The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 24, 1928, Page 6

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Enterea as second-class mail at the pos the act of Mar Not Reds But Yellows Defeated The premature joy of the capitali news of the first ballot of the French elections was a hope based | upon what was called the “defeat of the reds.” The reds are of | course the Communists, as nobody any longer speaks of the mem- bers of socialist parties as “reds.” But the news of the elections has boiled down to an admission that the Communist candidates have received more votes than they did in the last election four years ago, and finally there comes news that in the most significant sections, the Communists hold an overwhelming lead over the yellow candidates of the socialist party. . The election results, in other words, are a defeat not for the Communists, but for the social-democrats. offic under The particular nature of the defeat of the yellow candidates is most important. Leon Blum, leader of the socialist party, heav- ily defeated by the Communist candidate, Duclos, will now be forced to show his colors to the working class by asking for sup- port of the capitalist elements in order to stand any chance of election; and if he does this, then still more thousands of workers will go over to the Communists. The working-class districts in the suburbs of Paris, gave the Communist candidates 233,000 votes as against 157,000 for the socialist party candidates. This is admitted to be an indication of the directon taken by the industrial working class. In the agricultural department of the Loire, the Communist candidates received 19,000 votes as against the 14,000 for the} candidate of socialist party, and this must be taken to have some | significance in the important question of the direction taken by | the peasants of France. It is admitted by the t news agencies as probable that a dozen or more Communi 1 be elected in the final ballot- ting to the Chamber of Depu nd that Comrades Cachin and Doriot who are now in prison and Duclos, who is being sought by the police, will be elected to the Chamber of Deputies. The vote east for the Communist ticket, they concede, will probably be! bigger than it was in 19 when our French comrades elected | twenty deputies on the first ballot. The peculiar election law and} thé extraordinary number of candidatés in the field are reasons for the discrepancy in the first ballot this year. if these reports munist Party is making headway in winning the masses of the French workers from the traitors who have so long held them under their reformist illusions, only to sell them out to the capital- is. class: For this and not with any illusions that the “demo- cratic” elections of a capitalist state can give the power to our class, the Communists participate in bourgeois elections. in every country of the world the so-called socialist parties are struggling to preserve the faith othe working class in the capitalist state, and thus they are the most dangerous enemies of the working class. Upon the parties of the Second International the capitalist class of the various countries of Europe depended in the period after the world war in order to defeat the proletarian revolution. In the United States.the party of Hillquit, Berger, Oneal and the Reverend Thomas is only thirsting for the oppor- tunity to serve the Wall Street capitalists in the way that Noske, Vandervelde, MacDonald and the Leon Blums served the capitalist class at a time of high tide of working class action. The defeat of the most dangerous servants of the capitalist ¢lass within the ranks of the workers, as shown by the first ballot of the French elections, is a victory for the working class. Only when these traitors have lost their power to delude the workers, will it be possible for the working class to mobilize its strength for the overthrow of the capitalist class. Wall St. Investments Grow By LELAND OLDS, (Federated Pres 1750,0 Wall Street’s in 20,060 in Colum San Domin, grows at an ever and Cuba be lesser amoun gecording to depar.me Canadian publicly offe in the Un a par value of $ . For| 2 total was $6,500,000, waii $1,000,000 and for Japan 8,000,000. figures on for riod in the of 1928. Trx departr 390,650 publicly offered | bankers in the tl compared with quarter of 19 In ‘addition to the publicly off securities large amounts of Amer capital are being invested in f countries through t and ed with red municipal a to with 41,561 sues. But of the cap in Europe during the e greater part went to cor. 1 Invested ities direct, purchase in Power Projects, and additions to Ar American financing of European factories. The depart lee power projects was an out- difficult to obtain de‘ails but has|standing feature of the corporate data showing such private foreign in-| financ covered by the report. | vestment in the three months to investors put $20,000,000 | 2 United Electric Pow- | 000 into the Italian Corp., $5,000,000 into Italian electrical con- 000,000 into the Oslo total of $71,500,000. Empire Largest Borrower. For four successive years total for-| Super; eign securities publicly offered in| Terni, ¢ this country has exceeded $1,000,000,-|cern, and 090. The totals have been $1,219,-|Gas and Electric Works of Norway. 541.687 in 1924, $1,329,920,750 in|In this group should also be included 1925, $1,818,554,850 in 1926 and $8,000,000 invested in the Nippon 95,760 in 1927. Another r year is in prospect. The five-year total will undoubtedly exceed $7,000,- 00,000. According to Woodrow Wil- son such foreign investment is the modern method of conquest. Europe was the largest borrower of American dollars in the first quarter, taking $196,711,650. Of this $61,000,000 went *» Germany, $39,- 000,000 to Italy and $38,000,000 tc Scandinavia, chiefly Norway. Other rop countries in the list are um, England, Finland, France. , Hungary and Poland. 000,000 in Latin America. next largest detachment of n dollars invaded Latin total being $165,909,000 Mlectrie Power Co. in Japan. All thi represents extension to foreign lan of the American power trust domin- ated by Morgan's General Electric Company. Railways, Mines, Also Included. Other important foreign corpora- tions included are the Gelsenkirchen Mining Corp. of Germany, the Paris- Orleans railroad and the French Line f France, the Belgian National rail- ways, a number of Canadian paper ind power companies, two Cuban sugar companies and several German land banks. These quarterly reports on Amer- ican foreign investments show the steady extension of the tribute levied vy American capitalists on the work- ers throughout the world. , Pe ae fe rr EE Trap the mine workers’ wives, sisters and daughters and keep them in jail, so as to terrorize the men, is the theory of the Ohio coal operators. The Bloody M By K. LESKI (Warsaw). Last year the First of May was awaited with special interest in Po- | land. Both the proletariat and the jpart in joint demonstrations with the Communists, who summoned all workers to a united front. The bourgeoisie, the fascist gov- }ernment and the leaders of the re- re accurate they mean that.the French Com-} bourgeoisie were aware that in that |formist P. P, S—united and conscious jyear, the first year of the fascist |of their common aim—adopted every dictatorship of Pilsudski, the May | measure in order to prevent the revo- demonstration of the working class |lutionary demonstrations of the work- would be a protest against this dic-|ers on May Day. jtatorship, an indication of the revo-| Already in the last weeks of April lutionary mood of the masses towards | those workers who were suspected of the government of increased exploit-! Communism and their organizations ation and white terror. also, were subjected to increased per- | The press and the appeals of the jsecution. In Warsaw the police |Polish socialist party (P. P. S.) in-|forced their way into the premises cited even more than in the past year | where the commercial employes were against our Party, against our slogan jholding a social evening and arrested of defending the Soviet Union against jabout 40 persons, In Zyrardow and British imperialism and against the |Blon, not far from Warsaw, about 50 imperialism of Pilsudski, and for-|workers were arrested. Wholesale bade the socialist workers to take | ville subdistric*. By ARNE SWABECK. CHICAGO, April 23.—Despite the hectic efforts made by the Harry Fishwick miners district machine to convince the world that many Illinois mines are continuing operation on separate agreements, there appears to be extremely little coal produced| Throughout the whole state, the in the state. The District Save-the-| mines operating are only in small Union movement has taken steps to! isolated territories, as in Danville, jas effectively as possible extend the| two mines owned by the United S.ates strike to Illinois, to stop work in| Corporation, one in Panter Creek, in employing less than five men. The tus were signed up but the miners | Tefused to work. Picketing activities ; are now developing among the o.her mines, two mines in O’Fallen and Pocahun-| ay. domiciliary visits took place in upper |demonstrations ‘exceeded Silesia, Lemberg, Przemsyl and in other places of West Ukraine (East Galicia and Wolhynia). In Grodno 20 workers were arrested. In the dis- trict of Vilna 16, etc., etc. The proclamations of the police everywhere announced that in every place where demonstrations were held under slogans hostile to the state they would be broken up by armed force. In the whole of Pilsudski’s Poland there was created that atmosphere which was so well known in the time of czarism. But the working masses of Poland, jsteeled in many fights, did not shrink |before the fascist terror, Under the jred banners of Communism they jmarched through the streets in the towns, and also in the villages. . The jnumber of those participating in these in’ many ) s Most of them are; five appear to be working, according | what is called “father and son” mines,! to the report received by the district Save-the-Union Committee at its meeting last Tuesday. Effective steps have already been taken to pull the men out on strike in the most im- portant territories. At the meeting of the Save-the Union Committee held last Tuesday, delegates from all over the state to the total of eighty were in attend- ance. In addition to taking steps to spread the strike, to organize pick- every mine, and to join with Penn- sylvania and Ohio to strike for a na- tional agreement. The district machine, for instance, announced that a total of fifteen -|mines wer2 signed up in the Belle- the Springfield subdistrict, one mine} eting of the small mines in operation, operating in Du Quain, two strip mines operating in the Herrin terri- | tory, and two mines working in Har- burg. Out of a total of 168 ship- | ping mines in the district, only about} the following points were taken up in detail at the all-day conference and the following steps were taken to further strengthen the movement. 1. Provide for taking control of the Defeat Night-Work Bill| Texas Center for Open Ship HOUSTON, Texas, Apri Texas, which now leads the «7 in production of oil, is looking asl to becoming an open-shop matt turing center for textiles al let goods, the latter because the pai industry is second in importan Ch oil and petroleum. The large nun of raw hides will offer | her gv manufacturers an indi to bill their factories in the state. tile open-shoppers of Riv, Mass., are planning a visit D Tex next summer with the idea in d moving the textile industry th exploited cotton belt. The strikes of the workers in Bet ford, Mass, is in answer to ven of the textile trust, which is making every effort to crush ‘the movement of the workers to build a strong tex- tile union. Teachers’ Pay Redueed DES MOINES, Ia., April 28 (FP). —The Des Moines school board has increased the pay of about one-third of the teaching force, the total raise amounting to $15,000 annually. The superintendent assured the board that this will not increase the budget, as during the past year 75 highly paid teachers were dismissed and low-paid ones substituted. BOSTON, April 23—A bill per- mitting mill night work for women and children until 10 p. m. has been! defeated in the state house of repre- in Fascist Poland places, and especially in Warsaw, the number of those participating in the demonstrations of the P. P. S. Pilsudski could not permit the slo- gans which the proletariat flung in the face of the fascist dictatorship. His police and the fascist bands tried to disperse the demonstrators. In Warsaw a detachment of mount- ed police was let loose against the procession of Communists which was led by Comrade Varski. These blood- hounds of Pilsudski wounded 10 per- sons. More than 100 participators |in the Communist demonstration were arrested; and the demonstration, in spite of the fact that it was twice broken up by the police, again as- sembled before the police prison. In answer to the cries demanding the re- lease of the political prisoners, there resounded from behind the prison bars local unions and ousting the reaction- ary officials. 2. To counteract any expulsion move in such a manner as to keep the Save-the-Union movement on the of- fensive. 3. Preparations to secure the neces- sary signatures of five per cent of the members to demand a special dis- trict convention to take up the ques- tion of a) extending the strike thruout Illinois against wage cuts and for a national settlement. b) to reject the separate agree- ment policy. c) to eliminate the reactionary sentatives. the singing of the “International.” In Lemberg, Vilna, Vloclavek, everywhere the police and the P. P. S. proceeded together against the demonstrating Communists. There were also dead among the! victims! In the district of Brest, in the vil-/ lage of Stavy Vielke, the police fired on a demonstration consisting of | some hundreds of peasants, killing one of them. ‘ 2 It also came to bloodshed in Brest (western White-Russia). When the Communists attempted to release some arrested demonstrators, the po- lice opened fire, killing one person and wounded several others, The fascist dictator had added sev- eral fresh items to his ever-increas- ‘ing list of crimes. Strike Closes Illinois Mines Despite Fishwick Machine into the field, particularly to the southern part of the state to build up and strengthen the movement to help organize the piceting where mines are in operation, and to make the strike complete. The conference made extensive preparations for the! organization of women’s committees to mobilize the women to help in the struggle and took steps to extend the miners relief activities in every city in the Illinois coal fields. The Illinois coal operators have reiterated their policy of refusing to negotiate with the union except on the basis af a wage reduction. The; rank and file have taken up the district machine. A number of organizers were sent challenge and are preparing for a fight to the finish. The Progressives Fight to Control Farmer-Labor Party MINNEAPOLI Minn., April 23. the Farmer-Labor Party of Min- ta become instrument con- d for personal a ator Shipstead? This question been agitating the minds of all sincere builders of the farmer-labor movement since the close of the re- cent state convention. Shipstead maintains silence on his intentions and even the capitalist nals wonder whether these inten- ns are honorable or not, maneuvered himself into the favor- able position where he can dictate platform and policy to the party, Shipstead now tceters on the fence, not having made up his mind whether to throw in his lot openly with the republicans, whose senate caucus he helped organize and with whom he has consistently voted, or to maintain his stranglehold on the party organ- ized and built by the toil and devo- tion of the working and farming masses of the state. In contradistinction to the old poli- tical parties, which maintain a disci- pline and dictation over their candi- dates, the Hon. Henrik has throttled the labor party into such weakness that we witnessed at the convention the sorry spectacle of a group of groveling Shipsteadites who trembled lest there be included in the election platform a single plank which it might offend the delicate sensibilities of the senator to tread upon. However, the same genuine work- ing class elements who in the con- é ncement by ; vention put up a good fight a; {the attempted domination of the par- ty by“this individual, have not ceased |their ‘efforts to build and strengthen real farmer-labor party, represen jing the true interests of the indus- trial workers and working farmers. | It will be remembered that thigy pro- gressive bloc in the convention sound- |the nomination of a tested, reliable worker in opposition to the renomin- gainst jed a warning as to the fate of the (fight will be carried on through the farmer-lobor party if it continues to! primaries and the general election pander to Shipstead, and proposed | campaign. They are consolidating | their forces and rallying support and | good work and real results may be jation of the dainty-fingered Henrik.| expected from them, as they are a | They have not swerved from their} group with clear vision, seeing the | |intention to fight for the building of a genuine farmer-labor party, which ‘danger confronting the political or- | ganization of the workers and farm- The “industrial psychologist”. is being more and more widely employed American firms to induce the to be more satisfied with Jobs, to reduce the labor turn- over, and to measure the workers’ efficiency, While some-of the work in this field has-scientific value, the mask of science is also used to cover class collaboration propaganda of various kinds. How to Speed Up Workers. One industrial psychologist, em- ployed by a leading American firm, has pointed to Europe as an example of how people can be made happier by adapting them to their work. Re- ferring to European experiments of this sort, the New York Times says: “In a recent experiment in England it was found that if certain girls in hosiery factories were fitted with glasses, though their eyesight was good, this had the effect of concen- { put with less fatigue than formerly. in mass tests it was found that mine workers supplied with good ventila- tion produced fifty per cent more work. In factory mass tes‘s it was found that if rest pauses were taken on an official schedule, instead of being left to the individual workers, the hourly production rose from 16 pieces to 25 pieces when working ten minutes and resting two.” Dr. Henry C. Moffat, an economist connected with the General Motors Corporation, has said that his com- pany uses “industrial psychology” and has shifted the problem of in- dustry from machinery to motiva- tion. Ignore Real Problems. The “industrial psychologists,” in the main, omit all referenca to such un-psychological problems as unem- ployment, wage cuts, and low pay in the unorganized industries. One of Industrial Psychologists Aid Employers Having | as used by Americay firms was clear- ly expressed by Alfred A. Sloan, president of General Motors, when he said: “The degree to which any institu- tion permanently succeeds is tremen- dously influenced by the ability with which capital, labor and management are coordinated in serving the public. This means that the dominating in- fluence is the collective endeavor of every individual on the payrolls, which means more intelligent work on the part of every workman, as well as that of the executive force.” Mr. Sloan is fond of referring to his company as “the family.” A bill is to be introduced into the: New York state legislature providing for the “emotional guidance” of the citizens from childhood on. The bill calls for a mental section of the educa- ers and determined to fight for the class interests of the workers and farmers. Knowing the limitations of even a genuine labor party, which at best can only bring about reforms in the corrupt capitalist system, they are nevertheless determined to break’ away the workers from the old line political organizations by building. such a genuine labor party and secur- ing through it whatever benefits may be possible for the industrial and farm workers.” From all over the state, progressive forees are rallying to the battle and their next step will be the filing of William Watkins for senator on the farmer-labor ticket. William Wat- kins was proposed by the minority of the Nominating Committee in the state convention for U, S. senator, in opposition to Shipstead, and was sup- ported by more than one-third of the delegates. It will be remembered that the Nominating Committee min- ority presented the name of William Watkins as one who has at all times worked for the building of a genuine farmer-labor party, without seeking | personal rewards or advancement, in | contrast to the record of Shipstead | who is charged with having betrayed the interests of the workers and farmers voting against the Heflin resolution calling for the withdrawal of the marines from Nicaragua, and ‘in lining up the republicans in or- ganizing the senate. | tional department of the state which will aim to train Er pad. fee to Watkins will stand without equive- cation for the building ofarealfarm-