The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 26, 1927, Page 6

Page Six | Professional Patriots| This ts the fourth instalment of “Professional Patriots,” edited by Norman Hapgood from ma- terial assembled by Sidney Howard, co-author of “The Labor Spy” and John Hearley. More than 25 organizations, including the Na- tional Security League, the National Civic Fed- eration and American Defense Society will be discussed in these articles. It is noteworthy that the list of the largest con- tributors includes many men whose businesses profit directly from the sale of war supplies. The congressional committee report on said: “If the curtain were only pulled back, in addition to the interests heretofore enumerated, the hands of Rocke- feller, of Vanderbilt, of Morgan, of Remington, of Du-| Pont, and of Guggenheim would be seen, suggesting} steel, oil, money bags, Russian bonds, rifles, powder, | and railroad.”—(H. of R. 65th Congress, 3d session, | Report No. 1173—Investigation of National Security| League, p. 6.) The Security League at that time was spending about $100,000 a year, although in 1918, in view of the con- gressional campaign and the entrance of the League} into politics, its expenditures reached the sum of $2365,- that point years ending in 1919 the Carnegie Corporation| 0,000 a year. Federation numbers among its ers My, Finley J. Shepard and his wife, en puld, and V. Everit Macy of the heaviest suppc the former H Central Union Trust Company. The late August Bel- mont, who made his fortune in street railways, was also a large contributor. One trade union member of the Fed ion’s execution committee, who does not} wish to be quoted publicly, states that Judge Elbert H.}| Gary of the United St Steel Corporation has been! “one of the Federation tion of a trade unio ployers backing th cate. The Amer ancial angels.” The posi- on a board with anti-union em- ork is, of course, somewhat deli- ety stated in 1924 that it ed in 44 states and the had 1,080 cc District of chairman, Mr, Elon H.| Hooker of Electro-Chemical Company, manufacture ls used in warfare, is a direc- tor of ma: s that doubtless assist directly | - Hooker solicited funds for the so- ry of his company. Mr. Franklin or inéircetly. ciety en the s: Remington, n of the Finance Committee, is a director of the Great Western Chemical Corporation. The American Constitutional Association in West Virginia, and the Better America Federation at Los| Angeles are both employers’ organizatigns whose pa-| triotism is frankly identified with their private in- terests. Naturally they are supported by those who profit from their activities. In the case of the Con- stitutional Association, an interesting piece of testi- mony as to who gave and how much, came out in a suit brought by a professional solicitor named Kirk, who thought he had not received all the commissions due him. The testimony showed that Judge Gary, whose | company operates the largest single coal business in| West Virginia, gave $5,000 in 1921, with this letter: United States Steel Corporation Chairman’s Office New York, May 11th, 1921. Dear Sir: oeg to acknowledge receipt of your letter of May 2nd insiant It was placed before our Finance Committee rday, when it was decided to make a contribution of $5,000 toward the work of the American Constitu- tional Society, with the understanding that the money is not to be used for any political purpose, but with the sole object of assisting and maintaining American institutions, I am enclosing herewith check for $5,000 together with voucher, which you are requested to have signed and returned to this office. Hon. Edwin M. Keatley, Secy., . American Constitutional Assn., | House of Delegates, Charleston, W. Va. | Very truly yours, E. H. GARY. * * * Some Contributors. The evidence also showed the following contributors LINDBERGH ADDS NEW. | signature. THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, MAY 26, 1927 o"DREADNAUGET” ii DAYS REPORT OF JOHN BROPHY To District No. 2, Workers of America. (Continued from Page One) When Mr. Lewis says we do not apply this policy in our own district he forgets to add that we attempted terests having union and non-union operations in this district after the| 1922 strike in the cases of the Weaver interests at Nanty-Glo and Revloc. The Revloe miners came out with the union men and we refused to sign for the Nanty-Glo mines unless they signed for Revloc. The Weaver in- terests appealed to Lewis and after considerable correspondence he per- sonally signed the agreement with them and then insisted upon the Nanty-Glo men returning to work under threat of revocation of their charter. This contract he forwarded to me in duplicate for me to sign. These contracts, signed by Mr. Lew- is, are still in my files awaiting my After this desertion the Revloc men soon became discouraged and returned to work, How can we apply our policy in this district when the appeals of the operators result in Mr. Lewis sign- ing contracts over our heads? These interests so tenderly treated in the national policy in 1922 have since jumped their contracts and are now scabbing ALL of their opera- tions. It is plain to be seen that securing a wage contract for the older or- ganized sections is not enough. It does not increase the strength of the union. In fact it will not even permit | the continued maintenance of our present strength. With the constant- ly increasing non-union production, the union is suffering a constant de- crease in the proporation of produc- tion controiled and is being more and more subject to pressure from the non-union areas, A Constructive Policy. If the United Mine Workers of America are to increase in power, and to secure additional benefits for our membership, we must adopt broader and raore constructive policies. These policies must be so shaped as to en- able us to realize our ideal of a com- plete unionization of the mining in- dustry. Heretofore the organizing of the non-union fields has been secondary to the securing of wage agreements in the older organized sections, with disastrous results, as has been shown. The organization of the non-union fields and the securing of contracts for them must be made of equal im- portance to the securing of contracts for the older fields. to the maintenance of the Constitution: Pocahontas Coal Co. .... - -$3,360 Wm. McKell Coal Co. ... - 465 Carnegie Gas Co. ......... 300 West Virginian Utilities Co. . 260 H. Bowen, of the Bowen Coal Co. of Bramwell 250 Wm. Ord, Pres. of a coal Co. in McDowell Co. . 250 MN CORK CORE OG sen sc esccesscbowenes 250 Crystal Block Coal Co. (a subsidiary of U. S. Coal Co. 250 | Manufacturers’ Light & Heat Co. 200 Col. Leckie of the Leckie Coal Co. . + 100 Atwater & Co., coal buyers .... 100 Dollar Savings Bank of Wheeling ... 100 Walker Peterson, president of Warwood 60 Dry Fork Colliery Co. of Bluefield ............. 50 West Virginia Natural Gas Co., Wheeling .. 50 $6,045 Other contributors named in the proceedings were the Consolidation Coal Company (a Rockefeller property), the Wheeling Steel Corporation, which gave $2,000, the Elkhorn Coal & Coke Co., the Empire Coal & Coke Co. and the Raleigh Smokeless Fuel Company. All these were contributors in 1920. They clearly prove the char- acter of this particular brand of patriotic concern for | the Constitution and “American institutions.” In the case of the Better America Federation, ‘some direct evidence is at hand from public hearings in 1922 before the Caltfornia Commission on Immigration and Housing, reported by Franklin Hichborn. After citing the fact that the Southern California Edison Company contributed $3,000 a year, he says: “Thus, in 1920, the San Joaquin Light and Power Company subscribed $300 to the Better America Fed- eration out of ‘surplus,’ and charged an additional con- tribution of $15 to ‘mistellaneous general expenses.’ ‘Miscellaneous general expenses’ are operating expenses, The following year, 1921, the company allowed the Fed- eration $300 out of surplus and $6 as a ‘miscellaneous general expense.’ No protest followed these $15 and | $6 feelers-out. The company evidently concluded it was safe to make its Better American Federation contribu- tion an operating expense. At any rate, the next year the company boldly so charged its entire $300 contribu- tion to the Better America Federation. The Southern California Edison Company has its $3,000-n-year Better America Federation contribution more carefully covered up. The $3,000, given in $250-) -month installments, was in 1921, and again in 1922, charged to ‘miscellancous general supplies and ex- pense,’ all of which are finally included in operating The contribution is made to the Los An- Toes “neveshecetsatioe Fund.’ This so-called Los An- geles ‘Americanization Fund’ is supported by pledges ting $160,000 a year for five years, $800,000 in for the support of the Better America Federation.” (To be continued.) ‘ 4 penitentiaries. | eee (AADAYS 21 HRS. STMIN. Nationalization of the mines must be made an active policy instead of an abstract theory buried and for- United Mine | 2otten between conventions. This is of great importance to the union, It | will give hope to the rank and file who see no hope in private owner- | ship and management of the industry. i} | budget has since been greatly reduced. For to apply this policy fully against in-| |. WAITS,, UNAFRAID.OF: PRISON The Labor Party should be a goal)! towards which we should work stead- ily. We have had ample evidence that the two major political parties are not interested in securing justice for labor. Nor will they be inter- ested until labor shows itself’ power- ful enough politically to challenge their control. This can be done only by building up a Labor Party. Democracy in the union must be re-established. This was one of the most important principles upon which the union was based. For several years we have been drifting away from the democratic principle. Per- secution and expulsion of those who differ with officials are becoming the order of the day. A healthy growth cannot be had unless there is an atmosphere of free- dom where all of us are given an opportunity to set forth our ideas. The good sense of the membership can be relied upon to accept what is sound and reject what is unsound. 27 Years Membership. I have not made the foregoing statements in carping criticism but out of a sincere desire to assist in building up the United Mine Workers of America, in which I have held membership for more than twenty- seven years, The last ten of these years I have been your District President, and while I am now re- tiring from that office I hope to con- tinue my membership and interests as one of the rank and file. During all the years as an officer and mem- ber the affairs of the union have been my main interest and I have always endeavored to give it my best serv- ice. I have stood steadfastly for the things I have thought best for the organization regardless of conse- | quences to me personally. My study of the industry and the union’s rela- tion to it convinces me thoroughly that if the United Mine Workers is to be a power the past polictes must give way to broader policies. I have always stood against wage reduc- tions, but I realize that is not suf- ficient. We must now concern our- selves with more than wages and working conditions. It is my firm conviction that a broad policy, such as I have outlined, actively adhered to, will soon restore the United Mine Workers to its for- mer strength and set it well on its way toward the fulfillment of all its ideals. Fraternally yours, JOHN BROPHY. Charlotte Anita Whitney waits in her cottage at Carmel-by-the-Sea, Cal- iforniaffor the beginning of her term of one to fourteen years in California’s She was convicted of being at a meeting of the Communist Labor Party, in Oakland, at which a stool pigeon manufactured evidence by draping the American flag with a red table cloth. The Supreme Court ofthe United States has just confirmed her sentence, al _MARK\TO,TRANSATLANTIC RECORDS "ZR—5" BLARS. TTMIN, "“Spinit of St Lous 33 hours, 29 minutes A big, modern factory! When my application for the job was accepted, it gave me the happy illusion that at last I had found the right place. Here must be plenty of light and air; here, there will be no more | choking, pressing feeling in my breast, no more sharp electric light hurting my eyes. | Happily I came into the work-room, and... my | happiness disappeared. My old friends were smiling at me—the bright electric lights. The whole place was the same old “Hole” which L am, so well acquainted with. No Light or Heat. The working room was located at the rear of the floor. A corner with one window facing a blind, dark }alley, and another looking outside, frosted glass which forgot the time it was washed last. A dirty floor. It is so cold and damp, Later ‘on I learned that no mat- ter how warm and shining it is outside, cold and damp- ness still prevails in this corner; it penetrates to your very bones; you always have a feeling of a dreary, rainy day in November. The front of the floor and the big windows that had attracted me so much, this is divided from the working room by a partition. There is the office, the shipping room. A space is also occupied by a big table for no definite purpose except to play cards when it is slow. Boss On Guard. So, here I learned the bitter lesson that things can be arranged so skillfully as to make life miserable even in the big modern building. I must confess that | my trust in the big, modern building had been great} up to that time. But let’s return to the working room. Two rows of machines; at the end a little table. Here the boss sits, facing the machines. A big clock before him on the wall. He notices every move of yours, he counts how many times and for how long you leave your chair during the day, Favoritism and Speeding. We are here thirty girls and men. Three girls and one man work on each garment. Besides the weekly wages, men receive a few pennies extra for each gar- ment with the intention that they should work faster and rush the girls. When there is not much work the slow workers are laid off for a day or so. To the fast ones the boss tells quietly: “I'll soon announce no work tomorrow but you should come in.” We are thirty here, but seldom you will hear the spund of our voices during the whole long day. The only contrast to this atmosphere of gloominess is my neigh- bor Mary. She is nineteen; she is always happy, sings, Jaughs, and chatters. The little devil, “Come on, cheer up, for heaven’s sake;” she pulls me by my sleeve. “I'll ‘sing you something.” And she begins: “Blue sky smil- ing at me, beautiful blue skies all that I see . . .” Mary is the real “Jazz Baby.” If she ever finds out that I do not dance the “Black Bottom” I will be lost in her eyes. She once happened to look at a pamphlet I was carrying: “Infantile Sickness.” “What is it?” she asked, surprised. “You see, it gives you a good remedy, it tells you how to cure the worst sickness of all.” “How did you come to it? See it advertized in the trollies? But you better read a good book,” and she fetches me a “True Story.” I felt embarrassed a little. The Noiseless Sam, My other neighbor is quiet like a fish. “Mary, what is his name?” “I don’t know, did he just come up re- cently?” “Oh, no, six months ago, but he never says a word.” I found out later his name was Sam. “Sam,” |I said. “I have a fine proposition for you. Put a |sign on your mouth: “A voice can be rented from 8 |to 6.” There are very many who would be glad to have | some kind of a voice. He does not understand. “I am busy.” “Were you just as dumb, when you worked on piecework?” “But you see, then I worked on my own time. But here, we should not deceive Mr. Smith, he trusts us, he pays us for every minute.” “Sam, you know something about slavery, don’t you? A whip was used in the olden times, but you have the whip in your very blood and flesh.” He lifted at me his blue eyes, they are tender like the eyes of a lamb, He smiles childlike, and again his head is bent over the work. A conscientious specimen of a slave, The USSR in 1932 By SHIRLEY REEVE. | A STRIKING example of how the workers’ interests, in the Soviet Union are the first to be considered in | all plans of the Republic is to be found in material re- cently published by the “Gosplan.” This material will be used in drawing up the perspective “Peoples’ Econ- omy” Plan for the zext five years. The “Gosplan” is the State Planning Commission and has some of the ablest and best known scientists and statisticians in the world on its committees, By 1932, the productivity of industry in the Soviet | Union will have increased by 50 per cent it is estimated | and therefore the real wages of the industrial workers | will also be increased by 50 per cent. . * * b bat Peoples Economy Plan of 1927-1932 will not only provide that the PROFITS OF THE INCREASED PRODUCTIVITY OF, LABOR GO TO THE WORKERS, but will also include plans for “new cities.” The new citi ecording to the project of the Gosplan should be distributed over the whole country and their character changed. The new cities will have the appearance of small city gardens, permitting ,the combining of in- dustrial and village labor under the most convenient | conditions. This not only from the economic point of | view, but also in the interests of the cultural develop- ment and physical well-being of the population. Another interesting fact characteristic of tne con- tinuous improvement of the living conditions of the! workers and peasants in the Soviet Union ,is that the increase in population, very carefully calculated on the present rate of increase will have reached 15,800,000 in 1932. 4,900,000 of this incredée, it is estimated, will By BERTHA KANTOR. | WITH THe Aba WoRKER a THE PLUMBERS HELPERS The American youth in the last |few years has shown renewed ac- |tivity. In the last few years they |have taken part in mass struggles of young workers such as in the mining campaign and strike, the needle strikes, the youth strike in Bellaire and the Passaic strike. Due to the intensification and simplification of production and the closing down of the immigration bars, the actvity of the American youth in the economic life of the general labor movement, is already being felt. In the organiza- tion campaign and strike of the plumbers’ helpers, we find a spontan- eous movement involving practically all the helpers in the trade. The bona- fide union has bared all attempts of the helpers to get into the stream of the general labor movement. The per- sistence and vitality of these young workers will force the parent union to take them into their ranks especially when we consider that the helpers are at this time out on a sympathetic strike with the Plumbers’ Union. The young workers of this country must give the utmost of support to this movement. These pioneers in the organization of the unorganized young workers must be encouraged and helped by raising this question in every labor: and youth organization and by financial aid. All power to them! mp) American Student Delegations to the Soviet Union In spite of all the propaganda tha has been injected into the Americar youth—a student delegation fron thirty colleges will visit the Sovie Union this summer. This will be th first opportunity for the Americar students te become acquainted wit! the Russian youth and learn how the; This tour of the Going to Russia, work and live. All sport enthusiasts as well as full blown tennis bugs will watch the progress of Helen Wills in Europe. Ill health accounted for her showing last year. Restored to health and her usual brilliant tennis form she is on her way to a series of matches thru which she intends reaching the top again. There seems little doubt she will become world’s champ, and will stay one for a long time now that temperamental Suzanne Lenglen is out of it. Preceding Helen Wills, Til- den has made his comeback an im- pressive one. European cities sat up and took notice in his decisive wins in Germany, Holland and France, Both Tilden and Wills represent a part of the cleaner side of American sport and both are masters in their game. Having achieved world-wide and everlasting fame as a daring prophet in predicting Sharkey would bean the Boston Mahoney, we rest on our laur- els. We are not going to endanger our reputation by predicting the win- ner in a Sharkey-Dempsey fight. Like Lindberg, on having crossed the At- lantic, why bother risking a return trip? . right. We admit it. Hereafter on advices on matters of sport, consult the international expert of the Youth Column. Marks the spot where the sub blank will be found. Just put your name on it, clip out, add a dollar (it doesn't matter how old it ist) wend it to get a ye weriptio He rker Ed. Com: X Enclosed $i for a year's sub to the Young Worker. Name Street . City . jtake place in the cities. State .. It’s enough to know that we were | BG: pen ~. . Samuel Cahan, top, instrnctor’ in the department of journalism,. Syracuse University, Syracuse, N. Y., is chief adviser of an American student delegation sailing from New York June 15 for Russia, William « Davis,’ Columbia University, New, York," is | corresponding secre tary.’ Students of thirty Amer! ican colleges are affiliated with’ the movement to sce Russia firste hand. , students will act as a boomerang against all the bourgeois professors who have made their platform “The Glories of our Country.” The report that this committee will render will play an important, role ‘among the American youth who have been fed up on the opportunities be- fore them. The activities of the Rus- sian youth and the role that they play in the social and economic life of the country will be a revelation to the American Student Delegation. PHILA Y. W. L. PICNIC Sunday, May 29th, is a big day in Philadelphia. On that day the masses will stream “back to nature”—to Flaxman’s Farm, Somerton, Pa. where the Young Workers League has arranged the first picnic of the year. Every young worker in the vicinity, everyone who has some youthful spirit left, will be there. At seven in the morning the fun will begin. And it won’t cease until twelve at night. There will be dancing in the beautiful new pavilion, sports, all sorts of entertaining fea» tures, a couple of good speakers, AND . ..JUST WAIT AND: SEE? There will be the most pleasing sur- prise of the year! The proceeds of the picnic will be divided between the Young Workers League BUILD THE LEAGUE FUND -(of district three) summer camp of the Young aay League. Listen, friends, take the adyice /of an old picnic-goer, take any caf or elevated going to Frankford, stop at Marguerite St., exchange for/Somer- ton bus and get off at Somerton Sta- tion. There you will fi mittee which will take pienie, If you miss this, SUBWAY WORKER Dig, black man, dig. i Throw the shovelfuls of dirt over your shoulder; » And be « machine, black man, @ machine. Throw the shovelfus» of, #ert over your shoulder; : Ten times sigh and wipe your fore- head with a bandanna handker- chief, Mechanically, black man, mechanically Get tired black man, stare at the great cranes ” Digging ditches through the earth, Shake your head, black man— Mechanically. BUY THE DAILY WORKER AT THE NEWSSTANDS and the |