The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 14, 1927, Page 6

Page Six THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JULY 14, 1927 Professor Endorses Pioneers By ESTHER BROOKS. The Pioneers of America are ginning to assume a more sigr eant character than ever, It is more than simply a children’s organization fm the narrow sense of the word, but ®@ world—a ha world—where the children find relief from the artificial world permeated with bourgeois ideals, and finally able to be i a different atmosphere which are begin public has its duty to educate the children to make them “better builders of society,” and that on the cont there must] w | of .j ing pride as expressed in his speech. Especially is he glad to know of the class which he recently ed, for the more advanced Pion- of Washington. They are ‘study- ing the “A B C of Communism” and Prof. Flury with a smile said, “Some the children know more about onomics than some of our uni- ity students or professors,” and is not mistaken at that, consider- the “hair-splitting” sy teaching in our schools. That the capitalist institutions are ch: s through which the bour- geoisie inject their propaganda is obvious by Prof. Flury’s saying, “Go- ing to the capitalist colleges is gen- erally a waste of time. They’re all colored with bourgeois propaganda v eers ve he be something to counteract the bunk that is ght there. Very recently Prof. Henry Flury, a teacher of sci in a local high school, and who the American duca- definition of Socialism—before t al Progres- sive Club entk cally praised and sponsored th ers of America and those of Washington in particu- that the Pion- from being converted by} ypaganda in the schools and elsewhere, and that they will work with all their might in enlight- ening other children by bringing them into the Pioneers. ‘e the only worker am little practical knowledge.” Yes, and Prof. Flury sees that the pitalists will turn everything under the sun into their tools in order to shape and mold the youth after their own image, but we workers and stu- dents not gving to be misled by yo teachings; we see a different society arising with different insti- tutions that won’t be marred with} your propaganda and exploitation for your profits. We cannot have “creative educa- tion,” as Prof. Flury says, with capi- talists heading and directing the in- stitutions, because “creative educa- tion” consists of developing all the inherent qualities, which is not per- missable under these circumstances. tion that educates way that they serve as a| schools are filled like balloons with Vanguard of the worke under the} dope such as patriotism to the capi- capitalist system and builds sound | talists, respecting the flag under leaders of the next social order—and! whose shield the worse outrages are| , Prof. Flury realizes it and takes great On the other hand, the children in the committed, etc., ete. Ancient. Customs in Japan By ANNA LOUISE STRONG. ! TOKIO (FP)—Japan makes no claims to democracy. Many customs bring back vividly the atmosphere of feudalism. The massive Bank of Japan might have been set in any European city. -But the tiny little office boys who pattered to mect us and took our cards, bowed low be- fore us with an atmosphere of utter) submission and reverence which startled me. | Later, during my interview, one of these small boys entered from time to time with a message on a salver; each time he waited with head and shoulders bowed forward in a defer- ence so extreme that he seemed to be begging for some ultimate mercy on his soul. Lovely Christians. talked last night with several C. A. workers about young life | in Japan. In spite of much modern- ism in the economic and financial | spheres, nine-tenths of the marriages! still take place in the ancient man- ner, by go-between and without court- ship. There is no coeducation after the primary grades. The lot of the educated woman is lonly; even the} average educated man prefers as wife We the old style woman, wonderfully} neatly compact kimonos, pattering on | are loading us into. trained to minister to every malé need| wooden clogs across the pavements, | He wants relaxation| Often the women had babies tied to| most important states (France. Great from| their shoulders, gay scarlet, blue or| Britain, Italy, German, the United | yellow little bundles bound to their! states At a recent commencement of the| mother by a long scarf and clinging | amounted in the year 1913 to 1400) Mr. Saito of the} to her like a squirrel to a tree-trunk. | million dollars; in the year 1926 they | been more than doubled. and comfort. rather than women. companionship Imperial University, Y. M., in making an address, told the graduates that large numbers of par- ents of educated daughters had ap- plied to him to act as go-between in finding responsible christian men as husbands. “Some of you might like to come around to my house and see the pho- tographs and descriptions,” he added seriously. ‘Possibly you might be- come interested in some of them.” This is suggested to American Y. M. C. A. and institutional churches— the Rev. John Haynes Holmes please take notice. If the church considers marriage a sacrament, why not help organize the preliminaries. Surely a good go-between would be a god- send to the maidens of New York. It might “attract young people” to the church, which is admittedly today a problem. Many Babies. We had taken the interurban from Yokohama up to Tokio, a 40-minute run The trip was a strange combina- tion of east and west. The inter- urban whizzed along from station to station between construction jobs as modern and as noisily progressing as anything in New York. But in and out moved nien and women clad in RAILROADS AID BOSSES IN UNION; SOUTHERN SCAB MINES GAINING RAPIDLY By LELAND OLDS How closely rail and coal interests are associated in the battle against the miners’ union is revealed in recent announcements concerning freight rates on coal from southern fields to lake ports. Negotiations are appar-| ently in progress to nullify, the inter- | state commerce commission’s recent | reduction in rates on Pennsylvania) and Ohio coal through voluntary re-| duetions by roads hauling coal from) Virginia, West Virginia and Kentucky | mines. { The Norfolk & Western, itself a} large owner of West Virginia coal} lands, announced that effective Aug./} 10 the rates on coal shipped to Lake| Erie ports would be cut 10c a ton and that the Chesapeake & Ohio and Louis-| ville & Nashville would make similar | reductions. Later it announced that this reduction had been canceled. The New York Times says: “This marks another step in the bat- the being waged by mine operators, railroads and the interstate commerce commission over the question of re- ducing freight rates on lake cargo coal, with the mine owners of western Pennsylvania and eastern Ohio the victors, at least temporarily.” The Times should have included the United Mine Workers in its list of participants in the battle. The fight started se al y 5 ago the in- terstate commerce commission began favoring the entry of non-union West} Virginia and Kentucky coal into north- | WAR AGAINST MINERS’ (Federated Press). }the union miners of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois. One of its decisions denied the request of Penn= sylvania and Ohio operators for rate reductions. The commission’s exam- iner had recommended such reductions in the interest of fair competition. Big Operators Go Scab. Recently the commission reversed this decision and permitted a reduc- tion of 20c. a ton on lake cargo coal from western Pennsylvania and Ohio. |The United Mine Workers, who had intervened on behalf of the operators, hailed the decision as a gain for the union but the biggest operators had already gone non-union. The commis- sion intimated that carriers. serving southern districts would not be justi- fied in reducing lake cargo rates. The Norfolk & Western canceled the proposed reduction in rates on south-/ ern coal immediately following a meet- ing of officials of the non-union Penn- sylvania which controls*a majority of its stock. This left the coal trade won- dering whether the Pennsylvania had decided to allow the eommission’s set- up to stand for a while or whether the proposed 10c cut was too small for the southern fields to retain their northern markets., A larger reduction | in rates on southern coal may be con- templated. Seab Mines Gain. The change since 1920 in the bal- ance of coal production between 4 northern and 4 southern states western markets normally supplied by!shown in the following Wall Street $__—__—_——___————-Journal table: Soft coal In- production 1920 1926 crease Alabama .... 16,249,000 22,356,000 37% Kentucky 691,000 63,330,000 80% Virginia 11,379,000 13,493,000 17% West Virginia ....... 89,871,000 147,209,000 63% Total southern « 163,190,000 246,388,000 60% Decrease 88,725,000 69,700,000 22% 29,350,000 22,839,000 24% ‘ 45,878,000 29,150,000 36% Pennsylvania ... 170,608,000 151,119,000 12% Total northern ,.... 334,561,000 272,808,000 18% ~ | amounted to WAR AND THE WORKER I. The Augmentation of Armaments and the Development of War Technics. | The imperialists are consciously | heading for a new war. The finale | |of the first imperialist war was Ver- | sailles. But real peace was not con- | cluded at Versailles nor could it have |been, for the sole reason that from | jthe hour of its birth it was only a| |new armed “peace”. The feverish | arming after the war is taking place quite openly; it is quite plain that mili- tarism is more powerful at the present |time than it was in pre-war days, | and still there are pacifist fools and | idiots 0 prate about disapmarment | and strive to see in the present reality tendencies towards peace on a bourge- ois basis. t might he well to mention a few facts and figures to illustrate how} the imperialists are preparing the war and what kind of war it is they | The official military budgets in the of North. America, Japan) £149.5 million dollars, | an increase of nearly 70 per ent. | Tne respective figures for the .ndi | vidua: countcies are as follows: France (1913) 348 and (1926) 319.8; | | Great Britain and 605; Italy 3 jand 19 J \Tnited States i | 80 ard 208 "be changed relations |cf one budget tc another show an ji terest'ng teaiure: the ee:iomic | hegemeny of the United States in the | worl! has broaght with it tae military | hegemy2y. War Power Increasing. The present footing of the land forces is far in excess of pre-war dimensions. According to the data gathered by Comrade Woroschilyov | | for the Fourth, Soviet Congress of | the Soviet Union, the land forces of the four world. powers (England, France, Italy and the United States | |of North America) total at the pres- ent time 1,821,000 against 1,413,000 | future”. and others) are also being built at a similar tremendous pace, so that ac- cording to the existing programme for the decade 1922 to 1923 their strength will be increased in the case of the leading naval powers by sev- eral dozen per cent., and in the case of the backward powers by hundreds per cent. Small Countries in Race. The rate of increase in the air fleets | ‘is far and away greater than that of the navies. This is due to the pro- gress made in aviation, to the circum- stance that within the last few years the mass-production of aeroplanes has commenced and also to the attention which has been devoted to aviation by the “military science of the Just the few countries | bordering on the Soviet Union — Fin- land, Esthonia, Poland, Roumania, Latvia and Lithuania — have four times us many warplanes as there were in, the whole world in 1£13. The portant countries has been strength- ened iore than 20-fold since 1913. (150 units and 3550 units.) Even jn | the last three years, 1923 to 1.26, the | numerical! strength of the airfleet has An extended and previously un- Vote for Death |men in 1913, | From year to y:ar the naval forces | |of the imperialist. states are also! growing. The Washington agree- | ment of 1922 By no means put an! end to, nor even “curtailed”, but only} | regulated, the construction of dread- | | noughts. In addition, the agreement | applied merely to battleships ai airs |craft carriers. The construction of |eruisers, destroyers and submarines | | was not limited and has, in fact, de- | | veloped greatly since 1922. The pres- | ent tonnage of the battleships of the | United States of North America ag- |gregates 525,850 tons, of Great | Britain 580,450; Japan 301,320; | France 194,554; Italy 133,670. | | The Aircraft Race. | As far as the building of aircraft | carriers is concerned, it must be stated | that Washington ‘eurtailed” their con- | struction in such a manner that the | Powers will have to “work” very hard | | in order to reach the “norm” prescrib- \ed. The United States of North | America has built 12,700 tons of air- craft carriers, while it is Washing- ton's “task” to bring this tonnage up to 135,000; England has 67,290 tons, and according to Washington it should; have 135,000; Japan has 9,500, while the agreement provides for an in- | crease up to 81,000 tons; so far France \and Italy do not possess any aircraft carriers; according to the Washington agreement they together may build While production in the 4 southern states has increased 60%, production| 120,000 tons. 18%. ‘n the 4 northern states has decreased Ships of other types (submarines - ‘ he The Rey. Lloyd Frey, above, pastor of the Liberty Baptist church, Harrisburg, Ill., and the Rev. Lawrénce McNeely, Bap- tist minister of Marion, Til. jaar members of a jury that voted a death sentence for Rado Millich, charged with the murder of Ward Jones, Birger gangster. The Rev. Frey was foreman of the jury, which voted also a 25- year sentence for Eural Gowan, 20. Both batt odh oe ua op- ition gangs. . Frey rd he voted for death because “TI felt it my duty before God.” Against the War Danger | THE FUTURE WAR AND THE WORKING CLASS By D. MARETZKY (Moscow.) | known employment of aviation will be combined in the war of the future with an appalling use of chemicals. A gas attack from the air, the dropping of deadly gases from aero- planes -— as far as possible unex- pected (at night), and preferably in the industrial districts behind the enemy’s front and in the largest quantities — will doubtlessly consti- {tute the most horrible surprise of | the imperialist war which is in course | of preparation. Increasing Use Of Gas. | It would be too exaggerated and \fantastic to assume that the war of the future will be exclusively a gas {war and that infantry and artillery {will be abolished by the military science of the future. It is not for nothing that the imperialists are |creating these tremendous land for- jces; it is not for’ nothing that they | are doing everything to perfect long- jrange artillery with the utmost | power of destruction. But still there jtolal airflect of the four most im-|Can be no doubt that the tendency of | modern science of war is to make the }war of the future a gas war. It is quite possible that in the war of the future the same leading roll will be |given to gas-attack aeroplanes as was played by artillery in the 1914-18 war, Will Poison Millions. The experiences of the world war have already indicated this. The | mass-production of gases began only | towards the end of the war; and it iis a significant fact that the United States, for instance, which entered |the war later than the other belli- gerents, lost more than 70,000 of its | total of dead and wounded (271,000) through gas poisoning. Altogether, |more than half a million people were poisoned with gas during the last war. U. S. Gas Most Deadly. The intensity and extent of the use of gas in the next world war will un- |questionably be much. greater. It suffices to say that the United States \is already in a position to produce in one day 3000 tons of Yprit (“Gold Cross”), which in its poisonous and caustic effects was the most terrible of all the gases used in the war of 1914 to 1918. The ordinary gasmask lis useless against Yprit, as also | against Levisite, which possesses the |more pronounced degree, | suits might possibly serve as protec | tion against gases of this kind, and \consideration is being giving to the ‘issuing of diving-suts for artillery- _men during the next world slaughter. | Such protection, is however, unsuit- able inasmuch as it would greatly hamper the mobility of the troops and diminish their fighting capacity. | Vast Secret Preparations. | The preparations for the as-war \are being made for the greater part ‘in seeret by the imperialists. But they are nevertheless being carried on incessantly, feverishly and per- sistently. It is true that several resolutions concerning the inadmissibility of the | production of poison gases and their use ‘adopted, but it is obvious that these ‘resolutions are absolutely worthless while the fate of the nations lies in ‘the hands of the imperialists. | The voice of profits is heard much | more clearly by the imperialists than ithe piteous entreaties of the pacifist saints. Marx used to say that there |was no crime to which a capitalist | would not resort, even at the risk of jhis neck, if tempted by high profits, | For what reason. therefore, should the |imperialists feel compunction when their criminally prepared war threat- ens to become the scaffold of the nations? (To Be Continued) | terrible properties of Yprit but in a! Diving- | in future warfare have ‘been! Plumbers Helpers Show How Youth Can Fight By M. H. The strike of the plumbers’ helpers, altho it did not result ip a complete victory for these militant young work- ers, was not in vain. Before the formation of their organization, the average helper was unacquainted With the principles of trade unionism, and did not realize that he is the most ex- ploited worker, in the building trades industry. However, things have changed since the strike, and we now find the helper seeing the situation in a far different light. He has slowly begun to realize that there is such a thing as a class struggle existing in the world today. Nothing has served to make this more clearer to him, than the bitter strike which he has gone through. He has seen the bosses also united into an organization, and pre- senting a united front against him and his fellow workers. Slowly but surely he has realized, that it is also necessary for the workers to present a united front in order to meet the combined attack of the bosses. He has learned what happens to workers | when. they try to protect their jobs by |peaceful picketing. In many cases brutally beaten up by the police, ‘and arrested on trumped up charges, and then either thrown into jail, or having an unjust fine imposed upon him, has proven to him that the police and our courts are nothing but tools of the capitalists, used by them to beat the workers into submission when they |try to better their conditions, \the helpers were more active than the plumbers themselves. known reason, and despite the fact that they had fourteen automobiles at their disposal, there was very little picketing carried on by the plumbers. It was the helpers, these young work- ers who for the first time in their lives were entering the labor move- jment, that succeeded in clearing job after job where scab plumbers were employed. Not only did they carry on an intensive picket campaign, but they took immediate steps to upkeep the morale of the membership. They or- ganized a relief committee, which, with the co-operation of other organ- izations succeeded in opening a kitch- en which fed hundreds of strikers daily. This committee sent out dele- gates to various labor organizations appealing for financial aid also. It was very interesting to watch these young workers, who never delivered a public speech in their lives, stand= ing before their older brothers and appealing for aid in their struggle. The response they received was very encouraging, and it also helped to teach them a good lesson in solidarity. As is usually the case in every strike, many false rumors were spread amongst the other workers regarding the conduct of the strike. In order to combat this, and also to present their side of the story, the helpers put out a snappy newspaper, called the Amer- ican Plumbers’ Helpers. This paper has been widely distributed amongst the other building trades workers, and has helped greatly in presenting their case to these workers. The struggle in the building trades is by no means over. The employers are determined to slash wages, in- crease the hours of labor, and estab- lish a more perfect. speed up system. All signs point to a bitter struggle in the future. The plumbers’ helpers, because of the experience gained in the strike will play a very important role in the coming struggle. They con- ducted their strike like veterans, and have won the admiration and respect of the entire labor movement. No more are they looked upon as a bunch of kids, but are considered intelligent young workers, who understand their problems, and are prepared to solve these problems in the proper way. | They are the vanguard, who will lead he building trades workers, in the truggle for human conditions and ex- istence. It is they, who stand ready to pave the struggle against the forces fighting until they have established a decent standard of living, both for themselves and fellow workers as well. Bronx Young Workers!-— You are in- vited to the hike arranged by our section, to Hunters Island for Sunday July 17. (Arrangements for a rich program have been made). There will be bathing, boating, a musical program and various games. We will start out from 1347 Boston Road 9 A. M. sharp, Bact New Honolulu Flizht. OAKLAND, Cal., July 13,—Ernie Smith, former air mail pilot and Em- ory Bronte, navigator, wil! hop off at 7 o’clock tomorrow morning in an attempt to fly to Honolulu, William H. Royle, flight manager, made it |mown today. Several, trial flights, one of ich was to Santa Monica, 400 miles away, have already been made. BUY THE DAILY WORKER ~ AT THE NEWSSTANDS | | In the recent strike of the plumbers, | For some un-| of reaction, and who will not stop, Communist Aids Young Worker in School Task How ‘the literature of Communism is penetrating the schools and mould. ing the minds of studious young workers is indicated by the following letter received, relating how the monthly magazine “The Communist” served him in his school work: “It is to be understood of course, that the material that I used in con- nection with my High School work, did not emanate from The Commu- nist, but from other publications as well, among which were The DAILY WORKER, The Workers Monthly, and a very little bit, ever so little, from The New Masses. “In school I happened to be one of the few who upheld the Soviet Union. I was pressed from all sides to bring proof of my convictions, es- pecially since I maintained that pro- duction in the U.S.S.R. was as effi- cient, if not more efficient, than un- der the Czar. The article which helped me clinch my point was “The Soviet Economy on the Ninth Anni- versary.” (Workers Monthly Jan. 1927 p 701). In this article may be found the relationship between so- cialized co-operative and private in- dustry in the U.S.S.R. + “Also in the same issue I used Ber- tram D. Wolfe’s ‘Towards Leninism,’ as proof that the U. S. was not such a well stabilized capitalistic country as it seems to be on the surface. Both these’ instances came up in my class in elementary economics. Inci- dentally, we were using Thomas Nixon Garver’s textbook in this course. It is not worth the paper it is printed on. “In my course in American His- tory, Jay Lovestone did a lot of work with his ‘More about the First American Revolution,’. same _ issue, and his ‘Government Strikebreaker,’ | altho he does not know it. “In the February issue of the same magazine, ‘American Imperialism and the Fight For Pacific’ by N. Manuil- sky; and ‘The Relation of the Workers Party to Religion’ by Lenin came in handy in the above men- tioned classes. The article by Lenin was discussed privately with my eco- nomic teacher. “Since imperialism, social and eco- nomic reform, the U.S.S.R. and stu- dent suicides have been the predom- inant subjects for discussion in the various classes lately, it is not hard to see why I said: “The Communist has been invaluable in my school cx a The Sport Alliance again defeated the Mansfield team at the Workers Press Picnic, July 8rd., 2 to 0 in favor the Detroit team. Before the game started both teams sang the Inter- nationale on the dancing pavilion. From there both teams marched to the playing field singing the Prole- tarian football song. Mansfield kicked off center. Both teams played hard in the first half, but both teams were unable to regis- ter a goal. The Mansfield goalie was called upon neat shots at the goal from Frank Geist the left winger for the Detroit team. Also Pete Geist brought the goalie the ground to save Mansfield team. The Mansfield team being pressed hardest in the first half. First half was 0-0. The second half both teams were determinéd to score. The Mansfield team resorted to their strength instead of skill while the Detroit players being out- weighed by the Mansfield team had to rely on their skill in which the De. troit team mastered, The Mansfield team only twice had the Detroit Goalie in danger and he saved both of them. Only fifteen minutes to play still 0-0. A clever pass by John Hay to Puziger registered the first goal. A few minutes later Puziger again got |a neat passe from John Ghen and vagistered the second goal for the Detroit team. The Detroit team pressed the Mansfield team hard the remainder of the game, but the Mansfield goalie refused to let any more go through. The final score being 2-0 in favor Sport Alliance. About 800 spectators watched the game. The. Detroit second team of the Sport Alliance al- so gave the Mansfield Second team a defeat, the score being 8-2 in favor of Detroit. This game was a one sided affair. The Detroit team being too strong for the Mansfield team, Scott Nearing To Speak In Detroit. On the 24th of July a pieniec will be held at Woodland Grove (11 mile Road and Dequindre) under the joint auspices .of the Young Workers (Communist) League and The South Slavie Workers Progressive club. The internationally known writer and lecturer, Scott Nearing will speak on | ~ China and Russia. Also there will be Chinese, Hundu, South Slavic and Youth Speakers. The committee has also arranged _ a very good sport program and many interesting side attractions including a rifle range. out to hear Scott Near; ing have a good time! & | \t