The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 17, 1927, Page 4

. f Page Four THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATUR 1927 een nen a A STE OS A NR TR A RE TT AE RA THE DAILY WORKER [yends in the American Labor Movement as Shown by Recent Developments Injunctions, Unemployment and Other American Institutions Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHI Daily, Except Sunday 33 First Street, New York, N. Y. : tabl VG CO. Phone, Orchard 1680 SUBSCRIPTION RATES : 3 _ ¥ By Mail (in New York only): By Mail (outside of New York): $8.00 per year $4.50 six months $6.00 per years $3.50 six months $2.50 three months $2.00 three months ~Kadress all mail and_n THE DAILY WORKER, 33 F “J, LOUIS ENGDAHL } WILLIAM F, DUNNE MILL: 8 mail at the pos the act of M: BERT Entered 4 York, SS. Advertising rates on application. — = Aid the Heroic Struggle of the Chinese Workers and Peasants! The resignation of Wan Ching Wei and t conference between the Hankow and Wuhan governments that was to have brought about the amalgamation of the two, is prob: ably to be attributed to the rapid succession of victories of the worker and peasant armies in the south and their unchecked ad- calling off of the vance on Canton. ; The resignation of Wan Ching Wei indicates a new split in the ranks of the intelligentsia and middle class elements who turned upon the labor movement and the mass national liberation movement to make peace with Chiang Kai-shek and the other generals who aligned themselves with the purely capitalist section of the Chinese nationalist forces. As the Communist International constantly pointed out to the Communist Party of China, the best method of furthering the interests of the m liberation movement is the consolidation of the worker and peasant organizations, the arming of the workers, peasants and city poor and resolute struggle against all vacillat ing and treacherous leaders. The advance of the revolutionary armies under Yeh Ting and Ho Lung into Kwangtung province and the wide and militant support they are receiving from the peasant and w orker masses, together with the increasing conflicts among the “ of imperialism in the right wing of the Kuomintang, by the resignation of Wan Ching Wei and the failure to amal- gamate Nanking and Wuhan, show that the energetic application of this policy is meeting with success. Under these circumstances we could expect renewed activity of a military character on the part of the imperialist forces. This is already visible. British naval and military units are in motion around Hong- kong and recent dispatches tell of the launching of a new Amer- jean gunboat at Shanghai, one of the six being built there espe- | cially for use on Chinese rivers. -- The reports that General Feng, the socalled Christian general evidenced By WILLIAM F. DUNNE. |to “see that any man who cannot talk Il. | English or is not an American oe judges who seem to be un-| Zen who dares to take part in pic et eee. he. official. labor ing shall be immediately deported. i is trying to place the feet} There is now a veritable stampede | of the workers firmly upon the well- |” the part of the coal operators to paved primrose path of efficiency , Secure similar injunctions. unionism and worker-employer co- PON whom is the blame for this | ope n continually place obstacles sinister court ruling to be placed? in ay of their earnest efforts to! Nowhere else but upon the shoul- arrive at a friendly understanding | ders of President Lewis of the United with the bosses. ‘Mine Workers and his henchmen who, c ms to us that the Greens, Wolls|at the Indianapolis convention last and Lewises have just cause for/ January anticipated and invited such complaint of the manner in which state courts and the supreme court of Sy Bie ¢ ited States ignore their over- | 0ffice in the union. to employers and constantly} Composed of a majority of foreign- e excuse to revolutionists like our-| born workers the United Mine Wor! s to raise the question of the struggle. | C ALLOUS broken by this one injunction alone. Cut Stone Company decision may be with the anti-foreign handed down by the U. S. Supreme | propaganda of the capitalist publicity Court which practically outlaws or-| agencies, jealous tho they may be of dinary defensive activities of the/their “privileges” as American citi- moderate’”’ tools | unions. zens, they nevertheless are able in The United Mine Workers of|the light of such developments to un- Ame are enjoined from carrying | derstand that here is no mere “Amer- g work in the dec st Virginia by a blanket lds of We netion. hern Ohio the same union is t with a federal injunction of So sweeping a character, including} the authorization to federal armed | | forces to place themselves at the dis-| | posal of the coal barons, that unless} it is broken by mass violation the} strike itself will be broken. Indianapolis an injunction was is-| sued prohibiting orgenization work | 2 Amalgamated Association of | trie Railway Employes | two~organizers for this union! f inj b: Street and and were sent to prison for two months! |under its provisions. | Pai s, plumbers, needle trades | workers, paper boxmakers, shoel work food workers, textile work- Il have been met with in- junctions in their strikes of the last} “No strike too small and no strike too big for an injunction” seems | to be the slogan of the judges. | ATURALLY this does not fit in| ear icanization” scheme but a deadly | blow at the most important union in |the American labor movement which will be followed by others directed at ) THE more than 11,000 deportations | in the past year and the growing brutality toward and suppression , of foreign-born workers which reached j its climax in the execution of Sacco |and Vanzetti had not placed American |labor in a more favorable position so |far as the capitalists are concerned. | Let us listen to the testimony of the | secretary of labor whose arduous la- |bors in devising ways and means of |persecuting foreign-born workers | have earned him the admiration of all | 100 per cent Americans and the hatred a ruling by themselves prohibiting all | of all honest and intelligent workers | dispose of a large part of the gold re- but American citizens from holding | and farmers. | PEAKING at Montauk Beach on the | eve of Labor Day, Davis said that |“usnally the creation of new in- ers of America can have its strike |dustries kept pace with the improve- | is pure fiction, a figment of his | ments in machinery, but that recently jbeen so great that considerable un- |employment had resulted.” | We quote further: “The greatest evils which we are | likely to suffer in the future, so far | as labor is concerned, are connected | with the subject of unemployment.” | AFTER citing what he termed the | “revolution” in the glass industry | where one single machine can now |turn out all the five-gallon Blass con- all unions which have foreign born|tainers that are used in the United} Davis continued: Mr. Philip Snowden’s Vulgar Economics By H. M. WICKS. ‘has its disadvantages as well as its | DAMSEY MACDONALD’S chancel- | advantages: While its investments lor of the exchequer in the labor | enable it to dispose for the time being government, Mr. Philip Snowden, must | Of part of its surplus, it at the same labor under the illusion that his term | time guarantees returns of dividends as chief of the treasury department Upon the investments, which makes of the British government fitted him| the problem sti!l more acute in the |to comment with authority upon any long run. subject pertaining to finance capital jand the world’s gold supply. In a recent article in the London “Finan- |cial Times” the former British secre- |tary of the treasury charges that the; | United States is hoarding far more |gold than “is required for monetary use or legitimate credit.” He suggests | | that if this policy is continued “Eur- lope may defend itself by further eco- nomy in the monetary use of gold, which would enable central banks to * * * THE main characteristic of the Uni- ted States in relation to the world’s gold supply is not that of a hoarding nation, but that of a nation | frantically striving, by every conceiv- able means, to dispose of the greater part of its gold supply. It is this that |impels the government to ever more aggressive imperialist policies in re- lation to other countries. It is this jimperative necessity that determines American governmental policy in China, in the Philippines, in South and | In the entire article of Snowden Central America and in Burope. It \there is scarcely one statement that| fights for places in which to invest | accords with the facts. His argument its tremendous surplus. re-) i | { | | serve.” No one but the most inept amateur formist imagination, a vulgarization| in the realm of economics would for SRE is for instance the Bedford GATURATED tho American workers |the number of new inventions had|of cconomics that has no parallel in|a moment imagine that any great |the last quarter of a century. |eapitalist nation on earth would | Instead of hoarding gold the chief| hoard gold, except temorarily as a |problem of the Federal Reserve sys-|™eans of payment of international jtem is to devise some means whereby | ohlgaans or cancelling internal | debts. the flood of gold pouring upon these |shores may be diverted channels. Already the enormous sur. |plus of gold in this country has re- ited in drastic steps being taken to overcome its paralyzing effect. One f these measu has been wi i lied in banking parlance the “s to other} The first, most fundamental and simple proposition learned by, the novice in economies is that gold that ilies fallow is useless and that it is never “sterilized” except in extra- | ordinary circumstances and then only |in order to endeavor to avoid collapse f the money rates, as is the present ¢ | membership in large numbers, as have | States. all the mass unions. | There can be no purely “American” | unions for at least another decade. | MERICAN labor officialdom faces | another problem for which its} efficiency unionism policy not ake ni “While we should continue to think of our wonderful machines, we must also think of our wonder- ful American workers. If we do ot WE MAY HAVE DISCONTENT ON OUR HANDS....I tremble provides no solution but which ac-} to think of what a state this coun- tually adds to its seriousness—the| t'Y might have been in if we had problem of growing unemployment. In the boom period which is passing | it was not necessary for labor offi- cialdom to waste time on this question | since its golden schemes for “peace in| industry” and trade union capitalism effectively stilled the few discontened ones. Officialdom could S a N even join} gone on letting in the tide of aliens that formerly oured in here at the ate of a million or more a year, nd this at a time when NEW MACHINERY WAS STEADILY | EATING INTO THE NUMBER OF | AVAILABLE JOBS. | have had on our hands something We might with. the bosses at whambér of com-| far more serious than this quiet in merce and rotary club meetings and, d clad in the smug glory of frock coats and Ascot ties, speeches lauding the splendid pro-| gress of American industry and the| ew ustrial revolution now in pro- gress.” make eloquent} wat prompts Wall Street’s secre- tary of labor to lay so much nphasis on the menace of unemploy- |zation” of the enormous sum of $1, se in the United States. If Mr. 400,000,000 in gold imports. This} Snowden and his associates, loyal and {amount has been set aside and pre-| Valiant servants of his Britannic |vented from performing its normal! majesty and the bourgeoisie of Eng- leconomic function in order tw main-|!and, can devise a means whereby this |tain money rates at a high level.| “sterilized” gold can safely be re- |Even this measure works in the op- leased into British hands we are sure |Posite direction from that desired by it will meet with instant approval of |the bankers. The high rates thus ar-| Wall Street. | tificially maintained have caused ad. “Taking $1,400,000,000 in gold out \ditional gold to flow to this country.,of the world’s monetary stocks and 'Furthermore it has simulated the! depriving it of all power to serve as |mining of gold and has even caused | a basis for credit is not a matter to |gold buried in the arts to be melted|be considered lightly,” asserts the {and thrown upon the market. So in-| September number of the American |volved in contradictions is the capi-| Bankers Association Journal. “Noth- |talist system that some of the most ing of the kind has ever happened be- fore as regards gold, and no one can jelaborate plans turn into their op- Say positively what the effects will | posite and make even worse a con- | dition they strive to remedy. {| be.” | * x # | The economic “experts” for the IAVING seen the futility of the bankers association may not be able “sterilization” of gold in the|*® Perceive the outcome of such a with the theory of the impartial | wonderful productivity of the con- character of American government|tented American worker harnessed to | preached with such holy ardor by the official labor leaders. Manifestly it is much more difficult to arouse un- diluted and ardent support for the |entire fabric of American institutions among the organized workers when the courts throw an injunction into {marvel of the world. in industrial activity and a period |of depression whose length cannot be ment just as this time? Quote evi-| vaults of the reserve banks of the | thi ‘Sterilization” - A v : dently because it is a problem his| United States, the manipulators of | this “sterilization” has gone as far ‘as the shining machines which are the| superiors have had under considera-|the gold market are now striving to policy, but it is plain to Marxists that jit can go. With 15 per cent of the tion in view of the admitted im-| prevent gold intended for this country | W°td’s gold supply inactive the gold i dustry. | It is not surprising that a govern- A oS . the y ti whose defection to Chiang Kai-shek preceded the open capitula-| \;° mouths of workers every time predicted at present. The question of | ment official and not a labor offici: | unemployment is placed on the order | speaks in this vein. It is not the first of business by no less a person than | tir [pot now all signs point to a decrease minence of a slowing down of in-|leaving Europe and other parts of the world, by a process of “earmark- ing.” Efforts are now being made |by American bankers to secure con- | standard itself is endangered and to | continue further such a policy will.re- sult in stagnation and eventually | collapse. tion of the Wuhan government to the counter-revolution, has mas- sacred from 30,000 to 80,000 peasants in Honan province is a fur- ther indication that Chinese capitalists and the imperialists are determined to drown the mass movement in its own blood since the series of wholesale betrayals has failed to destroy it by demoralization. More than ever ever is it necessary to rally the labor move- ments of the imperialist countries for relief for the hundreds of thousands of victims of the counter-revolutionary forces, for pres- sue upon the imperialist governments, for the withdrawal of all armed forces and for active assistance in every possible way of the heroic workers and peasants of China who fight in the first line trenches of the struggle against imperialism. Detroit and Moscow. The renegade socialist who is assigned to writing anti-Soviet | editorials for the New York Times, under the above caption, tries to compare the Ford system in Detroit and the system in vogue in Russia in a manner unfavorable to Soviet economy. In the most inane fashion he raises the old hoax of individual initiative, declaring that even though the Ford system should be introduced “in Russia that mystical force called personal initiative is lacking. “4 This sort of palaver only proves that the editorial writer is as ignorant of the Detroit system as he is vindictive about what he imagines to be the ‘““Moscow system.” I Certainly recent events in Detroit during the reconstruction of the Ford plants in preparation for the new model that Ford they are opened wide to emit a few hurrahs for this glorious land of the free. Under these conditions a cer- |tain doubt is bound to dévelop. OUBT grows into certainty when, as in the eastern Ohio coal fields a federal judge issues an injunction | prohibiting any but American citi- | zens from picketing and who promises James J. Davis, secretary of labor. | W: me heads of the departments of Stoppage of immigration, that pan- acea of the Gompers statesmanship, has failed to solve the problem. As ja matter of fact the relative scarcity of labor resulting from stoppage of | immigration has stimulated the in- |vention of labor-saving devices and a vicious circle has been created. | Wall Street’s government have antici- | pated the leaders of the American la- | bor movement and we can expect that |soon, having been tipped off that it is |a safe subject when carefully dealt /with, the Greens, Wolls and Lewises | will echo the secretary of labor and have something “constructive” to say about unemployment. NOTE: This is the sixth install- ment of the report for the Political Committee made by Jay Lovestone, at the recent Fifth National Con- vention of the Workers (Commu- nist) Party held in New York City. This installment deals with “The Party’s Shortcomings, Mistakes and Problems.” * * * Now a few words about America’s relations to Europe. Here we must consider at this moment, primarily | the relations between America and |Great Britain. For some time there |has been substantial collaboration be- |tween Great Britajn and the United | States despite increasing antagon- jisms. This has led the superficial !bourgeois observers to advocate an | alliance between England and Ameri- lca as a guarantor of world peace. | This is an illusion. No alliance be- spite the fact that the antagonisms of America and England today in the international field play the role of the antagonisms between German and English imperialism before the war, yet the key to the international situa- tion today is to be found in the danger of a united front of the im- perialist powers against the Soviet Union and the Chinese revolution. In speaking of the role of Ameri- |ean imperialism, we must not over- |look the increasing export of Ameri- | can capital and its effect on the standard of living of our working |class. When» American imperialism dia, or to any country which is less | developed industrially, it is in a posi- |tion to dominate the industries of [those countries and to manufacture there commodities at a lower cést, at |lower wages than in America. This hopes will enable him to compete with General Motors have in-| tween imperialist powers can be an|very prowess of American imperialism flicted untold suffering upon former Ford workers who have faced months of unemployment and thousands of whom have, according to Ford’s own estimates, been compelled to leave town and sacri- _ fice their homes that were partially paid for to the mercies of the ‘real estate speculators who manipulate with Ford capital. Individual initiative is an empty jest in the Ford plant where ' the army of workers has been reduced to mere appendages of _ the machine. In the Soviet industries the workers always have a voice in the management and are always alert to defend their interests. This attitude is encouraged by the workers’ and peasants’ gov- ernment. The welfare of the workers is the first consideration. ‘ In Detroit the worker who dares to suggest that he be considered ‘as anything other than a cog in the machine is instantly elimin- ; .. ated if the widespread spy system maintained to prevent organiza- tion of labor is able to ferret him out and denounce him to the bosses. The autocracy of the Ford system is notorious; it even extends to the dictation by Ford spies of the family expenditures of the Ford slaves. When next the “Soviet expert” of the Times wants to indulge in comparisons of American wage-slavery with Russian work ers’ control he will have to choose a less despotic and tyrannical |alliance for peace, whether it be an ‘alliance of France and Germany, | France and England, or America and England. An alliance between Amer- which temporarily allows the bour- geoisie to have such superprofits as to give away a few crumbs to the labor aristocracy, this feature has a con- | exports capital to China, to Italy, In- | ‘ica and Great Britain today, if it were tradictory element in it. This con- real and existed, would not be an al- tradictory element is the danger of liance making for peace in the world,| lowering the standard of living of | but on the contrary, making for a new the great masses of American work- ‘world war—because it would be a/ers, because of the very increase in war alliance against the Soviet Union | the export of éapital. and all oppressed nationalities and| Take the textile industry in the | colonial peoples. | North and South in the United States What are the basic facts in refer-/—-The textile owners in the North ‘ence to Anglo-American ‘relations? are moving South where they can Recent months have been a sharpening | get production at lower costs. The ,of these relationships. Take the re-| reduction of the standard of living of the Geneva Conference.|and the standard of wages of the st whom does England need this | working class or of any section of the » navy? Not against Italy. Not|working class is always determined against Germany. Not even against not by the highest but by the lowe: The Party’s Shortcomings, Mistakes and Problems of American imperialism. We must adjust our tactics to the various changes. This applies to the Chinese campaign. This applies to our tasks in the Anglo-American alliance which may be formed. This applies to our need for mobilizing the masses for | demonstrating against such a possible alliance. The need for organizing anti-war campaigns and demonstra- |and British imperialism has been cor- basis. | The labor party problem. The * central task of our Party today is to develop the working class as | ass politically. This means that | the unifying slogan, the one unifying | movement under which we can have an approach to the workers of Cali- ‘ fornia who strike for a 5 cent increase | In wages, or to the Passaic textile workers who strike for the right to organize into a union, is in a Labor Party. We have seen the decrease in the effectiveness and the slackening of the labor party movement first, because of the objective conditions, secondly because of the change in the | trend of the composition of the work-| |ing class. | | Let no one belittle the fact that: the bureaucracy and the Jabor aristo-| eracy have been corrupted to so large an extent. This is one of the basic | factors for the weakening of the la- | bor party movement. More and more the great mass of unorganized, tn- |skilled workers have become dis- |couraged because of the swing to the Tight by the labor aristocracy. The! |importance of the status of the or- | ganized, skilled workers thus becomes |certed action on the part of European} The next step will be protective | central banks to prevent gold flowing | Measures devised for the purpose of |into the United States. On a number Peleasing this supply, which would be |has the same effect upon the gold) accompanied by a fall in the money purchased by American banks has/ Yate. But even that would not per- |been heid in reserve abroad and ef-| manently remove the basic inexorable iforts were made to resell it without | cconomic forces that brought about its entering this country at all. But} the present situation and will in- even that is futile for the simple |cvitably reproduce on a still greater reason that the holding of it abroad | scale the contradictions of this stage has the same effect upo the gold) of capitalism. If Mr. Snowden were supply of the United States that its, real representative of the working importation into this country would! class instead of a miserable and vul- have. When it is resold it takes the gar apologist for the English capi- ince of gold that is lying fallow here | talist class he would analyze, the |and that would otherwise have taken economics of imperialism and point lits place. |out the danger to the working class All these manouvers on the part of | 0f the world of the great imperialist American imperialism to divert the|Tivalries that have developed since |flow of gold from this country es- | the war and that are paving the way lcape the astute eye of the former | f0r new world wars and which today |chancellor of the exchequer of Mac-| manifest themselves in the efforts of |Donald’s government. Instead of | the powers to crush the Chinese revolu- | hoarding gold the life and death prob- tion that threatens to wipe out past lem for the maintenance of the gold | AVestments: in that country and pre- |standard ,is involved in devising a vent future imperialist domination. He | |tions against American imperialism | rectly met by our Party only on this | | means of disposing of the tremendous surplus already on hand. | * * * | AT the identical moment Mr. Snow- den was writing his profound ob- | would devote his talents to a defense \of the Soviet Union which is being attacked on all sides by the mer- |cenaries of the predatory powers in jan effort to remove the most for- | midable obstacle to domination of the servations revealing how little hej... anitall + [een under which he lives and how jers of England to take steps that ReugeN incompetent he was to hold | would enable them to challenge the | is job as secretary of the British | power of British imperialism on its {treasury Wall Strect was placing at) o..4 soil the disposal of the Commonwealth of Bu i a : Australia, under the flag of Britain, | ut_to demand that is to demand ‘the sum of $40,000,000, and striving that Snowden | cease to be Snowden. | to induce municipalities of that coun-; Instead of fighting against his own !try to take another $30,000,000. In/Tuling class this ornament of British the past year (1926) the total of , Social pacifism will be found where |foreign securities bought by this he is today, in the camp of the ene- country was $1,318,554,850. A con-| Mies. of labor, indulging in filthy siderable proportion of these were | sophistry to justify his own treachery, purchased with gold. In addition to} And those who will successfully the selling of securities, enormous;fight American imperialism are not private loans have been made to those lackeys of Britain who complain foreign bankers. The position of the! of the cornering of the world’s gold United States as the most powerful supply but the working class of the |imperialist power on earth, and its United States, under the leadership position as the banker of the world, of the Communists. | Letters From Our. Readers | Editor, The DAILY WORKER: | sanity of the hypocrites who say that I read in the capitalist papers re-|the interests of capital and labor are the Soviet Union. It needs a big |navy against the imperialist power | which can have a navy | ger than its own, the United States. | Against whom does the United States 'need a big navy? The only imperial- ~\ist power against which it can have | ‘veal use for and of a big navy is the big or big-| Point of wages which the bourgoisie |apparent. The immediate outlook for can force the workers to accept.|a labor party is small. The im- Thus ifthe American capitalists, thru| mediate outleok for a united labor |their export of capital to lesser in-| ticket is not good. If the economic | dustrially developed countries, will be| recession deepens into a depression, lable to secure cheaper labor power in| the chances for the development of European or Asiatic countries, they|@ mass labor party movement will be |will either reduce their American|much improved. Everywhere our example than the Ford auto plants, because the known facts | British imperialist power. The conflict | working forces or slash the wages of| labor party campaign must be or- about Detroit make his arguments especially ridiculous. The fact that thousands upon thousands of Ford workers eagerly read the factory papers urging them to organize proves “us believe. And the crisis in the automobile industry will be a spur to labor organization and labor struggles that will, in the ‘not distant future, make Detroit a center of great labor struggles for some of the elementary demands of workers as human beings. \here is a conflict for the domination of the world market today. British im- |perialism still has a greater annual |total trade than American imperial- i that Detroit is not the industrial paradise the Times would have |ism. But British imperialism’s trend. is declining, while America is expand- ling and they are bound to clash. They are clashing. | Vigakiard this increasing conflict be- tween America and England, de- Py ot Se RRR eo BRS is aiaaaaan 5 ganizational and not merely agita- |Fhese working forces at home. tional. Our tasks at present in this field j are the following: We must not fight | | imperialism abstractly. There is no! use of fighting American imperial-| ism in general. We must adapt our, tactics to the changing concrete con- ditions day by day if necessary, al- ways keeping in mind the funda- mental role, the basic characteristics (To Be Continued.) First Negro Fire Officer. The first Negro officer of the New York Fire Department was appointed yesterday. He is Wesley Williams, a member of Engine Company 55, Broome St. ‘cently that during the recent Sacco- | Vanzetti demonstrations in Boston, | Powers Hapgood after being arrested |several times was finally turned over to a hospital for a mental examina- ‘tion or what may be termed a sanity test. | It is laughable to what methods |capitalist lackeys resort to in sup- pressing the militant spokesmen of \labor’s cause. | Ynstead of testing the sanity of | workers who are trying to establish \a better world to live in, they ought | to test the sanity of the perpetuators | of the present damnable insane system of society that exploits the earth, everything, and everyone thereon for the benefit of the capitalist class. They ought to further test the identical, the mental prostitutes who rave about everyone being born free and with equal opportunity, of the sky pilots who sanction the present system and say that such is the will of the Almighty, the yellow labor leaders who imagine they can carry water on both shoulders by trying to serve the masters and at the same time the workers and all the other jflunkeys and lickspittles of the master class. No doubt the capitalists and their government will resort to newer and more draStic measures from time to time in their campaign of silencing Labor’s voice, but they will as labor will finally triumph. Fraternally—John Lyons, Bxock. lyn, N, Y. :