The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 2, 1927, Page 4

Page Four THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1927 STANDARD OIL MAKES RECORD HAUL; CLEANS UP The Distribution of the National Income and the Trotskyist Opposition 1200 PER CENT ON INVESTMENT SINCE 1912 This Christmas will be the merriest| panies. Practically all of the sub-| ever for the children of multimillion- | | sequent capitalization of the Stan-| aires who cluster around the Rocke- ' dard Oil group has been accomplished | feller throne. The cash dividends d through stock dividends. { bursed this year by the Standard Oil | group of companies will exceed all, Ac ing to pre- for netrier &| Mellons in on Deal. Cash dividends paid by ‘tandard Oil since 1911, the year in mnie the | j trust was supposed to have been dis- | solved under the Sherman anti-trust | | have now reached the amazing | In addition ts in the last Co., speci giant monopoly, ments amour of 108. Bane tne there have stock dividends to a| 2 meee total Of ,500,000,000. ‘The | Four giants of ard Oil| owners, p ‘the’ Rockefelle ee cout: sor 18 of the) pyatts, Mellons, Harknesses, ete. rt shows. » taken about $3,500,000,000 on a} of thes Oil which in 1912 had a e of less than $300,000,000. ith b multiplied nearly ver at the expense of worker: and consumers: tandard Oil is a leading example ation. N. Standard of California of f Indiana New lard 978,164 and S $26,895,888. Record Dividends. of the tendency to inflate the ms The 1s Oil in order to sustain} exceed by tee dends time e the more « Train Kills Workers | ; Gn Way to Factory DECATUR, Dec. 1J.—Four i vorkers lost their es here today eral by the vetie All fou. were on their wa, to work| e n the Gene Electric tory here | ident occurred. the windshield of the sedan the four we ing ‘was | ve prevented the driver 2 train. | vhen the The 1 : as large as tl of 1914. It parent of AT MPECIAL PRICE? SPECIAL PRICES GOOD ONLY UNTIL JAN. 1 An Opportunity To Start a Library—For Propa- ganda Purposes—For Gifts to Fellow Workers s favor to yourself: read the following list care- s fully. Here are books and pamphlets being offered at unusually low prices (most of them below cost) to make you acquainted with the newly organized: ibrary Publishe Here are books for every pur- 5 fi r your library—books for propaganda use— - into your shop and trade union. PLEASE: NOTE : of the low prices offered no ordérs undét one dollar will Also—add 10 cents for postage for every dollar’s worth of books ordered. cepted. 1 CENT EACH {POSTCARDS Former Total 3. R. Browder ut ¢ in Reactionary Trade troduction by Jay Lo Ruthe The M White T Dunne's § Convention ... The British Strilk The Reds and the General Int'l Council of Trade & Industrial Unions—Los Movement for World Trade Union Unity—Tom Bell Blood and Steel. Loveston British Rule in India—Shapur. 5 CENTS EACH of Saklatvala ... ones . 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ARTICLE II. * N_ yesterday’s article we saw that | the income of the working class} is increasing, that the workers’ rela- | tive share of the total national in-| come is increasing, that the wages | per worker are increasing, and_ that the share of the other classes is de-| creasing. In this second and final article we will examine the figures as to the number of workers and of other classes. These figures doubly refute the charges of the Trotsky opposition number of wage workers nd their share of the total income What do we find by examining the We find that the income of the bourgeoisie decreases not only relatively (in relation to} | the entire national revenue) but also| absolutely. The number of people} classified in this group has changed | ollows: | ye an abso- | jlute inergase in the number of em-| ployed workers. The number of use- | 1924-25 1925-26 1926-27 6,573,000 7,899,000 8,327,000 However, it would be mistaken to think ‘that the growth in the number of ‘:employed w rs is the only réagon -for their increasing share in the national income. The income per capita of every individual of this group of the population was (in |chervonny roubles)** We can see that the per-capita income of* this: group - continuously inereases. The growing share in the national | income of the wage workers increases owing to the general increase in the number of people belonging to that group and also owing to the increase in the averave income of every mem- ber of that group. This does not prevent the Opposition from claiming | that the “numerical growth of the} } working class and the improvement | is practically ‘at a andstill.” We will, however, call attention to the fact that the average income of fully employed people of that group | °Very comployed worker of this group |inereases from year to year which | ¢ » population increases consider- |may be seen from the following |#bly faster that that.of the other figures* roups. This may be seen from the pis i AS wing table: Income Per Usefully Employed Worker (Per Cent as Compared With 1924-25). 1924-25 26 1926-27 1. The’ Agrarian Population 100 122.6 128.9 Wage Workers*** ... 100 124.1 189.0 . People of Free Profess 100 112.4 115.5 4, Artisans and Craftsmen 100 108.0 114.4 5. The bourgeoisie ...... 100 121.8 125.3 The growing income of the average? | wage worker being faster than th: ;of the average income of the gther |groups of the population within the | framework of a general increase in| the revenue of the country shows an| {inerease in the real wages of the | work: (We find in the same vol- jume of “Control Figures” direct in- |dications of the growing real wages |w vhich we find unnecessary to present \here), a Taking into consideration these figures, it really becomes incompre- hensible why the Trotskyist Opposi- tion says that the “real wages in |1927 have at best remained on the |same level as those of the fall of | 1995.” We conclude: The Trotskyist Opposition maintain that real wages have remained un- |changed since 1925, We see that | they have considerably increased and | still continue to increase. The Opposition maintains that the share of the working class the national income has decreased. We | see that it continually increases. | They claim that the share of the | other classes in the national incom | has increased. | tinually declines. Thus we see that “the most impor’ We see that it con-},, La fact to be considered in judging the present situation” has been: found not to be a fact at all. We may be told of course that the figures of the State Planning Com= mission are merely approximate fig-| jures. Perhaps. However, it must be | observed: 1—That the figures con- |cerning the past are quite authentic and we argue éxclusively on that basis. 2—No matter to what extent the figures of the State Planning Commission are merely approximate figures, undoubtedly they are more reliable and exact than the figures worked out by a few individual Oppo- sitionists. *The number of industrial, build- ing, and transport workers has changed as follows: in 1924-25, 3,428,- 800, in 1925-26, 4.234,300, in 1926-27, 4,465,900. ** The corresponding figures for workers of the enumerated groups are: 485,500; 611,200; and 673,800 (wages only). *** The same is true for the enum- erated groups of workers, the figures being 100; 126- and 138.7 (wages only). Barbecues Help Unite Southern Workers for \Fight Against Bosses By ALFRED HOFFMANN , (Federated Press) DURHAM, N.C., Dee. 1 (FP).— Barbecues help to cement the solid- arity of southern labor. A barbecue, conducted by the Durham Social Club, a subsidiary of the Durham Central Labor Union, brought textile wotkers, full fashioned hosiery knitters, car- penters, bricklayers, plumbers, stage employes, barbers and farmers to the feast. William Smith, of Philadelphia, secretary-treasurer of the American Federation of Full Fashioned Hosiery Workers, was there as speaker and guest. Smith attacked the “yellow dog” contract that has invaded three North Carolina mills and he called for continued support of the drive to unionize the full fashioned plants. He Showed: how ridiculous it was for et southern’ full fashioned knitters to wWotk-at rates 50 to 75 percent lower hosepaid only 450 miles away. “ffound the Durham trade union leaders yery progressive and mili- tant,” said Smith later. “They are thoroughly conscious of their needs.” The Durham Social Club is a new link in a chain of labor activities to bring about organization in all lines in this seetor. The barbecue will be followed by many other affairs, Plans are being made for newspaper ad- vertising, other entertainments, labor movies, mass meetings and a Tri-City conference, to be held this December Lovestone Pamphlet Exposes ‘Prosperity’ How millions of American workers are getting $10.34 a week wages, and other millions are making only a lit- tle more, how the farmers and the Negro workers are being robbed to inerease the wealth of American capi- talists, is told in Jay Lovestone’s timely pamphlet, “The Coolidge Pro- gram, Capitalist Democracy and Pros- perity Exposed”, The pamphlet, which has just been issued as the second number ef the new Workers’ Library |publications, is being sold for five | cents. Exposing the real nature of so- called “Democracy”, Lovestone shows |what it realry means to the fourteen | millions of workers in America’s, basic industries, “According to the United States Department of Labor’s last report,” Lovestone writes, “many mil- | |lions of ‘workers are getting only | $10. 54 a week as wages. Lumber | workers are paid $17.17 a week on \the average of 57% hours work. At |least 200,000 railroad workers are j aver: aging only $17 weekly. Thous- |ands upon thousands of machine-shop |laborers are averaging $11.78 a week. Scores of thousands of bituminous mine laborers are receiving $10.34 a week. Blast furnace-men get $24.34 weekly, Foundry laborers secure only $25.25 a week and large numbers of men in the most prosperous motor vehicle factories are making $28.73 a week. On this basis some ten to twenty million persons, inclusive of women and children, are receiving a pittance and an insignificant share of the wealth produced by them for the country.” “The Coolidge Program” is an ideal answer to the prosperity propaganda flooding the country in preparation for the coming presidential elections. The booklet can be secured from the Workers’ Library Publishers, 39 East 125th St., New York City. Cheap Labor, Bait Used ‘By Southern Bosses to ‘Lure Northern Industry DURHAM, N. C., Dec. 1 (FP).— Can Southern labor live more cheaply than the labor of the North, as the advertisements of Southern power companies and chambers of commerce say? Durham labor is just complet- ing a survey of wages and living costs to answer this claim. It will be published soon, These advertisements, intended to. lure Northern manufacturers into the president of the Durham Central La- bor Union. “T can’t help but object,” he said, “to the advertisements of the power |companies and chambers of commerce | who hold up southern workers as ob- jects to be exploited most shamefully. This method of holding up Southern workers, and auctioning them off the block, much like slaves were sold be- fore the civil war, is objectionable. We object to being used as bait to lure down low wage manufacturers.” |and again in January, “of “‘representa- | tives from Greensboro, Raleigh, Dur- ham and intervening points—all lead- ing towards better organization of building trades and other old-line erafts and a drive into the open shop manufacturing industries. Pass the Paper to a Fellow Worker! STRIKE! CHICAGO, Dec. 1 (FP).—-Chicago mine strikers have contributed nearly a ton of clothing for relief of the jminers and their families, the ( | go Committee for Relief and Defens of Striking Colorado Miners_ an- |nounces, The clothing i being ship- ped to the strikers’ camry Clothing receiving stations have been estab- lished here at 1118 W. Madison St., 23 S. Lincoln St. and 3 Belmont Ave. Fire 300 Mass, Workers As Textiles Move South EASTHAMPTON, Dec. 1 ‘orkers have been dropped by the West Boyls textile company as 33,000 sg were moved to the company’s branch factory in Birmingham, Alabama, Fifteen hundred workers are left. Longer hours and lower taxes in the South are given as a reason for the transfer by George A. Cook, . general manager of the firm. ORKER! Worker! BUILD THE DAILY Pass the Paper to a Fell Chicago Sympathizers | Send Ton of Clothing To Colorado Strikers | sympathizers with the Colorado coal , =a BENEFIT PERFORMANCE for Window Cleaners’ Who are on strike now for 8 weeks Friday, December 2 TICKETS may.be had .at eee box office of a theatre or by phoning the Union, THE 133 MacDougal Street. f | | ’ The first modern Labor play STRIKE!! GANGSTERS—THUGS—SCABS “THE CENTURIES” By Em Jo Basshe New Playwrights Theatre 40 Commerce St. Buy your tickets at The DAILY WORKER office, 108 East id4th St. and help The DAILY WORKER and this theatre. The NEW PLAYWRIGHTS THEATRE production of now playing at the PROVINCETOWN PLAYHOUSE | Performance every evening (except Monday) he ugioe, Sunday at 8:40, Matinee Saturday at 2:4 ‘and the so-called prosperity in the Ford factories, STRIKE!!! Protective Union South are resented by John A. Peele, |. tl bis Trial of Mary Dugan” Macgowan and_Live- right to Speak at New Playwrights Theatre Kenneth Macgowan and Horace Liveright will speak at the New Play- wrights Theatre, 40 Commerce Street, this Sunday evening, inau- gurating a series of Sunday evening discussion meetings. Mr. Macgowan, sponsor of the Noel Coward play “The Marquise,” editor of Theatre Arts Monthly, ete., will speak on “Constructivism for Skyscraper | America”; Mr. Liveright sof Boni & Liveright will discuss “Censorship.” | John Howard Lawson will preside, | and discussion and questions from the | floor will be in order. The meeting beings at 8:30, and is open to the} public. Among the labor and other organi- | zations which have taken over per-| formances of “The Centuries” at the! New. Playwrights Theatre are the! United Council | of Workingclass | Housewives, the striking Window] Washers’ Union, Section 6 of the Workers Party, The Young Pioneers, the Teachers’ Union and the Anti- Horthy League. | CHILDREN’S PRODUCTIONS THE NEIGHBORHOOD PLAYHOUSE The Junior Festival Players of the Neighborhood Playhouse will again give a series of holiday matinees, at the Neighborhood Playhouse, Grand Street, during Christmas week. They | are preparing a romance fashioned! from an old Troubadour song, “Fleur and Blanchefleur” and will repeat “Harusaki,” the compilation of game and ceremonies which: celebrate the Japanese New Year. The date of the matinees are Tuesday,, December 27, Wednesday, December 28, Friday De- cember 30, and Sunday, New Year’s Day. Ksther Peck is designing: the pro- ductions. Blanche Talmud, one of the original Festival Players is in charge of the dancing and pantomime; Frances Brundage, of the lyrics and diction. Alexander Semmler has ar- ranged the music for “Fleur and| Blanche . Fleur” and Lily May. Hy-, land, for “Harusaki.” AT Union Leaders Playing Capitalist; Chicago Builders to Open Bank CHICAGO, Dec. 1 (FP).—Plans for the organization of another labor bank for Chicago—one to be controlled by the Chicago Building Trades Council —are announced by Patrick F. Sulli- van, president of the council. Incor- poration papers for the bank are now being prepared and Jan. 1, 1928 will see the launching of the banking venture, Sullivan announces. The Building Trades Council. will be the second financial company in Chicago controlled by trade unionists. The other is the Amalgamated Trust | & Savings Bank operated by the Amalgamated Clothing Workers’ | union. } “Because of our mortgage business we had to have much dealing with| banks,” said Sullivan, “and so we de- | cided to form our own bank.” Although the trade unionists will | control the banking house stock, sale will not be confined solely to them, it was said. A vice president of the in- stitution will be a member of a reg- ular downtown bank. A bank building is not planned im- mediately for the business, it was said. First steps will be to sell stock, the sale to start soon after the first | of the year.’ Save Greco and Carrillo! “Good. Ne s” which just cele- | brated its hundred performance at the 46th Street Theatre. In Broadway Briefs Max Reinhardt’s German company, which is now appearing at the Century Theatre Dream,” in “A Midsummer Night’s may continue at that play- house four weeks beyond the time originally planned. The public has taken to the German master’s pro- duction, and so the original four aveeks may be extended to eight or more. “Jedermann” (Everyman) will be the next production, probably going on in a week or so. Further recruits to the cast of Eu- gene O’Neill’s play, “Strange Inter- lude,” which the Theatre Guild will soon place in rehearsal are, Lynn Fontanne, Tom Powers, Glenn An- dors and Earl Larimore. Hugh Miller, last seen here as Jingle in “Pickwick,” is the latest ad- ditions to “The Merchant of Venice.” Guido Nadzo, Romney Brent, Low- den Adams and Parker Totten will also have important roles in the pro- duction, Gilbert Miller today concluded ar- |rangements with the English actor, Leslie Fabg to appear in the title role of “Thé Patriot,” the drama from the German of Alfred Neumann, which he will produce here in Jan- uary. .' The play deals with the reign of the mad Czar Paul I. The New Playwrights production of “The Belt,” Paul Sifton’s satire on modern industry and company union- ism, will close at the Provincetown Playhouse, Sunday night. Rumanian Police Dig Up “Plot” as Bessarabian Arbitration Approaches BUCHAREST, Dec. 1—Rumanian secret police claiming to have dis- covered a “Communist plot” in Bes- sarabia for a rising against the Reu- manian administrative government, | have arrested scores of Communists, The mixed Soviet-Rumanian com- mission, which will attempt to arbi- trate the Bessarabian frontier dis- pute, will meet on Saturday at Tighina. The alleged plot is believed to have been “discovered” for the occasion. Bessarabia was formerly a Soviet province, but ‘was annexed by Ru- mania and backed by Great Britain after the war. BUILD. THE DAILY -WORKER! BUILD THE DAILY WORKER! TS AML H 45 St., W. of B'way Eves, 8:40 BOO! Matinees Wed. & Sat. at 2:40 Winthrop Ames ESCAPE Presents John Galsworthy’s ? with Leslie Howatd) New Play ‘Theatre, 41 St. W. of B'way | National : TySRi50, atts Wed. Sat 2:30 By Bayard Borel with ORCHARD 2: BELT Telephone Spring 8363. to debumk company unionism with Robt. HARDING ‘The Deseit Song: Hatliday & Eddie Buszell | ond Year aM PERIAL HBA. iad Bt. We iB way | A WALLS :- i | with MUNI WISRNFREND John Golden “bh... Wea, GARRICK REX CHERRYMAN Thea., 65 W. 86th, B Mats. Thurs, & ae t. 330 BASIL SYDNEY and MARY ELLIS TASIING of the SHREW DRACH. Se ae rm ‘the IMMORAL ISABELLA? with Garrick Players in the Modern <_ wsee ne 1 , 46 St. Evs. 8. FULTON "raz s0et sare $33 Frances Starr: ae Th, W. St. Mate. We & Sat \SUNRISE. —- The Theatre Guild presents PORG Republic 43) Mats. Wed Bernard Shaw's Comedy DOCTOR'S DILEMMA "Max ’ Reinhardt’s Heals eb ght’s Dream” Thea., Central — va & 62nd 8:00 t. Royale, Mts,Wed,,8at. eee Mon, & Thurs. “Mikado” THEY ZANCE” Winthrop Gilbert & ea. Wd ae, Evs, : ee THE MERRY MALONES with GEORGE M, COHAN ‘lop'’g Thea W.43 StF. 7.8.90 Henry Miller’s yratinees Thurs.@ Sat Grant Mitchell in Geo, M, Cohan’s American Farce THE BABY CYCLONE Wm. Fox presents the Motion Picture Directed by W. MURNAU “By HERMANN SUDERMANN Symphonic Movietone Accompaniment 42a 8t., W. of B Times Sq. Twiti baiLy, 2:90-8 == A EE