The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 6, 1928, Page 4

Page Four THE DAILY WORKER Published by the NATIONAL DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING ASS’N, Inc. 4 Daily, Except Sunday 83 First Street, New York, N. Y. Cable Address: SUBSCRIPTION RATES | By Mail (in New York orly): By Mail (outside of New $8.00 per vear $4.50 six ra:aths £3.50 six mont! $6.50 per year th 82.50 three months $2.00 three months. ara HANdOuTS Indication of the growth of leni- ency toward fat boys can be seen from the fact that $350,000 has been admittedly shelled out for Herbert Hoover by generous citi- zens. It may be added that 360 business publications have dedicated themselves to the task of shouting “Hooray Hoover.” This has been without remuneration. It is ex- plained that the few thousand dol- lars in advertising that the papers have received is merely the routine of business. * Myrtle, who writes in from South Dakota to ask why weather reform is not one of the workers’ immediate demands should know that after the workers’ revolution everybody’s opin- | ‘ion will be worth the same. Under | | capitalism one man gets several ne {sand a year for working up his | guesses. TRE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDN IMPERIALIST PEACE DAY, JUNE 6, 1928 Phone, Orchard 1680 | “Dalwork” <r hs | Address and mail out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 33 First Street, New York, N. Y. EE Editor .-ROBERT MINOR Assistant Editor... ..WM. F. DUNNE a pr <u @» second-class mail at the post-office at New York, N. ¥., ater | the act of March 3, 1879. | Price of a Worker’s Life | The nature of capitalist society is shown in the case of the | nineteen workers, once employed by the United States Radium Corporation, fourteen of whom have been killed to provide profit for that corporation and five of whom are slowly dying. | The fourteen who died—are dead. The Radium Corporation | has cashed in on their lives, and the profits are long ago distrib- | uted in dividends. The Radium Corporation gains by the high | quality of its radium. | But for the last five, long and troublesome lawsuits were in| order. | Knowing that the five dying women workers whom it had poisoned would not live long, the Radio Corporation tried to delay the lawsuits as long as possible with the help of the courts. With rly ¢ i hem, the pois ippling them limb} sate Pane 2 os pos ee de eee Heer to Baer | U..S. Imperialism. “Gr-r-r-! T insist on the acceptance of the Kellogg-r-r-r peace plan — g-r-r-r-r-r!!!” | ona ettiod bce ee aah they could get from the cot British Imperialism: “G-r-r-r--!_ I accept the Kellogg peace plan — g-r-r-r-r, g-r-r-r-r-r-r!!!”” | | | * * * * * The German elections were a sad| ‘blow to the capitalist newspaper cor- jrespondents who had proved that |Europe was swinging away from |Bolshevism toward “sanity and nor- malcy.” When the German workers proceeded to plug these capitalist theories with 3,500,000 votes, even the correspondents had to admit that) | something was wrong—not with their’ | theories but the German situation. hs * * * | General interest in mechanics is in- | dicated by the fact that as Amelia poration. What is the price of a working woman’s life? In this case the women workers receive $10,000 each in payment for being killed by their employers, together with $12 per week until they die. And, yes—the company pays the doctors’ bills. So much for the price of the life of a woman worker. For dying, the working women get $10,000 each from the corporation which trapped them to their death for profit, while the lawyer gets $15,000 for representing them. The capitalist newspapers are busy “congratulating” the Radio Corporation and its victims on the “satisfactory settlement.” We take the words from the New York World, which prides itself as having played an active part in the case. example of smug liberal respectability in capitalist society. The World is a good It speaks editorially of the “welcome news” of an “amicable settle- ment.” ployers’ greed must slowly die The fact that five working women victims of their em- on a weekly pension of $12 per week—is glossed over by this flunkey-liberal paper with the as- surance that “if the $10,000 is invested at 5 or 6 per cent. each invalid will have an income of $1,100 or $1,200 a year, with med- ical cost paid.” The World points out that the wages of the women victims of the Radio Corporation amounted to only $900 per year. This fixes the standard of living for the class to which the women be- long, the World thinks. And th erefore it concludes that the $12 per week which the women are to receive while dying is “a living income for persons in their stat e.’ And then—as though to ex- pose its own hypocrisy—the World assures the bosses that “the corporation might have fared much worse before a jury.” Intelligent workers are reminded by incidents of this sort that capitalist society, based upon the exploitation of labor, is the most ruthlessly cold-blooded system that has ever been known in human society. The workers who die because their employers found it more profitable to te radium-paint brushes with their ll them to shape the poisonous lips, are not an unusual, but only a picturesque example of the deadly nature of capitalist exploita- tion. The killing of thousands of miners underground, the result of disregarding all considerations except cheap production, is only another picturesque example. The slaughter of ten million men in the past world-war—which the capitalist rulers are deliberately planning to repeat on a much bigger scale—is an example in truer proportion. For imperialist war ness competition” with a change of instruments. is only the continuation of “busi- Bayonets or radium poison—all mere instruments to increase profit-making, in the eyes of capitalism. The capitalist system is a system of murder for profit. Only the destruction of the capitalist system can place human life—the life of the working masses—as the first consideration. The capitalist system has b een destroyed in a territory com- prising one-sixth of the surface of the world—the Union of So- cialist Soviet Republics. It will be destroyed here, too. COAL COMPANY ISSUES DOPE’‘SHEET TO SCABS (By a Worker Correspondent) WHEELING, W. Va. (By mail).—Enclosed you will find a leaflet which tha Wheeling Coal Co. puts in every strikebreaker’s envelope on pay day. This is the kind of half threat and half appeal that the scab companies hand out to their employees. Needless to say that “the 25th day of April” didn’t find the miners rushing back to the Wheeling Coal Company’s mines. NOTICE. There has been a lot of agitation fimong our employees in the last few days because, we think, mostly through a misunderstanding. It has been brought to our attention by some that they are of the opinion that coal is being marketed and sold at a very much hiyher price than it really is. The facts are: Coal has been market- ed and sold in the last year or more at prices never dreamed of, If we could at any time have paid | any more money to our employees for their labor, we would have done so. | The on that we have been able to work steady is because of the fact that we have worked very hard get- ting the business men operating the large manufacturing concerns in the country to go along with us. We all, including yourselves, have worked hard to get where we are, to be able to sell the product which we manu- facture or mine. We appreciate that you have done your part, but also feel that we have done our part. Now what is the use of giving away to another section or far-off land that which we all have worked for? We have already purchased several hun- dred cars of coal to fill the orders that we have present. o- In face of the facts, do you want this business to be placed elsewhere? We want all our old employees to reason this out for themselves. We our- ‘selves are not going to permit this to happen. We expect all our employees to be at work on the 25th day of April, |1928, and if not out on the job we jdemand that you at once go to the |mine, get your tools, and a cheek will |be ready at the office on that day for jthe balance due you. If you do not show up on that day we will proceed to remove your tools from our prop- erty, placing same on public property near the mine, We intend to go along minding our own business and expect, jand demand that everyone else do the jsame. We believe there is a law in this country which will protect us in our rights and we intend to see that this law is carried out. | WHEELING COAL CO. Negro Prisoner is | Handcuffed, Drowned BOONVILLE, Mo., June 5,—Hand- euffed and with his feet bound, Ocie Williams, a Negro, was thrown into the Missouri River and drowned by armed and masked white hoodlums who took him from non-resistent of- ficers. Williams was being taken to the jail when seized. His body was found today. By SCOTT NEARING. “Too many mouths,” is the cry raised by Professor E. A. Ross of the University of Wisconsin in his recent book: Standing Room Only? The im- mediate answer to Professor Ross’s warning is: “Too few machines; too often idle.” Professor Ross cites numerous cases of poverty. There is no economic reason why a single man or woman or child should suffer from poverty in any one of the great industrial countries,—least of all in the United States. How to End Poverty. Run the existing machines full time! Cut out duplication; waste; mean- ingless competition; industrial inef- ficiency! Bring the members of the ruling class to a working class standard of living. Give them jobs. Let them By E. OSTERMAN, (Moscow). The outstanding feature in the first years of self-education work in the sphere of Party education was total absence of a systematic program. On the whole, the work was limited to questions in which people were par- ticularly interested. There were, for instance, a circle and individual com- rades who studied the history of the Party, trade union matters, political economy, and the history of the class struggle, etc. In a word, it was a sys- tem of special subjects which cer- tainly has some positive sides; for instance, greater elasticity, better in- dividualization possibilities, ete:, but does not give an opportunity to go through a full course of Party educa- tion by means of self-education. The first steps in this direction were our elementary political circles of the first and second grade, which are nothing but elementary political | correspondence schools “in the home.” Whereas in the first year this experi- |} ment was not carried out to the full, and slightly different textbooks and syllabi were used for the political self= (Special to the Daily Worker) PHILADELPHIA, Pa., June 5.—In a stinging denunciation exposing the hypocrisy of the officials of the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania from which he was recently dismissed for ex- pressing views favorable _ to the Soviet Union, Sol Auerbach, in- structor in the department of phil- osophy of that institution, yesterday attacked the methods of “higher educators.” \ Auerbach will appear as one of the speakers at a protest meeting under the auspices of the Young Workers (Communist) League, which will be held Friday. His statement follows: Another Professor The investigation of the Federal Trade Commission into the activities of the Public Utilities Corporation representing 17 billion dollars of privately owned public utilities re- veals some interesting outside activi- ties of University professors. Pro- fessor Theodore Grayson, Director of the evening school and_ extension school of the University of Pennsyl- vania and professor of finance in the Wharton School, has been paid by the support themselves and live on their earned incomes. Pay business man- agers and executives; governors, sen- ators and judges the wages of skilled mechanics. Effect these and other savings. Pov- erty will be still less easily excused. To these demands Professor Ross makes a detailed answer: “In those very countries where machinery has been introduced; where wages and standards of liv- ing have been raised, population has been increasing most rapidly during the past two or three genera- tions.” This is true of Germany, of Britain. It is especially true of the United States which has half of the machine capital of the world, and which, in the past century has recorded a popu- lation increase that has never been equalled by any other country in mod- ern time. education circlea, they work this year in full harmony with the schools: ‘they have the same syllabus, the same program, and the same text- books, ete. The difference is only in the methods applied for the elabora- tion of the material and also in the methods of guidance. No Direct Guidance. Both rest here on maximum self- activity. The work goes on without direct guidance, or, to be more exact, under episodic guidance or guidance by correspondence; questions which students find particularly difficult are explained orally (oral consulta- tion) or conferences are organized for summing up the results of the work done. We have already mentioned that the self-education circles of the first grade which correspond with elemen- tary courses of the first grade, are looked upon as a transitory form. In regard to this question, the resolu- tion of the First National Conference of the U. S. S. R. on self-education |eontains the following statement: | “One of the main reasons of the former non-success in the sphere of political self-education is that the syllabus was drawn up to suit com- rades not accustomed to read. There- Utilities Corporation to carry on pro- paganda publicly: and within , the University against Government own- ership of public utilities. I am_ posi- tive the Professor Graysqn will not be dismissed because of his outside activities, While Professor Grayson is serving the financial interests which support the University the nature of my views do not seem to please these same fi- nancial interests.. As he claims, it is perfectly “ethical” for a professor of finance to help boost the interests of a selfish financial group. It seems, however, that it is “unethical” for an instructor in Ethies to openly ex- fere the lowest grade of Party educa-' Are There Too Many Mouths? two ways: On the one hand it may be con- tended that these great population in- creases have occurred, not among the} low-paid, unorganized, unskilled work- ers; that they have occurred on the} frontier; that they have occurred in the uninformed mass; that they have} loceurred chiefly among those work- ers who have had no opportunity to llearn about or to practice birth con- trol. This is an argument in avoid- ance of the main issue. Birth Control. | On the other hand it may be frankly admitted that there is a “population problem” which must command the attention of sc+ml engineers: si (1) The physically unfit must not breed at all, while the physically fit must be encouraged to mate { and reproduce their kind. '(2) Birth control methods must be Correspondence Schools in the Soviet Union tion (elementzgy courses of the first grade) are to be as a rule transferred to the schools, whereas political self- education is to be looked upon as a continuation of the most elementary Party education, i. e., the elementary courses of the first grade. But this rule must not do away with the neces- sity of furthering the Party—self- education of comrades who for objec- tive reasons cannot participate in the Party education schools—for instance railwaymen, a number of other com- rades in the post, telegraph and trans- port service, and above all the rural cadres of active workers, for in the rural districts even Party and Y. C. L. members cannot be fully provided by us with elementary political schools (elementary political courses) next year. On the other hand, it has come to light that a considerable number of workers and peasants who have gone through political education schools were for various reasons un- able to thoroughly assimilate | the knowledge imparted there. <As_ it would be inexpedient to make them participate at a repeat-course in the education work among this category jis essential. Must Practice Reading. “All these reasons show the neces- The University of Pennsylvania in Power Trusts’ Pay press favor with the Workers and Peasants Government of the Soviet Union. Speaks at Protest Meet. To protest this very evident class discrimination I have consented to speak under the auspices of the Young Workers (Communist). League at a meeting arranged to protest my dis- missal, to be held at Grand Fraternity Hall on Friday, June 8, at 8 P. M. Professor Grayson, who according AUSTRIAN SOCIALISTS FAIL TO BREAK STRIKE VIENNA, June 5.—In spite of the efforts of the social democratic press to throttle the strike of the workers inthe factories of the Alpine Mountain Company, the workers are showing the greatest determination in continuing their struggle. Suggestions, issued thru the press. that Prime Minister Seipel be called upon to arbitrate the strike have met with ridicule by the strikers who are aware that Seipel is in the closest personal relations with members of the board of directors of the Alpine Mountain Company. The spread of the strikes thruout the Huettenberg and the Steiermark on works has been extremely rapid and the Communist Party of Austria is urging the carrying of the movement into the other Alpine Mountain works, The constant dismissal of workers, shop stewards and even entire com- mittees in various shops has not dampened the spirit of the men who are eager for the struggle. Such facts may be met in one of} { es within the easy reach of the same schools, the organization of self- | made a part of popular education: in the press; over the radio; on the stage: through the film, and birth control appliances must be made generally available, at pric- poorest, Children must come only where there is food, clothing, shelter and a welcome. The problem of birth control must be handled just as scientifically as the problem of public health or as any other branch of the problem of public education. And then? Then the natural resources must be converted into food, shelter, clothing, comforts and cultural opportunities with all of the technical skill and all of the mechanical power that is avail- able. Too many mouths? Not yet! Too few machines! (3) ‘sity of keeping up, to a certain ex- tent, self-education work also in the lowest grade of Party education, at least in the immediate future, par- ticularly for the rural districts but on condition that the participants should practice reading, etc., for in- stance, with the help of village read- ing rooms, schools for semi-literates, ete.” In the current school year, our Marxist - Leninist self - education jeircles are a replica of the Marxist- Leninist circles working under the guidance of instructors. They are divided, as the latter, into circles for |Party history, Leninism, historical materialism, history of the labor movement, political economy and eco- inomics. They use the same syllabi and textbooks, and the number of les- |sons is the same. The only difference ‘between these two kinds of circles is that which arises out of the special conditions of the methods of self- education work, special methodical ‘elaboration because of absence of di- lrect guidance by the instructor, mor jhome work and control questions, etc. | We give below the rules of these | Soviet Party schools “in the home” |which give a full picture of this first |experiment of a “school in the home.” I (To Be Continued.) to his testimony before the Federal Trade Commission had received $250 per lecture to take a stand favoring private ownership of public utilities, is to remain on the teaching staff of the University of Pennsylvania. So! Auerbach, an instruct in the same institution of “learning,” is being ex- |pelled from the university because he dared publicly to point out that in Russia the workers control the government and that it is the only country in which the government is used to help the workers. Sol Auer- bach spoke at a meeting the proceeds of which were sent to the relief of the children of the striking miners. The Young Workers (Communist) League of Philadelphia is arranging a mass meeting of protest against the expulsion of Auerbach from the teaching staff of the U of P. The meeting will take place on Friday, June 8 at 8 P. M. at Grand Frater- nity Hall, 1626 Arch St. Amongst the speakers will be Auerbach, Scott Nearing who was expelled from the U of P for his radical views in 1925, Bertram D. Wolfe, director of the N. Y. Workers School and a member of the Central Executive Committee of the Workers (Communist) Party and Clarence Mil- ler, district organizer of the Young Workers (Communist) League, Earhart gets ready to hop off by plane for England the world waits impatiently to know the flavor of which cigarette she can recognize blind-folded. _ . * * German Imports ae The peculiar looking commodity on the right, which slipped into the coun- try despite the tariff wall, is Baron Von Huenefeld. His face has been broadcast throughout the press of the United States. He is one of the in- trepid airmen who flew across the At- lantie Ocean. While Captain Koehl operated the plane, the baron made his contribution to the success of the ven- ture by sitting in one of the bach rooms drawing pictures on a gasoline tank with his finger nail. If there is any credit for such flights it should go to the workers who build the planes and not to the puppets of imperialism who drum up interest in a weapon of warfare. Of course the baron will be remembered for some time to come in scientific circles as the first mun to wear a monocle across the Atlantio Ocean by air. * * * A workerat Camp Nitgedaiget writes in to say that the two yellow dogs at the camp are not the only ones who bear the names Vladeck and Sigman, * wee Padding payrolls has become a popular and_ profitable pastime; among city and state officials. And it doesn’t cost much either. Mrs. Knapp, who padded census payrolls was awarded a vacation. The birdy in the street cleaning department: who cleaned up by using fictitious; names on payrolls will probably get’ a trip to Europe with a bouquet of roses thrown in. '’ * * * August Claessens’ contribution to the class struggle in New Bedford, according to the New Leader, con- sists of giving an elocution course there every Sunday morning. * * * The power trust has been doing its. bit for higher education by subsidiz- ing courses in schools and colleges on “public utilities’ and the perils of public ownership. The material, of- ficials of the National Light Electric Association declare, was of an educa- tional and not a propaganda nature. Something like the impartial book on the Communist Party written by James O'Neal, editor of the New Leader. eres ee The guy with the derby and ‘the whiskers is not Morris Hillquit at a socialist party con- vention. It is Chang Tso-lin, Manchurian " war-lord, whose en- trance into the city of Mukden was greeted by an elec~ trical bomb. Chang is a popular guy—) with the Japanese! imperialists. * * * * Prominent socialist leaders will play tennis, go canoeing at moonlight and dance in an effort to solve “in- dustrial problems”. during the forth- coming June conference of the League | for peaietrtal Democracy at Camp fy ae