The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 8, 1928, Page 6

} } Page Six — THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 8, 1928. Baily Central Organ of the Workers (Communist) Party —_—_ Published by NATIONAL DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING ASS’N, Inc., Daily, Except Sunday 26-28 Union Square, New York, N. Y. Cable Address: “Daiwork” Phone, Stuyvesant 1696-7-8 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail (in New York only): $8 per year $4.50 six rnonths $2.50 three months By Mail (outside of New York): $6.00 per year $3.50 six months $2 three months Address and mail out checks to THE DAILY W ORKER, 26-28 Union Square, New York, N. Y. Editor. . Assistani — -ROBERT MINOR -WM. F. DUNNE Entered as seco nd-class 1 at the p st-office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3,,1879. VOT For President WILLIAM Z. FOSTER For the Workers! Horsepower and Labor Power. The National Industrial Conference Board has published an interesting comparison be-| tween the manufacturing methods of the United States and those of Great Britain. If the docu- ment has some of the quality of an imperialistic boast of the still-growing colossus of American capitalism over the already disintegrating Brit- ish Empire, it is nevertheless based upon some highly important facts. Selecting eight major manufaéturing _ in- dustries in the United States, it is shown that | the American manufacturérs use one and a half horsepower more, per worker employed, than does the British manufacturer. Ameri- can steel and roller mills turned out in 1925 a total product of $2,945,068,000, as the product | of the labor of 370,726 wage earners, while British mills turned out $660,895,000 worth of products with 200,181 wage earners in the pre- ceding year (1924). This means that the labor of one average worker in the respective cofin- tries was approximately: American worker produced $7,946 per year British workers produced 3,301 per year In other industries it is said that the ratio is much higher, the worker in America turn- ing out as much as two and a half to three times as much as the British worker in some in- stances. But in automobile manufacture the figures are startling, $4,745,660,000 worth of cars being made in the United States by 430,- in the same year. This would mean: American worker produced $11,028 per year British worker produced 2,567 per year (Figures approximate) The National Industrial Conference Board attributes the higher productivity of labor in the United States to an estimated 12.85 horse- power to each worker in this country, as against 9.15 horsepower per worker in Great- Britain. Without verifying the accuracy of the fig- | ures, we know that the general condition indi- eated here tells the story of the rapid decline of the once world-dominating British Empire and the heavy inroads of the new candidate for world-domination, the vital repacious im- . perialism of the United States. We say it tells the story, but it is only one side of the story. The figures given indicate the tremendous rise in the organic composition of capital in this country, the relative low organic composition of capital in Great Britain, and the consequent tremendous relative surplus value being gath- ered in by the American finance-capitalists through the wortd market in competition with the badly worn British competitor. But the figures on horsepower leave untold the story of the speed-up and destruction of .Man-power of the American workers. Nowhere in the world is human life eaten up by the kill- ing grind of mass-production under capitalist exploitation as in the United States. Nowhere are working class lives so recklessly destroyed as in the United States. The innocent figures say that so much is produced per worker; but they do not say how much faster the human) laborer is worn out and throwm on the discard. These statisticians speak of higher wages aris- ing from the greater use of power per man. It E COMMUNIST! For the Party of the Class Struggle! Against the Capitalists! 303 wage earners in 1924, while $374,124,000 | cars were produced by 145,704 Brtiish workers For Vice-President BENJAMIN GITLOW is true that American imperialism has been| able, through its favored position in the world market, to raise standards of living for the up- per strata of the working class which is allowed a beggars’ share of the loot which imperialism extracts from super-exploitation of less favored workers. But it is also true that this capacity to bribe a “labor aristocracy” to the support of | THE SMOKE SCREEN imperialism a la Gompers, cannot last. | The imperialist boast of the American capi- | talists will be short-lived. With all its e huberant power, with all its gleating with vic-| tory over the sicker imperialism of Great| Britain, the Wall Street Empire is itself in-| |fected with the germs of death. Imperialism | is essentially a decaying, a death-marked stage | of capitalism—the last period of its life. Im-| perialism is not only the period of unpre-| cedented violence and power and unpre- eendented monopoly of wealth—it is also the period of Proletarian Revolution which brings the final orgy to its conclusion in the death of | capitalist society and the dawn of a new society. The statisticians ted one side of the story | of the Wall Street triumph over England, the | wrenching of Canada, Australia and other | terain from the weakening British Empire, but | they leave untold the story of the impending world war that is inevitable in the very “de- velopment of horsepower” of which they boast —the war and the downfall of these imperialist by the hands of the same working class and colonial peoples whom they boast of exploiting at a higher rate of profit. ¢, | “Something” About Aviation. “A universal sigh of thanksgiving,” says the |New York Herald-Tribune, will greet the news | |that Major Idzekowski and Major Kubala, the | two Polish flyers, were pulled out of the water | jalive after their failure to fly the Atlantic. “But the disappointment will remain acute,” continues that newspaper. “There was some- | |thing about the adventure of these two quiet} but intrepid souls that rendered it intensely dramatic, . . .” and “which reminded us of a| young man named Lindbergh.” But why not tell what the “something” was, that rendered this adventure so “intensely dramatic” to the Herald-Tribune? ‘ The mysterious “something” is the simple fact that the clumsy aviators are two famous fascist military adventurers who attempted the flight for political purposes. And the political motive was the hope for a blare of publicity and laudation of the bloody fascist regime in Poland, the opportunity for which would have | been given by a successful landing in the United States, the land of dollars which can| under favorable circumstances be borrowed in| preparation for reactionay war. The strangely inarticulate emotion of the! reactionary Herald-Tribune, organ of the Cool- | idge-Hoover dynasty, is understandable when we realize that it is necessary to make the bloody fascist government of Poland popular if ‘ it is to be useful as one of the first instruments for war against the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. The two professional wifite guards had at- tended to their political atmosphere mich bet- ter than they knew how to cope with the atmos- phere over the Atlantic. |sults of his policy do not: coi The Present Imperialist Dilemma in China By EARL BROWDER. (Continued.) These very illuminating para- graphs are given the heading: “Too Much Repression.” Lest the care-| less reader may conclude that Mr.| Sokolsky disapproves of the ,White, Terror, let us quickly remark that this is not so, that he and his friends | were engaged at that same moment when he wrote, in reproaching the Chinesé for laxity in applying the) death penalty to labor agitators. | Mr. Sokolsky is actually only com- | plaining against history that the re- } ide with the wishes of the imperialists. That the reader may get the full| flavor of it, we quote the entire three | paragraphs: + “In the matter of administra- tion the reaction compromises in every respect. with ‘a politico-com- mercial and mandarin element in nationalist territory. They believe that an outward semblance of or- der justifies the suppression of every organ of public opinion | which reflects the attitude of the | masses, whom they themselves | have influenced to think and act | politically. They have forbidden | mass meetings of the people and | are intolerant to ali forms of dis- | sent. | | | | | | | { | | | “They have not only driven the | Communist Party of China un- derground, but even within the Kuomintang, differences of opinion are regarded as intolerable and are driven anderground. Their The White Terror in yee China; Contradictions Among the World Imperialists anti-Communism has become so marked that they. seem to be pre- pared to effect no change in the current status of China’s interna- tional relations except such changes as might end the mis- understanding between the Na- tionalist Government and , foreigners. “More Dangerous.” “It is, perhaps, not the place of a foreigner who has, for three years, been constantly denouncing the Communist Party of China, to criticize unfavorably such a policy. Yet this reactionary policy is, in my opinion, more dangerous, at the present time than an open and frank Commu- nist policy, for it is unreal and untrue and does not represent the consensus of opinion of large, articulate elements among the Chinese people and it can only re- sult in lulling the foreigners and the conservative Chinese into a false security, from which the re- | covery may prove to be exceed- ingly costly.” Mr. Sokolsky neglects to say any- thing about the part played in crea- | ting the repression’ whose results he fears; therefore let us remedy his omission a bit. While he wrote, the streets of the International The Twilight of the British Empire Is Approaching M. P., who recently created a little the British workers under their* By, HARRY GANNES. ) ‘On Saturday, July 7, the British | section of the League Against Im- _Perialism was established in London, Following the last Imperial Confer- ‘ence in 1926 and the present investi- gations of the Simons Commission in India, the formation of an anti- imperialist organization in England } of foremost importance. The conference of the League Against Imparialism in London was attended by 343 delegates represent- ing 170 organizations. These in- eluded 24 trades councils and local labor parties; 32 Independent Labor Party branches; 32 Communist Party locals, 12 co-op, guilds, ‘and 56 trade union bodies. Altogether the delegates represented 100,000 work- ers of the London district. | Saklatvala, Cook Speak Alex. Gossip was the chairman. Among the speakers were: K. Sak- latvala, M. P., Harry Pollitt, A. J. tang, and Dr. M. Awad of stir in the ranks of the Labor Party, domination to the chariot-wheel of because of his left phrases and op- “His Majesty’s” imperialism, the position to the Mond Conference (for rank and file is beginning to break rationalization), and who was ex-|away and to fight imperialism on pected at the conference, was not/a clear-cut program. able to be present because of a “left-| wing” conference in Glasgow. A. J. Cook who spoke on the re- solution on “Imperialism and War,” particularly took occasion to ‘at- tack a memeber of his trade union who is at the peresent moment sit- ting on the Simons Commission, re- presenting the Labor Party in the task of further shackling India. Cook said: “Vernon Hartshorn. does For a while the labor party mis- leaders opposed imperialism with a few phrases. But during the last few years they have been the foremost supporters and aids of the empire. The service of the labor aristocracy ,has stood British imperialism in good stead through trying days of In-| dian agitation, Egypt’s chaffing,| | Eleven per cent of the entire British) were the backbone of the empire.+ Background of League. | The background of the formation | of the League Against Imperialism] presents quite a different picture. working-class (about 12,000,000) are | out of work with no prospects of| finding any. There are 1,273,360 jobless today as against 1,069,386 in 1927. The building trades are begining to suffer acutely. The! New York Times (July 23, 1928) in! an article ‘on British unemployment | says of the textile industry: | same time find it necessary to bat- ter down the standard of living of the English workers. At first. they were met with resistance. Now they receive the support of the British labor leaders. Most typical is the Mond Conference —an endeavor to speed up the entire working-class on lower wages. The Ramsay Mac- Donald family, undoubtedly, labor under the illusion that it is possible to revive British imperialism to the point where the aristocracy of labor will again benefit from it and there- and particularly the Chinese revolu-| “A further increase in unemploy-| BY lessen the tension of the struggle. ii i is li For this reason they not only sup- Nabi on. the: SIMON. Counted tion. Just now, several Labor Party:ment in the textile also is likely. members are sitting on a capitalist committee that has been repudiated even by the Indian bourgeoisie. with the sanction of the miners. He never asked permission. He took it. George Lansbury ought to be here on this platform instead of insulting our Indian comrades.” rapidly in Great Britain. Unlike the ir United States where the aristocracy | Founded’ on: Labor. " of labor still profite-by imperialism,| | One very significant fact to be/the British workers suffer the pangs | (recognized in the formation of the of a declining empire. Unemploy- | British League Against Imperialism) ment and wage-cuts are beginning But the situation is changing very ras : ee A i ialiets k, Fenner Brockway, Srinivar|is that it is founded entirely on la-|to affect not only the coal miners | Perial t ; ir, of the Indian National Con-| bor organizations. While the British} and the unskilled workers, but the Course, is the extension of the em- Fung Saw, of the London) Labor Party, through the instrumen-| whole brunt of waning British im-|Pire,» _tality of MacDonald, Thomas, perialism is being pushed on to those | ptian University. J, Maxton,'Landsbury and their ilk, have chained | workers who in the heyday of capital agression, the British masters at the yw For every seven yards of cloth! Britain exported before the war she| now exports only four.” Of 101 classified trades there has been a decline in 62. Shipbuilding, the flower of British industry, is suffering heavily. Since March there has been a drop of 238,232 tons. The solution offered by the im- in Great Britain, a) This-leads to war. In its policy of port the. home policy of the im- ‘Perialists but as well do everything to bolster up the crymbling empire. The establishing ‘of the League Against Imperialism in London does not mark the beginning of the fight, against imperialism and its labor- agents, but signifies the crystalliza- tion of the combat; the marshalling of forces and the undertaking of a serious campaign that will do not a little to sap the rotten foundations of British imperialism. Settlement, Shanghai, were plas- tered with bills in all languages, igned by the “Municipal Council” (a British-Japanese-American body, headed by an American, Fessenden), proclaiming rich rewards for infor- mation leading to the arrest and execution of all persons guilty sof the following capital crimes: |“Murder, kidnapping, armed rob- |bery, agitation among workers, |causing strikes, Communist activ- ities.” Prospective informers are |told how they can remain anony- | mous yet still collect their. rewards. Not Egough Murders. | | pal Gazette” published an exchange of letters between the Council and Mr. Kuo Tai-chi,- Commissioner of | Foreign Affairs of ‘the Nanking | Government. Mr. Kuo Tai-chi had |requested the aid of the “Interna- | tional” police in carrying the Kuo- mintang repressions into the “Settle- | ment”; the Municipal Council re- | plied, pledging their assistance, but | gently rebuking Mr. Kuo because in |the past his government had failed to execute all the trade union lead- ers. turned over to them by the | Municipal Council, for a few of them had only been sent to prison, and one or two had even escaped alto- gether. This British-American- Japanese Council expressed regret at this shortcoming of the Nanking Government. And Mr, Sokolsky complains of the “reaction in the Kuomintang,” of “too much repression,” and the danger of “recrudescence of the China”! If those gods on Olympus, who are reputed to have had a sense of the ridiculous, are still on the job, | that old mountain must be shaking with their uproarious appreciation of this. “The Communists Are Suppressed; Therefore—Wes Must Suppress thet Communists” The imperialist, with the assist- ance of the Kuomintang, have just completed a major operation on the Chinese revolution—that is, they have eliminated the Communists. That being accomplished, what is now the next task? Mr. Sokolsky .gives the answer; the next task is to overcome the Communists. Al- ready more than 70,000 heads have been cut off this Hydra, but if Mr. Sokolsky is no® mistaken they must have been immediately magically replaced with seven million new ones. General Li Chi-hsin earned a brilliant banquet and reception in | the British Crown Colony of Hong- kong, presided over by the governor- general himself, by slaughtering +A few days earlier, the “Munici-| power of the Communist Party of | 7,000 workers in Canton and carting | da | off their broken bodies “like so much | cordwood,” as it was described by a | sympathetic and approving Brit- | isher. | In Hankow each daily newspaper records nonchalantly the execution of another batch of “Communist bandits.” ~ In Shanghai the British seize hun- |dreds of trade unionists, to turn |them over to the Chinese police of | Chiang Kai-shek, who calmly pro- |ceed to put them through weeks of |indescyibable tortures before dis- | patching, them. | A thousand times we are told that | these things are regrettable neces- sities, the desirable tesult being that now “Communism has been elimin- ated in China.” Let Mr. Sokolsky sum up the conclusion for us: “Anyone who is keenly sensi tive to current movements in Chi- nese politics feels the powerful un- dertoné of Communist activity | throughout nationalist- territory. | The Communist Party of China and its Left Wing Kuomintang ad- herings are effectively reorgan- | izing their agitational work among | the lower strata of the masses, In every village between here and Nanking and between here and Hangchow, the Communists are appealing to the peasants, la- borers and the young students, to free themselves from the reaction. Posters appear overnight denounc- ing the Kuomintang, the Nank- ing Government, the Nationalist flag and General Chiang Kai-shek. In factories, in spite of govern- ment support and government pro- tection, employers sense the dis- content created by Communist ac- tivities. Mere suppression will never solve this problem.” | (To Be Continued. Cheers Greet Krassin Crew TROMSOE, Norway, Aug. 7— The Soviet ice-breaker Krassin, while docking here for repairs after its efficient rescue work in the Arc- tic, was greeted with cheers and great enthusiasm by the crews of the ships in the arbor and the in- habitants of the town who had col- lected on the docks. The Norwegian scientist, Dr. Adolf Heol who was on board the Krassin thruout its trip into the Artic, praised the crew of the Kras- sin highly and enthusiastically and praised the work of the Soviet avia- tors. ‘ ‘The Krassin, which on its trip back to Norway for repairs rescued 1,500 passengers from a German liner, will remain here long enough to repair its propeller shaft which is expected. to take three or four! Wa Told You So | PASCIST governments do not seem to have as much luck fighting the elements as they have smashing ‘the organizations of the workers and jailing and killing revolutionists. Of-. course, it will not be always thus; the workers will some day turn the tables on their enemies. Well, the airplane Pilsudski did not contri- | bute any more prestige to Pilsud- | ski’s black shirt regime than the Italia did to Mussolini's. No doubt fat little loan would be one of the results of a successful transatlantic flights and Pilsudski would be able to rattle his sabres at Lithuania with more effect, 9 whim For the benefit of. those who write to this conductor in care of the Daily Worker this is to certi- fy that this daily column is sent in from Workers (Communist) Party National Electior Campaign Headquarters, 48 East 125 Street, New York City where the writer is engaged doing publicity work for the National Communist Campaign. Those who fail to receive a reply in due time may now be able to bears up under the suspense of waiting for an over-due reply. It also gives , us an opportunity to put in a lick’: for our specialty which no publicity man worthy of the name ever misses jan opportunity to do. + a . At the rate things are going it will be pretty hard before long to find a democrat in an important po- sition in the Al Smith campaign committee. A republican lady is going to plunder the republican chicken coops for women who don’t like the looks of Herbert but who think that Al has got Political “it.” We hear that Tammany stalwarts are warned to skulk in the alley- ways when perfumed aristocrats ;come around to democratic head- quarters to find out if Al has claws |and-a velvety skin. Judge Olvany jand Hooey (or is it McCooey) can be seen in second-class hotels by the old, seasoned fellows, but they must | make themselves scarce when the |New converts come to gaze on the* | domesticated tiger. te A newspaper had a nifty headline on the deliberations of the A.F. of L. executive committee in session at | Atlantic City. “A. F. of L. strad- \dling fence on Smith-Hoover ques- tion” it read. Which way shall the | cat jump? That all depends on the percentage of the $20,000,000 boodle, estimated as the cost of the election campaign, that will be within sight of the fence-straddlers from their vantage point. * The famous or infamous Com- mittee for the Preservation of Trade Unions has fallen on barren days. | We never entertained much hope of success for this scabby outfit but jone might expect that the coffers of the reactionary bureaucrats of the A. F. of L. would be opened to give aid and comfort to Messers. , | Sigman," Shiplacoff, et al. in their worthy crusade to save the sacred sepulchres of reaction in the needle trades from defilement by the Communist heathens. But alas and jalack! Mr, McGrady, the Lion- |Hearted representative of William |Green, politely informs his chosen people that they must shift for themselves and run the risk of being ‘sabred defending their holy graft. Lest the preceding paragraph might bring confusion instead of |enlightenment to those who did not read the sad story in last Mon- \day’s issue ie Daily Worker, |here is the talefin brief: Last year when the Left Wing under the leadership of the Communists had ‘won over the great majority of the workers “in the I. L. G. W. U. and the Furriers’ Union, the grand moguls of the A. F. of L. decided for the 99th time to clean the “reds” jout of those unions. They organ- ized the above-named committee and ‘called a one-day general strike. The labor fakers came out to a man. 4 + ailied * Then divers boasts were made in the socialist, capitalist and reac- tionary labor press that tHis was the end of Communism in the needle trades. But the worst came, not to the Communists but to the enemies of the workers, Radicals can go a long way without’ funds but the fakers and their henchmen’ must ; See the colors of the coin, else theix zeal vanishes.” So when the treasury of the C. P. T. U. presented a shiny bottom the “bottom, fell out of the crusade. Now Shiplacoff and Com- | pany have sent out an S. O. S. for dough but only an echo came back. And William Green confesses that the radicals were never more active than now and swears that they must be driven out again, . * * Senator Vare of Pennsylvania learned something from A. B. Fall. Whenever the toils seemed to be closing around the Teapot Dome} Kid he developed a new disease and retained his liberty. You can’t very well ‘strike a man when he is down in this country where the fules of the prize ring are generally ac- | cepted? Vare’s record as a pur- chaser of votes was not doing either Vare or his man Hoover much _ good, so he got sick and all allusions to his past were immediately for- 4 gotten. Should he carry the ruse to extremes and die for his party, those who were cursing him will bend a knee over his bier (correct compositor) and pray for the repose of his ten-dollar-a-vote soul.