The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 16, 1927, Page 6

Chinese movement. The paper quotes a statement once made by ' Get Your Union Page Six THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, FEB. 16, 1927 THE DAILY WORKER Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING co. Daily, Except Sunday York, N. Y. 88 First Street, New Phone, Orchard 1680 SUBSCRIPTION R: By mail (in New York only): By mail (outside of New York): $8.00 per year $4.50 six months $6.00 per year $3.50 six months three months $2,00 three months Address all mail and make out checks to . Editors . Business Manager s mail at the post-office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 2, 1879. >. ( Advertising rates on application. ——= = a rise Force and Violence in Congress. Those cynical people who have come to the conclusion that sincerity is a stranger in both houses of congress may find cause to reconsider judgment when they read of two engagements that took place in our federal law factories, between two democrats | who quarreled over one bill and two republicans who engaged in hostilities over another. Of course ring fans will put the two fistic encounters down as fakes. There was no blood drawn. There was no knockout. In fact neither one succeeded on connecting with his opponent’s body. Senator Glass of Virginia, notorious reactionary; quarreled| with Senator Wheeler of Montana over the McFadden-Pepper, branch banking bill. The Virginia democrat called the Montana |} democrat a liar, which the latter resented with his knuckles. The two senatorial representatives of the cauliflower industry parried| and feinted but the result was as undecisive as a bundle of signed petitions against war. The customers expressed dissatisfaction | over the showing and pushed the performers into the cloak room. In the House of Representatives, J. N. Tincher and James! G. Strong, two republicans from Kansas, began to feel out the, tender spots in each other’s anatomies. The fists of the com- batants struck out furiously but returned to their bases without having encountered anything more substantial than wandering clouds of tobacco smoke. “Just like ‘politicians,’ some will say,! “always pawing the air.” But for us who have not yet reached the lower levels of cynicism, there is something grand in the spectacle of solons| taking their respective political positions so seriously as to be ready to try them out on each other’s bodies in knight-errant| fashion without giving or taking quarter. It is also consoling to know that frankness of speech and veracity are beginning to put in an appearance in congress. We note that the embattled quartet hurled “liar” at each other in! the preliminaries. This way of settling refractory questions ap- peals to us provided the fighting is done by the capitalist poli-| ticians. There is always the danger that our kill-joy secretary | ef state will interfere, send a detachment of marines into} congress and declare Pennsylvania avenue a netitral zone. Mr.) Kellogg does not like to see policies determined by “force and| violence.” And then Mexico, Nicaragua and China might dis- patch gunboats, tugboats and junks up the Potomac to es | their nationals, if the civil war continues. ’ Expelled Again! Thanks to the New York Times we are advised that Mr.! Morris Sigman, acting as chief executioner of the I. L. G. W. has! again expelled the locals comprising the New York Joint Board, | from the International. | What is the use in being an executioner unless you can have! the satisfaction of relieving somebody of a head occasionally, the | oftener the better if the position is not honorary? | It must be tough on an executioner who is proud of his pro-| fession, to see those he has beheaded so often, walking the streets wearing the latest in headgear and wagging their ears in derision | at the executioner. This is the way it is with the Joint Board and/| its officials. Sigman relieved the elected officials of the Joint Board of | their positions. In doing this Mr. Sigman had the unanimous | support of the open-shop employers, Tammany Hall, the capitalist | press, of everybody except the members of the locals affiliated to| the Joint Board and the radical workers in the trade union move-| ment. Such trifles do not bother a reactionary labor bureaucrat. | John L. Lewis could not fight the Wall Street government in 1919 when Wilson threatened to jail himself and his officials if they sent out a strike call. But the bureaucrats do not hesitate to fight | the militant members of their own unions. Sigman’s action is not an isolated incident. It is part of a general attack against progressive unionism. Sigman is playing the same role in the I. L. G. W. that the company tool Rickert played in the United Garment Workers. Hunger as a Recruiting Sergeant. The Sunday Worker of England, organ of the left wing in the trade unions, carried several pictures in a recent issue, show- ing British troops marching off to war against the revolutionary General Roberts that: “Hunger is the great recruiting sergeant.” The general was right. Hunger is the great recruiting sergeant and the great strike- breaker, and the capitalists are anxious to have a plentiful supply | of hunger-driven human beings on hand to break strikes and go out to kill their fellow men in the interests of the rich. The British workers, who are shown parading the streets of London on their way to barracks, are of the same type as, those that were driven by hunger last May to scab on the workers who rallied to the call of the general strike. Those victims of capital-| ism have no reason to feel any animosity towards the Chinese, | They had no reason to feel hostile towards the British miners, in| whose behalf the-general strike was called, ° They are demoralized | by unemployment and hunger and deserted by the bureaucracy of the trade union movement. * he trade unions must consider the problem of the unemployed as one that strikes at the heart of unionism. The unemployed must be organized and treated as part of the army of labor, instead of being permitted to become a standing army from which the im- perialists ci pick their strikebreakers and their cannon fodder. Seek Abe AX. Bertie arrived in Angel City week behind her brother, and forded him still more evidence of A NEW NOVEL By, é Upton Ginelair a story fixed up to leave them help- jess. He could say that Dad had | given him the securities, and how the unchangeable nature of femin-.| inity. Berwe had come to get ner share of the estate, and she went after it with the single-mindedness ot a rabbit-hound. werue knew a lawyer—her kind of lawyer, an- other rabbit-hound—and she saw him the day of her arrival; and then Buriny must come to this law- yer’s office, and with the help. of Bertie and a stenographer have the insides of his mind turned out and recorded; exactly said about his arrangements with Mrs. Aylse Huntington Forsythe Olivier—Dad_ hadn’t about it to Bertie, alas, nor to any- one else; he had made ya will, of course, and that infamous woman had destroyed it—Bertie knew that with the certainty of God. And then, everything else about Dad’s affairs that Bunny’ could re- call; where he had kept his money and his papers, what secret hind- ing-place for stocks and bonds he may have had, what he had spent, so far as Bunny could guess, who had been in his confidence. And then the statements which Vernon said a word | could they disprove it? He could say that Dad had taken the securi- ties, unknown to his partner, and lost the money on the stock market —how could they disprove that? Even if they traced the sales of Dad’s securities through Verne’s brokers, they would gain nothing, because Verne could say that he | had turned over the money to Dad, | or that he “had been authorized to | dred different tales he could invent! | what Dad had | invest it, and had lost it—a hun- “Then we've simply got to take what that scoundrel allows us!” eried Bertie; and the. lawyers agreed that was the situation. Be- ing themselves on a_ percentage basis, their advice was sincere! Then an incident that multiplied | the bitterness between Bertie and Rosco@’rendered; and all the files of | 3 a | free to consider it a part of the Dad’s correspondence with Verne; and the trusted young executives— | Bolling and Heimann, and Simmons and the rest; and the bankers and their clerks; and Dad’s secretary whom Bertie had brought batx from Paris with her—a_ veritable mountain of detail, required to attend all thé sessions, and be just as much a rabbit-hound as the rest. He told himself that her brother. Bunny went to the storage warehouse where his be- longings had been put away, and in an atlas that his father had oc- casionally consulted he came upon five liberty bonds for ten thousand dollars each. _It was some money Dad had been keeping handy—pos- sibly to bribe the officers in case he should be caught; anyhow, here it was, and Bunny would have been | million which Dad had tried to give him in Paris. But he haughtily decided that he would .not join in | plundering the estate; he would id Bunny was | | ing Bertie about it—and oh, what | it was his duty to the movement, | which so badly needed the aid of a | “fat angel’! Right at the outset, there was | one bitter pill that Bertie had to | swallow. Her lawyer advised her that there was no chance of de- priving Mrs. Alyse Ross of her half of the estate. Bunny’s testimony was worth, in law, precisely noth- ing; and so, unless there should be found another will, they must ac- cept the inevitable, and combine with the widow to get as much as possible out of Vernon Roscoe. Mrs. Ross’s Paris lawyers had named some very high priced law- yers in Angel City as their repre- sentatives, and Bertie had to swal- low her rage’and admit these men to their counsels. Yhere were troubles enough to need the very highest-priced law- yers. Accountants put to work on the books of J. Arnold Ross, and on the statements rendered by his partner, and in a few days there began to emerge out of the tangle one colossal fact; over and above all money that Dad had put into new business ventures with Verne and others, above all the cash which he had handled through his bank, there was more than ten million dollars worth of stocks and bonds which had disappeared without a trace. Verne declared that these securities had been taken by Dad, and used by him for purposes unknown; and Bertie declared that was idiocy, and that Vernon Roscoe was the biggest thief in all history. Having access to Dad’s safe deposit box, he had simply helped himself to the con- tents. And with rage Bertie turned upon her brother, asserting that he was to blame—Verne knew that Bunny would use his money to try to overturn society, and so it was only common sense to keep him down. Nor could Bunny deny that this sounded reasonable. It was easy to imagine Verne saying to himself that Bunny was a social danger, and Bertie a social waster, and the widow a poor half-wit, while he Verne, was a capable business man, who would use those securities for the proper purpose—to bring more oil out of the ground. Learning of Dad’s death, Verne had quietly transferred the securities from Dad's strong box to his own, before the state inheritance tax commis- sioner came along to make his records! Verne wouldn’t consider that stealing, but simply common sense—the same as taking the naval reserves away from a gov- ernment which hadn’t intelligence enough to develop them. Now Bertie wanted to ‘start a law-suit against her father’s part- ner, and put him on the stand .and make him tell everything about his affairs; and Bunny, wih the help of the lawyers, had to argue with her, and bear the brunt of her rage. So far, Verne had been careful ‘to put nothing into writing; and when he took the stand, he would have turn the bonds in, to be counted as part of the assets. But he made the mistake of tell- a riot! The imbecile, to make Alyse and. her lawyers a present of twenty-five thousand dollars! In- stead of quietly dividing with his sister, and holding his mouth! That twenty-five thousand became to Bertie a thing of more importance than. all the millions that Verne had got away with; these bonds were something tangible—or al- most tangible—until Bunny took them out of her reach, and made them a present to those greedy vul- tures! And right when both of them hneeded cash, and were having to go to one of their father’s bank- ers to borrow money on the basis of their claims to the estate. Bertie raved and stormed, and Bunny, to get it over with, took the bonds to the bank and turned them in; and after that Bertie never forgave him, she would men- tion his imbecility every. time they were alone. She was making her- self ill with all this hatred and fuming; she would sit up half the night poring over figures, and then she couldn’t sleep for excitement. Like all young society ladies, she set much store by the freshness of skin and its freedom from wrinkles; but. now she was throwing away her charms, and making herself pale and haggard. In after years she would be going to beauty spe- cialists and having the corners of her mouth lifted, and the skin of her face treated with chemicals and’ peeled off—because now she could not control her fury of disappoint- ment, that she was to get only a paltry one or two million, instead of the glorious ten or fifteen million she had been confident of some day possessing. (To Be Continued). Another Solon Aims to Protect Shaky Morals From Salacious Prints ALBANY, N. Y,, Feb. 15.—A new attempt to muzzle free speech was made today in the form of a bill in- troduced in the state legislature by Assemblyman Hofstadter, a New York republican, “This bill,” declared the lawmaker, “is in no sense a consorship mea- sure. It is merely designed to put teeth in the present law, which vir- tually has become a dead letter as a result of interpretations placed on decisions by the higher courts.” Getting Monotonous Bills of this kind haye been in- troduced with monotonous regularity during the past four years, but they have always been defeated. The pre- sent measure which, according to the assemblyman, is aimed at “obsence prints and publications,” is said to be not so drastic as the so-called “clean books” bill which has met de- feat a number of times. Old time members ‘of the legislature are reported to have expressed the belief that this bill has a_ better chance of passage in view of the pre- sent moralistic campa' against the theatres in New York City. | Learn from the | B rs. Stri oxmakers’ Strike | wo thousand striking paper box | eee mostly young workers, have after nineteen weeks of bitter strug- |gle against their exploiters, gone | back to work without a union agree-| | ment. | The question arises: Why did they | retreat ? | In order to answer the question | properly we must review the history | | of the paper box workers struggle. | | Mostly Youngsters. | The paper box industry in New| | York City, employes about 7,000 | workers, one half are young workers | and children. For many years the paper box) workers were entirely forgotten and| |unnoticed by the labor movement. | |The bosses took advantage of thir | | division among different nationalities | | languages and exploited them severe-| | ly. The conditions under which the| paper box workers toil are most un-| | sanitary and injurous to their health. | Statistics show that the health of | the majority of the paper box box! workers is affected by the nature of | their work, ' Conditions Force Strike. | | Day after day conditions of the| |workers were getting worse and | | worse, reaching a stage which even beasts of burden could not endure. The class-conscious element among the paper box workers realized that the only chance they have. of better-| ing their conditions is in forming a} union, thru which they could demand human conditions in their shops. The foundation of a Paper Box) Workers’ union was laid in 1923 by this group of class-conscious workers, | They began a drive for membership in the union among the rest of the! paper box workers who as yet were not awakened to the necessity of or- ganizing themselves. | Fight Dissension, In addition to the hardships with | which they were confronted, in con- | vincing the workers of the import- | | ance of joining the union in order to| | fight the bosses, they also had to) | fight an element in their own ranks | which came into the organization | with the purpose of destroying it. | After a long and bitter struggle! | they succeeded in cleaning up the} | union of that undesirable element, A | fighting and militant leadership re- mained in the union, representing 30 percent of the industry. Realizing that the organization of the workers into a union and the growth of.the same, is minimizing | their possibilities for the exploita-| tion of the workers the bosses start- ed to employ every method available | to break up the union. In reply to their mobilization of | anti-union forces, the union issued a_ call for strike on October 31, 1926. | All Come Out. A solid ‘mass of over two thousand | workers left the shops at the call of | the union. The following demands | were put up by the strikeys. 1—Recognization of the union. 2—A forty-four hour week. 38—Better sanitary conditions in the shops. | 4—A minimum increase in wages | of five dollars, | | In opposition to the picket line or-| ganized by the strikers the bosses! lined up the local police department of the city of New York. Police Ride In. A squadron of cossacks of the po- lice department rode into the picket) ine. ! Wholesale arrests of the strikers was another method of breaking the strike. Dozens of strikers were ar- rested daily. Bailing out of the strik-; ing men and women cleaned out the treasury of the union, Though the| left wing of other unions supported them to their utmost, it was unable to help a great deal, because it was engaged in a bitter struggle of its own, Every company car driven by; scabs was decorated by a uniformed policeman, which prevented the strik- ers from speaking to the scab driver. Many other kinds of ammunition were used by the bosses in order to break the strike. Surprise Bosses, The long struggle put up by the strikers, which lasted nineteen weeks, was a very unpleasant thing to the bosses. They expected to starve the workers back to work within the first few days of the strike. The devotion and milataney of the leadership, how- ever, made it possible to keep up the struggle for the) length of time. ~ The loss of ‘the strike is not a de- feat in the general sense of the word, because the lessons of the strike are of great value to the workers. It has been proven ‘to them clearly that, the bosses are uniting all their forces to fight all workers, and gave them a better understanding of the neces- sity of a stronger organization and of preparing themselves for the future battle against the exploiters. Rail Workers Killed. PHOENIX, Ariz., Feb, 15,—Fatal- ly sealded when their engine struck a boulder, washed down by heavy rains, engineer EK. Landen and fire- man E, L. MeMurtry died on a relief train today. Although the locomotive and sev- eral cars overturned, none’ of the | passengers was reported injured. WITHDRAW ALL U. S. WARSHIPS FROM NICARAGUA NO INTERVENTION IN MEXICO! BY LHUGENE LYONS Abe Cahan’s Idea of Art.—Section’2 of the Sunday edition of the Jewish Daily Forward, we learn from the head, is devoted fo “Science—Art—Literature.” ‘The lead- ing ‘article in this section on February 13—eight solid columns of stupidities—carries the highly scientific, artistic and literary head line: “Women Raped Collectively . in Soviet Russia.” Men’s ideas of art—and science— change as they grow older, Abe, don’t they? TO THE NEWS * At Last, A Historian of American Communism.—James Oneal has written what he calls a history of Communism in.America. Having run across some of his notes on the subject in neglected corners like the New Leader, we know that his opus will be a masterpiece of fairness, cool judg- ment, and objective ‘historical writing. For impartiality there will be noth- ing to match it except the reviews of his book which will appear in Com- munist publications. % Histories and biographies used to’be written by friends of the subjects treated. A reversal of the proceeding should prove very amusing if not exactly instructive. Carlo Tresca tells us that he’ is writing a biography e Sec. Mussolini. It’s an interesting beginning. Engdahl might do one 0 neal. ‘ \ i —Drawn by William Gropper. TWO INTELLECTUALS. ® ; “Oh dear, oh dear, it simply breaks our hearts to think how the poor working class is suffering.” * * Revising Abe Lincoln—The favorite sport of politicians, hot-air spouters generally, editorial fibbers, étc., on Lincoln’s Birthday is to revise his opinions to fit their own. Witness this gem from the mouth of Senator Smoot: “What would Mr. Lincoln say of Communism and similar creeds? He was the apostle of human tights and as such, insisted upon the right of the individual to acquire property and hold it under the protection of the law.” How does Mr. Smoot fit the emancipation proclamation—a clearcut act of confiscation of private property—into his picture? Py A Martial Ballade of the Subway. ¥ : Sixteen Nordics in a subway coach, Supreme and blond beyond reproach, } Reading the Great American Press: . Of Lita, Peaches or some other mess. ii, In walks a quadroon, skirts aflair, With liquid eye and raven hair, And takes, a seat across the aisle, Where sits the proud and Nordic file. iii. Sixteen Nordics in a subway coach, Watching the quadroon girl:approach, | Watching her with a lustful eye, | Some in the open, some on the sly. | iv. Gird up your loins, Henry Ford, Sound the tocsin, draw the sword! What’s to become of the Nordic race When.a quadroon girl has a pretty face? —ALKALI AL, | Venturing an answer to your query, Al, we should say, to begin with, octoroons. Help Wanted: Clergymen for Cabaret Work. Will de Kalb takes up our casual suggestion that contributors be Bispeee: He submits the following “candidate for the Index Expur- | gatorius”: | ' “A fair damsel and I were wining and dining in a Broadway i cabaret the other night, when the majestic figure of an Irish ‘dry- dick’ stalked through the door. Me: ly out of consideration for the _ Proprietor, we hastily gulped out of-evidence’s way the contents of our flasks, although I myst admit they contained more legal fusel oil than illegal alcohol. ‘ter our badged and badgered trespasser had left, it oceurred to me how convenient it would have been for : us had I been a ‘drunken-collared’ priest. .By simply breaking | a piece of bread, and whispering the phrase, ‘This is my body; this is my blood,’ over the wine, what had been bread and wine (and vile stuff at that) would have become the body and blood of Christ (hundreds of infallible Popes are my authorities). But then— would the Irish booze-sleuth have been willing to believe in this supernatural hocus-pocus outside the awe-inspiring precincts of the tabernacle? I wonder... At any rate, if church attendance continues to fall off, here’s a new job for the clergy—emergency r is in the ‘blind-pig’ cabarets, By popular request, I'll be quite willing to run an employment agency along this line.” ew Epigram on the Black Bottom: There’s many a slip between hand and hip, ADVERTISEMENT. Among the folks who have promised to contribute of their best to thie pillar of footnotes are: Art Shields, Arnold Roller, Margaret Larkin, Harbor Allen, Harry Freeman, Genevieve Taggard, Mike Gold,, Ernestine Evans, Esther Lowell, Morris Pass, Joe Pass, Helen Black, Harvey O'Conner, etc., ete. The purpose of this announcement is twofold. First, to put these people on record; all of them are friends who will not want to make a liar of me, Second, to let the readers know what's coming. If circulation suddenly goes up, Bert Miller will know WHY, A ‘ + We es