The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 10, 1927, Page 2

a) Page Two THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1927 Robert W. Dunn on U.S, Concessions in The Soviet Union WASHINGTO Dunn, of Corporation Lawyer Lauds Cai Coolidge D i ‘ontinued from Page One) 1 whom it had invKed to dis- | points. | Montague spoke frankly. ever in the history of the anti- trust laws has their interpretation by the supreme court and their ad- ministration by the government been so sympathetic as now to the and future needs of Ameri- men are only just be- ginning to realize what a variety of new and effective methods for sta- bilizing business at home and for extending business abroad have be- come a le in consequence of re- cent decisions and rulings by the supreme court, the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Com- mission. part el less colon: a] like + Nicaragua, Liberia, ¢ fhe Soviet Government 2 tural resources to be developed on that | S | sibilities. | t stated its terms and exercises select its cu More and Bigger Consolidations. More and bigger consolidations ong producers, manufacturers distributors, under proper con- and with adequate legal safeguards, are permitted and in- d invited by the present attitude f the court and the government. By avoiding unlawful acquisitions of capital stock, and by taking care to leave outside enough competitors to insure effective outside competi- tion, such consolidations can new be set up in many industries in entire conformity to the law....More and bigger consolidations may soon be expected in a number of industries that are now the worst sufferers frum these conditions.” Reversal of Attitude, This is a reversal of the past atti- tude of the Mining Congress, which ys clamored for repeal of the lars can be prc fe foreign cc he Soviet | Republics. done, they declare, v ce to present pl zation of imdust dountry and without cc ng with | the fundamental economic policies of | the count | Full Right to Str | “Concession companies operating | in the Soviet Union must*strictly ob- serve all the provi: of the Labor} Code and pay a wage equal if nov din t higher than that p dustri The we legal right to eised it upon occa titled to ail tt fits achieved t the full have exer-| ve ive bar gai: x of collective | agreements between the trade unions} @nd the c y. Loeai} Stop committees must be dealt with ait -ail the union apparatus fully] Government is in-| ne national econ- ich it cannot at present de- 1 its own capital. Many of however, have proved pulte a at: s to the con- ssioas company. Keep ‘their Contracts. voreign business men, desiring to| Becure «ncessions in the Soviet Wnion are dealt with by the com-' Petent authorities of the Supreme Goncessions Committee. And when} the Kussians make a contract con-| @erning concessions they keep it. As] they have stated repeatediy: “No ob- ligation undertaken by ihe Soviet Government has ever been renounced | ornot been carried out infull.” They} Guarantee that no property of the Concessionaire can be contiscaied or} Tequisitioned and that ali questions | arising out of concessions are sub- @iitted to a third party tor arbitra- tion. “The Soviet attitude toward con- cessions remains what it was when | they addressed an answer to some Questions put by Ivy Lee early | in 1927. ‘We admit foreign capital | because we are strong enough and fan regula S role in our Socialist| econom:,’ ” “Investments in the @re likely to help pro: pf the world for the po. Soviet Government is unques @ policy of peace as indic: Bimcere disarm proposais Geneva. Amer taiists who are not interested in colonial exploitation @ad superprofits, but who want to eal with a stable and responsible government wil! do 1i to consider Bhe concession pc ies now open in the Soviet Union with its unsur- Passed natural resources.” Soviet ot the Save Greco and Carrillo! aa me cting capital only to} Union | Y ote the peace} st law. Now the anti-trust law is used effectively as a basis for injunctions which paralyze the United Mine Workers in their fight to main- tain regular employment and a living wage in the coal industry. The same law is used by the courts, the Depart- ment of Justice and the Coolidge- packed Federal Trade Commission to permit any combinations of capital that will help the operators. state m-| Montague Skilled Corporation Adviser Montague has been counsel for numerous federal and state anti-trust nd . Federal Trade Commission in- estigations, and proceedings ltiga- |tions, tax matters, reorganizatic industrial combinations and unfair competition cases. He is a mc of the Advisory Committee for Anti- | Trust Law and Enforcement, a mem- ber of the National Industrial Con- | fer' nce Board, the Council on Foreign | Relations, the Academy of Political Science. He is a member of the American Economic Association, Association of the Bar of the City of N. ¥., the American Bar Assn., the American Patent Law A:sn., the N, Y. Patent Bar Assn., the N. Y. Law Institute, N. Y. State Bar Assn., Mer- chants’ Assr., National Civic Federa- tion, ard the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Montague is a member of the fol- lowing clubs: Metropolitan, Hazsard, Union League and India House. Authority on Trusts. Ue is the author of “The Rise and Progress of the Standard Oil Co.” written in 1903, “Trusts of Today” in 1904, and “Business Competition and the Law” in 1917. He is co-author vi “Some Legal Phases of Corporate Financing, Reorganization and avegu- lation” written in 1917, “Business Cy- cles and Unemployment” in 1923, Business Expert. He contributes to the Atlantic Monthly, the North American Re- view, the Harvard Law Review, the Yale Law Journal, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Political Science Quar- terly, Saturday Review, N. Y. Eve- ning Post, N. Y. Herald-Tribune, N. Times, etc., on governmental regu- lation of business, tax questions and | reorganizations, * * * Coal Rate Hearings Start. WASHINGTON, Dec. 9,—Final hearings on the proposal of southern see shipping bituminous coal to Lake Erie ports for trans-shipment to the northwest to reduce freight rates 20 cents a ton in order to meet Ohio and | Pennsylvania competition were begun today before the Interstate Commerce Commission. Biggest Januar the Year Event of y 13th Why A Labor Party Today? By JAY LOVESTONE. HIS Fall marks the opening of the! presiden Supreme Court Most “Sympathetic.” | is an unusually early opening. He sald: epubliden’ Party, and 10'@Hd” to The There are widening drifts in the confusion in the Democratic Party.} The reason for this condition within | lary in smashing the rights of labor. In the same way, the railway such enemies of labor as Foss and Pomerene of Ohio. Basie Factors for a Labor Party. There are four basic factors fo a mass labor party in the United! |the two parties of big capital is to | States, | were held, with the exception of New| | contribute jnew or significant for the 1928 cam- | | paign, | if ( | i} | | { be found in the economic situation, } particularly in the aggravated agrar-| ian conditions. State Elections Colorless. Very few states have held elections this year. The states in\which they | York, Kentucky, and Ohio, did not | anything fundamentally | The New York returns only con-} firmed Smith as the outstanding | Democratic presidential possibility. Kentucky lent further proof to the | rising hopes of the drys. Ohio results were especially griev- ous for the Anti-Saloon League. Returns Not Decisive. | Wherever the Workers Party par- pated, directly or indirectly, the re- turns were more favorable for us than in previous years, The Socialist Party victory in} Reading is largely a result of the union between the organized workers | and petty-bourgeoisie. The latter gave their support to the Socialist Party primarily on the basis of end- jing the onerous tax regime. The claim of the Socialist Party to have elected | the head of the Buffalo city govern- ment is ridiculous, because the one elected, Mr. Perkins, is an expelled | Socialist and a full-fledged Republi- can, In short, there is nothing basically important in the election results for | either the Workers Party or the So- cialist Party as far as the 1928 cam- paign goes. Workers eBing Pushed to the Wall What is painfully clear for the workers is that the masses from the mines and mills, and the workers on the land, must get together immedi- ately to look after their own inter- ests in the 1928 elections. ° An injunction mania has seized the ruling class. The most sweeping in-| junctions of the day — the injunc- | tion gotten out by the Interborough Rapid Transit Company of New York against the entire American Federa- tion of Labor and the one handed down y Federal Judge Schoonmaker of Western Pennsylvania—are more vic- ious and more damaging in their ap-| plication than any injunction hitherto | issued. | “Good Men” Shoot Strikers. | In Colorado, Governor Adams, en- dorsed as a progressive and a “good man” by the local trade union bureau- cracy and by the A. F. of L. in their non-partisan policy, is filling the jails with strikers, is using airplanes and} troops to crush the striking miners, In Pennsylvania and Ohio, scores of thousands of locked-out miners are prohibited even from whispering to each other about their inherent right to organize into a genuine union. | Sordid Condition. | The astounding revelations regard- | ing the manipulations of William J. Burns, notorious strike-breaker, who was head of the bureau of investiga- tion of the Department of Justice in the Harding-Coolidge cabinet, has in- dicated so sordid a condition in the | |very heart of the government that the most conscious of the bourgeoisie feel that some so-called corrective measures must be taken in order to preserve the illusions about democ- racy. Farmers Victimized. @ The farming masses are still sub- ject to the manipulation of the big bankers and to the dictates of the big. manufacturers. Simultaneously, the’ government is functioning more ag- gressively as the agent of the biggest. capitalist interests both at home and abroad. Plots are afoot to strengthen the defeated counter-revolutionary forces in Mexico. The defenseless Nicaraguans are be- ing murdered by the hundreds by the U. S. marines. me Huge military and naval forces are railroads serving mines in Virginia, | being maintained in China to crush the West Virginia, Kentucky and Tennes- | evolutionary nationalist aspirations of the Chinese people. In Europe, American imperialist aggrandizement is meeting with in- creasing resistance. There is a mad naval race going on between the United States and Great Britain, Time To Wake Up. Obviously, the workers had better prepare to end their costly political slumber. It is time to rouse the workers to take the next logical and must urgent step, to declare their independence from the capitalist parties. The times are overripe for the workers and exploited farmers to move for- wag politically—to establish a mass party of their own, a bor party, or at least to place their own class can- didates on a national scale in the field in the 1928 elections under the banner of a united labor ticket. “Non-Partisan” Policy Bankrupt. The non-partisan political policy of the A. F. of L. is not only bankrupt, but thoroughly discredited. Hiram Johnson, who recommended the ap- pointment of Wm. J. Burns, who de- fended him at the trial and impeach- ment of Daugherty, has been endorsed by the A. F. of L. on the “good man” basis. Applying this non-partisan policy of the reactionary trade union bureau- cracy of the A. F, of L., the Lewis machine is now making a deal with Pinchot, who not only did not end the vicious strike-breaking and Cossack system of Pennsylvania, but actually 1. The development of a strongly centralized government? This is one of the outstanding facts today. Ac- cording -to the latest findings, there are at least ten million people in the government bureaucracy of the Fed- eral, State and other divisions, The government is interfering more and more in the relations between the workers and their employers. The primary task of all divisions of the government today is to defend the bosses against the workers, to break | strikes and smash the efforts of ‘the workers battling for better conditions. 2. The labor party corresponds with present political development of the American working class. In Amer- ica alone, of all the highly developed industrial countries, do we have a lab- or movement which has not yet di- vorced itself en masse from the poli- tical parties of capital. 3. The slogan “for a labor party” is a unifying slogan which serves to bind together the working masses who are in struggle in various parts of the country; the striking miners of Colo- rado with the miners of Western Pennsylvania and Ohio, the workers fighting in the needle trades in New York with the exploited farmers of the South and West; in short, from Maine to' ‘California, all the workers can get together for a labor party, for a united, common challenge to their common enemy. 4, The increasing recession in American industry and the intensified resistance to American imperialism, is lessening the economic gap be- tween the skilled and the unskilled workers. z This development should again serve to increase the homogeneity of the working clags, hasten its levelling process. With a more. homogeneous working class, there will be a more solid basis for a national labor party on a mass scale. \BUILD THE DAILY WORKER! | Fake Mexico Documents | Raise Storm In Senate H (Continued from Page One) have been obtained from the secret ial campaign of 1928. It} unions, the Big Four, have endorsed, archives of the Mexican government. |The latest development in the cam- paign to aid the war-mongers against | Mexico and to try to justify the rav- laging of Nicaragua by American med forces, deals with an order to pay a large » of money to four | United States senators as gifts from \the Mexican government for services rendered to that country. Faked As Usual With Hearst. While it is recognized that many of the stalwarts in the senate would be quite capable of trying to enrich themselves by blackmailing the Mex- jean or any other government, the Hearst documents, as usual, are plainly spurious and concocted in the same forgery mill that originated the other crude inventions that were proved by The DAILY WORKER to have been faked. The places where the names of the senators involved nre supposed to appear have been erased and only black smudges ap- pear in place of names. Four Senators Involved. According to the Hearst docu- ments four senators are alleged to have been involved and to have re- ceived certain sums from the Mex- jean financial agent in New York, Plutarcho E. Elias. The sum of $1,- 215.000 was ordered paid the four senators by Elias, and the so-called ; “secret document” stipulates the names and amounts to be received by each. One of the senators was or- dered paid $500,000, two were to re- ceive $350,000 each and ene the com- paratively miserly sum of $15,000. Cheap Political Maneuver. 5 This latest series of “exposures comes just as the 70th congress opens its sessions and when demands are being made from certain senators for an investigation of the policy of the state department in Latin Amer- ica. It is probable that the oil and jJand thieves for whom Hearst speaks have concocted these forgeries in or- der to intimidate senators so they will not press the investigation de- | mand, or if they do to try to dis- credit them with the charge that they are paid by Mexico, which has been charged with financing every revo-| lutionary movement in the whole world during the course of the serial publication of the Hearst forgeries. JHE death of William Prenter, for- mer president of the- Brotherhood of Locomotive ngineers, who at the iast convention had ms “olfice re- moved” after the exposure of the mismanagement, grait and corruption {vesulting in the loss of over $20,v00,- vu ot the funds of the railroad workers, brings to a close the career of a super-ciass coilaborationist, similar to his predecessor Warren 8. Stone. * * * Stone’s death, according to the records of the convention proceedings, occurred at a time when the Corrupt ieadership, led by Stone, and in charge of investments of over a hun- dred and fifty: miilion dollars, in order co cover up the loss of about 6 mill- ion doilars, began the frenzied fi- nancial ventures in Florida which re- sulted in further loss of some 15,- uvu,000, It was Stone wiis ciaimed it was “as easy to run a bank as iv was to run .a peanut stand,” to which a deiegate at tne iast ¢onven- tion answered: “and by God, men, that’s how sie was runi” ™ * > Prenter, succeeding Stone, became president when tie tuil results of the corruption ‘bréugnt about the greatest iinanciai catastrophe in ail labor his- tory. ‘Lhe fuil record of this is strik- ingiy presented by Wiiliam Z. Foster in his new book Wreesing The Labor Banks, distributed thru the Workers’ Library Fublishers. Prenter, like Stone, was the loudest advocate ot class coliaboration policies that were |siowiy poisoning tne ranks of the | railroad workers. ie he: ae “We have demonstrated Anferican labor’s complete answer to the theories of iuarx and Lenin,” wrote erenter. “in America there is no such thing as a working class as dis- uinguishea trom a capitalist class. iden pass too’readily from one group into the other to be tagged with ciass labels. It is the Brocnerhood’s aim in its financial enterprises to show its members and workers generally how they can become capitalists as well as workers.” This is the poison peddled by the reactionary leadership led by Prenter, while they were robbing the treasury, insurance funds and pension money, living like millionaires and placing every on of their sixty-seven cousins on the padded pay-roll. * * * Pres. Prenter, Foster tells us in his book, purchased a $250,000 estate in Cleveland. He presented jobs to relations and friends, paying as high as $10,000 a year. He was in every way connected with the disaster that wrecked the various banks afd in- vestment companies of the Brother- hoods. The crash resulted in an as- sessment of $5.00 per month on each member for the next two years, on a membership already paying as high as $30 per moth in dues and in- surance fees. The 1927 convention held by the Engineers in Cleveland at which the full story was presented, lasted for six, weeks from June 6 to July 21, and cost the railroad aided and abetted the state constabu- workers “nother half million dollars. Dead President of Engineer’s Was In Labor Bank Collapse Prenter escaped with the loss of his: job., Altho delegates insisted on a jail sentence, the reactionary of- ficialdom was still strong enough to postpone his trial to the next con- vention on the grounds of his “ill health.” The publication of “Wreck- ing The Labor banks” giving the full story of Prenter’s activities, together with other results of class collabora- tion policies, has contributed to the present agitation in the ranks of the railroad workers and is receiving the attention of the capitalist press which is now rising to the glorification of another notorious mis-leader of La- bor. Save Greco and CarriJlo! | ‘A Theoretical Magazine j for the discussion of | Revolutionary Problems” | nat Cone ception and loter- pretation of all nomena of Secial Life. Editorale, ‘Statistical Material Truth about Sevier Raseia CURRENT ISSUE CONTENTS: EASTMAN REVISES MARX And Corrects Lenin By Bertram D. Wolfe SURRENDER RAISED TO A SYSTHM—The Work of the Last A. F. of L. Convention By Wm. F. Dunne 4 SOME TRADE UNION PROB- LEMS By Jay Lovestone CHEMICAL WARFARE By Robert Macdonald “LBSSONS OF THE RUSSIAN Kis VOLUTION By Alex Bittelman TEN YEARS OF BUILDING SOCIALISM J By J. Mindel BOOK REVIEWS 25 CENTS $2.00 a Year—$1.25 Six Mos. The COMMUNIST 89 E. 125 St. New York, N.Y. PAT DEVINE Travelling organizer for Work- ers (Communist) Party, touring steel and mining regions in Penn- sylvania. Senate Denies Seat to Vare, Slush Fund ‘Hero’ (Continued from Page One) would have given Vare his seat and referred his slush fund’ case to the senate committee on privileges, and elections. When this was rejected, he proposed another, giving Vare his oath, and referring the case to the special Reed slush fund committee. This, too, was rejected by the 381 to 55 vote, with the same lines drawn as on the first vote. Vote to Oust Vare. Then the Norris resolution was adopted by a vote of 56 to 30 and Vare went outside to join Smith on the side lines, The vote included 26 republicans and 5 democrats, who voted to seat Vare and 16 repuhlicans, 38 democrats and one farm-laborite, who voted to exclude him temporarily. The same lines were drawn as on the vote to bar Senator-elect Frank L. Smith of Illinois, with the excep- tion that Senators Brookhart, (R) of lowa, and Overman, (D) of North Carolina, who voted to seat Smith, cast their ballots against Vare. The anti-Vare vote was strengthened by the additions of Senators Norbeck, (R) of South Dakota, and Robinson, (R) of Indiana, who were absent on the Smith vote, The Slush Fund Senators. The vote on giving the oath to Vare follows: Republicans: Bingham, Borah, Cur- tis, Deneen, Edgé-Fess, Gillett, Goff, Greene. Gould, Hale, Keyes, McLean, Metcalf, Moses, Oddie, Pine Reed (Pa.), Sackett, Schall, Shortridge, Smoot, Steiwer, Warren, Waterman and Watson.—Total 26. Democrats: Blease, Broussard, Ransdall, Smith (S. C.), and Steck Total—5. Grand total 31. FREIGHT TRAIN DERAILED. PHILADELPHIA, Dee. 9. —Eight- een railway freight cars on the Tren- ton branch of the Pennsylvania rail- road were derailed and piled up into a twisted mass of debris near Howell- ville, Chester County, Pa., during the night, Pennsylvania officials revealed today. The wreck resulted from a broken wheel, officials said. Pat Devine Finds Many Werkers Feel Need to Oranize ALLENTOWN, Pa., Dec. 9.—Pat Devine,’ national organizer ‘of :the |Workers (Communist) Party of Anier- jiea, interviewed here while making a stop on his swing through the Penn- sylvania industrial and mining region, stated that he found everywhere the jsame situation: workers badly. in need of organization on the industrial and political field, but not yet suf- ficiently aware -of the ‘methods for going about it. Organize In Four Cities. Devine has held mass. meetings in Atlantie City, Easton, Bethlehem and Allentown, leaving a trail of defense organization, workers’ classes ‘in Eng- lish and the fundamentals of Com- munism especially, the beginnings of workers’ schools, and various groups pledged to start the organization of local labor parties. He secured a con- siderable number of subseriptions to The DAILY WORKER and other Communist papers, and brought some new members into the Party. Labor Party Sentiment. Devine says that especially in Bas- ton, where the Labor Party move- ' ment will proceed through fraternal organizations at first, and in Bethle- hem where the first steps are already taken, Labor Party sentiment is on the increase. The youth movement is particular- ly. good in Bethlehem, where many of the older generation is being drawn closer to Communism by the activi- ties ofthe children in the family. However, in some places the opening of school interferes with the financing of the Pioneer work, as the children need money for school. Want Defense. The Pioneer movement is spread- ing in Allentown. Many workers have heard of the International Labor Defense, and a strong sentiment exists in favor of defense of workers under persecution for activity for their class interests. In Allentown and Bethlehem the workers, especially in steel mills, are ready to start shop newspapers, said Devine. The Negro wcrkers, especially in Allentown, said Devine, are begin- ving to realize their racial and class interests. There are about 300 Ne- groes in Allentown working in the in- dustries. Devine will now go on through the hard coal territory of eastern Penn- sylvania, holding mass. meetings wherever possible. BLOCK SLUSH FUND. PROBE. WASHINGTON, Dec. 9.—Senator Reed (R) of Pennsylvania blocked ac- tion on a resolution by Reed (D) of Missouri, proposing to extend the life ef the “slush fund” committee, and grant it additional powers and au- thority, when he objected to its con- sideration, and it went over under the rules. SKILLED WORKERS—9-HOURS WORK—$3 PAY. CLEVELAND, Dec. 8.—Cleveland’s employers boast that wages are as good in this city as elsewhere. The a. C. Kuhiman Car Co., is reputed to be one of the largest car building con- cerns in the country. And of course all big concerns treat their men well. LECTURES AND FORUMS | AT COOPER UNION (8th ST. and ASTOR PLACE) At 8 o'Clock SUNDAY, DECEMBER 11th Dr. EMANUEL STERNHEIM “Educative Value of Literature.” TUESDAY, DECEMBER 13th Dr. JOSEPH JASTROW “Nerves and Behavior.” FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16th EVERETT DEAN MARTIN The Psychology of the American | Public—the Dream of a Greck | Democracy. From Calhoun to Jef- | ferson Davis.” ADMISSION FREE. Open Forum Discussion, _ THE PEOPLE'S INSTITUTE Muhlenberg Branch Library (209 WEST 23rd STREET) 1 At 8 o’Clock | MONDAY, DEC BER 12th | ERNEST BOYD | Literary Main Currents—“America and England: The Lands of Con- trasts.” WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 14th EDGAR WIND A Metaphysical View of Science— “The Metaphysical Conflicts Re= veaied by Critical Ketlection.” DECEMBER 15th DR. E. G, SPAULDING Questions People Expect a Philoso- Duer Lo answer CAN 2 Coune t”| SATURDAY, DECEMBER 17th MORTIMER J. ADLER Philosopay and Silence—The Bpistgs. molug.car and Dom Quixote {Tomorrow Night 8 o'clock William Z. Foster will speak on . “Corruption in the American Dp Labor Movement” The Secretary of the 'T. U. EB, L. will analyze the extent and far- reaching éffects of corruption in the wrade-union bureaucracy, “: At the WORKERS SCHOOL FORUM 108 East 14th Street Admission 25c. NEXT SUNDAY: Tom Tippet will vyeak on “The Crisis in the Miners’ Union.” SSS 14th Street & LABOR TEMPLE 14th street « SUNDAY, DECEMBER 11 6:00 p. m,—-Lecture Dr. G. F, Beck—*<*The Tempest’ of Shakespeare.” 7:15 p., m.—Am, Int, J Leon Land—‘Is Religion Passing?” 8:30 p, m.—Forum. A. J, Muste—“Labor and Education.” | BRONX OPEN FORUM {2075 Clinton Ave. (near E. 180 St.) Sunday, December 11, 1927 at 8:30 P, M. promptly The NEGRO Problem! How will you solve it? Can it be solved? The Problem Difficulties The Solutio will be presented by RICHARD B. MOORE Under the auspices of the BRONX WORKERS’ SCHOOL. —s oy po------. EAST SIDE OPEN FORU At the Church of All Nations 9 Second Avenue (near Houston) SUNDAY, DEC. 11, 8 P.M. Mr, 0. PETERSON will speak on “LESSONS FROM THis RUSSIAN * REVOLUTION” Admission Free. Everyone Invited.