The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 10, 1927, Page 6

! WwW in fc ce th ft ay tl Ove NNAtATAAo.c Page Six THE DAILY-WORKER, NEW YORK, WED: DAY, AUGUST 10, 1927 “BUT LABO By MICHAEL GOLD. I lived for -f rs in Ne land. I reme the dull, drab tex- tile towns, w shabby frame road track 2 workers lived in rd College, where ked up to th s, and dwelt the sroom: $15,000 Gold Coast. I remember the decaye odor that a: New Eng family, and she tupidity human bodies. nd I rem with austere love streets, d ol and delicate old Atlantic Monthly and delved into gen- ealogy. It had been flooded by the new ris- ing Mississippi of industrialism, and when I came ther one slushy freez- ing January morning, I saw factories (Whats What" Washinéton: COAN, DETECTIVE WHO SENATORS, NOW SPINS FANCIFUL “RED” YARN WASHINGTON, Aug. 9 (FP). — The national capital had hoped that the last had been smelled of the noi- some Blair Coan. But this handy man of former Attorney General Daugherty in perpetrating some of his blackest corruption,. is back again, dragging another dead cat be- hind him. This time it is Blood Money, a book plot against civilization dolshevism.” : A flashback of Coan shows him in the palmy days of Harding, Daugh- erty and the little greenhouse on K street, where Coan nearly wore a groove in the threshold. He was the back-alley politician who did Daugh- erty’s slickest sleuthing. About that time two senators from Montana, Walsh and Wheeler, were making life miserable for Daugherty and his known ‘as pals, Albert B. Fall, E. L. Doheny, Harry Sinclair, Edwin Denby and| other pillars of Republicanism. - It was all over a matter of graft in the Elk Hills and Teapot Dome oil lease} cases, Trailed Senators. Coan was sicked onto Walsh and Wheeler. Go get ’em, snarled Daugherty, and Coan, aided by de- partment of justice money and 20 agents of William J. Burns’ bureau of investigation, slid out to Montana to “get the dirty” on the two senators out neatly that the Van Sweringen/| He tried to hang a 1918 Butte elec- tion scandal on Walsh and some In- dian reservation charges on Wheeler, using all the well-known devices of perjury, bribery and fraud, but to no avail. Burns was fired from the de- partment of justice by Daugherty’s Successor, it is , When he found that federal detectives had been working under Coan spying on Unit- . ed States senators. hich exposes “the ' jand slums surrounding the dying cul- ture. There was a strike in, the « he town, led by the ¢ thousand exploited living ked to some of They ed for Galleani w a dignified old man, with a full white beard, and the be- |nevolent smile and bearing of a pa- triarch. The Italians looked up to him as to a father. The strike was TRAILED OPPOSHION Selis “Blood Money.” Now Coan shows up with a book to prove that he is still sleuthing. Blood: Money, on sale, of course, for real money,. reveals that “Moscow lis a huge psychopathic ward, domi- | nated by egocentrics, who, in the | United States, would be under obser- vation by alienists or. confined be- hind the bars of asylums for the criminal insane.” Coan may even be angling for a job in Kellogg’s bol- shevik bogey-hunting state depart- ment, to judge by the blurb, which continues: “Special attention is given to the far-flung relationships of the ‘red’ conspiracy. Its activi in the Orient, and especially in Mexico, | Nicaragua and other ‘hot: spots’ in this. hemisphere are described.” There is no reco: his startling di: and so progressives where he got h est dope. The New Bribery. The interesting case of Charles C. McChord is typical of a growing veries in Russia, ‘$s are wondering j type of high government official. It|pension and the regular wages of is chronicled of McChord that in the| ‘year after he quit the Interstate! Commerce Commission he made ten | times as,much as he did in ten y }of commisssion service. His’ sal | was $10,000 a year, and so it fig 4 res | | brothers, dizziest exponents of fren-| zied railroad consolidation, paid him | t least $100,000 for ‘twelve months’ | services, immediately after his regig- nation. The question arises, did McChord |} make an undue sacrifice during his ten years with the commission, or did that service make him just so much | more valuable to the Van Sweringen | speculators, ror Sacco, right, being congratu her husband, facing a horribl t Rose titude 6f class. THE WIFE OF NICOLA SACCO { lated by two friends om the heroic at- le death for his defense of the working the few leaders involved. There is / little man, living in a kind of cult that Coan made | NEVER FORGETS ITS MARTYRS” *spontaneous—the A. F .of L. had’ not | worker in other strikes; he was atype{ For New England is slipping indus- S ed it, nor éven the I. W. W. Con- | of immigrant the mill-owners hated, | trially. The textile mills are being had grown so bad that the resented and feared. moved south, where there is much had marched out one morn-| Today they are having their re-{ Cheap, docile Anglo-Saxon labor. The 1 then sent for Galleani, whom | yenge on him. They are determined | mill-owners blame the rebellious Ital- ~ That ll that was | to kill the brave, quiet worker who |ians and Slavs for this decline, and about organization; the|helped Galleani in the Plymouth all of them say openly that Sacco and ined purely: local. strike, who did his loyal share of the | Vanzetti must die. was one of the leaders in} work in other strikes, who never; They have chosen @the frame-up . 1 remember the tall, quiet| swerved or grew discouraged in his | method for their Fevenge. It is a pe- with his steady eyes,| defiance of the immense, flag-wrap-|Culiarly American institution. Joe mple ¢ e and ideal-| ed, feudal mill-owning autocracy of | Hill, the brave singer of the I. W. W. and night, he| New England. That has been Vanzet- st hands and lumberjacks was | sed of that way; Tom Mooney ed relief meth- | ti’s ime. Galleani’s side when | eeavel eee in California ‘was picked off that way; eatened to assault the old |they aimost got Ettor and Giovannitti inelawrence in the same manner; the frame-up has put out of the way hundreds of othérs of our unknown of the proletariat. » it is American Puritanism the * * Boston was once the hub of culture merieca, It was there the aboli- ist movemen’ started, and that ist into | the first native literature and philoso- sense of or-! phy was brought to flower by Emer- | son, Thoreau, Holmes and others. To- | bs ssaic on a small- | day President Lowell of Harvard! is a} nd though it was lost, the |symbol of all that has remained of | out murder method known as the ame-up. Italy gave Fascismo to the » mill-owners never forgave | that culture. This haughty, mediocre | capitalist world; America has given ‘al |it the frame-up. incest with other decayed Bhecimens| The Great War was a crash of of his group, -has nothing left in his |lightning that revealed all the im- heart but-a shabby pride of family}mense hypocrisy of the eapitalist and a great poisoned hatred of the! peace. immigrant workers—who in the eyes} The Sacco-Vanzetti verdict is an- of such as he, have ruined the ancient] other such revelation. In its stark, beauty of cultured Massachusetts. | cruel light the American workers can It was fitting that he should be one | see plainly that there is no justice in of the hangmen of the workers, Sacco | this country—that there is only class and Vanzetti. And it was also fitting | war and class justice. / that Governor Fuller should be an-| Most neutral observers who have other—this rich rman who sees the!1ead the evidence say that these men profits of his state going down in a|are innocent. But the mill-owners of general industrial decadence. (Massachusetts say frankly: j | Railroad Workers in Soviet Union Protected | ‘Against Sickness, Unemploymeat, Old Age always this bitterness in a New Eng- land textile strike; the industry is n stem to stern. The mill- have. the same dread of a ke that the Southern white has of Negro revolt. They know that with so much corruption, decay and injus- tice lying about the smallest match may prove to be the brand that will start a conflagration. * * Vanzetti was only an obscure and hard-working lieutenant in that strike; but he was the same faithful e These additional benefits are extended also to the unemployed. During sickness the unemployed retain their title to benefits under the unemployment rates. Unemployed women of the 2nd group, during preg- nancy, are’entitled to benefits under the 1st group. | NOTE.—Workers on the railroads of the Soviet | Union enjoy many privileges, This is shown in the statement given by Alexis Amassow, secretary of the Railway Workers’ Union, to J. Louis Eng- dahl, ed: of The DAILY WORKER, during the | latter’s recent visit to the Union of Soviet Re- publics. Secretary Amassow tells of the protec- All the insured transport workers, including invalids tion enjoyed by the Ri an railroad workers and unemployed, are getting all kinds of free medical | against accident and sickness, unemployment and aid. Protection of Motherhood and Childhood. Pregnant women engaged in physical labor are given a vacation of 8 weeks prior to and 8 weéks after child- birth; those employed in office work are given 6 weeks prior to and 6 weeks after childbirth, Working mothers during the period of breast-feeding are allowed during working hours, at intervals of three hours, half an hour to feed the baby. Pregnant and breast-feeding working women are not | old age, and the many special privileges granted | them that are unheard of in the United States. The question and answer follows: | * * | Social Insurance on the Transport in U. S. S. R. | QUESTION.—Are the workers insured in the event |of sickness and old age, and are such agencies in ex- \istence for the payment of imsurance benefits? Must \the worker be employed at one place, and for how s itself in this queer round- } fof a reolution embodying the Monroe | “These men may, be innocent of robbery, but they ARE guilty of being strike-leaders and rebels. Let them die.” SACCO AND VANZETTI iT DIE! The coolies shout this slogan in the slum streets of Canton, The London workers -hurl it at the stolid British lions who guard Trafalgar Square. The blue-bloused gallant workers of Paris scream the message into the ears of frightened bourgeois riding in. limousines, The sad-eyed heavy proletarian mothers carry red banners with this slogan through the squares of Berlin and Hamburg. In Peru, in Japan, in India, in Checko-Slovakia, | Australia,- Africa, Soviet wherever there is a factory, wherever there is “a peasant or a worker who has felt the lash of a boss, the cry rises and falls: _ SACCO AND VANZETTI MUST NOT DIE! The workers of the world remember the Haymarket murders; that memory is fixetl for all time by the sacred day called May first Now another Haymarket martyrdom is in the mak- MUST Russia, } that will have reverberations as far- reaching as the Haymarket affair. * * * No, Massachusetts culture and in- dustry will not be revived by this murder, gentlemen. Massachusetts will be hated, America will be hated by a world of millions, The South executed John Brown for his protest against Negro slavery. Eight months later the Civil War broke forth. There will not be a Civil War in this country within the next eight months, nor mayhe in the next eight years. But there will be a growth in a certain feeling that is not very good for you, gentlemen, nor good for your profits. Already a boycott on Massa- chusetts is proposed here; and a labor boycott in Europe on American goods. Neither boycott may be effective. Nothing may be effective just now, as it was not in the Haymarket case, nor as it seemed to be in Russia in 1905, or in France in 1785. But Labor never forgets its mar- tyrs. And the future of Labor is the future of the world. And Labor, like a giant with his back to the wall, is shouting in dangerous accents all over the world: ing, and for the same reasons. And the workers have sent up a protest “SACCO AND VANZETTI MUST NOT DIE!” By J. NEVAREZ. (Organizers Communist League Porto Rico.) The recent convention of the Pan- American Federation of ‘Labor, held in Washington, D. C.; the brazen de- fense of the Monroe Doctrine and the up to date U. S. imperialist policy pursued in Latin America, by the chief sponsors of the Pan-A. F. of L., such as William Green and Matthew Woll, thru their stiffling of all reso-| lutions which dared to criticize re- cent events in Latin America; and the | selected make-up of the delegations} to this congress, (many delegates representing no real labor , move- ments, except of the. Wall Street dic. tators.) The particular introductioi of Doctrine of. Labor which “will not} permit others to dictate to ug or im-| pose principles or tactics” (which in=! fers nothing more than that the Yan- kee bureaucratic leaders of the Pan- A. F. of L. reserve for themselves the right to dictate to the Pan-American | labor movement)—all these facts go to warn the workers of Latin Amer-| | many years, to be entitled to an old-age pension (in- |dicate the age), and what is the relation between the the individual ? * * * ANSWER.—Social insurance is extended to all the work- ers of the railway transport, regardless of- continuity ks of service, transference from one railway line to an- other, and so on. Social insuranée embraces the following kinds: 1. Insurance against temporary disablement. 2. Insurance against invalidity. 3. Insurance against unemployment, and 4, Other supplementary kinds. | Temporary disablement benefits are granted in amounts fully covering the loss of wages caused by | sick if after four months of sickness the work- jing ability, according to the findings of the Medical |and Control Commission, has not been restored, the in- |sured person is submitted to examination by ‘medical |experts, who determine the extent of disablement, and |the corresponding group of invalids among which such a person is to be classed, * * * Social insurance on the transport provides for the following six groups or invalids: 1st Group: Persons who, have completely lost their working ability, and are in need of constant care. 2nd Group: Persons whe have completely lost’ their working ability, but are not in need of constant care. 8rd Group: Invalids who are compelled to give up their regular occupation, and are generally unfit for any regular occupation, being able to gain casual earn- ings by temporary work of a light nature. 4th, 5th and 6th Groups: Unemployment benefits, The absolute amounts of the pension (in rubles) ac- cording to the different occupations and groups of in- validity, may be illustrated by the following figures: Occupation ist Group 2nd Group 38rd Group Engine drivers 93 r. 48k. 62 r. 32k. 46 vr. 74k. Stokers 57.53 38.35 28.77 Fitters 56.60 37.73 28.30 Clerks 32.55 21.70 » 16,28 Pensions to families losing their bread-winner are | granted in the following amounts: 1. With 3 or more members zp the family, two-thirds of the full pension. 2. With 2 or more members in the family, one-half of the full pension. 8. With 1 or more members in the family, one-third of the full pension. Persons sustaining injuries, and also those losing their working ability by occupational poisoning, receive a pen- sion in the amount of the actual regular earnings. Persons who became invalids in 1918-1924, i. e., prior to the introduction of the law now in force as to the ‘calculation of pensions, get their pension rates calcu- lated on the basis of the actual earnings of a given oc- cupation during July, August and September, 1925. ase * UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS, established: For the 1st group, i. e., for skilled workers, 30.per cent and for the 2nd group, i. e., brain workers, 20 per cent of the wages in a given locality, or in: rubles, for ‘instance, in Moscow: for the 1st group, 22 r. 50 k., for the 2nd group, 15 r. 00 k. In a number of localities additional benefits were established for large families. Such additions in some cases reach 20 per cent of the basic benefits. - Among the additional benefits are: (a) In the event of the birth of a child, one-haif the average wages in a given locality. (b) For baby-nursing in the course of 9 months, one- fourth of the benefit. {c) For the burial of an adult, an amount equal to the average monthly wages is granted, and for the burial of children under 10 years of age, one-half of the monthly wages, i} of allowed to do night-work or particularly harmful work. For the purpose of rendering practical aid in the mat- ter of taking proper care of children, there exists: Ma- ternity Consultation Offices, Motherhood and Childhood Homes, and Creches. The creches on the railway trans- port are maintained at the cost of the management, under the terms of the general collective agreement. There are 52 creches, with accommodating facilities for 1,261 children. * * ANNUAL LEAVES, Persons who have worked uninterruptedly for a period of not less than five and one-half months,“are allowed a leave of two weeks every year. Furthermore, per- sons employed in any one of a list of 71 occupations classed as harmful, e. g. engine drivers, stokers, tele- graphists, telephone operators, foundry workers, etc., are entitled to an additional leave of two weeks. Adol- escent workers, even if employed in unharmful occupa- tions, are given an annual leave of one month, and those employed in harmful occupations are given six weeks. Persons living under particularly unfavorable climatic conditions are giving additional leaves of two weeks. * * oc4 SPECIAL CLOTHING. In virtue of the Code of Labor Laws and by the terms of the General Collective Agreement, the man- agement must supply free special clothing to workers employed in occupations connected with exposure to cold weather, soiling of clothes, danger of scolding, etc. The list of workers entitled to special clothing em- braces 305 occupations. In 1925-26 «the railway administration assigned 11 million rubles on special clothing. Furthermore, uni- form clothing was introduced for train crews. All such clothing becomes the property of the wearer after an established period. PRIVILEGES. _1. The railway authorities maintain for the benefit of the workers about 4,000 bath-houses, 2. Dwellings are provided in houses owned by the railways. For those receiving wages up to the 9th category, the lowest rates of rent have been estab- lished. ‘ 8. Fuel is distributed at-cost, at the monthly rate of 2 cubic metres for families, and 1 cubic metre for single persons (during the winter period). In the summer period, fuel is distributed at the rate of 1 cubic metre for families, and half a cubic metre for single persons. Me 4. Free traveling is allowed to railway workers at the rate of 6 trips per year. This rate may be used by the workers as he sees fit (for himself and for his family). The tickets are issued for distances chosen by the worker, e. g., Leningrad-Vladivostok, or Odessa- Archangel, and so on. Family tickets are granted not only to blood-relations, but also to all dependents with- out exception. Furthermore, the railway workers are | entitled to: Since April, 1925, the following rates of benefits were | (a) Provisional travelling cards good for 130 kilo- metres in 52 trips per year for families, and 26 trips for single persons, (b) Travelling cards good for 150 kilometres in the same number of trips. |. ‘ (ce) Season and annual tickets for line workers live away from their place of work. (d) Ambulatory tickets for line workers travelling to consult the railway physicfan.* ‘ These basic privileges are retained for a period of six months by unemployed, invalids, and families of de- ceased railwaymen. who / 5. The People’s Commissariat of Ways and Communi- | cations extends substantial privileges to railwaymen’s cooperative building societies, e. g., reduced rates of freight on building materials, the securing of building materials through the auxiliary enterprises of thé rail- ways, monetary loans without interest, wages to work- ers engaged on such buildings, and so on. | - ‘| instrument of struggle in the hands jiea that they are not only faced with | the necessity of struggle against the | political and military aggression- of Wall Street’s government against} their countries, but that the working | class of Latin America must meet the additional challenge of the Amer- | ican labor bureaucracy, who with; the aid of such flunkies as Santiago! Iglesias, are maneuvering under the veil of. Pan Americanism, to get their grip on the organized labor move. ment in Latin America and betray i so that it will become helpless to struggle against imperialism. Latin American Workers Must Fight Imperialism. The workers of ;Latin America, with -its most militant elements in the lead, must muster themselves to face the challenge of the ‘Monroe Doctrine of Labor.” working class of the entire Ameri- cas must be mobilized to challenge the attempt to shackle it with Monroe Doctrinisms. But for the workers of Latin America, it remains for the present to reject the false conception | of Pan Americanism raised by the Pan-American Federation of Labor and its Matthew “Woll conceived “Monroe Doctrine of Labor.” This task can be achieyed by the Latin American workers uniting their trade union forces and creating and strengthening an all embracing Latin American Federation of Labor, on the definite basis of struggle against North American imperialism and the so-called “Pan” A. F. of L. and the Woll theories of Monroe Doctrinism of,or.over labor. ~ Now the question arises what are some of the -immediate concrete {points upon which a Latin American Federation of Labor can naturally base itself, in order to become a real of Latin American labor? — Limita- tions of space permits us only to name our proposals which are the proposals | of the All American Anti-Imperialist | League, for a platform on which a militant anti-imperialist labor move- ne in Latin America must base its- | self. Militant labor organized into a} Latin American Federation of Labor must insist on the following: Demand End of U.S. Rule. 1, Withdrawal of all United States troops from Latin American soil. 2. Complete and immediate in-| dependence for Porto Rico and the} Pilippines: Self-determination for all United States ‘colonies, 3. Immediate termination of Uni-| ted States occupation and rule in) Nicaragua, Santo Domingo and Haiti, | and indemnity to the victims and to, the families and dependents of vic- tims of U. S.. military and naval operations in those countries, 4. Abolition of the Platt amend-| ment in Cuba; abrogation of special | treaties forced upon Cuba and the “republic” of Panama which ‘make these countries, protectorates of Wall Street. ‘ 5. Hands off Mexico! } In fact the}, Task of The Latin American Labor Movement 6. The internationalization of the Panama Canal Zone. + 7. Unification of the five Central American. republics in accordance with the clearly expressed sentiments of the peoples of these countries, which have been largely thwarted thru the maneuvers of U. S. im- perialism, 8. _Abrogation of all authority from President, Coolidge or the Uni- ted States government in the settle- ment of the Tacna Arica question; in- vestigation and arbitration by a Latin American committee to be named in accordance with recommendations of the trade union movements of the countries concerned, by the Latin American Union, the Ibero-American. Council of Intellectuals and the All American Anti-Imperialist League. 9. For World Trade Union Unity. The Task of Porto-Rican Workers. In concluding I desire to deal with the specific tasks of the militant workers in the Island of-Porto Rico, which may in general way. cor- respond to those facing the work-* ers in other countries under Ameri- In order to revive once more their new stagnant labor movement, militant workers in Porto | Rico must accept the following line of procedure: Workers Must Enter Unions. 1. In spite of the indifference of the present leaders of the Federa- cion Libre for the carrying out of practical steps towards the organiza- tion of the workers, the few militant - elements, particularly those of ‘the Communist League of Porto Rico, | must bend all efforts to organize the workers in the Federacion Libre, | wherein the masses will be enabled to struggle and eliminate (first) the pro-imperialist reactionary Iglesias | leadership. (second) to wage strug- | gles against the exploiting trusts and | corporations, and individual employ- ers, demanding better wages and im- proved working conditions. 2. Militant workers must advance and popularize the call issued by the Nationalist Party of Porto Rico, for the calling of a constitutional assem- bly representing the broadest masses for the purpose of dictating the Con- stitution of, and declare the existence of, the Republic of Porto Rico, regard- less of the presence of the so-called “Insular Government” and the impe- rialist authorities. 3. Practical unity with other Latin American Nationalist liberation and anti-imperialist movements, and with the militant working class organiza- tions in the United States proper, which are strugglime against Amer- ican imperialist exploitation. 4. Practical measures on the part’ of the militant workers and National- ists for the defence of the Republic of Porto Rico, In this effort the mili- tant workers and the Nationalists of Porto Rico will have the material and moral support of their brothers in the rest of Latin America as well as of ~ the class conscious and militant workers in the United States proper, And in our concluding statement we call upon all militant workers in Porto Rico who understand the men- ace of Iglesiasism and are ready to steel themselves for struggle in the real interests of the workers in Porto Rico, Latin America, and of the World, to line themselves up with their organization which best recog- nizes the revolutionary aspirations of the working class of Porto Rico, as’ at the aes world,—that organiza- jon is the Communist Le: Porto Rico. cia can imperialism. Supreme Sky Terror Hindered. RAPID CITY, S. D., Aug. 9.—The navy’s plans for building a super lighter-than-air ship, three times the size of the ill fated Shenandoah, are headed for the rocks, secretary. of the navy Wilbur indicated today. In- surmountable differences have arisen between the department, and the con- tracting firm and unless can straighten the matter out next session My ae will be abandoned. The itch has come over the question of whether or not the Goodyear Company shall have a cost-plus con- tract or build on,a fixed basis, RET LPS EBS NE RRS TS 1 4 oem oes 4 RRC car