The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 18, 1927, Page 6

THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MO Y, JULY 18, 1927 By R. HOLTMAN. In an add read by Hamilton, Professor of Medicine in School. t trial Co she pointed out the great confront women workers from indus- trial poisoning. New Danger Since War. According to Dr. F ger has ir ased m fore and during the Reve been me of solvents ing a new and in facto quer, shell: r. There in the type it great dar soning for the great number of women and girls American e by no means model fac- tories; in , they fall far below the standards maintained by many indus- tries for which a strict factory hy- giene is not nearly so necessary. Printing and type foundings are other industries where women find employment and where the danger of | lead poisoning is very serious. Even more complicated and much more dangerous is the work of producing litho-transfer paper, where women are employed in dusting finely ground lead colors on prepared paper. In such facto almost impossible. Benzol Causes Anemia. The most dangerous and difficult poison to control, tar-coal-beyzol, has spread widely through industry, dis- placing the much safer petroleum sol- vents, naptha and benzine. Benzol has proven especially poisonous to many ‘women in these industries. The National Safety Council has published a report of a study of ben- zol-using industries in which it is stated that during 1922-25, 15 deaths from benzol poisoning and 83 non- fatal cases occurred in 24 plants. Dur- complete protection is | York State . found t Arti- parts of t o the dye hile the solvent re employed in nd 2 dipped dry Women up to y common. provide ¢ inary ventila- ere wood alco- three times is required for fety where this solvent is used. The symp- tons of wood aleohol poisoning, which m ne: are familiar to all ¢rom the many cases which occurred soon after | the passage of the prohibition amend- jment. Industrial poisoning is of ex- actly the same character. Danger to Children. In dealing with the problem of wo: men in poisonous trades, it is neces. sary to take into consideration, first, that women are more susceptible to poisons as compared with men, and 'second, the possibility of the trans- ference of the poisoning from the mother to the offspring. It is a striking evidence of the greed for profits of the American capitalist, jand the indifference of the govern- | ment to the health and welfare of the | workers, that in this country, the to tion in a wo hol is used, | wealthiest and most prosperous in the | world, there is almost no effort to study and control the danger of indus- |trial poisoning; while in Germany, |Holland and the Scandinavian coun- | tries, extensive studies have been | made and preventive measures under- | taken. A COMRADE’S FUNERAL (Written After the Death Of Comrade Most of the | y end in death or complete blind- | | Bourgeois Teavellers Also Blame “The Bolsheviks” for Many Passport Regulations By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL UR train begins picking up “Americans” returmting to | the United States as it passes thru Germany on its from Berlin to Paris. W tance, about the young man sitting in the seat opposite, in the compartment that we occupied. European trains are divided into compartments that seat from six to ten h. passengers x * x A Roumanian From Detroit. It developed, however, that he was returning to De- |troit, Mich., and he was not goizs to waste any time in | Paris on the way. | He had brought $1,400 with i. mania. He had none of it left. “All my relatives joined in begging it away from me,” . on his visit to Rou- jhe said. |so bad, and their needs were so great.” No Love for Queen Marie. This Roumanian worker from Detroit, who had returned extreme enough to condemn the Roumanian government. He spoke, with a personal pride, of the fact that Queen Marie of Roumania had not come to Detroit during her |recent visit to the United States. He said, “She didn’t jdare.” She had cut her trip short by leaving Detroit and |Cleveland, and other cities with large Roumanian colonies | off the list. ‘ He took special delight in telling how he had cheated the customs officials on the Roumanian border. He had attempted to take a box of cigars in with him. The duty, | however, was fixed at $18. That was many times the |amount he had paid for the cigars. He refused to pay and offered to give the cigars away. But the customs | officials declared he must pay the duty of $18 even be- |fore he could give the cigars away. Then he broke open |the box, carefully tore into many fragments all the \eigars that it contained and scattered the wreckage to |the winds. “Now there are no cigars left and you can’t collect the | duty,” he told the officials, and they had to admit he was | correct. This is merely one instance of multitudes of a similar |nature that travelers tell, testimony to the numerous tariff barriers that have been ‘erected between all Euro- pean countries, most of them in bankruptcy and in dire need of every lira, drachma or zloty they can get their hands on, * * * At Cologne, an elderly woman comes on the train and There doesn’t seem to be much “American,” for in- “I couldn’t refuse them, their conditions were | | thru Duisburg, and Essen, “the Pittsburgh of the Ruhr,” | and a host of other cities that have been the centers of titanic struggles of the German steel workers and coal for a visit to the land of his birth, could not find words | miners for power, against the oppressors in Berlin, Paris | A HERO OF THE DOUBLE CROSS. He Ht democratic government in that country, fervently hoping that the Communists would get no stronger in the United States. In fact, the passengers generally felt that all travelling restrictions were due to the dread of the Bolsheviks. This opinion was also accepted by a Frenchman who could talk some English. By the time the train reached the Ruhr district; of coal and iron, our discussions had -at- tracted practically everyone in the car who could speak, or understand, the English language. Thus we passed and London, not to forget Washington and New York. There must be some affinity between steel, coal and goats, for here, as along the banks of the Allegheny and the Monongahela, long bearded goats in large numbers graze quietly along the hillsides. But here in the Ruhr, | the cottages with the countryside, including the goats, | do not look as sooty and full of dirt as the environs of Pittsburgh or Bethlehem, in Pennsylvania, or any other American steel town or coal mining center. * * * We pass thru the Ruhr during the late afternoon and evening. Quite late at night we hit a corner of Belgium, with the names of stations familiarized by. the world war. Everywhere, “Tours thru the Battlefields” were being advertised. The trenches have been carefully pre- served thru the judicious use of concrete. Every possi- ble inducement is given to the tourist trade that brings hundreds of millions of déllars annually to Belgium and France, the chief favorites, altho it is claimed there is a falling off of American visitors this year. It is planned to send tens of thousands of members of the American Legion to the gathering of this organization in Paris, in September, to make up for any deficiency. At Liege, Belgium, a train of Belgian cars pulled alongside our own. With the Polish, German and: French cars that made up our own train, we had quite a collec- tion for a few moments in this station. * * * American Passports Get Recognition. BIG BUSINESS IRKED BY BACKWARDNESS OF FARM PLANS WAYS TO MAKE FARMER INTO A SERF By LELAND OLDS. (Federated Press.) Big business is tackling the prob-| jlem of the balance between farm and factory under capitalist industrialism. It may succeed either in making agri- culture a coordinate branch of capi-| |talist industry or in subordinating the | | independent farmer to an intensified |capitalist dictatorship. Chief economist Virgil Jordan of the national (employer) industrial conference board, addressing the na-/| |tional fertilizer association, says: Prosperity Looks Diversity. “The agricultural situation today is not merely the result of the war. There is strong evidence that our agriculture has been increasingly lag- ging behind the rest of our economic life since the beginning of the century, |which marked the beginning of our |rapid industrial development. | “The prosperity of the past few |years has not been so widely diffused jas is sometimes imagined. Though |the city worker and the city indus- tries are profiting today by the cheap food they get at the farmers’ ex- pense, all economic experience shows that they cannot evade paying their board bill, though it may take an- |other decade for the farmer to collect it. Farm and Factory. “In the long run the farm and the factory are mutually dependent and there can be no permanent prosperity for either at the expense of the other, From the point of view of the national economic welfare we need the maxi- mum production of both groups. The MOSCOW, (By Mail).—A report __CO-OPERATIVES _ | butter from the Sovi great problem is how to prevent this maximum production, which is to the national advantage and to the advan- tage of the individual producer, from injuring the relative economic position of either the agricultural or industrial group as a whole.” This problem is insoluble in an | economic order organized for the pro- fit of a small but enormously wealthy minority rather than for the mutual interchange of the products of farm and factory workers. “The time has.come in the life of the American people,” Jordan warns, “as it has come hefore in the history of all great nations, when we must de- liberately and wisely formulate a na- tional agricultural policy. We must make up our minds as a people wheth- er we are going to continue to sacri- fice our agricultural development to our temporary industrial growth, as we have been doing, or whether we are going to adopt the safer and wiser course of bringing our agricultural, industrial and commercial life into a well balanced and cooperative rela- tionship.” Jordan sees this problem as a real test of democracy and in a sense he is right. The solution can be worked out only if American democracy js capable of extension into the newer field of economic government. Co- operation between farm and factory can be worked out under farmer-labor control of the economic forces of the natidn, Otherwise these forces will be the playthings of great financial overlords now dreaming of world em- pire. Relations Between Agricultural and Consumers’ Codps « Union so the ing 1925 at least 7 more died of ben- Chessick Of Philadelphia.) finds a seat in our compartment. She was born in Den- The Belgian officials, in brilliant uniforms, do not take | of the International Labor Office inj value of over 305,000 pounds before zol poisoning. Of 54 cases of severe By BERTHA KANTOR mark and has beey visiting that country with a sister.} the trouble to even open up American passports, they al I ¢ h poisoning, 40 were women, and of 36 i Deir . -@ ¢he| Lhe husband was more interested in visiting Yellowstone | hold them in such respect. With others they are more| Geneva to the preliminary committee | trade relations were broken. In 1921 deaths, 28 were women. A co le died, a soldier of ."€/Park and California, than the Scandinavian countries, | careful. |of the World Economic Conference, | the English Wholesale Society estab- It is probable that benzol is one of ee 1: ranks cf the = es and so he had not come along. The sister had had her It is after midnight when we cross over into France| gives some figures in regard to the as with the dairy cooperatives of the poisons which is more dangerous | “2's: “+ Plain, Sincere aebedicats oe |e of European travel and had taken a boat directly | Before seven o’clock in the morning we begin to.touch| extent of relations on an interna- New Zealand a joint distributive or- for women than for men, and especial- | ° those who remain in the ie ~|home to the “U. S. A.” Our fellow-traveler had, decided | the outskirts of Paris. tional scale of Agricultural and Con-/ ganization which financed the distri- ly dangerous for young girls, as it | oe ee oe eames | see Germany and Paris. ‘i The last view of the open country was that of a French | Sumers’ Cooperatives. Evan is py Zealand ay produce CSRS re, Wan aoe og ake Y| She blamed all her troubles on the Bolsheviks. The | farmer swinging his scythe in a hayfield ripe for the| The British Wholesale Society, as|‘? “TS' ritain. In 1924 ir destroys the elements of the blood, | ho nailar our waoverheut thus causing anemia. The blood loses | He had “n0 aisaeen RAL, Bolsheviks .were responsible, in her eyes, for the ex- its power to clot, and when a slight paced bataas Relationship stronger | stence of all passports and the demands for all visas. injury to a blood vessel occurs, the+ than that of Bigud’’ faeweavin the | hese restrictions had all been adopted, in her opinion, hlood keeps oozing out. Victims of | to act as checkmates against the Communists, concerning the most prominent importer among | nae New Zealand amounted * cooperative organizations, established | £950,000. already in 1881 in Denmark, a buying | Danish Efforts. centre for dairy produce. Since then; The Society of Swiss Consumers’ cutting. Even here, therefore, backward methods are in use by an impoverished peasantry. In France, as in Germany and Poland, the Communist Party has a great influence among the farming population, PS OER REST ASNT benzol poisoning have hemorrhages | under the skin as well as from the | , the sto: and in- | Women suffer additional through excessive danger hemorrhage. Profits vs. Lives. another American ol could be sub- any preparations, such as varnishes, wood alcohol dries more quickly. Quicker evaporation, however, means that the air of the workroom becomes more quickly poi- soned, and the life and health of the workers are thus endangered solely in | the interest of a greater profit for | the boss. | — Wood alcohol poison. Grain stituted, but for struggles of the revolutionary prole- iat bound him to his comrades. When he died he was brought to ters. His com- a last look at ed them to he left, to fill his 1eir sorrow. ‘ain at his open grave they gath- 1 closely together and sang the ational. The powerful melody reverberated across the cemetery grounds. Old ladies who came to weep over the graves of their loved ones were drawn to the scene, for never before had they witnessed such a funeral. Here in the Kingdom of | Death, triumphant life broke in THE FLYING SCHOOL TEACHER NEARS PACIFIC 3 PEE. Sa ork: SET FOR HONOLULU FLIGHT schoel teacher, of Flint, Mich. nia coast,to Honoluly. _ Plane will be piloted by Angi¢ Miss Mildred Doran (above), , is ready to fly from Califor- - nergy. Thus they | whom she had read at great length in the daily newspa- She knew all about Russia, she said, from reading She had found Communists in Den- |mark, but added her denunciation of the Stauning social- pers. the capitalist press. L’Humanite. Of this I was to learn more later in the day on visit- ing the headquarters of the French Communist Party, here in Paris, and the offices of its central organ, the THE FUTURE By D. MARETSKY (Moscow). In. ‘ The reconstruction and develop- ment of imperialistic economy bear | within them the premises and fac- |tors of a new war. During the post- war period, the competitive struggle among the powers has not slackened but became more intense. The prob- llem of procuring raw material has become critical for a number of | States, while the desperate fight for | markets has grown extremely sharp. |The coming to a climax of the main |problem for capitalism, namely, the procuring of markets, is distin- guished by the following features: the disproportion between the possi- bilities of extending the machinery of production and of the small basis of effective demand on the part of the masses; the dropping out of the Soviet Union as a free market from the sphere of capitalist world econo- my; the Versailles “peace” condi- tions, which laid’ a political ban up- on the possibility of extending the economic territory of the van- quished countries; the progress made in the industrialism of the colonies and protectorates, their political awakening, etc. The necessity for a redistribution of ‘the world is peremptorily deé- manded by the inequality of capital- ist development, which under im- perialism becomes not, as some be- |fact which has been demonstrated: in a particularly striking manner dur- ling the post-war period. Inequality |of capitalist development under im- | perialism disturbs the economic bal- }ance of the whole globe, a balance which can only be restored by a vio- lent rédistribution of the world. The| imperialist States with their highly | developed powers of production are | thirsting for “supplementary” exten- sion, for the supplanting of their | “fellows,” and striving for a “just” division of the places in the sun. On | the other hand, those countries, in which no means can be found of car- rying out “stabilization” successfully ‘and which threaten continually to | sink into chronic stagnation, show an linelination to save themselves by | Winning new spheres of influence j and exploiting them thoroughly. Fi- nally, the vanquished countries, as their convalescence progresses, begin to feel the revival of their dormant instincts, of their imperialistic appe- tite; colonial ideology and of just “revenre” are croppft joughts up, | lieve, modified but aggravated, a! WAR Imperialism Breeds Wars. In this manner the stimuli towards | redistribution become more numerous and a new imperialist war becomes more likely. Imperialism without war is unthinkable; it is only through war that it can be restored. To do away with militarism without having destroyed imperialism would be as bad a beginning as to do away with the Pope while retaining Catholicism. Imperialism cannot exist for any length of time without war. On the other hand, every war that is waged by imperialist powers must of neces- sity be an imperialistic war, a preda- tory war. It is also to be seen from the gen- eral sociological theses which Lenin took from Marx and developed. Poli- tics are the “concentrated expression of economy” as Lenin said on several occasions. Imperialistie policy is consequently nothing but the “con- centrated expression” of the economy of finance-capital. “War is merely the continuing of politics by other (violent) methods.” This celebrated assertion: of Clausevitz was taken up fully and completely by Lenin after Marx and Engels. From these two sentences which link “economy,” “politics” and “war,” it will be seen that the present-day war is the ‘:con- tinuation”\of the policy of imperial- ism, in other words, it is thoroughly and completely the work of robbers and exploiters, Puppets of Imperialism. The disproportion between the hugely inflated military budget and the general level of Qconomy is very pronounced in countyies adjoining Russia, for instance, Poland and Rou- mania. The secret of their exces- sive arming is that they play the role of Fascist Mamelukes for the| » great imperialistic sharks, such as | England, While they parade their military power, they brilave them- selves Hike lackeys dressdd in their masters’ clothes. Naturally, the masses of the people in these coun- tries must bear the heavy burden of their governments’ military zeal. Lenin did not only take a naked formula from Clausevitz, Lenin backed it up with the richest con- crete contents of the epoch. Lenin welded it with the theory of imperi- alism tnto a complete whole. In Lenin's hands it took on that satis- fying, militant, revolutionary char- acter and at the same time illumi- nated the way of the fighting pro- letariat with a beam of ‘the brightest rays. Against the War Danger AND THE WORKING CLASS “Just Aims” a Myth. It is one of Lenin’s immortal achievements that he indicated of which policy the war of the modern “powers” is the “continuation.” Len- in showed that only the regime of imperialist exploitation and nothing else can be “continued” with the bloody slaughter of war. This gave Lenin the possibility of attadking with the strength of a Prometheus the Social-Chauvinists, the Centrists and the Opportunists of all shades, to expose and scourge all the under- hand accomplices of capital, from whose brains emanated ‘the “just aims” of the war, which never ge any existence, and who gave e workers the idea that shells from Krupp’s and Schneider-Creuzot would promote the growth of democ- racy, who spread the vulgar legend “of the defence of Belgium’s neutral- ity,” who circulated the lie that the imperialistic slaughter had not a class origin. Lenin’s Masterly Analysis. Lenin’s merit was that he proved why imperialism must inevitably lead to huge wars of destruction. He thereby exposed the nauseating talk of the preachers of pacifism who di- verted the proletariat from the right path and who, like the “Paneuropa” gasbag, Calergi, gave the assurance that imperialism could “get along” without war. That it must not of necessity have its logical “continua- tion.” Lenin proved masterfully and irrefutably that it is possible to fight against war only if one fights for the revolution and under the banner of the proletariat and in no other way. The whole of Lenin’s doctrine con- ning war was not exhausted in ex- g the nature of warfare and its showing itsgpreda- tory character. Sundry remarks, in- dications and articles of Marx, the creator of scientific Socialism were transformed by Lenin into a harmo- nious whole, into a doctrine of the social-historic types of wars. Py Special Types of War. Wars, “the use of armed forces,” occupations, “attacks,” “defence,” “irredentism” (the violent changing of State frontiers)—all these were experienced by humanity in the dis- tant past, all these are ranged on the scroll of history, they are today be- ing enacted dnd will be again in the future. From the standpoint of rev- olutionary Marxism, it would, how- ever, be absolutely inadmissible and | imperialism. quite fruitless if we forgot the spe- imperialistic | trade relations between the English Wholesale Society and the agricul- tural cooperative societies of Den- mark have considerably developed. In 1925 the English Wholesale Society bought up 20 per cent of the entire Danish butter export. Wholesale Society buys dairy produce also from the dairy cooperatives of Finland amalgamated in the “Velio” Society. Similar relations exist with the Soviet cooperatives since 1922. Up to 1925 these relations were kept up on the part of Soviet Russia by the Centrosoyuz and since then by the Selskosoyuz through the Maslo centre (Society of Soviet Russian Dairy Cooperatives). In 1925 the English Wholesale Society imported The English | Cooperatives has also direct relations with the Danish agricultural pro- ducers cooperatives. Last year it imported mainly butter from Den- mark, The Anglo-Russian Grain Export Company, was engaged in the Coi- lection of Grain, before trade rela- tions was broken. To this company belong on the Soviet Russian side, the Centrosoyuz, the Selskosoyuz and the Vsekobank (All-Russian Co- operative Bank), and on the British side: the Wholesale Society and two private firms. Wheat export to Great Britain increased from 792,509 two-ewt. bags between the English Wholesale Society and the wheat- pools in Canada and Australia. By NORMA BURSLER,. Bright flames of the Northern Cali- fornia Pioneers’ camp fire on the stony shores of Russian River at- tract to it the visiting league mem- bers in time to join in “Hold the Fort.” The blaze lights up the faces of the crowd of more than a score of adults and about 80 Pioneers of many nationalities: Russian, Jewish, Let- tish, Lithuanian, Finnish, American, Portuguese and Mexican. From the group, 'a lad of about 6 years arises and says manfully: “A few years ago in Berkeley, a group of Finnish children were organized to learn to read and to write Finnish. We didn’t like this so well and Moth- er Bloor came along and organized us into a Young Pioneer Group.” He also tells of the development into the present Berkeley Pioneer groups with approximately 40 members. Another Pioneer steps from the crowd and plays a harmonica solo and is fol- lowed by a girl from Fort Bragg who tells a similar story of development from a Finnish study group into a large Pioneer group with its varied activities. Always Music. Gone is the long ride through the hills and over the bridge spanning the Carquinez straits, the ride through the picturesque Sonoma Val- ley, the rattling Ford, and its burned out bearing. We league members lis- ten, A Pioneer takes his violin and the cial historic characteristics of every war, if we allowed their distinguish- ing and special features to be Jost in the colorless “lore” of war “in gen- eral,” which takes its place outside of history and of class. The war which waged by Ghingis Khan is not the same as that ¢arried on by Na- poleon, the historical significance of Garibaldi’s campaign is very differ- ent from the war operations of Mar- shal Foch; the Red Army fought a war which was altogether different from that fought by the armies of (To be continued.) NEW CALIFORNIA PIONEERS , sad strains of the Song of the Volga Boatmen, with the rushing waters of the Russian River and the leaping flames keeping time, bring to mind thoughts of far away Russia where both the workers and their children are free. Young Communists turn to gaze into the river and the reflection of the stars overhead and wonder if these waters will ever touch the shores of the country for which the river is named, carrying with if the Pioneers’ feelings of solidarity. Good Discipline. One Pioneer tells of the camp and of the control commission which has decreed that there shall be no noise between 10 p. m. and 7 a. m., before which time Pioneers can be seen sit- ting quietly on the banks of the river fishing. The efectiveness of the con- trol commission was demonstrated when some careless league members left watermelon rinds lying on the grass. Around the fire, there is dancing, Finnish love songs, French songs. funny Chinese songs and poetry for | the entertainment of those present. Pioneer Director Florence Thomp- son tells of the work of the Pioneers and how the Northern California Sub- district Committee of the Young Workers League will help in this worl and build up and unify not only the Pioneers but the Young Workers League. Astronomy. The flames flare up brightty with the singing of the International after which Pioneers begin to creep away to their tents. As the flames down, some Pioneers remain to ask ques- tions about the big dipper, the north star, and Venus which is hanging low in the heavens on {the opposite side of the river. In the morning the big baseball game between Berkeley and Fort Bragg ends with success for Berke- ley. Pioneers from San Jose, Red Wood City, San Francisco, Oakland and Petaluma, together with others from Berkeley and Fort Bragg cheer their favorites. +}