The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 5, 1929, Page 2

Page Two Mihir, Exposed by Labo WAS DRAWING $10,000 FROM S05 WEEK MEN Is Vice President of the AFL; Other Big Jobs Jacob Fisch treasurer of the Journeymen Bar- bers’ Inte al Union at the last meeting of the executive board| of that organization resigned th office which he has held for years, after having been exposed by Labor Unity, organ of the Trade Union Educational League, as a faker, drunkard and a misleader. This action was taken on Thursda; March 28 and President Shane: led the board in the attack against Fischer in the interest of the mem- bership. The office of general ‘secretary- treasurer will be held vacant until the next convention and the general president will temporarily fill both offic The convention will Ser " be in Labor Unity which misle: n- Letter from a The article brought about fall, w: Reader” am a member of the J ve men B: rs’ International Union of which, “t ” Jake Fischer the Muss he does not even take as much inte in the organi- zation does in the popes’ nose. This Fischer is some pumpkin. Dictator of the Barbers’ Union at $10,000 per year, ice president of the American Faker- adion of Labor at $2,000 per year or more, depending upon how often the “council” meets, and also vice president of the Union Label Dept., at a further slice of money. On the bright, this boy can afford to buy booze and other things at that rate, I mention this because he is all “wet” at council meetings and con- ventions. Why Comrade Foster overlooked this leach I am at loss to know. “Why this $10,000 or more per year labor faker should be permit- ted to exploit the barbers and pull the wool over their eyes is more then I can tell. Imagine $10,000 per year, about $28 per day, while the average barber makes less than $25 per week. Horses, whiskey and . . for ‘this $10,000 man, and 60 hours of hell per week for the $25 per week man, 24 “If you want to’be of service to the 150,000 barbers, the 5000 or- ganized in particular, yow-sill in- vestigate this pilfering oftthé work- ’ pockets and expose the corrup- in-high places within an organi- zation that is as decadent as the pillors-that are holding it up. “Money for official luxuries and high salaries but none for organi- zation work among the other 100,- 000 barbers and about 100,000 wo- men beauty workers who are sadly exploited.” 2 wl the classes thut stand face to lave with Cre bourgeoisie today the pro‘etariat alone is a really revo lutionary class.—Karl Marx (Com munist Manifesto). Hooded Mob Take | Painter Out of Home Club Him Viciously SAINT CLAIRSVILLE. Ohio, April 4 (UP).—Peter Van Horn, painter, staggered into Squire C. B. Bradfield’s office here today and rélated a story of being kid- napped and beaten into uncon- sciousness by a band of masked riders Van Horn said the riders, all of them garbed in long, black robes, took him from his home at midnight, carried him to an aban- doned school house two miles north and flogged him with hick- ory clubs. He could advance no motive for the attack. Big Corporations Condemn general secretary- DAILY WORKER, N EW YORK, FRIDAY, A PRIL 5, 1929 Y The three s Argone at left. world, Street. bmarine e V: ankee imperialism’s Monsters of the Sea 7 Unity as t he ‘ ‘Mussolini of the Barbe vs Union,” Is Ousted V-2, V-4 and V-1, on their arrival at San Diego with the mother shiv is the largest type of submersible and the largest undersea craft in the The British imperialists are working frantically to beat this latest acquisition of Walt On the Defeat of One’s Own Gov’t in An Imperialist War By N. LENIN. (The following article was writ- ten by Lenin on the 26th, of July, 1915. It was published in No. 43 Social Democrat,” the cen- gan of the Bolsheviki, which appeared in Switzerland.—Editor.) * * * During a reactionary war, the revolutionary class cannot but desire the defeat of its own government. This is an axiom. And it is only contested by the deliberate adherent: or helpless accomplices of the chauvinists. Among the fo must be included, for instance, Sem- kovsky of the Organization Com- ission. Among the latter Trotsky and Bukvoyed in R ia, Kautsky in Germany The wish for Russia’s defeat, writes Trotsky, is “an utterly un- called for and unjustifiable conces- sion to the political methodology of ocial patriotism, substituting * r revolutionary struggle against war and the conditions which it causes an orientation in the direction of the lesser evil, which is extremely ar. bitrary under the given condition: (No, 105 of “Nasche Slovo.”) ; This is a sample of the high-flown phrases with which Trotsky inva- viably substantiates opportunism. “Revolutionary struggle against war” is an empty and purporless exclamation, of which the heroes of the II, International are such past- tasters, unless we mean by it’ rev- Olutionary action against ov own government and during the war. A moment’s thought enables this to be realized. And revolutionary ac- tion against our own government during a war certainly and undoubt- edly does not mean only the wish for its defeat, but the actual further- | jance of such a defeat (for the “as- tute” reader: this does not by any means signify that “bridges are to be blown up,” unsuccessful military strikes organized, or the revolution- ists aided in any way to bring about a defeat for the government). Trotsky confines himself to phrases, but entangles himself | frightfully in them. He believes that |to desire defeat for Russia means desiring victory for Germany (Buk- voyed and Semkovsky express this thought or rather lack of thought, which they possess in common with | ky, more directly). And in this| y sees the “methodology of social patriotism!” | In order to oblige people who are unable to think, the Berne resolu- tion declares: “In all imperialist {cUuntries the proletariat must desire the defeat of its government.” Buk- voyed and Trotsky have preferred to pass over this truth, and Sem-| kovsky (an opportunist who serves the working class best by a candid and naive repetition of bourgeois wisdom), Semkovsky observed | “mildly:” “This is nonsense, either Germany or Russia can gain the vic- | |tory.”” | Old Workers to Starvation (By LRA News Service) Many employers will not hire} workers over 35, even over 25, ack-| nowledges the National Association! of Manufacturers. Age limits be-| yond which employers will not hire new workers range from 25 to 70, and the usual limit is 45. The 30 percent of N. A. M. members who report a hiring age limit represent | the large corporations, undoubtedly | employing far more than half of all workers in manufacturing. What becomes of the older worker who cannot get a job, these big | | women, the ‘survey is’careful not to | reveal, But workers know it is al-| ways the larger companies which| first perfect efficiency systems of hiring and firing. Those corpora- tions which do not openly announce | an age limit policy, usually instruct the personnel man to pick out the younger men or women in the line of job applicants. Certainly a ma- jority of industrial workers in the United States now find it impos- sible to secure new employment after a certain age is passed. In giving their reasons for set- \their opinion publicly, who doubted jthis; the movement in the Austrian' with the situation, Take the Paris Commune for in- stance. Germany defeated France, and Bismarck with Thiers, defeated the workers! If Bukvoyed and Trot- y had thought it out, they would have seen that they are ,adopting the standpoint of the war of the gov- ernments and of the bourgeoisie, that is, that they are grovelling be- fore the “political methodology of so- cial patriotism,” ... to make use of Trotsky’s choice language, Revolution during time of war is civil war, and the transition of txe al : was | | War of the governments into civil war is faciliated on the one hand by the military failures (“the defeat”) of the governments; on the other hand it is impossible really to strive for such a transition without pro- moting the defeat. The chauvinists (with the Organ- ization Commission and the Cheidse fraction) do not want to have any- thing to do with the “slogan” of de- feat, because this slogan alone signi- fies a consistent appeal for revolu-/| action by the revolutionists their own government dur- , ing the war. And without such ac- tion millions of the most revolution- ary phrases on war against war, etc., are not worth a rap. Anyone seriously intending to re- ject the “slogan” of the defeat of one’s own government in an imperi- alist war would have to prove one of the three following points: either, (1) that the war of 1914. was not reactionary; or (2) that revolution is impossible in connection with war; or (3) that a corresponding and co- operating revolutionary movement in all the belligerent countries is im- possible. This last argument is of special importance for Russia, for Russia is the most backward country and immediate socialist revoluticn is | impossible here. Precisely for this reason the Russian social democrats should be the first to come forward with the theory and practice of the “slogan” of defeat. And the czarist government was perfectly right in stating that the agitation carried on by the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party was the sole example in the International, not only of parliamentary opposition, but of really revolutionary mass action against the government of the coun- try, and that this agitation weak- ened military Russia and conduced to its defeat. This is a fact. It would be foolish to ignore it. iy The opponents of the slogan of defeat are simply afraid of them- selves, and do not want to admit the obvious fact of the indubitable connection betweem\ vrevolutionary agitation against the government and the bringing about of defeat. Are the correspondence and co- operation of the bourgeois demo- cratic movement in Russia with the socialist movement in Western Eu- rope possible? During the decade | just past there was not a single so- | cialist, among those, expressing | proletariat after Oct. 17, 1905, proved this possibility in actual fact. Any social democrat calling him- self @ socialist shéuld be asked if he sympathizes with an agreement among the social democrats of vari- ous belligerent countries for the! purpose of joint revolutionary ac- tion against all the governments at war. Many will veply that this is impossible, as did Kautsky (“Neue Zeit,” Oct. 2, 1914, thereby plainly demonstrating his social chauvin- ism. For in the first place it is an arrant and. crass untruth, striking a blow in the face of well known facts and of the Basle manifesto. And, in the second place, were it true, then the opportunists would be right on many points! Many will reply that they sym-| And_ then | pathize with the idea. ve shall sa; If this sympathy is sincere, it would be ridiculous to uppose that in war, and for war, a “formal” agreement is requisite, dealing with the election of repre- sentatives, meeting place, signing of a treaty, fixing of appointed day and hour! It is only the Semkov- skys who are capable of thinking | like this. An agreement on revolu- jionary action even in one country, to say nothing of a number of coun- tries, can only be realized by the force of the example of serious rev- |olutionary actions, their initiation and further development. Such ii itiative action is again im- ‘possible without the wish for de- | feat and without the promotion of defeat. The conversion of imper- ialist war into civil war cannot be | “made,* just as a revolution cannot be “made” .. large number of multifarious phen- emena, aspects, features, peculiari- ties, and consequences of imperial- ist war. sible without a number of military failures and defeats suffered by those governments whose own op- | pressed classes are dealing blows at them. (To Be Continued.) |Gov’t Puts Tacit Approval on Oil Control Conspiracy WASHINGTON, April 4.—“The American Petroleum Institute’s con- | spiracy to limit oil production in 1929 to the 1928 average is illegal, but go ahead with it anyway” might be considered the gist of the ruling of the Oil Conservation Board at its meeting here today. The board is composed of Secre- j tary of War Good, Secretary of the | Navy Adams, Secretary Lamont of the Commerce Department. Clearly Mlegal. It met with the executive board of the American Petroleum Insti- tute, and regretfully informed it | that it could not sanction the plot, ;but “if individual companies want to limit the production, they can,” said E. B. Reeser, president of the | institute, on leaving the conference. Reeser expressed himself satisfied No matter which w: you’re the gainer. DEPOSIT your the month. You Can’t Lose year old savings institution any day of WITHDRAW the entire amount or any part of it, any day you choose .. and you’ll not lose a single days interest. MAY % ray you look at it... savings in this 70 . it grows out of a} And this growth is impos- | tary of the Interior Wilbur, Secre-| DAWES PLANNING HEAVY TAXES ON DOMINGO FARMS ‘No Country Too Small’ for U.S. Looters SANTO DOMINGO, April 4— General Charles G. Dawes and his commission of twenty American |financiers and _ industrialists who | will bind the Dominican finances | still more firmly into . American |hands, stepped ashore here yester- \day on a pier lined with police. A |few onlookers in the tattered clothes of the average Dominican worker or peasant looked on apa- thetically at the elaborate precau- tions. Similar obsequiousness was parent in the reception given by President Horacio Vasquez, the agent for the American government here, who insisted that his cabinet listen standing “o General Dawes. who made a number of discreet mis- statements in a raucous voice. Nothing Too Small. Acting as interpreter was Sum- ner Welles, former American com- missioner in Santo Domingo and member of the Dawes commission. ; “Please tell General Dawes,” the American agent Vasquez said, “how grateful we are that he has deigned |to take so much time and bring his friends, the experts, to such a small country.” “Tell him,” said Dawes, }among nations there is no such | thing as a small country.” Amer- | ican imperialism overlooks nothing. Tax the Peasants. | | | ap- “that the editors of the local press what, | they shall say in future. He ex- plained to them that no loan will be forthcoming, but that the United | States financial interests expect to leover their existing loan by a | stringent reorganization of the in- ican peasantry. Twenty million dollars issued on! the original American loan has al-| ready been consumed by the puppet government and William Pulliam, the United States receiver general of customs, has a mandatory sche- | dule of payments which will absorb | | virtually all the customs receipts for years. ‘New Zealand Workers \Forced to Quit Homes in Torrential Floods DUNEDIN, New Zealand (By |Mail), — Torrential rains have ‘e used the worst floods in the his- tory of Dunedin. Hundreds of work- ers have had to vacate their homes, | and in some of the sections the water is five feet high. Two bridges spanning rivers have collapsed, and part of a railway jembankment was swept away. Be- | fore its discovery was made, a heavy | |freight train crashed, the fireman! to conduct their strike to a succes-| being killed. It is alleged that the action of the authorities in blocking | jup a tunnel which had acted as a channel to bear off the flooded waters was the cause. | | eel iiatan | SEARCH BELGIAN TRAIN. | | PARIS, (By Mail)—French cus-| toms officials stopped a train from Belgium at Baiseaux, on the French- | Belgan border, and searched it for smuggled goods. WORKER’S FOOD SEVERED. | MILWAUKEE, Wis. (By Mail). —Trying to climb aboard a moving} freight train while at work, George Elliot, a railway worker, lost his \hold, and his foot was severed. Soviet American Tractor Cooperative Association requires qualified men as follows: Builders to build houses from cement blocks Carpenters, rough finished. Gasoline Engineer. Electricians. Tractor Mechanics. General Machine Repair- ers and Plasterers. and Every member must pay initi- ation fee of $25.00, and $750 for membership, and is re- quired to pay his own trans- portation charges to U.S.S.R. For further information and By-Laws send 25¢ in stamps. Soviet American Tractor Cooperative Association 4959 MARTIN AVENUE DETROIT, MICH. | a for Serv of rs. Lette in this issue of the Daily Worker arrival, when they discover that ment of the natives and are held as actual p escape from Hawaii and Panama sent to military prisons. ic “WILL GO SOUTH" THREAT ENDED BY CAROLINA STRIKE iNo Longer Terror to Northern Workers (Special to the Daily Worker) WARREN, R. I, April 4.—The usual threat of removal of machin- ery to the south, which sounds lamer than usual now with the tremendous strike movement there, was made by the mill officials of the Warren Narrow Fabrics Co., to their employes, striking for better conditions under the leadership of the National Textile Workers Union, The 100 workers employed in the plant, who are all now members of yesterday rs from servieemen in the colonies tell how they are disillusioned after they are used as tools for enslave- mers. Many try te sful and are , but most are unsucce Ruch Strike Relief fo Southern Textile Workers; Aid Them : Immediate Funds Only! Means Fighting Bosses The mill have answered the textile workers of Gastonia and Charlotte, N. C., by calling out the National Guard. workers. Governor has come out openly as a flunkey of the mill barons. The mill owners have united to fight the workers. The workers of America must answer by rallying to the assistance of the workers. Food must be rushed | ternal taxes, a regulation which will to the workers so they can conduct} fall most heavily upon the Domin-| their struggle to a successful con- clusion, Bullets are the mill barons answer | owners of the South} strike of the} The state machin-| Dawes immediately laid down to| ery is being mobilized against the, Max Gardner the newly-formed local of the Na- |tional ‘Textile Workers Union, ridi- cule this threat and are prepared to stay out until they win their de- The demands ‘of the work- An increase of from & to 6 lcents per 1,000 picks for day work- ers and an increase of from 54% to é% for night workers. This is the strike which President James P, Reid came in to take League’s forthcoming convention, | charge of, and in which he was later The worker correspondence sec- | assaulted by a mill official while tion on Monday will be a special leeving after a conference with page for the textile workers, devoted | them. entirely to the wi s in the mills, | One humorous angle of the strike Among the features will be let-|here was the statement to the press ters from textile workers in the by a mill boss. In trying to. deny south, in New England, and a letter |the strike’s existence, he said he on the strike of the rayon workers | ‘didn’t know there was a strike on jof the Industrial Fibre Co. in|{till told by a committee two days Cleveland, with photos sent in by |later. “For: two days,” workers a worker correspondent. [prondeninety, andes, yihe:mansger of the mill came and saw an empty Fascimiles of leaflets issued by | plant and didn’t know where the the textile w in Gastonia, N. workers were, Perhaps he thought C., and the rayon workers of Cleve- we went golfing”? land, new on strike, will also be| ubtenes. t . DEPORT KAISER’S BROTHER- A few days after this a special | IN-LAW worker correspondence section for | # food workers will appear. PARIS, April 4 (U.P).—Alexander These special sections for work- Zoubkoff, Russian brother-in-law of ers in individual industries are part| the former kaiser of Germany, Two Special Worker Correspondent Pages in ‘Daily’ Next Week No worker cor appears ondence section in today's Daily Worker, due to the publication of the thesis of the Young Workers (Communist) | |League in connection witth the to their striking workers. Our|of the campaign now in full swing | found himself in new difficulties answer must be working class soli- darity in the form of immediate re- lief. The Gastonia and Charlotte strikes will continue! The workers will be on the picket line in spite of the National Guard and the boss terror- ism. range AN AMKINO FE E ity! Strengthen the fighting spirit | of the Southern textile strikers by_| ¢ F L A M E Ss ON b rushing immediate relief to the Workers International Relief, room 604, One Union Square, New York | City. ee Oe Workers International Reiief. Room 604, One Union Square, New York City. Enclosed find $ workers of the South. I want them ful conclusion. Name see eeeeeereeencenees Address .. | MAAAAAAAAAAA Your Chance to See TOURS FROM $385.00 The Soviet government welcomes its friends and will put all facilities at your disposal to see everything— go everywhere — form your own opinion of the greatest social experi- ment in the History of Mankind at first hand. 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