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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-19
Father and Son

While William Morgan Butler was putting on
the senatorial toga death took away from Henry
Cabot Lodge his son Morgan Butler was delivering
an address of blood and thunder to the National
Association of Cotton Manufacturers whose presi-
dent he had just been elected.
Every one knows that the textile barons have been
amongst the greatest benefciaries Of the robber
Fordney -lIcCumber tariff law. Everyone knows
as well that after congress raised the tariff
schedules, at the plea of the mill barons the wages
of the textile workers were slashed % per cent.
At this time Morgan Butler is making another
plea for an increased tariff schedule. He feels GER
tain that, with his father being the spokesman of
the administration in the senate the National Cot
ton Manufacturers Association has direct connec-
tons with the rear entrance to the White House
and can put over, with little difficulty backstairs
tariff revision Running true to form, the cotton
kings are slashing wages to the marrow, while
they are whining about more tariff loot. The
Amoskeag has just forced another ten per cent cut
on the mill hands.
Of course, no one will take young Butler serious
ly when he talks of the glowing conditions of the
textile workers in New England and elsewhere.
In plain English, Mr. Butler is plain liar. He
knows he is talking for space in the wellkept
press 1t is an indisputable fact that the Buffers
rule the textile operatives with an iron hand Their
spy system is notorious for its viciousness. Their
hold on the legislatures is appalling The condi-
tons of the workers defy description. We recall
picture of the deplorabe state of affairs in New
England made recently by competent observer
when he said:
"There is no collection Of garbage or rubbish.
The windows are without screens and wells adj
join hideous outhouses and stables. Oil lamps light
these houses, the only change since 1910 being
from whale oil to kerosene"
This is the condition that Morgan Butler, the
son, and William Morgan Butler, the senatorial
father, want to protect and perpetuate
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-19
PAVEMENT PICTURES
BY JOSEF KALAR.

The procession,
The procession,
Is coming by.
Polite necks crane out Of high crazy
windows,
Polite necks bent in pious prayer
For Coolidge and eggs forty cents a
dozen.
Like mosquitoes with long spindly legs
Black shadows dot the tops Of the low
buildings.
The procession,
The procession,
Is coming by.
why what the hell is up?
What the hell is up?
These men that tramp the street
With working-shoes on their feet
Are from the mines.
Are from the factories,
Are from the mills.
Hey, there, you noisy fellows,
Get OF our nice new pavement,
What tn hell do you think this is?
This is?"
The men come marching down the
street
With heads held high and buoyant
feet,
They are marching to the dying echo
OF the slave mans curse, the whistles
scream,
The burning sweat, the murdered
dream.
They are smiling in the face Of a
laundering "Nol1
They are marching to the tune of fu-
ture years of peace,
They are marching They are march
ing!
0 Eagle sitting on the flag,
o Constitution Haunted in our face,
o God slapping our souls,
They see their daughters in hunger
Turn to the prostitute dream,
Their sons swimming in the bubbling
steel,
Their prayer their hymn, the sullen
screeching
OF the whistle summoning them from
hard beds.
With grey smoke for their pail,
With cinders for their beds,
They have been dying.
0 God slapping our souls,
0 Constitution Haunted in our face,
o Eagle sitting on the flag,
See them march, see them march.
They are marching! They are
marchingl
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-19
THE ENEMY OF REFORMISM

Editors Note.--Every day until
publication has been completed, the
DAILY WORKER will publish a
new chapter from the book, Len
in: The Great Strategist of the
Glass War" by A. Losovsky, secre-
tary of the Red international Of
Labor Unions, The sixth chapter is
entitled, "rhe Enemy OF Reform
ISM"
l ENIN would reach out after the
- substance Of reformism, no matter
under what masks It would make It's
appearance, and without any effor
his part would tear on the covering
In the attempt that was made before
the first revolution to revise Marx, to
connect him with Kant and other
philosophers, Lenin Immediately rec.
ognized the intention TO reject the
revolution and tendency TO surren.
der Marxism to the theology Of the
bourgeoisie. Lenin never considered
reformism as an inner tendency in the
working class. He considered reform
ism rather as class enemy, operating
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-19
The Grange Meeting

Let no one mistake the present sessions Of the
National Grange in Atlantic City for sessions
where the grievances of the exploited farming
masses are aired. The National Grange is not now
and has not been an organization speaking for the
great number Of poor farmers The National Grange
has been serving the interests only of the wealthy
farmers and has been seriously hampering the
struggles Of the suffering, bankrupt farming class.
One need but consider the keynote struck at the
gathering to brand il foe Of the farmers who
are hard hit by the expoiters. All the talk of the
grange about more liberal loan terms to needy
farmers is calculated only to play into the hands
OF the bankers and rich farmers. The opposition
Of the grange to even limited child labor regula-
ton throws it into one camp with the blacklist
reactionaries, where it rightfully belongs.
The best example Of the grange at it's worst is
to be seen in the plans afoot to effect friendly un-
derstanding and cooperation between industry and
agriculture, eliminating long standing antagon-
ism" There is as much chance Of harm0nizing the
interests Of the exploited farmer with those of the
capitalist exploiter, the railway magnate, the ma
chinery king, the grain elevator owner, the mar
keting trust the banking shark, as there is of
harmonizng the interests of the exploited worker
with the interests Of his boss In the imperalist
stage Of capitalism agriculture affords very fer
tile soil of exploitation for the capitalist monopol
lists
Consequently the talk of Louis J. Tabor, Of Ohio,
master Of the National Grange, to the effect that
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-19
A Useless Attempt

The latest sign of the disappointment of the
House of Morgan at the economic and political
progress of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics
is to be found in a statement just issued by Mr.
Kent, chairman of the American Bankers Associa-
ton. Mr.. Kent, who is the vicepresident Of the
Bankers Trust company of New York, Morgan
bank, is the author of a declaration admonishing
those trading with Soviet Russia to be careful
The warning against entering economic relations
with the Soviet government is put in real DOGGY
form by giving it a religious basis The threadbare
arguments form the fabric of Mr.. Kent's outburst
The Morgan lackey rants against the Soviet gov
eminent having taken away trade from Germany.
after the latter had broken into the Soviet Berlin
Office, and giving it to Holland and Czecho-
Slovakia. In the eyes of Mr.. Kent this is a crime
His memory seems to lapse at strategic moments
he does not find cause to utter word of protest
about the system of 'favorite nations" and special
treaties in vogue amongst the capitalist nations.
But when the Soviet government attempts to fol-
low what Mr.. Kent would ordinarily call good
business methods in dealing with business gov
ernment the New York banker means.
This talk cannot stay the tide Of Soviet Russian
political and economic advance. The department
of commerce files afford superabundance of proof
that Soviet Russia has not only turned the econ
omic corner but has forced her opponents to con-
TESS the failure OF their hostile campaigns. Amer
lean business with the Union of Socialist Soviet
Republics has increased phenomenalIy during the
last fiscal year. At the very moment that Mr. Kent
was uttering his last prayer, Mr. Hoover was boast
ing of having worked overtime to help American
capitalists get slice of the Soviet business
Mr.. Kent need have no concern about Soviet
Russia. The Workers and Farmers Republic has
yanquished the poisonous campaigns and military
expeditions led by the agents of Morgan in Europe
The Soviet Republic will sooner rather than later
oyerwhelm the opposition of the House of Morgan
in the United States
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within the labor movement and there.
fore more dangerous to 1t than the
outside enemies.
Because Of this attitude Of Lenin's,
he has been charged with sectarianIsm
land intolerance. But he continued TO
pursue his line of action with the
greatest tenacity for details, proving
that reformism Is one OF the greatest
enemies OF the labor movement, ana
that our theoretical struggle with the
Mensheviks will eventually bring IA
to the sharpest conflicts with them
The Russian revolution has prove,,
Lenin correct, thereby showing hisl
extraordinary far-sightedness ana
sound instinct In recent years ~.
formism became the most powerful
weapon in the hands Of the bour.
geoisie. Due to reformism, the work.
ing class movement has suffered 1
series OF defeats enabling the CAM.
talish system to continue a while n
existence.
Tomorrow-"RevoIutIon and Ae,u.
atty"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-19
By T. J. O'Flaherty

living. According to an inspired story
in last Sundays New York Times,
many of those workers" cook or act
as chaffeurs during the day, and in the
evening may be honored guests at
some Fifth avenue party. Surely we
must have known each other" gushed
New York hostess to a distinguished
guest, your face seems so familiar"
She was talking to the Prince G. a.,
formerly of Leningrad - pardon,
Petersburg-and Paris. Madame has
an excellent memory" replied the
polite prince. "On Tuesday your hus.
band engaged me as chauffeur and this
afternoon drove you thru the shops"
These should be great days for wise
chauffeursi
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-19

lOWOs
zone of the first predictions was
if labor pooled its resources and or
ganized banks, it would use its pow
er to fight capital as represented by
the employers Of labor.
Persons said the labor banks
would be used to finance strikes and
other Industrial controversies.
1.-THE fundamental error of those
who made these predictions was in
not taking into consideration the
fact that a strike is a bad business
proposition from a strictly financial
standpoint
Banks do not finance bad bust
ness undertakings or those that are
essentially CANDLES. That is, banks
that are soundly conducted do not.
"And when organized labor went
into the banking field, it had to be
doubly sure that its institutions
were absolutely sound and conserv-
atively managed.
Failure, with resultant losses to
stockholders and depositors, would
be more widely criticised and more
bitterly condemned than the failure
Of an ordinary bank. Hence there
has been no financing Of strikes.
con the contrary, it is claimed
that labor's banking ventures have
done much already toward reconcile
ing the differences Of employer and
employee or bringing about their
speedy adjustment with q minimum
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-19
AS WE SEE 1T

object to be the overthrow of the gov
ernment, yet not thing happened to
them. This under socialist presi-
dent. They were for the capitalist
system, and that like charity covers a
multitude of sins, The Esthonian gov
eminent is a puppet of the imperialist
powers and is carrying out their or
ders. Esthonia is one of the little
handmade republics that act as a
Gordon sanitaire between the rest Of
Europe and Soviet Russia. But the
red tide will some day burst thru this
dam.
THERE are several thousand czarist
l emigres in New York. and horrors
upon horrors, they are working for a
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-19
Very Proud of Being Traitors!

saults upon the standards Of the work
ers if it would prolong it's own life
and rule, the millions of organized
workers who were pacified and re.
strained by union officials from de
manding more in the previous period,
now find these officials unable and un
willing to lead any sort of militant
struggle against the forces of capital.
Leaders Give Up Glass Struggle.
Instead, the union bureaucrats are
found to take refuge in every sort OF
humbuggery and fraud as substitute
for struggle. Glass collaboration be-
comes "the easiest way" and they try
to delude the organization they head
into accepting this as substitute
which is "just as good" and often
claimed to be much better" than class
struggle. There are many forms OF
class collaboration, some political and
some industrial and some financial.
The recent campaign is a shining ex-
ample of political class collaboration.
The infamous "B. & o. PLAN of VIM
H. Johnston, of the Machinists' Union,
is an illustration par excellence Of In
dustrial class collaboration. An ar
ticle in the capitalist press by Fred
eric J. Haskin, a bourgeois journalist
concerning tabor banks" should be a
revelation to union labor of what fin
ancial class collaboration is. A por-
ton Of the article is such an excellent
tho unconscious exposition Of class
collaboration. that we give it as fol.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-19
MUSIC
By ALFRED '. ERANkENsrElN.


Another good violinist, Socrate
Barozzi by name, played a recital at
Orchestra Hall, to regrettably small
audience. His program was made up
of the conventional violin stuff. a
Grieg sonata, and small pieces by
Kreisler, Pugnani. and other violin
composers. He played a violin ar
rangement Of Percy Grainger's "Molly
on the Shore" which is about as we'll
suited to violin solo at Beethoven's
fifth symphony.
Barozzi has a fine tone and good
clean technic, altho his information is
not always perfect. Unfortunately he
has started in at the wrong end. There
are so many good violinists that the
only way for a new one to make any
success hereabouts is to be lucky
enough to get an engagement with
the Symphony orchestra.
The Opera Schedule.
Wednesday, II Trovatore, with
Claudio Muzio, Louise Homer Qast
appearance until january. Forrest
Lamont, Giacomo Rimini, virgilio
Lazzari. Conductor; Cimini.
Thursday, Lucia di Lammermoor,
with Toti Dial Mont Clast appearance)
Antonio Bortis, Jose Mojica, Virgilio
Lazzari and ballet Conductor:
Polacco.
Saturday afternoon Madame Butter
fly, with Edith Mason Carlo Perrin,
Charles Hackett, Giacomo Rimini.
Conductor: Polacco.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-19
Abolish Race Discrimination!

The news from the 44th convention of the Amer
lean Federation of Labor that the secretary of the
Texas State Federation of Labor, in greeting the
delegates insisted that the immigration of Mexican
workers into this country should be stopped, is
typical of the stupid policy of race discrimination
permeating the unions of the American Federation
of Labor Evidently the Texas labor unions do not
think of organizing these workers and fighting to-
gether with them against the employers
The most disgraceful indifference, however is
that toward the organization of the Negro work
ers. The great bulk of the 12OO0,O0O Negroes in
the United States are workers. They need organ
ization more than do their white fellow work
ers. Do they get it? Not from Gompers.
Yet, as ''inferior race" the employers organize
them against the white workers. BY first paying
them atrocously low wages for the hardest and
most mental work, they make them in their I'M
organized state, possible reservoir of strike
breaking labor.
The caste system in American labor must be
broken. We have heard too much of workers
scorning each other as "Hunkies," ''Wops" and
Jews" The whole system is an aid direct and
unmistakable to the interests of the employers in
dividing the workers the better to exploit them.
1t inspires prejudices among the workers which
require much time and teaching in order to counter
act and lay the fraternal basis of class solidarity
in the unions.
The continued migration of Negroes to the cities
OF the north only accents the problem. The case
with them is the same as with the Mexicans in the
southwest The policy of stupid and shortsighted
selfshness, of craft privilege and organized monop-
oily prevails at the expense of both blacks and
whites. Necessity, stern and inevitable, demands
its complete eradication
The 7. .. r. L. has endorsed a resolution that
will be offered at the A. F. of L. convention which
is intended to set that body on record one way or
the other as to its stand on racial discrimination
The resolution calls upon the A. F. of L. to de-
clare itself unalterably opposed to any discrmina
ton in any form whatsoever against workers be-
cause of race color and in favor of equality of
such workers.
The resolution not only asserts these principles,
but instructs the executive council of the A f. of
L. to start an immediate campaign to organize
Negro wage workers and demands that these
workers shall be organized in the same unions as
the whites in order that the stupid prejudces now
existing thru past misleading shall be wiped out
by fraternal contact as brothers in toll and strug
gle against common exploiters.
With the increasing pressure upon the workers
by the capitalist class, and the danger of great
wage struggles, the persistence of racial discrim
ination is knife labor is turning against its own
yitals. If the A. f. of L. convention does not act
favorably upon tbs resolution it will have proved
itself recreant to its own members and indifference
to the interest of the working class
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-19

use of economic force and a minik
mum economic loss.
"They have demonstrated that
the Interests Of capital and labor are
identicaI."- (BoIdface mine.-H. CD
Different for Workers.
We need hardly add that the fact
of the growth of tabor banks indi
Gates retreat from the class struggle
In this respect there are at least go
such banks formed and so more are
in process Of formation. The retreat
from the struggle, it must be remem.
bered, altho led by the union bureau
,cracy, has its limitations for the rank
and file Of the workers. The class
struggle becomes ever more neces.
sity, life and death struggle for
them.
Beyond the Life Line-RevoIutIon
Beyond the lifeline there can be no
further retreat. Tho the union official
dom may feel perfectly comfortable
and secure as they sit in the bank or
in the union Office or a combination
of the two, the workers in the shops
and factories are attacked and must
fight All power then, to the workers
in the shops! All efforts then to
build in the shops the organs Of strug.
gle for the rank and file! Down with
class collaboration, political, industri-
al and financial! Up with the banner
Of revolutionary class struggle! Build
the shop committeesl Build the Com.
munist factory nuclei
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-19
n. Y. HERALD TRIBUNE
IS FINALLY FORCED TO
ADMIT IT'S LENIAGRAD.
lspeeIaI 70 the Daily Workerl

Especial 20 the Daily Worker)
NEW YORK, Nov. 1s.--The Her
aId-Trlbune here has again printed
the name Of LenInarad to mark the
great Soviet Russian city on It's
maps. At first the paper owned by
Ogden Reid, steel trust and railroad
stockhoIder, insisted on printing the
name Petrograd on the maps appear
ing In the Herald-Trlbune. Now
however, due TO the protests Of
many Russians, the city Is riehtfully
named Pctroarad.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-19

"the meeting was the first active step towards the
vitality necessary establishment Of cooperative re-
lationship between business and the farmer' is
as impossible unfounded. Only the mass or
CARNATIONS of exploited farmers, working in
closest unity with the exploited industrial Masses
can bring an end to the chaos in agriculture and
end the hardships now overwhelming the poor
farmers
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-19

The Chicago Tribune was quite furious over the
disrespect for claw and order" shown by the gun.
men, but its only remedy is to have the Bar Asso-
citation endorse "honest' lawyers for the judiciary
and that the voters should follow the lawyers
recommendation. Most people would rather take
the advice Of the gunner than that Of the Bar
Association.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-19
nx HARRISON eEoReE.

THE report of the executive council
of the American Federation of La
Dor just made to the 44th annual con
vention at Ell Paso, takes up officially
the formation of the so-called Tabor
banks" and recommends their devel
opment, with due precaution, of course
that such banks be incorporated un
der and subject to banking laws"
This represents new departure in
the American labor movement, GER
LITIGATION by the labor bureaucracy oil
the growth OF financial class collabora
ton within the labor unions. We must
analyze this official action II we would
understand where the current is TAX
ing the organized workers Of Ameri
ca.
What Is Glass Collaboration?
1t is an inherent quality Of the la
Dor union bureaucracy that it tends to
class collaboration whenever the shift
ing relation Of forces between the cap
italist class and the working class
makes struggle against the capitalist
class necessary to forward or even to
defend the interests Of the workers.
In the epoch OF history now opening
when the era Of an ascending capital
ism, able to sustain its wage earners
as its own forces were progressing
has ended, and decadence of capitalist
economy forces capital to make as
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-19

Samuel Gompers declared that "1abor' won
big victory in the recent elections Gompers is
very easily satisfied, but then he is not troubled
with the prospect of looking for job no matter
how the elections 60
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-19

Every day get Sub" for the DAILY WORKER
and member for the Workers Party.
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N N Esthonian Communist was ex-
N ecuted by drum head court mar
tial for possessing few rifles and
some ammunition. This is on the tes-
timony Of the police. But in Germany
the Fascist have carried on a cam.
paign against the republican govern.
ment, have marched thru the streets
killed workers and committed other
crimes while boldly admitting their
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-19
(continued from PAGE 1.l

THERE is tendency even among
l American radicals to ape the half
wits Of the burlesque stage in ridicul
ing the customs and dialects of work
ers of various nationalities. This may
be small matter, but aside from be
ing an indication of ignorance on the
part of the offending person, it also
helps to maintain the imaginary line
that keeps the workers of all lands
apart. The battle against the we'll
trained, and sophisticated capitalists
is difficult enough without those who
should know better, making it still
harder.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-19

Tomorrow-"RevoIutIon and Ae,u.
atty"