The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 4, 1927, Page 6

tet ct a a r t Fa t ¥ Page Six THE DAILY WORKER Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. — Daily, Except Sunday 82 First Street, New York, N. Y- Cable Address SUBSCRIPTION RATES 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 0 three months $2.00 three months Address and ma THE DAILY WORKER, Phone, Orchard 1680 *Daiwork” ‘and make out checks to First Street, New York, N. Y. ....+..ROBERT MINOR .WM. F. DUNNE ynd-class mail at the post-office at New York, N. ¥., under the act of March 3, 1879 C0 ee SISTANT EDITOR. Mntered as si Brisbane Comes to the Rescue of Rockefeller Colorado miners are striking against Rockefeller’s company union, low wages, spies, gunmen, the blacklist and Rockefeller’s state government. Arthur Brisbane, fore finds it necessary to s feller family. Read this: “John D. Rockefeller, Jr., giving $500,000 to the Interna- tional Fund for Rebuilding and Endowing the Shakespeare Mem- orial Theatre, says the gift is a ‘recognition of the debt which Great Britain and the United States owe Shakespeare.’ ” This of course is of vastly more social importance than the debt Rockefeller owes the miners. After this warming-up exercise Brisbane gets down to real! serious bootlicking: | “Rockefeller millions are working usefully all over the world, pushing American trade, fighting disease, building hospitals.... “A German poet describes a vine on the hillside, in winter, cold, dry and leafless, while wine from its grapes made hearts cheerful far away. | “In his old age Mr. Rockefeller through his only son, DOES} MORE GOOD than ten million vines, making his money useful all over the world. And, fortunately, he is no dry, leafless vine on, a hillside, but full of life, playing golf and enjoying it in spite of his eighty-eight years.” (Our emphasis.) | There are no golf courses near the Ludlow monument—only graves. Graves of workers, their wives and children murdered | in 1914 by Rockefeller’s mercenaries. \ The Colorado coal miners and steel workers, the thousands | of others in the oil fields and refineries and the countless Rocke- feller enterprises, were robbed by Rockefeller of the wealth with which he endows theatres and “pushes American trade.” Rockefeller can play golf or die—industry goes on just the same. But when the Colorado miners strike, the mines shut down! and the steel mills close. | It igs not hard to write like Brisbane. One has only to be) able to see the owner of the bloodstained Rockefeller billions as, an angel of light, to be deaf to the cries of hungry women and children and the dying groans of workers murdered as they fight for bread and freedom. Tf one can quote a poet to prove one’s case so much the better. | If one is able to put the life of one billionaire above a slight | increase in wages for the thousands of workers who made the| billionaire, one can write like Brisbane. | The Brisbanes are the official poisoners at the court of capi- talism. It is their job to dope the working class so that it sees, | with eyes bleary and brain dulled by printed narcotics, only the | charities of the capitalist class instead of the robbery which these charities are intended to conceal. Brisbane’s only function is to try and make the hand of the capitalist on the throat of workers and in their pay envelopes ap- pear as a caress. Build the revolutionary press! The Communist press is the antidote to the poison purveyed by the Brisbanes as well as the weapon of the masses against their exploiters sob artist, there- bout the Rocke- $100,000 per yea y something nice Hh Making a Chinese Wage-Scale the tools and equipment which the worker uses. In a sense he rents these to the worker. The foreman} also gets 5 cents from every worker By SCOTT NEARING. PEKING (FP), Nov. 3.—Wood- workers in Peking recently made a * “collaborate.” new wage-scale that stands for 1 year from the time it was promulgated. This scale was passed by the Guild, to which contractors, jobbers, skilled mechanics and journeymen may all belong. There is a feast. After the feast comes a general mass meeting, and at this meeting the new wage scale is considered and adopted. In theory, all members of the Guild take part in making the scale. Practically the contractors and jobbers have a great deal to say. Still the workers Forty-two Cents a Day. The wage decided upon for the coming year was 90 cents per day (about 42 cents in United States Money). This, by the way, is an in- | crease of 20 per cent over the wage rate of last year. It represents the largest increase that the wood-work ers hereabouts have ever had. The 90 cents is divided as follows: For food 25 cent r work 50 cents; } for extras 16 cents. The food item may be paid by the employer in money | or in kind. he chooses to pay it in} money, that n end of the matter. | The worker then finds his own food. | But in China many workers are still fed by the employers. the agreement provides: | no vegetables are given with the food, | the employer add 8 cents per | day to the wag (b) That on the} 2nd and 16th days of each month the | employer shall provide white bread | every day that the worker works. The wage of common laborers on build- ing jobs is about half that of the wood-workers. But there is a great surplus of unskilled labor so the un- skilled man pays the foreman from 5 cents to 10 cents per day for his job. Sometimes there are further com- plications in the Chinese wage-scale. These are the ones introduced by the wood-workers at their last guild con- vention. Incidentally, these wood- workers include carpenters, joiners, cabinet-makers and others in the same general industrial line. | ‘Letters From Our Readers THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1927 WHILE THE WORKING CLASS SLEEPS eng: rorprerens Current Events | By T. J. O'Flaherty |BoLLetTs and not prayers nor Sun- | day schools, is the answer of the pious Rockefeller to the efforts of the employes of the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company to improve their con- ditions. If the workers succeed in forcing John to raise their wages John’s financial ability to donate trousers to the natives of Central | Africa, will be reduced as will also |his ability to subsidize missionaries | to light the lamp of faith and in- cidéntally to teach the heathens to light John’s oil lamps. | * * * TRIKERS who would ignore polit- ical action have a good example |of the power of the state in the pres- ent Colorado strike. The government jis supposed to be neutral in a strug- {gle b en capital and labor, but it ys finds some excuse—and some- times it does not take the trouble to make any—to come down on labor. |The “fair” governor of Colorado waited to see what would happen and | when he saw that the workers meant business he became as active in be- half of the coal operators as the most ill-reputed governor in the United | States could. | de ie 3 eee in New York, we have the traction barons seeking an in- junction against the organizing ac- tivities of the American Federation of Labor among the traction workers. |The majority of us cannot detect any ‘furious activity on the part of the organizers of the street car mens’ union to organize the men, but the | traction magnates are expecting an- other strike and this time they intend to be better prepared than ever be- |fore. What has become of govern- | ment, of the people for the people and | by the people? What about organ- izing a Labor Party to mobilize the The American capitalist reaction, with the co-operation of the butcher Mussolini’s agents in America, is preparing to put two workers under the banner of their more Italian-American workers in their graves. Calogero Greco and Donato Carillo, honest workers active in organizing the Anti-Fascist Alliance, are in jail fating a murder charge as the result of a frame-up equal to that by which Sacco and Vanzetti were judicially murdered. (Continued from Last Issue.) Xl The Great Dog Lorimer} OW let us survey what I have called the great central power-plant of fascism in America,, the Cur pub- plications, presided over by Colonel George Horace Lorimer. Another | military title, you perceive—it was the governer of Kentucky who recog- nized the services of this great liter- ary fascist, and appointed him honor- | ary colonel. Lorimer’s training for the task of militari ture was gained a Armour, the Chicago po! one ose in me, le of inside knowledge, \“You’re lucky that Old P. D. was not alive, or you’d never have lived to publish ‘The Jungle’.” Colonel Lor- |imer put the wisdom of the stockyards }into one of the most cynical books ever written in America, “The Letters of a Self-Made Merchant to His Son.” It is supposed to be funny, and it is, unless you happen to belong to one of four classes of beings—first, a hog, second, a stockyards worker, third, a consumer of meat, and fourth, a hu- man being with heart or conscience. Young Ogden Armour didn’t have me killed; he tried for three days and nights to persuade his lawyers to let him have me arrested for criminal libel, and failing in that, he got Lor- imer to have one of his hacks write a defense of the stockyards industry, which solemnly denied everyone of the jokes which Lorimer had written about Ogden’s father. And this is only one illustration of the service To The DAILY WORKER: On the evening of October 20th Mr. immunist sympathizer would be ex- pelled from the American Federation ing American cul- | secretary to Old Money Writes the “Saturday Evening Post” has per- ( formed for predatory wealth, during | | the fifteen hundred weeks that I have | | been watching it. They are so big and | so powerful that the truth matters to them no more than a flea-bite. I| showed in “The Brass Check” how | |they deliberately distorted the facts} |and then refused correction; and their answer to “The Brass Check” was to add another millicn to their weekly | circulation. | m the point of view of the lit-| ary business man, these Curtis pub- | lications are perfection. They read your manuscripts promptly, and pay | \the very highest price upon accept- | janece. So they are the goal of every ung writer's ambition, and the} ost gorrupting force in Ameri letters. Their stuff is as od as soda crackers; originality is aboo, new ideas are treason, socis sympathy is a crime, virtue of man is to produce larger and larger quantities of material things. They have raised up a school of writers, panoplied in prejudice, a lynching squad to deal with every of protest against the ideals of plutoeracy. Take Emerson Hough Major Tough, I believe it is proper to call him. Once he was an amiable teller of outdoor tales and frontier histor- ies, and in “John Rawn” he even showed traces of social understand- ing. But the war turned him into an Troquois Indian. He joined the Intelli- gence Service, and when the White Terror began he joined Colonel Lor- imer, I don’t think I have ever read in an American magazine any writ- ings more vicious then the articles he contributed to the “Saturday Evening Post,” glorying in the raids upon the “reds”; “The Round-up,” I remember was the title of one, but no ranchman jever hated his cattle, nor caused them | [needless suffering. When police dc- | teetives stamped their heels into the | faces of Russian Jewish working gir’ Major Hough literally screamed w glee. He died two or three years late: jand no doubt the celestial authorities Warton, International President o7| of Labor. This provoked a discussion | are providing him an unlimited supp!y No. 284 of Oakland. companied by two of his lieutenants, Misters Thorp and Fryite. The: for its climate and stool pigeon This report was principally an attac upon the Communists whom they a’ cuse of trying to disrupt the Am In such cases |Port of the American Federation of | (a) That if | Labor convention held recently in the | glorious city of Los Angeles, famous! discussion afterward, and the loc i | ithe Machinists Union, visited Local|om the floor, and several propounded He was ac-|the same question to the local presi- dent and the sentiment of the local union is in favor of the Communists. | learned gentlemen gave a lengthy re- | This created such a turmoil that the local president closed the meeting. There was considerable unoffici membership is dissatisfied with the International President and his atti- tude, --- Correspondence Bureau, DAILY WORKER Builders Club, with the food. If he fails to do so,|¢an Federation of Labor. There was | Oakland, Calif. he miust increase the wage for those |n0 mention made of any attempt to| days by 10 cents. | Sun-up to Sun-down. | Generally the ,workers work from | sun to sun. But the employer is organize the rubber. steel, or auto- mobile industries, or any move along the lines of organizing the unorgan- ized. The International President gave a| year old king is worried lest his, ing sales agent for reaction; he has | GOOD LITTLE MICHAEL. i lies is a touching story from Bucharest: Little Michael the six- fof Russian Jewish working girls to be stamped upon. i Or old friend Isaac Marcosson. ! You read in Ike’s books, “Adven- | ‘tures in Interviewing,” how. as pub- | ilicity agent for Doubleday-Page, he ; the fame of “The Jungle’”—-you | almost think he wrote it. t the idea that there anything “pink” about Ike; no, he a publicity man according to the Lo |imer standard, he promotes whatev |his boss has to sell. Of late years, | having Lorimer as boss, Ike has pro- moted the wholesale murder of th |same poor devils whom in_ the )“Jungle” days he professionally pit- \ied. He has become a kind of travell- bound, out of this time, to allow 3 glowing report and stated that this) grandfather Ferdy should lose his ;dond Soviet Russia, Central Europe | convention should go down the annals | way among the clouds, so little Mike ;and the Orient, and just recently of history as a wonderful affair, as|put a lamp in the palace window so | Mexico; and always he comes home there were addreases by the Hon.'that grandpa might know where he with a series of articles for his boss. periods: smoke-time, noontime and tea-time. If he fails to allow smoke- ! time and tea-time he must pay 5 cents extra per day. If he fails to allow noontime he must pay 10 cents extra. The 50 cents per day for “work” is paid whenever the worker puts in a full day. It is his time- ware. There remains the 16 cents, foreman on the job (7) Hiram Johnson, Secretary of La-|was at. Ferdy is lucky that he is up! proving bor Davis, and a capitalist Army gen- eral who knows all about slaughter- ing workers, The President and his two aids then strongly attacked the Communists and stated that every Communist and in the clouds for there are troublous times ahead in Roumania, but bless the trustful young lad’s soul, old Ferdy never knew where he was at except when ‘larle was around, Bae h a 9 s * andl ; the standardized doctrine that the masters of world capitalism | are benevolent supermen engaged in conferring the blessings of civiliza-, tion upon the inferior races, but hav- ing their efforts i by evil- minded intriguers called “reds.” and the one}; By Upton Sinclair Twenty years ago there were ap- pearing in “McClure’s Magazine”— then a free paper with a real editor |—a number of extraordinary short stories. There was a series dealing with Wall Street, and I remember the “white bond-worm” who spent his ime in the great underground vaults; so a series called “Butterflies,” deal- ling with the pitiful chorus. girls and artist models, and their efforts, not eften successful, to fight off the pre- datory males who control the purse- strings in the art business. These | stories were real literature, full of pity and ight and penetrating so- cial criticism. With my usual cus- tom of butti: n on things, I tried hard to find some publisher to bring em out in book-form. I failed; and se that George Kibbe Turner tarved out—anyhow, he went the Lorimer kennel, and at the eht of the reaction wrote a silly and stupid anti-radical yarn, “Red Friday”; also some short stories—I described one of them in “The Brass Check”: “a short story, which turns out not to be a short story at all, but a piece of preaching upon the follow- ing grave and weighty theme; that the trouble with America is that everybody is spending too much money; that the railroad brotherhoods are proposing to turn robbers and take away the property of their mas- ters; and that a workingman who is so foolish ‘as to buy a piano for his daughter will discover that he has ruined himself to no purpose, because working men’s daughters ought not to have pianos—they are too tired to play them when they get through with their work!” And Harry Leon Wilson. Here was man with all the makings of a nov- elist. Twenty-five years ago he wrote | “The Spenders,’ a book that deal with reality; but now his charm an humor are wasted upon the empt; sugar and water themes required b; Lorimer. At the height of the Whit Terror he made his contribution to the task of keeping America capital- ist--a tale about some workers who took over a factory and tried to run it, and the absurd mess they made.) So it was taught to “Saturday Eve- ning Post” readers ten years ago; and not even yet has Lorimer let them learn that the Soviets have got pro- duction back to the pre-war standard. Or my friend Nina Wilcox Putnam. Would you ever dream, to read the rubbish that she ladles into the Lor-| imer soup-kettle, that she possesses real brains, and wit, and radical sym- pathy? That is when you listen to her talk. But, alas, we “reds” have no paymasters, and Nina has no so- cial conscience. I could tell you about others—but it makes me sad, and, I conclude with my friend Sinclair Lewis, who lived in the -kennel for many years, but jumped over the fence. He told me how Lorimer took “Main Street” as a personal affront, and vowed to “get” its author. Also George Sterling—who summed up his country in four special antipathies— “Jazz, free verse, the movies, and the “Saturday Evening Post’.” Som years ago he contributed to “The Lib- erator” a wild and terrible poem, and I reproduce it here without giving you any hint what it all means: OOOO The Black Hound Bays If the young folk build an altar to the beautiful and true, Be sure the great dog Lorrimor shall lift a leg thereto. The lords of the nation go hunting with their dogs; Some have the heart of tigers and some the heart of hogs. On the path of the quarry the yapping mongrels pour, And the keenest of the pack is the great dog Lorrimor. *Woo-hoo-hoo-hoo! O lerds, spare not the spur! Give me the white doe, Freedom, that I flesh my fangs in her! l ha’ hate for all wild hearts!” bays the dog Lorrimor. The men of the law makes up the sniffing pack; The writers of tales go forth upon the track; The vendors of the news are zealous in the fore, And loudest of the chase is the great. dog Lorrimor. “Give me the young, lest the lips of youth blaspheme! Give me the rebel and the dreamer of the dream! Give me your foe, that you see his entrails steam!” Oh, lavish is his tongue for the feet of all his lords! And hoarse is his throat if a foot go near their hoards. Sharp are his teeth and savage is his heart, When he lifts up his voice to drown the song of Art. “Master, be kind, for I, I. too am rich! I ha’ buried many bones, tho my aging hide do itch. I ha’ buried many. bones. where the snowy. lilies were. I ha’ made that garden mine,” bays the dog Lorrimor. He crouches at their feet and is glad of his collar And the brand on his rump of the consecrated dollar. Wor the humble at the gate he is loud in his wrath; But no sound shall be heard when the strong are on the Path. ‘Give me the minstrel, the faun and wanderer; Give me high Beauty—she shall know me for your cur! Woo-hoo-hoo-hoo!” bays the dog Lorrimor. If the young folk build an altar to their vision of the New, Be sure the great dog Lorrimor shall lift a leg thereto, own class against the Democrats and Republicans? What have the labor |leaders to say to this in view of the ever-increasing tendency on the part jof, the government in every part of the country to crush labor by injunc- | tions? ee INCE Calles and Morrow have eaten ham and eggs together, the rela- \tions between the United States and | our southern neighbor should im- prove, unless Mr. Morgan’s partner should meet the fate of most fastidi- ous humans who dine on that unholy ombination. No doubt, Mr. Morrow levoured his fare without an air of condescension, to prove that when im Mexico he can do as the Mexicans do, but should he develop indigestion Hearst would immediately declare |that it was an inside job, something jlike the blowing up of the Maine, iverything is alright now unless | some Mexican expert rises to protest Wes ham an’ is a purely American | dish, | \? ‘HIE newspapers tell us that Morrow looked pleased after four-hour | conversation with Calles. This looks bad for peace. When a diplomat | Wears a happy look, trouble is brew- |ing. On presenting his credentials |to the Mexican government Morrow said: “It is my earnest hope that | we shall not’ fail to adjust outstand- jing questions with that dignity and | mutual respect which should mark the international relationship between two sovereign and independent states.” Those acquainted with the ways of diplomats will take this a threat of war should Mexico fail’to look pleas- iat when Wall Street presents the | bill. Lie Se | Te nice speech is something like what an officer of the Colorado | National Guard indulged in when he jheld a conversation with a strike | eader. In the most Chesterfeldian | manner he conceded the strike leader's {superiority as a student of Black- | stone, but when it came to picketing | or no picketing he hauled out his gun | and gave everybody to understand | that fine phrases do not dig coal. The | gun is mightier than the word. al nes ‘PHE standard of living of the Ameri- can people was higher last year than at any other time in the history of the world according to figures given out by the bureau of internal revenue. The statisticians throw, | figures around in a manner to excitje | awe, and awed we are, This copa ing prosperity looks nourishing /on | paper, but it does not tally with the | figures of labor statisticians. ‘We | have a suspicion that this skyrocket> jing of the standard of living of the | American people left the workers | very much up in the air. cE ee has called on the nation | to aid peace as he issued an armis- | tice day proclamation. “Whereas,” | goes the manifesto, “it is fitting that | the recurring anniversary of this day should be commemorated with thanks- giving and prayer and by exercises | designed to further the cause of per- manent peace thru the maintainance | of good will and friendly relations be- _ tween nations.” On another page of ‘the paper in which this proclamation | appeared we find this headline: “Marines Rout Foe In Nicaragua | Fight.” Of course the “foe” were Nicaraguan liberals. But ain’t this kind of peace grand? WANTED — MORE ARE YOU G “S a t