers represent the interests and fight for the right to strike, the right to free expression of political opinions in the unions, the right of the rank and file to make decisions without intimidation from gangsters in the pay of the official machine, It ts not for “the preservation of the trade unfons” that officialdom is con- tending, but for trade unionism in name only—a lifeless, impotent organ- ization managed in the, interests of the bosses and resembling trade unionism only in that it supports an officialdom which talks of trade union- ism—with its tongue in its fat’ jowl. HE left wing is fighting to make the unions instruments and weap- ons of the whole working class, This fight # will win by raising those issues which are of the most immediate importance to the masses, concentrating all efforts on winning these elementary struggles, exposing determination and aotivity to the ranke of the unorganized, drawing into the struggle every available force against the agents of capitalism in the labor movement, the gap between the masses of exploited workers and officialdom widens by reason of the open reaction of the latter, the left wing, still small and weak in numbers but mighty with potential power, will tend more and more to become THE labor move- ment, The millions of workers in America who toil long hours for low ‘wages and to whom labor officialdom pays no at tention except to sabotage their strug- gles, are a guarantee that the left program will become the program of the American masses, (The End.) FEDERAL MAIL EMPLOYES ASK NEW STATUTES Railway Postal Men Support 3 Bills WASHINGTON, Jan. 7.—Three bills whose enactment is sought by the Railway Mail jociation, affiliated with the Ameri Federation of La- bor, are. ready.for favorable-.report. from committee in the house. The first is the Kelly bill requiring that all mail cars be of steel con- struction. This would end the use of wooden cars where only 30-foot com- partments are leased for carrying mail, Deaths in wooden cars are far more likely than in steel cars ‘when wrecks occur. Hour Demande. Second is the hours of service bill, establishing a maximum average of six and a quarter hours per day, 360 days a year, for railway mail clerks. Since they must often work 12 to 18 hours on @ continuous run, the need for long periods of rest in order to restore their strength is insisted upon. Third is the night differential bill. The clerks demand, and all postoffice employes’ unions ask, that 45 or 50 minutes of work at night count for the same as 60 minutes’ work in the daytime. Postmaster General New recommended a differential in pay, in- stead, last year. But when the white house opposed this increase in pay he withdrew. This year he repeats his recommendation, and the unions do not credit him with good faith, Labor “Friend” Fights. Filibustering against the time dif- ferential bill in committee is Repre- sentative Sproul of Illinois, who was elected with the endorsement of or- ganized labor. He is now spokesman for New in the contest, Join the American Worker Corres pondent movement! iin Melrose Park Mexicans GAINST the offensive of the united the true role of the present labor leadership, organizing, teaching, fight- ing the battles of the workers, ex- tending the struggle to the whole la- bor movement and spreading it by ANEW j NOVEL Wlon Sinclair (Copyright, 1926, by Upton Sinclatr,) CHAPTER XVII. The Exposure. I. All that fall and ‘winter the quaf had been calling from the hills of Paradise unheeded. Bunny didn’t want to go there. But now it chanced that Dad had some matters to see to, and his chauffeur had got sent to jail for turning bootlegger in his off hours. Dad was having spells of bad health, when he did not feel equal to driving; and this being a Friday, his son offered to take him. The Ross Junior tract had noth- ing left of Bunny but the name.’ There wag a strange woman as housekeeper in the ranch house, and the Rascum cabin had been moved, and the bougainvilles vine replaced by a derrick. Every one of the fellows who had met with Paul was gone, and there were no more intellectual discussions. Par adise was now a place where men worked hard at getting out oil, and kept their mouths closed. There were hundreds of men Bunny had never seen before, and these had brought a new atmosphere. They patronized the bootleggers and the Poolrooms, and places for seoret gambling and drinking. “Orange- pickers” was the contemptuous name the real oil workers applied to this new element, and their lack of familiarity with their jobs was e cause of endless trouble; they would slip from greasy derricks, or get crushed by the heavy pipe, and the company had had to build an addition to the hospital. But of course that was cheaper than pay- ing union wages to skilled ment A deplorablbe thing happened te Bunny; his reading of a book was interrupted by a visit from the wife of Jick Duggan, one of the men tm the-county jail. The woman insist- ed on seeing him, and then insisted on weeping all over the place, and thlling him herrowing tales about her husband and the other fellows. She begged him to go and see for himself, and he was weak enough to yield—you can see how impru- dent it was, on the part of a young oil prince who was trying to grow his hard shell, so that he could be a help to his old father, and enjoy life with a darling of the world. Bunny knew that he was doing wrong, and showed his guilt by not telling his father where he was going that rainy Saturday after- noon. They let him into the jail ‘with. out objection; the men who kept the place being used to it, and un- able. to foresee the impression it would make upon a young idealist. The ancient dungeon had been con- trived by an architect with a special genius for driving his fellow beings mad. The “tanks,” instead of hav- ing doors with keys, like other jail cells, were designed as revolving turrets, and whenever you wanted to put a prisoner in or take one out, you revolved the turret until an opening im one set of bars cor- responded with an opening in an- other set. This revolving was done by means of a hand-winch, and in- volved a frightful grinding and shrieking of rusty iron. There were three such tanks, one on top of the other, and the revolving of any one inflicted the uproar on everybody. In the course of the jail’s forty years of history, scores of men had gone mad from having to listen to these sounds at all hours of the day and night. Have you ever had the experience of seeing some person you know and love shut behind bars like a wild beast? It was something that hit Bunny in the pit of his stom. ach, and made him weak and faint, Here were seven fellows, all but two of them young as himself, crowding together like so many friendly and affectionate deer, nuz- zling thru the bars and expecting lumps of sugar or bits of bread, Their pitiful clamor of welcome, the grateful light on their faces—just for a visit, a few minutes of @ rich young man’s time! (Continued tomorrow.) Were Not Only Beaten and Fined, But Robbed As Well The outrageous treatment given about 37 Mexicans at Melrose Park, following. the shooting affair in that suburb in the early morning hours of Dec. 7, grows as new evidence comes to light. - - It now appears that some of the 36 who were driven from their box car homes and taken to jail were robbed by the police of some of their prop- erty. The police ‘of \.Melrose Park, Oak Park, and Chicago had the Mexi- cans in charge, and some of them are accused by their victims of theft. J. Trinidad Garcia has submitted to the Mexican consulate a list of the effects which he and four or five oth- er Mexicans lost at the time. The list includes four watches with a to- tal value of $200; money to the amount of $133; an overcoat valued at $659 a watch chain worth $12.50; and two silk shirts which had cost $16. The Mexican consulate has placed pe the matter in the hands of its. attor- ney, Mary Belle Spencer, with the re- quest that she see what can be done in the matter. This property loss is in addition to the fines of $50 each and costs which Judge L, DeFranco of Melrose Park slapped on them, and quite apart from the beating up which some of them received at the hands of the assem- bled officers of several suburbs and Chicago, ‘Do we need the Council for the Pro- tection of the Foreign Born? Steals to Feed Family. PORTLAND, Oregon — Because hig wife and two babies were hungry and he stole money from Salvation Army Christmas boxes with which to feed them, J. T. Marlatt, 27, is in jail here, The amount he took from the boxes was $3,