The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 21, 1929, Page 4

Fou: D PARTY PRE-CONVENTION (The second article of this series by Comrade Foster was published in the Daily Worker yesterday. It} dealt with the following points: s0-|the newt instalment of this article.|Communist,” turns around exactly ANN ete Rs epee le \the question of the grafting of the) In order to understand what is|rea¢tionary trade unions onto the cial reformism the main danger; the| varying tempo of social reformism; the question of decline and er and American trustified capital and ocial reformism. Today we print 5. In his book, “Imperialism,” Com- rade Lenin analyzes the widespread consolidation of capitalist forces, with a consequent reshaping cf all institutions and capitalist policies, and development of irreconcilable do- mestie and world contradiction as the ential characteristics of imperial- . In this resect he points out the concentration of industry and mon- opoly,” the centralization of finance capital and its merging with indus- trial capital, under “the hegemony of finance capital.” Many later Com- intern documents, while pointing out the deepening internal contradic- tions of imperialism, have further coneretized this general concentra- tion tendency. Thus the Program and the Theses adopted by the 6th World Congress of the Comintern laid great stress upon the deyelop- ment of state capitalist tendencies, the Theses declaring, “a growth is observed in state capitalist tend- encies, both in the form of state capitalism proper (state electrical | stations, municipal industrial and transport enterprises) as well as in the form of the merging of private enter>> state.” es with the organs of the This growth of state capitalist tendencies in the respective im- perialist countries, which the Theses | say is “the characteristic expression of the present critical period of capi- talism,” is declared to be “ob- jectively a pre-requisite for military | economic mobilization for future} conflicts.” As part of this general consolida- p a th | problem. tion of imperialism for economic and|proveked by my article in “The | Bourgeois Reformism and Social Reformism eee taking place with the old trade ;|unions it is necessary that we ex-| amine briefly the general process of the integration of the forces of im- | ‘perialism, Consolidation Tendencies of Imperialism. arr y we KER NEW YOrK TAUR ‘DAY, FEB \RY 21, 1929 DIS By WILLIAM Z. FOSTER. CUSSION SECTION ] The growing surrender of reform- ist trade unionism to the ideology and organization of company union- ism constitutes to a certain degree a merger between social reformism g- |noted the beginnings of such union- and the industrial phases of boure the seeds rywhere bears imperialist organizations, especially | its industrial aspects; how this takes place and what are its general im- ‘plications for the old trade unions, for the new revolutionary industrial eral theories, principally those of Comrades Pepper, Bittelman, and myself, all of which presume to base In the developing semi-com ism. The so-called “Labor Age” — geois reformism. This is not merely _unionism these seeds are | Muste group ot ooeremives ke an American phenomenon. It is also mat re prouting very considerably. the “Left” s ‘ial democrats in ar taking place in various other coun f sig ‘ Sis a etiee 2 ope, will simply ate paid hed pares tries, in varying degrees, in Enge company unionism also proceeds.|_ Objective conditions are increas. | mongering cover-up movement for 1° 74’under the name of “Mondism,” Their only con the em-| ingly favoring the development cf this organized system of betrayal. “industrial demo= is a period in which ism, confronting ployers do not accept their sur- this unionism, Germany as It is one of the mrin in The spread of this semi-company ete, political conflict, for more intense | exploitation of the working class, the | Comintern Program indicates that) “imperialism splits off the better- placed section of the working class from the main and more oppressed section of the masses. upper stratum of the working class, bribed and corrupted by imperialism. | They comprise the leading elements of the social democratic parties.” This splitting-off process of the la- bor aristocracy and its integration into the forces of imperialism is further concretized in the Theses of the 6th World Congress as, “The grafting of the upper stratum of the reformist trade unions and ‘re- formist parties’ on to the employers’ organizations and the bourgeois state, the appointment of workers to official positions in the state and capitalist organizations, the theory and practice of ‘industrial demo- eracy,’ ‘industrial peace,’ etc.” This analysis of the Comintern applies completely to American im- perialism, even as to British, Japan- ese, or any other imperialist system. | In this country especially are these concentration tendencies in evidence. Rapid strides are being made in more closely joining the big capi- talist industrial-financial organiza- tions with the state, in grafting th>| upper stratum of the trade unions | ‘onto the employers’ organizations and the government. And the | whole process is an integral part war and rationalization program. The present discussion, This is the) “a decisive role. \unions, and, of course, for our themselves upon the general analysis| render fast enough and let |Party. In this respect we have sev-|given by the Comintern. Luild semi-company borderline between company uni 6. The Comvany-Unionization of the Trade Unions. Pete ead ey can ange tae 4 ped becomes constantly ‘ct two movements already o In my article in “The Communist’ and in many previous present controversy), I have an. alyzed the industrial aspects of the | American reactionary trade unions into the employers’ organizations as the com- trade process of grafting the pany-unionization of the unions. According to this analysis the old trade unions, under the pres: sure of the employers’ ing rapidly degenerated in unionism and A. F. of L, trade unions onto the employers in- | dustrial organizations, the connect-| in the industries. Leftward drift of the masses. articles (which have been put forth for the past three years and have remained unchallenged in our Party and the Comintern and Profintern until the open shop drive and the efforts of the A. F. of L. leaders to re-adapt the unions to serve even more effectively as in- struments of the employers, are be- the general direction of company union- ism, That there is a distinct trend towards the merger of company trade unionism and the emergence of a semi-eompany unionism of strong | fascist-like tendencies in which the A. F. of L. bureaucracy will play This is the path taken, especially since 1922, in the | United States in the grafting of the |ing of the labor aristocracy to the |machinery of American imperialism My article in ‘of American imperialism's feverish |“The Communist” points out that | this tendency is being hastened by Here we come to the crux of our|the developing war situation sharp- ening economic depressions, and the | The tendency towards a merger of company unionism and reaction- ary trade unionism proceeds along both ideological and organizational lines. Ideologically, the A. F. of L. leadership has surrendered almost — -| completely to the rationalization-| “ company union engineers and eco- nomists of American imperialism. , , This surrender constantly becomes more open and unashamed. In the many points. Actual of company unions have occurred in the cas: e union of the h org hed in Osha- sarts of Plan econ tensibly trade unions, were ly controlled by the ¢ eorly stares of the “new orienta-|V Cont bas tion” of the A. F. of L, bureaucracy t® Yerge upon company unionism. ) Various forces, represented by ed class collabora- tion in its almost frantic efforts to pt the old unions to the re- istie needs of the arrogant employers, a tendency which became especially apparent after the loss of the national strike of railroad shop Woll’s Civic Federation committee, W. Jett Lauck, etc., are advocating he organizational amalgamation of 3 trade unions and company . The eagerness with which tie Ai Fe of snapped up Mitten’s mechanics in 1922, the A. F, of L. offer showed their willingness to go dressed up the rationalization pro- ‘ch ceeper into company ek gram of the employers in pseudo- — 2 ue working class clothes and gave its Word. Throughout be sd fade various phases new names, such as, “the new wage policy”, “the higher strategy of labor,” etc., but now they increasingly put forth these capi- talist programs “in the raw.” They make no opposition to, and in many cases openly advocate capitalist welfare systems, company sport ac- \tivities, group insurance, employe stock-buying, ete. Their ideological “fight” against company unionism has been whittled down to nothing. They accept and propagate all the illusions of capitalist efficiency so- cialism, provided these do not bear a too “radical” aspect. Organizationally, the surrender jot the A, F. of L. bureaucrats toltral role in it. upon inemmeatyes more and more as agents of the employers to speed up and control the workers. In- creasingly they rely upon the capi- talists and the state to maintain them in office against efforts of the | workers to dislodge them. The trend is definitely toward the development of a type of unionism | between company unionism and present - day degenerated trade a. This unionism, based pri- upon the corrupt labor aris- is ideologically close to company uniovism, and with the A. F. of L. bureaucracy playing a cen- Social democracy { Nash company union and the Mitten | for home and enionism will depend primarily upon emocratic betrayal ome and capitalism. More paths of social di q the urgency of the need of the capi- of the workers talists. Comrade Bittelman in- and 1 more the sc democrats look correctly says that in my article ing from Karl Marx and towards ‘The Communist” I minimize the de- American efficiency engineers, isive role of our Party. He de- articles on Capitalist Effi- that the question of whether pointed this out. of L 2 f error, as I have already indicated, like in my article in “The asing dif ahroad, has to mo a of open dictatorship and to have re- hat to the means of n, although this is ofa Pee like type, The growing it nece: : ‘ or not the A. F. to draw social re- me F. of L be decided in the ver t Ba Gney fe more closely Gan cuee struggle, in the headon collision be- ommunist,” was in not making it eevied ntntlen 6 anon. twe: ¢ u clear that in pite of this partial in the fare of the 8 is true, | in the sense merger of social reformism and detains that he pa it. of course, in the bourgeo! ; formism, social reform~ Sra caaleaiiiation » cur Variy, at the head of ism, with its in illusions and pide rerannantaial ts evolutionary wasees of workers,| poyerfull base\amdne the’ organized a PE irdingeion the speed-up, un-|Will eventually shatter all the re- labor aristocracy, remains the most > pee is mist organizations and the capi- dangerous kind of reformism, that talist state. But for the immediate kind upon which the capitalists al- tothe necesntt future it is exactly the pr sure of ways depend in their crisis, the last th utilizing the A. F. the masses, led by us, that will tend! bulwark against the proletarian ) to force the capitalists to build their revolution. (also the S. P To do this |S¢Mi-company unionism under A. F. + 4 8 of L. leadership, The heavier our The concluding portion of Com= pressure, the more their tendency to rade Foster's cle will be printed construct such movements as buffers in the Daily Worker tomorrow. It against us, on the same principle, will take up his criticism of the point This will mean an inten- 2lthough to a sharper degree, that|of view of Comrades Pepper and cation of the present tendencies |they built the company union move-| Bittelman, as well as of the othew toward company unionism, not the |Ment originally as a dike against comrades and will sum up his posi- development of the traditional trade | trade unionism, ‘tion on the entire question, TE For several years past ie al DE, i ME of . bureaucracy in a strikebreaking role. involves the development of some sort of unionism, at least in stra- tegic sections of industry and dur- ing periods of pressure from the the A. F. of L. leaders, with their program of intensified class collab- | oration, have been traveling fast in the direction of company unionism. sharpening war situation and growing mass struggles, with an ac- | tual or threatened growth of the new revolutionary unions, will has- ten this process. These leaders will be the tools of the employers in building up a strike-breaking sys- | tem that may best be characterized | as company unionism, with a shad- owy independence, and tinged with | |trade union terminology, traditions, land leadership. We have already Keith-Albee CAME 42nd Street and Broadway Best Film Show In Town ND BIG WEEK AMERICAN NEWEST AMKINO PREMIERE PRESENTATION “y Romain Rolland Play to Be Staged by HE Theatre Guild will as its next production present Romain Rol- land’s “The Game of Love and Death.” The play is due at the Bilt- more Theatre on Monday, March 4. The staging is being directed by Rouben Mamoulian, the settings are by Aline Bernstein and the cast in- cludes ‘Margalo Gillmore,-- Arthur+ ore, Morris Cur- |) Byron, Earl Lari novsky, Claude Travers. ains and Henry Judith Andersen, who has been out of the cast of the O’Neili drama Theatre Guild FOSCANINI RETURNS TONIGHT ‘SPY SYSTEM AND SLAVE WAGES IN (By a Worker Correspondent) SUFFOLK, Va., VA. CANDY PLANT Planters Workers Live in Fire Trap Shanties (By Mail).—In Suffolk, Va., is located the Planters Nut and Chocolate Co. Suffolk is a typical southern mill town. The first cents an hour. A pay eet showed a total of $5.55 for forty| |hours of work, showing an average of thirteen and seven-eighths cents per hour. | The workers, of course, are forced | by their small pay to live in shan-} ties which closely resemble match jboxes and are veritable fire traps. Start Intensive Dri MOSCOW, (By Mail).—The State} Planning Committee of the USSR} has presented for confirmation fo) These so-called houses are probzbly| the Council of People’s Commissars | lowned by the owners of Planters, its plan for the 1929 spring plough- Nut and Chocolate Co, ‘ing campaign. | Another scheme is the employes’| The plan provides for a sharp ad-| club. Here dues of fifty cents per' vance in the grain crops, to be ac- month are collected, in return for) complished both by an extension of which the members receive an occa-| the cultivated area and by the stimu- sional banquet and at Christmas| lation of the yielding capacity of | time each year a box of chocolates, the soil. | (approximate value 50c). It is made! The area under spring crops in| |a point in each department to have|the RSFSR and Ukrainia alone is| 100 per cent membership in the club. |to increase in 1929 by 5.5 million| \In many of the departments the fore- hectares; of this figure the indi-\ USSR PLOUGHING PLAN ‘he ASH aie CZAR with KACHALOV, MEYERHOLD, CHUVELEV and ANNA STEN, Russia’s Greatest Artists Worthy Successor to “Potemkin” and “Czar Ivan the Terrible” DIRECTED BY I. A. PROTOZANOV. Based on the famous story by Andreyev, “The Governor.” ve for 1929 Crops vidual peasants are to be respon-| sible for 4,180,000 hectares, while the collective and government farms are to extend their cropped area by| 1,350,000 hectares. The plan likewise calls for an in-| crease of the acreage under tech-| | nical crops, viz: flax 8 per cent, sugar beet 10 per cent, cotton’ 20) per cent, over the respective figures | for last year. Poor and middle peasants are to| be supplied with more than 312,000 tons of seeds; upwards of 373,500 tons of minerals are to be used to, fertilize 1,316,000 hectares of land. | YOUR LAST CHANCE TO SEE THE REMARKABLE SOVIET FILM! AAA yw iw Special Added Atiraction:» LAST 2 DAYS! whistle blows at five o’clock in the morning and is followed by whistles! at 5:80, 6:00, 6:30, 6:45, 6;50 and the | final whistle at seven o'clock. At “Strange Interlude” because of jll- ness, has returned to her role of Nina Leeds. ‘Two Days’ , A Wufku-Amkino Production AAAABAAZAABALABAA » Tne Russtan “Last Laucn” A tremendous tragedy of an > old man torn in his 4 ion between the White: d the Keds—caught in the chang- ing tides of the Soviet Revotutiontt men threaten the workers with dis-| 2a jcharge if they do not enroll in the | “A Day with? NEEDLE TRADES STRIKE BENEFIT! | |} Tolstoy” 3 the last whistle if the worker is} Another feature of Planters is not at his machine or table he is | the complete and efficient spy sys- told to go to the office and get| tem which gets rid of any employe his time. | who manifests any dissatisfaction | with working conditions and trys to i get the workers to organize for an! | eight- hour day and higher wages.) A new balcony set was the cause of the postponement of the premiere of “Let Us Be Gay,” starring Fran- eine Larrimore, at the Little The- atre from Monday night to this eve- ning. John Golden is sponsoring the new Rachel Crothers’ comedy. The Greatest Motion Picture Ever Filmed At noon the slaves are given an/ hour for dinner and then from one| E. E. Clive, producer ,of “The Whisvering Gall ” the mystery drama at the Forrest Theatre, has acquired the American rights to “The Ringer,” Edgar Wallace’s Lon- don success. He will produce it at his Copley Theatre, Boston, follow- ing the run of “The Whispering Gal- lery” there, and plans to show it on Broadway late this season. English Local Council Steals Charity Shoes to Help Break Strike ABERCARN, England, Feb. 20 (UP).—A large crowd of men and women stormed the Local Council Chamber when they learned that boots and shoes received here yes- terday for distribution among the suffering poor would be given only to men who had returned to work at the neighboring “Prince of Wales” Colliery. The crowd of unemployed miners and their wives was dis- persed after a two-hour Sor onsee tion. clans, to Wein ‘the battle of democracy-—-Karl Marx (Communist Manifesto) | profetarian in the xclf-conscious, Independent movement of the imme: movement |Arturo Toscanini will conduct the The noted maestro will take up the baton at his first Philharmonic concert of the season at Carnegie Hall this evening. TOSCANINI TO INTRODUCE NEW RESPIGHI WORK This evening, at Carnegie Hall, Philharmonic Orchestra in his first concert this season. The program will include the premiere of Res- pighi’s latest work, “Festa Ro- mana,” another impression in the series which contains “The Foun- iains of Rome” and “The Pines of Reme.” The program of tonight will also include: Mozart’s Sym- phony in D (Koechel 385), Debus- sy’s “Iberia” and the “Tannhauser” Overture. This program will be re- peated Friday afternoon and Satur- day evening at Carnegie Hall and Sunday afternoon at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Another nov- elty, Pizzetti’s Concerto dell’Estate, will be played at the concert of Feb. 2 8and March 1. Toscanini arrived last Wednesday raorning following his Scala season. He will conduct 29 concerts in New York City this season and six on tour. The modern bhourgeols society that how sprouted from the ruins of feudal soctet; is mot done away with clas haw but establish new conultions wf forms of sereeate ity.—Karl Marx (Comm fexto). old ones—Karl Manifesto). CARNEGIE HALL SATURDAY at 8: 30 AND THEIR DEVELOPMENT IN PROGRAM: — cyopin, SEATS NOW ON SALE March 2nd RECITAL OF MUSIC LEON THEREMIN RUSSIAN SCIENTIST AND INVENTOR Ether-Wave Music Instruments BACH, BEETHOVEN, ‘The music is produced solely by delicate and plastic Bagi hands and fingers in = alr without contact PRICES: $2.50, $3.00, 41.50, DEMATERIALIZED MUSIC NEW TONAL AND ARTISTIC POSSIBILITIES ARTHUR JUDSON, Concert Management. DURING 1928 IN AMERICA TSCHAIKOVSKY, PROKOFIEFF, RAVEL, ETC. until six o’clock they are kept busy.| The factory is most unsanitary. | | Peanut shells are piled high on the | floors, reminding one of a heavy! | One worker who dared talk to his | fellow workers of the terrible condi-| tions was promptly gotten rid of jand blacklisted throughout the south. “KRASSIN” pects of his daily activities P ACCLAIMED BY on his esi sree, Cwtate at Yasmainy RevoLuTIONARY Writers! snow. One wades continually in two! rh 11 |to six inches of nut shells. The | Sacunoreere ae Lguehe (AS plant has no noticeable ventilating | isfied pnd een on aoe ene 1 | system. It is always stuffy and | stinks from the sweat of white and|‘ecent conditions and the right to _live like human beings. Negro toilers. 5 The wages for white workers | —IRVING KREICHMAN. averages about twenty to twenty-| four cents an hour. 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