The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 17, 1929, Page 6

Page Six DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JANUARY 17, 1929 Baily 3S a oa ®: io rker “UNCLE SAM” CHANGES HIS CLOTHES a tikes en | Central Organ of the Workers (Communist) Party Published by the N: Worker Publishi Daily, SUBSCRIPTION RATES: By Mail (in New York only): $8.00 a year $4.50 six months 2.50 three months By Mail (outside of New York): 56.00 a year $3.50 six months 2,00 three months “DAIWORK.” Cable: Address and mail all checks to The Daily Worker, 26-28 Union Square, New York, N. Y. ROBERT MINOR WM. F. DUNNE .. Editor Morgan Is Not An Agent of the Government; the Government Is Morgan’s Agent The press of the world is teeming with the appointment of J. P. Morgan Himseit as tne actual head of the committee on reparations which will go to Europe in the attempt at final solidification of United States hegemony over that continent. The U. S. government did not appoint Morgan and the other American member, Owen D. Young, but “unofficially approved,” and it is commonly said that Morgan, in taking the post of dictator to European nations, nevertheless does “represent the United States government.” Before they ask what is the status of Morgan, they ought to ask what is the status of the United States govern- ment. Attention must be given to a certain. important struc- tural change in the government of the United States at the time of its biggest assault upon all fronts for world-domina- tion. We refer to the complete amalgamation of the director- ates of big business—the Trusts and the Banking monopoly concerns—with the apparatus of the government. Today the top of the structure of State of this country is practically one and the same as the apparatus of trustified industry and finance. We have, now functioning in government capacities, - Morgan, Mellon, Hoover, Young and Morrow. With the addition of a few more names, these would very nearly serve as a list of the rulers of the United States, as a list of the would-be rulers of an “American Empire” over | the two continents of North and South America, and virtually the pretenders to hegemony over Europe, Asia—the entire world. The passing of the hegemony over the capitalism of the world in general to the United States is a phenomenon around which the imperialist intrigues of the capitalist world revolve today. The attempted establishment of United States rule over Mexico and Central and South America is the focal point of all present-day politics and military calculations re- lating particularly to the Western Hemisphere at this time. When General Dawes and Owen D. Young were sent to Europe five years ago to fasten the “Dawes plan” upon Ger- many, they were in reality chosen by J. P. Morgan with the rubber stamp of Washington applied to their appointment, and this was a move toward establishing the hegemony of Wall Street over European affairs. When the messenger of the New York bankers became vice-president of the United States, this was a logical product. The inclusion of Hoover in Harding's cabinet in 1921 was correctly considered at the time as the inclusion of a business man in a political body, and therefore a departure from custom. Andrew W. Mellon’s appointment to the same cabinet meant the inclusion of a central figure of the biggest trustified business and finance. Later, Dwight W. Morrow, partner in the banking house of Morgan & Company, was appointed outright as the “am- bassador’—intended to be in reality the governor-general— to Mexico. This was another bold step in the direction of taking over the political functions of government into the hands of the real masters, dispensing with the intermediaries of the special profession of politics. Instead of the Morgan partner giving orders through Washington and through some political underling in Mexico City, the Morgan partner gives the orders of Wall Street direct, through his own person, to the Mexican government. Of course the election of Hoover, “the director-general of American business,” to the presidency of the United States, was the biggest step that marked the consolidation ofthe apparatus as one apparatus of trustified industry, finance and government. The election of Hoover, who, dur- ing his whole life, had never been elected to a public office, was quite logically hailed by the capitalist press in’ full recognition of the merging of the directorship of business iwith the apparatus of State, the national government. It twas the final, the culminating merger in a period of colossal “mergers: the merger of trusts with trusts, the merger of uper-trusts with moncipolist banking into f finance-capital monopoly, and—the merger of the finance-capitalist oligarchy ith the government. f But the appointment of the partners and executives of the finance-capitalist oligarchy as the political executives of State reaches its dramatic crescendo with the open appear- ance of J. P. Morgan as the actual directing head of the ex- perts’ committee on reparations. Kellogg, secretary of state of the United States government, announces that his govern- it approves. oe awe say then that Morgan is a representative of the United States government in this move upon Europe? No, itwould be truer to say that the United States government is a representative of J. P. Morgan. of course by “Morgan” we mean more than this one chief of finance-capital; we mean the capitalist ruling class of which he is the most spec- tacular leader and symbol. Reports are that the British newspapers are the only part of the European capitalist press that fails to make much of the event when this black-moustached “Uncle Sam” openly appears as the dictator attempting to enforce the rule ef the American finance-capitalist oligarchy upon Europe. It is easy to understand the fretfulness of the British imperialists. For the drive of American oligarchy for world-rule is leading directly and rapidly to the coming imperialist struggle between the British and American im- perialisms. United States imperialism was never so power- ful, never so arrogant, never so ruthless as it is today. Build- ing the strongest navy ever seen, marching forward with cold-blooded self-assurance for the seizure, in bloody warfare, of the major portion of the world for exploitation—will the ‘Wall Street oligarchy attain its end? , Tt will not. It can and will plunge the world into the bloodiest slaughter of all time. But out of this slaughter ‘will come the overthrow of the same United States oligarchy. What are the workers of the United States to learn from “this open appearance of the United States government as ‘nothing but the powerful apparatus of the big capitalist own- 8 of i industry and banks? This apparatus, openly wielded the hands of J. P. Morgan, head of the steel trust and head 5, ‘the biggest international bankers, becames openly identical the whole directorship of scab employers, the whole Pon thie the workers must, and sooner or later will n that the United S government is the strikebreaker, lective director and enforcer of the system of labor ex~ By Fred Ellis {fairs that is bringing closer the The Men Who Slave for Ford By B. K. GEBERT. The Detroit press on Dec. 30 pub-| lished a statement of the Ford Mo-| tor Co, that it will hire 30,000 addi- tional workers, and that the number ‘of workers employed by Ford will reach 150,000. The following day several thousands of unemployed gathered in front of Ford’s plant in the hope of securing a job. There they were told that no hiring was being done that day. On January 2, already at midnight thousands of unemployed were on their way from the working class districts to the factory. At 4 o’clock that morning, with the thermometer at 12 above zero, there were already 4,000 work- ers at the gates, while at 7 o’clock an army of over 30,000 unemployed surrounded the factory, all in the hopes of securing a job. The work- ers, huddled in one trembling mass waited for the time when the hiring | was to begin, or rather, for the time when the employment agents would start picking some from among them. Frozen as They Stand. Many of them, very many, stand- ing in the cold and wind were actu- ally freezing, several were taken away in ambulances with frozen feet and hands. The hiring began at 8 o'clock in the morning. The pressure of the mass of workers striving to get jobs was so great that the fence collapsed. From this more than 30, 000, hardly 500 were picked, being picked over, pushed around, shoved thru the gate, not only like slaves, but like the cattle at the Chicago packing houses. Boss Takes Time. The factory management announce that this will be repeated every morning during January and Febru- ary, that every morning 400 to 600) 'Perfect the Exploitation of Auto Workers; When 30,000 Jobless Shivered ers coming here from more distant points. Among the army of unem- ployed looking for jobs at the Ford plant were workers from Ohio, In- diana and more distant places. Whether the 30,000 will be hired as announced there is no certainty, as Ford is abolishing the night shift and instituting a system of running the machines six days per week and giving the workers five days’ work per week, and in the 30,000 are prob- ably included the workers who will be taken off the night shift. With the additional: workers employed, Ford is to produce 8,700 cars per day instead of the 7,000 new being produced. It is estimated that the production of Fords during the cur- rent year will reach 2,000,000. The production of the Chevrolet for the current year is estimated at approx- imately 1,500,000 cars, while Willys- Overland, Hudson-Essex, Chrysler, | Dodge and others are to be produced to the tune of another 1,500,000. The total production of motor cars for 1929 is to reach 5,000,000 units. But the market for that number of units is lacking. James Dalton, the editor of the “Motor Magazine” predicts that about 4,000,000 cars can be sold in tis country in 1929 (in 1926 there were 3,200,000 cars sold in the United States and Canada). And what about the surplus? 1,000,000 American made cars are to be sold in foreign countries, but there is no market for such a large number in those countries. Battle of Giants. The auto industry is expanding not because the 'market for automo- biles has increased so greatly, but models. The “Detroit News,” writ- ing of this struggle, states: “This means competition on even a more severe scale than now prevails. It in the low and medium priced six inder field that the greatest battle still greater dollar for dollar value |probably will be fought. This means |® {sharpening of class relations in the auto industry, Among the masses of workers ‘n |the auto industry there is evident |a tendency toward organization. The Auto Workers’ Union, having ap- prais-1 this situation, is beginning {an organization campaign. And be- ginning this campaign, it holds no jillusions that the reactionary A. F, lof L. will organize the auto indus- |try, which has already become a |for the purchaser from an industry | basic industry, the land and air (air- planes) and which has already astonished the in-|P!anes) transport industry, dustrial world by its ability to in-| Which can easily be transformed into crease value to the buyer without /* Wa? industry in case of war. On increasing prices.” |the contrary, Mr. Green is praising ¥ |the “goodness” of Mr. Ford and has workers will be picked for jobs in because in the auto industry there Ford’s factory. These workers are exists a sharp struggle between Ford hired at $5 per day for a five-day and the General Motors, each tcying week, that is, at $25 per week. First; to dominate the market and outdo are t> be hired the workers from | the other in the competitive strug- Detroit and environs, and later work-|gle, cutting prices and changing MEXICO CITY, (By Mail)—The | lorgan of the Communist Party of) Mexico, “El Machete,” publishes a letter from General Sandino, leader of the Nicaraguan army of libera- tion against Yankee imperialism, signed by Sandino under the date of Oct. 14, and addressed to the writer Froylan Turcios. The text of the letter is as follows: “I have the honor of informing you of a new triumph of our army against the buccaneers, On the 6th of the present month, at four in the morning a detachment of buccan- eers camped on the banks of the River’ Coco in a place known as Yucabucan, was attacked by one of our columns, under the command of Colonels Francisco Estrada and Porfirio Sanchez. “For ten days Colonels Estrada and Sanchez had tenaciously fol- lowed the Yankee morfimaniacs who New Sandino Triumph were traveling through the beautiful waters of our River Coco in motor boats. “The fifth of this month, at six o’clock in the evening, the two above mentioned officers were informed that the pirates to the number of 200, were making a night camp at the village of Yacalwas. This news was received with enthusiasm by our comrades, as they are well ac- quainted with the place mentioned and it was our fortune that had brought the buccaneers to leave us in that place all their war supplies with the almost total loss of their lives. “Our boys did not lose time upon receipt of the report, and they began their advance, lasting from six in the evening till two in the morning, until arriving in sight of the ene- my’s camp fires. ‘ “Disposition of forces for combat was made. It appears that the buc- pice cR TUES AEC A f ploitation—the supreme scab employer. And this government, in the person of Morgan, is maneuvering in preparation for a plunging into world imperialist war for purposes of enrich- ing themselves. ; The interest of the working class of this country is clearly to defeat. the United States in the coming war. Just so it is to the interest of the workers of each imperialist country to work for the defeat of their “own” government. Does this seem inconsistent? Not when we bear in mind that the outcome to be sought is the transformation of the im- perialist war into civil war, the revolutionary war for the overthrow of the capitalist class in all imperialist countries _and the éstablishment of the dictatorship of the toilers in For the workers in the auto in- dustry this just means further re-| ductions in wages, more ‘speed up, and still more slave-like working conditions. and the speed up system have been along this line seems almost impos- sible. When piece work rates were cut several years ago it meant that the workers had to speed up and same daily wage as before, today a greater production. Wage Already Lower. even ‘1924 seem wonderful. |the rate of workers in the auto lindustry is from 30 to 40 cents per |hour, those working piece work mak- ing $6 to $8 per day. The production system has been so per2cted that even the great expansion program the workers working full time. | The cost of the war for markets, for the domination of the market by lowering the prices of automobiles, will be borne entirely by the work- ters. It is precisely this state of af- caneers had been moving about, for what no one knows, until a late hour of the night. All our force was armed with rifle and machete, in- terspersed with expert bombers. An assault was to be made and the or- der given not to waste a single car- tridge. “The enemy was sleeping tran- quilly, and when the two sentinels gave the signal of alarm, it was too late. The confusion of the enemy was somewhat difficult to under- stand. The machetes and grenades were making carnage among the filibusters. Our men, in order to distinguish themselves from the ene- my in the obscurity of the early dawn, had cast aside their clothing. The machine guns took no part in this combat as'they were not needed and were left with the rear guard. The work was purely for the ma- chetes, the grenades and revolvers. Our rifles were not used, as the fight was hand to hand, “The attack lasted for an hour and a half, sufficient time for the felling, by the blows of our ma- chetes, that field of human bodies. “Their supply train, needless to say, remained in our hands, because the Yankee buccaneers had scarcely time to fire a few volleys from their boats. “The enemy dead, 114; wounded and captured, 60; the rest lost some- where in the mountains. “Supplies captured include two motorboats and eleven launches (and in them twenty cases of Lewis guns with a thousand rounds each, four Le for 1929 is to be carried out without! Wage Cuts Come. |not a word to say about organizing the auto industry. Fully understand- ing this, the Automobile, Aircraft and Vehicle Workers’ Union has ealled a conference of workers’ or- ganizaticns for the purpose of plan- Today the exploitation of labor ing this campaign. The conference will take place at 55 Adelaide St., so perfected, that further progress |January 13 at 10 a. m. Negro Labor Increases. It would be well to call attention to the fact that lately the number of Negro workers in the auto industry produce more in order to make the|has been steadily increasing. Right lat the beg'nning c” this campaicn cut in wages means a cut, it can no|emphasis should be laid, not only in longer be made up by turning out| words but also in deeds, on the unity of interests of the native-born, the foreign-born (who constitute a large Compared with the wages and | Percentage of the workers employed working conditions of today, the|in the industry) and the Negro wages and working conditions of| Today | workers. The present situation in the auto industry is now, as never before, suitable for the beginning of an or- ganization campaign. The campaign should be put into full swing along all lines, and the leading class-con- scious workers drawn into the or- ganizational work. A new union in the auto industry is an event of great importance on the road to the organization of the American prole- tariat—it is a challenge thrown at the House of Morgan and the indus- trial “-udal lord, Mr. Ford! ET TE SS Over Imperialist Forces 200 pairs of shoes, 200 uniforms, 200 mosquito bell-nets, a large quantity of provisions, among them two tins of Chesterfield cigarettes). “In the pockets of the dead was found much correspondence, — mili- tary orders, photographs and cur- ious things. We have taken photo- graphs of this pirates’ disaster in order to give them to the world press that all may know. Our force of combatants was composed of 80 men: 40 under Colonel Estrada and 40 under Colonel Sanchez. “At the attempt to give military promotion to those who took part in this action, all the comrades re- fused to accept promotions, saying that the triumph was due not to their abilities but to the laziness of the so-called trained Yankee troops, who had gone to sleep unguarded. These promotions are pending awaiting another opportunity, in which, say our comrades, they hope to work with real soldiers and not imitations, because it is now, shown to the world that as the pirates imitate everything, they have come also to imitate real soldiers. A costly result, this pretension, after twenty years of technical prepara- tion to appear in the morning light as in ‘the dawn of Yacalwas.’ “No occasion more propitious than this to anticipate that when we may attain definite triumph, the .world will know that Gitizens conscious of their rights, and not professional soldiers were those who overthrew the supposedly trained technicians of Yankeeland, and that the very military. titles,6' grades and ranks qi Copyright, 1929, by Internationa Publishers Co., Inc. HAYWOOD'S | All rights reserved. Republica- B O O Kk | tion forbidden except by permission. ‘TODAY: Riding for a Homestead; Great Hopes | for the Future as a Farmer; Forced to Work Out; Queer Folk of Tuscarora PART XI. In previous chapters Haywood wrote of his pioneer parents; his birth at Salt Lake City in 1869; boyhood among the Mormons; scenes of violence in western life at the mining camp of Ophir; a Negro lynching at Salt Lake; a miner at nine years of age; his little schooling; odd: jobs in the Mormon capital; off to a remote Nevada mine at 15; Indian fights; how Haywood learned classic literature; converted to labor unionism; Haywood marries; working as a cow- boy; how a girl baby came at Fort McDermitt; back to mining. J * * ee Paradise Valley I went back to Eagle Creek and was working in the Caledonia mine when my brother-in-law got word to me tha the McDermitt reservation had been thrown open to entry, that is, peopl could settle upon it, taking as much as one hundred and sixty acres o land. The law required that the settler should build a house and til the land for five years, after which it would belong to him, This wa: what was called “homesteading.” It was late at night when I got thi: word, but I got out of bed and started to Fort McDermitt on horseback There were not more than five or six hundred acres of the fort land and this was where we located our homesteads. There were two of us my father-in-law and myself, so there would not be room for any mor settlers except on the government hay reservation in the bottom-land | where my brother-in-law Jim took up his homestead. We knew ther was but little chance of the word getting out about the land being oper to entry, but we lost no time in getting there first as these farms wer worth striving for. I can remember the thoughts about having a hom« of my own that ran through my head as we loped along. We got t McDermitt early in the morning, and after breakfast at once started t run our lines; that is, to mark our boundaries, My farm was just below the old army post, where the valley wa; widest. We built foundations on the three places, and I went to Winne mucca for lumber, out of which I built a one room house with a lean-tc kitchen. This room I lined with burlap and whitewashed it. It mad a fine wall and ceiling as tight as a drum. I moved my wife and bab) down into the new house. Life began to take on a new aspect; every tap of work I did, build ing fences, digging ditches, was all for ourselves. Now it was a questior of where to build the barn, where the chicken coop should be, where the corral, and what kind of trees to set out. It was very fine land, the loam was deep and would grow anything. There were so many things we needed that money was an immediate necessity. I left home for Tus- carora, a mining camp some hundred and twenty-five miles distant, The first night I stopped at Thomp- son’s Mill at Willow Creek. There were four other men gathered there that night. The place had been abandoned, but the stove and cooking utensils were still there. All of us had some grub with us, and we got supper ready, consisting of bacon, flapjacks and coffee. While we sat at the table eating, some one remarked tha‘ we were a strange group. We looked at him inquiringly, and he said: “Every man here has lost one eye.” Sure enough, this was true. We were the only one-eyed men it the county and we were all together that night. The next morning we started out, some going down the canyon I went across the summit to Paradise Valley. Here I met Billy Town. send, a farmer who was going to Tuscarora with a load of produce. H« agreed to take me with him and I stopped that night on his farm, Nex morning we started out with a six-horse team and two wagons. We wen through Squaw Valley and across Soldier Summit, where we spread ou! blankets on the ground. The next morning we were covered with < blanket of snow and the entire country as far as we could see was white When we got to Tuscarora, Townsend said: “I've got to get out of here as soon as I can sell out, I hayen’t : minute to lose or I'll be snowed in, I think I can-dispose of the grair and other stuff quick, but I don’t want to be bothered with those chickens T'll be glad to get fifty cents apiece for them; think you could sell ’em?’ He had two crates full of chickens, I said I’d try, and did sel them, with some gain to myself which came in handy before I got to work The next morning I started rustling at the mine for a job an finally took a lease on a stope in the Navajo mine which was on th slope of Mount Blitzen. In cleaning up the lease we had to lower th: ore by means of rope to the tunnel that ran to the main shaft, ther: to be hoisted to the surface. This meant handling the sacks severa | times. When we got it on top we carried it to a jig to wash the screen | ings. The bulk of the ore we sent directly to the sampler and it wa: paid for by the mining company. The rest of the ore we sent afte | we had worked it through the jig which was a contrivance worked b; hand in which the values settled in the bottom, while the waste wa: washed off at the top. Around the shaft house were mountain-hig! piles of sage-brush, as at this mine they fired the boilers with thes: See oaks. The brush was wet down before it was pitched int: e fire box. Later I worked at the Commonwealth mine. In the stope where Wm. D. Haywoo in Cripple Creek, Colorado, initial convention of the Industrial Tuscarora was an interesting old camp. was working, among other men was one Joy Pollard, whose name mention because of the fact that many years afterward I met him agai and he was one of the delegates to thi Workers of the World in Chicago. There were mines right it the center of the town and there were no company boardin; company stores. The miners either lived at hanes boarded in Lec or lived with private families. The saloons were typical of a mining camp and were well patronized, Usually a long bar ran the length o one side, with two or three tables in the front, and a card room in thi rear. Faro and poker were the favorite games. I was standing at th: bar in Louis Engel’s saloon one night when the barkeeper said: fel take a pe at that group at the faro table.” ley were eight men and one woman, Every one of them illec from one to six fnen. The woman, Molly Forshay, had killed ie ae mour, had been tried and sentenced to life imprisonment in the stat: ahah eda pies two ns in prison she revealed the fact tha ome a mother. To quie' i she governor sear quiet the scandal involving the wardtn teamster who was hauling freight on the road from carora ti Elko could be seen knocking around the saloons, gambling aa Pibking but never indulging in drink; got married, but the wife soon got : divorce, Later the teamster put on dresses, got married again, this tim toa man, and raised a large family. They called her the “Tuscaror: what-is-it.” She had donned men’s clothing so that she could make mor money than was paid for women’s work, * # « In the neat instalment—Swimming the Owh; iver; ridij sage desert; what a magpie's call meant; “What a Ce . down the sliderock on horseb i + dis remedies that didn't oe er eee home; heroie that today are necessary for the or- ganization of our army, will be re- nounced by me as by those who form our ranks, as is unanimous in this sense the opinion of those who compose our army, “As opportunity offers I will send you news of our operations against Tammany Jury Raves Against Book on Sex “The Sex of Life,” a ten 1 book of sex instruction Yor. th young which has the approval o Havelock Ellis, and various othe! the forces of the buccaneers. For Homeland and Liberty—C. SAN- DINO,” SUIT AGAINST BOULDER DAM. PHOENIX, Ariz. Jan. 16—Im- mediate filing of suit in the United States Supreme Court to prevent the proposed construction of Boul- der-Black Canyon Dam under the Swing-Johnston bill was ordered to- day by the Arizona-Colorado River Commission, ~ authorities, written by Mrs. Mar: Ware Dennett, known for her activ ity in favor of woman suffrage an: birth control, was yesterday held b; a Federal Grand Jury in Brookly: to be unmailable, and “so obscene lewd, filthy, vile and lascivious a to be unfit to be spread upon th - records of this honorable court,” i: the language of the indictment re turned against Mrs. Dennett. Th penalty is a maximum of five year oh dae a fine of $5,000 0