The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 19, 1927, Page 6

THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1927 THE WORKER CORRESPONDENT UNIST INTERNATIONAL ON THE: Y OF THE INTERNATIONAL (OUTH CONFERENCE WELLESLEY HILLS | ECONOMICS Workers on the Railroads| In the Soviet Union Are| By H. M. WICKS difficult to worth of commodities would ae- th Dus require dollars. This and ninal form of op: is (eas 5 the ge law e ee i i k (. i bP i n, we think especially of the | | I the affair at Babson pe sea ‘ teal ee the cing Crper DY Udo {| To the You mmun Workers | great historical merits which the | ezonomic or a zoological conferen nat is ‘i Sea th ie ene “ a i In ies! youth movement gained in the period Babson, the W ey] | of i bibs ie eae n of the ‘Sacialiat Wantnes ‘dione le, calls it a “national business| f ¢ ting med required, an were f the Socialis: ow nternationa: . ” oT “t |the slower the’ movement of com- ss hefore and during the imperialist war rence.” For the purpose of re-| pastckiette < By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. i SLOTS AAG is t . | ng the master of the] modities the larger, is the amount of } } s well as| the circulating medium required. country that everything axpected under trying cir- there have assembled all Howeve in the v if there is a rise or fall eat traditions of the old in-| gold, and the value ational > of f one of the most popu ¢ youth movement | have j “3 of eco-T0f other m remains as it tions of tle), the daily ed to the Young Communist _In- uni-| Vas before, the quantity of money in Soviet 1 d railroad worke and the Communist Par- | culation must fall or rise to thes extent. This change cannot, by fantastic stretch of the be explained upon the s of its function’ as a circulating medium, but upon the basis of its Some big nificant. young Communist move- vhich for twenty years has | faithfully upheld the revolutionary | banner, will also in the present attack | r| of the counter-revolution, in the ap- | permanence of busin Typical of the assemblage i | fessor Lionel D. Edie of the school of | |commerce and administration of the | | University of Chicago. Within the| ment, which wa n Stutt half million subs ibers. It helps get new readers. s to price and quality. The question | S¢¢tion of the working class through-| workers” is really endeavoring to keep | ‘The Volkhovstroy gives an annual saving of 15 million pie apht gi iri, Seba \there are Professor Edie is the only \ * did not enter into the discussion, aa (aap one Nona pea ae jn-| young workers away from the strug-|noods of fuel; the Svirstroy will give a saving of 25|the universal equivalent of all com-|0ne who-has discovered the fact. Cer- fons. Thro: de sen Ter this tensified, the XX annive: y_ is being/ gle for the attainment of their €CO- | million poods per year. |modities. The value of gold is de-| tainly it is not in evidence from the source of waste was eliminated, celebrated of the day when in Stutt-| nomic demands. Hypocritically it jus-| ‘The construction of the Dnieperstroy is in full pro-| termined in precisely the same man- | Official reports of the gold fields of of construction in the Soviet: Union | &2"t revolutionary young workers of| tifies this joint work as an attempt | ress and it will entirely change the economic and in-|ner as the value of any other com-|the ae: nf Gene Genes Uke oy rious countriessmet at an interna-| to fight against the splitting up of | qustrial conditions of the enormous southern district of| modity is determined—by the amount| Edic*s lecture before the Babson | tional conference. Since this first step | youth activities. Revolutionary young | [jkraine. of socially-necessary labor-time re-| Conference is nothing more nor less for international contact between So-| wofkers who have grown up in the| Before the war the chemical industry of Russia de-|quired for its reproduction. If, for| than a superficial attempt to glorify “Gudok,” js only able to| “list youth organizations, a funda-) struggle against reformism and op-| pended entirely on Europe. Under the Soviet Govern-| any reason whatsoever, it is possible|the banking system in general; to ae oats ae ae aanee mental change has taken place both| portunism, come forward against the | ment a whole series of scientific research institutes has|to produce gold with less expenditure/™make it appear that the prices of | ee Seen 4 3 | within the working class and within| attempts of the reformists to con-|}een formed and the country is rapidly freeing itself|of labor its value will fall, just the | Commodities depends upon the de- of worker correspondents. oe capitalist economy. The imperialist/demn young workers to passivity.|from dependence on other countries. same as the value of a coat, a sack of |™and deposits in banks and that letters pour in daily from these worker | development of world capitalism is|They are fighting for the unity of Soviet laboratories produce now 150 chemicals out of| flour or one of Professor Edie’s text-|Value is regulated by these institu- E ents. .An efficient staff, trained to its ae driving towards an unavoidable con-| young workers on the basis of the the 800 known. books falls with increased productivity | tions. peace Janey than ee entire editorial aon = | flict between capital and labor, be-| revolutionary class struggle. Before the war, chemical fertilizers were exclusively |0f labor. On the other hand its value| If there is a permanent fall in ie Asa x ites oe oe thee Panes tween the proletariat and the bour-| The Red International of. Labor |imported. Now deposits of three hundred billion poods| Will rise in case it requires more ex-| prices it will be due not to the amount ; h Srarates 8 een ae Eee geoisie. At this period of the acute] Unions assures the young workers of | of phosphorus tide Goan: discovered. Mass extraction of | Penditure of sociallynecessary labor- demand pepentts, but due fie a F (4) ‘The ore iinnortantt letters, sent in by class struggle in all capitalist coun-| its full support in the struggle against | nitrogen from air is already in progress and deposits of Hee to produce a hi al b ieee eae ee ee <s whose names are already listed, and who| ‘Ties, at the time of the attack of the|reformism and opportunism in the | calcium have been discovered. * f, as Edie predicts there will be| ! aa nis addled ae he depended upon to send in gomething | W0tld bourgeoisie on the elementary|trade unions, and on behalf of the| ‘he railway network increases from year tb year, | 9 word shortage of gold it will Si lthe ductor cee ie ckeenie ck to (2) Eee toa aan cater Sone rights of the working class, the place| unity of young workers in the strug- | Large main railway lines are laid out such as the Semir- je i ae a eee Bee athe | the Fact thatethe fuoduntivity of labor a contribution for the first time. a ee Me ee x phe aH oe une gle for ther economfe and trade union encheskaya Railway, for instance. i !formerly to purchase other com-|is increasing in certain lines and that are assigned to carefully read the let-|US0"'n& | revo remtoranes Dro /evaniat. | demands. - Many airlines are already in operation. modities. If Edie can bring forth/in others the products of cheap labor Bits in the division. Two readers suffice for the|aithful to the traditions of the reyo-| Shoulder to shoulder with the trade| Radio experts of both hemispheres have charge of the] gact, ding the probable fall in| from other parts of the world are . eaond con eee Beg ns lutionary youth before and during the| unions affiliated to the R. L. L. U. and | work in the Nizhnigorod Radio Laboratory. The Amer- ata. aenaii ae to ebecatiaba his, penetrating the American market a ‘a * P | war, it is its duty to lead the struggle| the revolutionary trade unionists in| icans consider the cathode lamps of Soviet production as Sete tn ae he is on solid ground | ‘and are welcomed by the loan Bore letters go to special instructoré who seply to | eeninee Teper auley uee veh is La the ranks of the reformist unions, rev-|the best in the world. as far as his argument is concerned.| mongers of Wall Street, whose divi- question : asked, or give instruction by mail cae y errr oo Sy, it ela anETy Ligeia igs fea SOCIALIST. SONSTRUGTION | But he doesn’t produce any evidence | fends ue 8 enone ae (7 fe Wor thi ‘ ; sie; s duty . - ; j 2 i i im. lepend upo! e in : - fiers. | fo. NY sen SS ROEG ite at struggle against the increased capi-| ar} young trade unionists will be pre- THE development of production in the Sukhon Paper Rese NG Gace muthiie Seal apeck the teal in other counteies: fmding aa: Mee icetiins aced are of general interest, they are talist exploitation of the working class'| pared to make every sacrifice in order Mills (the largest mills of the Vologod Gubernia) in-| productivity of gold mines, but bases| kets for their products. Sisrted in the paper with the replies. They ‘show what| 224 to struggle against reformism | to Jead the struggle in the reformist | creases yearly. In 1923-24 the Sokol produced an aver-| his predictions solely upon the super-|. That _the textbooks of Edie and Se eer are inking hovtSometines = Terie" | orking cans font.” | ualon teeeay ot os a eM le Goes toa, ee? Men |e ee ee ee eee questions. at ca 2} i (ai ce: 0. ear, tons, and in = 100 tons. re-war | Says the eminent pedagogue: rs e = Wah ibe: ee ‘ ua der aera nee This struggle must be mainly car-| trade union unity of the working class. eat yoy 760 ‘bas per month: "The flee yee ates Mince 1925 aenaen Daath in’ | leges as well as at Harvard and Yale Meas ofthe railroad workers Be that) werconlas Toe ried on in the trade unions. The re- | Jointly with us the Young Communist | Mill produced in 1923-24600 tons of. celluloid per| the banks have remained prac- | proves that the virus of class col- “tment. They show what the workers are thinking of pont edule Poxesore aan pncermet opel wall eteueae. Jo Vista — in 1984-25 —1,000 tons and now its output is bet peer anne ae Jboration: oe: Sopoaneg Pe sue Bee i rs, W! conditions i B ion bureau- | 1 tons per month. nf ? u Sal eS oe na Ea Ge MRRP SIER GH tional continually proves itself to be|crats and overcome the world bour- ‘Before the war, the Sokol employed 700 people; now| “vired that they increase about 5 Wolls and other flunkeys of Wall a i an instrument of the bourgeoisie in| geoisie in the revolutionary class|there are 2,600 people employed; the Sverdlov mill in-| Per cent annually. Their failure to | Street is being taught in so-called la- tis nt task wk is y ‘ the struggle against the revolutionary | struggle. creased its staff from 900 to 1200 people. do so is an indication of deficiency | bor colleges in order to produce fu- t is a giant tas to pic k the corr pondence out 0} working class. The revolutionary Long live the Young Communist athe “two quills. Goribined invorteae Gn 1924-25 aiouten in such deposits. Unless bank de- | ture labor Jeaders who will think in iiss oe for publication. Upon ar- youth must lead the struggle against | International! million roubles in new construction; in 1925-26 they posits grow at the rate of about |terms of the most subservient men ipl nea reon ans Even the! the trade union bureaucracy, all the| Executive Burean of the Red spent over two million roubles. These investments en-| 4 t© 5 Per cent per annum prices | tal prostitutes of capitalism. is recorded. As the contribution | more so since the reformiste: do nollie International of Labor Unions.| abled them to improve their ‘ pipentslito: rationalize Ste certain to fall.” But while heretofore these vulgar- K- section of the worker correspondents tie labow d i * Sore iki As One who rejects the Marxian labor jzers of economics have been prac- department to the next, its fate is duly recorded. The| KARL LIEBKNECHT ’ e INCREASED Nee e working conditions. |j.4, of value and concocts a “new tically unchallenged we are deter- im is to let cverv contributor know what became of | Th EAS al MBER OF WORKERS. .|economics” out of a synthesis of the| mined that henceforth their theories his letter, and if it is not published, to let him know . pe a tli heat eck 174,000 workers engaged in construc~| austrian marginal-utility school which | will be subjected to the penetrating why, All oS are answered, if it is only with a 4 | tion work in Ukraine. The number of workers employed is based upon the idea that the de-| light of Marxist-Leninist analysis in form letter. | on the Beat is now over 12,000. sires of the consumer determines| order that intelligent, class conscious ‘ , wf | ee ATCH-MAKING MACHINE SHOP. ._| Value, the school of John Bates Clark | workers will be equipped with weap- The practice is to reply quickly to those who have| The “Metallist of the Ribinsk, Yaroslav Gubernia| and Thomas Nixon Carver which em-|ons to expose and discredit their sent in contributions for the first time. “Old Timers”| | (Central Russia), which hitherto produced ploughs and phasize group motives and theevagar- | poisonous sophistry. are allowed to wait a little, giving way to the new- threshing machines will now illo 3 machinery for the|jes of the “new psychology,” would Bee te comers. A card index is kept showing the records of match industry. ’ be capable of confusing gold produe-| CLEVELAND, Sept. 18.—_Members he various worker corres The number of workers employed will be doubled. tion with bank deposits as does this having Nominating Petitions in their i “Gudok” is proud of its 250° women worker corre- ag wil he the first match-making machine shop in the bie a writer oe Eeo for uni-} possession, must return them to the i spondents. All women workers on the railroads get Sie aates S a versity economic classes. District Office at once. If the peti« \ replies regularly and speedily to their letters. Every RAILWAY APPRENTICES. 4 mae ot tions are not turned in, the Batey ail effort i <erted to encourage them in this activity. The age of admission to the professional schools has |"fHE indescribable confusion of Pro-| didates will not go on the ballot in the When suitable their letters and articles are published in been fixed at not higher than 25 years of age. fessor Edie is due to his in-| coming election campaign. Therefore, first place. At present they constitute a rather low | In 1925-26, in a number of workshops, new methods | vincible ignorance of the function of | don’t fail to return them to the Dige percentage of the correspondents altho they constitute | were adopted which enable the students to obtain the|money as a medium of circulation. | trict Office without delay, 12 per cent of the railroad workers. | (necessary qualification in a shorter period (3-6 months | Like so a, of Be yueee Ke * * * instead of 3 years). nomists he imagines that the volume I received a full set of the index cards, the form tet-| : This method war worked out iby the Central nati of money, determines the circulation | FACTORY HAND ters, the leaflets with general information and other | i tute of Labor, a scientific organization engaged in the | . y * saat a wart ay Mtvature that is used rd maintain the army of Gudok eae hea a enurendeey al tai recy Ae cent By HERMAN SPECTOR. Ee compesnonderite ou ‘the 5 dine ii cont ai has already s ied e railway apprenticeship | ™ » ae ‘ | Tha i "organizers on the road, Thus a worker correspondent from an isolated rail- proaching war fulfil its ero enOUaTY | past few years this person has be-| function as a measure of value, the road station wrote in that they had no well. Water May the memory of the twenty | pee ses next to professor Thomas universal equivalent by which all had to be brought from another station, at great in- connect our Young Com- | Nixon Carver, the chief prophet of) Other commedities are measured. convenience. honestly and ¢ tions still more closely | the aggressive imperialism of Ameri- * * * The letter is publ The facts were brought to: shown it by Li of the young prole- | lean bank capital. Professor Edie, But we cannot accept Edie’s state- the attention of t ad management. It was asked a: ¢ i author of text-books on “the new} ment that there is any indication Eero well w Noe is accepted, of bly connected with the rev- | | economics” is a favorite alike of the} of a shortage of demand deposits, cours Every ion should h well with | ¢ i of Lenin and Karl | jmost reac ¢ ary universities as well} considering the fact that in the Uni- pure w ailroad mang t is not the im- solubly allied with |as the favorite of Brookwood labor) ted States there is already held the allowed until another letter comes posed to of the young workers of | |college which uses as a textbook his| enormous sum of $1,400,000,000 in finally f worker correspondent in the far away e at-/all countries, faithful to the traditi \“Principles of the New Economics, ”.| Boy that is “sterilized,” that is to Failro: 5 : 1|of the Stuttgart Congress, the Young | an absurd attempt at rationalization | say that is held as a hoard and not been constru The Communist International will along of class collaboration. \ permitted to perform its normal eco- town will never forget that it was we with us achieve victory and annihilate | Since it is impossible to follow, in nomic function and could easily and “Helped ream. It has grown up right from | all the forces of imperialism and mili- |the course of one articie, the droll | quickly be released to satisfy new On : cortespondent wrote) the beginning in the fight agains sm until the world triumph of the fs Nae EAE ES | contributions of all of the Babson cole} demends, Also it is known to every in abou conditions prevailing in the local rail- 4 when the danger be ga ihae s _ ‘ eee we will aay oe pear ua eR SU an ees k 1 judok” carried out a vestigation of hing, when a} Long live the Youn; ‘ommunis N f; U S S R |of Marxism upon the pro: S cial pos 3 oe ; eas Theat ries eee. pens i fe ing pre- | Tuteeneticnal! : ews rom : *. _ . | servations of Professqr Edie, who| Beet that the chief problem of the and bri g them to the attention of the railroad man- | The Presidium of the | . | announced the proposition that a fall | ae capitalists is +5 1 to dispose a agement. A ed to investi-| e of the pre-| Communist International.| TEN YEARS’ SCIENTIFIC, AND TECHNICAL | of prices to pre-war bevel aS tore ig constantie praels De eat cexie ts’ an gate. The hospital however, had _insti- tes the most| Moscow, July, 1927. ACHIEVEMENTS : as : | expected about ‘Be year ee i ial eae HOR ear hee ace aint tuted a | un-up before the commission arrived. But —______--__ --—' | PHERE were in 1917 only 250 electric stations in Russia | fall will come about, according to| | / , g tha I rs made no effort to deny the truth d been made. “Gudok Had Help- nfortable hospital conditions ers had been won. ” as it appeared in “Gudok” were needed to build a a good supply on hand locaily. intense discussion as to the cost of and the quality of the respective result that the homegrown product he used to better be possible, in this country, to achieve the per- ‘THE RED INTERNATIONAL OF LABOR UNIONS TO THE YOUNG COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL Young Trade Unionists of | all Countries! | Comrades: Ata ialist when capitalist and im- on the revolutionary p | To Revolutionary Young Workers and®ing fo? the improvement of the posi- tion of young workers. The Amsterdam Trade Union In- ternational, which is endeavoring to carry on joint work with the Social- Youth International “for the im- provement of the position of young | with a capacity of one million kilowatt of energy per year. Towards the beginning of 1927 the capacity |had increased by 250,000 kilowatt and towards the be- ginning of 1928 another 250,000. Soviet technique prom- years of the Soviet Government, is the first peat eledtric station in the world. Not only Europe but also America is taking lessons from that station. Soviet engineers were the first ones to apply a new hydro method of se- curing peat. Human labor has been made almost com- pletely mechanized and protected from possible diseases coming from marshes. | 19,000 in 1923-24, 21,000 ‘in 1924,25, 24,000 in 1925-26, | | ises to give another 280,000 kilowatt by the end of 1928. | | The Shatur Electric Station, built during the first} Professor Edie, because by that date} there will exist a world shortage of} gold. | % areal 3 We the professor stopped with that | observation we. would not ques- | tion the soundness of his abstract! |formula. Granted that the value of | all other commodities remains sta-| tionary a shortage of gold would un- questionably result in a fall in prices. | This is true because of the fact that | the gold standard prevails through- | the movement of money that deter-| that determines the movement of sions of Professor Edie are realities, it certainly cannot be maintained that the value of other commodities would main constant over a long period of time while there were taking place changes in the production of gold of such a nature as to tremendously in- crease its value. The tendency in gold production for a quarter of a century has been to lower its value, which is the principal reason for the rise in prices, so noticeable over that period of time. Are there any indica- tions of a reyerse. movement? If or thoughts organize and develop the worker | The number of apprentices is fixed by the terms of | . i. pecs or deeds Sicenondents’ movement it . et ae : the general agreement with the railway administra-|™ines the circulation of commodities, | or love, acresponder novement in the United States at the | ce ra but the circulation of commodities 4 present time. But, it is only after the revolution that tion, and it increases year by year. Thus, there were or hate. ction in workers’ journalist 2 s be che | and 25-26,000 are contemplated for 1926-27. beasties Se oes : a This power press eat ] 5 '. : | | ficient for the amount of traffie on the railways and See jee Maney required Peds cireu- | ae Sad Utica: Avanos aorramncadane | (current repair work in the railway workshops. How- | jation must be equal ashe ‘calles But in the evening, I DP ithe “Gude should: baratinalavadeny cheeneadetae. | ever, the Steady growth in the volume of trade on the of commodities in circulation, when, | will listen to the radio, Ten instructors are maintained who spend their time Hepreve sl eopedtices " Eat pierre te Ue GB ak aeaia tte ot fact, under "certain a almost continually on the road, holding meetings with | [apes ne: Gee eaneR sD Fsneolsy ast conditions a comparatively small STOCK CLERK Worker correspondents, already organized, building new | Workers of the Railroads in the Soviet Union, |®™0un! of money functions as the | —- ‘ worker co’ ondents’ groups, organizing,classes, and | making general reports on their activities, | At the time I visited the office of the “Gudok” in} the Palace of Labor, in Moscow, there were seven such! In connection with “Press Week,” there were two weeks of special agitation. Large conferences were held also, not only of the writers, but | also of the readers of the “Gudok.” There were discus- | sions as to the character of the paper, the parts that | ‘ t t t | This all tends toward the unity and the development of| might be a slowing up of the move- of the goods ae Bey sipst, teresting, ond the question was raised | the army of worker correspondents in the Soviet Union,| ment so that five dollars would cir- |\‘to be delivered,” ( as to where the Paper could) improved. that stretches its comradely support to the worker|culate but one commodity per day, |\ Tomorrow, (Continued in golumn 4) correspondents of America. RH i | hy (Continued from 1st column) Wheh the organizers return to the offices of “Gudok” from their tours, they bring a fresh mine of information with them. When they take up their work in the of- fice, they can say that they know personally many of the correspondents sending in material daily. In this way the so-called “personal touch” had been G2veloped. | | sa "4 é medium of ¢irculation for a large number of commodities. For in- stance, let us say the circulation of commodities is six per day. Letgus imagine that each article sells for five dollars. Under such conditions it would reguire but a five dollar note} to circulate thirty dollars worth. of articles. On the other hand there nee the movement of thirty dol- . By HERMAN SPECTOR . T sean the white boxes “in grderly array” Like a general “marshalling his battallions” All I know is what I readin the papers of the charges if possible, — Ks aN