The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 8, 1927, Page 4

Page Four 7 HE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JULY 8, 1927 eee. a ARE THE DAILY WORKER The “Coal War’ and the Capitalist Offensive sa ; ‘ished by gift ak goad co. 3 { ye 88 Firet Street, New York, N. Y. Cable Addrezs SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail (in New York only): By mail (outside of New York): $8.00 per year $4.50 six months $6.00 per year 28.50 six months $2.50 three months $2.00 three months Phone, Orchard 1680 By G. SLUTSKI. | The Position of the Mine Workers. MOSCOW, {iy MAD: Te. CNT a sete puteable sation Bi | owners’ press in almost all countries |. he British stril h he : | is loudly trumpeting increased coal | nines h ae i Berets, Meet fae oe lreserves. These have been tripled |S might still have dcnieyil (same> |since the beginning of the year in| thing, the demand for coal being ex- | Belgium, exceeding in March a mil- C¢Ptonally great, the reformist lead- Address ali mail and make out enecks to HHion tong; in. France coal: reserves in |CZ® did nothing to struggle for the in- THE DAILY WORKER, 33 First Street, New York, N. ¥. ithe pit come to several million tons; terests of the miners. On the con- declared compulsory by the govern-/ ment in every conflict. | In Belgium, Holland and Czecho- slovakia the reformists are avoiding open, resolute conflict with the own- ers, with all their might. | Finally the reformists are resist- | ing the establishment of the united | front and unity everywhere except in Czechoslovakia, where the united “Daiwork” loff at Coney Island Stadium New York’s open-air performéince | of “Prince Igor,” Borodin’s famous opera and ballet will be given at the | Coney Island Stadium, Saturday eve- | - cannon fodder for the next war, will demand that those of the south who survive the present ordeal shoulder arms and march rz LOUIS ENGDAHL Jin Germany, although reserves in the | trary, they exerted all their energies WILLIAM F. DUNNE BERT MILLER business Msnager Entered as second-class mai! at the post-office at New York, N. Y., under | the act of March 8, 1879. SS>.. Advertising rates on application | nena nan mien nas Behind the Scenes at Geneva. Wall Street’s naval arms conference, called by the puppet) president, Cal Coolidge, under the pretense of eliminating the ne- eessity of building cruisers, will finally result in a decision to build dozens of new fighting ships of every variety. Pacifist slogans| in this case can never conceal the frenzied race for military ad-| vantage that today impels every imperialist power on earth to| amass ever more formidable armaments.’ The reports that creep outside the Geneva conference rooms and into the public press are only the muffled echoes of the con-| flict that rages within. Not all the suave, polished deceptions of | the diplomats can’ conceal the ever-widening breach between the) two giant imperialist powers—the United States and Great Britain. | In this conference is also a third power that is, figuratively | speaking, suspended between Britain and America. Japan en-| tered the conference with orders from the Tanaka government, | avowedly a defender of the policy of a revival of the Anglo-Jap- | anese alliance against the United States, to identify her policy | with that of Britain. For a number of days, while the question of | extending the 5-5-3 ratio of the Washington conference to include! all naval vessels was being discussed, Japan supported the policies | of Britain. But behind the scenes the agents of Yankee imperial-| ism, the mightiest financial power on earth, undoubtedly spoke| very firmly to Japan; telling her agents that no loans would be| floated in Wall Street to aid Japan in an ambitious program of naval competition. While the threat of a financial boycott has had the effect of | forcing Japan to support the United Siates against an increase | of tonnage above the 400,000 tons mark, it by no means implies | that Japan will become an ally of the United States instead of} Britain in the impending conflict in the Pacific. | intens | ican Ruhr basin are comparatively, small— not much more than half @ million tons—they are steadily on the in- crease; the United States has accu- mulated coal to the amount of about | 80 to 100 million tons, which vast stores, it is true, formed part of th fied preparation by the Amer. coal owners for the mine strike in the bituminous breaking out in April, although the coal reserves were rapidly increasing | even ‘efore this. British Competitors. The growth of reserves may be at- tributed to the fact that the coal in- dustry cannot find a market since the British coal-owners, having strangled the great miners’ strike are now able to win back the markets lost during last year’s 7 months’ struggle lower. ing their prices still more. The prin- cipal competition is with German coal by which British coal was chiefly sub- stituted on the international market. | At the same time British coal is crowding out of the market those countries whose output showed par- ticular development during the Brit- ish strike—Poland, Belgium, Czecho- slovakia and America. Finally the cheap freight for British coal and its high quality enables it to compete with local coal in coastal regions and coal districts with river transport. This is the case not only in France and Belgium but even in Germany, also possessing first-class quality and very cheap coal. All the coal-exporting countries are suffering from the consequences of this British competition and of the veritable coal war now going on be- tween Britain and Germany. Na- turally the less developed countries with dearer and inferior quality coal suffer the most. It is this that ex- plains the accumulation of enormous reserves in all European countries. Fresh Attack by Mine Owners. In order to cope with British com- petition the coal owners have been Sid | forced in all countries to lower prices. | Nations do not} All over Europe, with the single ex- | regions, | to prevent the miners taking an ac- | tive offensive. The miners every- where, in consequence are not only unable to meet the attack of the own- ers from a vantage point, but are ac- Ny forced to defend the position ich was theirs before the strike, he prophecies of the revolutionary niners have been completely con- firmed: international _ blacklegging miners have become direct black- legging of the miners in their own | countries. Unions Weaker. | Miners’ organizations everywhere jhave become weaker. Except in |France increase in membership is ;nowhere to be observed, indeed it is falling everywhere. | The spirit of the miners, after last year’s defeat of their British com- |rades is far from the belligerence de- |manded by the developing attack of | capital. | ~The reformists everywhere are pur- suing the most shameless scab policy. |T™ France they are loudly declaring | that no strike is possible after the re- | verse in England, and substituting for the class struggle parliamentary blathering. In Germany the reform- |ists have as a matter of actual fact |pledged themselves against strikes, the mine owners resorting to the ar- | bitration courts, whose decisions are | | Letters From and reformist treachery of the British | front has been set up, and endeavor- | ing with all their might to set the miners against their revolutionary vanguard, especially the Communist section of it. | In such circumstances the role and | significance of the revolutionary min- ers becomes of the greatest import- | ance, since it is only they who will |honestly and mercilessly defend the interest of the miners. Workers Suffer. They are however in a minority, and the blows of the capitalists and reformists are showered upon them from every side. The employers turn them out of the pits; the trade union bureaucrats turn them out of the unions. The obstacles in their path their failure in such conditions great. At the same time the illusions sown by the reformists among the rank | |und file trade unionists must inevit- ably be completely dispersed. During the coming struggle the mining masses will be able to ‘distinguish their friends from, their foes; they will at last understand that their strength lies in unity, that the united front and international solidarity are the only ways to resist the attack of capital, and they will follow those who summon them to true unity— the revolutionary leaders of the La- bor Movement, 3 Our Readers |To The DAILY WORKER: | To the average family the motion | picture house is one of the chief |places of amusement; and as with ; other capitalist institutions it is well jused in poisoning the minds of the |masses rather than to educate them. The narrow standards that it sym- bolizes, the old prejudices, the reli- }gious morals, with the heroic love affairs that usually end well is usually the rule. A new characteristic of the motion change political and economic policies that determine the general|ception of Germany coal prices have | picture industry for the past few direction in which they move in response to one adverse wind, like} ships-without rudders. | Also, it is not at all improbable that Britain, finding herself | at a disadvantage in the question of total tonnage of cruisers, has consented to permit-Japan openly to oppose her demands, while} secretly supporting other international policies that counteract} the effect of abandoning the high tonnage demands. | In the struggle for the privilege of exploiting China the two} dominant powers will bring all possible pressure to bear upon Ja- pan, but in the last analysis she will rather take chances on shar- ing with Britain the exploitation of part of China than have to} submit to the role of vassal of the United States, because Japanese | imperialists know that, after all, the “open door” policy of Wall) Street is designed to drive other powers out of China and secure} the exclusive right to exploit that vast territory. | The struggle behind the scenes at Geneva is the prelude to the unleashing of a devastating war in the Pacific that will claim untold millions of the flower of the manhood of every continent in the world unless the imperialist monsters are crushed by the working class rising and refusing again to be canrion fodder in a struggle to decide a new redivision of the world by the imperialist powers. Silence About Flood. Victims, Forlorn, bewildered, pathetically helpless -victims of the Mississippi flood that submerged hundreds of thousands of acres | of land in the south, are straggling back to the vicinity of their former habitations, to begin, bare handed and unaided by the government whose crimina! neglect is responsible for their plight, again their struggle for existence. Most of the victims are poor agricultural workers, whites and blacks, who lived in small one- story crudely constructed hovels. The recession of the flood brought the spread of malaria fever and other diseases that are today taking a steady toll of death. Many of the deaths, especially among children, are not recorded, because of the disorganized state of social life, and the! parents are unable to obtain dezent burial so they merely bury them where they perish and pass on. So protracted has been the horror that hundreds of thousands of poor inhabitants of the South can hardly respond to ordinary human emotions. Every- thing horrible that could happen seems to them to have hap- pened. Surely no more pitiful disaster ever befell a people. It is the more horrible because it occurs in a country whose govern- ment represents the most powerful ruling class on earth, wallow- ing in fabulous wealth, the recipient of a steady stream of profits from all over the world where it has investments. 4 Even the smallest percentage of the wealth that the ruling class of this country uses for investments abroad would be suf- ficient to save the lives of the perishing men, women and children of the flood areas. But instead of using a small part of the enormous surplus in their hands to save the victims of the neglect of their own government, these parasites and exploiters use their _ power to penetrate ever more remote cérners of the earth in order that their profits may mount ever higher. ’ The sum and substance of the flood situation is that no _ profits can be realized off the expenditure of money to save human lives and so babies die and their poverty-stricken parents bury _ them in open fields without even a mark to indicate that they ever lived. At the same time the Wall Street parasites, when they need to defend a government that did not raise a finger to save them tia oe been lowered during the past months. Germany does not require to do this, having as it is the cheapest coal in Europe, the price of British coal only quite recently approaching it. Since wages play the greatest part in the price of coal in all countries and since the owners are far from being anxious to cut down prices by diminishing their own profits, they are endeavoring to lay the burden of competition on the miners. This is achieved by the introduc- tion of rationalization, the raising of labor intensity, the cutting of wages and the lengthening of hours. The German coal owners during the about 8 million tons in the pits), and expended the great sums of money ment in mines. The enormous profits accruing from the increased export of German coal were spent on this; to- gether with reparation coal, German exports were 56 million tons for last year; even deducting freight expenses Germany made about 200,000,000s, Germans Rationalize. Other countries, however, could not show such a stupendous increase in output, ands have not introduced ra- tionalization to the extent that Ger- many has. They are now not in a position to rationalize the industry so quickly and there remains nothing for them to do but to increase the pressure on the workers. Everywhere the preparation of the owners for a fresh attack can be ob- served, and indeed in many countries this attack has already begun. In France the wages of miners have fbeen considerably lowered. A “combing out” campaign is in pre- paration for the getting rid of the more belligerent, revolutionary ele- ments from enterprises. The owners in Belgium are prepar- ing to lower wages and waging a campaign against working hours. Wages have gone down in the Saar Basin. ‘ In Spain wages are going down and the .7- and 8-hour day is threatened. In Poland the owners are endeavor- ing to cut wages 8 per cent and to substitute the 10 hour for the 8 hour day (enjoying it is true, a purely nominal existence). The German mine owners are fore- work 9% to 10 hours and preparing for an attack on existing leave. Great unemployment is rife 5 or 4 days a week and a campaign being waged against the 8 hour day. The 5 per cent rise given to the Dutch miners has been withdrawn. In England, where the working day has been lengthened and wages low- ered the miners are threatened with fresh wage-cuts in June, already in- troduced in some places. In the United States over 150,000 miners are on strike as a protest against a wage cut of 26 to 30 per cent. Even in South Africa and Australia great tension, bursting out in a suc- cession of conflicts is increasing be- tween owners and miners. British strike got rid of the vast coal | | reserves accumulated up to that time ; (in the Ruhr Basin alone there were thus obtained in improving the equip- | ing the workers in some districts to} in| Czechoslovakia, the pits working only | | months is an intensified production of | war pictures. It reminds one of the prewar days. The characteristic of |these pictures is that they are repre- sented under a comical appearance. The “Better ’Ole,” “Tell It to the Marines,” “Lost At the Front, ete., are some of the many; as well as the j tedious long pictures showing the new hero of the air “Our Lindy,” or | the extra show of “Coolidge Saluting the Cannons.” In all these pictures the class con- | scious worker can see through the hypocritical mask of capitalism and |can read their vile intentions, | These pictures want to tell the masses that there is nothing fright- |ful about war. That it is rather a | pleasant adventure. Well, the earth | is spitting fire! What of it? There’s |fun in it after all! In spite of all the efforts to picture | war in comical colors the public is not enthused. The bitter experiences of the last, but not least world war | are still fresh in its mind. Sincerely | yours,—Caroline Friedman. | ey * | As a newcomer in your midst, at least permit me to offer my heartiest |congratulations for the excellant manner in which your Managing | Editors have handled the publicity of the Sacco and Vanzetti case. To say | the very least, these two men rightly | deserve a new trial and a fair one— this time, not a framed one. More than that they should have an un- conditional pardon and the State of | Massachusetts should compensate these two so-called radicals, (I call em patriots of the highest order) for the inconvenience, embarrassment, the 7 years of their valuable lives that they were forced to spend behind prison bars. What a shame especially | in this enlightened day and age, that two men such as Saceo and Vanzetti should have to suffer for a crime, practically unknow to them. I sin- cerly believe now, more than ever be- fore, that the Shoe Trusts and other large combines have played a large part towards convicting these and other radicals in this much boasted free country of ours.—Anthony Probe. Engdah! Will Speak at Two Meetings July 11 and 12, in Pittsburgh PITTSBURGH, Pa.—J. Louis Engdahl, editor of the DAILY WORKER, just returned from the Union of Socialist Soviet Repub- lies, is coming to this city to ad- dress meetings Monday and Tues- day, July 11th and 12th, On Mon- day at 8 p. m. he will address a general membership meeting of the Workers Party to be held at the International Socialist Lyceum, 805 James St., N. S. Pittsburgh, Main Floor. Admission by mem- bership cards only. Tuesday, 8 p. m. daylight savings time he will address a public mass meet- ing at the Labor Lyceum, 35 Miller St., Pittsburgh. The subject “War Danger and the Soviet Union.” | To the DAILY WORKER: There is an old saying that “every picture tells a story.” This is quite true with regard to the tabloid news- papers of today. The capitalist class owning these sheets use them in furthering its interests, and always with an eye to shaping the opinions and ideas of the people. The master class is consciously and keenly aware of the fact that pictures have a tremendous effect on the minds of the great mass of the people. What plain, dry writing cannot say or do to ca- jole and deceive the masses and keep them in subjection, pictures are called upon to do effectively and fruitfully. The lives and pleasures of the rich parasite class are pictured as a goal which the worker may reach if he works hard enough and is submissive enough. In New York City today, most of the newspapers are devoted to pic- tures. These pictures, of course, have little bearing on the life-struggles, sufferings or aspirations of the toil- ing masses. The ideology of the capi- talist class, their pleasures, luxuries and weaknesses, the usual theme. Be- sides this, we get plenty of militaris- tie propaganda to make recruiting easier. This mental poison gains in strength and power every day. The labor movement must face and fight this insidious menace, and work to counteract it. Why cannot the working class bring into being a working class tabloid newspaper of its own; a picture newspaper that shall reflect and portray the many- sides activity of the toiling masses wherever the struggle: may be,—in shop, mine or farm, and in the pov- erty-stricken home. This is a most pressing need at the present time for the working class—Mark Stone, New York City. * * * Dear Comrade Miller: I was very much delighted to read that The DAILY WORKER is start- ing a campaign for five thousand new readers. It would be a great thing if we could make these five thousand new readers our answer to the Fed- eral indictment, just as the Russian workers are building their Red Army, Navy and Air Fleet, as their “Reply to Chamberlain.” On account of illness in my fam- ily I had been unable to do as much as I would like to do for our DAILY WORKER for the past month. There- | fore I would like to help your cam- paign by making the following offer. In order to stimulate the enlistment | of new readers in the heavy indus- tries, I will offer to pay free of charge for a two months’ subscrip- tion for every young worker in the District 6 (Cleveland), on his eigh- teenth birthday. “This is a challenge now to District 6, one of our most important industrial districts. All they haye to do is to send in the names and addresses of young workers and the date of their eighteenth birthday and I will pay for a two months’ sub! for them. For this purpose I am in-| closing a check for One Hundred Dol-| lars. Yours for The DAILY WORKER, —Leo Kling, New York, N. Y. * * * F. D. No,3 is composed of a mem- bership mostly of needle trades com- rades, Our Party membership krows about the struggle that the needle workers are confronted with at the present time and it is understood that all the forces of mgney of the comrades are exhausted. But when the appeal for The DAILY WORKER came, it did not stop the comrades of F. D. No. 3 S.S: 2-A to collect about $90.00 of an attendance of about 20 comrades. We hope that all the com- \41 Union Square and at other centers. are countless, and the likelihood of | Vanzetti in Letter rades follow this example. Com- radely,—Unit No. 3 S.S. 2-A. ning July 16th. Alexis Kosloff noted | ballet master, formerly of the Rus-} sian Imperial Opera and now at the) Metropolitan Opera House will ap-| pear in “Prince Igor” with a ,com-) pany of fifty. The New York Symphony Orches- tra, under the baton of Erno Rapee, | will give a special program, which | will include works by Wagner, Rim-| sky-Korsakoff, Tchaikowsky, Boro- dine, Berlioz and Strauss. The com- plete list of soloists to take part will} be announced later. The concert is | being given for the benefit of the } Furriers and Cloakmakers Relief. | Tickets are $1.00 and $2.00, and are | on sale at the Joint Defense Office, | Broadway Briefs Sojin, the Japanese actor who in- troduced Shakespeare, Ibsen and other dramatic works to Japan for | the first time in the native tongue of the Flowery Kingdom, is playing in “Foreign Devils,” a new film produc- tion based on the Boxer uprising in} China. The story is from the pen of | Peter B. Kyne, and will have Claire Windsor in the cast. The Fifth Avenue Playhouse is showing another German tion, “Shattered,” with Werner Kraus playing the principal role. The film ‘was directed by Lupu Pick. Begin- ning this Saturday the little Cinema playhouse will present “Crime and Punishment.” The 55th Street Cinema is showing this week Emil Jannings in “The! Last Laugh” and “Driven,” a drama) of the natives of the Carolina moun- | tains, with Charles Emmett Mack | and Emily Fitzroy. importa- | Al Jolson is now working on the film version of “The Jazz Singer,” taken from the stage play of Samson Rapaelson. The LADDER All seats are reduced for the summer. Best Seats $2.20. Cort Theatre, 48 St. BH. of B’way. Matinee Wednesday, Little Theatre GRAND ngeatieao, STREET THURS! FOLLIES AND THURSDAY, 2:30 B. S. Moss | Warner Bros. Present COLONY |“The First Auto” B'way at 53rd/with Barney Oldfield Continuous an NEW VITAPHONE Noon to Midnite B. 8. FILM SENSATION OF EUROPE CAMEO |\“Streets of Sorrow” | With GRETA GARBO 42d & B’way! & WERNER KRAUS MOSS , THE Complains of Cruel Treatment in Jail Vanzetti, writing to a friend here, commenting on his transference to the Charlestown State Prison says that prisoners there are subjected to “hideous discomfort.” The letter reads in part: “In Ded- ham the prisoners have at least some air, light, a slice of land and sky to comtemplate, a daily hour of sun-! shine and free air in the yard, and also some weekly visits.” “But in Charlestown it is differ- ent. The death house is a bad place in all seasons,” the condemned work- er writes, “but windowless, airless, lightless as it is, it is a terrible place in hot weather. One summer, I re- member, a doomed man waiting for the end was kept there, and we heard that some guards fainted on account of the heat and suffocation of the place. “If we are carried to Charlestown prison on July 1st we will agonize at once, because of the heat and want of air. Then, if a réprieve should be granted, we would be removed to Cherry Hill wing, where we would be kept in solitary confinement until the governor would have decided our fate.” This letter was dated June 25th and what Vanzetti feared has already takew place. “Yet,” he concludes, “I am confi- dent, my heart is steady, and I will hope—in spite of all.” BUY THE DAILY WORKER AT THE NEWSSTANDS Let’s Fight On! Join The Workers Party! In the loss of Comrade Ruthen- | berg the Workers (Communist) Par- ty has lost its foremost leader and the American working class its staunchest fighter. This loss can only be overcome by many militant work. ers joining the Party that he built. 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