The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 29, 1927, Page 4

‘of the capitalists and their hirelings, for the workers. Page Six THE DAILY WORKER Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING Daily, Except Sunday 83 First Street, New York, N. Y. Phone, Orchard 4928 By mail (outside of New York): $6.00 per year $3.50 six months $2.00 three months By mail (in New York only): $8.00 per year $4.50 six months $2.50 three months Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 33 First Street, New York, N. Y. J. LOUIS ENGDAHL isi WILLIAM F. DUNNE [(c°cc*otrsstctrcsset! Uditors BERT: MILLERS... sess eecgeccestis Business Manager Entered as second-class mail at the post-office at New York, N. ¥,, under the act of March 3, 1879. : Rosalsky’s Savage Sentences Nineteen cloakmakers were yesterday sentenced to long terms of imprisonment by Judge Rosalsky for picketing scab shops last summer during the course of a strike between membérs of the I. L. G. W. U. and the employers. In imposing sentence on the defendants Judge Rosalsky made a record for himself that will not fail to endear him to the em- ploying class and earn for him a reward from the manufacturers when the workingclass whom he is persecuting bring an end to his judicial career on some future election day. From two and-a-half to five years in Sing Sing to three year probation terms were the two extremes of punishment inflicted on those workers for performing their union duty. The sentences are the most severe in the history of the organization. When these savage sentences were handed out by this jud- icial flunkey of the clothing bosses the families and-friends of the sentenced workers made a demonstration. In. describing the scene, the respectable New York Evening Post referred to the participants as “the herd (emphasis ours—Ed.) of screaming women, squalling babies and cursing men”. This reference speaks volumes for the scorn and hate that overflows from the hearts The sacredness in which they hold womanhood dissipates like mists before the sun when womanhood is concretized into a striking needle trades worker, or a mother of a convicted striker. The brutal treatment accorded these prisoners by Rosalsky was made possible and encouraged, by the’traitorous conduct of the Sigman-Green combination which entered into an alliance with the blackest capitalist reaction in an effort to smash the closed ranks of the workers in their struggle for better conditions for themselves and a better standard of living for their dependents. The conduct of the biblical Judas who took the thirty pieces of silver for giving up his leader into the hands of the Roman task- masters was decency itself compared to the role played by Sig- man and his blackhearted squad of sluggers.’ Judas at least had By BERTRAM D. WOLFE. The chief obstacle to the destruc- tion of the United Mine Workers’ Union is the fighting spirit and fight- ing traditions of its rank and file. One of these traditions was the clause placed in the constitution of the U. M. W. of A. by its founders} way back in 1890 declaring that the) union is organized to obtain for its| members “the full social value of| their product.” “Czar” Lewis and the administra- tion machine on Wednesday attacked this famous section of the preamble of the union constitution, giving as their ground that “the bosses object- ed and called the union socialistic.” And the machine substituted for “full social value of their product” the words “an equitable share of the fruits of their labor.” The preamble of a union constitu- tion is only a symbol, but the clause’ just wrecked by Lewis was the sym- bol of a fighting class policy, the} symbol of a real struggle against the coal barons, the symbol of an un- flinching fight for the interests of} ‘ THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JANUARY 29, 1927 Lewis Attacks the Constitution the men who toil in the mines, the symbol of the long battle for nation- alization of the mines as a step to- ward their being worked for the use of the community and the welfare of the miners and not for private profit of the coal barons. This move is in line .with the gen- eral policy of the trade unien bureau- cracy, best expressed by Matthew Woll, of making the trade unions “re- spectable,” ‘making ‘them satisfactory to the bosses, making them an aid to the bosses in increasing produc- tion, in speeding up, in increased profit at the expense of the workers. The Lewis-Woll plan means the con- version of the trade unions into agen- cies of the boss, the officials into foremen and straw bosses paid not by the boss but by the dues of the membership; it means the converting} of our unions into company unions} with the difference that they have officials not directly, employed by the company, dues, per capita and meet- ings outside of the plant. These are, of course, important differences, but the tendency is elear just the same. In trying to put these things across, men like Woll and Lewis] reckon without their rank and file.| The mine workers with their fighting traditions will never let their union be turned into a tool of the coal barons. Nor will the building trades work- ers, who are generally regarded as “conservative trade unionists, ever consent to their unions being turned into speed-up machines and their of- ficials into foremen and straw bosses. The old trade union philosophy of not working so fast as to lead to exhaust- tion, the old plan to “make work” for other workers by not hogging it all yourself, was not very revolutionary, ‘but is a far better working class pol- icy than the speed-up policy and the please-the-boss policy of the Wolls and the Lewises. The rank and file of the trade unions have not yet had their final say to this new theory of their officialdom. As far as the United Mine Work- ers are concerned, the miners only really begin to fight after the bosses think they are licked. And Lewis, agent for the coal barons, wili yet find that out. LEWIS PROPAGANDA ON WAGE SCALES PLAYS INTO HANDS OF OPERATORS; FAILURE TO ORGANIZE IN SOUTH LEAVES UNION WAGE “GEARED TO MARKET” By LELAND OLDS (Federated Press). The announced wage cut of 20% by the Pittsburgh Coal Co. reveals again the relentless progress of the open shop campaign against the miners’ union, As pointed out by The Federated Press Dec. 3, the temporary wage increases granted by non-union operators at the fag end of the boom caused by the British strike were designed to weaken the bargaining ‘strength of the United Mine Workers at the coming wage conference. The 3-year Jack- sonville agreement expires April 1. The wage issue was prematurely sprung in the non-union fields. a : Just four days before Pittsburgh | 970,000,000 tons. - Best estimates put Coal announced its wage cut the| about 70% of this capacity in the United Mine Workers’ Journal made|"0n-union ,column. The country re- the following editorial comment on| this giant of the industry: “The best) evidence that it can pay the Jackson-| ville wage rate is that it is doing it} now and recently announced that it) would make no further reductions.”| The action of Pittsburgh Coal prac- tically completes the return of non- union producers to the 1917 scale. The international convention of the a conscience that could be touched. He could not bear the sting of his treaclféry so he went and hanged himself. Green, Sigman and the yellow socialist tribe that are chiefly responsible for those workers being behind prison bars will sleep soundly tonight when they hear of Judge Rosalsky’s action. Lewis’ First Defeat The Lewis machine on Wednesday sustained its first defeat. Lewis had to save his proposal to wreck the constitution in the matter of assessment control by faking the count and refusing a roll call. Even the New York Times correspondent’s version of the event proves that the count was faked. This victory of the progressives in rallying a majority of the delegates for maintaining democratic forms in the union constitution is all the more important because it was achieved in & conventior packed by Lewis with paper delegations and payroll votes. It shows that the progressive elements are putting up a militant battle at the convention and winning adherents as the fight con- tinues. Back of the vote of the majority of the delegates Wed- nesday was the support of over 95 per cent of the rank and file. When people think they have the miners licked is when they really begin to fight. McAdoo and Corruption. William Gibbs McAdoo, former Doheny retainer who got badly smattered with Elk Hills Basin and Teapot Dome oil, is now in a bid for the presidency on a platform of political purity. The late Woodrow Wilson’s Crown Prince declares that in flaunting the prohibition laws the United States is treading a path to anarchy. This sweet breeze blowing thru“the stinking political alleyways of politics charges corrupt municipalities with plotting to control national politics. No more idiotic outburst ever came from the mouth of a mountebank. What are politi- cians in business for, McAdoo included, except to control muni- cipal, state and national politics in the interests of the ‘capitalists on something better than a paltry commission basis? We suppose Mr. McAdoo is convinced that the masses have forgotten the story of his efforts to bribe or bludgeon the Mexi- can government into turning over its oil fields to Edward L. Doheny, while Woodrow Wilson was in the White House—McAdoo: using the influence that his marriage relationship with the presi- dent clothed him with to blackjack concessions from the Mexican government and money from Doheny. This is the man who is now out to ,urify American political life! A Herculean task indeed. Granting that Mr. McAdoo were honest and not a slimy hypocrite; the job of finding a needle in a haystack would be trivial compared to what he es- gays. Corruption is as much a part of capitalism as a tail is of a normal dog. ‘ T would not have a word to say about old William Gladstone and his amorous escapades, except for two reasons; he was a bourgeois and ‘a damned hypocrite. * * { The Soviet Union will not interfere in the struggle between he Cantonese and their imperialist foes, but the government will not place any obstacles in the way of any worker or peasant who desires to assist the Cantonese to clean out the robbers. That is the kind of neutrality that the Cantonese would like to hear about from Coolidge and Kellogg. , union is now im session in Indianap- olis. Reductions in most West Virginia fields were effective Jan. 8. In prac- tically all instances the rates of pay now in effect there are about a third under the Jacksonville scale. At the Ben Franklin Coal Co. mine at Moundsville about 150 of the 200 miners struck, but in general the cut caused little trouble. The test has convinced the operators that the union will get scanty support from the non-union fields in case of a strike. Only the remote possibility of a railroad strike on coal roads could prevent the non-union mines from supplying the country with plenty of seab coal. | The United Mine Workers, by treat- ing the temporary non-union wage in- creaseg as a vindication of its policy, has played into the hands of the oper- ators. The latest full repert of the federal bureau of mines placed the, annual capacity of the bituminous in- dustry on a full-time basis in 1923 at quires only 500,000,000 tons a year. Since the windup of the British coal dispute production has, in general, been ahead of consumption, running in a number of weeks to 13,000,000 and even) 15,000,000 tons. Prob- ably 3,000,000 to 5,000,000 tons a week have been going to swell stocks of | coal which would supply the: country for weeks even if non-union miners joined their union brothers in a walk- out. Total stocks may now have reached the 60,000,000 ton mark. In the past week operators of the central competitive field have been meeting in Toledo to determine their wage policy. Apparently they will urge a sliding seale based on wages paid in the competing non-union fields. Their “present suggestion “is that union operators pay a perpetual differential-of 10% to 15% above non- union rates of pay. This fesembles the situation during the 20 years pre- ceding 1920, In that period, how- ever, the fact that union wages were geared to the market for coal was concealed by a steady upward trend of prices and wages. The two ways in which the miners can break this dependence of union wages on non-union wages are either organization of enough of the coun- try’s capacity to force operators to fix prices on the basis of a decent’ wage or a successful movement for’ government operation. CURRENT EVENTS (Continued from Page 1) sisted on forcing his predictions on them. sf Pasaklatd responsible for the bomb explosion were never apprehend- ed because the government did not, dare tackle the Du Pont powder people. The bankers gave their money to Burns to arrest the con- spirators until it hurt—the bankers. Then they also began to look on “Bill” with a jaundiced eye. So “Bill” went to work for Harry ‘So we find Burns addressing them en his favorite subject. ; HIS is what Burns said in sub- stance: “Gentlemen, the country is faced with a danger of which un- fortunately the substantial citizenry are not aware, outside—if you will permit me—forward-looking Amer: | icans such as I see here before me today. I stand here to call the at- tention of America to the insidious propaganda that is. being spread broadcast by the Communistice agents of Lenin and Trotsky. (Burns was aware that the Rotarians knew not Get Your Union to Telegraph Congress Today! Daugherty and Jess Smith. But he|of Lenin’s death and the cognomenal still kept raving that he knew who|¢ombination produced a fegrful ef- committed the outrage. Then a wise | fect). I am now going to state for reporter got the idea that perhaps |the first time who were the perpe- Burns did‘know. Wouldn't it be fun|trators af the Wall Street bomb if Burns did know? plot.” At this point the Rotarians _ * @ shivered and .began to look sus- Bens gave the bomb explosion | piciously at each other’s hip pockets, a rest for a while. He was busy | afraid that the bulge was not due to framing up on senators who were |a parked flask but to a stick of dyna- after Harry Daugherty’s scalp. The | mite. ® cabinet that Harry was a member AVING created a favorable im- of, was about to sell the army and pression, Burns continued: “I navy after peddling the naval oil | knew that the bomb was going to be reserves to Doheny and Sinclair. | thrown thirty-six hours before the Burns put his agile brain to. work | explosion and I would have n in to save the crooks. But before the|a_ position to dpprehend the crim- storm blew over Burns was kicked |inals had my man been able to gain out of the department of justice. He | access to the meeting at which the could now devote his whole time to|conspiracy was planned. But I have private finking. decided to devote my life to running Laas A TAT down the murderers at whatever Hs name had become so odious, | financial,cost or personal risk. Love however, in the minds of decent of country, gentlemen, stands second people that outside of the Nationa!|in my conception of virtue to love of Civic Federation, The Stoolpigeon’s;God. Yes, gentlemen, I put my Guild and the Allied Women’s Pat-| country even before my mother....” riotic League, Burns had as much] This was too much for the emotional chance of getting by a sergeant-at-| Rotarians. Thriée one hundred flasks arms as a prohibition agent would/ appeared suddenly from as many have of getting into the Bartenders’| pockets and inside of five minutes Union. But time has a mellowing| they ‘were singing “Yes, Sir, Sho’: influence on memory and rotarians| My Baby,” “Bill” Burns out-singing are not noted for cerebral activity.' all the rest. “PEACHES” By SYLVAN. A. POLLACK ITH the exception of The DAILY WORKER, every New York newspaper is devoting column after column to the ‘Peaches”-4 Browning trial now taking place at White Plains, N. Y, When you pick up a copy of Wil- lie Hearst’s tab, The Daily Mirror, you need a magnifying glass *to find anything else to read except this very “important” case. Only a Few Lines. The same can be said for The Daily News, which has the largest circulation of -any newspaper in America—over one million copies caily. Likewise in the case of Ber- narr MecFadden’s Evening Graphic. ws about China,’ Mexico and American intervention in Nicaragua is not printed at all, or relegated to a few lines in some obscure cor-! ner. These tabloids would not print any other story on their front page as long as the trial lasts, with the possible exception of an official de- clgration of war by America, or some other major power. While in the case of the other newspapers in New York, The ‘Times, New York World, Evening Telegram, etc.—it is true that they publish stories about other questions than “Peaches,” yet it must be re- membered that they are giving as much as seven or eight columns to “Peaches” every day. Of What Importance? Should a labor “ paper news stories about this trial? Yes and no. A brief paragraph every once in a while is not out of place in a paper such as The DAILY WORKER. As an example at the opening’ and’ close of the trial and when some very “important” piece of evidence is presented. Cases such as ‘“Peaches”-Brown- ing, Hall-Mills, ete., should be treat- ed by a labor newspaper and the working class in general in relation to its actual importance. That sets us thinknig. Of what importance, if any, is the present “Peaches” case or the past Halls-Mills case or others ef a similar vein which will crop up any second and give the circula- tion managers of the large metro- politan dailies an opportunity to hope that the sensational headlines publish of, their respective papers will have the desired effect. As an ex- ample: Yesterday’s Daily Mirror covered one-third of its front page with the following headline: “PEACHES SHAMF.” News About Unemployed. How much space is given in these same papers about unemployed work- ers? And about strikes, beatings “of workers on the picket line by thugs hired to the bosses and by the po- lice?" Yes, they published stoties about these events. But how. Al- ways from the point of view of the bosses. And the same time they do not give these happenings any- where as much space as the “Sex Appeal” tales. When the workers read about “Peaches,” their mind is taken off Nicaragua and ‘China, so when war is declared they are taken unawares. Bewildered, they don a uniform and fight for “dollar diplomacy.” < Or in the case of a strike or faker: in the unions, with their minds full of “Peaches” they forget about the everyday struggles for better work- ing conditions. J What Will Be Next? Yesterday it was the Hall case, today it is “Peaches,” tomorow it will be someone else, and so on, down the line. These are unconnected epi- sodes having no relation to one an- other or to the many millions who read about them. This should be realized by the workers and ° be Judged accordingly. Roll in the Subs For The DAILY WORKER. WITHDRAW ALL U. S, WARSHIPS FROM NICARAGUA! - NO INTERVENTION IN MEXICO! Iv Every day Dad was getting Iong telegrams from Verne, not coming direct, of course, but addressed to Mrs. Bolling, the wife of the trusty young executive; they were signed “A. H. Dory’—a play upon Dad’s favorite formula, “All hunky-dory.” They were not the sort of telegrams that a doctor would have picked out for soothing of his patient’s nerves; no, they kept the patient in a fer- ver of anxiety—how many, many times he wished that he had lis- tened to the warnings of his young idealist, and kept clear of this mess of corruption! But of course Bun- ny ‘couldn’t say that now; he could only read the news and wait and wonder at what hour the thunder- bolt would descend upon them. Annabelle’s new picture was done, “A Mother’s Heart,” and there was going to be an especially grand premiere, and Bunny was to take Vee, of course, and Dad was to take Aunt Emma, and every- thing would be all hunkydory ior that one night ‘at least. Bunny came home from reading the proofs of the next issue of the paper, and there in the entrance hall he found his aunt waiting for him, her hands shaking with excitement, and her teeth chattering. “Oh, Bunny! The most dreadful thing! They're trying to arrest your father!” “Arrest him?” “Men are after him—right in front of the-house! You’ve got to get away without being seen— they'll follow you—oh, I’m so frightened—oh, please, please, be careful! Don’t let them catch your father!” He managed to get the story, and it was really almost as melodra- | matic as her wild words conveyed. Young Bolling, the trusty executive, had*been to the house a few min- utes ago, looking for Bunny with a message from Dad of the utmost urgency; he had written it out, and Bunny read it; he was to drive in his car, and make absolutely cer- tain that he was hot being followed —there would be men trying to fol- low him, in order to trail Dad. As soon as he had shaken off these men, he must leave his car, which of course had his name on the li- cense he must go to some automo- bile place where he was not known, and buy a closed car under an as- sumed name; it must not be a new car, because they might have to do very fast driving. Still making sure that he was not being fol- lowed, Bunny must proceed to the suburban town of San Pasqual, and at a certain corner Dad would join him. Mr. Bolling had given Aunt Emma five thousand dollars in bills, and then had gone away, hop- ing that the men who were watch- ing the house would follow him. Bunny said a few words to com- fort the poor old lady. Nobody wanted to put Dad into jail, they just wanted to get him on the wit- ness stand, the way they had done the “Petes,” young and old. Bunny threw. a few clothes into an old suit-case, that had no name or nin- tials on it, and hurried out to his car, Sure enough, there was an- other car just down the street, and when Bunny started, this” other started also. Bunny swung round half a dozen corners, but the other car kept on his trail. He bethought himself of the traffic jam in the heart of the city, which was at its worst now, between five and six in the evening. controlled by signals, with two or three officers at the crowded cor- ners, and it would be possible by dodging here and there to get sev- eral cars between you and a pur- suing car, and sooner or later to get across just as the bell rang ‘and compelled your pursuer to-wait. his troubles to all and sundry. It was curious to Bunny” to see the class-consciousness. of these men, an instant, automatic reaction; every one of them was with Dad, every one knew that the exposure was the work of malicious political disturbers, and that the leases had been a good bargain for the public. The savings that intelligent busi- ness men effected always made up many times over for what profits the business men took. When they got to Montreal, there was a palatial steamer waiting, with several hundred wage-slaves of various sorts prepared to serve them in return for a few hundred barrels of the stolen oil. They went on board, and the steamer pro- ceeded down the St. Lawrence river; it stopped at Quebec, and \there were newspapers, and Bunny read that Federal agents had raided HANDS OFF CHINA! The traffic was. Don’t Delay Upton Sinclair a secret convention of the Workers’ - party, and arrested all the dele- gates. It was a highly sensational event, and the Canadian papers gave full particulars—they too had this problem! Their account gave the names of the criminals who had beeh trapped, and one of them was Paul Watkins! VI Not all the oil’ money in the world could make the winter pas- sage to England other than cold and stormy. Dad proved to be a poor sailor, and so he was a for- lorn object when he got to Vernon Roscoe’s hotel in London, . But Verne cheered him up; yes, truly, Dad began to revive with the first thump upon the back and the first boom of Verne’s voice in the hotel lobby. “By Jees, the old skeezicks! I believe the reds have got his nerve!” Nobody had got Verne’s nerve, you bet he was sitting on the top of the world! That investigation— shucks, that was a circus stunt to entertain the yokels. It would blow over and be forgotten in a few months—Verne quoted a chieftain of Tammany Hall who had been up against the same kind of racket, and said, “Dis is a nine day town. If yez kin stand de gaff fer nine days, ye’re all right.” No, by Jees —and Verne gave his partner an- other thump—they were getting the oil out of Sunnyside, and the money was going into their bank accounts, and not into anybody’s else, and they were going to have one. hell of a lark spending it. What >was more, they were going to turn the tables on those blan- kety-blank red senators—just let Dad wait a few days, and he’d see some stuff that would get on the front pages of the papers, even here in England! Jim Junior got his due share of back-slapping. The boy Bolsheviki must take his old man around and show him some of the sights of London; hadn’t he learned about ’em in the history books—the places where men had had their heads chopped off five hundred years ago, and such cheerful spec- tacles? After the old man had got rested up, then Verne would show him some oil propositions that would make his eyes pop open. Verne hadn’t been losing any time —not he! He had put five million into a project that was to. reopen.@ great oil field in Roumania that had been burned during the Ger- man invasion, and it was a deal that would beat Sunnyside, and Verne had got fifty-one per cent and full control, and was going to bring over a complete American 1 outfit, and show those gypsies or whatever they were what a real oil job looked like. And now he was fighting with some of the British oil men over the Persian situation, and Verne and the state | department between them were || waking old John Bull from a long |_ sweet dream. * It was a curious situation that | was unveiled to Bunny here. Ver- |) non Roscoe was a fugitive from the } oil investigating committee of the _ Senate, but at the same time he | was master of the foreign policy | of the United States -government ‘ concerning oil, and the ambassadors abroad and the secretary of state at home behaved as his office boys. Of course there were other oil men; Excelsior Pete and Victor and the rest of the Big Five all had their agents, hundreds of them, abroad; but Verne was so active, and had so much the best word in Washing- ton, that the rest had come to fol- low his lead. President Harding might be dead, but his spirit lived on, and Verne and his crowd had bought and paid for it. (To be Continued.) Senator Naplin’s Widow t’arm-Labor Candidate ‘ R Jes, Magen 0. A Roe of the late Senator Naplin, has re ceived the endorsement of the Farm er Labor party of that state, to sua’ coed her husband ih the unexpire: term as a state senator, Mrs, Naplin has agreed to mala the race. She will, be opposed by Pe ter Engelstad a resident of the sam city, and Marius Waldal of Plummes The primary elections will be heb on Jam 81st, and the final electiot on Feb, 7th. Roll in the Subs For The DAIL! | ‘ . WORKER,