The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 23, 1927, Page 6

: : 4 ; Page Six a THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JUNE 23, 1927 The Machinists Journal is Lifeless By V.Q. That the Machinists’ Monthl- Journal is lifeless can be seen by even a hasty glance at any copy. Let us analyze the latest one, for June, 1927, Of the 84 pages of written matter 25 are given over to the Can-| adian 60th anniversary of the con-| ion (and only 4 pages of these | story of Canadian Labor.) The} r calls this the “Canadian Is-| ’ and says that the “American| kers pay a compliment to their| Canadian brothers by joining it the} Canadian jubilee celebration.” Arti-| cles are printed on Celebration of the Jubilee, Sixty Years Development in Canadian Industry and Trade 1867- 1927, Canada’s Railways, The Story of Confederation, The Labor Move- ment in Canada, 1867-1927, Cenada’s Fature Glory, The Canadian Rebel- Mon of 1887, and Canada—Present and Future. Very little of this deals with la- bor. Little to Do With Labor. The article on railways shows his- tory, rate of growth d rev revealing that all Canadian railv earned in 1926 the largest amount ever earned, but not a word on com- parison with wages. The article on the celebration of the jubilee pie- tures of the worthless Prince of Wales, of King, the Premier of Can-| ada, and one of Tom Moore, s0-| ealled representative of the Canadian workers. To show the wonde de- velopment of Canada, figu re} given on population, agriculture, | fisheries and manufacturing. An at- tempt is made to show great in- creases in wages, but when one ex- amines their figures as to wages, in-| cluding salaries to officials, we get an average wage of less than $1100 a year. Surely nothing to brag| about. | No attempt is made to tell the con-| dition of the farm worker or the tenant farmer. From the story on Confederation, we get a seeming jus-/| tification for opposition to labor mea- sures, as explained by “Labor’s Cana-| dian representative,” J. A. Haydon, | who secured the articles on Canada! for this issue, as follows: “Labor has! often sought changes to centralize authority on social and labor legisla- tion but legislators, especially in On-| tario and Quebec, strenuously oppose such action largely upon the ground that it might militate against the rights guaranteed minorities in the pact. No attempt to show that the employers use this argument to pro- tect their selfish interests, just as in this country, textile mill owners wrap the flag of states right around them to fight the Child’ Labor Amendment. The story of Confeder-| ation, taken from Canadian year| books, as the writer admits, is like | the story of the American Constitu-| tion if taken from the school books, | without analyzing the class forces, the fight of the debtor and creditor | classes, etc. Canada’s Labor Story. | And what do we get in the four | pages devoted to the story of labor? Mostly historical, dealing with the| early organization of the Iron Mol-| ers and the Typographical Union, and praise of the Ontario Workmen’s| Compensation Act in 1915, and for a bill allowing the registration of union| labels, The writer admits that “many judges have held that picket- ing of any kind is illegal in Canada” and says that this is “strange to re- late.” And to sum up the article, we find that Canadian Labor is seeking, (evidently as the reward for its sup- port of the jubilee) amendments “that would curtail the veto power of the Senate and give parliament control over social and labor ‘legisla- tion.” But not a word of the strug- gles of Canadian labor, not a word of the brave battles of the Nova Scotia miners against the British Empire Steel Corporation, of the government support of Besco with SOME PENNSYLVANIA MINES TRY TO GO NON-UNION Drawing by William Siegel in the New kook Ma The Pittsburgh Coal, the Pittsburgh Terminal, and the Vesta Coal Company of the Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation have called in a whole army of Coal and Iron Police (company guards in state uniforms) and Pennsylvania Cossacks (state con- stabulary) to help them in their efforts to smash the union in Pennsylvania, Progressive miners call for mass picketing. coal miners. The militant struggles of labor are omitted; tales of lobbying and lick- spittling are told. Surely nothing here to inspire workers to struggle! in their own behalf. An interpreta- tion is given that the employers would subscribe to 100 per cent. The story of Canada—present and future is| written by a business agent of the I. A. of M., dealing with facts on re-| | troops against the steel workers and sources, etc., but nothing on labor. | There are three editorials, the first | rofessional Patriots | | While there is no organized co-operation | among professional patrioteers they nevertheless usually respond in the same fashion and at the same time to any threat to their conceptions of “patriotism,” whether the occasion is a move- ment to recognize the Soviet Union or to push the child labor amendment. dealing with Canada’s birthday. The} s ve * second laments the fact that only 25) per cent of the members took part in| the Grand Lodge Elections, but in- stead of probing for causes of this discontent, it throws out the sugges- tion for the abolition of election by referendum, and the return to elec- tion by convention. Discussing the! automobile organization campaign, Editor Hewitt throws cold water on the campaign. He says: “However, time alone will reveal whether it is possible to organize this industry, which during the past quarter of a century has become the leading in-! dustry of the country.” | The reports of the vice-presidents are the usual insipid reports of travel, scenery, lodge entertainments, etc. The Usual Employers’ Dope. Each month, an article is puolished in a series called “Railroading on the Rails and Off” by one who worked | for the railways as a hired writer, dealing with good-fellowship, showing | wonderful opportunities to rise, the | same dope. that comes in employers’ welfare magazines for their employ-| es. The correspondence concerns it-| self with insurance and helping workers get patents on inventions and help in manufacturing, but hardly anything about organization, nothing about fighting injunctions, amalga- mation of the metal trades unions so as to protect ourselves against the National Metal Trades Manufactur- ers’ Association, or other issues of benefit to the organization. THE BATTLE IN N. Y, NEEDLE TRADES The Workers Go To Register (Continued from yesterday) Of its three columns, one lists organizations of such character as the General Federation of Women’s Clubs, the Women’s Christian Temperance Union, and the Na- tional League of Women Voters, and the other two list women who are active both in peace movements and women’s clubs. By connecting them -up with their or- ganizations, and the organizations with the National Council for the Prevention of War—a clearing house for anti-militarist effort—Miss Maxwell of course proves direct contact with Moscow. The naive theory underlying that proof is that the object of the whole pacifist movement is to disarm the United States so the Bolsheviks can take it. And it is seriously believed by persons of the caliber of Miss Maxwell and her military superiors. Miss Maxwell’s attitude is best characterized by the verse written by her which appears at the bottom of the chart, entitled “Miss Bolsheviki.” It reads: Miss Bolsheviki has come to town, With a Russian cap and a German gown, In women’s clubs she’s sure to be found, For she’s come to disarm AMERICA. She sits in judgment on Capitol. Hill, And watches the appropriation bill, And without her O.K., it passes—NIL For she’s there to disarm AMERICA. She uses the movie and lyceum too, And alters text-books to suit her view, She prates propaganda from pulpit and pew, For she’s bound to disarm AMERICA. The male of the specie has a different plan, He uses the bomb and the fire brand, And incites class hatred wherever he can While she’s busy disarming AMERICA. His spécial stunt is arousing the mob, To expropriate and hate and kill and rob, While she’s working on her political job, AWAKE! AROUSE!! AMBRICA!!! The publication of the chart at once aroused protests from the women’s organizations, both for its perversion and misstatement of facts, and its deceptive purpose. Mrs. Maude Wood Park, chairman of the Women’s Joint This sketch and three others which will follow in successive | Congressional Committee, wrote Secretary of War John issues of The DAILY WORKER were written by a worker who | was an eye-witness to the scenes described, The incidents are| absolutely true in every case. (Ed. Note.) ne a By I. JEROME. In the shop of Geller Bros., fur manufacturers, on 7th Ave. -4 p.m. The boss goes up to the workers: “Now people, you will all have to go and register with the new union.” The workers: “Nothing doing. Nobody is going to decide for us which union we'll belong to.” “Very well then, if you want your Communist union you can’t work here,” _ And he turns off the power. The machines stop. The workers file down stairs. . At the entrance a reception com- mittee awaits them. A strong dele- gation of cops and plainclothesmen of the Industrial Squad, brutal- faced, hands bristling with ‘“loren- order,” + The workers sense trouble. to walk past. ¢ police and squadmen let them pass. Then suddenly a group of fur- riers is sectioned off. A cordon is They t And quickly the order is given: “Walk along!” There are tussles. ‘Some of the workers break through the cordons. Cries of “Let me go!” “They want to take us to the scab union!” Shrieking girls struggle with the squadmen. Police shove and drag workers to keep them within the ring. “Move along, you god damned bol- shevik!” “I'll stretch you out if you don’t move on!” Crowds of workers gathering on the pavements shout: “Don’t tet them take you! Don't let them ‘take you to the scab union!” The police get rougher. ‘Move along, damn yer!” they growl and dig their clubsinto the ribs of the ringed4in- workers. ‘Move along. Move along.” And*the ambuscade marches on. The following day the capitalist and the socialist press reported with bold captions the news of the hun- dred workers of Geller Brothers who “deserted” the ranks of the Commun- made around them. Ano. ~~ group and another group is surrm ~*~ ) ist Joint Board and marched in dem- W. Weeks, and a commitfee of women called on him. to demand the chart’s withdrawal and its repudiation by the War Department. Mr, Weeks responded by doing both, writing to Mrs. Park as follows: “With reference to the letter from your committee, dated April 2, complaining of the injustice done your organization by the circulation of a chart by a subor- dinate in the War Department, you are informed that all the charts complained of in the possession of the Chemical Warfare Service have been ordered destroyed. General Fries has been directed to inform all persons that there are errors in the chart and to request their destruction. . “I regret the charts containing the errors pointed out | by your committee were circulated by avy branch of |the War Department.” Very sincerely, 1 (Signed) JOHN W. WEEKS. Despite the Secretary of War's action the chart con- tinued to be distributed, apparently through the agencies with which Miss Maxwell was co-operating and for whom she had prepared it. The chart had appeared in slightly, modified form in the “Dearborn Independent,” Henry Ford’s weekly, for March 22, 1924, with an anonymous article signed “by an American Citizen,” attacking the leading women’s organizations of the country as de- fenders equally of pacifism and Bolshevism. Later in 1924 the New York “World” in a series of articles ex- e militaristic activities of General Fries,.Gen- ley and others, told the whole story in detail. importance to go into it here, or to mention It is of onstration to join the “bona-fide ” iil the other Yninor personalities involved. (To Be Continued) AN UNEMPLOYED NECKWEAR KNITTER'S STORY By I. LAZAROVITZ (Worker Correspondent.) Joe woke up at six in the morning. He felt tired. Yesterday he walked through half the city looking for a job but he couldn’t get anything. He came home late and, without supper, went to bed. Lately he has begun to decrease his meals due to his lack of money. Waking up Joe felt physically weak but he remem- bered about his debts and empty pockets and got up quickly. He got dressed and went out to buy a news- paper. Joe is a knitter by trade. He has been in New York City ‘only four months. Before. he came to New York lie worked in a shop where 200 workers were em- ployed. The conditions of these workers were misera- ble. Family men made $18 to $20 a week. The dis- satisfaction of the workers was growing. The possi- bilities of organizing these wage slaves were good. * Joe noticed all this and tried to lay the basis for an organization that would help those workers. But * * By STUDE. Like everything else owned by the capitalist class education is being marked up and a good technical or liberal education will be received only by the top strata of the bourgeoisie. The old dream of the ambitious ship- ping clerk to go to night school and enter one of the supposedly higher paid professions is being dissipated today. Modern conditions of educa- tion are’ showing to students and would-be students— who heretofore have refused to take part in the |struggle of labor, thinking them- selves on the road to deliverance from the class struggle—that their condi- tions and their situation are similar to the conditions and situations in which the working class finds itself. This tendency has finally received expression in words uttered by none other than our famous dime dis- penser, John D. Rockefeller, at the graduation exercises of one of the most aristocratic institutions on the Eastern coast, Brown University, held last week at Providence, R. I. Said the oily sage (quotation is from N. Y. Times): “... the colleges to- day must turn to a new policy of meeting expenses through high tui- tion fees...” Further on the New York Times correspondent re- ports John D. to have stated that “the student is paying less than half.the cost of his education;” that “he urged that this ‘philanthropic idea’ be done away with;” that “those able to pay be called upon for the full cost, with (this last a hypocritic sop for public consumption and means nothing— Stude) scholarship funds and student loans reserved to assist those actually needing them.” * * * That this situation is well-known to educators and pink-tea liberals and is considered dangerous, is testified by the statement made by Dean Jervey of the Columbia Law School to the graduates of Columbia. “Educational institutions, like every one else have felt the higher cost of living. Tuition fees have gone steadily up and the end is not yet. This is true generally throughout the educational world. It means that if we are not careful, educational advantages will be open to the rich rather than the worthy.” As a remedy for this Dean Jervey suggested a system of scholarship aid, to be awarded to poor but “worthy” students. Scholarship aid, he claimed, was the only way to pre- vent the door of education being closed in the face of the man with brains and character but without means, being young and inexperienced, not using the proper * * * methods, Joe exposed himself. The boss found out Joe’s intentions and fired Joe. Since then Joe tried in different factories under dif- ferent names in that other city but was unable to get any work at all. Without any means of existence, Joe tried for jobs every morning but with no results. He borrowed some money from his friends but later on he could get no more from them. His friends lost con- fidence in him. They accused him of being lazy, with- out energy. How is it possible, his friends argued, not to find Joe listened to their work for such a long time? arguments, but being hurt because his own friends re- fused to understand him and didn’t believe him, he never replied to their arguments. Joe remained along “among old friends.” Finally Joe realized that he was blacklisted. Giving up hopes of finding a job in that city he decided to Who knows, in a greater city there are more possibilities, Perhaps the people there are not as petty- _ | minded. leave. * . * Joe has been here in New York four months already, getting up every morning at six o’clock. He looks for anything possible but can get no work at all. « Today he must get a job. It can’t be otherwise. He hasn’t paid rent for the last two months and last night he received final notice. * * * An investigation of his pockets shows he has eight He buys a newspaper and immediately begins to look on the Male Help Wanted page. Quickly Joe follows one after another and—yes, there is a job for him. Not wasting much time he rushes to the subway, pays a nickel and with one cent in his pocket and his heart still hoping, he takes the train to the place where cents. the job is advertised. Joe was the first one to get to the place, but before the foreman came there was a pretty big line waiting Finally the foreman came out. Afraid to for the job. lose this job chance, Joe was ‘ing. “Who is the first one?” the foreman asked, Joe steps out and follows the fqyeman into the of- Where did you fice. The foreman begins to question. work? Why did you quit? How much did you get? ete. a few more questions says: “I'm sorry, I don’t think you will be able to work And not waiting further he left the office to here,” get the next applicant. Joe was shocked. him, telling him he would work for half price. the foreman is busy with another fellow. Depressed, Joe leaves the office. tables, giving orders to the waiters. Joe stops for a minute, but unconsciously he touches It was a signal to the only cent lying in his pocket. move ahead. People pass by. Everyone seems satisfied and smiling Nobody can notice the miserable one— to the future. Joe. Joe replies quickly but for some reason or other the foreman is not satisfied with his answers and after He realized what it meant for him. He wanted to run after the foreman asking, begging But ; Coming out on the street’ again, without knowing where he is going, he walks along with one cent in his pocket. He feels hun- gry. He is passing by a restaurant. Through the win- dows he sees people well dressed sitting at well served What is the educational situation today? The young worker finds it impossible to go to college and very often cannot go to high school. The petty trader’s son, who attends col- lege only at the cost of limitless sacrifices, sees‘that he cannot attend PORT Labor Baseball Scores Broadcast Over Radio The only labor radio station in the country, WCFL, “The Voice of Labor” is giving labor sports a boost by broadcasting the scores of the various union teams that are playing in the leagues sponsored by the local labor movement. In this way con- in the trade ‘union sports activities, and large crowds are turning out to see the games played. In addition to broadcasting the scores of the games, thru its radio station, the Chicago sports column in its organ, The Fed- eration News, in which it gives the news of trade union sports activities. * Chicago Street Car Men’s and Post- Office Leagues Going Strong. The two largest union baseball ee in the city of Chicago are ie Street Car Men’s League and the Post Office League. These two loops have more than 40 teams playing their schedules. In the Street Car Men’s League the Lincoln Station tean. is leading with a record of six games won and none lost. In the Postoffice League, the Van Buren station is leading having copped six straight games, y * Entries Pouring In For Labor Sports Meet In Waukegan. If advance indications mean any- Federation of Labor is conducting a|Kangus are _ The High Cost of Learning college more than a bare three or four years, for above that the “special” courses are most expensive, If he does manage to get through a graduate school he will probably find himself in an overcrowded pro- fession, where in order to get to the “top” he needs must get a few years of a European finishing-off process— a most expensive process. * . * However, although it is obvious that in a society which is built on a theory of “Every man for himself and the devil take the hindmost” education must sooner or later be- come a club with which young men and women bludgeon a living out of | society, and that capitalism controls the colleges as one of the means of propaganda for it own purposes and for the purpose of training a class of young lackeys for itself, neverthe- less much can be done right now by the students and by the workers, farmers. and small merchants, . the children of whom cannot attain to a thoro education under present con- ditions. In the first place students must organize themselves into great Stu- dent Associations and fight back vigorously any attempts to dilute the quality of the education, to make tuition rates prohibitive, and to propagandize the students, In the second place the purse strings for the colleges must be in the hands of capable educators appointed by a La- bor Party administration — which means, in short, that ‘what ‘the col- leges need right now is to be put into the hands of the state—which further means that the workers, far- mers and small merchants of Ameri- |ca must combine to form a Labor Party. However, as the writer has said above, the above measures do not mean the complete. cure of the educational system. They are merely steps in the right direction, neces- sarily narrow because of the rigid confines of the capitalistic system, one which does not allow for the free development of real education. * > * And that’s that as far as immediate demands are concerned. Let us not forget that these are but temporary and cannot cure the fundamental rottenness of the institution of learn- ing, a rottenness which comes from the fact that education under a pri- vate property system of production— which means a private property system of society—teaches men to take out of society rather than to put into society. The basic cure, and one which all socially alert students and young workers should recognize, is the reconstruction of society along co-operative lines, where education teaches men to work together in the building and beautifying of society and where learning, the treasure of the ages, is the possession of the many rather than the privileged, un- appreciative few. thing, the Labor Sports Union Na- tional Track and Field, to be held in Electric Park, Waukegan, Ill. on July 30th and 31st, will be a big success, Entries from all over the country are pouring in, and hundreds of par- ticipants are expected. Athletes are coming from the east, west, and from the coast, to take part in the meet. Posters and buttons advertising the affair have been sent thruout the country. Thousands of visitors are bier in Waukegan to see the meet. Winchendon, Mass., Y. W. L. Training School Opens July 5th, 1927. The Winchendon, Mass., Y. W. L. Summer Training School, which was established last year, with quite a number of successes will reopen this summer again with expected students from Massachusetts, New Hamp- shire, Maine, Rhode Island, Vermont, hid York, Connecticut, and Mary- land. The course will be on the tn and practice of the movementy the particular tasks among the ya workers in the United States. © Comrades Zam, Harrison, Kay” Kangus will take care of the sports and lighter features. Comrade William Janhonan is the business manager of the school. It is expected that besides a through training, which will be given every day for 4 hours except Saturday and Sundays, the students will have their ing of the Students Body in tion with the instructors Administrative Committee. We hope that as a result of school the District will improve league work further, and develop powerful league—School Committee coopera- & ose Secretary, Nat Kay. : ; tional part is concerned, Comrade. A total of 60 students are ex--