The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 4, 1927, Page 5

Organized Labor—Trade Union Activities. News and Comment + Labor Education Labor and Government Trade Union Politics CHURCH REPORT ON ROCKEFELLER RAILWAY STRIKE Communities Protested Attack on Labor WASHINGTON _ (FP.), — Report; upon its investigation into the causes and incidents of the long strike of the locomotive engineers and firemen on the Western Maryland Railroad is to be published about Feb. 15 by the! jo'rt committee of the Federal Coun- cil of Churches, the National Catholic’ Welfare Conference and the Central Conference of American Rabbis. Communities Protest. This report will deal with the ag- gressions of President Byers of the vroad— which is a coal-cartier--- egainst the brotherhoods of its em- ployes, the consequences of its vir- tual lockout of the union men on its engines, ond the response of the com: munities along the line of the road: to the wrong done the workers and these communities by the company’s anti-labor policy. One feature that presumably will not be included is the latest trick of John D. Rockefeller, Jr., largest stockholder in the Western Mary-| laud, to avoid public scorn for his offense in refusing to have the com- pany make peace. Rockefeller Hides. Rockofeller has run to cover in this instance, as in various earlier cases, by selling some of his stock, without losing actua! control of policy. In the Western Maryland case, as in the case of.the Colorado Fuel & lvon Co, of a dozen years ago, and in the ease of Consolidation Coal, Rockefeller began by brazen denial that any wrong had been done the workers, Then, when the fects were upon his attention—the people waberland, Hagerstown and oth- ev points along the road holding meetings and having their municipal officials and clergy appeal direct to itockefeller at New York—he pleaded’ ‘hat -he did not own a majority of the stock. Finelly, he has been made so uncomfortable in his prétenses that 2 stock-nelling flurry has der staged m ‘Wall Straet, and he hag ‘cashed in on the higher price created for Western Maryland and for Wheel- ing & Lake Erie. Still the Boss. But Rockefeller has not sold his interest in Consolidation Coal nor in the Davis Coal & Coke Co., which furnish the Western Maryland with the biggest share of its freight re- venues. Wheeling & Lake Erie gave him an outlet northward and the Western Maryland an outlet tosea- board for his coal, Over the Western’ Maryland hé has shipped, despite the strike of the past two years, the huge yolume of coal that fills his contracts with the Italian goyernment. How much stock in each road Rockefeller has handed over to the market, while the shorts in that stock were being pinched, is not known. That he sold énough to endanger his power to dictate the labor policy of the Western Maryland is not believed by the strikers or the railroad fin- nance experts. is Washington. Rocke- ‘feller remains responsible for the lockout of the brotherhoods on the Western Maryland, as he is for the anti-union policy of Consolidation Coal, ot Roll in the Subs For The DAILY WORKER. | LETTERS FROM OUR From the Logging Camps. Editor, DAILY WORK -As one of the many victims of the logging in- dustry, in the Northwest, I deemed it for the best interests of the workers who work in the logging and lumber industry to relate ita riences. 1 was twice injured last year and the last time my knee was badly, hurt, which tho it is several months to work normally. ” Tt is not my fault for the injuries received. The work is one of the, most hazardous and anyone, no mat- ter how cautious, may expect to be hurt most any time. It will, of course, take a long time to explain this part of the matter, But what I _ want to complain about is the fact that under the compensation laws of the state of Washington, the compa- nies are required to report the acci- denty at once, yet it took the Clem- ense Logging Company more than 4 months before they to the department of labor and ihdustries. In the meantime I had to pay myself for medicine and other care in cot noction with the hospital attendance. Finally I received a compensation, THE DAILY WORKER, NEW_YORK, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1927 NEARLY TWO BILLION FOREIGN INVESTMENTS LAST YEAR; “MODERN METHOD OF CONQUEST” RAPIDLY SUBDUE GERMANY, SOUTH AMERICA (By LELAND OLDS, Federated Press) The rapid éxtension of American capitalist domination over the world stands out in repotts on the record capital flotations of 1926. According to Vice-president Max Winkler of Moody’s Investor’s Service, American foreign investments during 1926 reached a net total of $1,906,706,101. brings the grand total investment of This U,. S. capital in foreign lands, exclu- sive of loans by the government, to $18,252,000,000. Shows Private Deals. These figures are somewhat larger than those reported by the Commer- cial & Financial Chronicle because they include not only news securities publicly offered but also issue placed privately with American investors, direct American purchases of foreign property not involving the public of- fering of securities, the acquisition of foreign securities already outstanding and the purchase of foreign internal isstes. The Chronicle reckons public- ly offered foreign securities at $1,- 145,099,740 in 1926, $1,086,160,500 in 1925 and $966,570,320 in 1924, a total of $3,227,830,520 in 8 years. Modern Conquest. Woodrow Wilson pointed out that such financial penetration of foreign | countries was the modern form of conquest. Winkler says: “Just as the Napoleonic wars brought about a transfer of the finan- American foreign investment in 1926 Europe, except Germany Germany Total Europe Canada South America Central America U. S. Territories Miscellaneous Grand total Taking Over Germany. American capital is pouring into Germany, especially into German steel and utility corporations. The $348,895,550 of American ,.capital in 1926 follows $203,229,500 in 1925, making a total of more than $550,-/ 000,000 in two years. cial hegemony of the Netherlands to London, the world war appears to have been résponsible for the shift- ing, for the time being at least, of the financial supremacy from the elassie center of finance to New York.” 8 Using The War. Before the United States openly en- tered the war New York financiers saw that it offered them an oppor- tunity to make New York the finan- cial capital of the world, With $3,- 515,000,000 invested in Canada, $3,- |$87,600,000 in Europe, $4,314,000,000 in Latin America, $1,086,000,000 in |countries outside these spheres, and jthe total growing at an increasing pace, they are well on their way. The following table shows the dis- tribution of 1926 foreign: investment to governments and municipalities and to corporations: Gov't, State & Municipal Corporations $187,252,000 $189,524,680 87,460,750 348,396,550 274,712,760 587,920,280 180,882,122 357,219,500 263,057,970 139,630,950 10,920,000 104,421,880 8,881,000 2,547,599 19,779,000 56,732,100 $708,232,842 $1,198,472,259 Important American investments | outside of Germany in 1926 included which went into German corporations | $20,000,000 in the Italian Pulbie Util- ity Credit institution; $16,0000,000 in Cuban-Dominican sugar; $22,500,000 in Intl. Match Corp.; $35,000,000 in Chile copper and $10,000,000 in the Fiat auto works at Turin, Italy. Print Weird Legends About Cantonese. in Swedish Canada News (By a Worker Correspondent) CORNING, Sask., Canada, Feb, 3.— The Swedish Canada News, a paper|day? absolutely loyal to the pretentions of| good, bad, or. worse? the imperialists in this dominion, and willing to betray and misinform Swedish immigrants for the sake of Canadian and British capitalists, pub- lishes long editorial articles against the Cantonese uprising in China. Wields Romantic Pen: Drawing heavily on his imagina~ tion, the editor of the Swedish Canada News represents Dr. Sun Yat Sen and General Chiang-Kai-shek as two dime novel tricksters, rousing the fanatical Chinese to follow them by posing as gods, and working miracles by slight of hand. , - Opposite of Fact. The absurdity of this tale would be apparent to anybody who ¢ould even read the complaints of foreign mis- sionaries that the Kuomintang have no more regard for the native religion than they have for Christianity, but disregard all religions altogether. However, the Canadian Swedish paper thinks to take advantage of the lim- ited information of readers who come to the Swedish language bourgeois papers for information. The Com- munist Ny Tid will explain the. facts to such as do not read English. ‘Brooklyn Teachers Meet Feb. 7. The February meeting of the ex- ecutive committee of thé Brooklyn Teachers Association, Oswald Schlock- ow president, will be held at the Unity Club, Bedford avenue and Dean street, Brooklyn, on Monday, February 7. READERS this compensation law, to more than that, but the commis- sioner seems to delay the matter in- | stead of helping, which is his duty. the boss’s game. ‘ For my patt, I wish the workers|for beginning anything worth since, J am still far from being able, would get wise in the logging indus-| Watch today and tomorrow for a good |set the price of the job at $1.75, try and organize and fight for their]story, if you haven't one in mind,| whereas the others, at time rates, rights as men should, instead of de-|Then write it just as you would tell} would have got about $2.50, jee: and town of the country. ' Do You Want a Good Daily Worker? Then Be a Correspondent (By a Worker Correspondent.) What happened in your shop to- Are your working conditions What is your union doing? Are you having an or- ganization campaign? If you sat down tonight and wrote us a story about these things you'd be a first-rate, on-the-job workers’ correspondent. But for some reason, the workers have grown lazy recently and we are missing our former regu- lar reports from the various battle lines. r Suppose in a war the reporters for- got to send news back to the papers, or suppose they only wrote a story once every six months—and all the time the war was going om, men were being killed, cities bombed, warships blown up! What sort of newspapers could be printed—when all that peo- ple cared about was the war? That’s the way The DAILY WORK- ER is left when its correspondents forget their jobs. Field news has to be suspended. The DAILY WORKER can’t afford to send an investigator out to your town to see what is hap- pening—either to you, or to the mill, and mines and factories. The DAILY WORKER needs its whole corps of worker correspondents to be actively collecting news in every How else can this workers’ paper know what the workers are doing, except when great masses of them are en- gaged in some national event like a strike which attracts wide attention? For the everyday story of the worker on the job, and the story of what he is doing little by little to better his conditions—or what the conditions are under which he works—The DAILY WORKER must rely on the worker correspondents. not only be filling a place on The factory or shop newspaper when con- There is no ‘time like the, present while. pending on the department of labor|it to one of your friends. Don’t try and boss’s compensation. Although I}to be literary. The greatest writing | went to the could hardly stand up, the state doc-jis simple. tot advised me.to do light work andjopinions, or describe your feelings. |organized them together for a wall. I was forced to work part of the time|Give us news. in order to earn my living. Remember, write on one side of the The state paid doctor of the de-| paper only, and if possible use a type- partment of labor told me, or tried to tell me, that I was sick of tonsili- tis pw that egned Aegon Bid my suffering of umatism that had to do with the injury re- ceived. On the other hand the pri- vate doctor in Seattle not only laugh- writer, Syrian Insurgents Again in Damascus Those who send in stories here will hoes which is &/DAILY WORKER, but they will be|we will make a fair price for the’ bosses’ protective law, I am entitled) preparing themselves to establish | work.” itions in their industry permit. Act-|ing to set a moderate pace. But there ing as a DAILY WORKER corre-|was a pace-maker in the crowd, one It is rather plain that the department] spondent is a training, not, only in | individual who slapped his e of my expe-| of labor in this state, instead of help-| writing simply and clearly, but in ob-|work through in much less ing the injured workers, are playing} serving and in gathering information, |the others took. Don’t express personal{of them at least $2.25, and another | chine around himeolf. { | I An attempt was made by Repre- REACTION ADMITS ITS MAN GRAFTED PAINTERS’ MONEY But Official Accountant | GAPMAKERS OUT : Shields $26,000 Thief Twenty-six thousand dollars was |stolen in a period of 19 months by | Charles Koenig, former secretary of Policies and Programs The Trade Union Press Strikes—Injunctions Labor and Imperialism 100 PER CENT IN the New York District Council of Painters. This was the report of Certified Accountant Doyle, who had been en- | gaged by George H. Hedrick, presi: | dent of the Brotherhood of Painters, | — to examine the official records of the . ‘ . | district council, and to investigate deers nome rg [the charges of Painters Local 208, | outh in Foretron that huge sums of money, belonging | aaah to the treasury of the council, had | BOSTON, Feb. 3.—The striking lwen stolen by Koenig, the financial | capmakers’ headquarters are throb- *¢¢tetary, and Philip Zausner, the | bing with life and enthusiasm. Picket day secretary of the council. committees report that the result of Shows Big Graft. the call for the strike had been a 100! Doyle’s report states that he in-| percent walk-out. Every shop had| vestigated the books of the council, been protected by the early-morning} and that in the 19 months from Jan- pickets. |uary, 1925, to September, 1926, 1637, After the various committees re-|new members wete admitted with ported at a recent mass meeting, I./an initiation payment of $75 per Beckman, organizer of the Boston! ;nember. ‘ Of this number, 37 names furriers, spoke. Recalling the part) had been entered as honorable mem- | that the capmakers had taken in help-| bets, at the rate of $5 per head. ing tne furriers to win the 40-hour) This netted Koenig the neat sum of} week and increased minimum wage,' $2,520. Only 275 men were recorded | he offered the financial and moral|ns having paid the full amount of support of his union. “My speech) $75, the bulk of the candidates, will be short,” he said, “because I am! {hough having paid the full amount, not well, but I feel it an honor to|were entered as having paid much have been called as the first guest|loss, and, according to the certified to address the striking capmakers and pecount, netted the grafters a nice I know yours will be a winning fight.”| income of $28,000. Call for Veteran. Head " its It A loud call then came from the pp:, poi ge ws aie the oo Bi keg Me hal Eo in smounts which are missing, accord- dhganises of the Gagsakers’ Union th ing to the public accountants of Falk, ‘The Manager's Corner “LIEBER WENIGER ABER BESSER” (Rather less but better) In these words Lenin expressed a principle which ts basic in the building up of a strong revolutionary movement. It is a principle which is totally at variance with the entire ideology of capitalism. The same priaciple may be fittingly applied to the question of the press, The chief claim of the average capitalist paper, of which it boasts and on the basis of which it claims the right to the patronage of the workers, is the fact that it gives quantity. The average capitalist paper weighs far more than Tie DAILY WORKER. It contains more pigtures. It contains more articles. It has more writers. It contains moré fea- tures. Its selling ery is, “We have MORE than the others.” But when this mass of material is made up of the filth of the Browning case, attacks on labor, and matter tending to confuse and mislead the minds of the workers, then surely the boast of quantity becomes an empty one, somethiny to be regarded by the workera with misgiving rather than ap- proval, The DAILY WORKER, on the other hand, is limited to six pages. But within that limited space is included the really important news of the day. A worker has neither the time nor the inclination to wade throw the mass of wninrectssary, irrelevant and stupid material which finds its way in the eol- umns of the capitalist press. He therefore seeks a paper which shall pick out for him that which is worth reading, whieh shall give him far more than the news itself, a corréct interpretation of the events of the day. For this reason Thé DAILY WORKER is slowly but surely establishing iteélf with the discriminating reader as a papér worth reading not for its voluminousness, but rather for the quality of ite news ond views —BERT MILLER. INTERNATIONAL LABOR DEFENSE MUST GROW TO CARE FOR CASES OF PERSECUTION SURE TO COME IN NEW YEAR OF UNION ACTIVITY By PAT DEVINE. Boston 2) years ago. His compari- sons between the conditions of the workers then and now entirely butst the bubble of workers’ prosperity in the last decade. He showed that 25 years ago, when workers had very little, there was still a vistage of hu manity even in the bosses, which is completely extinct in the modern protit-hungry “magnates,” as he face- tiously called the “cock-roach” em- Dvorkin & Co., who had heen en- gaged hy Local 905, but nevertheless, coming from a man who had been appointed by the Painters Headquar- ters of Lafayette, Indiana, the admis- ji of the actual graft is stagger- The report was read at the reg- ular delegate meeting of the district council. No sooner had he finished reading his findings, than Doyle im- A close study of experiences of the working class of the world that during the past year conditions for the workers have been gta getting worse and worse. In Europe the workers are rapidly being drives down to the cooliec level. Great Britain was the scene of the most gigantic class conflict sihee the Russian revolution. The inevitable result of capitalism was openly mant- fested, viz., the workers on one side, the employers on the other, egch de- manding that the other submit to their terms, During that momentous a gle ‘many workers were thrust into prison because of their ofa: activities. As a result of these imprisonments the British wotketé. have realized the urgent need for organizing a definite body for the of prisoners and their dependents. Italy Writhes. Italy has also passed through fire during the past year. Mussolini, the personification of all the ery tod class forces of suppression, has been riding rough-shod over the workers. One had only to show signs of being mediately switched his position. He! praised the neatness in which the mn ‘ . Looks had been kept, and offered the Widrow caused much merriment in suggestion, that the council accept recounting daily encounters with the offer of Koenig, that it should foremen and employers, with which) oor one half of the money that was all capmakers are familiar, pointing stolen by him, so that Koenig would out in each case how unconcerned the! iva tor the cornet $12,000, and let ve sgh workers’ inter-| she case rest. Doyle, assuming the | a man to find oneself thrust into pris- ce ge ee role of a dictator, stated that this on and compelled to suffer the most Encouraging Reports. must be accepted, that the whole af-| horrible torture. There also the work- Bob Glover, Sharpe and other rank- fair must be settled within the coun- ers have seen the necessity of form- and-file members spoke, all voicing cij and must not be permitted to go ing a defense body. the same sentiments of co-operation; the courts, and that the matter Hungary Suffers and unified effort, offering them- chould not even be submitted before fp Hungary the brutalities of the selves and all they have to win this the various local unions. Horthy. regime make one shudder. fight. A, Bil A Won't Cover Up. ‘Indiscriminate arrests are made and _ The spirit of the workers is very 1» this he was, however, severely inconceivable tortures are perpetrated high, and they seem to Diggs idea} -obuked by the progressive dele- on the unfortunate prisoners. The of a bit of @ vapation from the grind- yates, and was told, that Koenig) outstanding case of that valiant and ing of machinery. and his co-partners had stolen the sincere champion of the workers, The Youth to the Front. funds belonging to the membership Rakosi, demands the atténtion of all An encouraging feature is the en-| 9+ large, and that his report would his lot had not the labor defense in thusiasm of the young workers. They therefore have to be submitted to of us. Death would have been are in the forefront at picketing, and cach local, The delegates were ser- Budapest and all over the world dem- add much to the liveliness of the ioysly insulted by the suggestion, | onstrated its indignation against that picket lines, As a result-of their ac- tha: haying stolen $26,000 from devilish attempt to crush the voice of tivities, other young workers, unused ¢),¢j- organization, Koenig would the workers. Rakosi lives today be- to strikes, and uninformed, have be-' yoy “generously” agree to repay cause of the organized indignation of gun to see what it is all about, and/j)¢ of that amount, and then go|the working class under the banner to leave the struck shops. Shippers away, a free man. A demand was of international labor defense. and packers especially are coming Ut pede that he be brought to court, | Martyrs jn America. aren day, ce ee their fellow tie the criminal that he is. One could take all the countries in workers on strike. sie ? 4 the world and show how necessaty The young are discriminated | iM nine Uae is athe question of defense is to a mili- against in the capmaking. industry. ditiel. Walken & theg for the | tant working class. For lack of space The season is short for all workers obee! Rhea tfalo wav aly < let us consider America just now. and the pay averages $30 a week for ios 4 sng floorleader at the Painners’ |, Today almost 100 workers ate lying adults, and even less for young work-| rotor evr sy e furious, and i the penitentiaries of America, Pas- ers. The seven per cent increase de- prey raped K vores whale Au oat o Saic is an outstanding example of how manded will come in handy. jetated that Koenig wou! ei 8° ' the bosses go to work. As soon as to jail, that the bonding company i) strike showed si i etd igns of becoming a jhad alteady demanded his extrica-| 1 ony serious challenge to the en- Bie ha PH but that he, Doyle,| igvers all the forces of the state | would si rs im. ade then that | 7e7 lined up against it. A mot lon Naa mi ens viagrd the | Mass arrests were the order of the Doyle’s report referred. to ‘day. As usual those who were thought various local unions so that the ds ‘membership of the whole district pied el task ee aa for the should decide whether such an offer was shown the need for a definite or- is satisfactory, ond whether the panization to. protect working class gvafters shall go free. The motion fiohnters, Because of the lack of at- carried, and within a week, each lo- tention given to the whole question of ‘eal must vote on this report, and ress? radio cases to get the finishing DEO-| is surh. th thelr vote to the PM psec 11 courageous workers, who “Rub this furniture out,” said |“. mi trict council not later than Feb. 10, ! be to the men, 4l)’on place work, * and when the council will hold its next meeting. ployers, Bosses Careless, Furniture Rubbers Stick Together to Run Out Pace-maker (By a Worker Correspondent) | JAMESTOWN, N. Y., Feb, 3.—In} the rubbing department of a furniture factory here, the boss recently came to the men with an imporatnt job of languishing in jail. Comrades, one outstanding lesson of Passaic is the necessity of concentrating on defense! Was Communist Hater. Sacco, Vanzetti Case It will be recalled that during the) hen there is the famous Sacco and last three months in 1926 these | Vanvetti case. The international la- part of the charges of graft, made by Local 906, hor defense has been most active in time than were referred to by headquarters @8\ the fight to save the lives or these a lot of dirt thrown out by the Com- two valiant working closs martyy. Solidarity Wins. munists in order to wih the election | Not enly in Araerica, but in every The foreman, commenting on this, of their candidate to the council. | country in the world, the workers The mah most implicated in fraud, | have vigorously protested against this | Phillip Zausner, was agai running | unprecedented frame-up. Nobody se- \for the office of day-secretary. He | viously believes Sacco and Vanzetti The men immediately protested, one | had been the real boss for over eight | committed the mutder for which they he boss to demand for all) years, and had built a powerful ma-' are charged. There is a flagrant case ‘of anti-working class prejudice. Mowever, his game of graft had Thanks to the wonderful response out if necessary. The boss yielded, |een played so openly, that nobody from ail sections of the workers, there and also agreed to fire the profes- took him seriously in his declaration | two comrades are alive, If our agita- sional speeder. of innocence. Althd ha polled a big! tion abates ever so little they will go vote in the December election he! to the chair. ‘ to was beaten by the progressive op-| Catch Poll for Benito. position candidate, Thomas Wright. , Another most important question Zausner and Koenig accumulated | facing the American working class is sentative La Guardia (D.), of New, during their reign of offite much that of political refugees. In years York City, to provide an appropria- property and real estate. Zausner is| gone by the United States was con- The men set to work, tacitly agree- | No Appropriation for Envoy 8. R. —our land is the haven of réat for aff oppressed souls.” Today Mussolini has provéd how baseless such a statement way. His spies in this have ferteted out the antd-Pesciet slementy and pm the United States department of fa- bor is acting es his ¢ alto and proposes ‘all the milf- tant weing oe elements. ve Sormenti. Sormenti, that Fascist threatened ew) anti- , is deporin- tion. If such ony ane is out, he undoul be reed as — ad mericahs who the freedom of the poh ps test against this action. Our comrades are fighting our battle as bie as their own. n organizational campaign - mencing how. Strong as the ie. is, it must become stronger ff it to successfully tackle the question of defense on a latger scale, will be held shortly all over and all workers who believe in théir class and think it worth fi must ge to those m slovenly or haphazatd Fae suffice for this new year, e ers are going to pass th times in the United States. edly many good working ¢lass will be atrested in an attempt to ctip- ple our forces, Bring in Unions. The unions must be btought P the I. L. D. They ate the first line of defense. The ¥. L. D, is 3 most fectial part of Bet agit. Trade unionists must raise the question their locals. Let this campaign be a sigantte success, Workers! it tous ree have fought evetybody’s it 1 on There |Your own, Fags OE cela your own battle. the he. temember the prisoners in pro tect the futute prisoners, f for the big organizational of the I. L, D.! Your duty fought the workers’ battle, are stil]|it—we expect it. Here's for a etpong mass International Labor Defense? FOR YOUR HEALTH. Strictly Pure FLOBIDA Honey Guaranteed by the Bee-Farmer, Delivered in New York City at following prices: 2 Lbs, 75 3 Lbs. $1.00 : 5 Lbs, $1.50 Goes to Daily Omer by Mail 10% Worker, CONSTANTINOPLE ,Feb, 3.—Re-|tion for an American diplomatic rep- j;ow in business selling paint, but sidered & refuge for the downtrodden thus far the sam of $46 for living ex- wees and @t{, Altho even under ed at such nonsensé on the part of the! ports of fighting between the French state paid doctor, but sent a letter to}occupation forces and the rebellious the state department informing them/ tribesmen in Syria continue to filter that it was not a case of tonsilitis but/in here. The insurgents today were one of CEH received—ALEXAN-| reported to have entered Damascus where active street fighting ensued... !nized. His amendment was, defeated, and oppressed the world over, Well can We temember the pratings of our politicians that “America, the most wonderful country the world has ever Roll in the Subs For The DAILY | known, is so different from the Buro- WORKER. | pean and other countries, we are free resentative in the Soviet Union dur-|the members are not thra with him | ing the final reading of the bill mak-| yet. ing appropriations for the Depart- ment of State. Mr. La Guardia urged that the Soviet Government be Lost abe ia AEG a is J. A, FEURER 3656 Park Ave. N.Y. C, Agents Wanted.